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A Fool’s Journey

Jennifer Lucy Allan turns the cards and listens for what they reveal, with tarot-inspired selections from electronic pioneer Ruth White and Swiss krautrock mystic Walter Wegmüller.

On All Hallow’s Eve, Jennifer Lucy Allan turns the cards and listens for what they reveal, tracing sonic lines across the tarot deck. From the ghostly atmospherics of William Basinski’s Wheel of Fortune, to the arcane explorations of early electronic pioneer Ruth White and Swiss krautrock mystic Walter Wegmüller, the spread unfolds in unexpected ways, its order uncertain, its juxtapositions surprising. Expect new sounds from Argentinian artist aylu, whose spiritually-charged album journeys from personal struggle to collective resistance, as well as slow-motion noise conjured by New Zealand’s drone trio Surface of the Earth.

Produced by Gabriel Francis
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3

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1 hour, 29 minutes

Music Played

  • Alejandro Jodorowsky

    Tarot Will Teach You/Burn Your Money

    • The Holy Mountain.
    • Disordered Records.
  • Ruth White

    Wheel Of Fortune

    • 7 Trumps From The Tarot Cards And Pinions.
    • Limelight.
  • Axtaraxia

    Tarot

    • The Unexplained.
    • RCA.
  • Amelia Cuni

    Melopea

    • Melopea.
    • Black Truffle.
  • Aylu

    Desaparición Incompleta

    • Fobia.
  • Amy Sheffer

    Sanctuary Mine

    • I Am Shee: Original Recordings 1979-1987.
    • Freedom to Spend.
  • Cyclobe

    Tarot

    • Sulphur - Tarot - Garden.
    • Phantomcode.
  • Jozef van Wissem

    The Call of the First Aethyr

    • Aleister Crowley: Black Magic.
    • Cleopatra Records.
  • Johanna Hedva

    Family

    • Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House.
  • Sunn O)))

    Raise the Chalice

    • Eternity's Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential.
    • Sub Pop Records.
  • Joseph Kamaru

    Gari La Trela

    • Heavy Combination 1966 - 2007.
  • Carlos Santos

    Transitory Spirit

    • Abyss and Consolation.
    • sirr-ecords.
  • Brayan Hino & Quixosis

    Sufres al Verme

    • Musica Para Terminales Terrestres.
  • Suzan Peeters

    Vroem

    • Cassotto.
    • blickwinkel.
  • Diamanda Galás

    Double-Barrel Prayer

    • You Must Be Certain of the Devil.
    • Mute.
  • Walter Wegmüller

    Der Hohepriester

    • Tarot.
    • Die Kosmischen Kuiere.

Broadcast

  • Fri 31 Oct 202522:00

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