Ordinarily, the music one hears on New Sounds has a lot of hyphens in it as one tries to describe it, but for this show, the hyphens have multiplied at least eight-fold. Listen to blends of world music, minimalism, chamber music, jazz, rock and post-rock, big band, Ethio-jazz, folk music from the world over, Celtic, Latin jazz - all coming together in various combinations for the featured pieces. Hear brand new music from the Dutch world-jazz post-rock fusion band the Ex, with guests Brass Unbound. Also, hear from Sweden's Ale Møller and the Bohuslän Big Band, who bring together Celtic, folk, jazz, and medieval music.
There’s music from Sweden’s Goran Kajfes, a Turkish trumpeter/composer who leads the new music-chamber-world-jazz-band called the Subtropic Arkestra. He stews Brazilian groove music and German psychedelic electronica together with a nod to Sun Ra’s legendary cosmic jazz ensemble, and a dash of progressive jazz/rock as he takes on a Nigerian highlife tune from the 1970’s. Then listen to Latin-Ethio-jazz music served up by the Family Atlantica, featuring Mulatu Astatke. Plus, minimalist-Mediterranean chamber-jazz from Fabrizio Bai, chamber-folk-jazz featuring accordion and tuba from the Belgian trio Massot-Florizoone-Horbaczewski, and so much more.
PROGRAM # 3485, Music with Multiple Hyphens (First aired on 7/3/2013)
ARTIST(S) | RECORDING | CUT(S) | SOURCE |
Quintet Naima | Feather of the Elephant | Aerobox, excerpt [1:30] | |
Goran Kajfes Subtropic Arkestra | The Reason Why, Vol. 16. | Okwukwe Na Nchekwube [8:50] | Headspin Recordings |
Family Atlantica (w/Mulatu Astatke) | Family Atlantica | Escape To The Palenque [3:00] | Soundway Records sndw042 |
The Ex (with Brass Unbound) | Enormous Door | Belomi Benna [4:36] | Ex Records / In the Fishtank - #EX 138D www.theex.nl or Download from iTunes |
Ale Møller & Bohuslän Big Band | Pegasus | Lanterna [6:17] | Prophone - #PCD 121 |
Fabrizio Bai | Etruscology | Banchetti d’oriente [7:29] | Dodicilune ED311 |
Glenn Jones | My Garden State | The Vernal Pool, excerpt [1:00] | Thrill Jockey 326 |
Quintet Naima | Feather of the Elephant | Aerobox [2:28] | |
Quartetto Minimo | Pomelö | Pomelö [7:33] | |
Massot-Florizoone-Horbaczewski | Balades Ephémères | Una Volta [3:50] | |
The Philip Glass Ensemble | A Retrospective (1 of 2) | The Upper Room: Dance 9, excerpt [1:00] | Orange Mountain Music 0067 |