wnyc.org / 93.9fm / am 820

On Demand

Program Schedule

Topics

New Sounds / May 12, 2008

New Sounds

Monday, May 12, 2008
Previous Episode | Next Episode
  • adams_justin_lg.jpg

    Soul Science

    For this New Sounds, there's world music from Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara's record "Soul Science," along with something from Francis Bebey. Plus, music from Daby Toure, maybe something from the Toumast release, and hopefully some music from Tuareg band Etran Finatawa.

PROGRAM #2799, Afropop (First aired on Monday, 5-12-08)

ARTIST(S)

RECORDING

CUT(S)

SOURCE

Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara

Soul Science

Njatigi [4:30]

World Village #468076** www.worldvillagemusic.com *

Etran Finatawa

Desert Crossroads

Kel Tamasheck [5:00]

Riverboat #1048** www.worldmusic.net

Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara

Soul Science

Yena Mama [4:30]

See above.

Daby Toure

Stereo Spirit

Setal [4:00]

Rykodisc/Real World #146 www.realworldrecords.com *

Etran Finatawa

Desert Crossroads

Iguefan [4:00]

See above.

Francis Bebey

Mbira Dance

Mbira Dance [4:30]

Gravity #20075 www.gravitylabel.com

Etran Finatawa

Desert Crossroads

Saghmar N Nanna [5:00]

See above.

Francis Bebey

Nandolo / With Love

Mtingidingi [5:00]

Original Music #027
Out of print, but check Amazon.com*

Lambarena

Bach to Africa

Ihr lieblichste Blicke, Ihr freudige Stunden [3:00]

Sony Classical #64542 Not available at Sony, but try Amazon.com*

Daby Toure

Stereo Spirit

All is Full of Love [3:30]

See above.

Leave a Comment

Please stay on topic, be civil, and be brief.
Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments. Names are displayed with all comments. WNYC reserves the right to edit any comments posted on this site. Please read the WNYC.org Comment Guidelines before posting.

Your comment


* required
The information entered into this form will not be used to send unsolicited email and will not be sold to a third party.
 
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.