MAK's most recent show

[johncorrigan]

and a quick plug for today's Desert Island Discs with Vikram Seth who showed an impressive breadth of musical enthusiasm and knowledge, including an amazing track, made in 1942 by the BBC, featuring the poignant liquid warblings of a nightingale as bombers flew overhead. You can hear it here and read the back-story...

http://www.retronaut.co/2010/09/nightingales-and-bombers/

A complete story in just those few seconds..

Amazing contrast Global - all those years of recordings to catch that moment in time - nightingales as a security risk! Thanks for that Global.

[Paul Sherratt]

Blimey. And we were only talking about Lata Mangeshkar in the newsagents at lunchtime .. ( DID edition, today )

http://gulfnews.com/polopoly_fs/lata-mangeshkar-1.798983!image/2692345701.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_475/2692345701.jpg

[Paul Sherratt]

John,
Tip On In ? ( wonderful thing, isn't it )
Don't think that had anything to do with me although it is on a disc that was sent to Ms M recently.
But you'd know that. Now if she ever plays Mar Mar Aye I WILL take the credit !

Global,
That nightingale / bomber recording is beyond words. Thanks


PS
In true updated 'Hi Fidelity' style you've all got something to spot in your inbox.
I think you'll like it but John, would Ms M ?

[johncorrigan]

PS
In true updated 'Hi Fidelity' style you've all got something to spot in your inbox.
I think you'll like it but John, would Ms M ?

Thanks for that Paul - she does play some music from out east in her Musical Museum of Mankind section which she hasn't run for a few weeks, it being a packed show. She'd be open to Ray Whitely mind you, like I was myself.

As regards MA I thought the guests were fine, loved the Harris/Prine combo, really loved the Bennett especially the starter with Mick Marra, and totally adored the wee bit Cape Breton Fiddle from Natalie McMaster. Grand. I'm a sucker for that easy sound - http://open.spotify.com/track/6i77nbhIAgkzeRiZquLogH
Mary Ann should be sendin' it to Rabbie Shepherd the maestro of the Saturday night hoolie!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Shepherd

[Lateralthinking1]

Thank you Paul for the latest. It will require a new folder in my new Spotify library as there is nothing else from that country to date. I also appreciated the new one from Fionn, GT, but the new cd is less distinctive than the last which sounded thrillingly like antique furniture under snow. Those ledges are missed.

I don't own a mobile phone and never will do so I don't tweet. Interesting though to see from the comments here that the idea is to have a coherent personal philosophy. I identify partially as a crayon set. But on another level there is that thing about spending a year and more only speaking and hearing silently through writing. This of course enables music to assume the role of being the principal provider of actual sound, not that this was originally the intention.

[Globaltruth]

I don't own a mobile phone and never will do so I don't tweet. Interesting though to see from the comments here that the idea is to have a coherent personal philosophy.

Hmmm, well you don't need a mobile phone to tweet, just the inclination to go to

http://www.twitter.com

register and flail around until you work out how to get it to do what you want...and it is free.

As free as anything or anyone is.

with regards to a coherent personal philosophy - that doesn't necessarily just have to apply to Twitter...

and without it I would never have known about Japanese war tubas...

[johncorrigan]

and without it I would never have known about Japanese war tubas...

....and without this board I wouldn't have known about them either. Mind you they'd have struggled to get them over the top when the whistle sounded. (that's what I get for watching Birdsong)

[Globaltruth]

....and without this board I wouldn't have known about them either. Mind you they'd have struggled to get them over the top when the whistle sounded.

....and without this board I wouldn't have known about them either. Mind you they'd have struggled to get them over the top when the whistle sounded

another stereo post? I detect a theme....

PS i always listen to birdsong ? Remember the nightingale and the bombers? Seems so long ago....

[Paul Sherratt]

Oh What A Lovely Post !

[johncorrigan]

another stereo post? I detect a theme....

PS i always listen to birdsong ? Remember the nightingale and the bombers? Seems so long ago....

Thanks Global - one day I'll get the gist of this stuff.

This ain't birdsong but I've been reading my Norman MacCaig Christmas pressie and thought I'd post this one since it's one of my favourite birds to watch on my hols and I think you'll like it.

Ringed Plover By A Water's Edge

They sprint eight feet and -
stop. Like that. They
sprintayard (like that) and
stop.
They have no acceleration
and no brakes.
Top speed's their only one.

They're alive - put life
through a burning-glass, they're
its focus - but they share
the world of delicate clockwork.

In spasmodic
Indian file
they parallel the parallel ripples.

When they stop
they, suddenly, are
gravel.

NORMAN MACCAIG

[Paul Sherratt]

http://www.stephenburch.com/oxonpics/R%20Plover%20Farmoor%2020%20Sept%2008sm.jpg

Thanks John.

Unfortunately my slightly excessive caffeined state keeps making me sing to msyelf " I've been a ringed plover for many a year .... "
( sorry )


Back to MAK .. I was immediately attracted to the sound of Rachel Sermanni. But older fools will rush in and I really wasn't so sure after listening to
three or four other songs. But she is very young. Relatively speaking.

[johncorrigan]

I was immediately attracted to the sound of Rachel Sermanni. But old fools will rush in and I really wasn't so sure after listening to
three or four other songs. But she is very young. Relatively speaking.

She's in a crowded market Paul - that fragile female folk voice is kinda ubiquitous right now - she sometimes sings like a female Paolo Nutini - nothing wrong with that fine Paisley lad - I think she has a good voice but we need to wait to see if the material will follow. Seems to be very good live - some of my pals were very impressed when they saw her in Birnam as a warm-up to a different kind of woman singer called Rumer back in October and she apparently completely won the audience round.

http://open.spotify.com/track/0TmzJDBAa5SOZc08elVSlg

By the way Paul, this is clearly a different kind of plover they're on about. ( no jokes about knitwear please!)

http://open.spotify.com/track/75ohJ2xvGMsaoZ7sm42YGl

[Globaltruth]

She's in a crowded market Paul - that fragile female folk voice is kinda ubiquitous right now - she sometimes sings like a female Paolo Nutini - nothing wrong with that fine Paisley lad - I think she has a good voice but we need to wait to see if the material will follow.

I was relieved and vindicated to read both your comments - she was also my main reservation about that show.

Now, obviously we must not judge on appearance but I'm sure you'll agree she does look from her publicity pics as if she has the potential for some imaginative work, once she ditches the equine predilection perhaps....

[Paul Sherratt]

Glad you've not made that pic a caption competition, Global. What a pantomime that would have turned out to be.
Is she still looking for someone to be the hind legs, I wonder ?

[johncorrigan]

Glad you've not made that pic a caption competition, Global. What a pantomime that would have turned out to be.
Is she still looking for someone to be the hind legs, I wonder ?

Beecher's Brook anyone?