大象传媒

Corey Mwamba presents new improvised music charting personal evolutions, the path of the sun and processed sound.

Swedish pianist Karin Johansson returns with the first release from her band ORD featuring sparse, gossamer-like pieces and haunting vocals. The album was inspired by the words of the late Swedish poet and psychologist, Tomas Transtr枚mer, who wrote about personal evolution. He said, 鈥淚 carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings. The sum of them is me. The mirror sees only my latest face, while I know all my previous ones.鈥�

We head back to 2006 for a moment of live exaltation, in a piece called Solar Suite, featuring musician David Boykin鈥檚 Expanse collective. The band includes Nicole Mitchell on flute and Josh Abrams on bass and this piece follows the evolving path of the sun鈥檚 journey through the sky.

Elsewhere in the programme, Sheffield based musician Laurie Tompkins adopts the playful persona of a karaoke aficionado, in a trio featuring saxophonist Ashley Paul and Eliza McCarthy. Disembodied wails and recitations dance through layers of dystopian instrumentals, punctured by squalling horns and ricocheting keys.

Produced by Tej Adeleye
A Reduced Listening Production for 大象传媒 Radio 3