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Simply titled Traditional Chinese Music , the new CD from UK-based The Silk and Bamboo Ensemble delivers exactly what it promises ... beautifully.

Silk and Bamboo music gets its name from the fact that the instruments use both materials in their construction, and comes from an ancient (8th Century BC) classification of musical instruments according to their construction. This CD features 5 virtuosi on a wide range of instruments including erhu (upright fiddle), pipa (upright lute), guqin (unfretted zither), Guzheng (plucked zither), yangqin (hammered dulcimer), sheng (mouth organ), guanzi (oboe or shawm), dizi and xiao (flutes) and hulusi (gourd-based reed pipe)

Playlist

1421
Innuendo Out The Other
Philip DeGruy
Degruy-Gruy Music
NYC 6013 2 (US Import)
Philip DeGruy, Innuendo Out The Other
15 seconds (excerpt)
(solo 17-string elec guitar, fingerstyle; v quirky, virtuosic & humorous, more or less a bent-boogie)

1423
CD cut 2, 'Dance of the Yao People'
No Composer specified. Presume trad arr Silk and Bamboo Ensemble
No Publisher specified
Arc Music EUCD 2177 ( in Australia through Tempo www.tempo-music.com
worldwide: www.arcmusic.co.uk )
Silk and Bamboo Ensemble - 'Traditional Chinese Music'
7:20
(Actually a suite of Chinese atmospheric dances and listening tunes played on several traditional instruments)

Visit the Silk and Bamboo Ensemble website

For more information about Chinese musical instruments visit this Wikipedia site
or this Wikipedia site

SEGUE

1430
CD cut 1, 'Oy Adym'
Trad arr A Kuvezin
No Publisher specified
Private release YAT001 ( Try their website www.yat-kha.com )
Yat-Kha - 'Aldyn Dashka'
3:39
(Rhythmic deep throat singing leading into anthemic Tuvan song with both conventional and throat singing, guitars, bass, drums and traditional Tuvan instruments)

Visit Yat-Kha's website

1435
CD cut 8, 'Lament at Changmen Palace'
No Composer specified. Presume trad arr Silk and Bamboo Ensemble
No Publisher specified
Arc Music EUCD 2177 ( in Australia through Tempo www.tempo-music.com
worldwide: www.arcmusic.co.uk )
Silk and Bamboo Ensemble - 'Traditional Chinese Music'
4:46
(Solo piece for Guqin, chinese zither. Very dark and atmospheric with lots of bent notes)

SEGUE

1440
CD cut 2, 'Comes Love'
Lew Brown, Sam Stept & Charles Tobias
No publisher specified
Vitamin VT0038 ( www.vitamin.net.au )
Tina Harrod - 'Worksongs'
4:04
(AUSTRALIAN PERFORMANCE. Female jazz singer over excellent trio of piano, bass, drums. )

Tina Harrod information at Jackie Orszaczky's website

TINA HARROD GIG ALERT

Artist: Tina Harrod
album: Worksongs
Tour dates:
Thu 20 & Sun 23 Nov Mullum Music Festival, MULLUMBIMBY, Northern NSW
Fri 21 Nov, 7pm The SoundLounge (w Mr Percival & Mei lai Swan), GOLDCOAST, QLD
Sat 22 Nov Brisbane Jazz Club, BRISBANE, QLD

Visit the Mullum Music Festival website

1445
CD cut 3, 'Elbow Room'
Rebecca Quade & John Maclean
Control
Vitamin VT0017 ( www.vitamin.net.au )
The Millers Tale - 'Wish it away'
2:56
(AUSTRALIAN COMPOSITION AND PERFORMANCE. Folk pop song with wistful female voice over layered guitars, bass and drums)

Visit The Millers Tale website

MILLERS TALE GIG ALERT

Touring to promote new album 'Overland'

WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2008
East Brunswick Club
280 Lygon St, East Brunswick VIC
doors 8pm - $10
support from d.rogers 8.30pm
Millers Tale on stage 9.20pm

SUNDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2008
Mullumbimby Festival
details and tickets: www.mullummusicfestival.com.au

WEDNESDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2008
Spectrum
Level 2, 34 Oxford St, Darlinghurst NSW
support from The Aerial Maps, Lucy Lehmann
doors 8pm - $10

THURSDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2008
Grace Emily Hotel
232 Waymouth St, Adelaide SA
w/ Rod Ladgrove
doors 8pm - free

SEGUE

1448
CD cut 6, 'Zanzibar'
Taj Mahal and Angelique Kidjo
Big Tooys Tunes (BMI)/Ayelie Music (ASCAP)
HUCD3164 ( in Australia through Fuse Music : www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.headsup.com {the label is a division of Telarc} )
Taj Mahal - 'Maestro'
5:49
(Rollicking African anthem with Angelique Kidjo and Taj Mahal sharing the lead vocals, kora, ngoni, drums, bass guitar and backing chorus)

Visit Taj Mahal's website

1454
CD cut 3, 'Chorumal Bodum'
Trad arr A Kuvezin
No Publisher specified
Private release YAT001 ( Try their website www.yat-kha.com )
Yat-Kha - 'Aldyn Dashka'
3:39
(Amazingly deep male voice in traditional Tuvan song of the traveller, with electric guitar traditional Tuvan instruments, percussion. Sounds like Tom Waits an octave lower)

1557
CD cut 5, 'Beautiful Woman thinking of the Moon'
No Composer specified. Presume trad arr Silk and Bamboo Ensemble
No Publisher specified
Arc Music EUCD 2177 ( in Australia through Tempo www.tempo-music.com
worldwide: www.arcmusic.co.uk )
Silk and Bamboo Ensemble - 'Traditional Chinese Music'
4:03
(Beautiful and slightly wistful traditional Chinese piece for ensemble of Chinese instruments with pipa {lute} to the fore)

Presenter

Andy Copeman

Producer

Andy Copeman