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Jennifer Lucy Allan shares our latest in person collaboration session from violist Alison Cotton and synth player Hinako Omori, recorded live in the studio.

Alison Cotton is a London-based singer and multi-instrumentalist, learning the viola at a young age playing in orchestras and chamber ensembles. While at university she joined her first band, and went on to play in several including Saloon and The Eighteenth Day of May, before starting to write songs of her own for the band she has with her husband, The Left Outsides. Her recent solo work strips it all back, using her viola and voice, along with an array of other instruments, to create long, haunting folk drones.

Hinako Omori moved to London when she was three, having been born in Yokohama, Japan. Like Alison, she started out learning classical music, this time on the piano, before training as a sound engineer and later going on to create her own music. Her new album ‘a journey…’ weaves together binaural field recordings, analogue synthesisers and augmented vocals to create immersive sonic landscapes.

Elsewhere in the show, we’ll hear the voice of American folk-jazz mystic Terry Callier and music by Ainu musician OKI, playing the tonkori, a five-stringed harp. Plus there’s scrambled presets and cross-cultural influences in the work of Turkish musician Anadol.

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