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Radio 3,23 May 2026,120 mins

Only Birds Know How to Call the Sun

New Music Show

Available for 29 days

Kaj Duncan David and Scenatet perform David's 'Only birds know how to call the sun and they do it every morning' - a long-form work which draws on "electronic voice technologies, new age and psychedelic aesthetics" - recorded live at Cafe Oto in London. Plus a recording by the BBC Symphony Orchestra of Tristan Murail's Gondwana, a defining composition of spectralism from 1980. Plus a round-up of some of the latest new releases, and a Miles Davis-inspired track from Wadada Leo Smith ahead of next week's centenary celebrations. With Tom Service.

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