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Bringing home Radio 3's International Women's Day celebrations, Verity Sharp presents the fruits of our latest exclusive collaboration session, improvised in a studio over the course of just a few hours. The Late Junction sessions are a chance for two artists who have never worked together before to create new spontaneous music with each other. For this episode, we invited Mongolian vocalist Enji to work with French violinist Agathe Max.

Ulaanbaatar-born and Munich-based singer and songwriter Enkhjargal Erkhembayar, known as Enji, blends smooth jazz textures with traditional Mongolian music. A vocalist, bandleader and storyteller, Enji was raised instilled with a love for folk and 鈥渦rtiin duu鈥�, a form of long song she learned from her father鈥檚 side of the family in the countryside. Her latest album Ulaan is a musical exploration of 鈥減ersonal stories and unbearable distances鈥�, and takes its title from her family鈥檚 childhood nickname for her.

Agathe Max is a violinist, viola player and composer, originally from Lyon in France, and now a well-established part of London鈥檚 improvising and experimental music scenes. Trained in classical music and electroacoustic composition, Agathe creates soundscapes with her instruments incorporating effects, loops and field recordings. Her latest work SHADOWW is a meditation on shadow work, a practice of psychological therapy which aims to make open what is hidden in the unconscious. She's a keen collaborator, working with the likes of Valentina Magaletti, Natalia Beylis and Charles Hayward, with improvisation being her favourite form of creation: 鈥淚t鈥檚 a very special dialogue, you never know in advance where it is going to take you!鈥�

Elsewhere, Verity plays a whole host of exciting new releases, including lava-inspired drones from Melbourne trio Panghalina, obsessive avant-garde spoken word from Montreal-based Swedish vocalist and composer Erika Angell, and thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird from Cork multi-instrumentalist Roslyn Steer.

Produced by Kit Callin
A Reduced Listening production for 麻豆社 Radio 3