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New sounds in ambient music

Elizabeth Alker selects new sounds in ambient music from Tirzah, Alex Rex and Shabaka Hutchings.

Elizabeth Alker selects new sounds in ambient music, featuring a study in vocal melancholia from Tirzah, the dark sonic textures of Alex Rex’s Mouthful of Earth poetry settings, and pioneering multi-instrumentalist and composer Shabaka Hutchings invoking forests of sound under his solo moniker Shabaka.

Produced by Phil Smith
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3

1 hour

Last on

Thu 28 Jul 202223:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • ERAAN

    Enough

  • Tirzah

    Ribs

  • LYR

    Great Coat

  • Lomond Campbell

    The Late Machine

  • Cate Le Bon

    Remembering Me

  • Flore Laurentienne

    Navigation IV

  • Throbbing Gristle

    Hot On The Heels of Love

  • Youth Landscapers Collective

    Hive

  • the humble bee

    Inside Out Mountains

  • Rich Ruth

    Taken Back

  • Alex Rex

    Wastwater

  • Bryan Senti

    Manu

  • Martha Skye Murphy

    Stuck

  • Shabaka

    Black Meditation

Broadcasts

  • Thu 2 Jun 202223:30
    BBC Radio 3
  • Thu 28 Jul 202223:30
    BBC Radio 3

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