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Radical new music from the Northwest and beyond! In this episode we preview a new Michael Finnissy composition modeled after a Bach cantata, an upcoming album by Bonnie Whiting for speaking percussionist and another by Liza Stepanova for solo piano. Our 50 Years Ago feature revisits a landmark Eurojazz album for sax, electric guitar and drums, contrasting it with a brand-new Pacific Northwest-based exploration of that same combination. Ensemble Rosaces offers a modern take on Medieval songs, and our Rarities Department unearths obscure items by Seattle’s Gyre trio and the great Jerry Hunt, both of them unavailable to stream anywhere else! A throng of new tracks from New York, London, Denmark, Germany, Indonesia and the Pacific Northwest round out the playlist.
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Annotated playlist for show #55⠀
Intro and SET 1: New releases⠀
1. [2:08] Spider Trio: Touch of Light. From Out Fall To Stream (Bandcamp, 2020) with Wally Shoup (alto sax), Jeffery Taylor (electric guitar), Dave Abramson (drums, percussion)⠀
2. [8:11] Wukir Suryadi: Spatula. From Anthology of Contemporary Music from Indonesia (Unexplained Sounds, 2020)⠀
3. [16:30] John Tilbury: The Tiger's Mind (excerpt). From The Tiger's Mind (Cubus, 2020)⠀
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SET 2: Talking percussionists and singing pianists [30:38]⠀
1. [34:21] Vinko Globokar: Toucher. From Perishable Structures (New Focus, 2020) with Bonnie Whiting (speaking percussionist). NOTE: Composed 1973. See https://tinyurl.com/SchellCageWhiting for a review of Whiting's first solo album, John Cage Edition 52: Music for Speaking Percussionist⠀
2. [43:50] Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink: Titan Moon (excerpt). From The Topography of the Lungs (Incus, 1970, reissued 2006 by Psi) with Evan Parker (soprano and tenor saxophone), Derek Bailey (guitar), Han Bennink (percussion). NOTE: Recorded July 13, 1970⠀
3. [47:33] Bethany Younge: Floating is Evading. From I'm Not Mine (Bandcamp, 2020)⠀
4. [51:56] Kamran Ince: Symphony in Blue. From E Pluribus Unum (Navona, 2020) with Liza Stepanova (piano). NOTE: Composed 2012⠀
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SET 3: Jerry Hunt and his progeny [1:04:36]⠀
1. [1:10:12] Jerry Hunt: Talk (slice): double. From Ground: Five Mechanic Convention Streams (O.O. Discs, 1992) with Jerry Hunt, Rod Stasick (voices, transient device arrays)⠀
2. [1:19:00] Steve Layton: Flower to Flower. From After All (NiwoSound, 2020) with Steve Layton (Reason, Adobe Audition, Audacity)⠀
3. [1:21:55] Cecilia Lopez: O. From Flood (Bandcamp, 2020) with Cecilia Lopez (synthesizer), Juan Pablo Carletti (drums). NOTE: See https://tinyurl.com/SchellLopez for a review of Lopez's solo album Red/Machinic Fantasies⠀
4. [1:30:56] Patrick Hartono: The Return. From Anthology of Contemporary Music from Indonesia (Unexplained Sounds, 2020)⠀
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SET 4: Backward-looking music [1:35:56]⠀
1. [1:39:40] Jakob Davidsens: Cruel to Be Kind. From The World Is Babel and Ivory (Dacapo, 2020) with Signe Asmussen (mezzo-soprano), FIGURA Ensemble, Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester⠀
2. [1:46:18] Anthony Braxton: Composition No. 35. From The Anthony Braxton Project (Cuneiform, 2020) with Thumbscrew: Tomas Fujiwara (drums, vibraphone), Mary Halvorson (guitar), Michael Formanek (double bass)⠀
3. [1:53:59] Spider Trio: What was it you needed. From Out Fall To Stream (credits as above)⠀
4. [1:58:43] Guillaume de Machaut: Dous amis. From Aurora Consurgens (Da Vinci Classics, 2019) with Ensemble Rosaces: Alice Khayati (voice), Gayané Doneyan (recorder), Michel Zebracki (guitar)⠀
5. [2:03:20] Matteo da Perugia: Dame d'humeur plaisante. From Aurora Consurgens (credits as above)⠀
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SET 5: Finnissy channels Bach [2:07:26]⠀
1. [2:12:19] Michael Finnissy: Herr Christ, der einge Gottessohn. From Pious Anthems & Voluntaries (Signum Classics, 2020) with Sarah O'Flynn (flute), Cecily Ward (violin), Glen Dempsey, James Anderson-Besant (organ), Choir of St. John's College Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha (conductor)⠀
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SET 6: Chill music for the open-eared [2:31:25]⠀
2. [2:34:00] Gerald Eckert: absence - traces éloignées. From Absence (Mode, 2020) with Ensemble Reflexion K, Ensemble L'art pour l'art, Gerald Eckert (conductor). NOTE: Composed 2007⠀
3. [2:46:00] Gyre: Luminous Sea. From Four Oracles (Gyre, 2020) with Michael Shannon (vintage electronics, tapes, gristle box), David Stanford (electronics, effects, transducers), Carl Lierman (analog synthesizers, effects). NOTE: Broadcast premiere
Photo credits: Gerald Eckert via the artist, John Tilbury by Andy Newcombe, Patrick Hartono via the artist, Anthony Braxton via New Braxton House, Wukir Suryadi by Alifarkat, Gyre via the artists, Cecilia Lopez via the artist, Vinko Globokar via Edition Peters Group, Michael Finnissy via the artist, Jerry Hunt by Michael Schell, Ensemble Rosaces by Romain Fageot, Bethany Younge via the artist, Spider Trio by SparkesofGold, Bonnie Whiting via the artist, Kamran Ince via the artist, Jakob Davidsen by Gorm Valentin.