Nova on Lyric FM

buck65

Great show anyone listen to this ?
Sunday night 8pm-10pm all kinds of weird , great stuff

cornbb

Yep, I love Nova. We've had a few threads about this before. It can come across as a bit pompous/stuffy but then again I'm always surprised with what he comes out with. Its excellent for listening to on long Sunday evening drives. Kicked off with Iggy Pop last night!

John

I can see why you think it's stuffy and pompous but I think Bernard Clarke is enthusiastic enough to make it work. Last night's one was great, some real gems for me to track down. Especially that long choral piece near the end, I missed the name of it though.

cornbb

John wrote: »

I can see why you think it's stuffy and pompous but I think Bernard Clarke is enthusiastic enough to make it work. Last night's one was great, some real gems for me to track down. Especially that long choral piece near the end, I missed the name of it though.

Here you go, this page should be updated with last night's discography soon: http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/nova/1184053.html

I don't *really* think its stuffy, it's just a first impression given by his voice I think... I'm usually a defender of Lyric FM's non-stuffiness. People are pretty surprised when you tell them they can hear the likes of Aphex Twin/NIN/Jimi Hendrix etc etc on Lyric.

buck65

Yeah I agree, I was washing the dishes listening to the jazz show when this came on last night, I sat at the kitchen table for an hour listening some excellent tunes not a bit stuffy. Loved that 2nd number , the French one

John

Thanks cornbb, I've been waiting for it to be updated (and there it is now). The piece I now need is "Miserere" by Gorecki.

buck65, that French one was great. Really mad stuff at times.

Nova is responsible for so much of the new music I listen to lately. I recently got into Giya Kancheli after Mr. Clarke played "Bright Sorrow" on the show a few weeks ago. Now I feel I'm going to be starting my Gorecki collection

buck65

Some interesting tunes on sunday last
really enjoyed the Frances White piece and Colleen's also
anyone listen in?

cornbb

Just heard a few minutes of it. Four Tet was playing I think

John

I only heard a little too, heard the Four Tet track and not sure what else from earlier in the show.

ANarcho-Munk

Lyric FM is the only radio show that I can find somewhat palatable these days. Daytime radio would be fit to drive anyone insane.

John

John Kelly's show on weekday afternoons is another one worth listening to. Obviously not as oblique in terms of music as Nova but a damn sight more adventurous than other stations' daytime programmes.

Treebeard

I discovered this show a few months ago and am now a regular listener. Great show with tons of variety and I've discovered a fair amount of new music through it

corkproducers

Anyone tuned in?

There was a good track on earlier, played using a violin passed through some effects. This is what was called out:

Níall (/Neil) O'Connor - Summer Drums Cover of night.

Not sure if thats both the track and album, or just the track title.

Does anyone know who that artist is?

Would love to get that track.

cornbb

They'll publish the track list for the night here within a couple of days: http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/nova/

corkproducers

cornbb wrote: »

They'll publish the track list for the night here within a couple of days: http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/nova/

Cheers!

ANarcho-Munk

Have anyone of ye seen this? I just found it last night on the website and it's pretty cool and interesting.

http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/sundaysequence/1171912.html

All about the development of electronic music since the 50's, he even played Karlheinz Stockhausen.:eek:

John

ANarcho-Munk wrote: »

Have anyone of ye seen this? I just found it last night on the website and it's pretty cool and interesting.

http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/sundaysequence/1171912.html

All about the development of electronic music since the 50's, he even played Karlheinz Stockhausen.:eek:

I like Roger Doyle's work and really wanted to listen to this but RTE insists on using realplayer for its streaming which is a horrible, horrible program in my opinion. I can count the number of times I've gotten things to stream properly using it on one hand.

And I missed Nova last night but looking at the playlist I can recreate most of the show by playing the free CDs that came with The Wire recently :pac:

bionic.laura

I emailed Nova to say I enjoyed the show and they sent me a t-shirt with the show logo on it. I actually wondered how many people could possibly listen to the show until I discovered the experimental music section here.

John

I got a t-shirt too a while ago (the one with the tube map on the back?), so instantly they're the best radio show in the world!

I reckon the listener numbers are higher than you'd expect for such a show as you'll have people like us who are into weird electronic stuff looking for a fix but also the more adventurous "traditional" Lyric listener in it for the contemporary composition.

Another good one last night, anyone hear it? The Schaeffer pieces were amazing.

cornbb

John wrote: »

I got a t-shirt too a while ago (the one with the tube map on the back?), so instantly they're the best radio show in the world!

I reckon the listener numbers are higher than you'd expect for such a show as you'll have people like us who are into weird electronic stuff looking for a fix but also the more adventurous "traditional" Lyric listener in it for the contemporary composition.

Another good one last night, anyone hear it? The Schaeffer pieces were amazing.

I'm not a big Schaeffer fan for some reason! It was nice to hear Cage's Imaginary Landscapes 1, that's one of my favourite electroacoustic pieces. I also liked the last piece that was played but I forget what it was called.

John

Was it by the Balenescu Quartet or was that earlier in the show. I forgot about Cage, I'd never heard any of the Imaginary Landscape pieces before.

anti-venom

Yeah, I think it was The Balanescu Quartet, from the Maria T album. I liked it so much I ordered a copy straight away on Amazon. I bought Balanescu's 'Possessed' years ago with that lovely version of Kraftwerk's The Model (recommended to one and all) . Must dig that out and give it a spin.

John

anti-venom wrote: »

Yeah, I think it was The Balanescu Quartet, from the Maria T album. I liked it so much I ordered a copy straight away on Amazon. I bought Balanescu's 'Possessed' years ago with that lovely version of Kraftwerk's The Model (recommended to one and all) . Must dig that out and give it a spin.

John Kelly played their version of "The Robots" a couple of months ago, kept meaning to get whatever album that was on. Is it the same one that has "The Model"?

anti-venom

John wrote: »

John Kelly played their version of "The Robots" a couple of months ago, kept meaning to get whatever album that was on. Is it the same one that has "The Model"?

Yes, John, that's the one - Possessed. It's a lovely album and well worth getting your hands on a copy.

John

Good stuff. I'll check it out.

luckat

It is weird. RTE used to have good podcasts, which you could play on iTunes; now it's that horrible RealPlayer system, which you can't even stop and move back and forwards to listen to part again - it jumps back to the beginning if you do that. <shudder>

John

Yeah, it's the pits. I wish they'd use anything else.

ANarcho-Munk

Anyone know what the name was of the last song he played on Sunday?

John

Ligeti's Lontano