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Corey Mwamba presents new free jazz and improvised music that defy speed and time, featuring a recent live performance from the duo Musho and sax laments by Lao Dan.

In 2016, vocalist Sofia Jernberg and pianist Alexander Hawkins formed the duo Musho - an Amharic word meaning Sad Song - and since then have continued to collaborate, creating music that draws on their shared interest in Ethiopian music. In this episode, we listen to an extract of their melancholic set at last August’s Météo Mulhouse Music Festival in France.

Elsewhere in the show, the chance to hear a recently-resurfaced saxophone solo from the Chinese flute and woodwind master musician Lao Dan. Plus atmospheric improvisations from the debut album by Italian quartet tellKujira and Belgian sextet Games & Motifs, who make playful and experimental music inspired by the beauty of inventiveness.

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