BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Changing Elements

Weathered terrains, metallic tuning and cosmic explosions – Corey Mwamba shares new and old music evoking natural processes and personal transformation.

We hear from Canyon, a collaboration between Mancunian pianist Tom Harris, and drummer Kai Chareunsy. Their new release ‘canyon, exhibits i​-​vi’ was recorded during lockdown after a year of musical solitude, with each track accompanied by artwork and poetry. Here, smattering percussion and shimmering keys conjure the feeling of torrential downpours and personal change: ‘the hardest things tend to look smoother during brief, heavy rains’.

Elsewhere in the show, the Brooklyn based multi-instrumentalist Jessica Pavone continues her explorations into the impact vibrations have on health and wellbeing, this time using tonal experimentations to explore themes of comfort though metallic contours. We journey back to 1969 with Wayne Shorter’s iconic Supa Nova record, featuring a stellar line up of luminaries including Jack DeJohnette, Miroslav Vitous, Sonny Sharrock and Chick Corea… on drums!

Produced by Tej Adeleye
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3

1 CANYON – Weathering This

2 Bex Burch & Leafcutter John – Something good, that regular thing to do

3 Ivo Perelman – Chapter 4 with Angelica Sanchez

4 Patrícia Bizzotto/Cerco Coreográfico – Side A

5 Jessica Pavone – Ingot (feat. Nate Wooley)

6 Moor Mother – Clock Fight (feat. Elaine Mitchener & Dudu‘ Kouate)

7 Wayne Shorter – Super Nova

8 Matthew Stevens – Can Am

9 Charlotte Keeffe – OM

10 Ingrid Schmoliner & Hamid Drake – Emi