Say hello to some new music and recent reissues. These affable sounds greet you with unusual insights and a knack for telling engaging musical stories. David Garland presents music from Brooklyn, Mali, England, Canada, Italy and elsewhere, some of Jonny Greenwood's score from the film "The Master," and some new musical settings of poems by e. e. cummings.
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Merci David pour cet indispensable rendez-vous hebdomadaire ! De belles découvertes dans le programme d'hier...
Amitiés.
The African song Christine is asking about is by Fatoumata Diawara. See the link above for info about her performance at Pace University, Sept. 28th. Ken Braun, that's interesting about the second Monti song, which sounded quite African to my ears, and so led to the Fatoumata Diawara song.
Here's the playlist, showing Artist-Song-Album:
Imani Coppola - Say Hello - Glass Wall
Maria Monti - Il Pavone - Il Bestiario
Maria Monti - L'Uomo - Il Bestiario
Fatoumata Diawara - Alama - Fatou
Snowblink - Buttons - Inner Classics
Laurie Spiegel - The Unquestioned Answer - The Expanding Universe
Jonny Greenwood - Alethia - The Master
Tin Hat - anyone lived in a pretty how town - The Rain is a Handsome Animal: 17 Songs from the Poetry of e. e. cummings
Tin Hat - diminutive - The Rain is a Handsome Animal: 17 Songs from the Poetry of e. e. cummings
Guy Klucevsek - Larsong - The Multiple Personality Reunion Tour
Guy Klucevsek - Gimme a Minute, Please (My Sequins Are Showing) - The Multiple Personality Reunion Tour
Bill Fay - Never Ending Happening - Life Is People
Here We Go Magic - Hard To Be Close - A Different Ship
To be more specific, it was the African sounding song with the female vocalist...
Fascinating to hear the song sung by Maria Monte (did I get the name right?) with a guitar and bird songs in the background. I recognize the song as "Masanga" or "Masanga Njia," by the Congolese singer and guitarist Jean Bosco Mwenda. Mwenda was first recorded performing this song in the Katanga region in 1952 by the great musicologist Hugh Tracey, who, from the the 1930s into the 1970s, traveled around southern, eastern and central Africa with a tape recorder, creating an invaluable archive of traditional and early-modern African music. Mwenda went on to a sometime-career in music up till his death in 1990.
Excuse my ignorance, but what/who was that African-sounding song that you played after the Italian vocalist? It was gorgeous.
I knew that was Alvin Curran backing up that Italian vocalist. His sound is so unique and memorable.
Please, if you can send me the name of the CD played this morning, music of Hebraic Cantorial Melodies (magnificent) I think directed and produced by Itsaac Permman and performed by his former students. Many thanks, sincerely . Roslyn Richter
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