We celebrate the changing face of Australian music with Brazilian-born, Perth based singer Juliana’s excellent, Bossa Nova-centred album.

While a teenager she was introduced to the founders of Bossa Nova by prize winning music historian and journalist Ruy Castro who also dubbed her the ‘Bossa Nova Baby.’ Juliana lived in Europe and New Zealand before moving to Perth, which she calls ‘one of the most inspiring, musical and artistic places I have ever experienced.’ The album is all Juliana’s compositions and co-compositions, played by Perth players plus Melbourne guitarist Doug De Vries in a few spots. We’ll also hear Brazilian sounds from Melbourne group Panorama Brasil and authentic Cuban Bolero sounds from Sydney c/o Gai Bryant’s new album ‘Palacio de la Rumba.’ And Australian transportation ballads sung by Bush Gothic and by Ewan MacColl.And there’s more Peggy Seeger and also Jarvis Cocker going all Brechtian on MacColl’s boxer ballad ‘The Battle is Done With.’

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Details of each track are presented in the following order:

Broadcast Time
Track Number And Title
Composer
Publishing And Copyright Details
Recording Company And CD Number, distributor/ source details, like this, in lower-case
Artist And CD Title
Duration of track
Description of track, in parentheses
Where relevant, further info links to information, gigs/events/related programs

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Secret Steel
Lucky Oceans
APRA/AMCOS
Head Records HEAD 060 http://www.headrecords.com
Lucky Oceans – ‘Secret Steel’
40 second excerpt
(Austral comp and perf: minor key pedal steel guitar with double bass, drums and electric guitar [Dave Brewer]

2309
CD Cut 7 – “Night In Takapuna’
Juliana Areias/Pete Jeavons, Sue Burns
Pub Not Spec
JA-001-CD  www.JulianaAreias.com
Juliana Areias – ‘Bossa Nova Baby’
5:05
(Austral comp and perf: Gentle Bossa Nova about New Zealand, with electric piano and bass, acoustic guitar, percussion and flute)

JULIANA AREIAS GIG ALERT:
– RESIDENCE GIG – Sunset Songs – Every Thursday  – Juliana Areias Duo at the Kiosk Floreat Beach , Perth– 6.30-8pm .  (Challenger Parade –  ph:92850048)

–  Fri 3 June 2016 – CAIRNS – Jazz Up North Series – Tanks Arts Centre – Cairns – 7.30pm

Segue

2313
CD Cut 1 – ‘Stone Flower’
AC Jobim
Pub Not Spec
PDB 20151 www.panoramadobrasil.com
Panorama Brasil – ‘Flor de Pedra’
3:58
(Austral perf and arr: Samba jazz instrumental arrangement of Jobim piece with horns, percussion, guitar)

2319
CD Cut 1 – Tele Ve Ko Koe’ (Big As You Are)
Opetaia Foa’i
Pub Not Spec
WMCD 1010 http://www.tevaka.com
Te Vaka – ‘Amataga’
3:35
(New Zealand comp and perf: Opetaia Foa’I’s Percussion and lead vocals in mostly acoustic song sung in South Pacific language)

Segue

2322
CD Cut 5 – ‘Flecha’ (Arrow)
Juliana Areias/Pete Jeavons, Sue Burns
Pub Not Spec
JA-001-CD  www.JulianaAreias.com
Juliana Areias – ‘Bossa Nova Baby’
6:13
(Austral comp and perf: Marcio’ Mendes Brazilian percussion [the squeaky cuica], Ray Walker’s soloing electric guitar, Graham Wood’s soloing piano and Juliana’s vocals in uptempo love song that mixes images of Brazil and Perth)

2331
CD Cut 13 – ‘Van Dieman’s Land’
Trad, arr by Ewan MacColl
Tradition Music
Topic Records TSCD 502
Ewan MacColl – ‘Chorus From the Gallows’
5:35
(Peggy Seeger’s acoustic guitar and Ewan’s voice in long and detailed version of a transportation ballad)

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2335
CD Cut 5 – ‘Female Transport’
Lyrics and Music trad, arr by Jenny M. Thomas
Pub Not Spec
Fydle Records Fyd 004 distributed by Black Market Music http://www.jennymthomasandthesystem.com/
Bush Gothic – ‘The Natural Selection Australian Songbook’
3:59
(Austral comp and perf: Dramatic plucked and bowed strings and Jenny M. Thomas’ vocals in the voice of a girl who fell into bad company and was transported to Australia)

BUSH GOTHIC 2016 TOUR ALERT:

MELBOURNE – Sat Feb 27, 8:00pm Old Council Chambers, Trades Hall
Adelaide Fringe Festival : 4-6 March- 6pm Crown And Anchor Hotel, 196 Grenfell St,
MELBOURNE – Thursday March 17, 8:30pm Brunswick Music Festival
NATIONAL FOLK FESTIVAL : 24-28 March 2016 Canberra
UK Tour : August/Sep Details coming soon
PORT FAIRY SPRING MUSIC FESTIVAL – October 8 & 9, *with THE LONELY STRING QUARTET
SURFING THE COLDSTREAM FESTIVAL – October 16
BRISBANE UNPLUGGED – October 19

2340
CD 1, Cut 11 – ‘The Battle Is Done With’
Ewan MacColl
Stormking Music Inc./Harmony Music Ltd PRS/Bicycle Music BMI
Cooking Vinyl Records, through Compass Records in USA 7 4857 2
Various – ‘Joy of Living: A Tribute to Ewan MacColl’
4:15
(Jarvis Cocker sings Brechtian, dramatic version of song Ewan MacColl wrote for the 1963 BBC Radio Ballad, ‘The Fight Game’, in the voice of a boxer in his decline with bluesy piano by Kate St. John and harmonica by Neill MacColl)

Segue

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CD Cut 5 – ‘Flowers by the Roadside’
Peggy Seeger
Admin by Bucks Music
Signet Music
Peggy Seeger – ‘Everything Changes’
3:25
(Peggy sings subtly nuanced song about the fragility of life with electro-acoustic backing)

Lyrics:
Crossroads, lights change
Going down under waves and waves of cars
Strangers staring through the windows of a world you left behind
Flowers by the Roadside

Flowers, easy to break, easy to make, one mistake that you can’t take back
Easy to be broken

He says, she says, they say it’s just the way we are
Hiding on the homefront
Black eyed susan in the boxing ring
Flower by the Roadside

Strangers, crossroads, staring out from waves and waves of cars
Drive on, it’s a world we can leave behind
They say ‘it’s just the way we are’…is it just the way we are?

2351
CD Cut 3 – ‘Palacio de la Rumba’
Gai Bryant
Pub Not Spec
http://gaibryantspareparts.com/new-palacio-page/
Talking in Cuba Featuring Justo Pelladito – ‘Palacio de la Rumba’
7:10
(Austral comp and perf: Lloyd Swanton begins with a double bass solo and goes into Cuban groove with Sydney band plus Cuban percussionist)

GAI BRYANT’S PALACIO DE LA RUMBA – CD LAUNCH ‘TALKING IN CUBAN’
January 29 @ 8:30 pm Foundry 616, Ultimo, Sydney