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Water worlds and ancestral wisdom

Encounter adventurous music from around the globe as Verity Sharp dives into music inspired by water and explores liberation music with its feet in past, present and future.

Verity Sharp presents adventurous music from around the globe, including a new release from free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements, whose sound addresses “futures full of possibility, the present with all its uncertainties, and [...] wellsprings of ancestral wisdom”. Also, Verity dives into watery kingdoms with the help of coastal dwellers Félicia Atkinson and Christina Vantzou, who offer a musical ode to their collective muse, the sea, which, for them, is “a person, per se; an energy, a mystery, a complex character we face everyday..."; and with Annea Lockwood via her seminal work, World Rhythms, which foregrounds the music of trickles, torrents and splashes.

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

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1 hour, 29 minutes

Last on

Fri 3 Apr 202622:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Sam Underwood

    Gated Drums

    • Gated Drums Sample Set.

  • Irreversible Entanglements

    Juntos Vencemos

    • Future Present Past.
    • Impulse!.

  • ODD OKODDO & Ogoya Nengo

    Bara

    • Bara.

  • Nghiêm tê

    Missing my Love

    • Gong Culture of Southeast Asia: M’nong Prâng (Vietnam).
    • the-concrete.

  • Joanna Duda

    Lemurs

    • Regina Silva.

  • Lars-Gunnar Bodin

    Alto Aria

    • Clouds.
    • Fylkingen Records.

  • upsammy & Valentina Magaletti

    Collide

    • Seismo.
    • PAN.

  • Antoine Dougbé et l'Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou

    We Tayi Sin Assi Tche

    • Antoine Dougbé et l’Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou 1977-1982.
    • Analog Africa.

  • Gregory Uhlmann

    Burnt Toast

    • Extra Stars.
    • International Anthem Recording Co.

  • Bruce Russell

    Nothing But Wolf from Now On

    • Re-Make Re-Model.
    • Marhaug Forlag.

  • Philippe Lamiral Poirer

    Vertigo

    • Images Parlées.

  • Kristofer Svensson

    Ir Himinn, Groœn

    • XKatedral Anthology Series I.
    • XKatedral.

  • Stine Janvin & Morten Joh

    Leaving home - O Verden, Hav Da Gode Nat! (feat. Lucy Railton)

    • Or Gare: Funeral Procession Music from Ryfylke, Norway.
    • Futura Resistenza.

  • Éric La Casa

    Everyday Unknown 6

    • Induction / Mutation.
    • Swarming.

  • The Avant Garde Flamenco Trio

    Free Flamenco

    • Lunar.
    • Redshift Music.

  • Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick

    Prince Heathen

    • Prince Heathen.

  • Adrián Demoč (Manuel Zurria)

    Harmonium

    • Flute.

  • Jacques Coursil

    Black Suite - Part 2

    • Black Suite.
    • BYG Records.

  • Leila Bordreuil & Kali Malone

    Pilots in the Night

    • Music for Intersecting Planes.
    • Ideologic Organ.

Broadcast

  • Fri 3 Apr 202622:00
    BBC Radio 3

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