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Elizabeth Alker with music by an exciting new generation of unclassified composers and performers, breaking free of the constraints of practice rooms and concert halls.

Join Elizabeth Alker with a selection of fresh music from genre-defying artists as we journey through landscapes of ambient and experimental sounds. This week we’ll hear a fabulous collaboration from Scanner and Neil Leonard that was ten years in the making; a track written during an Icelandic snowstorm featuring on the brilliantly titled album ‘All Our Friends Are Vampires’; and in the week marking 400 years since the death of John Dowland, we’ll hear new music from Laura Cannell, a great fan of the Renaissance composer. Elizabeth also offers her signature mix of emerging independent producers whose work plays with orchestral textures and classical form.

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Music Played

  • Shards

    Facta est Deserta

    • Facta est Deserta.
    • Erased Tapes.
  • Kali Malone, Stephen O’Malley & HTRK

    Siren Song - Cover

    • Siren Song (Cover).
    • Ghostly International.
  • Scanner & Neil Leonard

    Everything Over The Sun

    • The Berklee Sessions.
    • Alltagsmusik.
  • Margaret Hermant

    Smile

    • Freedom.
    • Neue Meister.
  • A Winged Victory for the Sullen

    The Slow Descent Has Begun

    • All Our Friends Are Vampires.
    • Ninja Tune.
  • Hiroshi Ebina

    A Silent Room

    • On Solitude.
    • Kitchen Label.
  • The Willow Trio

    Golden Toad

    • The Bestiary.
    • Dust Records.
  • Karoline Wallace

    Bittelille Meg

    • Bittelille Meg.
    • Sauajazz.
  • Rat Heart

    I H T

    • Dancin' In The Streets.
    • Shotta Tapes.
  • Ed Bennett

    Strange Waves

    Performer: Kate Ellis.
    • Strange Waves.
    • Ergodos.
  • Robin Richards

    Seeds

    • Taproots.
    • PRAH.

Broadcast

  • Sunday23:30

What is unclassified music?

What is unclassified music?

Elizabeth Alker introduces five of her favourite 'unclassifiable' pieces of music.