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Harvest Time

Verity Sharp picks adventurous music inspired by agricultural cycles and their rituals, with tracks from Mary Stark, Sordure and Matmos.

It’s harvest time! Verity Sharp soundtracks the end of an agricultural cycle and explores what we are left with - soil, weeds and vegetal remains to be composted, and a sense of both ruin and regeneration. We hear new work from Sordure, reimagining traditional Occitan cançon; a folk number from British singer and fiddle player Chris Wood; and a piece from Mary Stark inspired by The Wicker Man. Plus a dig into the archives, with tracks from Throbbing Gristle and Matmos.

Produced by Silvia Malnati
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Music Played

  • Sourdure

    Le Pebre (avec Lisà Langlois)

    • Outredore.

  • Amadu, Guiga, Yabba, and a group of children

    Harvest Song From Buzi

    • Music from South New Guinea.
    • Folkways Records.

  • Rosso Polare

    Falò

    • Cacciamali.
    • 12th Isle.

  • Shovel Dance Collective

    Tally Ho! Hark Away!

    • Everything in Readiness.
    • Glitterbeat.

  • Marco Pezzenati & Mario Gabola

    Mekong Part 1

    • Alto Fragile.

  • አለማየሁ እሸቴ

    Alteleyeshegnem

    • Alteleyeshegnem.

  • Antonio Russek

    La Trama de la Vida

    • V/A - A La Altura: Visionary Mexican Music 1977-1999 - Volume 1.

  • Mike Reed’s Separatist Party

    New Angels

    • Sing the Color Blue.
    • Thrill Jockey.

  • Mary Stark

    Harvest Home

    • A Web of Braided Willow (Folklore of the Wickerman).
    • Folklore Tapes.

  • Matmos

    The Rust Belt

    • Metallic Life Review.
    • Thrill Jockey.

  • Majuli Agung

    Tabuh Lelambatan Lawas

    • Gamelan Music of Bali: Field Recordings by Deben Bhattacharya 1973-74.
    • Death Is Not The End.

  • David Chatton Barker

    Decomposition (feat. Mary Stark)

    • Elder.
    • Touched Music.

  • RAP

    Barley Wine

    • Navigator.
    • Jolly Discs.

  • Negro Leo

    Noite Invertida

    • White Elephant.
    • Hive Mind Records.

  • Throbbing Gristle

    Hamburger Lady

    • D.o.A the Third and Final Repor.

  • Charlemagne Palestine, Oren Ambarchi & Daniel O’Sullivan

    B

    • KKAARREENNIINNAA.

  • Finn Loxbo

    Tumlare

    • Lummernikt.
    • Fonstret.

  • Chris Wood

    John Barleycorn

    • The Lark Descending.

  • Louhivuori, Lønning & Myhr

    Cirrus

    • Nubes.

  • Cities Aviv

    Spinning & Spinning

    • Even Colder Spring.
    • BLACK TRUFFLE.

Broadcast

  • Friday22:00
    BBC Radio 3

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