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Thursday, May 19, 2005
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  • A Young John Schaefer

    New Sounds Live, More Early Years

    Hear music from the early years of concert recordings on this edition of New Sounds. Listen to performances from the long-running concert series by Peter Gordon’s all-star NYC band the Love Of Life Orchestra, the Canadian bagpipe-driven band Rare Air, technofolkies The Horse Flies. Plus, there’s electronic counterpoint from David Borden and Mother Mallard, and funky horns in the memorable “Ramayana Monkey March” courtesy of A. Leroy.

PROGRAM # 2414, from “New Sounds Live,” the early years (First aired 5/19/05)

ARTIST(S) RECORDING CUT(S) SOURCE
Peter Gordon & The Love Of Life Orchestra NSL, Merkin Hall, Fall 1988 Kindertotentanz [3:00] Appears on NewTone Records - # 6702. Out of print.
Rare Air NSL, Merkin Hall, Spring 1995 Death of a Space Piper [5:00] Appears on Rare Air’s CD, “Space Piper,” Green Linnet #1115, which is out of print. The tune is available on a compilation Celtophile Artists, "Here's to the Highlands: Music for Highland Bagpipe."
www.greenlinnet.com
David Borden & The Mother Mallard Band NSL, Merkin Hall, Fall 1988 The Continuing Story Of Counterpoint, Pt. 8 [7:00] Borden’s Counterpoint series has been released on a series of CDs from Cuneiform Records, www.cuneiformrecords.com
Pt. 8 appears on Cuneiform/Rune #21.
The Horse Flies NSL, Merkin Hall, Fall 1991 Life Is A Rubber Rope [4:30]
Sally Ann [5;00] 		The Horse Flies have a website for more info: www.horseflies.com
A. Leroy NSL, Merkin Hall, Fall 1989 Ramayana Monkey March [11:00] Not commercially available.
Peter Gordon & The Love Of Life Orchestra NSL, Merkin Hall, Fall 1988 Pre-Trinity/Trinity Site, excerpt [3:00] Trinity Site appears on NewTone Records - # 6702. Out of print.

*, ** Find the recordings you've heard - go to the New Sounds Recordings Information page

Comments

  • [1] John Cole from Newark NJ July 25, 2007 - 12:07AM

    I had difficulty playing this show. Other shows work fine. Just when I was in the mood for some Ramayana Monkey March!

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Nico Muhly (www.myspace.com/muhly)

Twitchy Renaissance-Infused Minimalism

New Sounds

From the New Sounds Live concerts at Merkin Hall, Nico Muhly presents a series of new electroacoustic ensemble works, combining “twitchy Minimalism” and Renaissance polyphony. Hear brand-new works from "Mothertongue," along with other works, recorded live.

Robert Moran

In Robert Moran's Kitchen

New Sounds

From October 30, 1989, the infamous "cooking show" with composer/raconteur Robert Moran. Recorded while cooking an Indian dinner in John Schaefer's kitchen, for reasons still not entirely clear. Along the way, we hear an "acoustic" version of Cage's 0:00 - for amplification of chopping vegetables and blender. And don't miss the teary conversation as onions are chopped. View the the recipes.

Michael Hedges and Michael Manring

New Sounds

The incredibly gifted and astonishingly original guitarist Michael Hedges left the planet much too soon in 1997. Avant-folk and ever-entertaining, Hedges made brilliant music with alternate tunings, harmonics and was known for striking the guitar’s body and strings with his fingers, palms and knuckles. His close friend and sometime collaborator, electric bass virtuoso Michael Manring, was a genre-bender, before music writers ever discovered that hyphenated term. He started out in the New Age bins, but moved all over with various projects, including the very first New Age-death-metal-jazz-funk-fusion record, among other things, with his “hyperbass”, (a fretless instrument which makes re-tuning mid-piece a little easier). On this October 10, 1987 edition of New Sounds, the two artists visited and played at the WNYC performance studios.

Duke Ellington - www.dukeellington.com

Caravan Variations

New Sounds

Like camels slogging through the sand, the exotic strains of “Caravan,” by Duke Ellington and his sometime trombonist Juan Tizol (with rarely heard lyrics by Irving Mills), have been played loose, fast, swinging, and/or slow by just about everyone. For this New Sounds program, it’s another of the occasional series of programs of Theme and Variations, where the premise is simple: take a single piece of music and explore what a number of musicians have done with it, through arrangements, deconstructions, and revisions of the original theme. This time around, it’s Duke Ellington’s “Caravan.” Listen to arrangements by Romania’s Fanfare Ciocarlia, Hungary’s Kalman Balogh & The Gipsy Cimbalom Band, the California Guitar Trio, the ska group Hepcat, banjoman Bela Fleck, Lebanese composer Rabih Abou-Khalil, and trumpeter/composer Jon Hassell, among others.

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