Dave Dalle's show February 19

[Dave Dalle]

CKCU Canada's oldest community radio station
Thursday's 1-4pm, I specialize in (but am not limited to) folk and
classical music from around the world.


nr=New Release
c=Canadian content

February 19

1. Yuri Buenaventura: "Herencia Africano" from "Herencia Africano" Coeur
du lion nr
-Great Columbian Salsa, big brass section and vigorous percussion.
The singing's good too, but it's always the horns that grab my ears!
2. Son de la Lamo: "Oyem mi Consejo" from "Regalo del Diego" Ryko/Latino nr
-Great Latin brass in this one as well, but more the lazy-sounding
trumpet than an energetic brass section. They're both great however.
3. Roger Scannura & Ritmo Flamenco: "Colmenares" from "Saracen" indie c nr
4. Anon. "Voice & Drums" from "Garifuna" Earthnoise
5. King Sunny Ade: "Alashe L'Aiye" from "E dide/Get up" Mesa
6. Shyram Brass Band: "Govinda Aala Re" from "Bhajans vol. 5" Tips
7. King Ferus Mustafov: "Stipski Cocek/Bleh Cocek" from "Macedonian
Wedding Soul Cooking" Globestyle
8-10. Unidentified songs & artists from the Balkans, probably Macedonia;
however the third track is Kustino Oro. The singer is probably Esma
Redzupov. These are taken from a fairly old lp (which I have never seen).

11. Yaacov Shapiro: "Fraitik oif der Nacht" from "Yiddish Traditional
Songs" ARC

12. Richard Wagner: "Scene 1 from Das Rheingold" The Metropolitan opera
orchestra under the direction of James Levine, with Ekkehard Wlaschiha
Deutsche Grammaphon
-Wagner is difficult to program into a show, because you really have
no choice but to take excerpts. Oh well, scene 1 from this opera works
reasonably well as an excerpt. This is a truly ravishing scene, the
orchestral prelude which opens the Ring is one of my favourite orchestral
moments. Over a deep sustained bass in the strings, solemn horns begin to
play these long sustained notes--something important is coming--the upper
strings come in arching slowly upwards in arpegios and than coming back
down, and repeating, each time getting a little higher. At one point, the
strings reach this very dissonant turning figure high in their range. You
know this is the spark where the music will catch fire. The strings
continue repeating this, gradually getting faster, and each time you are
waiting for something to burst in. The final time the strings reach this
turning figure and stay on it, like the rotary handle on a hand-generator,
spinning it really fast and seeing sparks fly off. Than the something
finally bursts in, however, it is not the expected something, the strings
give way to a soprano--one of the rhinemaidens--who enters with this sweet
rolling, pastoral song. She is joined by the other two rhinemaidens in a
very serene trio. In the next twenty minutes, Alberich, the dwarf, enters
and ends up stealing the Rhinegold, which sets off the whole story of the
Ring trilogy.

13. Anon. "Ahwas n-ayt mgun" from "Morocco - Berber Music from the
High-Atlas and the Anti-Atlas" Chant du Monde
14. Jane Bunnett & the Spirits of Havana: "Yambu" from "Chamalongo" EMI c nr
15. Whole Lotta Milka: "Jackson Brown" from "All-Skanadian Club vol. 3"
Stomp c
16. Mata & Wk: "Kawasha-Botenya" from "Mapinduzi" Arion

17. Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: "Dam Mast Qalandar" from "Live in New
York City" M.I.L.
18. Bikram Ghosh: "Drut Teentala" from "Talking Tabla" Music of the World
19. Stoney Park Singers: "Aude's Journey" from "Songs of the Spirit" Sweet
Grass/EMI c
20. Attwood O'Conner: "Liberty Two-Step" from "The P.E.I. Style of
Fiddling" Rounder c
21. Mad Pudding: "Where Were You" from "Rattle of the Stovepipe" Iona c

22. Yuri Buenaventura: "Negrito" from "Herencia Africano" Coeur du Lion nr

due to the very large amount of promotional material which CKCU receives
regularly and the lengthy delay in processing CD's, any CD cannot be
guaranteed immediate attention on my show. If you wish to be sure
something receives my attention, please send a SECOND copy
either to CKCU's address with that intention clearly stated, or to my home
address which is available by request (simply e-mail me).

Send and CD's to: CKCU-FM
517 Unicentre, 1125 Colonel By Drive
Carleton University
Ottawa, ON, Canada
K1S 5B6

Dave

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"Taste is a negative thing. Genius affirms and always affirms." -Franz Liszt

[Taste is defined by what it excludes. Genius is defined by what it includes.]