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Corey Mwamba presents the best new jazz and improvised music with an adventurous spirit.

Freeness: to be exempt or released from something that controls, restrains or burdens. Corey Mwamba presents the best new jazz and improvised music with an adventurous spirit.

Freeness: Acoustic Ecologies

Acoustic Ecologies

BBC Radio 3 - Freeness, Acoustic Ecologies

Corey Mwamba presents improvised music inspired by nature.

Corey Mwamba presents improvisers who draw inspiration from nature to acoustically explore their environments and the climate crisis.

In a programme first broadcast in May, Corey Mwamba presents improvisers drawing inspiration from nature to acoustically explore their environments and the climate crisis. 

Instrumentalist, violinist and sound artist, Ruby Colley sent us a track from her new album Overheard.  Through field recordings, disembodied voicing and stringed instruments melding classical, folk and improvisational styles, she examines the relationship between humans and their environments through sound. A contemplative reflection on climate awareness through domestic and local life - using sounds from her back garden, to a train depot and a churchyard in a thunderstorm. 

Via bustling rhythms and an aerial expansiveness, Glass Canyon Ensemble take inspiration from scientific research on the colours, migratory patterns and songs of birds flying through Chicago. Their album, Collision Theory, compares the activities of birds and humans against the backdrop of the climate crisis. The collective features a range of avant-garde players including cellist Oli Harris, Ben LaMar Gay on flügelhorn and poet Satya who muses, ‘Six million citizens/Seven million winged migrations/Whose city is it?’ 

Elsewhere, a vintage recording from the Glasgow based Scatter Archive record label takes us back to 1994, where the late saxophonist Lol Coxhill and saxophonist Mark Browne filled a village hall in Wiltshire with sounds of freewheeling communion and joy.

Produced by Tej Adeleye 
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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