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June 2005

Eyvind Kang, Plus a Spaced-Out Summer Holiday

Friday, June 24, 2005

Eyvind Kang is a young composer, violinist, and multi-instrumentalist. This world-traveler writes compositions which are journeys to new places. His music is extraordinarily wide-ranging, encompassing delicate lyricism and brutal noise. On this Spinning On Air, hear some of his latest CD, "Live Low to the Earth, In the Iron Age," in which side excursions are taken from a rich highway of drones. We also hear some of Kang's earlier releases. During the latter part of the show we take a spaced-out summer holiday, featuring the Orchestra du Soleil. Their new release, "Mondial," offers campy, Barbarella-inspired sci-fi psychedelia. Their music evokes a trip, too; just a different kind.


Sylvain Chauveau

Friday, June 17, 2005

Paris-based composer Sylvain Chauveau creates a unique kind of quasi-chamber music that has a gentle intensity, with roots in both modern pop and the music of such early 20th Century French composers as Erik Satie. His subtle, understated album "Nocturne Impalpable" always generates a lot of inquiries when it's played on WNYC. On a brief tour of the U.S., Sylvain visits with host David Garland to talk about his music and to play it on the WNYC piano and his electric guitar, which he plucks, strums, bows, and layers, creating lovely sonic weavings. Also, Parisian writer and performer Felicia Atkinson joins Sylvain for a moody spoken-word pop song abstraction, and Sylvain sings one of his favorite songs by Bill Callahan of Smog.

» See photos of Sylvain Chauveau playing live at WNYC


Introspective and Outrospective

Friday, June 10, 2005

We start with thoughtful songs and eventually go thoughtfully wild, mostly with new recordings—some of which haven't been released yet. The lovely, lovelorn new album "Sleepwalking in the Garden of the Dead Room," by Currituck County, is featured. Also heard are inventive songs by John Vanderslice, David Fridlund, Nathan Michel, Drowsy, Lau Nau, Natalie Rose Lebrecht, Oneida, Mazarin, Skeletons and the Girl-Faced Boys, Six Organs of Admittance, Bill Fay, and others.

Comics artist/writer David Heatley ("Deadpan" is the name of his comic) has recorded some of his whimsical songs, and we hear a few. He'll be one of many comics creators at this weekend's Art Festival presented by the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MOCCA) in Manhattan.


Electric+Acoustic

Friday, June 03, 2005

Up north, electricity is important. Not just for light and heat during those long cold nights, but for making music, too. Host David Garland presents some musicians from Norway, Denmark, Canada and elsewhere, who are using electronics to color and shape their music. Trumpeter/singer Arve Henriksen, the band Efterklang, and others, are finding new ways to combine electric and acoustic instruments to create an unusual and new orchestral sound. We’ll also hear some older electronic music; in fact we’ll hear “the world’s first attempt to compose popular electronic music”: the “Song of the Second Moon,” a 1957 piece by Dick Raaijmakers, plus other works from the entertaining new box set “Popular Electronics: Early Dutch Electronic Music 1956-1963.