10 December 2004
Friday 10 December 2004 22:15-23:30 (Radio 3)
Mark Russell and Robert Sandall introduce another selection of intriguing and unusual sounds, including a session by the improvising electronics duo Yee King and Graham Gatheral.
Duration:
1 hour 15 minutes
Bavin
Improvising electronics duo Yee King and Graham Gatheral are featured in this week's Mixing It.
Playlist
MIXING IT
Presented by Mark Russell and Robert Sandall
Produced by Felix Carey
Factsheet compiled by Sam Hickling
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Friday 10 December 2004, 10:15pm
Tom Waits: King Kong (5.30)
This is taken from a double CD dedicated to outsider singer/songwriter Daniel Johnston. One CD is a kind of greatest hits collection, while the other has the same songs covered by a variety of artists, including Beck, Eels, Flaming Lips, and, here, Tom Waits. The album has been released as a benefit album to raise funds to help Johnston's parents buy the house next door for their son, who has suffered for many years from bi-polar disorder.
Tom Waits (mouth percussion/vocals); Mark Linkous (percussion); Marc Ribot (guitar)
album: The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered
Gammon Records GMN2112
Daniel Johnston's version originally appeared on the album Yip! Jump Music
http://www.hihowareyou.com
http://www.officialtomwaits.com
http://www.gammonrecords.com
Read a profile of Tom Waits at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/profiles/waitstom.shtml
Gary Lucas & Jozef Van Wissem: The Sickness Unto Death (2.25)
Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart's Magic Band/Jeff Buckley/The Du-Tels) met Dutch lutenist Jozef Van Wissem whilst on tour in Europe. This is the second recording they have made together.
Gary Lucas (guitars/electronics); Jozef Van Wissem (lute/electronics)
album: The Universe of Absence
BVHaast 0105
http://www.garylucas.com
Bavin: excerpt from improvisation, 16.10.04 (7.40)
Recorded 16 October 2004 at BBC Maida Vale studio 4
Bavin are Matthew Yee King (electronics/drums/Pure Data software) and Graham Gatheral (electronics); this is an excerpt from a longer piece that was improvised in the studio.
Yee King has played with Super_collider and Dani Siciliano, while Graham Gatheral has played with Tom Jenkinson aka Squarepusher.
BBC session - not commercially available
http://www.yeeking.net/
http://www.bavmet.com/
Ammoncontact: Keepintime (3.50)
Ammoncontact are the Los Angeles-based duo of Carlos Niño and Fabian Ammon, who specialise in a blend of sampled and live instrumentation and beats.
album: One in an Infinity of Ways
Ninja Tune ZENCD99
http://www.ninjatune.net/home/
http://www.easterndevelopments.com/ammon.shtml
Read a review of this album at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A3194778
Errollyn Wallen: My feet may take a little while (3.25)
Celebrated as a composer of contemporary classical and chamber music, Errollyn Wallen has come up with something quite different on this album: just her at the piano, playing her own piano compositions and singing her own songs.
This track is taken from the Philip Sheppard commission Hudson, Mississippi, Thames
album: Errollyn
Avie AV 0049
http://www.errollynwallen.com
http://www.avierecords.com
http://www.editionpeters.com
Hans Appelqvist: Tåget far I hög hög fart (4.20)
On this recording, the Swedish musician Hans Appelqvist has used a combination of instrumentation, field recordings and imagined scenarios to create the fictitious city of Bremort.
Marie Sandell (violin); Karin Flensburg (clarinet); Åsa Gjerstad (cello); Alma Taawo (bass); Oskar Hjelm (tuba)
album: Bremort
Komplott ESCUDRE03
http://www.komplott.com
Read more on this composer at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/experimental/reviews/appelqvist_tonefilm.shtml
Lydia Lunch: Hangover Hotel (2.00)
Lydia Lunch first came to prominence during the No Wave movement in New York in the 1970s, with her band Teenage Jesus & The Jerks. Since then, she has branched into literature, film, photography and spoken word. This is her first new full-length album in five years.
Lydia Lunch (vocals); Nels Cline (guitar); Alex Cline (drums); Joel Hamilton (bass); Joe Berardi (vibraphone); Vinny Golia (alto flute/baritone sax); Chuck Manning (alto sax); Don Ostermann (trombone); John Fumo (trumpet)
album: Smoke in the Shadows
Break in Beats BBEATSCD005
http://www.lydialunch.org
http://www.atavistic.com
http://www.breakinbeats.co.uk
Reverbaphon: The Hermit Returns (again) (5.35)
Reverbaphon is the recording name of Dundee native Paul Smith (on this track - nylon guitar/synthesiser/voice)
album: Our hearts beat with joy (the curved world outside)
Benbecula ben 026cd
http://www.benbecula.com
Bavin: excerpt from improvisation, 16.10.04 (19.20)
Recorded 16 October 2004 at BBC Maida Vale studio 4
This is another section from the same improvisation featured earlier in the programme.
BBC session - not commercially available
More details above
The Thing: Art Star (4.30)
This is a cover version of a song by New York nouveau punks the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The Thing is a Scandinavian trio of Mats Gustafsson (baritone sax), Ingebrigt Haker Flaten (double bass) and Paal Nilssen-Love (drums/percussion). They got together in Stockholm early in 2000.
7" single
Smalltown Superjazz STSJAZZ
This track also appears on the album Garage (Smalltown Superjazz)
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