It’s a Wonderful Tenth, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, Jan 9 - Feb 20 2010
Evergreen, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, Dec 12 2009 - Jan 14 2010
Happiness, curated by Sherman Sam, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA, Nov 24, 2009 - Jan 15, 2010
HTML Color Codes, Curated by Carolyn Kane, Rhizome at the New Museum, New York, Aug - Dec 2009
Aqua Art Miami (Wynwood), George Lawson Gallery, Booth #38, Dec 3-6, 2009
Faraway, So Close, Recent-Projects, Berlin, Germany, Nov 28 - Dec 29, 2009
Touch Faith, curated by Jeffrey Cortland Jones, SEMANTICS, Cincinnati, OH, Nov 7 - 28, 2009

 

Fri 12 Mar 2010

Tenor

 

 

Tenor, 20100312, HTML, 390 x 430 pixels

 

 

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Thu 11 Mar 2010

Township

 

 

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Wed 10 Mar 2010

Radiator

 

 

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Tue 09 Mar 2010

Crate

 

 

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Mon 08 Mar 2010

Muslin

 

 

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Mon 08 Mar 2010

Milton Avery: “Wild Moon and Sea”

 
 

Milton Avery: “Wild Moon and Sea,” 1961, Oil on canvas, 42 x 50 in, 107 x 127 cm (source)

 

 

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Sun 07 Mar 2010

Honeycomb

 

 

Honeycomb, 20100307, HTML, 480 x 380 pixels

 

 

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Sat 06 Mar 2010

Gingham

 

 

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Fri 05 Mar 2010

Locket

 

 

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Thu 04 Mar 2010

Twine

 

 

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Wed 03 Mar 2010

Charm

 

 

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Tue 02 Mar 2010

Star

 

 

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Mon 01 Mar 2010

Host

 

 

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Mon 01 Mar 2010

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Live at the Royal Albert Hall

 

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UKULELE ORCHESTRA OF GREAT BRITAIN
Proms 2009 [no label, 1CD]

Live at the Royal Albert Hall, London, August 18, 2009. Very good BBC Radio 3 FM broadcast.

“Twenty-five years in the business of making people smile.”

With Gordon Brown and the Labour Party getting more and more unpopular by the day and now that they are sending even more troops to Afghanistan, here’s a little something from the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire to take your mind off…

Say ukulele and one thinks of Hawaiian music. Press further and one thinks of the Big Ben Hawaiian Band when it comes to popular music, whose selections tend to grace the many Tiffin Date programmes that litter the globe.

And now for something quite different… and not a a lei in sight… the Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain. From the bedroom comfort of Puffin’ Billy to the Sex Pistols’ Anarchy In The U.K. to Hawkwind’s Silver Machine; from David Bowie’s Life On Mars to Frank Sinatra’s My Way to John Barry’s Thunderball; from Wheatus/Girls Aloud’s Teenage Dirtbag to Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre to Talking Heads’ Psycho Killer, genre boundaries are but a phrase that do not constrain the Ukulele Orchestra.

They would already have scored valuable brownie points if the Orchestra had only played just the music but among its members are accomplished vocalists – check out the wonderful harmony on the medley comprising Life On Mars, My War, For Once In My Life, Born Free and Substitute; or the intricate layerings on the Melange medley. Or imagine The Manhattan Transfer doing a cover of Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights, with perhaps the Monty Python chipping in.

In the spirit of the orchestra, here’s the introductory paragraph of the BBC’s cheeky notes to the show: “Tonight’s programme should perhaps come with a health warning. These performances may be harmful to your musical prejudices. Those who would normally have to be dragged kicking and screaming to hear Wagner might warm to tonight’s rendition of The Ride Of The Valkyries; likewise, classical music fans may have had little contact with the oeuvres of The Who and the Sex Pistols.”

Or as Ivan Hewett wrote in the Telegraph: “Then comes (musical director) George Hinchliffe’s new arrangement of Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre, and suddenly it becomes clear there’s more to the Ukulele Orchestra than just laughs. There’s a kind of magic in hearing something recreated so ingeniously in a medium that seems so completely unsuitable. The photographer who’s here for the Telegraph is entranced. ‘It just makes you want to smile,’ she says.

“She isn’t the only one who thinks so. One of the orchestra’s fans is a senior medic who reckons it increases the levels of serotonin, the so-called ’happy chemical’ within the body. The rest of us would say simply – it makes us feel better.”

Thanks to mdshrk1 for recording and sharing these tracks on the internet.

Note: Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality MP3s – sample rate of 192 kbps). As far as we can ascertain, these tracks have never been officially released on CD.

Due to the size of some of the files, please be very patient when downloading the tracks. It could be that the server was very busy. Please try again later. Kindly email us at mybigo@bigozine.com if you encounter persistent problems downloading the files.

Track 01. Intro (1.6MB)
Track 02. Puffin’ Billy (2.6MB)
Track 03. Banter (1.5MB)
Track 04. Anarchy In The U.K. (4.6MB)
Track 05. Banter (1.6MB)
Track 06. Ride of the Valkyries/Silver Machine (7.2MB)
Track 07. Banter (1.0MB)
Track 08. Life On Mars/My Way/For Once In My Life/Born Free/Substitute (5.4MB)
Track 09. Banter (1.3MB)
Track 10. Thunderball (3.4MB)
Track 11. Banter (1.0MB)
Track 12. Teenage Dirtbag (5.4MB)
Track 13. Banter (1.8MB)
Track 14. Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre (9.8MB)
Track 15. Banter (1.3MB)
Track 16. Jerusalem (4.2MB)
Track 17. Psycho Killer (5.0MB)
Track 18. Intro banter to 1000 massed Ukuleles (3.2MB)
Track 19. Ode To Joy (5.4MB)
Track 20. Banter (1.9MB)
Track 21. Pinball Wizard (3.6MB)
Track 22. Banter (1.6MB)
Track 23. The Dambusters March (5.5MB)
Track 24. Radio Announcer (3.2MB)
Track 25. Banter (1.1MB)
Track 26. Melange: Sympathy For The Devil/If I Was A Carpenter/Brown Sugar/Save The Last Dance For Me/Hey Jude/Under The Boardwalk/You Sexy Thing/Waiting For The Man/Heroes/Angels (8.4MB)
Track 27. Banter (2.5MB)
Track 28. Wuthering Heights (5.1MB)

Click here to order albums by the all-singing, all-strumming Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain.

PS. And after watching this clip, you will most likely approach Neil Diamond’s You Don’t Bring Me Flowers in a quite completely new light.

 

 

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Sun 28 Feb 2010

Concord

 

 

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Sat 27 Feb 2010

Glimmer

 

 

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Fri 26 Feb 2010

Vista

 

 

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Thu 25 Feb 2010

Secret

 

 

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Wed 24 Feb 2010

Murmur

 

 

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Tue 23 Feb 2010

Desire

 

 

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Mon 22 Feb 2010

Dream

 

 

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Sun 21 Feb 2010

Wish

 

 

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Sat 20 Feb 2010

Club

 

 

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Fri 19 Feb 2010

Translate

 

 

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Thu 18 Feb 2010

Prize

 

 

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Wed 17 Feb 2010

Consequence

 

 

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Tue 16 Feb 2010

Refuge

 

 

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Mon 15 Feb 2010

Nostalgia

 

 

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Sun 14 Feb 2010

Oasis

 

 

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Sat 13 Feb 2010

Shimmer

 

 

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Fri 12 Feb 2010

Crank

 

 

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Thu 11 Feb 2010

Profile

 

 

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Wed 10 Feb 2010

Copper

 

 

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Tue 09 Feb 2010

Vibe

 

 

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Mon 08 Feb 2010

Game

 

 

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