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Late Junction: Them Bones

Them Bones

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Jennifer Lucy Allan unearths a selection of bone-based music

Jennifer Lucy Allan unearths musical skeletons from the closet with a selection of tracks made from, related to or inspired by bones, from traditional bone flutes to skull disco.

We’ve a bone to pick with you… Late Junction gets close to the bone in this episode, as Jennifer Lucy Allan unearths musical skeletons from the closet with a selection of tracks made from, related to or inspired by bones. Bones are said to be the second-oldest instrument in the world, after the human voice, and musical instruments made from bone have been discovered in excavations around the world. 

There’ll be plenty of pieces played with bones, from traditional Māori flutes and Irish rhythm bones (Ireland’s oldest percussive folk instrument) to the latest album from British producer Matthew Herbert which centres around sounds extracted from the various parts of a horse skeleton. There’s Soviet era sounds of bootlegged records pressed on x-rays, heavy electronics from Bristol label Skull Disco, and Trinidadian calypso about skeletons. 

Plus ambient spoken word from American poet Ellen Zweig reflecting on the beauty of collarbones, polyrhythmic spine-tingling electronics from Ugandan producer Authentically Plastic, and recordings from an MRI scanner reworked for the dancefloor. T’marrow’s sounds today!

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