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Elizabeth Alker with a late-night journey through new music from today’s most exciting genre-defying artists.

Join Elizabeth Alker with a selection of fresh music from genre-defying artists as we journey through verdant landscapes of ambient and experimental sounds. Thoughts of the natural world and the cosmos are never far away, with an ode to the sun from vocal ensemble Shards and a meditation on the passing of time from Lea Bertucci. Singer Haydn Thorpe sets the words of nature writer Robert McFarlane to offer an evocative lament for a landscape marked by military tests and reclaimed by nature; and Hannah Peel and Bei Bei Wang serve up a deliciously surreal track to awaken the insects.

Produced by Geoff Bird
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1 hour

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Sun 9 Aug 202623:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Abul Mogard & Rafael Anton Irisarri

    In the Eastern Wild

    • Where Light Pauses in the Silence of the Sun.

  • VLMV

    Bodies Grown, Pt.1

    • There Will Come Soft Rains.
    • Pelagic Records.

  • Shards & Sam Slater

    Sun Is Forever

    • Saros Original Soundtrack.
    • Milan Records.

  • Seamus Fogarty

    Come Down To The Square

    • Ships.
    • Lost Map Records.

  • Hara Alonso & Lia Kohl

    A Second Is A Choir

    • A Second Is A Choir.

  • OHYUNG

    all dolls go to heaven

    • IOWA.

  • Gigi Masin

    Lost

    • Movement.
    • Sacred Bones.

  • Christian Löffler

    7 Tepe

    • Until We Meet Again.

  • LYR

    Dark Sky Reservation

    • Dark Sky Reservation.
    • Real World Records.

  • Hannah James & Toby Kuhn

    Upstairs at the Star

    • Where All Our Names Belong.

  • Hannah Peel & Beibei Wang

    Awaken The Insects

    • The Endless Dance.
    • Real World Records.

  • Lea Bertucci

    The Days Pass Quickly Immersed In The Shadow Of Eternity

    • The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity.

  • Laura Misch

    Kairos

    • Lithic.
    • One Little Independent Records.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 12 Apr 202623:30
    BBC Radio 3
  • Sun 9 Aug 202623:30
    BBC Radio 3

What is unclassified music?

What is unclassified music?

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