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Venezuelan birdsong and music for microtonal tuba

Max Reinhardt with sounds of many frequencies, including Venezuelan birdsong, music for microtonal tuba, and a debut orchestral piece from New York improviser Ingrid Laubrock.

Max has all the frequencies covered tonight.

Up top, melodies from the Venezuelan jungle, from a reissue of French ornithologist Jean C. Roché’s 1973 collection of birdsong.

We’ve Grace Petrie’s contemporary take on a folk classic, a debut orchestral work from New York improviser Ingrid Laubrock, and a preview of the London Jazz Festival.

And Berlin group Tonaliens prop up the low end of the mix with drone music featuring a microtonal tuba.

Produced by Chris Elcombe for Reduced Listening.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Wed 14 Nov 201823:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Dave Douglas

    Sharing a Small Planet - Take One

    • Uplift.
    • Greenleaf.

  • Stefan Helmreich, Eva Hayward & Kajsa Lindgren

    The Disrupted World

    • Distorted Worlds.
    • Hyperdelia.

  • Félicia Atkinson & Kajsa Lindgren

    Cocoon (Cotton)

    • Distorted Worlds.
    • Hyperdelia.

  • The Vegetable Orchestra

    Szemenye

    • Green Album.

  • Sampa the Great

    Blue Boss

    • Female / Blue Boss.
    • Cool Accidents.

  • Grace Petrie

    Beeswing

    • Queer As Folk.
    • Grace Petrie Recordings.

  • Gaye Su Akyol

    Şahmeran

    • İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir.
    • Glitterbeat.

  • Katalin Ladik

    Oplakivanje

    • Notes From The Underground (Experimental Sounds Behind The Iron Curtain).
    • Iron Curtain Radio.

  • Jean C. Roché

    Ocumare

    • Birds Of Venezuela.
    • Sub Rosa.

  • Ornament & Verbrechen

    Der Lächelnde Chinese

    • Notes From The Underground (Experimental Sounds Behind The Iron Curtain).
    • Iron Curtain Radio.

  • Dhafer Youssef

    Nasikabhushani (to Zakir) (feat. Zakir Hussain)

    • Sounds Of Mirrors.
    • AntePrima Productions.

  • Joe Cutler

    Sikorski B

    Ensemble: Noszferatu Ensemble.
    • ELSEWHERENESS.
    • NMC Recordings.

  • Lee Perry

    After Beat Dub

    • Skanking With The Upsetter - Rare Dubs 1971-1974.
    • Jamaican Recordings.

  • Robert Mugamba's Domadana Kadodi Performers & Bamba Pana

    Wateranga (Domadana Remix)

    • Kadodi.
    • Nyege Nyege Tapes.

  • Abraham Brody

    Mother (feat. Wooden Elephant)

    • Crossings.
    • Bedroom Community.

  • Ingrid Laubrock

    Contemporary Chaos Practices Part 3

    Performer: Mary Halvorson. Performer: Ingrid Laubrock. Performer: Kris Davis. Performer: Nate Wooley.
    • CONTEMPORARY CHAOS PRACTICES.
    • Intakt Records.

  • Tashi Dorji

    Long Way Home

    • All This World is like this valley.
    • Ola ‎.

  • Benedict Taylor

    11 Caged Guerrillas

    • Caged Guerrillas.
    • Subverten.

  • Anthony Joseph

    Bandit School

    • People of the Sun.
    • Rough Trade.

  • Tonaliens

    Vesta (pt. 1)

    • bathe in it for a while.
    • Edition Telemark.

Broadcast

  • Wed 14 Nov 201823:00
    BBC Radio 3

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