New things from Sylvie Courvoisier, Caroline Shaw, Anna Webber, Ge Gan-ru and Ambrose Akinmusire take the spotlight in this podcast, along with a tribute to Northwest icon Wally Shoup. Seattle Symphony plays Saariaho, Elliott Sharp plays a mandocello, and Steve Layton explores his avian side. Augusta Read Thomas channels Schumann while Scott Fields channels Bach and Haydn. And we enlist our old favorites Sun Ra, Frank Zappa and Iannis Xenakis to help kick off KBCS's Fall Fund Drive while we celebrate a few golden anniversaries together. Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell, from 91.3 KBCS HD1 Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma.
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Flotation Device 2024-09-22: Annotated playlist by host Michael Schell
Intro and SET 1: Ferric oxide [0:00]
1. [1:22] Caroline Shaw: Ochre - 3. Maghemite. From Ochre (Navona, 2024) with The Crossing, Donald Nally (conductor), Paul Vazquez (recording engineer)
2. [5:40] Ge Gan-Ru 葛甘孺: Twelve Etudes for Extended Piano - 6. Drumming. From Piano Music • 2 (Grand Piano, 2024) with Yiming Zhang (piano). NOTE: Composed 2019–23
3. [10:49] Steve Layton: Bird Madrigal. From Liminal (NiwoSound, 2021) with Steve Layton (Reason 12, Audacity, Freesound and other Web samples)
4. [12:52] Ambrose Akinmusire: Achilles. From Beauty is Enough (Origami Harvest, 2023) with Ambrose Akinmusire (trumpet), Julien Basseres (recording engineer)
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SET 2: 50 years ago on the margins [15:12]
1. [17:04] Elliott Sharp: Citterna. From Mandocello (zOaR, 2024) with Elliott Sharp (mandocello)
2. [20:52] Frank Zappa: Medley (T'Mershi Duween, The Dog Breath Variations, Uncle Meat, Building a Girl). From You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 2 (Rykodisc, 1988) with Frank Zappa (lead guitar, vocals), Napoleon Murphy Brock (saxophone, flute, vocals), George Duke (keyboards, vocals), Tom Fowler (bass guitar), Ruth Underwood (percussion), Chester Thompson (drums). NOTE: Recorded live September 22 or 23, 1974 at Kulttuuritalo, Helsinki
3. [27:33] Sun Ra: Love Is For Always. From Sub Underground #1 (El Saturn 1974, reissued 2014 by Enterplanetary Koncepts) with Sun Ra (keyboards, percussion?), Marshall Allen (flute, oboe), John Gilmore (tenor sax), Danny Davis (flute), Ronnie Boykins? (bass), Tommy Hunter? (drums), Atakatune? (percussion). NOTE: Probably recorded September 20, 1974 at Temple University, Philadelphia
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SET 3: New meets old [34:23]
1. [35:53] Scott Fields: Sukuinage, Kotenage (excerpts). From Throws (Challenge, 2024) with Scott Fields String Feartet: Scott Fields (guitar), Carolin Pook (violin), Axel Porath (viola), Nathan Bontrager (cello), Reinhard Kobialka (recording engineer, Topaz Studios)
2. [46:57] Augusta Read Thomas: Morse Code Fantasy - Hommage to Robert Schumann. From New Dances of the League of David (New Focus, 2024) with David Kaplan (piano), Benjamin Maas (recording engineer)
3. [50:58] Caroline Shaw: XVI. (mit gutem Humor, un poco lol ma con serioso vibes). From New Dances of the League of David (as above)
4. [52:49] Outro with Robert Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze
5. [54:58] Sylvie Courvoisier: Twisting Memories (for Sarah Turin). From To Be Other-Wise (Intakt, 2024) with Sylvie Courvoisier (piano), Manfred Seiler, Manuel Braun (recording engineers)
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SET 4: Winter nights [1:01:38]
1. [1:03:31] Wally Shoup Quartet: Countering the Con. From 2x4tet (Right Brain, 2024) with Wally Shoup (alto saxophone), Bill Horist, Dennis Rea (electric guitars), Greg Campbell (drums), Doug Haire (recording engineer, Jack Straw Cultural Center). NOTE: Recorded December 16, 2017 at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, for the final Sonarchy Radio broadcast, February 27, 2018 on KEXP-FM
2. [1:12:00] Kaija Saariaho: Ciel d'hiver. Performed live October 18–20, 2018 at Benaroya Hall by Seattle Symphony, Ruth Reinhardt (conductor), Dmitriy Lipay (recording engineer). NOTE: Composed 2013 after Orion - Movement 2: Winter Sky (2002)
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SET 5: 50 years ago in the avant-garde [1:21:00]
1. [1:23:23] Anna Webber: miiire. From simpletrio2000 (Intakt, 2024) with Anna Webber Simple Trio: Anna Webber (flute), Matt Mitchell (piano), John Hollenbeck (drums), Chris Benham (recording editor, Big Orange Sheep)
2. [1:33:19] Iannis Xenakis: Antikhthon. From Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 (Timpani, 2001) with Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Arturo Tamayo (conductor). NOTE: Composed 1971, premiered September 21, 1974, Bonn, Germany
3. [1:50:54] Outro with Iannis Xenakis: Bohor
Photo credits: Sylvie Courvoisier by Véronique Hoegger, Frank Zappa in 1974 (Tom Fowler, Napoleon Murphy Brock, FZ, George Duke, Ruth Underwood, Chester Thompson), Elliott Sharp by Cy Fore, Augusta Read Thomas by Anthony Barlich, Ambrose Akinmusire via the artist, Caroline Shaw by Kait Moreno, Antikhthon by Iannis Xenakis, Simple Trio (John Hollenback, Anna Webber, Matt Mitchell) by Des White, Yiming Zhang by Liao Jingbin, Wally Shoup by Steve Cline, Steve Layton via the artist