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Winter wonkyland

Join Jennifer Lucy Allan for a Late Junction take on Christmas music uncovering how musicians old and new have tackled yuletide favourites in their own distinctive fashions.

Join Jennifer Lucy Allan as she serves up experimental approaches to the yuletide songbook, encompassing traditions of old and the excitement of the new. We’ll hear a free improv take on a seasonal classic from Bill Orcutt as well as the latest in a series of folk-laced wintery evocations by Laura Cannell. Elsewhere, turntableist mashups of holiday classics and a chorus of chaos as a computer programme attempts to amalgamate all of the quintessential sounds of the season into one definitive standard. So grab a mince pie settle in for a sonic stocking stuffed with festive curiosities!

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1 hour, 29 minutes

Last on

Fri 12 Dec 202522:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Shirley Collins & Dolly Collins

    The Gower Wassail

    • The Harvest Years.
    • EMI.

  • Brian Whitman

    Holy Night

    • A Singular Christmas.
    • Eigenradio.

  • John Fahey

    Joy to the world

    • The New Possibility.
    • Takoma.

  • Laura Cannell

    Three Kings Sing in the Woods

    • Brightly Shone the Moon.
    • Brawl Records.

  • Cheryl E. Leonard

    Ablation Zone

    • Antarctica: Music from the Ice.
    • Other Minds Records.

  • Ioa Beduneau

    Cloches & Trompes

    • Mélodies Pour Clairons.
    • Marionette.

  • @xcrswx

    NPC

    • Moodboard.
    • Feedback Moves.

  • Benda

    Living Room Music (1940) b) Story

    • Benda plays John Cage - Living Room Music.

  • Arthur Russell

    Hiding Your Present From You

    • World of Echo.
    • Rough Trade.

  • Mariam Rezaei & Dali de Saint Paul

    A Love Affair

    • Collapsing Tape.
    • Collapsing Drums.

  • Madala Kunene & Sibusile Xaba

    Usho Njalo

    • KwaNTU.
    • New Soil.

  • Helviofox

    Capucho do Xaboy

    • Rodeado de Batida.
    • Príncipe.

  • Claire M Singer

    Rionnag A Tuath

    • Gleann Ciùin.
    • Touch.

  • Wojciech Rusin

    Pipe Demo

    Composer: Jo Hellier. Performer: Jo Hellier. Performer: Wojciech Rusin.
    • Late Junction at BBC Proms.

  • Faust & Lone Taxidermist

    Silent Night

    • Late Junction Collaboration Session.

  • Richard Youngs

    Part I

    • Advent.
    • No Fans Records.

  • Rory Salter

    During a slack half hour

    • A Sky Cold As Clay.
    • Infant Tree.

  • People Like Us

    I'm Dreaming

    • Christian Marclay’s Sounds of Christmas with People Like Us.

  • People Like Us

    I'm Dreaming Too

    • Christian Marclay’s Sounds of Christmas with People Like Us.

  • Bill Orcutt

    White Christmas

    • Bill Orcutt.
    • Palilalia.

  • Lord Beginner

    Christmas Morning The Rum Had Me Yawning

    • Where Will You Be Christmas Day?.
    • Dust-to-Digital.

  • Daniel Johnston

    A Recorded Message

    • Merry Christmas.
    • Stress Records.

  • Daniel Johnston

    Where the Soul Never Dies

    • Merry Christmas.
    • Stress Records.

Broadcast

  • Fri 12 Dec 202522:00
    BBC Radio 3

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