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Elaine Mitchener's Sweet Tooth

Tom McKinney presents the first broadcast of Elaine Mitchener's Sweet Tooth, a music theatre piece exploring the links between the slave trade and the British sugar industry.

Tom McKinney presents the first broadcast of Elaine Mitchener's Sweet Tooth, a music theatre piece exploring the links between the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the British sugar industry, drawing on texts from an 18th-century slave song, a traditional Jamaican religious invocation and the records of a 19th-century plantation owner. The work is performed by Elaine Mitchener (vocal), Jason Yarde (saxophone), Mark Sanders (percussion) and Sylvia Hallett (violin, accordion), and was recorded at The Bluecoat in Liverpool in November. Also tonight, a return to the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival: Explore Ensemble perform Patricia Alessandrini's Tracer la lune d'un doigt; plus a round-up of recent releases including music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Brice Pauset and Fabrice Fitch, along with a newly unearthed album of film music by Bernard Parmegiani.

Photo by Brian Roberts.

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Sat 30 Dec 2017 22:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir

    Aura

    Ensemble: Los Angeles Percussion Quartet.
    • Solo Luminus.

  • Bernard Parmegiani

    Rock (OST) - Theme Alba & Serge; Chef Charon; Deux Rockers

    Performer: Bernard Parmegiani.
    • Transversales Disques.

  • Charles Amirkhanian

    Mugic

    Performer: Charles Amirkhanian.
    • OTHER MINDS.

  • Cheryl Frances-Hoad

    The Madness Industry

    Ensemble: Onyx Brass.
    • NMC.

  • Elaine Mitchener

    Sweet Tooth

    Performer: Mark Sanders. Performer: Jason Yarde. Performer: Sylvia Hallett. Singer: Elaine Mitchener.

  • Fabrice Fitch

    Agricola IX

    Performer: Richard Craig. Ensemble: Distractfold Ensemble.
    • METIER.

  • Brice Pauset

    Cinq Canons

    Performer: Nicolas Hodges.
    • WERGO.

  • Patricia Alessandrini

    Tracer la lune d'un doigt

    Ensemble: Explore Ensemble.

Broadcast

  • Sat 30 Dec 2017 22:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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