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Shirley Collins's mixtape

Jennifer Lucy Allan invites legendary folk singer Shirley Collins to put together a 30-minute mixtape. Also a deep dive into the world of fog horns.

The living legend of English folk, Shirley Collins returns to the Late Junction airwaves with a 30-minute mixtape of music with no limits. Following the release of her latest record she selects pieces from her music collection which she still enjoys to this day.

Shirley Collins, MBE, was part of the English folk revival in the 1960s. She left Hastings for London to be a folk singer at 17 before travelling by boat to America to record traditional ballads with the folklorist Alan Lomax. After releasing her album For As Many Will in 1978 she suffered a form of dysphonia, which resulted in the loss of her singing voice. She was never expected to sing again but against the odds she returned to the spotlight in 2016, taught herself to sing once again and released a new album after more than 30 years in obscurity.

Elsewhere Jennifer Lucy Allan takes a deep dive into the sound of fog horns. Expect a piece by composer and sound ecologist Hildegarde Westerkamp, Wadada Leo Smith improvising with Alvin Curran鈥檚 foghorn recordings and Sufi Flamenco by Pakistani-born musician Aziz Balouch.

Produced by Alannah Chance.
A Reduced Listening production for 成人快手 Radio 3.

2 hours

Last on

Fri 14 Aug 2020 23:00

Music Played

  • Los Jaivas

    Foto de Primera Comunion

  • Silvia Tarozzi

    Al cancello

  • Shirley Collins

    Locked In Ice

  • Nicole Mitchell & Black Earth Ensemble

    The Ooli Moves

  • 3Phaz

    Cluster Drum

  • Natalia Beylis

    Johnny Joe's, Cushendall, Ireland

  • Natalia Beylis

    Sarc, Belfast, Ireland, No. 2

  • Duval Timothy

    Slave (feat. Twin Shadow)

  • Shirley Collins

    Sweet Greens & Blues

  • Alasdair Roberts

    Bonnie Lass Among The Heather

  • Lankum

    The Granite Gaze

  • Shirley Collins

    Do You Want Me To Start, Alan

  • Alabama Sacred Harp Singers

    Sherburne

  • Shirley Collins

    Wondrous Love

  • Tielman Susato

    Pavane La Bataille

    Performer: Early Music Consort of London. Performer: Morley Consort. Performer: David Munrow.
  • Lankum

    What Will We Do When We Have No Money

  • Rattle on the Stovepipe

    Cora Dye

  • Sheila Smith

    Dear Father Pray Build Me A Boat

  • Current 93

    All The Pretty Little Horses (feat. Shirley Collins)

  • Alasdair Roberts, Amble Skuse & David McGuinness

    The Fair Flower Of Northumberland

  • Barry Dransfield

    Silent Worship

  • Bessie Jones & Georgia Sea Island Singers

    Sheep Sheep Don't You Know The Road

  • Alabama Sacred Harp Singers

    Sherburne

  • The Voice Squad

    The Parting Glass

  • Space Afrika

    dairyday4

  • Alvin Curran

    World Music (feat. Wadada Leo Smith)

  • Aziz Balouch

    Granadina Arabe Del Siglo IX

  • Ellen Fullman & Theresa Wong

    Harbors Part 2

  • Hildegard Westerkamp

    Fantasie For Horns II

  • Alice Kemp

    Kecke Schnecke

  • Phew

    The Void

Broadcast

  • Fri 14 Aug 2020 23:00

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