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Electronic escapades

Elizabeth Alker surveys the landscape of contemporary ambient recordings. Featuring a new collaboration between Stealing Sheep and The Radiophonic Workshop.

Elizabeth Alker surveys the landscape of contemporary ambient recordings. Featuring a new collaboration between art-pop trio Stealing Sheep and members of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Together they have created a new soundtrack to the stylised animation La Planète Sauvage, a science fiction movie from 1973 directed by René Laloux. Plus the composer Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s classic album Keyboard Fantasies is reworked by contemporary artists and the organist James McVinnie plays the music of Philip Glass and J S Bach.

Produced by Rebecca Gaskell
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Thu 16 Dec 202123:30
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Music Played

  • FKA twigs

    Sad Day

    • Magdalene.
    • Young Turks.

  • Hawthonn

    Ghosts

    • Hawthonn.
    • Larkfall.

  • Rival Consoles

    Making Sense of It All

    • Overflow.
    • Erased Tapes Records.

  • James McVinnie

    Music in Contrary Motion

    • Counterpoint.
    • Bedroom Community.

  • Suso Sáiz & Menhir

    Alike

    • Just Before Silence.
    • Phantom Limb.

  • Beverly Glenn‐Copeland

    Let Us Dance (Arca Remix)

    • Keyboard Fantasies Reimagined.
    • Transgressive.

  • Cosmic Neighbourhood

    Fir Hat

    • Trees.
    • Rivertones.

  • Stealing Sheep & The Radiophonic Workshop

    The Purge

    • La Planète Sauvage.
    • Fire Records.

  • Kinbrae & Clare Archibald

    Peer

  • Coby Sey

    Petals Have Fallen

    • Petals Have Fallen.

  • Rebekah Okpoti

    Tender

    • Dressing.
    • Set Foot Press.

Broadcast

  • Thu 16 Dec 202123:30
    BBC Radio 3

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