The Weekend Planet

This solstice weekend we meticulously avoid the equable. The Heat Is On is the first of two consecutive special editions. A high temperature is always an element in tonight’s diverse music. No lava lamps, no simpering ‘hot stuff’ - we’re talking of actual volcanoes, a blazing sun and a deal of sweat. We’re not entirely freezing out the metaphorical, but there’s always a connection to real heat: A very cool change will arrive tomorrow night!

Playlist

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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 21.6.08
2205
CD CUT 5, ’MIRAGE’
A.FORCIONE
BUCKS MUSIC
NAIM CD 054
(in Australia, through Didgeridoo: www.didgerecords.com
worldwide: http://www.thenaimlabel.co.uk)
ANTONIO FORCIONE - ‘LIVE’
ONE AND A HALF MINUTE EXCEPT
(spare-pregnant, slide acoustic guitar.. the full performance is in the second hour of this show)

2207
CD CUT 1, ‘AFRICAN SUN’
ABDULLAH IBRAHIM
KAZ MUSIC (UK) ltd
KAZ CD 102
(suspect this CD may be deleted)
Abdullah Ibrahim’s site: www.abdullahibrahim.com
ABDULLAH IBRAHIM (STILL BILLED ON THIS AS ‘DOLLAR BRAND’) - ‘AFRICAN SUN’
6: 10
(jubilantly powerful, recognisably South African. The leader’s piano and the late Kippie Moeketsi’s alto sax to fore, w ac bass & drums. From circa 1971)

SEGUE

2213
CD CUT 4, ‘A HUNDRED AND TEN IN THE SHADE’
JOHN FOGERTY
PUB NOT SPEC
BLUE GROOVE BG-0061
(in Australia through Only Blues Music: www.onlybluesmusic.com
worldwide: www.theessink.com)
HANS THEESSINK - ‘SONGS FROM THE SOUTHLAND’
4:32
(Wonderfully ‘steamy’, gospel-drenched, slow-blues-ballad for the leader’s deep male voice, slide and other guitars and banjo, plus the prominent, superb, double bass of Danny Thompson and a very tasty black female gospel vocal quintet led by Linda Tillery.

2220
CD CUT 11, ‘NORTH-WEST BLUES’
DAVE HOLE
P & C 1992 DAVE HOLE
FESTIVAL PRD92/87
(This has appeared on more than one label.
All Dave Hole CDs available via his own site: www.davehole.com)
DAVE HOLE - ‘THE PLUMBER’
7:55
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: searing slow-blues rocker w some phenomenal elec slide guitar heroics - ‘inspired’ by summer in the Pilbara)

SEGUE

2228
CD CUT 7, ‘LAZY AFTERNOON’
J. MOROSS - J. LATOUCHE
CHAPPELL & CO (ASCAP)
MUSE MCD 5366
SHEILA JORDAN/HARVIE SWARTZ - ‘OLD TIME FEELING’
8: 10
(dramatic ballad duet for Sheila’s voice and Harvie’s ac bass {bowed and plucked}. Evokes a hot day, wonderfully well. It ends with a little of ‘You are My Sunshine’)

2237
CD CUT 9, ‘BUSHFIRE’
COMPOSER NOT SPEC (BUT PROBABLY DUSTY LEGUNE)
PUB NOT SPEC
LARRIKIN CDLRF247
(unsure if this CD is still available)
VARIOUS - ‘BUSHFIRE: TRADITIONAL ABORIGINAL MUSIC. RECORDED AT MOWANJUM IN THE AUSTRALIAN KIMBERLEYS’
1: 17
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: male Aboriginal voice, didjeridoo and clapsticks)

SEGUE

2238
CD CUT 14, ‘MELTING’
PAUL KELLY
PUB MUSHROOM MUSIC
WHITE MUSH33108.2
(Through Sony)
PAUL KELLY - ‘WORDS & MUSIC’
5: 08
(AUSTRALIAN PERF AND COMP.....Hypnotic, with slide guitars and
repeating drums and bass, sung by male {Paul} and female {Monique Brumby} voices. About transitory nature of memory, using fire as a central theme, including childhood memories of bushfires near Adelaide)

2245
CD CUT 8. ‘COLD MISSOURI WATERS’
JAMES KEELAGHAN (INC AT THE END AN EXCERPT OF THE TRADITIONAL SONG, ‘SHENANDOAH’)
TRANQUILLA MUSIC (SOCAN)
JERICHO BEACH MUSIC JBM 0401
(available via the artist’s site: www.keelaghan.com)
JAMES KEELAGHAN - ‘THEN AGAIN’
6: 20
Song of the surviving fire-fighter (in persona of foreman Wag Dodge - one of three survivors of the fire at Mann Gulch Montana, on August 5th 1949. Thirteen other firefighters died) - male voice, ac guitar, octave mandolin, fiddle, pedal steel, bass, brushes.
True story, which is told in Norman MacLean’s book ‘Young Men and Fire’, upon which this song’s based.

YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW THE FULL STORY OF THE WORST FIRE-FIGHTING DISASTER IN US HISTORY..& THE SURVIVAL TECHNIQUE PIONEERED/INVENTED BY ONE OF ITS THREE SURIVIVORS?
Go to www.loe.org/shows/shows.htm?programID=99-P13-00031#feature4)

SEGUE

2251
CD CUT 1, ‘FLAME’
MARK ISAACS
(PRESUMABLY) APRA
ABC MUSIC 4798232
(Likely no longer available as an ABC release. I think Mark has brought back the rights. Mark’s Website: http://listen.to/gracemusic)
MARK ISAACS - ‘FIRE’
3:07
(AUST COMP AND PERF: solo piano - pregnant)

2254
CD CUT 5, ‘VOLCANO’
COUNT BASIE
MAYFLOWER MUSIC (SACEM)
VERVE 519 269-2
(Through Universal
www.vervemusicgroup.com/verve/default.asp)
RANDY WESTON, MELBA LITON - ‘VOLCANO BLUES’
2:24
(genial, calypso-esque jazz for Weston’s piano with a little big band, arranged by Melba)

2257
CD CUT 3, ‘SULPHUR MINING’
JOHN ZORN
TZADIK
TZADIK TZ7347
(In Australia, through Birdland www.birdland.com.au
Worldwide: www.tzadik.com)
JOHN ZORN - ‘WORKINGMAN’S DEATH’ (FILMWORKS XVI)
ONE AND A HALF MINUTES (EXCERPT)
(eerie combination of gamelan {Indonesian gong-chimes} - played by Zorn - and electronic sounds created by Ikue Mori. Depicts those who mine sulphur inside the crater of an Indonesian volcano)

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2305
CD (DISC 2) CUT 15, ‘LAVA ON WAIKIKI’
JOHN FAHEY
PUB NOT SPEC
RHINO RECORDS R2 71737
JOHN FAHEY - ‘THE JOHN FAHEY ANTHOLOGY’
2:15
(Slow-slow, rolling acoustic slide guitar, solo)

2308
CD CUT 1, ‘AMASSAKOUL’ N’ TENERE’ (THE TRAVELLER IN THE DESERT)
TRIBAL UNION/WRASSE RECORDS WRASS125
(in Australia through Shock: www.shock.com.au
worldwide: www.wrasserecords.com)
TINARIWEN - ‘AMASSAKOUL’
3:20
(contemporary Tuareg song-chant - with an almost ‘Saharan funk’ edge - male lead voices with male & female chord-responses, elec guitars, percussion. The song celebrates being able to live in such a place)

SEGUE

2311
CD CUT 7, ‘SUMMER HEAT’
BERT JANSCH
BMG MUSIC
COOKING VINYL COOK CD 092
(in Australia through Shock: www.shock.com.au
worldwide: www.cookingvinyl.com)
BERT JANSCH - ‘WHEN THE CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN’
3:51
(languour of summer evoked by Bert’s Scots voice and deft ac guitar with Mark Ramsden’s soprano sax also prominent)

2216
CD CUT 5, ‘MIRAGE’
A.FORCIONE
BUCKS MUSIC
NAIM CD 054
(in Australia, through Didgeridoo: www.didgerecords.com
worldwide: http://www.thenaimlabel.co.uk)
ANTONIO FORCIONE - ‘LIVE’
9:26
(Spacious, Arabo-Indian-tinged evocation of same, which begins with the ac guitarist-composer, alone, then he’s joined by percussionist Nic France. Lots of slides and bent notes)

SEGUE

2225
CD CUT 11, ‘FLYSWATTER/ICE WATER BLUES (MONTY TRENCKMANN’S BLUES)
LYLE LOVETT
MUSHROOM
CURB 471531 2
LYLE LOVETT - ‘JOSHUA JUDGES RUTH’
3:41
(seemingly-languid song in which much more is going on than the ‘nothing much, on a very hot day’, which the casual listener could assume. In the persona of someone dying)

2330
CD CUT 6, ‘HEAT HAZE’
AZO BELL
PUB NOT SPEC
ABCD006
(Through Vitamin: www.vitamin.net.au
Tel: 612 9130 2989
Fax 612 9365 0769 )
AZO BELL - ‘SMALL TIME’
3:13
(AUSTRAL PERF AND ARR: absolutely solo ukulele)

SEGUE

2333
CD CUT 7, ‘HOT ASHPHALT’
TRAD, ARR DAVE BURLAND
CIRCUIT MUSIC
FAT CAT RECORDS FATCD004
(no Australian distributor.
Worldwide: http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/home.php )
DAVE BURLAND - ‘BENCHMARK’
2:38
(humorous, rhythmic and English: Dave’s Yorkshire male voice, accompanied only by drummer Dave Hassall on brushes)

2337
CD (DISC 1) CUT 19, ‘HOT AND BOTHERED’
DUKE ELLINGTON
PUBLISHER NOT SPECIFIED
COLUMBIA JAZZ MASTERS C2K 46177
(Through Sony)
DUKE ELLINGTON - ‘THE OKEH ELLINGTON’
3:15
(Ellington orchestra in October 1928, having a lot of fun - it’s in fact a series of variations on ‘Tiger Rag’, with lots of little solos from Johnny Hodges & others)

SEGUE

2340
CD (DISC 2) CUT 8, ‘IT’S TOO HOT FOR WORDS’
SAMUELS-WHITCUP-POWELL
PUBLISHER NOT SPEC
GIANTS OF JAZZ CDB 1204
(An Italian label/series which intermittently surfaces in other places)
BILLIE HOLIDAY - ‘LADY DAY’S IMMORTAL PERFORMANCES 1933-1942’
2:42
(from 1935, with Teddy Wilson and his orchestra - Ben Webster on tenor sax. Her playful vocal redeems a v slight vehicle. Novelty song of the ‘it’s too hot to do anything at all.. except make love’ variety)

2344
CD CUT 15, ‘SUMMERTIME’
GEORGE GERSHWIN
PUBLISHER NOT SPEC’
CONTRE JOUR CJ012
(no Australian distributor.
worldwide: www.contrejour.com)
KÉLÉTIGUI DIABATÉ- ‘SANDIYA’
3:26
(Recognisably Gershwin’s classic, but given a v sunny, African treatment. The leader plays the bala {aka ‘balafon’, but that word actually signifies the person who plays a bala - a West African xylophone - rather than the instrument itself} The ac guitarist is Habib Koite.

YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE BALA?
There’s a good little summary & picture, here: http://babakone.webweaving.co.uk/pages/thebalafon.htm )

2348
CD CUT 9, ‘HUMIDITY BUILT THE SNOWMAN’
JOHN PRINE
WEONA MUSIC (BMI)
OH BOY RECORDS OBR 015CD
(in Australia through Shock. www.shock.com.au
worldwide: www.ohboy.com )
JOHN PRINE - ‘LIVE ON TOUR’
4:50
(‘live’, wryly wistful metaphorical musing on lost love: warmly gravelly male voice w guitars, bass to fore)

2354
CD CUT 4, ‘DESERT SUN’
COMP KEITH JARRETT
PUB NOT SPEC
ECM 1580/ 527 644-2
(in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.ecmrecords.com)
KEITH JARRETT - ‘AT THE BLUE NOTE. SUNDAY, JUNE 5TH 1994. 2ND SET’
FIVE MINUTES (EXCERPT)
(The leader’s piano, Gary Peacok on ac bass, and drummer Jack DeJohnette, grunting. Mesmeric, ‘live’ - final five minutes of a twenty-eight-minute cut)

Presenter

Doug Spencer

Producer

Doug Spencer