Nora Guthrie is keeping her fathers legacy and bright spirit burning creatively in her present role as guardian of the Woody Guthrie Archives, and to celebrate the centenary of Woody's birth, producer Robyn Ravlich travelled to Mount Kisco in New York state to meet with Nora and to discover how she came to know her fathers genius. Nora reveals the rare treasures of the Guthrie archives, including his drawings, illustrated diaries, and some 3,000 lyricsmany of them unrecorded and unknown. Soon, the archives will leave family hands and be relocated to Woodys home state of Oklahoma. One hundred years after his birth on 14 July 1912, Woody Guthrie is regarded as a worthy successor to Walt Whitman in being one of Americas finest poetic wordsmiths, capturing a vision of a ravaged country and people in his dustbowl ballads, and an inclusive America in his anthem, This Land is Your Land. He wrote it as he saw it, and the singer-songwriters battered guitar was emblazoned with the slogan 'This machine kills fascists'. His was a career and life cut tragically short by Huntingtons disease. Thanks to musicians including Bob Dylan and his great friend Pete Seeger, Woodys vintage repertoire has been kept alive, and now, through Noras inventive and tireless collaborative spirit, unrecorded songs residing in the Archives are being set to music and recorded by a new generation of artists including Billy Bragg, Wilco, Janis Ian, and The Klezmatics. Woodys second wife Marjorie Mazia Guthrie was mother to Arlo, Joady, and Nora, and safeguarding his vast collection of songs, drawings, letters and diaries, passed them into the care of his trusted manager Harold Leventhal. In a surprising twist of fate in the 90s, over two decades after Woodys death, Nora became custodian of the boxes that contained this treasury, securing it for future generations in a dedicated archive and giving it new life in a range of innovative, collaborative recording projects that include his previously unpublished and unrecorded repertoire. The centenary of Woody Guthries birth is being celebrated in a flurry of concerts and record releases throughout 2012, keeping alive his vibrant and enduring legacy. Part two of this special centenary program, called Woody Guthrie's Note of Hope, will be broadcast on July 21. Read more . Music details for this program can be found in the Transcript fieldgo to Show on the right-hand side of the page.
Nora Guthrie: Her Father's Daughter
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Introducing Thelma Plum
A folk singer-songwriter from Brisbane who cites her musical influences as Paul Kelly and Maryanne Faithfull, 18-year-old Thelma Plum is on the verge of a promising music career. We meet the next big thing and she performs two of her songs live and unaccompanied in our Brisbane studios.
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Jimblah
Jimblah is an MC and independent hip hop artist who self-produced his impressive debut album Face the Fire. He was born in Broome and raised in Katherine and now lives in Adelaide. He's already working on the follow-up to Face the Fire. And when hes not writing, recording or mixing Jimblah mentors young people, teaching the universal language of hip hop. Jimblah is also a cultural ambassador he represented Australia as a member of the Youth Music Council at the 3rd International World Music Forum in Tunisia. And he was such a hit they invited him back to run his own session on hip hop as a tool for social change.
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Keith Jarrett - 'Sleeper' (the 'European' quartet in Tokyo, April 1979)
33 years after the event, Sleeper is one of 2012s more remarkable new releases . From a single concert, it presents four great players improvising together definitely not competing on the leaders inspired, deeply lyrical compositions. Note: if you click any one of the adjacent images, you will see it much-enlarged, annotated, and in whatever is its particular 'correct' format Jarretts so-called European quartet was highly influential, albeit short-lived and only-occasional; less an ensemble than a special event, said its leader. In Tokyo on April 16, 1979, the quartet was at its peak, in the final of its five years intermittent existence. At that time its American leader and pianist was already one of the worlds more influential improvising players;. The world outside Europe was then just discovering this quartets other members: Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek, Swedish double bassist Palle Danielsson and Norwegian drummer Jon Christensen. Background on this album: Audio interview-plus performance, with Jarrett: A revealing, interview-based article which considers Jan Garbareks musical development before, during and after his Jarrett years: A useful unofficial Keith Jarrett site:
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Quiet Space Top 50 2012 [Part 3]
We continue our countdown of the best 50 releases of 2012
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The Escape
Setting off on a holiday should be a happy occasion for a married couple. But in this instance, a missed train triggers recriminations and reminders of petty irritations. Born in New Zealand in 1888, Katherine Mansfield moved to England as a young woman and found success as a writer of short stories in a modernist vein. Disruption, a key theme in her writing, is a feature of 'The Escape'.
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The Magician of Lublin - two
The Magician of Lublin is the entertaining story of Yasha Mazur, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Yasha is a Houdini-like performer whose skills have made him famous throughout Eastern Poland. In his own mind, he believes that he should be famous throughout the world. Having both Jewish and Gentile heritage Yasha is a freethinker who moves with ease between the worlds from which he comes. He has an observant Jewish wife, a Gentile assistant (who travels with him) and a mistress in every town. And although he has lived this way for years, his exploits are catching up with him. He feels the need to escape: not just his wife, but his homeland and his Jewish faith. Will he really move to Italy and convert to Catholicism? Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-Jewish writer who was born in 1902. Prior to the Second World War, he moved to the United States like many other Polish Jews, to New York City. Singer wrote only in Yiddish even after his move to America and was prolific as a novelist. He wrote 18 novels including Yentl and The Magician of Lublin, short stories, fiction for children and some biographical works. Some of his best known biographical works include In My Fathers Court and A Little Boy in Search of God. This radio adaptation of Bashevis Singer's The Magician of Lublin, was devised and written by the Australian singer/animateur, Nadya Golski and musical director Mirsad Giga Jeleskovic . Their passion for Eastern European and Gypsy music coupled with Nadya's love of Bashevis Singers lyrical text brings a very special musical drama to RN, featuring a magnificent local cast. The play is narrated by John Waters. The musicians are: Musical director - Mirsad Giga Jeleskovic; Anatoli Torchinski; Daniel Weltlinger; Rafal Dabrowski; John Maddox and Stephen Lalor. The singer is Nadya Golski. The cast features: John Waters; Lech Mackiewicz; Gosia Dobrowolska; Malina Mackiewicz; Nicole Shostak; Alice Parkinson; Anna Volska; Sabrina Lipovic and Pawel Bochenek. The Magician of Lublin was written by Isaac Bashevis Singer and adapted for radio by Nadya Golski. Nadya received a grant from the Australia Council for the Arts to create a live performance work and was very involved in the making of the process of the radio production. Sound Engineer: Phillip Ulman Producer/Director: Libby Douglas Production Assistants: Christopher Huckstepp and Gemma Maglione The Magician of Lublin concludes on Sunday 26 February and will be repeated on Thursday 1 March on RN. Due to copyright restrictions this program is not available for download.
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Worn in
These days it's like products, and even humans have their own 'refresh' buttons. The latest model is always on offer. Happy, shiny people everywhere. But permanent 'nowness' can't last - the cracks start to show, eventually nature subsumes culture and everything falls to bits. The Night Air searches for the 'melancholic beauty in the impermanence of all things', what the Japanese might call 'wabi sabi'. It's the pleasure of the imperfect, impermanent, incomplete. It's when the new gets, if not worn out, then thoroughly worn in... music details: Track: Various Composer: Focus Group CD title: Sketches and Spells label: Ghost Box GBX002 artist: Focus Group Track: Green Grass CD title: Real Gone label: Anti E86678-2 Artist: Tom Waits Track: Lacrimosa CD title: Aural Cultures label: YYZ Books Artist: Eimer Birkbeck Track: Driftwood CD title: Domino 06 label: Wire magazine Artist: Sickoakes Track: Lachrimosa CD title: Aural Cultures label: YYZ Books no no. Artist: Eimer Birkbeck Track: Mean Old World CD title: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music,Volume Four label: Revenant RVN 211 Artist: Heavenly Gospel Singers Track: Close CD title: Stoke label: Touch TO:56 Artist: Philip Jeck Track: Heart of Stone CD title: Descent label: Hic Sunt Leones HSL 013 Artist: Nick Parkin Track: Sun Ra Improv CD title: John Cage Meets Sun Ra label: Meltdown MPA 1 Artist: Sun Ra
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Amina Alaoui : Arco Iris
Arco Iris (Rainbow, in Spanish) is eclectic, unfettered and exquisite. Some verses are very old, but their wonderful, subtle, highly erudite Moroccan singer is "...an artist of the present. I abstain from simply copying the styles of the past." Amina Alaoui says of her new album: This music transcribes an Iberian peninsula carried toward a dialogue with the potential of what it might be. It is a poetic geography that entertains the dream of the impossible... Note: if you click either of the adjacent images, you will see it much-enlarged, annotated, and in whatever is its particular 'correct' format The album's actual geography embraces at least four continents. Its newest verses are nearly one thousand years younger than its oldest. Its smallest ensemble is her voice, alone. Five excellent instrumentalists appear in various combinations. Amina Aloui's son Idriss Agnel is her percussionist. Violinist Safallah Ben Abderrazak is from Tunisia, as is oud player Sofiane Negra. Eduardo Miranda is her Portuguese-resident, Brazilian mandolinist. Flamenco guitarist Jos Luis Montn is from Barcelona. 'World Music/Muzak-lite', Arco Iris blessedly is not! Background on this album: Each of these very petite biographies tells a little more about Amina Aloui, who now lives in Granada, Spain. The spoken content in this recent Spanish TV feature on Amina Alaoui will prove frustrating if you speak only English, but it does also nicely showcase her superb voice and ditto accompanists:
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The White Earth - Episode 6
William and his mother Veronica, have moved in with a relative John McIvor, after William's father was killed in a farm accident. His uncle explains what he has in mind for the young boy.
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Quiet Space Top 50 2012 [Part 4]
We continue our countdown of the best 50 releases of 2012
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Nanae Yoshimura - The Art Of The Koto, Vol. 4
The Art of the Koto Volume 4 features Nanae Yoshimura playing the Japanese board zither on big modern pieces by Minoru Miki and Takashi Yoshimatsu accompanied by Pro Musica Nipponia, an ensemble of traditional Japanese instruments who mix traditional and contemporary classical approaches. The recording celebrates the 40th anniversary of the nijugen-koto, the expansion of the 13-string koto to 20 strings to accommodate new demands of an expended repertoire. The composer Miki Minoru played a key role in developing the instrument. Nanae Yoshimura began learning the koto from her mother at the age of 3. In today's show we'll hear Yoshimatsu Takashi's 1999 composition, 'Within Dreams, Without Dreams, about changing a dream of ill omen to one of good omen, with five movements - Water, Tree, Fire, Clouds and Sky.
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The White Earth - Episode 7
John McIvor has taken William on a tour of Kuran Station, and William becomes involved in his uncle's political fringe group.
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Amparo Sanchez - Tucson-Habana
'Tucson-Habana' is the album recorded in those cities by Spanish rock singer and writer Amparo Sanchez, produced and played on by Joey Burns and John Convertino of Calexico. The female answer to Manu Chao as the lead singer of Madrid group 'Amparanoia', met Calexico at a concert at Royal Festival Hall in London, where she joined the Arizona-based indie rockers on stage. The new album is quieter than Amparanoia, dominated by Amparo's ballads about survival, pain and love, with the cinematic, south of the border soundscapes of Calexico adding to the atmosphere. She's joined by guest vocalists on various tracks - Buena Vista vocalist Omara Portuondo, Western Saharan singer Mariem Hassan and Ivory Coast Reggae singer Tiken Jah Fakoly.
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The White Earth - Episode 8
John McIvor has returned to Kuran Station after an absence of two weeks and William begins helping him organising a rally to be held on the property.
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The Conversation: Charles Dickens at Home
Charles Dickens loved interior design. He was one of the first people in England to have a shower in his house rather than a bath, and he was passionate about wallpaper.
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Design Files - with Colin Bisset
This week writer-in-residence Colin Bisset looks at the
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In The Field - in a heritage garden
Cultural historian James Broadbent talks about his love of drowsy gardens - and his dislike of the sit-on lawnmower. He is a fan of grass - and letting parts of a garden go unmown. Find out why as he shows Janne Ryan around an old historic garden, owned by , in Murrurundi, NSW, Australia.
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The Panel - luxury camping
Luxury camping is now available in Australia after a rise in popularity throughout the world. You can be in the wilderness but still have home comforts like a warm bed with sheets and beautiful food and wine. The demands of this new breed of luxury camper sees designers extending the facilities available to include flushing toilets and separate communal areas, as well as private rooms to get away from fellow guests. Many users of these sites are former 'rough' campers who are time poor, or don't want the hassle of setting up a tent and owning all the gear, but are still looking for a genuine outdoors experience. But this new trend also has its pitfalls, with mod cons often creating greater environmental impacts. South African architect Silvio Rech tells By Design how the rise of 'intellectual tourists' has required the construction of greener campsites. Rech engaged the skills of local craftsmen to create a camping experience that not only respects the natural environment, but also achieves an iconic style drawing on the landscape and its resources.
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Django's Dream
French Gypsy Swing quartet 'Django's Dream' present a different side of Django on their self-titled album - one that chooses the clarinet over the violin and the electric over the acoustic guitar. Although Django's recordings with violinist Stephane Grappelli have created his most known legacy, he recorded with clarinetist Hubert Rostaing all through the 1940s, when he wrote some of his best pieces. Clarinetist Claude Tissendier plays Hubert's part beautifully and Romain Brizemur plays a super-charged electric guitar version of Django with lots of double time flashery.
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