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krj
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response 120 of 154:
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Mar 18 21:28 UTC 2003 |
Great world music selection on today's "Celtic Connections" show.
Grab the replay from Radio Scotland if you are so inclined.
Tomorrow, Wednesday March 19: BBC Radio 3 is scheduling a
huge show, 19:30-00:00 UK time: "A Place Called England," an
"examination of the state of English folk and traditional music."
Live sets from the Oysterband, Jim Moray, Boka Halat, Spiers & Boden,
Waterson:Carthy. Interview and chat segments with June Tabor,
Tony Engle (Topic Records), Ian Anderson (FRoots magazine) and
Shirley Collins. This conflicts with Mike Harding on Radio 2 but
it sounds like it is not to be missed for me. The web page says the
live music segments will be available for later listening.
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anderyn
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response 121 of 154:
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Mar 19 13:06 UTC 2003 |
What time is that here?
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micklpkl
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response 122 of 154:
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Mar 19 14:36 UTC 2003 |
Those times are from 2:30pm Eastern (1:30pm Central) until 7:00pm
Eastern.
Might be good to check, though. I'm often wrong.
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anderyn
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response 123 of 154:
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Mar 19 15:05 UTC 2003 |
I don't know If I'll get to listen, but I'll try.
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krj
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response 124 of 154:
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Mar 20 18:20 UTC 2003 |
The "Place Called England" show was rather too massive to absorb
in one go, all 4.5 hours of it; I'm going to have to replay the
recordings at about one hour per shot. Highlight of the night
for me was the introduction to a new band, Boka Halat, who
play English trad folk songs with some African drummers.
Most of the other live tracks were at least worthwhile, though I
thought Waterson:Carthy were maybe a little dull. The live Oysterband
set was fine.
Host Fiona Talkington promised some followup English folk stuff on
today's Late Junction show on Radio 3.
Notes for Mickey, via the new issue of FRoots Magazine:
Portugese singer Mariza is featured on this Saturday's "World
Routes" show with host Lucy Duran. (March 22) And, in
September, Andy Kershaw's world/rock/roots show is moving from
Friday nights to Sundays.
Question for Mickey: what do I have to remember about the UK change
to Summer Time, vs. the USA change to Daylight Savings?
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micklpkl
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response 125 of 154:
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Mar 20 19:05 UTC 2003 |
Thanks for the info about Mariza on World Routes, Ken.
British Summer Time (BST) begins 30 March at 1:00am, one week before
the United States begins observing Daylight Savings Time. So, the UK
schedules will be an extra hour ahead of us for the first week of April.
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krj
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response 126 of 154:
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Mar 20 21:38 UTC 2003 |
Mickey and I found BBC radio streams to be unusable today.
We abandoned our efforts to listen to Archie Fisher's show,
and my later attempt to get Radio 3 also failed. My best guess
is that the BBC websites are overwhelmed with people seeking
war news.
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krj
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response 127 of 154:
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Mar 26 20:21 UTC 2003 |
Mike Harding just announced a special program for Wednesday, 23 April,
to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Sandy Denny's death.
Interviews with her British folk-rock contemporaries, and music.
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krj
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response 128 of 154:
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Mar 27 21:21 UTC 2003 |
BBC Radio 3 has put up a new stack of live gig recordings of
world music artists. Most of these shows seem to come from the
London Jazz Festival last November. I'm unclear about the origins
of the shows with a March date, though.
Highlights for Mickey and I will be a 60 minute show by Mariza
(Portuguese fado) at 44K, and a 100 minute show by Mari Boine (Sami singer)
at the tasty 64K speed. Also included in this: Orchestra Baobab,
Faudel, Oliver Mtukudzi, Bembeya Jazz and Ketil Bjornstad.
I'm listening to the Mari Boine right now. Very nice.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/ljfgigs2002.shtml
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krj
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response 129 of 154:
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Mar 27 21:44 UTC 2003 |
(and, today, we're missing the Radio 3 World Music Awards concert,
with Mariza, Samira Said, bunches of others. Ah well, lots of dropouts
in the stream anyway. Hope they archive it for later.)
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micklpkl
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response 130 of 154:
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Mar 28 21:18 UTC 2003 |
resp:128 - This is an interesting collection of recorded live sessions.
Thanks for pointing it out. I'm looking forward to hearing Mari Boine
singing live. I checked out the Mariza show, and believe it to be the
very same recording that was featured on World Routes recently.
resp:129 - There is video and two concert (real)audio linked from here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/awards2003/index.shtml
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krj
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response 131 of 154:
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Apr 30 20:14 UTC 2003 |
Coming next week: Late Junction (BBC Radio 3) presents "a week of specially
made recordings" from a Scottish festival of Scandinavian music.
Tuesday offers "tracks" from the movie soundtrack project by Kate Rusby
and John McCusker. Wednesday features the Irish/English/Swedish band
Swap.
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krj
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response 132 of 154:
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May 13 19:32 UTC 2003 |
OK, I am very confused. First hour of today's Celtic Connection show
was great, lots of bagpipe-y stuff. Second hour was a concert set
from Vasen, from the same "Across the Sea" festival which Late Junction
drew on last week; it might even have been the same Vasen set which
LJ broadcast, I don't know. But 25 minutes into the second hour, the
show faded, and a Radio Scotland announcer expressed apologies for
the interruption and started playing sort of folky music.
No idea what happened. Darn, it was a great concert set too.
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krj
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response 133 of 154:
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May 16 18:49 UTC 2003 |
OK, somebody remind me what I know about Jah Wobble. He's Andy
Kershaw's studio guest today, but I sort of need the time to get
through five-seven hours of London Jazz Festival recordings which
Radio 3 has online for a limited time.
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mcnally
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response 134 of 154:
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May 16 19:08 UTC 2003 |
Bassist, former member of Public Image, Ltd., later went on to record
a number of albums of world fusion music with his band "Invaders of the
Heart" and some collaborations with other studio-experimentalist-leaning
musicians (e.g. Brian Eno, with whom he recorded an album called "Spanner"
(which is not very good, IMHO.))
If you've heard any of his post-PIL work, it was probably "Visions of You",
a single with considerable radio play in the Detroit/Windsor market, at
least if you were listening to "alternative" radio at the time. The most
prominent feature of the single, apart from an infectious percussion line,
was the guest vocal from Sinead O'Connor, so it's highly possible that
though you may have heard the song it might not have registered whose work
it was..
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krj
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response 135 of 154:
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May 20 16:27 UTC 2003 |
Tomorrow (Wednesday), Maddy Prior is supposed to be the featured guest
on the Mike Harding Show, BBC Radio 2, 3 pm US Eastern time / 7 pm UK time.
Probably there will be an interview, and several tracks from the new
"Lionheart" CD.
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And now, for something completely different! In BBC Radio 3's
collection of concerts from the London Jazz Festival, we found a gem.
Norwegian pianist Ketil Bjornstadt has a suite of settings of
poetry by John Donne. It's just exquisite. I'm not sure how to
characterize it: there might be some jazz elements to it, but it's
also kind of ambient, some classical art song in the underlying
concept. The singer is Anneli Drecker, who is/was the singer with
the Scandinavian art-rock band Bel Canto.
So far three friends have heard this and all three have gone, *wow*.
This gets my highest recommendation:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazzfest2002/index.shtml
(to access the 64K Real Audio stream)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazzfest2002/ketilbjornstad.shtml
(for biographical & program notes)
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dbratman
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response 136 of 154:
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Jun 22 02:59 UTC 2003 |
I'd love to hear that Ketil Bjornstadt program, but every time I click
on the link, Real Player pops up and gives me an error message
reading "The instruction at 0x62352039 referenced memory at 0x00000045.
The memory could not be written."
I don't have the slightest idea what this means or how to fix it. I've
uninstalled and redownloaded Real Player, and I still get the same
message.
This is typical behavior for computers dealing with media downloads of
any kind, and is a good explanation for why I rarely play media on my
computer.
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krj
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response 137 of 154:
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Jul 1 21:29 UTC 2003 |
Note for Mickey, mostly: Young English singer Jim Moray, who someone
billed as "techno-trad," will be the featured in-studio
guest on Wednesday's Late Junction show on BBC Radio 3.
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krj
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response 138 of 154:
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Jul 28 23:25 UTC 2003 |
... and Jim Moray is also the guest on Wednesday's Mike Harding show.
BBC Radio 3 now has about half of the shows from last weekend's Womad
festival up on their web page. Shows are generally about an hour long,
except for Lo'Jo, which seems to end rather abruptly at 15 minutes.
(I asked about it in the discussion forum.)
Bit rates are down to 44K this year, a mild bummer after the glorious
64K they used for the London Jazz Festival.
This is Real Audio, as usual for the Beeb.
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krj
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response 139 of 154:
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Oct 6 20:45 UTC 2003 |
The first of the "Europe in Union" world music concerts is up on BBC
Radio 3's web page. 44K real audio, and supposedly the concerts will
be there for a year. The opening concert in the series is
Modeste Hughes of Madagascar (45 minutes), and Eugenio Bennato & his
band Taranta Power of Italy (1 hr. 15 min).
The live Kristi Stassinopoulou show is Oct. 19, so presumably the
web-archive of the concert will be up soon after that.
Oh yeah, Eugenio Bennato is kind of neat. I have never heard Modeste
Hughes.
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krj
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response 140 of 154:
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Oct 14 20:07 UTC 2003 |
Mickey will want to pick up a repeat of today's Celtic Connections show,
though one might want to keep a finger ready on the fast-forward button.
There are about four or five live-in-studio tracks with Scottish band
Croft No. 5, but about half of them are collaborations with a rap group.
Even more interesting are the two songs from Martyn Bennett's new album
GRIT, finally out; I'll have to find a used or promo copy since it's on
the arm of a major record company.
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krj
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response 141 of 154:
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Nov 26 19:54 UTC 2003 |
The bloom is off the romance. :) I'm about ready to drop Radio
Scotland's "Celtic Connections," due to a decreasing supply of
Celtic music and a surge in African rap and Latin American music.
Mickey and I have actually dropped several of the recent shows in
mid-broadcast; none of them have been better than mediocre.
Radio Wales' "Celtic Heartbeat" looks promising, with some interesting
Celtic and folk band featured in the last two weeks, including Rag
Foundation (who have gone pretty pop in their new album),
3 Daft Monkeys and Celtish.
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dbratman
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response 142 of 154:
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Dec 3 03:56 UTC 2003 |
What are African rap and Latin American music doing in a show
called "Celtic Connections" in the first place?
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micklpkl
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response 143 of 154:
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Dec 3 20:33 UTC 2003 |
It's all about the connections, as far as I'm concerned. Oftentimes
they're tenuous, but that is part of the charm of the show. Personally,
I'd be bored stiff if Mary Ann played nothing but traditional music
from the former Celtic lands. It's always been more of a world/roots
music programme than a strictly Celtic one.
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krj
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response 144 of 154:
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Dec 5 22:14 UTC 2003 |
My carpooler often argues that the only apparent "Celtic" connection
is that the musicians have DNA, as do the people in Celtic lands.
I loved the mix in "Celtic Connections" when we started listening
20 months ago; it was my favorite of the BBC programs for a long time.
Things change; the show will probably pick up later; I just need a
vacation from it.
The new hazard :) is BBC Radio 6, as my tastes swing back towards
rock for the first time in many years.
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