Pack the wellies, and pray for sun, it’s Late Junction at Latitude!
Peter Meanwell
Producer, Radio 3
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It’s that time again when the Late Junction team unpack their wellies, and get ready to head into the Suffolk countryside for the Latitude Festival. Once again we’ve been let loose on the Lavish Lounge, an intimate little stage tucked in the woods by the lake that’s strewn with battered leather sofas, and we’re curating nine live bands over the three days of the Festival. Max Reinhardt will be there, with many an elaborate hat no doubt, and we’ll be recording all the music for broadcast on Radio 3’s Late Junction the following week. So, if you don’t fancy packing a tent you can relax in your own lavish lounge with the wireless on next week, but if you’re at Latitude this weekend, come and say hello, and follow us on twitter using #latejunction.
Here’s a quick rundown on the Late Junction acts: on Friday Electric Jalaba float traditional traditional Gnawa songs above analogue effects and warped guitars, Newcastle’s skewed troubadour Richard Dawson brings an intense soaring slant to traditional songs of the North East and Melt Yourself Down conjure a post-punk jazz future that explodes onstage into a tropical storm. On Saturday Walls vs. Daphne Oram bring the live incarnation of a project that has seen electronic duo Walls dig deep into the archives and transportative soundworld of the late Daphne Oram There’s an acutely musical collaboration between kinetic DIY drummer Chris Corsano and Mick Flower on shahi baaja, and London based band Troyka bring a new vision of the jazz trio. On Sunday, composer Anna Meredith brings her cello-encrusted live band to perform music of symphonic scale with dancefloor intensity, multi-instrumentalist Nancy Elizabeth conjures up old English folk traditions alongside the soundworlds of Ennio Morricone and Arthur Lee and post-tropical polyphonic populists from Minas Gerais in Brazil, Graveola create a sound they call 'carnival-cannibalism', mixing the canon of 20th century Brazilian music with funk, Latin, baroque and blues.
PS: Our friends at 6Music will be broadcasting live over the weekend, so keep an ear out for more from Latitude on digital ...
