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Songs of Apocalyptic Hope

Verity Sharp plays Kologo from Ghanaian band Alostmen, apocalyptic post-pop from Alpha Maid and Kemper Norton鈥檚 new year wassail. Plus a new release from Indonesian duo Senyawa.

Verity Sharp shares some of the first releases of the year from the realm of the adventurous. Starting with music from Acocope, the name of a new C.A.N.V.A.S compilation that invites artists to deconstruct pop in the spirit of apocalyptic hope. Elvin Bradhi, Lugh and Olan Monk have invited CURL鈥檚 Alpha Maid and Nadah El Shazly, among others, to come together to make a 鈥榞reatest hits of a half-remembered era of reduced attention spans and blown out pop nihilism鈥. We feature Alpha Maid鈥檚 take on the theme.

Also on the programme: a new release from Ghanaian band Alostmen, whose music is based on the Frafra tradition of the kologo, a stringed lute; an unsettling take on the wassail tradition from Kemper Norton to see in the new year; and a brand new release from 鈥榚xperimental metal鈥 duo Senyawa. Senyawa鈥檚 new album combines animist mythology, guttural throat singing and traditional Indonesian instrumentation.

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

2 hours

Last on

Fri 8 Jan 2021 23:00

Music Played

  • Sister Marie Knight

    Where Shall I Go?

    • When The Moon Goes Down In The Valley Of Time: African-American Gospel, 1939-51.
    • Canary Records.
  • Raymond Scott

    "Limbo: The Organized Mind"

    • Manhattan Research Inc..
    • Basta.
  • Ed Dowie

    Robot Joy Army

    • The Obvious I.
    • Needle Mythology.
  • SPARKLE DIVISION

    You Ain't Takin' My Man

    • To Feel Embraced.
    • Temporary Residence Limited.
  • Alostmen

    Fauziah

    • Kologo.
    • STRUT234D.
  • Kemper Norton

    wassail 2020

    • We are here.
  • Alpha Maid

    Harry wants to imagine a world without you

    • Apocope.
    • C.A.N.V.A.S..
  • Jake Blount

    Brown Skin Baby

    • Spider Tales.
    • Free Dirt Records.
  • Gabriel Prokofiev

    Six Hesit Heist

    • Six Hesit Heist.
    • Nonclassical.
  • Francis Dhomont

    Chambre D'Enfants

    • For锚t Profonde.
    • Empreintes DIGITALes.
  • Electrelane

    The Valleys

    • The Power Out.
    • Too Pure.
  • David Allred

    Scoop Troop

    • The Transition.
    • Erased Tapes Records.
  • Beverly Glenn鈥怌opeland

    River Dreams

    • Transmissions: The Music Of Beverly Glenn-Copeland.
    • Transgressive Records.
  • trio pipeline

    orti

    • Kakuan Suite.
    • WE INSIST!.
  • Thomas Kessler

    Said the Shotgun to the Head: O My Friends

    Librettist: Saul Williams. Conductor: Marko Letonja. Singer: Saul Williams. Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra Basel.
    • Thomas Kessler.
    • Musiques Suisses.
  • Arthur Russell

    This Is How We Walk On The Moon

    • The Deer in The Forest: March 2, 1985 Live at Roulette.
    • Audika Records.
  • Okkyung Lee

    Teum (The Silvery Slit)

    • Statistique Synth茅tique / Teum (the Silvery Slit).
    • Portraits GRM.
  • Mandel

    Mini Suite II

    • Nha Trang, mini suite.
    • Bedroom Community.
  • Robbie Basho

    Bride of Thunder

    • Selections from Song of the Avatars: The Lost Master Tapes.
    • Tompkins Square.
  • Senyawa

    Kabau

    • Alkisah.
    • Phantom Limb.
  • Divide and Dissolve

    We Are Really Worried About You

    • GAS LIT.
    • Invada Records.
  • Jonny Nash & Teguh Permana

    Bunga

    • Poe.
    • Melody As Truth.
  • Anne Briggs

    The Snow It Melts The Soonest

    • Anne Briggs.
    • Topic Records.
  • Jordan River Boys

    When The Moon Goes Down In The Valley Of Time

    • When The Moon Goes Down In The Valley Of Time: African-American Gospel, 1939-51.
    • Canary Records.

Broadcast

  • Fri 8 Jan 2021 23:00

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