Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

Monster Movies and Table Tennis

Verity Sharp leads an adventure in music of widescreen proportions, with music made from Japanese monster movies, 1970s Afghan poetry and a table tennis match gone awry.

Verity Sharp leads us on an adventure in music of widescreen proportions, with sonic experiments from the Ugandan MC Swordman Kitala and UK-based electronic producer Soft-Bodied Humans who incorporate the sounds of historic Japanese monster movies. Plus there’s newly rediscovered music from 1970s Afghanistan by singer and poet Nashenas, not heard outside of Radio Kabul for over 40 years, as well as a wordless love song recorded in the suburbs of Lyon by French outfit Société Étrange.

Elsewhere in the show, Korean multi-instrumentalist and composer Park Jiha meditates on the shimmering textures of light, and we revisit the unusually hot Austrian summer of 2018 through the sounds of an outdoor table tennis match gone awry…

Produced by Gabriel Francis
A Reduced Listening production for ѿý Radio 3

2 hours

Last on

Fri 25 Feb 2022 23:00

Music Played

  • David Friend & Jerome Begin

    These patterns

    • Post-.
    • New Amsterdam Records.
  • Dunums

    Rhetorical Question To My Beloved's Sister

    • Where's My Eidi?.
    • Radio Khiyaban.
  • Dei Kjenslevare

    DzԲæ

    • Kjenslevarulv.
    • Motvind Records.
  • Khasi-Cymru Collective

    Ka Sit Tula

    • ‘Sai​-​thaiñ ki Sur.
    • Naxos World.
  • Iceboy Violet

    Urban Ambience

    • The Vanity Project.
    • 2 B Real.
  • Nyati Mayi & The Astral Synth Transmitters

    Jubilee

    • Jubilee.
    • Les Disques Bongo Joe.
  • DJ Travella

    Crazy Beat Music Umeme 2

    • Mr Mixondo.
    • Nyege Nyege Tapes.
  • Junior Y Su Equipo

    La Borrachita

    • Saturno 2000: La Rebajada De Los Sonideros 1962-1983.
    • Analog Africa.
  • Natasha Barratt

    Urban Melt in Park Palais Meran

    • Heterotopia.
    • Persistence Of Sound.
  • Gonora Sounds

    Kuna Mambo

    • Hard Times Never Kill.
    • Phantom Limb.
  • Soft-Bodied Humans & Swordman Kitala

    Bagan

    • Kaiju Kitala.
    • Phantom Limb.
  • S Balachander

    Raga Hindol

    • Raga Hindol.
    • Sadharani Music Works.
  • Vered Engelhard

    Dirty River

    • Mensajes del agua: Nuevos sonidos desde Perú Vol 1.
    • Buh Records.
  • Park Jiha

    Temporary Inertia

    • The Gleam.
    • Tak:Til.
  • Hinako Omori

    The Richest Garden In Your Memory

    • A Journey.
    • Houndstooth.
  • Okkyung Lee, Jérôme Noetinger & Nadia Ratsimandresy

    Two Duos

    • Two Duos.
    • Otoroku.
  • Yeah You

    Feet (She Is Not Listening)

    • Vhod.
    • Alter.
  • Nashenas

    I Am Happy Alone

    • Life Is a Heavy Burden: Ghazals & Poetry From Afghanistan.
    • Strut.
  • The International Nothing

    Just None of Those Things

    • Just None of Those Things.
    • Ftarri.
  • Rakhi Singh

    For Giri (Nüss)

    • Quarry.
    • Bedroom Community.
  • Société Etrange

    La Rue Principale de Grandrif

    • Chance.
    • Les Disques De Bongo Joe.
  • Debit

    7th Night

    • The Long Count.
    • Modern Love.
  • Raum

    Daughter

    • Daughter.
    • Yellow Electric.

Broadcast

  • Fri 25 Feb 2022 23:00

Is the synth the ultimate feminist instrument?

Five pioneering women and the technology they made their own...