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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Music: Jazz & Blues: Jazz

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: Matana Roberts

Matana Roberts

BBC Radio 3 - Freeness, Matana Roberts

Matana Roberts talks about their latest album, and how they 'listen' to history.

Matana Roberts talks about their latest album, and how they 'listen' to history, through sonic memory, somatic healing and paying attention to the cycles of the past.

Corey Mwamba presents the best in new improvised music. Matana Roberts joins the programme to share how they listen to history as a personal and artistic practice: “If people really listened, some of the things that we are currently experiencing wouldn't be happening. You can look at the rhythm of a moment in history and understand the layers that push things to a certain point. That’s how I listen to history."

Their newest release is Coin Coin Chapter Five: In The Garden…., an immersive world of poetic witnessing, interwoven folk songs, blues, and improvisation. It’s the latest addition of their Coin Coin project - a long song of America, refracted through prisms of familial stories, archival research and collective memories stored in sound. This chapter explores the story of a woman in their ancestral line who died following complications from an illegal abortion, through which they ask broader questions around reproductive justice and bodily autonomy today: “I’m trying to be in the chain link of artists who are trying to create work that is a testament to a lineage and a culture."

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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