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Soweto Kinch’s Listening Chair

Jazz musician Soweto Kinch is in the Listening Chair and there’s a heady mix of ambient, electronic and experimental music weaved together by Elizabeth Alker.

British jazz musician, MC and composer Soweto Kinch is one of the leading artists in the UK’s jazz and hip-hop scenes. Hailing from Birmingham, home to his legendary jam session, The Live Box, the saxophonist and rapper has enjoyed a prolific two decades in which he’s performed worldwide, written orchestral scores and founded a music and arts festival. His recorded output has fused ragtime, West Indian folk, hip-hop and jazz, often in service to conscious themes, as in 2019’s The Black Peril, which explored the race riots that occurred in Britain, America and Europe in 1919. With his Listening Chair selection, he offers up a dynamic, hypnotic track that transports him to a different place and time.

Elsewhere in the show, we hear new releases from ambient giant Tim Hecker, Texan songwriter Jana Horn and composer and producer Rachika Nayar.

Produced by Alexa Kruger
A Reduced Listening Production for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

1 hour

Last on

Thu 6 Apr 2023 23:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Matthew Halsall

    The Eleventh Hour

    • The Temple Within.
    • Gondwana Records.

  • Tim Hecker

    Monotony

    • No Highs.
    • Sunblind.

  • Jana Horn

    The Dream

    • The Window Is The Dream.
    • No Quarter Records.

  • Soweto Kinch

    Zion

    • The Black Peril.
    • Soweto Kinch Recordings.

  • Faizal Mostrixx

    Loosley

    • Mutations.
    • Glitterbeat Recordings.

  • Nala Sinephro

    Space 1

    • Space 1.8.
    • Warp Records.

  • Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou

    A Mother's Love

    • Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guèbru.
    • Mississippi Records.

  • Steve Reich

    Europe - During The War (from Different Trains)

    Performer: Kronos Quartet.
    • Different Trains / Electric Counterpoint.
    • Elektra Nonesuch.

  • Sean Shibe

    Continuance

    • Lost & Found.
    • PentaTone.

  • Ultramarine

    Xylonite

    • Send and Return.
    • Blackford Hill.

  • Samuel Sharp

    Twinkly Tide

    • Consequential.
    • Blackford Hill.

  • Rachika Nayar

    Clarity

    • Fragments.
    • Commend.

Broadcast

  • Thu 6 Apr 2023 23:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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