#4476, Music From Documentaries
Listen to music from documentary film scores - biographical films Hemingway or Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am along with music by the South African Avant-Jazz collective SPAZA, and their work for a documentary about the tumult in 1976 during South Africa’s struggle against apartheid.
Listen to the original score of the film UPRIZE!, by the South African Avant-Jazz collective SPAZA ('Spaza' is a word for an informal neighborhood store in South Africa, according to the label, Mushroom Hour Half Hour.) The music was recorded during three days of an improvised scoring workshop, while the film was still being put together. “Only snatches of footage and audio were available to the musicians via a projection on the wall of the living room in which they were recording, to which they would respond with improvised performances”. The musicians involved this time - bassist Ariel Zamonsky, percussionist Gontse Makhene, pianist, trombone player and singer Malcolm Jiyane, as well as vocalist Nonku Phiri- were “intentionally steered” by musical directors Nhlanhla Mngadi and Andrew Curnow toward “the avant-gardist aesthetic of groups such as the Arts Ensemble of Chicago.” (SPAZA’s Bandcamp)
There’s also music from the three-part, six hour documentary film Hemingway by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick with a soundtrack featuring Johnny Gandelsman from Brooklyn Rider, guitarist Gyan Riley, composer and pianist David Cieri, plus Shanir Blumenkrantz on bass and oud, and others. Then, listen to composer Kathryn Bostic deploy muted trumpet, violin, upright bass, and piano in her score for a documentary, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, about the life, works, and legacy of writer Toni Morrison.
Plus, hear Valgeir Sigurðsson’s score for a documentary about the exploitation of Iceland's natural resources - Draumalandið (“Dreamland”) and K. Leimer’s soundtrack Land of Look Behind, from a film about Jamaica and Bob Marley. - Caryn Havlik
Program #4476, Music From Documentaries (First Aired 3/25/2021)
ARTIST: Jay Unger and Molly Mason
WORK: Ashokan Farewell [1:20]
RECORDING: The Catskill Collection
SOURCE: Fiddle & Dance Records #103
INFO: jayandmolly.com/store/recordings
ARTIST: Gyan Riley
WORK: Gyan Riley: El Torito [2:31]
RECORDING: Hemingway - Original Music From The PBS Documentary
SOURCE: IN A CIRCLE RECORDS
INFO: inacirclerecords.bandcamp.com | OR shop.pbs.org or via Amazon, Spotify, etc.
ARTIST: Shanir Blumenkranz, bass & oud; Mathias Kunzli, percussion; Michael Nicolas, cello; Gyan Riley, guitar
WORK: Blumenkrantz: The Garden Of Eden [6:03]
RECORDING: Hemingway - Original Music From The PBS Documentary
SOURCE: IN A CIRCLE RECORDS
INFO: inacirclerecords.bandcamp.com | OR shop.pbs.org or via Amazon, Spotify, etc.
ARTIST: Jeremy De Jesus, alto flute; Shanir Blumenkranz, bass; Mathias Kunzli, percussion; Michael Nicolas, cello; Gyan Riley, guitar
WORK: La Plenitud [7:22]
RECORDING: Hemingway - Original Music From The PBS Documentary
SOURCE: IN A CIRCLE RECORDS
INFO: inacirclerecords.bandcamp.com | OR shop.pbs.org or via Amazon, Spotify, etc.
ARTIST: Kathryn Bostic
WORK: Toni Morrison Main Title [1:52]
RECORDING: Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
SOURCE: Lakeshore Records
INFO: Available at Amazon.com, AppleMusic, Spotify, YouTube
ARTIST: Kathryn Bostic
WORK: It Takes a Village [2:24]
RECORDING: Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
SOURCE: Lakeshore Records
INFO: Available at Amazon.com, AppleMusic, Spotify, YouTube
ARTIST: Valgeir Sigurdsson
WORK: Nowhere Land [4:53]
RECORDING: Draumalandið
SOURCE: Bedroom Community HVALUR8
INFO: bedroomcommunity.net
ARTIST: Valgeir Sigurdsson
WORK: Past Tundra [5:06]
RECORDING: Draumalandið
SOURCE: Bedroom Community HVALUR8
INFO: bedroomcommunity.net
ARTIST: SPAZA
WORK: Banna Ba Batsumi [8:43]
RECORDING: UPRIZE! (Music from the Original Motion Picture)
SOURCE: Mushroom Hour Half Hour
INFO: spaza.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: K. Leimer
WORK: The Cockpit [7:41]
RECORDING: Land of Look Behind
SOURCE: Palace of Lights
INFO: palaceoflights.com
