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Unclassified Live: This Is The Kit, Modern Nature and Moor Mother

Join Elizabeth Alker and the 91热爆 Concert Orchestra for a night of genre-defying new music featuring guest artists This Is The Kit, Modern Nature and Moor Mother.

Join Elizabeth Alker at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London鈥檚 South Bank for an evening of genre-defying musical collaboration featuring new commissions and arrangements performed by the 91热爆 Concert Orchestra conducted by Robert Ames.

As Moor Mother, the poet-musician Camae Ayewa offers spellbinding lyrical forays into questions of freedom and justice. The Philadelphian鈥檚 latest album The Great Bailout is unflinching in its exploration of the continuing presence of colonial history: 鈥淭ax payers of erasure, of relapse, of amnesia, paying the crimes off鈥 Did you pay off the trauma?鈥 she intones on the track, Guilty, here performed with special guest vocalist Elaine Mitchener. For Unclassified Live, Ayewa's palette of electronic and ambient colours is augmented through new arrangements created for the 91热爆 Concert Orchestra.

Modern Nature鈥檚 Jack Cooper is a musician of wide-ranging talent, at home in art rock settings or alongside experimental improvisers. His Triptych for Orchestra - here receiving its premiere performance - sees him turn his craft to the creation of a piece of longer-form symphonic music for large instrumental forces.

Bringing the concert home is Kate Stables, a banjo and guitar-strumming singer-songwriter whose playful brand of art pop shot-through with heartfelt lyricism finds its home in the project she calls This Is The Kit. Alongside long time collaborators Rozi Plain and Jamie Whitby-Coles, Stables here explores tracks from the project鈥檚 back catalogue in specially commissioned arrangements that add an orchestral depth to serve the words. 鈥淭he story is the telling鈥 Potential in the waiting鈥 Movement is deciding鈥 Forward is the doing鈥︹

Produced by Phil Smith
A Reduced Listening production for 91热爆 Radio 3

1 hour

Last on

Sun 18 Aug 2024 23:30

Music Played

  • Moor Mother

    Guilty

    Performer: Moor Mother. Performer: Elaine Mitchener. Music Arranger: Ian Anderson. Ensemble: 91热爆 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Ames.
  • Jack Cooper

    Triptych for Orchestra

    Performer: Jack Cooper. Performer: 91热爆 Concert Orchestra. Music Arranger: Scott McLaughlin. Conductor: Robert Ames.
  • This Is the Kit

    Easy on the Thieves

    Performer: This Is the Kit. Performer: Rozi Plain. Performer: Jamie Whitby-Coles. Music Arranger: Jesse Vernon. Singer: Kate Stables. Conductor: Robert Ames. Ensemble: 91热爆 Concert Orchestra.
  • This Is the Kit

    Take You To Sleep

    Performer: This Is the Kit. Performer: Jamie Whitby-Coles. Performer: Rozi Plain. Music Arranger: Jesse Vernon. Ensemble: 91热爆 Concert Orchestra. Singer: Kate Stables. Conductor: Robert Ames.
  • This Is the Kit

    Keep Going

    Performer: This Is the Kit. Performer: Rozi Plain. Performer: Jamie Whitby-Coles. Music Arranger: Jesse Vernon. Ensemble: 91热爆 Concert Orchestra. Singer: Kate Stables. Conductor: Robert Ames.
  • This Is the Kit

    This Is When The Sky Gets Big

    Performer: This Is the Kit. Performer: Jamie Whitby-Coles. Performer: Rozi Plain. Music Arranger: Jesse Vernon. Ensemble: 91热爆 Concert Orchestra. Singer: Kate Stables. Conductor: Robert Ames.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 12 May 2024 23:30
  • Sun 18 Aug 2024 23:30

What is unclassified music?

What is unclassified music?

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