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Jess's guest this week is folk artist Sam Amidon. His songs reimagine and breathe new life into old songs and ballads, but his musical life also encompasses any number of collaborations with classical composers, experimental producers as well as the jazz world which he finds so inspiring.
Sam and Jess settle in for a listening party of the music they love, including Ornette Coleman and friends having a street party, Ennio Morricone in full blown cinematic mode, Sam shares a revelatory recording by the Georgian voices in The Rustavi Choir and Jess continues her bid to be reincarnated in the 1960s with a Dusty Springfield classic.
Playlist:
TRAD GEORGIAN: Shen Khar venakhi – Kartli Kakhetia (The Rustavi Choir)
MORRICONE: Cinema Paradiso – Theme
ORNETTE COLEMAN: Friends and Neighbours (Vocal version) [Live]
PROKOFIEV: Romeo and Juliet – Dance of the Knights (Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel (conductor))
SAILEOG NÍ CHEANNABHÁIN: Bean a’ Leanna
EDMUND ANDERSON/TED GROUYA: Flamingo (Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn (piano))
JANACEK: Kreutzer Sonata arr. for Strings – 1st mvt Adagio (Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (violin/director))
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD: Anyone Who Had a Heart
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Jess's guest this week is folk artist Sam Amidon. His songs reimagine and breathe new life into old songs and ballads, but his musical life also encompasses any number of collaborations with classical composers, experimental producers as well as the jazz world which he finds so inspiring.
Sam and Jess settle in for a listening party of the music they love, including Ornette Coleman and friends having a street party, Ennio Morricone in full blown cinematic mode, Sam shares a revelatory recording by the Georgian voices in The Rustavi Choir and Jess continues her bid to be reincarnated in the 1960s with a Dusty Springfield classic.
Playlist:
TRAD GEORGIAN: Shen Khar venakhi – Kartli Kakhetia (The Rustavi Choir)
MORRICONE: Cinema Paradiso – Theme
ORNETTE COLEMAN: Friends and Neighbours (Vocal version) [Live]
PROKOFIEV: Romeo and Juliet – Dance of the Knights (Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel (conductor))
SAILEOG NÍ CHEANNABHÁIN: Bean a’ Leanna
EDMUND ANDERSON/TED GROUYA: Flamingo (Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn (piano))
JANACEK: Kreutzer Sonata arr. for Strings – 1st mvt Adagio (Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (violin/director))
DUSTY SPRINGFIELD: Anyone Who Had a Heart
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