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Jennifer Lucy Allan shares the fruits of our latest Late Junction long distance collaboration session, created across the Atlantic Ocean by two sonic storytellers: Natalia Beylis in County Leitrim and Anna Homler in Los Angeles.

Natalia Beylis is an experimental composer and multi-instrumentalist interested in sounds that appear unexpectedly, often layering and manipulating acoustic instruments with field recordings to create strange juxtapositions. Born in Kiev and raised in the States she moved to Ireland two decades ago, and has been a key figure in the experimental scene there since, with a regular show on Dublin Digital Radio playing 鈥榚xperimental bric-a-brac鈥�. Her latest release Invaded by Fireflies is a collage of voices describing memories of a beautiful place.

Anna Homler is an improvising vocalist and avant-garde performance artist from Los Angeles, and has been experimenting with language and sound since the 1980s. Using words as music and everyday objects as instruments, her work explores alternative forms of communication and the poetry of ordinary things. She often performs as her character Breadwoman, a creature she describes as 鈥渟o very old she has turned into bread鈥� and has her own invented language.

Elsewhere there鈥檒l be previously unreleased woozy, bubbling dancehall from Jamaica, as well as a new compilation of instrumental modal pop from 1970s Egypt. Plus some synth bangers inspired by the anthropological roots of cat's cradles by the artist Kristen Gallerneaux.

Produced by Katie Callin
A Reduced Listening Production for 大象传媒 Radio 3
This episode was first broadcast on the 10th of September 2021.