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Sunday, May 04, 2008
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  • yungchen ama

    Central Asian Voices

    Listen to central Asian voices on this New Sounds program, where we’ll feature the recent album by Tibetan refugee singer and composer Yungchen Lhamo - AMA. AMA means ‘mother’ in the Tibetan language, and is dedicated to Yungchen’s own mother. The songs are infused with the quiet spiritual power of Tibetan Buddhism, and use trumpet, strings, African kora, Middle Eastern percussion and National Steel guitar, all wrapped around Lhamo’s voice. There’s also music from Selwa, the most recent collaboration between the Buddhist nun Choying Drolma and Steve Tibbetts, which sounds like gorgeous layers of ancient ritual chants with electronic sounds, acoustic guitar and percussion. Hear the otherworldly ritual music of the Gyuto monks, the Tibetan choir whose traditional chanting of the sutras is accompanied by both short and long trumpets and percussion. Plus, music in the multi-octave Tuvan throat-singing style by vocalist Sainkho (Namtchylak.) Her deep guttural moans and high-pitched whistles and buzzing overtones (the tradition of her homeland located just south of Siberia) can sound like demons, children, Tuvan, gospel, blues, and opera. And much more...

PROGRAM # 2542, Voices of Central Asia (First aired on Tuesday May 2, 2006)

ARTIST(S)

RECORDING

CUT(S)

SOURCE

Yungchen Lhamo

Ama

Om Mani Padme Hung [4:30]

Real World #52576 ** www.realworldrecords.com *

Sainkho

Out Of Tuva

Tanola Nomads [6:00]

Cramworld #Craw-6 www.crammed.be

Yungchen Lhamo

Ama

Look Down On Us [4:30]

See above.

Chöying Drolma & Steve Tibbetts

Selwa

Song of Realization [9:00]

Six Degrees #1104** www.sixdegreesrecords.com *

Philip Glass

Kundun

Escape To India [10:00]

Nonesuch # 79460 www.nonesuch.com*

Tibetan Buddhism

Tantras of Gyuto

Sangwa Dupa, excerpt [6:00]

Nonesuch Explorer #79198** www.nonesuch.com*

Comments

  • [1] Eden Maxwell from New Jersey May 04, 2008 - 11:39PM

    Wonderful show--as usual.

    Many thanks for these timeless selections.
  • [2] Eden Maxwell from New Jersey May 04, 2008 - 11:40PM

    Wonderful show--as usual.

    Many thanks for these timeless selections.


  • [3] Democritus from Right here and now. May 04, 2008 - 11:43PM

    I attempted to click on the sixdegreesrecords.com to seek out getting the recording Selwa but it appears you need to first register with them or log in to get this record.

    All in all I was unable to do this to try to get the recording you played called Selwa-Chöying Drolma & Steve Tibbetts.

    Have looked at there web site as it all appears very complex to even purchase any album or maybe it is just me!

    You have a marvelous program and your selections are very inspiring. Thank you for your selections

    Demetrius

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.

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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