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Saturday, November 03, 2007
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  • Gorner Glacier, Zermatt, Switzerland (Adrian Pingstone © 1963)
    Gorner Glacier, Zermatt, Switzerland (Adrian Pingstone © 1963)

    New Music from Switzerland

    On this New Sounds program, expect the occasional alphorn – but no yodeling. Hear lots of new music from Switzerland, including something from composer/violinist Franziska Baumann, whose sound installation work features the sound of glacial ice movements interspersed with voices. Also, listen to Michele Walther (violin), Matthias Gubler (soprano sax), and Luzian Jenny (accordion) from the vivacious collection of songs, "Orange Heart." Plus, the fun grooves of the Albins Alpin Quartet, whose music incorporates saxophone, accordion, toy piano, tuba and regular old drums. And so much more.

PROGRAM # 2478, New Swiss Music – Yodel Free! (First aired on Tuesday, 11-22-05)

ARTIST(S)

RECORDING

CUT(S)

SOURCE

Albins Alpin Quintett

Pilatus Suite

Heitertannli [5:00]

Altrisuoni #152 www.altrisuoni.com *

Michele Walther, Matthias Gubler, Luzian Jenny

Orange Heart

Sunday Morning [5:00]

Altrisuoni #126 www.altrisuoni.com * OR www.luzimusik.ch OR e-mail luzianjenny@dplanet.ch

Hans Koch, Martin Schütz, Marco Käppeli

Accélération

Shy Csardas [5:00]

ECM #1357 ** www.ecmrecords.com *

Pierre Favre & Michel Godard

Deux

Deux-primo [3:00]

Altrisuoni #101 www.altrisuoni.com *

Paul Giger

Ignis

Karma Shadub, excerpt [10:30]

ECM #1681 www.ecmrecords.com *

Franziska Baumann

Vocal Suite

Gossamer [4:30] Les Verres Chanteuses [5:30]

Unit #4105 unit@music.ch, distributed by RecRec (recrec@music.ch)

Michele Walther, Matthias Gubler, Luzian Jenny

Orange Heart

Snuck [3:30]

See above.

Albins Alpin Quintett

Pilatus Suite

Tomlishorn [4:30]

See above.

Comments

  • [1] Carol Horton from Annandale, NJ November 04, 2007 - 12:23AM

    Hi,

    I just listened to show #2478, and am looking for the recording of the chant you played just briefly towrd the end of the program -- I think you said it was Michel Godard and some monks, but I can't find a recording on Amazon that fits that description. The chant was Conditor alme siderum -- Creator of the stars of night is how it is most often known in English.

    I realize the program first aired in 2005, but am hoping you can help me.

    Thanks,

    Carol Horton


  • [2] aaron schloff from brooklyn November 04, 2007 - 11:37PM

    the swiss listing above does not match the afropop themed show broadcast this evening. Please correct.

This thread is closed.


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.

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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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