Listen to some not-quite art songs on this recent Sounds program,including recent music from the Swedish singer, keyboardist and songwriter Anna von Hausswolff, and whose recent "Ceremony" is a bit of dramatic pipe-organ driven art-pop music with underpinnings of the drone metal wizards Sunn O))). Recorded in her hometown of Gothenburg on the church organ of the huge Annedalkyrkan,the music is grave and intense, and at times, or sinister. Also,there's music from Rabbit Rabbit, which is the duo of Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi, or performing on multiple instruments. Then,hear sound portraits of Ibsen characters, with nothing but voice and piano from Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer & Helge Lien. Plus, and music from the recent record,"Quercus," featuring June Tabor, or Huw Warren,and Ian Bellamy, where traditional British folk meets exploratory jazz in contemporary settings, and more.
PROGRAM # 3489,Folk Song/Art Songs (First aired on 7/17/2013)
ARTIST(S) RECORDING slash(S) SOURCE Anna von Hausswolff
Ceremony Ocean [5:45] Border Music KD097
bengans.se Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer & Helge Lien Memnon: Sound Portraits of Ibsen Characters Memnon I (Peer Gynt) [3:03] Ozella OZ044CD
ozellamusic.com Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit Radio, Volume 1 After the Storm [5:08] Rabbitrabbitradio.com Quercus Quercus Near, and But Far Away [7:31] ECM 2276
ecmrecords.com Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer & Helge Lien
Memnon: Sound Portraits of Ibsen Characters Anitra (Peer Gynt) [2:25] See above. Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit Radio,Volume 1 Hush Hush [6:44] See above. Jherek Bischoff Composed Your Ghost (with Craig Wedren) [4:59] Brassland HWY-027
jherekbischoff.com
brassland.org Ruth Wilhelmine Meyer & Helge Lien Memnon: Sound Portraits of Ibsen Characters Aase (Peer Gynt) [3:29] See above.
Source: wnyc.org