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Stretched Atmospheric Songs

Quietly intense music that combines fragments of jazz with experimental English folk, plus music from the soundtrack to a South African documentary about the 1976 student uprising.

Fourth Page, a quartet who make quietly intense music that combines fragments of jazz with experimental English folk, introduce their recent commission by Jazz South. Plus, there’s music from the soundtrack to a South African documentary about the 1976 student uprising from a group called SPAZA alongside a track from the new album by Leeds-based trio J Frisco that combines buzzy synths, soaring saxophone and feedback loops.

Produced by Rebecca Gaskell.
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3.

1 hour

Last on

Sun 25 Oct 202000:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • J Frisco

    Turn of the Fox

    • Cut Throat.

  • SPAZA

    Xolile Mosi

    • UPRIZE! (Music from the Original Motion Picture).
    • Mushroom Hour Half Hour.

  • SPAZA

    Bantu Education

    • UPRIZE! (Music from the Original Motion Picture).
    • Mushroom Hour Half Hour.

  • Alex Roth, Wacław Zimpel & Hubert Zemler

    RZZ1

  • Fourth Page

    The Signs Were High

    • Jazz South Commission.

  • Rachel Musson

    Start

    • I Went This Way.
    • 577 Records.

  • Toronto Improvisors Orchestra

    I Was Ready Then Not

    • Vigil.

  • 三生 Sansei

    A4

    • 三生 Sansei at Ting Shuo.
    • Ting Shuo Hear Say.

  • Matthew Shipp Trio

    The Unidentifiable

    • The Unidentifiable.
    • ESP Disk.

Broadcast

  • Sun 25 Oct 202000:00
    BBC Radio 3