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Cara Tolmie’s mixtape

Join Verity Sharp as we enjoy the sounds that shaped the musical universe of vocalist Cara Tolmie.

Verity Sharp presents an exclusive Late Junction mixtape from Cara Tolmie. Following on from her acclaimed 2025 release ‘Body Lapse’, a collaboration with Rian Treanor, Tolmie here explores her sonic roots and shares formative influences and firm favourites in the creation of vibrant musical collage.

A Glasgow-born, Sweden-based artist and improviser, Tolmie’s artistic aim is - as she puts it - to ‘complexify the bind between voice and body via mesmerising and uncanny vocalisations.’ This is achieved in her music through her own practice of ‘internal singing’, in which breath, movement, repetitive phrases and sung fragments are used to explore the limits of vocalisation. Tolmie’s projects and performances dig into the uncanny power of voice distortion, effects created through both technological and corporeal means.

Elsewhere in the show: The Early delight in dense basement clattering; and Mohammad Reza Mortazavi conjures intricate, deft and swampy timbres on the Iranian tombak.

Produced by Alex Yates
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3

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1 hour, 29 minutes

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Music Played

  • Cara Tolmie

    Alongside Mud

  • Elizabeth Davis

    All in Uniform

    • South Of North.

  • BCUC

    Higher Vibes

    • Outhere Records.

  • Félicia Atkinson & Christina Vantzou

    Film Still / The Sea

    • RVNG Intl.

  • Stéphane Clor

    Sirenes

    • wabi-sabi tapes.

  • Master Soman

    Master Soman (Dilruba)

    • Sublime Frequencies.

  • Mohammad Reza Mortazavi

    Zendegi

    • Latency.

  • Trois-Quarts Taxi System

    Coil

    • Maloca.

  • Rian Treanor & Cara Tolmie

    Ereh Ma I

    • Planet Mu.

  • Karin Krog

    As A Wife Has a Cow

    • Philips.

  • Caius Williams & Theodora Laird

    Dummy

    • Cherche Encore.

  • Katalin Ladik

    Four Black Horses Fly Behind Me / Négy Fekete Ló Mögöttem Repül

    • Alga Marghen.

  • Aphex Twin & Squarepusher

    Untitled (Unreleased Track)

  • Lily Greenham

    Tillid

    • Paradigm Discs.

  • V/Vm

    Only You Ba Da Da Da

    • V/Vm Test Records.

  • Åke Hodell

    General Bussig (General Buddy-Buddy) (part 3)

    • Fylkingen Records.

  • Stine Janvin Motland

    GLITCH

    • PAN Records.

  • Tessela

    Hackney Parrot

    • Poly Kicks.

  • Curd Duca

    Touch

    • Mille Plateaux.

  • Beatriz Ferreyra

    Echos

    • Room40.

  • Jean‐Michel Jarre

    Zoolook

    • Disques Dreyfus.

  • Charmaine Lee

    Milk

    • Erratum.

  • Shelley Hirsch

    Shelley Hirsch Sings

    • Apollo Records.

  • XTC in the XIV

    Suspiramus

    • Supertraditional.

  • Jeanne Lee

    Sundance

    • Earthform Records.

  • Meredith Monk

    Do You Be

    • ECM New Series.

  • Yazoo

    Midnight

    • Sire.

  • Colin Stetson, Greg Fox & Trevor Dunn

    Nethering

    • Invada Records.

  • Mariel Roberts Musa

    Sunder 1

    • New Focus Recordings.

  • Rai Tateishi

    Presence IV

    • NAKID.

  • The Early

    The Laughing Earth

    • Island House Recordings.

Broadcasts

  • Fri 6 Feb 202622:00
    BBC Radio 3
  • Friday22:00
    BBC Radio 3

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