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Flora Purim's mixtape

Verity Sharp shares a mixtape from ‘Queen of Brazilian Jazz’ Flora Purim. Plus Haitian archive recordings, Cambodian cassettes and English tarot-inspired electronics.

Verity Sharp shares a mixtape from Grammy-nominated Brazilian jazz vocalist Flora Purim. Often referred to as ‘The Queen of Brazilian Jazz’, she has been a key figure in the Latin and American jazz scenes for the last seven decades. Early on in her career, she combined jazz with radical protest songs that challenged the Brazilian government, before leaving for New York in 1967. There she was able to spend time with her idols, including Thelonious Monk and Horace Silver, and over the course of her career has collaborated with a long list of esteemed musicians, from Dizzy Gillespie and Hermeto Pascoal to Gil Evans and Chick Corea. The longest collaboration of her career has been the one with her husband, the Brazilian jazz percussionist Airto Moreira.

This month saw the release of her first studio album in 15 years, which revisits some of her past collaborations as well as new compositions, including alongside her daughter Diana Purim. Her mixtape for Late Junction pays homage to her jazz heroes, from American trumpeter Miles Davis to Polish vocalist Urszula Dudziak, as well as pieces from South African singer Miriam Makeba and Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia.

Elsewhere in the show there’s new music from Haitian-American multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla that draws on 20th century Haitian radio archives, as well as a collection of cassette recordings of Khmer music from Cambodia recorded between the 1960s and the 1990s. Plus a new release from Wessex electronic duo Reigns, inspired the story of an artist who created a beautifully illustrated deck of tarot cards only to completely destroy it in 1970 once it predicted her death.

Produced by Katie Callin.
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Music Played

  • Fennesz

    Sz (2022 Remaster)

    • Hotel Paral.lel.
    • Editions Mego.

  • Lizabett Russo

    It Must Have Been

    • While I Sit And Watch This Tree Volume 2.
    • Last Night From Glasgow.

  • Manja Ristić

    Rings of Water

    • Rings of Water.
    • Flag Day Recordings.

  • ΨαÒÏαντώνης & Yanni Paximadakis

    Se Kainouria varka bika

    • Ta Rebetika Tou Psarantoni.
    • Aerakis - Cretan Musical Workshop & Seistron.

  • Branko Mataja

    Tebi Majko Misli Lete / To You Mother, My Thoughts Fly

    • Over Fields and Mountains.
    • Numero Group.

  • Reigns

    The Hoarder

    • Tollinghurst.
    • Wrong Speed Records.

  • Kaja Draksler

    Tenis Stołowy

    • In Otherness Oneself.
    • Unsounds!.

  • Atte Elias Kantonen

    Frog Against A Frog

    • Pop 6 Susurrus.
    • Mappa.

  • Leyla McCalla

    Fort Dimanche

    • Breaking The Thermometer.
    • ANTI.

  • Les Vikings

    Choc Vikings

    • Haiti Direct.
    • STRUT.

  • Broadcast

    Microtronics 08

    • Microtronics - Volumes 1 & 2.
    • Warp.

  • Broadcast

    Elegant Elephant

    • Mother Is The Milky Way.
    • Warp.

  • Dave Gisler Trio, Jamie Branch & David Murray

    Bastards On The Run

    • See You Out There.
    • Intakt.

  • Ana Fosca

    Revealed by Its Absence Hidden by Its Presence

    • Poised at the Edge of Structure.
    • The Helen Scarsdale Agency.

  • Flora Purim

    Dandara

    • If You Will.
    • STRUT.

  • Flora Purim's mixtape

    • Elizeth Cardoso

      Canção do Amor Demais

      • Canção Do Amor Demais.
      • Festa.

    • Ethnic Heritage Ensemble

      Ntozake (For Ntozake Shange)

      • Be Known: Ancient / Future / Music.
      • Spiritmuse Records.

    • Miriam Makeba

      Reza (live)

      • Miriam Makeba In Tokyo.
      • Reprise Records.

    • Hermeto Pascoal

      Alicate (Pliers)

      • Hermeto.
      • Cobblestone.

    • Paco de Lucía

      Solo Quiero Caminar

      • Solo Quiero Caminar.
      • Philips.

    • Urszula Dudziak

      Papaya

      • Papaya.
      • Arista.

    • Thelonious Monk

      'Round Midnight

      • 'Round Midnight.
      • Giants Of Jazz.

  • Dorival Caymmi

    O Samba Da Minha Terra

    • Caymmi.
    • ODEON.

  • Son Thoeung

    Damrey Cheung Buon (The Four Feet Of The Elephant)

    • Cambodian Cassette Archives: Khmer Folk & Pop Music Vol. 1.
    • Sublime Frequencies.

  • Kink Gong

    Forbidden China

    • Forbidden China.
    • Discrepant.

  • Anika

    Critical (Lauren Flax Remix)

    • Change: The Remixes.
    • Sacred Bones Records.

  • Super Inter

    Cyan

    • Liberty: Compilation of experimental music from Ukraine.
    • Flaming Pines.

Broadcast

  • Fri 22 Apr 2022 23:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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