Daily Planet

Listening back over the last week, and forward to what’s on The Daily Planet next week.

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 4 - 'Mira Bhajan' (Part 2)
Melodies: Lakshmi Shankar, Lyrics: Trad (Mirabai)
Pub Not Spec
World Village 468049 ( in Australia through Select Audio-Visual Distribution:
www.savd.com.au
worldwide: www.worldvillagemusic.com )
Lakshmi Shankar - 'Divine Inspiration'
6:48
(Lakshmi's voice with Pt. Ramesh Mishra's Sarangi tracking her voice and providing melodic interludes and Pt. Swapan Chaudhuri's Tabla in love ode to Krishna ['come sit before my eyes, you're so dark and beautiful'] by 16th century devotional poet Mirabai)

RADIO NATIONAL ALERT:
Lakshmi Shankar - 'Divine Inspiration' will be the featured CD on the Daily Planet on Wednesday 20 August

Segue

1430
CD Cut 3 - 'Ana Hina' (I'm Here')
Natacha Atlas and Harvey Brough, arr by Harvey Brough
Pub Not Spec
World Village 45005 468074 ( in Australia through Select Audio-Visual Distribution:
www.savd.com.au
worldwide: www.worldvillagemusic.com )
Natacha Atlas and the Mazeeka Ensemble - 'Ana Hina'
5:12
(Simple love song sung in Arabic, with small band and string section, featuring the ney playing of Louai Alhenawi and the accordion of Gamal al Kordy)

RADIO NATIONAL ALERT:
Natacha Atlas and the Mazeeka Ensemble - 'Ana Hina' was the featured CD on the Daily Planet on Wednesday, 13 August, hearable on demand for two weeks after broadcast here: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/dailyplanet/stories/2008/2324686.htm

1436
CD Cut 8 - 'I Shall Be Released'
Dylan
Pub Not Spec
Vitamin Records VT 0038 ( www.vitamin.net.au )
Tina Harrod - 'Worksongs'
4:12
(Austral perf and arr: Hamish Stuart's drums, Matt McMahon's piano, Jonathan Zwartz's double bass and Tina's voice rock out on this Nina Simone-inspired version of a Dylan song)

TINA HARROD GIG ALERT:

16 August, 2008
SIMA @ Seymour Centre Sydney NSW
Hamish Stuart - drums, Jonathan Zwartz - Double Bass, Chris Abrahams - piano

19 September, 2008
The Vanguard Sydney NSW

Segue

1440
CD Cut 5 - 'Black is the Colour'
Trad, arr by Harvey Brough
Pub Not Spec
World Village 45005 468074 ( in Australia through Select Audio-Visual Distribution:
www.savd.com.au
worldwide: www.worldvillagemusic.com )
Natacha Atlas and the Mazeeka Ensemble - 'Ana Hina'
4:10
(Quiet, slow version of the Traditional ballad, inspired by Nina Simone's solo piano version and expanded into an arrangement for piano, strings and Natacha's English language vocal)

Segue

1445
CD Cut 1 - 'Undone In Sorrow'
Ola Belle Reed, arr by Crooked Still
Happy Valley Music, BMI, Hot Pie Music, ASCAP
Signature Sounds SIGCD 2013 www.crookedstill.com
www.signaturesounds.com, in Australia through: www.shock.com.au
Crooked Still - 'Still Crooked'
3:05
(Appalachian love song in the voice of a man undone in sorry because the girl he returned home to marry is dead. Aoife O'Donovan's voice, Brittany Haas' fiddle and Tristan Clarridge's cello featured)

1449
CD Cut 11 - 'My Dwarf Is Getting Tired'
Ry Cooder
Hi-Lo Shag Music BMI
Nonesuch 7559-79900-5 ( if issued in Australia, through Warner Music: www.warnermusic.com.au
worldwide: www.nonesuch.com )
Ry Cooder - 'I, Flathead: The Songs of Kash Buk and the Klowns'
3:58
(Ry in the voice of a carnival impresario ready to give up the game, supplanted by Disneyland, backed by double bass, drums and his own sweet, bossa nova tinged vocals, electric guitar and electric piano)

1455
CD Cut 3 - 'El Adios'
Assume Atuahalpa Yupanqui, arranged by Roberto Aussel
Pub Not Spec
Aeon AECD 0864 , in Australia through Select Audio-Visual Distribution:
www.savd.com.au
Roberto Aussel - 'Atahualpa Yupanqui: La Paloma Enamorada'
3:39
(Folk waltz, played subtly on solo classical guitar)

RADIO NATIONAL ALERT:
Roberto Aussel - 'Atahualpa Yupanqui: La Paloma Enamorada' will be the featured CD on the Daily Planet on Monday 18 August

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