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Dirges, ghosts, nightingales

Jennifer Lucy Allan serves up 90 minutes of ear-bending sounds for adventurous listeners, from psychedelic dirges, electronic odes to nightingales, and poetic reflections on loss.

Jennifer Lucy Allan serves up 90 minutes of ear-bending sounds for adventurous listeners. There’s obscure heavy dirges from a new compilation of rare psych rock by Los Angeles label Now-Again Records, and fresh rudimentary machine rhythms from Osaka-based electronic artist Kopy. There’ll be new work from Bristol sound artist Kathy Hinde made to draw attention to the declining population of nightingales, released to mark the hundredth anniversary of a 1924 ´óÏó´«Ã½ broadcast of a wild nightingale singing with Beatrice Harrison’s cello.

Plus an exclusive chance to hear Ghost Dance, a new collaborative polyvocal piece made by poet Emily Berry and composer Owen Duff, in which radiophonic textures offer explorations into memory and grief.

Produced by Phil Smith
A Reduced Listening production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3

1 hour, 29 minutes

Last on

Fri 17 May 2024 22:00

Music Played

  • Ibukun Sunday

    Inception

    • Field Recording In Orchestra.
  • Kopy

    Night Sarkas

    • Heart Fresh.
    • TAL.
  • MAREWREW

    Haw Sa - King of Round Singing

    • Ukouk: Round Singing Voices of the Ainu, 2012-2024.
    • Pingipung.
  • Lol Coxhill

    An Awfully Romantic Duet For Possibly Blackbird And Definitely Saxophone

    • Welfare State / Lol Coxhill.
    • Caroline Records.
  • Kathy Hinde

    Twittering Machines (Extract 1)

    • Twittering Machines.
  • Harpoon

    Non-Golden House

    • Heat Pump.
    • Totality.
  • Irmão Victor

    Miska Bella Foi À Missa

    • Micro-Usina.
    • Seloki Records.
  • Acid Mothers Reynols

    Smelling Oneiric Asado

    • Vol. 3.
    • VHF Records.
  • Daniel Lentz

    Requiem, In Memoriam Wolfgang Stoerchle - Songs in a Medieval Manner- Dies Irae

    • Lips.
    • Unseen Worlds.
  • Shellac

    Song Against Itself

    • 1000 Hurts.
    • Touch and Go.
  • Eduardo Polonio

    Para una pequeña margarita ronca (1969)

    • Five Spanish Pioneers of Electronic and Experimental Music 1953​-​1969.
    • Sub Rosa Label.
  • Emily Berry & Owen Duff

    Ghost Dance

    • Ghost Dance.
  • Jorge Boehringer

    Last Song

    • Low Guitars.
    • Early Music.
  • Derek Piotr

    Nobilis Humis

    • Divine Supplication.
    • DPSR.
  • Zeena Parkins

    Peephole

    • Nightmare Alley.
    • Table of the Elements.
  • G Sudden

    Walk & Stagger

    • Andromeda EP.
    • Bokeh Versions.
  • Image

    Out Station

    • Pale Shades Of Grey.
    • Now-Again Records.

Broadcast

  • Fri 17 May 2024 22:00

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