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Radio Show 1 (April 2004)
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1. María de Alvear: Libertad (Spain)
We opened the program with a fragment of the composition by Maria de Alvear, entitled Libertad. Maria de Alvear is a Spanish composer, currently living in Cologn, Germany. She worked intensively with Tsolagiu M.A. RuizRazo, a woman spiritual leader of the Cherokee nation in the US. Libertad is based on texts by RuizRazo. The performers are: María de Alvear and Enrique Lozano Pescao on voice, John McAlpine and Tanja Mansanti on piano, Roland Dahinden on trombone, and Tobias Liebezeit on percussion. The 2 pianos have been tuned with the pitagorean tuning and a quartertone-difference within themselves.
Album: Libertad, World Edition ©1998
 

2. Anonymous: En medio de las arenas (Argentina)
Then, we heard an anonymous vidala de comparsa, entitled En medio de las arenas (translates as In the middle of the sands). This Andean vidala was collected by Leda Valladares in the province of Catamarca, Argentina. A curiosity is that Andean drums are played both by men and women, while the Afroamerican drums traditionally are only played by men.
Album: América en cueros, Melopea Discos ©1992
 

3. & 4. Guillermo Gregorio: Moholy 2 & Moholy 3 (Argentina)
We heard Moholy 2 by Guillermo Gregorio from the album Degrees of Iconicity. Guillermo Gregorio is a composer and architect born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has lived in Europe for many years, and now lives in Chicago, US. Moholy 2 is a graphic composition shaped spontaneously by actions between the composer/conductor and the musicians. The performers are: Guillermo Gregorio (conductor), Carrie Biolo (marimba/vibraphone), Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello), Michael Cameron and Kent Kessler (acoustic bass). Moholy 3 has only a single graphic image, and was originally conceived to be performed by Jim O’Rourke on guitar, and electronics. Since he was unavailable for the recording, the cellist of the group played it but on cornet! So as to break the limits of the imaginable.
Album: Degrees of Iconicity, Hat [now] Art ©2000
 

5. Alejandro Viñao: Masago's Confession (Argentina)
We just heard Masago's Confession, a composition by Alejandro Viñao from the album Voice's Stories. Alejandro Viñao was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and now lives in the UK. He focuses on instrumental and electroacoustic music, and he writes as well music for films. Masago's Confession, written in 1996, is a scene from Rashomon, a chamber opera. A composition for soprano and computer, the singer is Hilde Torgesen.
Album: Voice's Stories, Albedo Records ©2001
 

6. Ensemble Gurrufío: El Guitarrero (D.R. /Arr: Cheo Hurtado) (Venezuela)
First, we heard El Guitarrero, an anonymous piece of the Venezuelan folklor arranged by Cheo Hurtado, performed by Ensemble Gurrufío. Gurrufío is born 1984 and its repertoire includes Venezuelan traditional music such as vals, merengue, joropo, danza y pasaje, as well as music by Venezuelan composers. The ensemble Gurrufío is Cheo Hurtado (Cuatro & Guitar), Luis Julio Toro (Flute & Maracas), Cristóbal Soto (Mandolin), David Peña (Bass).
Album: El Trabadedos, Sony Music ©1997
 

7. Luzmila Carpio: Don’t have recording information (Bolivia)
Then, we heard music from the Bolivian Andes by the singer Luzmila Carpio, who sings in quechua language. She was born in the Qala Qala community, a region of the north of Potosi in the Bolivian Andes, 4000 meters above sea level. Luzmila also plays the charango, an Andean 5 double-string small guitar.
Album: Don’t have recording information
 

8. Anonymous: Currulao Bambuco, Música Afrohispánica del este de Colombia
Finally, we heard a Currulao by the Grupo Folclórico Alcaldía Municipal de Buenaventura. The currulao is afrohispanic music from the Pacific coast of Colombia and is played with marimbas.
Album: Don’t have recording information
 

9. & 10. Hermeto Pascoal: Tiruliruli & Vai Mais, Garotinho (Brazil)
We first heard two pieces by Hermeto Pascoal, a composer and multiinstrumentalist from the northeast of Brazil, currently living in Rio de Janeiro. He used a recording of a soccer announcer, and harmonized his voice. The first piece is Tiruliruli, with Omar Santos as the soccer announcer and Hermeto Pascoal playing harmonium. The second piece is Vai mais, garotinho, with José Carlos Araújo as the soccer announcer and again, Hermeto Pascoal on harmonium.
Album: Lagoa da Canoa Municipio de Arapiraca, Som da Gente ©1984
 

11. Raúl Carnota: La casi trunca (Argentina)
We listened to La casi trunca (The almost truncated) a chacarera rhythm with music and lyrics by Raul Carnota. Raúl Carnota was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he currently lives. He is a guitarist, composer and singer who has spent many years exploring Argentine folk music. The performers are Raul Carnota on guitar and voice, Rodolfo Sanchez on percussion, and Willy Gonzalez on 6-string bass.
Album: Reciclón, Acqua Records ©1998
 

12. Guillermo Klein: El Duelo (Argentina)
After that, we listened to El Duelo (translates as The Duel), a composition by Guillermo Klein, based on an argentinean traditional rhythm of chacarera. Is interesting to note that both Carnota and Klein use the chacarera rhythm but in a very different way. Klein's group Los Guachos is Seamus Blake, Chris Cheek, Melvin Butler (Saxophones), Diego Urcola, Richard Nant (trumpets), Sandro Tomasi (trombone), Kurt Rosenwinkel (guitar), Fernando Huergo (Bass), Guillermo Klein (Piano). Guillermo Klein is a composer and pianist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and after having lived in New York, he currently lives in Barcelona, Spain.
Album: Guachos I, Candid (Unreleased)
 

13. Laura Andel: In The Midst (Argentina)
If you are curious to know what music I do, I'd like to play you a composition of mine entitled In The Midst. We'll finish this program with this composition. The 17 performers of the ensemble are: Rebecca Shrimpton voice, Jeremy Stein: flute, Jim Hobbs and Jeremy Udden: alto sax, Phil Scarff: tenor sax, Hans Indigo baritone sax, Scott Aruda and Keiichi Hashimoto: trumpet, Jim Mosher: french horn, Bob Pilkington and David Harris: trombone, Jim Gray tuba, Art Bailey piano, Norm Zocher guitar Rick McLaughlin double bass Jerry Leake percussion, Harvey Wirht drums. This is my description of the piece: "Organism.  Pulsations and flow approaching and passing our point of stasis.  The intangible?  A silence of minimal signs.  The simple,  magnified in the space of time".
Album: SomnambulisT, Red Toucan Records ©2003
 

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