Water worlds and ancestral wisdom

Verity Sharp presents adventurous music from around the globe, including a new release from free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements, whose sound addresses “futures full of possibility, the present with all its uncertainties, and [...] wellsprings of ancestral wisdom”. Also, Verity dives into watery kingdoms with the help of coastal dwellers Félicia Atkinson and Christina Vantzou, who offer a musical ode to their collective muse, the sea, which, for them, is “a person, per se; an energy, a mystery, a complex character we face everyday..."; and with Annea Lockwood via her seminal work, World Rhythms, which foregrounds the music of trickles, torrents and splashes.

Produced by Cat Gough
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3