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Only Birds Know How to Call the Sun

Tom Service with music by Kaj Duncan David and Tristan Murail, plus and a round-up of new releases.

Kaj Duncan David and Scenatet perform David's 'Only birds know how to call the sun and they do it every morning' - a long-form work which draws on "electronic voice technologies, new age and psychedelic aesthetics" - recorded live at Cafe Oto in London. Plus a recording by the BBC Symphony Orchestra of Tristan Murail's Gondwana, a defining composition of spectralism from 1980. Plus a round-up of some of the latest new releases, and a Miles Davis-inspired track from Wadada Leo Smith ahead of next week's centenary celebrations. With Tom Service.

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Music Played

  • Maria Sappho

    Monk at the Border

    Performer: Pat Thomas. Ensemble: The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra.
    • Celebrating Monk.
    • Scatter Archive.
    • 5.

  • Betsy Jolas

    A Fansy for Anssi

    Performer: Anssi Karttunen.
    • Betsy Jolas: Femme le soir.
    • Bastille Musique.
    • 12.

  • Betsy Jolas

    Tango si

    Performer: Nicolas Hodges.
    • Betsy Jolas: Femme le soir.
    • Bastille Musique.
    • 13.

  • Tristan Murail

    Gondwana

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.

  • Wadada Leo Smith

    Al-Madinah

    Performer: Wadada Leo Smith. Performer: Anthony Davis. Performer: Malachi Favors. Performer: Jack DeJohnette.
    • The Year of the Elephant.
    • PI Recordings.
    • 1.

  • Arnannguaq Gerstrøm

    Annilaanganeq qilammit nakkaalavoq (Anxiety Falls from the Sky)

    Ensemble: Chaos String Quartet.

  • Justina Repečkaitė

    La Cité des Dames (The City of Women)

    Singer: Kanae Mizobuchi.
    • Tapestries.
    • MICL.
    • 5.

  • Art Ensemble of Chicago

    People in Sorrow (extract)

    Ensemble: Art Ensemble of Chicago.
    • People in Sorrow.
    • PLAY LOUD PRODUCTIONS.

  • Kaj Duncan David

    Only birds know how to call the sun and they do it every morning

    Performer: Kaj Duncan David. Ensemble: Scenatet.

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  • Saturday22:30
    BBC Radio 3

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