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Ghosts in the Machine

Occult phenomena, musical mediums and a live beetle jew鈥檚 harp: Verity Sharp plays music to call up the spirits.

Verity Sharp summons the sound of Victorian spiritualists and musician mediums thanks to a new release on the Sub Rosa label that plunders the audio archives of the paranormal. With archives in mind, we also have a piece from the 大象传媒鈥檚 music library that features a live beetle jew鈥檚 harp, recorded in northeast New Guinea. The recording was made using a live beetle tied to a small splinter of wood and held to the mouth, and buzzes at a constant pitch to form a drone underneath the player.

Plus music for the autumn in July: Iranian kamancheh player Kayhan Kalhor joins forces with the Dutch jazzers Rembrandt Frerichs Trio on a new release called It鈥檚 Still Autumn.

Produced by Alannah Chance
A Reduced Listening Production for 大象传媒 Radio 3

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 11 Jul 2019 23:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Janet Hodgson

    Voice Produced By Janet Hodgson During A Trance [Enfield, England, January-February 1978]

    • Spectra Ex Machina: A Sound Anthology Of Occult Phenomena 1920-2017 Vol. 1.
    • Sub Rosa 鈥�.

  • Michael O Shea

    Anfa D谩sachtach

    • Michael O Shea.
    • Allchival.

  • Cath & Phil Tyler

    Broad Is The Road That Leads To Death

    • The Song鈥�-鈥婥rowned King.
    • Ferric Mordant Records.

  • Laura Jurd

    Companion Species

    • Stepping Back Jumping In.
    • Edition.

  • Unknown

    Live Beetle Jew's Harp

  • Leslie Flint

    Leslie Flint And The "Voice" Of Oscar Wilde

    • Spectra Ex Machina: A Sound Anthology Of Occult Phenomena 1920-2017 Vol. 1.
    • Sub Rosa 鈥�.

  • City & i.o

    Anxiety Object

    • Spirit Volume.
    • PTP.

  • KOKOKO!

    Tokoliana

    • Fongola.
    • Transgressive Records 鈥�.

  • Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson

    Woman In The Dunes

    • Crop Circles.
    • Relative Pitch Records.

  • Etienne Nbozo & Raymond Doko

    Ndio

    • Centrafrique: Musique gb谩y谩: chants 脿 penser.
    • Ocora.

  • Normil Hawaiians

    Slaves

    • What鈥檚 Going On.
    • Upset The Rhythm.

  • Normil Hawaiians

    Louise Michel

    • What鈥檚 Going On.
    • Upset The Rhythm.

  • Normil Hawaiians

    Big Lies

    • What鈥檚 Going On.
    • Upset The Rhythm.

  • Jack Sutton

    Jack Sutton And The "Haunted Airfield" [Norfolk, England, c. 1980]

    • Spectra Ex Machina: A Sound Anthology Of Occult Phenomena 1920-2017 Vol. 1.
    • Sub Rosa 鈥�.

  • Langham Research Centre

    The Undersized Shadow

    • Tape Works Vol. 1.
    • Nonclassical.

  • Doug & Jack Wallin

    Two Ghost Stories

    • Family Songs And Stories From The North Carolina Mountains.
    • Smithsonian Folkways.

  • Kayhan Kalhor

    Dusk: Introduction

    • It鈥檚 Still Autumn.
    • Kepera Records 鈥�.

  • Kemper Norton

    halan 1

    • brunton calciner.

  • Unknown

    The Th. case of Reverend W.S. Irving and T. Besterman [Switzerland, April 16, 1967]

    • Spectra Ex Machina: A Sound Anthology Of Occult Phenomena 1920-2017 Vol. 1.
    • Sub Rosa 鈥�.

  • Laura Cannell & Polly Wright

    Help Me To Salt Help Me To Sorrow

    • Sing as the Crow Flies.
    • Brawl Records.

  • Danny Pedler & Greg Russell

    Down and Deeper

    • Field & Dyke.

  • Unknown

    The S Case (Germany 1968)

Broadcast

  • Thu 11 Jul 2019 23:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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