Mostly my radio programs of one hour have to be produced rapidly. The rule is 95% music plus 5% left for announcements/introduction. That’s good for listeners from outside who do not understand Dutch. Selection and sequencing are crucial to draw listeners in. Mostly the programs are short portraits of a musician or a group, sometimes specific themes and now and then a potpourri of heterogeneous pieces that find each other, make themselves fit with some goodwill of the listener.
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July offers a portrait of young French pianist Eve Risser and a blind collection of piano trio pieces. Blind here means: first listen and names of performers only afterwards. Eve Risser recently released des pas sur la neige, a remarkable solo-album and she toured with her still more remarkable White Desert Orchestra that sets a new tone in creative music (read a review HERE … ). Her music(-making) is related to the work of Norwegian pianist Christian Wallumrød and the Norwegian-French improvisation group Dans Les Arbres (see the playlist below). Both programs of july can easily accessed
ON DEMAND neige en été, snow in the summer, l’art de la conduite, vertige
ON DEMAND piano trio trio trio
The first august program brings together wonderful cutting-edge live-recordings of well known Portuguese violinist Carlos “Zingaro” Alves with the darkly rumbling piano works of Argentinian bandoneonist Dino Saluzzi performed by pianist Horacio Lavandra, new solo work by German-French contrabassist Pascal Niggenkemper from New York, a piece by young composer Florian Wittenburg and a small splinter by young French duo Petite Vengeance. Subsequent pieces surprisingly have something in common … I discovered (later).
PLAYLIST august …………………….………………………………………………………………………………..….
Carlos “Zingaro” – Live at Mosteiro Santa Clara a Velha. Cipsela-Records
1 Crushing Wheels
Horacio Lavandera/Dino Saluzzi – Imágenes. ECM New Series
2 Moto Perpetuo (D. Saluzzi)
Carlos “Zingaro” – Live at Mosteiro Santa Clara a Velha. Cipsela-Records
3 Voids of Night
Horacio Lavandera/Dino Saluzzi – Imágenes. ECM New Series
4 Media Noche (D. Saluzzi)
Pascal Niggenkemper – Solo ‘look with thine ears’. Clean Feed
5 unpublished virtues of the earth
6 blow wind and crack your cheeks
7 at fortune’s alms
Horacio Lavandera/Dino Saluzzi – Imágenes. ECM New Series
8 Imágenes (D. Saluzzi)
Florian Wittenburg – Aleatoric Inspiration. NurNichtNur
9 Für Scarlett
Petite Vengeance – Mon Amerique A Toi. Vibrant
10 Bizek
Horacio Lavandera/Dino Saluzzi – Imágenes. ECM New Series
11 Valse Para Verenna (D. Saluzzi)
PLAYLIST july …………………….…………………………………………………………………………………..
Dans Les Arbres – Canopée. ECM
1 La Brume
Christian Wallumrød – Pianokammer. Hubro
2 Second Fahrkunst
Eve Risser – des pas sur la neige. Clean Feed
3 Des pas sur la ville
4 La neige sur la ville
Dans Les Arbres – Canopée. ECM
5 Le Vertige