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In the Key of Green

Jennifer Lucy Allan paints the show green with new music from Tomoko Sauvage, a Cambodian Peacock Dance and first-rate whistling from street performer George Coleman.

This show is brought to you by the colour green. Jennifer Lucy Allan goes verdant with a meditation on the colour green from Tomoko Sauvage and Francesco Cavaliere, a spoken word piece by Fluxus β€˜action-poet’ Robert Filiou and a ceremonial peacock dance from Cambodia.

For their new release Tomoko Sauvage and Francesco Cavaliere play a host of green instruments and objects to radiate colour into sound. For inspiration, they used a series of anecdotes about the hue: a chinese myth about a man wearing a green hat or the names of Japanese traffic lights. We also hear a performance by Fluxus artist Robert Filiou from 1977, who devoted his piece β€˜Greetings from L, We Are All Green’ to the colour.

Elsewhere, Jen plunges into the deep end of her record collection to select an old favourite from street performer George Coleman, aka Bongo Joe, some early Cajun accordion from Harry Smith’s Anthology of folk music and music made by buoys and wind powered sails by Charlie Hooker.

Produced by Zakia Sewell
A Reduced Listening production for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3.

2 hours

Last on

Fri 20 Aug 2021 23:00

Music Played

  • RαΊ―n CαΊ‘p ĐuΓ΄i Collective

    Images

    • Ngủ NgΓ y Ngay NgΓ y TαΊ­n ThαΊΏ.
    • Subtext Recordings.
  • Robert Filliou

    Greetings From 'L', We Are All Green

    • Greetings From 'L', We Are All Green.
    • Slowscan.
  • Francesco Cavaliere & Tomoko Sauvage

    Jade Lake

    • Viridescens.
    • Marionette.
  • Royal Trux

    Gold Dust

    • Royal Trux.
    • Royal Records.
  • Meridian Brothers & Conjunto Media Luna

    El Profesionalismo Es Importante

    • Paz En La Tierra.
    • Les Disques Bongo Joe.
  • Charlie Hooker

    Separate Elements

    • Separate Elements.
  • ComitΓ© HypnotisΓ©

    Neptune Wept

    • Dubs Pour Oh-la-la.
    • cortizona.
  • Ma Rainey

    Jealous Hearted Blues

    • Jealous Hearted Blues / See See Rider Blues.
    • Paramount.
  • Errorsmith

    Jam For Sisso (feat. Jay Mita)

    • Jay Mita And Sisso Meet The Modern Institute At The Villa Ft. Errorsmith.
    • Nyege Nyege Tapes.
  • Peter Cusack

    London, UK - Intense Parakeet Roost: Hither Green Cemetery

    • Garden of Remembrance, London Borough of Lewisham, London, UK - Intense Parakeet.
    • radio aporee.
  • Hiroshi Yoshimura

    Creek

    • Green.
    • Light In The Attic.
  • Unknown

    Rabam kragoak (Peacock dance)

    • Cambodia: Traditional Music, Vol. 2: Tribe Music, Folk Music and Popular Dances.
    • Folkways Records.
  • The Beacon Sound Choir

    Drone 3

    • Sunday Songs.
    • First Terrace Records.
  • Green Dome

    Cyprus Lace

    • Thinking In Stitches.
    • Casestudy.
  • Eliza McCarthy & Mica Levi

    Diamond Gun

    • Slow Dark Green Murky Waterfall.
    • Slip.
  • Joshua Abrams

    Represencing

    • Represencing.
    • Eremite Records.
  • ClΓ©oma Falcon, Ophy Breaux & Joe Falcon

    C'Est Si Triste Sans Lui

    • Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music.
    • Smithsonian Folkways.
  • Bass Clef

    Glacier Beams

    • Magnetic Chapters.
    • Wrong Speed Records.
  • Robbie Basho

    Green River Suite

    • Visions Of The Country.
    • Windham Hill Records.
  • Teeth Agency

    Chucky Had A Bad Day

    • You Don't Have To Live In Pain.
    • Stones Throw Records.
  • BrΓ¬ghde Chaimbeul

    Moma e Moma Rodila

    • The Reeling.
    • River Lea.
  • King Tubby & Roots Radics

    Hungry Belly Dub

    • Dangerous Dub.
    • Greensleeves Records.
  • George Coleman

    I Wish I Could Sing

    • Bongo Joe.
    • Arhoolie Records.
  • Shane Cooper

    SKINS

    • HAPPENSTANCE.
    • Kit Records.
  • Al Green

    Dream

    • The Belle Album.
    • Hi Records.

Broadcast

  • Fri 20 Aug 2021 23:00

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