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Robyn Rocket and Elaine Mitchener in session

Jennifer Lucy Allan shares the sounds of our latest exclusive collaboration session, between experimental vocalist Elaine Mitchener and space trumpeter Robyn Rocket.

Jennifer Lucy Allan shares the sounds of our latest exclusive collaboration session, between virtuosic vocalist and movement artist Elaine Mitchener and space trumpeter Robyn Rocket.

Elaine Mitchener is a British Afro-Caribbean vocalist, movement artist and composer, working within the fields of new music, free improvisation and visual art. She was awarded an MBE for Services to Music in 2022 and is a veteran of vocal expression in the global Black Avant-Garde. She is a regular collaborator, working with composers and musicians, including Jennifer Walshe and Tansy Davies, Moor Mother, Pat Thomas and Saul Williams as well as visual artists Sonia Boyce and Christian Marclay. In 2024 she released her album Solo Throat on Otoroku label.

Robyn Rocket is a musician, visual artist, and collaborator. She hones her space trumpet sound through the use of guitar pedals, and has collaborated with the likes of Seb Rochford, Maggie Nicols, Alabaster dePlume, Charles Hayward and many more. Supported by arts organisation Heart n Soul who believe in the power and talents of people with learning disabilities and autistic people, Robyn runs regular nights at London’s Cafe Oto where artists with and without learning disabilities and autism come together to make spontaneous music.

Plus new releases galore, including unclassifiable sounds from a mostly forgotten late '80s duo unearthed by RVNG and an extract from Danish saxophonist John Tchicai's spiritual jazz epic Afrodisiaca, originally recorded on the day of the moon landing.

Produced by Cat Gough

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1 hour, 29 minutes

Music Played

  • Claire Cirocco

    A1

    • Drawing Circles Around the Center.
    • Irrational Tentent.
  • Elaine Mitchener

    Tender as fly agaric

    • Solo Throat.
    • OTOROKU.
  • Robyn Rocket

    We need imperfection

    • We need imperfection.
  • F. Kenya

    Ewule Ama mandobe

    • The Power House - Vol. 2.
    • Essiebons.
  • Prince Philip

    Madness 13

    • Prince Philip Presents: Dubplates & Raw Rhythm From King Tubby's Studio 1973-197.
    • Digikiller.
  • Jim Shepard

    Bingle Bangle

    • ?Pick Through The Wreckage With A Stick lp.
    • Siltbreeze Records.
  • Jim Shepard

    I Owe You Nothing

    • ?Pick Through The Wreckage With A Stick lp.
    • Siltbreeze Records.
  • Isaiah Collier, William Hooker & William Parker

    2023-05-12 LA set II

    • The Ancients.
    • eremite records.
  • Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz

    Leyla Khanoum

    • The Invisible Road: Original Recordings, 1985?–?1990.
    • RVNG Intl..
  • Myriad Myriads

    Seventh Hit

    • All The Hits.
    • Wrong Speed Records.
  • Jovan Radivojev

    Molsko kolo (Moлcкo koлo)

    • Just Like That: Serbian gajdas (bagpipe) ca. 1911.
    • Canary Records.
  • Elaine Mitchener & Robyn Rocket

    Track 1

    • Late Junction Collaboration Session.
  • Elaine Mitchener & Robyn Rocket

    Track 2

    • Late Junction Collaboration Session.
  • Elaine Mitchener & Robyn Rocket

    Track 4

    • Late Junction Collaboration Session.
  • Elaine Mitchener & Robyn Rocket

    Track 3

    • Late Junction Collaboration Session.
  • Muhammad Abdullah Tibetbaqal

    Soofiana Kalam

    • Kashmir: Traditional Songs & Dances, Volume II.
    • Nonesuch.
  • Geinoh Yamashirogumi

    A1

    • Chi no Hibiki: Geinoh Yamashirogumi Tō-Yōroppa wo Utau (Reverberation Of Earth).
    • Victor.
  • 工藤冬里

    Lickin' Up The Dust

    • Studio Village Hototoguiss 2007?-?2022.
    • bruit direct disques.
  • Andrea Belfi & Jules Reidy

    Dessus

    • Dessus Oben Alto Up.
    • Marionette.
  • John Tchicai and Cadentia Nova Danica

    Afrodisiaca

    • Afrodisiaca.
    • MPS Records.
  • Irma Thomas

    Take A Look

    • Take A Look.
    • Imperial.

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