Playlist
MIXING IT
Presented by Mark Russell and Robert Sandall
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Friday 3rd November 2006, 10.30pm
Radio Thailand: Folk DJ's Armed With Technology (5'21")
An exhaustive collection of Thai Radio transmissions recorded between 1989 and 2004, featuring all manner of sounds from Molam, Luk Thung, Kantrum, to cheesy pop, classic Thai guitar rock and traditional ceremonial music.
Album: Radio Thailand: Transmissions from the Tropical Kingdom
Sublime Frequencies SF028
www.sublimefrequencies.com
Lukas Simonis: Kalloone S (2'18")
Lukas Simonis is a guitarist and composer based in Rotterdam (Netherlands) who co-founded the WORM centre for experimental arts. This album makes use of improvisation, field recordings, and a secret language.
Album: Stots
Z6 3312
www.xs4all.nl/~lukas
Jeffrey Lewis: Adventures of God as a young boy (3'19")
Jeffrey Lewis was raised on New York's Lower East Side by loving beatnik parents. Having no television in the tenement apartment, he became a comic book fanatic before even learning how to read. A life-long love of writing and drawing comic books, both autobiographical and fantastical, found new vent when Lewis began making up songs in the winter of 97-98. Initially inspired by the gentle psychedelic folk of Donovan, the DIY magic of Daniel Johnston, and the fearless early recordings of local folk-punk legends the Fugs, Lewis began recording homemade cassettes in 1998 and selling them, packaged in small comic books, at his soon semi-monthly shows at Sidewalk, home of New York's Antifolk scene. Lewis's younger brother Jack began playing electric bass and contributing to the shows and tapes.
Album: Various: I Killed the Monster - 21 Artists Performing the Songs of Daniel Johnston
Second-Shimmy 0100
www.secondshimmy.com
www.thejeffreylewissite.com
Ryan Teague: Tableau II (3'18")
Cambridge-based composer Ryan Teague uses the Cambridge Philharmonic across this album, which also features the harpist Rhodri Davies. He actively seeks to fuse electronic and acoustic music, and likens his music to chamber music in its grouping of themes and instruments.
Album: Coins & Crosses
TYPE 015
www.ryanteague.com
Brian Eno's choice of 3, first broadcast in May 1998 just after his 50th birthday (17'19"):
Peter Schwaum: Slop Shop
Album: Makrodelia
PCR006
www.studioschwalm.com
Geodesic: Terrorist
Album: Lo-Bit Life
Poets Club Records
www.poetsclubrec.com
Emmylou Harris: May This Be Love (Jimi Hendrix)
Album: Wrecking Ball
Grapevine GRACD 102
www.emmylou.net
Underworld: Juanita
Album: Second toughest in the infants
Junior Boys Own Records
www.underworldlive.com
Jazzfinger: Dreams cast shadows (3'20")
Jazzfinger are a Newcastle-based duo made up of Has Gaylani and Ben Jones, and this album was recorded live to cassette.
Album: Autumn Engines
Rebis 009
Tanya Tagaq: Ancestors (4'03")
Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq employs the sound of the txalaparta, traditional Basque percussion and - on this song - Bjork.
Album: Sinaa
Jericho Beach JBM0601
www.tanyatagaq.com
Soweto Kinch: 10.30 appointment (6'44")
Saxophonist and MC, Soweto Kinch has issued a concept album about the residents of a tower block in Birmingham. The album is narrated by newsreader Moira Stewart. A largely self-taught musician, Soweto Kinch is equally influenced by jazz and hip hop.
Album: A Life in the Day of B19 - Tales of the Tower Block
Dune CD014
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soweto_Kinch
Rickard Javerling: Two times five lullaby (2'21")
Swedish travelling musician Rickard Javerling spent time in Ireland and Glasgow playing folk music to earn a living, before deciding to return to Sweden and use any musicians there that he could find.
Album: Two times five lullaby
Yesternow YES004CD
