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Carols re-imagined

Corey Mwamba offers a feast of festive improvisation and Christmas carols re-imagined, with specially recorded contributions from Cath Roberts, Matthew Bourne and Ute Wasserman.

Corey Mwamba offers up a feast of festive improvisation and Christmas carols re-imagined. Among the experimental wassailers to knock on the Freeness front door are baritone saxophonist and improviser Cath Roberts, Yorkshire-based keyboard adventurer Matthew Bourne and German vocalist Ute Wasserman, all three bearing gifts in the form of specially-recorded takes on popular seasonal tunes.

Elsewhere in the show, there's jazz and improvised music to get us into the festive mood including Pat Thomas playing Duke Ellington's hymn to the sabbath, Come Sunday, and the tinselled sound of Martin Payne and David BeeBee's vibraphone-and-Fender Rhodes-electric-piano combination. Plus, Rhodri Davies’s whirling improvisations on lap harp.

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

1 hour

Last on

Christmas Day 2022 00:00

Music Played

  • Martin Pyne & David Beebee

    Kawako

    • Ripples.
    • Discus Music.
  • Ripsaw Catfish

    Mother Of Snails

    • Carapace.
    • Raw Tonk Records.
  • Cath Roberts

    Christmas Crunch (God Rest You Merry)

    • Freeness, Carols Reimagined.
  • YoshimiOizumikiyoshiduO

    mini YO

    • To The Forest To Live A Truer Life.
    • Thrill Jockey.
  • The Philly Connection

    The Afro Avant (feat. Khan Jamal, Jamaaldeen Tacuma & Dennis Alston)

    • The Liberation Of Sound.
    • Jam-All Productions.
  • The Marzette Watts Ensemble

    Lonely Woman

    • The Marzette Watts Ensemble.
    • Mad About Records.
  • Ingrid Plum

    An Occupation of Air Part 2

    • Corporeality.
    • Ryoanji.
  • Joke Lanz & Ute Wassermann

    Half Dead

    • Half Dead, Half Alive.
    • Klang Galerie.
  • Ute Wassermann

    Holy Night

    • Freeness, Carols Reimagined.
  • Rhodri Davies

    Nieko​ń​cz​ą​cy się pocz​ą​tek. Nieko​ń​cz​ą​ce się po​ż​egnanie.

    • DWA DNI.
    • Amgen.
  • Pat Thomas

    Come Sunday

    • Pat Thomas Plays The Duke.
    • NEWJAiM Recordings.
  • Matthew Bourne & Edwin Begley

    The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot

    • Freeness, Carols Reimagined.

Broadcast

  • Christmas Day 2022 00:00