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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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dbratman
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response 145 of 154:
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Dec 21 05:41 UTC 2003 |
Radio _6_? Clearly I haven't been keeping track. I think I lost count
after 4.
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krj
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response 146 of 154:
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Jan 2 19:12 UTC 2004 |
Yes, they have been proliferating. :) Radio 5 is live news and sports
coverage. Radio 6 (which the BBC markets as "6Music") I describe as
"serious rock music from 1960-2004." Radio 6 started in the spring
or summer of 2002 and it is only available on digital radio -- digital
radio is much bigger in the UK than it is here -- and on the net.
Bob Harris has a good show on Radio 6 -- was it Jeff who told me that
Harris is famous from the show The Old Grey Whistle Test?
Also Tom Robinson, who was a bit of a rock star back at the end of the
1970s.
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twenex
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response 147 of 154:
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Jan 2 22:31 UTC 2004 |
Re: Bob Harris, probably; possibly, "among others", though (ball leaps to
mind).
<twenex rubs his head>
Ouch.
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dbratman
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response 148 of 154:
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Jan 4 05:40 UTC 2004 |
I was afraid that Radio 6 would be 24 hours a day of cheerful band
music from The Village. "Good morning, good morning, good morning.
It's another beautiful day today!"
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twenex
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response 149 of 154:
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Jan 4 05:58 UTC 2004 |
And, is it?
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krj
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response 150 of 154:
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Mar 10 20:34 UTC 2004 |
It's been just over two years since I started this item.
The BBC has so woven itself into my life, it's hard to remember
what it was like when I had to constantly scratch and dig to
find interesting music. My consumption of American radio has
dwindled to: news on WWJ-AM and NPR outlets; occasional classical
music on WKAR-FM in East Lansing; even more occasional classic rock
on the Howell station I pass on my commute.
Late Junction on BBC Radio 3 had a number of excerpts from a
concert by Bill Frisell & Djemilady Tounkara, both on acoustic
guitar, with a number of supporting instrumentalists including a
fine percussionist. This band appears to be touring the UK intensively
right now but there are no recordings (yet); Frisell records a lot,
though, so I hope that maybe the UK tour was to shake down the lineup,
then the CD gets recorded, then they tour the USA and come to Ann Arbor.
This was Monday's Late Junction show, available for replay until next
week.
Celtic Connections this week, on the other hand, was a show I fled
from, a summary from the BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards. One would
think that would appeal to me, but I just have not liked their awards
shows, at all. The final straw was
Senegalese rap group Daara J, who have become sort of an in-joke
between Mickey and I. We really can't abide them any more, and
the Beeb is plugging them heavily.
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twenex
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response 151 of 154:
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Mar 11 14:10 UTC 2004 |
Most unsatisfactory.
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dbratman
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response 152 of 154:
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Mar 13 17:07 UTC 2004 |
Next up, a world cuisine award featuring the Dakar MacDonald's.
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krj
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response 153 of 154:
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Mar 4 22:13 UTC 2005 |
Heh, another whole year of listening gone by, and I didn't even make
any comments on it. Surprisingly, I'm still listening to the same
core shows that I started with three years ago: Celtic Connections,
Travelling Folk (both on BBC Radio Scotland), Late Junction (BBC Radio 3)
and Mike Harding (the folk show on Radio 2). This year I started
picking up Radio Wales' Celtic Heartbeat on a semi-regular basis, it's
another fairly old-fashioned folk music show.
A few weeks ago, Radio Scotland seems to have upgraded their Internet
equipment. *Finally*, their sound is as good as the national BBC
channels such as Radio 3.
Celtic Connections is playing too much rap music for my tastes.
Bleah.
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krj
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response 154 of 154:
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Mar 5 19:45 UTC 2012 |
Yesterday: ten year anniversary of listening to the BBC, according
to the original item text.
And now BBC Radio Scotland's Global Gathering, the successor programme
to Celtic Connections, is up for cancellation around the end of this
month.
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