BBC Radio 3 Freeness: Landscape Symphonies
Kim Macari sits in with music inspired by different environments. Brooklyn-based saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock’s latest offering is a piece originally aired at the BBC’s Tectonics Glasgow 2021 online festival.
A kaleidoscope of accordion, drums and electronics that create a shapeshifting bed for field recordings made on long bike rides, which meld alongside air conditioner hums, ice cream vans, power stations and other found sounds. Producer Jeremiah Chiu and violist Marta Sofia Honer recorded late night boat and bike rides through the Åland archipelago in the Baltic Sea under the soft glow of a baleful midnight sun. On their record, they merge these panoramic soundscapes with improvisations on modular synth, viola, piano and hand chimes. Bassist Petter Eldh celebrates his roots in the west coast of Sweden, paying homage to coastline flowers, popular oyster snacks and traditional folk music. Here, thunderous bass and melodic saxophone riffs sweep and swirl around iridescent vocals from the Ethiopian-Swedish artist, Sofia Jernberg to animate these odes to their homeland.
Produced by Tej Adeleye
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3 Read
1 Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Honer – By Foot By Sea
2 Koma Saxo – Koma Fred (feat. Sofia Jernberg)
3 Leena Lee & Vania Fortuna – Calling
4 Kelly Bray, Caleb Duval & Luke Rovinsky – I’m Expanding
5 Ingrid Laubrock – Drilling pt.1 extended version (feat. Adam Matlock, Tom Rainey & Sam Pluta)
6 Obasquiat – Yakutsk
7 John Butcher, Thomas Lehn & Gino Robair – Halouen
8 Biggi Vinkeloe, Barre Phillips & Peeter Uuskyla – Almost There
9 Sam Andreae, David Birchall, Toshimaru Nakamura & Otto Willberg – Huddersfield
10 Pete Dennis, James McKain, Kevin Murray & Joey Sullivan – Anya’s Antique Store