Sonic Bloom | Season Two

TRANSCRIPT: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/transcripts/A_Mother_Tongue_Transcript.pdf

What is the etymology of your being? 

Axel Kacoutié offers a vivid personal essay reflecting on language, bilingualism and the curated gaps they have to navigate in order to access their culture and sense of self.

“Your language is a spell, an invocation speaking you into existence, rediscovering the contours of your morality, the fabric of your race and gender and how you relate to others and the world…”

Featuring the voices of the poet Raymond Antrobus and performance artist Rachel Cheung, Axel weaves together the thoughts of a number of multilingual people - including Derick Armah, Irina Niculescu, Mauricio Loseto, Olivia Melkonian, Radhika Viswanathan and Rosel Jackson Stern - into a reflection on living between languages and finding yourself in the gaps.

Read the transcript with sound captions here: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/transcripts/A_Mother_Tongue_Transcript.pdf

Illustration: Erin Tse

First broadcast 15th November 2021, BBC Radio 4
Produced by Axel Kacoutié

A Mother Tongue

Suitably rested and refreshed, Sonic Bloom returns for the Season 2 debut and the first show of 2021.

With music from Soweto Kinch, Wadada Leo Smith and Sarathy Korwar to name but a few, catch up with the latest sonorous delights right here. 

Tracklist: 

Four Tet - Moma
John Cage, Alexei Lubimov - In a Landscape
Corey Mwamba, Peter Fairclough - Four Free to One
Sarathy Korwar - So said Said
Wadada Leo Smith - Kulture of Jazz
Soweto Kinch - Tripwire
The Bad Plus - Love is the Answer
Burial, Four Tet, Thom Yorke - His Rope
YolanDa Brown - General PoliTricks
Courtney Pine - A Change is Sure to Come
Four Tet - Parallel 9
Gori Women’s Choir - Orovela (Georgian folksong)
Debussy, Bertrand Chamayou - Cello Sonata in D Minor, L.135: I. Prologue
Nazif Celaj - Atje Te Ura Ne Lume
Benjamin Britten, London Symphony Orchestra - Four Sea Interludes, Op.33a: III Moonlight (andante comodo e rubato)
Eric Whitacre, Voces8 - Sleep
Jon Hassell - Last Night The Moon Came

Sonic Bloom: Season Two

S2 | Ep 1 Sonic Bloom: January 2021

Blending euphony and cacophony in varying degrees, with visitation from The Comet is Coming, a new release from Moulettes and a meditative piece of infinite variation by Linda Catlin Smith.

There is no hurry, there is no need to hurry.


First broadcast Sunday 21st February 2021 on RTM.fm

Tracklist:

Oakunar Lynntuja (Strange Birds) - Carolina Eyck, American Contemporary Music Ensemble
Capricho Arabe - Francisco Tarrega, David Russell
Requiem - Anonymous, David Popper
Parallel 10 - Four Tet
Funeral Canticle - John Tavener, Academy of Ancient Music
Picture // Frame Pt.1 (Electric) - Hannah Moule & the Moulettes
Journey Through the Asteroid Belt - The Comet is Coming
Max Brown -Jeff Parker
Improvisation on Scarlatti - Chick Corea
Scarlatti: Sonata in D Minor K9, L413 Allegro - Chick Corea
Sanctus Benedictus - Sarah Kirkland Snider, Gallicantus
Meadow - Linda Catlin Smith
Mantra - Lucie Treacher
Linear Construction (No. 5) - Gabriella Swallow
Eight Part-songs, Op.119: The Bluebird - Charles Villiers Stanford, Choir of New College Oxford
Ballate a Ballu Tundu - Ligeti Quartet

S2 | Ep2 Sonic Bloom: February 2021

Spring has sprung and [SB-HQ] is full of joy! Join host Raevennan Husbandes as she shares her new musical discoveries and re-examines some golden oldies.

Tracklist:

Laura Mvula and the Metropole Orkest - Make Me Lovely
Frederick Delius, Nicolas Cleobury, Britten Sinfonia - On hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Jacob Collier - Light It Up On Me
Meshell Ndegeocello - Friends
Kate Bush - And Dream of Sheep
Kate Bush - Under Ice
Kate Bush - Waking The Witch
Duotone - Finally Unwoven
Nikolay Kedrov, The King’s Singers - Otche Nash
Arvo Pärt, Tasmin Little - Spiegel im Spiegel
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir Neville Mariner, Iona Brown, Academy of St Martin’s in the Fields - The Lark Ascending
Sjón, Björk, The Hamrahlíð Choir - Sonnets
Duotone - Married to the Sea
BJ Cole, Davy Spillane - First Resolve (feat Davy Spillane)
Dmitri Shostakovich, The Danish String Ensemble - String Quartet No. 15 in E flat Minor, mvmt I - VI
Anna Meredith - moonmoons

S2 | Ep 3 Sonic Bloom: March 2021

Enjoy a new instalment of Sonic Bloom, live and springing into Spring from their HQ in South-East London - playing you the best in contemporary classical, jazz, choral and avant-garde.

Guaranteed to get you thinking.

S2 | Ep 4 Sonic Bloom: April 2021

Enter the world of Sonic Bloom for a heady mixture of sonorous delights and the occasional aural challenge. Almost anything goes...

Stay tuned for your #HeadphonesMoment and to discover a new #ArtistOfTheMonth!

First broadcast on Sunday 16th May 2021 on RTM.fm


Tracklist:

Schola Cantorum - Trollsdan
Nerija - Where It Ends And Begins
Nidia - Capacidades
Emma-Jean Thackray - Say Something
Sampha - (No One Knows Me) Like the Piano
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Perpetuum Mobile
Oneohtrix Point Never - Americans
John Adams/Sir Simon Rattle/City of Birmingham Orchestra - Harmonielehre I,II,III
Jon Hopkins - Feel First Life
Schola Cantorum - Immortal Bach
Caroline Shaw - And the Swallow
Heloise Tunstall-Behrens - Honeycomb
Sarah Davachi - Still Lives
Florence Price - Dances in the Canebrakes: I, II, III
Mica Levi, Oliver Coates - Pre-Barok
Caterina Barbieri, Walter Zanetti - Fantas for Electric Guitar
Kronos Quartet, Laurie Anderson - Our Street is a Black River
Patrick Cassidy - Vide Cor Meum

S2 | Ep 5 Sonic Bloom: May 2021

One of my favourites and the penultimate Sonic Bloom broadcast of 2021. This intergalactic transmission is full of favourites, old and new! 

Including The Breath, Björk, Moses Sumney and some pure unadulterated funk guaranteed to get your head boppin'.

What's that? Not funky enough?  Yo' headphones must be faulty!! TURN IT UPPPP!


Support the show with coffee! https://ko-fi.com/raevennan
First broadcast 5th September 2021 on RTM.fm

Tracklist:

My Queen is Nanny of the Maroons - Sons of Kemet
Slush - Royce Wood Junior
Song for my brother - Avishai Cohen
The Games: Spaceship - Meredith Monk, Bang on a Can
Inky Sea - Laura Groves
Jag haver ingen karare - Akervinda
Aziza - Bazar Bla
Cut Me - Moses Sumney
Barefoot in the Park - James Blake, ROSALIA
Ekute - Pino Palladino, Blake Mills
Puerto De Santa Maria - Josephine Foster, Victor Herrero
Holili - Miriam Makeba, THe Skylarks
Ritornello 2.sq.2.j.a - Caroline Shaw, Attacca Quartet
Let The Cards Fall - The Breath
Vous vouez me faire chanter - Quintetto Nigra
The Anchor Song - Bjork
Heyr himna smigur - Voces8
Canons and Overtones - Donnacha Dennehy, Crash Ensemble
Idiolect Pt.3 (Horns) Hannah Moule and the Moulettes
Fall Into Me - Alev Lenz, Roomful of Teeth
Mass for the Endangered: Kyrie - Sarah Kirkland Snider, Gallicantus
Supreme - Ratatat

S2 | Ep 8 Sonic Bloom: September 2021

This is a rough preview mix I put together of a new album I'm releasing on September 5th called Things Will Change on Steal My Oil records, featuring Raevennan Husbandes. Available on Juno, itunes and Beatport

Macka ft. Raevennan Husbandes - Things Will Change [Album Preview] Out Now

Out the Window

Out the Window (Full)

The Catweazle Club is a listening community with an ethos that's the antithesis of TV's X-Factor - an 'open mic-less' space where art and relationships blossom.

Open mic nights attract people of all ages, from all walks of life - united in their desire to stand up and be heard. This feature explores one such performance space, The Catweazle Club, the open mic without the mic and open to all without judgement. The first-timer performing their never previously heard poem, the regularly appearing seasoned musician and the transient bedroom minstrel are amongst those who come together to form this thriving community. We hear stories of friendship, love, artistic development, and even personal survival born from this twice weekly listening space. 

In 1994 musician and songwriter Matt Sage moved onto a boat on the Oxford canal.   Finding no welcoming place to perform his songs, he decided to start a performance space of his own, The Catweazle Club.  Sixteen years later it's still going strong, with a younger off-shoot in London.

Resolutely a community, we hear from some of the people who pass through its doors: including 21 year old singer-songwriter Raevennan Husbandes, who's about to graduate and launch herself into the world as a professional musician; folk band 'Telling the Bees' whose members met at the Catweazle Club and forged connections both musically and romantically, and poet Sam Willetts who starting performing his poems at the club 10 years ago and has gone on to survive heroin-addiction and have his first collection of poems published to great critical-acclaim. These stories are interwoven with performances recorded over several nights at the club, composed into a virtual night.

"This was a beautifully produced feature, all rich textures - voices, music, audience noise - composed into poetic layers." - The Guardian, 16.06.10

First broadcast on 15th June 2010 BBC Radio 4
Produced by Nina Perry

Open Mic Night: No Electrickery Required

Things Will Change album released September 5th 2011 on Steal My Oil Records

Don't Hide Away

Frodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. Now they continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin, alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien, Read by Rob Inglis

Ralegh Long - Elizabeth

This SoundCloud profile is evolving ! into experiments in stories and sound from multi-instrumentalist Raevennan Husbandes. 

See https://linktr.ee/sonicbloompod for more details and information on how to get involved.


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For sounds by Moulettes see: www.moulettes.co.uk

S2 | Ep 8 Sonic Bloom: September 2021

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