Episode #3155
John Schaefer's Top 10 of 2010
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
For this New Sounds program, John Schaefer throws his annual, highly subjective, completely opinionated list of the ten best new-music releases of 2010 into the ring. Listen to the contenders for this year: a chamber ensemble (ahem, feat. members of the National) in collaboration with an indie vocalist, a Genius-award-winning jazz pianist and his trio, a classical ensemble with a rock rhythm section made of members from an influential post-rock band, a singer-speaker-storyteller with an alter-ego, an indie-classical song cycle for the same vocalist as mentioned above, and an unexpectedly beautiful combination of poetry, singer-songwriter and avant-jazz ensemble. Plus some of the usual suspects...
PROGRAM # 3155, John Schaefer’s 2010 Top Ten (First aired on 1-5-11)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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10. Jason Moran & the Bandwagon |
Ten |
Feedback Pt. 2 [4:54] |
Blue Note |
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9. Valgeir Sigurðsson |
Draumalandið |
Dreamland [3:45] |
Bedroom Community HVALUR8 www.bedroomcommunity.net |
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8. The Young Scamels |
The Tempest |
Be Not Afeard [3:41] |
FT 74 |
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7. The Unthanks |
Here's the Tender Coming |
Annachie Gordon, excerpt [4:00] |
Rough Trade RTRADCD548 |
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Honorable Mention: Osvaldo Golijov |
La Pasión Según San Marcos |
Excerpt [1:00] |
Deutsche Grammophon 477 7461 |
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6. Steve Reich/Bang on a Can All-Stars |
Double Sextet / 2 x 5 |
2 x 5: Fast (3), excerpt [4:30] |
Nonesuch 524583 |
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5. Sarah Kirkland Snider, SIGNAL, Shara Worden |
Penelope |
This Is What You’re Like [5:07] |
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4. David Karsten Daniels & Fight the Big Bull |
I Mean To Live Here Still |
All Things Are Current Found [3:27] |
FATCD92 |
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3. Sam Amidon |
I See the Sign |
How Come That Blood [3:31] |
Bedroom Community Records HVALUR9 |
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2. Laurie Anderson |
Homeland |
The Beginning of Memory [2:51] |
Nonesuch 524055 |
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1. Clogs |
The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton |
Last Song (feat. Matt Berninger from the National) [3:59] |
Brassland HWY 021 |
Comments [5]
Dear John, thank you so much for the music 9/11 program today. And for choosing "Freude schoener Goetterfunken". My comments, when calling in this piece, were poor. I apologize. I am a F/A and was in the middle of the Atlantic up in the air when I learned of the disaster. My husband survived which I learned about after returning to Munich. Beethoven's music has been a lifelong inspiration and was played at our wedding almost 40 years ago. So grateful! Thank you John.
John Schaefer: what would I do to send you a very interesting album I produced?...ike
I spoke too soon---conscience is bothering me---you're entitled to your opinion. I think your opinion is a bit much but you are entitled to it. ciao AV
I can't figure out if New Sounds has a podcast. If so , clue me in. Thanks John
I heard the show last night and loved your picks. I was trying to find the folk singer who sang that Scottish dark song. I do not see the list, is it coming up later. It was something about a sign.
Thank you for your work, always appreciated.
Happy New Year
Mary Ann
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