BBC Radio 3 Late Junction: Songs for Heavy Weather
Jennifer Lucy Allan shares music inspired by heavy weather, from noise musician Daniel Menche’s recordings of stormy skies in Oregon, to experimental guitarist Derek Bailey’s accompaniment to a raindance.
There’ll also be jazz pieces reflecting on clouds from South Africa’s Letta Mbulu, collaged weather reports from composer Ron Geesin, and soundscape compositions from Hildegard Westerkamp on the west coast of British Columbia.
Elsewhere there’s new releases from pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn and her quintet and Manchester-based sound artist Kelly Jayne Jones.
Produced by Katie Callin
A Reduced Listening Production for BBC Radio 3
1 Michael Chapman – Rainmaker
2 Ron Geesin – Whether The Weather
3 Senyawa – Istana
4 Susan Alcorn – Twin Beams
5 Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou – The Story Of The Wind
6 Kelly Jayne Jones – the reed flute is fire not wind
7 Hannah Rickards – Thunder
8 Prince & The New Power Generation – Thunder
9 Faust – It’s A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl
10 Letta Mbulu – Pula Yetla
11 Gloria Levy – Arvoles Yoran Por Luvias
12 Derek Bailey – Rain Dance Pt 2
13 The Raincoats – Adventures Close To Home #1
14 La Nòvia – Jésus s’habille en pauvre – Bourrée de la Marguerite
15 Kate Carr – Fence In Rain, Snæfellsjökull, Iceland
16 Wu-Lu – Tetsuo
17 Hildegard Westerkamp – Kits Beach Soundwalk
18 Divide and Dissolve – Abomination
19 William Parker – Sun Song
20 Rian Treanor – Obstacle 3
21 The Five Sharps – Stormy Weather
22 Daniel Menche – Rain