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Just for the record

Jennifer Lucy Allan digs deep into the shelves of her record collection to pull out boundary-pushing and unique experimental tracks available exclusively on vinyl.

Jennifer Lucy Allan is at the decks for a vinyl-only journey through experimental sounds. There’s a resin lathe cut disc that takes no responsibility for the destruction of your stylus from Nik Colk Void, Ghanaian high-life 12”s by "the boy with the golden voice" Nana Agyeman Opambuo, and Flexi-discs given away on the front of Japanese music magazines recorded by a barely there ‘mystery group’.

Closer to home: ancient chants and ritual music from one-time French musician Henri Chedorge; a stack of post-punk dead stock delights from the ‘80s; and a game of ‘broken’ Telephone from Laura Cannell, Mark Fell, Rhodri Davies and Peter J Evans which sees the quartet attempt to recreate from memory what each participant had made after just one listen. Expect warm hearty crackle, tattered sleeves, liner notes galore and no help from Shazam…

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

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Release date:

1 hour, 29 minutes

On radio

Fri 11 Sep 202622:00

Broadcast

  • Fri 11 Sep 202622:00

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