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Radio 3,17 Oct 2025,89 mins

Ecka Mordecai and Tashi Dorji in session

Late Junction

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Verity Sharp presents the latest in our series of exclusive improvised collaborative sessions. This time round, the London-based cellist, harpist and egg flautist Ecka Mordecai meets avant-garde Bhutanese guitarist Tashi Dorji. Ecka Mordecai is a British artist based in London who works with a variety of instruments, objects and textures. Her soundworlds highlight the sensory qualities inherent in their construction, creating work that straddles the line between the traditional and the avant-garde, the recognisable and the unfamiliar. The musical qualities of creaking door hinges or attempts at recreating birdsong through instrumental means typify her sonic palette. Tashi Dorji's guitar style skewers traditions both East and West, a hybrid born of his upbringing in Bhutan and subsequent relocation to the United States. Tashi’s releases of solo guitar improvisations and his prolific output of collaborations have cemented his status as an idiosyncratic and technically-masterful musician both in live and studio settings. Alongside the fruits of this exciting new collaboration, Verity shares radical harp re-inventions from Bridget Ferrill, explorations of extreme fragility and strength on Zola Mennenöh’s ‘A Labour of Love’ and the melding of eerie metallic resonances, blood-curdling pizzicato echoes and knife-edge squeals on KAKUHAN & Adam Golebiewski’s ‘Repercussions’. Produced by Alex Yates A Reduced Listening production for ѿý Radio 3 To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask ѿý Sounds to play Late Junction”

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  3. 2.
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    VI (pt.1)
    Tashi Dorji & Ecka Rose Mordecai
  4. 3.
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    Nana para la luna
    Daphne X