On this episode of A Curious Ear, we will blur the boundaries between so-called ‘high’ and ‘low’ art as we reimagine the popular song. We will hear famed harmonica player Gregoire Maret, with Bill Frissell and Romain Collin, perform music by Bon Iver & Dire Straits, a playful reinterpretation of The Beatles’s Here Comes the Sun for trumpet and soprano, and two works that sample 1950s and 60s pop recordings, albeit to very different ends. All that and more on A Curious Ear.
Show Notes:
Virtue the Cat Explains Her Departure - The Weakerthans
Steven Page & The Art of Time Ensemble
from A Singer Must Die
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
Gregoire Maret, Romain Collin, Bill Frissell
from Americana
If I Had a Boat - Lyle Lovett
Kieran Hebden, William Tyler
from 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s
Vim - Carl Stone
from Electronic Music from 1972-2022
Solis - Alexandre Lunsqui
Byrne:Kozar:Duo
from It Floats Away from You (New Focus Recordings)
Omaggio at Jerry Lee Lewis - Richard Trythall
from Players and Tape: Trythall/Hudson/McClellan (Composers Recordings, Inc.)
I Better Be Quiet Now - Elliott Smith
Brad Mehldau
from Ride into the Sun
re:stacks - Bon Iver
Gregoire Maret, Romain Collin, Bill Frissell
from Americana