#4853, New Releases, Feb. 2024
Hear Moroccan psychedelic Gnawa blues by Bab L’Bluz, art music by bassist-composer Ruth Goller, Leeds-based sitarist/composer Jasdeep Singh Degun, and German techno marching band Meute.
Hear new music by French-Moroccan power quartet, Bab L' Bluz and the psychedelic blues, funk and rock combined with Gnawan trance rhythms. Hear 'Imazighen', from their forthcoming record, Swaken; the song's refrain ('We (North African natives) are all true Amazighs') is sung in Tamazight, the language of the Amazigh Berbers, Mansour's ancestors.(Bandcamp liner notes).Then there’s hypnotic techno made of brass and drums from 11-piece Hamburg, Germany-based Meute.
Listen also to music from London-based, Italian-born composer, bassist, and vocalist Ruth Goller, from her new album, SKYLLUMINA, made in collaboration with many different drummers. Hear the swooping and cascading layers of Goller’s voice, combined with angular bass riffs and drums from Tom Skinner (The Smile, Sons of Kemet), on “Below my skin”. Also, listen to new music from Leeds-based sitarist and composer Jasdeep Singh Degun, with his “Lament” from his opera, Orpheus.
There’s also new music for layers of Disklavier by pianist, producer, and composer Kelly Moran from her forthcoming record, Moves in the Field, as well as music by Michael Gordon for layers of violinist Rakhi Singh, who is also the co-founder of the Manchester Collective. That, and more. - Caryn Havlik
Program #4853, New Releases, Feb. 2024 (First aired 2/29/2024)
ARTIST: Jasdeep Singh Degun
WORK: Orpheus: Lament for Eurydice [1:00]
RECORDING: youtube.com/watch?v=tVkOfsHQ4OQ
SOURCE: Real World Records
INFO: jasdeepsinghdegun.com
ARTIST: Meute
WORK: Vermis [6:55]
RECORDING: Empor
SOURCE: TUMULT
INFO: meute.eu/music
ARTIST: Rakhi Singh
WORK: Michael Gordon: Tinge [4:12]
RECORDING: Purnima
SOURCE: Cantaloupe Music
INFO: rakhisingh.bandcamp.com/album/purnima
ARTIST: Bab l'Bluz
WORK: Imazighen [4:14]
RECORDING: Swaken
SOURCE: Real World Records, due out May 10
INFO: bablbluz.bandcamp.com/album/swaken
ARTIST: Jasdeep Singh Degun
WORK: Orpheus: Lament for Eurydice [4:18]
RECORDING: youtube.com/watch?v=tVkOfsHQ4OQ
SOURCE: Real World Records
INFO: jasdeepsinghdegun.com
ARTIST: Found Sound Nation
WORK: River's Butterfly [6:12]
RECORDING: Sound Bridge Mixtape
SOURCE: fsnrecords.bandcamp.com
INFO: foundsoundnation.org
ARTIST: Donna McKevitt
WORK: First Swim [6:10]
RECORDING: The Swimming Diaries OST
SOURCE: http://linktr.ee/donnamckevitt
INFO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PHAuiI3hbc
ARTIST: Kelly Moran
WORK: Butterfly Phase [2:51]
RECORDING: Moves in the Field
SOURCE: Warp Records, due out March 29
INFO: https://kellymoran.bandcamp.com/album/moves-in-the-field
ARTIST: Ruth Goller
WORK: Below my skin [2:19]
RECORDING: Skyllumina
SOURCE: International Anthem
INFO: https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/skyllumina
