Jennifer Lucy Allan presents a remote collaboration session between Australian fiddle player Adam Cadell and Estonian piper and saxophonist Katariin Raska. Brisbane-based Adam Cadell is a fiddle player and writer…
Quickening and slackening, Leeds-based piano trio Treppenwitz explore the contours of their rhythmic interplay on a new album. Recorded live in a living room, simple melodies are used as a…
Joining the musical dots – soul, hip-hop, house, Afro, Latin, electronica, jazz and beyond. Music from Fania All-Stars, Madlib, SAULT, Archie Shepp & Jason Moran, Nicola Conte & Gianluca Petrella.…
Listen to The Fall’s set from 6 Music Festival in 2015. 1 The Fall – Amorator (6 Music Festival 2015) 2 The Fall – Mr Rode (6 Music Festival 2015)…
Verity Sharp plays songs to put a smile on your face with music that uses the sound of laughter, from shamanic rituals to kookaburras. Plus music made inside the womb.…
A well-loved group of American players create music that’s joyful, engaged and intimate. Plus a track from the formative years of pioneering drummer Milford Graves. Rolling grooves, fragments of melody…
Verity Sharp shares a mixtape from saxophonist and composer Nubya Garcia. Plus traditional cattle whispering from Burundi, Tuvan throat singing and Swedish pipe organs. Verity Sharp shares a mix from…
Soul-soaked jazz and free-falling dissonance with moreish momentum. Plus a wordless chorus from the Chicago Modern Orchestra Project that evokes spiritual hymnals. A magic meeting creates soul soaked jazz and…
Gilles has a specially recorded home session from Chilean pianist Enrique Rodríguez. Plus he hears from London writer Haseeb Iqbal about his new book ‘Noting Voices: Contemplating London’s Culture’. Amanda…
Heavy guitar distortion and explosive drumming create a restless energy from a new group called Body Meta, a nod to Ornette Coleman’s 1978 album. There’s a twenty-year-old recording of four…
Verity Sharp plays musical matchmaker, inviting two artists who have never met to collaborate. This month the improvising violinist Silvia Tarozzi joins forces with the minimalist composer Tashi Wada to…
Joining the musical dots – soul, hip-hop, house, Afro, Latin, electronica, jazz and beyond. Music from Roberta Flack, Roba, Bridge, Madlib & Four Tet, Astrud Gilberto with Stanley Turrentine, Sibusile…
Trumpeter Dave Douglas provides a soundtrack to marching in protest of any and all social injustice on his new album Marching Music. Keith Tippett’s percussive piano meets Louis Moholo Moholo’s…
Gilles focuses on some of the exciting new artists coming out of South Africa with words and music from 4 piece Seba Kaapstaad, Blue Note pianist Nduduzo Makhathini and Cape…
Throughout human history, drone music has been associated with the divine. The ancient Greeks thought the music of the planets, or the ‘universal music’, was one extended tone. In Hinduism…
Verity Sharp presents an exclusive collaboration between two musicians who have never met: the sound artist Kate Carr and cellist Leila Bordreuil. Kate Carr is an Australian sound artist and…
Corey pays tribute to the late British guitarist John Russell, whose kind and welcoming nature was at the heart of his Mopomoso live concert series, the longest-running improvised music night…
Ich schaue auf die Tracklist und lese als erstes Stars Of The Lid, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Burial, Bill Evans, Nina Simone, Radiohead und so geht es immer besser weiter. Noch Fragen?…
This week features a selection from the New York guitarist Mary Halvorson’s latest album with her group Code Girl that combines halting rhythms, artful pitch bends and crystalline folk vocals.…
Control, moderation and explosive freedom on display in a meeting of organ and saxophone taken from a new anthology of work by British musician Theo Travis and composer Laura Toxværd…