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Sounds of 2023

As the year nears its end, Verity Sharp revisits our favourite adventurous sounds of 2023, with contributions from Ale Hop, Lucy Liyou and Late Junction listeners.

Verity Sharp revisits our favourite adventurous sounds of 2023. With the help of some of this year's featured artists (including Ale Hop and Lucy Liyou) together with contributions from listeners and the production team, she'll retrace our musical steps through the past twelve months to share standout moments from gigs, collaboration sessions and album releases. From a collection of recently-resurfaced Flamenco recordings from the start of the century to the haunting ballads of Oh Me Oh My by American experimental musician and visual artist Lonnie Holley (who also curated a special Late Junction mixtape in 2023), we celebrate another year spent listening to kaleidoscopic music from around the globe.

Elsewhere in the show, improvised sketches with invented instruments recorded between Brazil and India by Eloine and a folk song inspired by moonlight from the new album by The Furrow Collective, We Know By The Moon.

Produced by Silvia Malnati and Cat Gough
A Reduced Listening production for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

2 hours

Last on

Fri 15 Dec 2023 23:00

Music Played

  • Divide and Dissolve

    Derail

    • Systemic.
    • Invada Records.
  • Cosmo Sheldrake

    Blow Hole

    • Wild Wet World.
    • Tardigrade Records.
  • Ntebogang

    Our Ancestors Show Us the Way

    • Taa! Our Language May Be Dying but our Voices Remain.
    • Glitterbeat.
  • Lonnie Holley

    I Can't Hush

    • Oh Me Oh My.
    • Jagjaguwar.
  • Marguerite Humeau & Bendik Giske

    'Meys' (excerpt)

    • 'Meys' at White Cube Bermondsey (5 April - 14 May 2023).
  • Brìghde Chaimbeul

    Ã’ran an Eich Uisage (Song of the Waterhorse)

    • Carry Them With Us.
    • Glitterbeat.
  • Matthew Herbert & Theon Cross

    The Horse Has A Voice

    • The Horse.
    • Modern Recordings.
  • MC Yallah & Debmaster

    Yallah Beibe

    • Yallah Beibe.
    • Hakuna Kulala.
  • Ale Hop & Laura Robles

    Lamento

    • Agua Dulce.
    • Buh Records.
  • Matana Roberts

    Unbeknownst

    • Coin Coin Chapter Five: In The Garden​.​.​..
    • Constellation.
  • Cecilia López & Ingrid Laubrook

    Don't Believe It

    • Maromas.
    • Relative Pitch Records.
  • The Furrow Collective

    The Hurdy Gurdy Man

    • We Know by the Moon.
    • Hudson Records.
  • Yoichi Kamimura

    Ryuhyo

    • Sound of the Year 2022.
  • Martyna Basta

    Back and Forth

    • Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering.
    • Warm Winters Ltd..
  • jaimie branch

    Take over the world

    • Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)).
    • International Anthem.
  • Yao Bobby & Simon Grab

    Kpalongo

    • Kpalongo.
  • cabezadenego, Leyblack & ²Ñ²ú±ðÌ

    TOQUE

    • MIMOSA.
    • QTV Selo.
  • La Niña de La Puebla

    My Pains Are Very Big

    • My Greatest Revenge: Flamenco Recordings, 1904​-​1938.
    • Death Is Not The End.
  • Max Syedtollan

    Stevie Storm

    • Ditto.
    • Dig That Treasure Records.
  • Andrea Campisi

    Ahwach Asfalou live at Abdul Malik / Tigmi Hamid

    • Ahwach Asfalou live at Abdul Malik / Tigmi Hamid.
  • WaqWaq Kingdom

    Dopamine Dance

    • Hot Pot Totto.
    • Phantom Limb.
  • Lucy Liyou

    Dog Dreams (excerpt)

    • Dog Dreams.
    • American Dreams Records.
  • Sunik Kim

    Potential

    • Potential.
    • OTOROKU.
  • Coby Sey

    Eve (AnwummerÉ›)

    • Conduit.
    • AD 93.
  • Kwes., Sampha & Tirzah

    Open Up (feat. Sampha & Tirzah)

    • Rye Lane (Original Score).
    • Warp Records.
  • Ahl Nana

    Nahnou Sigharou El Ouatane (extract)

    • L'Orchestre National Mauritanien.
    • Radio Martiko.
  • The Imagined Village, Benjamin Zephaniah & Eliza Carthy

    Tam Lyn (Retold)

    • The Imagined Village.
    • Real World Records.
  • Cucina Povera

    Ruskohaikaran Uni

    • For Palestine.
    • Paralaxe Editions.

Broadcast

  • Fri 15 Dec 2023 23:00

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