28 July 2008
Tina Harrod
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Like a Nina Simone recording, Tina Harrod’s album Worksongs reinvents songs by Dylan, Nick Drake, Stevie Wonder and Portishead for Tina’s distinctive voice and a fine trio.
Tina’s second album is stripped down to basics - Jonathan Zwartz’s double bass, Hamish Stuart’s drums, Matt McMahon’s piano and Tina, whom John Shand described as having ‘A dark-hued, womanly voice; assured in pitch and as powerful as a train when called upon, it also has little chinks of vulnerability, so one feels wooed by it.’ Tina also refigures two songs from her first album which she co-wrote with the late Jackie Orszaczky who first suggested she record this album.
Playlist
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)
1421
CD Cut 4 - 'River Man'
Nick Drake
Pub Not Spec
Vitamin Records VT 0038 ( www.vitamin.net.au )
Tina Harrod - 'Worksongs'
Natural fade to 6:32
(Austral perf and arr: Hamish Stuart's tom- tom dominated drums, Matt McMahon's piano, Jonathan Zwartz's double bass and Tina's voice in interesting refigure of Nick Drake song)
TINA HARROD GIG ALERT:
1 August, 2008
The Basement Sydney NSW
8 & 9 August, 2008
Bennetts Lane Jazz Club Melbourne VIC
16 August, 2008
SIMA @ Seymour Centre Sydney NSW
19 September, 2008
The Vanguard Sydney NSW
1430
CD Cut 10 - 'Glory Box'
Geoffrey Paul Barrow, Adrian Francis Utley, Beth Gibbons and Isaac Hayes
Pub Not Spec
Vitamin Records VT 0038 ( www.vitamin.net.au )
Tina Harrod - 'Worksongs'
4:54
(Austral perf and arr: cover of Portishead song done with rock-oriented piano trio and Tina's vocal
Segue
1435
CD Cut 4 - 'Proud Mary'
John Fogerty
Warner Chappell Music
Liberation Music LMCD 0002 ( www.liberation.com.au )
Mahalia Barnes + The Soul Mates - 'Volume 1'
4:39
(Austral arr and perf: Mahalia and rocking band with baritone sax-led horn section and male vocal, going between soul ballad and fast rocker)
MAHALIA BARNES GIG ALERT:
1 Aug 2008 10:00 The Night Cat Melbourne, Victoria
2 Aug 2008 8:00 The Palais @ Hepburn Springs Daylesford, Victoria
3 Aug 2008 8:00 Golden Vine Bendigo, Victoria
8 Aug 2008 8:00 The Bridge Hotel Sydney, New South Wales
9 Aug 2008 8:00 Heritage Hotel Bulli, New South Wales
10 Aug 2008 9:00 Piano Room, Trademark Hotel Sydney, New South Wales
15 Aug 2008 10:00 The Night Cat Melbourne, Victoria
16 Aug 2008 8:00 The Espy St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria
19 Aug 2008 8:00 Icons - KARRATHA Karratha, Western Australia
21 Aug 2008 8:00 The Gaelic Club - Mahalia Barnes + The Soul Mates, Mr Percival
24 Aug 2008 9:00 Piano Room, Trademark Hotel Sydney, New South Wales
31 Aug 2008 9:00 Piano Room, Trademark Hotel Sydney, New South Wales
1441
CD Cut 11 - 'Travel Light'
D. Percival
Assume APRA AMCOS
Vitamin Records VIT 0029 ( www.vitamin.net.au )
Mr. Percival - 'Out of the Loop'
3:10
(Austral comp and perf: Darren Percival's voice multi-tracked, doing everything - beat-boxing, harmonies, lead and background vocals in song about not worrying about working)
Segue
1444
CD Cut 8 - 'Is This A Love'
Mahalia Barnes and Ben Rodgers
Mushroom Music Publishing/Control
Liberation Music LMCD 0002 Through Mushroom ( www.liberation.com.au )
Mahalia Barnes + The Soul Mates - 'Volume 1'
4:48
(Austral comp and perf: slowly building soul waltz featuring organ, piano, Mark Lizotte's electric guitars and backing vocalists including Mr. Percival and Tina Harrod)
1450
CD Cut 11 - 'Love and Glory'
Tina Harrod and Jackie Orszaczky
Assume APRA AMCOS
Vitamin Records VT 0038 ( www.vitamin.net.au )
Tina Harrod - 'Worksongs'
4:30
(Austral comp and perf: soul love song reworked from previous recording, with piano trio coda)
1455
CD Cut 3 - 'Reine Nyepou'
Les Amazones
Pub Not Spec
Sterns Music STCD LC 15328 ( in Australia through Fuse Music Group: www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.sternsmusic.com ) (this release not currently distributed in Australia)
Les Amazones de Guinée - 'Wamato'
Four minute excerpt
(Song dedication to the band's former guitarist, Nyépou Haba, who died in April 2004, with strong female vocals, Commandant Djenabou Bah's sax and Yaya Kouyaté's guitar soloing)
Presenter
Lucky Oceans
Producer
Lucky Oceans
