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Desert Island Discs; Simon McBurney
Topic Started: Jul 18 2012, 09:54 PM (2,688 Views)
becky sharp
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Simon McBurney selected one of the strangest choices of music I've ever heard on Desert Island Discs ...

Veronica Oucholin

J’allume le feu (I light the fire)

Composer: Traditional


...and it was his favourite one!! ...sounded like Gollum to me.

Can't find it on Youtube


Anyone remember any other strange choices? ...well strange to you... not the castaway,obviously.


Mr McBurney has a very nice speaking voice.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/6ba7cd36#b01kr7q1
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I've never heard of Veronica Oucholin (or Simon McBurney :( )


I can't check this but here a link of some sort. 'Throat singing' - apparently

http://get-tune.net/?a=music&q=Veronica+Oucholin+Throat+Singing+I+Light+the+Fire
Edited by rumbaba, Jul 19 2012, 11:09 AM.
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becky sharp
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That's the one,rum...the first one on the link you posted....an awful sound! :'(

Simon McBurney is best known to me from his performace as the Archdeacon in
Rev.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0178fhq
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becky sharp
Jul 19 2012, 04:45 PM
That's the one,rum...the first one on the link you posted....an awful sound! :'(

It sounded like the possessed girl in "The Exorcist"
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Caro

We saw a really good film once about throat singing - it was called Gadjo Dilo. A film festival thing - haven't been to the film festival for ages. There is one in Dunedin in a couple of weeks.
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dai Cottomy
Jul 20 2012, 12:02 AM
It sounded like the possessed girl in "The Exorcist"
I have never dared watch that film... <scared>
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The latest candidate for DID is known to me....Edmund de Waal. I can thoroughly recommend his wonderful book which has gained him several awards and a film about the dramatic story of his family's Russian/Jewish heritage called The Hare with the Amber Eyes...

Edmund makes pots as well as his writing and it in this capacity that I first met him. When Kirsty describes his work environment, from which he creates divine pieces of porcelain, in a studio leading up from a grubby old track with a bookies and car-repair workshop next to it, well it's actually in Peckham South London and I went to visit him to see a private selling exhibition that was on it's last day....alas everything was sold as I looked around until I espied a wonderfully simple vase in his signature glazed pale and delicate eggshell blue. It contained a bunch of Irises and was sitting completely alone on a side table. I asked if it was for sale - ostensibly everything was for sale, but he said, this was not because it had a slight imperfection...nothing in the clay but in the shape....I loved it the moment I took hold of it - and yes it did tell a story ...A vase of that style was typically in excess of £1,000 at that time. I said I would love to have it and after we had spent an hour together talking about his work and ceramics in general and he realised I was a serious collector and appreciator of potters, he reluctantly let me take it away.....he didn't tell me this directly I only knew when I saw his receptionist taking the Irises out of the vase and wrapping it carefully in masses of bubblewrap! I was so excited to own one of his works, that are in all the major galleries around the world...sitting on the bus back to the West end, as there were no taxis in sight, I chuckled to myself and prayed no-one would bump into me or rob me on the way home!

Note: That precious vase may not have survived nowadays because he breaks up pots that are imperfect....when Kirsty said she was sure they're beautiful and that friends would love them....Edmund said "well no because they would end up in auction houses"...such is the value of his work!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p067p

Here's more on Edmund,his studio, his work...

http://www.vam.ac.uk/channel/people/ceramics/edmund_dewaal_part_1_-_on_location/
Edited by Mobson, Nov 30 2012, 05:51 PM.
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He sounded as though he had a pretty rarified upbringing which may have given him a special propulsion. Having free run of a cathedral at an early age must have helped .... a must being taken under the wing of a great practitioner.
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Of course DID is pre-recorded as today's subject is far away in New Zealand! It's Jonathan Agnew's turn to pick his record choices, known to millions of cricket fans devoted to TMS as 'Aggers'. He says of commentating on cricket "The great thing about our job is that you have no pre-conceived idea about what is going to happen - you have no script - the cricket is the script".

One of his picks is worth listening to for the notorious "leg over" clip involving the one of the greatest cricket commentators the game has seen, namely the legendary Brian Johnston..and one of most memorable moments in broadcasting history that prompted him to dissolve into helpless, prolonged giggles live on air.

As one might expect from Aggers, it's a pretty innocuous pick'n'mix of classic and pop; Sir Hubert Parry's Jerusalem, Abba's Dancing Queen, Supertramp's My Kind of Lady, Elvis Costello Oliver's Army, Rod Stewart Have I Told You Lately, Ludwig van Beethoven's Pathetique and Elton John's Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me!

He tweeted 30 mins ago from NZ... "Phew! What a privilege to feature on Desert Island Discs. Quite late here (0115)….hope I got away with it! (Kirsty is great) #DID @Aggerscricket 22 minutes ago
Edited by Mobson, Feb 17 2013, 12:46 PM.
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It's a great pity that there is no clip available - as far as I know - of Johnners' waiting4atickle broadcast. :(


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Feb 17 2013, 01:07 PM
It's a great pity that there is no clip available - as far as I know - of Johnners' waiting4atickle broadcast. :(
....Think there will be - it's just that the DID listen-again facility isn't available yet which is why I haven't put up a link.

:) but anyway here it is on youtube .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k0qZDdfvZk
Edited by Mobson, Feb 17 2013, 01:43 PM.
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Caro
Jul 20 2012, 12:04 AM
throat singing
There were some Tibetan throat singing priests in the Green Fields at Glastonbury this year.

The Gyuto Monks, who live in exile in north India, performed chants at the Toad Hall venue in the festival's Green Fields area to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tibetan declaration of independence.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/glastonbury-2013-the-dalai-lamas-monks-bring-oasis-of-calm-to-the-green-fields-8678492.html

Still not my kind of thing :'(
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