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Dancing ghosts and remixed frogs

Join Verity Sharp for another ear-opening journey, including music made in a haunted Swiss sanatorium, Musique Mandingue from Mali and remixed recordings of North American Frogs.

Final boarding call for another ear-opening musical journey into the furthest reaches of sound with your captain, Verity Sharp. Tonight鈥檚 voyage will take us to a haunted sanatorium in the mountains of Switzerland, where Polish pianist and composer Hania Rani spent two months writing songs for the ghosts she imagined there. We鈥檒l traverse into the territory of North American frogs, tugboats, insects and more with electronic duo Matmos鈥檚 latest release, a musique concr猫te collage constructed entirely from the 鈥榥on-musical鈥 recordings released by Smithsonian Folkways Records in the mid-20th century. Plus a trip to Mali and some Musique Mandingue courtesy of Guinean singer and guitarist Leon Ke茂ta, as well as an imaginary world of daydreams created by the Dutch duo Voice Actor.

Produced by Katie Callin
A Reduced Listening production for 大象传媒 Radio 3

2 hours

Music Played

  • Meridian Brothers & Cyril Cyril

    Diablos de Chuao

    • Navaja Bogot谩.
    • Bongo Joe Records.
  • Hailu Mergia

    Belew Beduby

    • Pioneer Works Swing (Live).
    • Awesome Tapes From Africa.
  • Highhats in Trees

    Steppestep

    • Artefacts.
    • Maloca.
  • Pauline Anna Strom

    Quiet Joy

    • Echoles Spaces Lines.
    • RVNG.
  • Alabaster dePlume & Falle Nioke

    What Can It Take

    • Come With Fierce Grace.
    • International Anthem.
  • Raphael Rogi艅ski

    Carpathian Transition

    • 罢补濒脿苍.
    • Instant Classic.
  • L茅on Keita

    Dalaka

    • Leon Keita: Analog Africa Dance Edition No. 16.
    • Analog Africa.
  • Santaka

    Xdrum

    • Xram.
    • Radio Vilnius.
  • Larry Crywater

    Not that One

    • Not that One.
    • Hard Release.
  • Cia Rinne

    This Sentence

    • Sounds for Soloist.
    • ERRATUM MUSICAL.
  • Cia Rinne

    laur lyth milv

    • Sounds for Soloist.
    • ERRATUM MUSICAL.
  • Classroom

    La Partie d'echecs

    • Classroom.
    • Finders Keepers Records.
  • Ivan Bokarev

    Stradaniva (tune of Foschevatovo)

    • Eletskogo: Balalaika Tunes of Southern Russia.
    • Antonovka Records.
  • Irreversible Entanglements

    root<=>branch

    • Protect Your Light.
    • Impulse!.
  • Yara Asmar

    objects lost in drawers (found again at the most inconvenient times)

    • synth waltzes and accordion laments.
  • Adriano Galante & Refree

    El mismo paisaje (with Ra眉l Refree)

    • TODA UNA ALEGR鈥嬅嶁婣.
  • Lucie V铆tkov谩

    Stones

    • Cave Acoustics.
    • mappa.
  • Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd

    Ooze Out And Away, Onehow

    • The Moon and the Melodies.
    • 4AD.
  • Matmos

    Return to Archive

    • Return to Archive.
    • Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
  • Laurel Halo

    Belleville

    • Atlas.
    • Awe.
  • Yvonne Rogers

    Dandelion

    • Seeds.
  • Dorian Wood

    Excesiva

    • Excesiva.
  • Hania Rani

    Oltre Terra

    • Ghosts.
    • Gondwana Records.
  • Voice Actor

    Daydream

    • Fake Sleep.
    • STROOM.
  • Sylvester

    Stormy Weather

    • Private Recordings, August 1970.
    • Dark Entries.

Broadcast

  • Fri 6 Oct 2023 23:00

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