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Gone with the wind

Verity Sharp charts another musical journey around the waters of adventurous music, from late-night oud solos to wordless opera, and some windy tracks for National Wind Day.

Settle in with Verity Sharp for another musical journey around the waters of adventurous music. There’s some late-night oud playing from Montreal’s Sam Shelabi, ​​recorded in the wee hours of night surrounded by three cats and a bubbling fish tank. There’ll be wordless opera composed by Belgian composer Baudouin de Jaer and performed on the Geomungo, the six-string Korean bass zither by virtuosos of the instrument, Lee Junga, Shin Jihee, Sun Chaerin, Kim Joonyoung, and Lee Sunhee. There's a previously unheard recording of a Friends of Old Time Music concert from April 1965, where Bessie Jones, John Davis, and the Georgia Sea Island Singers performed stirring work songs, emotionally charged spirituals, and revelatory renditions of Mississippi blues.

Plus a selection of windy tracks to mark National Wind Day, from aeolian harps to Tom Waits.

Produced by Kit Callin
A Reduced Listening production for ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3

1 hour, 29 minutes

Last on

Fri 14 Jun 2024 22:00

Music Played

  • Louis Dotson

    Bottle Blowing

    • Voices of Mississippi: Artists and Musicians Documented by William Ferris.
    • Dust-to-Digital.
  • Mélodie Blaison

    La Femme Cygne

    • Avant le Rivage.
    • wabi-sabi tapes.
  • Bunchuang Denduang

    Prakat Chue

    • Fables, Flirting and the Forest: 1960s Thai-Isan Mokhaen & Molam from 78rpm disc.
    • Canary Records.
  • Takkak Takkak

    Takkatakka

    • Takkak Takkak.
    • Nyege Nyege Tapes.
  • Jacken Elswyth

    Waken Workshops

    • At Fargrounds.
    • Wrong Speed Records.
  • Jennifer Walshe & Tony Conrad

    Well you would

    • In the Merry Month of May.
    • Blue Chopsticks.
  • Tam Lin

    Chat Bubbles / Ennervation

    • Bluelightnospaceflattime.
    • Flaming Pines.
  • Sam Shalabi

    Dust

    • Night school.
  • Quinta

    Dasos

    • Aeolian Mixtape.
  • Martin Carthy

    The Wind that Shakes the Barley

    • Martin Carthy.
    • Fontana.
  • Ada Rave

    transformation, regeneration

    • In search of a real world.
    • Relative Pitch Records.
  • Shane Latimer

    Ebb

    • Residuum.
    • Diatribe Records.
  • Tom Waits

    Blow Wind Blow

    • Frank’s Wild Years.
    • Island Records.
  • Georgia Sea Island Singers led by Bessie Jones

    Buzzard Lope

    • The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert.
    • Smithsonian Folkways.
  • Steve Roden

    Corner Wood Fuzz

    • Splint (The Soul of Wood).
    • Room40.
  • Jan Garbarek

    Dis

    • Dis.
    • ECM Records.
  • Baudouin De Jaer

    Trace V (excerpt)

    • Five Traces - Geomungo Compositions Vol III.
    • Sub Rosa.
  • Chris Corsano & Dis Fig

    Track 5

    • Late Junction Collaboration Session.
  • Molly Drake

    How Wild The Wind Blows

    • How Wild The Wind Blows.
  • Kate Carr

    Ascent

    • From A Wind Turbine To Vultures (And Back).
    • Flaming Pines.

Broadcast

  • Fri 14 Jun 2024 22:00

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