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New Sounds / April 17, 2008

New Sounds

Thursday, April 17, 2008
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  • Hurdy-Gurdy
    Hurdy-Gurdy

    Hardcore Folk

    Listen for the driving drone-based sound of bagpipes and the hurdy-gurdy from the English band Blowzabella on this New Sounds. Sample the Warsaw Village Band, punk-ass hard-rocking folk from Poland who also use the occasional hurdy-gurdy. We'll hear the reels and revels of Celtic folk via Quebec from Le Vent Du Nord (The Wind Of The North), oh - yes, perhaps with a side of hurdy-gurdy. There’s also music from Italy by the singer and sax player Enzo Avitabile based on a 14th Century tradition of turning farm implements into musical instruments. Plus, music from Scotland and a whole lot more.

PROGRAM #2791, Hardcore Folk (First aired on Thursday, 4-17-08)

ARTIST(S)

RECORDING

CUT(S)

SOURCE

Enzo Avitabile & Bottari

Save The World

Carry The Sun Inside [5:00]

Wrasse #124 www.wrasserecords.com*

Warsaw Village Band

People’s Spring

To You Kasiunia [5:00]

World Village #468028 www.worldvillagemusic.com*

Fanfare Ciocarlia

Iag Bari

Iag Bari [4:30]

Piranha #1577 www.piranha.de*

Le Vent Du Nord

Dans Les Airs

Les Larmes aux yeux [4:30]

Borealis #189 www.borealisrecords.com*

Ad Vielle Que Pourra

Musaique

Serre-moi plus fort [6:00]

Green Linnet / Xenophile #4017
www.greenlinnet.com*

Blowzabella

Vanilla

Spaghetti Panic [5:30]

Green Linnet #3050 / Special Delivery SPDCD 1028 Out of print. www.blowzabella.com for info

Shooglenifty

Solar Shears

Rod’s Doorway [5:00]

Compass #4303 www.compassrecords.com*

Various Artists: Bongshang

Folk ‘n’ Hell

If & When [5:00]

EMI/Metro Blue #53344
Try Amazon.com*

Värttinä

Oi Dai

Oi Dai [3:30]

Green Linnet #4014 www.greenlinnet.com*

Comments

  • [1] rick remlinger from New Jersey Central July 01, 2008 - 01:28PM

    Le Vent Du Nord loved the show!

    Feature them again. Someone doing something traditional in an age where everything must be new and pop. Very refreshing.

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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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