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International Jazz Conspiracy
Dec 30, 2020 10:00 PM β 12:00 AM
Music/Experimental
With Emel
The program is a sonic journey through contemporary jazz, free improvisation, new music, hindustani music, flamenco, world music, underground, avant garde and art music from different corners of the globe, as well as interviews and live studio performances by local and visiting artists and the occasional musical restructuring*. An adventure in sound, a journey into the tone world.
We strive to present music with duende, a term originally used by flamenco musicians referring to inspiration, magic and fire in music. There is no direct translation for it in English, but the closest would be "soulful".
The famous Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca often speaks of duende. In his lecture "El juego y la teoria del duende" (Play and Theory of the Duende) he says:
"All through Andalucia. . . people speak constantly of duende, and recognize it with unfailing instinct when it appears... These dark sounds are the mystery, the roots... from which we get what is real in art... Thus duende is a force and not a behavior, it is a struggle and not a concept. I have heard an old master guitarist say: βDuende is not in the throat; duende surges up from the soles of the feet.β Which means it is not a matter of ability, but of true living style; of blood; of ancient culture; of spontaneous creation."
Duende is not just found in flamenco though. In the liner notes of Miles Davis' 1964 album My Funny Valentine, Nat Hentoff says: "In trying to distill the particular mesmeric quality of Miles Davis, Kenneth Tynan has referred to the Spanish word DUENDE: 'It has no English equivalent,' he explained, but it denotes 'the ability to transmit a profoundly felt emotion with the minimum of fuss and the maximum of restraint... Miles Davis has DUENDE.' "
Hosted by Emel Sherzad.
'May music never just become another way of making money.'
- Keith Tippett
*musical restructuring: simultaneous playback/mixing of various audio sources, a.k.a. audio collage.
10:02 PM |
| Jeff Parker & The New Breed Max Brown Suite for Max Brown International Anthem Recording/Nonesuch
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10:15 PM |
| The Nels Cline Singers Stump the Panel Share The Wealth Blue Note Records 2020
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10:32 PM |
| Bobby Previte & Jamie Saft Occession (feat. Nels Cline) Music from the Early 21st Century (feat. Nels Cline) RareNoiseRecords 2020
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10:48 PM |
| Bobby Previte & Jamie Saft Parkour (feat. Nels Cline) Music from the Early 21st Century (feat. Nels Cline) RareNoiseRecords 2020
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10:55 PM |
| The Nels Cline Singers Headdress Share The Wealth Blue Note Records 2020
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11:03 PM |
| Matthew Shipp Trio The Unidentifiable The Unidentifiable ESP Disk' 2020
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11:12 PM |
| Matthew Shipp Radio Signals Equation The Piano Equation Tao Forms 2020
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11:19 PM |
| Kahil El'Zabar What We Ask of Our Creator Kahil El'Zabar's America the Beautiful Spiritmuse Records 2020
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11:24 PM |
| Kahil El'Zabar Prayers for the Unwarranted Sufferings Kahil El'Zabar's America the Beautiful Spiritmuse Records 2020
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11:28 PM |
| Kahil El'Zabar America the Beautiful Kahil El'Zabar's America the Beautiful Spiritmuse Records 2020
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11:32 PM |
| Kahil El'Zabar In My House (feat. David Murray) Kahil El'Zabar's Spirit Groove (feat. David Murray) Spiritmuse Records 2020
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11:54 PM |
| Jeff Parker & The New Breed Fusion Swirl Suite for Max Brown International Anthem Recording/Nonesuch
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