Playlist
MIXING IT
Presented by Robert Sandall and Mark Russell
Produced by Felix Carey
Factsheet compiled by Sam Hickling
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Friday 28 October 2005, 10:15pm
Yuko Nexus6: Mura No Kayija (The Village Blacksmith) (5.02)
Yuko Nexus6 lives in Hikone, between Osaka and Nagoya in Japan. She is a part time lecturer in a couple of Nagoya's Arts and Science universities, spending much of the rest of her time as a sound artist specialising in vocal manipulation. On this, her fifth album, she has taken a selection of jazz, folk and traditional standards in Japanese, English and German as her material. This song is a children's song which remained on the Japanese curriculum from the 1910s right up to the 1970s.
album: Nexus6 Song Book
Sonore SON-23
http://www.sonore.com/
http://www02.so-net.ne.jp/%7Enexus6/index.html
Brad Mehldau: Martha My Dear (4.05)
A virtuosic, almost cubist solo piano take on the song from the Beatles' White Album
album: Day Is Done
Nonesuch 79910-2
http://www.bradmehldau.com/
http://www.nonesuch.com/
AFX: Children Talking (5.16)
Originally released 10 years ago this month, this track was on the first of two limited edition vinyl EPs which Richard D James put out under his AFX moniker. These two EPs have since become extremely rare and collectible, but to celebrate their tenth anniversary, Warp Records have re-released them on a single CD.
album: Hangable Auto Bulb
Warp Records WARPCD138
Warp Records, PO Box 25378, London NW5 1GL
http://www.warprecords.com/
http://www.drukqs.net/
Dirty Three: Flutter (6.36)
Dirty Three are violinist Warren Ellis (also a member of Nick Cave's Bad Seeds) guitarist Mick Turner and drummer Jim White. This is from their seventh album.
album: Cinder
Bella Union bellacd 103
http://www.dirtythree.com/
http://www.bellaunion.com/
Beans Hambone & El Morrow: Beans (2.52)
The Old Hat label have spent three years researching, sourcing and cleaning recordings for this release.
The American medicine shows of the early to mid 1900s were a bit like travelling circuses, where the aim was to sell potions and tonics. To attract customers, the folk who ran the shows would put on performances. Many well-known names like T-Bone Walker, Big Joe Williams, Gene Autry and Hank Williams cut their musical teeth in the medicine shows. Perhaps lesser known were James Albert ' Beans' Hambone (vocal/guitar) and El Morrow (guitar), who recorded this ode on 23 May 1931 in Charlotte, North Carolina. It went on to sell 385 copies.
album: Good for what ails you - music of the medicine shows 1926-1937
Old Hat CD-1005
Old Hat Enterprises, Inc, PO Box 10309, Raleigh, NC 27605 USA
http://www.oldhatrecords.com/
Originally on Victor 23280 78rpm
Cato Salsa Experience and The Thing with Joe McPhee: Our Prayer (6.21)
Cato Salsa Experience: Cato Salsa (guitar/vocals); Bård Enerstad (guitar/organ/theremin/vocals); Christian Engfelt (bass/vocals); Jon Riise (drums)
The Thing with Joe McPhee: Mats Gustafsson (tenor sax/baritone sax); Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (double bass); Paal Nilssen-Love (drums); Joe McPhee (tenor sax/pocket trumpet)
This recording of the Don Ayler tune was made at the Kongsberg Jazz Festival in Norway last year.
album: Sounds Like a Sandwich
Smalltown Superjazz STSJ103CD
http://www.smalltownsupersound.com/
http://kimm.no/sigarett/catosalsa/
Colossus: Innacity (5.07)
Colossus (also sometimes known as King Kooba) is the working name of Charlie Tate, a British ex-pat bass player and DJ now living in Oakland, California. He moved there in 2002, amassed a large collection of second hand jazz, and set up the weekly Slow Gin jazz and soul night at which he hooked up with the cream of the local MCing talent.
album: West Oaktown
Om Hiphop Om-196
http://www.om-records.com/
Vashti Bunyan: Here Before (2.03)
Vashti Bunyan released her first album 'Just Another Diamond Day' in 1970. It was written as she travelled to the Isle of Skye in a horse-drawn caravan to live on Donovan's commune. However, the album came out to general indifference. It wasn't until 2000, when the album was re-released, that people began to really take interest, and Vashti was eventually coaxed out of retirement to play a set with Kieran Hebden and Adem at the 2003 Meltdown Festival. This led to her meeting Max Richter, who worked with her on the new material which went into this second album, released some 35 years after the first.
album: Lookaftering
FatCat FATCD38P
http://www.fat-cat.co.uk/
Click here to read a review of this album
Eagle Voice Band with Bob Brozman: Watikai Iau Nuk Pau Atalaigu (3.26)
On this latest project, Bob Brozman has taken his national steel guitar to the town of Rabaul in the East New Britain province of Papua New Guinea. The town has many groups playing the country's traditional string band music, and Bob has worked with five of them. The album is been named in honour of the town's resilience after twice being destroyed by volcano.
album: Songs Of The Volcano
Riverboat TUGCD1040
http://www.bobbrozman.com/
http://www.worldmusic.net/
John Vanderslice: Continuation (4.02)
John Vanderslice (vocals); Matt Henry Cunitz (bass guitar); Erik Friedlander (cello); John Hofer (drums); Scott Solter (electric guitar/baritone/vibraphone/Hammond B3 drawbars/tar drum)
album: Pixel Revolt
Barsuk BARK44
Barsuk Records, PO Box 22546, Seattle, WA 98122 USA
http://www.barsuk.com
http://www.johnvanderslice.com
Ergo Phizmiz Brass Band: Concentrate on the Brass (4.04)
Ergo Phizmiz, with Eric Bumbledonk, Parp Bottom, Eddie Blake & the Parps, and the Brass Band; Ergo has the following to say on this track: 'it's I suppose a semi-autobiographical statement on my brass epiphany when I realised that oompahs could solve many of the world's problems…or make you laugh at them.'
album: Concentrate on the Brass
Mukow KOW 014
http://www.ergophizmiz.com
Arizona Amp And Alternator: Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (4.02)
This is a new project from Howe Gelb (Giant Sand) and the album features contributions from Scout Niblett, M Ward and members of Grandaddy. Here is a take on the old song by Traffic.
album: Arizona Amp And Alternator
Thrill Jockey thrill166
Thrill Jockey Records. PO Box 08038, Chicago, IL 60608 USA
http://www.thrilljockey.com
The Bad Plus: (Theme from) Chariots of Fire (4.14)
The new Bad Plus album consists almost entirely of original compositions, either by the group's bassist Reid Anderson, the drummer David King, or pianist Ethan Iversen. However, for fans of their cover versions, there is this one treat.
album: "Suspicious Activity?"
Sony/BMG 82876741882
http://www.thebadplus.com/
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