Django Bates
Friday 16 July 2004 22:15-23:30 (Radio 3)
Mark Russell and Robert Sandall are joined in the studio by composer and improviser Django Bates, whose eagerly awaited new album You Live and Learn...Apparently features the Smith Quartet and vocalist Josefine Lindstrand.
Duration:
1 hour 15 minutes
Playlist
The special guest on tonight's programme is musician and composer Django Bates
Tuxedomoon: Baron Brown (4.35)
Tuxedomoon emerged from the late 70s/early 80s avant-garde new wave scene in San Francisco. They have now reformed and released this album despite being geographically scattered: Steven Brown lives in Mexico, Peter Principle lives in New York and Blaine Reininger lives in Greece. Guests on this album include Tarwater, John McEntire of Tortoise and DJ Hell
album: Cabin in the Sky
Crammed Discs CBOY 1515
More details at http://www.tuxedomoon.com/; http://www.crammed.be/
Django Bates: My Way (5.15)
Josefine Lindstrand (voice); Django Bates (keyboards/all totally gratuitous world music moments); Charango Batesh (guitar/hand claps); Iain Ballamy (sax); Michael Mondesir (bass/inverted and staggered bass voice); Martin France (drums/electric drums/percussion); Smith Quartet (strings); Andrew Murdock (incredible Japanese bird-pen solo)
album: You Live and Learn… (apparently)
Lost Marble LM001
More details at http://www.djangobates.co.uk/
Vakoka: Manigne (3.45)
Vakoka is a supergroup of musicians from Madagascar, who came together over a 6 month period to put together this album, recording under the stipulations that all the music should be original and that it should all have 'fanahy Gasy' ('Malagasy soul').
On this track: Gabin (vocals); Damy (Lokanga/vocals on first part); Seta (baritone and soprano saxes); Monja (longoro); Teta (guitar); Solange, Desa, Mosa (vocals)
album: Introducing Vakoka (the Malagasy All Stars)
World Music Network INTRO102CD
More details at http://www.vakoka.com/; http://www.worldmusic.net
Django Bates: From Chaos, Anything is Possible (6.45)
Josefine Lindstrand (voice); Django Bates (keyboards/Eb horn/voice/Tibetan bell); Iain Ballamy (sax); Michael Mondesir (bass); Martin France (drums/electric drums); Smith Quartet (strings); Chris Batchelor (trumpet); Archy Bates (young boy reading)
album: You Live and Learn… (apparently)
Lost Marble LM001
Leo Boyle: Ieri (Yesterday) (2.30)
Roi Smith (acoustic guitar); Sovra Wilson-Dickson (violins); Max Read (cello)
Leo Boyle: Le Lei Sono (Accapella Versione) (0.30)
Based on There You Are (accapella version)
Leo Boyle, we think, is a librarian from Northampton. On this album he has translated well-known songs into what at first listen appears to be Italian, but when Django played it to an Italian friend, the Italian friend didn't recognise any of the words.
album: Un Britanno En Firenze
Home-produced CD
See http://www.geocites.com/lionhome2000/index.html
Radiohead: Paperbag Writer (3.55)
This track originally appeared as the b-side to the There There single, released last year. It has now re-surfaced on a Japanese compilation of b-sides, live tracks and remixes.
album: Com Lag 2plus2isfive
Parlophone TOCP-66280
See also http://www.radiohead.com/
Django Bates: Football (4.35)
Josefine Lindstrand (voice); Django Bates (keyboards/Eb horn/voice); Iain Ballamy (sax); Michael Mondesir (bass); Martin France (drums/percussion); Smith Quartet (strings); Chris Batchelor (trumpet)
album: You Live and Learn… (apparently)
Lost Marble LM001
Time Line: Road Rage (beep-beep) (5.35)
Barak Schmool (alto sax/percussion); Nick Ramm (keyboards/xylophone); David Okumu (guitar); Tom Herbert (bass); Leo Taylor (drumkit); Ivan Ormond (percussion)
album: Know Hope
F-ire Records
More details at http://www.f-ire.com
See also http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/onyourstreet/msbarak1.shtml
The Necks: The Boys I (4.25)
The Necks are Chris Abrahams (piano), Lloyd Swanton (bass) and Tony Buck (drums).
Much of the music on this CD is taken from the soundtrack to the 1998 Australian film The Boys
album: Music for the feature film The Boys
ReR Megacorp NECKS4
ReR Megacorp, 79 Beulah Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey CR7 8JG UK, visit http://www.rermegacorp.com
More details at http://www.thenecks.com
Youngblood Brass Band: Under Your Influence (4.15)
The Youngblood Brass Band was founded in 1995 by a group of high school band members in Oregon.
Nat McIntosh ‘The Warrior’ (sousaphone); David Henzie-Skogen ‘Dciph’ (snare drum and cymbal/vocals/water jugs/wood shells/bamboo staves); Tom Reschke (bass drum and cymbal); Alex Wilkens (tenor sax); The Joe Goltz (trombone); Charles Wagner, Jeff Maddern, Mike Boman (trumpets)
This album was made entirely with horns, percussion and voice; there is no sampling/looping of any instrument.
album: Center:level:roar
Ozone Music OZO902
Ozone Music Inc, 451 Greenwich Street #507, New York NY 10013 USA, visit http://www.ozonemusic.net
More details at http://www.youngbloodbrassband.com
Django Bates: Interval Song (3.40)
Josefine Lindstrand (voice); Django Bates (keyboard/voice/whistling); Iain Ballamy (sax); Laurence Cottle (bass); Martin France (drums/electric triangle); Smith Quartet (strings); Barak Schmool (samba percussion); ai fujisaki (trainwreck reconstruction). Introducing the Choir of Saint Konk: Ella and Georgia Batchelor, Lulu Bates, Megan Scout Waterhouse
Sing along with this and you'll be practising every interval within an octave.
album: You Live and Learn… (apparently)
Lost Marble LM001
