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Moor Mother's Listening Chair

For World Poetry Day, Elizabeth Alker seeks out the common ground between experimental musicians and poets, and Moor Mother is in the Listening Chair.

Music, according to that poetic giant W. H. Auden, is the best possible way we have of "digesting time…" For World Poetry Day, Elizabeth Alker celebrates the shared space that music and verse often occupy by playing sounds created at some of the most exciting recent meeting points between the two worlds of poetry and ambient music. We’ll hear from Erland Cooper, Simon Armitage, Kinbrae and Clare Archibald. The perfect way to digest an hour!

Plus: Moor Mother is in the Listening Chair to share a piece of music that inspired and transports her. Dubbed “the poet laureate of the apocalypse” by Pitchfork, the Philadelphia-based wordsmith intones with a lyrical urgency and vision fitting for our times.

Produced by Geoff Bird
A Reduced Listening production for tv Radio 3

1 hour

Last on

Thu 21 Mar 2024 23:30

Music Played

  • Moor Mother

    MEDITATION RAG

    • Jazz Codes.
    • Anti-.
  • Ólafur Arnalds

    Árbakkinn - Island Songs I (feat. Einar Georg Einarsson)

    • Island Songs.
    • Mercury KX.
  • Myriam Gendron

    Solace

    • Not So Deep as a Well.
    • Mama Bird Recording Co.
  • Space Afrika

    Untitled (To Describe You) [OST] (feat. Tibyan Mahawah Sanoh)

    • Untitled (To Describe You) [OST].
    • Sferic.
  • Bonnetta/Huizinga

    Palo Colorado Canyon

    • Dark Watchers.
    • Idea Of North Recordings.
  • Brian Eno & Rick Holland

    The Real

    • Drums Between the Bells.
    • Warp.
  • Kinbrae & Clare Archibald

    Peer

    • Birl Of Unmap.
    • Full Spectrum Records.
  • Lonnie Holley

    Copying the Rock

    • MITH.
    • Jagjaguwar.
  • Bill Carslake, Helen Mort & Flora Curzon

    The Singing Glacier (extract, feat. Helen Mort, voice; Flora Curzon, violin; Bill Carslake, piano)

    • The Singing Glacier.
  • Kago

    ööԴdz

    • ööԴdz.
    • FatCat Records.
  • Blackhaine

    Armour Freestyle

    • Armour II.
    • Fixed Abode.
  • Erland Cooper, Simon Armitage, Scottish Ensemble & Josephine Stephenson

    Movement 6

    • Folded Landscapes.
    • Mercury KX.

Broadcast

  • Thu 21 Mar 2024 23:30

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