#4322: Extending the Folk Tradition
Listen to original and traditional songs that come from the British Isles, Scandinavia and America, from Transatlantic band Bonny Light Horseman, Danish musician Myrkur, British folk musician Sam Lee, and Irish traditional music as done by the French-Italian Dublin-based duo Varo. Plus there's music by American guitarist Rafiq Bhatia originally written by British folk singer Ewan MacColl.
Hear music from the supergroup trio of Bonny Light Horseman (named after an old folk song), who are singer and songwriter Anaïs Mitchell with Fruit Bats' Eric D. Johnson and The National and Bob Weir collaborator Josh Kaufman. It’s their tune, “The Roving” based on 500 year old lyrics with an added singalong chorus. Then, listen to new music from the British folk singer, song collector, broadcaster, and activist Sam Lee. Hear both his arrangement of a well-known American spiritual, “Lay This Body Down” / “Oh Graveyard,” and a reworking of “Seeds of Love” which extracts and “distills a new potency” out of the old tunes. These are both from his latest, Old Wow.
Listen to the Dublin-based duo Varo, made up of Lucie Azconaga and Consuelo Breschi (and special guests.) Lucie is from France and she brings the jazz, classical and French folk while Consuelo is from Italy, steeped in folk and world music. Hear their original tune, “Ben Hall's Wake.” Hear fellow Dubliners Lankum, from their recent record, The Livelong Day, and their original tune, “The Young People.” There’s also music from Dublin-based Slow Moving Clouds, who combine Irish and Nordic folk music with post-punk drones, falsetto vocals, and baroque strings using layered string soundscapes of cello, violin and nyckelharpa.
Hear Danish artist Myrkur, and a piece from her forthcoming album – Folkesange - rooted in Scandinavian folk music –which contains both arrangements and her originals. There’s also music by Ewan MacColl – featuring singer Cécile McLorin Salvant - with unsettling sound design from guitarist-composer-bandleader Rafiq Bhatia. Plus, listen to folkified Handel in more music by Slow Moving Clouds, and folked-up Purcell from Norwegian violinist Bjarte Eike with the fiery-fun group Barokksolisten.
Program #4322: Extending the Folk Tradition (First aired 1/28/2020)
ARTIST: Rafiq Bhatia (feat. Cécile McLorin Salvant)
WORK: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face [1:00]
RECORDING: Standards, Vol. 1
SOURCE:Anti Records
INFO: rafiqbhatia.ffm.to
ARTIST: Bonny Light Horseman
WORK: The Roving [4:22]
RECORDING: Bonny Light Horseman
SOURCE: 37d03d Records
INFO: 37d03d.com
ARTIST: Lankum
WORK: The Young People [7:03]
RECORDING: The Livelong Day
SOURCE: Rough Trade
INFO: lankum.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Sam Lee
WORK: Lay This Body Down [4:48]
RECORDING: Old Wow
SOURCE: Cooking Vinyl
INFO: samleesong.co.uk
ARTIST: Slow Moving Clouds
WORK: Hiljainen Suru (Silent Sadness) [3:13]
RECORDING: Os
SOURCE: slowmovingclouds.bandcamp.com
INFO: slowmovingclouds.com
ARTIST: Myrkur
WORK: Ella [3:56]
RECORDING: Folkesange
SOURCE: Relapse Records
INFO: Due out March 20, 2020
ARTIST: Rafiq Bhatia (feat. Cécile McLorin Salvant)
WORK: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face [4:11]
RECORDING: Standards, Vol. 1
SOURCE:Anti Records
INFO: rafiqbhatia.ffm.to
ARTIST: Sam Lee
WORK: The Garden Of England (Seeds Of Love) [4:17]
RECORDING: Old Wow
SOURCE: Cooking Vinyl
INFO: samleesong.co.uk
ARTIST: Varo
WORK: Ben Hall's Wake [3:43]
RECORDING: Varo
SOURCE/INFO: varodublin.bandcamp.com/album/varo
ARTIST: Slow Moving Clouds
WORK: The Conquering Hero (George Frideric Handel) [3:48]
RECORDING: Os
SOURCE: slowmovingclouds.bandcamp.com
INFO: slowmovingclouds.com
ARTIST: Bjarte Eike & Barokksolisten, ft. Thomas Guthrie
WORK: Hole in the Wall from Abdelazer (Henry Purcell) [2:05]
RECORDING: The Alehouse Sessions
SOURCE: Rubicon Classics 1017
INFO: rubiconclassics.com
