FT on LJ

[Globaltruth]

FT on form last night.

Pleasantly surprised by the Kevin Ayers track.

wonder what triggered those musical synapses?
Just a link with the train sounds perhaps...

Oh well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cClW0HcvfcA

You may have heard a reference from Fiona re Eliza Carthy & the Paul Hamlyn award. More info here:

http://www.phf.org.uk/Artists/artist.asp?id=1773

Particularly timely as she is currently unable to play viz:

From a Press Release:-

ELIZA CARTHY AUTUMN TOUR CANCELLED & 'BEST OF' ALBUM, 'WAYWARD DAUGHTER' IS POSTPONED UNTIL 2013.

It is with regret that we announce the cancelation of Eliza Carthy's October tour and the postponement of her 'best of' album 'Wayward Daughter' which marks the anniversary of a remarkable and pioneering 21 year musical career.

Eliza has recently experienced the resurgence of chronic asthma and vocal chord cysts problems (for which she had surgery several years ago). As a consequence - and in order to preserve her voice - Eliza's been urged by throat specialists to take time off to ensure a full recovery in the longer term. Though Eliza is very disappointed by having to withdraw from a tour she's been looking forward to and regrets any inconvenience it may cause, she has agreed to reduce her schedule.

Eliza will be honouring live commitments up until September and also intends to appear with her mother, Norma Waterson, on their 'Gift' tour (3rd -15th December).

Meanwhile, the 'Wayward Daughter' double cd - will now be released via HemHem in May 2013. The album will accompany Eliza's next set of major UK dates, also in May. (featuring Jim Moray).

Just when Norma is getting better too...

[Globaltruth]

A strange thing. On NPR radio I discovered a punk renegade Finnish accordionist indulging in squeezebox brutality whilst singing traditional murder ballads...tweeted OP, only to discover that the day before FT had also played a track from selfsame Kimmo Pohjonen. Maybe she is an NPR fan too - but it's not r3...

http://t.co/uTAFlerD

[handsomefortune]

yep, some album cover.... sporting photograph of the prisoners. i wouldn't be surprised if fiona does listen to npr ....somehow!

good to hear fiona play the film sound track .... Madisen Beaty / Shabaka Hutchings / Andy Findon / David Fuest / Anthony Pike Don’t sit under the apple tree / Atomic Healer / Able Bodied Seamen

imo another fab moment was the version of 'the lady is a tramp' by sidsel endresen..... she really struggled to say 'tramp' each time it came to the chorus! yet all other singers i've heard instead relish a return to the familiar hookline, and sentiment. what odd lyrics they are on close inspection - though depending on who's singing them!

i also enjoyed olivier messiaen's 'oraison' (from 1937) (is it also a film soundtrack)? and (my own discovery of) terry callier ... 'johnny be gay if you can be' was my fave of his, along with the first track fiona played by callier, which i have forgotten to note down - some voice, and so young!

though unfortunately i was much less impressed by both kate rusby, and 'the san francisco symphony orchestra' (and quite a few other veritable flops) - still, a handful of great tracks is far better than a whole bunch of mediocre ones i always think.

'late junction' is well worth being in the queue for though, and coupled with a bit of interweb research - 'it's all good'.... speaking of which, satirical series 'twenty twelve' got an award i notice....which along with the remaining beeb output that i still find enjoyable, makes some welcome sense of sorts. .... even if media competitions are a curse, an annoyance, generally speaking....unless i'm doing ALL the judging of course !

[Globaltruth]

Talking of good things, that was an arechetypally wonderfully LJ from FT last night.

Here's the link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pg526

This is a woman who casually puts together...
The Jimi Hendrix Experience from an old Top Gear session playing
Catfish Blues (what a treasure trove of sessions must be in the BBC Archive - assuming they haven't wiped them of course)
into
ID Beck and the Congregation of the Mount Olivet Regular Baptist Church
delivering Poor Pilgrim of Sorrow from a Trikont album
and the frankly wonderful
Del Close & John Brent discussing Basic Hip from 1959
and THEN the beautiful sound of
Marie Laforêt singing the
St. Tropez Blues

And, believe it or not, the show was even better later. A great start to 2013 - thanks Fiona.

Who needs JPJ?

[handsomefortune]

twas rich and varied.

i 'need' jpj ...performing with diamanda gallas, now you come to mention it global truth.

[Lateralthinking1]

I think it was on FTLJ a couple of years ago that I heard a new record of music which was based on the sound of trains. It wasn't wholly unlike Steve Reich's "Different Trains" but the guy had been abroad with his tape machine and he had recorded extensively.

Can anyone provide the details please?

[Globaltruth]

I think it was on FTLJ a couple of years ago that I heard a new record of music which was based on the sound of trains. It wasn't wholly unlike Steve Reich's "Different Trains" but the guy had been abroad with his tape machine and he had recorded extensively.

Can anyone provide the details please?

Sorry Lat, I don't recall that - but, as per the usual non-coincidence, FT did play
Manuel D'Oliveira
A Strangely Familiar Train Station last night (in amongst Augustus Pablo, Gavin Bryars, a lovely cover of Black Magic Woman & Al Bowlly** - I'm wondering if she has a secret tap into the soundtrack at GT Towers). Why dont your write in and ask them?
It's the kind of enquiry I'm sure they love to receive. Seriously - they should be able to work it out. There's a comment about anoraks to be made somewhere in there, but not from me.
I've got me hood up.

Oh and here's the link for the ticket application she mentioned

http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/shows/world_routes_jan2013

**although I might have gone Prince Fatty, Thomas Tallis & Denny Dennis

[Globaltruth]

One day.

One day the playlist for LJ will go up within 12 hours of the programme being broadcast.

(for the purposes of convenience I will be referring to this as Grumble No.23 from hereon in)

Bet that LilliBulero by BellowHead woke a few people up...hope she wasn't making a little comment on N.Ireland politics?

There was an old prophecy found in a bog
Lillibullero bullen a la
The country'd be ruled by an ass and a dog
Lillibullero bullen a la

Hopefully she was thinking of the simpler English version sung to the same tune:

Nottingham Ale, boys, Nottingham Ale
No liquor on earth is like Nottingham Ale!
Nottingham Ale, boys, Nottingham Ale
No liquor on earth is like Nottingham Ale!

Oh, there's a nursery rhyme too, to the same tune

Old woman, old woman,
Old woman," said I,
"Please tell me, please tell me,
Why you're up so high?"
"I'm sweeping the cobwebs
Down from the sky,
And I'll be with you
By and by."

JC - plenty of material there for you to pun with, I'd have thought....

[handsomefortune]

odd to hear scott walker performing 'my death' just as david bowie is back in the news again....as imo bowie's version takes quite a bit from scott's interpretation of the lyrics.

albert ayler too....and the incredible australian vocal noise making chap... (recorded in 1931, iirc).

[johncorrigan]

odd to hear scott walker performing 'my death' just as david bowie is back in the news again....

I kept thinking about eating an enormous toblerone during Scott's 'Corps de Blah' - no idea why - and were they airborne toxic events I detected during the piece - I'm sure it wasn't me; and Fiona's too much of a pro to forget to turn her mike off.

[Globaltruth]

I like to think FT reads this thread tutting occasionally, smiling rarely but sometimes making veiled & obscure references to acknowledge her audience, for example, she may play that Mama Roisin track to try and help JC with his Toblerone fixation. (Other chocolate bars are available but rarely contain entrancingly chewy nougatty bits)




(Which Mama Roisin track? Why 'you broke my stuff' from Lat's best of the world playlist of course)

[Lateralthinking1]

I like to think FT reads this thread tutting occasionally, smiling rarely but sometimes making veiled & obscure references to acknowledge her audience, for example, she may play that Mama Roisin track to try and help JC with his Toblerone fixation. (Other chocolate bars are available but rarely contain entrancingly chewy nougatty bits)




(Which Mama Roisin track? Why 'you broke my stuff' from Lat's best of the world playlist of course)

Don't worry Global. It's a post twelfth night triangular tree thing. We have it in Surrey too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvdH-dsExQc

Re Scott Walker - what is to be done? I could cope with Version 2 Episodes 1-3 (don't believe all that "this is the third of a trilogy" stuff - there was "Climate of Hunter" before "Tilt" and The Drift") but four is possibly pushing it. Serious critics said Album of the Week and Lat didn't overlook it. 14th of 15 in the experimental/electronica chart - Bish Bosch! (Very good fridges - I have one!)

[johncorrigan]

Don't worry Global. It's a post twelfth night triangular tree thing. We have it in Surrey too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvdH-dsExQc

Re Scott Walker - what is to be done? I could cope with Version 2 Episodes 1-3 (don't believe all that "this is the third of a trilogy" stuff - there was "Climate of Hunter" before "Tilt" and The Drift") but four is possibly pushing it. Serious critics said Album of the Week and Lat didn't overlook it. 14th of 15 in the experimental/electronica chart - Bish Bosch! (Very good fridges - I have one!)

Thanks guys, but it was more this one I was thinking about - the kind you bought with a buncha smash from various European nations on a Cross-Channel Ferry, and you already had yer quota of Belgian fags, and couldn't find anything else allowable to legally bring in at Dover, and had been up for three days hitching across Europe trying to get to the cheap ferry before the weekend and destitution set in. Now think what Scotty could do with that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=K61aM4-z910&NR=1:yikes:

[Globaltruth]

Thanks guys, but it was more this one I was thinking about - the kind you bought with a buncha smash from various European nations on a Cross-Channel Ferry, and you already had yer quota of Belgian fags, and couldn't find anything else allowable to legally bring in at Dover, and had been up for three days hitching across Europe trying to get to the cheap ferry before the weekend and destitution set in. Now think what Scotty could do with that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...10&NR=1:yikes:

Now I think FT will be frowning slightly & wondering why she bothers...however Scott will be inspired to warble
in a complicated way about dark cavities.

For hours.

And hours.

Instead:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj1qLbJfmE8

[teamsaint]

Sorry to be catching up, but has anybody heard the Scott Walker Album? Any wise thoughts? The extracts I heard seemed a concentrated listen , compared even to "Tilt " and "the Drift", both of which I like very much .