Heard this on the radio today - Marlene Dietrich doing 'Der Trommelmann. Gorgeous. Might look to see if it's on the Spotty Christmas list.
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I was watching some of those excellent old 'Transatlantic Sessions' from the nineties on the Beeb on Friday night, and this wonderful bit of John Martyn singing 'Big Muff' accompanied by the peerless Danny Thompson came on. Fantastic performance by both.
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a mere 50 years ago when I knew him...same duo.Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
I used to have a recording of him singing King Bee at a party we were at....
Outside In
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A new single from Toumani Diabaté and Kayhan Kalhor. The album is out in May.
“The sky is the same colour everywhere”
Performed live in Osnabruck. Would have loved to have been there. Also on Spotify - because YT has a horrible habit of inserting awful ads into longer pieces for which sacrilegious acts they should be ashamed.
This version is ad free
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Released to mark St Tiburtius Day (14th April), the first day that you're traditionally supposed to hear a cuckoo, apparently; Stick in the Wheel have released a remix of their version of 'The Cuckoo' from last year. Maybe that makes it not random enough, but here it is anyway.
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Jack Merritt was killed along with fellow student, Saskia Jones, in the London Bridge terror attack in London in 2019. Jack's father made a strong statement in support of the energy of his son, striding through life in his Doc Martin boots. The Young'uns took the image and made 'Jack Merritt's Boots' into a fine memorial to the young man in their fine acapella manner.
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The Songlines' Awards for World Music have just been announced. Here's the list.
Here's the winner for the Asia/ Pacific region...Sarathy Kowar with 'Songs of People' for a random World Music Sunday.
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Occasionally of a Sunday afternoon I like to tune in to Mr Iggy Pop and his Confidential show on BBC Radio 6 music - it's a real mixed bag - this afternoon I particularly enjoyed Lu Colombo & Maurizio Geri Swingtet performing 'Gina' - perfect Sunday global music, I thought.
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Atahualpa Yupanqui playing 'Los Ejes de mi Carreta' back in early sixties:
Plaintive Sunday music.
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Cerys Matthews has a programme on Radio 4 on a Friday evening where the participants put a playlist together of related tracks - I'm not very keen on the show, but I occasionally look in to see what they're choosing. This week they played a track by Estonian singer, Mari Kalkun performing Kivid Olid Veel Pehmed (When the Stones Were Still Soft) - an unusual combination of voice (she speaks a very rare Estonian language) and brass instruments - I think there might be a tuba in there. Very unusual, I thought. Ideal for a quiet post-Babet world music Sunday, I reckon.
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I sometimes wonder how a particular CD ends up in a Chazza shop. Like yesterday, my son and I headed to the local junk shop in Alyth and among the Daniel O'Donnells and Take That I saw a record by guitarist Eduardo Niebla and Oudist, Adel Salameh - at three CDs for a pound you can't really go wrong and when I put this on on return home, I just wondered how anybody could bin something as good as this. Still no complaints - here's 'Mediterraneo' (Sanja Jhala on tablas, by the way).
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keep your eyes open for one of these too JC...
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I loved the Tajikistani music that was played on Music Planet yesterday when KT talked to Lu Edmunds. Here's 'Dili Dilidor' from Samandar.
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It's fifty years since the release of 'The Wicker Man'. I recall going to see it in a double bill with 'Don't Look Now', attracted by thoughts of Julie Christie, I don't doubt.
I recall coming out into a foggy Glasgow winter evening totally petrified by the two films. In the intervening years, 'The Wicker Man' has become a classic especially for its influence on folk music of these here islands, music that was put together from old songs by Paul Giovani. This song remains joyful and creepy at the same time - amazing to see the look on Edward Woodward's face.
There's been a lot on radio about the film this weekend, including a very interesting Wicker-related 'The Verb', and Christopher Lee being very erudite and choosing lots of opera on his 'Desert Island Discs', among other things.
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There is nothing quite like Bollywood yodelling. This came on the radio this morning to illustrate my point.
'Main Hoon Jhoom Jhumroo' - Kishore Kumar
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