The Weekend Planet

Tonight’s spectacularly diverse musical delights were captured, ‘live’, in many different places. With WOMADelaide 2009 now five months away, we explore the lavish 3-CD set/book with which WOMAD (‘World of Music Arts and Dance’) celebrated its first quarter-century. Most performances on Music & Rhythm: WOMAD 1982-2007 do not otherwise exist on disc.

If you would like to know how WOMAD began - and survived its difficult birth - read the article, here:

www.tpimagazine.com/interviews/9606/thomas_brooman.html

WOMADelaide 2009 happens March 6-8: www.womadelaide.com.au

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 11.10. 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 ( DISC ONE ) CUT 10, ’VAKARINGO DOMBO’’
BHUNDU BOYS
PUB NOT SPEC
WOMAD25
( available worldwide, direct from http://womadshop.com/detail/439 )
VARIOUS - ’MUSIC & RHYTHM: WOMAD 1982-2007’
3: 48
( Bhudnu Boys on this, ’live’, at an English WOMAD festival in 1986. The Zimbabwean band’s history proved tragic and mostly-fatal, but at their peak - as here, - theirs was an irresistibly joyful sound. Male voices, sweet elec guitars, elec bass, drums and push-pull grooves.

YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW THE TRAGIC STORY OF THIS SEMINAL ZIMBABWEAN BAND’S LIFE AND DEATH{S}?

For the short version go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhundu_Boys

The full, desperately sad story is told well in a 2006 article, ’Bhundu Boys: Lost Boys’ . It’s here:
www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/showbiz4.13494.html )

SEGUE ( same disc, continuous)

2211
CD (DISC ONE ) CUT 11, ’CIELITO LINDO’ (HEAVENLY ONE)
TRAD/ QUIRINO MENDOZA CORTÉS
PUBLIC DOMAIN ( ALLEGEDLY WRITTEN IN 1882)
WOMAD25
( available worldwide, direct from http://womadshop.com/detail/439 )
VARIOUS - ’MUSIC & RHYTHM: WOMAD 1982-2007’
3: 32
( Flaco Jimenez and the San Antonio Tex-Mex Band on this, live’, at an English WOMAD festival in 1986. The accordion-toting Flaco and band, with an irresistibly-jubilant version of one of Mexico’s ’greatest hits’.

LIKE TO SEE THE LYRIC, IN SPANISH AND ENGLISH?

It comes with some background information too, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cielito_Lindo

LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT FLACO JIMENEZ?

His ’official’ biography is here:
http://www.flacojimenezmusic.com/biography.asp )

SEGUE ( same disc, continuous)

2215
CD CUT 12, ’BAKOYE’
ALI FARKA TOURE
WORLD CIRCUIT MUSIC
WOMAD25
( available worldwide, direct from http://womadshop.com/detail/439 )
VARIOUS - ’MUSIC & RHYTHM: WOMAD 1982-2007’
7: 19
( Mali’s Ali Farka Toure on this, live’, at an English WOMAD festival in 1988. Genial, warm, relaxedly-insistent ’desert blues’ love song for Alia Farka’s voice and elec guitar, plus a calabash-playing percussionist. Very evident that AFT is having fun.

LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT ALI FARKA TOURE {1939-2006} ?
The ’Guardian’ obit is here: http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/obituary/0,,1725805,00.html )

2224
CD ( DISC TWO ) CUT 10, ’EASY THERE, STEADY NOW’
RICHARD THOMPSON
BEESWING MUSIC, ADMIN BY BUG MUSIC
WOMAD25
( available worldwide, direct from http://womadshop.com/detail/439 )
VARIOUS - ’MUSIC & RHYTHM: WOMAD 1982-2007’
5: 08
( Richard Thompson’s voice and incredibly deft ac guitar, in duo with Danny Thompson’s ditto double bass. Recorded ’live’ at 1997 WOMAD festival in New Zealand .

LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT RICHARD THOMPSON?

His { humungous } site is here: http://richardthompson-music.com

LIKE TO SEE THE LYRIC?

It is here:
http://richardthompson-music.com/song_o_matic.asp?id=201 )

SEGUE ( same disc, continuous )

2229
CD ( DISC TWO ) CUT 11, ’CAMINA Y VEN’
SIRO RODRIGUEZ
COPYRIGHT CONTROL
WOMAD25
( available worldwide, direct from http://womadshop.com/detail/439 )
VARIOUS - ’MUSIC & RHYTHM: WOMAD 1982-2007’
4: 48
( Exuberant, singing Colombian matriarch, backed by young Cuban son band. Respectively, Totó La Momposina and Asere, ’live’ at an English WOMAD festival in 1999. Joyful, with a great son groove, hot trumpet, tres, ac bass, percussion, male chorus-response voices.

LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT TOTÓ LA MOMPOSINA?

Her official site is here:
www.totolamomposina.com

LIKE TO MORE ABOUT ASERE?

Go to:
www.astarmusic.co.uk/artists.html )

2235
CD CUT 9, ’LOVE DON’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE’
MILES GREGORY
WARNER CHAPPELL
UNIVERSAL/ ABC MUSIC 13702
( through Universal; available at ABC shops & centres)
RENEE GEYER - ’LIVE AT THE ATHANEUM’
9: 12
(AUSTRAL PERFAND ARR: ’Live’, with her own spoken intro and then an absolutely killer vocal performance. Intense, deep-soul ballad-plaint, with tasty elec guitars from Mark Punch and Ross Hannaford, Russell Smith’s muted trumpet, plus drummer John Watson, bassist Steve Hadley and keyboardist Bruce Haynes )

SEGUE

2244
CD CUT 1, JULY’
TIM STEVENS
(PRESUMABLY) APRA
RUFUS RECORDS RF078
( in Australia through Universal
Rufus website: www.rufusrecords.com.au )
TIM STEVENS TRIO - ’THREE FRIENDS IN WINTER’
6: 48
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: very spare, expectant, lyrical and entirely improvised - ’live’ in studio, recorded acoustically. Superbly recorded, too {by the ABC’s Mal Stanley}: pianist Tim with ac bassist Ben Robertson and drummer Dave Beck )

2353
CD CUT 4, ’IF THE WIND DON’T CHANGE’
CHRIS WILSON/ JIM CONWAY
CONTROL
ABC MUSIC/UNIVERSAL MUSIC AUSTRALIA 1777132
( in Australia through Universal.
Available at ABC shops and online: www.abcshop.com.au )
JIM CONWAY - ’MUSIC DELI PRESENTS JIM CONWAY’
4: 24
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: goodtime blues-groover: at core, a jam for its co-authors’ harmonicas. Chris was the guest of the trio to which Jim then belonged: The Backsliders’ other members at this time were the guitar-toting Dom Turner and drummer-percussionist Peter Burgess. This February 1995 gig began what has proved an enduring, warm friendship between Jim and Chris.

LIKE TO KNOW WHEN AND WHERE JIM CONWAY PERFORMS?

Upcoming gigs are posted well in advance, here:
www.jimconway.com.au/News.htm

ABC RADIO NATIONAL ’MUSIC DELI’ ALERT
’ Music Deli’ with Paul Petran airs each Friday from 8.05 pm to 9.00pm.
It is repeated on Sunday afternoons after the 4.00 pm news
It is primarily devoted to ’live’ recordings, expressly made for {and exclusive to} ’Music Deli’
Website {includes audio on demand}: www.abc.net.au/rn/musicdeli )

2358
CD ( DISC TWO ) CUT 8, ’REPRISE ( AMAGODUKA )
ZIM NGQAWANA
INGOMA PUBLISHING
SHEER SOUND SSCD 136
( some releases - this one included - are distributed in
Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
Worldwide {all releases}: www.sheersound.co.za )
ZIMOLOGY ( ZIM NGQAWANA ) - ’ZIMOLOGY IN CONCERT ( USA )’
0: 30 (excerpt)
( ’live’: Zim Ngqawana’s African-accented, harmonica-only coda to his five-part ’The Migrant Worker Suite’. ’Amagoduka’ is a word applied to the ’migrant workers’ in apartheid-era South Africa. It means ’those who go home’.

ZIMOLOGY ( ZIM NGQAWANA ) ABC RADIO NATIONAL ALERT

We explore the live double-CD on Saturday October 25, when ’The Weekend Planet’ will play all five sections of ’The Migrant Worker Suite’

More details here: www.abc.net.au/rn/weekendplanet/comingup )

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11 PM NEWS
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2305
CD (DISC TWO) CUT 12, ’QUICK DANCE’
ANDREY SMIRNOV, ANDREY KONSTANTINOV, MIKHAIL DYZUDZE, IGOR PONOMARENKO
TEREM QUARTET
WOMAD25
( available worldwide, direct from http://womadshop.com/detail/439 )
VARIOUS - ’MUSIC & RHYTHM: WOMAD 1982-2007’
1: 50
( Terem Quartet, ’live’ at an English Womad Festival in 2000. Capital ’R’ Russian, gleefully verging on self-parody, with a whole lot of flasheroso, big-gestures and virtuosity. The ’double bass’ is in fact a monster balalaika, the little balalaika-esque lutes are in fact domras and the accordion is the monster Russian kind known as bayan.

LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE TEREM QUARTET

Suggest you start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terem_Quartet

Before you opt to follow the link to the official, Russian-based Terem site, be aware that my computer’s ’virus-alert’ sprang into action when I did so. )

2309
CD ( DISC THREE ) CUT 4, ’GAZLI’
LYRICS BY TURAN TULA. MUISC BY IKROM AKBAROV. ARR BY SEVARA NAZARKAHN AND HECTOR ZAZOU
WOMAD MUSIC LTD
WOMAD25
( available worldwide, direct from http://womadshop.com/detail/439 )
VARIOUS - ’MUSIC & RHYTHM: WOMAD 1982-2007’
5: 30
( Sevara Nazarkhan, ’live’ at an English WOMAD Festival in 2003. Haunting/atmospheric. A yearning love-song, set as ’the night falls like a leaf on the eyelashes of the desert..’ Uzbekistan’s best-known female singer, in absolutely no hurry, atop atmospheric synth-orchestration, long-necked central Asian lutes, discreet percussion

LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT SEVARA NAZARKHAN

Her myspace site is here:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=191920870

There is a profile of her here:
www.bbc.co.uk/music/artist/nb9x )

SEGUE

2315
CD ( DISC ONE ) CUT 16 ’UZELANGE’
HUKWE ZAWOSE
TRIPLE EARTH MUSIC
WOMAD25
( available worldwide, direct from http://womadshop.com/detail/439 )
VARIOUS - ’MUSIC & RHYTHM: WOMAD 1982-2007’
4: 22
( Hukwe and Charles Zawose from Tanzania, ’live’ at WOMADelaide in 1995. Both father and son have since died. Unearthly male voices, thumb-piano and bowed strings.

LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HUKWE ZAWOSE ( 1938 - 2003 )

An obituary can be read here:
www.guardian.co.uk/news/2004/feb/27/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

To get more of a sense of who this remarkable man really was, read this:
www.afropop.org/explore/artist_info/ID/366/Hukwe%20Zawose/ )

SEGUE

2319
CD CUT 1, ’THE BLUE ROOM’
RODGERS AND HART
WARNER/CHAPPELL
RUFUS RECORDS RF073
( in Australia through Universal
Rufus website: www.rufusrecords.com.au )
13: 57
(AUSTRAL PERF: Bern (aka ’Bernie’) McGann’s singular, pungent-yet-lyrical, very ’vocal’ alto sax, ’live’ in 2003 w Lloyd Swanton’s ac bass and drummer John Pochee. Although not on this cut, elsewhere on the CD Warwick Alder plays splendid trumpet. This is a ballad-with-a-groove and a grin, and lots of allusions )

2335
CD (DISC ONE) CUT 14, ’MUSTT MUSTT’
NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN
WOMAD MUSIC LTD/ EMI VIRGIN MUSIC LTD
WOMAD25
( available worldwide, direct from http://womadshop.com/detail/439 )
VARIOUS - ’MUSIC & RHYTHM: WOMAD 1982-2007’
10: 51
(Qawwali: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and party at full tilt at WOMADelaide, 1995. His is the lead {mostly} of many male Pakistani vocal parts, with tabla and harmonium. Fervent, stirring and still-amazing. Nusrat died in 1997, aged 48.

LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN?
This is a good place to start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nusrat_Fateh_Ali_Khan

LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT QAWWALI?

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

SEGUE

2346
CD CUT 1, ’SAY HELLO TO MR D ( TO MR. S )
ESBJÖRN SVENSSON, ARR EST
ACT PUBLSHING LTD
ACT 9295--2
( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.actmusic.com )
E.S.T. (Esbjörn Svensson Trio) - ’E.S.T LIVE’
9: 11
(’live’ in March 1995. Begins quietly with Svensson’s piano, alone. Becomes a trio, with double-bassist Dan Berglund and drummer Magnus Öström. Open-balladic, becoming progressively more expansive, but it retains an over-all, lyrical-introspective hue. Svensson died whilst scuba diving on June 14, 2008.

LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT EST AND ITS LATE PIANIST/LEADER?

Band’s official site is here:
www.est-music.com

’Times’ obituary for Esbjörn Svensson is here:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4148652.ece )

2357
CD ( DISC THREE ) CUT 14, ’SARANKEGNI’
DJELIMADY TOUNKARA
MARABI PRODUCTIONS
WOMAD25
( available worldwide, direct from http://womadshop.com/detail/439 )
VARIOUS - ’MUSIC & RHYTHM: WOMAD 1982-2007’
1: 30 ( excerpt )
( some discreet percussion and a second guitarist are in the background. In the foreground is the phenomenally deft Malian guitar hero, Djelimady Tounkara. His ’acoustic’ is a placko, pick-up-equipped one, alas. This would sound awesome it were a proper acoustic guitar, with a well-placed microphone in front of it. It still sounds very good.

LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT DJELIMADY TOUNKARA?

To discover more about one of the world’s truly great guitarists go to:
www.sasamusic.com/a18_djelimady_tounkara/artist_bio.htm )

Presenter

Doug Spencer

Producer

Doug Spencer