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I am just listening to the latest Canada Live podcast featuring Land of Talk – a Canadian indie rock band:

Indie-rock band Land of Talk is joined by special guests from The Besnard Lakes for this hot concert recorded at the Segal Centre in Montreal.

From Wikipedia: Land of Talk is a Canadian indie rock band formed in 2006 from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The band consists of singer and guitarist Elizabeth Powell, bassist Joseph Yarmush and drummer Andrew Barr.

You can download the Canada Live podcast from: http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/podcasts/canadalive.html

I just found another podcast from CBC Radio 3 Sessions with Land of Talk: http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/podcasts/CBC-Radio-3-Sessions/Land-of-Talk-LIVE-in-Concert

Land of Talk plays great rock music – I like their sound very much!

Land of Talk are releasing their second full-length album, Cloak & Cipher on August 24th.

Here are some videos with Land of Talk:

Land Of Talk – It’s Okay

The next video has much energy and a great sound:

Land Of Talk – Sea Foam – live at Fearless Music

Land Of Talk performing Sea Foam live at Fearless Music, NYC. www.fearlessmusic.com – recorded in 2008

The last video was made very recently in Quebec, the sound of this live videos is not so good, but it may give an impression about how the Band performs today:

Land of Talk It’s Okay – FEQ 2010

Land of Talk au Festival d’Été de Québec 2010.

Links about Land of Talk

Myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/landoftalk

Homepage: http://www.landoftalk.com/

Wikipedia about Land of Talk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Talk

another interesting Blog post about Land of Talk: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2010/07/land_of_talk_an.html

Some time ago I have found a nice video with a mandolin version of a piece with titel Tango en Skai played by the Japanes mandolin player Kozo Onishi. I had not heard this piece before, but I liked it immediately. This is one of the two videos of Tango en Skai by Kozo Onishi played on the mandolin:

Tango en Skai – Kozo Onishi – Mandolin version

I wanted to know more about this piece so I looked for information and other videos. Tango en Skai was composed by Roland Dyens, who is a guitarist and composer and there is a video of Tango en Skai played by himself:

Tango en Skai – Roland Dyens

A second video shows Roland Dyens together with Thomas Viloteau during a workshop in Los Angeles:

Roland Dyens & Thomas Viloteau: Tango en Skai

Liverecording GFA Convention 2007, Los Angeles. By permission of the Artists

In the last video Tango en Skai is played by the young Japanese guitarist Kaori Mujari. This shows that Tango en Skai is also vey popular in Japan, maybe Kozo Onishi was inspired by a video like this to play this tune on the mandolin.

Tango en Skai – Kaori Mujari

I have collected other versions of this often played piece in my playlist. You can find versions with other instruments as well, including accordion versions, guitar ensemble, violin and guitar. marimbaphone, …

Playlist Tango en Skai

Enjoy the Tango en Skai!

Links zu Tango en Skai und Roland Dyens

youtube Channel Onishikozo

Roland Dyens – Wikipedia (English)

Homepage Rolad Dyens

Decca: Kaori Mujari

By twitter I have heard about this two videos that were made from a concert of the Langendorfer Zupforchester, the mandolin orchestra from Langendorf in Germany – given in Japan some days ago.

On the homepage of the Langendorfer Mandolineorchesters you can find some information about the friendship between this German mandolin orchestra and Japan. In 1980 the orchestra made a three weeks journey to India and Japan where the orchestra took part in the High-School-Guitar-Mandolin-Festival in Osaka. The orchestra traveled to Sweden, the USA, Poland, the Netherlands, Italy and India in the following years as well. After the first trip to Japan an active exchange between Germany and Japan began. The orchestra gets regular visits from the Tezukayama-Mandolin Orchestra with his conductor Kozo Kanaji.

Original text in German from the homepage of the Langendorfer Zupforchester:

Im Jahre 1980 unternahmen wir eine mehr als dreiwöchige Flugreise nach Indien, wo wir Konzerte in Neu-Delhi und Bombay gaben, und Japan, wo das Orchester an dem High-School-Guitarr-Mandolin-Festival in Osaka teilnahm.

Es folgten weitere Reisen nach Schweden, Amerika, Polen, Holland, Italien und Südafrika. Aus der ersten Reise nach Japan entstand ein Austausch. Im regelmäßigen Abstand wird Langendorf von dem japanischen Tezukayama-Mandolinenorchester mit seinem Dirigenten Kozo Kanaji besucht.

Für uns waren die bisherigen Besuche einschließlich der Gegenbesuche immer eine Bereicherung in mehrfacher Hinsicht. Zum einen haben wir von den Japanerinnen viel gelernt in puncto Spielkultur. Zum anderen haben wir durch die Begegnung mit diesem Orchester neue Literatur kennen gelernt, die auch in unser Repertoire eingeflossen ist. Zum Dritten haben wir Einblicke in eine andere, fremde Kultur bekommen und dabei unsere eigene Kultur besser begriffen.

フラメンコ風ルンバ Langendorrfer Mandolinenorchester 5

Dieter Kreidler – Rumba Flamenca

Conductor: Anja Renz, concert  on  July, 24th,  2010, Social Welfare Center in Kagawa

クラリネット協奏曲 (Allegro) Langendorfer Mandolinenorchester 1

I. Pleyel, Clarinet Concerto (Allegro)

concert  on  July, 24th,  2010, Social Welfare Center in Kagawa; conductor: Eberhard Malitius

At the moment there are three more videos from this concert with the other two movements of the clarinet concerto by I. Pleyel and a piece by Valdo Preema – Sincerely – go to the youtube channel of MANNO7000 to watch those videos:

http://www.youtube.com/user/MANNO7000

Links about the Langendorfer Mandolinenorchester

Homepage: http://www.mandolinenorchester.eu/

Youtube channel MANNO7000 with more videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/MANNO7000

Wikipedia (German) about Langendorf: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langendorf_%28Elbe%29

Al di Meola  and his band World Sinfonia have played at the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. This concert is available a a concert on demand of the CBC:

World Sinfonia at the 2009 Vancouver International Jazz Festival

His current project – Al di Meola World Sinfonia – blends classical, jazz, and tango music with Middle Eastern overtones. The result is an electrifying mix complete with sophisticated rhythms, haunting and alluring melodies, and of course some thrilling guitar action.

• Al Di Meola – guitar
• Fausto Beccalossi – accordion, vocals
• Victor Miranda – bass
• Gumbi Ortiz – percussion
• Peter Kaszas – drums, percussion

The plyaed pieces by Al di Meola, Astor Piazzolla and Ralph Towner

• Misterio
• Siberiana
• Double Concerto (Astor Piazzolla)
• Michaelangelo’s Seventh Son
• Gumbiero
• Cafe 1930 (Astor Piazzolla)
• Umbras (Andrea Parodi)
• Green and Golden (Ralph Towner)
• Mediterranean Sundance

Al di Meolahas played together with many other great musicians, very popular is his album Friday Night in San Francisco with John McLaughlin and the flamenco guitaruist Paco de Lucia.

His current band inludes the accordeon which creates an interesting mix of jazz, flamenco and tango.

You can find videos of Al di Meola and his band in his official youtube channel, here as an example the famous Mediterranean Sundance:

Al Di Meola – “Mediterranean Sundance”

As a second example here a video of the Double Concerto byAstor Piazzolla:

Al Di Meola – “Double Concerto”

Official youtube Channel of Al di Meola:

OfficialAlDiMeola

Official Homepage:

http://www.aldimeola.com/

Wikipedia:

Al di Meola

Some time ago I wrote about Jim Hall, and I found also some videos where Jim Hall played together with the great German jazz guitarist Atilla Zoller.
Here are some videos with Atilla Zoller:

When It’s Time – Attila Zoller

Attila Zoller – Another Xanthippe

coolest grannies on stage ever! This Attila original is based on there’ll never be another you, and notice how he sneaks in a trane turnaround in bars 5 -6, /Cm7 Db7/Gbmaj A7/Bbm7 etc. Just like they did in the 60ies! So sweet. And the cat could absolutely still play. Live Hungary 1997. A few months later he was gone.

Jim Hall and Attila Zoller Duo play Careful

The Jim Hall and Attila Zoller guitar Duo play Jim’s song, Careful, on a 1973 German TV show.

Attila Zoller – The Birds And The Bees