#4037, With Bjarte Eike and Barokksolistene (The Alehouse Boys)
Founded and led by violinist Bjarte Eike, the Norwegian group Barokksolisten, takes a dim view of putting music into genre boxes. But, for their latest project, The Alehouse Sessions, their master plan is to restore the playful connections between the sounds of Baroque music, drinking songs from the British Isles, improvisation, and folk fiddling from various places in Northern Europe.
For this New Sounds, Bjarte Eike and the Alehouse Boys, um, baroque soloists, play some of these “old pop songs” in our studio. (Special emphasis on “Play.”) They do up an arrangement of an opera tune by music’s Shakespeare, Henry Purcell, along with traditional tunes from Norway, Scotland, Ireland, Denmark, the Shetland Islands, and even a bit of American traditional folk music. Listen also to some of their collaborative records with Jon Balke and the SIWAN project, which took musicians from Arabic and Persian cultures and had them playing with improvisers and the Barokksolsisten. Plus, hear a song of reflection, meditation and relief from the previous Bjarte Eike & Barokksolisten record, Image of Melancholy, which lives up to the motto – a quote by Victor Hugo: ‘Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.’
PROGRAM #4037, with Bjarte Eike & Barokksolistene (First Aired: 10/20/2017)
ARTIST: Bjarte Eike & Barokksolistene
WORK: A Hole in the Wall (Henry Purcell) [2:38]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC
SOURCE: This recording not commercially available.
INFO: The song is available on Rubicon Classics 1017
ARTIST: Bjarte Eike & Barokksolisten
WORK: Gjendines badnlat (Norwegian trad.) [4:25]
RECORDING: Image of Melancholy
SOURCE: BIS Records 2057
INFO: bis.se/label
ARTIST: Bjarte Eike & Barokksolistene, ft. Thomas Guthrie
WORK: Johnny Faa/I Drew My Ship (Scottish/Irish trad.) [8:10]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC
SOURCE: This recording not commercially available.
INFO: The song is available on Rubicon Classics 1017
ARTIST: Bjarte Eike & Barokksolisten
WORK: Travel Set, medley (Norway/Scotland/Norway/Denmark/Shetland Islands/American trad.) [9:39]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC
SOURCE: This recording not commercially available.
INFO: The song is available on Rubicon Classics 1017
ARTIST: Bjarte Eike & Barokksolisten, ft. Thomas Guthrie
WORK: Haul away Joe [3:52]
RECORDING: The Alehouse Sessions
SOURCE: Rubicon Classics 1017
INFO: rubiconclassics.com
ARTIST: Jon Balke & Amina Alaoui
WORK: Ya Safwati [5:18]
RECORDING: SIWAN
SOURCE: ECM Records 2042
INFO: ecmrecords.com
ARTIST: Jon Balke & Amina Alaoui
WORK: Desmayar Se [2:35]
RECORDING: SIWAN:Nahnou Houm
SOURCE: ECM Records
INFO: ecmrecords.com | due out Nov. 17, 2017
