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Shimmer States

Elizabeth Alker with a late-night journey through new music from today鈥檚 most exciting genre-defying artists.

Join Elizabeth Alker on a journey through landscapes of ambient and experimental sounds as she offers up a selection of fresh music from genre-defying artists. Expect to hear from emerging independent creators whose work plays with orchestral textures and classical form as well as the latest from a new generation of contemporary composers whose output is infused with the spirit of rock, pop and electronica.

Tonight Elizabeth has new tracks from Oliver Coates (who has a new album on its way following the success of his work on the Aftersun soundtrack), The London Electronic Orchestra, as well as Berlin-based guitarist and pianist Ben Lukas Boysen.

1 hour

Last on

Sun 20 Apr 2025 23:30

Music Played

  • Ben Lukas Boysen

    Fama

    • Erased Tapes.
  • GAISTER

    Sento

    • AD 93.
  • Kate Simko & London Electronic Orchestra

    Masquerade

  • Sam Lee & Avery Bright

    Lemeney

    • Oxygen Music.
  • Mark McKowski & Nick Power

    Throat

    • Deltasonic.
  • Hana Stretton

    Captain's Flat

    • Brierfield Flood Press.
  • Floating Points

    Afflecks Palace

    • Ninja Tune.
  • Keeley Forsyth

    Sing

    • 130701.
  • Oliver Coates

    Apparition (feat. Malibu)

    • RVNG Intl..
  • Fred Frith

    Jack's Neap Tide

    • Week-End Records.
  • Balmorhea

    Before Barbed Wire

    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Max Richter

    Movement, Before All Flowers

    • Decca Records.
  • Viktor Orri 脕rnason

    Darkness of The Night (feat. 脕lfhei冒ur Erla Gu冒mundsd贸ttir)

    • Deutsche Grammophon.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 6 Oct 2024 23:30
  • Sun 20 Apr 2025 23:30

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