World Routes - 10th Anniversary Concert

[Guest]

This Saturday, 11th December 2010

From the BBC:
In the first of two programmes, Lucy Duran celebrates ten years of World Routes with highlights from a special event recorded at the BBC's Maida Vale studios. There are performances from Senegal, Azerbaijan, Mongolia, Peru and Turkey, as well as recordings from around the world taken from the Radio 3 World Music Archive. Producer James Parkin

[Paul Sherratt]

Pictured above, Gochag Askarov of Turan Mugham Ensemble.
More pictures from what was a very fine night out, here :

http://s1081.photobucket.com/albums/j343/PaulSherratt/

[Martin Reynolds]

Oh thanks for the tip off Paul. Can't wait!

[johncorrigan]

Hey, where you been Martin? Any chance of another playlist coming on to spotty shortly?

[johncorrigan]

oops sorry Paul - didn't mean to appear rude - loved the photos - looked terrific. Must have made for a great evening.

[Martin Reynolds]

Hi John! Getting involved in the campaign to save DJ Ritu's show. Will get a spotty up soon. This very minute I'm uploading Paul's 'Whatever Next?' series. That's just about all my world music stuff on the hard drive now. I've noticed that since we were dumped by Auntie Beeb we're more than holding our own in this 'quiet corner'. Long may it continue!!

[Paul Sherratt]

>>>Can't wait!

You won't be disappointed. I can't decide who I enjoyed most of all !
Part two of the anniversary special will be broadcast on the 18/12/2010 but I suspect
that both programmes will be archived.

Khusugtan got a standing ovation ...

PS. One of their songs sounded like a Nick Drake number ... perhaps it was just me.
Joe Boyd was there but I wasn't able to stick around to ask him what he thought

[Martin Reynolds]

Show went pretty well last night. Here's one of the highlights:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZeZZZ48LBY

Also enjoyed playing ' Hispaniola' by Jere Laukanen's Finnish Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra.

[Paul Sherratt]

Word Routes.Kick off 3pm.
Will it be Selim Sesler the wizard of the wing, making the first probing run ?

[Martin Reynolds]

Didn't give me uniform pleasure. It was interesting in parts. Here's a sample of the music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdcc6Tbwpts

played by Peruvian virtuoso Manuelcha Prado.

[Lateralthinking1]

Yes. It was all at least quite good for me - Manuelcha Prado, the impressive theatrics of Gochag Askarov, and the intricate weave of Selim Sesler. Really fascinating, though, to hear about the upside down lives in the favelas and I loved the few snippets of the Georgians about whom more information would be appreciated.

[Paul Sherratt]

I loved the Manuelcha Prado - even more on the radio for some odd reason. Probably because I wasn't trying to
get a picture of him ! ( he looks downwards quite a bit ) And I'd like to hear more Turan Mugham as I suspect their music needs working at ..

[johncorrigan]

That was a great listen to today - the giant Xylophone from Uganda - a great wee bit of radio - and those Mongolians - something special really.

[johncorrigan]

The first track by Khusugtun, by the way kept making me wonder if it was a Mongolian version of this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2YeEUlyhQw

[Lateralthinking1]

Is that how you spell the name? I was going to ask. It is funny that you have included that clip. If I am listening to something interesting, I have a notebook entitled "Impressions" and I encourage myself to "think outside the box". The first word I had on there was "Rawhide".

Then it was "that brilliant guy in the hat at Womad", then "fun like Lo Cor De La Plana", and "was it Victoria who went to Mongolia and lent me a cd of throat singers?". Unfortunately, it didn't stop there. There was "piano", "Cuban?", "the inuits have something similar", and "Celtic", then "who on earth is producing these people? - must be UK/Ireland based" and finally "amazing - Charlton Park surely - an absolute must!".

Anyway, this second of two was very much more to my taste. I loved the Seckou Keita Quintet. The kora transports me to a different, calmer, space, and he is doing some very different things with that instrument and the musicians accompanying him. It all really works for me. Was impressed by it. I also liked the xylophone piece and tried to picture it but not at all successfully.

Have listened too to the whole of the last "World on 3". I like Lopa. Her choices are not quite what I would look for generally but they do enough to keep me informed and entertained. The track from NZ and the Congolese moment were particularly good. Incidentally, my notebook says "she is musically "air and earth" in her tastes rather than "fire and water"". I haven't the foggiest idea what this means but it feels right and it's not bad for 103.