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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 charming Occitan folk from Del Sauveterre, bizarre 'town crier' stylings from Chicago's Dave The Lightbulbman, 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: a stretched orchestral thunder clap; 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
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Fri 11 Sep 202622:00
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Music Played

  • Maybe I'm Crackin & Soap

    Maybe I'm Crackin

    • Moin.

  • Opambua Internatnls

    Felicia

    • Medofo Nantew Yie.
    • Makossa.

  • Del Sauveterre

    La Canson De Joaneta

    • Fevrier.
    • Regas Del Causse.

  • P’o

    Vanité

    • Whilst Climbing Thieves Vie for Attention.
    • Court Records.

  • Sri Chinmoy

    Meditation - Sky

    • Meditation.
    • Sri Chinmoy Verlag.

  • Hannah Rickards

    Thunder (score)

    • Thunder.
    • Media Art Bath.

  • Hannah Rickards

    Thunder

    • Thunder.
    • Media Art Bath.

  • HE WAS

    He Was

    • He Was.
    • Kageroh Record.

  • System

    Love Song

    • Love Song.

  • Chance Operation

    Receivin'

    • Demo Seat.

  • Laura Cannell, Rhodri Davies, Peter J Evans & Mark Fell

    Broken Telephone - Mark Fell

    • Broken Telephone.
    • Broken telephone.

  • Laura Cannell, Rhodri Davies, Peter J Evans & Mark Fell

    Broken Telephone - Laura Cannell

    • Broken Telephone.
    • Broken telephone.

  • Dave Tompkins

    Biter's dub (all you have is yore teeth edit)

    • Fantasy Three.

  • Voice Of Salvation

    A Wise Child

    • Bata N'ugbọ Jisọs.
    • Obi Gospel Records.

  • Träd, gräs och stenar

    Polskan

    • Live At Club 19 Pori Finland 20th April 2005.
    • Full Contact Records.

  • George Faith

    If You were Here

    • Love & Affection.
    • Abraham.

  • The Burning Heralds

    Yesu Alaile

    • Ayamaka.
    • All Night Flight Records.

Broadcast

  • Fri 11 Sep 202622:00
    BBC Radio 3

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