5 August 2005
Friday 5 August 2005 22:20-23:30 (Radio 3)
Presented by Mark Russell and Robert Sandall and featuring an interview with Björk about her soundtrack for Drawing Restraint 9, and a new film by Matthew Barney, shot onboard a Japanese whaling ship in Nagasaki Bay.
Duration:
1 hour 10 minutes
Playlist
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Presented by Robert Sandall and Mark Russell
Produced by Felix Carey
Factsheet compiled by Sam Hickling
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Friday 5 August 2005, 10:20pm
Paolo Angeli: Miserere; Tibi (5.12)
Paolo Angeli is an experimental Italian guitarist known for his 'Giant' Sardinian guitar, which has been adapted into something resembling a mini orchestra. However, he's gently put that contraption aside for this project, which has taken eight years to realise. It's an imaginary soundtrack album featuring about thirty musicians from the musically fertile Bologna area.
The first track here features the Choir 'a Tasgia': Agostino Aresu, Sandro Vacca, Paolo Angeli, Nanni Angeli and Roberto Vacca.
album: NITA - l'angelo sul trapezio (an imaginary soundtrack)
ReR Megacorp ReR PA2
ReR Megacorp, 79 Beulah Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey CR7 8JG
http://www.paoloangeli.it
http://www.rermegacorp.com
Click here to read a review of this record
One Self: Fear the Labour (5.31)
One Self is the new project of acclaimed hip hop producer DJ Vadim, with Swedish-Brazilian vocalist Yarah Bravo and American vocalist Blu Rum 13.
album: Children of Possibility
Ninja Tune ZENCD94
http://www.djvadim.com/
http://www.ninjatune.net/
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Björk interview (33.31)
Björk discusses her soundtrack for Drawing Restraint 9: the new film by artist Matthew Barney. Largely set on board a Japanese whaling ship in Nagasaki Bay, the film's content provided much to which Björk was able to apply her considerable musical imagination.
Music details:
Björk: Bath
Featuring Björk (vocal); Akira Rabelais (piano treatments)
Björk: Antarctic Return
Featuring Mayumi Miyata (sho)
Björk: Holographic Entrypoint
Featuring Shiro Nomura (score/voice performance); Shonosuka Okura (percussion/chanting)
Björk: Hunter Vessel
Featuring Samuel Solomon (percussion); Valgeir Sigurdsson (programming/keyboards) Björk (brass arrangement)
Björk: Ambergris March
Featuring Gudrún Óskarsdóttir (harpsichord); Samuel Solomon (crotales/glockenspiel); Mark Bell, Valgeir Sigurdsson, Björk (programming)
Björk: Storm
Featuring Leila (programming); Björk (vocal)
Björk: Gratitude
Featuring Will Oldham (vocal); Jónas Sen (celeste); Zeena Parkins (harp); Valgeir Sigurdsson, Björk (programming); Nico Muhly (keyboard)
album: The Music from Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9
One Little Indian TPLP459CD
http://unit.bjork.com/specials/dr9/
http://www.bjork.com/
http://www.cremaster.net/
Click here to read a profile of Björk
Gurdjieff: Harmonium Improvisation 90B) No.32, first series - May 7, 1949 (5.05)
G.I.Gurdjieff was a Greek-Armenian spiritual teacher and philosopher whose ideas on human awakening continue to be a big influence on his followers, including musicians Robert Fripp and Keith Jarrett. Another musician with a keen interest in Gurdjieff is the Amsterdam-based record producer Gert-Jan Blom. In 2000, he obtained the 44 master tapes of Gurdjieff's solo harmonium improvisations. Some were in an almost irretrievable state of decay, but Blom has painstakingly restored them and released them as a CD and extended MP3 CD, presented with a detailed book.
This improvisation was recorded the year Gurdjieff died, at his Parisian apartment.
album: Improvisations (from Harmonic Development - the complete Gurdjieff Harmonium Recordings 1948-1949)
Basta 30-9115-2
http://www.bastamusic.com/
Graham Bowers: Loss of innocence - question (4.05)
Graham Bowers is a composer and artist based in North Wales who sent some of his work to Mixing It. This piece features him on piano and saxophone with Mark Porter on alto saxophone. It is taken from the first in a series of works inspired by John Bunyan's 17th century work Pilgrims Progress.
album: Pilgrim
Red Wharf Music
http://www.red-wharf.com
http://www.johnbunyan.org/
Terry Edwards: The Alchemist (3.46)
Multi-horn player Terry Edwards has appeared on countless records by all manner of performers. This track comes from his forthcoming self-titled solo album. It features him on flugelhorn with a background ambience made up of a treated version of the tune The Weirdness of Beardness from the album Ontogeny - no fish is too weird for her aquarium vol.2 by Terry Edwards and the Scapegoats.
album: terryedwards
Sartorial Records FIT 014CD
http://www.terryedwards.co.uk
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Red: Puff the Magic Dragon (3.44)
This comes from a single previewing an album which has been compiled by Stuart A Staples of the Tindersticks for release later in the year on his own Lucky Dog label. The album is called Songs for the Young at Heart and features recordings of or inspired by children's songs. Other contributors include Kurt Wagner (Lambchop), Robert Forster (The Go Betweens), Cerys Matthews (Catatonia) and Stuart Murdoch (Belle and Sebastian).
7" single
Lucky Dog 03
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