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Cara Tolmie’s mixtape

Join Verity Sharp as we enjoy the sounds that shaped the musical universe of vocalist Cara Tolmie.

Verity Sharp presents an exclusive Late Junction mixtape from Cara Tolmie. Following on from her acclaimed 2025 release ‘Body Lapse’, a collaboration with Rian Treanor, Tolmie here explores her sonic roots and shares formative influences and firm favourites in the creation of vibrant musical collage.

A Glasgow-born, Sweden-based academic and improviser, Tolmie’s artistic aim is - as she puts it - to ‘complexify the bind between voice and body via mesmerising and uncanny vocalisations.’ This is achieved in her music through her own practice of ‘internal singing’, in which breath, movement, operatic phrases and sung fragments are used to explore the limits of vocalisation. Tolmie’s projects and performances dig into the uncanny power of voice distortion, effects created through both technological and corporeal means.

Elsewhere in the show: Ciro Vitiello looks through the eyes of a seagull; The Early delight in dense basement clattering; and Mohammad Reza Mortazavi conjures intricate, deft and swampy timbres on the Iranian tombak.

Produced by Alex Yates
A Reduced Listening production for Âé¶¹Éç Radio 3

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1 hour, 29 minutes

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  • Friday 22:00

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