Daily Planet

On Seven For Old England, Steeleye Span’s singer Maddy Prior finally records, with acoustic backing, the melancholy English lyrical and pastoral ballads she has loved for years.

They are familiar to her from folksong club floor singers and from her fellow touring performers. Researching the album entailed trips to Cecil Sharp House, where she found the source of songs she remembered from her childhood. The backings, by guitarist Benji Kirkpatrick, his father button accordionist John Kirkpatrick, and by multi-instrumentalist Giles Lewin are tastefully spare to suit the songs.

Playlist

1421
Innuendo Out The Other
Philip DeGruy
Degruy-Gruy Music
NYC 6013 2 (US Import)
Philip DeGruy, Innuendo Out The Other
15 seconds (excerpt)
(solo 17-string elec guitar, fingerstyle; v quirky, virtuosic & humorous, more or less a bent-boogie)

1423
CD Cut 12 - 'Trimdon Grange'
Tommy Armstrong, trad, arr Prior/Kirkpatrick/Lewin
Park West Music
PRKCD100 ( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
Worldwide: www.parkrecords.com )
Maddy Prior - 'Seven for Old England'
4:00
(Benji Kirkpatrick's over-driven acoustic guitar and Maddy's voice in Co. Durham coal miner's song about a coal mine disaster, the ones it affected and the vicissitudes of life)

Segue

1427
CD Cut 4 - 'Great Correction'
Eliza Gilkyson
GilkySongs BMI
Red House Records RHR CD 212 ( In Australia through Only Blues Music
www.onlybluesmusic.com
Worldwide: www.redhouserecords.com )
Eliza Gilkyson - 'Beautiful World'
5:04
(Companion piece to her 'Runaway Train' song on the same CD - a hopeful vision of humankind's ability to turn around the juggernaut of human conflict and ignorance of the environment on the eve of its destruction)

RADIO NATIONAL ALERT:

Eliza Gilkyson - 'Beautiful World' will be the featured CD on the Daily Planet on Wednesday 9 July

1433
CD Cut 7 - 'Bachraf Ferafaza'
Phil Gunter
(Presumably) APRA
Self-Issued Disc. No Catalog No.
(Available in Melbourne from Readings, 309 Lygon St, Carlton
or via www.readings.com.au/html/home.html )
Phil Gunter - 'Meluke'
5:55
(Austral Comp: solo oud (fretless, Arabic lute} in spacious, quasi-classical, lyrical mood which goes quite low in pitch)

Segue

1439
CD Cut 1 - 'Dives and Lazarus'
trad, arr Prior/Kirkpatrick/Lewin
Park West Music
PRKCD100 ( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
Worldwide: www.parkrecords.com )
Maddy Prior - 'Seven for Old England'
4:00
(Benji Kirkpatrick's guitar and Giles Lewin's oud back Maddy singing this one-time Xmas Carol)

1444
CD Cut 12 - 'Tasmania'
Ajak Kwai
Control
available from www.ajakkwai.com/ , from Blue Moon World Wide Music in Melbourne and Aroma Records and Tracks Music in Hobart'
Ajak Kwai - 'Come Together'
5:46
(Austral comp and perf: A drone, Phil Gunter's oud and Cameron Robbins' soprano sax back Ajak's song in praise of Tasmania - 'I was so sad to leave the River Nile but when I see the Derwent River I feel at home again.' Then full band joins)

AJAK KWAI BAND GIG ALERT:

AJAK KWAI with her 8-piece band The Ajak Kwai Band featuring Chris Basile on guitar and oud, Simon Lewis on drums, Michael Havir on accordian and keyboards, and Bun & Duk - two vibrant Dinka female backing vocalists and dancers, will appear on Friday 25 July 2008 at CARNI a licensed warehouse venue at 60 High St South Preston, phone 9484-4581 for details

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CD Cut 12 - 'Vog/Knuter Jon'
Senegalese Trad, arr: Sene and Moller/Swedish Trad, arr. Moller
Pub Not Spec
Amigo AMCD 760
( no Australian distributor
www.amigo.se the label site does not do e-commerce.
Should be available worldwide via these sources:
www.cdroots.com
www.cuberoots.com
www.digelius.com )
Ale Möller Band - 'Djef Djel'
4:04
(Mamadou Sene's soaring vocal backed by Ale's accordion in nomad song which segues into a Swedish fiddle tune played by Magnus Stinnerbom)

1455
CD Cut 1 - 'L'Affaire du Pigeon'
Sophie Cavez
Happy Family
Home Records 4446009
Dazibao - 'Alma'
Three and a half minute excerpt
(Two diatonic accordions, hand percussion and oud intertwine on this lively, odd-time instrumental with quiet oud and vocalising interludes in song inspired by a pigeon and an apple core)

Presenter

Lucky Oceans

Producer

Lucky Oceans