Cardew, Bley, Payne & Chadabe are the honorees on this program. We mark Cardew's 85th birthday with his two most famous works: The Great Learning, subject of a new album from Tone Glow, and Treatise, his graphic masterpiece which we present in an hour-long montage surveying 14 different recordings made between 1967 & 2020. We also celebrate Carla Bley’s own 85th with a retrospective of her most experimental works. And we bid farewell to the late Anthony Payne & Joel Chadabe, sample new releases by String Noise, Ksenia Fedorova & the Courvoisier/Rothenberg/Sartorius trio, and continue our survey of BIS Records’ Brandenburg Project with Anders Hillborg’s new violin concerto commissioned as a companion to Bach’s #3.
Photos: Anaïs Maviel & Anthony Payne via the artists, Ksenia Fedorova via KubikMaggi, Anders Hillborg by Mats Lundqvist, Carla Bley by Klaus Muempfer, Joel Chadabe via the artist, Sylvie Courvoisier/Ned Rothenberg/Julian Sartorius via Rothenberg, score excerpts from Treatise
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A resource on Cardew's Treatise that Michael mentioned during the broadcast is available at http://www.spiralcage.com/improvMeeting/treatise.html
Annotated playlist for show #87
Intro and SET 1: New releases
1. [2:32] Anaïs Maviel: La Púyala Muntá. From Alien Stories (Infrequent Seams, 2021) with Conrad Harris, Pauline Kim Harris (violins), Kevin Ransay (recording engineer)
2. [8:23] Ksenia Fedorova: Waves (excerpts). From Waves (Fancy Music, 2021) with Ksenia Fedorova (prepared piano, voice, noise)
3. [18:41] Sylvie Courvoisier, Ned Rothenberg, Julian Sartorius: Deep Rabbit Hole. From Lockdown (Clean Feed, 2021) with Sylvie Courvoisier (piano), Ned Rothenberg (alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet, shakuhachi), Julian Sartorius (drums, percussion), Wolfgang Zwiauer, Felix Wolf (recording engineers)⠀
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SET 2: Joel Chadabe (1938–2021) and Anthony Payne (1936–2021)[24:19]
1. [27:59] Joel Chadabe: Rhythms VI. From Intelligent Arts (Electronic Music Foundation/Waveshaper Media, 2020) with Capital Chamber Artists, Joel Chadabe (tape). NOTE: Composed 1988
2. [33:53] Anthony Payne: Phoenix Mass. From Phoenix Mass (NMC Recordings, 2013) with BBC Singers, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, John Poole (conductor). NOTE: Composed 1965, recorded 1977⠀
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Voice break with Jane Manning & Elgar: Symphony No. 3 and SET 3: Hillborg & Bach [53:34]
1. [57:56] Anders Hillborg: Bach materia for violin and strings after Bach's BWV 1048. From The Brandenburg Project (BIS, 2021) with Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Sébastien Dubé (double bass), Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard (conductor), Christian Starke (recording engineer). NOTE: Composed 2017⠀
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SET 4: Carla Bley at 85 [1:20:08]
1. [1:24:30] Carla Bley: This Is Here. From Escalator Over the Hill (JCOA, 1972) with Carla Bley, Jack Bruce, Don Cherry, Linda Ronstadt, Jeanne Lee, Paul Jones, Don Preston, Viva, Tod Papageorge, Charlie Haden, Steve Ferguson, Bill Leonard, John McLaughlin, Roswell Rudd, Gato Barbieri, Leroy Jenkins, Jimmy Knepper, Michael Mangler, Paul Motian, Michael Snow et al. NOTE: Recorded 1968–1971
2. [1:30:10] Carla Bley: And Now the Queen. From Barrage (ESP, 1965) with Paul Bley Quintet: Marshall Allen (alto saxophone), Dewey Johnson (trumpet), Paul Bley (piano), Eddie Gomez (bass), Milford Graves (drums). Recorded October 20, 1964
3. [1:34:26] Carla Bley: Musique Mecanique I. From Musique Mecanique (ECM, 1979) with Eugene Chadbourne (guitars), Carla Bley Band: Michael Mantler (trumpet), Alan Braufman (alto saxophone, clarinet, flute), Gary Windo (tenor saxophone, bass clarinet), John Clark (French horn), Roswell Rudd (trombone), Bob Stewart (tuba), Terry Adams (piano), Carla Bley (organ), Steve Swallow (bass guitar), D. Sharpe (drums), Karen Mantler (glockenspiel)
4. [1:44:12] Cornelius Cardew: The Great Learning - Paragraph 1 (excerpts). From The Great Learning (Tone Glow, 2021) with Montréal Scratch Orchestra, Dean Rosenthal (conductor), Joel Natanblut (recording engineer). NOTE: Recorded 1996 at McGill University⠀
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Voice break with AMM: Coffin Nor Shelf (1968). SET 5: Cardew at 85 [1:55:06]⠀
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Cornelius Cardew: Treatise (1963–67), excerpts from the following recordings:
1. [2:02:08] Treatise, Prague Version 1967. From Treatise (Mode Records, 2009) with QUaX Ensemble, Petr Kotik. NOTE: Recorded October 15, 1967 in Prague
2. [2:07:04] Treatise (excerpt 001). From Treatise (Snow in Water, 2020) with Nicolas Tourney (Satcom synthesizer)
3. [2:09:24] Treatise. From SYR 4: Goodbye 20th Century (Sonic Youth Recordings, 1999) with Jim O'Rourke, Takehisa Kosugi, William Winant, Sonic Youth: Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore
4. [2:11:36] Treatise '84. From Combine + Laminates + Treatise '84 (Matchless Recordings, 1995) with AMM: Eddie Prévost, John Tilbury, Keith Rowe. NOTE: Recorded 1984
5. [2:13:02] Treatise (page 19). From Cornelius Cardew – The Great Treatise Serves (Noël Akchoté Downloads, 2016) with Noël Akchoté (acoustic guitar)
6. [2:14:29] Treatise (page 23). From Treatise, vol. 1 (pages 1-24) (German Explaining Station, 2020) with Neil Jendon (electronics)
7. [2:19:23] Treatise (pages 6–8). From Cardew's Treatise (Bandcamp, 2021) with nsnn (Kawai MP7SE, field recordings)
8. [2:22:30] Treatise (pages 168–9). From Treatise (Planam, 2009) with Oren Ambarchi (guitar), Keith Rowe (tabletop guitar), Ron Ruiten (recording engineer). NOTE: Recorded live February 8, 2009 at Bimhuis, Amsterdam
9. [2:24:34] Treatise (Prague Version 1967). As above
10. [2:29:10] Excerpts from Pages 1–88, 127–164. From Treatise (Noise Maker, 2018) with Gerauschhersteller: Paul Allen (drums, percussion), Steve Gibson (guitar, harmonium, pianos), Stuart Riddle (electronics, harmonium, little instruments, saxophone), Adrian Newton (electronics, live and found samples, modular and semi-modular synthesisers, recording engineer)
11. [2:38:37] Treatise (pages 1–4). From 02-15-06 Meeting (Seattle Improv Meeting, 2006) with Seattle Improv Meeting: Eric Peacock, Adrian Woods, Andrew Woods, Robert j Kirkpatrick
12. [2:41:48] Antanas Dombrovskij: Treatise Trampoline (pages 24–28). Twentytwentyone + Diissc Orchestra (Music Information Centre Lithuania, 2018) with Twentytwentyone laptop quartet: Artūras Bumšteinas, Lina Lapelytė, Antanas Dombrovskij, Vilius Šiaulys
13. [2:46:38] Treatise. From Cornelius Cardew: Treatise (Split Rock Records, 2018) with London Experimental Ensemble: Carole Finer (cümbüş and objects), Elo Masing (violin), Antonio Acunzo (piano, electric bass), Olie Brice, Jordan Muscatello (double basses), John Eyles (saxophone), Tony Hardie-Bick (piano), Ken Ikeda (synthersizer), Daniel Kordik (synthesizer), Edward Lucas (trombone), Keisuke Matsui, NO Moore (electric guitars), Ed Pettersen (eight-string Weissenborn)
14. [2:47:25] Treatise (pages 1–33). From Cornelius Cardew Treatise (Bandcamp, 2020) with Tratado Ensemble: Bernardo Álvares (double bass), Joana Guerra (cello), João Silva (crystal bowl, drum, electronics), Mestre André (electronics, tapes), Miguel Mira (cello), Nuno Morão (percussion), Nuno Torres (bass saxophone), Yaw Tembé (trumpet), Paulo Raposo (clockmaster, electronics, objects), Nuno Morão (recording engineer). NOTE: Recorded at Panteão Nacional, Lisbon
15. [2:54:43] Treatise. From Works 1960–70 (Plus3db, 2010) with John Tilbury, Michael Francis Duch, Rhodri Davies