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Verity Sharp shares the fruits of our latest Late Junction long distance collaboration session, crafted by chaperones of the off-beat: Carlos Niño in Los Angeles and Falle Nioke, originally from Guinea, but now based in Margate.

Carlos Niño is a composer, percussionist and arranger whose work has DNA in spiritual improvisation, jazz, hip-hop, new age and soul. Blending orchestral arrangements and acoustic instruments with cutting-edge production techniques, Carlos approaches each project with a positive consciousness, aiming to maintain a hopeful state of mind. His recent studio release ‘More Energy Fields, Current’ is a collage of collaborations with some of LA’s finest instrumentalists.

Falle Nioke is a multilingual vocalist and percussionist born in Conakry, the capital city of Guinea. Alongside singing in French, English, Susu, Fulani, Malinke and Coniagui, Falle plays a variety of African instruments including the Gongoma; a Guinean thumb piano and the Bolon; a traditional West African Harp. Now based in Margate, Falle Nioke has most recently collaborated with the electronic producer Ghost Culture. The work was inspired by Falle’s observations of human activity; the daily meanderings of people walking in the street.

Elsewhere there’ll be the tumbling sounds of winds in Antarctica, piano music recorded in a church in Oslo, and an outing with the glitchy, warbling tones of compositional collaborators Andrew Pekler & Giuseppe Ielasi.

Produced by Rachel Byrne
A Reduced Listening Production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3