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A Christmas Eve session

Join Verity Sharp on Christmas Eve for a special improvised collaboration session at Maida Vale with composer Mira Calix, cellist Mabe Fratti and vocal ensemble Shards.

What’re you doing Christmas Eve? After you’ve hung your stocking, cosy up and join Verity Sharp for a special improvised Late Junction collaboration session at Maida Vale with composer Mira Calix, cellist Mabe Fratti and the vocal ensemble Shards. Taking inspiration from Santa Claus himself, we’re delivering sonic gifts directly to your door with our festive gathering of nine musicians coming together in sound. Now, all we want for Christmas is you.

Mira Calix is an award-winning artist and composer who treats sound as a sculptural material, playing with sampling and processing techniques as well as field recordings and electronic rhythms. An established and esteemed sonic experimenter since the early 2000s, Calix creates sound installations and artworks for cultural institutions worldwide as well as scores for classical orchestration and collaborative projects. Her latest album ‘Absent Origin’, out on Warp last month, is an experiment in musical collage making and explores themes of political unrest.

Mabe Fratti is an experimental cellist and composer from Guatemala, currently living in Mexico City. A key part of the improvisation scene in Mexico, she combines her cello with her voice, synthesizers and field recordings to create emotive collages and soundscapes. Her music reflects her varied influences from Gregorian chants and Sephardi music to shoegaze and dream pop. Her latest album, ‘Será Que Ahora Podremos Entendernos?’ translates to ‘Will We be Able to Understand Each Other Now?’, and reflects on themes of communication, collaboration and understanding.

Shards is a London-based experimental vocal ensemble led by singer, composer and producer Kieran Brunt. Each singer in Shards brings something different to their collective sound, with the only necessity being an open mind for experimentation. They have collaborated with the likes of Terry Riley, Anna von Hausswolff and Nils Frahm, and for this collaboration will be an ensemble of seven. Their debut album Find Sound combined their voices with synths and percussion, creating miniature sonic paintings that explore the human voice.

Elsewhere in the show, Verity shares some wonky festive sounds and explores Christmas Eve traditions from around the world through sound.

Produced by Katie Callin
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Music Played

  • Hesitation

    Christmas Medley (Troika / Feast / Christmas Tree Oh Christmas Tree)

    • The Last Christmas.
    • Kit Records.

  • Kemper Norton

    three craws

    • Troillia.

  • Jeff Parker

    La Jetée

    • Forfolks.
    • International Anthem.

  • Unknown

    Esta Noche Es Nochebuena (This Night Is Christmas Eve)

    • Christmas Songs of Spain.
    • Folkways Records.

  • Joaquín Cornejo & dj swordfish

    Margarita

    • Ila EP.

  • Tanya Tagaq

    Tongues

    • Tongues.
    • Six Shooter Records.

  • Louis Dufort

    Into the forest I've seen under

    • Into the Forest.
    • empreintes DIGITALes.

  • zapatillas

    Canción de los olvidados

    • el río vacío.
    • chape records.

  • Mabe Fratti, Mira Calix & Shards

    Hear us Breathe

    • Late Junction Christmas Eve Collaboration Session.

  • anrimeal

    Hello And A Half (feat. Butterfly Child)

    • Could Divine, Remembered.

  • Lisa Knapp

    Cherry Tree Carol

  • Bex Burch & Leafcutter John

    Acceptance

    • Boing!.
    • Vula Viel Records.

  • Ben LaMar Gay

    Touch. Don't Scroll (feat. Ayanna Woods)

    • Open Arms to Open Us.
    • International Anthem.

  • Jali Bakhary Konteh

    Tamalul

  • Mabe Fratti, Mira Calix & Shards

    Es ist ein Ros (I think I feel something blooming...)

    • Late Junction Christmas Eve Collaboration Session.

  • Mabe Fratti, Mira Calix & Shards

    Improvisation on Mayakovsky

    • Late Junction Christmas Eve Collaboration Session.

  • Joel and the Neverending Sextet

    Wobble Wobble

    • Pouring Textures.
    • Motvind Records.

  • Alexandra Spence

    Tidewater

    • A Necessary Softness.
    • Room40.

  • 赤坂小梅

    Is It Really Goodbye?

    • Is It Really Goodbye? More Ryūkōka Recordings, 1929?-??1938.
    • Death Is Not The End.

  • Gong Girl

    Tamsos Pasaka

    • Shortcoming.
    • Takuroku.

  • Tomoko Hojo

    fall asleep

    • Touch.
    • Dragon's Eye Recordings.

Broadcast

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