The Weekend Planet

Benji Kirkpatrick is a passionate young Englishman. He is a powerful player of bouzoukis and guitars and an eloquent singer. A fine interpreter of traditional songs and tunes, he writes good new ones too and is now one of the busiest people in English ‘roots’ music. We co-feature two new albums. Boomerang is Benji’s new CD as singer-songwriter. Faustus is the eponymous debut from a trio which inclines mostly to traditional English songs. Its members sing as well as they play. Benji’s colleagues are melodeon ace Saul Rose and fiddler Paul Sartin, who also plays oboe.

Benji Kirkpatrick’s site:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=47702840

Faustus site:
www.faustusband.co.uk

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 14.9. 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 1, ’WALLBREAKER’
BENJI KIRKPATRIK
BENJI KIRKPATRICK PRS
NAVIGATOR RECORDS NAVIGATOR 2
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.navigatorrecords.co.uk )
BENJI KIRKPATRIK - ’BOOMERANG’
4: 35
( Anthem in persona of water as the vital, impersonal destroyer/ giver of life - one with which our species needs to reckon, more wisely. The English author sings lead { and some of the harmony } vocals and plays the driving bouzoukis, ac guitars and banjo )

SEGUE

2212
CD CUT 17, ’TROWIE BURN’
TRAD SHETLAND ( ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN STICKLE ), ARR BRASS MONKEY
TUNE IS PUBLIC DOMAIN, ARR IS TOPIC RECORDS MUSIC
TOPIC TSCD467
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.topicrec ords.co.uk )
BRASS MONKEY - ’THE COMPLETE BRASS MONKEY, FEATURING MARTIN CARTHY AND JOHN KIRKPATRICK ’
4: 15
( Uncanny, unhurried, but definitely not static tune from Unst - the northernmost inhabited British island. Unst is also the northernmost Shetland isle and is almost as close to Norway as to the UK mainland - and it shows in its music. Martin Carthy’s ac guitar, John Kirkpatrick’s squeezebox {he is Benji’s father} plus bandmates’ trumpet, trombone, sax/harmonica. A burn is a brook/small watercourse. The trow/trowie are Shetland’s faeries/ ’little folk’)

2219
CD CUT 1, ’I AM A BRISK LAD’
TRAD, ARR BENJI KIRKPATRIK, PAUL SARTIN AND SAUL ROSE.
ARR PUB IS NOT SPEC
NAVIGATOR RECORDS NAVIGATOR 5
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.navigatorrecords.co.uk )
FAUSTUS (BENJI KIRKPATRIK, PAUL SARTIN AND SAUL ROSE ) - ’FAUSTUS’
4: 05
(Capital ’E’ English song in persona of a sheep-stealer who solemnly exults in his ’trade’. Rich harmony vocals, all round - initially, a capella. The voices are to fore, throughout, but later supported by bowed strings and squeezebox.

LIKE TO SEE LYRICS TO WHAT IS ESSENTIALLY THE SAME SONG?

Go to:
http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/watersons/songs/thebrisklad.html )

SEGUE

2223
CD CUT 5, ’BOOMERANG’
BENJI KIRKPATRIK
BENJI KIRKPATRICK PRS
NAVIGATOR RECORDS NAVIGATOR 2
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.navigatorrecords.co.uk )
BENJI KIRKPATRIK - ’BOOMERANG’
3: 27
( hyper-rhythmic, anthemic song, with oomph. Has a ’what goes around, comes around’/ ’do the right thing’/ ’be generous’ message. The leader’s obviously-English male voice, deft bouzouki and ac guitar to fore, plus some decidedly ’post-Beatles’ male harmony vocals. )

SEGUE

2226
CD CUT 5, ’THE NEW DESERTER’
TRAD, ARR BENJI KIRKPATRIK, PAUL SARTIN AND SAUL ROSE.
ARR PUB IS NOT SPEC
NAVIGATOR RECORDS NAVIGATOR 5
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.navigatorrecords.co.uk )
FAUSTUS (BENJI KIRKPATRIK, PAUL SARTIN AND SAUL ROSE ) - ’FAUSTUS’
5: 59
(Dark and haunting English song in persona of the deserter who was betrayed by his ’sweetheart’. Condemned to death, he is reprieved by Prince Albert - provided he returns to the fray.

LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS SONG AND SEE A SET OF LYRICS?
(not identical to - but similar to what is sung, here )

Follow this thread:
www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=77545 )

2235
CD CUT 6, ’HEARTBEAT ( MAJA AND NATU INCARNATED CHANT )’
MUSIC BY MAJA KLESZCZ, NATALIA PRZYBYSZ. LYRIC IS PARTLY TRAD POLISH AND PARTLY BY NATALIA PRZYBYSZ
PUB NOT SPEC
JARO 4289-2
( No Australian distributor
www.jaro.de
Releases are available, direct, worldwide
Simply click ’English’ prompt to see the site in English )
WARSAW VILLAGE BAND - ’IINFINITY’
5: 05
( An extraordinary marriage of soulful Polish folk-music and gospel/soul elements - and of its two young female singers/moaners. Maja Klescz is this Polish folk band’s cellist and lead singer. Natalia Przbysz { her former music schoolmate } is a noted Polish soul singer. Has real gravitas.

ABC RADIO NATIONAL WARSAW VILLAGE BAND ALERT

We explore their new CD next Saturday, September 20
More details here: www.abc.net.au/rn/weekendplanet/comingup )

SEGUE

2238
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.

ABC RADIO NATIONAL ’DØRGE BECKER CARLSEN’ ALERT

Next Sunday’s show revolves around this CD... and another, also recorded in a Scandinavian church {John Surman’s duo with Howard Moody }
More details here: www.abc.net.au/rn/weekendplanet/comingup )

2248
CD CUT 2, ’PENDULUM’
GERARD MASTERS
( PRESUMABLY ) APRA
JAZZGROOVE RECORDS JGR041
( www.jazzgroove.com
distributed in Australia by Creative Vibes: www.cvibes.com )
GERARD MASTERS TRIO - ’PENDULUM’
9: 20
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: Modern jazz trio, with robust-intense and gentler-delicate sections. Begins with Cameron Undy’s bass, alone - bowed, then plucked. The leader’s piano and Evan Manell’s drums then enter )

2258
CD CUT 16, ’STILLEWEG’
ARVE HENRIKSEN
PUB NOT SPEC
ECM 2027/ 174 5277
( in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.ecmrecords.com )
MARILYN CRISPELL - ’VIGNETTES’
0: 30 ( excerpt )
( lyrical-tender solo piano. The final notes or her version of a piece penned by a Norwegian trumpeter. She usually plays her own compositions or improvises freely. One of the finest living improvising pianists, Crispell 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

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 )

SYDNEY
Thursday 18 @ 8.30 pm at ’The Sound Lounge’ (doors open 8.00pm)
Seymour Theatre Centre, corner City Rd and Cleveland St, Chippendale
Marilyn Crispell + Lloyd Swanton (bass), Simon Barker (drums)

Box office tel: 02 9351 7940
www.sima.org.au

NEAR- SYDNEY READERS WHO SEE THIS BEFORE NIGHT OF SEPT 13,
READ ON!

Earlier Crispell gigs:

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 )

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11 PM NEWS
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2305
CD CUT 17, ’LITTLE SONG FOR MY FATHER’
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’
3: 16
( Spacious solo piano. Exquisite: the kind of ’simple’ that isn’t. 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 CURRENT AUSTRALIAN TOUR ALERT
(PERTH, BRISBANE, SYDNEY )

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 )

SYDNEY
Thursday 18 @ 8.30 pm at ’The Sound Lounge’ (doors open 8.00pm)
Seymour Theatre Centre, corner City Rd and Cleveland St, Chippendale
Marilyn Crispell + Lloyd Swanton (bass), Simon Barker (drums)

Box office tel: 02 9351 7940
www.sima.org.au

NEAR- SYDNEY READERS WHO SEE THIS BEFORE NIGHT OF SEPT 13,
READ ON!

Earlier Crispell gigs:

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 )

2310
CD CUT 1, ’I KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN’
JIM KELLY
QUIRKY IDEAS 2008
NASHUA ROAD NRRS0108
( CD currently available via Jim, direct
Email: jimandjules@aapt.netau
Website: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=177561619 )
JIM KELLY/ MATT SMITH GUITAR DUO - 'ONWARDS AND SIDEWAYS'
8: 32
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: impressionistic and lyrical/mobile guitar duet. Has a whiff of Brazil, but is not a ’bossa’. The veteran - Jim - is playing an Australian-made, Dane Hancock acoustic nylon-stringed guitar. Young guitar hero Matt is playing a vintage electric guitar - an Epiphone Casino )

SEGUE

2319
CD CUT 5, ’GRACE’
BJORN MEYER
STIM
SOUND VAULT RECORDS SV0598
( www.soundvault.com.au )
JULIEN WILSON - ’’TRIO-LIVE’’ (JULIEN WILSON, STEPHEN MAGNUSSON AND STEPHEN GRANT)
7: 35
(AUSTRAL PERF: ’live’, Magnusson’s nylon-string ac guitar, Grant’s accordion and the leader’s tenor sax. Lyrical, with some drama too - primarily a vehicle for Wilson’s airy, limber tenor sax )

2329
CD CUT 8, ’WILL THE WEAVER’
TRAD, ARR BENJI KIRKPATRICK, PAUL SARTIN AND SAUL ROSE.
ARR PUB IS NOT SPEC
NAVIGATOR RECORDS NAVIGATOR 5
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.navigatorrecords.co.uk )
FAUSTUS (BENJI KIRKPATRIK, PAUL SARTIN AND SAUL ROSE ) - ’FAUSTUS’
4: 38
( unmistakably English, jaunty. Has a lot more real wit and life than do far too many versions of merry, old English songs of cuckoldry. The lusty Will is discovered hiding in the chimney, but is not - after all - slain by the vengeful husband. Maybe, the husband is a better spouse at song’s end than he was at its beginning )

SEGUE

2334
CD CUT 2, ’MORE LIFE’
BENJI KIRKPATRIK
BENJI KIRKPATRICK PRS
NAVIGATOR RECORDS NAVIGATOR 2
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.navigatorrecords.co.uk )
BENJI KIRKPATRIK - ’BOOMERANG’
4: 05
( Very tender song in his actual persona, as a young father, lovingly addressing his child. Benji sings and plays bouzouki and ac guitar, eventually joined by fiddle, cello, ac bass and female harmony voice )

SEGUE

2338
CD CUT 11, ’BETRAYED MAIDEN
TRAD, ARR BENJI KIRKPATRICK, PAUL SARTIN AND SAUL ROSE.
ARR PUB IS NOT SPEC
NAVIGATOR RECORDS NAVIGATOR 5
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.navigatorrecords.co.uk )
FAUSTUS (BENJI KIRKPATRIK, PAUL SARTIN AND SAUL ROSE ) - ’FAUSTUS’
5: 20
( Robustly-English: a variant of the song aka ’Betsy the Serving Maid’’ - perhaps the most potent of all traditional English, ’snobbery with violence’ songs. The ’respectable’ parents are horrified to discover their son loves the serving maid, so they sell her into slavery. She is shipped to the other side of the world. Their son dies of grief. Too late, the parents grasp their folly. )

2345
CD CUT 10, ’DRIFT’
BENJI KIRKPATRIK
BENJI KIRKPATRICK PRS
NAVIGATOR RECORDS NAVIGATOR 2
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.navigatorrecords.co.uk )
BENJI KIRKPATRIK - ’BOOMERANG’
4: 45
( A melancholic musing on how people can drift apart as they grow older )

SEGUE

2350
CD CUT 6, ’BETSY THE SERVING MAID’
TRAD, ARR MARTIN SIMPSON
TOPIC RECORDS LTD
TOPIC TSCD513
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.topicrec ords.co.uk )
MARTIN SIMPSON - ’THE BRAMBLE BRIAR
4: 06
(Dark, tragic song: a mother’s horror at the prospect of her son marrying a servant leads to the serving girl being transported into slavery and the suicide of the mother’s son. Simpson solo: English voice and absolutely mind-boggling finger-style ac guitar. A variant of the song which Faustus delivered @ 2338, above )

2355
CD CUT 16, ’THE PIPER’S WEIRD’
JAMES SCOTT SKINNER
PUBLIC DOMAIN {NO SIGN OF AN ARRANGER CREDIT BEING CLAIMED}
ABC CLASSICS ABC 465 263-2
( in Australia through Universal. Available at ABC shops
& online: www.abcshop.com.au )
CHRIS DUNCAN - ’FYVIE’S EMBRACE’
4: 00 ( excerpt )
(AUSTRAL PERF: Haunting Scottish air which evokes the image of the piper McCrimmon playing the clan into battle - a battle they win, but in which he’s slain. Chris Duncan’s fiddle with Catherine Strutt’s piano and Julian Thompson’s cello. ’Weird’ here means ’fate’ or ’destiny’, NOT ’strange’.

ABC RADIO NATIONAL SCOTTISH MUSICAL ALERT ( a program in which Chris Duncan is a central figure )

’Into the Music’
Saturday 20 September @ 5.05pm
Repeat broadcast on Friday 26 September @ 3.05pm

A Dropkick, a Scrunchy and Other Tips for Scottish Fiddlers
Fiddler Chris Duncan and pianist Catherine Strutt are leading Australian players of Scottish music. Their long partnership revels in the discipline of playing for dances as well as much-acclaimed work as recording and concert artists. In a congenial exchange recorded at this year’s Fairbridge Festival, Robyn Johnston finds out about Scottish fiddle traditions and techniques (including the dropkick, the scrunchy and the handy trick that lets you play day and night at a Scottish wedding without wearing out your bow arm). We’ll also hear how Scotland’s regional cultures are reflected in its fiddle music and sample the work of some great Scottish composers.

Produced by Robyn Johnston and David Le May
Sound engineer David Le May

This Scots-centric edition of ’Into the Music’ also reveals why/how English accordionist Martin Green became a leading figure in Scottish roots music.

’Into The Music’, with Robyn Johnston
First broadcast: Saturday, 5.05 pm
Repeat broadcast: the following Friday, 3.05 pm
www.abc.net.au/rn/intothemusic
Audio can be demanded from website for four weeks after radio broadcast )

Presenter

Doug Spencer

Producer

Doug Spencer