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Industrial memories and free-wheeling jazz

Verity Sharp presents sonic highlights from Barnsley’s Abandon Normal Devices festival, and plays music from Jon Waine, Fågelbörs and Thorn Wych.

Verity Sharp shares sounds and words from Abandon Normal Devices, a nomadic, site-specific experimental multimedia festival that is held in Barnsley at the end of September. Among the highlights are a newly commissioned work from Berlin-based 4D spatial sound collective MONOM (excavating the acoustic memory of Barnsley's industrial past) as well as an extract from Egyptian electronic producer ZULI, who has scored a film documenting the shifting landscapes of the Nile Delta.

Elsewhere in the programme: a resurfaced recording from “afro nu-wave muzic” outfit Jon Waine: free-wheeling spiritual jazz courtesy of Finnish group Fågelbörs; and occult music from Thorn Wych, made on instruments carved from the branches of a tree.

Produced by Silvia Malnati
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1 hour, 29 minutes

Music Played

  • Psycho Baba

    Death Nap The Dance II

    • SAICOBAB/TAKAAT Split.
  • Minten & González

    A Place Gone Astray

    • Ruins of a non-existent place.
    • wabi-sabi tapes.
  • Gordan

    Mara

    • Gastarbeiter.
  • LIKΣN

    mvt III sieste - sueurs

    • La Toute Multiple.
    • Carton Records.
  • Vanishing Twin

    Backstroke (Malcolm Catto edit)

    • Malcolm Catto Presents Quatermass Sound Lab.
    • Strut.
  • Nneka Cummins

    finding gills (realms and possibilities)

    • Finding Gills.
  • Thorn Wych

    The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness

    • Aesthesis.
  • Brown Wimpenny

    Shady Grove

    • Shady Grove.
  • Eduard Artemiev

    Stalker - 3. Untitled

    • Tarkovsky.
    • Cold Spring.
  • Lawrence Sammour, Sary Moussa & Abed Kobeissy

    Buzuq for Four Hands (Live Recording)

    • BETHLEHEM بيت لحم.
    • Constellation Records.
  • Fågelbärs

    Side B

    • Bagelfårs.
  • monom

    Acoustic Memories \\ MONOM

    • Live from AND Festival 2026.
  • Chepertom & Zuli

    Hapi Tomorrow \\ Chepertom and ZULI (world premiere)

    • Live from AND Festival 2026.
  • Jon Waine

    Do the Tic [rehearsal tape]

    • Second Skin (1975-1983).
  • Ana Lua Caiano

    Um Mais Um

    • Devagar que a vida Curta.
  • Raoul Björkenheim & Paal Nilssen-Love

    Raptor

    • Ping.
  • Ludovica Manzo

    Salia

    • In Vago Spirito.
  • Antoine Bellanger

    La Musique I

    • La Flute.
  • Alarm Will Sound

    Faceshopping

    • New Acoustica.
  • Gamut Inc

    Breath of Seven Breasts

    • Music For Air.
  • Emily Wittbrodt

    Coda

    • Wearing Words.
    • Futura Resistenza.

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