Bonus Track: Kara Talve's Winter Rhapsody

Conversations with Musicians, with Leah Roseman

09/02/23

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This bonus track is connected to my in-depth conversation with Kara Talve and her partner and colleague at Bleeding Fingers Music, Anže Rozman. An excerpt of this piece was included in the main episode, and here is the complete performance of Winter Rhapsody by the Lancaster Symphony with conductor Stephen Gunzenhauser.

Show notes, main episode, video, transcript, all linked here: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/ane-rozman-and-kara-talve

Kara Talve's Website: https://www.karatalve.com/

Previous Episode

Anže Rozman and Kara Talve: the music of Prehistoric Planet and Personal Reflections

September 2, 2023

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72m

Kara Talve and Anže Rozman are composers with Bleeding Fingers Music and together wrote with Hans Zimmer the acclaimed score to the incredible tv series Prehistoric Planet. I was so impressed by this series, and the first part of this episode digs into the unique instruments that were created for this powerful score, and the other part of this episode is a personal and in-depth conversation with Kara and Anže about their lives. They shared their individual stories about challenges, mentors, and have great advice for younger composers. In the show notes and linked to the podcast are 2 bonus tracks which are concert pieces by both Anže and Kara; these pieces are excerpted in the main episode as well. I’ve included detailed timestamps and you can listen to this on your favourite podcast player, watch the YouTube video, read the transcript and see the gallery of images related to this episode,all linked on my website: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/ane-rozman-and-kara-talve

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro

(05:10) creating the music for Prehistoric Planet with custom instruments

(19:23) help support this series through my Ko-fi page

(19:39) Euphone audio sample, more about unique instruments used in Prehistoric Planet

(22:46) Mark Deutsch Banzantar

(24:48) Bleeding Fingers Music, working with Hans Zimmer and Russell Emanuel

(31:08) Anže’s early years composing, challenges, networking

(34:08) excerpt from Flight/Death from Phoenix for Solo Flute and Orchestra by Anže Rozman

(34:49) finding opportunities to write for different instruments

(37:08) emigration: dealing with homesickness

(38:42) working with orchestras

(41:09) Berklee in Spain, networking skills, connecting with Hans Zimmer

(46:21) advice for people who want to move to LA

(49:13) Kara Talve experience of moving to LA

(51:57) composing for The Simpsons

(52:49) how Tara’s grandmother was saved from the Nazis by her piano teacher Andrée Levallois

(57:34) excerpt from “Winter Rhapsody” by Kara Talve

(58:45) mentors at Berklee Ruth Mendelson and Steven Hunt, Kara’s dad

(01:02:01) Anže reflecting on negative attitudes, advice about following your interests, Jani Golob

(01:08:07) Tara’s bad experiences with piano lessons

Next Episode

Jah'Mila: Rooted in Reggae and Connecting with New Audiences

September 9, 2023

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68m

Jah’Mila is a 🇯🇲 Jamaican-born Reggae singer-songwriter based in Halifax, Canada. In this episode you’ll hear about both her youth in the countryside of Jamaica singing gospel and then her immersion in Reggae roots and Rastafarian culture in Kingston. Her father is the legendary Earl “Chinna” Smith who has performed extensively with the Soul Syndicate, been featured on over 500 albums, and also played with Bob Marley and the Wailers on the Rastaman Vibration album, Live at the Roxy, and the historic One Love Peace Concert of 1978.

Jah’Mila speaks so eloquently about being grounded in a strong sense of identity and purpose, her love of music and communicating with a wide audience and she has also generously shared two tracks from her album Roots Girl which are part of this episode, and a special version of Roots Girl which is available as a bonus podcast.You can use the timestamps to navigate to any topics or musical selections, and you can listen to this on your favourite podcast player, watch the video on YouTube or read the transcript; everything is linked with the show notes on my website: ⁠https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/jahmila⁠

You may want to sign up for my newsletter to get access to exclusive sneak peeks for upcoming guests. Please also consider supporting this show with a tip: ⁠https://ko-fi.com/leahroseman⁠

I met Jah’Mila in her role as the Associate Artistic Director and lead singer of the Reggae Roots program which is available to all 🇨🇦Canadian schools free of charge, created with Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser and the National Arts Centre. If you missed my episode with Daniel in Season 2, you should have a listen: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/e8-s2-daniel-bartholomew-poyser

Timestamps

(00:00) Intro

(02:39) Roots Girl album, and Jah’Mila’s dad Earl “Chinna” Smith

(07:59) Nayabinghi Groundings rom roots Girl

(09:58) Jah’Mila’s childhood

(14:17) Jamaican culture and Patois

(17:04) performing with The Wailers

(22:21) excerpt from Roots Girls

(22:32) different audiences for Reggae

(27:51) Reggae Roots with Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser

(31:17) performances at the NAC

(33:14) paying tribute to other artists