#4633, Unusual Covers
It’s an hour of unusual cover songs including chamber avant-rock group Ninth Planet (FKA Wild Rumpus) covering Radiohead, jazz guitarist Bill Frisell covers the bluesman Reverend Gary Davis, Ligeti String Quartet covers Tuvan and Sardinian songs, and a Tuvan throat singer performs Led Zeppelin.
New music ensemble Ninth Planet, created in 2019 as a merger of Wild Rumpus and Composers, Inc., combines contemporary chamber music and avant-rock in an arrangement of Radiohead's song, “Weird Fishes” by composer Dan VanHassel, who is also an assistant professor of composition specializing in electronic music.
And because it wouldn’t be a New Sounds covers show without some throat-singing, hear a Led Zeppelin song done up by Tuvan guitarist and throat singer, Albert Kuvezin, a founding member of the traditional Tuvan group Huun Huur Tu, who left to form the group Yat-Kha. There’s also music from Ligeti Quartet, a string quartet who eerily and skillfully emulate the human voice in versions of traditional songs of Tuva and Sardinia, which are usually sung by men. Those come from an album of arrangements by British composer Christian Mason, called Songbooks, Vol. 1. (The group promises two further collections of Songbooks, the first based on the Inuit Katajjaq singing of Northern Canada and the second on Umngqokolo singing from the Xhosa tradition in South Africa – both traditionally sung by women.)
Then, listen to music from US-born, India-raised, London-based drummer and tabla player Sarathy Korwar in an arrangement of music by harpist/pianist Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, together with the Upaj Collective, recorded at Church of Sound in London. Plus, listen to haunting, meditative and clever arrangements of music by the Krautrocker - Cluster and Harmonia cofounder- Hans-Joachim Roedelius by the clarinet and piano duo called Group Listening. - Caryn Havlik
Program #4633, Unusual Covers (First aired 6/14/22)
ARTIST: Radiohead
WORK: Weird Fishes/Arpeggi [1:00]
RECORDING: In Rainbwows
SOURCE: XL Recordings / TBD Records
INFO: radiohead.bandcamp.com, AppleMusic, Amazon.com, Spotify
ARTIST: Paul Bailey Ensemble
WORK: Weezer: Undone (The Sweater Song) [4:08]
RECORDING: alt classical
SOURCE: Paul Bailey Ensemble
INFO: Available at AppleMusic, Amazon.com, Spotify
ARTIST: Ninth Planet (fka Wild Rumpus)
WORK: Radiohead: Weird Fishes/Arpeggi [6:59]
RECORDING: Vestige
SOURCE: Pinna Records
INFO: ninthplanetmusic.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Bill Frisell
WORK: Twelve Gates to the City [3:39]
RECORDING: private recording for NYGF
SOURCE: youtube.com
INFO: newyorkguitarfestival.org
ARTIST: Ligeti Quartet
WORK: Eki Attar (The Best Steeds), arr. Christian Mason [2:58]
RECORDING: Songbooks, Vol. 1
SOURCE: Nonclassical
INFO: ligetiquartet.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Albert Kuvezin And Yat-Kha
WORK: When the Levee Breaks [6:01]
RECORDING: Re-Covers
SOURCE: World Village #468061
INFO: worldvillagemusic.com
ARTIST: Sarathy Korwar feat. Upaj Collective
WORK: Alice Coltrane: Journey in Satchidanada [10:25]
RECORDING: My East Is Your West
SOURCE/INFO: sarathykorwar.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Group Listening
WORK: Roedelius: Wenn der Sudwind Weht [4:23]
RECORDING: Clarinet & Piano: Selected Works, Vol. 1
SOURCE: Hidden Notes
INFO: grouplistening.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Ligeti Quartet
WORK: Muttos (Motets), arr. Christian Mason [2:50]
RECORDING: Songbooks, Vol. 1
SOURCE: Nonclassical
INFO: ligetiquartet.bandcamp.com
