Comets Drifting

Corey Mwamba shares new free jazz and improvised music that investigates constellations of sound, including Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Stars Orchestra and solo gong from Susie Ibarra.

Comprising Damon Locks (voice, electronics, text), Tomeka Reid (cello, electronics), Angelica Sanchez (electric piano), Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (double bass) and Chad Taylor (drums), the supergroup Exploding Stars Orchestra led by Rob Mazurek (trumpet, piccolo trumpet, bells, voice) release a new ecstatic session, Spectral Fiction.

Elsewhere in the show, we are invited to get lost in the spacious drums and Balinese gong solos of Susie Ibarra, an improviser and sound artist whose practice focuses on conservation - from exploring North and South Philippine islands’ indigenous music cultures to mapping the rhythms of glaciers and freshwaters. Plus a track from the forthcoming album by Lisa Cameron (drums and electronics) and Alex Cunningham (violin, objects), entitled Chasms.

Produced by Silvia Malnati
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3