Nicolas Krassik
(The Daily Planet: Thursday 10 July 2008)
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/dailyplanet/stories/2008/2292599.htm
Caçuá, a word with Tupi (Indigenous Brazilian Language) origins, is a wicker or vine basket used to carry provisions. It’s also the title of Parisian-born, Rio de Janeiro-based violinist Nicolas Krassik’s fine CD with a choro trio and special guests.

Two-Faced Friday
(The Daily Planet: Friday 11 July 2008)
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/dailyplanet/stories/2008/2294927.htm
Listening back over the last week, and forward to what’s on The Daily Planet next week.

Thierry ‘Titi’ Robin and Band from Womadelaide 2008 plus Cesaria Evora at the 1997 Brisbane Biennial
(Music Deli: Friday 11 July 2008)
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/musicdeli/stories/2008/2293067.htm
In this week’s Music Deli more from the Womadelaide Festival that happened in Botanic Park Adelaide in March. From that festival, Titi Robin and his quartet. In the second part of the program, the Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora recorded in Brisbane in 1997 during her first Australian tour.

#28 11 07 2008
(Sound Quality: Friday 11 July 2008 | Time To Air: 2320)
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/soundquality/stories/2008/2278677.htm
Avant garde, improvised music from the United States, ethereal vocal from French speaking Canada, chilled out melancholic sounds from Denmark, local jazz, re-release of 60’s counter culture sounds and a few more surprises make up this week’s Sound Quality.

Transcending Time - Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time
(RN Into The Music: Saturday 12 July 2008)
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/intothemusic/stories/2008/2294943.htm
In 1940, when he wrote his landmark Quartet for the End of Time, Olivier Messiaen was interned in a German prisoner-of-war camp facing his own mortality. In the centenary year of Messiaen’s birth, Cathy Peters explores the extraordinary circumstances in which the work was made and the transcendent nature of a piece that was to become one of the beacons of 20th century composition.

12 July 2008
(The Music Show: Saturday 12 July 2008)
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/musicshow/stories/2008/2288303.htm
This week, another chance to hear The Music Show from The Famous Spiegeltent last October [20/10/07] featuring guests from the 2007 Melbourne International Festival of the Arts. Guests include seminal performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson; Brazilian singer and guitarist Badi Assad; John Cage collaborator and composer Christian Wolff; Israeli singer and guitarist David Broza; and Melbourne jazz pianist and composer Aaron Choulai and the Tatana Village Choir from PNG. This week’s podcast interview is Aaron Choulai.

Raphael Rabello {repeat: 1st aired on 20.10.07}
(The Weekend Planet: Saturday 12 July 2008)
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/weekendplanet/stories/2008/2278978.htm
Pat Metheny regards Raphael Rabello as ‘one of the greatest guitarists who has ever lived.’ Antonio Carlos Jobim said ‘Raphael is Brazil’s finest guitarist’. Rabello died in 1995, aged 32. Seven months earlier, over just two afternoons, he recorded Cry, My Guitar. Very few guitar albums are in the same league as this posthumous release. Its astonishing, subtle, beautiful nylon-stringed acoustic guitar solos incline to choro, but draw on many sources. There are no over-dubs.

Sunday 13th July
(Quiet Space: Sunday 13 July 2008)
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/quietspace/stories/2008/2300277.htm

Luciano Biondini and Ricardo Rocha {repeat: 1st aired on 16.9.07}
(The Weekend Planet: Sunday 13 July 2008)
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/weekendplanet/stories/2008/2278987.htm
Two unusual, beautiful, virtuosic solo performances: one in a theatre in its Italian artist’s home city, the other in a Portuguese monastery. Luciano Biondini’s Prima Del Cuore means ‘before the heart’. A reviewer noted that Biondini ‘bristles with Mediterranean fire and charm’; any attentive listener will ‘quickly forget any prejudices against the squeeze-box’. Ricardo Rocha’s guitarra portuguesa is a beautiful instrument, more akin to mandola than guitar. Rarely heard alone, it usually accompanies fado singers. Ricardo Rocha’s voluptuária does not reject tradition, but his more adventurous coruscations show why Rocha has been called ‘the Ornette Coleman of his instrument.’

Monday 14th July
(Quiet Space: Monday 14 July 2008)
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/quietspace/stories/2008/2298149.htm

Mary McPartlan
(The Daily Planet: Monday 14 July 2008)
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/dailyplanet/stories/2008/2292602.htm
Well-weathered Irish vocalist Mary McPartlan’s second CD, Petticoat Loose, has diverse arrangements and styles with a core of traditional songs from her childhood in Co. Leitrim.

Anat Cohen
(The Daily Planet: Tuesday 15 July 2008)
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/dailyplanet/stories/2008/2292604.htm
Israeli Saxophonist Anat Cohen’s CD Noir combines her love of Big Band music with Brazilian music, sometimes in the same song, as in her version of Samba De Orfeu/Struttin’ With Some Barbecue.

Emmylou Harris
(The Daily Planet: Wednesday 16 July 2008)
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/dailyplanet/stories/2008/2292608.htm
Emmylou Harris’ CD, All I Intended to Be, her first new CD in 5 years, reunites her with her former producer (and husband) Brian Ahern for a languorous, melancholy set of country-ish songs of which Emmylou’s 5 originals excel.

Modernatradiçao
(The Daily Planet: Thursday 17 July 2008)
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/dailyplanet/stories/2008/2292612.htm
Modernatradiçao includes 5 great Brazilian musicians’ versions of some choro classics by Garoto, Jacob do Bandolim, Ernesto Nazareth and Pixinguinha, lots of Pixinguinha.