I am very grateful for the outpouring of support from my listeners, family, and friends during CKCU's funding drive--my 30th. I was set a much bigger goal this year, and I almost made it ($2405/$2500)!
Today, we're going to start with a recently rediscovered recording by Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. This recording was made in April 1990, during the time Nusrat was recording the fusion album "Mustt Mustt" with Michael Brook. He recorded these traditional pieces with his group, and they ended up forgotten in the Real World warehouse for over three decades.
Wonderfully, this recording is not just one we've never heard before, it also feature rare songs, including one which Nusrat had never recorded elsewhere. This is Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party in their prime, lovingly recorded at Real World studios. We will start with the unique piece which Nusrat only recorded here, "Ya Gaus Ya Meeran". This is fascinating song in Urdu with very difficult, virtuoso melodies. Twenty-seven years after his tragic early death, we get to revel in new music from the master!
| Ya Gaus Ya Meeran Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party - Chain of Light - Realworld 
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| Track 2 Ostad Jalil Shahnaz - Taknavazan Nos. 211-215 - Barbad Music |
| I had ended last week's funding drive show with this track by the Kamkars, but only the opening was heard before the end of my show. Irresistible as it is, it should be heard in full. |
| Set me free The Kamkars - Kani Sepi - Kereshmeh |
| The Nusrat lp comes with translations of the qawwals, this one is from Nusrat's family repertoire and is sung in Farsi. A beautiful poem:
Tonight there came news that you, oh beloved, would come I will lower my head in sacrifice to the road along which you will come riding! All the gazelles of the desert have put their heads on their hands In the hope that one day you will come to hunt hem. The attraction of love won't leave you unmoved Should you not come to my funeral You will definitely come to my grave My soul is on my lips - it is leaving my body (I am on the point of expiring). Come so that I can remain alive! After I am no longer here for what other purpose will you come? |
| Khabram Raseed Imshab Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party - Chain of Light - Realworld
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| New releases of new music by American composer John Luther Adams are coming frequently, which is just hunky dory with me! The new album features a large work for string quartet entitled "Waves and Particles" with the JACK Quartet. Adams has said that the JACK Quartet has become something of a muse for him, as they are capable of playing anything he imagines. For me, they are the top string quartet performing new music today--a surprisingly competitive field! The new piece is inspired by quantum physics and elemental nature, JLA writes "'Waves and Particles' was inspired by quantum physics, fractal geometry, and noise—which function as elemental metaphors in my music. Quantum physics tells us that the universe is more like music than matter. And the musical material of this piece traverses a continuum from silence articulated by points of sound to rolling waves of pitch, timbre, intensity, and velocity. A simple fractal form shapes each of the six movements, which I hope imparts a quality less like personal expression than like inevitable force."
It is in six movements and ranges between fierce rhythmic sections and sparse, delicate music. Like all JLA's varied music, it sounds like engaging with reality at its most elemental nature. Wonderful! |
| Waves and Particles i. particle dust John Luther Adams/JACK Quartet - Waves and Particles - Cold Blue Music
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| Waves and Particles ii. spectral waves John Luther Adams/JACK Quartet - Waves and Particles - Cold Blue Music
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| Waves and Particles iii. velocity waves John Luther Adams/JACK Quartet - Waves and Particles - Cold Blue Music
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| Waves and Particles iv. triadic waves John Luther Adams/JACK Quartet - Waves and Particles - Cold Blue Music
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| Waves and Particles v. murmurs in a chromatic field John Luther Adams/JACK Quartet - Waves and Particles - Cold Blue Music
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| Waves and Particles vi. particles rising John Luther Adams/JACK Quartet - Waves and Particles - Cold Blue Music
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| Prodigal Weep Koki Nakano - Ululo - No Format
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| Fermo ZItella Ludovico Einaudi - Taranta Project - Ponderosa |
| New album from Tornto-based guitarist Dan Pitt with Naomi McCarroll-Butler on alto sax and bass clarinet, Patrick Smith on tenor and soprano sax, Alex Fournier on double bass, Nick Fraser on drums.
https://danpitt.bandcamp.com/album/horizontal-depths |
| Tautology Dan Pitt Quintet - Horizontal Depths - Independent 
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| Ndiagneko Nahawa Doumbia - Kanawa - Kanawa |
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1:10 PM, November 14th, 2024