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Prog rock ripples and Jane Weaver's Listening Chair

Elizabeth Alker with a prog-inspired late-night journey through new music from today’s most exciting genre-defying artists.

Elizabeth Alker journeys through new music from today’s most exciting genre-defying artists. This week - with a nod to the previous night's BBC Proms concert celebrating the pioneering sounds of British prog rock - Elizabeth offers up a selection of tracks by contemporary artists who have built on the musical legacy of acts like ELP, Gong and King Crimson, including London trio Vanishing Twin and Australia's King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.

Also, fresh from her performance at the Prog Rock: A Fanfare for the Common Man Prom, singer-songwriter Jane Weaver is in the Unclassified Listening Chair to share a classic track that transports her.

Produced by Jamie Green
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

    Flying Microtonal Banana

    • Flying Microtonal Banana.
    • Heavenly Recordings.

  • Jane Weaver

    Silver Chord

    • The Fallen By Watch Bird.
    • Fire Records.

  • Soft Machine

    The Soft Weed Factor

    • Six.
    • CBS Records.

  • Terry Riley

    A Rainbow in Curved Air

    • A Rainbow in Curved Air.
    • Columbia Masterworks.

  • Steve Hillage

    Solar Musik Suite

    • Fish Rising.

  • Harold Budd & Brian Eno

    Rossetti Noise / The Crystal Garden and a Coda

    • The Pavilion Of Dreams.
    • Obscure.

  • King Crimson

    I Talk To The Wind

    • In the Court of the Crimson King.

  • Vanishing Twin

    You Are Not an Island

    • The Age of Immunology.

  • John Cage

    Williams Mix

    • 25-Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of John Cage.
    • Columbia Records.

  • Pink Floyd

    Quicksilver

    • More.
    • Columbia.

  • The Mothers of Invention

    It Can't Happen Here

    • Freak Out!.

  • Temples

    Fragment's Light

    • Sun Structures.
    • Heavenly Recordings.

Broadcast

  • Sunday 23:30
    BBC Radio 3

What is unclassified music?

What is unclassified music?

Elizabeth Alker introduces five of her favourite 'unclassifiable' pieces of music.