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International Jazz Conspiracy

Mar 10, 2021 10:00 PM – 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: ‘Duende is not in the throat; duende surges up from the soles of the feet.’ 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.

International Jazz Conspiracy
10:02 PM
Shivkumar Sharma, Zakir Hussain - Raga Madhuvanti (gat excerpt)
Shivkumar Sharma, Zakir Hussain Raga Madhuvanti (gat excerpt)
Ragas Madhuvanti & Mishra Tilang Nimbus
10:08 PM
Vilayat Khan, Zakir Hussain - Raga Mishra Maand (gat excerpt)
Vilayat Khan, Zakir Hussain Raga Mishra Maand (gat excerpt)
Evergreen Ragas EMI - The Gramophone Company of India Ltd.
10:32 PM
Miles Davis - Willie Nelson Take 3
Miles Davis Willie Nelson Take 3
The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions Columbia 1970
10:42 PM
Chick Corea - Quartet Piece no. 1
Chick Corea Quartet Piece no. 1
Circulus Blue Note 1970
11:02 PM
Brotzmann / Van Hove / Bennink/Mangelsdorff - Couscous de la Mauresque
Brotzmann / Van Hove / Bennink/Mangelsdorff Couscous de la Mauresque
Live in Berlin '71 FMP 1971
11:24 PM
Peter Brötzmann/Caspar Brötzmann - Fette Biester
Peter Brötzmann/Caspar Brötzmann Fette Biester
Last Home Pathological 1990
11:33 PM
Ornette Coleman - Midnight Sunrise
Ornette Coleman Midnight Sunrise
Dancing In Your Head A&M 1977
11:38 PM
Ornette Coleman - Song X
Ornette Coleman Song X
Sound Grammar Sound Grammar 2006
11:49 PM
Mary Halvorson's Code Girl - Lemon Trees
Mary Halvorson's Code Girl Lemon Trees
Artlessly Falling Firehouse 2020
11:57 PM
Mary Halvorson's Code Girl - Walls and Roses
Mary Halvorson's Code Girl Walls and Roses
Artlessly Falling Firehouse 2020