The Weekend Planet

Big Chill explores the opposite extreme to last night’s show. Rug up for a musical celebration of frost, snow, ice, bitterly cold winds and occasional glaciers.

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’ SUN 22.6.08

2205
CD CUT 1, ‘A SHIP ‘ICEBERG’ AT SEA’
ABC FIELD RECORDING
AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION
ABC MUSIC/PHONOGRAM 514 639-2
(If this is still available:
in Australia through Universal. Available at ABC shops
& online: www.abcshop.com.au)
VARIOUS - ‘ANTARCTIC SYMPHONY’
ONE MINUTE (EXCERPT)
(AUSTRAL PERF: the actual sound made by an ice-breaker, breaking ice, in Antarctic waters)

2206
CD CUT 1, ‘JULY’
TIM STEVENS, BEN ROBERTSON & DAVE BECK
(PRESUMABLY) APRA
RUFUS RECORDS RF078
(in Australia through Universal
Rufus website: www.rufusrecords.com.au)
TIM STEVENS TRIO - ‘THREE FRIENDS IN WINTER’
6:49
(AUSTRAL COMP & PERF: Spacious & lyrical.. & entirely improvised. Superbly recorded, too {By the ABC’s Mal Stanley}: pianist Tim with bassist Ben & drummer Dave)

SEGUE

2213
CD CUT 17, ‘SONG FOR A WINTER’S NIGHT’
GORDON LIGHTFOOT
WARNER BROS MUSIC (ASCAP)
ROUNDER CD 0370
(in Australia through Shock: www.shock.com.au
worldwide: www.rounder.com)
TONY RICE - ‘SINGS GORDON LIGHTFOOT’
3:07
(lyrical love song for Rice’s warm male voice, deftly delicate ac guitar, plus harmony vocal, mandolin, dobro & ac bass. Taken from his 1986 album ‘Me & My Guitar’. Tony still plays wonderful guitar, but has lost his singing voice, alas)

2218
CD CUT 5, ‘BELOW FREEZING’
T. MICHAEL COLEMAN
PUBLISHER NOT SPEC
FLYING FISH FF 70252
(This may or not be available, still. If so:
in Australia through Shock: www.shock.com.au
worldwide through Rounder: www.rounder.com)
DOC & MERLE WATSON - ‘RED ROCKING CHAIR
2:20
(A genial shade of just slightly wistful: a rolling, raggy instrumental for the acoustic guitars of Doc & Merle & T. Michael, plus chimes & clarinet {Tom Scott is the clarinettist})

SEGUE

2220
CD CUT 6, ‘THE SNOWY PATH’
MARK KELLY, ARR ALTAN
GREEN LINNET MUSIC (ASCAP)
GREEN LINNET GLCD 1117
(This may or may not be available, still. If so:
In Australia, through The Planet Company/MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
Worldwide: www.greenlinnet.com)
ALTAN - ‘HARVEST STORM’
2:11
(a lyrical, sing-songy slip jig for fiddles, flute, ac guitar, bouzouki & percussion)

2223
CD CUT 4, ‘WALKER OF THE SNOW’
C.D. SHANLY/S. TYRELL
BURRENSTONE MUSIC
TARA CD3023
(no current Australian distributor
available worldwide via www.taramusic.com)
DAVY SPILLANE - ‘SHADOW HUNTER’
5:59
(Celtic-mysterioso, atmospheric song for male voice w mandocello, elec guitar, slide dobro, uillean pipes, low whistle & fretless elec bass)

SEGUE

2229
CD CUT 1, ‘SNOW’
PIERRE FAVRE
P & C ECM RECORDS
ECM 1584/ 529 348-2
(in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.ecmrecords.com)
PIERRE FAVRE - ‘WINDOW STEPS’
9:20
(gently mysterioso-contemplative & with lovely tones: cellist David Darling, soprano saxophonist Roberto Ottaviano, Kenny Wheeler’s flugelhorn, Steve Swallow’s elec bas & the composer’s percussion)

2239
CD CUT 3, ‘TWO YEAR WINTER’
WORDS BY ANNE HILLS. MUSIC & ARR BY BILL JONES
PRS/ASCAP
COMPASS COMCD4366
(In Australia, through The Planet Company/MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
Worldwide: www.compassrecords.com)
BILL JONES - ‘TWO YEAR WINTER’
3:33
(Her {Bill is Belinda} voice & piano & her arrangement, with others’ cello, ac bass, ac guitar, flute, violin - very haunting song of a wounded heart taking its time to heal)

SEGUE

2243
CD CUT 2, ‘SNOWMAN’S DANCE’
BJÖRN MEYER
HEAD RECORDS
HEAD RECORDS MUSH33193.2
(www.headrecords.com)
SNAG - ‘HEY, GUESS WHAT’
6:22
(AUSTRALIAN PERF.....Gentle piece starts out with the composer’s ‘out of tune’ elec bass & Stephen Magnusson’s electric guitar, joined by Julien Wilson’s evocative tenor sax & Sergio Beresovsky’s cymbals - spacious)

2250
CD CUT 17, ‘SILENT AND SOFT AND SLOW DESCENDS THE SNOW’
ARTHUR BENJAMIN (FROM HIS ‘FANTASIES II’)
WINTHROP ROGERS
TALL POPPIES TP105
(www.tallpoppies.net)
CDs available direct, and also {securely} via www.buywell.com)
IAN MUNRO - ‘JAMAICAN RUMBA: MUSIC BY ARHTUR BENJAMIN, VOL 1: 39
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: sweetly florid, mimetic: solo piano)

SEGUE

2252
CD CUT 7, ‘SNOWMAN’
JAN GARBAREK, MIROSLAV VITOUS, PETER ERSKINE
PUB ECM RECORDS
ECM 1444 849 649-2
(in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.ecmrecords.com)
JAN GARBAREK/MISOLAV VITOUS/PETER ERSKINE - ‘STAR’
5:18
(alert, probing, muscular modern jazz trio - Miroslav’s ac bass, Jan’s sax, Peter’s drums)

2258
CD CUT 2, ‘ICE MINER’
LEO KOTTKE
OVERDRIVE (ASCAP)
TAKOMA RECORDS CDTAK 1040
(unsure whether this is currently available)
JOHN FAHEY/PETER LANG. LEO KOTTKE - ‘JOHN FAHEY/PETER LANG. LEO KOTTKE’
FORTY SECS (EXCERPT)
(some audible tape damage - I’m sure Leo really was in tune when he played this thirty-something years ago! Still, an exquisite, delicate solo for steel-string ac guitar)

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2305
CD CUT 3, ‘JÄÄKELLOT (ICE BELLS)
MARTTI POKELA, SARI KAURANEN & TIMO VÄÄNÄNEN
FINLANDIA RECORDS
FINLANDIA RECORDS INNOVATOR SERIES 0630-19052-2
(Through Warner Music Finland - Import Only)
MARTTI POKELA - ‘SNOW KANTELE’
4:37
(Two concert kanteles - Finnish zithers - evoking the cold, very effectively. (kantele, evoking the landscape of Samiland {aka ‘Lappland’})

YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE KANTELE?
For more on ‘Finland’s national instrument’ go to:
http://virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=27002)

2310
CD CUT 4, ‘THE LITTLE POT STOVE’
HARRY ROBERTSON
PUB COPYRIGHT CONTROL
TOPIC TSCD 411
(In Australia, through The Planet Company/MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.topicrec ords.co.uk)
NIC JONES - ‘PENGUIN EGGS’
5:34
(AUSTRALIAN COMPOSITION....Highly melodic tale of life at sea, sung by Englishman guitarist, with backing vocals, fiddle, recorder and melodeon)

SEGUE

2316
CD CUT 8, ‘DOUGLAS MAWSON’
ANDY IRVINE
GREEN LINNET RECORDS GLCD 1114
(This may or may not be available, still. If so:
In Australia, through The Planet Company/MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
Worldwide: www.greenlinnet.com)
ANDY IRVINE - ‘RUDE AWAKENING’
6:35
(Epic tale of Mawson, with discreet guitar, keyboard, end-blown flute and sax backing, sung by high voiced Irish male)

2325
CD DISC 1, (CUT 5), ‘LORD FRANKLIN’
TRAD, ARR RENBOURN/MCSHEE/THOMPSON/COX. JANSCH
SWIGGEROUS MUSIC LTD
RECALL (A SNAPPER MUSIC LABEL) SMD CD 152
(This may or may not be available still.
If so, in Australia through Shock: www.shock.com.au)
JOHN RENBOURN - ‘SO CLEAR’
3:22
(sweetly plaintive: male voice, female wordless vocal, ac guitar, concertina, discreet-distorted elec guitar)

YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW THE STORY OF LORD FRANKLIN’S ‘DISAPPEARANCE’ & THE CURRENT DEBATE OVER WHETHER THE MYSTERY IS NOW SOLVED?
Go to: www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2116504

SEGUE

2328
CD CUT 1, ‘GLACIAL RECONSTRUCTION’
KETIL BJORNSTAD
P AND C ECM RECORDS GMBH
ECM 1503 519 076-2
(in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.ecmrecords.com)
KETIL BJORNSTAD - ‘WATER STORIES’
6:52
(instrumental evocation of a glacier at work: powerful, darkly Nordic. The composer’s piano, Terje Rypdal’s elec guitar, with drummer Jon Chistensen and bassist Bjorn Kjellemyr)

2336
CD CUT 12, ‘ICE’
BLAIR GREENBERG
(PRESUMABLY) APRA
LUNADSIC LU 95042
(current distribution unknown)
VARIOUS - ‘THUMP! A COLLECTION OF AUSTRALIAN PERCUSSION GROUPS’
2:56
(AUSTRAL COMP & PERF: Blair Greenberg on this, with a decidedly tropical-jaunty number, played {I think} on some kind of steel pans {aka ‘steel drums’ - which are tuned})

SEGUE

2339
CD CUT 8, ‘ETERNAL FROST’
TONY GORMAN
CONTROL
RUFUS RF 001
(in Australia through Universal
Rufus website: www.rufusrecords.com.au)
CLARION FRACTURE ZONE, ‘ZONES ON PARADE’
10:34
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: a suitably spooky-edgy combination of electronics, powerful drums, ac bass and saxophones)

2351
CD CUT 3, ‘SNOWY MOUNTAINS’
KAYHAN KALHOR SHUJAAT HUSAIN KHAN
SOROUD MUSIC
SHANACHIE 66011
(just may be available still in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
Worldwide: www.shanachie.com)
GHAZAL {KAYHAN KALHOR & SHUJAAT HUSAIN KHAN} - ‘AS NIGHT FALLS ON THE SILK ROAD’
EIGHT MINUTES (NOT QUITE COMPLETE)
(Sitar & kamancheh {spike-fiddle of Iran} to fore on a Persian-cum-Hindustani collaboration - w tabla, dholak & other percussion)

Presenter

Doug Spencer

Producer

Doug Spencer