RADIO RADIO RADIO: Schlippenbach plays Monk

LATE JUNCTION

BBC RADIO 3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tp52

Presented by Max Reinhardt

Thurs 15 Nov - 11pm till 12.30 am

A box of delights in which you'll find John Surman's Saltash Bells, the complete Tezeta by Gètatchèw Kassa, Thelonius Monk's Brilliant Corners performed by Alexander Von Schlippenbach and a Ravel Nocturne played by Alexei Lubimov & Alexei Zuev

CD: Schlippenbach plays Monk - Alexander von Schlippenbach: Solo Piano (Intakt Records) 

CONCERT: AKI TAKASE and HAN BENNINK plus Paul van Kemenade

TAKASE & BENNINK in LONDON, 9 December 




The fantastic duo of Japanese pianist AKI TAKASE & legendary Dutch drummer HAN BENNINK with guest Paul van Kemenade (saxophone) will play at The Vortex, London, on 9th of December, 8:30 pm. More information: vortexjazz.co.uk

Listen to:

CD: Aki Takase / Han Bennink: Two for Two (Intakt CD 193)

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TRIKONT US-442: SOULFOOD - FOOD & MUSIC (Book + CD)

SOULFOOD

Food & Music. Fat & Yummy. Real African American Cooking    

Book & CD in one box. US-0442.

by Sven „Katmando“ Christ

Soulfood, a somewhat trained term, since cooking fashion has discovered it – suddenly every recipe should touch the soul. In the southern states of America it was known long before, how food tastes, that got soul. The descendants of the slaves had learned to prepare a sunday meal with the available means. Their food became even bolder and more interesting with the influences of the African and Creole cuisine. Today juicy spare ribs, spicy jerk rub and all the other delicacies are at home in the American cuisine, from where they are just conquering the world. And more than a few great cooks celebrate these solid and spicy dishes as something, that will not make you slim but satisfied

The Soulfood-book and the accompanying CD establish the missing link between music and dinner, and illustrate an attitude full of pride and vitality in the face of  poverty and suppression. 

The author, DJ and cook Sven „Katmando“ Christ is collecting soulfood -recipes, -stories and -music since 15 years. He also looked for alternative ingredients and ways of preparation, to make soulfood accessible to a wider public. On his travels in the USA and the Caribbean he interviewed the mothers, aunts and grandmothers of his friends to get hold of family recipes and secret ingredients. Jamaican families, Soul singers and HipHop stars have been entertained by him, and often a special dish has lead to a futher story. There is something special in soulfood, that manages to take a shortcut into heart and hips. 

                                                                                            Photo: Axel Kuestner

Tracklisting:

01: Bo Diddley - Soul Food            

02: Raynel Wynglas  - Bar-B-Q-Ribs       

03: Jr. Walker & The All Stars - Home Cookin'

04: Chuck Womack & The Sweet Souls – Ham Hocks & Beans

05: Willie Bobo - Fried Neck Bones And Some Homefries

06: The Poets Of Rhythm - Strokin' The Grits  

07: RZA – Grits                              

08: Southside Revue - Chittlins / Part 1          

09: Rufus Thomas - Greasy Spoon         

10: The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Fried Okra

11: Andre Williams - Pig Snoots                      

12: Wendy Rene – Bar-B-Q                    

13: Oscar Brown Jr. - Watermelon Man          

14: Red Rodney Sextet - Dig This Menu Please!      

15: Goodie Mob - Soul Food                   

16: Hugh Brodie - Corn Bread And Beans       

17: Dr. John - Pots On Fiyo (Filé Gumbo) / Who I Got To Fall On (If  The Pot Get Heavy)        

18: The Carter Brothers - Roast Possum        

Box set: cook book 156 pages with 68 recipes & CD with 18 tracks + booklet (incl. free download of the digital edition)

                                                                                                                                                                       Photo: Axel Kuestner

The box set of book & CD 'Soulfood' can be ordered in the UK from KLANG for the price of £ 19.90.
Please send a cheque payable to Christoph Wagner (Clonan House, Mideghole Road, Hebden Bridge HX7 7AA) with your postal address or send the money via Paypal to christoph@klang-records.co.uk 

INTAKT 207: SCHLIPPENBACH plays MONK

SCHLIPPENBACH PLAYS MONK
ALEXANDER VON SCHLIPPENBACH PIANO SOLO

Recorded November 22, 23, 2011 by Kulturradio vom Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg. Mixed and mastered March 2012. Soundsupervisor: Wolfgang Hoff, Soundengineer: Peter Schladenbach, Digital cut and mastering: Monika Steffens.
Radio producer Ulf Drechsel. Photo: Manfred Rinderspacher. Liner Notes: Ulf Drechsel. Cover art and design: Jonas Schoder. Produced by Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt

Intakt CD 207   EAN_7640120192075 

Nnobody plays Monk like Schlippenbach. In the same way Monk worked on a composition for weeks, Schlippenbach has involved himself with Monk’s work for many years. Listening, analysing, play- ing and with the greatest conceivable respect. Already the 3 CD-recor- dings of Thelonious Monk‘s complete works from Alexander von Schlippenbach together with the band Die Enttäuschung (INTAKT CD 100) are a most impressive documentation of this involvement.
With this present production for which Alexander von Schlippenbach chose some of his “Monk-favourites” – including some of the more rarely performed pieces – to him it was not about working on, re-har- monising or consciously changing the original forms of Monk’s com- positions. Their themes are so multifaceted and complex that it was Alexander von Schlippenbach‘s first and foremost concern to keep very close to these themes and to concentrate his focus on dealing “freely” with the melodies and the rhythmic torque. Monk and Schlippenbach: A stimulated conversation going on and they get along brilliantly, these brothers in spirit! 

Daniel Spicer, THE WIRE, Dec 2012

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INTAKT 202: MAYA HOMBURGER / BARRY GUY: TALES OF ENCHANTMENT

MAYA HOMBURGER / BARRY GUY:

TALES OF ENCHANTMENT 

INTAKT RECORDS 202

Maya Homburger Baroque violin

Barry Guy Bass

1 Veni Creator Spiritus (Hymne 9th century and improvisation) 2’02
Barry Guy “Hommage à Max Bill” (2–8)
2 Field on Thirty-Two Parts in Four Colours I 2’27 | 3 Enclosed Nucleus II 0’34
4 Two Surrounded Squares III 1’30 | 5 Nine Accentuations IV 0’44
6 Quiet V 1’54 | 7 Construction in Black VI 1’08 | 8 Condensation towards Yellow VII 2’20
9 H. I. F. Biber (1644 –1704) Mystery Sonata No 6 “The Agony in the Garden” 7’59
10 György Kurtág “Hommage à J. S. B.” 2’25 | 11 H. I. F. Biber Mystery Sonata No 9 “The Carrying of the Cross” (with introduction and interlude by Barry Guy) 8’04
12 Barry Guy “Going Home” 5’25
Barry Guy “Tales of Enchantment” (13 –19) for Elana Gutmann
13 Promise I 2’55 | 14 La Bella Fortuna II 2’07 | 15 Proximity III 4’11 | 16 Reflection IV 2’20 17 Whistling V 1’54 | 18 Shadow VI 1’05 | 19 Hero VII 2’25
20 H. I. F. Biber Mystery Sonata No 15 “The Coronation of the Virgin” (Canzona and Sara- banda) 5’04

Recorded by Peter Laenger, December 13 – 15, 2011, Propstei St. Gerold, St. Gerold, Austria. Recording produced by Peter Laenger and Barry Guy. CD produced by Intakt Records. Intakt CD 202 EAN_7640120192020 

Maya Homburger and Barry Guy span more than a millennium to join ”Veni Creator Spiritus,” the 9th Century hymn Mahler appropriated for his epic eighth symphony, and Guy’s seven-part tribute to Max Bill, a founder of the concrete art and design movement. What Homburger and Guy achieve is rather stun- ning, as they seamlessly bridge an ethereal paean to the Holy Spirit and a vividly abstract contemporary composition inspired by an artist who sought to create works free of symbolism – and sustain a reverent tone throughout the sequence.

These exchanges between past and present – and between media – are parenthetical to the album’s framing tale, Homburger and Guy’s ongoing exploration of the dynamism between composi- tion and interpretation, a journey for which they are uniquely cre- dentialed. Between them, they have performed with most of the principal ensembles of the period instrument movement, which led them to outlier views about the applicability of Baroque-era thinking about articulations, colorations, and pitch relationships to contemporary music. 
                                                                                   Bill Shoemaker, from the liner notes 


Daniel Spicer, The WIRE, Dec 2012:

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