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Everybody clap your hands

Jennifer Lucy Allan delves into the world of body percussion with music made by clapping. Tracks from Tuareg musician Idassane Wallet Mohamed and minimalist composer Steve Reich.

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man. Ringing out across school playgrounds for decades, this nursery rhyme has been accompanied by the sound of many peoples first musical instrument, the clapping of hands! Jennifer Lucy Allan delves into this world of body percussion with a traditional chant from the Selk'nam people of Patagonia, music from Tuareg musician Idassane Wallet Mohamed and minimalist composer Steve Reich’s 1972 piece Clapping Music, written for two performers and performed entirely by clapping.

Produced by Gabriel Francis
A Reduced Listening production for Â鶹Éç Radio 3

2 hours

Last on

Fri 7 Oct 2022 23:00

Music Played

  • McIntosh County Shouters

    I Come to Tell You

    • Spirituals & Shout Songs From The Georgia Coast.
    • Smithsonian Folkways.
  • Lola Kiepja

    Clapping and Clicking

    • Selk'nam Chants of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, Vol. 2.
    • Ethnic Folkways Library.
  • Joe

    Claptrap

    • Claptrap.
    • Hessle Audio.
  • Andy Moore

    Perseverance

    • Clap. An Anatomy of Applause.
    • Unsound.
  • Shane Aspegren, Nicolas Laureau, Jérôme Lorichon & Quentin Rollet

    Cow Face Posturing

    • Scaring the mice for revenge.
    • Prohibited Records.
  • Luca Yupanqui

    V2.2 (Suzanne Ciani remix)

    • Conversations.
    • Sacred Bones Records.
  • Jockstrap

    Neon

    • I Love You Jennifer B.
    • Rough Trade.
  • ¸é°¿³§´¡³¢Ã´¡

    µþ³Ü±ô±ð°ùí²¹²õ

    • Motomami.
    • Columbia.
  • Miguel Poveda

    De Buen Aire

    • Suena Flamenco.
    • Harmonia Mundi France.
  • The Bug

    Absent Riddim Version

    • Absent Riddim.
    • Pressure.
  • Idassane Wallet Mohamed

    Amarhine

    • Issawat.
    • Sahel Sounds.
  • Carlos Niño & Photay

    C U R R E N T

    • An Offering.
  • Maleem Mahmoud Ghania & Pharoah Sanders

    Moussa Berkiyo​/​Koubaliy Beriah La' Foh

    • The Trance Of Seven Colors.
    • Zehra.
  • Senyawa, Lawrence English, Aviva Endean, Peter Knight, Helen Svoboda & Joe Talia

    Mangsa dan Penguasa (The Prey and The Rulers)

    • The Prey And The Ruler.
    • Room 40.
  • Lumidee

    Never Leave You (Uh Ooooh)

    • Never Leave You (Uh-Oooh).
    • Straight Face Records.
  • Lavina Yelb

    Esto hágase

    • Otra Vez Otra.
    • Transamericas.
  • Robbie Basho

    Lightning Thunder

    • Bouquet.
    • Basho Productions.
  • Matters

    Hannah

    • Hannah.
    • Static Caravan Records.
  • Jali Bakary Konteh & Marisa Anderson

    Session Track

    • Late Junction Collaboration Session.
  • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Qawwal & Party

    Dhyahar-Eh-Ishq Meh

    • Shahbaaz.
    • Real World Records.
  • clipping. & Cheryl E. Leonard

    Part Of Dust

    • REMXNG 2​.​1.
    • Sub Pop.
  • Yasuaki Shimizu

    Crow

    • Polyphonic Cosmos: Sonic Innovations In Japan (1980-1986) - Compiled By JD Twitc.
    • Cease And Desist.
  • Steve Reich

    Clapping

    Performer: Steve Reich. Performer: Russell Hartenberger.
    • Early Works.
    • Elektra Nonesuch.
  • Prince Jammy

    Synchro Start

    • Computerised Dub.
    • Greensleeves Records.

Broadcast

  • Fri 7 Oct 2022 23:00

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