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International Jazz Conspiracy
May 5, 2021 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.
10:01 PM |
| Egberto Gismonti Salvador Solo ECM Records 1979
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10:07 PM |
| Egberto Gismonti Frevo Solo ECM Records 1979
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10:17 PM |
| Horace Tapscott Pan African Peoples Arkestra Desert Fairy Princess Live At I.U.C.C. Nimbus West
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10:32 PM |
| Hartmut Geerken, John Tchicai, Famoudou Don Moye Post Ramadan Exhausters Leo Records-Golden Years
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10:41 PM |
| Hartmut Geerken, John Tchicai, Famoudou Don Moye Sawasawa Cassava Balls The Golden Years of Jazz 1984
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10:48 PM |
| Hartmut Geerken, John Tchicai, Famoudou Don Moye Patriotic Poem Number One Forty Years After Cassava Balls The Golden Years of Jazz 1984
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10:53 PM |
| John Tchicai with Strings Solemn N John Tchicai with Strings Treader
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11:02 PM |
| Julius Hemphill The Painter Dogon A. D. Arista Freedom
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11:17 PM |
| Julius Hemphill & Abdul Wadud Dream Oakland Duets Music & Arts
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11:24 PM |
| Julius Hemphill, Famoudou Don Moye & Abdul Wadud C Raw Materials and Residuals Black Saint 2008
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11:32 PM |
| Valentina Ponomareva, Ken Hyder, Tim Hodgkinson The Village of the Bird-Mother The Goose Woof
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11:51 PM |
| Henry Cow Half Asleep; Half Awake Unrest (Remastered) East Side Digital 1974
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