JABERWOCKY CONSORT
- Jane Ruckert:
- voice, hurdy gurdy,clave
- Imogen Telfer:
- flute, sopranino, recorder, descant recorder, tenor recorder, egg shaker, small saucepan lid, an Encyclopedic Dictionary, woodblock, scissors
- Jack Schiller:
- bassoon, clarinet inBb, party whistle, whip, scissors
- Jeri Foreman:
- viola, ratchet, guiro, kazoo
- Riley Sutton:
- voice, paper, electric mixer, empty balloon, inflated balloon, pin, hose-horn, saucepan, cardboard box,bicycle pump, cup of water, staplers
- Robin Parkin:
- piano, hapsicord, flute,duct tape paper, kazoo, high-pitched bell, door frame,hose-horn
- Caitlin Morrison:
- piano accordion, cello, toy drium, kazoo, scissors, ratchet>
- Anna Butterss:
- double bass, toy shaker-drum, pencil case, kazoo
- David Lang
- composer, fingernails on piano strings
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THE TRACKS
- 1 Twa Corbies
- A traditional Scottish Ballad (Child's "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads") from the same family as the English Three Ravens. This version however, gets a little closer to the realities of life.
- 2 Trollpolska
- A traditional Boda polska. Troll, in Swedish, loosely translates to magic and enchantment. The sympathetic strings on the nyckelharpa enhance this feeling.
- 3 Yea Ho Little Fish
- This song is said to have been collected in Australia, however it is maybe better known through the Spencer Tracey film, "Captains Courageous". Spencer Tracey is seen playing a hurdy gurdy while singing "Yea ho little fish".
- 4 Captains Courageous Written by English hurdy gurdy player, Nigel Eaton, this tune fits nicely with "Yea ho little fish".
- 5 Pique La Baleine
- From the French South Seas Sperm Whale fishery. This rowing song, a Chanson a ramer, is one of the few survivors from that trade. The words roughly translate as "I will sail the oceans until I find my true love and then we shall roll together in each others arms at the bottom of the sea". Ho hum.
- 6 Ben Durdi
- This piece achieves a unique, haunting sound through the sympathetic strings on both instruments, the Indian Bendir drum and the hurdy gurdy.
- 7 The Teeside Bridges
- Written by Erik Gooding in the 1970s this tells part of the story of the decline of heavy industry in Britain. Erik, a mathmatics student, worked a holiday job with the Dorman Long Company in Teeside as steel stocks piled high. Erik also worked for a year in Australia as a maths teacher at Scotch College in Melbourne.
- 8 Havet Svaeller
- A drone based tune where the saxophone and hurdy gurdy interwweave, quietly accompanied by an ever moving beat from various drums and percussion.
- 9 The Prostitute Song
- This was written by Colin Campbell in the 1970s when he used to live in Sydney near Kings Cross and was friendly with a few of the local ladies of the night who lived in the area.
- 10 Emma/Five Jump/Sven Sture
- Traditional Finnish (arr. Angelika Maier)/ traditional Danish/ Wolfgang Meyering
- 11 Broom Beezums
- This song appears both in areas of the north of England and in Scotland. It is essentially advertising brooms made from heather for sale and is said to have been popular in the 19th century. It is believed to have been the work of a blind fiddler, Willie Purvis
- 12 Jabberwocky
- After mistakenly asking South Australian composer, David Lang, to write me a "slightly tonal piece", I received this masterpiece for my eighteenth birthday. You can imagine the hilarity that occurred when the studio had to be re-arranged for the electric beater to be recorded!
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