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Tuesday, December 04, 2007
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  • Max Richter
    Max Richter

    European Keyboard-based Music

    Listen to some recent releases of keyboard-based ensemble pieces with electronics on this New Sounds. We'll hear from England's Max Richter, Belgium's Eric Mertens, Italy's Ludovico Einaudi, and more.

PROGRAM #2740, “European Keyboard-based Music” (First aired on Tuesday, 12/04/07)

ARTIST(S)

RECORDING

CUT(S)

SOURCE

Max Richter

Songs From Before

Autumn Music I [3:30]

Fat Cat # CD 13-05
www.fat-cat.co.uk*

Max Richter

Memoryhouse

November [6:30]
Embers [3:30]
Last Days [3:00]

Late Junction / BBC, www.maxrichter.com OR purchase on amazon.co.uk

Ludovico Einaudi

Eden Roc

Yerevan [2:30]

Ponderosa no # www.ponderosa.it *

Kimmo Pohjonen & Samuli Kosminen

Kluster: Keskuteluja

Matta [5:30]

Private release www.kimmopohjonen.com *

Ludovico Einaudi

Eden Roc

Eden Roc [4:00]

See above.

Kimmo Pohjonen & Samuli Kosminen

Kluster: Keskuteluja

Ele [5:30]

See above.

Eric Mertens

Spleen, Original

Little Giant [3:30]

Download from Emusic.com OR purchase from www.carbon-7.com

Hauschka

A Room To Expand

Sweet Spring Come [4:00]

Fat Cat # CD 13-06 www.fat-cat.co.uk*

Eric Mertens

Spleen, Original

Todesstreifen [4:30]

See above.

Comments

  • [1] Thomas McCauley from Brooklyn December 04, 2007 - 11:43PM

    Absolutely gorgeous. Thank you for introducing us to these musicians tonight.

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Nico Muhly (www.myspace.com/muhly)

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New Sounds

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Robert Moran

In Robert Moran's Kitchen

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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

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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.