11 March 2005
Friday 11 March 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 Mark Russell and Robert Sandall
Produced by Felix Carey
Factsheet compiled by Sam Hickling
Tel. 020 7765 4661
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Friday 11 March 2005, 10:15pm
Solex: Yadda Yadda Yadda No.1 (2.05)
With Robert Lagendijk (drums); Geert de Groot (guitar); Stuart Brown (vocals)
Solex is the recording name of Amsterdam record store owner Elisabeth Esselink, who scours her own stock for suitable samples and builds them into tracks in a bunker beneath the shop floor.
album: The Laughing Stock of Indie Rock
Discmeister DMR 001
http://www.solex.net
Clogs: Sticks & Nails (8.15)
The main guitar sound on this track was produced by threading two nails through the strings, close to the bridge, with an altered tuning to enhance the strange harmonics this technique produces.
Padma Newsome (violin/viola/vocals/prepared guitar); Bryce Dessner (guitar and prepared guitar) with Jennifer Choi (violin); Erik Friedlander (cello); Tim Feeney (percussion)
album: Stick Music
Talitres TAL-016
Talitres Records, 14 Rue de Mérignac, 33000 Bordeaux, France
Clogs have just completed work on their fourth album.
http://www.clogsmusic.com
http://www.talitres.com
http://www.brassland.org
Hear Clogs' performance from last year's London Jazz Festival at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazzfest2004/clogs.shtml
Billy Jenkins: Everything's Too Fast (3.07)
Billy Jenkins describes this album as 'a complete distillation of his work to date'. This track begins as a standard 12 bar blues then loses half bars and whole bars as it progresses.
Billy Jenkins (vocals/harmonica/handmade Lucas Parlour guitar)
album: When the Crowds Have Gone
Babel BDV 2450
http://www.billyjenkins.com
http://www.babellabel.co.uk
http://www.lucasguitars.co.uk
Son of Clay: Bring Me Water Or Bread (5.32)
Quoting influences as diverse as Morton Feldman, Jimmy Giuffre and Talk Talk, Son of Clay is the project of Berlin resident Andreas Bertilsson.
album: The Bird You Never Were
Komplott Escudre04
http://www.komplott.com
Read a review of this album at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/experimental/reviews/sonofclay_bird.shtml
Mu: Haters (2.41)
Mu is the Sheffield-based duo of Japanese performance artist Mutsumi Kanamori and American producer/arranger Maurice Fulton.
album: Out of Breach (Manchester's Revenge)
Output Recordings OPRCD77
http://www.outputrecordings.com
The Residents: On the Way (to Oklahoma) (4.05)
This is from the latest album by the San Francisco art pranksters, which aims to look at the world of humans from the perspective of animals. The rhythm tracks are produced from the mating noise patterns generated largely by cicadas and frogs.
The Residents are Molly Harvey, Carla Fabrizio and Nolan Cook
album: Animal Lovers
Cryptic/Mute ACDStumm247
http://www.residents.com
http://www.mute.com
Nurse With Wound/Jim O'Rourke: Tape Monkey Mooch - Angry Eelectric Finger 1 (6.03)
This comes from a new 3-CD set by Steven Stapleton, aka Nurse With Wound. The original material was recorded 2001-2003 then 'dissected, fertilised and re-grown' by Jim O'Rourke in 2003. Woodwinds are by Hansi Fischer and the late Tim Belbe of Xhol Caravan; apocalyptic guitar is by David Tibet. On the other 2 CDs in the set, the original material is reworked by Cyclobe and Irr.app.(ext.).
album: Angry Eelectric Finger
Beta-lactam Ring Records mt085b
Beta-lactam Ring Records, PO Box 6715, Portland, OR 97228-6715 USA
http://www.brainwashed.com/nww/
http://www.blrrecords.com
Alec Empire: Make Em Bleed (3.15)
A quieter, more contemplative moment from the new album by Alec Empire (which should give an impression what the rest sounds like); this record sees a return to the electric guitar. Keyboards and synthesiser parts are all by Nic Endo, formerly with Alec Empire in Atari Teenage Riot.
album: Futurist
Empire Records DHRCD40
http://www.digitalhardcore.com/
Fred Frith: Absent Friends (4.01)
Nowadays, Fred Frith is professor of composition at Mills College in Oakland, California, specialising in improvisation. On the way, he has been a member of UK avant rock band Henry Cow, and has contributed to albums by the likes of Robert Wyatt and Brian Eno. A few items from his solo back catalogue are being re-released; this one was recorded at home on a 4-track tape recorder in the summer of 1983.
Clapping by Aksak Maboul
album: Cheap at half the price
Fred Records ReR/FR0 06
Fred Records/ReR Megacorp, 79 Beulah Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey CR7 8JG
http://www.fredfrith.com
http://www.rermegacorp.com
Robert Marcel Lepage + La Nef: Premier Paradoxe - Le Tamponneur de triolet (5.47)
Recorded live at the Festival Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques 2002
Robert Marcel Lepage (conductor) with La Nef: Stéphane Allard (violin/baritone violin); Ganesh Anandan (percussion); Nicolas Boucher (sampling/live sound treatment); Nicolas Caloia (double bass); Yanik Cloutier (guitar/banjo/saz); Claire Gignac (flutes/ritual flutes/tenor sax); Patrick Graham (percussion); Betsy MacMillan (viola da gamba); Alain Trudel (trombone/sackbut); Samuel Vero (trumpet/piccolo trumpet)
album: La Machine à explorer le tempo (The Tempo Machine)
Ambiances Magnétiques AM 116 CD
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.e/lepage_ro.html
http://www.la-nef.com/la_nef_angl.html
Four Tet: Sun Drums and Soil (6.13)
A preview of the fourth album by Kieran Hebden under his Four Tet alias, due for release in May; he sees this album as a reaction to the 'folktronica' label levelled at his recent work. And so, this track features the kind of heavy drums which have graced recent Four Tet live shows with veteran soul/funk/jazz drummer Steve Reid.
album: Everything Ecstatic
Domino advanced promo CD
http://www.fourtet.net/
http://www.dominorecordco.com
Woodbine: Tea Time Assortment (3.25)
Woodbine is the Lancashire-based trio of Susan Dillane (vocals/keyboards/guitar/beats); Rob Healey (guitar/tambourine/keyboards) and Graeme Swindon (guitar/vocals/bass/skins/beats)
album: Best Before End:
Domino Records WIGCD151
Domino Recording Co. Ltd, PO Box 47029, London SW18 1WD
http://www.dominorecordco.com
Colin Black: Pythagoras Daydreaming of a Micro Polyphonic Sound Mass Near a Small Creek on Samos (5.14)
Soundprints: The Greek Imprints was commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to coincide with last year's Olympic Games, and was created by Australian composer and sound artist Colin Black, in collaboration with ABC Radio producer Yanna Black. This track features the sound of a treated bouzouki, and attempts to portray what must have been going on in Pythagoras' head.
Colin Black (electro acoustic realisation); Andrei Shabunov (Fairlight EQ performance)
album: Soundprints - The Soundtrack from the Greek Imprints Series
Demo CD
http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/cydonian/c_black.html
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/events/greece/
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