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Now That’s What I Call Non-Music ‘24!

Jennifer Lucy Allan plays small sounds for lowercase moods and 'non-music'. Expect a zither haunted by John Lennon, homemade wind instruments and a solo from a playground swing.

Jennifer Lucy Allan makes space for detail on this edition of Late Junction, zooming in on small sounds and lowercase moods from the “non-music” scene in the UK, a loosely affiliated group of artists who play with indeterminacy and record with all the bits left in.

There’s hesitant humming and feedback glints from Chinese artist Zheng Hou; delicate soundscapes spun with homemade wind instruments by Sholto Dobie; and a radiant piece for psaltery by Ecka Mordecai. This is the first piece Mordecai has written for said instrument, a form of early zither, which was given to her after a seance in New York. The guest explained that they had been visited by John Lennon and he wanted to give her the instrument to continue his work.

It’s a hard act to follow, but we’ll try with a new release from Iranian computer musician Sote, and a haunting recording of a lone playground swing in Russia, courtesy of the Sounds of the Year Awards.

Produced by Alannah Chance
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3

1 hour, 29 minutes

Last on

Fri 5 Jul 202422:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Sholto Dobie

    High time

    • 23.
    • Infant Tree.

  • Steve Roden

    Forms of Paper

    • Line Imprint.
    • LINE.

  • 照骏园 & Zhu Wenbo

    01

    • Handle, Nail and Rubber Dinosaur.
    • Zoomin' Night.

  • Owen Duff

    Broken Metronome Concrete

    • Broken Metronome Concrete.

  • James Chance & James Chance and the Contortions

    I Can't Stand Myself

    • No New York.
    • Antilles.

  • Duncan Harrison

    Brightonian Vistas

    • Lambkin / Walker / Harrison.
    • Regional Bears.

  • Goldblum

    Who doesn't love a potato?

    • Tears In Limbo.
    • Bergpolder.

  • Zheng Hao

    II

    • Harmonium II.
    • Bezirk Tapes.

  • Michael Pisaro‐Liu & Toshiya Tsunoda

    2.3

    • crosshatches.
    • Erstwhile Records.

  • The Revolutionaries

    Move out Me Way

    • Meditation in Dub.
    • Death is Not the End.

  • claire rousay

    iii

    • sentiment.
    • Thrill Jockey.

  • Sote

    WVTBLSSPXZAGROS

    • Sound System Persepolis.
    • Diagonal.

  • Dean Rodney Jr. & The Cowboys

    Sesame Bun

    • The Yeehaw Moment.
    • Yeehaw Records.

  • Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou

    Ready to Leave

    • Souvenirs.
    • Mississippi US.

  • Peter Cusack

    Pigeon Whistles In The Sky

    • Favourite Beijing Sounds.
    • Sub Jam.

  • Yan Jun & Eric Wong

    We deserve no prefixes

    • Dichotomic Language.
    • Vintage Vinyl HK.

  • Danil Repin

    Message to Homeland

    • Message to Homeland.

  • People Skills

    Poem for Brant Lowe

    • Hum of the Non​-​Engine.
    • Digital Regress.

  • África Negra

    Chiguno zunta

    • Antologia Vol. 2.
    • Les Disques Bongo Joe.

  • Ecka Rose Mordecai

    L'eau d'hiver

    • L’eau d’hiver.

  • Antonina Nowacka

    I found you in the cloud

    • Sylphine Soporifera.
    • Mondoj.

  • Dorothy Carter

    Visiting Song

    • Troubadour.
    • Celeste.

  • Francilia

    Dododo, sa ki la, se mwen menm la bèl, ouvrè pòt pou mwen

    • Hush The Waves Are Rolling In: Lullabies from the Alan Lomax Collection.
    • The Lomax Collection.

Broadcast

  • Fri 5 Jul 202422:00
    BBC Radio 3

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