Wednesday 20 August 2008
Lakshmi Shankar View Playlist
When Lakshmi Shankar gave up dancing with Uday Shankar’s famed dance troupe because of ill health, it was music’s gain as she applied her dancer’s grace to singing.
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Tuesday 19 August 2008
Buddy Guy View Playlist
Buddy Guy says of his new CD, Skin Deep, that it’s ‘The first time I really had more control.’ It shows - his singing and his guitar work are full of inspired abandon.
Monday 18 August 2008
Roberto Aussel plays Atahualpa Yupanqui View Playlist
With characteristic subtleness of phrase and use of silence, guitarist Roberto Aussel brings to life the music of fellow Argentinean Atahualpa Yupanqui on the 100th anniversary of this champion of folk music’s birth.
Friday 15 August 2008
Two-Faced Friday View Playlist
Listening back over the last week, and forward to what’s on The Daily Planet next week.
Thursday 14 August 2008
Balla et ses Balladins (Part 2) View Playlist
We continue exploring Guinea’s ‘Authenticité’ era with the excellent double CD of one of the country’s premier bands, Balla et ses Balladins. Today we focus on CD 1 (1968-1972) of their album, The Syliphone Years.
On Song For Chico, Arturo O’Farrill celebrates his father’s spirit through the title track, a modern piece that shows that Afro-Latin Jazz is a tree with deep roots that keeps spreading its branches in new directions.
Since he was a young man, Loudon Wainwright has been writing songs about getting old, so the 13 songs he revisits on his new CD, Recovery, the last one composed in 1974, have a richness gained from the singer-songwriter’s actual ageing.
9pm AEST