Verity Sharp presents off-grid music for omnivorous listeners. Expect duelling thumb piano from Sudan, rousing post-punk from Geneva and a new release from Beatriz Ferreyra. Verity Sharp shakes off the…
Verity Sharp presents a dream-inspired collaboration session at Maida Vale from Alabaster dePlume, Anrimeal and Tasos Stamou, based on the dreams of the Late Junction listeners. All through June, we’ve…
Jennifer Lucy Allan is joined by composer, musician and author David Toop. A fixture in experimental and improvisational music scenes since 1970, his expansive research embraces sound art, field recordings,…
Late Junction’s month-long season traversing the world of dreams continues as Verity Sharp shares a unique commission from producer, vocalist and DJ Coby Sey. In collaboration with the artist Sam…
The dream world has long provided a rich source of inspiration to artists, from the ‘dream music’ of La Monte Young to Delia Derbyshire’s radio inventions and Aphex Twin’s music…
Jennifer Lucy Allan presents an adventurous mix of music, including a Late Junction session between two artists who have never worked together before: Chicago jazz bassist Joshua Abrams and Japanese…
Verity Sharp shares some nostalgic Ethio-jazz riffs from the 70s by master keyboardist Hailu Mergia, as well as new music from legendary Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar, which reflects on West…
Verity Sharp listens to the late-night singing of vending machines, revisits Sun Ra’s classic album Lanquidity, and we salute pioneering composer Alvin Lucier on his 90th birthday. Verity Sharp listens…
Jennifer Lucy Allan shares a mixtape curated by Time Cow, part of the forward-thinking Jamaican collective Equiknoxx. Plus avant-garde Tuareg folk and Japanese improv from 1982. Jennifer Lucy Allan shares…
Verity Sharp shares electroacoustic soundscapes of rural Greece, traditional meditations from the island of Grande Comore and shoegaze bluegrass from Bristol. Verity Sharp shares the electroacoustic soundscapes of rural Greece…
Verity Sharp shares the fruits of another Late Junction long-distance collaboration session between two artists who have never worked together before. This time, experimental vocalist Yifeat Ziv and Indian sarangi…
Verity Sharp is joined by Matthew Herbert to announce the winners of the Sound of the Year Awards, and we play a mixtape by the Greek electronic musician Lena Platonos.…
Verity Sharp plays music written ‘strictly for insects to understand’ by the Australian artist Eugene Carchesio. He describes his latest release as ‘ant sci-fi’ with most of the tracks clocking…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Verity Sharp shares a mix from guitar and saxophone duo Divide and Dissolve, who blend classical influences with crushing doom to create a sound that aims to ‘speak without words’.…
Verity Sharp shares some of the first releases of the year from the realm of the adventurous. Starting with music from Acocope, the name of a new C.A.N.V.A.S compilation that…
It’s New Year’s Day and Jennifer Lucy Allan is here to exorcise the demons from 2020 with music for a more hopeful future, from Alice Coltrane’s swirling mantras to a…
Spät, aber besser als nie. Diese Sendung ist einfach zu gut. Allein schon wegen Saul Williams und Moor Mother, Fela Kuti, Pharoah Sanders, Leafcutter John, Keiji Haino, Jozef Dumoulin. Ihr…
At the end of a tumultuous year, the Late Junction team reflect on the last twelve months in music with a selection of their favourite adventurous albums. 2020 will clearly…
Verity Sharp presents an exclusive Beethoven remix from electronic musician and producer Jlin. To mark Beethoven’s 250th birthday, the BBC is asking listeners to remix a new recording of his…
Hallo zusammen. Erstens kommt es anders und zweitens als man denkt. So oder so ähnlich heißt es wohl. Meine Zeitplanung hat sich, wiedermal, als nicht umsetzbar erwiesen. Beiträge hätte fertig…
Verity Sharp presents this month’s Late Junction collaboration session, where we pair together two artists who have never met before and invite them to collaborate remotely. Sam Shalabi is an…
Jennifer Lucy Allan presents a mixtape of soothing sounds from Ana Roxanne, a Los Angeles-based artist and musician. Her interest in the healing power of music started from a young…
In this hour-long edition of the programme Verity Sharp presents spoken word which ‘tastes like peaches, metal and blood’ from Lukasz Polowczyk’s new project Ain’t About Me, a composition from…