17th August, 2003
MIXING IT

Presented by Mark Russell and Robert Sandall
Produced by Philip Tagney
Factsheet compiled by Sam Hickling

Tel. 020 7765 4661
Fax. 020 7765 4378
e-mail mixing.it@bbc.co.uk
to hear this programme, visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/ and click on Mixing It under the Programmes on demand - New Music section

Sunday 17 August 2003, 11:00pm

All-CD edition


Details:

: Cadaques; 85 Into Night
Ahmad Szabo, from Atlanta, Georgia, is signed to Scott Herren (Prefuse 73)'s Eastern Developments label, and as well as creating his abstract folk/soul guitar music, he rides as a motorcycle messenger.
album: This Book is About Words
Eastern Developments EASTDEV006
Eastern Developments Music: http://www.easterndevelopments.com
See also http://www.heftyrecords.com

: Singing Spirits
This track is a tribute to the gospel-tinged music of 'Blues and Roots' -era Charles Mingus.
Billy Bang (violin); Hamid Drake (drums); William Parker (bass)
album: Scrapbook
Thirsty Ear THI57133.2
More details at http://www.thirstyear.com

Echo City feature
Echo City are celebrating their 20th anniversary year of creating music on instruments they have invented and built themselves. It all began with a sonic playground built in Bethnal Green, East London, in 1983. The current line-up is Paul Shearsmith, Giles Perring, Rob Mills, Julia Farrington, Guy Evans.
This was recorded at Echo City headquarters and instrument building workshop, Kentish Town, North London
Featured instruments are oxybells, fibrephone, baliphone and water flutes
The first voice heard is Giles Perring, then Guy Evans, then Paul Shearsmith.
Music details:
: A View from the Boundary; Lego Shuffle
Recorded binaurally by Tchad Blake at the Union Chapel, Islington, London, August 1998
album: Test Match Special
unreleased
: Justice for Some
Played on Batphones (lengths of tuned plastic tubing hit with special beaters); recorded January 1991 at the Justice Rooms, Somerset, by Wally Brill
album: The Sound of Music
Gramophone Records GR005
: Doddy no Diddy
This track was recorded in Covent Garden Piazza on 4 September 1988, and features special guest conductor Peter Hammill, with guest percussionists Nick Cash, Sally Timms and Richard Bealing, and members of the audience
album: Sonic Sport 83-88
Gramophone Records GR001CD
More details on Echo City releases can be found at http://www.echocity.co.uk/, or by writing to Echo City, 54 Falkland Road, London NW5 2XA

: Modern Drummer
This is from the Texan band's fifth album
album: Promise of Love
Wall of Sound AMOURCD7
Wall of Sound, c/o We Love You, Office 2, 9 Thorpe Close, London W10 5XL, visit http://www.wallofsound.net
See also http://www.tigerstylerecords.com

: No Comment 6
Recorded live at the Vancouver Jazz Festival, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada, June 1995. The piece is called no comment because the music speaks for itself. Joëlle Léandre has played with Pierre Boulez' Ensemble Intercontemporain and studied with John Cage.
album: No Comment
Red Toucan RT 9313
Red Toucan Records, c/o Les Productions musicales Cactus, 720 rue Fleury Ouest, Montréal (Québec) H3L 1W3, visit http://www3.sympatico.ca/cactus.red

: Everyone's Got a Bit of Latin in Them
Um is the alter-ego of Pete Gregory from the Cambridge area. He's been described as 'the musical lovechild of Ray Davies and Genesis P Orridge'. This song was inspired by an advertising campaign.
album: Pete Gregory at Home with his Bad Self
Burning Shed cdr
Burning Shed, c/o 135/137 King Street, Norwich NR1 1QH, visit http://www.burningshed.com
See also http://www.umbusiness.co.uk/

MIXING IT

Presented by Mark Russell and Robert Sandall
Produced by Philip Tagney
Factsheet compiled by Sam Hickling

Tel. 020 7765 4661
Fax. 020 7765 4378
e-mail mixing.it@bbc.co.uk

Sunday 17 th August 2003, 11:00pm

All-CD edition


Details:

: Cadaques; 85 Into Night
Ahmad Szabo, from Atlanta, Georgia, is signed to Scott Herren (Prefuse 73)'s Eastern Developments label, and as well as creating his abstract folk/soul guitar music, he rides as a motorcycle messenger.
album: This Book is About Words
Eastern Developments EASTDEV006
Eastern Developments Music: http://www.easterndevelopments.com
See also http://www.heftyrecords.com

: Singing Spirits
This track is a tribute to the gospel-tinged music of 'Blues and Roots' -era Charles Mingus.
Billy Bang (violin); Hamid Drake (drums); William Parker (bass)
album: Scrapbook
Thirsty Ear THI57133.2
More details at http://www.thirstyear.com

Echo City feature
Echo City are celebrating their 20th anniversary year of creating music on instruments they have invented and built themselves. It all began with a sonic playground built in Bethnal Green, East London, in 1983. The current line-up is Paul Shearsmith, Giles Perring, Rob Mills, Julia Farrington, Guy Evans.
This was recorded at Echo City headquarters and instrument building workshop, Kentish Town, North London
Featured instruments are oxybells, fibrephone, baliphone and water flutes
The first voice heard is Giles Perring, then Guy Evans, then Paul Shearsmith.
Music details:
: A View from the Boundary; Lego Shuffle
Recorded binaurally by Tchad Blake at the Union Chapel, Islington, London, August 1998
album: Test Match Special
unreleased
: Justice for Some
Played on Batphones (lengths of tuned plastic tubing hit with special beaters); recorded January 1991 at the Justice Rooms, Somerset, by Wally Brill
album: The Sound of Music
Gramophone Records GR005
: Doddy no Diddy
This track was recorded in Covent Garden Piazza on 4 September 1988, and features special guest conductor Peter Hammill, with guest percussionists Nick Cash, Sally Timms and Richard Bealing, and members of the audience
album: Sonic Sport 83-88
Gramophone Records GR001CD
More details on Echo City releases can be found at http://www.echocity.co.uk/, or by writing to Echo City, 54 Falkland Road, London NW5 2XA


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MIXING IT - Sunday 17 th August 2003 (con.)


: Modern Drummer
This is from the Texan band's fifth album
album: Promise of Love
Wall of Sound AMOURCD7
Wall of Sound, c/o We Love You, Office 2, 9 Thorpe Close, London W10 5XL, visit http://www.wallofsound.net
See also http://www.tigerstylerecords.com

: No Comment 6
Recorded live at the Vancouver Jazz Festival, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada, June 1995. The piece is called no comment because the music speaks for itself. Joëlle Léandre has played with Pierre Boulez' Ensemble Intercontemporain and studied with John Cage.
album: No Comment
Red Toucan RT 9313
Red Toucan Records, c/o Les Productions musicales Cactus, 720 rue Fleury Ouest, Montréal (Québec) H3L 1W3, visit http://www3.sympatico.ca/cactus.red

: Everyone's Got a Bit of Latin in Them
Um is the alter-ego of Pete Gregory from the Cambridge area. He's been described as 'the musical lovechild of Ray Davies and Genesis P Orridge'. This song was inspired by an advertising campaign.
album: Pete Gregory at Home with his Bad Self
Burning Shed cdr
Burning Shed, c/o 135/137 King Street, Norwich NR1 1QH, visit http://www.burningshed.com
See also http://www.umbusiness.co.uk/