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Rock Music

Rock out with Verity Sharp and music made or inspired by rocks, stones and pebbles. From mineral techno and geological resonances to Welsh singing stones and Hawaiian pebbles.

Rock out with Late Junction, literally, as Verity Sharp shares music made from or inspired by rocks, stones and pebbles.

There鈥檒l be traditional Hawaiian folk music performed with lava pebbles, as well as recordings of the magical singing stones of the Preseli mountains in Wales. There鈥檚 mineral techno from Bristol鈥檚 Copper Coims, experiments into geology as a sound source from Manchester sound artist Kelly Jayne Jones and some blues music reflecting on gravel.

Plus new releases from the likes of Zimbabwean guitarist Daniel Gonora and Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal.

Produced by Katie Callin.
A Reduced Listening production for 成人快手 Radio 3.

2 hours

Last on

Fri 15 Jul 2022 23:00

Music Played

  • Horace Sprott

    Take Rocks And Gravel To Make A Solid Road - Railroad Blues

    • Music From The South, Volume 5 (Song, Play, And Dance).
    • Folkways Records.
  • Kpalandao Yurijao

    Rythme Kaleta

    • Orchestres Et Lithophones Kabiy茅 / Kabiy茅 Orchestras And Lithophones.
    • Ocora.
  • Copper Coims

    Mineral Techno

    • Mineral Techno.
    • TBC Editions.
  • Norma Waterson

    God Loves A Drunk

    • Norma Waterson.
    • Hannibal Records.
  • CEEYS

    Concrete Field

    • The Grunewald Session.
    • 1631 Recordings.
  • Martha Skye Murphy

    Concrete (feat. LEYA)

    • Concrete.
  • Robert Wyatt, Nick Manson & Carla Bley Big Band

    I'm A Mineralist

    • Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports.
    • Harvest.
  • Gonora Sounds

    Mukoma Shadreck

    • Hard times never kill.
    • The Vital Record.
  • El Khat

    Djaja

    • Djaja.
    • Glitterbeat Records.
  • Carn Menyn

    Study 5

    • The Singing Stones of Preseli.
  • Carn Menyn

    Study 10

    • The Singing Stones of Preseli.
  • Carn Menyn

    Study 11

    • The Singing Stones of Preseli.
  • Carn Menyn

    Study 15

    • The Singing Stones of Preseli.
  • Srah

    An Ear to the Carpet

    • I wish: my nose would stop running.
  • Otomo Yoshihide

    Small Stone

    • Small Stone.
    • Otoroku.
  • Kaulaheaonamiku Kiona

    Maika' I Kaua 'I (hula 'ili 'ili) with two pebbles

    • Hawaiian Chant, Hula, and Music.
    • Folkways Records.
  • Kelly Jayne Jones

    The Reed Flute Is Fire

    • The Reed Flute Is Fire.
    • Otoroku.
  • Keeley Forsyth

    Limbs

    • Limbs.
    • The Leaf Label.
  • Mark Harwood

    Violence (Screaming)

    • Offering.
    • Penultimate Press.
  • Lankum

    The Granite Gaze

    • Between The Earth And Sky.
    • Rough Trade.
  • BJ Nilsen

    Beyond pebbles, rubble and dust

    • Irreal.
    • Editions Mego.
  • Adam Morford & Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti

    Smells Like a Rock

    • Yesterday Is Two Days Ago.
  • ZOMBIE-CHANG

    Rock Scissors Paper

    • Take Me Away From Tokyo.
    • BAYON PRODUCTION.
  • Roy Bailey & Leon Rosselson

    The Testimony Of Patience Kershaw

    • If I Knew Who The Enemy Was....
    • Acorn.
  • Oh No Noh, Midori Hirano & Jo David Meyer Lysne

    MHJLMR

    • Distant Sediments.
    • TELESKOP.
  • Hermeto Pascoal

    Jegue

    • Planet谩rio da G谩vea.
    • Far Out.
  • Derroll Adams

    I Wish I Was A Rock

    • Roll On Buddy.
    • Topic Records.
  • John Cage

    Ryoanji

    Performer: Robert Black. Performer: Eberhard Blum. Performer: Iven Hausmann. Performer: Gudrun Reschke. Performer: John Patrick Thomas. Performer: Jan Williams.
    • Ryoanji.
    • Hat Hut Records.
  • Marvin Pontiac

    Bring Me Rocks

    • Greatest Hits.
    • Strange & Beautiful Music.

Broadcasts

  • Fri 4 Feb 2022 23:00
  • Fri 15 Jul 2022 23:00

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