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Car parks, great undoings and incandescent improv

Verity Sharp presents new adventurous music, including Nicholas Maloney & Yama Yuki’s sonic explorations of car parks, and a celebration of mistakes from Stick In The Wheel.

Verity Sharp presents a selection of new adventurous music, including Nicholas Maloney & Yama Yuki’s sonic explorations of Tokyo’s car parks. Here, the artists’ striking, scrunching and scuffing of gravel with found instruments like sticks and stones suggest new and oddly hopeful-sounding possibilities from unexpected items and spaces.

Elsewhere in the show, gloriously incandescent improvisations from a long-lost, re-released live recording from radical multidisciplinary arts collective, Black Artist Group. Recorded in Paris in the winter of 1972 whilst on a trip from St. Louis Missouri, the music was recently rediscovered in the vaults of INA (Institut national de l’audiovisuel). This release, For Peace and Liberty, captures a beautifully-recorded moment of free, incandescent improvisation and funk grooves from the ensemble.

And if that wasn’t enough, London’s Stick in the Wheel offer a song celebrating great undoings and terrible mistakes, and the Shovel Dance Collective bring a hypnotic, charged rendition of The Merry Golden Tree.

Produced by Cat Gough
A Reduced Listening production for 91Èȱ¬ Radio 3

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1 hour, 29 minutes

Music Played

  • AGF

    Aergia

    • Netmotif.
    • AGF PRODUCKTION.
  • Moskus, Mari Kvien Brunvoll & Stein Urheim

    Barefoot in Bryophyte

    • Barefoot in Bryophyte.
    • Hubro.
  • Abdel Benaddi

    Kingoubba

    • A Dream in Essouria.
    • Worlds Within Worlds.
  • Falter Bramnk

    Obsidienne

    • Music for Luminous Background.
    • Sublime Retreat.
  • Stick in the Wheel

    Burnt Walk

    • A Thousand Pokes.
    • From Here Records.
  • Arsenal Mikebe

    Bell Ghost

    • DRUM MACHINE.
    • Nyege Nyege Tapes.
  • Wakuénai (Curripaco) villagers

    Double Duet of Yapurutú & tsikota flutes

    • Music for Shape Shifters: Field Recordings from the Amazonian Lowlands 1981-85.
    • Sublime Frequencies.
  • Izabela DÅ‚użyk

    Call of the Toucan

    • The Amazon Where the Moon Wept.
    • LOM.
  • Kai Fagaschinski & Yan Jun

    The Festival

    • Graveyard Processions.
    • NI VU NI CONNU.
  • Shovel Dance Collective

    The Merry Golden Tree

    • The Shovel Dance.
    • American Dreams Records.
  • Byard Lancaster

    "Sweet Evil Miss" Kisianga

    • Exactement.
    • Souffle Continu Records.
  • Mamer

    Oh! Dream / Arman-ay

    • Imitate Sky.
    • Old Heaven Books.
  • Nicholas Maloney & Yama Yuki

    Occurrence

    • Live at Parking Lots.
    • Flaming Pines.
  • May Mya

    Mya Hay Wan

    • The Crying Princess: 78RPM records from Burma.
    • Sublime Frequencies.
  • Arch Quartet

    Chop

    • Chummage.
    • scatterArchive.
  • Beth Anderson

    Country Time

    • I Can’t Stand it.
    • Finders Keepers Records.
  • Microtub

    Andersabo Part 2

    • Thin Peaks.
    • Thanatosis Produktion.
  • Bionic Singer

    Botha Warning

    • Botha Warning.
    • Death Is Not The End.
  • dal:um

    Cracking

    • Coexistence.
    • Glitterbeat.
  • Black Artist Group

    For Peace And Liberty Part 2

    • For Peace And Liberty, In Paris dec 1972.
    • WEWANTSOUNDS.

Broadcast

  • Fri 4 Oct 2024 22:00

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