Playlist
MIXING IT
Presented by Robert Sandall and Mark Russell
Produced by Felix Carey
Factsheet compiled by Sam Hickling
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Friday 17 December 2004, 10:15pm
Colin Towns Mask Orchestra: The Hellfire Club (Descend to Hades) (3.55)
Nathan Bray, Graham Russell, Martin Shaw, Guy Barker, Henry Lowther, Andy Gibson (trumpets); Alan Skidmore (tenor sax/soprano sax); Iain Dixon (tenor sax/soprano sax/clarinet); Peter King (alto sax/soprano sax); Simon Allen (alto sax/soprano sax); Jay Craig (baritone sax/bass clarinet); Barnaby Dickinson, Liam Kirkman, Pat Hartley, Roger Williams (trombones); David Hartley (piano); Steve Lodder, Colin Towns (keyboards); Dudley Philips, Thad Kelly (bass); Ian Thomas (drums); John Parricelli (guitar); Paul Clarvis, Kevin Earley, Paul Parker (percussion); Dominic Hackett (timpani); Colin Towns (conductor)
The Orpheus Suite was commissioned by David Bintley of Birmingham Royal Ballet for premiere on 6th October 2004. It the third part of a trilogy of jazz ballets inspired by Duke Ellington.
album: The Orpheus Suite
Provocateur PVC2004
http://www.provocateurrecords.co.uk
http://www.colintowns.com
http://www.BRB.ORG.UK
Paul Lansky: Post-Pastoral (3.05)
This is from a new album of pieces which use Handel's Messiah as a starting point. The project was the idea of the New York based musical collective Bang on a Can, and it brings together the likes of Scanner, John Oswald and Nobukazu Takemura. This interpretation is by the Radiohead-influencing Princeton University scholar Paul Lansky.
album: Messiah Remix
Cantaloupe Music CA21020
Cantaloupe Music, 80 Hanson Place, 7th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11217 USA
http://www.cantaloupemusic.com
http://www.music.princeton.edu/%7Epaul/
Guessmen: Average Fish (3.50)
Mixing It met the Guessmen when in Newcastle, recording a feature on the city's alternative music scene last year. The band consists of multi-instrumentalists Alan Edge, Tommy Anderson and John Ayers, who originally got together through attending improvisation sessions. This track features old Casio keyboards, sax, clarinet, and cello played by Laura Reid. Also audible are a series of recordings made in pubs around the band's studio.
Taken from a 6-track sampler sent to Mixing It - not commercially available yet
The Guessmen have released the album Animals in Suits (Guessmen GM001)
http://www.guessmen.co.uk
Masada String Trio: Lachish (3.10)
To celebrate the 50th birthday of New York composer John Zorn, a series of 60 concerts (two a day) were performed at the Tonic club on Manhattan's Lower East Side. This is taken from one of those concerts, recorded 4th September 2003 and featuring Mark Feldman (violin); Erik Friedlander (cello); Greg Cohen (bass); John Zorn (conductor)
album: Masada String Trio 50-1
Tzadik TZ 5001
Tzadik, 61 Fourth Avenue, pmb 126, New York, NY 10003 USA
http://www.tzadik.com/
http://www.erikfriedlander.com/
Mark Feldman will be appearing in session with Graham Clark on Mixing It, 4th February 2005
Hood: The Lost You (4.40)
Hood, from Leeds, are based around the brothers Chris and Richard Adams. They record in their home studio in the north of the city. This track features the cut-up vocals of Robert Wyatt, and also appears on an EP with the same name.
album: Outside Closer
Domino WIGCD148
Domino Recording Co. Ltd, PO Box 47029, London SW18 1WD
http://www.hoodmusic.net
http://www.dominorecordco.com
Monolog: Combinary (5.10)
Monolog is a Danish musician, DJ and producer, who also works as an electronics researcher at Aalborg University, and used to be a party organiser. His latest release takes the shape of two 12" EPs: Azúcar (Spanish for 'sugar') and Veneno (Spanish for 'poison'). This is the opening track on the lighter Azúcar release.
EP: Azúcar
Tendertronic Audiofication BAH012LP
http://www.tender.nu
Thee More Shallows: Walk of Shame (5.30)
Thee More Shallows from San Francsisco are Chavo Fraser, Jason Gonzales and Dee Kesler with Cosmos Lee (violin), Alexander Kahn (French horn), Enzo Garcia (singing saw) and Odessa Chen (vocals).
album: More Deep Cuts
Monotreme MONO 07
http://www.theemoreshallows.com
Monotreme Records Ltd, PO Box 31395, London SW11 1XT
http://www.monotremerecords.com
Sightings/Tom Smith: ECM the Money (6.05)
Sightings/Tom Smith: Richard Hoffman (bass); John Lockie (drums/electronics); Mark Morgan (guitar/keyboards); Tom Smith (voice/electronics)
Sightings recorded a raucous session for Mixing It just over a year ago. In the intervening time they have produced this album with Tom Smith of the band To Live and Shave in LA. The recordings took place in November last year in a tiny Brooklyn studio, then Tom took away the 4-track cassette masters and worked on them over a six month period.
album: Gardens of War
The Smackshire TSSR1006
http://www.smackshire.com/
http://www.loadrecords.com/bands/sightings.html
Coil: Sex with Sun Ra (Part One - Saturnalia) (9.20)
Jhonn Balance, founder member of Coil, died on November 13th this year, following a fall from a first floor landing at his home.
Coil were Jhonn Balance, Peter Christopherson, Tom Edwards, Cliff Stapleton, Thighpaulsandra and Mike York
This CD was released earlier this year to coincide with Coil's 'Even An Evil Fatigue' live series
album: Black Antlers
Threshold House CD-R
This was a limited 2004 CD release available in Paris, Leipzig, Amsterdam, Rome, Fano and London
http://www.thresholdhouse.com/itjustis.html
http://www.brainwashed.com/coil/main.html
Janet Feder: Puppet (3.15)
Janet Feder (prepared classical guitar); Mike Johnson (guitar)
As well as being a leader in the field of prepared guitar composition, Janet Feder is a guitar tutor at the Naropa University in Colorado.
album: Speak Puppet
ReR Megacorp ReR Jf1
http://www.janetfeder.com
http://www.Megacorp.u-net.com
Read a review of this release at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/experimental/reviews/feder_speak.shtml
Andrew Liles: An Unkempt Garden or the Cod Cape (3.45)
This is taken from the fourth release by Andrew Liles, and features 'English vernacular culture connoisseur' Andrew King on vocals. Elsewhere on this album, Aaron Moore and Nick Mott of Volcano the Bear can be heard.
album: My Long Accumulating Discontent
Nextera ERA 2035-2
http://www.andrewliles.com
http://www.nextera.cz
Mina Agossi: Caravan (4.15)
Mina Agossi (vocals); Alexandre Hiele (bass); Bertrand Perrin (drums)
Mina Agossi is a French/Beninoise jazz vocalist. This, taken from her new album, is a version of the old Duke Ellington tune.
album: Zaboum
Candid Records CCD 79787
Candid Productions Ltd, 16 Castelnau, London SW13 9RU
http://www.mina-agossi.com
http://www.candidrecords.com
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