Podcast appearances and mentions of thomas lauderdale

Selección de novedades con alto poder energético.Playlist;SPLIT SYSTEM “Chemicals”LES LULLIES “A l’etroit”THE VOLCANICS “Going into the Sun”THE NEW CHRISTS “Like a curse”PRIVATE FUNCTION “Koala”PRIVATE FUNCTION “Animal”KID CONGO POWERS “Peanuts”DRACULINA with KID CONGO POWER “The lie”Versión y Original; GUN CLUB “The lie”GREG “STACKHOUSE” PREVOST “Traveling in the dark”THE SHITKICKER REBELLION “White light, white heat”NERVOUS EATERS “Man’s gotta right”NERVOUS EATERS “No more idols”THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “Malagueña”PINK MARTINI “Bella Ciao”Escuchar audio

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Emily Nussbaum (The New Yorker) unpacks her book Cue the Sun: The Invention of Reality TV, which explores our obsession and distaste for what she calls "dirty documentary;" pianist Thomas Lauderdale and vocalist China Forbes of Pink Martini chat about their 30-year journey with the genre-bending musical group, before performing "Una Notte a Napoli" from their album Hang on Little Tomato. Plus, host Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello hear from our audience members about an imaginary reality TV show they'd like to see.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Emily Nussbaum (The New Yorker) unpacks her book Cue the Sun: The Invention of Reality TV, which explores our obsession and distaste for what she calls "dirty documentary;" pianist Thomas Lauderdale and vocalist China Forbes of Pink Martini chat about their 30-year journey with the genre-bending musical group, before performing "Una Notte a Napoli" from their album Hang on Little Tomato. Plus, host Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello hear from our audience members about an imaginary reality TV show they'd like to see.

Một nữ một nam : cô ca sĩ China Forbes có một chất giọng trầm ấm, còn anh Thomas Lauderdale là một người có tài soạn nhạc và chơi đàn dương cầm. Hai nghệ sĩ gặp nhau thời họ còn là sinh viên trường đại học Harvard, rồi cùng nhau thành lập cách đây ba thập niên ban nhạc jazz La tinh người Mỹ, thành công nhất tại Pháp : nhóm Pink Martini. Sinh trưởng tại Oakland (California), Thomas Lauderdale đến lập nghiệp đầu những năm 1990 tại thành phố Portland, và nhờ vậy anh có thêm cơ hội chơi piano trong các dàn nhạc giao hưởng lớn ở bang Oregon. Thời sinh viên, Thomas nghiên cứu lịch sử nghệ thuật tại Harvard, trao dồi tài nghệ chơi nhạc cổ điển của Poulenc, Bach hay Beethoven .....Về phần mình, cô China Forbes theo học khoa văn, giờ nhàn rỗi được dành cho các lớp thanh nhạc và diễn xuất sân khấu. Ngoài âm nhạc, hai nghệ sĩ này còn chia sẻ niềm đam mê với ngôn ngữ và văn hóa Pháp. Khi cùng nhau thành lập Pink Martini vào năm 1994, họ quyết định ghi âm bằng tiếng Pháp và sau đó nữa trong nhiều thứ tiếng khác.Vào năm 1997, ban nhạc người Mỹ phát hành album đầu tiên của mình mang tựa đề ''Sympathique''. Album này lập kỷ lục số bán, lọt vào danh sách Top Ten trong 6 tháng. Nhờ vậy, nhóm Pink Martini nhận đề cử ''Tài năng đầy triển vọng'' nhân kỳ trao giải thưởng âm nhạc Victoires de la Musique của Pháp. Gợi hứng từ một bài thơ ngắn của thi hào Guillaume Apollinaire trên tuyển tập "Banalités & Quelconqueries" (Những điều tầm thường vô vị), nhóm này sáng tác nhạc phẩm "Je ne veux pas travailler" ( Tôi không muốn làm việc / Tôi chỉ muốn làm biếng), mở đường cho nhóm này chinh phục thị trường Pháp và đưa họ đi biểu diễn trên các sân khấu lớn vòng quanh thế giới.Sau thành công của album đầu tay "Sympathique", nhóm Pink Martini không ngừng mở rộng sân chơi, dung hoà nhiều thể loại jazz/pop/folk hay la tinh/bán cổ điển, hợp tác với nhiều nghệ sĩ khác qua việc mời họ cùng ghi âm và đi biểu diễn. Nhóm Pink Martini cũng có thể gọi là một dàn nhạc vì có từ 14 đến 20 nhạc sĩ cùng biểu diễn trên sân khấu với nhau. Họ nổi tiếng nhờ ghi âm lại những bài hát kinh điển, nhạc jazz phổ thông như bài "Dream a little dream", nhạc phim như ''Amado Mio'' (phim Gilda) hay ''Moon River'', nhạc chủ đề của bộ phim Breakfast at Tiffany's với thần tượng Audrey Hepburn hoặc "Que sera sera" của Doris Day .....Bí quyết thành công của Pink Martini Trong vòng ba thập niên, Pink Martini cho ra mắt 11 album, nhiều đĩa hát của họ được xếp hạng cao trên danh sách những đĩa nhạc jazz bán chạy nhất ở châu Âu và Bắc Mỹ. 30 năm sự nghiệp thật đáng để họp mặt ăn mừng ! Có lẽ cũng vì Pink Martini thành công ban đầu trên đất Pháp, cho nên nhóm này muốn ăn mừng sự kiện này với giới hâm mộ tại Pháp. Một đợt biểu diễn nhân các liên hoan mùa hè để rồi kết thúc với một buổi hòa nhạc đặc biệt vào mùa xuân năm 2025 trên sân khấu Accor Arena ở Paris.Sở dĩ nhóm Pink Martini thành công tại châu Âu, truớc hết là nhờ vào sự kết hợp tài tinh khéo léo giữa nhịp điệu La tinh với lối hoà âm giao hưởng, kết hợp cùng lúc đàn dây, kèn đồng và bộ gõ. Không phải ngẫu nhiên, tên gọi Pink Martini lại giống như một cocktail, qua công thức pha trộn nhịp jazz với một chút nhạc cổ điển, nhịp điệu sôi động của salsa với những bài hát trữ tình của Pháp. Âm nhạc của Pink Martini thoạt nhìn giống như ''world music'', nhưng gọi là âm nhạc không biên giới thi có lẽ đúng hơn, vì nhóm này ghi âm các ca khúc bằng 15 thứ tiếng khác nhau, cho dù tiếng Anh và tiếng Pháp vẫn là hai ngôn ngữ chính.Một số giai điệu La tinh mà nhóm này từng ghi âm lại như ''Quien Sera'' hay ''Quizás Quizás'' đều từng được chuyển sang lời Việt. Còn bản nhạc ''La Soledad'' (Nỗi cô đơn) kết hợp điệu rumba với khúc dương cầm cổ điển andante spianato (Grande Polonaise brillante, opus 22) với tựa đề tiếng Anh là ''Raindrop'' (Hạt mưa rơi) của nhà soạn nhạc Chopin. Tác giả Thomas Lauderdale của nhóm Pink Martini đã soạn ca khúc ''La Soledad'' như một khúc biến tấu dựa trên khúc dương cầm tuyệt diệu của Chopin, nét đột phá tân kỳ cài vào trong giai điệu cổ điển. Bản nhạc này từng được tác giả Lê Hựu Hà đặt thêm lời Việt thành nhạc phẩm "Ngủ đi em".Khi thành lập ban nhạc Pink Martini vào năm 1994, có lẽ ngay cả hai thành viên quan trọng của nhóm này là China Forbes và Thomas Lauderdale chưa bao giờ nghĩ rằng họ sẽ vẫn song hành bên nhau, cùng đi biểu diễn trên nhiều sân khấu, ngọn lửa đam mê thuở ban đầu, vẫn nồng cháy 30 năm sau.

Một nữ một nam : cô ca sĩ China Forbes có một chất giọng trầm ấm, còn anh Thomas Lauderdale là một người có tài soạn nhạc và chơi đàn dương cầm. Hai nghệ sĩ gặp nhau thời họ còn là sinh viên trường đại học Harvard, rồi cùng nhau thành lập cách đây ba thập niên ban nhạc jazz La tinh người Mỹ, thành công nhất tại Pháp : nhóm Pink Martini. Sinh trưởng tại Oakland (California), Thomas Lauderdale đến lập nghiệp đầu những năm 1990 tại thành phố Portland, và nhờ vậy anh có thêm cơ hội chơi piano trong các dàn nhạc giao hưởng lớn ở bang Oregon. Thời sinh viên, Thomas nghiên cứu lịch sử nghệ thuật tại Harvard, trao dồi tài nghệ chơi nhạc cổ điển của Poulenc, Bach hay Beethoven .....Về phần mình, cô China Forbes theo học khoa văn, giờ nhàn rỗi được dành cho các lớp thanh nhạc và diễn xuất sân khấu. Ngoài âm nhạc, hai nghệ sĩ này còn chia sẻ niềm đam mê với ngôn ngữ và văn hóa Pháp. Khi cùng nhau thành lập Pink Martini vào năm 1994, họ quyết định ghi âm bằng tiếng Pháp và sau đó nữa trong nhiều thứ tiếng khác.Vào năm 1997, ban nhạc người Mỹ phát hành album đầu tiên của mình mang tựa đề ''Sympathique''. Album này lập kỷ lục số bán, lọt vào danh sách Top Ten trong 6 tháng. Nhờ vậy, nhóm Pink Martini nhận đề cử ''Tài năng đầy triển vọng'' nhân kỳ trao giải thưởng âm nhạc Victoires de la Musique của Pháp. Gợi hứng từ một bài thơ ngắn của thi hào Guillaume Apollinaire trên tuyển tập "Banalités & Quelconqueries" (Những điều tầm thường vô vị), nhóm này sáng tác nhạc phẩm "Je ne veux pas travailler" ( Tôi không muốn làm việc / Tôi chỉ muốn làm biếng), mở đường cho nhóm này chinh phục thị trường Pháp và đưa họ đi biểu diễn trên các sân khấu lớn vòng quanh thế giới.Sau thành công của album đầu tay "Sympathique", nhóm Pink Martini không ngừng mở rộng sân chơi, dung hoà nhiều thể loại jazz/pop/folk hay la tinh/bán cổ điển, hợp tác với nhiều nghệ sĩ khác qua việc mời họ cùng ghi âm và đi biểu diễn. Nhóm Pink Martini cũng có thể gọi là một dàn nhạc vì có từ 14 đến 20 nhạc sĩ cùng biểu diễn trên sân khấu với nhau. Họ nổi tiếng nhờ ghi âm lại những bài hát kinh điển, nhạc jazz phổ thông như bài "Dream a little dream", nhạc phim như ''Amado Mio'' (phim Gilda) hay ''Moon River'', nhạc chủ đề của bộ phim Breakfast at Tiffany's với thần tượng Audrey Hepburn hoặc "Que sera sera" của Doris Day .....Bí quyết thành công của Pink Martini Trong vòng ba thập niên, Pink Martini cho ra mắt 11 album, nhiều đĩa hát của họ được xếp hạng cao trên danh sách những đĩa nhạc jazz bán chạy nhất ở châu Âu và Bắc Mỹ. 30 năm sự nghiệp thật đáng để họp mặt ăn mừng ! Có lẽ cũng vì Pink Martini thành công ban đầu trên đất Pháp, cho nên nhóm này muốn ăn mừng sự kiện này với giới hâm mộ tại Pháp. Một đợt biểu diễn nhân các liên hoan mùa hè để rồi kết thúc với một buổi hòa nhạc đặc biệt vào mùa xuân năm 2025 trên sân khấu Accor Arena ở Paris.Sở dĩ nhóm Pink Martini thành công tại châu Âu, truớc hết là nhờ vào sự kết hợp tài tinh khéo léo giữa nhịp điệu La tinh với lối hoà âm giao hưởng, kết hợp cùng lúc đàn dây, kèn đồng và bộ gõ. Không phải ngẫu nhiên, tên gọi Pink Martini lại giống như một cocktail, qua công thức pha trộn nhịp jazz với một chút nhạc cổ điển, nhịp điệu sôi động của salsa với những bài hát trữ tình của Pháp. Âm nhạc của Pink Martini thoạt nhìn giống như ''world music'', nhưng gọi là âm nhạc không biên giới thi có lẽ đúng hơn, vì nhóm này ghi âm các ca khúc bằng 15 thứ tiếng khác nhau, cho dù tiếng Anh và tiếng Pháp vẫn là hai ngôn ngữ chính.Một số giai điệu La tinh mà nhóm này từng ghi âm lại như ''Quien Sera'' hay ''Quizás Quizás'' đều từng được chuyển sang lời Việt. Còn bản nhạc ''La Soledad'' (Nỗi cô đơn) kết hợp điệu rumba với khúc dương cầm cổ điển andante spianato (Grande Polonaise brillante, opus 22) với tựa đề tiếng Anh là ''Raindrop'' (Hạt mưa rơi) của nhà soạn nhạc Chopin. Tác giả Thomas Lauderdale của nhóm Pink Martini đã soạn ca khúc ''La Soledad'' như một khúc biến tấu dựa trên khúc dương cầm tuyệt diệu của Chopin, nét đột phá tân kỳ cài vào trong giai điệu cổ điển. Bản nhạc này từng được tác giả Lê Hựu Hà đặt thêm lời Việt thành nhạc phẩm "Ngủ đi em".Khi thành lập ban nhạc Pink Martini vào năm 1994, có lẽ ngay cả hai thành viên quan trọng của nhóm này là China Forbes và Thomas Lauderdale chưa bao giờ nghĩ rằng họ sẽ vẫn song hành bên nhau, cùng đi biểu diễn trên nhiều sân khấu, ngọn lửa đam mê thuở ban đầu, vẫn nồng cháy 30 năm sau.

La última entrega para completar las 100 canciones favoritas del año la hacemos exclusivamente con versiones, frente a todos los temas originales que han sonado en los anteriores programas. Playlist;THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “Malagueña” (Ernesto Lecuona)THE ROUTES “Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?)” (The Buzzcocks)TELEKRIMEN “Himno a la banda” (Eddie Meduza)THE TRIPWIRES “Shuffle in the gravel” (Young Jesse)SAMMY THE HILLBILLY BEATNIK “Hard days night” (The Beatles)DOCTOR EXPLOSION “Soy un truhán, soy un señor” (Julio Iglesias y Bo Diddley)MUNLET “El ser que quiero” (“Girl u want” de Devo)SEÑOR NO “El árbol” (El Corazón del Sapo)RICKY GIL and BISCUIT “Hi ha gent” (Toti Soler)THE OSTRICHES “Heres he comes now” (The Velvet Underground)JIM JONES and THE RIGHTEOUS MIND “Going down the river” (The Gun Club)GUADALUPE PLATA “La cigüeña” (Agapito Marazuela)THE ROLLING STONES “Rolling Stone blues” (Muddy Waters)TREVOR HORN feat IGGY POP “Peersonal Jesus” (Depeche Mode)LOS HERMANOS DALTON “Ya viene el sol” (George Harrison)PIERRE OMER’S SWING REVUE “Just one Kiss” (The Cure)ANGEL CORPUS CHRISTY “Lovedust” (Luna)Escuchar audio

Nuevo repaso a nuestros lanzamientos favoritos editados en 2023.(Foto del podcast por Timo Jäger; The Damned)Playlist;(sintonía) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN PILGRIMS “It had better be tonight”DADDY LONG LEGS “Nightmare”NATHANIEL RATELIFF and THE NIGHT SWEATS “Buy my round”RAMBALAYA “Lonesome land” (Only in my dreams)CECILYA and THE CANDY KINGS “Back in 1955”MARCOS SENDARRUBIAS “Oh baby”THEO LAWRENCE “Sweet candy love”LES GREENE and TELEVISIONARIES “Airbound”THE TELEVISIONARIES “You can do what you want to do”LAUREL AITKEN “Shoeshine boy”POWERSOLO “Get back OTG”JASON JOSHUA “Forget it”THE DAMNED “Western promise”MIRANDA and THE BEAT “Concrete”THEE HEADCOATS “Baker street irregulars”LOS MEJILLONES TIGRE “Destruye al influencer”Escuchar audio

There is SO much great NEW and CLASSIC tunes we try to get to every week on Catching A Wave. We'll pack as much of 'em into this hour as we can. We'll play a tune from a Jan & Dean album that's celebrating it's 60th anniversary in our Good Time segment. Beth Riley has a summery instrumental from America's band The Beach Boys in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break. Speaking of them...we spin the Wheel Of Fun, Fun, Fun for 3 randomly chosen cover tunes OF The Beach Boys (by Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem, Thomas Lauderdale and Satan's Pilgrims and Gary Hoey) and we'll drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week (also has a connection to The Beach Boys). Plus, we've got tunes from Shaun Young, Magnatech, The Anderson Council, The Midnight Callers, The Surfrajettes, Kurt Baker, Lazer Gun Saloon, The SurfAnauts, Little Kahuna, The Tikiyaki Orchestra, Sir Bald Diddley and Ian Candler!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   The Surfrajettes- "Heart Of Glass" Sir Bald Diddley- "Happy Surfer" Magnatech- "Death To Fu Manchu" Kurt Baker- "Anchors Up" The Midnight Callers- "Baby Let Me Be"   "Good Time" segment: Jan & Dean 60th Anniversary of Drag City (1963) Jan & Dean- "I Gotta Drive"    Shaun Young- "Bronco" The Anderson Council- "Give It Time"   Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "Summer Means New Love" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE   Ian Candler- "The Lonely Girl" The SurfAnauts- "Torque Wrench" The Tikiyaki Orchestra- "Hotel St. Serenade"   Wheel Of Fun, Fun, Fun: Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem- "God Only Knows" Thomas Lauderdale & Satan's Pilgrims- "Girls On The Beach" Gary Hoey- "Fun, Fun, Fun"   Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: Eric Carmen- "She Did It" (with Brian Wilson & Bruce Johnston on BGV's)   Lazer Gun Saloon- "The Sasquatch" Little Kahuna- "Salt Air"   Outro music bed: Eddie Angel- "Deuces Wild"

Inauguramos nueva estación con nuestro “Disco Subterráneo del Verano”. Y el galardón este año se va a Portland gracias a “Thomas Lauderdale meets The Pilgrims” (Heinz Records). Este trabajo ha unido a dos figuras de renombre; Thomas Lauderdale, pianista y líder de Pink Martini, y la poderosa banda de surf instrumental The Satan’s Pilgrims. Esta alianza comenzó a forjarse a mediados de los 90, cuando comenzaron a trabajar en un álbum conjunto que quedaría inacabado guardándose en un cajón. Veinticinco años después el proyecto llega a su fin con una selección de versiones de piezas clásicas procedentes de musicales, cine, televisión y cultura pop de mediados del siglo pasado, todo llevado a ese sonido que combina el piano clásico con la humedad de la música surf. Sencillamente fabuloso. Playlist; (sintonía) PAUL WHITEMAN ORCHESTRA and GEORGE GERSHWIN PIANO “Rhapsody In Blue pt. 1” (1924) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “Rhapsody in Blue” FRANK SINATRA “Bali Ha’i” (1949) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “Bali Ha’i” THE WAILERS “Tall cool one” (1959) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “Tall cool one” LEO REISMAN and HIS ORCHESTRA with FRED ASTAIRE “Night and day” (1932) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “Night and day” BILL CARLE with RALPH CARMICHAEL ORCHESTRA and CHORUS “How great thou art” (1954) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “How great thou art” THE BEACH BOYS “Girls on the beach” (1964) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “Girls on the beach” THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “Malagueña” TONY HATCH “Out of this world” (1962) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “Out of this world” KYU SAKAMOTO “Sukiyaki” (1961) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “Sukiyaki (Ue o Muite Arukou)” FRAN JEFFRIES “Meglio stasera (It had better be tonight)” (1963) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “It had better be tonight” LAWRENCE WELK “Calcutta” (1960) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “Calcutta” Escuchar audio

Cerramos el mes con un repaso a algunas de las novedades favoritas presentadas a lo largo del mes de abril. Playlist; (sintonía) THE BOMBORAS “P.O.P. Pier” (adelanto del álbum “Songs from beyond”) NICK WATERHOUSE “No commitmen” (The Fooler) PAINT FUMES “Book of love” (Real romancer) MARCOS SENDARUBIAS “We had true love (and this ain’t right)” (Freedom to choose) LES GREENE and THE TELEVISIONARIES “Airbound” (7’’ EP) THE FUZILLIS “She can rock” (7’’) MANOLO Y RAMÓN “Lágrimas y sonrisas” (7’’, reedición) SHADOW 15 “So far today” (Days of innocence 1983-1985) IGUANA DEATH CULT “Oh no” (adelanto del álbum “Echo palace”) POWERSOLO “If I could fly” (adelanto del álbum “Jambalaya extra spicy”) AUTORAMAS “Victoria” (single) GUADALUPE PLATA “La cigüeña” (adelanto próximo álbum) LES LULLIES “Mauvaise foi” (Mauvaise foi) NO PICKY “Tivolí” (Tutan c’mon) ZAC “Stargazer” (II) J. TEIXI BAND “Busqué el amor” (En el barrio) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN PILGRIMS “Night and day” (adelanto próximo disco)   Escuchar audio

There's an old saying that says "April weather, rain and sunshine together"...BUT no matter what the weather is like where you're at...it's ALWAYS sunny and SUMMER here on Catching A Wave! We spin a tune by The Impacts (featuring Merrell Fankhauser) from an album celebrating it's 60th anniversary in our Good Time segment. You'll be "glad" to hear the deep track by The Beach Boys that Beth Riley has for you in her Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break. We navigate a Two-Nami in the forecast with TWO in a row from Reverend Horton Heat and we drop a coin in the Jammin' James Jukebox to hear our selection of the week! Plus, we've got tunes from Thomas Lauderdale and Satan's Pilgrims, The Hoodoo Tones, Ichi-Bons, The Bomboras, Muck and The Mires, The Terrorsurfs, Lava Lagoon, Beach Moonsters, The Super Stocks, Stein, The Amplifier Heads, We Love Surf and The Krontjong Devils!   Intro music bed: "Catch A Wave"- The Beach Boys   Beach Moonsters- "Psychotic Seagull" Ichi-Bons- "The Rockin' Gypsy" Thomas Lauderdale and Satan's Pilgrims- "Malaguena" The Krontjong Devils- "Winnetou" We Love Surf- "Why Should I Not Go"   "Good Time" segment: The Impacts 60th Anniversary of Wipe Out (1963) The Impacts- "Impact"   Lava Lagoon- "Pele's Dance" The Amplifier Heads- "Space Cadette"   Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break: The Beach Boys- "Aren't You Glad" Follow "Surf's Up: Beth's Beach Boys Break" HERE   The Terrorsurfs- "Raspberry Ripple" The Bomboras- "Session At Zeros" Stein- "Mustang"   Two-Nami: Reverend Horton Heat- "I Can't Surf" Reverend Horton Heat- "Crazy, Crazy Lovin'"   Jammin' James Jukebox selection of the week: Dick Dale- "We'll Never Hear The End Of It"   The Super Stocks- "Oceanside" The Hoodoo Tones- "Drag"   Outro music bed: Eddie Angel- "Deuces Wild"

El viernes 7 de abril se pone a la venta "The fooler" (Innovative Leisure), el sexto álbum de estudio de Nick Waterhouse. Nos sumergimos en su contenido apostando por las canciones que no fueron escogidas como adelantos, cuya calidad es nueva prueba del talento de este artista californiano que sigue sorprendiendo a cada nuevo paso que da, ya sea en producción, composición o como intérprete. Foto del podcast; Nick Waterhouse por Benjamin Heath) Playlist; Disco destacado; NICK WATERHOUSE “(No) Commitmen” (The fooler, 2023) NICK WATERHOUSE “Looking for a place” (The fooler, 2023) NICK WATERHOUSE “The problem with a street” (The fooler, 2023) NICK WATERHOUSE “Was it you” (The fooler, 2023) NICK WATERHOUSE “Plan for leaving” (The fooler, 2023) NICK WATERHOUSE “It was the style” (The fooler, 2023) NICK WATERHOUSE “Unreal, inmaterial” (The fooler, 2023) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and SATAN’S PILGRIMS “Night and day” (adelanto del álbum Thomas Lauderdale meets The Pilgrims) IAN KAY “Tears never fade away” (Walk that road again, 2023) THE LOOKERS “By mistake” (Sabotage and fun, 2023) PAINT FUMES “Book of love” (adelanto del álbum “Real romancer”) AUTORAMAS “Victoria” (single, 2023) BEN VAUGHN “Ferris Wheel” (Glasgow time, 2002) NRBQ “That’s neat, that’s nice” (At Yankee Stadium, 1978) Escuchar audio

Cerramos el mes recordando algunas de nuestras novedades favoritas presentadas durante el mes de marzo. Playlist; (sintonía) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and SATAN’S PILGRIMS “Malagueña” THE NUDE PARTY “Cherry red boots” DADDY LONG LEGS “Star” THEE HEADCOATS “The Baker Street irregulars” RON GALLO “Entitled man” GABRIEL THOMAZ “MULTI-HOMEN” “Vose nao serve para mim” EXFAN “Nada es verdad” ILEGALES “Todos los peligros” RAMBALAYA “Lonesome land” TELEVISIONARIES y LES GREENE “Airbound” TITO RAMIREZ “Do, don’t” LAUREL AITKEN and MIGHTY MEGATONS “Shoeshine boy” NICK WATERHOUSE “Late in the garden” TEX PERKINS and THE FAT RUBBER BAND “I wanna be close to you” JAVIER COLIS y JUAN PÉREZ MARINA “Besos en el laberinto” Escuchar audio

Perfecto menú para un paladares selectos con sed de rocknroll. El disco destacado se va a Filadelfia, a las manos de un sorprendente Ron Gallo. Adelantos de los próximos trabajos de The Bomboras y The Satan Pilgrims, estos últimos aliados con el pianista orquestal Thomas Lauderdale. Suenan chicas del garage The Darts y Go-Goettes, y aparición estelar de Ray Charles en la “Versión y Original”. (Foto del podcast; Ron Gallo por Chiara D’Anzieri) Playlist; RON GALLO “Foreground music” (Foreground music, 2023) RON GALLO “Entitled man” (Foreground music, 2023) RON GALLO “San Benedetto” (Foreground music, 2023) THE BOMBORAS “Sessions at Zeros” (adelanto del álbum “Songs from beyond”) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN PILGRIMS “Malagueña” (adelanto del álbum “Thomas Lauderdale meets the Pilgrims”) THEE HEADCOATS “The leader of the Sect” (Irregularis The Great Hiatus, 2023) GO-GOETTES “Chica explosión” (single digital, 2023) THE DARTS “Snake oil” (Snake oil, 2023) THE LIQUORICE EXPERIMENT “The devil” (How many lies, 2023) THE MOCKS “Sticks ‘n stones” (7’’, 2023) Versión y Original; RAY CHARLES and his ORCHESTRA “Sticks ‘n stones” (1960) TITO RAMÍREZ “Yadda-Haddabadoo!” (El Prince, 2023) THE FOX SISTERS “We’re going swimming, baby!”” (Bright white light, 2023) LES ENVAHISSEURS “Oui mais non” (5 little monkeys, 2022) DADDY LONG LEGS “Ding Ding man” (Street sermon, 2023) THE MAHARAJAS “Bad boy” (Rock’n’Roll graduates, 2022) Escuchar audio

“Pulling The Rug” ― Imelda May “Things Have Changed” ― Curtis Stigers “Rio Grande” ― Eilen Jewell “High Shelf Booze” ― Eilen Jewell “Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood” ― Lyambiko “Ama Htipisei Keravnos” ― Saveria Margiola “Nero Sti Varka” ― Martha Frintzila, Orestis Ntantos “Deep Stays Down” ― Larkin Poe “Camino” ― Lili Ivanova “Etrange étrangère” ― HK, Awa Ly “Just a friend of mine - Version piano - voix” ― Vaya Con Dios “My Boyfriend's Back” ― The Angels “A Letter” ― Bobby & Sue, Clément Abraham, Jonathan Caserta “Let Me Love You” ― Awa Ly “Spell” ― Andriana Babali “Lady in Black” ― Ken Hensley “A Part Of This” ― Asaf Avidan “La libélula” ― Mariana Montalvo “I Lost Myself (I'm Hungry... and That Ain't Right)” ― Meow Meow, Thomas Lauderdale, Pink Martini “Somebody to Love” ― Saint Privat “Song For Sonny Liston” ― Mark Knopfler “This Little Girl's Gone Rockin'” ― Ruth Brown “Dix-A-Billy” ― LaVern Baker “Whipper Snapper” ― LaVern Baker “I Smell A Rat” ― Patty Griffin “Baby please don't go” ― Restless “Judia” ― Mor Karbasi “A Perdre Haleine” ― Tülay German

Songs: Susannah McCorkle - The Waters Of March Mel Torme - Hooray For Love The Peddlers - On A Clear Day You Can See Forever Barbara Pittman with Gene Lowery Singers - Handsome Man Sandro Brugnolini & Luigi Malatesta - Listen to Gungala Nido (Bossa Nova) Ruth Brown - I Don't Know Timi Yuro - Fever Johnny Mathis - Easy to Say (But So Hard to Do) Poncho Sanchez - Watermelon Man Classics IV - Stormy Chico Hamilton - People Percy Faith Orchestra - theme from a summer place Billy Fury - Wondrous Place Julee Cruise - Summer kisses, winter tears Miles Davis - Summertime Camille Yarbrough - Take yo' praise Betty Everett - You're No Good The Cyrkle - The Visit (She Was Here) Burt Bacharach - The Look Of Love (Instrumental) Magic in Threes - Beatin' tha Breaks Minnie Riperton - Memory Band Bill Evans - How Deep Is The Ocean Barry Devorzon - Jelindas theme Donnie & Joe Emerson - Baby Bettye Swann - Tell It Like It Is Timi Yuro - Make The World Go Away Meow Meow & Thomas Lauderdale feat. Pink Martini - I Lost Myself (I'm Hungry...and That Ain't Right)

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you'll hear a replay of a show aired on 20 August 2020, featuring musical favourites from RFI English journalists Rosslyn Hyams and Laura Angela Bagnetto. Just click on the “Audio” button above and enjoy! Hello everyone! Welcome to The Sound Kitchen weekly podcast, published every Saturday. You'll hear the winner's names announced and the week's quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you've grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, “On This Day”, quirky facts and news, interviews, and great music … so be sure and listen every week. Send me your music requests! I'll make programs of your favorite music when I can't be in the kitchen to cook up something new for you … write to me at thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr This week's quiz: The quiz will be back next week, 27 August. Here's the music you heard on this week's program: “Life on Mars” by David Bowie; “Weeping Willow” by Alton Ellis, and “Hang on Little Tomato” by Patrick Abbey, China Forbes, and Thomas Lauderdale, performed by Pink Martini.

Post-post-modern diva Meow Meow has hypnotised, inspired, and terrified audiences globally with unique creations and sell-out seasons from New York's Lincoln Centre and Berlin's Bar Jeder Vernunft to London's West End and the Sydney Opera House.As well as being a prolific original music, theatre and dance-theatre creator for such commissioners as Pina Bausch, David Bowie and Mikhail Baryshnikov,Meow Meow specialises in the Weimar repertoire and French chanson. She has played Jenny in Brecht/Weill's Threepenny Opera in Paris and London with the London Philharmonic and Anna 1and 2 in Brecht/Weill's Seven Deadly Sins with Orchestra Victoria, and with United Ensemble at the Konzerthaus Berlin.Meow Meow's original works include Vamp, Beyond Glamour, Feline Intimate, Meow Meow's Little Match Girl, Meow Meow's Little Mermaid, His Master's Choice, Apocalypse Meow, and An Audience with Meow Meow. Concert work includes Meow Meow's Pandemonium with the London Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic and Sydney Symphony Orchestras. She recently appeared in Barry Humphries's critically acclaimed Weimar Cabaret season at the Barbican and at the Kennedy Centre in Washington DC.In other works, Meow has played Titania in Emma Rice's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakespeare's Globe and appeared on the West End in Kneehigh and Michel Legrand's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg in a role created especially for her - La Maîtresse. She played Pegleg in Tom Waits' musical fable The Black Rider with Victorian Opera and Malthouse Theatre; Édith Piaf in Cocteau's Le Bel Indifferent, for the Greenwich Music Festival and an acclaimed Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls with the Royal Philharmonic at Royal Albert Hall.Meow Meow has performed as guest artist with iconic orchestra Pink Martini at the Berlin Philharmonie, Royal Albert Hall, Opera Garnier Monte Carlo, the Hollywood Bowl, and across the concert stages of Europe, Canada, and the United States. Their album Hotel Amour: Meow Meow with Thomas M. Lauderdale includes duets with Rufus Wainwright, Barry Humphries, the Von Trapps and the late Michel Legrand. It was released in 2019 and named one of The Times' top 100 albums of the year.Meow Meow is a favourite performer at Adelaide Cabaret Festival and returns this year performing with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Meow Meow's Pandemonium plays at Her Majesty's Theatre on June 18th.The STAGES podcast is available to access and subscribe from Whooshkaa, Spotify and Apple podcasts. Or from wherever you access your favourite podcasts. A conversation with creatives about craft and career. Recipient of Best New Podcast at 2019 Australian Podcast Awards. Follow socials on instagram (stagespodcast) and facebook (Stages).www.stagespodcast.com.au

Portland, Oregon-based Pink Martini whisks listeners away on globetrotting musical journeys, singing in Armenian, Portuguese, Arabic, French & Xhosa, among many other languages - and that's just their latest record, Je Dis Oui!. Their founder, pianist Thomas Lauderdale, recently described the group this way: "If the United Nations had a house band in 1962, we aspire to be that band." The 'little orchestra'- some 12-members strong, takes over our studio. 

Para comenzar el año y este episodio, hemos querido hacerlo con alegría y con buen humor, y hemos preparado una selección llena de optimismo, sentido del humor y energía positiva. Nuestro principales invitados son Pink Martini, la banda del pianista Thomas Lauderdale y de la vocalista China Forbes. Con ellos la diversion está asegurada. Repasamos algunas de sus grabaciones, con estándares recopilados por todo el mundo y algún tema propio. También nos acompaña una formación colombiana, Monsieur Periné, que fusiona el jazz, el pop y el swing con los ritmos y los sonidos de Latinoamérica. Las canciones de Pink Martini: - Anna (El negro zumbon) - Una notte a Napoli - Lilly - Tempo perdido - Joli garçon - Pata Pata - Où est ma tête? - Tuca tuca - ¿Dónde estás, Yolanda? - Sympathique Las canciones de Monsieur Periné: - Nuestra Canción - La Muerte - Año bisiesto - Mundo Paralelo - Bailar contigo

It's another awe-inspiring episode from the Someone Gets Me podcast as I share the screen with China Forbes, the lead singer, and songwriter of the band Pink Martini. A gifted multi-potentialite, China's exceptional talents, coupled with her rich life experience, is truly a story worth telling (and made into a movie!) Tune in as she shares her journey of what it's like pursuing many passions, enrolling at Harvard University, where she juggled visual arts, acting and singing, and even finishing as cum laude. China's life shows us how music is a source of hope, how it takes courage to focus on giving your gifts to the world, and the importance of accepting that the good and the bad things in life don't last forever. Key points covered in this episode: ✔️ A musical genius making beauty from sadness. China's unusual childhood, her mother and father, divorcing when she was five, and the many struggles after that are depicted in a movie her sister made called Infinitely Polar Bear, starring Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana. Such was the backdrop as China grew up and made it through with the help of art, music, and her eternal optimism for life. ✔️ She is releasing the song "Rise," which she wrote for her Pink Martini bandmate, Derek Rieth. "I just felt like my words did not succeed in helping him, but I felt that they could help someone else who was struggling with suicidal thoughts. I've been sitting on it for six years, but it's now coming out; I do believe that this song will help many people." ✔️ There is still more to be done by the singing sensation, and she has this to say to fellow creatives: "You need not care what anyone thinks. It would be best if you dedicated time every day to do your craft. Trust that no one else is you and don't compare yourself to others, and you need to get the focus off of yourself because self-consciousness is paralyzing. Ask yourself, how do I give my gifts to the world?" ✔️ China recently co-written Pink Martini's two latest hits, including "The Lemonade Song," approaching 2 million streams on Spotify alone. This soaring anthem of orchestral pop, written on either side of a breakup, celebrates the strength we all have to persevere and survive and learn to love our lives. It describes each individual's Full Circle: the power each of us has to steer our lives in the direction we want to go, a direction that will end up back where we started, but as a different person each time we come around. China Forbes was born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she graduated cum laude from Harvard and was awarded the Jonathan Levy Prize for acting. She appeared in New York regional theatre and Off-Broadway productions, earning her Equity card alongside future stars of stage and screen such as Norm Lewis, Peter Jacobson, and Rainn Wilson. Soon after college China formed and sang with her first band. They regularly performed at NYC clubs CBGB's Gallery, Mercury Lounge, and Brownies. Her first solo album Love Handle was released in 1995, and she was chosen to sing "Ordinary Girl," the theme song to the TV show Clueless.   In 1995, she was plucked from New York City by Harvard classmate Thomas Lauderdale to sing with Pink Martini. She has written many of Pink Martini's most beloved songs with Lauderdale, including "Sympathique," "Lilly," "Clementine," "Let's Never Stop Falling in Love," "Over the Valley," and "A Snowglobe Christmas," which can be heard on Pink Martini's holiday album Joy to the World. Her original song "Hey Eugene" is the title track of Pink Martini's third album, and many of her songs can also be heard on television and in film. She sang "Qué Será Será" over the opening and closing credits of Jane Campion's film In the Cut. Her original song "The Northern Line" appears at the end of sister Maya Forbes' directorial debut Infinitely Polar Bear, released in 2015 by Sony Pictures Classics.   With Pink Martini, Forbes has appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and Later with Jools Holland. She has performed songs in over twenty languages. China has sung duets with Michael Feinstein, Jimmy Scott, Georges Moustaki, Henri Salvador, Saori Yuki, Faith Prince, Carol Channing, and Rufus Wainwright, among others. She has performed in venues from Carnegie Hall to Red Rocks, the Sydney Opera House to the Grand Rex in Paris. She released her second solo album '78 on Heinz Records in 2008, a collection of autobiographical folk-rock songs. She has recently co-written Pink Martini's two latest hits, including "The Lemonade Song," approaching 2 million streams on Spotify. Listen to China sing LIVE and visit  http://pinkmartini.com/ for the concert, live stream, and tour updates.  Follow her on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5oqp4UKhk2VEHkokCCCW4Y?si=bpyfk80dTyiIDx32Ca8XuA&dl_branch=1 IG: https://www.instagram.com/chinaforbes/?hl=en FB: https://www.facebook.com/chinaforbes Lemonade song: https://youtu.be/mJNMagxeTrU Full Circle link: https://youtu.be/slI5oydKyoY ____________________________________________________________________________________ How to Connect with Dianne A. Allen You have a vision inside to create something bigger than you. What you need is a community and a mentor. The 6-month Visionary Leader Program will move you forward. 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It is known as the city's living room. Pioneer Courthouse Square is where Portlander's come to celebrate, to protest, to commemorate, and most of all to be together. The site's long history includes the city's first public building and, later, its first grand hotel. This episode features interviews with architect Mark Lakeman of Communitecture, musician Thomas Lauderdale of Pink Martini and University of California at Berkely historian Alex Craghead talking about the square's past, present, and what makes it the center of the city.

El jazz que balancea nuestras vidas. Ese aire lounge que embellece nuestro entorno más cotidiano. Esos y esas crooners cuyas voces acarician nuestros corazones. La música y tú. Atención al crooner Coque Malla cantando para su hermano Miguel autor de la canción incluida en el cortometraje “Blue & Malone”. Y a las hermanas Pointer en su época más swing antes de convertirse en grupo llenapistas. Lo nuevo de Diana Krall. Y Pink Martini, el grupo de Thomas Lauderdale especializado en el género… Gregory Porter interpretando a Nat King Cole. Y The Temptations ajustándose la pajarota del esmoquin. Descubre a Pete Belasco o a The Sassy Swingers. DISCO 1 HENRY MANCINI & HIS ORCHESTRA This One's For You (13) DISCO 2 MIGUEL MALLA NONETO Canción de cuna para Gabriel y Nicolás (5) Blue&Malone: Detectives Imaginarios DISCO 3 DIANA KRALL Just You, Just Me (6) DISCO 4 TIMOTHY B SCHMIT So Much In Love (3) DISCO 5 GLENN FREY Route 66 (4) DISCO 6 LINDA RONSTADT Piensa En Mi (2016 Remaster) (10) DISCO 7 PETE BELASCO Get It Together (8) DISCO 8 VINCE GUARALDI Linus And Lucy (THE SCORE - 13) DISCO 9 PINK MARTINI Ich Dich Liebe (1) DISCO 10 GILBERT BECAUD Au revoir (Adieu l’ami) (10) DISCO 11 GREGORY PORTER Ballerina (10) DISCO 12 THE POINTERS SISTERS Cloudburst(7) DISCO 13 THE SASSY SWINGERS All The Whores (3) DISCO 14 MAYER HAWTHORNE Green Eyed Love (12) THE TEMPTATIONS That's Life (10) Escuchar audio

This is an encore presentation of an episode from last spring with Thomas Lauderdale of Pink Martini. He was one of the first people I wanted for 12 Songs because when I first interviewed him in 2014, our conversation ended with a then-off-topic conversation on Christmas music. He had an appreciation of beautiful Christmas music that I liked but was only starting to work out a way to discuss. The pianist and bandleader for contemporary lounge band loves Christmas music, and when I interviewed him for the show last fall, he turned me on to a beautifully weightless version of "O Come All Ye Faithful" by Julie Andrews. Unfortunately, that interview was lost to the technical difficulties that accompany working new gear into your recording set-up, but we were able to talk again last spring. This time, we talked more than before about the business of Christmas music, including the place their Joy to the World occupies in the band’s catalogue, and the role Starbucks played in getting the project off the ground. As Lauderdale explained in a story on the band’s history that I wrote at MySpiltMilk.com, Pink Martini began playing predominantly Henry Mancini compositions. The band emerged at roughly the same time as the ’90s lounge revival, but it outlasted the other bands from that time because of his affection for the music itself and its more exotic manifestations. In October, Pink Martini released two new EPs,  Bésame Mucho and Tomorrow, with vocalists Edna Vazquez andi Jimmie Herrod respectively.  Pink Martini will play a series of Holiday shows in California starting on December 1, including a 7-day, 9-show stand in San Francisco. Tickets are on sale now.

In the episode we feature performers Jimmie Herrod and Edna Vasquez before their performance with the glamorous and worldly "little orchestra," otherwise known as PINK MARTINI. Jimmie Herrod is a Portland-based full-time vocalist on tour with Pink Martini, and Edna Vasquez is a singer, songwriter and guitarist from Mexico. We chat with these two incredibly talented performers on tour life, collaboration, Lizzo vs. Beyonce, how they rejuvenate their creativity, and much more! Stay tuned for a very special vinyl pick after the interview featuring a Nine Inch Nails and David Bowie crossover classic. ------------------------ Pink Martini was started by musician Thomas Lauderdale in 1994. Drawing inspiration from music from all over the world – crossing genres of classical, jazz and old-fashioned pop. Pink Martini features renowned singer China Forbes and recently went on tour with Australian singer, Meow Meow.

I wanted to interview Thomas Lauderdale for 12 Songs since I interviewed him in 2016 to preview a summertime show in New Orleans and we detoured into 20 minutes of unusable conversation on Christmas music. The pianist and bandleader for contemporary lounge band Pink Martini loves Christmas music, and when I interviewed him for the show last fall, he turned me on to a beautifully weightless version of "O Come All Ye Faithful" by Julie Andrews. Unfortunately, that interview was lost to the inevitable technical difficulties that accompany working new gear into your recording set-up. Pink Martini tours the world and stays so busy that it has taken until now to get a second chance at an interview on Christmas for the podcast. This is not the same conversation we had the first time. We talked at length about "White Christmas," which appears in two different version on Pink Martini's Joy to the World just as we did the first time, but we also talked about the role of Starbucks in the album's origin. We talked about the Christmas song he wished that he hadn't recorded, and his inability to get a handle on Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You." Before the conversation turned to Christmas music, we talked about Pink Martini's early days as "the house band for progressive causes" and its debut album, Sympathetique. I've edited most of that from this podcast to keep it focused on Christmas music, but you can read that part of the interview at MySpiltMilk.com.

PDXISH welcomes the incredibly delightful Thomas Lauderdale to our show. Thomas talks about the origins of Pink Martini, plays some of his favorite tunes and shares insight into the world at large. Please welcome Thomas to the show.

It’s set to be a blistering weekend, so we’re going to do our best to cool things down this hour with classical music in the woods, golden harmonies soaring over the Willamette, and a brilliant, new blue pigment.Classical Music Meets Silent Disco At Stunning WPA SitesThe pianist Hunter Noack is harking back to the Works Progress Administration era with a concert series called “In A Landscape.” He has invited such musical luminaries as Pink Martini’s Thomas Lauderdale and China Forbes to join him in playing classical music in some of the region’s most famous WPA sites. Think Timberline Lodge, Council Crest, and the Oneonta Tunnel. Noack has a history of bringing music to unlikely places,which is why he agreed to drag a piano out into the West Hills to play a few of the songs for this audio postcard.Sista In The Brotherhood - 7:25The Portland-filmed “Sista in the Brotherhood” follows a day-in-the-life of a black woman working at the Sellwood Bridge construction site. The film is based on the research of producer Roberta Hunte and the real life experience of co-writer and director Dawn Jones Redstone, who spent years working construction and training other women in the trade. The film has been screening around the country at festivals and even won the Best Short Film Award at this year’s Portland International Film Festival.The Band Joseph's Golden Harmonies Soar Over The Willamette River - 17:19One of our favorite musical discoveries last year was the band Joseph. They’re three sisters from Estacada, Oregon, and their harmonies are like that golden tone the sun casts as it sets on the high desert or the Cascade foothills.Allison, Meegan and Natalie Clossner spent the last year on the road, perfecting their harmonies and writing new music. Now they’re back with a highly anticipated follow up, “I’m Alone, No You’re Not,” due out Aug. 26, and the sisters suggested the crazy idea to meet us and opbmusic on the Willamette River's Eastbank Esplanade to play a couple of songs (watch opbmusic's videos).The First Iraqi Vet To Write A Graphic Novel About The War - 25:08While in Iraq, the marine Maximilian Uriarte, a Corvallis native, started writing a comic strip titled “Terminal Lance.” It quickly became a hit and now runs in the "Marine Corps Times." Since returning from the war, Uriarte has expanded the strip into the graphic novel “The White Donkey,” the first graphic novel about the war written by a veteran.Blind Pilot's New Album Navigates Straight To The Heart - 33:15Blind Pilot's newest album, “And Then Like Lions,” may be their most intimate yet. Lead singer Israel Nebeker told us during a performance at the OPB studio that many of the songs were written in response to the death of his father. "And then, as an album, it turned into an invitation into a conversation about loss in general," he said.Scientists Discover The First New Blue Pigment In 200 Years - 43:46Get this: there hasn’t been a new blue pigment created since 1802. Now, we're talking about a new color, as every color already exists in the light spectrum. We're talking about a new pigment — the chemical or substance that gives paint, dye or other objects their color. Pigments have to be derived from nature or made in a lab, which is exactly what happened in 2009 at Oregon State University, when researchers were heating up elements in a furnace. Their goal was to create new materials that could be used in electronics – instead they found a brilliant new blue pigment. And it’s finally making it to the market.

One of the finest bands in America plays with one of the finest symphony orchestras this weekend. My chat with Pink Martini founder Thomas Lauderdale.

Libby Purves meets artist Grayson Perry; musician Thomas Lauderdale; former gang member Tracey Miller and magician Drummond Money-Coutts. Drummond Money-Coutts is a magician and illusionist. He presents a new series, Beyond Magic with DMC, in which he travels the world demonstrating his skills with card tricks, stunts and occasional cheating. Each episode recreates a historic trick or stunt. Beyond Magic with DMC is on National Geographic Channel. Grayson Perry is an artist who won the Turner Prize in 2003 and presented the BBC Reith Lectures on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. His book, Playing to the Gallery, is based on those Reith Lectures. He is presenting a three-part series for Channel 4, Grayson Perry: Who Are You? The programmes focus on identity and he creates portraits - from tapestries to sculptures and pots - of diverse people who are trying to define who they are. Subjects include former politician Chris Huhne. There is an accompanying art display at the National Portrait Gallery. Playing to the Gallery is published by Particular Books. Tracey Miller is a former gang member. Known as 'Sour', she was part of a notorious gang that terrorised areas of south London in the 1990s. After serving a prison sentence, she eventually turned her life around and is now a campaigner who urges teenagers not to follow her own path into gang life. Her book Sour - My Story, written with Lucy Bannerman, is published by Harper Collins. Thomas Lauderdale is the founder and pianist with Pink Martini, a 12-piece orchestra from Portland, Oregon. After an early career in local politics, he founded Pink Martini in 1994 to liven up the entertainment then on the bill at political rallies. Once described as somewhere between a "thirties Cuban dance orchestra, a classical chamber ensemble and a Brazilian marching band," Pink Martini has performed its multilingual repertoire on concert stages and with symphony orchestras around the world. Pink Martini is currently on tour - UK dates include the Cambridge Corn Exchange. Producer: Paula McGinley.

Ray talks to Thomas Lauderdale, founder of Pink Martini: Two months ago, I had heard of the Pink Panty Pulldown, though admittedly not at all since my college days, but I had not heard of Pink Martini. Pink Martini is a band.  A damn good one, too.  I wish I could tell you what kind […]