A Sampler for Char and Robbie

I'm not sure what produced this particular selection or order --seemed to go fairly naturally from one to another, pulling stuff off the shelves, not with any plan aforehand, but sort of influenced by various things I remember hearing you play at Richard's house and on the two CDs, and aimed at providing some things that I hope you'll find interesting... Suffice to say that this is a SAMPLER, there's TONS more where this comes from. It doesn't scratch the surface of my holdings of Greek, Turkish, Scandinavian, Klezmer, Balkan... let alone the British Isles/Celtic.

1. (miscue of 6 seconds or so)

2. As steel and iron weigh (Nikos Xylouris) from Ta xhronia stin Kriti (3:51) possibly-relevant Web site

3. He O Oe Oe! (Puseletso Seema & Tau Ea Linare) from Music from Lesotho Globe Style ORB 003 possibly-relevant Web site

4. Corteges dans le Ville (Oller & Yvert) from Accordeon diatonique (2:56) Arion ARN 33727 possibly-relevant Web site

5. Toredek (Makam es Kolinda) Stoof MU7466 possibly-relevant Web site

6. Las Filhas del Saula (Rosina de Peira e Martina) Revolum REV 039 possibly-relevant Web site

7. Suite Plinn: ton simple (Ti Jaz) from Musiques de Basse Bretagne [1985] possibly-relevant Web site

8. Gaberdine Angus (Kitsyke Will) Highway SHY 7020 possibly-relevant Web site

9. and 10. Shamgah in the makam Afshari (Hossein Alizadeh) from Sallaneh (21:38) possibly-relevant Web site

11. Karagouna (Periklis Papapetropoulos and Amin Ala Gabou) from The Sound of the South (2:33) FM691 possibly-relevant Web site

12. Deli Boys (Selim s'evade) Al Sur (4:32) ALCD203

13. Planxty Sir Ulick Birke (Turlu Tursu) from Accordion 'n Drum 'n Bass (3:08) Homerecords4446011 possibly-relevant Web site

14. Sitno Shopsko Oro (Turlu Tursu) (4:50)

15. It Calls Me (Hazmat Modine, with Hun-Huur-Tu) from Bahamut (3:09) Geckophonic GP2009 possibly-relevant Web site

16. 29 cent head (Peter Mulvey) from Kitchen Radio (3:38) Signature Sounds SIG1283 possibly-relevant Web site

17. Le Bal (Hans Reichel) from Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones (4:29) Ellipsis Arts CD3530 possibly-relevant Web site

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about the Alizadeh tracks:

...there is a new instrument (since 2002) being introduced in Iran by Maestro Alizadeh, who has been a prominent face in Iranian music since the 1970s.
The instrument is called "Sallaneh." It has an oud-like body (much smaller) and a fretted long neck that resembles a persian Tar. It has 12 strings, 6 are the main strings and 6 of are sympathetic. The reason for building it, Alizadeh says, is that most plucked persian instruments seem incomplete and lack depth when it comes to having bass sounds and he hopes to add an original solution to this problem, an instrument with greater octave span.
In my opinion, Sallaneh sounds like a weak turkish Tanbur or a Divan (somewhat nasal). Personally I don't like the way it sounds, as much as I like the sound of a turkish tanbur. Many people share my opinion as well. One obvious reason is that fingernails are used to play and I think a plectrum would make a bigger difference specially on bass strings.
Alizadeh has also been using 2 other newly invented instruments called "Shurangiz" and "Gharibaneh." Shurangiz is a basically a 6-string cogur (much like a baglama) but played with a fingernail and Gharibaneh is the same but the soundboard is a combination of mulberry and lamb skin, still played with fingernails.
( http://www.arabicouds.com/messageboard/viewthread.php?tid=2487&page=2 )

The Horton Landing Music CD: these are all improvizations recorded over several years at my house in Nova Scotia, where my principal musical co-conspirator Daniel Heikalo lived and had a studio set up (until May of this year). Daniel plays mostly guitar (and bass recorder and frame drum) on these, and I'm mostly the mandocello (with occasional guitar). I spent about a week each year in Nova Scotia, and we'd start the tape/digital recorder rolling and just PLAY. Most of these are EQ'd and mixed and edited a bit (by Daniel), but they reflect pretty well what rolled out when we sat down to play. A few of them have names (#2 is 'Appalachia', and is in the Skip James Dm tuning [dadfad]; #3 is 'Pas d'vant les enfants' [Not in front of the children]; #5 is 'Clytemnestra's Wobble' and is a sort-of saz I built [in a very odd tuning] and slide octave-strung mandocello; #7 is 'Freakout at the souvlaki hangout') but most don't.