MUSIC NEWSLETTER
Thursday 06 December 2012
The Daily Planet
With Lucky Oceans
Monday to Thursday 11:20pm
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/dailyplanet/
Monday with Lucky - The Imagined Village - 'Bending the Darkness'
The Imagined Village are an often-shifting collective of English folk musicians (currently including Eliza Carthy, Martin Carthy and Jackie Oates) who, under the guidance of founderSimon Emmerson, mix their music with other genres and with the influences of the other, ancestrally Desi musicians in the group.
Simon, who also founded Afro-Celt Soundsystem, came up playing punk and moved into electronic music and producing World Musicians. It was Baaba Maal's suggestion that he pursue his own cultural roots that influenced him to form both bands, with a desire to bring changes to 21st century English folk music. We'll hear the big title piece from the album, a big number commissioned for an event related to the 2012 Olympics that shifts between East European Gypsy,Indian and English Folk flavours, composed by Sheila Mukherjee, the band's sitarist. We'll also hear from Eliza Carthy's latest solo album, Neptune, and after the news, Bristol quartet Spiro from their new album Kaleidophonica. Like Imagined Village, Spiro take folk themes in new directions. The group workshops, with its instrumentation of guitar, mandolin, violin and accordion takes folk melodies and their own cycling riffs and intertwines them Philip Glass-style, creating music that sounds improvised but isn't and which sits somewhere between classical and folk musics. The Inside Sleeve
Robbie Buck
Monday to Friday 3pm (8pm in WA)
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/insidesleeve/
Tomorrow - back to the 60's.
On The Inside Sleeve we continue our Friday afternoon music specials looking at pop music of the 60's. Today it's the BBC documentary Vietnam's Rock 'n' Roll Wars. Robin Denselow revisits 'Sixties Saigon' to find out what happened when rock 'n' roll hit Vietnam.
Next week, Australian singer songwriter Sarah Blasko joins us at the grand piano to perform music from her most recent album, I Awake. Music Deli
With Alice Keath
Friday 8pm (7pm in WA) Repeated: Sunday 4pm
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/musicdeli/
The Whitetop Mountaineers Live At The Caravan Music Club
The Whitetop Mountaineers is young duo from the mountains of Virginia, VA. They sing distinctive harmonies and share clawhammer banjo duties - with Jackson Cunningham playing bluegrass mandolin and guitar, and Martha Spencer providing up-tempo oldtime fiddle, wry humour, and Appalachian dancing. They performed at the Caravan Music Club in Oakleigh at the beginning of November and RN was there to record their show. The Music Show
With Andrew Ford
Saturday 10am Repeated: Sunday 2am
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/musicshow/
The Pretty Things are in. Less well know but arguably more original than the Stones and other bands from The British Invasion, Pretty Things took their name and blues-rock style from Bo Diddley. Two of the original members Phil May and Dick Taylor are in for a bit of reminiscing.
English tenor Ian Bostridge is equally at home on the opera and the recital stage, and he also writes about music. He's performing in Australia for the first time and he's talking to Andrew Ford this week. Also on the show: Australian pianist Simon Tedeschi on his new album: 'Gershwin and me'. The Rhythm Divine
With Geoff Wood
Sunday 6am Repeated: Monday 1am
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/rhythmdivine/
Songs of the Steppe
We ride into the grasslands of Mongolia, where a mixture of shamanism and Buddhism has created a powerful music centred on the symbol of the horse. A new generation of young musicians is making this sound popular right around the world, includingAnda Union from Inner Mongolia whose new album, The Wind Horse, refers to a traditional shamanic symbol in Central Asia for the soul.
The distinctive Mongolian overtone singing technique known as khoomi is said to have its roots in shamanistic chanting and the horse-head fiddle or morin khuur with its two strings and long neck carved in the shape of a horse's head also reaches back to ancient Mongolian shamanistic rituals. It's a very powerful music that's been undergoing a real rise in popularity everywhere. Including Australia, home for the past three years to a young Mongolian horsehead fiddle player and khoomi throat singer Bukhu(Bukhchuluun Ganburged). We'll hear a live set from Bukhu, recorded at last year's Rhythm Divine concert at the Woodford Folk Festival. Sound Quality
With Tim Ritchie
Friday 11:20pm
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/soundquality/
Chinese Krautrock - What will they think of next?
White+ is a sensational surprise to me. All 9 tracks are great and different from each other.... my favourite album of the year - what, that was the fantastic Emanuele de Raymondi with his CD - Buyukberber Variations! Well this is different, but just as worthy. I'll have two favourite albums of the year! And I'll share this latest one.. Also Pool, even MORE Masonik and English beats and their are some more usual "song" form items too. The Weekend Planet
With Doug Spencer
Saturday 10pm and Sunday 10pm
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/weekendplanet/
Rabih Abou-Khalil: 'Hungry People'
Hungry People is a provocative, playful musical response to the so-called 'Arab Spring' and to some other things too, including an English fast-food specialty.
'Music is all about enjoyment and that comes easiest when you laugh' says its expatriate Lebanese composer-bandleader-lutenist .
Rabih Abou-Khalil is also serious, as a musician (who was making highly original hybrids well before the coining of the term 'world music') and a thinker. Into The Music
Saturday 4pm
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/intothemusic/
Saigon's wartime beat
Continuing RN Music's look at sounds during the Vietnam war - what about the wartime beat?
During the 60s and 70s South Vietnamese musicians took to playing rock music, sometimes in its rawest form. They played covers of most of the American hits as well as originals that included propaganda songs and ballads about the impact of the war on Vietnamese life.
Born and raised in Australia, Sheila Pham set out on to learn about the music of Vietnam during the war. She wanted to learn more about her musical heritage and her journey eventually led her home, where she discovered her mother's surprising involvement with the music of the Vietnam war.
Interviewees include US based researcher Jason Gibbs, Mark Gergis, American musician who compiled Saigon Rock and Soul; Bich Loan Phan, lead singer of the CBC Band Nam Loc; Vietnamese entertainer and MC of Mot Thoi De Nho; Kim Tran, Sheila Pham's mother and Hoang Liem, guitarist with Shotgun 1968-1975. Quiet Space
With Paul Gough
Sunday and Monday at Midnight
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/quietspace/ RN Breakfast Album of the Week
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/aotw---so-frenchy2c-so-chic/4400858
next Monday - we announce the Album Of The Year - listen in after 8am. |
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