麻豆社

Join Elizabeth Alker at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London鈥檚 South Bank for an evening of genre-defying musical collaboration featuring new commissions and arrangements performed by the 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra conducted by Robert Ames.

As Moor Mother, the poet-musician Camae Ayewa offers spellbinding lyrical forays into questions of freedom and justice. The Philadelphian鈥檚 latest album The Great Bailout is unflinching in its exploration of the continuing presence of colonial history: 鈥淭ax payers of erasure, of relapse, of amnesia, paying the crimes off鈥� Did you pay off the trauma?鈥� she intones on the track, Guilty, here performed with special guest vocalist Elaine Mitchener. For Unclassified Live, Ayewa's palette of electronic and ambient colours is augmented through new arrangements created for the 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra.

Modern Nature鈥檚 Jack Cooper is a musician of wide-ranging talent, at home in art rock settings or alongside experimental improvisers. His Triptych for Orchestra - here receiving its premiere performance - sees him turn his craft to the creation of a piece of longer-form symphonic music for large instrumental forces.

Bringing the concert home is Kate Stables, a banjo and guitar-strumming singer-songwriter whose playful brand of art pop shot-through with heartfelt lyricism finds its home in the project she calls This Is The Kit. Alongside long time collaborators Rozi Plain and Jamie Whitby-Coles, Stables here explores tracks from the project鈥檚 back catalogue in specially commissioned arrangements that add an orchestral depth to serve the words. 鈥淭he story is the telling鈥� Potential in the waiting鈥� Movement is deciding鈥� Forward is the doing鈥︹��

Produced by Phil Smith
A Reduced Listening production for 麻豆社 Radio 3