Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter’s mixtape
Verity Sharp shares a mixtape from Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter, the artist formerly known as Lingua Ignota, featuring Bach, bluegrass, gospel and Gesualdo.
Prepare to be saved! Verity Sharp shares a salvation-seeking mixtape from Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter.
A notoriously powerful performer, Hayter’s work has traversed sounds and genres - from baroque to black metal, classical to harsh noise, electronics to spiritual - but always with a core of emotional lyrics and compelling, sometimes disturbing, imagery. As an artist, she has been heavily influenced by religious themes, particularly Roman Catholic iconography and concepts of divine retribution.
From 2017 to 2023, Hayter performed under the name Lingua Ignota, a phrase coined by Hildegard von Bingen - one of her main influences. She retired that project earlier this year due to the painful nature of the associated work, and her new album is the first under her own name, which she says reflects her own personal evolution away from pain. This new work makes use of the aesthetics and language associated with the apocalypse as presented in the evangelical tradition as an analogy for personal healing. It's released under her own label Perpetual Flame Ministries, and Hayter says that on this record she reaches “new levels of unhinged, spiritually and sonically.”
In her Late Junction mixtape, she weaves together the music that has impacted her sound and inspired her lyrics, featuring classical pieces from the likes of Bach and Gesualdo, as well as heavenly gospel and bluegrass, Bulgarian folk tunes and Tuareg guitar riffs. Expect reflections on heaven, challenges to Satan and a good few harpsichords.
Elsewhere in the show, Verity shares resonant clay from Bristol collective Copper Sounds, and a remastered classic by late jazz legend Pharaoh Sanders.
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Call Super
Ondo Helps Us Hear The Splinters
Call Super
- Eulo Cramps.
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Aga Khan Master Musicians
Tashkent
- Nowruz.
- Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
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Maroulita de Kol
The Youniverse
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- Phantom Limb.
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Balimaya Project
Red Oil / Beyond Kingdom Come (feat. Obongjayar)
- When The Dust Settles.
- New Soil.
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Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter
ALL OF MY FRIENDS ARE GOING TO HELL
- SAVED!.
- Perpetual Flame.
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Will Glasier & Alex Bonney
Solitary, mid sky
- Everything Unfolding from Emptiness.
- Not Applicable.
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Copper Sounds
Sequence 3
- Sequenced Ceramics.
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Evian Christ
On Embers
- Revanchist.
- Warp.
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Trio Chemirani
Bâ namak (Part 2)
- ٲâ.
- Harmonia Mundi.
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Trio Chemirani
Rodâdad Kodjâst (part 3)
- ٲâ.
- Harmonia Mundi.
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Trio Chemirani
ٲâ
- ٲâ.
- Harmonia Mundi.
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Pentangle
House Carpenter
- Basket of Light.
- Transatlantic Records.
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Mouse on Mars
Bilk A2
- Bilk.
- sonig.
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Marvin Louis Burns & Chris Canning
Terramungamine
- Lewis Burns.
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Matana Roberts
the promise
- Coin Coin Chapter Five: In The Garden....
- Constellation.
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Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter
I WILL BE WITH YOU ALWAYS
- SAVED!.
- Perpetual Flame.
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Frank Proffitt
Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down
- Memorial Album.
- Folk-Legacy Records.
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Trakia Ensemble
Mito Mori
- FOLK SONGS AND DANCES.
- GEGA NEW.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for 4 Harpsichords, Strings, and Continuo in A Minor, BWV 1065
Composer: Karl Richter. Performer: Siebe Henstra. Performer: Menno van Delft. Performer: Pieter-Jan Belder. Performer: Tineke Steenbrink. Ensemble: Netherlands Bach Society.- Concerto in A minor.
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Hank Williams
Alone and Forsaken
- Alone and Forsaken.
- MGM Records.
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Mdou Moctar
Tala Tannam
- Afrique Victime.
- Matador Records.
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György Ligeti
Lux aeterna (extract)
Performer: Daniel Reuss. Ensemble: Cappella Amsterdam.- Ligeti: Lux aeterna.
- Harmonia Mundi.
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The Golden Gate Quartet
Hush (live)
- Historical Recordings From the Forties and the Fifties.
- CBS.
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Henry Purcell
Hush, No More (extract)
Singer: Adrian Peacock. Ensemble: Scholars Baroque Ensemble.- Purcell: The Fairy Queen.
- Naxos.
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Carlo Gesualdo
Moro, lasso, al mio duolo (extract)
Ensemble: Ensemble Métamorphoses. Director: Maurice Bourbon.- Gesualdo: Madrigaux, livre VI.
- Arion.
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Vera Hall
Death, Have Mercy
- Death, Have Mercy.
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JJJJJerome Ellis
Sabi
- Live Vol. 3: Hymns and Odes.
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Mari Boine & Bugge Wesseltoft
Eadnán bákti (To Woman)
- Amame.
- By Norse Music.
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Hauschka
Limitation of Lifetime
- Philanthropy.
- City Slang.
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Lucy Liyou
Unnie
- Welfare / Practice.
- American Dreams Records.
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Laura Cannell
Bow & Creak (Radio Edit)
- Bow & Creak.
- Brawl Records.
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Bex Burch
On falling
- There is Only Love and Fear.
- International Anthem.
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Pharoah Sanders
Memories of Edith Johnson
- Pharaoh.
- Luaka Bop.
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