Thom Yorke plays Suspiria at Maida Vale and airs an unheard piece

BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast Thom Yorke's Maida Vale session for Mary Anne Hobbs on Sunday 28 October. He played “Open Again”, “Suspirium” and “Unmade” from his Suspiria soundtrack, and talked to Hobbs on the same show. The BBC had already put the session's “Unmade” online on the Friday, Yorke alone at the piano until loops come in near the end.

The station also aired an hour-long Slow Sunday mix that Yorke chose, on the night the clocks went back. Third in it was “Suspiria Solo Glass Harmonica”, a piece he wrote for the film that is not on the album, heard there for the first time.

According to Rolling Stone Italia, Yorke told Hobbs he had spent a year avoiding Luca Guadagnino before the script changed his mind. The script was not what he expected. There was this melancholy which I was really surprised about. Not like a normal horror film at all.⁴

He found the work freeing because none of his own identity was in it. I'm whoever he wanted me to be at the moment, for whatever particular section of the film.⁴