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Program #2075
Tonight's New Sounds takes in some serious fun from the new generation of big bands. Among them is downtown hipster combo Sex Mob, led by slide-trumpet whiz Steven Bernstein, and known for its fascinating live shows, where songs are torn down and reconstructed before your very eyes. No less inventive is the Brooklyn-based Slavic Soul Party, known for captivating downtown audiences with its foot-stomping, folk brass band music of Eastern Europe. We also visit Finland's Espoo Big Band, and Urban Sax, the veteran experimental band which numbers some 50 performers, including a female chorus, dancers, vibraphones and Tibetan gongs. And for something completely different: George Winston appears live in the studio performing music by the Doors.
PROGRAM #2075, with George Winston, live (First aired 9/24/02)
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Sex Mob |
WNYC, "Soundcheck" |
Medley [7:00] |
This live performance not commercially available. |
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Slavic Soul Party |
In Makedonija |
Dance the Dust Up [4:30] |
Knitting Factory #310* |
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George Winston |
Night Divides The Day - The Music Of the Doors |
Riders On The Storm, excerpt [2:30] |
Windham Hill/BMG #11649* |
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Live in studio |
The Crystal Ship [5:00] |
This live performance not commercially available. |
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Night Divides The Day - The Music Of the Doors |
Light My Fire/Th End, excerpt [1:00] |
See above. |
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Espoo Big Band w/Trilok Gurtu |
Neandertal Grooves |
Lake Disappointment [5:30] |
EBBCD #004 |
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Urban Sax |
Spiral |
Prologue Improbable, excerpt [1:30] |
EPM Musique #FCD 1125 |
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