Nonclassical Selects: Curated by Soosan Lolavar & Kelly Lovelady

This guest mix for Nonclassical explores sonorities that evoke the writing, recording and hearing of our new single, Soosan Lolavar’s Undone. Weaving together folk song traditions from across the world with explorations of microtonality reaching from Iranian music to Ben Johnston via Rebecca Saunders, this playlist is united by a sense of timelessness; a feeling that this music has existed for a very long time and will continue to resonate into the future.

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Soosan Lolavar x Ruthless Jabiru: Girl
Listen/preorder on Bandcamp

Limited Edition CD | £10.00
Compact Disc (CD) includes 8-page booklet with liner notes and photographs + Digital Album
Digital Album | £7.00
Streaming + download


Mixtape #054

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Soosan Lolavar x Ruthless Jabiru: Girl
Listen/preorder on Bandcamp

Limited Edition CD | £10.00
Compact Disc (CD) includes 8-page booklet with liner notes and photographs + Digital Album
Digital Album | £7.00
Streaming + download


Press Release: Ruthless Jabiru’s debut album now available for preorder

PRESS RELEASE
The long-awaited collaboration between composer Soosan Lolavar and conductor Kelly Lovelady, Girl, is now available for preorder and will release on Nonclassical on 15 March 2024.
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Girl unveils a unique soundworld derived from Lolavar’s British Iranian heritage and experience. The four pieces interweave her training across both western and Iranian classical musics without restriction or narrowing down by either tradition. In this way, Lolavar’s work is a truly diasporic creation—producing new creative forms from a life experience across multiple cultures. This approach strengthens her collaboration with Lovelady, with themes of dual belonging also central to Ruthless Jabiru: Lovelady’s ensemble of Australasian musicians in the UK, and its combined dedication to New Music and humanitarian stories.

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