#3405: The Cajun Influence
For this New Sounds, we’ll sample music that shows the influence of traditional Cajun music from the fiddling, the accordion, the triangle and other instruments, in somewhat unusual contexts. Listen to several excerpts from Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin's score for the film “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” set in Louisiana, along with music by the late Michael Galasso. Then there’s music by the Penguin Café Orchestra who drew from Cajun fiddling, and the influence comes out on pieces like “Swing the Cat” and “Bean Fields.”
Before roots music became a thing to do, there was the project Last Forever of Dick Connette and Sonya Cohen (niece of Pete Seeger.) Their ambitious adaptations of American Folk music were sometimes based on pieces of Cajun folk wisdom. Plus, hear music by the great Cajun band, Beausoleil and Beausoleil’s Michael Doucet in collaboration with Darol Anger, formerly of the Turtle Island String Quartet. All that, and more.
PROGRAM #3405, The Cajun Influence (First aired on 12/07/2012)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
CUT(S) |
SOURCE |
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Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin |
Beasts of the Southern Wild |
Les Veuves de la coulee, excerpt [:45] |
Available at Amazon.com |
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Beausoleil |
Live! From the Left Coast |
Les Veuves de la coulee, excerpt [:45] |
Rounder ROUCD 6035 |
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Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin |
Beasts of the Southern Wild |
The Bathtub |
Available at Amazon.com |
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Penguin Café Orchestra |
Signs Of Life |
Swing The Cat [3:25] |
EG Records EEG 50 |
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Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin |
Beasts of the Southern Wild |
The Survivors [1:57] |
See above. |
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Last Forever |
Last Forever |
Wild Goose [5:47] |
Nonesuch #79447 |
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Beausoleil |
The Best of the Crawfish Years 1985-1991 |
Cochon de Lait [3:00] |
Rounder Records 11661-6099 |
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Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin |
Beasts of the Southern Wild |
Until the Water Goes Down [1:39] |
See above. |
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Penguin Café Orchestra |
Signs Of Life |
Bean Fields [4:25] |
See above. |
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Darol Anger, Michael Doucet, Philip Aaberg et al. |
Heritage |
La Ville des Manteau [4:40] |
Six Degrees #524 434 |
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Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin |
Beasts of the Southern Wild |
Once there was a Hushpuppy [6:32] |
See above. |
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Michael Galasso |
Scenes |
Scene V [7:45] |
ECM #1245 |
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Various Artists: Beausoleil |
More Cajun Music And Zydeco |
Je M'endors [3:21] |
Rounder #11573 |
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A Leroy (Dick Connette) |
Private tape |
Sliding Delta Blues [3:18] |
Not commercially available. A. Leroy (aka Dick Connette) leads the group Last Forever, see above. |
