Prom 45 - 19.08.14: Laura Mvula, Metropole Orchestra / Buckley

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Tuesday, 19 August
10.15 p.m. – c. 11.30 p.m.
Royal Albert Hall

Laura Mvula live at the BBC Proms with the premiere of James Buckley's new orchestral remix of Mvula's album

Music to include:
Laura Mvula: Father, Father
Laura Mvula: Flying Without You
Laura Mvula: Make Me Lovely
Laura Mvula: She

Laura Mvula (singer)
ElectricVocals (choir)
Metropole Orchestra
Jules Buckley (conductor)

Brit Award- and Mercury Prize-nominated singer-songwriter Laura Mvula made her Proms debut last year in the hugely successful Urban Classic Prom. Now the classically trained artist returns for a Late Night Prom that showcases her talents in a new light. This Prom includes the public premiere of Jules Buckley's new orchestral remix of Mvula's album Sing to the Moon, in which the Netherlands-based Metropole Orchestra makes its Proms debut.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

This is not an advert - well, maybe.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I caught the end of this concert, hearing too little to make an objective critique.

It was the fawning presentation of TS that got my goat.

And the fact that it was completely unnecessary to broadcast it on Radio 3, as it was being broadcast live on Radio 1.

[french frank]

And the fact that it was completely unnecessary to broadcast it on Radio 3, as it was being broadcast live on Radio 1.

'Necessary' because you can hear every Prom live on Radio 3. Everybody up late this morning - nothing on Facebook or Twitter yet ...

[Don't seem to be any comments on 6 Music Facebook either.]

[pureimagination]

I caught the end of this concert, hearing too little to make an objective critique.

It was the fawning presentation of TS that got my goat.

And the fact that it was completely unnecessary to broadcast it on Radio 3, as it was being broadcast live on Radio 1.

I was hoping some contributors would be more open minded (see my comments in another thread re Laura Mvula) Broadcasting it on Radio 3 may have meant that someone who doesn't listen to Radio 1 heard the concert and liked it enough to want to hear more.

[french frank]

Broadcasting it on Radio 3 may have meant that someone who doesn't listen to Radio 1 heard the concert and liked it enough to want to hear more.

I see a flaw in that argument. Perhaps if 'someone who doesn't' were changed to 'several thousands, or even hundreds, of people who don't'?

I'm always worried by suggestions that if people don't like something, it's because they're not 'open-minded'. They can have open minds and open ears and still not find it very interesting ...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

it was ok but i have recently been listening to a forgotten lady singer of contemporary jazz back in the 70s & 80s Annette Peacock ...she just puts the youngsters in the Prom in their classroom really .... getting hold of ms Peacocks albums is like the hens dentures ...

[Blotto]

it was ok but i have recently been listening to a forgotten lady singer of contemporary jazz back in the 70s & 80s Annette Peacock ...she just puts the youngsters in the Prom in their classroom really .... getting hold of ms Peacocks albums is like the hens dentures ...

Can I throw in a word for the glorious Hope Jackson and Meg Johnson?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v-q7PdqyoY

[Sir Velo]

I was hoping some contributors would be more open minded (see my comments in another thread re Laura Mvula) Broadcasting it on Radio 3 may have meant that someone who doesn't listen to Radio 1 heard the concert and liked it enough to want to hear more.

So where's your review of the concert then?

[french frank]

it was ok but i have recently been listening to a forgotten lady singer of contemporary jazz back in the 70s & 80s Annette Peacock ...she just puts the youngsters in the Prom in their classroom really .... getting hold of ms Peacocks albums is like the hens dentures ...

Sometimes one has an intuition that something unseen or unheard inhabits a particular known corner of your experience, and that you won't be interested. And time and time again you think, 'But without seeing or hearing, I cannot be sure'. So you make the effort to see or hear. And in a percentage of cases, you find you were wrong. But not in this case I was expecting at least a remarkable voice.

[Blotto]

Sometimes one has an intuition that something unseen or unheard inhabits a particular known corner of your experience, and that you won't be interested. And time and time again you think, 'But without seeing or hearing, I cannot be sure'. So you make the effort to see or hear. And in a percentage of cases, you find you were wrong. But not in this case I was expecting at least a remarkable voice.

Hope Jackson may cure what ails you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v-q7PdqyoY

[french frank]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v-q7PdqyoY

Dunno about what ails me, but it made me laugh! Might be the first time I've seen a Youtube video with a significant number of likes and not one thumbs down. There are performances which are so hopelessly over the top they aren't funny. The best push the exaggeration just as far as it'll go.

Didn't spot Laura Mvula, though.

[Serial_Apologist]

it was ok but i have recently been listening to a forgotten lady singer of contemporary jazz back in the 70s & 80s Annette Peacock ...she just puts the youngsters in the Prom in their classroom really .... getting hold of ms Peacocks albums is like the hens dentures ...

I have kept in occasional contact with Ms Peacock since having the honour of making her acquaintance 12 years or so ago. She is not working or recording so much as formerly, but last thing I heard she seemed to be involved in a local anti-fracking group in her suburb of New York.

[teamsaint]

I have kept in occasional contact with Ms Peacock since having the honour of making her acquaintance 12 years or so ago. She is not working or recording so much as formerly, but last thing I heard she seemed to be involved in a local anti-fracking group in her suburb of New York.

http://thequietus.com/articles/15423-annette-peacock-interview

new elpee in the pipeline?

[Serial_Apologist]

http://thequietus.com/articles/15423...cock-interview

new elpee in the pipeline?

I must read that tomorrow - thanks, TS.

"Revenge" was from the Bley-Peacock Synthesiser Show period and what I think of as her (their) Sun Ra-influenced period, which included a second album "Improvisie", then a more rock-orientated "I'm the One". FWIR Han Bennink was normally their drummer, but when the Show performed one gig in this country in about 1971, according to an article Robert Wyatt was on drums and Daryl Runswick, bass. When I asked Daryl about this, he said, "I don't remember that at all".