Episode 071 - feat. Mary Lou Newmark, Beard, Joan Jeanrenaud, Shiki Group

Mary Lou Newmark - "These are the Street Angels"
Beard - "Beautiful Interiors and How to Achieve Them"
Joan Jeanrenaud - "Axis"
Shiki Group - "Ostinato"

http://bowed.org/071/071.mp3

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Hello everyone,

Mary Lou Newmark is a poet and violinist from California. She recently debuted a full-scale theatrical production on the subject of homelessness called Street Angel Diaries. A companion CD was released in 2007 called Music From Street Angel Diaries -- and this is the lead track from that disc.

Beard returns for a second appearance on this program, having been featured on episode 020 and with violinist Bille Howard as the host of episode 021. They have a new EP out called Beautiful Interiors and this is the title track from that disc.

Cellist Joan Jeanrenaud is back as well. She is perhaps best known for her work as the longtime cellist with Kronos Quartet. She left Kronos in 1999 to venture into improvisation and composition, and in 2008 has released her second disc of original work entitled Strange Toys.

Closing the show is Shiki Group, an improvisational trio from Boston featuring Tsuyoshi Honjo on sax, Michael McNeill on piano, and Gabriel Solomon on violin. Strange and wonderful.

Thanks! ...and a special hello to everyone out at the Creative Strings Workshop in Columbus! Wish I could join you!

Mark Allender, producer-host
web: www.bowed.org
email: string@bowed.org
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skype: mark.allender

Episode 021 - Hosted by violinist Billie Howard

Rhys Marsh - "Spoken"
Black Violin - "Brandenburg BV Remix"
Sundqvist - "Threat"
Megan B. Lynch - "Done Gone"
2 Guitar Viols - "Star Sailor"
David Wilson - "Vivianita"
Vio7 - "SickDance"
Scorzo, Greenfield, & Rento - "Mothballs"

http://bowed.org/021/021.mp3

This show is in many ways the show I have been trying to put together since day one. Every tune has a gorgeous string sound front and center, and a majority of the tunes here are unreleased tracks. Don't get me wrong, I am pleased with all of the shows I have put out, but this one is the closest to my original intent. Enjoy!

Hosting this show is violinist Billie Howard of the band Beard - a wonderful indie trio based out Chicago that was featured on the last episode.

Mark
string@bowed.org
www.bowed.org

Episode 020 - Hosted by Darrell "D-Funk" Looney

Donovan Stokes - Death of Cúchulainn
Jerald Daemyon - "Summer Madness"
Tin Hat - "Blind Paper Dragon"
David Strother - "No Messages in this Folder"
Terra Incognita - "Poema de la Solea"
Beard - "Rehearsing For My Gorgeous Life Abroad"
Boulder Acoustic Society - "Does It Really Matter?"

http://www.bowed.org/020/020.mp3

I have been playing double bass since I was nine years old. Coincidentally, I was also the shortest kid in school - which prompted my school orchestra to order their first ¼ size bass. But it was around age 18 or 19 that I became simply obsessed with the sound of a bow on a string. I started playing arco almost exclusively in every band I played in - which was always something of a novelty. Arco bass is not the typical m.o. for an upright player, which means that for a show like this, the number of tracks featured by bass players are few and far between; including my own submission, there have been a total of five arco bass players in a total of twenty episodes. So opening this show is Donovan Stokes - a bass player out of Valdosta, GA. I'll say no more.

I am excited to present the first group featured on this show out of Siberia. Terra Incognita is a group from Barnaul just north of the border with China and Kazakhstan. They present a thrilling and dramatic tune from their newly released debut.

I am also happy to feature a tune from the new Tin Hat disc - their violinist Carla Kihlstedt is one of my favorite players. Tin Hat is a reworked version of Tin Hat Trio - in the past year or so they have lost a member and gained between two and three. They are one of only a handful of groups out there where you can truly say that they have invented their own genre.

Hosting the show is Darrell "D-Funk" Looney - violinist with Da Phatfunk Clique. Darrell has taken the violin to new levels - exploring jazz, funk, reggae and other styles to great effect. He makes it look easy. His group made an appearance on episode 16 of this program and I consider it a privilege to have him here again as host.

I would also like to make mention of a new "del.icio.us" feed for the show: http://del.icio.us/bowedradio. This will be a great outlet for featured artists on the show as well as other cool sites relating to bowed strings.

More great music to come... Stay tuned!

Mark
string@bowed.org
www.bowed.org