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Imaginal soundtracks and experimental praise song

Verity Sharp presents explorations in sound, including hypnotic free-flowing vocals from the Outer Hebrides and an electronic praise song from 1980s Rwanda.

Verity Sharp embarks on an ear-opening journey into the far reaches of sound. On Traigh Eais beach in Barra, in the Outer Hebrides, we meet a man in free flow, spitballing a rhythmically-impassioned hymn in constructed language over the dunes and to a backdrop of gently-lapping tides. In New York, the former Late Junction session artist Saint Abdullah (brothers Mohammad and Mehdi Mehrabani-Yeganeh) offer up a new musical score for the powerful 2022 short film The Wound is Where the Light Enters, directed by Iranian filmmaker Somayeh. Plus, Verity selects a track from a special archival release from 1980s Rwanda. We hear calls for unity in a divided nation via a beautifully inventive stretching of traditional Rwandan praise song, enhanced by electronic wizardry, in an eerie presaging of the coming Rwandan Genocide.

Produced by Cat Gough
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3

1 hour, 29 minutes

Last on

Fri 24 Oct 202522:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Bendik Giske

    Rise and Fall (Beatrice Dillon Remix)

    • Remixed.
    • Smalltown Supersound.

  • FOQL

    Bugkiss

    • Bug Poems.
    • Pointless Geometry.

  • Nakibembe Embaire Group & Naoyuki Uchida

    Econicookoyawunaemaali

    • Phantom Keys.
    • Nyege Nyege Tapes.

  • Drumband Hallelujah Makkum & Zea

    In lichem fol beloften (feat. Tsead Bruinja)

    • In lichem fol beloften.
    • Makkum Records.

  • Tashi Dorji & Ecka Mordecai

    Tashi Dorji x Ecka Mordecai - Late Junction Collaboration Session

    • Tashi Dorji x Ecka Mordecai - Late Junction Collaboration Session.

  • Pamela Z

    Simultaneous (excerpt)

    • Simultaneous.
    • Other Minds Records.

  • Bizimungu Dieudonne

    Tabara Ryangombe

    • Inzovu Y'Imirindi.
    • Mississippi Records.

  • Ivor Kallin

    Demerara Bingo Dong (excerpt)

    • In Barra Sing.

  • Beatriz Ferreyra & Persistence of Sound

    Beatriz Ferreyra - Deux Dents Dehors

    • The Persistence of Sound Collection.

  • Mark Vernon

    Chapter 3: Lurching Towards Nothing

    • Magneto Mori: Brussels.
    • Flaming Pines.

  • Marc Ernest & In-Resonance Collective

    Marc Ernest (bassoon)

    • The Dome Sessions.
    • In-Resonance Collective.

  • Michael Baird & Friends

    Subterraneans

    • No Dogmas Allowed.
    • SWP Records.

  • Pairin Pongpiboon

    Soeng E-Mae Oi (Ladies, Let's Dance!)

    • Molam: Thai Country Groove From Isan Vol.2.
    • Sublime Frequencies.

  • Daphne Oram & TAAHLIAH

    Gosamour

    • vari/ations - Ode to Oram.
    • Nonclassical.

  • DJ Babatr

    Mix Metro

    • Root Echoes.
    • Hakuna Kulala.

  • Suzan Peeters

    Turbo

    • Cassotto.
    • blickwinkel.

  • U

    The Bitter Withy

    • Archenfield.
    • Lex Records.

  • Alister Spence

    Delicate Industry

    • Within Without.
    • Room40.

  • Karen Willems

    Dragon Dance

    • A Fool's Guide to Reality.
    • Permanent Draft.

  • Hekura

    Onatightrope

    • Two Lonely Space Pilots.
    • Hegoa Records.

  • Siavash Amini, Saint Abdullah, Nesa Azadikhah, Roxanna Albayati & sohme

    Saint Abdullah: The Wound Where The Light Enters

    • Imaginal Soundtracking 3: The Wound Where The Light Enters.
    • Imaginal Soundtracking.

Broadcast

  • Fri 24 Oct 202522:00
    BBC Radio 3

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