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New Departures

Join Elizabeth Alker as she embarks upon the new year with fresh music from the world of ambient and experimental sound.

Join Elizabeth Alker as she shares new ambient sounds for a new year, including the radical beauty of Mikado Koko’s latest piano piece and the first new studio music in six years from Ben Frost. The Australian-born, Iceland-based producer has mastered the art of controlled abrasiveness in his music, folding field recordings into metallic guitar textures that build towards sometimes forbidding but always captivating. His are spectacular blocks of sonic storytelling and the new track, Turning The Prism, is no exception. Mikado Koko, by contrast, is on a search for pure beauty with her Satie-inspired piano music, in which - she enigmatically suggests - she both composes and doesn’t compose, plays and doesn’t play... (Her hope is that the music - like the new track Lotus Eater - will return us to a state of peaceful childhood.) Elsewhere in the show, we’ll hear Boston Blue Period from the forthcoming album by Strange Boy, aka Kieran Brunt and Matt Huxley - expect sweeping strings and tender vocals.

Produced by Geoff Bird
A Reduced Listening production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Thu 4 Jan 2024 23:30
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Music Played

  • Bas Jan

    At the Counter

    • Back to the Swamp.
    • Fire.

  • Strange Boy

    Boston Blue Period

    • Boston Blue Period.
    • Groenland Records,.

  • Anna Meredith

    Tull

  • John Francis Flynn

    Dirty Old Town

    • Look Over the Wall, See the Sky.
    • River Lea.

  • Lucy Railton

    Blush Study

    • Corner Dancer.
    • Modern Love.

  • Marry Waterson & Adrian Crowley

    Watching The Starlings

    • Cuckoo Storm.
    • One Little Independent Records.

  • Mikado Koko

    Lotus Eater

    • PIANOINACAGE.

  • s t a r g a z e & Arone Dyer

    Voicecream

  • Sunn O)))

    Evil Chuck

    • Evil Chuck.
    • Sub Pop Records.

  • Manu Delago

    Paintings on the Wall (feat. Mad About Lemon)

    • Snow From Yesterday.
    • One Little Independent Records.

  • Kali Malone

    All Life Long

    • All Life Long.
    • Ideologic Organ.

  • Ben Frost

    Turning the Prism

    • Turning the Prism.

Broadcast

  • Thu 4 Jan 2024 23:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

What is unclassified music?

What is unclassified music?

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