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Ale Hop’s mixtape

Verity Sharp shares a mixtape from Berlin-based Peruvian experimentalist Ale Hop ahead of her performance at this year’s Heroines of Sound Festival.

Verity Sharp shares the latest Late Junction mixtape, this time courtesy of Berlin-based Peruvian artist Alejandra Cárdenas, aka Ale Hop, ahead of her performance at this year’s Heroines of Sound Festival. An experimental instrumentalist, Ale Hop’s live performances see her combine a diverse repertoire of extended techniques for electric guitar with real-time sampling devices, in the process building up layers of sonic intensity.

Cárdenas began her career in the 2000s in Lima’s experimental and underground scenes before exploring her own solo artistry, as well as co-founding the Berlin-based festival Radical Sounds Latin America and now facilitating critical discourse and artistic research around the practice of listening through her platform Contingent Sounds. Much of Ale Hop’s work is informed by her background as a researcher and academic, with her latest album, Agua Dulce, in collaboration with percussionist Laura Robles, offering up a radical deconstruction of traditional rhythms of the Peruvian coast, in which the cajón instrument plays a central role.

Elsewhere in the show, African Head Charge, the collaborative project between percussionist Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah and dub producer Adrian Sherwood, return with their first new album in twelve years, a psychedelic travelogue across the landscape of northern Ghana, and Portland pianist Mary Sutton delves into her Cherokee roots with a musical evocation of a day in the life of a bear in the Smoky Mountains.

Produced by Gabriel Francis
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Fri 7 Jul 2023 23:00
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Music Played

  • Charif Megarbane

    Souk el Ahad

    • Habibi Funk 023: Marzipan.
    • Habibi Funk Records.

  • Ale Hop & Laura Robles

    El fenómeno de la niña

  • Los Pirañas

    Puerta del sol

    • Coco Mar​í​a presents Club Coco ¡AHORA! The Latin sound of now.
    • Les Disques Bongo Joe.

  • Lucie Páchová

    Na terase

    • К​ѶÄ​ъâ¶Ä‹Ð½â¶Ä‹Ð´â¶Ä‹Ð¶â¶Ä‹Ð¸â¶Ä‹Ð»â¶Ä‹Ð¸â¶Ä‹Ñ†â¶Ä‹Ð°.
    • Skupina.

  • Martyna Basta

    Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering

    • Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering.

  • Bolka

    smutné stropy

    • smutné stropy.
    • LOM.

  • Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra

    Nation Rising

    • 60 Years.

  • Zoh Amba, Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt

    Sweet One

    • The Flower School.

  • Yoruba Singers

    No Intention

    • Ojinga​’​s Own.
    • Soundway Records.

  • Azu Tiwaline

    Night in Palmtree

    • The Fifth Dream.

  • Badiâa Bouhrizi

    (داب تركي) Dub à La Turque

    • KahruMusiqa.
    • Akuphone.

  • The Banwasi Collective

    Prem Diwani

    • Travellers.

  • Arrangement

    Coconut Mango

    • Arrangement Vol. 1.

  • Denis Mpunga & Paul K

    Intermezzo III

    • Criola.
    • Music From Memory.

  • Carl Stone

    Pasjoli

    • Stolen Car.

  • Delroy Edwards

    H.A.T.B.

    • Hangin' At The Beach.
    • L.A. Club Resource.

  • Rashad Becker

    dances VI

    • Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. II.

  • Alva Noto

    m 05

    • Transform.
    • Mille Plateaux.

  • Microstoria & Violent Onsen Geisha

    Endless Summer NAMM

    • Thrill Jockey.

  • Jon Hassell

    Fearless

    • Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two).

  • Brian Eno & David Byrne

    Very, Very Hungry

  • Grauzone

    Raum

    • We Release Whatever The F We Want Records.

  • Mother Bank

    Jalan Jalan

    • Tanggung Renteng.
    • YES NO WAVE MUSIC.

  • African Head Charge

    Passing Clouds

    • A Trip To Bolgatanga.

  • Philip Jeck & Chris Watson

    Oxmardyke

    • Oxmardyke.

  • Chruch

    La Chanson de l'été

    • Bikini Session.
    • Jelodanti Records.

  • Luzmila Carpio

    Inti Watana - El Retorno del Sol

    • zzkrecords.

  • Suzanne Ciani & Jonathan Fitoussi

    Golden Apples of the Sun

    • Golden Apples of the Sun.
    • Transversales Disques.

  • Tony Allen, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad

    Don't Believe the Dancers

    • Tony Allen JID018.
    • Jazz Is Dead.

  • V/Z

    Candle

    • Suono Assente.
    • AD 93.

Broadcast

  • Fri 7 Jul 2023 23:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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