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Roger Eno's Listening Chair

Revered composer, collaborator and musician Roger Eno is in the Unclassified Listening Chair to select a track that transports him elsewhere.

Elizabeth Alker welcomes a giant of ambient music Roger Eno to the Unclassified Listening Chair, inviting him to select a track that transports him elsewhere. Since buying an upright piano with money he earned as a butcher’s boy, Roger has been a much revered and highly influential composer and musician, collaborating frequently and providing the soundtrack to numerous high profile films, TV shows and theatre productions over the decades. Endlessly curious, his most recent album Without Wind / Without Air is his most challenging and ambitious yet.

Elsewhere, Elizabeth offers a selection of fresh music from genre-defying artists including Manchester duo Space Afrika and visionary songwriter Julia Holter.

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Music Played

  • Roger Eno

    Getting the Picture

    • Without Wind, Without Air - Rarities.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Simon Goff

    Dream Sequence I

    • 01 Dream Sequence I.
  • Lawrence English

    One Line Sky

    • The Rest Is My Ghost.
  • Julia Holter

    Fantasy

    • Materia.
    • Domino.
  • Floating Points

    Her Gift

    • Mere Mortals.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Space Afrika

    If This Is Hell (feat. Deuén)

    • Quiet Storm.
    • Dais.
  • Abul Mogard

    Over the Domes

    • Where Light Pauses in the Silence of the Sun.
    • Black Knoll Editions.
  • Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe

    Afterlife

    • Liminal.
  • Thelonious Monk

    Caravan

    • Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington.
    • Riverside.
  • Daniel Avery

    Fluke - Atom Bomb

    • Fluke - Atom Bomb.
  • Fiona Soe Paing

    Lass O' The Lecht

    • Sand, Silt, Flint.

Broadcast

  • Yesterday23:30

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What is unclassified music?

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