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Extended mixes and lullabies

Elizabeth Alker plays a selection of ambient and experimental tracks including new takes on the lullaby.

Take two raw-edged tracks from a cult 1990s American band; extend and repeat them until all their incantatory beauty and magic are allowed to unfurl; then bring in the legendary Will Oldham and guitarist Tyler Trotter to finish the job: that鈥檚 exactly what Louisville guitarist and folklorist Nathan Salsburg has done with the songs of Lungfish, new versions which he used to play to his baby daughter Talya by way of a lullaby.

Dublin-based singer-guitarist Kevin Fowley, meanwhile, offers up a luxurious slowly-unfolding setting of a medieval French lullaby, A虂 la Claire Fontaine, the simple melody surrounded by smoothed pillows of guitar. And Roxanne de Bastion's album Songs From The Piano Player Of Budapest is a homage to her grandfather, Stephen, a composer-musician and survivor of the horrors of the holocaust in Hungary. His piece 鈥淪leep, Sleep Little Boy鈥� is here reimagined by his granddaughter in collaboration with Ed Harcourt.

Produced by Geoff Bird
A Reduced Listening production for 91热爆 Radio 3

1 hour

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Sun 2 Jun 2024 23:30
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Music Played

  • Beth Gibbons

    Floating On A Moment

    • Lives Outgrown.
    • Domino.

  • Nathan Salsburg, Bonnie 鈥淧rince鈥� Billy & Tyler Trotter

    Hear The Children Sing

    • Hear The Children Sing The Evidence.
    • No Quarter.

  • Ed Harcourt & Roxanne de Bastion

    Sleep Sleep Little Boy

    • Sleep Sleep Little Boy.

  • Matti Bye

    The Cinema Pianist

    • Capri Clouds.
    • Denovali US.

  • Tashi Wada

    Subaru

    • What is Not Strange?.
    • RVNG Intl..

  • Sebastian Oswald

    Invention (Grounded) No.4

    • Invention (Grounded) No.4.

  • GHOST DUBS

    Thin Line

    • Damaged.

  • Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman

    Spec Of Dust Becomes A Beam

    • Spec Of Dust Becomes A Beam.
    • Clay Pipe Music.

  • Hiro Ama

    Sunday

    • Music for Peace and Harmony.

  • Kevin Fowley

    A La Claire Fontaine

    • 脌 Feu Doux.
    • Basin Rock.

  • Binidu

    We Grew Apart

    • //.
    • Kythibong Records.

Broadcast

  • Sun 2 Jun 2024 23:30
    91热爆 Radio 3

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