Playlist

Featuring a session from Wide Open Cage

Craig Armstrong: Weather Storm (3.45)
This is taken from the latest album by the Glaswegian composer, which consists of pieces arranged for solo piano with occasional electronic treatments. Weather Storm originally appeared on Massive Attack's Protection album.
album: Piano Works
Sanctuary/When! WEN225
See also http://www.craigarmstrong.com 

Brian Woodbury: Have You Seen My Serene (5.30)
Chris Rael (vocals); Ethan Iversen (Fender Rhodes); Jon Feinberg (drums/guitars); Matt Darriau (Indian flute); Marc Muller (guitar); Oren Bloedow (bass); Chris Wood (upright bass); Guy Klucevsek (accordion); Brian Woodbury (keyboards/dulcimer); Frank London (trumpet); Dan Levine (trombone); Aaron Hick (saxes); Mark Feldman (violin); Sarah Hewitt (cello); Elizabeth Shaler (background vocals)
Chris Rael, who sings on this nod to Indian film music, is also the singer in the band Church of Betty
album: The Brian Woodbury Songbook
Some Phil 5
See also http://www.somephil.com; http://www.churchofbetty.com/ 

Triosk: Two; Twelve (3.30)
Laurence Pike (drums/vibes/loops); Adrian Klumpes (piano/Rhodes/synths/vibes/loops); Ben 'Donny' Waples (acoustic and electric bass/loops)
This trio from Sydney take the music of cut-and-paste samplist Jan Jelinek as their starting point, and recreate the feel of his jazz collages in an acoustic setting.
album: Moment Returns
Leaf Label BAY 39CD
See also http://www.triosk.com; http://www.theleaflabel.com; http://www.posteverything.com/leaf 

Interview: Jose Pereira and Francois Julien of Wide Open Cage 

Wide Open Cage: Toys Factory; Freeze; Little Voices; Bad? (c.20.00)
Recorded 27 July 2004 at Whitfield Street Studio, London
BBC session - not commercially available
French band Wide Open Cage recorded this exclusive session for Mixing It during their recent British Tour. Regular members David Krupinski (guitar/keyboards), Jose Pereira (turntables/effects) and Francois Julien (composition/sound direction) were joined by DJ Click (CD turntables)
Toys Factory, Little Voices and Bad? all appear on the Wide Open Cage album Woebegone Lullabies (Expressillon EXPR CD11)
Expressillon, tel. +33 1 4806 4430, visit http://www.expressillon.com
See also http://www.wideopencage.com/ 

The Slate Pipe Banjo Draggers: Get Yourself A Wash (6.00)
Mixing It met Andrew Rowe aka The Slate Pipe Banjo Draggers during a trip to Leeds earlier this year.
This track consists of a child's Bontempi keyboard fed through a distortion pedal alongside the distorted sound of a wine glass being tapped, a pre-set samba rhythm, a Romanian mandolin, mouth organ loop and a sample of workers in a bus terminus in Tangiers.
EP: One Aeroplane EP
Mandolin Records 2004
See also http://www.slatepipe.co.uk; http://www.mandolinrecords.co.uk 

Simon Nabatov Trio: Hardly Obliged (6.50)
Simon Nabatov (piano); Ernst Reijseger (cello); Michael Vatcher (drums)
This trio came together at Amsterdam's celebrated free improvisation venue the BimHuis.
album: Autumn Music
Leo Records CD LR 397
See also http://www.nabatov.com; http://www.leorecords.com