#4068: Drummer/Percussionist Composers
Drummer/Percussionist composers are up front for this show. Hear music by Susie Ibarra, Jaimeo Brown, London-based duo Tomaga, the balafon-based Kanazoé Orkestra, music from a group led by drummer Thor Harris (Swans), and ensemble et al.
Hear an hour of works by percussionist-composers and drummer-composers. Hear music by London-based duo Tomaga, which is percussionist Valentina Magaletti and bass player / electronicist Tom Relleen. Listen to their complex layering of interlocking Reichian rhythms in a post-minimalist style. Then, listen to music by by Thor Harris (of Swans) from his percussion-heavy band Thor & Friends, which has Reichian overtones in its percussion-driven post-minimalist ensemble music.
There’s also world-music rooted work off of Perception, the latest record by drummer/percussionist Susie Ibarra, with her Dreamtime Ensemble. Also, listen to balafon-centric buoyant work by the Kanazoé Orkestra, a festive group who make muscular, moving dance music led by Burkina Faso-born multi-instrumentalist Kanazoé.
Hear music from the “percussion-centric group with post-rock prowess,” Ensemble et al, whose most recent record, The Slow Reveal, is of longform, wordless songs and was produced by John McEntire (Tortoise, Stereolab.) Plus, listen to drummer/composer Jaimeo Brown’s setting of the gospel hymn “Everything is Moving by the Power of God." Brown uses sampled voices of the rural Alabama gospel group the Gee’s Bend Quilters and makes way for the late pianist Geri Allen’s inspired improvisation on the melody of the tune. That, and more.
PROGRAM #4068 Drummer/percussionist composers (First Aired: 1/17/2018)
ARTIST: Steve Reich and Musicians
WORK: Steve Reich: Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ, excerpt [1:30]
RECORDING: Phases
SOURCE: Nonesuch 79962
INFO: nonesuch.com
ARTIST: Tomaga
WORK: Memory in Vivo Exposure, Pt. 1 & 2 [16:40]
RECORDING: Memory in Vivo Exposure
SOURCE: Hands in the Dark Records
INFO: handsinthedarkrecords.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Susie Ibarra DreamTime Ensemble
WORK: Susie Ibarra: Alegria [5:01]
RECORDING: Perception
SOURCE: http://www.susieibarra.com/susieibarra/store/susie-ibarra-perception/
INFO: Due out in February 2018
ARTIST: Kanazoé Orkestra
WORK: Fantanya [5:37]
RECORDING: Miriya
SOURCE: Buda Musique
INFO: budamusique.com
ARTIST: Thor & Friends
WORK: Grassfire [6:49]
RECORDING: The Subversive Nature of Kindness
SOURCE: 5:37 Living Music Duplication
INFO: lmduplication.com
ARTIST: ensemble, et al.
WORK: Old Anew [7:21]
RECORDING: The Slow Reveal
SOURCE: Imaginator Records
INFO: imaginatorrecords.com
ARTIST: Jaimeo Brown
WORK: Power of God [7:04]
RECORDING: Transcendence
SOURCE: Motéma Music 233715
INFO: motema.com
