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Cosmic Junction - A New Planets Suite with NikNak and Gibrana Cervantes in session

Verity Sharp presents a special collaboration session between sound artist NikNak and violinist Gibrana Cervantes to mark the 150th birthday of The Planets' composer Gustav Holst.

Verity Sharp presents a cosmic Late Junction collaboration session between the innovative violinist and composer Gibrana Cervantes and eclectic and award-winning turntablist NikNak. The two artists meet each other here for the first time, to join in with Radio 3鈥檚 Gustav Holst 150th birthday celebrations by improvising a set of pieces inspired by the British composer鈥檚 famous orchestral suite, The Planets.

Gibrana Cervantes is a violinist who has a gift for combining noise and melody in the creation of emotive, contemplative compositions, pulling from her background both as a classically-trained musician alongside her roots in Mexico鈥檚 metal scene. A notoriously powerful live performer and improviser, her most recent album V贸rtex Submarino dexterously combines manipulated violin, drone and field recordings. She is a member of the metal band Vyctoria and Mexico City-based experimental collective Amor Muere.

NikNak is a Leeds-based Londoner and an award-winning turntablist and multidisciplinary sound artist. Since releasing her debut album Bashi in 2018 on Matthew Herbert鈥檚 Accidental Records, she鈥檚 become known for her ability to use turntable scratching, processing and reversing to create intensely cinematic soundscapes through an imaginative fusion of jazz, jungle, trip-hop and experimental sound worlds. Inspired by Black spirituality, her most recent album Ireti delves into Afrofuturism.

Elsewhere in the show, sound sculptor Klara Lewis offers up a mutant acid techno tribute to her friend, the composer and former Editions Mego label boss Peter Rehberg; plus there are percussive sounds made from canoes and fishing gear by N鈥檊ol谩-speaking anglers from S茫o Tom茅 and Pr铆ncipe; and an expansive deconstruction of an Anatolian folk song from Istanbul-born, Berlin-based sound artist Ba艧ak G眉nak.

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Music Played

  • Miki Yui

    Ur

    • As If.
    • Hallow Ground.

  • Benjamin Bondonneau, Xavier Charles & Lionel Marchetti

    骋茅惫补耻诲补苍

    • 3 脗NES.
    • Unsounds Label.

  • Klara Lewis

    Top

    • Thankful.
    • Editions Mego.

  • NikNak & Gibrana Cervantes

    Track 6

    • Late Junction Collaboration Session.

  • N'gol谩 (S茫o Tom茅)

    We ran out of petrol at sea and lost everything

    • Our Ancestors Swam to Shore.
    • Free Dirt Records.

  • John Oliver

    Drip Drumming

    • Rubble Drum.

  • Unknown

    Hang player on the Stari Most, Mostar

  • SKOS Erdevik

    Ked' ruzi膷ka prekvitala (when the Rose Bloomed)

    • Ked鈥橰uzi膷ka Prekvitala: Songs of Slovaks from Vojvodina (Serbia).
    • Antonovka Records.

  • Lassi Logr茅n

    1000 Sheep

    • Jouhikko.

  • M茅lia Roger & Gr茅goire Chauvot

    Fox & Cranes echoing

    • Harkening Critters.
    • forms of minutiae.

  • BARK!

    Take 13

    • Sweet Factory Sessions.

  • NikNak & Gibrana Cervantes

    Blue Earth

    • Late Junction Collaboration Session.

  • Christian Marclay

    At Roulette 1987 (excerpt)

    • At Roulette 1987.

  • NikNak

    12000RPM

    • Ireti.
    • Accidental Records.

  • Gibrana Cervantes

    Moving Through Our Waters

    • 驴C鈥嬅斥�媘o Pasamos la Eternidad?.
    • Mexican Rarities.

  • Los Caporales de Panuco

    El Llorar

    • Music of Mexico, Vol. 3: La Huasteca: Huapangos y Sones Huastecos.
    • Arhoolie Records.

  • Amor Muere

    Shhhhh

    • A time to love, a time to die.
    • Scrawl.

  • NikNak & Gibrana Cervantes

    Mars

    • Late Junction Collaboration Session.

  • NikNak & Gibrana Cervantes

    UFO

    • Late Junction Collaboration Session.

  • NikNak & Gibrana Cervantes

    Blue Earth

    • Late Junction Collaboration Session.

  • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party

    Ya Gaus Ya Meeran

    • Chain of Light.
    • Real World.

  • Colin Stetson

    The Augur

    • The Love it Took to Leave You.
    • Invada Records.

  • The Cosmic Tones Research Trio

    A Sleeping Planet

    • All Is Sound.
    • Mississippi Records.

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