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Highlife and the Big Bang

Join Jennifer Lucy Allan for another two-hour journey, adventuring through sound, from Ghanaian highlife and haunting French sound worlds to violin music inspired by the Big Bang.

Strap in for another two-hour journey, adventuring through the nooks and crannies of experimental sound with Jennifer Lucy Allan. We’ll drop in on some Ghanaian highlife fused with Congolese rumba from the 1970s courtesy of the band Vis-A-Vis, and visit the strange and haunting sound worlds of French artist Anne Gillis. Plus a trip back to the Big Bang courtesy of Nigerian violinist Ibukun Sunday, and we zoom in on sonic miniatures inspired by the world of cinema from Turkish songwriter Isik Kural.

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

2 hours

Last on

Fri 21 Jan 2022 23:00

Music Played

  • Secluded Bronte

    Unknown Information

    • The Life of an Uncultured Magician Compilation.
    • Supernormal.
  • Vis-a-Vis

    Vic Sanbra

    • The Best Of Vis-A-Vis In Congo Style.
    • We Are Busy Bodies.
  • Georgia Rodgers

    Base

    • September.
    • Another Timbre.
  • Kee Avil

    See, my shadow

    • See, my shadow.
    • Constellation Records.
  • Uwalmassa

    Belit

    • Malar.
    • Mana.
  • Mutendere Everlasting Gospel Church

    Fipelwa (Giving)

    • Songs Of Praise & Worship.
  • Ibukun Sunday

    22 steps

    • Latch.
  • George Faith

    To Be A Lover

    • To Be A Lover.
    • Black Swan.
  • John M. Bennett

    Cake

    • A Flattened Face Fogs Through.
    • Editions Basilic.
  • Anne Gillis

    Appel à la base (excerpt)

    • «...».
    • Art into Life.
  • Jorge Ben Jor

    Descobri Que Eu Sou Um Anjo

    • Jorge Ben.
    • Philips.
  • Joana Guerra

    Bitcho Bravo

    • Antologia De Música Atípica Portuguesa Vol. 3: Canto Devocionário.
    • Discrepant.
  • Tran Uy Duc

    Counting

    • Came.
  • Kurt Schwitters

    Ursonate

    • Ursonate.
    • WERGO.
  • Carmel Smickersgill

    Questioning

    • We Get What We Get & We Don't Get Upset.
    • PRAH Recordings.
  • Corey Fuller & Richard Skelton

    Ysland

    • Isolarii.
    • Thesis.
  • Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Honer

    By Foot By Sea

    • Recordings from the Ã…land Islands.
    • International Anthem Recording Company.
  • Rufus Isabel Elliot

    Crocuses, violents, etc.

    • A​/​am​/​ams (come ashore, turn over).
    • GLARC.
  • Barre Phillips

    Just 8

    • For All It Is.
    • Japo Records.
  • Brìghde Chaimbeul

    Turf Lodge

    • The Life of an Uncultured Magician Compilation.
    • Supernormal.
  • Leevisa

    Avant Garde Challenge

    • Koreography.
    • Perpetual Care.
  • Officer!

    Winter Potato #3

    • Paragraphs And Principles.
    • Klanggalerie.
  • Matilde Meireles

    or 38 metres

    • Life of a Potato.
    • °ä°ùó²Ô¾±³¦²¹.
  • Isik Kural

    Film Festival

    • Catalog Compendium Vol. 6.
    • Rvng Intl. / Freedom To Spend / Commend.
  • Keeley Forsyth

    I Stand Alone

    • Limbs.
    • The Leaf Label.
  • 75 Dollar Bill

    Black to Comm​/​9 to 5 - MC5​/​Dolly Parton (feat. Sue Garner, Cheryl Kingan & Chris Nelson)

    • Social Music at Troost vol​.​3: (Other) People's Music.
    • SOCIAL MUSIC SERIES.

Broadcast

  • Fri 21 Jan 2022 23:00

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