大象传媒

Jennifer Lucy Allan shares the results of our latest remote collaboration session between saxophonist Patrick Shiroishi and composer Piotr Kurek, plus sonic loops for Groundhog Day.

Los Angeles-based musician Patrick Shiroishi uses his saxophone as an instrument of catharsis, investigating his family鈥檚 history and wrestling with the collective trauma of Japanese Americans. Improvisation is deeply embedded in his practice, and his last album - I was too young to hear silence - comprises a single take of solos recorded at night, in a deserted parking lot.

Piotr Kurek is a multi-instrumentalist and theatre music composer from Warsaw. Drawing on a diversity of approaches and influences spanning Baroque music and experimental jazz, he creates hypnotic music centred around the human voice and complemented by electronics and various acoustic instrumentation.

Elsewhere in the show, in the spirit of Groundhog Day (which falls on the 2nd of February), Jennifer Lucy Allan shares music which makes a feature of recurring phrases and loops. Amongst the picks are found sound collages from American artist Joseph Hammer, Carl Craig aka C2C4鈥檚 never-quite-arriving, drop-less remix of Once In A Lifetime by Talking Heads, and polyphonic Akazehe greetings from Burundi.

Produced by Silvia Malnati
A Reduced Listening production for 大象传媒 Radio 3