It's that time of the month again for the new releases show on New Sounds. Listen to some music made in the special circumstances of COVID quarantine, as well as music that was made in the before times.
Listen to new music from Brooklyn-based cellist Clarice Jensen, her first album for the FatCat 130701 imprint The experience of repetition as death. The album’s title is taken from a line in a 1971 poem by the influential American radical feminist poet Adrienne Rich called ‘A Valediction Forbidding Mourning’ – a response to a John Donne poem of the same title from 1611. Written and performed by Clarice alone, all of the sounds on it were created with a cello through a variety of effects and effects pedals. “I hope this album, in its repetition, might provide the listener with a respite from - or a reflection upon - the malaise and / or comfort of life’s repetition,” she writes.
Then, from the waaaay before times is music by composer/trumpeter Jon Hassell and Brian Eno, from his Fourth World style of Possible Musics - where music of other cultures of the world meet advanced electronic techniques for a primitive/futuristic sound. This music from 1980 is not new, but Hassell, now 83, has long-term health issues and his collaborator Brian Eno posted at this GoFundMe started by his friends and family to help.
Listen to new music from Dinosaur, the London-based band led by trumpeter Laura Jurd, along with new music by producer Aukai. There’s also new music by Grammy-nominated clarinetist David Krakauer and South African composer/pianist Kathleen Tagg. Hear their arrangement of a tune by John Zorn, from his Book of Angels collection of works. Then there’s new music by the London-based iyatraQuartet, where 'iyatra' derives from the Hindi word for travel or pilgrimage.
Hear music made in these isolated times by New York saxophonist Steve Lehman - recorded as practice sessions in his car, as that was the best recording booth he could find while he and his family sheltered in place. The tunes were then compiled on an EP and given to his mom, Sheila Lehman, on her 80th birthday (April 25, 2020.)There’s also music by Sarathy Korwar from London, where he sent around a reference track and instructions to his band members. Those recorded results were mixed down and the initial reference track was then removed for “Stayin’ Alone,” released on his Soundcloud. Listen also to music from Norwegian accordionist Frode Haltli and his band, Avant Folk, which came together much like a quilt, with band members adding to the whole as each recorded a part and passed on the tune to the next. Hear the results as “Quarantine Quilt.”
Program #4361, New Releases, April 2020 (First aired 4/30/2020)
ARTIST: Steve Lehman
WORK: 808s [:38]
RECORDING: Xenakis & The Valedictorian
SOURCE/INFO: stevelehman.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Jon Hassell and Brian Eno
WORK: Delta Rain Dream [3:29]
RECORDING: Possible Musics
SOURCE/INFO: fourth-world.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Dinosaur
WORK: Held by Water
RECORDING: To The Earth
SOURCE: Edition Records
INFO: Due out May 15, 2020
ARTIST: David Krakauer and Kathleen Tagg
WORK: John Zorn: Parzial [6:02]
RECORDING: Breath & Hammer
SOURCE: Table Pounding Records
INFO: davidkrakauer.com/krakauer-tagg | Due out May 8, 2020
ARTIST: iyatraQuartet
WORK: Maria [4:25]
RECORDING: Break the Dawn
SOURCE/INFO: iyatraquartet.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Sarathy Korwar
WORK: Stayin' Alone [5:12]
RECORDING: Soundcloud release
SOURCE/INFO: soundcloud.com/sarathykorwar/stayin-alone
ARTIST: Frode Haltli Avant Folk
WORK: Quarantine Quilt [5:22]
RECORDING: Quarantine Quilt single
SOURCE: HUBRO Music
INFO: frodehaltli.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Steve Lehman
WORK: Formant vs. Formant [:39]
RECORDING: Xenakis & The Valedictorian
SOURCE/INFO: stevelehman.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Aukai
WORK: Akal Ki [4:04]
RECORDING: Game Trails
SOURCE: Due out Aug. 2020
INFO: https://orcd.co/qxzo17n
ARTIST: Clarice Jensen
WORK: Day Tonight [10:45]
RECORDING: The experience of repetition as death
SOURCE: 130701 / FatCat Records
INFO: claricejensen.bandcamp.com