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Fiona Talkington

Fiona Talkington presents an exclusive recording from the 2017 Emulsion festival, plus music from Robert Fripp and Karen Dalton, and Michael Tippett's A Child of Our Time.

Fiona Talkington has an exclusive piece recorded at Emulsion festival in Birmingham, a new music festival curated by the composer and saxophonist Trish Clowes. We continue to thread in odes to the urban from prog guitar king Robert Fripp, cult folk-blues singer Karen Dalton, and Irish electro-acoustic artist Cathal Coughlin.

Also a chance to hear American work songs rubbing shoulders with Michael Tippett's Child of Our Time.

Produced by Alannah Chance for Reduced Listening.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Various Artists

    21st Century Perspiration

    • Radio Thailand: Transmissions From The Tropical Kingdom.
    • Sublime Frequencies.
    • 2.
  • Various Artists

    Giant Catfish Fry

    • Radio Thailand: Transmissions From The Tropical Kingdom.
    • Sublime Frequencies.
  • Karen Dalton

    Nottingham Town

    • Green Rocky Road.
    • Megaphone Music.
    • 7.
  • Meilyr Jones

    Rain In Rome

    • 2013.
    • Moshi Moshi Records.
  • Joe Wright

    Walk In II Improv

    • Recorded Live at Emulsion Festival 2017.
  • Hans Koller Quartet

    Row Row Row Your Boat

    • Recorded Live at Emulsion Festival 2017.
  • Hans Koller Quartet

    Sixteen

    • Recorded Live at Emulsion Festival 2017.
  • John Cage & Morton Feldman

    John Cage and Morton Feldman on radio

  • Various Artists

    Induction Temperature

    • Radio Vietnam.
    • Sublime Frequencies.
    • 1.
  • Dev Holly & Bull

    Don't You Hear Poor Mother Callin'?

    • Prison Songs: Historial Recordings From Parchman Farm 1947-48: Volume Two.
    • Rounder Records.
    • 1.
  • Michael Tippett

    A Child of Our Time: Part I: A Spiritual (Chorus and Soli): "Steal Away"

    Performer: 91热爆 Singers.
    • Choral Images.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
    • 11.
  • Buzzard

    I'm Going To Memphis

    • Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings, 1947-1959.
    • Dust-to-Digital.
    • 6.
  • Michael Tippett

    A Child of Our Time: Part II: A Spiritual: "O By and By"

    Performer: 91热爆 Singers.
    • Choral Images.
    • Signum.
  • Curry Childress

    Disability Boogie Woogie

    • Prison Songs: Historial Recordings From Parchman Farm 1947-48 Volume Two:.
    • Rounder Records.
  • Jakob Bro, Thomas Morgan & Joey Baron

    Heroines

    • Streams.
    • ECM Records.
    • 2.
  • Cathal Coughlan

    Second City Bicycle Bounce

    • On The Nature Of Electricity & Acoustics.
    • Heresy.
    • 18.
  • Lars Hollmer

    S枚k (Seek)

    • Viandra.
    • Krax.
    • 3.
  • Artmusic

    Ring Ring Bell

    • Self-Released.
  • Rob St. John

    Young Sun

    • Split 10".
    • Toad Records.
    • 4.
  • L鈥橭celle Mare

    Serpentement I

    • hape Platform 2016 - Sound, Heterogeneous Art And Performance In Europe.
    • Wire Magazine.
    • 4.
  • Robert Fripp

    Streets

    • Radiophonics.
    • Discipline Global Mobile.
    • 5.
  • Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit

    The Librarian

    • Secret Rhythms 2.
    • Nonplace.

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  • Wed 8 Feb 2017 23:00

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