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New Sounds

Monday, May 14, 2007
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  • Saxophone player and composer Quinsin Nachoff
    Saxophone player and composer Quinsin Nachoff (Heather MacEachern)

    Mighty Winds

    Listen to the clarinet textures and eerie cello of Erik Friedlander's recent release Prowl, along with other arresting combinations of instruments like kora, saxophone and Slovenian music, all artfully woven together from Igor Leonardi. Plus, hear music from Canadian saxophonist Quinsin Nachoff, whose release Magic Numbers combines an improvisational sax jazz trio and a neo-classical string quartet for a catchy funky sinewy twist into worlds between Sabbath and Stravinsky. Rounding out the show is music from Robert Stillman, whose wind-driven music contains brilliant melodic washes and Twin Peaks-y buildups.

PROGRAM #2677, A Mighty Wind (First aired on Monday, 5/14/07)

ARTIST(S)

RECORDING

CUT(S)

SOURCE

Igor Leonardi

Sangeeta

Good News [5:30]

Sazas #225
www.sanje.si *

Quinsin Nachoff

Magic Numbers

There and Back [7:30]

Songlines #1556 www.songlines.com

Erik Friedlander

Prowl

Chanting [4:30]

Cryptogrammophone #127 www.crypto
grammophone.com

Robert Stillman

Horses

Half-Luke [7:00]

Mill Pond #004 www.millpondrecords.com

Giordano Muto & Marco Santilli

Belli in Zona

Vortex [1:30]
Au Claire de Lune [2:00]

Altrisuoni #209 www.altrisuoni.com

Stephan Micus

On The Wing

part 1 | On the Wing [3:30]

ECM #1987 ** www.ecmrecords.com

Diagonal/Jean-Christophe Cholet

Slavonic Tone

Erghen Diado [7:00]

Altrisuoni #213 www.altrisuoni.com

Ned Rothenberg, Tony Buck, Stomu Takeishi

The Fell Clutch

Moment of Reloading [4:00]

Animul #105
www.animul.info

Comments

  • [1] hamid from tehran-iran May 22, 2007 - 07:46PM

    This playlist is a must have.

    Cheers.

    Hamid.

    www.videopix.co.uk


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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.