29 March 2008
Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara
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Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara recorded their Soul Science in two (very) English places. You would never guess! It is, however, easy to hear why it has been hailed as ‘an album to make the word fusion respectable again’. Juldeh Camara is a Gambian griot - an arresting singer whose ritti (one-string African fiddle) also really ‘sings’. He first heard his English friend’s guitar, unwittingly, on a tape dubbed off an Adams solo album. Camara remembers asking himself ‘who is this African? Where is he from?’ Their striking, passionate, assured CD ought to especially delight lovers of African music and the blues.
Justin Adams site:
http://www.myspace.com/justinadamsproducer
Juldeh Camara site:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=8165610
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Details of each track are presented in the following order:
BROADCAST TIME
TRACK NUMBER AND TITLE
COMPOSER
PUBLISHING AND COPYRIGHT DETAILS
RECORDING COMPANY AND CD NUMBER
( distributor/ source details, in brackets like this, in lower-case)
ARTIST AND CD TITLE
Duration of track
Description of track, in lower-case.
Where relevant, further info links to information, gigs/events/related programs
’THE WEEKEND PLANET’ SAT 29.3 08
2205
THEME:
(details below, as per the original CD.. This cut is also on these compilations Ketama - ’Nuevos Medios Coleccion’ - Nuevos Medios NM 15 820
{ in Australia via MGM www.thegroovemerchants.com
worldwide, via: www.flamenco-world.com/noticias/nuevos.htm }
and ’Jarabi - the best of Toumani Diabate’ (Hannibal 334352 )
CD CUT 1, ’JARABI’
TRAD, ARR TOUMANI DIABATE
HAMILCAR MUSIC LTD
HANNIBAL HNCD 1323
( in Australia, some releases through Stomp Enquiries to: ben@stomp.com.au
worldwide: www.rykodisc.com )
KETAMA, TOUMANI DIABATE, DANNY THOMPSON - ’SONGHAI’
THIRTY SECONDS (EXCERPT)
(retains a stately-Manding air, whilst also embracing flamenco elements. Toumani Diabate’s kora, Danny Thompson’s beautiful double bass and Ketama’s flamenco guitars )
2207
CD CUT 5, ’ NAAFIGI’
JULDEH CAMARA AND JUSTIN ADAMS
JULCAMARA MUSIC/ WAYWARD MUSIC
WAYWARD 704
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
Worldwide: www.irl.org.uk/shop_justinadams.htm )
JUSTIN ADAMS, JULDEH CAMARA - ’SOUL SCIENCE’
5: 07
( You would never reasonably guess {and Juldeh did not guess, when he unwittingly first heard a recording of Justin’s} that the electric guitarist - Justin - is English rather than African. Mesmeric song for Justin’s elec. guitar, Juldeh’s male African voice and equally ’vocal’ ritti {aka ’riti’ and ’nyanyer’’, it is a single-string West African fiddle - of the Peul peple} , plus percussion and elec. bass. The song curses hypocrites, urges all to work hard and to love one another, and thanks those who listen )
SEGUE
2212
CD CUT 2, ’TOUNGA’
MUSIC BY SECKOU KEITA, WORDS BY BINTA SUSSO
PUB NOT SPEC
ARC MUSIC EUCD 2028
( in Australia through Tempo www.tempo-music.com
worldwide: www.arcmusic.co.uk )
SECKOU KEITA QUARTET - ’TAMA-SILO’ (ALSO, CONFUSINGLY, DOUBLE-TITLED AS ’AFRO-MANDINKA SOUL’ )
5: 56
(partly recorded in Senegal. Initially spare, then up, it has an ’epic’ quality. It features the fine female African voice of Binta Susso, and fiddler Juldeh Camara on the one-stringed West African fiddle known as riti or nyanyer. The leader plays really good kora and there’s also percussion, acoustic nylon-stringed guitar, and the location-sounds of African children, playing.
LIKE TO SEE/HEAR A RITI (’RITTI’/ ’NYANYER’) IN SITU, IN WEST AFRICA?
The video fruit of someone’s trip to Senegal has some striking footage of griots in action, with ritti blazing - among other things. . It’s here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAjAmwQInPM )
2221
CD CUT 9, ’NAYO’
JULDEH CAMARA AND JUSTIN ADAMS
JULCAMARA MUSIC/ WAYWARD MUSIC
WAYWARD 704
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
Worldwide: www.irl.org.uk/shop_justinadams.htm )
JUSTIN ADAMS, JULDEH CAMARA - ’SOUL SCIENCE’
4: 30
( A throbbing whirler with multi-tracked Juldeh Camara on multiple ritis (one-stringed West African fiddles) and vocals, with Justin’s acoustic and electric guitars, percussion, elec. bass and a deal of processed sound too. It has peace/goodwill and dancing/enjoyment in mind and it really does ’cook’)
SEGUE
2225
CD CUT 4, ’WIN MY TRAIN FARE HOME (IF EVER I GET LUCKY)’
ROBERT PLANT,/JUSTIN ADAMS,/DEAMER/ BAGGOTT/ JONES/ THOMPSON
BMG PUBLISHING LIMITED
IT INCLUDES ACKNOWLEDGED QUOTES FROM THE FOLLOWING:
’IF I EVER GET LUCKY’ (BY ARTHUR ’BIG BOY CRUDUP, PUB BY UNIVERSAL-MCA MUSIC LTD)/ ’MILK COW’S CALF BLUES’ ( BY ROBERT JOHNSON, PUB BY PAUL RODRIGUEZ MUSIC LTD)/ ’CRAWLIN’ KING SNAKE’ (BY JOHN LEE HOOKER, PUB BY BMG MUSIC PUBLISHING LTD) AND ’THAT’S ALRIGHT MAMA’ (BY ARTHUR ’BIG BOY’ CRUDUP, PUB BY CARLIN MUSIC LTD)
INDEPENDENT RECORDS LIMITED IRL 002
( in Australia, through Shock: www.shock.com.au
worldwide: www.independentrecordsltd.com )
VARIOUS - ’THE FESTIVAL IN THE DESERT’
6: 02
(Robert Plant is the singer with a band featuring electric guitarist Justin Adams - a hypnotic slow-blues pastiche, emphasizing the ’Mali connection’: genuinely good performance, too - no ’rock-mega-ego-excess’. Recorded live in the Sahara. Plant’s own reflections on the event are interesting .
Go to: http://www.rockpaperscissors.biz/index.cfm/fuseaction/current.articles_detail/project_id/108/article_id/1178.cfm
SEGUE
2231
CD CUT 2, ’YA TA KAAYA’ ( I WANT TO STAY FRESH)
JULDEH CAMARA AND JUSTIN ADAMS
JULCAMARA MUSIC/ WAYWARD MUSIC
WAYWARD 704
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
Worldwide: www.irl.org.uk/shop_justinadams.htm )
JUSTIN ADAMS, JULDEH CAMARA - ’SOUL SCIENCE’
3: 46
( this really rocks, as does the whole CD. Juldeh Camara from the Gambia is the obviously-African singer and player of the ritti - a one string fiddle which also really ’sings’. The co-leader - here, playing electric guitars - is the ’you would never guess he’s English’, Justin Adams. They’re their own percussionists, with Billy Fuller on elec. bass. The song greets and salutes some particular women - and the world’s women, more generally.
2237
CD CUT 1,’A MORE BEAUTIFUL QUESTION’
JANE IRA BLOOM
OUTLINE MUSIC (BMI)
OUTLINE OTL139
( no Australian distributor, but easily obtainable
www.janeirabloom.com )
JANE IRA BLOOM - ’MENTAL WEATHER’
5: 30
( a very beautiful, spacious ballad which features the composer’s soprano saxophone with pianist Dawn Clement, and ac bassist Mark Helias - and just a little discreet electronics )
SEGUE
2243
CD CUT 5, ’CHINESE CELLO’
BARNEY McALL, BADAL ROY, RUFUS CAPPADOCIA
(RESP) BARNABY MCALL MUSIC (ASCAP)/ GEETA MUSIC (BMI)/ CAPPADOCIA SONGS (BMI)
JAZZHEAD HEAD065
(in Australia, through MGM
www.jazzhead.com
Barney McAll’s site: www.barneymcall.com )
BARNEY McALL, BADAL ROY, RUFUS CAPPADOCIA - ’VIVID’
7: 58
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: Has both an overtly ’Chinese’ (the melody} and an ’Indian’ flavour (via the male voice of Vishal Vaid), Barney’s piano, Badal’s tabla, Rufus’ cello {his ’gerhu’ {presumably, a cello-register version of the erhu - the upright Chinese fiddle in which the instrument moves across the ’captured’ bow rather than the bow moving across the strings from the outside}, plus drummer-percussionist Daniel Moreno )
2254
CD CUT 5, ’ELEMENTS’
MATT KEEGAN
(PRESUMABLY) APRA
JAZZGROOVE RECORDS JGR 039
( www.jazzgroove.com
available online via Birdland: www.birdland.com.au )
MATT KEEGAN TRIO - ’TONE IMAGINATION’
4: 53 ( complete )
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: Begins with Cameron Undy’s slowly-insinuating elec. bass and then the groove builds. This becomes increasingly robust and polyphonic - with Matt’s multiple tenor sax parts and Dave Goodman’s strong drums.
MATT KEEGAN TRIO GIG ALERT (Sydney)
Thursday 24th April 8.30 pm @ ’The Sound Lounge’ (doors open 8.00pm)
Seymour Theatre Centre, corner City Rd and Cleveland St, Chippendale
Box office tel: 02 9351 7940
It is a double-bill: Matt’s trio, as above, plus the Steve McKenna Trio: Steve McKenna - guitar; Brendan Clarke - bass; Andrew Dickeson - drums.
Presented by SIMA; full program details www.sima.org.au )
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11 PM NEWS
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2305
CD CUT 7, ’CHARMAINE’
MATT KEEGAN
(PRESUMABLY) APRA
JAZZGROOVE RECORDS JGR 039
( www.jazzgroove.com
distributed in Australia by Creative Vibes: www.cvibes.com )
MATT KEEGAN TRIO - ’TONE IMAGINATION’
2: 58
(AUSTRAL COMP: a genial, unhurried slink-cum-instrumental chant for Matt’s low-toned tenor saxes, with Camreon Undy’s elec. bass and drummer Dave Goodman. Has a very nice, spacious-lyrical, latter part.
MATT KEEGAN TRIO GIG ALERT (Sydney)
Thursday 24th April 8.30 pm @ ’The Sound Lounge’ (doors open 8.00pm)
Seymour Theatre Centre, corner City Rd and Cleveland St, Chippendale
Box office tel: 02 9351 7940
It is a double-bill: Matt’s trio, as above, plus the Steve McKenna Trio: Steve McKenna - guitar; Brendan Clarke - bass; Andrew Dickeson - drums.
Presented by SIMA; full program details www.sima.org.au )
2310
CD CUT 1, ’’YERRO MAMA’
JULDEH CAMARA AND JUSTIN ADAMS
JULCAMARA MUSIC/ WAYWARD MUSIC
WAYWARD 704
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
Worldwide: www.irl.org.uk/shop_justinadams.htm )
JUSTIN ADAMS, JULDEH CAMARA - ’SOUL SCIENCE’
4: 31
( this really rocks, as does the whole CD. Juldeh Camara from the Gambia is the obviously-African singer and player of the ritti - a one string fiddle which also really ’sings’. The co-leader - here, playing and electric guitars - is the ’you would never guess he’s English’, Justin Adams. They’re their own pounding percussionists, with Billy Fuller on elec. bass. The song is named for the great { long-dead } warrior it most especially praises.
LIKE TO SEE/HEAR A RITI (’RITTI’/ ’NYANYER’) IN SITU, IN WEST AFRICA?
The video fruit of someone’s trip to Senegal has some striking footage of griots in action, with ritti blazing - among other things. . It’s here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAjAmwQInPM )
SEGUE
2315
CD CUT 1, ’DEVOIKO MOME’
TRAD, ARR NIKOLA PAROV & MARTA SEBESTYEN
RYKOMUSIC LTD (PRS)
HANNIBAL HNCD1392
( in Australia, some releases through Stomp
Enquiries to: ben@stomp.com.au
worldwide: www.rykodisc.com )
MARTA SEBESTYEN - ’KISMET’
4: 50
(rhythmic, swirling Bulgarian song for Marta’s wonderful {Hungarian} female voice, with other flavours also present - various ac guitars, percussion inc tabla, gadulka {upright Bulgarian fiddle} , end-blown flute, elec bass. Playing almost everything is Nikola Parov)
2321
CD CUT 11, ’ME WAIRI BAINGURAY AM’( I MISS MY FAMILY)
JULDEH CAMARA AND JUSTIN ADAMS
JULCAMARA MUSIC/ WAYWARD MUSIC
WAYWARD 704
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
Worldwide: www.irl.org.uk/shop_justinadams.htm )
JUSTIN ADAMS, JULDEH CAMARA - ’SOUL SCIENCE’
2: 18
( plaintive song for Juldeh’s West African voice and his fretless, small West African lute ( gologo, I think} , with Justin’s guitars and Salah Dawson Miller’s hand-drums. Dedicated to Juldeh’s family, the song declares how much he misses his wife, children and country - and how he wishes he did not have to spend so long away from them. He does so, the song says, in order to provide for their needs. )
SEGUE
2323
CD CUT 4, ’BABY PLEASE DON’T GO /TOBAKOBE
TRAD ARR KNUT REIERSRUD AFTER BIG JOE WILLIAMS
NO PUB SPEC
SHANACHIE 64056 ’
( Perhaps, still, in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
Worldwide: www.shanachie.com )
KNUT REIERSRUD - ’FOOTWORK
3: 54
(acoustic blues guitar and male vocals on blues song, with ritti { an African one-string fiddle} and Gambian song in African falsetto voice - interwoven and allegedly ’the same song’. Knut is the Norwegian guitarist/singer. Juldeh Camara is the West African singer/fiddler)
SEGUE
2327
CD CUT 7, ’THE MOON REFLECTED IN THE SPRING POOL’
HUA YANJUN
PUB NOT SPEC. CD IS P & C MABUHAY 1997
MABUHAY RECORDS MBR00003
( email: mabuhay@ozramp.net.au )
THE AUSTRALIAN CHINESE ENSEMBLE - ’LISTENING TO THE WIND IN THE PINES’
9: 57
(AUSTRAL PERF AND ARR: Chinese upright fiddle {erhu} - quite solo -an interesting combination of ’stillness’ and ’edginess’ . Wang Gnowei is the player
LIKE TO SEE AN ERHU AND KNOW MORE ABOUT IT?
This is a good place to start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhu )
2341
CD CUT 1, ’LOS TRES GOLPES’ (THE THREE BEATS)
IGNACIO CERVANTES, ARR ISREAL LÓPEZ ’CACHAO’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
CRESCENT MOON/EPIC EK 67319
CACHAO - ’MASTER SESSIONS VOLUME II’
1: 25
(quasi-classical, elegantly dancing Cuban duet for Paquito D’Rivera’s clarinet and Cachao’s double bass - bowed as well as plucked. Aged 89, Israel ’Cachao’ López died in Miami on March 22nd. He was one of the greatest and most influential Cuban musicians.
LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT ’CACHAO’ (1918 - 2008 ) ?
The ’Guardian’ obituary is here:
http://music.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2267725,00.html
There’s a more personal-anecdotal, revealing one here:
http://musicandculture.blogspot.com/2008/03/cachao-obituary.html )
SEGUE
2342
CD CUT 7, ’SUBUHANALAII’
JULDEH CAMARA AND JUSTIN ADAMS
JULCAMARA MUSIC/ WAYWARD MUSIC
WAYWARD 704
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
Worldwide: www.irl.org.uk/shop_justinadams.htm )
JUSTIN ADAMS, JULDEH CAMARA - ’SOUL SCIENCE’
3: 58
(Chant-song which seeks God’s mercy and calls on humans to show mercy to each other. Juldeh’s West African male voice and riti {one-string fiddle, which is really striking on this cut} plus Justin’s elec. and ac guitars and an African lute, plus percussion and elec. bass)
SEGUE
2346
CD CUT 13, ’ELEGGUA CON CACHAO’ (CODA)
TRAD YORUBA CHANT, ARR ISREAL LÓPEZ ’CACHAO’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
CRESCENT MOON/EPIC EK 67319
CACHAO - ’MASTER SESSIONS VOLUME II’
2: 59
(Santeria chant - derived from Yoruba, African source. Voices chant with hand-drums and some spectacular bowing of the bass by Cachao. He died last weekend, aged 89.
LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT ’CACHAO’ (1918 - 2008 ) ?
The ’Guardian’ obituary is here:
http://music.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2267725,00.html
There’s a more personal-anecdotal, revealing one here:
http://musicandculture.blogspot.com/2008/03/cachao-obituary.html )
2351
CD CUT 4, ’WISHING BELL’
JOHN ABERCROMBIE
PUB NOT SPEC
ECM 1993 / 170 9776
( in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.ecmrecords.com )
JOHN ABERCROMBIE - ’ THE THIRD QUARTET’
8: 15 ( complete )
(delicate ballad/waltz for John’s quiet elec. guitar, Mark Feldman’ violin, Marc Johnson’s ac bass and drummer Joey Baron )
Presenter
Doug Spencer
Producer
Doug Spencer
