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Jennifer Lucy Allan shares the sounds of our latest exclusive collaboration session, between virtuosic vocalist and movement artist Elaine Mitchener and space trumpeter Robyn Rocket.

Elaine Mitchener is a British Afro-Caribbean vocalist, movement artist and composer, working within the fields of new music, free improvisation and visual art. She was awarded an MBE for Services to Music in 2022 and is a veteran of vocal expression in the global Black Avant-Garde. She is a regular collaborator, working with composers and musicians, including Jennifer Walshe and Tansy Davies, Moor Mother, Pat Thomas and Saul Williams as well as visual artists Sonia Boyce and Christian Marclay. In 2024 she released her album Solo Throat on Otoroku label.

Robyn Rocket is a musician, visual artist, and collaborator. She hones her space trumpet sound through the use of guitar pedals, and has collaborated with the likes of Seb Rochford, Maggie Nicols, Alabaster dePlume, Charles Hayward and many more. Supported by arts organisation Heart n Soul who believe in the power and talents of people with learning disabilities and autistic people, Robyn runs regular nights at London鈥檚 Cafe Oto where artists with and without learning disabilities and autism come together to make spontaneous music.

Plus new releases galore, including unclassifiable sounds from a mostly forgotten late '80s duo unearthed by RVNG and an extract from Danish saxophonist John Tchicai's spiritual jazz epic Afrodisiaca, originally recorded on the day of the moon landing.

Produced by Cat Gough

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