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Late Junction: Welsh Horse Cults and Off-Kilter Cumbia

Welsh Horse Cults and Off-Kilter Cumbia

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Verity Sharp plays off-kilter Cumbia and harp music inspired by Welsh horse cults.

Verity Sharp with off-kilter Cumbia, harp music inspired by Welsh horse cults and an exclusive new work by Khyam Allami, an Opera North commission from BBC Culture in Quarantine.

On his latest album, Welsh harpist Rhodri Davies plays an ancient horsehair-strung harp called a telyn rawn, which he had custom made.  To understand how it would originally have been played, Davies studied techniques from ancient manuscripts, experimented with different ways of winding the horsehair strings and researched the importance of the horse and horse cults in Welsh culture. Verity Sharp selects a piece to play alongside a composition by the Japanese writer and composer Toru Takemitsu from 1967, also inspired by horses.

Elsewhere we play new material by Colombian wunderkind Eblis Alvarez, aka Meridian Brothers, whose new album features a Cumbia version of Dusty Springfield and we have an exclusive new work commissioned by Opera North for the BBC Arts 'Culture in Quarantine' programme.  They commissioned five musicians to compose a piece for a walk at a particular time of day.  We showcase a piece by the Iraqi composer Khyam Allami.
 
Produced by Alannah Chance.
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