BBC Radio 3 Late Junction: In the Key of Green
This show is brought to you by the colour green. Jennifer Lucy Allan goes verdant with a meditation on the colour green from Tomoko Sauvage and Francesco Cavaliere, a spoken word piece by Fluxus ‘action-poet’ Robert Filiou and a ceremonial peacock dance from Cambodia.
For their new release Tomoko Sauvage and Francesco Cavaliere play a host of green instruments and objects to radiate colour into sound. For inspiration, they used a series of anecdotes about the hue: a chinese myth about a man wearing a green hat or the names of Japanese traffic lights. We also hear a performance by Fluxus artist Robert Filiou from 1977, who devoted his piece ‘Greetings from L, We Are All Green’ to the colour.
Elsewhere, Jen plunges into the deep end of her record collection to select an old favourite from street performer George Coleman, aka Bongo Joe, some early Cajun accordion from Harry Smith’s Anthology of folk music and music made by buoys and wind powered sails by Charlie Hooker.
Produced by Zakia Sewell
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3.
1 Rắn Cạp Đuôi Collective – Images
2 Robert Filliou – Greetings From ‚L‘, We Are All Green
3 Francesco Cavaliere & Tomoko Sauvage – Jade Lake
4 Royal Trux – Gold Dust
5 Meridian Brothers & Conjunto Media Luna – El Profesionalismo Es Importante
6 Charlie Hooker – Separate Elements
7 Comité Hypnotisé – Neptune Wept
8 Ma Rainey – Jealous Hearted Blues
9 Errorsmith – Jam For Sisso (feat. Jay Mita)
10 Peter Cusack – London, UK – Intense Parakeet Roost: Hither Green Cemetery
11 Hiroshi Yoshimura – Creek
12 Unknown – Rabam kragoak (Peacock dance)
13 The Beacon Sound Choir – Drone 3
14 Green Dome – Cyprus Lace
15 Eliza McCarthy & Mica Levi – Diamond Gun
16 Joshua Abrams – Represencing
17 Cléoma Falcon, Ophy Breaux & Joe Falcon – C’Est Si Triste Sans Lui
18 Bass Clef – Glacier Beams
19 Robbie Basho – Green River Suite
20 Teeth Agency – Chucky Had A Bad Day
21 Brìghde Chaimbeul – Moma e Moma Rodila
22 King Tubby & Roots Radics – Hungry Belly Dub
23 George Coleman – I Wish I Could Sing
24 Shane Cooper – SKINS
25 Al Green – Dream