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Listen to rhythmic music, whether for percussion, string quartet or vocal duet for this New Sounds. Hear works from percussionist Ian David Rosenbaum, Kelly Moran, and the Jasper String Quartet, and a vocal duet from Meredith Monk and Robert Een. From the recent record, Unbound, by the Jasper String Quartet, hear a non-stop motoring work by Judd Greenstein, “Four on the Floor.” Usually the term applies to thumping dance-club bangers, but in this work, pairs of instruments work “with and against each other, until they settle their differences and combine into a shared groove,” according to the composer.
Hear music with rhythmic intensity, for prepared piano, with and without electronics from Kelly Moran, and her record, Bloodroot, which is where minimalism and black metal collide. Then, listen to music from Hauschka, who layers player piano with prepared piano. Also, listen to Inuit-style breathing games from Meredith Monk and cellist/vocalist Robert Een, from her long-form work, "Facing North," inspired by the Canadian wilderness.
Then, listen to increasingly tricky and complex rhythms in a work by David Crowell for percussionist Ian David Rosenbaum. Plus, hear a work –"Redwood"- involving saxophone and interlocking guitar parts from Empyrean Atlas, the band of composer/multi-instrumentalist David Crowell. And more.
PROGRAM #3960, We've Got Rhythms (First Aired: 3/15/2017)
ARTIST: Ian David Rosenbaum
WORK: David Crowell: Celestial Sphere, excerpt [1:00]
RECORDING: Memory Palace
SOURCE: Vision Into Art
INFO: naxosdirect.comARTIST: Jasper String Quartet
WORK: Judd Greenstein: Four on the Floor [10:45]
RECORDING: Unbound
SOURCE: Sono Luminus/New Amsterdam
INFO: jasperstringquartet.bandcamp.comARTIST: Kelly Moran
WORK: Celandine [3:06]
RECORDING: Bloodroot
SOURCE: Telegraph Harp TH 011
INFO: kellymoran.bandcamp.comARTIST: Hauschka
WORK: Constant Growth Fails [4:08]
RECORDING: What If
SOURCE: Temporary Residence Records
INFO: hauschka.bandcamp.comARTIST: Christian Frederickson, Jason Noble, Ryan Rumery
WORK: To Be One Of Them [1:00]
RECORDING: The Painted Bird: Amidst
SOURCE/INFO: christianfrederickson.bandcamp.comARTIST: Ian David Rosenbaum
WORK: David Crowell: Celestial Sphere [9:50]
RECORDING: Memory Palace
SOURCE: Vision Into Art
INFO: naxosdirect.comARTIST: Empyrean Atlas
WORK: Redwood [5:11]
RECORDING: Empyrean Atlas
SOURCE/INFO: empyreanatlas.bandcamp.comARTIST: Christian Frederickson, Jason Noble, Ryan Rumery
WORK: To Be One Of Them [1:00]
RECORDING: The Painted Bird: Amidst
SOURCE/INFO: christianfrederickson.bandcamp.comARTIST: Bang on a Can All-Stars
WORK: Michael Gordon: Gene Takes a Drink [5:57]
RECORDING: Field Recordings
SOURCE: Cantaloupe Music
INFO: bangonacan.orgARTIST: Meredith Monk & Robert Een
WORK: Keeping Warm & Arctic Bar [8:45]
RECORDING: Facing North
SOURCE: ECM #1482
INFO: ecmrecords.com -
Hear prog-marching band music from Chicago's Mucca Pazza, ambient-gothic Norwegian-Icelandic music from the duo Jo Berger Myhre & Ólafur Björn Ólafsson, jazz-tronic ambient minimalism from London's Portico Quartet, and new work from Danish experimental supergroup Girls in Airports. Also, hear new music by Molly Joyce for cellist Nick Photinos, new work from Kaki King & the Porta Girevole Chamber Orchestra, and more.
Hear ambient-gothic music from Norwegian bassist Jo Berger Myhre and Icelandic drummer Ólafur Björn Ólafsson in their composed work, “1000%,” which was recorded in an abandoned Reykjavik warehouse. Also, listen to driving indie jazz from the Danish experimental ensemble, Girls in Airport, recorded live in Germany. Plus, hear a sample from Brooklyn's own Afrobeat big band, Antibalas.
There’s a new release from Chicago’s “interdisciplinary instrumental music and performance ensemble” – or circus-spectacle alt marching band, Mucca Pazza. It’s a bit proggy (Yes, Weather Report, Rush) and perhaps hard to march to, but “[t]he band spent eight years practicing counting to seven before they were ready to record this piece.” There’s also a new work by Terry Riley for Del Sol String Quartet, “Dark Queen Mantra,” featuring guitarist Gyan Riley. Plus listen to music by Kaki King - arranged for guitar and orchestra from her forthcoming Live At Berklee release.
Listen to music from Eighth Blackbird founding cellist Nick Photinos; it’s a work by Molly Joyce, originally for for baroque cello and pre-recorded electronics, called “Sit and Dance.” Also, there’s music from London-based composer & producer Leah Kardos, which was made using analogue instruments and technologies, from her record, Rococochet.
August & September 2017 New Releases (Special Podcast)
(Similar to Show #4018, airdate: 8/31/2017)ARTIST: Jo Berger Myhre & Ólafur Björn Ólafsson
WORK: 1000%, excerpt [1:00]
RECORDING: The Third Script
SOURCE: Hubro Music
INFO: hubromusic.comARTIST: Mucca Pazza
WORK: Andy Deitrich: Barbarous Relic [3:30]
RECORDING: Barbarous Relic
SOURCE/INFO: store.muccapazza.comARTIST: Leah Kardos
WORK: Malio Malio [2:35]
RECORDING: Rococochet
SOURCE: Bigo & Twigetti
INFO: bigoandtwigetti.bandcamp.comARTIST: Portico Quartet
WORK: Current History [6:07]
RECORDING: Art In The Age Of Automation
SOURCE: Gondwana Records
INFO: porticoquartet.bandcamp.comARTIST: Antibalas
WORK: Gold Rush, excerpt [1:30]
RECORDING: Live on Soundcheck, 9/15/17
SOURCE: This tune appears on Where the Gods are in Peace
INFO: antibalas.bandcamp.comARTIST: Jo Berger Myhre & Ólafur Björn Ólafsson
WORK: 1000% [6:42]
RECORDING: The Third Script
SOURCE: Hubro Music
INFO: hubromusic.comARTIST: Girls in Airports
WORK: King's Birthday [3:28]
RECORDING: Live
SOURCE: Edition Records EDN1097
INFO: girlsinairports.bandcamp.comARTIST: Nick Photinos
WORK: Molly Joyce: Sit and Dance [6:34]
RECORDING: Petits Artefacts
SOURCE: New Amsterdam Records
INFO: newamsterdamrecords.bandcamp.comARTIST: Del Sol String Quartet, Gyan Riley
WORK: Terry Riley: III. Dark Queen Mantra [11:49]
RECORDING: Dark Queen Mantra
SOURCE: Sono Luminus 92215
INFO: delsolquartet.comARTIST: Kaki King, Porta Girevole Chamber Orchestra, Gabriela Sofia Gomez Estevez, student conductor
WORK: Magazine [5:30]
RECORDING: Live At Berklee
SOURCE: BIRN Cooperative Recordings
INFO: smarturl.it/KakiKingLive -
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Hear music that begins with classical instruments, like the string quartet, piano, or an orchestra, but which is then augmented, enhanced by electronics, percussion, or preparation. Listen to works by English violinist, pianist, and composer Poppy Ackroyd, Netherlands-based composer Peter Adriaansz, and cinematic music from the augmented string quartet amiina.
The versatile Dutch pianist Saskia Lankhoorn plays a specially-prepared piano over a bed of droning sine tones in a work by Seattle-born, Netherlands-based Peter Adriaansz, “Attachments III.” Then, hear music by the Icelandic outfit, amiina, which was once the touring string quartet with Sigur Ros, and has now expanded to include percussion & electronics. From amiina, hear selections from their standalone original live score to the 1913 film Fantômas, that lord of terror, creator of fear, and genius of evil who initially came to live in the crime fictions of French writers.
Then, listen to "Rave," music for piano and pre-recorded electronics by Molly Joyce for longtime friend and collaborator, pianist Vicky Chow from her record, Aorta. Also, hear music for percussion and electronics by John Luther Adams, featuring Glenn Kotche, from the long-form work, Ilimaq. Plus, listen to grand music for amplified orchestra by English composer Andrew Poppy from a record released on ZTT Records in the mid-eighties.
PROGRAM #3927, classical instruments, contemporary sounds (First Aired 12-8-2016)
ARTIST: Andrew Poppy
WORK: 32 Frames for Amplified Orchestra, excerpt [1:00]
RECORDING: The Artefact Series
SOURCE: ZTT Records 186
INFO: ztt.comARTIST: Saskia Lankhoorn, piano
WORK: Peter Adriaansz: Attachments III [7:52]
RECORDING: Enclosures
SOURCE: Ergodos ER 25
INFO: ergodos.ieARTIST: Poppy Ackroyd
WORK: Birdwoman [5:36]
RECORDING: Feathers
SOURCE: Denovali Records
INFO: denovali.comARTIST: George Hurd Ensemble
WORK: Tethering Bird, excerpt [:38]
RECORDING: Navigation Without Numbers
SOURCE: Innova 937
INFO: innova.muARTIST: Amiina
WORK: Guðmundur Vignir Karlsson: Crocodile [5:39]
RECORDING: Fantômas
SOURCE/INFO: amiina.comARTIST: Andrew Poppy
WORK: 32 Frames for Amplified Orchestra [8:39]
RECORDING: The Artefact Series
SOURCE: ZTT Records 186
INFO: ztt.comARTIST: Amiina
WORK: Solrun Sumarlidadottir: Café [3:25]
RECORDING: Fantômas
SOURCE/INFO: amiina.comARTIST: Restroy
WORK: Skin, excerpt [:46]
RECORDING: Saturn Return
SOURCE: Milk Factory Productions
INFO: milkfactoryproductions.bandcamp.comARTIST: Vicky Chow
WORK: Molly Joyce: Rave [11:17]
RECORDING: Aorta
SOURCE: NWAM083
INFO: newamrecords.comARTIST: John Luther Adams & Glenn Kotche
WORK: John Luther Adams: Ilimaq , Ascension [3:06]
RECORDING: Ilimaq
SOURCE: Cantaloupe Music 21112
INFO: johnlutheradams.bandcamp.com -
Guitarist and educator Shane Parish is a sonic adventurer, perhaps best known as the mastermind behind the Asheville, North Carolina-based avant instrumental jazz-mathpunk band Ahleuchatistas, formerly a quartet, now a duo. Besides the jazz and mathrock, their musical stew also includes elements Chinese folk music, minimalism, and lots of other stuff.
But Parish has just released a solo record of “weird old Americana” entitled Undertaker, Please Drive Slow on John Zorn's Tzadik label, recorded in an old cabin in the woods. He joins John live in the studio to perform some of them on acoustic guitar.
Parish has taken these old timey songs, and “abstracted them in utterly fascinating ways, evoking the haunting and brooding world of the American South” writes John Zorn. Comparisons wouldn’t be out of place to American Primitive guitarists like John Fahey or Robbie Basho, but in the spaces that Parish creates, one might also think of Morton Feldman. In Parish’s ever-evolving reworkings of these folky blues tunes, the songs straddle keys; he’s not content to remain firmly in one or the other. Then, on a song like Geeshie Wiley’s “The Last Kind Words,” Parish takes the vocal melody and makes it more abstract, turning it into a prepared guitar percussion piece in a John Cage way, via paper clips and a slide.
Shane Parish's prepared guitar(John Schaefer/WNYC)PROGRAM #3928, With Shane Parish (First Aired 12-12-2016)
ARTIST: Ahleuchatistas
WORK: Requiem for the Sea [6:46]
RECORDING: Heads Full of Poison
SOURCE: Cuneiform Records
INFO: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/heads-full-of-poison-3ARTIST: Shane Parish
WORK: Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground (Blind Willie Johnson) [4:29]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC Studio, Dec. 2016
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: Appears on Undertaker, Please Drive Slow, out now on Tzadik Records 4016ARTIST: Shane Parish
WORK: Oh Death [3:45]
RECORDING: Undertaker, Please Drive Slow
SOURCE: Tzadik Records 4016
INFO: tzadik.comARTIST: Shane Parish
WORK: The Maid Freed From the Gallows [7:04], The Last Kind Words (Geeshie Wiley) [5:25]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC Studio, Dec. 2016
SOURCE: his performance not commercially available.
INFO: Appears on Undertaker, Please Drive Slow, out now on Tzadik Records 4016ARTIST: Tim Sparks
WORK: I’ll Fly Away [5:37]
RECORDING: Chasin’ the Boogie
SOURCE: Tonewood
INFO: cdbaby.com -
“Indian music does not stop and start with Ravi Shankar.” So says tabla master Zakir Hussain, who, along with young sitar virtuoso, Niladri Kumar, joins John in the studio for a live performance.
Zakir Hussain, son of Ustad Alla Rahka, isn’t just a genius Indian tabla player and composer, as well as a virtuoso improviser - he is, bar none, one of the world’s great percussionists working in many genres. Zakir is a global citizen open to all kinds of collaborations, playing with everyone from George Harrison to the Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, from John McLaughlin's Shakti and Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Project; he’s laid down beats for Scottish fiddlers Charlie McKerron (Capercaillie) and Patsy Reid (formerly of Breabach), and performed and recorded with scores of Indian classical musicians. Then, there was the recording by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin of a triple concerto featuring fellow soloists Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer, along with Zakir Hussain’s own showcases of otherworldly drum wizards, the Masters of Percussion.
Now, Niladri Kumar, who made his first public performance at the age of 6, comes from a long line of sitar players -which goes some five generations back; his father was Pandit Kartik Kumar. Niladri also did recording sessions for Hindi films from a very young age, and happens to be in a band called Sitar Funk, a global fusion of Hindi film music, Indian classical, and Western music. He’s even gone electric, creating an invention called the Zitar, a combination of sitar and guitar. It has fewer strings (5 instead of 20) with an electric pickup inside, so that Niladri can get a rock guitar sound out of it. OH – and he plays chords on the sitar. Niladri Kumar has been part of the Masters of Percussion tour, and this is his second duo tour with Zakir Hussain.
Niladri Kumar and Zakir Hussain perform a radio-friendly (short) Raga Charukeshi, for Rupak Tal (a seven beat rhythmic cycle) and Raga Bhairavi in Teental (16 beats.)
Not to gush, but Zakir Hussain can communicate in so many languages – Persian, Gujarati, German, English- that it’s no wonder that he is also versed in many musical languages – like being able to speak jazz or Afro-Cuban rhythms, Nigerian talking drums, or Indonesian gamelan. To him, improvising is like speaking that language. (Perhaps for percussion nerds,) Zakir also treats us to a spoken drum conversation, or “reciting the Bols” – the syllables that correspond to the strokes of the tabla- like “Dha ti ra ki ta” and “na ga dhin na dhin na gin na.”
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South African guitarist Guy Buttery visits the studio to perform music from his latest self-titled record. Hear virtuosic feats of bending, tapping, picking, harmonics, and other techniques and textures yet to be named for guitar. Dig into his latest record on which he has collaborated with South African musicians Vusi Mahlasela, kora-to-guitar wizard Derek Gripper, and blues guitarist Dan Patlansky, along with a piece for sarangi and mbira – “From Srinagar.”
More pictures from the session here: Facebook.com/newsounds
Guy Buttery plays a custom-made Casimi guitar, a “piano that fits in a guitar case,” made of very dense & heavy African blackwood, and sporting double carbon-fiber truss rods to handle the bending of the neck.
Plus, music from the late Malian guitarist and griot Tiécoro Sissoko, who played for many years as a sideman with Toumani Diabate in Bamako. Listen to the title track from his only recording, “Keme Borama.”
PROGRAM #3893, With Guy Buttery (First Aired 8-30-2016)
ARTIST: Guy Buttery with Piers Faccini
WORK: The Upper Reaches [5:09]
RECORDING: Guy Buttery
SOURCE/INFO: guybuttery.bandcamp.comARTIST: Guy Buttery
WORK: A Piece for Rudolf Fritsch [5:20]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC 8/25/16
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: A version with William Ackerman is available at guybuttery.bandcamp.comARTIST: Guy Buttery
WORK: From Srinagar [3:32], To Goulimine [feat. Dan Patlansky] [03:05]
RECORDING: Guy Buttery
SOURCE/INFO: guybuttery.bandcamp.comARTIST: Guy Buttery
WORK: Verbosity [4:00]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC 8/25/16
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: The studio version is available at guybuttery.bandcamp.comARTIST: Guy Buttery
WORK: Two Chords & The Truth [feat. Derek Gripper] [3:40]
RECORDING: Guy Buttery
SOURCE/INFO: guybuttery.bandcamp.comARTIST: Guy Buttery
WORK: Werner Meets Egberto in Manaus [5:17]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC 8/25/16
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: A version featuring Vusi Mahlasela is available at guybuttery.bandcamp.comARTIST: Tiécoro Sissoko
WORK: Keme Borama [4:38]
RECORDING: Keme Borama
SOURCE: KSK Records CD 013
INFO: kskrecords.bandcamp.com -
This episode continues the series exploring the new music of Ireland. John Schaefer sits down with Jonathan Nangle at the Contemporary Music Centre in Dublin. Nangle tells how Donnacha Dennehy influenced him to explore more experimental music, and then shares how electronics and silence factor into his compositions. Listen to how Nangle uses electronics to subtly augment conventional instrumentation on "Where distant city lights flicker on half-frozen ponds". Hear Nangle explain how his piece "Then Falls by Shadow" takes the inspiration of Irish weather to combine shuffle mode with a choral performance. Later in the hour, John Schaefer talks to David Bremner about his own compositions and playing the pipe organ at Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin. Hear Bremner's piercing organ compositions "Variations upon 'the usual reason'" and "Amhrán na Leabhar."
PROGRAM #3715 New Music from Ireland: Part 3 (First aired on 4/17/2015)
ARTIST(S)
RECORDING
CUT(S)
SOURCE
Kate Ellis
Jump
Donnacha Dennehy: Aisling Gheal [2:09]
Diatribe Records
Jonathan Nangle
Self-released
DIY Aeolian Harp [:39]
Soundcloud
Jonathan Nangle
new music::new Ireland 2
Where distant city lights flicker on half-frozen ponds [excerpt 1] [2:14]
CMC Ireland
Jonathan Nangle
new music::new Ireland 2
Where distant city lights flicker on half-frozen ponds [excerpt 2] [4:47]
See Above
Ergodos Musicians
I Call To You
Jonathan Nangle: Ich ruf' zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ [2:22]
Ergodos Records
Jonathan Nangle
Commissioned for Dublin SoundLab
untitled (after Dan Flavin) [1:42]
Soundcloud
Jonathan Nangle
Commisioned by David Bremner and Elizabeth Hilliard
Then Falls thy Shadow [:51]
Soundcloud
Jonathan Nangle
Contermporaty Music from Ireland, Volume Nine
Our headlights blew softly into the black illuminating very little [5:21]
CMC Ireland – CMC CD09
Contemporary Music Centre
Jonathan Nangle & David Bremner
Ergodos 2009 'Off-Grid' Festival
Untitled improvisation [1:25]
Soundcloud
David Bremner
Contemporary Music from Ireland, Volume 2
Variations upon ‘the usual reason’ [4:40]
CMC Ireland
David Bremner
L’Air Du Temps
Amhrán na Leabhar [2:49]
Soundcloud
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Hear music by Australian-born, London-based electroacoustic musician & sound artist Leah Kardos along with music by Irish woodwind player and composer Seán Mac Erlaine, as well as other electroacoustic music on this New Sounds. Listen to several works by Kardos from a sampler released in 2014, including her work, “Butterfly Kite,”written for easy piano + delay/verb effects. Then hear improvised woodwind and electronic sounds from a series of live recordings by the Dublin musician, Seán Mac Erlaine. From his, “A Slender Song,” hear music for clarinets of all sorts and sizes, manipulated by electronics.
Then, hear music from a dance score by London-based composer Jon Opstad, who also did the music for the provocative British episodic series, “Black Mirror.” Listen to music from cellist Julia Kent with loops and delays from the recent record, “Character.” German theremin player Carolina Eyck improvises on the low end together with pianist Christopher Tarnow. Then,hear music from NY-based singer GABI, who layers and processes her voice a la Juliana Barwick. (Caution: her work, "Where," might remind you of “The Rains of Castamere.”)
PROGRAM #3706–Various Forms of Electro-acoustic Music (First aired on 03/24/2015)
ARTIST(S)
RECORDING
CUT(S)
SOURCE
Carolina Eyck & Christopher Tarnow
Improvisations for Theremin and Piano
Haunted Ballerina, excerpt [1:00]
Butterscotch Records
butterscotchrecords.netLeah Kardos
Spring 2014 Sampler
Butterfly Kite [3:15]
bigoandtwigetti.bandcamp.com
Jon Opstad
Ignis
Ignis, Part III [2:55]
Ignis, part IV [5:51]jonopstad.bandcamp.com OR soundcloud OR Emusic.com
Seán Mac ErlaineA Slender Song
All sung a Slender Song [3:29]
ergodos.ie
Leah Kardos
Spring 2014 Sampler
Preen [3:19]
See above.
GABI
Sympathy
Where [3:43]
gabi-ny.bandcamp.com
Due out April 7, 2015Carolina Eyck & Christopher Tarnow
Improvisations for Theremin and Piano
Haunted Ballerina [5:58]
Butterscotch Records
butterscotchrecords.netLeah Kardos
Spring 2014 Sampler
Memory Machine [3:01]
See above.
Bing & Ruth
Tomorrow was the Golden Age
The Towns We Love Is Our Town [6:34]
RVNGNL27
igetrvng.comJulia Kent
Character
Transportation [4:39]
Leaf Music BAY 80
theleaflabel.comSeán Mac Erlaine
A Slender Song
Sheehy [3:52]
See above.
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Composer, keyboardist and bandleader, Missy Mazzoli, joins John Schaefer to introduce selections from her new recording, “Vespers for a New Dark Age.” The work, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the 2014 Ecstatic Music Festival, is a 30-minute suite for singers, chamber ensemble and electronics, and is built around text, both spiritual and worldly, by contemporary poet Matthew Zapruder. Mazzoli wrote for the very specific voices of sopranos Martha Cluver, Melissa Hughes and alto Virginia Warnken Kelsey, who all have a lot of experience with contemporary music but also early and Baroque music. Her ensemble Victoire provides dramatic settings while drummer Glenn Kotche (perhaps best known for his work in Wilco) propels the work percussively. Plus, hear selections from Phil Kline’s millennial mass “John the Revelator,” written for the early/new music vocal group Lionheart and the quartet ETHEL.
PROGRAM #3709 with Missy Mazzoli (First aired on 3/30/2015)
ARTIST(S)
RECORDING
CUT(S)
SOURCE
DURATION
Roomful of Teeth
Render
Missy Mazzoli: Vesper Sparrow, excerpt
Due out April 28, 2015
New Amsterdam Records - #NWAM 065
newamrecords.com1:00
Missy Mazzoli & Victoire
Vespers for a New Dark Age
I. Wayward Free Radical Dreams
New Amsterdam Records - #NWAM 062
newamrecords.com5:09
Missy Mazzoli & Victoire, feat. Martha Cluver & Glenn Kotche
Vespers for a New Dark Age
II. Hello Lord
See above.
2:27
Missy Mazzoli & Victoire, feat. Melissa Hughes, Virginia Warnken Kelsey, Martha Cluver & Glenn Kotche
Vespers for a New Dark Age
IV. Come On All You
See above.
5:35
Missy Mazzoli & Victoire
Vespers for a New Dark Age
V. New Dark Age
See above.
2:40
Missy Mazzoli & Victoire
Vespers for a New Dark Age
VII. Machine
See above.
4:47
Missy Mazzoli & Victoire
Vespers for a New Dark Age
VIII. Postlude
See above.
4:35
Phil Kline (performed by Lionheart & ETHEL)
John the Revelator
The Man Who Knows Misery
Cantaloupe 21047 cantaloupemusic.com
2:44
Phil Kline (performed by Lionheart & ETHEL) ETHEL
John the Revelator
Dark Was the Night
See above.
5:50
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Listen to works that include gamelan, but take a more western approach for this New Sounds - like combining Celtic traditional music and Indonesian gamelan in music from Gamelan Son of Lion and composer/sax player and bagpiper Matthew Welch. In the music of Barbara Benary, the co-founder and guiding spirit of Gamelan Son of Lion, there is a juxtaposition of Cape Breton Celtic singing, gamelan and Benary herself on violin. Also, hear the Celtic-Balinese tapestry of Matthew Welch’s chamber rock hybrid Blarvuster with its Scottish bagpipes, Balinese gamelan, and Welch’s vocalizing in Indonesian. Plus, Lou Harrison’s "Threnody for Carlos Chavez," written for viola and gamelan ensemble, and music from NYC-based Patrick Grant, who serves his post-minimalism with a twist of Rock and Balinese gamelan. That, and more.
PROGRAM #3691 Gamelan Plus (First aired on 2/3/2015)
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RECORDING
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SOURCE
Gamelan Son of Lion
Sonogram
John Morton: She (really) Had To Go [9:23]
Innova 718
innova.muPatrick Grant
Patrick Grant
Fields Amaze [8:35]
Available at cdbaby.com
Gamelan Son of Lion
Sonogram
Barbara Benary: Jigalullaby [8:23]
Innova 718
innova.muMatthew Welch & Blarvuster
Blarvuster
Canntaireachd Masolah I [6:23]
Tzadik 8077
tzadik.comLou Harrison
Drums Along The Pacific
Threnody for Carlos Chavez [8:00]
New Albion #122
Out of print, but available as a download via AmazonBill Alves
(performed by Susan Jensen, violin; The HMC American Gamelan)Mystic Canyon
Mystic Canyon for Violin and Gamelan [5:20]
MicroFest Records
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Hear unusual music for string quartet on this program, as Australian composer Andrew Byrne, now based in New York, uses the string quartet as a percussion instrument in his work called “Striking.” Then, listen to Bang on a Can All-Star saxman, clarinetist and composer Ken Thomson’s work for the JACK Quartet, “THAW.” There’s also folk-informed music from the singer, songwriter and composer Aoife O Donovan as played by Brooklyn Rider. Hear string quartet music by multi-instrumentalist composer Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, who plays a traditional Vietnamese string instrument on “Green River Delta,” in collaboration with Kronos Quartet. Plus, hear a work from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams that uses the string quartet as an ambient music ensemble, relying upon harmonics and on tones played on open strings. That, and more.
PROGRAM #3686 Music for String Quartet (First aired on 1/21/2015)
ARTIST(S)
RECORDING
CUT(S)
SOURCE
Ken Thomson (JACK quartet)
THAW
Thaw, excerpt [1:41]
Cantaloupe Records 21095
bangonacan.orgMembers of Either/Or Ensemble
Striking; Whispers and Cries
Andrew Byrne: Striking Parts 1 & 2 [7:32]
Available for purchase directly through composer here: andrewbyrne.com
JACK Quartet
John Luther Adams: The Wind in High Places
John Luther Adams: The Wind in High Places - Above Sunset Pass [7:24]
Cold Blue Music CBM 41
coldbluemusic.comKen Thomson (JACK quartet)
THAW
THAW: Thaw [10:55]
Cantaloupe Music 21095
bangonacan.orgBrooklyn Rider
Almanac
Aoife O'Donovan: Show Me [4:56]
Mercury Classics / In A Circle Records #002159302
mercuryclassics.com Available at iTunes, Amazon.com, Emusic.comVân-Ánh Vanessa Võ with Kronos Quartet
Three-Mountain Pass
Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ: Green River Delta/Luu Thuy Truong [4:40]
Innova 866
innova.muMembers of Either/Or Ensemble
Striking; Whispers and Cries
Andrew Byrne: Striking Parts 3 & 4 [8:30]
Available for purchase directly through composer here: andrewbyrne.com
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Listen to world music that veers into psychedelic territory on this New Sounds, with Native-American inspired percussive drone music and Afrobeat from Brazil in music by Bixiga 70. Hear a mix of Afro-Ethiopian rock and jazz from the Brazilian band, Bixiga70, whose name is clearly a nod to the Afrobeat pioneered by Fela Kuti and drummer Tony Allen (with whom Mauricio Fleury from the band studied with.) This brass-heavy sound bounces through boundaries to harvest textures of Guinean and Malian mandingo from Guinea and Mali, soukous from the Congo and ethio-jazz. Also, there’s music from a Chinese string band, Red Chamber, and their pipa, zheng, zhongruan, among other Chinese lutes and zithers. On this tune,"Ah Ya Zein," they accompany oud player Gordon Grdina, and are augmented by all kinds of percussion from other traditions. Then, hear “tribal folkadelia” from Flamingods, with musicians based in London & Bahrain, and operatic trance music from Toronto-based artist, Alexandra Mackenzie, who records under the moniker Petra Glynt. Also, listen to a song from Nathan Bowles, a pounding tribute in percussive drone to the dwindling population of the Nansemond tribe who were part of the Powhatan confederacy in Virginia. Plus, explosive music from the Belgian brass klezmer punk band Kermesz a l'est, and more.
PROGRAM #3638, Psychedelic World Music (First aired on 9/17/2014)
ARTIST(S)
RECORDING
CUT(S)
SOURCE
Flamingods
Hyperborea
Vimana, excerpt [1:00]
SHAPE 027
shaperecords.co.uk
shaperecords.bandcamp.comRed Chamber
Gathering
Ah Ya Zein [7:40]
www.asza.com
Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem in My Heart)
Mo7it Al-Mo7it
Amanem [8:54]
Constellation Records CST093
cstrecords.com
Included as part of www.musicworks.ca, Summer 2014 Sampler
jerusaleminmyheart.comKermesz a l'est
Kermesz a l'est (2014)
Zumkind [6:02]
www.kermeszalest.com
Flamingods
Hyperborea
Vimana [2:32]
SHAPE 027
shaperecords.co.uk
shaperecords.bandcamp.comPetra Glynt
Musicworks Summer 2014
Of This Land
petraglynt.bandcamp.com
Nathan Bowles
Nansemond
The Smoke Swallower [2:38]
Paradies of Bachelors 016
paradiseofbachelors.comFatDog
New Found Land
Halling Etter Sjur Eldegard, excerpt [1:00]
Riverboat Records 1087
worldmusic.netKronos Quartet
Floodplain
Tashweesh [3:24]
Nonesuch 518349
nonesuch.comBixiga 70
Ocupai
5 Esquinas [4:31]
maisumdiscos.com
maisumdiscos.bandcamp.com
Angeli Drake
Deghe
Spargiani [6:00]
Available at Amazon.com or Emusic.com
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Listen to new music for the instrument from Southwestern Norway known as the Hardanger fiddle, (or hardingfele), but of course there’s a twist. For this New Sounds, there’s post-rock, world music, electroacoustic music, and even an Irish-American duet on this Norwegian instrument – with music from Scotland, Ireland, and the U.S. Hear the collaborative recording between Hardanger fiddle master Nils Økland and the post-rock duo The Low Frequency In Stereo, called Lumen Drones – which comes off as a psychedelic drone band. Then, listen to music from the octogenarian bard Robin Williamson (of Incredible String Band reknown), along with violist Mat Maneri and drummer Ches Smith. Then, hear a duo record from Caoimhin O Raghallaigh (of The Gloaming) and Dan Trueman (founder of Princeton Laptop Orchestra), which stretches and recombines the DNA of Norwegian folk and Irish trad fiddling on a 10-stringed instrument, the Hardanger d’Amore. Plus, there’s music from the Hardanger’s likely ancestor, the viola d’amore, by composer/violist Garth Knox, and more.
PROGRAM #3676 Hardanger Fiddle Music (First aired on 12/23/2014)
ARTIST(S)
RECORDING
CUT(S)
SOURCE
Lumen Drones (Nils Okland/Per Steinar Lie/Orjan Haaland)
Lumen Drones
Dark Sea [3:54]
ECM 2434
http://ecmrecords.comAnnbjørg Lien
Baba Yaga
Aja [6:27]
North Side #6044 / Grappa Musikkforlag GRCD 4158 annbjorglien.com
Robin Williamson w/ Mat Maneri, viola and Ches Smith, drums
Trusting In The Rising Light
Our Evening Walk [5:40]
ECM 2393
ecmrecords.comLumen Drones (Nils Okland/Per Steinar Lie/Orjan Haaland)
Lumen Drones
Keelwater [6:15]
See above.
Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Dan Trueman
Laghdú
fead an iolair [4:02]
store.irishmusic.net
Carla Kihlstedt
Borrowed Arms
Hold My Own [5:00]
kihlstedtbossi.bandcamp.com
Garth Knox
D'Amore
Malor me bat (2004) [4:54]
ECM 1925
ecmrecords.com -
Hear music for the combination of choir and percussion like "Whispers and Cries," by Australian born composer Andrew Byrne, which features fellow Aussie musicians Astra Choir and Speak Percussion. The show won't always stick to traditional choirs and percussion. In Daniel Lentz's "Postludium," the choir members rub and strike wine glasses while singing, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir's "into-Second Self" features a layered choir of two brass instruments. In addition to rhythmic and driving drumming, hear more of the atmospheric and colorful role of percussion in music for the combination of choir and percussion. The centerpiece of the show, a work called "Whispers and Cries," by Australian born composer Andrew Byrne, features fellow Aussie musicians Astra Choir and Speak Percussion.
PROGRAM #3670 Music for Choir and Percussion (First aired on 12/8/2014)
ARTIST(S)
RECORDING
CUT(S)
SOURCE
Daniel Lentz
Missa Umbrarum
Postludium, excerpt
New Albion Records
AmazonAndrew Byrne. Performed by Astra Choir and Speak Percussion
Striking; Whispers and Cries
Whispers and Cries: 1. Song for Voice [5:28]
Available for purchase directly through composer here: andrewbyrne.com
Daniel Lentz
Missa Umbrarum
Postludium [8:17]
See above.
Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Aeriality
into-Second Self [7:39]
Deutsche Grammophon
AmazonAndrew Byrne. Performed by Astra Choir and Speak Percussion
Striking; Whispers and Cries
Whispers and Cries: 2. Song for Crotales [5:24]
See above.
Andrew Byrne. Performed by Astra Choir and Speak Percussion
Striking; Whispers and Cries
Whispers and Cries: 3. Song for Piano [4:57]
See above.
Daniel Lentz
Missa Umbrarum
Lascaux, excerpt [9:12]
See above.
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Listen to music for duos on this New Sounds show, including stunning and inviting works from harpist Mary Lattimore & synth/guitarist/producer Jeff Zeigler from their recent collaboration, "Slant of Light." Also, hear music from Xylouris White, comprised of Cretan singer and lute player George Xylouris and drummer/percussionist Jim White (The Dirty Three, Cat Power, others), recorded and engineered by Guy Picciotto (Fugazi, Rites of Spring). Then, hear music by Paola Prestini from a new record by cellist Jeffrey Zeigler (formerly of Kronos Quartet), which features percussionist/composer Jason Treuting (So Percussion). Prestini's Listen, Quiet is a conversation between cello passages and drums, blocks, marimba, and what sounds like glockenspiel all layered over cuts of chattering groups of female voices. Plus, music from the recent record by Piers Faccini & Vincent Segal, and more.
PROGRAM #3661 Duos (First aired on 11/14/2014)
ARTIST(S)
RECORDING
CUT(S)
SOURCE
Jeffrey Zeigler (+ Jason Treuting, percussion)
Something of Life
Paolo Prestini: Listen, Quiet, excerpt [1:30]
Innova 905
innova.muMary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler
Slant of Light
The White Balloon [3:21]
Thrill 374
thrilljockey.comXylouris White
Goats
Psarandonis Syrto [4:38]
Other Music Recording Co.
othermusicrecordingco.comPiers Faccini & Vincent Segal
Songs of Time Lost
Mangé Pou Le Coeur [4:59]
Six Degrees Records
sixdegreesrecords.comBallake Sissoko & Vincent Segal
Chamber Music
Halinkata Djoubé [5:08]
Six Degrees Records #1171
sixdegreesrecords.com
or via Amazon.comJeffrey Zeigler (+ Jason Treuting, percussion)
Something of Life
Paolo Prestini: Listen, Quiet
Innova 905
innova.muMary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler
Slant of Light
Welsh Corgis In The Snow [7:27]
See above.
Xylouris White
Goats
Suburb [6:23]
See above.
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Hear some sax players leading the way on this edition of New Sounds, including new music from sax player Tamar Osborn and her London-based Afro-Eastern-space-jazz band, Collocutor. Listen to their dreamy Turkish & Middle Eastern percussion meets Sun Ra jazz with electronics. Then, there's lyrical and swinging new music from sax & clarinet wizard/composer Ken Thomson and his outfit Slow/Fast. There's also the brand new recording of the "Terminals" concertos by drummer/composer Bobby Previte for percussion ensemble and soloists, his "Terminal 2" for saxman Greg Osby. The series of works was inspired by the schematic-like terminal maps that Previte has noticed in airports around the world. The recording also features So Percussion. Plus, there's music from Peter Gordon and Love Of Life Orchestra, and more.
PROGRAM #3659 Sax Leads the Way (First aired on 11/10/2014)
ARTIST(S)
RECORDING
CUT(S)
SOURCE
Ken Thomson and Slow/Fast
Settle
Settle, excerpt
NCM East Records
ktonline.netCollocutor
Instead
Gozo [6:00]
On The Corner Records
onthecornerrecords.bandcamp.comPeter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra
Symphony 5
Homeland Security [9:54]
Foom
foommusic.bandcamp.comKen Thomson and Slow/Fast
Settle
Settle [10:12]
NCM East Records
ktonline.netSo Percussion feat. Greg Osby
Bobby Previte: Terminals
Bobby Previte: Terminal 2 [16:00]
Cantaloupe Music CA21102
AmazonFred Frith and John Butcher
The Natural Order
Faults of His Feet [6:27]
Northern Spy Records
northernspyrecords.com
