Front Row - BBC radio 4 - Mon 9th Oct 2023 Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening’s new album, Cloud Horizons, fuses synthesizers with a bone flute, a sistrum – very old Egyptian instrument - and lyrics based on an inscription in Latin carved on a stone in Northumberland nearly 2 millennia ago. Kathryn talks to Samira about this ancient Northumbrian futurism and plays her smallpipes, live. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001r7qr first item \ starts @ ~1minute
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