25 February 2005
Friday 25 February 2005 22:15-23:30 (Radio 3)
Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present a unique mix of musical styles and influences.
Duration:
1 hour 15 minutes
Playlist
MIXING IT
Presented by Robert Sandall and Mark Russell
Produced by Felix Carey
Factsheet compiled by Sam Hickling
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Friday 25 February 2005, 10:15pm
V.L.A.D: Mekasupply (2.45)
VLAD, known to friends and relatives as Vlad Rodagil, began his musical career as a heavy metal guitarist before being seduced by technology and morphing into one of the top producers in France.
album: Emo-Droidz
Laboratory Instinct LI006CD
On Fillmore: Hikali (12.10)
On Fillmore is the US duo of Darin Gray (double bass/small instruments/places), who has played with the likes of Grand Ulena and Loren Mazzacane-Connors, and Glenn Kotche (vibraphone/small instruments/places), who has played with Jim O'Rourke and Wilco.
album: Sleeps With Fishes
Quakebasket qb21
Quakebasket, 113 Spring Street, New York NY 10012, USA
http://www.quakebasket.com/
http://www.fvrec.com/daringray/
http://www.dragcity.com
Towering Inferno: The Rose (4.00)
Richard Wolfson, who was one half of Towering Inferno with Andy Saunders, died on February 1st this year. This track comes from Towering Inferno's 1995 album Kaddish: a meditation on the Holocaust which featured guest appearances from the likes of Marta Sebestyen (who can be heard on this track), Chris Cutler and Elton Dean. Brian Eno referred to the album as being the most frightening record he'd ever heard.
album: Kaddish
Island Records TOWERCD 1
Prefuse 73: Mantra Two (feat. Tyondai Braxton); Sabbatical With Options (feat. Aesop Rock); It's Crowded (feat. Claudia Deheza) (5.50)
Three tracks from the new album by Guillermo Scott Herren, aka Prefuse 73. The first features Tyondai Braxton, a performer who builds loops from vocals, guitar and found objects (he is also the son of jazz pioneer Anthony Braxton); the second track features rapper Aesop Rock, and on the third, Prefuse is joined by Claudia Deheza of New York band On!Air!Library!
album: Surrounded by Silence
Warp Records WARPCD129
Warp Records, PO Box 25378, London NW5 1GL
http://www.prefuse73.com
http://www.warprecords.com
SJ Esau: Wears the Control (5.20)
SJ Esau is Bristol resident Sam Wisternoff. This track was recommended to Mixing It by Mole Harness (aka James Brewster), who also plays in SJ Esau's live band.
SJ Esau (drums/guitar loops/guitars/theremin/bass/vocals); Max Milton (violin)
album: Wrong Faced Cat Feed Collapse
Enormous Corpse 003
http://www.sjesau.co.uk
Mike H: Air Real Slow (spoken word edit) (5.20)
This is from the second album by Mike Hoejgaard from Elsinore in Denmark, who defines himself thus: 'Polly Jean is my lover, Nick Cave my brother, Johnny Hartmann's my father and Ella my mother.'
Mile H (vocals); Rune Kielsgaard (drums); Jeppe Skovbakke (bass); Jacob Funch (guitar); Gunilla Odsbøl (cello); Jacob Anderskov (keyboards); Albert Raft (woodwinds)
album: Peninsula
Cope Records copecd107
http://www.mike-h.dk
http://www.coperecords.com
http://www.veramusic.com
Paolo Conte: Sonno Elefante (3.15)
Variously described as 'the Italian Tom Waits' and 'Leaonard Cohen sings Astor Piazzolla' Paolo Conte is a singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger and one of the great figures of European song. This is from his first new album in nine years.
album: Elegia
WEA 5046757592
http://paoloconte.warnermusic.it/
http://www.swonderful.net/
Amon Tobin: The Lighthouse (5.05)
Taken from the soundtrack to the computer game Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 3: Chaos Theory, this is what Amon Tobin has been working on recently. He approached this project, he says, as if he were writing the score for a Dario Argento movie.
EP: Chaos Theory - sampler
Ninja Tune ZEN CD100
http://www.amontobin.com/
http://www.ninjatune.net/home/
http://www.splintercell.com/uk/
Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Unstet (für Jeffrey Lee Pierce) (6.20)
Kammerflimmer Kollektief began as the solo project of Thomas Weber from Karlsruhe in Germany, then expanded to a 6-piece when live shows entered the picture. The band is now Heike Aumüller, Christopher Brunner, Dietrich Foth, Johannes Frisch, Thomas Weber and Heike Wendelin
album: Absencen
Staubgold 58
http://www.kammerflimmer.com
http://www.planetrock-booking.de
http://www.staubgold.com
The Ex: In The Event (7.40)
The Ex formed 25 years ago in the Netherlands, and this is from their newest album, recorded Autumn 2003 with Steve Albini at his Electrical Audio Studios in Chicago.
The Ex are Terrie, Andy, Rozemarie, Katherina and GW Sok. They are joined on this track by Anne-James Chaton (vocals) and John Butcher (sax)
album: Turn
Ex Records EX 090/091D
Ex Records, PO Box 635, 100 AP Amsterdam, Netherlands
http://www.theex.nl
[email protected]
Edil Husainov: Bul Bul Zaman (4.05)
Edil Husainov from Kazakhstan trained at the conservatoire in Almaty, specialising in traditional Kazakh instruments. This track includes the Kazakh Jew's harp (shan Kobyz), flute (sybyzgy) and zither (chatigan), as well as rock guitar, keyboards, bass and drums. There's also a burst of throat singing to reflect the song's Mongolian origins.
album: The Rough Guide to the Music of Central Asia (Uzbekistan to Kazakhstan: sounds of the Silk Road)
World Music Network RGNET 1129 CD
World Music Network, 6 Abbeville Mews, 88 Clapham Park Road, London SW4 7BX
http://www.worldmusic.net
http://www.roughguides.com/music
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