4 February 2005
Friday 4 February 2005 22:15-23:30 (Radio 3)
Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present a mix of musical styles and influences. This edition features a specially recorded session by violinists Mark Feldman and Graham Clark.
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 4 February 2005, 10:15pm
Jennifer Gentle: Universal Daughter (2.45)
Jennifer Gentle is Marco Fasolo and Alessio Gastaldello from Padova in the north of Italy, who are also founders of the Sillyboy label.
album: Valende
Sub Pop SP 658
http://www.jennifergentle.it/
http://www.subpop.com
http://www.sillyboy.it/
Mark Feldman and Graham Clark: Duo 1 (3.55)
This was the first piece that Mark Feldman and Graham Clark played together when they met for the first time in a central London studio last autumn. The pieces from this session were all improvised on the spot, and for those listening in stereo, Graham Clark is on the left and Mark Feldman is on the right
Graham Clark is an established British jazz violinist who was last heard on Mixing It playing with Graham Massey's Toolshed. Mark Feldman is an in-demand American violinist who has toured with the likes of Pharoah Sanders and Bill Frisell, and is a member of the Arcado String Trio.
Recorded 20 October 2004 at Whitfield Street Studio, London
BBC session recording - not commercially available
http://www.grahamviolin.com/
Mark Feldman has released CDs on the Tzadik and Enja labels
http://www.tzadik.com
http://www.enjarecords.com/
Amon Tobin: Flash Forward (End Theme Remix) (4.05)
The Getaway: Black Monday is a computer game based in a virtual East London gang culture. The original music for it was created by games music writers Nimrod, but Ninja Tune/Big Dada artists were commissioned to make remixes of some of the themes. This is Amon Tobin's reworking of the music for the game's closing credits.
album: The Getaway - Black Monday (Ninja Tune Remixes)
Ninja Tune ZENCD100
http://www.ninjatune.net
Enjambre Acústico Urukúngolo: Cuerdas embríonarías (4.40)
Gibrán Cervantes (Urukúngolo); Trevor Watts (soprano sax); Liliana and María Canela (heartbeat); Kalaya Cervantes (voice)
Enjambre Acústico Urukúngolo: Ríñones negros (2.00)
Gibrán Cervantes, Cyro Baptista, Laurentino Galán, Alejandro Vázquez (percussion)
Gibrán Cervantes is a Mexican composer, percussionist and instrument builder who has created a gigantic percussion instrument which he calls the Urukúngolo. This word is the ancient word for the South American percussion/string instrument known as the berimbau: in fact, the instrument Gibrán uses consists of a 9 feet square frame from which numerous berimbaus hang. This CD was given to Mixing It by the saxophonist Trevor Watts, who also appears here.
album: Díalogos intestinales
(No label or catalogue number)
http://www.perarts.org/UrukungoloEng.html
http://www.trevorwatts.whistlingmule.com
For more details on this CD, e-mail Trevor Watts:
[email protected]
Mark Feldman and Graham Clark: Duo 2; Duo 3 (4.45)
Graham Clark (violin - left channel); Mark Feldman (violin - right channel)
Recorded 20 October 2004 at Whitfield Street Studios, London
BBC session recording - not commercially available
More details above
Strønen/Storløkken: Dance! (4.45)
Thomas Strønen (drums/electronics) also plays with Food, Maria Kannegaard Trio and Parish; Ståle Storløkken (keyboards/electronics) is a founding member of Supersilent, Skywards (with Terje Rypdal) and Cucumber.
album: Humcrush
Rune Grammofon RCD2039
http://www.runegrammofon.com
[email protected]
[email protected]
Daniel Givens: What’s Understood (4.00)
Daniel Givens is a poet, MC, Photographer and Producer from New York City who has been working for 5 years on this album: his second. As well as releasing his own material, he has worked with Anti-Pop Consortium, Scanner, Tricky and Gil Scott-Heron.
album: Dayclear & First Dark
Aesthetics AST32CD
Aesthetics, PO Box 82233, Portland OR 97282 USA
http://www.aesthetics-usa.com/artists/danielgivens/bio.html
Koushik: One In A Day (3.30)
Koushik Ghosh, a producer/singer from Dundas, Ontario in Canada, has been described by fellow Canadian Manitoba as knowing 'more about music than anyone I've ever met'. Strangely, though, Koushik describes his own musical style as having something to do with 'tapered pants'.
album: Be With/One In A Day EPs
Stones Throw (PIAS) PIASXD49T
http://www.stonesthrow.com
http://www.pias.com
Mark Feldman and Graham Clark: Duo 4 (6.30)
Graham Clark (violin - left channel); Mark Feldman (violin - right channel)
Recorded 20 October 2004 at Whitfield Street Studio, London
BBC session recording - not commercially available
More details above
Supersoft [14-18]: L'île continent (3.20)
Supersoft [14-18] are a mysterious collective from the French town of Reims, who record and produce everything themselves. Their names are Jean-Marc Wadel, Manel Bigot, Lou Flanagan, LOCARd and Mme Ganache (who doesn't look like a Madame on their press photos).
album: L'île continent
Partycul System PS 002
Partycul System, 5 Rue Abbé de l'épée, 51100 Reims, France
[email protected]
http://membres.lycos.fr/partyculsystem/continent.htm
Exile: Rage is the Beautiful Light that Struck Her (5.00)
This comes from a label compilation, limited to a run of 500 CDs in individually blow-torched and hand wrecked jewel cases. There are tracks by the likes of Dolphin, Boep, Bovaflux and DJ Spazmo. This track is by Tim Shaw, aka Exile, whose work can also be heard at the Victoria and Albert Museum's Shhh! aural exhibition. He won a competition to compose music for the museum's Silver Galleries.
album: Wreckage (various artists)
Adverse Camber AC001
http://www.timexile.com
http://www.adverse-camber.net
http://shhh.vam.ac.uk/
Mark Feldman and Graham Clark: Duo 8 (8.10)
Graham Clark (violin - left channel); Mark Feldman (violin - right channel)
Recorded 20 October 2004 at Whitfield Street Studio, London
BBC session recording - not commercially available
More details above
Toy: Rabbit Pushing Mower (4.10)
Toy is the duo of Jaga Jazzist and Sondre Lerche producer Jorgen 'Sir Duperman' Traaen and House of Hiss founder Alisdair Stirling.
7" single
Telle 017
[email protected]
http://www.gjoastudio.com/
http://www.smalltownsupersound.com
http://www.ekkofest.no
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