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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
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    New Americans: Australia & Canada

    WNYC's series, The New Americans, celebrates musicians from around the world working in the US. For this edition of the program, we'll focus on works from such exotic places as Canada and Austalia. Listen to music by Canadian Michael Brook, who has most recently made a splash with the soundtrack to Al Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth." Plus, music from Clogs, the World Saxophone Quartet and Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures.

PROGRAM #2774, New Americans X: Australia, Canada (First aired on Tuesday, 3-11-08)

ARTIST(S)

RECORDING

CUT(S)

SOURCE

Michael Brook

RockPaperScissors

Pond [4:30]
Strange Procession [4:30]

Canadian Rational # www.bighelium.com *

Clogs

Stick Music

Pencil Stick [6:00]

Brassland #007 www.brassland.org*

World Saxophone Quartet and African Drums

Metamorphosis

Lullaby [4:30]

Nonesuch #79258 ** www.nonesuch.com*

Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures

Dream Garden

Walking the Curve [5:30]

JustinTime #8537* www.justin-time.com*

World Saxophone Quartet and African Drums

Metamorphosis

Su Mama Ah Zumu [6:30]

See above.

Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures

Dream Garden

Happiness Road [3:00]

See above.

Aquiles Baez

La Patilla

Choro [6:00]

Cacao Musica #009** www.cacaomusica.com*

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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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