26 August 2005
Friday 26 August 2005 22:30-23:30 (Radio 3)
Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present a unique mix of musical styles and influences.
Playlist
MIXING IT
Presented by Mark Russell and Robert Sandall
Produced by Felix Carey
Factsheet compiled by Sam Hickling
Tel. 020 7765 4661
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Friday 26 August 2005, 10:30pm
Deerhoof: Spiral Golden Town (2.56)
Deerhoof are Satomi Matsuzaki (vocals/bass guitar), Chris Cohen (guitar/bass guitar/organ), John Dieterich (guitar) and Greg Saunier (organ/percussion) with the Children of Hoof Symphony Orchestra.
EP: Green Cosmos
All Tomorrow's Parties Records ATPRCD17
http://deerhoof.killrockstars.com/
http://www.alltomorrowsparties.co.uk
The George Burt/Raymond Macdonald Quintet with Lol Coxhill and Future Pilot AKA: Not Love and Kisses (5.57)
George Burt and Raymond Macdonald are both former Scottish Jazz Musicians of the Year, and Raymond Macdonald is also a founder member of the Glasgow Improvisers' Orchestra.
George Burt (guitar); Raymond Macdonald (alto/soprano sax); George Lyle (double bass); Nicola Macdonald (voice/melodica); Allan Pendreigh (drums); Lol Coxhill (soprano sax); Sushil K Dade (Future Pilot AKA) not on this track
album: Hotel Dilettante
Textile Records TCD6
Burt/Macdonald Quintet, PO Box 19526, Falkirk, UK
http://www.textilerecords.com
fbcfabric&reindeer: Down the Sides; Passenger (6.13)
fbcfabric is a hip hop producer, while Reindeer is a South London poet.
Taken from the 'Soulsuck' CD single
Buttercuts BUTT008
http://www.buttercuts.co.uk/
Semuin: Lok (7.42)
Semuin is the work of Berlin resident Jochen Briesen, joined here by Christian Wörner (trumpet), Michéle Schneider (flute/cello)and Paul Lubitz (percussion sounds).
The ending of this track is a quotation from Igor Stravinsky's Symphony of Wind Instruments.
album: Province
Audio Dregs ADR 058
http://www.semuin.de/
http://www.audiodregs.com
Spoombung: I Had Some Shoulders (4.52)
Spoombung is one of the aliases behind which British multi-instrumentalist Kev Hopper makes music. Kev Hopper was the bass player in the band Stump, has worked with Stereolab, the High Llamas, Derek Bailey and David Toop, and was recently seen demonstrating his musical saw playing on daytime TV's Des and Mel show. The album title here is a reference to Silver Age Marvel Comics.
album: I Saw Spoombung's Daughter Consumed by Kirby Dots
After Hours AH-065
This CD is being released by After Hours in Japan only; tracks can be heard at
http://www.kevhopper.dsl.pipex.com/news.html
Neutral Milk Hotel: The King of Carrot Flowers Parts 1, 2 & 3 (5.06)
This was Neutral Milk Hotel's second album, originally released in 1998, but now being re-issued. Neutral Milk Hotel was mainly the work of Jeff Magnum, and grew out of the same Elephant 6 Recording Company collective that spawned Apples (in stereo) and Olivia Tremor Control. The band's drummer for a while was Jeremy Barnes, now recording as A Hawk and a Hacksaw.
album: In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Domino Records REWIGCD21
Domino Recording Co. Ltd, PO Box 47029, London SW18 1WD
http://neutralmilkhotel.net/
http://www.dominorecordco.com
Frog Pocket: Fetlar (2.08)
Mixing It met John Charles Wilson from Ayr, aka Frog Pocket, on a trip to Scotland in August 2003. He has since moved to Mike Paradinas' Planet Mu label, to release this, his first full-length album.
album: Gonglot
Planet Mu Records ZIQ097CD
Planet Mu Records Ltd, PO Box 276, Worcester WR5 2XJ
http://www.planet-mu.com
http://www.benbecula.com/artists/frog_pocket.shtml
http://www.mouthmoth.go.to/
Garlo: Vent de Guitares No.4 (3.55)
Garlo is a French Canadian sound designer, composer and inventor of his own musical genre: Geo-acoustic creations. An example is this piece from 1994, for which 54 guitars were placed on the summit of the highest sand dune in Europe, on the Atlantic coast of France, so that their strings would vibrate in the wind. 6 musicians were on hand to tune and manipulate the sound, which was then taken to the studio to create this result.
Recorded 4:05pm on 5 October 1994
album: Vent de Guitares
CIP/Audio CIP 0195
http://www.cipaudio.com/
Iva Bittová/Bang on a Can: Elida (5.05)
Czech violinist, vocalist and composer Iva Bittová here teams up with New York's Bang on a Can All Stars, and sets to music a poem by Czech poet Vera Chase. Elida is the name of a make of soap.
Iva Bittová (violin/voice); Robert Black (bass); David Cossin (drum set/percussion); Lisa Moore (piano); Mark Stewart (electric guitars/12-string banjo/harmonica); Wendy Sutter (cello); Evan Ziporyn (clarinet/bass clarinet)
album: Elida
Cantaloupe Music CA21027
Cantaloupe Music, 80 Hanson Place, Suite 702, Brooklyn, NY 11217
http://www.cantaloupemusic.com
http://www.bittova.com
http://www.bangonacan.org/
Donna Regina: Slow Killer (3.49)
Donna Regina is a duo of Regina Janssen, who by day is an air hostess, and Günther Janssen, who is a radio and soundtrack composer based in Germany. They became big in Japan after writing the music for a car commercial there, and now they are releasing music on the German Karaoke Kalk label.
album: Kalk Seeds - A Karaoke Kalk Compilation
Karaoke Kalk CD 30
http://www.karaokekalk.de
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