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New Sounds provides a place for your left and right brain to unwind at the end of day. Host John Schaefer combs recent recordings for one of the most educational and enchanting hours on radio. For 20 years, he's been finding the melody in the rainforest and the rhythm in an orchestra of tin cans. The program offers new ways to hear the ancient language of song. With guest musicians from David Byrne to Meredith Monk to Ravi Shankar, Schaefer presents performances and premieres new works from the classic and operatic to folk and jazz. Tune in for the next wave or the most ancient forms of music.
PROGRAM # 2087 World Music featuring David Corter |
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"Where folk blues meet Australian didgeridoo. Sound like an odd
combination? You'll be surprised by the complementary coupling of
achin' and bluegrass-tinged Steel and slide guitar with the rumbling,
timeless growl of the didgeridoo. Having studied in the bush with
Wardaman tribe elder/ didgeridoo player, Bill Harney, David is clearly
on the forefront of contemporary artists. Together with the pulsing
emotion of the blues with the curious spaciousness the didgeridoo
opens up, this album is one of those which once heard, will have you
wondering what you ever did without it." Reviewer: Tamara
Turner, CD Baby
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“Although he has been playing the instrument for a mere four
years, it’s probably safe to say that David Corter is New York
City’s preeminent didgeridoo player. Corter and Estep…
joined their talents after they each recorded a solo album. Although
the results are neither bluegrass not tribal aboriginal music, the
title of the album is nonetheless oddly appropriate. Estep uses his
National steel guitar to great effect as both musicians taunt each
other with sounds that are at times spooky and at other times serene.
A tune such as ‘Swamp Thing’ is as funky as anything from
the ‘swamp rock’ genre. ‘Great While Walrus’
features the Australian bullroarer, a sacred instrument which is used
here in a totally different context. The piece starts off sounding
like a chainsaw in slow motion, although it actually has a soothing
effect. ‘It’s Cashed’ features and African instrument
called a doussn’gouni…” (AP)
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“’There for the grace of Rod go I’ could be David
Corter’s maxim. His goal is to take the Didgeridoo to a place
far away from the sample trays and loop-holes so many Western musicians
stick the instrument in. This NYC-based Rodzilla certainly achieves
his aim on this disc. Corter favors dynamic and hypnotic phrasing
in his explorations of the instrument’s more melodic side…
[the album] finds him masterfully weaving that approach into an intricate
web of ambient, jazz, worldbeat, noise and rock threads. A welcome
and refreshing expansion of the didg plate.” (AP)
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Profile of and interview with David Corter by Raphael Sugarman
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