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Marisa Anderson and Jali Bakary Konteh in session

Verity Sharp shares our latest in person collaboration session, between American guitarist Marisa Anderson and Gambian kora player Jali Bakary Konteh

Verity Sharp shares our latest in person collaboration session, between American guitarist Marisa Anderson and Gambian kora player Jali Bakary Konteh - two experienced string players who both bring their own twists to traditional melodies and instruments, together for the first time in the Late Junction studio.

Marisa Anderson is a Portland-based, performer and composer whose work is centred around the guitar. Classically trained, she incorporates different elements into her playing, from jazz, country and blues to traditional American folk, minimalism and noise. An experienced and sought-after improviser and collaborator, Marisa has worked with the likes of Matmos, Sharon Van Etten and Circuit Des Yeux, and was described by the New Yorker as β€˜one of the most distinctive guitar players of her generation’.

Marisa is also inspired by West African guitar techniques, and has always wanted to work with a kora player - which leads us to her collaborator for this session.

Jali Bakary Konteh is a Gambian Griot, vocalist and kora player based in London. Part of a long ancestral line of Griots (oral storytellers), his father was the world-renowned kora player Dembo Konte, and Jali continues this by passing on his knowledge to his own students as a teacher of the kora. Although his playing is infused with his cultural heritage and tradition, he likes to add his own twists and improvisations to his arrangements to fuse the ancient with the modern. As well as being an experienced solo performer, Jali plays with his own band Minyanta, as well as the jazz collective Balimaya Project.

Elsewhere in the show, there’ll be theremin music from Peru and Iceland, Irish rebel songs and Congolese electronics.

Produced by Katie Callin
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Music Played

  • Marisa Anderson & Jali Bakary Konteh

    Nnomuttoe (togetherness)

    • Late Junction Collaboration Session.

  • Catherine Graindorge & Iggy Pop

    Mud I

    • The Dictator.
    • Glitterbeat.

  • Hekla

    Í Kyrrð

    • Sprungur.
    • Phantom Limb.

  • Kakete Buo

    Rose Rose

    • Kanda Bongo Man.
    • No Wahala Sounds.

  • Sid Hemphill

    The Devil's Dream

    • Sid Hemphill: The Devil's Dream (The 1942 Library of Congress Recordings).
    • Mississippi Records.

  • Marisa Anderson

    Night Air

    • Still, Here.
    • Thrill Jockey.

  • Pharoah Sanders

    Astral Traveling

    • Thembi.
    • MCA Impulse!.

  • Harry Partch, Ben Johnston, Betty Johnston, Bill Snead & Donald Pippin

    Eleven Intrusions II: Study on Archytas Enharmonic

    • The Harry Partch Collection Volume 1.
    • New World Records.

  • Ababeramuco Ensemble

    Amahamba (Song for a Cow)

    • Made in Gatagara: Music from Rwanda.
    • Antonovka Records.

  • CC Sorensen

    White As Green

    • Phantom Rooms.
    • Mappa.

  • Balimaya Project

    Seasons of Baraka

    • Jazz re:freshed.

  • Corrado Maria De Santis

    One Reign After Another

    • Ruins.
    • Midira Records.

  • LorcΓ‘n Mac MathΓΊna

    Daybreak

    • Visionaries 1916.

  • Marisa Anderson & Jali Bakary Konteh

    Track 3

    • Late Junction Collaboration Session.

  • Marisa Anderson & Jali Bakary Konteh

    Mbitarsu (I'm going home)

    • Late Junction Collaboration Session.

  • Marisa Anderson & Jali Bakary Konteh

    Track 4

    • Late Junction Collaboration Session.

  • Jim Ghedi

    What Will Become Of England

  • Makaya McCraven

    Seventh String

    • In These Times.
    • International Anthem Recording Co..

  • Nath Tribal Women

    Mare Dolari Paro (Sane Song)

    • Rajasthan Street Music.
    • Sublime Frequencies.

  • Emeka Ogboh

    Verbal Drift

    • 6 Degrees 30 33.372 N 3 Degrees 22 0.66 E.
    • Danfotronics.

  • Phew

    Names

    • Phew Names.
    • BEREKET.

  • Jake Blount

    Once There Was No Sun

    • The New Faith.
    • Smithsonian Folkways.

Broadcast

  • Fri 30 Sep 2022 23:00
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