And it was good too!
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Verity played a track by Martin Hayes and his new quartet last night (still Dennis Cahill of course). Iarla is up to something new too currently.Wondering if that means The Gloaming has run its course?
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Yes indeed, Global, but if they have gone they leave me with two unforgettable concerts and two of the finest records of the century so far.Originally posted by Globaltruth View PostComment
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Really enjoyed this track by a bunch of Russians introduced by Robert Wyatt last night when he was chatting to Verity. Great video too...I laughed out loud, but maybe that's just me.
They're called Отава Ё and the track is Про Ивана Groove (русское готическое R'N'B) a.k.a. The Tale of Ivan Groove
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This is great JC, quite charming.Originally posted by johncorrigan View Post
Lesson is we need to keep an eye on the worldmusic.net site charts, Отава Ё featured here back in 2012:
You know, with other great WM classics like Eminem, Woody Guthrie and Psy-Gangnam style. [all of whom should be on the Jazz Board of course
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Well, I must say I did very much like what I heard of the Dead Rat Orchestra last night.
They are quite distinctive.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09p5dkp
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Verity has another show on her local BBC radio station, an hour of folk music and gardening advice.
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There are videos of her gardening advice on youTube and Vimeo:Originally posted by Globaltruth View Post
[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Does this include not picking up any suspicious looking pots when in Salisbury?
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No doubt about my favourite track from Verity's LJ last night - Lisa O'Neill singing 'All Along the North Strand'...incredible voice!Comment
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On Tuesday Verity featured a chat with Christopher C King, a Grammy-winning engineer, producer and author. He is also described as an auricular raconteur and sonic archeologist. hmm.
Normally his area of interest is pre-war rural American music (with an emphasis on Cajun) but whilst in Istanbul he discovered some of the strangest—and most hypnotic—sounds he had ever heard.
He spoke of how these 78s moved him profoundly, and his feeling that they tapped into emotions normally inaccessible to contemporary music.
These songs were made by musicians from Epirus, a geographically inaccessible area straddling southern Albania and northwestern Greece and embodying a folk tradition he believes extends back to pre-Homeric times.
He has written a book "Lament from Epirus" which details this musical obsession.
He spoke mainly of two long-lost virtuosos, Kitsos Harisiadis and Alexis Zoumbas. and of his investigation into song and dances role as a means of spiritual healing.
Alexis Zoumbas:
Kitsos Harisiadis
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Yes fascinating - must listen again.
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Haunting music from Lena Willemark played by Verity this week...actually cow calling.
There's an old Army saying
"His men would follow him anywhere, but only out of curiosity."
Perhaps cows behave in much the same way in Sweden?
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Not often I think this these days but the first half hour of tonight's LJ with VS was very, very enjoyable and certainly beat watching ef**n Question Time any day - no bad mixtape either...thought I'd write this now in case Verity messes up the last 30 mins. Orchestre Abass totally fab....
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Any thoughts I might have entertained of watching last night's 'Question Time' rapidly vanished as I watched FB's appalling, laboured football-team-themed trail earlier in the evening. (If the 'Independents' manage to attract another 4 members, can we expect a Rugby Union-inspired build-up to next week's edition?)Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostComment
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