The Weekend Planet

Our featured duo’s members are, respectively, one of her and his generation’s key figures in Finnish music. Johanna Juhola was born in 1978. Her ‘creative fury’ moved one approving reviewer to remark that she was one reason ‘Finnish tango is not what it used to be’. Tango is just one aspect! Before she was born Timo Alakotila was already one of the keys to Finnish ‘folk’ music becoming so vibrant, creative, so unconfined by ‘folk’ or any label. On Vapaassa Tilassa {their first duo album} Timo plays grand piano and Johanna two kinds of accordion. The duo performs its own original music, with very nice cameo roles for splendid players of other instruments.

Johanna Juhola site: www.johannajuhola.net

Timo Alakotila site: www.myspace.com/timoalakotila

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Details of each track are presented in the following order:
BROADCAST TIME
TRACK NUMBER AND TITLE
COMPOSER
PUBLISHING AND COPYRIGHT DETAILS
RECORDING COMPANY AND CD NUMBER
( distributor/ source details, in brackets like this, in lower-case)
ARTIST AND CD TITLE
Duration of track
Description of track, in lower-case.
Where relevant, further info links to information, gigs/events/related programs

’THE WEEKEND PLANET’ SUN 17.8. 08

2205
THEME:
(details below, as per the original CD.. This cut is also on these compilations Ketama - ’ Nuevos Medios Coleccion’ - Nuevos Medios NM 15 820
{ in Australia via MGM www.thegroovemerchants.com
worldwide, via: www.flamenco-world.com/noticias/nuevos.htm }
and ’ Jarabi - the best of Toumani Diabate’ (Hannibal 334352 )

CD CUT 1, ’JARABI’
TRAD, ARR TOUMANI DIABATE
HAMILCAR MUSIC LTD
HANNIBAL HNCD 1323
( in Australia, some releases through Stomp Enquiries to: ben@stomp.com.au
worldwide: www.rykodisc.com )
KETAMA, TOUMANI DIABATE, DANNY THOMPSON - ’SONGHAI’
THIRTY SECONDS (EXCERPT)
(retains a stately-Manding air, whilst also embracing flamenco elements. Toumani Diabate’s kora, Danny Thompson’s beautiful double bass and Ketama’ s flamenco guitars )

2207
CD CUT 10, ’HEINI’
JOHANNA JUHOLA, ARR BY HERSELF AND TIMO ALAKOTILA
PUB NOT SPEC
TEXICALLI RECORDS TEXCD 077
( no Australian distributor
ww.texicalli.net
available worldwide via www.cdroots.com )
TIMO ALAKOTILA AND JOHANNA JUHOLA - ’VAPAASSA TILASSA’
5: 21
( not ’new tango’ as such, although it is post-that. Impressionistic, mobile, alert and elegant duet: Johanna’s free bass accordion and Timo’s grand piano. It has just a whiff of wist: )

SEGUE

2212
CD CUT 3, ’PELIMANNI’S REVENGE’
TIMO ALAKOTILA (COMPOSER AND ARRANGER)
PUB NOT SPEC
GREEN LINNET/XENOPHILE GLCD 4019
(label is defunct, but original release appears available, still, via band’s site:
www.thejpp.fi/discography.htmll )
JPP - ’KAUSTINEN RHAPSODY’
3: 33
(overtly Scandinavian fanfare-dance for a lot of fiddles, plus one double bass and Timo’s harmonium. One of the fiddlers here is quite probably the very same Jouni Jarvela who plays soprano sax on next piece @ 2218 below. If so, he was fifteen years younger on this 1993-vintage JPP album )

2218
CD CUT 3, ’VAPAASSA TILASSA’
TIMO ALAKOTILA ( ARRANGED BY HIM AND JOHANNA JUHOLA AND JOUNI JARVELA )
PUB NOT SPEC
TEXICALLI RECORDS TEXCD 077
( no Australian distributor
ww.texicalli.net
available worldwide via www.cdroots.com )
TIMO ALAKOTILA AND JOHANNA JUHOLA - ’VAPAASSA TILASSA’
6: 15
( lovely, unusual Finnish trio, w lots of shifts, swirls, ripples and intertwining: The composer is pianist, the co-leader accordionist. Their soprano saxophonist guest is Jouni Jarvela )

SEGUE

2224
CD CUT 3, ’EN ETSI VALTA, LOISTOA’ ( WE ASK FOR NOTHING RICH OR RARE )
JEAN SIBELIUS, ARR IRO RANTALA
ORIGNAL PIECE PUBLISHED BY EDITION FAZER. ARR PUBLISHED BY ZEN MASTER PUBLISHING
EMARCY 536 580-2
( through Universal ))
TRIO TOYKEAT - ’SISU’
3: 16
( take the melody of a lyrical carol by Sibelius ( his setting of a Swedish poem by Zacharius Topelius) and turn it into a jazz ballad for piano trio and violin soloist. Iro is the pianist and the trio’s violin-wielding guest is Pekka Kuusisto, who also plays on ’Silvestri’- the next cut in this show. The poem’s title can be translated more freely as ’I seek not power, glory or gold’. It is a prayer for peace.

LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT FINLAND’S BEST-LOVED COMPOSER?

This is a well-linked place to start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Sibelius

LIKE TO READ/KNOW MORE ABOUT THE POEM BEHIND THIS PIECE?

Go to:
www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/En_etsi_valtaa,_loistoa_(Jean_Sibelius)

SEGUE

2226
CD CUT 2, ’SYLVESTRI’
JOHANNA JUHOLA, ARR BY HERSELF AND TIMO ALAKOTILA AND PEKKA KUUSISTO
PUB NOT SPEC
TEXICALLI RECORDS TEXCD 077
( no Australian distributor
ww.texicalli.net
available worldwide via www.cdroots.com )
TIMO ALAKOTILA AND JOHANNA JUHOLA - ’VAPAASSA TILASSA’
6: 25
( Nicely-quirky, with lots of shifts and assorted elements. A trio: Johanna’s accordion, Timo’s piano and their guest, violinist Pekka Kuusisto )

2236
CD CUT 4, ’MOTHER’S DAY’
SALLY FORD AND BARRY DEENICK
(PRESUMABLY) APRA
NEWMARKET NEW 325.2
( www.newmarketmusic.com )
SALLY FORD - ’BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES’
3: 32
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: dark-plaintive song in persona of the late mother’s bereaved, adult daughter. Bruce Haymes plays piano and Steve Hadley the bass. Helen Mountfort is the cello soloist )

SEGUE

2240
CD CUT 6, ’ALONE’
LIZ STRINGER
( PRESUMABLY) APRA
LSS 002
( In Australia through MGM: www.thegroovemerchants.com
Artist’s site: www.lizstringerom )
LIZ STRINGER - ’PENDULUM’
4: 34
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: also in a bereaved, adult daughter’s persona: this song offers a fond, vivid but unsentimental portrait of the singer’s late mother - and of their relationship. Initially, Liz a cappella. Eventually, Liz with just { her own, I think } spare resophonic ac guitar.

LIZ STRINGER ON TOUR ALERT ( VIC/ NT/NSW, QLD, WA )

From mid-August through early October: many and various.
Full details -with live links - are here:
www.myspace.com/lizstringermusician )

2243
CD CUT 3, ’LEFT ON FLAMINGO’
SALLY FORD, PATRICK CRONIN AND BARRY DEENICK
(PRESUMABLY) APRA
NEWMARKET NEW 325.2
( www.newmarketmusic.com )
SALLY FORD - ’BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES’
3: 46
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: ska-inflected groove, w nice use of Paul Williamson’s tenor sax, Shannon Barnett’s trombone. Sally’s faux-road-map-reading lyric offers positive advice to a friend who’s been unlucky in love )

SEGUE

2247
CD CUT 6, ’CHITLINS CON CARNE’
KENNY BURRELL
BLUE RIBBON MUSIC LTD
ABC MUSIC/UNIVERSAL MUSIC AUSTRALIA 1777132
( in Australia through Universal.
Available at ABC shops and online: www.abcshop.com.au )
JIM CONWAY - ’MUSIC DELI PRESENTS JIM CONWAY’
5: 09
(AUSTRAL PERF AND ARR: ’live’, mid-tempo, blues-accented groover for amplified harmonica { Jim}, Arne Hanna’s elec guitar, organ {Don Hopkins, I think } and a big booting tenor sax { Dave Wray, aka ’Frank Bennett’? } plus a good drummer and bassist. This is Jim Coinway’s Big Wheel, recorded at their debut gig in 2002 - a concert which yielded four of the cuts on this CD.

LIKE TO KNOW WHEN AND WHERE JIM CONWAY PERFORMS?
Upcoming gigs are posted well in advance, here:
www.jimconway.com.au/News.htm

ABC RADIO NATIONAL ’MUSIC DELI’ ALERT

’ Music Deli’ with Paul Petran airs each Friday from 8.05 pm to 9.00pm.
It is repeated on Sunday afternoons after the 4.00 pm news
It is primarily devoted to ’live’ recordings, expressly made for {and exclusive to} ’Music Deli’
Website {includes audio on demand}: www.abc.net.au/rn/musicdeli )

2256
CD CUT 5, ’I’D LIKE TO STAY’
MATT KEEGAN
(PRESUMABLY) APRA
JAZZGROOVE JGR024
( www.jazzgroove.com
available online via Birdland: www.birdland.com.au )
MATT KEEGAN TRIO - ’ROADSCAPE’
2: 50 ( excerpt )
(AUSTRAL COMP AND PERF: Matt’s tenor sax, Cameron Undy’s elec bass, Dave Goodman’s drums. An at-once propulsive-and-spacious trio.

MATT KEEGAN TRIO TOUR ALERT

The NSW/ SA / ACT leg of the tour is still in progress.
For full details, go to:
www.mattkeegan.com.au/templates/kee/page/page_html_standard.php?secID=31

The short version:

Tamworth - 16/8, 8pm @ Tamworth High
Adelaide - 18/8, 8pm @ Wheatsheaf Hotel, 39 George St, Thebarton
Sydney - 19/8, 8:30pm @ Jazzgroove
Canberra - 20/8, 9pm @ Hippo Bar
Wollongong - 21/8, 7pm @Wollongong Con

AND
Matt is also a member of Mark Isaacs’ Resurgence Band, whose next pair of Sydney gigs intend to yield a ’live’ CD:

Thursday 28 and Friday 29 August.
8.30 pm at ’The Sound Lounge’ (doors open 8.00pm)
Seymour Theatre Centre, corner City Rd and Cleveland St, Chippendale

Mark Isaacs - piano; James Muller - guitar; Matt Keegan - saxophones; Brett Hirst - bass; Tim Firth - drums.

Box office tel: 02 9351 7940
www.sima.org.au )

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11 PM NEWS
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2305
CD CUT 2 , ’URGE FOR GOING’
JONI MITCHELL
SIQUOMB MUSIC (BMI)
APPLESEED 1111
( www.appleseedrec.com
in Australia through Shock www.shock.com.au )
DARRELL SCOTT - ’MODERN HYMNS’
4: 25
( utterly unlike any other version of the much-covered song, but serves its lyric, perfectly. Darrell’s up-up-ole-timey-cum-quasi-bluegrass version features his lead vocal and Del McCoury’s harmony, with a v hot little string-band.

ABC RADIO NATIONAL DARRELL SCOTT ALERT

We highlight this album next Sunday - August 24..
It’s the hub of a special edition which looks at successful examples of a difficult art: to be creative-but-respectful with someone else’s song.

More details here: www.abc.net.au/rn/weekendplanet/comingup )

2311
CD CUT 7, ’MENUETTI JA POLSKA’
TIMO ALAKOTILA AND JOHANNA JUHOLA ( ARRANGED BY HIM, HER AND JOUNI JARVELA )
PUB NOT SPEC
TEXICALLI RECORDS TEXCD 077
( no Australian distributor
ww.texicalli.net
available worldwide via www.cdroots.com )
TIMO ALAKOTILA AND JOHANNA JUHOLA - ’VAPAASSA TILASSA’
11: 09
( lots of shifts, swirls, ripples and intertwining: a lovely and unusual Finnish trio. The composer is the pianist, the co-leader the accordionist and their soprano saxophone-playing guest is Jouni Jarvela )

SEGUE

2322
CD CUT 5, ’THEME FROM SCHINDLER’S LIST’
JOHN WILLIAMS
PUBLISHER NOT SPEC
SELF-ISSUED CD
(available, worldwide via www.solotosymphony.net )
MATT JODRELL - ’BLUES IN THE NIGHT’
8: 00
(AUSTRAL PERF: very intimate, haunting duet: Matt’s trumpet/flugelhorn and Joe Chindamo’s piano

MATT JODRELL FAREWELL GIG ALERT ( WA )
Monday August 18 @ 8pm Charles Hotel
509 Charles Street, North Perth

Full details here:
www.perthjazzsociety.com

2333
CD CUT 5, ’SHERIDAN’
JOHANNA JUHOLA, ARR BY HERSELF AND TIMO ALAKOTILA AND PETRI HAKALA AND ROGER TALLROTH )
PUB NOT SPEC
TEXICALLI RECORDS TEXCD 077
( no Australian distributor
ww.texicalli.net
available worldwide via www.cdroots.com )
TIMO ALAKOTILA AND JOHANNA JUHOLA - ’VAPAASSA TILASSA’
5: 05
( nimble, virtuosic, nicely unpredictable, but recognisably Scandinavian. The Finnish co-leaders are herself on accordion, himself on piano. Their guests - on this and cut following - are their mandolin-wielding compatriot Petri Hakala and the Swedish guitarist Roger Tallroth )

SEGUE ( same disc, continuous )

2338
CD CUT 6, ’YLI SINIVIIVAN’
JOHANNA JUHOLA, ARR BY HERSELF AND TIMO ALAKOTILA AND PETRI HAKALA AND ROGER TALLROTH )
PUB NOT SPEC
TEXICALLI RECORDS TEXCD 077
( no Australian distributor
ww.texicalli.net
available worldwide via www.cdroots.com )
TIMO ALAKOTILA AND JOHANNA JUHOLA - ’VAPAASSA TILASSA’
5: 00
(As per cut-previous: another notch up in perkiness)

2346
CD CUT 3, ’JUAN CONDORI’
DINO SALUZZI
PUB NOT SPEC
ECM 1978
( in Australia through Fuse Music
www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.ecmrecords.com )
DINO SALUZZI GROUP - ’JUAN CONDORI’
8: 57
( Argentinean, haunting and very beautiful - at core, has an almost-elegaic ’formal dance’ quality. A portrait of an Amerindian friend first met nearly seventy years ago - Juan and the composer/leader grew up in the same village in northern Argentina. Dino’s bandoneón {the squeezebox emblematic of Argentinean tango) , his son Jose’s elec guitar, the clarinet and tenor sax and of Dino’s brother Felix, the bass of Felix’s son Matias, plus the one non-Saluzzi - drummer- percussionist U. T. Gandhi )

2356
CD CUT 6, ’OUT IN THE WOODS’
BUDDY GUY AND TOM HAMBRIDGE
MIC-SHAU MUSIC (ADMIN BY BUG MUSIC/BMI)/ EMI APRIL MUSIC/SARACHEL SONGS (ADMIN BY EMI APRIL MUSIC/ ASCAP)
SILVERTONE/ZOMBA RECORDS 88697- 34316-2
( through Sony BMG)
BUDDY GUY - ’SKIN DEEP’
2: 15 ( excerpt)
( slow-rocking, lycanthropic swamp-blues for Guy’s deep voice and piercing elec guitar, with Robert Randolph’s steel guitar and David Grissom’s acoustic guitar.. plus bass, drums, keys and accordionist Nathan Williams.

BUDDY GUY ON ABC RADIO NATIONAL ALERT

’The Daily Planet’ explores his splendid new CD on Tuesday, August 19

’The Daily Planet’ with Lucky Oceans airs Monday to Friday at 2.20pm
Except on Fridays, it has a second airing at 11.20 pm
website {includes audio} : www.abc.net.au/rn/dailyplanet )

Presenter

Doug Spencer

Producer

Doug Spencer