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Divide and Dissolve鈥檚 Listening Chair

Elizabeth Alker offers a late-night journey through new music from today鈥檚 most exciting genre-defying artists, and Takiaya Reed aka Divide and Dissolve is in the Listening Chair.

Ahead of her group鈥檚 appearance at Unclassified Live on January 23rd at the Southbank Centre in London, Takiaya Reed, founder of the Australian doom-metal outfit Divide and Dissolve, takes to the Listening Chair to select a track that transports her elsewhere. Takiaya is a saxophonist and guitarist based in Melbourne who proudly champions indigenous rights through Divide and Dissolve鈥檚 work: 鈥淭his music,鈥 she says, 鈥渋s an acknowledgement of the dispossession that occurs due to colonial violence.鈥 There is both heaviness and catharsis in the sound, as washes of distortion, uncompromising riffs and transcendent rhythms combine.

Elsewhere in the programme, Elizabeth Alker selects fresh music from genre-defying artists who take us on a journey through landscapes of ambient and experimental sounds. These include emerging independent producers whose work plays with orchestral textures and classical form as well as a new generation of contemporary composers who look to embrace the spirit of rock, pop and electronica.

Produced by Geoff Bird
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Last on

Sun 5 Jan 2025 23:30

Music Played

  • Divide and Dissolve

    Blood Quantum

    • Systemic.
    • INVADA Records.
  • Bill Ryder-Jones

    No One's Trying to Kill You

    • Yawny Yawn.
    • Domino.
  • Yann Tiersen

    Rathlin from a Distance

    • Rathlin from a Distance / The Liquid Hour.
    • Mute.
  • Tunng

    Didn't Know Why

    • Love You All Over Again.
    • Full Time Hobby.
  • Alessandro Cortini

    IV

    • NATI INFINITI.
    • Mute Records.
  • Adam Coney & Dick Pike

    Friday Hour

    • Friday Hour.
    • Trestle Records.
  • Rodney Rogers

    Lessons of the Sky

    • AngloSax - British and American Music for Saxophone.
    • Clarinet Classics.
  • Erik Klinga

    Luminous Rays

    • Elusive Shimmer.
    • Thanatosis Produktion.
  • Brueder Selke & Midori Hirano

    Scale A

    • Scale A.
    • Thrill Jockey.
  • David Allred

    Oh Lauren

    • The Beautiful World.
    • Erased Tapes.

Broadcast

  • Sun 5 Jan 2025 23:30

What is unclassified music?

What is unclassified music?

Elizabeth Alker introduces five of her favourite 'unclassifiable' pieces of music.