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The percussionist Glenn Kotche, best known as the drummer for the band Wilco, joins host John Schaefer for a tour through his new solo CD "Mobile," on this edition of New Sounds. It's an incredible feat that somehow Kotche plays with the patterns of Steve Reich's "Clapping Music," takes apart the Nonesuch Explorer recordings of Shona Mbira music, works through mobile sculpture, negative space and Wilco drumbeats, and nods to percussionists Tony Allen and Ed Blackwell in just 8 tracks. For the crowning masterpiece of the CD, he uses live crickets (looped), plastic piping, vibraphone, springs, gongs, orchestral bells, and a fruit basket to create an original percussive rendering of the "Monkey Chant," based on the Ramayana story of the abduction of Sita and her subsequent rescue by an army of monkeys.

» Try out the interactive Monkey Chant player at Glenn Kotche's Web site

PROGRAM # 2532, with Glenn Kotche (First aired on Thursday, April 6, 2006)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
Glenn Kotche	Mobile	Mobile Pts 1 & 2 [5:30]	Nonesuch #79927 ** www.nonesuch.com see also www.glennkotche.com
Steve Reich	Works 1965-1995	Clapping Music, excerpt [3:00]	Nonesuch #79451, (10 CD Box set) www.nonesuch.com
Glenn Kotche	Mobile	Clapping Music Variations [5:00]	See above.
Bali	Gamelan & Kecak	Kecak (Monkey Chant) [3:00]	Nonesuch/Explorer #79814 www.nonesuch.com
Glenn Kotche	Mobile	Monkey Chant, excerpt [7:00]	See above.
Zimbabwe	The Soul of Mbira: Traditions of the Shona People	Nhemamusasa, excerpt [2:00]	Nonesuch/Explorer #79704 www.nonesuch.com
Glenn Kotche	Mobile	Fantasy On a Shona Theme [4:00] Mobile Part 3 [2:30]	See above.
Wilco	Yankee Hotel Foxtrot	I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, excerpt [4:00]	Nonesuch #79669 www.nonesuch.com

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