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July 2009

New Releases July 2009

Friday, July 31, 2009

It's the most wonderful time of the month - the showcasing of new releases! On this New Sounds program, listen to the pick of the piles, the cream of the crop. We'll separate the wheat from the chaff. There's music from Jon Balke and the Moroccan singer Amina Alaoui, along with new music from the Vijay Iyer Trio, perhaps something from A Hawk and a Hacksaw. Plus, a film score by Rob Burger, some Ethio-pop from Fool's Gold, and solo piano music by Rachel Grimes. And more!


Bang on a Can Marathon 2009, Part II

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Hear some more highlights from the 2009 Bang on a Can Marathon, including some manic music for saxophone by composer and dervish Ken Thomson. His nonet goes by the name "Ken Thomson’s 9-Headed Saxophone Monster." Also, we'll hear from the New York-based all-women new music collective Victoire performing music by Missy Mazzoli. Plus "Thirst," a massive new work by Bang on a Can co-founder Julia Wolfe.


Electro-Acoustica

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Hear some electro-acoustic music by the likes of Paradigm, Sawako, and drummer Tyshawn Sorey for this New Sounds program. Listen to Sawako's work for cello and electronics called "Windshower Particle" from an album called "Bittersweet," along with Paradigm's largely acoustic work "Scanning," from "Melodies for Uncertain Robots." There's also music from Switzerland by Gunter Moeller and Jim O'Rourke for electronics, piano and percussion, from "Weighting." Plus, music by trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer.


Music with Strings

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Hear lots of music featuring violin or viola on this New Sounds. There are works by violinist/composer Matthew Pierce, including his "Office Parks and Strip Malls." Also, we'll listen to Act 2 of a music theatre work "The Photographer" by Philip Glass and music from Lou Harrison. Plus, Judd Greenstein's music for solo viola as played by Nadia Sirota - "Escape." And more.


New Music From Turkey

Monday, July 27, 2009

Listen to new music from Turkey on this edition of New Sounds. From the brand-new double-CD release, "Nine Heavens" by the Persian-emigree group Niyaz, we'll hear “Beni Beni." It's a marriage of an 18th century Turkish Sufi poem to a traditional Turkish folk song which skillfully weaves in electronics and programming. Also, the Balkan club-friendly electronica artist Shantel has written original music for the Turkish-German film "The Edge Of Heaven" (the new Fatih Akin movie which won an award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.) It features works by Turkish musicians, like Selim Sesler and Kazim Koyuncu, and contemporary Turkish songs. Plus, works from Okay Temiz, Mercan Dede and the Mevlevi Dervishes of Istanbul.


New Music from North Africa

Sunday, July 26, 2009

On this New Sounds program, listen to works from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt, featuring Les Musiciens de Nil. Plus, hear excerpts from the The Rough Guide's compilation "North African Cafe," featuring artists from Algeria's legendary Maurice El Medioni to French-Tunisian oud master, Smadj. Plus, live performances from the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music and more.


Post Chamber Rock

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Brooklyn-based Slow Six makes new electroacoustic music with amplified violins, viola, cello, electric guitars, fender rhodes, piano, and software instruments and it's hard to describe: Post-rock, post-chamber? Hear some of their new record, "Nor'easter" on this edition of New Sounds. Also, there's music inspired by the inner journey of Mahatma Gandhi by saxophone/flute player and composer Andrew Sterman, known for his work in the Philip Glass Ensemble. Listen to some of Sterman's "The Path to Peace" combining free-jazz, ballads, and world music. Plus, experimental, folk psychedelia from the post chamber group Oak. And more.


Balmy Fingerstyle Guitar

Friday, July 24, 2009

All the way from South Africa, guitarist and composer Guy Buttery makes a special appearance in the WNYC studio. He's a virtuoso on the guitar and has developed a unique style inspired by both the traditional music of South Africa and the likes of fingerstyle pickers like Michael Hedges. For this edition of New Sounds, Guy Buttery performs live, and has threatened to premiere a brand-new work. And much more...


From the Bang on a Can Marathon 2009 -Part I

Thursday, July 23, 2009

New Sounds has the goodies! Listen to highlights from the 2009 Bang on a Can Marathon. Hear music by Andy Akiho and the Foundry Steel Pan Ensemble, Matthew McBane and Build, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen and the choir Ars Nova, and more.


Global Banjo

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Foday Musa Suso, Joel Harrison, Tony Trischka, now known as the FoJoTo String Band, is a cross-cultural kora, guitar & banjo trio. We'll hear some music that they played live on Soundcheck. There's also banjo in a skronk-metal mood from Seabrook Power Plant, along with music involving the banjo's West African antecedents. Plus, shamisen music by the Yoshida Brothers, and more.


Electronic Music, All Sorts

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

For this New Sounds, we'll dip into the many flavors of electronic music. Hear some glitch electronica from Taylor Deupree + Stephan Mathieu along with some classic electronic minimalism from Cluster. Also, listen to an electronic re-creation of an opera by 12th century composer Hildegard von Bingen, electronic “turntablist guitar” from Andre La Fosse, and more.


New Orchestral Music

Monday, July 20, 2009

What will the new orchestral music of the 21st Century sound like? Perhaps not quite full-sized orchestras, the likes of which can fill a concert stage, but rather chamber orchestras that incorporate rock instruments - saxophones, electric guitars, and drum kits. Think of Alarm Will Sound - a chamber orchestra based in New York who sometimes do acoustic arrangements of electronic dance music from artists like Aphex Twin. There's also Icebreaker - who have more saxes than strings and play both American and English new music. And take the Steve Martland band - they are a small orchestra with lots of horns, and a full rock band hidden in the ensemble. We'll hear from all of these groups, and more on this New Sounds program.


Roger Marsh 's Pierrot Lunaire

Sunday, July 19, 2009

English composer Roger Marsh has taken the cycle of poems known as "Pierrot Lunaire" - originally set by Arnold Schoenberg in a controversial, landmark work in the early 20th century - and created a new, extended set of songs based on these fevered, surreal poems. On this New Sounds program, listen to Marsh's setting, featuring The Hilliard Ensemble, Red Byrd, Juice, and other performers.


Site-Specific Music

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Listen to works inspired by and made for specific locations, including flutist Paul Horn's historic recording in the Taj Mahal, and Robert Fripp's soundscapes for the World Financial Center. Plus, Alvin Lucier's "I Am Sitting In A Room," which actually uses a room's natural resonance to produce the music over time as the initial utterance decays, and Paul Winter's new recording in the alpine valley of Crestone, Colorado.


Anthropofagia = Musical Cannabalism

Friday, July 17, 2009

Featuring musical instruments like "20 feet of chains," "waterphone" and "donkey jaw," (among other things like berimbau, mbira and saxophone), "Banquet of the Spirits," is the latest from percussionist Cyro Baptista and crew. It's an entire smorgasbord of music and culture, simmered and shaken and served up steaming. "Banquet" turns over the idea Anthropofagia - ancient cannibal tribes eating human beings as a way to gain power of their spirit - digesting international musical trends and cultural influences to turn them into a huge musical stewpot, not unlike New York City. From this record, we'll hear "retirante," on this edition of New Sounds. There's also Turkish-flavored chamber music by The Dem Trio, from their release, "Fountain." Plus, Wu Man's arrangement of a Cantonese folk song, "Raining," for pipa (Chinese lute) and adungu (Ugandan harp) where the plucked strings and harmonic chords recreates the sound and atmosphere of a rainy day. And more.


Psychosounds

Thursday, July 16, 2009

A surprising number of works have been inspired by psychiatry – or more specifically, by the plight of those in need of psychiatric treatment. We’ll hear some of them. From Elodie Lauten, listen to selections from her "Two Cents Opera." There's also music from Peter Broderick's "Falling From Trees" and William Susman's "When Medicine Got It Wrong." Plus music by Peter Gabriel for the film "Birdy," along with music by Michael Nyman, and more.


New Choral Music

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Listen to ethereal choral music on this New Sounds program from Latvia and Ireland. Hear Latvian sacred music performed by the innovative State Choir Latvija. There's also music from Irish composer Deirdre McKay, who has composed works for the very same Lativian State Choir. Plus, music from the Irish choir Anuna, and music from Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble's chart-topping classic, "Officium."


World Music Sampler

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

For this New Sounds, listen to an hour of recent recordings of world music, including Guinea’s electric kora player Ba Cissoko and Tibetan émigré singer Soname. There’s also music from Gnawledge, a collaborative project featuring 16 musicians, exploring the roots of flamenco and Arab music. Plus music by Salaam, Afro-Jewish jazz from Oran Etkin, and Balkan party horns from Goran Bregovic.


Guitar Multiples

Monday, July 13, 2009

For this New Sounds, we'll listen to Jeremy Peyton Jones' "18 Guitars," a work that lands somewhere between Fripp's League of Crafty Guitarists and Glenn Branca's symphonies for electric guitars. Listen also for the hypnotic aural panoramas generated by the duo Hammock, from their latest Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow. Plus, the Canadian guitarist and composer Tim Brady's chamber work for piano, guitar and electronics, entitled "Frame 1 - Resonance." And more.


Roma and Romanian Roots

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Hear some frenzied Romanian gypsy punk from the New York-based Luminescent Orchestrii on this edition of New Sounds. Not willing to stop there, they can also rock the klezmer, bust out hip-hop beats and call upon Appalachian fiddle as well. We'll also listen to music from that "band of brigands," Taraf de Haïdouks, who come from the small Romanian Village Of Clejani, southwest of the capital city of Bucharest. They mix up Romanian folk tradition, both soul and speed, ranging from haunting heartland ballads to dizzying fiddle dances. Plus, there's Osvaldo Golijov's “Night of the Flying Horses," a slow dark viola lullaby that erupts into a fast gallop, boasting a theme that the composer proudly claims to have stolen from Taraf de Haïdouks. Throw in the globe-spanning music from the Kronos Quartet release Caravan, and that's a show. But there's probably even more!


Global Guitars

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Hear two living legends of the guitar playing world, John Williams and John Etheridge in a collaboration running the gamut from Bach to African folk music. Listen to tunes from their latest album Places Between, recorded live at the 2006 Dublin Guitar Festival, with music from Africa, Madagascar, South America, and Cape Verde on this edition of New Sounds. There's also music from Montreal's answer to Michael Hedges - Erik Mongrain, and the flamenco-rich fusions of Son de la Frontera, among others.


Minimalist Music Theatre

Friday, July 10, 2009

Hear some music theatre pieces on this New Sounds show. Listen to Philip Glass's recent release "Waiting for the Barbarians," adapted from the novel by the South African writer and Nobel Prize Winner John Coetzee. Also, there's music by Paul Bailey - his post-minimalist music theatre piece "Retrace our Steps." He describes it as a four act vocal/instrumental spectacle based on texts by Gertrude Stein, Guy Debord and Jenny Bitner. The "alt-classical garage band" Paul Bailey Ensemble performs the work. And more.


David Lang Checks In

Thursday, July 09, 2009

New York-based composer David Lang visits the WNYC studio for this edition of New Sounds. We'll hear his Pultizer Prize-winning piece "The Little Match Girl Passion," and other recent recordings.


New Music for Lutes

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

The Renaissance forerunner of the guitar still has its fans, among them Rolf Lislevand, the Dowland Project, the Blue Rubies, and Josef van Wissem. For this New Sounds, hear performances of everything from medieval music to the Clash, and more.


Small Ensembles, Pattern-Based Music

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Hear small ensemble works using the rhythmic devices of Minimalism by Russia’s Ensemble 4’33”, cellist Jody Redhage and Fire in July, the David Crowell Ensemble, William Susman, and others.


"Green Music"

Monday, July 06, 2009

For this edition of New Sounds, hear some “Green Music,” that is, music with a global environmental bent. We’ll listen to philosopher, author and musician David Rothenberg’s latest, compositions with clarinet to the sounds of whale calls. Also, we’ll hear concert music by composer/violinist Patmore Lewis, centering around the effects of global warming on the Rillito River, no longer flowing year-round through Tucson, AZ. Plus, music from “Green” by cellist Hank Roberts, his “Lenape Suite,” and more.


Electronic Music

Sunday, July 05, 2009

Irish composer Linda Buckley summons both electronic and acoustic forces and her works to date have used organ and multi-channel tape, prepared piano and Javanese Gamelan, among others. We'll hear some of her music written for the theatre on this New Sounds program. Plus, Madison, Wisconsin-based composer Gregory Taylor marries the Javanese slendro scale and synthesizers, sampling, looping and processing to create some incredibly textured and layered clouds of gamelan music and glitch-ambience. There's also music from Norway's Arve Henriksen, Seattle's K. Leimer, and more.


Kamikaze Ground Crew & Members

Saturday, July 04, 2009

Up on this New Sounds, there's brand new music from one of New York's all-star music groups - the Kamikaze Ground Crew. We'll hear selections from their latest release of skewed habaneras and extended widescreen compositions, called "Postcards from the Highwire." Also, individual projects from the various Crew members including Doug Wieselman, Steven Bernstein, Gina Leishman, Art Baron, leading or supporting such groups as Trio S, Sex Mob, the Millennial Territory Orchestra, Hieroglyphic Ensemble, and Bill Frisell's Trio.


New Keyboard Music

Friday, July 03, 2009

On this edition of New Sounds, listen to new music for keyboard from the likes of W.A. Mathieu, Rob Burger, and Elodie Lauten, among others. Mathieu -a pianist, composer, author, and teacher - was a disciple of North Indian vocalist Pandit Pran Nath for some 25 years, and collaborates with Hamza El Din. We’ll hear his work “In The Wind.” Also, from Elodie Lauten, we’ll hear one of her “Earth Works,” - the “Variations on the Orange Cycle,” an exploration of the experience of time and based on earth tones, the 24-hour tone. Plus, hear music from Rob Burger’s 2002 release “Lost Photograph” on which he makes various keyboards - accordion, pump organ, and toy pianos evoke tango and lounge, filtered through fire-escape strains of Latin music.


Glass Bead Game

Thursday, July 02, 2009

The UK guitarist and composer James Blackshaw is a prodigious young talent who’s been seen as part of the guitar tradition of the late American John Fahey. Now, his work has expanded to include mysticism, occasional other instruments, and long-form, almost classical structures. He’ll play live in our studio, and we'll listen to some of his recent release, "The Glass Bead Game." And more.


New Music from Canada

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Happy Canada Day! For this New Sounds, we celebrate with an eclectic hour of new music from north of the border. Listen to electroacoustic music by Alain Thibault and piano minimalism from Anne Southam. Also, hear ambient music by Michael Brook (composer of the score to "An Inconvenient Truth,") and more.