Collaborations breed collaborations on this New Sounds. The New Sounds Live concert series joins up with the Ecstatic Music Festival to bring together a three-pronged collaboration of composer John King, guitarist Kaki King, and the string quartet ETHEL. ETHEL was founded when violist Ralph Farris and cellist Dorothy Lawson saw an especially warm reception to their performance of John King’s “Hardwood” as an opportunity to start a string quartet. ETHEL now also includes violinists Kip Jones and Corin Lee. Hear them all sharing a stage, performing the pieces that brought them together and new pieces born out of the collaboration. Learn how bouncing and stomping toddlers influence the compositional styles of Kaki King and Dorothy Lawson.
The group drifts between folk swings, funk riffs, blues riffs, and punk stomps. Introducing his piece "Sammich," ETHEL’s Ralph Farris explains how the term "sammich" fits the group, as a mixture of “everybody sort of swimming in different areas for a while and we jump from style to style, and have a good old time doing it.”
PROGRAM #3707 (First aired on 3/25/2015)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
DURATION |
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Kaki King |
The Neck is a Bridge to the Body |
Trying to Speak I (featuring ETHEL) |
1:20 |
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ETHEL |
New Sounds Live @ Merkin Hall 3/21/2015 |
John King: Sweet Hardwood: I. Hardwood |
This performance not commercially available. However, a recording is available on Cantaloupe - #21017 cantaloupemusic.com |
4:27
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ETHEL, Kaki King, and John King |
New Sounds Live @ Merkin Hall 3/21/2015 |
Ralph Farris: Sammich |
Not commercially available. |
5:06 |
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ETHEL, Kaki King, and John King |
New Sounds Live @ Merkin Hall 3/21/2015 |
Dorothy Lawson: Jesse Stomp |
Not commercially available. |
4:20 |
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ETHEL, Kaki King, and John King |
New Sounds Live @ Merkin Hall 3/21/2015 |
John King & Kaki King: More Muddy |
Not commercially available. |
4:18 |
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Kaki King and John King |
New Sounds Live @ Merkin Hall 3/21/2015 |
Crisscross |
Not commercially available. |
4:43 |
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ETHEL, Kaki King, and John King |
New Sounds Live @ Merkin Hall 3/21/2015 |
John King & Kaki King: Spacebaby |
Not commercially available. See above. |
4:31 |
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ETHEL |
New Sounds Live @ Merkin Hall 3/21/2015 |
Kip Jones: Kingfisher |
Not commercially available. |
4:27 |
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ETHEL, Kaki King, and John King |
New Sounds Live @ Merkin Hall 3/21/2015 |
John King: Sweet Hardwood: III. Shuffle |
This performance not commercially available. However, a recording is available on Cantaloupe - #21017 cantaloupemusic.com |
5:09 |