6 September 2008
Rabih Abou-Khalil: em português
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Lebanese lutenist Rabih Abou Khalil lives in Europe. His highly original, cosmopolitan music has particular colleagues in mind - in recent years, an Italian, an American and a Frenchman. All four players are highly individual, virtuosic, lyrical, adventurous, humorous. Abou-Khalil’s em português crucially involves a young newcomer: Portuguese vocalist Ricardo Ribeiro, who had previously ‘only sung fado’. This beautiful, unique CD is ‘deeply rooted in the everywhere and the nowhere.’ Its leader is keenly aware that wonderful/fresh - or terrible/banal - things can happen when very different folks join forces; em português illustrates his analogy concerning what a gynaecologist knows and what a lover knows!
Discover more about this project here:
http://www.enjarecords.com/cd.php?nr=ENJ-9520
Various interview/performance videos are here:
http://www.nme.com/video/id/jE3IcK1gOMU/search/abou
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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 6.9. 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 )
2208
CD CUT 6, ’SI O MEU AMOR ME PEDISSE’ ( IF MY LOVE ASKED ME )
MUSIC BY RABIH ABOU-KHALIL. WORDS BY TIAGO TORRES DA SILVA
PUB NOT SPEC
ENJA ENJ-9250 2
(in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.enjarecords.com )
RABIH ABOU-KHALIL - ’EM PORTUGUÊS’
2: 58
( Passionate-insistent-yearning- dramatic song, delivered in Portuguese, but definitely not-just-Portuguese, musically.
This CD’s recipe: take one young male Portuguese singer { Ricardo Ribeiro } who had previously only sung fado. Let him sing fado lyrics { with some pushing of boundaries as to what is ’too explicit’ } but combine them with new music composed by the Lebanese lutenist/leader. Rabih plays the oud { fretless, Arabic lute } with his regular colleagues. None plays an instrument generally heard in fado. Frenchman Michel Godard is a leading virtuoso of the tuba and its ancestor, the serpent. He also plays lightly-amplified acoustic bass guitar on much of this CD. Luciano Biondini is the Italian accordionist. American percussionist Jarrod Cogwin plays { both, very well } western-style drum-kit and various frame drums common to Arabic and Persian musics )
SEGUE
2211
CD CUT 2, ’OLHOS FATAIS’ ( FATAL EYES)
(NOT SPEC, BUT PRESUMABLY) ALFREDO DUARTE (ALKA ’ALFREDO MARCENEIRO’)
PUB NOT SPEC
HERITAGE HT CD 14
( no Australian distributor.
Worldwide: www.interstate-music.co.uk )
VARIOUS - ’FADO DE LISBOA 1928-1936: FADOS FROM PORTUGAL VOLUME ONE’
3: 15
( a classic, 1936-vintage performance. Haunting, dignified, not over-sung. Just how good it is creeps up on the listener, as the song proceeds. Duarte/Marceneiro was a major figure in fado. He later regretted having recorded at all: ’Fado should not be sold, I sing because my soul commands it, I sing as if I am praying. I do not like to sing for machines.’
LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT FADO?
This is a well-linked place to start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fado
LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT ALFREDO DUARTE (1892-1982), AKA ’ALFREDO MARCENEIRO’ (ALFREDO THE CARPENTER) ?
Partial-portraits of him are here:
http://fado.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60&Itemid=0&lang=en
and here:
http://worldmusic.nnm.ru/alfredo_marceneiro_os_fados_do_alfredo_marceneiro_ )
SEGUE
2214
CD CUT 6, ’JARDIN DE CHINE’
RABIH ABOU-KHALIL
PUB NOT SPEC (PROBABLY MAWI/GEMA)
ENJA ENJ-9440 2
(in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.enjarecords.com )
RABIH ABOU-KHALIL - ’IL SOSPIRO’
3: 38
(Spacious and beautiful - absolutely solo oud: fretless, Arabic lute.
This is as connected to Debussy and Ravel as to anything ’Arabic’ )
2222
CD CUT 5, ’JÁ NÃO DA COMO ESTA’( ’IT’S NO GOOD ANYMORE’ )
MUSIC BY RABIH ABOU-KHALIL. WORDS BY RUI MANUEL
PUB NOT SPEC
ENJA ENJ-9250 2
(in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.enjarecords.com )
RABIH ABOU-KHALIL - ’EM PORTUGUÊS’
4: 10
( Intimate in tone, but global in scope. The lyric { in Portuguese } considers the earth’s future and the need for mankind to change, if it/this earth is to have a future. For personnel and nature of this project see tracknote @ 2208 above. Michel Godard plays bass on this )
SEGUE
2226
CD CUT 2, ’GORIZIA’
TRAD, ARR GABRIELE MIRABASSI
EDITION MAWI (GEMA)
ENJA ENJ-9441 2
(in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.enjarecords.com )
GABRIELE MIRABASSI - ’LATAKIA BLEND’
9: 00
(the leader’s clarinet, Luciano Biondini’s accordion, Michel Godard’s tuba. A superb trio imaginatively opens out, instrumentally {mostly, very hauntingly} a traditional Italian lament-cum-protest song from World War One
LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE ACTUAL GORIZIA?
Start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorizia
2237
CD CUT 1, ’COMO UM RIO’ ( ’LIKE A RIVER’ )
MUSIC BY RABIH ABOU-KHALIL. WORDS BY MÁRIO RAÍNHO
PUB NOT SPEC
ENJA ENJ-9250 2
(in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.enjarecords.com )
RABIH ABOU-KHALIL - ’EM PORTUGUÊS’
6: 05
( mostly-rousing. Not fado as such, but the male singer is a fado singer and this is an anthem in praise of that Portuguese genre. Has some marvellous singing and playing - including a spectacularly fleet oud break.
For personnel and nature of this project see tracknote @ 2208 above. )
SEGUE
2243
CD CUT 3, ’RAINDROPS AND DAYS AND MY LOVE’
SAM KEEVERS
CONTROL
JAZZHEAD HEAD068
(in Australia, through MGM
www.jazzhead.com
Sam’s site: www.myspace.com/samkeevers )
SAM KEEVERS NONET - ’NO EXCEPTIONS’
10: 03
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: A very warm and loving, happy ballad, beautifully played, ’live’. Soloists - in sequence - are Bernie McGann on alto sax, elec guitarist Stephen Magnusson, tenor saxist Jamie Oehlers and the leader on piano. Beautifully supported, too. Simon Barker on brushes, Rodrigo Aravena on ac bass.
SAM KEEVERS ETC GIG/ ’JAZZ NOW’ FESTIVAL ALERT ( Sydney )
’Jazz Now" Festival
Wed Sept 10 through Saturday Sept 13
8.15pm each night The Studio at The Sydney Opera House
Full festival details/ bookings are here:
www.sydneyoperahouse.com/whatson/jazznow.aspx
There is further information here:
www.sima.org.au/programme
The opening night - Wed 10 - features this line-up:
Sam Keevers Quintet
Sam Keevers - piano
Jamie Oehlers - sax
Brett Hirst - bass
Bernie McGann - alto sax
Simon Barker - drums
Mark Isaacs
piano solo
Andy Fiddes Trio
Andy Fiddes - trumpet
Dave Goodman - drums
Ben Waples - bass )
2255
CD CUT 4, ’GATHERING LIGHT’
MARILYN CRISPELL
PUB NOT SPEC
ECM 2027/ 174 5277
( in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.ecmrecords.com )
MARILYN CRISPELL - ’VIGNETTES’
4: 00 ( excerpt )
( Spaciously-shimmering, solo piano. Ms Crispell is one of the finest living improvising pianists. She covers a lot of territory. This album is a mostly-very-lyrical set of piano solos, dedicated to her father.
LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT MARILYN CRISPELL?
Her official site: www.marilyncrispell.com
MARILYN CRISPELL AUSTRALIAN TOUR ALERT
SYDNEY:
The Studio at The Sydney Opera House
Thursday Sept 11 @ 815 pm (solo)
Saturday Sept 13 @ 815 pm (trio )
Both concerts are halves of double-bills.
Each is part of the Jazz Now Festival at this venue
Full details of the Festival {Sept 10-13, inclusive, 8.15 each night) are here:
www.sydneyoperahouse.com/whatson/jazznow.aspx
PERTH:
Monday September 15 @ 8pm
Charles Hotel, 509 Charles Street, North Perth
(enter from Ellesmere St)
Tel 9444 1051 www.charleshotel.com.au
More details here: www.perthjazzsociety.com )
BRISBANE
Wed September 17 @ 7.30pm (doors open 7pm)
Judith Wright Centre
420 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley
Details/bookings here:
www.jwcoca.qld.gov.au/02_cal/details.asp?ID=597 )
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11 PM NEWS
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2305
CD CUT 1, ’VIGNETTE 1’
MARILYN CRISPELL
PUB NOT SPEC
ECM 2027/ 174 5277
( in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.ecmrecords.com )
MARILYN CRISPELL - ’VIGNETTES’
2: 12
( High-crystalline-staccato and low-tolling notes: solo piano. Ms Crispell is one of the finest living improvising pianists. She covers a lot of territory. This album is a mostly-very-lyrical set of piano solos, dedicated to her father.
LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT MARILYN CRISPELL AND HER IMMINENT ARUSTRALIAN TOUR ? ( Sydney, Perth, Brisbane )
See the notes beneath her ’Gathering Light’, @ 2255 above )
2309
CD CUT 2, ’NO MAR DAS RUAS PERNAS’( ’IN THE SEA OF YOUR LEGS’)
MUSIC BY RABIH ABOU-KHALIL. WORDS BY TIAGO TORRES DA SILVA
PUB NOT SPEC
ENJA ENJ-9250 2
(in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.enjarecords.com )
RABIH ABOU-KHALIL - ’EM PORTUGUÊS’
2: 44
(Forceful and urgent-dramatic with incredible tuba. Strong drums, accordion and oud also support the male vocal. The lyric - in Portuguese - is very explicit/erotic. Definitely not-just-Portuguese, musically.
For personnel and nature of this project see track-note @ 2208 above. )
SEGUE
2312
CD CUT 14, ’VELHO ANJO’ {OLD ANGEL}
JORGE FERNANDO/ TIM RIES
PUB NOT SPEC
WORLD VILLAGE 468072
( in Australia through Select Audio-Visual Distribution:
www.savd.com.au
worldwide: www.worldvillagemusic.com )
ANA MOURA - ’PARA ALÉM DA SAUDADE’
3: 02
(Portuguese fado song - elegant-melancholic. The lusciously rich-voiced Ana is accompanied by song’s co-author Jorge on guitar-as-such and by Custódio Castelo on the guitarra portuguesa { not a guitar - this wire-strung lute is more akin to a cittern or mandola}. The album title translates as ’Beyond Mere Longing’. Tim Ries - the song’s American co-author - is best-known as a jazz player and as the Rolling Stones’ regular sax-man )
2318
CD CUT 2, ’CANÇÃO VERDES ANOS’ ( SONG: GREEN YEARS )
CARLOS PAREDES
PUB NOT SPEC
NONESUCH EXPLORER SERIES 0 79203
( if issued in Australia, through Warner Music: www.warnermusic.com.au
worldwide: www.nonesuch.com )
CARLOS PAREDES - ’GUITARRA PORTUGUESA’
3: 04
( circa 1969: haunting and very much a song, even with no words. The composer’s guitarra {not a guitar} rings out, discreetly backed by a nylon-stringed guitar. Paredes remains one of the most eloquent instrumentalists these ears have ever heard. He was likely the 20th century’s most significant Portuguese musician.
LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT CARLOS PAREDES {1925-2004}?
Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Paredes )
LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT/ SEE THE GUITARRA PORTUGUESA?
Go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_guitar
For a really good look at this beautifully strange instrument, go to this gallery:
www.pbase.com/alagoa/guitarra_portuguesa )
SEGUE
2321
CD CUT 7, ’QUANDO TE VEJO SORRIR’ ( ’WHEN I SEE YOU SMILE’)
MUSIC BY RABIH ABOU-KHALIL. WORDS BY RUI MANUEL
PUB NOT SPEC
ENJA ENJ-9250 2
(in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.enjarecords.com )
RABIH ABOU-KHALIL - ’EM PORTUGUÊS’
6: 52
(Very haunting love-song: equally eloquent are the Portuguese singer’s male voice, the Lebanese leader-composer’s oud and his percussionist’s frame-drums. For project ’s personnel and nature, see track-note @ 2208 above )
SEGUE
2328
CD ( DISC ONE ) CUT 2, ’ALL BLUES’
MILES DAVIS (CREDITED TO/CLAIMED BY - VERY PROBABLY AT LEAST CO-AUTHORED BY BILL EVANS)
JAZZ HORN MUSIC ( BMI )
4Q/TIMES SQUARE TSQ-CD-1808
( to my knowledge, no Australian distributor.
Worldwide: www.timessquarerecords.net
www.fourquartersent.com
readily available via major on-line suppliers )
VARIOUS - ’MILES FROM INDIA’
9: 20
( Introduced by the solo sitar of Ravi Chary. As double bass, drums, piano enter it becomes obvious this is a new, cross-cultural treatment of the Miles Davis classic. Drummer Jimmy Cobb played on the 'Kind of Blue' original back in 1959. Ac bassist Ron Carter played with Miles Davis 1963-1968. They don't merely ape themselves nearly fifty years later! Gary Bartz and Ruresh Mahathappa play alto saxes, Louis Banks the piano { he's from Nepal } and Vikku Vinayakram is the South Indian/Carnatic hand-drummer, playing ghatam { claypot }. This remarkable new double-CD is the first such Miles-focused, full-on cross-cultural collaboration between Indian classical players and { Miles-alumni } American jazz-men
ABC RADIO NATIONAL ’MILES FROM INDIA’ ALERT
We explore this album in depth next Saturday night, September 13
More details here: www.abc.net.au/rn/weekendplanet/comingup )
2340
CUT 13 ’LORIKEETS’
BLAIR GREENBERG
C. 1996 BLAIR GREENBERG
BAG 1
(RE LISTENER QUERIES: a self-issued CD, available in Sydney from some better retailers. Otherwise, send your address details and a cheque/money order for $30 payable to Blair Greenberg at
26 Garden St, Maroubra 2035
email: blairgreenberg@yahoo.com )
BLAIR GREENBERG - ’THE MOMENT’
6: 46
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: Male voice .. w a very nice groove and Indian influence. The late Ashok Roy plays sarod - wire-strung, fretless Hindustani lute. Blair Greenberg sings and plays everything else - acoustic guitar, tabla, darabuka, keyboards, vibraphone, shaker and didjeridoo )
SEGUE
2347
CD CUT 12, ’ADOLESCENCIA PERDIDA’ { LOST ADOLESCENCE }
MUSIC BY RABIH ABOU-KHALIL. WORDS BY ANTÓNIA ROCHA
PUB NOT SPEC
ENJA ENJ-9250 2
(in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.enjarecords.com )
RABIH ABOU-KHALIL - ’EM PORTUGUÊS’
3: 35
(Very haunting. Ricardo Ribeiro’s male Portuguese voice is beautifully and solely accompanied by the leader’s oud - fretless Arabic lute.
In translation, the song begins by declaring this:
’Poem of my life
Without old age or childhood
Lost adolescence
In the sea of my inconstancy )
2352
CD CUT 6, ’THE HAPPY SHEIK’
RABIH ABOU-KHALIL
EDITION MAWI (GEMA)
ENJA ENJ-9330 2
( In Australia through Newmarket: www.newmarketmusic.com
worldwide: www.enjarecords.com )
RABIH ABOU-KHALIL - ’ODD TIMES’
6: 30 ( excerpt )
(The leader-composer’s oud and bent-rhythm-tune, with harmonica (Howard Levy) , tuba, drums and frame drum ... very playful, very virtuosic ... lots of improvisation, each member takes a turn to solo)
Presenter
Doug Spencer
Producer
Doug Spencer
