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Warped laments, serpentine hums

Join Verity Sharp as she delves into a treasure trove of experimental sounds from around the globe - from distorted Peruvian lamentations to droning Japanese dreamscapes.

Verity Sharp presents another round of experimental listening taking in the unusual and exhilarating from around the globe. There’s chastening, contorted, laments from Peru’s Alejandra Cardenas (Ale Hop) as she delves into the trauma not only of her own life but that of her homeland - charting colonialism, cultural turbulence and addiction with a steely gaze. Plus an inquisitive and emotionally immediate return from Japanese experimenter Phew, paired this time with American multimedia artist Danielle de Picciotto, the duo melding their singular voices into sparse yet tense collages. Berlinde Deman meanwhile offers droning reflections on the Serpent, a unique wind instrument enhanced with effects pedals and her unique vocal stylings; and Will Glaser presents a bewildering collection of ‘Ethnographic Recordings From An Imagined Future’.

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1 hour, 29 minutes

Last on

Fri 14 Nov 202522:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Ancient Infinity Orchestra

    Old Friends

    • It's Always About Love.
    • Gondwana Records.

  • Phew & Danielle de Picciotto

    Paper Memories

    • Paper Masks.
    • Mute.

  • Berlinde Deman

    Hum of Bees

    • Plank 9.
    • Relative Pitch Records.

  • Trystero

    Buttering My Ears

    • Humming Fuzz.
    • Knekelhuis.

  • Angel’s Corpse

    SKINIKO GLASS PALACE

    • Vanity Bay.
    • Heat Crimes.

  • Bitsy Knox & Roger 3000

    You are its floating zenith

    • The Ears of Animals.
    • moli del tro.

  • Borguefül

    Euratza Blanc

    • Horst.
    • Pagans.

  • Cham Hroi

    Flirting Conversation

    • Gong Culture of South East Asia.
    • The Concrete.

  • Fred Frith & Mariá Portugal

    Looking Up

    • Matter.
    • Intakt Records.

  • Will Glaser

    Dedicated To All Living Beings Who Suffer

    • Music of the Terrazoku: Ethnographic Recordings from an Imagined Future.
    • Not Applicable.

  • J. TRIPP

    Laic (feat. Lutto Lento)

    • Hylic.

  • Aaron Dilloway

    Walk Through 2

    • Bhoot Ghar: Sounds of the Kathmandu Horror House.
    • Psychic Sounds.

  • M. Sage

    The Garden Spot

    • Tender / Wading.
    • RVNG Intl..

  • The Cosmic Tones Research Trio

    Sankofa

    • The Cosmic Tones Research Trio.
    • Mississippi Records.

  • Ale Hop

    A Body Like a Home

    • A Body Like a Home.
    • Other People.

  • Zeena Parkins & Ceclia Lopez

    Lullaby

    • Red Shifts.
    • Relative Pitch Records.

  • FOQL

    Owady świecace (feat. Xenon & Natan Kryszk)

    • Bug Poems.
    • Pointless Geometry.

  • Edén/Kvifte/Neshelm Trio

    Gangar etter Olav Dale

    • Gangar Etter Olav Dale.
    • Taragot Sounds.

  • Pierre Bastien

    Tools Part 1 (excerpt)

    • Tools.
    • ESITU Records.

  • Oswald / Užameckis / Asheim

    The Right Place

    • The Third Place.
    • Nakama.

  • JJJJJerome Ellis

    Evensong, part 1 (for and after June Kramer)

    • Vesper Sparrow.
    • Shelter Press.

Broadcast

  • Fri 14 Nov 202522:00
    BBC Radio 3

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