The Weekend Planet

For nearly three decades Danish guitarist Pierre Dørge has led one of the world’s more eclectic, creative and entertaining large ensembles. Keyboardist Irene Becker and reeds player Morten Carlsen are also founder-members of New Jungle Orchestra. Pierre, Irene and Morten’s occasional trio inclines rather more to contemplation and to intimate settings, most especially churches. The Skagen Concert was recorded in one, in Denmark’s northernmost town, near the tip of the Jutland Peninsula. We also venture into a Norwegian church tonight - in Oslo, where John Surman and Howard Moody recently recorded some sublime duets.

For more about Pierre Dørge etc, this is still the best place to start:
www.newjungleorchestra.com

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 21. 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 )

2207
CD CUT 4, ’DUCKS OF PEKING’
PIERRE DØRGE
PUB NOT SPEC
TUTL HJF186
( in Australasia, through Australian Northern Europe Liaisons
www.ozemail.com.au/~ozeurjaz
www.henk.com.au
available worldwide via www.tutl.com )
DØRGE BECKER CARLSEN - ’THE SKAGEN CONCERT’
7: 05
( impressionistic, lyrical, overtly Chinese-accented in places. Begins with shimmer-swells from Pierre Dørge’s elec guitar, alone. Guitar then goes ’Chinese-lute-esque’, and elec piano soon joins. Eventually, so does Morten Carlsen’s tenor sax. The concert which yielded this CD happened in a church in Denmark’s northernmost town, on the Jutland Peninsula. All members of this trio are founder-members of Pierre’s New Jungle Orchestra. which has spent time in China and many other places.

LIKE TO SEE THE CHURCH IN SKAGEN WHERE THIS CONCERT WAS GIVEN?

Go to:
http://community.webshots.com/photo/fullsize/1001561740000480607SYOdWsvRbV

SEGUE

2214
CD CUT 4, ’DANCING IN THE LOFT’
HOWARD MOODY AND JOHN SURMAN
PUB NOT SPEC
ECM 1986/ 171 5540
( in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.ecmrecords.com )
JOHN SURMAN/ HOWARD MOODY - ’RAIN ON THE WINDOW’
1: 50
(Elegantly-lively, celebratory duo dance for Surman’s bass clarinet and Moody’s organ - that of Ullern Kirke {Church} in Oslo, where they made this duo CD. You would not reasonably guess so, but the two Englishmen improvised this on the spot.

LIKE TO SEE THE OSLO CHURCH IN QUESTION?

Go to:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:UllernKirke.jpg )

2219
CD CUT 5, ’PIRUPSHVARRE’
IRENE BECKER
PUB NOT SPEC
TUTL HJF186
( in Australasia, through Australian Northern Europe Liaisons
www.ozemail.com.au/~ozeurjaz
www.henk.com.au
available worldwide via www.tutl.com )
DØRGE BECKER CARLSEN - ’THE SKAGEN CONCERT’
3: 52
(’live’ and very lyrical. Begins with the composer’s crystalline piano, alone. It then becomes a duet with Morten Carlsen’s taragato { which sounds like an airier, more ’Eastern’ soprano-sax-variant}

LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE TAROGATO AND SEE IT?

These are two good places:
http://hungaria.org/hal/folklor/tarogato
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taragot

You can see/hear a tarogato in its ’natural {Hungarian} habitat, here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5JbLdHRwYg )

SEGUE

2223
CD CUT 1, ’LOST IN THE DESERT, I SEE A../ CARAVAN’
(RESP) PIERRE DØRGE/ JUAN TIZOL AND DUKE ELLINGTON
PUB NOT SPEC
STUNT RECORDS STUCD 03012
( in Australasia, through Australian Northern Europe Liaisons
www.ozemail.com.au/~ozeurjaz
www.henk.com.au
available worldwide via www.sundance.dk )
PIERRE DØRGE AND THE NEW JUNGLE ORCHESTRA - ’LIVE AT BIRDLAND’
7: 11
( ’live’ and mostly-exuberant, playful, richly varied, sometimes misterioso. Constructed around the famous Elington/Tizol ’Caravan’, without ever becoming merely a version of it. Dørge is the variously ripe and delicate elec guitarist, Kasper Tranberg the cornet soloist, Irene Becker the pianist, and Mads Hyhne the blazing trombonist.. plus their colleagues on ac bass, other horns and percussion, in New York in 2003 )

SEGUE

2230
CD CUT 8, CD CUT 3, ’DET KOSTER EJ FOR MEGEN STRID’
CARL NIELSEN, ARR PIERRE DORGE
PUB NOT SPEC
PUB NOT SPEC
TUTL HJF186
( in Australasia, through Australian Northern Europe Liaisons
www.ozemail.com.au/~ozeurjaz
www.henk.com.au
available worldwide via www.tutl.com )
DØRGE BECKER CARLSEN - ’THE SKAGEN CONCERT’
4: 47
( Irene Becker’s piano at first alone on this ’live’ instrumental version of a very lyrical hymn by Denmark’s best-loved ’classical’ composer. The melody is ’sung’ by the tarogato { aka ’taragot’ - a central European, wooden-bodied hybrid of clarinet and soprano sax} played by Morten Carlsen. Irene shifts to synth-orchestration to support the tarogato. In latter part Dørge’s elec guitar enters and twines with the tarogato.

LIKE TO KNOW A BIT MORE ABOUT CARL NIELSEN { 1865- 1932 } ?
Start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Nielsen

LIKE TO KNOW A LOT ABOUT DENMARK’S BEST-LOVED COMPOSER?
Go to :
http://carlnielsen.dk/pages/the-society/about-us.php )

2237
CD CUT 1, ’CHEOPS’
PETER DAVERINGTON
(PRESUMABLY) APRA
Self-issued, no catalogued number
( www.peterdaverington.com )
PETER DAVERINGTON - ’THE DERVISH SERIES SOUNDSCAPE’
( IMPROVISATIONS ON NEY FLUTE)
6: 57
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: as the subtitle says of this flute solo in a very resonant, ancient space: ’Improvisation on Ney Flute. Recorded in the King’s Chamber, Cheops Pyramid, Giza, Egypt 2006.’

LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT/ SEE THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZA/ CHEOPS?

This is a good place to start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza )

SEGUE

2244
CD CUT 5, ’YOUR TOUCH ON MY SKIN’
SANDY EVANS
COPYRIGHT CONTROL
RUFUS RF060
( in Australia through Universal
Rufus website: www.rufusrecords.com.au )
CLARION FRACTURE ZONE WITH THE MARTENTISA CHOIR - ’CANTICLE’
6: 01
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: very tender ballad. Alister Spence’s piano introduces it, alone. Lloyd Swanton on double bass, Toby Hall plays brushes, but is primarily a feature for the alto saxophone of the composer’s husband, Tony Gorman. This album - which refers to ’The Song of Solomon’ - documents a commissioned work that celebrates sexuality as a gift from God)

SEGUE

2250
CD CUT 12, ’A SPRING WEDDING’
JOHN SURMAN
PUB NOT SPEC
ECM 1986/ 171 5540
( in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.ecmrecords.com )
JOHN SURMAN/ HOWARD MOODY - ’RAIN ON THE WINDOW’
3: 04
( John’s soprano sax in duo with Howard Moody, playing the organ of Ullern Kirke in Oslo. This is absolutely what it seems - a happy, wedding march-cum-dance. John composed it for the 2004 wedding of his son Ben Surman with Minya DeJohnette. Minya’s father is the great African-American drummer, Jack DeJohnette. Jack and John have been mutual admirers, friends and occasional colleagues for more than forty years )

2255
CD CUT 14 ’VILA SE LOZA VINENA’
TRAD
P AND C 1993 TALL POPPIES
TP026
( www.tallpoppies.net
CDs available direct {securely} via www.buywell.com )
MARTENITSA CHOIR - ’THE MARTENITSA CHOIR’
1: 53
(AUSTRAL PERF: a cappella, Bulgarian-style female choir and song, in Bulgarian. Plotline: female begs release from an impending, arranged marriage... husband-to-be refuses. He says, ’Into my hands you are given, it is written in the book.’ Recorded in St James Church, Sydney in June 1992 )

2258
CD CUT 2, ’CHORALE 1’
NICK TSIAVOS
(PRESUMABLY) APRA
TS 001
( www.nicktsiavos.net
Nick’s recordings are available worldwide via www.indie-cds.com )
NICK TSIAVOS - ’ALL THAT IS SOLID MELTS INTO AIR’
1: 00 ( excerpt )
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: double bass, quite solo, mostly bowed, but with effective plucking, too. Improvisatory, spacious.. He can REALLY use the bow.

NICK TSIAVOS ’...SOLID MELTS..’ SOLO BASS GIG ALERT ( Melbourne )

Monday 29th September @ 7.30 pm
La Mama Theatre, 205 Faraday Street, Carlton
Bookings Ph. 9347 6142, or at the door from 7pm.
A double-bill: Chris Hale, who plays the concert’s opening set.

Nick says this of his ’Solid, revisited’ performance:
’Way back in 1994 I did my first solo gig, premiered ’all that is solid...’ at La Mama. Now, I am back there again to revisit the work, and see if it still makes sense! ( to me, at least) ’
www.nicktsiavos.net )

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11 PM NEWS
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2305
CD CUT 3, ’DATE FOR CHURCH’
JOSEPH LEE HENRY (AKA JOE HENRY)
C 1990 TRUE NORTH MUSIC/ ALMO MUSIC CORP (ASCAP)
A&M COYOTE 75021 5315 2
( the album is long-deleted, I think )
JOE HENRY - ’SHUFFLETOWN’
3: 42
(Joe Henry, eighteen years ago. Ballad for his tenderly gruff male voice w piano, vibes, ac bass, rhythm ac guitar and lovely muted trumpet from the late Don Cherry)

2310
CD CUT 1 (CUED IN TO 2: 50 ) ’SKAGEN SUNSET’
IRENE BECKER, MORTEN CARLSEN PIERRE DØRGE
PUB NOT SPEC
TUTL HJF186
( in Australasia, through Australian Northern Europe Liaisons
www.ozemail.com.au/~ozeurjaz
www.henk.com.au
available worldwide via www.tutl.com )
DØRGE BECKER CARLSEN - ’THE SKAGEN CONCERT’
5: 29 (excerpt )
(open-pastoral-impressionistic. Carlsen plays first his tarogato then his tenor sax. Dørge is the electric guitarist and Becker the keyboardist. This leads directly into the livelier cut-following )

SEGUE
(same-disc, continuous)

2315
CD CUT 2, ’FIVE STEPS TO USÉZ’
PIERRE DØRGE
PUB NOT SPEC
TUTL HJF186
( in Australasia, through Australian Northern Europe Liaisons
www.ozemail.com.au/~ozeurjaz
www.henk.com.au
available worldwide via www.tutl.com )
DØRGE BECKER CARLSEN - ’THE SKAGEN CONCERT’
6: 37
(Genial whirl-dance for Pierre Dørge’s elec guitar, Morten Carlsen’s tenor sax and Irene Becker’s keyboard. The concert which yielded this CD happened in a church in Denmark’s northernmost town, on the Jutland Peninsula. All members of this trio are founder-members of Pierre’s New Jungle Orchestra )

SEGUE

2322
CD CUT 13, ’I’M TROUBLED IN MIND’
TRAD, ARR JOHN SURMAN, HOWARD MOODY
SONG ITSELF IS PUBLIC DOMAIN. ARR PUB NOT SPEC
ECM 1986/ 171 5540
( in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.ecmrecords.com )
JOHN SURMAN/ HOWARD MOODY - ’RAIN ON THE WINDOW’
2: 44
( Surman’s baritone sax { an instrument no-one else on earth plays so sublimely, consistently} ’sings’ this old ’Negro Spritual’, discreetly accompanied by Howard Moody on organ, in a church in Oslo )

SEGUE

2325
CD CUT 3, ’THE KING OF THE COINERS’
STEVE TILSTON
HUBRISTY MUSIC
HUBRIS RECORDS HUB004
( no Australian distributor
Available worldwide, direct from www.stevetilston.com )
STEVE TILSTON - ’ZIGGURAT’
5: 44
( The author’s male voice and very deft finger-picked steel-string ac guitar, plus Richard Curran’s viola. Superbly crafted song which tells the amazing true life-and-death story of an 18th century English criminal. Some see/saw ’King David’ - David Hartley - as a ’Robin Hood’. Others think he was just a robbin’ hood. The most celebrated/notorious ’coiner’ was executed on May 1st, 1770. The low-quality/non-standard-sized coinage then in circulation made it possible for ’Coiners’ to become very rich. They clipped/shaved coins and then melted down and re-coined the shavings.

ABC RADIO NATIONAL STEVE TILSTON ALERT

We explore his new album next Sunday, September 28th
More details here: www.abc.net.au/rn/weekendplanet/comingup )

LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT THE REAL ’KING DAVID’?

Go to:
www.mytholmroyd.net/features/coiners.html

For a more detailed account, see the script of a BBC documentary, here:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20000917/ai_n14341214 )

2333
CD CUT 9, ’JEG GIK MIG UD EN SOMMERDAG’
TRAD
PUBLIC DOMAIN
TUTL HJF186
( in Australasia, through Australian Northern Europe Liaisons
www.ozemail.com.au/~ozeurjaz
www.henk.com.au
available worldwide via www.tutl.com )
DØRGE BECKER CARLSEN - ’THE SKAGEN CONCERT’
2: 12
( electric guitar, keyboards and tenor sax take to a very melodious Scandinavian folk-song. They do it very nicely and lead directly into cut-following. In English, the song would be called something like ’As I roved out one summer day..’ )

SEGUE
( same-disc, continuous )

2335
CD CUT 10, ’MIRJAM’S DADADANCE’
PIERRE DØRGE
PUB NOT SPEC
TUTL HJF186
( in Australasia, through Australian Northern Europe Liaisons
www.ozemail.com.au/~ozeurjaz
www.henk.com.au
available worldwide via www.tutl.com )
DØRGE BECKER CARLSEN - ’THE SKAGEN CONCERT’
3: 20
(Pierre Dørge’s elec guitar, Morten Carlsen’s tenor sax and Irene Becker’s keyboard: a genially quirky piece that nicely combines happy-hymnal and Caribbean elements. The concert which yielded this CD happened in a church in Denmark’s northernmost town, on the Jutland Peninsula. All members of this trio are founder-members of Pierre’s New Jungle Orchestra )

SEGUE

2338
CD CUT 3, ’THE OLD DUTCH’
JOHN SURMAN
PUB NOT SPEC
ECM 1986/ 171 5540
( in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.ecmrecords.com )
JOHN SURMAN/ HOWARD MOODY - ’RAIN ON THE WINDOW’
3: 27
( John’s soprano sax in elegantly quirky duo with Howard Moody, who is playing the organ of Ullern Kirke in Oslo. Playful, discreetly. I suspect the title refers to barrel-organs of the kind found in some Dutch streets/markets; at the beginning, Howard appears to be evoking same.

LIKE TO SEE THE CHURCH IN QUESTION?

Go to:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:UllernKirke.jpg )

2345
CD CUT 6, ’DHUN IN DADRA’
TRADITIONAL, IMPROVISED UPON BY DEBASIS CHAKROBORTY AND SAM EVANS
PUB NOT SPEC
SELF-ISSUED, NO CATALOG NUMBER
( available worldwide, direct, via www.2drums.net )
DEBASIS CHAKROBORTY AND SAM EVANS - ’CHARUKESHI’
7: 26
(AUSTRA PERF: lyrical, folk-based, ’light classical’ duet in the Hindustani {North Indian} sense. Debasis plays the Indian ’Classical’ slide guitar - a steel-stringed arch-top, much modified, with sympathetic strings in addition to main ones. The Australian - Sam - plays the tabla.

DEBASIS CHAKROBORTY AND SAM EVANS GIGS ALERT (Melbourne/ Sydney)

Full details and bookings here:
www.2drums.net/tabla/gigs.html

MELBOURNE:
Sunday 21st September, 1pm
Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University
Wellington Rd, Clayton
Debasis and Sam with Monash University World of Music Orchestra. 1 - 2pm
Debasis and Sam - Indian Classical Music - 2 - 3pm.

SYDNEY:
Friday 26th September, 7:30pm (doors pen for dinner @ 6pm)
The Chapel by the Sea
Bondi Beach
Tickets (dinner+ show or show-only ) via Liz Page. On 0416 348 583
email: lizpage@yahoo.com )

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2352
CD CUT 11. ’WALY WALY’
TRAD, ARR JOHN SURMAN, HOWARD MOODY
SONG ITSELF IS PUBLIC DOMAIN. ARR PUB NOT SPEC
ECM 1986/ 171 5540
( in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.ecmrecords.com )
JOHN SURMAN/ HOWARD MOODY - ’RAIN ON THE WINDOW’
2: 40
( Surman’s baritone sax ’sings’ a haunting melody, common to more than one traditional folk-song. This melody also carries ’The Water is Wide’. Surman is discreetly accompanied by Moody, at the organ of Ullern Kirke in Oslo )

2356
CD CUT 6, ’MBIZO, MBIZO’
PIERRE DØRGE
PUB NOT SPEC
TUTL HJF186
( in Australasia, through Australian Northern Europe Liaisons
www.ozemail.com.au/~ozeurjaz
www.henk.com.au
available worldwide via www.tutl.com )
DØRGE BECKER CARLSEN - ’THE SKAGEN CONCERT’
2: 30 ( excerpt )
( very lyrical, discreetly African-tinged salute to the memory of South African bassist Johnny Dyani {1945 - 1986} - a self-exile from apartheid, who knew Pierre, directly. Pierre Dørge’s elec guitar, Morten Carlsen’s tenor sax, Irene Becker’s keys - in a church in Denmark’s northernmost town, on the Jutland Peninsula.

LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT LATE-GREAT DEDICATEE, JOHNNY DYANI ?
{who was known as ’Mbizo’)

Go to:
www.answers.com/topic/johnny-dyani )

Presenter

Doug Spencer

Producer

Doug Spencer