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Listen to rhythmic music, whether for percussion, string quartet or vocal duet for this New Sounds. Hear works from percussionist Ian David Rosenbaum, Kelly Moran, and the Jasper String Quartet, and a vocal duet from Meredith Monk and Robert Een. From the recent record, Unbound, by the Jasper String Quartet, hear a non-stop motoring work by Judd Greenstein, “Four on the Floor.” Usually the term applies to thumping dance-club bangers, but in this work, pairs of instruments work “with and against each other, until they settle their differences and combine into a shared groove,” according to the composer. Hear music with rhythmic intensity, for prepared piano, with and without electronics from Kelly Moran, and her record, Bloodroot, which is where minimalism and black metal collide. Then, listen to music from Hauschka, who layers player piano with prepared piano. Also, listen to Inuit-style breathing games from Meredith Monk and cellist/vocalist Robert Een, from her long-form work, "Facing North," inspired by the Canadian wilderness.  Then, listen to increasingly tricky and complex rhythms in a work by David Crowell for percussionist Ian David Rosenbaum. Plus, hear a work –"Redwood"- involving saxophone and interlocking guitar parts from Empyrean Atlas, the band of composer/multi-instrumentalist David Crowell. And more. 

Listen to rhythmic music, whether for percussion, string quartet or vocal duet for this New Sounds. Hear works from percussionist Ian David Rosenbaum, Kelly Moran, and the Jasper String Quartet, and a vocal duet from Meredith Monk and Robert Een. From the recent record, Unbound, by the Jasper String Quartet, hear a non-stop motoring work by Judd Greenstein, “Four on the Floor.” Usually the term applies to thumping dance-club bangers, but in this work, pairs of instruments work “with and against each other, until they settle their differences and combine into a shared groove,” according to the composer. Hear music with rhythmic intensity, for prepared piano, with and without electronics from Kelly Moran, and her record, Bloodroot, which is where minimalism and black metal collide. Then, listen to music from Hauschka, who layers player piano with prepared piano. Also, listen to Inuit-style breathing games from Meredith Monk and cellist/vocalist Robert Een, from her long-form work, "Facing North," inspired by the Canadian wilderness.  Then, listen to increasingly tricky and complex rhythms in a work by David Crowell for percussionist Ian David Rosenbaum. Plus, hear a work –"Redwood"- involving saxophone and interlocking guitar parts from Empyrean Atlas, the band of composer/multi-instrumentalist David Crowell. And more. 

Hear prog-marching band music from Chicago's Mucca Pazza, ambient-gothic Norwegian-Icelandic music from the duo Jo Berger Myhre & Ólafur Björn Ólafsson, jazz-tronic ambient minimalism from London's Portico Quartet, and new work from Danish experimental supergroup Girls in Airports.

Hear prog-marching band music from Chicago's Mucca Pazza, ambient-gothic Norwegian-Icelandic music from the duo Jo Berger Myhre & Ólafur Björn Ólafsson, jazz-tronic ambient minimalism from London's Portico Quartet, and new work from Danish experimental supergroup Girls in Airports.

Hear music that begins with classical instruments, like the string quartet, piano, or an orchestra, but which is then augmented, enhanced by electronics, percussion, or preparation. Listen to works by English violinist, pianist, and composer Poppy Ackroyd, Netherlands-based composer Peter Adriaansz, and cinematic music from the augmented string quartet amiina. The versatile Dutch pianist Saskia Lankhoorn plays a specially-prepared piano over a bed of droning sine tones in a work by Seattle-born, Netherlands-based Peter Adriaansz, “Attachments III.” Then, hear music by the Icelandic outfit, amiina, which was once the touring string quartet with Sigur Ros, and has now expanded to include percussion & electronics. From amiina, hear selections from their standalone original live score to the 1913 film Fantômas, that lord of terror, creator of fear, and genius of evil who initially came to live in the crime fictions of French writers. Then, listen to "Rave," music for piano and pre-recorded electronics by Molly Joyce for longtime friend and collaborator, pianist Vicky Chow from her record, Aorta. Also, hear music for percussion and electronics by John Luther Adams, featuring Glenn Kotche, from the long-form work, Ilimaq. Plus, listen to grand music for amplified orchestra by English composer Andrew Poppy from a record released on ZTT Records in the mid-eighties. PROGRAM #3927,  classical instruments, contemporary sounds  (First Aired 12-8-2016)         ARTIST: Andrew PoppyWORK: 32 Frames for Amplified Orchestra, excerpt [1:00]RECORDING: The Artefact SeriesSOURCE: ZTT Records 186INFO: ztt.com   ARTIST: Saskia Lankhoorn, pianoWORK: Peter Adriaansz: Attachments III [7:52]RECORDING: EnclosuresSOURCE: Ergodos ER 25INFO: ergodos.ie ARTIST: Poppy AckroydWORK: Birdwoman [5:36]RECORDING: FeathersSOURCE: Denovali RecordsINFO: denovali.com ARTIST: George Hurd EnsembleWORK: Tethering Bird, excerpt [:38]RECORDING: Navigation Without NumbersSOURCE: Innova 937INFO: innova.mu ARTIST: AmiinaWORK: Guðmundur Vignir Karlsson: Crocodile [5:39]RECORDING: FantômasSOURCE/INFO: amiina.com ARTIST: Andrew PoppyWORK: 32 Frames for Amplified Orchestra [8:39]RECORDING: The Artefact SeriesSOURCE: ZTT Records 186INFO: ztt.com   ARTIST: AmiinaWORK: Solrun Sumarlidadottir: Café [3:25]RECORDING: FantômasSOURCE/INFO: amiina.com ARTIST: RestroyWORK: Skin, excerpt [:46]RECORDING: Saturn ReturnSOURCE: Milk Factory Productions INFO: milkfactoryproductions.bandcamp.com ARTIST: Vicky ChowWORK: Molly Joyce: Rave [11:17]RECORDING: Aorta SOURCE: NWAM083INFO: newamrecords.com ARTIST:  John Luther Adams & Glenn KotcheWORK: John Luther Adams: Ilimaq , Ascension [3:06]RECORDING: IlimaqSOURCE: Cantaloupe Music 21112INFO: johnlutheradams.bandcamp.com

Hear music that begins with classical instruments, like the string quartet, piano, or an orchestra, but which is then augmented, enhanced by electronics, percussion, or preparation. Listen to works by English violinist, pianist, and composer Poppy Ackroyd, Netherlands-based composer Peter Adriaansz, and cinematic music from the augmented string quartet amiina.

Guitarist and educator Shane Parish is a sonic adventurer, perhaps best known as the mastermind behind the Asheville, North Carolina-based avant instrumental jazz-mathpunk band Ahleuchatistas, formerly a quartet, now a duo. Besides the jazz and mathrock, their musical stew also includes elements Chinese folk music, minimalism, and lots of other stuff. But Parish has just released a solo record of “weird old Americana” entitled Undertaker, Please Drive Slow on John Zorn's Tzadik label, recorded in an old cabin in the woods. He s John live in the studio to perform some of them on acoustic guitar. Parish has taken these old timey songs, and “abstracted them in utterly fascinating ways, evoking the haunting and brooding world of the American South” writes John Zorn. Comparisons wouldn’t be out of place to American Primitive guitarists like John Fahey or Robbie Basho, but in the spaces that Parish creates, one might also think of Morton Feldman. In Parish’s ever-evolving reworkings of these folky blues tunes, the songs straddle keys; he’s not content to remain firmly in one or the other. Then, on a song like Geeshie Wiley’s “The Last Kind Words,” Parish takes the vocal melody and makes it more abstract, turning it into a prepared guitar percussion piece in a John Cage way, via paper clips and a slide. Shane Parish's prepared guitar (John Schaefer/WNYC)   PROGRAM #3928,  With Shane Parish  (First Aired 12-12-2016)         ARTIST: AhleuchatistasWORK: Requiem for the Sea [6:46]RECORDING: Heads Full of PoisonSOURCE: Cuneiform RecordsINFO: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/heads-full-of-poison-3 ARTIST: Shane ParishWORK: Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground (Blind Willie Johnson) [4:29]RECORDING: Live, WNYC Studio, Dec. 2016SOURCE: This performance not commercially available. INFO: Appears on Undertaker, Please Drive Slow, out now on Tzadik Records 4016 ARTIST: Shane ParishWORK: Oh Death [3:45]RECORDING: Undertaker, Please Drive SlowSOURCE: Tzadik Records 4016INFO: tzadik.com ARTIST: Shane ParishWORK: The Maid Freed From the Gallows [7:04], The Last Kind Words (Geeshie Wiley) [5:25]RECORDING: Live, WNYC Studio, Dec. 2016SOURCE: his performance not commercially available. INFO: Appears on Undertaker, Please Drive Slow, out now on Tzadik Records 4016 ARTIST: Tim SparksWORK: I’ll Fly Away [5:37]RECORDING: Chasin’ the BoogieSOURCE: Tonewood INFO: cdbaby.com

Guitarist Shane Parish, of the instrumental prog-punk band Ahleuchatistas, plays music from his solo record of “weird old Americana” live in the studio on acoustic & prepared guitar. 

“Indian music does not stop and start with Ravi Shankar.” So says tabla master Zakir Hussain, who, along with young sitar virtuoso, Niladri Kumar, s John in the studio for a live performance.   Zakir Hussain, son of Ustad Alla Rahka, isn’t just a genius Indian tabla player and composer, as well as a virtuoso improviser - he is, bar none, one of the world’s great percussionists working in many genres. Zakir is a global citizen open to all kinds of collaborations, playing with everyone from George Harrison to the Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, from John McLaughlin's Shakti and Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Project; he’s laid down beats for Scottish fiddlers Charlie McKerron (Capercaillie) and Patsy Reid (formerly of Breabach), and performed and recorded with scores of Indian classical musicians. Then, there was the recording by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin of a triple concerto featuring fellow soloists Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer, along with Zakir Hussain’s own showcases of otherworldly drum wizards, the Masters of Percussion.  Now, Niladri Kumar, who made his first public performance at the age of 6, comes from a long line of sitar players -which goes some five generations back; his father was Pandit Kartik Kumar. Niladri also did recording sessions for Hindi films from a very young age, and happens to be in a band called Sitar Funk, a global fusion of Hindi film music, Indian classical, and Western music. He’s even gone electric, creating an invention called the Zitar, a combination of sitar and guitar. It has fewer strings (5 instead of 20) with an electric pickup inside, so that Niladri can get a rock guitar sound out of it. OH – and he plays chords on the sitar. Niladri Kumar has been part of the Masters of Percussion tour, and this is his second duo tour with Zakir Hussain. Niladri Kumar and Zakir Hussain perform a radio-friendly (short) Raga Charukeshi, for Rupak Tal (a seven beat rhythmic cycle) and Raga Bhairavi in Teental (16 beats.)  Not to gush, but Zakir Hussain can communicate in so many languages – Persian, Gujarati, German, English- that it’s no wonder that he is also versed in many musical languages – like being able to speak jazz or Afro-Cuban rhythms, Nigerian talking drums, or Indonesian gamelan.  To him, improvising is like speaking that language. (Perhaps for percussion nerds,) Zakir also treats us to a spoken drum conversation, or “reciting the Bols” – the syllables that correspond to the strokes of the tabla- like “Dha ti ra ki ta” and “na ga dhin na dhin na gin na.” 

“Indian music does not stop and start with Ravi Shankar.” So says tabla master Zakir Hussain, who, along with young sitar virtuoso, Niladri Kumar, s John in the studio for a live performance. Niladri Kumar and Zakir Hussain perform a radio-friendly (short) Raga Charukeshi, for Rupak Tal (a seven beat rhythmic cycle) and Raga Bhairavi in Teental (16 beats.) 

Listen to chamber music packed with strong Americana flavors for this New Sounds. There’s music from guitarist William Tyler, ETHEL in collaboration with the Native American flutist Robert Mirabal, violist/composer Jessica Meyer, and music from guitarist/composer Bill Frisell. Hear a work by the ETHEL cellist Dorothy Lawson, based on the Heart Sutra from the collaborative record by ETHEL & Robert Mirabal, “The River.” Also, from another maverick string quartet, Brooklyn Rider, listen to their recording of a work with Americana overtones by guitarist Bill Frisell, his “John Steinbeck.”  Then, listen to a lovely folk-inspired work from Nashville-based guitarist/composer William Tyler, from his recent “Modern Country,” a collection of songs about the vanishing America. There’s also music by looping violist Jessica Meyer, which draws on Appalachian fiddling, as well as music from cellist Erik Friedlander, who in both a solo and an ensemble setting, puts his own stamp on Americana music. Plus, hear a work from the Modern Mandolin Quartet, composed by and featuring David Balakrishnan, violinist and founder of the Turtle Island Quartet. Special Podcast of New Sounds #3880, "Americana Chamber Music" Playlist ARTIST: Jessica MeyerWORK: Source of Joy, excerpt [1:35]RECORDING: Sounds of BeingSOURCE/INFO: jessicameyer.bandcamp.com ARTIST: Sasha MatsonWORK:  Steel Chords III: Steel Dances [6:30]RECORDING: Steel Chords / I-5SOURCE: Audioquest #1013INFO: valley-entertainment.com ARTIST: Brooklyn RiderWORK: Bill Frisell: Steinbeck [2:54]RECORDING: AlmanacSOURCE: Mercury Classics / In A Circle Records #002159302 INFO: mercuryclassics.com, available at iTunes, Amazon.com, Emusic.com ARTIST: Jessica MeyerWORK: Source of Joy [3:26]RECORDING: Sounds of BeingSOURCE/INFO: jessicameyer.bandcamp.com ARTIST: Charles Lloyd & Jason MoranWORK: Lloyd: Journey Up River (Hagar Suite), excerpt [:43]RECORDING: Hagar's SongSOURCE: ECM Records 2311 INFO: ecmrecords.com ARTIST: Erik FriedlanderWORK: Nostalgia Blindside [4:57]RECORDING: NighthawksSOURCE: Skipstone RecordsINFO: erikfriedlander.com ARTIST: ETHEL & Robert MirabalWORK: Dorothy Lawson: Gat'te [6:56]RECORDING: The RiverSOURCE: Innova 946INFO: innova.mu, available on Amazon and iTunes ARTIST: Modern Mandolin Quartet with David BalakrishnanWORK: Balakrishnan: Interplay - Shoka [6:10]RECORDING: InterplaySOURCE: d’Note 1034INFO: dnote.com | modernmandolinquartet.com ARTIST: William TylerWORK: I'm Gonna Live Forever (If It Kills Me) [5:25]RECORDING: Modern CountrySOURCE: Merge Records MRG 545INFO: mergerecords.com ARTIST: Erik FriedlanderWORK: YakimaRECORDING: Block Ice & PropaneSOURCE: Skipstone RecordsINFO: erikfriedlander.com

Hear music that features the traditional string instruments of Western Africa, like the kora (folk-harp), ngoni (a lute-harp), and the guitar, which has become a traditional instrument in Mali and Senegal. Listen to the 22-stringed kora, steeped in seven centuries of Senegalese tradition, from Seckou Keita. Usually the kora has 21 strings, but in southern Senegal and Guinea Bissau, the 22-stringed kora survives, despite the legend of the first ever kora given to the griot Jali Mady 'Wuleng' (Jali Mady 'The Red') by the djinns, the spirits of the African bush. When Jali Mady died, it was said that his fellow griots took one string away in his memory. Hear music from Malian guitarist Anansy Cisse, along with pschedelic-tinged Moorish music from Mauritanian singer Noura Mint Seymali.  Then, listen to music by Malian guitarist Djelimady Tounkara, known for his unique guitar tunings and his work with the Rail Band. (He was supposed to have been part of the recording sessions that produced the award-winning album Buena Vista Social Club, but his port arrived late, so he was kept from participating.) Also, listen to these West African instruments, as played by artists who have migrated to places like Belgium, , Canada, and Lithuania. There’s music from Senegalese musicians Malick Pathé Sow (guitar, hoddu) & Bao Sissoko (kora), who now live in Belgium, from their fantastic 2012 record, Aduna.  Hear patient blues of the Loire river combining kora, violin, and ngoni from the French-Malian collaboration named Deltas. Then, hear music from the gorgeous 2015 record, Jardin Migrateurs, by the Canadian early music group, Ensemble Constantinople together with kora player Ablaye Cissoko. That, and much more.  PROGRAM #3886, West African Strings  (First Aired 8-05-2016)      ARTIST: Seckou KeitaWORK: If Only I Knew, excerpt [1:30]RECORDING: Seckou Keita: 22 StringsSOURCE: Arc Music EUCD/LP 2585INFO: seckoukeita.bandcamp.com ARTIST: Malick Pathé Sow & Bao SissokoWORK: Kora Julo [4:07]RECORDING: AdunaSOURCE: Muziek PubliqueINFO: muziekpublique.be, available at iTunes & Emusic.com ARTIST: Anansy CisseWORK: Sekou Amadou [5:12]RECORDING: Mali OverdriveSOURCE: Riverboat, TUGDD1079INFO: worldmusic.net ARTIST: Noura Mint SeymaliWORK: Arbina [2:47]RECORDING: ArbinaSOURCE: Glitterbeat GBCD/LP 038INFO: glitterbeat.bandcamp.com ARTIST: Peter GregsonWORK: Time, excerpt [1:00]RECORDING: TouchSOURCE: Sono Luminus DSL-92191INFO: sonoluminus.com ARTIST: DeltasWORK: Deltas La [4:18]RECORDING: Ligerian BluesSOURCE: Buda Musique 860290INFO: budamusique.com ARTIST: Constantinople, Ablaye CissokoWORK: Fleuve (Fleuve Saint Louis) [5:00]RECORDING: Jardins MigrateursSOURCE/INFO: ablayecissoko.lnk.to | constantinople.ca/creations ARTIST: Malituanie feat. Baba Sissoko, led by Indr? Jurgelevi?i?t?WORK: Laydou – Promise [6:42]RECORDING: MalituanieSOURCE:  onerootmusic.com INFO: onerootmusic.bandcamp.com ARTIST: Peter GregsonWORK: Time, excerpt [:55]RECORDING: TouchSOURCE: Sono Luminus DSL-92191INFO: sonoluminus.com ARTIST: Seckou KeitaWORK: If Only I Knew [4:22]RECORDING: Seckou Keita: 22 StringsSOURCE: Arc Music EUCD/LP 2585INFO: seckoukeita.bandcamp.com ARTIST: Ballake Sissoko & Vincent SegalWORK: Super Etoile [3:54]RECORDING: Musique de NuitSOURCE: Six Degrees RecordsINFO: sixdegreesrecords.com ARTIST: Djelimady TounkaraWORK: Sory Mankanbora [3:23]RECORDING: Djely BluesSOURCE: Label Bleu LBLC2603INFO: Available at iTunes, Emusic.com, Amazon.com ARTIST: (Adebola) Kuku, feat. Tony AllenWORK: Owo [4:20]RECORDING: Ballads & Blasphemy; the Areligious Gospel of Adebola KukuSOURCE: Buda Musique 860274INFO: budamusique.com

South African guitarist Guy Buttery visits the studio to perform music from his latest self-titled record. Hear virtuosic feats of bending, tapping, picking, harmonics, and other techniques and textures yet to be named for guitar. Dig into his latest record on which he has collaborated with South African musicians Vusi Mahlasela, kora-to-guitar wizard Derek Gripper, and blues guitarist Dan Patlansky, along with a piece for sarangi and mbira – “From Srinagar.”  More pictures from the session here: Facebook.com/newsounds  Guy Buttery plays a custom-made Casimi guitar, a “piano that fits in a guitar case,” made of very dense & heavy African blackwood, and sporting double carbon-fiber truss rods to handle the bending of the neck.  Plus, music from the late Malian guitarist and griot Tiécoro Sissoko, who played for many years as a sideman with Toumani Diabate in Bamako.  Listen to the title track from his only recording, “Keme Borama.”  PROGRAM #3893, With Guy Buttery (First Aired 8-30-2016)       ARTIST: Guy Buttery with Piers FacciniWORK: The Upper Reaches [5:09]RECORDING:  Guy ButterySOURCE/INFO: guybuttery.bandcamp.com ARTIST: Guy ButteryWORK: A Piece for Rudolf Fritsch [5:20]RECORDING: Live, WNYC 8/25/16SOURCE: This performance not commercially available. INFO: A version with William Ackerman is available at guybuttery.bandcamp.com ARTIST: Guy ButteryWORK: From Srinagar [3:32],  To Goulimine [feat. Dan Patlansky] [03:05]RECORDING:  Guy Buttery SOURCE/INFO: guybuttery.bandcamp.com ARTIST: Guy ButteryWORK: Verbosity [4:00]RECORDING: Live, WNYC 8/25/16SOURCE: This performance not commercially available. INFO: The studio version is available at guybuttery.bandcamp.com ARTIST: Guy ButteryWORK: Two Chords & The Truth [feat. Derek Gripper] [3:40]RECORDING:  Guy Buttery SOURCE/INFO: guybuttery.bandcamp.com ARTIST: Guy ButteryWORK: Werner Meets Egberto in Manaus [5:17]RECORDING: Live, WNYC 8/25/16SOURCE: This performance not commercially available. INFO: A version featuring Vusi Mahlasela is available at guybuttery.bandcamp.com ARTIST: Tiécoro SissokoWORK: Keme Borama [4:38]RECORDING: Keme BoramaSOURCE: KSK Records CD 013INFO: kskrecords.bandcamp.com  

South African guitarist Guy Buttery visits the studio to perform virtuosic feats of bending, tapping, picking, harmonics, and other techniques and textures yet to be named for guitar. Hear music from his latest record, his sixth, a self-titled wonder of collaborative tunes. Plus, music from the late Malian guitarist and griot Tiécoro Sissoko.

Listen to ensemble pieces which incorporate or draw from the folk music of several different parts of the world on this New Sounds program. Hear music that simulates the sound of Norwegian folk fiddling. It’s the work of Princeton University professor Dan Trueman, founder of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra and a Norwegian hardanger fiddle specialist together with So Percussion.  Then, listen to Nordic klezmer/folk band Afenginn, who take what they need from other parts of the world and their own to create a (their words) "Bastard Ethno" music. Plus, Ale Møller brings in the Norwegian form of bagpipe, along with the traditional Norwegian willow-bark flute, in his latest, a collaboration with the Bohuslän Big Band.  Hear music by Nathan Davis which is inspired by the function of mbira music in the life rituals of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. Then, listen to folktronica from the Argentine producer and musician Gaby Kerpel which uses mbira samples in addition to those of South American instruments. Plus, music featuring thumb piano from the Norwegian Karl Seglem. All that, and more. PROGRAM # 3477, music with folk roots (First aired on 6/7/2013)                                                         ARTIST(S) RECORDING CUT(S) SOURCE So Percussion & Dan Trueman Neither Anvil Nor Pulley Hang Dog Springar [a Slow Dance], excerpt [2:00] Cantaloupe Music digital-only release http://bangonacan.org/store/music/neitheranvilnorpulley         Ale Møller/Bohuslän Big Band Pegasus Poste restante: Kaval [6:07] Prophone - #PCD 121http://www.mdt.co.uk/moller-ale-pegasus-ale-moller-bohuslan-big-band-prophone.html or from Emusic.com Afenginn Bastard Etno Perky [3:48] Afenginn / Westpark Music http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/Afenginn1 OR http://afenginn.bandcamp.com/album/bastard-etno, or from Emusic.com Doug Perkins Simple Songs of Birth and Return   Nathan Davis: Two Shadows, excerpt 1:00] FCR 126www.dougperkins.comwww.newfocusrecordings.com Doug Perkins Simple Songs of Birth and Return Nathan Davis: a Tale Begun [3:24] FCR 126www.dougperkins.comwww.newfocusrecordings.com Karl Seglem   Ossicles Mårblå [7:55] Ozella 034www.ozellamusic.com Kojiro Umezaki & Brooklyn Rider (Cycles) “(CYCLES), WHAT FALLS MUST RISE”, excerpt [2:00] In a Circle Records 007 www.inacirclerecords.com So Percussion & Dan Trueman Neither Anvil Nor Pulley A Cow Call [Please oh Please Come Home!] [2:49] See above. Christine Southworth, Calder Qt. String Quartets Christine Southworth: Honey Flyers, mvmt 1 [9:39] www.kotekan.com  ORwww.airplaneears.com   Gaby Kerpel Carnabailito Toritos [4:25] Nonesuch #79684 www.nonesuch.com              

New Sounds returns to Ireland for the fourth part of our series on the country's contemporary music scene. For Part 4, host John Schaefer speaks with Derry-based composer Neil Burns whose work bridges atmospheric pop and contemporary classical music. Burns discusses his piece "Walls of Sound," a kind of audio tour of Derry, Ireland's city walls that includes processed environmental recordings and spare accompaniment. Neil Burns also shares how his atmospheric pop work has informed his approach to his contemporary classical composition. Later in the hour, John Schaefer meets with Greg Caffrey in Belfast to discuss making music through tough times in Belfast and the Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble he founded. Composer Neil Burns (courtesy of the artist)  PROGRAM #3718 New Music from Ireland Part 4 (First aired on 4/23/2015)   ARTIST: Neil BurnsWORK: Things That Came After (1) [2:17]RECORDING: Mood Music Vol. 1, 2006-2013SOURCE: neilburnsmusic.bandcamp.com ARTIST: Neil BurnsWORK: Bishop’s Gate to Ferryquay Gate [4:38]RECORDING: new music::new Ireland twoSOURCE: Contemporary Music CentreINFO: www.cmc.ie ARTIST: Neil BurnsWORK: Ferryquay Gate to Foyle Street [4:25]RECORDING: Walls of SoundSOURCE: neilburnsmusic.bandcamp.com ARTIST: Comrade HatWORK: The Path That Goes On [2:50]RECORDING: Follow the DawnSOURCE: comradehat.bandcamp.com ARTIST: Neil BurnsWORK: The Great White Osprey [5:30]RECORDING: On Thin IceSOURCE: neilburnsmusic.bandcamp.com ARTIST: Ireland String QuartetWORK: Greg Caffrey: béal mouth beul mooth [2:24]RECORDING: AHRC Irish and Scottish Poetry ProjectSOURCE:  Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry ARTIST: The Hard Rain Soloist EnsembleWORK: Greg Caffrey: These are the clouds about the fallen Sun [:57]RECORDING: Hard Rain EnsembleSOURCE: hardrainensemble.com ARTIST: The Hard Rain Soloist EnsembleWORK: Morton Feldman: Duration I [1:23]RECORDING: Hard Rain EnsembleSOURCE: hardrainensemble.com ARTIST: The Hard Rain Soloist EnsembleWORK: Iain McCurdy: Philharmonie [1:09]RECORDING: Hard Rain EnsembleSOURCE: hardrainensemble.com ARTIST: Craig OgdenWORK: Greg Caffrey: Deluge [3:30]RECORDING: First Construction in NylonSOURCE: Cactus Records INFO: cactusrecords.bandcamp.com ARTIST: Craig OgdenWORK: Greg Caffrey: First Construction in Nylon [3:42]RECORDING: First Construction in NylonSOURCE: Cactus Records INFO: cactusrecords.bandcamp.com  

For this New Sounds, listen to works for violin, cello, and the 10-stringed Hardanger d’Amore fiddle. There’s a work from Irish cellist Kate Ellis, (who is also Artistic Director of the Crash Ensemble,) from her solo record, “Jump,” a collection of new music for solo cello and electronics by 5 Irish composers. Listen also to an atmospheric mix of cello and voice from the Icelandic cellist/composer/singer Hildur Guðnadóttir. One of the tunes features the bass player Skúli Sverrisson, Guðnadóttir’s eerie whisper, and a fretted cello, resonated through two grand pianos, for a hypnotic thrum, that skirts a line between gentle menace and blissful escape. Then, hear a duo record from Caoimhin O Raghallaigh (of The Gloaming) and Dan Trueman (founder of Princeton Laptop Orchestra), which stretches and recombines the DNA of Norwegian folk and Irish trad fiddling on a 10-stringed instrument, the Hardanger d’Amore. There's also fiddle music from composer, sound engineer and producer Adrian Hart, based in Ireland. Plus, sample music from the collaborative record of music by Kate Moore for cellist Ashley Bathgate, Stories for Ocean Shells, and more.  PROGRAM #3641, Music for Bowed Strings ARTIST: Ashley BathgateWORK: Kate Moore: Broken Rosary [1:00]RECORDING: Stories for Ocean ShellsSOURCE: Cantaloupe MusicINFO: bangonacan.org ARTISTS: Hildur Guðnadóttir, featuring Skúli SverrissonWORK: Heima [4:26]RECORDING: SamanSOURCE: Touch # TO:96INFO: touchshop.org ARTIST: Caoimhín Ó RaghallaighWORK: Cloud [5:19]RECORDING: Music For An Elliptical OrbitSOURCE: shop.diatribe.ie ARTISTS: Hildur Guðnadóttir, featuring Skúli SverrissonWORK: Líður [2:47]RECORDING: SamanSOURCE: Touch # TO:96INFO: touchshop.org ARTIST: Kate EllisWORK: Niall Vallely: Sondas [10:27]RECORDING: JumpSOURCE: shop.diatribe.ieINFO: kateelliscello.com ARTIST: Adrian HartWORK: Canone [7:30]RECORDING: CuisleSOURCE: shop.diatribe.ie ARTIST: Ashley BathgateWORK: Kate Moore: Broken Rosary [5:41]RECORDING: Stories for Ocean ShellsSOURCE: Cantaloupe MusicINFO: bangonacan.org ARTIST: Moon Ate the Dark (Anne Rose Carter and Christopher Bailey)WORK: Messy Hearts, excerpt [:38]RECORDING: Moon Ate the DarkSOURCE: Sonic Pieces/ Morr MusicINFO: bandcamp.com ARTISTS: Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Dan TruemanWORK: What What What [4:17]RECORDING: LaghdúSOURCE: store.irishmusic.net  

Hear collaborative works of all kinds for this New Sounds, from guitar and string quartet to chamber ensemble; from piano duet to accordion trio music.  Listen to a work, "Trying to Speak," by New York guitarist and composer Kaki King, in collaboration with the string quartet ETHEL, from King's multimedia masterpiece “The Neck is a Bridge to the Body.” When she performs the work live, images are projected onto the body of her custom guitar, while she works her finger-style virtuosic magic.   Then, hear shimmering music from New York composer Chris Cerrone, in collaboration with the Chicago-based ensemble, Eighth Blackbird. From their recent record, "Hand Eye," Cerrone's work, "South Catalina" piano, clarinet, and percussion provide stately chords augmented by a flurry of violin, cello, & flute. Also, listen to a 20-fingered collaboration, ZOFO, performing music by Terry Riley. There's also collaborative music featuring the Berlin Guitar Ensemble and the Argentine-born, now Berlin-based audio artist and producer, Andrés Jankowski. A.K.A. 1605munro, and more.    PROGRAM #3858, Collaborative Works (First Aired 5-9-2016)          ARTIST: Eighth BlackbirdWORK: Chris Cerrone: South Catalina, excerpt [1:50]RECORDING: Hand EyeSOURCE: Cedille Records 90000 162INFO: cedillerecords.org ARTIST: Kaki King & ETHELWORK: Trying to Speak I [3:49]RECORDING: The Neck is a Bridge to the BodySOURCE/INFO: kakiking.bandcamp.com ARTIST: Kaki King & ETHELWORK: Trying to Speak II [4:14]RECORDING: The Neck is a Bridge to the BodySOURCE/INFO: kakiking.bandcamp.com ARTIST: Eighth BlackbirdWORK: Chris Cerrone: South Catalina [10:54]RECORDING: Hand EyeSOURCE: Cedille Records 90000 162INFO: cedillerecords.org ARTIST: ZOFOWORK: Terry Riley: G song [9:30]RECORDING: ZOFO plays Terry RileySOURCE: Sono Luminus DSL-92189INFO: sonoluminus.com ARTIST: Berlin Guitar Ensemble vs. 1605munroWORK:  Andres G. Jankowski: Macarimbas [4:40]RECORDING: Berlin Guitar Ensemble vs. 1605munroSOURCE: Possible Records PR740020INFO: berlinguitarensemble.compro.beatport.com/label/munropark Available at Amazon and iTunes. ARTIST: Gabriel Prokofiev / Peter GregsonWORK: Jerk Driver (DJ Spooky remix) [3:07]RECORDING: Cello MultitracksSOURCE: Nonclassical NONCLSS014INFO: gabrielprokofiev.bandcamp.com

For this New Sounds, listen to works from the Near East and North Africa, in both arrangement and intent.  Begin with music inspired by Marco Polo’s travels by oud player and Doctor of Byzantine musicology, Kyriakos Kalaitzidis.  Then, there’s loping Gnawa music with groove from Moroccan singer and bass lute player Hassan Hakmoun, his “Dima Dima” (Always). Hear some music from Tunisia by percussionist Imed Alibi featuring singer Emel Mathlouthi on the tune “Maknassy." There’s music from Kronos Quartet and an arrangement of music by Syrian singer Omar Souleyman from their record “A Thousand Thoughts.” Sample even more music for oud by Paris-based Palestinian Adnan Joubran along with another work rooted in the oud by Belgian Karim Baggili, who has roots in Jordan. Plus, hear music from the Montreal-based trio Bomata, clearly influenced by music of the Middle-East and the Mediterranean, and more. PROGRAM #3582 Music From the Near East and North Africa (First aired on 3/26/2014)   ARTIST: Imed AlibiWORK: Balkani Connection [1:00]RECORDING: SafarSOURCE: IRL 079INFO: irl.bigcartel.com ARTIST: Kyriakos Kalaitzidis/Ensemble Constantinople & En ChordaisWORK: Gallop [4:25]RECORDING: The Musical Voyages of Marco PoloSOURCE: World Village 479092INFO: store.hmusa.com ARTIST: Imed Alibi, feat. Emel MathlouthiWORK: Maknassy [5:04]RECORDING: SafarSOURCE: IRL 079 INFO:irl.bigcartel.com ARTIST: Karim Baggili (feat. Le Trio Joubran)WORK: Kali City [4:46]RECORDING: Kali CitySOURCE: homerecords.beINFO: homerecordsbe.bandcamp.com | karimbaggili.be ARTIST: Adnan JoubranWORK: My Way Home [5:59]RECORDING: Borders BehindSOURCE: World Village 479084INFO:store.hmusa.com | adnanjoubran.bandcamp.com ARTIST: BomataWORK: Sesame [4:48]RECORDING: Arômes d'ailleursINFO: bomata.bandcamp.com but from Amazon or Emusic.com ARTIST: Imed AlibiWORK: Balkani Connection [1:00]RECORDING: SafarSOURCE: IRL 079INFO: irl.bigcartel.com ARTIST: Kronos QuartetWORK: Eviç Taksim (Tanburi Cemil Bey)RECORDING: A Thousand ThoughtsSOURCE: Nonesuch 536952INFO: www.nonesuch.com

Listen to cross-cultural collaborations from Indo-Canadian singer Kiran Ahluwalia, who combines Indian and Pakistani grooves, Western jazz, and desert blues, together with her husband, the guitarist & producer Rez Abbasi. Also, listen to music from Pakistani-Brooklyn group Sandaraa (means “Song” in Pashto); it’s a collaborative effort led by klezmer clarinet virtuoso Michael Winograd, and featuring Pakistani vocalist Zeb Bangash s forces with leading Brooklyn musicians on oud, drums, bass, and violin. Then, listen to a German-Afghani-Norwegian collaboration from Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen, German-Afghan vocalist Simin Tander, and drummer Jarle Vespestad. From their record, “What Was Said,” hear moving settings of poetry by Rumi in English, & Norwegian church songs translated into Pashto. There’s also music by Irish composer/guitarist Dave Flynn for amplified ensemble, brass, and three guitars. Listen to a live 2014 recording of Flynn’s “Joy” featuring Congolese-Irish guitarist Niwel Tsumbu, guitarist John Godfrey, and the composer together with the Crash Ensemble led by Alan Pierson. And more.  PROGRAM #3859, Cross-Cultural Collaborations (First Aired 5-10-2016)   ARTIST: SandaraaWORK: Bibi Sanem Janem, excerpt [1:00]RECORDING: SandaraaSOURCE: cdbaby.com/cd/sandaraa ARTIST: Kiran AhluwaliaWORK: Hayat [5:01]RECORDING: Sanata: StillnessSOURCE: Magenta MTM 930INFO: kiranmusic.com ARTIST: SandaraaWORK: Bibi Sanem Janem [5:40]RECORDING: SandaraaSOURCE: cdbaby.com/cd/sandaraa ARTIST: Derek GripperWORK: Jarabi (ion) [6:39]RECORDING: One Night on Earth Music from the strings of MaliSOURCE: New Cape Records NC11INFO:  newcape.co.za | derekgripper.com ARTIST: BillbandWORK: Bill Ryan: Friction, excerpt [1:00]RECORDING: Towards DaybreakSOURCE: Innova 841INFO: innova.mu ARTIST: Tord Gustavsen - Simin Tander - Jarle VespestadWORK: Imagine The Fog Disappearing [6:22]RECORDING: What Was SaidSOURCE: ECM 2465INFO: ecmrecords.com ARTIST: SandaraaWORK: Mana Nele [7:20]RECORDING: SandaraaSOURCE: cdbaby.com/cd/sandaraa ARTIST: Derek GripperWORK: Bakoye [3:10]RECORDING: One Night on Earth Music from the strings of MaliSOURCE: New Cape Records NC11INFO:  newcape.co.za | derekgripper.com ARTIST: BillbandWORK: Bill Ryan: Blurred, excerpt [:30]RECORDING: Towards DaybreakSOURCE: Innova 841INFO: innova.mu ARTIST: Crash Ensemble/ Alan Pierson, cond.  Niwel Tsumbu, with Dave Flynn and John Godfrey, gtrsWORK: Joy, Part 3 -The Joy of Sex [3:12]RECORDING: Live, Cork Opera House, 2014SOURCE: This work not commercially available. INFO: http://www.daveflynn.com/joy.html ARTIST: Crash Ensemble/ Alan Pierson, cond.  Niwel Tsumbu, with Dave Flynn and John Godfrey, gtrsWORK: Joy, Part 4 - The Joy of Sebene [7:00]RECORDING: Live, Cork Opera House, 2014SOURCE: This work not commercially available. INFO: http://www.daveflynn.com/joy.html ARTIST: Tord Gustavsen - Simin Tander - Jarle VespestadWORK: Sweet Melting Afterglow [3:35]RECORDING: What Was SaidSOURCE: ECM 2465INFO: ecmrecords.com