BBC Radio 3’s eclectic late night music programme Late Junction will return to the Latitude Festival for the fifth time this summer to curate a stage in the festival’s 10th edition at Henham Park, bringing nine captivating contemporary acts to the Lavish Lounge stage in a new location in the woods.
With a wide cross-section of contemporary artists, whose influences range from 1970s horror films, ping pong balls and the Mojave Desert to contemporary Nordic jazz, traditional West African musical storytelling and groove-based psychedelic rock.
The hand-picked line-up will bring a wide range of diverse and cross-genre artists spanning jazz, contemporary and folk music to Latitude and Radio 3 listeners, including the intriguing sounds of multi-instrumentalist Marcus Hamblett, experimental quintet Polar Bear, the beautiful tones of Jesca Hoop and the Japanese performance artist, instrument builder and musician ICHI who creates sounds from every-day objects including tape loops and ping pong balls.
The stage on 17, 18 and 19 July will be presented by Radio 3 presenters Max Reinhardt and Nick Luscombe. Highlights recorded at the event will be featured in Late Junction broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 in the following week on 21, 22 and 23 July alongside interviews with the artists.
On Sunday 19 July, between 4pm and 6pm, Tom Ravenscroft will also celebrate the 10th birthday of this major music festival on BBC Radio 6 Music.
BBC Radio 3 will also record exclusive sessions and interviews for the programme with artists at the festival who aren’t appearing on the Late Junction stage, which will be filmed and available to view in perpetuity on the BBC Radio 3 website.
Friday’s line-up includes Zimbabwe-born and London-raised singer-songwriter Eska, who has worked with the likes of Matthew Herbert, Dave Okumu and Tony Allen, performing material from her eponymous recently released debut album. Seb Rochford, the drummer of Polar Bear, who also perform on Friday, spent six weeks in the Mojave desert mixing their most recent album, extracts of which they will explore with the Latitude audience.
Saturday: Monoswezi, who bring together the sounds of traditional music from Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Sweden and Norway, along with influences from jazz and American minimalism, will perform; as will Californian-born, Manchester-based singer-songwriter Jesca Hoop, whose quietly powerful voice has led her to collaborations with Iron & Wine, Willy Mason and Guy Garvey.
Closing the stage on Saturday night is Zun Zun Egui, the musical lovechild of Mauritian guitarist and singer Kushal Gaya and Japanese keyboard player Yoshino Shigihara. Their heady soundworld mixes up prog-rock, tropicalia, kosmische musik, funk, Afrobeat, and post-punk.
Mauritanian singer Noura Mint Seymali travels especially from West Africa to join the BBC Radio 3 Late Junction stage on Sunday. Born to a prominent line of griots (West African storytellers) in Mauritania she learnt how to play the nine-stringed ardine harp from her grandmother Mounina and began her stage career as a backing vocalist for her step-mother Dimi Mint Abba.
Her band incorporates these traditional influences into the world of groove-based psychedelic rock. BBC Radio 3 will also showcase the remarkable world of Marcus Hamblett, whose debut album Concrete hints at Faust and Tortoise with nods to Ennio Morricone and 1970s horror sound tracks. His live show involves modular synthesiser and guitar, as well as drummer and regular accomplice Thomas Heather.
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