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Forecasts and oracles

100 years ago the weather forecast became a daily radio broadcast. Late Junction offers up an esoteric collection of sound and music that forewarns, divines and predicts.

100 years ago the weather forecast became a daily radio broadcast. Late Junction offers up an esoteric collection of sound and music that forewarns, divines and predicts.

Jennifer Lucy Allan shares tracks that celebrate the occult myths - and the science - behind predictions. Expect sounds and visions from the Ethereal Transects compilation, an exploration of the folklore behind celestial objects, as well as Psych-prog rock from Yorkshire’s The Accent, who offer musical enquiries into the meaning of a red sky at night. Plus, traditional ahwash music from the Amazigh people of Morocco, whose performers are often considered clairvoyant, and, just possibly, an appearance from the iconic ´óÏó´«Ã½ Weather presenter Michael (Hurricane!) Fish.

Elsewhere in the show, a track from Peloto Cabras Mulusa Olve - the new record by Argentinian experimental band Reynols - plus a galloping piece from the debut album of Turkish artist Elif Yalvaç, which she created in collaboration with artists encountered on her travels around the world.

Produced by Silvia Malnati
A Reduced Listening production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3

2 hours

Last on

Fri 24 Mar 2023 23:00

Music Played

  • ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sound Archives

    News and Weather from 16.01.1937

  • Steve Reich

    It's Gonna Rain

    • Early Works.
    • Elektra Nonesuch.
  • Charles Ross & Elif Yalvaç

    Rainhorse

    • My Heart of Noise.
  • Chris Watson

    Ol-Olool-O

    • Weather Report.
    • Touch.
  • ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sound Archives

    Michael Fish hurricane clip 15.10.1987

  • Weather Report

    Manolete

    • Sweetnighter.
    • Columbia.
  • ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sound Archives

    Cuckoo (Cuculus Canorus) - Typical call

  • ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sound Archives

    British Birds - Ring Ouzel singing, with song of second bird, Red Grouse & Cucko

  • Anne Briggs

    The Cuckoo

    • Anne Briggs.
    • Topic.
  • Ferqa Ahwach Agdz

    El Msaq

    • Agdz, Morocco Apr 2014.
    • Remix Culture.
  • Austin Williamson

    Car Horn Choir

    • Music Perspective Vol. 1.
    • Music Perspective.
  • Brother May

    Gully Hymns

    • Pattern With Force.
  • Unknown

    Untitled

    • Review.
    • Dusty Ballz.
  • Angus MacLise

    ("Tapes 3") Excerpt from "Gamelan #1 cont4.

    • Tapes.
    • Pleasure Editions.
  • Alberto Lizarralde

    Herrikoia

    • Haizetxe.
    • Hegoa Diskak.
  • Joanna Mattrey

    Fate

    • Soulcaster.
    • Notice Recordings.
  • Cyclobe

    Tarot

    • Sulphur - Tarot - Garden.
    • Phantomcode.
  • The Accent

    Red Sky At Night

    • Red Sky At Night.
    • Parrot.
  • Dorothy Moskowitz & The United States of Alchemy

    My Doomsday Serenade

    • Under an Endless Sky.
    • Tompkins Square.
  • Alexander Tucker & Keith Collins

    At Dungeness

    • Fifth Continent.
    • Subtext.
  • Gazelle Twin

    Premonition

    • Unflesh.
    • Last Gang Records.
  • Genghis Cohn

    Grapes

    • Heap.
    • Are You Before.
  • spencer

    i lovf cats :​-​(

    • meowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeowmeow (they are in love).
    • Infant Tree.
  • Reynols

    Ambres Macia

    • Peloto Cabras Mulusa.
    • White Tapes.
  • Plans

    No Home

    • Utopia Or Oblivion.
    • Kudos Records.
  • Jennifer Walshe & Jon Leidecker

    THE DOUBLE (Live in Dublin)

  • Gavsborg

    Update Radio

    • The Voiceline by Nick Ryan.
  • Adam Matschulat

    Side A

    • Formosa.
    • Calling Cards Publishing.
  • Los Yndeseables

    Asquerosa corrupción

    • Escapa del control (1985, studio recording version).
    • Buh Records.
  • Helena Celle

    I Did It My Way

    • If I Can't Handle Me At My Best, You Don't Deserve You At Your Worst.
    • Night School.
  • Lo Escucho, Lo Pinto

    Bandera Negra

    • Lo Escucho, Lo Pinto.
    • All Night Flight.

Broadcast

  • Fri 24 Mar 2023 23:00

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