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Verity Sharp embarks on an ear-opening journey into the far reaches of sound. On Traigh Eais beach in Barra, in the Outer Hebrides, we meet a man in free flow, spitballing a rhythmically-impassioned hymn in constructed language over the dunes and to a backdrop of gently-lapping tides. In New York, the former Late Junction session artist Saint Abdullah (brothers Mohammad and Mehdi Mehrabani-Yeganeh) offer up a new musical score for the powerful 2022 short film The Wound is Where the Light Enters, directed by Iranian filmmaker Somayeh. Plus, Verity selects a track from a special archival release from 1980s Rwanda. We hear calls for unity in a divided nation via a beautifully inventive stretching of traditional Rwandan praise song, enhanced by electronic wizardry, in an eerie presaging of the coming Rwandan Genocide. Produced by Cat Gough A Reduced Listening production for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3