BBC Radio 3 – Freeness: Mesmerising Performances

Corey Mwamba zeigt vergessene Archivaufnahmen von Aufführungen aus dem kultigen Glasgower Kulturzentrum Third Eye, das heute als CCA bekannt ist.

Part of an online project called Jazz At The Third Eye led by writer and researcher Stewart Smith, which is restoring old performances, and commissioning contemporary artists to respond to the collections. Elsewhere in the programme, we hear a freewheeling intimate set from multi-instrumentalist trio Kalulé, Shipsey and Cicone played in a London park at dusk amid birdsong and long grass to a live audience. Plus, a hypnotic live set from The Geordie Approach – a collaboration between British player Chris Sharkey on electronics and Norwegian artists Ståle Birkeland on drums and Petter Frost Fadnes on alto saxophone and electronics. The trio played at SuperDeluxe, a hub for experimental music in Tokyo, alongside the virtuoso koto player Michiyo Yagi, it’s a masterful example of deep listening in real time and the joy of live music.

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

1 Lina Allemano & Nick Fraser – LEMON

2 Metamorphic – The Two Fridas (For Robert Wyatt)

3 Ed Shipsey, Petero Kalulé & Andrew Ciccone – with much joy

4 Alvin Curran, Alípio Carvalho Neto, Giancarlo Schiaffini & Sergio Armaroli – Sequence 4

5 The Geordie Approach – Track 1

6 John Tchicai, Danny Thompson & John Stevens – Live at The Third Eye in 1976

7 Donald Lindsay, Siya Makuzeni & Thiago França – Untitled