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Oren Ambarchi’s Mixtape

Verity Sharp invites open-eared musician Oren Ambarchi to assemble a mixtape and we explore the sound of ‘Far East’ reggae, developed by the Chinese-Jamaican community in Jamaica.

Oren Ambarchi is a guitarist, composer and musical polymath with a reputation for deconstructing genre; combining elements of free jazz, rock and contemporary composition. His work hops from modern electronics to minimal improvisation; blistering noise to hushed songwriting, with an open-eared approach that he also brings to his label Black Truffle. For this mixtape he hand picks the most surprising cuts from his collection.

Elsewhere we shine a light on a particular form of ‘Far East’ reggae from Jamaica which was developed by Chinese-Jamaican producers on the island, we hear the sounds of forests thinking as devised by Norwegian string duo Vilda & Inga and ‘imaginary island music’ by duo LAGOSS.

Produced by Alannah Chance.
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3.

2 hours

Last on

Fri 23 Oct 202023:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Gábor Szabó

    Galatea's Guitar

    • Dreams.
    • Skye Records.

  • Oren Ambarchi

    Simian Angel

    • Simian Angel.
    • Editions Mego.

  • Alvin Curran

    Inner Cities 5 (1999)

    Performer: Gabriella Smart.
    • Inner Cities.
    • Room 40.

  • Susanna Gartmayer & Christof Kurzmann

    Dip

    • Smaller Sad.
    • Klanggalerie.

  • James Eastwood

    Darkest Night

    • Soul Vibration.
    • Pressure Sounds.

  • clipping.

    Say the Name

    • Visions of Bodies Being Burned.
    • Sub Pop Records.

  • Vilde&Inga

    III

    • How Forests Think.
    • Sofa.

  • Gwenifer Raymond

    Hell For Certain

    • Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain.
    • Tompkins Square.

  • Oren Ambarchi

    Hubris (Part 2)

    • Hubris.
    • Editions Mego.

  • Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat

    Genetic

    • Genetic.
    • Black Truffle.

  • Westside Gunn

    Fly Shit (Instrumental)

    • Riots On Fashion Avenue.
    • Effiscienz.

  • Larry Coryell

    Spaces (Infinite)

    • Spaces.
    • Vanguard.

  • Lol Creme & Kevin Godley

    Fireworks

    • Consequences.
    • Mercury.

  • Frank Zappa

    Night School

    • Jazz From Hell.
    • EMI.

  • Naná Vasconcelos

    Chorágua

    • 4 Elementos.
    • Far Out Recordings.

  • Albert Marcœur

    Caresse-Moi

    • Ma Vie Avec Elles.
    • Baillemont Productions.

  • Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings

    Side Band

    • Animal Magnetism.
    • Tzadik.

  • Westside Gunn

    Ringside Rocking Furs (feat. Keisha Plum & Tiona Deniece)

    • Hitler Wears Hermes IV.
    • Daupe!.

  • Menstruation Sisters

    Consultancy

    • Glass Walking.
    • Pica Disk.

  • Bruce Ditmas

    L'Unita

    • Yellow.
    • Wizard Records.

  • Annette Peacock

    Until Untrust Unties

    • Sky-skating.
    • Ironic Records.

  • Caetano Veloso

    A Grande Borboleta

    • Bicho.
    • Philips.

  • Lena Platonos

    Bloody Shadows From Afar

    • Gallop.
    • Lyra.

  • Kyle Gann

    The Day Revisited

    • Private Dances.
    • New Albion.

  • Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes

    A Night in NY

    • Heritage of the Invisible II.
    • International Anthem.

  • Mahalia Jackson

    There Is No Color Line Around The Rainbow

    • Amazing Grace.
    • Encore.

  • Tomoko Sauvage

    Metamorphosis

    • Fischgeist.
    • bohemian drips.

  • Hen Ogledd

    Flickering Lights

    • Free Humans.
    • Weird World.

  • Lorcán Mac Mathúna

    An Rógaire Dubh

    • Rógaire Dubh.

  • Lagoss

    Chija

    • Imaginary Island Music VOL.1: Canary Islands.
    • Discrepant.

  • Ka Baird

    West End

    • New Neighborhoods.
    • Freedom To Spend.

  • Jessica Ekomane

    Solid Of Revolution

    • Multivocal.
    • Important Records.

Broadcast

  • Fri 23 Oct 202023:00
    BBC Radio 3

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