29 July 2008
Badma Khanda Ensemble
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29-year-old singer Badma Khanda leads an ensemble that plays the music of her parents’ homeland, Buryatia, a mountainous Siberian Republic that’s part of the Russian Federation.
Badma Khanda was born in Inner Mongolia in China, where her grandparents fled from the Soviet regime in the early 1930s. With other refugees, they preserved the traditional Buryat culture. Accompanied by traditional Central Asian instruments, the Morin Khuur (horse-head fiddle), Yatag (half tube zither), Khun Khuur (swan’s head plucked lute), Limbe (transverse flute), Bish Khuur (reed ‘trumpet’), jews’ harps, dulcimer and frame drum, Badma Khanda’s strong voice leads them through a large selection of traditional songs.
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 6 - 'Riysi Igri' [Lynx, Playing in the Forest (Table Song)]
Traditional
Pub Not Spec
Arc Music EUCD 2153 ( in Australia through Tempo www.tempo-music.com
worldwide: www.arcmusic.co.uk )
Badma Khanda Ensemble - 'Mongolian Music from Buryatia'
1:37
(Badma's strong female voice in a capella song about a hunter's family eating their dinner while a lynx in a cave thinks about their dinner)
Segue
1423
CD Cut 12 - 'The Leopard'
Trad
Pub Not Spec
Soundscape SSC 1147 www.sunnysiderecords.com
Roswell Rudd and the Mongolian Buryat Band - 'Blue Mongol'
4:59
(Badma Khanda's strong female vocals solo, then with Roswell's trombone and fiddle alternating accompanying her, eventually joined by zither and dulcimer)
1431
CD Cut 15 - 'Hamdia'
Trad, arr Nikola Parov
Pub Not Spec
Zulya and the Children of the Underground - 'Elusive (Expanded Edition)
fades to 4:23
(Austral perf: Zulya sings a Tatar song that says 'if you missed someone so much, you would cry and you would sing' in a light, confident voice, with acoustic guitar, bouzouki, kaval and percussion backing)
Segue
1435
CD Cut 2 - 'Yokhor Khorovod' [Round Dance Song]
Traditional
Pub Not Spec
Arc Music EUCD 2153 ( in Australia through Tempo www.tempo-music.com
worldwide: www.arcmusic.co.uk )
Badma Khanda Ensemble - 'Mongolian Music from Buryatia'
3:23
(Instrumental introduction then Badma's strong voice with high flute tracking it in medley of songs of different ethnic Buryatis in national traditional dance.)
1439
CD Cut 8, 'MALIcool'
Roswell Rudd
Roswell Music (BMI)
Sunnyside Soundscape Series SSC 3008
( US import. May or may not be available through Universal, in Australia)
Roswell Rudd, Toumani Diabate - "Roswell Rudd's Malicool"
3:43
(Up piece - starts with electric bass and balafon, which solos as does kora and Roswell's powerful, clowning trombone)
Segue
1443
CD Cut 9 - 'Alhamdoulilah'
M'Mah Sylla, arr Maitre Mamadou Aliou Barry
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'
5:04
(M'Mah Sylla's high, powerful vocals and Fatou Nylon Barry's lower one in unusual West African groove with brass, sax and guitar solos and song about building peace, unity and freedom in Guinea and in Africa)
1449
CD Cut 4 - 'Five Heroes'
Trad, arr Ilchi/Robin Haller/Matteo Scumaci
Riverboat UK Music (MCPS)
Intro 111 CD ( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.worldmusic.net
Hanggai - 'Introducing Hanggai'
5:29
(Low bowed lutes, flute, percussion, electric guitar and massed harmonic Mongolian vocals in slow song about 5 Robin Hood-like brigands)
RADIO NATIONAL ALERT:
Hanggai - 'Introducing Hanggai' was the featured CD on the Daily Planet starting on Tuesday, 22nd of July, still available audio on demand here: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/dailyplanet/stories/2008/2303442.htm
Segue
1455
CD Cut 13 - 'Veter Shumyel [Howling Wind]
Traditional
Pub Not Spec
Arc Music EUCD 2153 ( in Australia through Tempo www.tempo-music.com
worldwide: www.arcmusic.co.uk )
Badma Khanda Ensemble - 'Mongolian Music from Buryatia'
3:47
(Cymbals announce entry with Chinese-Mongolian-sounding band, Badma's vocals and deep throat singing)
Presenter
Lucky Oceans
Producer
Lucky Oceans
