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Spring in the City

Spring has arrived, and to celebrate, Elizabeth Alker heads out into the city to discover signs of the new season as well as ambient and experimental songs to match the mood.

Spring, with all its promise and plans and projects, is no time to be sitting in a Salford studio! For this special edition of Unclassified, Elizabeth Alker heads outdoors to find signs of nature’s great resurgence in the towpaths and byways of the city, playing new ambient and electronic tracks that best match the thrill and the promise of the season.

Sound artist, composer and Oram Award-winner Hayley Suviste captures the atmosphere in the city’s edgelands and abandoned herbaceous borders; Tommy Perman makes the buzz of Manchester’s worker bee symbol into a soundtrack for a new park; and we hear new renditions of a very old song about the famous Salford gasworks.

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

1 hour

Last on

Sun 14 Apr 2024 23:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Carmel Smickersgill

    Questioning

    • We Get What We Get & We Don't Get Upset.
    • PRAH.

  • Hayley Suviste

    Edgeland

    • Edgeland.

  • Jennifer Reid

    Pomona 2

    • Pomona 2.

  • GoGo Penguin

    Murmuration

    • v2.0.
    • Gondwana Records.

  • Ciaran Algar

    The Wild Geese

    • The Final Waltz.
    • Fellside Recordings.

  • Tommy Perman

    The Resonant Viaduct (extract)

    • Castlefield Viaduct Soundscape.

  • Space Afrika

    oread

    • Somewhere Decent To Live.
    • sferic.

  • Black Brunswicker

    Nordic Winds

    • Nordic Winds.

  • O'o

    Indigo (Holy Other remix)

    Remix Artist: Holy Other.
    • Touche.

  • David Chatton Barker & The Whitworth & Healy Vale Brass Band

    The Haunting of Intack Farm

    • Brown Wardle Hill.
    • Lancashire Folklore Tapes.

  • Louis Campbell & Owen Spafford

    Curlew

    • 102 Metres East.

  • Matthew Halsall

    An Ever Changing View

    • An Ever Changing View.
    • Gondwana Records.

Broadcast

  • Sun 14 Apr 2024 23:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

What is unclassified music?

What is unclassified music?

Elizabeth Alker introduces five of her favourite 'unclassifiable' pieces of music.