Unclassified Live: Hidden in the Margins
Immerse yourself in the eclectic sounds produced by a new generation of visionary music makers, brought to life by a full orchestra. Alker presents her pick of intriguing, exploratory music alongside interviews with her line-up of crossover artists.
Immerse yourself in the eclectic sounds produced by a new generation of visionary music makers, brought to life by a full orchestra. Alker presents her pick of intriguing, exploratory music alongside interviews with her line-up of crossover artists.
Grappling with questions of place is Daniel Elms’ debut album, Islandia, released in 2019, in which works for chamber orchestra, electric guitar and synthesisers take inspiration from his home city, Hull. Alker calls Elms’ complex, atmospheric music ‘intoxicatingly comforting.’
American musician Rafiq Bhatia joins the orchestra to perform new arrangements from his 2018 album Breaking English. A composer, guitarist, producer, and sound artist, Bhatia makes sculptural, meticulously crafted music that finds common ground among ecstatic avant-garde jazz, mournful soul, fractured beats and building-shaking electronics. “His music manages to marry the busyness and vibrancy of jazz and the sparseness and sparkle of electronic music,” Alker observes. “It’s a wild and wonderful mix of those influences and experiences.”
Open up your perspective through music that reveals the unfamiliar histories, and unsettling hidden corners, of the places we call home.
