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New Year, New Horizons

Jennifer Lucy Allan shakes off 2020 with sounds of hope and kindness, from Alice Coltrane’s mantras to sleepy tape collage and a sound work that makes everything 'OK'.

It’s New Year’s Day and Jennifer Lucy Allan is here to exorcise the demons from 2020 with music for a more hopeful future, from Alice Coltrane’s swirling mantras to a dreamy sound collage by artist and sailor Rip Hayman. There’ll be selections from a new box set of previously unreleased music by the guitarist and ‘Zen Buddhist cowboy’ Robbie Basho, and the kaleidoscopic echoes of composer Pauline Anna Strom from her first album in thirty years. Plus, for anyone who still needs reassuring, we feature a cassette that simply repeats the word ‘OK’ until it loses all meaning and becomes something else entirely.

Produced by Katie Callin.
A Reduced Listening production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3.

2 hours

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New Year's Day 2021 23:00

Music Played

  • Hightower Brothers

    Seat In The Kingdom

    • It's Glory Glory / Seat In The Kingdom.
    • Nashboro.
  • Alice Coltrane-Turiyasangitananda

    Keshava Murahara

    • Divine Songs.
    • Tummy Tapes.
  • A girl with her friends recorded at St. Ann's College

    A' Challuinn (New Year's Day)

    • Songs from Cape Breton Island.
    • Folkways Records.
  • Bill Wells & Maher Shalal Hash Baz

    Tipsy Cat

    • Osaka Bridge.
    • Karaoke Kalk.
  • Bass Clef

    Maze 1

    • Maze Greys.
    • Frequency Domain.
  • Sun Ra Quartet

    Disco 2021

    • Singles.
    • Strut.
  • A. G. Cook

    2021 (feat. Sounds Like A U Problem)

    • 7G.
    • PC Music.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven & Darren Bourne

    Fifth Symphony (Darren Bourne Remix)

  • Saroj Narang

    Simla Folk Song

    • Paris To Calcutta (Men And Music On The Desert Road).
    • Sublime Frequencies.
  • Antonina Nowacka

    Part 1

    • Lamunan.
    • Mondoj.
  • Ellen Arkbro

    Mountain Of Air

    • For Organ And Brass.
    • Subtext.
  • David Blamey

    B O.K.

    • O​.​K. (MDTS Edit).
    • Continuous Tone.
  • DJ OK

    Oh Oh

    • Untitled.
    • First Second Label.
  • Éliane Radigue

    Elimination Of Desires

    • Songs Of Milarepa.
    • Lovely Music, Ltd..
  • Saul Williams

    Thought About It

    • Encrypted & Vulnerable.
  • R.I.P. Hayman

    Part Two

    • Dreams of India & China.
    • Recital.
  • Robbie Basho

    Brahman's Blues

    • Songs Of The Avatars: The Lost Master Tapes.
    • Tompkins Square.
  • Pauline Anna Strom

    I Still Hope

    • Angel Tears in Sunlight.
    • RVNG Intl..
  • Pauline Anna Strom

    Tropical Rainforest

    • Angel Tears in Sunlight.
    • RVNG Intl..
  • Laura Rivers

    That's Alright

    • Oh Graveyard, You Can't Hold Me Always.
    • Mississippi Records.
  • Pharoah Sanders

    Love Will Find A Way

    • Pharoah.
    • India Navigation.

Broadcast

  • New Year's Day 2021 23:00

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