Cara Tolmie’s mixtape
Join Verity Sharp as we enjoy the sounds that shaped the musical universe of vocalist Cara Tolmie.
Verity Sharp presents an exclusive Late Junction mixtape from Cara Tolmie. Following on from her acclaimed 2025 release ‘Body Lapse’, a collaboration with Rian Treanor, Tolmie here explores her sonic roots and shares formative influences and firm favourites in the creation of vibrant musical collage.
A Glasgow-born, Sweden-based artist and improviser, Tolmie’s artistic aim is - as she puts it - to ‘complexify the bind between voice and body via mesmerising and uncanny vocalisations.’ This is achieved in her music through her own practice of ‘internal singing’, in which breath, movement, repetitive phrases and sung fragments are used to explore the limits of vocalisation. Tolmie’s projects and performances dig into the uncanny power of voice distortion, effects created through both technological and corporeal means.
Elsewhere in the show: The Early delight in dense basement clattering; and Mohammad Reza Mortazavi conjures intricate, deft and swampy timbres on the Iranian tombak.
Produced by Alex Yates
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3
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Cara Tolmie
Alongside Mud
- LIT BY A CAR.
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Elizabeth Davis
All in Uniform
- Flowers.
- South Of North.
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BCUC
Higher Vibes
- The Road is Never Easy.
- Outhere Records.
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Félicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou
Film Still / The Sea
- Reflections Vol 3: Water Poems.
- RVNG Intl.
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Stéphane Clor
Sirenes
- Exarcheia.
- wabi-sabi tapes.
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Master Soman
Master Soman (Dilruba) c. 1932
- Indian Talking Machine Part 2: Instrumental Gems from the 78rpm era.
- Sublime Frequencies.
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Mohammad Reza Mortazavi
Zendegi
- Nexus.
- Latency.
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Trois-Quarts Taxi System
Coil
- Scarecrow.
- Maloca.
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Rian Treanor & Cara Tolmie
Ereh Ma I
- Body Lapse.
- Planet Mu.
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Karin Krog
As A Wife Has a Cow
- Different Days, Different Ways.
- Philips.
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Caius Williams & Theodora Laird
Dummy
- Crosspiece.
- Cherche Encore.
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Katalin Ladik
Four Black Horses Fly Behind Me / Négy Fekete Ló Mögöttem Repül (1978)
- Phonopoetics.
- Alga Marghen.
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Aphex Twin & Squarepusher
Untitled (Unreleased Track)
- Untitled.
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Lily Greenham
Tillid
- Lingual Music.
- Paradigm Discs.
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V/Vm
Only You Ba Da Da Da
- Sick-Love.
- V/Vm Test Records.
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Åke Hodell
General Bussig (General Buddy-Buddy) (part 3)
- Verbal Brainwash And Other Works.
- Fylkingen Records.
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Stine Janvin
GLITCH
- Fake Synthetic Music.
- PAN Records.
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Tessela
Hackney Parrot
- Hackney Parrot / Helter Skelter.
- Poly Kicks.
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Curd Duca
Touch
- Elevator 2.
- Mille Plateaux.
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Beatriz Ferreyra
Echos
- Echos +.
- Room40.
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Jean‐Michel Jarre
Zoolook
- Zoolook.
- Disques Dreyfus.
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Charmaine Lee
Milk
- KNVF.
- Erratum.
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Shelley Hirsch
Shelley Hirsch Sings
- Singing.
- Apollo Records.
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XTC in the XIV
Suspiramus
- Salve Regina.
- Supertraditional.
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Jeanne Lee
Sundance
- Conspiracy.
- Earthform Records.
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Meredith Monk
Do You Be
- Do You Be.
- ECM New Series.
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Yazoo
Midnight
- Upstairs At Eric's.
- Sire.
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Colin Stetson, Greg Fox & Trevor Dunn
Nethering
- Nethering.
- Invada Records.
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Mariel Roberts Musa
Sunder 1
- Sunder.
- New Focus Recordings.
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Rai Tateishi
Presence IV
- Presence.
- NAKID.
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The Early
The Laughing Earth
- I Want To Be Ready.
- Island House Recordings.
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- Fri 6 Feb 202622:00BBC Radio 3
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