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Haunting Synthesiser

Elizabeth Alker shares new music from Nine Inch Nails’s Alessandro Cortini and a rousing remix from a series of re-interpretations of Kelly Lee Owens’s acclaimed album Inner Song.

Elizabeth Alker shares new music from Alessandro Cortini an Italian multi-instrumentalist who started out as a guitarist for the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, Cortini now makes haunting synthesiser music under his own name. There’s a rousing remix from a series of re-interpretations of Kelly Lee Owens’ acclaimed album Inner Song, where the Welsh artist collaborated with John Cale. And Elizabeth celebrates Coventry as the City of Culture with a track by the BBC radiophonic workshop composer Delia Derbyshire who was born and raised in the city.

Produced by Rebeccca Gaskell
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3

1 hour

Last on

Thu 3 Jun 202123:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Kelly Lee Owens & Breaka

    Re-Wild (Breaka Remix)

    • Inner Song Remix Series.
    • Smalltown Supersound.

  • Sam Gendel & Josiah Steinbrick

    Mouthfeel 5

    • Mouthfeel / Serene.
    • Full Bloom.

  • Carmen Villain

    Agua Azul

    • Sketch for Winter IX: Perlita.
    • Geographic North.

  • Masayoshi Fujita

    Morocco

    • Bird Ambience.
    • Erased Tapes.

  • Dau

    The Death of Smut

    • Zed Zed.
    • Spirituals.

  • Peter Broderick

    All​-​Boy All​-​Girl

    • Small Wonder Series 1 - Songs of Arthur Russell.
    • Unheard of Hope.

  • Julius Eastman

    Piano 2: Movement 2

    • Book Of Horizons.
    • New World Records.

  • DJ Shadow

    Bergschrund (feat. Nils Frahm)

    • Bergschrund / Ubu.
    • Mass Appeal.

  • Erland Cooper & Daniel Pioro

    St. Magnus of Hamnavoe (Daniel Pioro Rework)

    • Holm - Variations & B-sides.
    • Phases.

  • Lucy Claire

    Mouse

    • String Figures.
    • piano and coffee records.

  • Alessandro Cortini

    VERDE

    • VERDE.
    • Mute.

  • Cucina Povera

    Anarkian Kuvaiainen

    • Tyyni.
    • NIGHT SCHOOL.

  • Delia Derbyshire

    Dance From "Noah"

    • A Retrospective.
    • The Grey Area.

Broadcast

  • Thu 3 Jun 202123:30
    BBC Radio 3

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