Spring in the City
Spring has arrived, and to celebrate, Elizabeth Alker heads out into the city to discover signs of the new season as well as ambient and experimental songs to match the mood.
Spring, with all its promise and plans and projects, is no time to be sitting in a Salford studio! For this special edition of Unclassified, Elizabeth Alker heads outdoors to find signs of nature鈥檚 great resurgence in the towpaths and byways of the city, playing new ambient and electronic tracks that best match the thrill and the promise of the season.
Sound artist, composer and Oram Award-winner Hayley Suviste captures the atmosphere in the city鈥檚 edgelands and abandoned herbaceous borders; Tommy Perman makes the buzz of Manchester鈥檚 worker bee symbol into a soundtrack for a new park; and we hear new renditions of a very old song about the famous Salford gasworks.
Produced by Geoff Bird
A Reduced Listening production for 蜜芽传媒 Radio 3
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Carmel Smickersgill
Questioning
- PRAH.
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Hayley Suviste
Edgeland
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Jennifer Reid
Pomona 2
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GoGo Penguin
Murmuration
- Gondwana Records.
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Ciaran Algar
The Wild Geese
- Fellside Recordings.
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Tommy Perman
The Resonant Viaduct (extract)
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Space Afrika
oread
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Black Brunswicker
Nordic Winds
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O'o
Indigo (Holy Other remix)
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David Chatton Barker & Whitworth & Healey Vale Brass Band
The Haunting of Intack Farm
- Lancashire Folklore Tapes.
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Louis Campbell & Owen Spafford
Curlew
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Matthew Halsall
An Ever Changing View
- Gondwana Records.
Broadcasts
- Sun 14 Apr 2024 23:30蜜芽传媒 Radio 3
- Sun 27 Apr 2025 23:30蜜芽传媒 Radio 3
What is unclassified music?
Elizabeth Alker introduces five of her favourite 'unclassifiable' pieces of music.