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krj
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response 13 of 154:
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Mar 13 21:20 UTC 2002 |
Mickey pointed out that Radio 6's Real Audio stream is 64K, which
sounds much better than the 44K maximum available on the other
channels. Presumably this is because the net is a primary medium
for Radio 6, which has no analog over-the-air broadcast.
I've read that an Ogg Vorbis stream is available for Radio 1;
I haven't pursued this because Radio 1's sound -- probably described
as "urban contemporary" -- doesn't appeal to me.
But someone might find it interesting to play with.
(Ogg Vorbis is the open source version of MP3, which was created
when the holders of Mp3 patents started seeking royalties.)
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mcnally
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response 14 of 154:
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Mar 13 22:14 UTC 2002 |
re #12: I recommend Orton's "Best Bit" EP for the two songs she
performs with Chicago jazz musician Terry Callier, both of which
are excellent tracks. Of her full-length albums, I like a lot of
"Central Reservation" but never much cared for "Trailer Park"..
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dbratman
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response 15 of 154:
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Mar 14 18:09 UTC 2002 |
Ken wrote, "Add in Alyth McCormack, yet another Scottish artist setting
traditional material to contemporary dance sounds."
What counts as "contemporary dance sounds" these days? Rap beat?
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krj
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response 16 of 154:
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Mar 14 19:10 UTC 2002 |
Techno, probably. I'm not up on the terminology. She's a gorgeous
singer; when I have a moment I'll dig up her CD company website address.
(Her album also has a USA release on Compass Records.)
Eeek! I almost forgot to "tune in" for the Travelling Folk show
on Radio Scotland. Today it's a tribute/memorial to the late
Hamish Henderson.
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krj
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response 17 of 154:
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Mar 15 01:55 UTC 2002 |
And the second hour of Travelling Folk was a concert by The Dubliners,
who are old-fashioned but kind of fun. All the folk shows (in both
the US and UK) are doing their St. Patrick's Day specials; the
Mike Harding show on Wednesday was all Irish folks, and I already owned
more than half the discs from which they played songs. But it was
good to hear something from the new Christy Moore, which I don't
have, and the new Chieftains (yuck!), and there was an interview
with Cathy Jordan of Dervish.
I've run into problems with the Late Junction show. Last week the
show was hosted by Verity Sharp and I loved most of it; this week's
host is Fiona Tarkington and I haven't liked it much at all.
There was one track I did like today, which came right before
the big Messaien piano piece; I'll have to wait until the playlist
goes up in a day or so to find out what it is. The Late Junction
folks do seem to like their Messaien.
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krj
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response 18 of 154:
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Mar 15 02:47 UTC 2002 |
Got it. I'm listening to the first half of the show, and they played
another track from that wonderful album. It's NAVIGATORE by Renaud
Garcia-Fons. The artist is a bass player who seems to be straddling
jazz, classical and Mediterranean folk music. It's got that wonderful
Mediterranean texture that Mickey and I like in a lot of music
from Spain and Italy and France.
And I can't find anyone who's got the disc in stock online.
It's a 2000 or 2001 Enja label release. Daggone it, Enja did not
used to be difficult label to find. Amazon.co.uk says they could
get it in a week, maybe.
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krj
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response 19 of 154:
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Mar 15 19:06 UTC 2002 |
Andy Kershaw's show today is supposed to include a concert session
with the Be Good Tanyas. Radio 3 at 5:15 pm USA Eastern Time, if I
remember correctly.
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krj
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response 20 of 154:
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Mar 17 01:29 UTC 2002 |
The Messiaen which "Late Junction" was playing turns out to be
two-piano pieces called "Visions de l'Amen." Interesting stuff.
The recording they've been playing is a Wergo label issue from 1993,
with Begona Uriarte and Karl-Hermann Mrongovius playing. (Who?)
In catalogs I found a Martha Argerich recording.
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krj
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response 21 of 154:
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Mar 19 00:00 UTC 2002 |
Ah, nothing wonderful lasts forever. The Guardian ran an article
about plans for the Times (UK) news operations to start charging
for access to their sites. Buried at the bottom was this:
Regarding registered users of the Times Online services:
> Anyone registered from overseas will now have to pay
> a subscription to access any part of the site.
> However, Mr Hayes insisted that the 10 content "channels"
> culled from the daily paper will remain free to UK users.
> In a move that could have implications for the BBC's desire
> to charge overseas visitors to access its sites, Mr Hayes
> insisted the site will employ technology that can identify a
> user's home country with over 90% accuracy.
(I'll start a general "end of free content" item in Agora, so don't
follow that drift here, OK?)
I'm going to write the BBC and ask what their thoughts are.
I'd actually be willing to pay to be able to continue to stream
these programs, depending on what the costs are.
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krj
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response 22 of 154:
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Mar 20 18:29 UTC 2002 |
Late Junction has had a number of interesting performers
featured over the last two nights. Usually they have
played a couple of tracks from each CD. Just namedropping:
Philip Glass & Foday Muso Suso
Kimmo Pohjonen, from the album KIELO. Finnish accordion player,
Steve Andre liked his pieces a lot.
Bjork's more recent album VESPERTINE
Kerekes Egyuttes, a Hungarian folk band
Susana Baca, her new cd ESPIRITUVIVO, sounded very fine
Pat Metheny, pleasant but not compelling
Much of the programs have been taken up with contemporary Passion
oratorios, which they have been playing in chunks: by Sofia Gubaidulina
and John Caldwell.
Tuesday's "Celtic Connections" show on Radio Scotland opened with a
great unreleased track from the new band Sunhoney. This was a set
of fiddle tunes, but I believe the band is reported to have Alyth
McCormack as a member so presumably there will be singing too.
The web page for World Music on BBC Radio 3 contains about 90 minutes
of music recorded at a charity benefit for Afghanistan. I have not
played it yet; the only performer I recognize was Cheb Khaled.
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other
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response 23 of 154:
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Mar 20 18:41 UTC 2002 |
have Bjork and Philip Glass ever recorded together? that would be
interesting.
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orinoco
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response 24 of 154:
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Mar 21 15:22 UTC 2002 |
Phillip Glass has done a couple of collaborations with pop musicians, but
AFAIK they were all pre-Bjork -- or at least, back when she was still a
Sugarcube. Then again, I try not to pay too close attention to what Glass
has been up to. He just has this nasty habit of collaborating with people
I like (David Bowie and Paul Simon, to name two).
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krj
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response 25 of 154:
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Mar 22 06:24 UTC 2002 |
I think I'm hitting total satiation on BBC radio shows and I may need
to take a week or so off. Today's Archie Fisher show ("Travelling
Folk," BBC Radio Scotland, 2pm-4pm Eastern) included five or six
live-in-studio tracks with a fun bagpipe band called Daimh (pronounced
"dive"). They also featured some old Stan Rogers songs.
If nothing else, I'm getting into some listening fatigue from
too many hours of 44K Real Audio streams.
Mickey, get in here and talk about the Iain Anderson show, OK?
(This is neither the Jethro Tull guy nor the Folk Roots magazine
editor; there are *3* Ia(i)n Andersons in the British music scene...)
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micklpkl
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response 26 of 154:
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Mar 22 17:02 UTC 2002 |
Oh, okay. :) Iain Anderson's show is broadcast Monday through Friday, from
14:05 to 16:00, GMT (That's 9:05am-11am Eastern), live from Aberdeen,
Scotland. He plays an eclectic mix of Celtic music interspersed with
contemporary pop music, news, interviews & previews. I find that it's perfect
for my early morning listening tastes. Most days I don't even bother with
local radio. Some highlights from this morning's programme, which was one of
the better ones:
I tuned in right at the end of a song sung by Faith Hill. Yipe.
Next up was ASTRID, "Strange Weather Lately" ... Glasgow-based group
sounding Beatle-ish but nice. I remember that they were voted "Best New
Discovery" or something at SxSW 2000.
The Proclaimers have been Iain's "artists of the week" and he played
a great song "Sweet Little Girls" from their album PERSEVERE (2001).
Another great track off of Christy Moore's newest, THIS IS THE DAY
Croft No.5 - another great Scottish group combining traditional
melodies with dance and funk grooves. I've loved everthing I've heard (Iain
plays them a lot) off their debut, ATTENTION ALL PERSONNEL.
Sounded awesome going into Alyth McCormack's HI HORO (see ken's notes
above)
Then there was Lyle Lovett, Sheryl Crow (gasp!), Cowboy Junkies,
finally ending with some great Celtic tunes from Colcannon, John McCusker and
Runrig.
That should give a decent look into the type of music that gets played on
Iain's show. It's a lot of fun.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland
Oh, yeah -- thought I'd mention that Iain answers e-mail, often live on the
air. iainanderson@bbc.co.uk
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krj
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response 27 of 154:
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Mar 26 19:30 UTC 2002 |
I've had to throw in the towel on Late Junction for a couple of
weeks. I just don't have 8 hours a week for it.
I seem to have settled on CELTIC CONNECTIONS on Tuesday, Mike Harding's
folk show on Wednesday, Archie Fishers' TRAVELLING FOLK on
Thursday, and Andy Kershaw on Friday. That's six hours a week
which is about all I can manage right now.
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krj
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response 28 of 154:
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Mar 26 22:13 UTC 2002 |
Just looked at the playlist for Late Junction on Monday,
the show I deliberately skipped, and sighed;
almost all folk/world music. Verity Sharp is hosting this
week, and maybe she does the shows I like. Of course it was
largely performers I was already familiar with, so ...
Late Junction has two presenters, Verity Sharp and Fiona Talkington,
and I don't know what their duty cycles are.
Unrelated note for Mickey: next Tuesday's Celtic Connections
show is to include a live set from the Spanish band Alboka, recorded
earlier at the Celtic Connections festival.
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micklpkl
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response 29 of 154:
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Apr 1 15:22 UTC 2002 |
A couple of notes: on 31 March, The U.K. switched to Summer Time (GMT+1). So,
remember that when searching for scheduled programmes originating in the UK
or Europe.
Radio Scotland did some rearranging of the schedule, and Iain Anderson has
been removed from his Mon-Fri 2-hour afternoon (local) gig, and placed into
a 21:00-22:00 time slot. I don't know if this is an April Fool's prank or
what; I am not amused. His new show is said to concentrate on "the marvellous
world of the singer-songwriter." His replacement in the 14:05-16:00 slot is
Tom Morton, a crofter from the Shetland Islands. :)
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dbratman
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response 30 of 154:
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Apr 2 00:44 UTC 2002 |
Not only has Philip Glass collaborated with David Bowie and Paul Simon,
he's also collaborated with Suzanne Vega and the Roches. If he hadn't
already won my favor, that would have nailed it.
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krj
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response 31 of 154:
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Apr 3 18:54 UTC 2002 |
Some notes to myself on recent yummy things heard on my fragments
of Late Junction listening:
Thursday: The hurdy gurdy piece I did not get identified at broadcast
time was by Gilles Chabenat, "Le Jardin Aux Orties", from the album
"Mouvements Clos" on the Buda label. I have a feeling I have something
else on hurdy-gurdy by Chabenat in a box somewhere. Something
for the next order from alapage.com, I guess.
Two tracks after that was Jah Wobble with Natacha Atlas guesting,
from the album "Shout at the Devil." (Sure took the BBC folks long
enough to get that Thursday playlist posted on their web site.)
Monday: a Turkish setting of the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows"
from an album "Beatles a la Turka" on the Muzikotek label.
*That* should be fun to hunt down.
Tuesday included a June Tabor song which Mickey said was from the
"Aleyn" album; what was the title, Mickey? I'd sort of stopped
paying a lot of attention to Tabor some years back, after I
wore out her grim acapella style.
Tuesday's "reception" was the worst I'd ever heard for the BBC on the
net. Steve Andre speculated that there were major transatlantic
connection problems. I stopped counting the signal breaks after
six or so. Amazingly, the one hour which counted most -- the one
which included the 40-minute live set by Basque/Celtic band Alboka
from Radio Scotland -- was the one time the signal came in without
a glitch.
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micklpkl
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response 32 of 154:
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Apr 3 22:29 UTC 2002 |
That June Tabor song was her rendition of Johnny O'Bredislee/Glory Of The
West, I believe. Thanks for mentioning it again.
I really enjoyed "beatles a la turka." :)
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krj
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Apr 8 23:51 UTC 2002 |
This is mostly for Mickey. The Norwegian track we heard with female
vocals on "Late Junction" tonight was by Agnes Buen Garnas and Jan
Garbarek. If it's from the ROSENFOLE album, I have it in a box somewhere.
Nothing like having an exotic British internet radio program
to reintroduce me to stuff I already own. :/
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krj
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response 34 of 154:
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Apr 16 21:19 UTC 2002 |
Something I heard tonight on Iain Anderson's singer-songwriter show
was "Caleb Meyer" by Gillian Welch, which is from the HELL AMONG THE
YEARLINGS album, which I already have in a box somewhere. Sigh.
Celtic Connections began at 19:15 UK time / 2:15 US Eastern time
today. I don't know if the expansion of the 7 pm news report is
a permanent change, or if it was a one-shot change due to the
crisis in Scottish soccer. It wasn't a great show today;
the only track which grabbed me was from Basque accordion player
Kepa Junkera, and I already have that.
I'm taking a break from most of the BBC shows this week.
I am not setting up for "Late Junction" right now, no I am not...
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mcnally
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response 35 of 154:
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Apr 16 22:38 UTC 2002 |
"Caleb Meyer" is a decent song but I think "Hell Among the Yearlings"
is Welch's weakest album. I strongly recommend her album from last year,
though -- "Time (the Revelator)"
It's got a a few minor flaws, but they're more than made up for by the
strength of of the material. Definitely something I think Ken would
enjoy, and probably a number of the other participants here, too..
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krj
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response 36 of 154:
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Apr 16 23:12 UTC 2002 |
I don't know why I keep pushing the "Time" album down in the buy
queue. I'm most fond of Welch's first album.
Nice track on Fiona's "Late Junction" tonight from Mari Boine;
either the track or the song was titled "Eight Seasons."
There was one interesting accordion track; the rest of the show
just sort of washed over me.
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krj
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response 37 of 154:
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Apr 25 21:06 UTC 2002 |
Making notes for Mickey and myself:
Two interesting tracks from Monday's "Late Junction" can now be
identified, now that the tardy playlists are up.
James Yorkston and the Athletes play "The Lang Toun," a quite long,
guitar-heavy kinda folk rock thing sorta kinda. Unfortunately
this song only seems to exist as a 10" vinyl single, and the
amazon.co.uk blurb on Yorkston's coming album expresses disappointment
that the song is not part of the album. On the label Domino Records.
There was also a bagpipe/african percussion thing from Jimi McRae,
alias Jimi the Piper, whose album is available from MusicScotland.com.
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Today's "Travelling Folk" show (host Archie Fisher) was from the
Shetland Folk Festival and contained a bounty of yummy stuff.
Mickey tells me I missed some nice stuff by Karine Polwart before
I could tune in. I heard yet another track I liked by Mary Gauthier;
her promo stuff has really put me off, but I have now really liked
two songs of hers which I have heard on the BBC.
Dan Crary and Beppe Gambetta are doing some flatpicking wizardry;
alas, I am not sure that the song I liked the best, "Nashville Blues,"
has been recorded by them. It's originally by the Delmore Brothers.
There was a nice version of "The Silkie" by a new band, Fine Friday,
whose album "Gone Dancin'" is due out imminently, and I heard yet
another tasty track by Nancy Kerr & James Fagen, and I am just
gonna run out and get that one. Tonight.
Radio Scotland still hadn't fixed the channel balance problem,
daggone it. Left channel was very weak on both of the shows
we listened to this week. We sent them e-mail today.
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