#4280: Laments and Sad Songs
Hear an hour of sad songs with laments from Armenia and Ireland, Greece, Mali, and the U.S.A. from M. Lamar, Marisa Anderson, Savina Yannatou, and Donnacha Dennehy’s “The Hunger.”
There’s music from the male soprano and composer M. Lamar which casts the African American spiritual tradition in a metal goth veil. It’s M. Lamar’s “Oh, Graveyard,” a lament framed by electronic textures composed by Liturgy frontman Hunter Hunt-Hendrix and one that is aptly described by its album title Funeral Doom Spiritual. Also, hear vocal music from Armenia, as well as an original lament in Greek, from singer Savina Yannatou, “With the Moon I'm Walking.”
Listen to keening, the Irish form of lament known– both modern and medieval in music from Donnacha Dennehy, and the late French composer Hector Zazou. Hear a portion of Dennehy's opera, The Hunger, based on a firsthand account of the Irish famine of 1845–52, featuring vocalists Katherine Manley and Iarla O' Lionáird with Alarm Will Sound. Plus, listen to laments from the late French composer and record producer Hector Zazou from an album of Irish sacred and ancestral songs. And more. - Caryn Havlik
Program #4280: Laments and Sad Songs (First aired 9/26/2019)
ARTIST: Shoghaken Ensemble
WORK: Our es mayr im (Mother, where are you?) [1:00]
RECORDING: The Music of Armenia, Vol 2
SOURCE: Celestial Harmonies #13116
INFO: harmonies.com
ARTIST: Katie McMahon, Peter Gabriel
WORK: Hector Zazou; Caoineadh Na Dtr Muire (Keening of the Three Marys) [4:07]
RECORDING: Lights in the Dark
SOURCE: Erato/Warner 3984216622
INFO: Available at Amazon.com
ARTIST: Katherine Manley and Iarla O' Lionáird, Alarm Will Sound
WORK: Keening [3:12]
RECORDING: Donnacha Dennehy: The Hunger
SOURCE: Nonesuch Records 075597925159
INFO: store.nonesuch.com
ARTIST: Shoghaken Ensemble
WORK: Our es mayr im (Mother, where are you?) [4:17]
RECORDING: The Music of Armenia, Vol 2
SOURCE: Celestial Harmonies #13116
INFO: harmonies.com
ARTIST: Savinna Yannatou
WORK: Me To Fengari Perpato (With the Moon I'm Walking) [2:39]
RECORDING: Terra Nostra
SOURCE: ECM Records 1856
INFO: ecmrecords.com
ARTIST: M. Lamar, with Hunter Hunt-Hendrix
WORK: Oh, Graveyard [8:01]
RECORDING: Funeral Doom Spiritual
SOURCE: Negrogothic
INFO: Available at Amazon.com, Apple Music, Spotify
ARTIST: Marisa Anderson
WORK: Lament [4:14]
RECORDING: Cloud Corner
SOURCE/INFO: marisaanderson.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Tunde Jegede
WORK: Lamentation [3:24]
RECORDING: Lamentation
SOURCE: cdbaby.com/cd/tundejegede2
INFO: tundejegede.com
ARTIST: Irene Papas & Vangelis
WORK: Lamento [7:40]
RECORDING: Odes
SOURCE: 1979 / reissued 2007 UMVD 1720633
INFO: Available as an import on Amazon.com
ARTIST: Nóirín Ní Riain & Monks of Glenstal Abbey
WORK: Seacht nDolas 2 (Seven Sorrows) [2:35]
RECORDING: Caoinheadh na Maighdine
SOURCE: Gael-Linn #CEL-084
INFO: Rereleased on the Sounds True label OR Available through Amazon.com
ARTIST: Katie McMahon
WORK: Hector Zazou; Gol Na Dtri Muire (Lament of the Three Marys) [4:24]
RECORDING: Lights in the Dark
SOURCE: Erato/Warner 3984216622
INFO: Available at Amazon.com
