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Campaign songs, spontaneous exchanges
New work from David Toop and Lawrence English, traditional and improvised rhythms from Malombo Jazz Makers, and Verity Sharp follows the campaign trail with Kronos Quartet.
Verity Sharp presents fresh takes on old songs, improvised rhythms and surprising sound-worlds.
A newly-released collaboration between Kronos Quartet and Michael Gordon re-interprets the canon of American patriotic, political and folk music, from This Land is Your Land to When Johnny Comes Marching Â鶹ԼÅÄ. Recorded in isolation by each member of the quartet, the eight short pieces that comprise Campaign Songs were arranged by Michael Gordon.
Elsewhere, improvised and traditional rhythms from two classic albums of South African jazz, reissued internationally for the first time. The pioneering Malombo Jazz Makers were renowned for being one of the first South African bands to fully connect jazz with African traditions, with their classics Malompo Jazz (1966) and Malombo Jazz Makers Vol. 2 (1967) set for release via Strut.
Also in the programme: an entirely new range of sound worlds emerge from the forthcoming album by David Toop and Lawrence English. The Shell That Speaks The Sea is the product of a spontaneous burst of exchanges using field recordings including the sound of the elusive Tawny Frogmouth bird, bass drum, ghost flute, bamboo, stones and more.
Produced by Rebecca Grisedale-Sherry
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Andrew Liles
Untied Klingon
- God Can’t Save.
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Kronos Quartet & Michael Gordon
God Bless America
- Campaign Songs.
- Cantaloupe Music.
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Beverly Glennâ€Copeland
Africa Calling
- The Ones Ahead.
- Transgressive.
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Sounding Situations
This is About
- This is About.
- Syrphe.
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Lina Allemano Four
Banana Canon
- Pipe Dream.
- Lumo Records.
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Txao / Rudy / Kagiso
We Have Been Abandoned by the World
- Taa! Our Language May be Dying but our Spirits Remain: Botswana.
- Glitterbeat Records.
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Kety Fusco
Starless
- The Harp Chapter I.
- Floating Notes.
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Memotone
Lonehead
- How Was Your Life.
- Impatience.
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Shirley Collins
High and Away
- Archangel Hill.
- Domino.
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Som Imaginário
Os Cafezais Sem Fim
- Banda Da Capital.
- Far Out Recordings.
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Alinah Azadeh
Prologue - excerpt
- We Hear You Now - South Downs National Park.
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Ben Frost & Francesco Fabris
Meradalir II
- Meradalir.
- Room40.
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Xhashe
I Am Lost (the Spirits Guide me Â鶹ԼÅÄ)
- Our Language May be Dying but our Spirits Remain.
- Glitterbeat Records.
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Malombo Jazz
Vukani
- Malombo Jazz Volume 2.
- Strut.
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Soundwalk Collective
Schimmer Sanft Den Klang Des Tages
- All the Beauty & the Bloodshed.
- Analogue Foundation.
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Serra Das Máquinas
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- Terreirão / Neblina.
- Tropical Twista Records.
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Tomáš Å enkyÅ™Ãk
Bombina bombina
- Jaro.
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Lisa O'Neill
All of This is Chance
- All of This is Chance.
- Rough Trade.
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David Toop & Lawrence English
Whistling in the Dark
- The Shell that Speaks the Sea.
- Room40.
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Loopsel
Skammen
- Skammen.
- DFA Records.
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Holy Tongue
Joachim (feat. Steve Beresford)
- Deliverance And Spiritual Warfare.
- Amidah.
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Kagiso
My Culture is The Most Beautiful
- Our Language May be Dying but our Spirits Remain.
- Glitterbeat Records.
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Olivia de Prato
Tooth and Nail
- Panorama.
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Faizal Mostrixx
Sandman
- Mutations.
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Asher Gamedze
Locomotion
- Turbulence & Pulse.
- International Anthem US.
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Prince Jazzbo
333
- 333.
- Death Is Not The End.
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Scotch Rolex & Shackleton
Shattered
- Death by Tickling.
- Silver Triplet.
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- Fri 26 May 2023 23:00Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3
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