On this edition of New Sounds, hear some chamber music by composer Marc Mellits with a populist bent.  We’ll sample his work, “Tight Sweater," which contains traces of funk, echoes of rock, and minimalism's rapidly shifting patterns of notes and interlocking rhythms.  With the provocative and whimsical titles, ("Exposed Zipper," “Pickle Trousers” and “Mechanically Separated Chicken Parts”) the movements are compact and alarmingly catchy.

The group Real Quiet — pianist Andrew Russo, cellist Felix Fan, and percussionist David Cossin — brings the perky and spiky cartoon-like energy to bear.  There’s that bit of post-minimalist ear candy, and other post-minimalist chamber works by the likes of Robert Davidson.

PROGRAM #3317 Chamber Works  (First aired on 3/26/2012)

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Topology

Big Decisions

Robert Davidson : The Whitlam Dismissal- Keating and Kerr, excerpt [1:30]

Serrated Records 281008
Available at www.cdbaby.com

or download from Emusic.com

Real Quiet

Tight Sweater

Marc Mellits: Tight Sweater
1:Exposed Zipper [2:39]
2:Trans Fatty Acid's Rein [2:22]
3:Mara's Lullaby [4:32]
4:Pickle Trousers [2:05]
5:Evil Yellow Penguin [2:28]
6: Mechanically Separated Chicken Parts [4:13]

Endeavour Classics 1016
Available at iTunes, Amazon.com, Emusic.com and www.arkivmusic.com

Topology

Big Decisions

Robert Davidson : The Whitlam Dismissal- the dismissal [2:08]
-Keating and Kerr [4:30]
-Kerr's Cur [2:29]
-Fair Play [1:24]

Serrated Records 281008
Available at www.cdbaby.com
or download from Emusic.com

John Schaefer carefully sorts through the stacks, bins, and boatloads of new CDs, downloads, LPs, cassettes (!), which came across his desk this past January 2012. Hear some music by Guy Klucevsek, from his "the Multiple Personality Reunion tour," along with something from guitarist and experimenter Dustin Wong.  Also, listen to fiddle music from Brittany Haas & Dan Trueman and something from bassist/composer Florent Ghys.  Plus, a work from composer Zack Browning, as played by the Cadillac Moon Ensemble.  And more.

PROGRAM # 3297 New Releases, Jan. 2012  (First aired on 2/1/2012)

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Guy Klucevsek & Brave Combo

The Multiple Personality Reunion Tour

Pink Elephant [5:58]

Innova 819
www.innova.mu

Various: Nils Økland

Songlines Magazine Sampler - Folke Larm - Traditional music

Blond blå [3:25]

Distributed  with issue #81 of Songlines magazine, www.songlines.co.uk

Brittany Haas & Dan Trueman

Criss Cross

Training West From Bergen [4:38]

brittanddanband.com

Florent Ghys

Baroque Tardif

Phase Parisienne [4:57]

Cantaloupe 21052
www.cantaloupemusic.com

Dustin Wong

Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads

Feet Prints on Flower Dreads [2:24]
Abstract Horse Slow Motion [2:41]

Thrill 295
www.thrilljockey.com

Zach Browning, feat. Cadillac Moon

Secret Pulse

Secret Pulse [8:43]

Innova 817
www.innova.mu

Jason Treuting, the percussionist/composer -his mallets, sticks, and music - certainly get around. Treuting has made music with and for So Percussion, the Swedish folk-instrument wielding QQQ, the electronica duo Matmos, the Zappa-jazzy band Kneebody, and the guitarist/composer Steve Mackey, to name a few.  On this New Sounds, listen to music featuring Jason Treuting as soloist, collaborator, and composer. There’s also music from multi-instrumentalist/composer Nick Zammuto, co-founder of the sonically and visually innovative duo the Books.

He’s just launched a new band, Zammuto, whose music features tightly integrated video projection, synched rhythmically with the tunes. Listen to Zammuto’s pieces written for violinist Todd Reynolds and cellist Zach Miskin, music from the Books, and possibly a sample of the forthcoming Zammuto record. This is all in advance of Treuting and Zammuto’s upcoming collaboration of laser-and video based music, (and spelling bee!) which will be part of next week’s joint New Sounds Live / Ecstatic Music Festival event , on Thursday Feb. 23rd at Merkin Hall.

PROGRAM # 3303, (First aired on 2/16/2012)

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So Percussion & Matmos

Treasure State

Aluminum [7:03]

Cantaloupe Music 21065
www.cantaloupemusic.com

The Books

2007 BoaC Marathon

The Future, Wouldn’t That Be Nice [5:05]

This performance not commercially available.  The work appears on The Books record  “The Lemon of Pink,” available at Amazon.com , Emusic.com , and iTunes.

Todd Reynolds

Outerborough

Zammuto: Fast Pasture

Innova 741
www.innova.mu

So Percussion and Trollstilt

Five and A Half Gardens

Matisse’s Garden Lesson [8:28]

DVD Shhh Productions 1
Available at iTunes, Amazon.com OR sopercussiontrollstilt.bandcamp.com

Zach Miskin

For your safety

Nick Zammuto: But I grabbed a branch [3:24]

Naïve V5175
http://en.naive.fr or Download from Emusic.com

Bang on a Can All-Stars

Bang On A Can People's Commissioning Fund Concert, Merkin Hall, February 10, 2011

O Shut Your Eyes Against the Wind [14:03]

This performance not commercially available.

Orchestra of the League of Composers

Recorded at Columbia’s Miller Theatre, June 7, 2010

Jason Treuting: Oblique Music for Four Plus [11:45]

This performance not commercially available.

This New Sounds program samples a world of ambient works, with music from composers based in Iceland, Germany, Scotland, Poland, Sweden, and a work from a Brooklyn-based metal guitarist.  Listen to pulsing percussive ambient music by Berlin-based Nils Frahm, along with some stasis music featuring harpsichord by the Polish composer Jacaszek. Then, from Iceland, there's a score from composer, producer (and former metalhead) Olafur Arnalds, "Another Happy Day," with electro-acoustic soundscapes formed around piano and strings.

Hear some textured layers of a chimey guitar-based soundscape from Brooklyn-based guitarist Kevin Hufnagel, (better known for playing in metal outfits Dysrhythmia and Gorguts) as well.  Also, from the Scottish cellist and composer Peter Gregson, there's music from his record, "Flight Path," and its amplified, looped and highly processed cello sounds.  Plus, music from the moors and hillsides of Northern England by Richard Skelton in his "Remaindered."

PROGRAM # 3292, Electro-Acoustic Ambient Works (First aired on 1/20/2012)

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Peter Gregson

Terminal

Spin, excerpt [2:00]

petergregson.bandcamp.com

Nils Frahm

Felt

Keep [3:27]

ERATP033
www.erasedtapes.com
Download from Emusic.com or iTunes

Jacaszek

Glimmer

Dare-gale [5:45]

Ghostly International GI-147
ghostly.com

Peter Gregson

Terminal

Spin [6:04]

petergregson.co.uk
Or available on iTunes and Emusic.com

Ólafur Arnalds

Another Happy Day

Out to Sea [4:10]

ERATP038
Due out Feb. 24, 2012
www.erasedtapes.com

Richard Skelton

Landings

Remaindered [5:35]

TYPE 055
typerecords.com
Download from Emusic or iTunes.

Kevin Hufnagel

Transparencies

Static Aquarium [4:26]

Download from
kevinhufnagel.bandcamp.com

Korallreven

An Album by Korallreven

Sa Sa Samoa feat. Julianna Barwick [4:05]

Hybris / Acéphale ACE 019
acephale.bigcartel.com
Download from Emusic.com or iTunes

Hildur Gudnadottir

Without Sinking

Aether, excerpt [2:00]

Touch 070LP
double LP or Touch 070CD
touchshop.org

For this New Sounds, we’ll hear some global acoustic works from the Touré-Raichel Collective.  It’s a collaboration between Malian musician Vieux Farka Touré and Israeli producer/keyboardist Idan Raichel which came about following a concert in Tel Aviv.  The results are stunning and elegant conversations between guitar (Touré) and piano (Raichel), where the strings of the piano are sometimes plucked like a harp or kora.  The songs are anchored by Israeli bassist Yossi Fine and Malian calabash player Souleymane Kane.  ("The Tel Aviv Session" will be out in late March, 2012.)

Plus, more music from the AfroCubism recording, some music by Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabate and many other (mostly) acoustic works from around the world.

PROGRAM # 3288, Acoustic World Music (First aired on 1/9/2012)  

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The Touré-Raichel Collective

The Tel Aviv Session

Alkataou, excerpt [1:30]

Cumbancha CMB CD 22
www.cumbancha.com
www.toureraichel.com

Ali Farka Touré / Toumani Diabaté

In the Heart of the Moon

Hawa Dolo [5:00]

Nonesuch World Circuit #79920**
www.nonesuch.com *

AfroCubism

AfroCubism

Jarabi [5:57]

Nonesuch 525993
www.nonesuch.com

The Touré-Raichel Collective

The Tel Aviv Session

Alkataou [5:02]

See above.

Ry Cooder & Vishwa M. Bhatt

A Meeting By the River

Ganges Delta Blues [:30]

Water Lily Acoustics 29
Reissued in 2009, APO (Analogue Production Originals) 29
Available at Amazon.com * OR
waterlilyacoustics.com

Debashish Bhattacharya & Bob Brozman

Mahima

Digi Digi Dom Dom [5:25]

Riverboat Records/World Music Network TUGCD1029 www.worldmusic.net

Ballaké Sissoko, Vincent Sé gal

Chamber Music

Halinkata Djoubé [5:08]

Six Degrees Records #1171
www.sixdegreesrecords.com
or via Amazon.com * or download from eMusic.com

The Touré-Raichel Collective

The Tel Aviv Session

Azawade [8:11]

See above.

On this New Sounds program, we’ll hear a sampling of works from a concentrated new music hotspot: Iceland.  It’s a scene where rock music, orchestral music and electronics are blended freely and without regard for genre lines.  To get an idea, we’ll hear music by composer/producer Valgeir Sigurdsson, who balances chamber and classical against rock and electronica.  Plus, something from the now San Diego-based Anna Thorvaldsdottir, whose frosty orchestral music seems to invoke a shimmery soundworld of texures, even though it is played using just acoustic instruments on her record, “Rhizoma.”

Also, there’s music from a dance score by Olafur Arnalds, lush, ambient northern soundscape music from cellist/composer Hildur Gudnadottir, and orchestral strings & modern electronica in music from the Reykjavik-based Johann Johannson.

PROGRAM # 3283, New Music from Iceland (First aired on 12/20/2011)

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Sigur Rós

( )

Samskeyti, excerpt [1:30]

FATCD 22
fatcat.sandbaghq.com

Ólafur Arnalds

Dyad 1909

Dyad 1909, excerpt [8:48]

Erased Tapes  ERATP019
www.erasedtapes.com
olafurarnalds.com

Ólafur Arnalds

Eulogy For Evolution

Eulogy for Evolution, pt 7 [5:56]

Erased Tapes ERATP004
erasedtapes.com
olafurarnalds.com

Jóhann Jóhannsson

Englabörn

Salfraedingur (Psychologist) [3:49]

Touch TO:52
touchshop.org

Valgeir Sigurdsson

Draumalandið

Past Tundra [5:06]

Bedroom Community HVALUR8 bedroomcommunity.net

Hildur Gudnadóttir

Without Sinking

Into Warmer Air [6:11]

Touch 070LP
double LP or Touch 070CD
touchshop.org

Anna Thorvaldsdottir,

Bryndis Halla Gylfadottir, cello
Iceland Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Bjarnason, conductor

Rhizoma

Dreaming, excerpt [10:00]

Innova 810
www.innova.mu or through Amazon.com

For this New Sounds podcast, listen to a live performance by the Alwan Arab Music Ensemble. It's a group of classical players, six members strong and based in New York, all of whom sing and play a wide range of Arab musical styles on traditional instruments.  Listen to Egyptian, Iraqi, and Syrian classical art music from Cairo, Baghdad, and the ancient city of Aleppo.  Plus, music from Syrian Abed Azrie.

Take a dip into minimal hypnotic music with something from composer/professor (theory and history of sound!) Anthony Moore and composer/artist Alexis Georgopoulos, who goes by “Arp.”  Moore was formerly a member of weird pop band Slapp Happy, and has also studied Indian classical music with Viram Jasani.  Georgopoulos used to be a member of California percussion ramble band Tussle and has written a few film scores and works for dance.  Together, these two punks have crafted a collection of tunes recalling the Penguin Café Orchestra stuck in a Möbius strip, with two for Englishman Robert Wyatt called “Wild Grass I & II.”

We’ll hear some of their music along with other works by "downtown" composers on this New Sounds.  We’ll also listen to some music by Arthur Russell, and something for “Pierrot plus percussion” ensemble by American composer Belinda Reynolds.  Plus, something from the late Michael Galasso, and more.

PROGRAM #3229, Downtown Music, Then & Now (First aired on 7/21/11)

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Arthur Russell

World Of Echo

Soon-To-Be Innocent Fun/Let's See , excerpt [1:30]

Audika Records AU-1002-2
www.audikarecords.com

Anthony Moore & Arp

Frkwys Vol. 3

Wild Grass II (for Robert Wyatt) [3:26]

Cat #: FRKWYS03 LP or download from igetrvng.com or Emusic.com

Michael Galasso

Scenes

Scenes IV [3:59]

ECM 1245
www.ecmrecords.com

Anthony Moore & Arp

Frkwys Vol. 3

Wild Grass II (for Arthur Russell) [3:20]

See above.

Arthur Russell

Tower of Meaning

Tower of Meaning, excerpt [6:10]

Chatham Square #145.  Re-issed on 2 CD set, “First Thought Best Thought”
Audika Records, AU-1005-2
www.audikarecords.com

Missy Mazzoli & Victoire

Cathedral City

A Song for Arthur Russell [5:36]

New Amsterdam 25
www.newamsterdamrecords.com

Now Ensemble

Awake

David Crowell: Waiting in the Rain for Snow [8:48]

New Amsterdam NWAM0029
www.newamsterdamrecords.com

Common Sense Composers Collective & New Millenium Ensemble

TIC

Belinda Reynolds: Coming Around [8:11]
Marc Mellits: Spam, excerpt [10:00]

Albany TROY 899
www.albanyrecords.com

It's that time of the month again for the new releases show on New Sounds. John Schaefer carefully sorts through the stacks, bins, and boatloads of new CDs which have come across his desk over the past month to present some of the finest new releases.

PROGRAM #3220, New Releases, June 2011  (First aired on 6/30/11)

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SOURCE

Robert Stillman

Machine’s Song

Impossible Tree [6:48]

OI B Records OIB021
www.oibrecords.com

ICE

The Bright and Hollow Sky

Nathan Davis: Like sweet bells jangled [10:36]

New Focus Recordings FCR120
www.newfocusrecordings.com
www.iceorg.org
www.nathandavis.com

Daniel Janke

Cinco Puntos Cardinales

Miawezo [3:20]

Centredisques 16911
www.musiccentre.ca
www.centremusique.ca

Craig Taborn

Avenging Angel

The Broad Day King [6:12]

ECM 2207
www.ecmrecords.com

Robert Stillman

Machine’s Song

Intro [:38]

See above.

Aram Bajakian's Kef

Aram Bajakian's Kef

Pear Tree [2:36]

Tzadik 7803
www.tzadik.com

Black Eagle Child

Lobelia

Crandon [5:55]

Pre 031
www.preservation.com.au

Les Rhinoceros

Les Rhinoceros

Johnway [4:46]

Tzadik 7801
www.tzadik.com

Listen to Pulitzer-prize winning John Adams’ - “On the Transmigration of Souls,” written for the first anniversary of the attacks.  Then there's Michael Gordon’s “The Sad Park,” made from the electronically manipulated voices of children who witnessed the World Trade Center attack, and premiered in September of 2006.  Plus, an excerpt from Robert Moran’s brand-new “Trinity Requiem,” featuring the Trinity Youth Chorus.

PROGRAM #3244 Responsorium 9/11  (First aired on 9/11/11)

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John Adams,
New York Philharmonic, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, New York Choral Artists, Lorin Maazel, conductor

John Adams - On the Transmigration of Souls

John Adams: On the Transmigration of Souls, excerpt [14:00]

Nonesuch 79816
www.nonesuch.com

Michael Gordon, Kronos Quartet

The Sad Park, live

Opening, [1:00]
Selections, [14:00]

Cantaloupe CA21078
http://cantaloupemusic.com

Robert Moran, Trinity Youth Chorus

The Trinity Requiem

Introit, excerpt, [1:00]
Kyrie, [4:55]
Psalm 23, [3:41]
Pie Jesu, [2:28]
Conclusion, excerpt [3:00]

Innova 244
www.innova.mu
Listen to the entire Requiem here:
soundcloud.com/robert-moran-trinity-requiem

For this podcast edition of the program, listen to some of William Basinski's "Disintegration Loops." Finished in September of 2001, the whole series has now become an unintended elegy of sorts.

PROGRAM #3243 Unintended Elegies(First aired on 9/10/11)

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William Basinski

The Disintegration Loops Vol. III

Disintegration Loops 4 [15:00]

2062 CD Catalog #:2062 0304
www.mmlxii.com

The Disintegration Loops I

Disintegration Loops 1.1 [19:00]

2062 CD Catalog #:2062 0201
www.mmlxii.com

It's that time of the month already!  John Schaefer once again picks through the spring flood of CDs that have been sent to his office to find new releases worthy of showcasing in tonight's program.  Among these outstanding piles is a new work from Roswell Rudd that features some musicians from West African and a new recording from Vieux Farka Toure, featuring his father, Ali Farka Toure. Also, hear music from a Greek group called Lüüp, and something from Montreallers, Esmerine, who just released a record in memory of Lhasa.  Plus, a collaborative record from dueling keyboardists Aaron Goldberg and Guillermo Klein, and music from a Swiss piano trio based on Turkish music.

PROGRAM #3211, New Releases May 2011 (First aired on 5/31/11)

ARTIST(S)

RECORDING

CUT(S)

SOURCE

King Creosote & Jon Hopkins

Diamond Mine

John Taylor's Month Away, excerpt  [1:00]

Domino DS38
www.dominorecordco.com

Pat Metheny

What’s it All About

The Sound of Silence [6:33]

Nonesuch 527912
Due out June 14, 2011
www.nonesuch.com

Lüüp

Meadow Rituals

Horse Heart [6:06]

Experimedia EXPCD 015
www.experimedia.net

King Creosote & Jon Hopkins

Diamond Mine

John Taylor's Month Away [6:32]

Domino DS38
www.dominorecordco.com

Esmerine

La Lechuza (the owl)

A Dog River

Constellation CST080
www.cstrecords.com

Colin Vallon Trio

Rruga

Iskar [2:48]

ECM 2185
www.ecmrecords.com

Aaron Goldberg and Guillermo Klein

Bienestar

Implacable [3:03]

Sunnyside SSC1245
www.sunnysiderecords.com

Pietro Russino

Hypnofolk

Brinca/the Pink Side [5:04]

www.myspace.com/prussino
Available at www.cdbaby.com

Roswell Rudd

The Incredible Honk

Ngoni Vortex [4:20]

Sunnyside SSC 1279
www.sunnysiderecords.com

Vieux Farka Toure, with Ali Farka Toure

The Secret

The Secret [6:51]

Six Degrees SDR11792
www.sixdegreesrecords.com

Listen to compositions for electric violin on this New Sounds program.  We'll hear Nico Muhly's Seeing Is Believing, a concerto for electric violin, which features the Aurora Orchestra and Thomas Gould on electric six-string violin, Also, we'll hear music by John Adams from his work, "The Dharma At Big Sur" - "Sri Moonshine" for electric violin and orchestra. It's an homage to the beat poets and to minimalists, like Terry Riley, with its Eastern-tinged strings and shimmering suspended chords.  Plus, other works.

PROGRAM #3224, music for electric violin

ARTIST(S)

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CUT(S)

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John Adams

Dharma at Big Sur

Part 1. A New Day [14:28]

Nonesuch Records**
www.nonesuch.com

Nico Muhly

Seeing is Believing

Seeing is Believing [24:28]

Decca 478 2731**

Shankar

M.R.C.S.

Ocean Waves [7:47]

ECM Records #1403**
www.ecmrecords.com

For this New Sounds, we’ll sample liberally from the latest recording from Moroccan-born singer Amina Alaoui, called “Arco Iris.”  It’s a pan-Mediterranean blend of flamenco music from Spain, fado music from Portugal, Arab-Andalusian music and Brazilian choro, linked by jazz and a night in Tunisia.

Alaoui’s ensemble includes José Luis Montón from Barcelona, Brazilian-born mandolinist Eduardo Miranda, along with two Tunisians: violinist Saïfallah Ben Abderrazak and oud player Sofiane Negra.  Idriss Agnel, Amina’s son, plays percussion.  We’ll also dip into her previous collaboration with Norwegian keyboardist Jon Balke and trumpeter Jon Hassell, and much more.

PROGRAM #3223  “Mystics + The Mediterranean” 

ARTIST(S)

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Jon Balke feat. Amina Alaoui

Siwan

Toda ciencia transcendiendo, excerpt [2:00]

ECM Records # 2042**

www.ecmrecords.com

Savina Yannatou

Sumiglia

Me To Fegari Perpato (With the Moon I'm Walking) [2:39]

ECM Records #1903, see above.

Amina Alaoui

Arco Iris

Ya laylo layl  [9:18]

ECM Records # 2180, see above.

Jon Balke feat. Amina Alaoui

Siwan

Toda ciencia transcendiendo [12:21]

ECM Records #2042

Amina Alaoui

Arco Iris

Buscante en Mi, var. [5:32]

ECM Records

See above

Jon Hassell

Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street

Last Night the Moon Came [11:15]

ECM Records #2077, see above.

Savina Yannatou

Sumiglia

Porondos Viz Partjan [4:09]

ECM Records

See above

We'll explore the deep tones of bands like Gato Loco whose lead instruments are the bass clarinet and the tuba on this New Sounds program.  There's even more from the tuba with music by Tom Heasley and some bass clarinet work by Marty Erlich.  We'll also hear the jazzy extensions of the bass saxophone in the works of the Maikotron Unit. 

Then, there are other ways of achieving the low end - in Mari Kimura's case, there's the subharmonics of her violin, which she has achieved by a 3-step technique that she describes as "clunk, drag, and release" to uncover notes as much as an octave deeper than the low G string.

PROGRAM #3209, How Low Can You Go? (First aired on 5/2411)

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RECORDING

CUT(S)

SOURCE

Mari Kimura

The World Below G  and Beyond

Six Caprices for Subharmonics no. 6

Mutable 17542
www.mutablemusic.com

Gato Loco

Malditos Besos

Eso No Es Na [5:28]

www.gatolocomusica.com
Gato Loco also has a new record out on Winter & Winter, www.winterandwinter.com

Maikotron Unit

Ex-Voto

votivae noctes [5:55]

Rant 1140
www.nette.ca/rantjazz
www.cdbaby.com

Mari Kimura

The World Below G  and Beyond

6 Caprices for Subharmonics no. 2 [1:45]

See above.

Mark Nauseef

Wun Wun

Quilts (a Patchwork Dance) [10:13]

Creative Music Productions CMP Records 6055

Out of print, but try through Amazon as an import Wun Wun

Marty Erlich’s Dark Woods Ensemble

Just Before the Dawn

Eliahu [6:31]

New World Records 80474
www.newworldrecords.org

David Hykes/Harmonic Choir

Harmonic Meetings

Halleluyah [7:03]

Celestial Harmonies 14013/14
www.harmonies.com

Tom Heasley

On The Sensations of Tone

Prelude , excerpt [4:00]

Innova 566
www.innova.mu

It's that time of the month again for the new releases show on New Sounds. John Schaefer carefully sorts through the stacks, bins, and towers of new CDs, records, and bandcamp sites which have come across his desk or into his email over the past month to present some choice cuts.

PROGRAM # 3199, New Releases, April 2011 (First aired on 4/29/11)

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RECORDING

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SOURCE

Various Artists: Meredith Monk

Pianos in The Kitchen, From The Kitchen Archives No. 5

Meredith Monk: Travelling, excerpt [1:30]

Orange Mountain Music 0070
www.orangemountainmusic.com

Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble, Todd Reynolds Quartet, Bodhan Hilash, bass clarinet

John Hollenbeck, percussion

Songs of Ascension

Burn [4:18]

ECM Records
Due out May 17, 2011
www.ecmrecords.com

Angele Dubeau & La Pieta

John Adams Portrait

Shaker Loops for string septet: Loops & Verses

Analekta AN 2 8732
angeledubeau.com

Chiara Str Qt & Matmos

Jefferson Friedman Quartets

Jefferson Friedman - String Quartet #2, I [5:35]

New Amsterdam 030
www.newamsterdamrecords.com

Chiara Str Qt & Matmos

Jefferson Friedman Quartets

Matmos - Remix #1 (Jefferson Friedman Str Quartet #2) [5:22]

See above.

Flutronix

Flutronix

Run-On [4:32]

www.flutronix.com

Watcha Clan

Radio Babel

Im Nin'Alu intro [1:47]
Im Nin'alu [3:22]

Piranha PIR 2543
www.piranha.de OR
Download from Emusic.com

Andy Akiho

No One to Know One

Kiiro (Yellow) [5:10]

Innova 801
www.innova.mu

Amjad Ali Khan & David Murphy -, w Scottish Ch Orch

Samaagam

Swar Samir [4:38]

World Village 468102
www.worldvillage.com OR
www.sarod.com

Various Artists: Harold Budd

Pianos in The Kitchen, From The Kitchen Archives No. 5

Harold Budd, Excerpt from Preludes fo Solo Piano, [2:00]

See above.

Philip Glass’s piano works have had a longstanding and widespread influence – on the so-called Post-minimalist composers, but also on musicians working in the electronic dance world.  One of them is Francesco Tristano, who brings electronica’s repeating motifs back to the piano in his solo piece “The Melody.”  We’ll hear that, as well as several of William Duckworth’s “Time Curve Preludes,” often considered the first major Post-minimalist work, and a work from the late Canadian composer Ann Southam directly inspired by Glass’s piano works.

PROGRAM #3190, post-minimalist music (First aired on 4-5-11)

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Philip Glass

The Best of WNYC Live, Vol. 2

Etude #2, excerpt [1:30]

Private CD recorded in the WNYC studios

William Duckworth

Time-Curve Preludes

Prelude #17 [2:33]

Lovely Music #2031. http://www.lovely.com/titles/cd2031.html or www.emusic.com

Dustin O’Halloran

Lumiere

We Move Lightly [3:10]

Available at www.dustinohalloran.com or at www.emusic.com

Max Richter

Songs from Before

Autumn Song #1 [3:54]

Fat Cat #013 http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/release.php?id=203

Ann Southam

Glass Houses Revisited (Christina Petrowska Quilico, pf)

Glass Houses #2 [4:57]

Centrediscs CMC #16511. www.musiccentre.ca

Francesco Tristano

Not For Piano

The Melody [4:35]

inFine/Sunnyside Records.  Available at www.emusic.com or iTunes.

William Duckworth

Time-Curve Preludes

Prelude #6 [4:11]

See above.

Dustin O’Halloran

Lumiere

Opus 55 [6:05]

See above.

Penguin Café

A Matter of Life…

That, Not That [4:21]

www.penguincafe.com

Todd Reynolds

Outerborough

Ken Thomson: Storm Drain [6:05]

Innova #741. www.innova.mu

William Duckworth

Time-Curve Preludes

Prelude #3 [2:01]

See above.

Philip Glass

Glassworks

Opening, excerpt [4:00]

Sony Classical** available on iTunes or eMusic.

To mark the last season of Friday Night Lights, the New Sounds All-Purpose Assistant has wheedled a way to have some of the music that should have scored the TV show- into a podcast!  Hear here this New Sounds go at scoring an episode (or three.)
Sure, there is an expected inclusion, with Explosions in the Sky, and Efrim Manuel Menuck (Godspeed!) but get a listen to fellow Texans This Will Destroy You, Leeds, UK-based Vessels and the British post-rock band Codes in the Clouds.  The show was meant to be a thank-you note to the music supervisors in the guise of a “Recommended If You Like (RIYL) Explosions in the Sky.”  Get a load of that tremolo guitar, the shifting and swelling rockness of the instrumental slow-core.

Special Podcast Edition of New Sounds: An alternate score to the Friday Night Lights TV Series

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Explosions in the Sky

The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place

First Breath After Coma [9:33]

Temporary Residence 61
temporaryresidence.com

Seven Saturdays

Seven Saturdays

The Shallow End [5:08]

sevensaturdays.bandcamp.com

Efrim Manuel Menuck

Plays High Gospel

August Four, Year-Of-Our-Lord Blues [3:01]

Constellation CST 078
Due out May 24, 2011
www.cstrecords.com

The Young Scamels

Tempest

A Solemn Air [5:20]

FT 74
www.file-13.com

Vessels

Helioscope

Heal [2:36]

Cuckundoo Records
vesselsband.com
www.cuckundoorecords.com

Hammock

Chasing After Shadows... Living With The Ghost

Little Fly, Mouchette [5:49]

hammockmusic.com/chasing
hammock.bandcamp.com

This Will Destroy You

This Will Destroy You

Leather Wings [3:31]

Magic Bullet 100
www.magicbulletrecords.com

Or download from Emusic.com or iTunes.

Dirty Three

Whatever You Love, You Are

I Really Should Have Gone Out Last Night [6:55]

Touch & Go Records Touch & Go 223
www.touchandgorecords.com

Codes in the Clouds

As the Spirit Wanes

The Reason in Madness, in Love [3:55]

Erased Tapes Records 15952
www.erasedtapes.com

Explosions in the Sky

Take Care, Take Care, Take Care

Postcard from 1952 [7:07]

Temporary Residence 11206
temporaryresidence.com

For this New Sounds, try on some layered voices in music by Julianna Barwick.  A superchoir of many Juliannas combines with warm drones and hypnotic piano to bring to mind Sigur Rós in a glacial cathedral.  Plus, there's also music from Toby Twining's latest, "Eurydice," which began as a score for Sarah Ruhl's play of the same name, and evolved into a many voiced interpretation of the Orpheus myth.  Those works, and much more.

PROGRAM # 3194, New Music for Voices (First aired on 4/18/11)

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Toby Twining Music

Eurydice

Yes! Yes! Yes! [4:00]
Underworld Motif, Strange High Pitched Noises [:51]
The String Room [5:37]

E-U-R-Y-D-I-C-E [2:27]

Cantaloupe Music CA 21068 www.cantaloupemusic.com

Julianna Barwick

The Magic Place

Envelop [5:40]

Asthmatic Kitty Records AKR081
http://asthmatickitty.com/the-magic-place

Laurel MacDonald

Luscinia’s Lullaby

Flutter [3:40]
Envelope Of Many [3:07]

Improbable Music imaCD-04
www.improbablemusic.com

Julianna Barwick

The Magic Place

White Flag [4:53]

See above.

Efrim Manuel Menuck

High Gospel

Chickadees Roar, Pt 2 [4:44]

Constellation CST 078
Due out May 24, 2011
www.cstrecords.com

Julianna Barwick

The Magic Place

Cloak

See above.

New Zealand-based Jack Body has written electroacoustic compositions using field recordings from Indonesia (and has also written for the Kronos Quartet.)  We’ll hear his collage of street sounds and toys that ends with pigeons taking off, each with different sized whistles attached.  Also, there’s music from New Zealand composer Gareth Farr, who incorporates the sounds of Indonesian gamelan music into his writing.

Plus, composer/performer Phil Dadson coaxes and explores weird sounds (PVC pipes, tubes & water glasses) into a ritual event with his performance troupe From Scratch (a percussive and occasionally sax-y precursor to drum/dance shows like 'Stomp' and Blue Man.)  Listen to a few of those drones and beatings on this New Sounds.  And much more.

PROGRAM #3187, New Music from New Zealand (First aired on 3-29-11)

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John Psathas  / Michael Houstoun

Rhythm Spike

Waiting for the Aeroplane [7:06]

RAT-D008 www.rattlerecords.net

Kenneth Young, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Farr: From the Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs

Gareth Farr :Te Papa [9:46]

Morrison Music Trust  MMT 2021/26
www.trustrecords.com

From Scratch

Songs For Heroes

Philip Dadson: Songs For Heroes, Part 2 [11:16]

Rattle Records RAT –D002
www.rattlerecords.net

Jack Body

Suara: Environmental Music From Java

Suara, Environmental Music of Java, excerpts (Music Anak-Anak (Children's Music)) [9:00]

Ode Record Company, Ltd.
Out of print.  Try Amazon.com *

We’ll hear musical tributes aplenty on this New Sounds program, many of them by guitarists heaping their thanks to other artists.  We’ll hear notes of appreciation from Bill Frisell to Boubacar Traoré and from trumpeter Dave Douglas to Bill Frisell.  Plus, tributes to Angelique Kidjo, John Fahey, and Philip Glass, and a few others.

PROGRAM #3185, Musical Tributes (First aired on 3-23-11)

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Ben Allison

Buzz

Green Al [6:14]

Palmetto Records PM 2101
www.palmetto-records.com

John Danley

Drifting Into Oblivion

Philip’s Glasses [3:19]

A Priori Records
Available at CDBaby.com

Stefan Grossman

John Renbourn & Stefan Grossman In Concert

The Assassination of John Fahey [4:07]

Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop 135
Available at guitarvideos.com or Emusic.com

Bill Frisell

Blues Dream

Greg Leisz [6:14]

Nonesuch 79615
www.nonesuch.com

Dave Douglas

Strange Liberation

the Frisell Dream [3:57]

RCA 50818
Available at Emusic.com , iTunes, or Amazon.com

Bill Frisell

The Intercontinentals

Boubacar [6:13]

Nonesuch 79661
www.nonesuch.com

Jienat

Mira

Angelique [3:54]

JNCD002
www.jienat.com

Don Ross

Breakfast for Dogs

Obrigado (Egberto) [3:52]

Candyrat Records
www.candyrat.com

For this New Sounds, listen to some "alt-classical" or "indie classical" bands, like Newspeak or the Paul Bailey Ensemble.  Newspeak is an eight-piece amplified ensemble working under the direction of composer David T. Little and clarinetist Eileen Mack. Named after the thought-limiting language in George Orwell’s 1984, Newspeak explores the grey area where art and politics mix.  We'll hear the group, from their "Sweet Light Crude" release, playing a work by Missy Mazzoli - "In spite of all this."

Plus, listen to some electroacoustic chamber rock from Nicole Lizee (Besnard Lakes), a Canadian composer who manages to weave in jazz, improvisation, pop music, contemporary music and everything in between.  Music by the Paul Bailey Ensemble rounds out the show.

PROGRAM # 3174, “alt-classical” and “indie classical” (First aired on 2-23-11)  

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Nicole Lizée

This Will Not Be Televised

Girl, you're Living A Life Of Crime [4:19]

2008 Centrediscs / Centredisques
CMCCD 13508
www.musiccentre.ca
or on Emusic www.emusic.com

Newspeak

sweet light crude

Missy Mazzoli: In Spite of All This [8:33]

New Amsterdam NWAM026
www.newamsterdamrecords.com www.newspeakmusic.org

Nicole Lizée

This Will Not Be Televised

Carpal Tunnels [6:39]

See above.

Newspeak

sweet light crude

David T. Little: sweet light crude [8:11]

See above.

Paul Bailey Ensemble

Alt-classical

Life’s Too Short, (clean studio version) [10:12]

www.paulbailey.us OR paulbailey.bandcamp.com

Paul Bailey Ensemble

Alt-classical

myinnersatan [6:14]

See above.

It's that time again for the monthly program of new releases. John Schaefer picks through the boatloads of CDs that have flooded his inbox to find new releases worthy of showcasing in tonight's program. We'll hear from the new double-release by Todd Reynolds, "Outerborough," a collection of both his own works and pieces written for him by other folks.  Also, hopefully we will sample music from Corsican singers performing Tibetan music and Brooklyn-based Balkan brass band music.

PROGRAM # 3175, February 2011 New Releases (First aired on 2-28-11)  

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Todd Reynolds

Outerborough

Transamerica, feat.Kid Beyond [5:08]

Innova 741
www.innova.mu

Julia Kent

Green and Grey

A Spire [3:58]

Important Records IMPREC324CD
Due out March 28, 2011
www.juliakent.com

Todd Reynolds

Outerborough

Michael Lowenstern: Crossroads [4:37]

See above.

Carolina Chocolate Drops / Luminscent Orchestrii with Adam Matta (vocal percussion/beatbox)

Carolina Chocolate Drops / Luminscent Orchestrii

Escoutas (Diga Diga Diga) [4:40]

Nonesuch 526130
www.nonesuch.com

Ansambl Mastika & Black Sea Hotel

Songs & Dances for Life NONSTOP

Ispukav Poema [4:27]

www.ansamblmastika.com

Raya Brass Band

Raya Brass Band

Di Di [4:11]

www.rayabrassband.com

Inna Zhelannaya feat. Trey Gunn

Cocoon

Well [5:56]

7d Media 1013
www.7dmedia.com
www.inasound.ru

Paolo Fresu / A Filetta Corsican Voices / Daniele di Bonaventura

Mistico Mediterraneo

Le Lac [6:39]

ECM 2203
www.ecmrecords.com

For this New Sounds, we'll take a sneak peak at the forthcoming "Tirtha," a collaboration between the South Indian guitarist Prasanna and pianist/composer Vijay Iyer.  Also, the venerable sax titan Charles Lloyd together with MacArthur “genius grant”-winning pianist Jason Moran, from a live performance on Soundcheck.  And more.

PROGRAM # 3171, Collaborative Efforts (First aired on 2-17-11)  

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Tord Gustavsen Ensemble

Restored, Returned

The Gaze [5:44]

ECM 2107
www.ecmrecords.com

Nik Bärtsch's Ronin

Llyria

Modul 52 [8:17]

ECM 2178
www.ecmrecords.com

Vijay Iyer/Prasanna/Nitin Mitta

Tirtha

Duality [5:59]

ACT Music & Vision 9503-2
Due out March 8, 2011
http://www.actmusic.com/

Urs Leimgruber & John Wolf Brennan

Mountain Hymn

Nagaswaram [11:03]

Bellaphon CDLR 45002
Out of print

Charles Lloyd & Jason Moran

Live on Soundcheck

Go Down Moses [6:07]

This performance not commercially available.  The ECM record on which Jason Moran appears is called “Mirror,” ECM #2176 www.ecmrecords.com

Trygve Seim & Andreas Utnem

Purcor- Songs for Saxophone and Piano

Nu Seglar Vi Inn [4:36]

ECM 2186
www.ecmrecords.com

For this New Sounds Program, we’ll listen to intriguing music about being lost, both physically, and in the sense of just having no direction, and not knowing where you’re headed.  From duoJalal -violist Kathryn Lockwood and percussionist Yousif Sheronick- hear music by Kenji Bunch, an entire suite called “Lost & Found.”

Also, listen to Ingram Marshall’s work, “Fog Tropes,” about being in a fog, and being lost in the fog.  Plus, there’s music about being directionless by Jeremy Peyton-Jones which uses nautical imagery to convey the feeling of being lost.  Perhaps we’ll also hear a bit from Bang on a Can’s “Lost Objects,” a musical exploration of the meaning of memory, and a powerful monument to the loss of people, things, rituals, ideas.

PROGRAM # 3170, Lost Music (First aired on 2-15-11)  

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Bill Frisell

Disfarmer

Lost, Night [1:50]

Nonesuch 478524
www.nonesuch.com

Ingram Marshall

Fog Tropes / Gradual Requiem

Fog Tropes: Gradual Requiem [9:59]

New Albion #002 www.newalbion.com

Bang on a Can

Lost Objects

M Gordon/D Lang/J Wolfe: We Were Enveloped [7:27]

Teldec 84107
http://bangonacan.org/store/product/58

Jeremy Peyton-Jones & Regular Music II

Regular Music II

North, South, East, West [12:28]

New Tone #6748
www.felmay.it
(http://www.felmay.it/main.php?ricerca=peyton-jones&id=8119 )

duoJalal

A Different World

Kenji Bunch: Lost & Found- parts 1,2, 4 [13:00]

Innova 793
www.innova.mu

For this New Sounds, hear some modern oratorios and other sacred texts set to music, including Kitty Brazelton's "Ecclesiastes: A Modern Oratorio," Phil Kline's "John the Revelator," and Douglas J. Cuomo's "Arjuna's Dilemma." Composer, professor, singer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Kitty Brazelton has written a modern oratorio with texts  from the Book of Ecclesiastes, re-translated from the Hebrew and Latin by Brazelton herself.  Her discoveries and deeper readings have uncovered a message that she believes Christians concealed in the 17th century; "live now—your life, whatever it is, is the gift—be grateful for everything, hardship or reward because you can’t understand where they will lead."

The component parts of the work -a male vocal quartet, cello, extended drum kit, concert bass drum, hammered dulcimer, bells, “found” soundtracks & drones- are altered, fractured, and recombined to consider time - its beginning, its ending.  This harmonic wash of sound - bowing, plucking, sticking, bell-playing, and thunderous beating, together with the live voices - sometimes processed - rises menacingly, and then recedes.  "There is an almost Sufi-like quality to the droning," suggests Daniel Coombs , along with "a bit of David Hykes, some Dead Can Dance, even a little Peter Gabriel," which create an "other-worldly environment."

PROGRAM # 3167, Modern Oratorios & Sacred Texts (First aired on 2-2-11)

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Kitty Brazelton / The Time Remaining Band

Ecclesiastes : A Modern Oratorio

Bells [2:23]

Time to go, Time to Remain [4:36]

Heaven [5:05]

A Time to Every Purpose [3:56]

Bells and Words [2:29]

Innova 727
www.innova.mu

Phil Kline (performed by Lionheart & Ethel)

John the Revelator, A Mass for Six Voices

Phil Kline: Hear My Prayer [1:54]
The Man Who Knows Misery [2:44]

Dark Was the Night [5:50]

Cantaloupe 21047 www.cantaloupemusic.com

Douglas Cuomo /

Arjuna’s Dilemma

"Epilogue: I Will Fight" [4:00]

Innova 697

www.innova.mu

Kitty Brazelton / The Time Remaining Band

Ecclesiastes : A Modern Oratorio

the beginning and ending of all things [17:20]

Innova 727
www.innova.mu

For this New Sounds, we’ll have at least a double-helping of guitar music, featuring some solo works by Marc Ribot intended as music for films: some are adaptations of music he has actually written for films, others for classic silent movies that he scored for his personal amusement, still others for films of his own imagination.  These haunting and wistful pieces explore, as Ribot says, "the strange area between language and spatiality that exists partly in between music and visual image, and partly as a common property of both."

Plus, solo guitar music from gifted guitarist/composer Gyan Riley (yep, son of notable composer Terry Riley) from his most recent effort, “Stream of Gratitude,” a record of original works that happen to be dedications (to J.S. Bach, John Dowland, Agustin Barrios Mangoré, Egberto Gismonti, and others.) All that, and music from William Tyler and Michael Chapman as well.

PROGRAM # 3164, Music for Solo Guitar (First aired on 1-27-11)  

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Marc Ribot

Silent Movies

Delancey Waltz, excerpt [1:30]

Pi Recordings PI 34
www.pirecordings.com
www.marcribot.com

Michael Chapman

Trainsong: Guitar Compositions 1967-2010

The Last Polish Breakfast [5:25]

Tompkins Square 2530
tompkinssquare.com

Wililam Tyler

Behold the Spirit

Missionary Ridge [6:04]

Tompkins Square 2424
tompkinssquare.com

Gyan Riley

Stream of Gratitude

Irican [6:20]

Tzadik 8078
www.tzadik.com

Michael Chapman

Trainsong: Guitar Compositions 1967-2010

Thurston's House [3:09]

See above.

Marc Ribot

Silent Movies

Flicker [5:22]
Bateau [4:59]
The Kid [4:16]

Pi Recordings PI 34
www.pirecordings.com
www.marcribot.com

For this New Sounds, listen to indie artists straddle the divide between world music, ambient and electronica as they incorporate or approximate traditional instruments, traditional sounds, and take the results well out of indie rock-land.  We'll hear from the Tradi-Mods Vs Rockers record, the latest in the Congotronics series, where carefully chosen artists have recorded homages to the original source material - landing someplace between reinventions and cover versions, and often go as far as being worthy of the dancefloor.

Sample a few of these reworkings, including one by Andrew Bird reinventing Konono No. 1, and Animal Collective reworking music by the Kasai All-Stars.  We'll also listen to On Fillmore, a collaboration between Glenn Kotche (also the drummer in Wilco) and Darin Gray, who mix percussion, acoustic bass, bird calls by Dede Sampaio (recorded in a grain silo) and other field recordings. Plus, music from Six Organs of Admittance (guitarist Ben Chasny) which chimes and drones, and some ambient music by Loscil, who happens to be drummer Scott Morgan of the Vancouver-based band, Destroyer.

PROGRAM # 3160, Indie Rock meets World, Ambient, & More (First aired on 1-18-11)  

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Various Artists: Andrew Bird vs. Konono N°1 & Sobanza Mima

Tradi-Mods vs Rockers: Alternative Takes on Congotronics

Ohnono/Kiwembo [5:59]

Crammed 169
www.crammed.be

Andrew Bird

Useless Creatures

Nyatiti [3:58]

Fat Possum  FP1219
Previously only available as the 2nd of a Deluxe 2CD package of “Noble Beast” BUT released in 2010:
www.fatpossum.com

Rachel’s

Significant Others

Lipochase [4:29]

Rachel's Archive 2002 ARC 01
Only available digitally:
digital.thinkindie.com
fina-music.com

Various Artists: Aksak Maboul vs Kasai Allstars

Tradi-Mods vs Rockers: Alternative Takes on Congotronics

Land Dispute [4:53]

See above.

Various Artists: Animal Collective vs Kasai Allstars

Tradi-Mods vs Rockers: Alternative Takes on Congotronics

Quick As White

See above.

On Fillmore (Glenn Kotche & Darrin Gray)

Extended Vacation

Complications [7:11]

WIL248
wilco.kungfunation.com

Loscil (Scott Morgan)

Endless Falls

Estuarine [8:21]

Kranky  KRANK141
boomkat.com (Also available as LP)
or download from Emusic.com

Six Organs of Admittance (Ben Chasny)

Asleep On The Floodplain

Above A Desert I've Never Seen [5:03]

Drag City Due out Feb 22, 2011
www.dragcity.com
www.sixorgans.com

Noveller (Sarah Lipstate)

Desert Fires

Almost Alright, excerpt [3:00]

Saffron Records 001
www.saffronrecordings.com
www.sarahlipstate.com

Hear works for acoustic instruments and electronics, with the combinations of piano and electronics, violin and electronics, or a small ensemble using no electronics at all on this New Sounds program.  We'll listen to Open Graves with Stuart Dempster recorded way down in a water cistern, which sounds very processed, although it was all acoustic.

There's also piano with sampled sounds of water by Afro-Cuban jazz pianist Omar Sosa from his record, "Calma."  Then we'll hear a work by Neil Rolnick, from his release, "Extended Family" which at times sounds like an early jazz salooon piano, then quotes old hymn tunes, all with electronics interacting with the acoustic piano.  Plus, long slow building guitar droney post-rock from Hammock, and more.

PROGRAM # 3162, Electronically Enhanced Acoustica (First aired on 1-25-11)  

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Open Graves (Paul Kikuchi and Jesse Olsen) with Stuart Dempster

Flight Patterns

2, excerpt [2:00]

Prefecture Records 004
www.prefecturerecords.com
OR Available at www.cdbaby.com

Omar Sosa

Calma

Aquas [3:41]

OTA 1022
www.melodia.com

Neil Rolnick

Extended Family

Faith, excerpt [15:00]

Innova 782
www.innova.mu

Ana Milosavljevic

Reflections

Aleksandra Vrebalov - The Spell III [7:26]

Innova 776
www.innova.mu

Hammock

Longest Year

Longest Year [8:23]

hammockmusic.com
hammock.bandcamp.com

Brian Eno/ Jon Hopkins / Leo Abrahams

Small Craft on a Milk Sea

Emerald and Stone [2:12]

Warp CD 207
www.warprecords.com

Open Graves (Paul Kikuchi and Jesse Olsen) with Stuart Dempster

Flight Patterns

2 [9:23]

Prefecture Records 004
www.prefecturerecords.com
OR Available at  www.cdbaby.com

It's the most wonderful time of the month!  John Schaefer sifts through the steady stream of CDs that have flooded his office to find a sampling of new releases worthy of showcasing in tonight's New Sounds program.  From here we can see some acoustic Afro-pop, a heaping helping of Balkan-inspired jazz, Balkan-informed indie rock, and the Sway Machinery, featuring Khaira Arby.  Plus, new music from Stephan Micus, and much more.

PROGRAM #3153, Music for the New Year (First aired on 12-30-10)

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Stephan Micus

Bold as Light

The Shrine [4:38]

ECM Records 2173
www.ecmrecords.com

Billy Fox’s Blackbirds and Bullets

Dulces

Deva Dasi [10:49]

Clean Feed 204
www.cleanfeed-records.com

A Hawk and a Hacksaw

Cervantine

No Rest for the Wicked [8:21]

LM Duplication
Due out in March 2011

Matt Darriau Paradox Trio

Matt Darriau Paradox Trio with Bojan Z

Faux Clarinet with Glass [6:51]

Felmay 167032
www.felmay.it

The Sway Machinery, feat. Khaira Arby

The House of Friendly Ghosts, Vol. I

Serigou (with Khaira Arby) [4:33]

JDub Records
www.jdubrecords.org
Due out in Feb. 2011

Sidi Toure

Sahel Folk

Djarii Ber (A Great Day) [4:01]

Thrill Jockey 256
www.thrilljockey.com

Phyllis Chen

Mesmers

Carousel [2:41]
Cerumspoon
www.phyllischen.net
www.cerumspoon.com

For this New Sounds program, listen to Buddhist-inspired music, including new music from the elusive composer Anton Batagov who has  put out a recording of his music featuring chants by the leading Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader of the Kalmykia people. We’ll also hear selections from the Steve Tibbetts collaboration with the Tibetan Buddhist nun, Chöying Drolma - “Chö.” Then there’s the sounds of traditional Tibetan Buddhist instruments in music from David Parsons. Plus, music from Philip Glass’s soundtrack to the movie Kundun (about the young Dalai Lama coming of age and escaping Tibet with his life, during the time frame of 1937 to 1959.)

PROGRAM #2988, The Buddhist Influence (First aired on Thurs. 10-01-09)

ARTIST(S)

RECORDING

CUT(S)

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Philip Glass

Philip On Film – Filmworks by Philip Glass

Escape to India (from Kundun), excerpt

Nonesuch 79660 (5 CD set) www.nonesuch.com

Anton Batagov & Telo Tulku Rinpoche

Bodhicharyavatara

Adopting the Spirit of Awakening (3rd chapter) [9:52]

Tummo 9017
www.batagov.com
www.savetibet.ru
www.buddhisminkalmykia

Steve Tibbetts & Choying Drolma

Chö

Chö Chendren [3:38]

Hannibal 1404
Out of print, but try Amazon.com *

Philip Glass

Philip On Film – Filmworks by Philip Glass

Escape to India (from Kundun) [10:09]

Nonesuch 79660 (5 CD set) www.nonesuch.com

Steve Tibbetts & Choying Drolma

Chö

Kangyi Tengi [6:30]

See above.

David Parsons

In Retrospect 1980-2003

Maitreya, excerpt [7:00]

Celestial Harmonies 14204 www.harmonies.com

New music from the Neil Cowley Trio and the Bad Plus are on this New Sounds program, bands which on the surface resemble conventional piano trios, but pull liberally from the rock world and everywhere else.  We'll listen to both of their most recent releases, along with music from Rachel's, who also have a recent release.  Even though they are no longer together, this recording is of previously unavailable material.  All that, and more...

PROGRAM #3139, New Piano-Based Music (First aired on 11/16/2010)

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 Bad Plus

Never Stop

Never Stop [03.51]

E1 Music
EOM CD 2112
www.eonemusic.com

Neil Cowley Trio

Radio Silence

Monoface [5.23]

Radio Silence [6.08]

Naim CD 147
www.naimlabel.com

Rachel’s

Significant Others

Lipochase [04.29]

Rachel's Archive 2002
Only available digitally:
digital.thinkindie.com

Timothy Andres

Shy and Mighty

Out of Shape [06.55]

Nonesuch 522413
www.nonesuch.com

Neil Cowley Trio

Radio Silence

Stereoface [06.03]

See above.

Bad Plus

Never Stop

Snowball [07.40]

See above.

“Requiem for Fossil Fuels,” a site-specific memorial mass, combines human voices and ambient sound.  It’s the result of more than twenty years of work and collaboration by Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger, two sound artists/composers and sonic thinkers.  For this edition of New Sounds, listen to the performance, recorded live at the World Financial Center last month.

PROGRAM #3144, New Sounds Live: Requiem for Fossil Fuels (First aired on 12/02/2010)

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Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger (O+A)

Live, World Financial Center, November 12, 2010

Introitus [2:30], Kyrie [3:50], Dies Irae [12:16]

This performance not commercially available.

Hear other versions at: http://www.o-a.info/rfff/index.html

Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger (O+A)

Live, World Financial Center, 2004

Offertum [5:55], Sanctus [8:00], Benedictus [4:20]

See above.

Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger (O+A)

Live, World Financial Center, November 12, 2010

Agnus Dei [7:00], Communio [4:25]

See above.

Listen to some American tales on this New Sounds program.  We’ll hear the mesmerizing 11-minute reflection, “Another Day In America” as delivered through Fenway Bergamot, Laurie Anderson's wise and witty “Voice of Authority” alter-ego and more of her musical and lyrical medititations on America in the 21st century, from her recent "Homeland."  Also, Jerry Granelli’s “Twenty Questions for an Outlaw” uses the persona of Billy the Kid, and is something like an “audio movie or play,” with text by actor/playwright/singer Rinde Eckert.  We’ll hear their blend of ambient jazz and spoken word, and much more.

PROGRAM #3114,  “Looking for America,” American Tales (First aired on 9/13/2010)

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Laurie Anderson

Homeland

Another Day in America [11:25]

Nonesuch 524055
www.nonesuch.com

Jerry Granelli/ Rinde Eckert

Sandhills Reunion

Like a Ghost in the Grass [4:05]
Nolan [7:03]
Last Light [5:34]

Songlines SA1553
www.songlines.com

American sound-designer, film editor and composer, Matteo Marchisano-Adamo makes cinematic audio sculptures out of prepared piano and electronics from a collection of “Inventions.” We'll also hear electronic music based on the sounds of Indonesian gamelan by Gregory Taylor, and some rooted in sounds from Jamaica as well. That, and more on this New Sounds.

PROGRAM #3119,  New Electronic Music (First aired on 9/23/2010)

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Gregory Taylor

dua_belas

Andreas [6:56]

PoL 03  | 2010
www.palaceoflights.com

K. Leimer

The Land of Look Behind

The Cockpit [6:33]

www.palaceoflights.com/kleimer

Gregory Taylor

dua_belas

filipus-yang-melit [2:04]

See above.

Matteo Marchisano-Adamo

Inventions I-XVIII

Invention I [5:53]

Available at CDBaby.com
www.cdbaby.com/cd/matteomusic
OR Download from Emusic

Marc Barreca

Subterrane

near greenwater [5:12]

Palace of Lights 02 | 2010
www.palaceoflights.com

For this New Sounds, mutant trumpter/composer Ben Neill joins John Schaefer in the studio.  Lately, he’s been working together with filmmaker Bill Morrison and singer Mimi Goese on a staging of the Persephone myth – Demeter’s daughter taken by Hades to the underworld against her will.  The multimedia music theatre work, which will be staged at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) next week, is informed by rock, layered with electronica and silent film projections, and is reimagined as a 19th century theatre troupe’s "antidote to irony."  We’ll hear songs from Persephone and catch up with Ben Neill.

PROGRAM #3130, with Ben Neill (First aired on 10/21/2010)

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Ben Neill & Mimi Goese

Persephone, Private tape

Cusp [5:40]

This performance not commercially available.
See www.benneill.com for more info.

Ben Neill

Private tape

Posthorn [5:50]

This performance not commercially available.

Ben Neill & Mimi Goese

Persephone, Private tape

Elegy [5:33]
Laudanum [6:37]
World's End [4:45]

This performance not commercially available.

Batteries Duo

Les Amusements

Parking Lot [5:02]
Cello Talk [4:01]

www.thebatteriesduo.com
Also available on iTunes

Electric guitarist, composer and Princeton University professor Steven Mackey returns to New Sounds for this program.  His enormous and ambitious work, “Dreamhouse,” a collaboration with singer/producer/writer Rinde Eckert and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, for orchestra, electric guitars, and singers has just been released.

The work takes the metaphor of house-building and gives a framework to issues like inside versus outside, security versus vulnerability, and the issues of house versus home, while also using texts that contain technical architectural words – crowns, turrets, mansard, etc. Mackey introduces excerpts from “Dreamhouse” and talks us through how 9/11 affected its development.

PROGRAM #3134, with Steven Mackey (First aired on 10/27/2010)

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BMOP, Rinde Eckert, Catch Electric Guitar Quartet, Synergy Vocals, led by Gil Rose

Mackey  Dreamhouse

Steven Mackey:  From Above [3:56]
Framing /Her Gaze [3:14]
Part III, excerpt [7:00]
Part III, Finale [9:00]

BMOP/Modern Sound 1019
www.bmopsound.org

Janus

 i am not

Jason Treuting: (blank) [3:48]

Anna Clyne: Beware Of [5:23]

New Amsterdam NWAM024
www.newamsterdamrecords.com
www.janustrio.org

"Requiem for Fossil Fuels," is a new setting by Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger of the traditional mass.  Performed by a quartet of vocal virtuosi with the composers at the helm of an 8-channel “Orchestra of Cities,” this piece is driven by the clamorous sounds of the metropolis (site-specific recordings): traffic, construction, alarms, chatter as well as sounds of helicopters, jets and harbor sourced outside the Winter Garden in 2004 when O+A presented their sonic installation, Blue Moon, on the Plaza. 

From O+A's site: "As we face the passing of our fossil fuel dependent way of life, we hope to gain insight by examining the sounds of our culture through the lens of the Requiem Mass.”

The concert takes place at the World Financial Center's Winter Garden on Friday November 12, 2010 at 7PM .  Admission is FREE.

For this New Sounds, listen to the found sounds of narration from strange and wonderful recordings in music by the Books.  We'll hear from their latest, "The Way Out," a playful and surreal effort recorded in the Books' home studios.

Also on the show, listen to music from pianist/composer Vijay Iyer and poet/performer Mike Ladd, from a narrative work, "In What Language?" a hybrid project featuring an eleven-piece ensemble of musicians and speaking voices.  Plus, music from Pete M. Wyer, The Young Scamels, and more.

PROGRAM #3124,  Narration in Music (First aired on 10/6/2010)

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The Young Scamels

Tempest

Be Not Afeard, excerpt [1:00]

FT 74
www.file-13.com

The Books

The Way Out

Group Autogenics I [3:44]

Temporary Residence Limitied TRR183
temporaryresidence.com

Linda Montano

Lesbian American Composers

Portrait of Sappho [7:22]

CRI 780
www.newworldrecords.org

Vijay Iyer / Mike Ladd

In What Language?

The Color of My Circumference I [4:11]
Plastic Bag [6:08]

Pi Recordings #09
www.pirecordings.com

Tom Johnson

Music for 88

Multiplication Table, excerpt [4:00]

XI Foundation  106
xirecords.org

Pete M. Wyer

Stories from the City at Night

Subway Nightride [7:29]

Thirsty Ear Records**
online at www.thirstyear.com *

The Books

The Way Out

Group Autogenics II [4:52]

See above.

Hear some Icelandic electronic chamber music with a delicate undercurrent of minimalism from the young Olafur Arnalds on this New Sounds.  We’ll listen to the Arnalds record, "And they have escaped the weight of darkness."  The rest of this Northern edition of the show includes music from Norway and Sweden, and more from Iceland.

There's also music from another piano trio, the Helge Lien Trio, and their record “Hello Troll.”  Plus, more music from Iceland by way of Australia, courtesy of Ben Frost. Frost lives and works in Iceland and incorporates what might sound like sheets of ice and wolves into his piece, “Leo Needs a New Pair of Shoes.”  Rounding out the show is music not-from-the-north by ex-Pop Will Eat Itself member Clint Mansell, played by Scottish band Mogwai and Kronos Quartet.

PROGRAM #3093, New Music from the North (First aired on 7/7/10)

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Olafur Arnalds

...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness

Gleypa okkur [5:34]

Erased Tapes ERATP 022
erasedtapes.com
olafurarnalds.com

Ben Frost

By the Throat

Leo Needs a New Pair of Shoes [7:04]

Bedroom Community HVALUR6 bedroomcommunity.net

Susanna and the musical orchestra

3

Another day (Roy Harper) [3:56]

Rune Grammofon 2090
www.runegrammofon.com

Helge Lien Trio

Hello Troll

Radio [7:24]

Ozella  OZ 021
ozellamusic.com

Kronos Quartet & Mogwai

The Fountain

Clint Mansell: Death is the Road to Awe [8:26]

Nonesuch 79901
www.nonesuch.com

Ensemble Klang

Peter Adriaansz

Wave 3 [11:21]

EKCD1
www.ensembleklang.com

On this New Sounds program, hear music from Iraqi oud master Rahim AlHaj, in collaboration with accordion virtuoso Guy Klucevsek, from a fascinating double album of cross-cultural collaborations, called “Little Earth.”  AlHaj studied with Munir Bashir, but was also trained in Western classical music, and on this global effort was joined by folks as diverse as Cape Verde’s Maria de Barros, Bill Frisell, Peter Buck, and Mali’s Yacouba Sissoko.

Also on the program, music from V.M. Bhatt, and his Mohan Veena (an Indian classical string instrument that is a modified archtop guitar played lap-style like a slide guitar) together with bass and keyboard player Matt Malley, formerly of Counting Crows.  And more.

PROGRAM #3123,  Cross-Cultural Collaborations (First aired on 10/4/2010)

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Brian Keane & Omar Faruk Tekbilek

Kelebek/The Butterfly

Kelebek [5:05]

Celestial Harmonies 13287
www.harmonies.com

Rahim AlHaj & Guy Klucevsek

Little Earth

The Searching [7:17]

UR 005
www.rahimalhaj.com

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt & Matt Malley

Sleepless Nights

Sleepless Nights [12:45]

World Village 468097
www.worldvillagemusic.com

Brian Keane & Omar Faruk Tekbilek

Kelebek/The Butterfly

Teacher [3:44]

See above.

Christopher Campbell

Sound the All-Clear

Ritual Waking, Ritual Sleepwalking [10:39]

Innova 750
www.innova.mu

Brian Keane & Omar Faruk Tekbilek

Kelebek/The Butterfly

Deep Blue, excerpt [7:00]

See above.

Jelly Roll Morton identified “the Latin tinge” as a major component in the development of jazz.  Now, the rhythms and sounds of Latin music can be heard in the long-awaited Malian-Cuban collaboration that was meant to take place when the Buena Vista Social Club was born – “AfroCubism.”

On this New Sounds program, we’ll sample some of this incredibly gorgeous weave of kora, ngoni, horns, and Cuban cowboy guitars.  “AfroCubism” is actually due out in November, but we’re offering a sneak preview on this podcast. Also, listen to the Cuban/Jewish mix of Septeto Rodriguez, the Latin tinge in Booka Michel's soundtrack to “Baghdad Texas,” and music from Smokey (Hormel)’s Secret Family, something like samba-roots-pop meets jazz from West Africa in the 60’s.  And much more.

PROGRAM #3116,  The Latin Tinge (First aired on 9/16/2010)

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AfroCubism

AfroCubism

Mali Cuba [5:37]

Nonesuch 525993
www.nonesuch.com

Lounge Lizards

No Pain for Cakes

No Pain for Cakes [6:48]

Island Records 422842867
re-released as Polygram #10090 Available at Amazon.com *

Septeto Rodriguez

Baila! Gitano Baila!

Wolfie's Corner [4:48]

Tzadik 7189
www.tzadik.com

Booka (Michel) & The Flaming Geckos

Baghdad, Texas

Carmen's Dance [3:20]
Border Lights [2:17]

Loudhouse Records LHR 2009
www.loudhousemusic.com

Smokey Hormel

Smokey’s Secret Family

So Solidao [3:54]

Afro Sambas
Available at Amazon.com
or www.cdbaby.com

Edward Ratliff

Those Moments Before

Café Cortado [5:57]

Strudelmedia SMCD-11
strudelmedia.com
edwardratliff.com

Greg Ribot & Cumbia del Norte

The International Conspiracy

Cumbia Lyla [5:51]

Cathexis GRCD40
www.cdbaby.com
OR Amazon.com

Omar Sosa

Mulatos

L3zero [6:41]

Ota Records 1014
www.melodia.com

It's that time again for the monthly program of new releases. John Schaefer picks through the bucketloads of CDs that have flooded his inbox to find new releases worthy of showcasing in this program from May 2010.

Listen to music from Joel Harrison, David Rothenberg & Marily Crispell, and Zeitgeist, among others.

PROGRAM # 3082, May 2010 New Releases (First aired on 5/28/2010)

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Zeitgeist

In Bone-Colored Light

Angle of Displacement, excerpt [1:00]

Innova 774
www.innova.mu

New York Polyphony

Tudor City

Andrew Smith: Surrexit Christus [3:24]

Avie Records AV2186 www.avierecords.com www.newyorkpolyphony.com

Tim Fain and Wendy Sutter

Lifeforce: the music of Joel Harrison

Life Force Mvt 3 - dedicated to Jim Estabrook [4:19]

Orange Mountain Music 7005 www.orangemountainmusic.com

Marilyn Crispell & David Rothenberg

One Dark Night I Left My Silent House

Tsering [4:57]

ECM #B0013418-02 due out June 15, 2010
www.ecmrecords.com

Sunny Jain

Taboo

Basa Bhagwaan [8:54]

Brooklyn Jazz Underground BJUR 016
www.bjurecords.com

Wolfgang Muthspiel & Mick Goodrick

Live At The Jazz Standard

Minimal [3:19]

Material Records MRE 029 www.materialrecords.com

Zeitgeist

In Bone-Colored Light

Angle of Displacement [6:24]

Innova 774
www.innova.mu

Listen to songs by the multi-talented singer-songwriter/pianist/composers Gabriel Kahane and Ed Pastorini for this New Sounds. We'll also hear from Lee Feldman along with music by Elizabeth Ziman of Elizabeth & the Catapult. Plus, music from Amy X Neuburg and Tin Hat.

PROGRAM # 3078, More New Songs ( First aired on 5/19/2010)

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Gabriel Kahane

Craigslistlieder

Underberg [4:16]

Stream at www.gabrielkahane.com

Lee Feldman

I've Forgotten Everything

Me and My Sara Remaining [3:54]

Urban Myth UM-114 www.cdbaby.com

Ed Pastorini

Private CD

Mechanical Chair [3:23]

Not commercially available. Info at www.101crustaceans.com

Gabriel Kahane

Gabriel Kahane

Durrants [3:40]

Wasted Storefront Amazon.com * or iTunes

Elizabeth & the Catapult

Live, Soundcheck 6/2009

Apathy [3:03]

This performance not commercially available. The tune appears on “Taller Children.” Available at Try Amazon.com *

Tin Hat

The Sad Machinery of Spring

Daisy Bell [4:58]

Hannibal Records 1524 www.rykodisc.com

Amy X Neuburg

The Secret Language of Subways
Someone Else’s Sleep [5:45]

MM 017
www.minmaxmusic.com

John Kennedy

One Body
Prayer for the Great Family [4:57]v

SFNM CD000512 www.johnkennedymusic.com

Robin Holcomb

Robin Holcomb
Deliver Me [6:29]

Nonesuch / Elektra 60983 www.nonesuch.com

For this New Sounds, listen to some works for small ensembles, played by both "real" and "virtual" small ensembles.  We’ll hear music from the Turkish-American composer Kamran Ince from the album “In White,” along with ambient chamber music by Phillip Schroeder .

Schroeder’s piece, “This We Have” is performed by one of these "virtual" ensembles – just two people - soprano Amy McGinty , together with piano, synthesizer, electric bass, and percussion performed by the composer to create multiple shimmering textures.  Also, there’s music from Italian composer Luisiana Lorusso that falls somewhere between jazz and classical, featuring a “real” ensemble, comprised of string quartet with piano bass and drums.  Also, listen to music by the enhanced duo, itsnotyouitsme – just electric violin and electric guitar- with a lot of loops and delays. And a whole lot more.

PROGRAM # 3083, Small Ensembles (First aired on 6/2/2010)

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Phillip Schroeder

Move In The Changing Light

This We Have, excerpt [1:00]

Innova 655
innova.mu

Present Music

In White

Kamran Ince: Flight Box [12:58]

Innova 600
innova.mu OR Download from Emusic.com

Luisiana Lorusso

Upwards

Violet - Diverse Tonalita di Viola [8:21]

CiniK Records
Available at iTunes, and Emusic.com

Phillip Schroeder, Amy McGinty

Move In The Changing Light

This We Have [9:33]

Innova 655
innova.mu

Giancarlo Vulcano

Vetro

Tierra del Fuego [6:15]

Innova 688
innova.mu OR download through Emusic.com

itsnotyouitsme

Fallen Monuments

Vanity Stays My Hand [9:04]

New Amsterdam NWAM018 www.newamsterdamrecords.com

Hear new music from Montreal on this edition of New Sounds, featuring works by Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Bell Orchestre, and Mains de Givre, among others.

Montreal guitarist/composer Tim Brady makes dark sounds with bowed electric guitar, guitar with loops, with tapes, and with computers.  The overall effect -ambient and abstract- is intended to evoke the depths of the ocean in a work by Jean-Francois Laporte , “The Song of the Whale.” Also, hear atmospheric electronic music from Mains de Givre (“Hands of Frost”) an enhanced duo of violin, guitar and lots of effects. Plus, there's some “post-rock” from the likes of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Bell Orchestre (featuring members of Arcade Fire ), where the shoegaze approach to classical is mixed with the wall-of-sound achievements of say - Glenn Branca ’s Guitar Army, as "rock" instruments play well together with “classical” strings, reeds, and percussion.

PROGRAM # 3084, New Music from Montreal (First aired on 6/4/2010)

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Godspeed you! Black Emperor

Yanqui U.X.O

09-15-00 (Part One) [16:27]

Constellation CST 24
cstrecords.com
brainwashed.com
OR download from Emusic.com

Bell Orchestre

As Seen Through Windows

Icicles/Bicycles [6:14]

Arts & Crafts A&C 041
www.arts-crafts.ca

Tim Brady

GO

Jean-Francois Laporte: Le Chant des baleines

Actuelle CD 156
www.actuellecd.com

Mains de Givre

Esther Marie

Un Choeur d’ames en detresse (A choir of souls in distress) [13:22]

Textura 002
www.textura.org

Bell Orchestre

As Seen Through Windows

As Seen Through Windows, excerpt [4:57]

See above.

Heaps of thanks and gratitude to our summer interns, Lucy M., Chase C., and Saratoga S. for their help these past few months.  Good luck at school from the New Sounds Team!

For this New Sounds Special Podcast, we raid the exclusive live performance archive from that "other" show John Schaefer hosts, the afternoon program, Soundcheck.  We'll listen for tunes from pipa player Wu Man , Cuban singer Omara Portuondo , and the Italian percussionist Alessandra Belloni , to name a few. 

Plus, performances by Zakir Hussain and some of the Masters of Percussion, a traditional Mongolian drinking song from Hanggai , and jazz clarinet player Anat Cohen .  And so much more, including soft and dangerous banjo songs from Sam Amidon , Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars , and Irish trad tunes from Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill .