June 27: All Cappella 4

It’s that time again for another (one more!) show that’s strictly a cappella. This one contains some familiar artists, but also a good many a cappella versions of hip-hop tracks.

Have you ever heard a poet breathe–just breathe? Have you ever heard the breaths of Maya Angelou? A track by Language Removal Services shows up near the end of the show–it’s a 30- or 40-second piece that was created from a recording of the famous poet and author who knows why the caged bird sings. Our friends at WFMU can flesh it out for you.

(2 hours)
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Mr. Jimmy John himself (that’s not true–a dude in his car who was delivering Jimmy John’s subs) gave the thumbs-up on this one!

Playlist
Artist = “Song title”, Album title. [Notes.]
1. Baka Forest People = “#6”, Heart of the forest
2. Sara Tavares = “Caminhanti”, Xinti
3. Blair = “In the dark”, Burying the evidence
4. Jana Hunter = “Laughing & crying”, Blank unstaring heirs of doom
5. Ben Lee = “A month today”, Something to remember me by
6. Chugga Chugga = “Who’s the boss”, Nine time
7. Mirah = “Gone are all the days”, (A) Gone are all the days remixes
8. T-Pain featuring Yung Joc = “Buy u a drank (shawty snappin’)”
9. Dru Hill = “Tell me”
10. De La Soul = “The grind date”
11. Joya = “Gettin off on you”
12. KINO Watson = “Bring it on”
13. Glenn Lewis = “Don’t you forget it”
14. Lady Sovereign = (part of) “Love me or hate me”
15. Nell Hampton = “The airplane ride”, The Gospel Ship: Baptist hymns & white spirituals from the southern mountains
16. Carolina Chocolate Drops = “Reynadine”, Genuine Negro Jig
17. Texas Gladden = “Hicks’ Farewell”, The Gospel Ship: Baptist hymns & white spirituals from the southern mountains
18. Leadbelly = “Moaning”, Leadbelly Legacy, number one
19. Björk = “#7”, Medulla
20. Pokrovsky Ensemble = “Trumpet”, Les Noces (“The Wedding”) and Russian village wedding songs
21. Lynda Barry = “I got an accordion”, The Lynda Barry Experience
22. Mike Watt = (part of) “In the engine room”, Contemplating the engine room
23. Ralph Stanley = “O Death”, O brother, where art thou? soundtrack
24. The Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble = “Where have you been?”, The wild field
25. Ladysmith Black Mambazo = “Mangosuthu”, Induku zethu
26. The Bobs = “The ambient one”, I brow club
27. Vocal Sampling = “Congo yambumba”, Una forma mas
28. The Bobs = “Mr. Duality”, Shut up and sing
29. Stetsasonic = “So let the fun begin”
30. Almeda Riddle = “I am a poor wayfaring stranger”, The Gospel Ship: Baptist hyms & white spirituals from the southern mountains
31. Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch = “Didn’t leave nobody but the baby”, O brother, where art thou? soundtrack
32. Language Removal Services = the spaces between Maya Angelou’s words, from the series Voice of the Poet
33. Modern Barbershop Quartet = “Oh, babe, what would you say?”, Modern Barbershop Quartet
34. Petra Haden = #1, Petra Haden sings: The Who sell out
35. Björk = “#6”, Medulla
36. Rustavi Choir = “Tsmindao Chmerto”, georgian voices

Hungry for fewer instruments and more a cappella? G’ahead:
All Cappella 3
All Cappella 2
All Cappella 1

June 20

This week’s edition is unusually long because I covered the first part of the next DJ’s slot while he was off on a chivalrous mission. As a feminist, by the way, I say LONG LIVE CHIVALRY!

If you haven’t already gathered, I am a big fan of drums. Beginning the show are typically rhythmic tracks by Soul Coughing, followed by plenty more percussion.

Also, I spent last week in Toronto with Paul and Heidi, friends and fellow DJs at WCBN-FM Ann Arbor. We attended NXNE (aka “North By Northeast”, or “North By”, for the initiated and/or lazy among us), a music and film festival that recently added media workshops and also includes comedians. The folks at NXNE generously have offered free tickets to WCBN listeners and DJs for the past couple years; we enthusiastically took advantage of the opportunity. I caught a fantastic performance at the festival by the PitchBlak Brass Band. Some backstory is in order to emphasize how great this band is: As a music festival, NXNE boasts about 800 bands on its roster, and those bands play at over 50 venues around the city of Toronto. It can be a logistical challenge for people like me to hit up a night’s worth of music at multiple venues that are spread across town, so I appreciated that the festival was run with military precision this year. In general, an artist played for 30 minutes, allowing the subsequent artist 30 minutes to set up for their show; I could expect to use those 30 minutes of setup to travel to the next venue and catch the next band on my personal itinerary at the top of every hour. Now. PitchBlak is a nine-piece band. There’s a woman on drums, a woman on the sousaphone, 3 trombones, 2 trumpets, a saxophone, and a guitarist/french horn player. Which perhaps justifies the fact that they took so long to set up that they began the show 20 minutes late. They proceeded to play for almost an hour, with. an. encore. Unprecedented! Though perhaps unavoidable. I mean, there were trombone solos and trombone solo battles. One of the trombonists and one of the dudes on trumpet rapped every once in a while. The audience pressed to the front of the stage and danced from beginning to end. We weren’t about to allow the band to wrap up their show. The point of this story is that their performance reinforced my love of brass-band music, and you’ll hear some brassy bands in this show (though since I wasn’t able to snag a PitchBlak Brass Band CD, you’ll have to seek them out yourself to quell your curiosity).

I may eventually write more about our time at NXNE, but in the meantime, you can explore Heidi’s account of her experience at the festival, beginning with Part I on the WCBN blog.

Oh, and Lily Tomlin shows up in this here show! She is always welcome to stop by the radio station while I’m around.

This show was described by separate callers as “strange” and “weird”, comments which I bent and sculpted into compliments. I hope that your listening experience is similarly positive.

(3.5 hours)
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Playlist
Artist = “Song title”, Album title. [Notes.]
1. Soul Coughing = “City of motors”, Ruby vroom
2. Soul Coughing = “Disseminated”, Irresistible bliss
3. Kodo = “Jang-gwara”, Ibuki
4. Will Guthrie = “Sticks”, Sticks, stones & breaking bones
5. Kodo = “Kashira”, Mondo head. [composed by Kodo, Greg Ellis, Zakir Hussain and Mickey Hart]
6. Rebirth Brass Band = “You know you know”, Rebirth of New Orleans
7. Chicago Afrobeat Project = “bscg2”, (A) Move to silent unrest
8. Miriam Makeba = “Pata pata”, Reflections
9. Niobe = “Sanoukiki”, Tse tse
10. Camera Obscura = “The sweetest thing”, My maudlin career
11. The Right Now = “Can’t keep running”, Gets over you
12. Marisa Anderson = “Singing in many voices”, The golden hour (12 improvisations for guitar and lap steel)
13. Caetano Veloso = “Perdeu”, zii e zie
14. Pesnyary = “Mowed Yas Konyushin”, Vocal and instrumental ensemble
15. Grand Duchy = “Two lies and one truth”, Let the people speak
16. Kwes = “Honey”, Meantime
17. Spoek Mathambo = “Let them talk”, Father creeper
18. Basketball = “Suspiros de Chile”, Maw. [45 rpm played at 33 rpm]
19. Buzz = “Petite poupee Japonaise”, See you sioux. [33 @ 45]
20. Joe Sample = “Black and white”, Old faces old places
21. The Sea and Cake = “Lightning”, Everybody
22. Dinosaur Feathers = “Certain times”, Whistle tips
23. Radio I-Ching = “Judgment day”, No wave au gogo
24. Curumin = “Paris vila matilde”, Arrocha
25. Caetano Veloso = “Tropicalia”, Live in Bahia
26. Thinking Plague = “Sleeper cell anthem”, Decline and fall
27. Brian Eno = “Third uncle”, Taking tiger mountain (by strategy)
28. Penguin Café Orchestra = “Cutting branches for a temporary shelter”, Penguin Café Orchestra
29. Lily Tomlin = “Tell Miss Sweeney goodbye”, On stage
30. Autechre = “Slip”, Amber
31. Nellie McKay = “Zombie”, Obligatory villagers
32. Caethua = “Wrecks & rescues”
33. Jana Hunter = “Oracles”, There’s no home
34. Howard Hello = track 2, Howard Hello
35. The Hunting Accident = “As you choke”, Trees and parks
36. Oberhofer = “Haus”, Time capsules II
37. sound = ducks
38. Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers = “Jesus, I’ll never forget”, The gospel soul of Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers, Vol. 1: 12 magnificent performances featuring the irreplaceable voice of Sam Cooke
39. Sam Cooke = “I gotta right to sing the blues”, Sam Cooke interprets Billie Holiday

BONUS

For you, for being ever so patient–here’s a show from the archives grab bag.

“Radio Sputnik” (2 hours)
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I subbed for the DJ who regularly does this show, which he describes as “music of communism”. Have a taste and listen in…

Playlist
Artist = “Song title”, Album title. [Notes.]
1. Eduard Khil = “Mr. Trololo”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oavMtUWDBTM. [RIP]
2. Eduard Khil = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlJ91pu_Ox4. [what a silly dancer and lip syncher he is! RIP]
3. Eduard Khil = “Ballade about soldier”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOWxhnumHQs. [RIP]
4. Andrei Codrescu = “Sibiu, Romania”, No tacos for Saddam
5. Regina Spektor = “The prayer of Francois Villon”, [Record Store Day 2012 EP]
6. Andrei Codrescu = “Everybody suffers”, No tacos for Saddam
7. Regina Spektor = “Old jacket”, [Record Store Day 2012 EP]
8. Andrei Codrescu = “Two possibilities”, No tacos for Saddam
9. Regina Spektor = “Apres moi”, Begin to hope
10. Evgeny Masloboev & Anastasia Masloboeva = “Bird”, Russian folksongs in the key of rhythm
11. Osman Pehlivan = “Arif sag”, Obsession
12. Habkuk = “Mury”, Polska rootz: Beats, dubs, mixes & future folk from Poland. [compiled by ZONIC]
13. Gogol Bordello = “Smarkatch”, Multikontraculti vs. irony
14. Gogol Bordello = “Balkanization of amerikanization”, Gogol Bordello vs. Tamir Muskat
15. Gogol Bordello = “Madagascar-Roumania”, East Infection EP
16. U.S.S.R. Russian Chorus conducted by Aleksander Sveshnikov = “The Tartar captives”, The white birch tree & other Russian songs
17. Volga Choir = “Singing in the Choir”, The folk songs of old Russia
18. Muzsikas and Marta Sebestyen = “A song from Madocsa”, Morning star
19. The Karlian Folk Music Ensemble = “Swallow waltz”, The Karlian Folk Music Ensemble. [State University, Karelia, Russia]
20. The Ukrainians = “Europa”, Kultura
21. Goran Bregovic = “Yeremia”, Best of
22. Derdiyoklar Ikilisi = “Yodoy”, Disko folk
23. Sto Zvirat = “Everyone’s got it different”, Double chin
24. Vagtazo Halottkemek = “Confuring up the wonder stag”, Galloping coroners
25. Dos-Mukasan = “Betpak dala”
26. Dos-Mukasan = “Ahau bikem”
27. Beatles = “Back in the USSR”, the white album
28. Tarantella Dei Baraccati = “Tarantella of the squatters”, Avanti Popolo! Revolutionary songs of the Italian working class

June 6

This show contains copious amounts of bizarre jazz.

The show begins with lots of music from all over the world, all danceable.

Do you hear that? During a long guitar solo, I played around with some records in the studio. The long guitar solo came from a CD, while the odd sounds–chords of some sort–mixed with the guitar. That was me, interrupting the guitar solo at random intervals by playing tiny snippets of a record on which Art Tatum tinkled at the piano keys.

Later on, you can hear what it would’ve sounded like if Art Tatum had used 30 fingers to play the piano.

There’s a lot of great poetry in this show, including Allen Ginsberg, arwulf arwulf, and Ken Nordine.

(2 hours)
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Playlist
Artist = “Song title”, Album title. [Notes.]
1. Youssou N’Dour = “Set”, Set. [Senegal]
2. Chancha Via Circuito = “Prima”, Future sounds of Buenoas Aires. [Argentina]
3. La Chiva Gantiva = “Cosmeticos”, Pelao. [Recorded in France, mixed in Colombia, mastered in UK, Caribbean + African instruments!]
4. MC Solaar = “La musique adoucit les moeurs”, Qui seme le vente récolte le tempo. [France]
5. Mr. Ebbo = “Mi mmasai (remix)”, Bongo flava: Swahili rap from Tanzania
6. Important = “Origin”, Sembeh ma fa fe: Revisits volume. [Guinea]
7. Seu Jorge = “Chatterton”, Cru. [Brazil]
8. Jack de Johnette & Foday Musa Suso = “Ocean wave”, Music from the hearts of the masters
9. Matt Haimovitz with the Pittsburgh Collective Big Band = “Scherzo Grosso (part 3)”, Vinyl cello
10. Big Satan = “Deadpan”, souls.savedhear
11. New And Used = “Cows”, Souvenir
12. Allen Ginsberg (with Marc Ribot, Bill Frisell, et al.) = “Complaint of the skeleton to time”, The lion for real
13. Jonathan Richman = “I eat with gusto, damn! you bet”, Jonathan Richman
– mixed with –
14. Otto Luening = “Invention in twelve notes (1952)”, Pioneers of electronic music
15. arwulf arwulf and the sonnenlicht project = “Turtle peace”, Reproductive rights for all women
16. Frank Pahl & Klimperei = “Dainties”, Music for desserts
17. Ken Nordine = “Maroon”, Colors
18. Art Tatum = several tracks from several volumes of Solo Masterpieces. [all mixed together; 30 fingers playing the piano]
19. Mice Parade = “The lonely lounge piano player’s lost in his little world”, Ramda
20. Joe Zawinul & the Zawinul Syndicate = “Zanza II”, 75
21. Afel Bocoum, Damon Albarn, Toumani Diabate and Friends = “Spoons”, Mali music
22. Gilberto Gil e Jorge Ben = “Nega”, Gil e Jorge

May 30

Doc Watson passed away yesterday. I don’t know his music very well, but I wanted to remember him on the air. This show contains a slew of Doc’s finger-pickin, mostly from the album Memories.

The show begins with techno-jazz and culminates in the moment that a Russian interrupts the music with a discussion of tickles and sickles.

(2 hours)
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Maybe it’s worth remembering some of the lyrics in “Samuel”, by Laleh: Don’t compare the worst in them with the best in you.

Playlist
Artist = “Song title”, Album title. [Notes.]
1. Kasper Bjorke (with Jacob Bellens) = “Hummingbirds”, Fool
2. Urbana Youth Outreach = “Jentendo (beat mix)”, No war
3. Mati Zundel = “Aero Tinku”, Amazonico gravitante
4. Get The Blessing = “OCDC”, OCDC
5. Gemma Ray = “Bring ring ring yeah”, Island fire
6. Laleh = “Samuel”, Sjung
7. Arstidir = “Shades”, Made In Iceland V: Various artists
8. Pop Project = “You’ve won the lottery”, Stars of stage and screen
9. Beatles = “I want you (she’s so heavy)”, Abbey Road
10. Turing Machine = “Sex ghost”, What is the meaning of what
11. Elliott Smith = “no name #2”, Roman candle
12. Cat Power = “American flag”, Moon pix
13. The Blow = “The moon is there, I am here”, Bonus album
14. Ava Luna = “Stages”, Ice level
15. Mucca Pazza = “Hang ‘em where I can see ‘em”, Safety fifth
16. Jon Porras = “Blue crescent vision”, Black mesa
– mixed with –
17. Alexan Demidov = “Lines on a Soviet passport”, Soviet poetry and humor
– mixed with –
18. Urbana Youth Outreach = “x”, No war
19. Jim Campilongo = “Backburner”, Orange
20. Fthrsn = “Hysteria”, Hysteria
21. Doc Watson = “Don’t tell me your troubles”, Memories
22. Doc Watson = “Blues stay away from me”, Memories
23. Doc Watson = “Nobody knows but me”, Portrait
24. Doc Watson = “In the jailhouse now”, Memories
25. Doc Watson = “Double file & salt creek”, Memories
26. Punch Brothers = “The blind leaving the blind: 4th movement”, Punch
27. Incredible String Band = “Second fiddle”, No ruinous feud
28. TriBeCaStan = “Two for Ornette (Dee Dee/Theme from a symphony)”, New deli
29. Field Music = “Who’ll pay the bills?”, Plumb
30. Konrad = “Sticks and stones”, Shadow boxing
31. Andrew Bird = “Hole in the ocean floor”, Break it yourself
32. The Mexicali Singers = “I can’t stop loving you”, The Mexicali Singers ride again
33. Guantanamo Baywatch = “Massage my Taj Mahal”, Chest crawl

May 23: Comedy classics

I sorta curated this comedy show, picking and choosing the tracks that I found interesting on the albums. I heard from a couple listeners who said that they grew up with these records. I wonder, did I play your favorites? Did you wish you heard your favorite sketch? sketch, skit, eh, whatever.

This show mostly contains Steve Martin and Bill Cosby, with songsters like Martin Mull and Spike Jones thrown in. and Bill Cosby scats.

Damn that Steve Martin and his dirty words. But thank you, Steve Martin, for relating flatulence to the ozone layer.

(2 hours)
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Playlist
Artist = “Song title”, Album title. [Notes.]
1. The Steve Martin Brothers = “Hoedown at Alice’s”, The Steve Martin Brothers
2. Steve Martin = “Let’s get small”, Let’s get small
3. Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers = “Jubilation day”, Rare bird alert
4. Steve Martin = “Cocktail show, Vegas”, The Steve Martin Brothers
5. Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers = “King Tut”, Rare bird alert
6. Bill Cosby = “two daughters – two brothers – the tank – smoking”, Revenge
7. Martin Mull = “Tuna fish salad”, In the soop with Martin Mull, Les Daniels, and Ed Wise
8. Bill Cosby = “Buck, buck”, Revenge
9. Bill Cosby = “Dance of the frozen lion”, At last Bill Cosby really sings
10. Bill Cosby = “Superman – hoof and mouth – greasy kid stuff”, Bill Cosby is a very funny fellow right!
11. Spike Jones and his City Slickers = “Cheatin’ on the sandman”, Riot squad
12. Martin Mull = “Dancing in the nude”, Martin Mull
13. Martin Mull = “Consuela was a Mexican”, In the soop with Martin Mull, Les Daniels, and Ed Wise
14. Radio Free Vestibule = “The sound of…”, Sketches songs and shoes
15. Hofi Geza = Hungarian comedy
16. Bill Cosby = “a nut in every car – toss of the coin – little tiny hairs”, Bill Cosby is a very funny fellow right!
17. Bill Cosby = “Ralph Jameson”, I started out as a child
18. DJ Food feat. Natural Self = “The illectrik hoax”, The search engine
19. Clark = “Secret”, Iradelphic
20. Donna Summer = “I feel love”, Endless summer
21. Stevie Wonder = “Kesse ye lolo de ye”, Journey through The Secret Life of Plants
22. Kink Gong

May 16

I don’t understand this art of the remix. An artist needs to use the same medium and the same material to devise something fresh while respecting the original creation. That’s not easy to do, and I think few accomplish the reinvention they may be going for. Is reinvention the aim? What else would inspire someone to make a remix? Simple mimicry? What’s the point of that?

I think Dr. Dog succeeds in covering Architecture In Helsinki (heard here).
I think The Gerbils succeed in covering Buddy Holly (heard elsewhere).

In any case, juxtaposing a remix and original leads to nice results, here in the form of Battles. [How do you pronounce “BDG #Gang Gang”, the folks who remixed a Battles tune?]

You’ll get to know Abner Jay during this show; he’s a self-described “folk song stylist” and “the last living minstrel”.

At least segments, if not the entirety, of this particular program are listener-approved. There’s a lot of heavy breathing in this one. Go figure.

(2 hours)
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After listening, answer me this, because I’m curious – Do you think the happy classical portion requires a special mood to enjoy?

Note: I misspoke about the show’s time slot – my show would be the shortest in the world if it went from twelve to noon. In fact, I dare you to Break Your Radio every Wednesday from noon to two.

Playlist
Artist = “Song title”, Album title. [Notes.]
1. Bob Dylan = “Like a rolling stone”, Highway 61 revisited
2. Abner Jay = “99 years in jail”, Folk song stylist
3. Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Anders Parker, Yim Yames = “Changing world”, New multitudes
4. Abner Jay = “The reason young people use drugs”, True story of Abner Jay
5. Jean-Marie Leclair = selections from Sonatas for flute and continuo. [flute + harpsichord + viola da gamba]
6. Jean-Marie Leclair = “Sonata in E minor, opus IX (Book IV), No. 2”, Sonatas for flute and continuo
7. Jean-Marie Leclair = “Sonata in B minor, opus II (Book II), No. 11”, Sonatas for flute and continuo. [1674]
– mixed with –
8. Black Dice & Mr. Impossible = “Shithouse drifter”, The electronic mind monsters reader
– mixed with –
9. Jeff Mills = “Good question”, The Power
10. Mozart (played by Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan) = “Clarinet concerto in A Major, K. 622”, W.A. Mozart. [I guess clarinet = Bernard Walton]
11. Christian Sinding (sung by Edith Thallaug) = “Schifferlied: Schon hat die Nacht den Silberschein”, Romanser 1
12. Old South Quartette = “When de corn pone’s hot”, The earliest negro vocal quartets: 1894-1928. [released by Document Records]
13. Bruce Haack = “Clapping with Katy”, The electronic record for children
14. The Meters = “Look-ka py py”, This is Charly R&B: 22 blues, R&B and soul classics
15. BDG #Gang Gang (Battles remix) = “Ice cream”, Dross glop
16. Battles = “Ice cream”, Gloss drop
17. Billy Preston = “Everybody likes some kind of music (reprise)”, Everybody likes some kind of music
18. Billy Preston = “Space race”, Everybody likes some kind of music
19. Bell = “Mode 3”, Seven types of Six
20. Yeah NO = “Camper giorno”, Swell Henry
21. Call and Response = “Rollerskate”, Kindercare
22. Cornershop (feat. Rajwant) = “Beacon Radio 303”, The singhles club
23. Tartufi = “Dot dash”, Nests of waves and wire
24. the Cardigans = “Gordon’s gardenparty”, Life
25. Francois & the Atlas Mountains = “Do you want to dance”, e volo love
26. Abner Jay = “St. James infirmiry [sic] blues”, True story of Abner Jay

May 9: Note the new time slot!

*NOTE: We’ve got a new programming schedule!*
* Break Your Radio NOW ON WEDNESDAYS at NOON TO TWO *

The lyric “better google Kali Yuga” appears in one of the songs…Really, though, it might be interesting to learn more about Kali Yuga and the state of the world according to Hindu scripture.

Listen closely for an Emergency Alert System test, which blended into a manifesto of WCBN-FM narrated by arwulf. How do you like that, eh? Radio magic.

(2 hours)
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Playlist
Artist = “Song title”, Album title. [Notes.]
1. Kraftwerk = “Endless endless”, Trans-Europe express
2. Massive Attack = “Sly”, EP
3. MNML = “el faro”, antibalas corazon
4. Pandit Samta (tabla) and Binoy Pthak (harmonium) = “Teen tal (16 beats)”, Tabla lahara
5. Rob = “Make it fast, make it slow”, Make it fast, make it slow
6. La Chiva Gantiva = “Cumbiaje”, Pelao
7. Charles Bradley= “Stay awake”, Heartaches and pain
8. Funk Ark = “Road to Coba”, High noon
9. Nomo = “Rings”, Ghost rock
10. Jazz Punks = “Led Gillespie”, Smashups
11. 1982 = “6. 02:53”, Pintura
12. Georgia Anne Muldrow = “Kali yuga”, Seeds
13. The Naysayer = “Shrimp song”, Kitten time
14. Terry Sadler = “Pink shoe laces”, America’s Top Tunes (high fidelity!)
15. Father Kapoun – The Polka Padre = “Clarinet Laendler #1”, Swinging just right
16. Contino = “Monkey”, Back porch dogma
17. Dr. John = “Locked down”, Locked down
18. Lee Fields and the Expressions = “Still hanging on”, Faithful man
19. The Right Now = “Should’ve told me”, Gets over you
20. Mayer Hawthorne with Snoop Dogg = “Can’t stop”, How do you do
21. Willie Nelson with Snoop Dogg, Jamey Johnson & Kris Kristofferson = “Roll me up”, Heroes
22. YPPAH = “Several songs”, EIGHTY ONE
23. Build buildings = “Test me”, There is a problem with my tape recorder
24. Boom Bip & Doseone = “Dead man’s teal”
25. Bugs = “Broken”, Infinite syndrome
26. Kamasi Washington = “Thrill seeker”, Throttle elevator music
27. Dr. Dog = “Heart it races”, Architecture In Helsinki “Heart it races” covers and remixes

May 2

I started 30 minutes early because DJ K-Smashballs, who was subbing the previous slot, insisted on getting to her job on time.

Herein is an Erik Satie set, which includes the Scavenger Quartet (led by Frank Pahl), Chicha Libre, and 2 pianists. I’m a novice Erik Satie fan, and I think that any time I hear a Satie cover, I’ll just add it to the Satie set and play the whole medley on the radio all over again. Speaking of which, would you consider pianists to be “cover artists”, playing music that they haven’t written?

My current hero = Christian Rudder, and I make no bones about it.

Stick with this til the end for some serious reverb action! Jim (our chief engineer and general operations manager at WCBN) brought a delay pedal to the station to test out (i.e., play with) the new setup he wired in the FM studio. Jim listened on the headphones and giggled nearby as I explored the reverb effects as best I could…

This one’s listener-approved!

Hear what it sounds like to be drunk and real high in the spirit of the Lord (1.5 hours):
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I love that Freedom almost always provides a genius, seamless segue between our shows…Is this practic deliberate? I do not know.

Playlist
Artist = “Song title”, Album title. [Notes.]
1. Hoor-Paar-Kraat = “Relics of the inheritance”, The eureka tapes: The complete recordings
2. Booka Shade with yello = “Divine”, More!
3. The Klezmorim = “Minnie the Moocher”, Jazz-babies of the Ukraine
4. Scavenger Quartet = “The velvet gentleman’s bowler”, Hats. [Erik Satie composition]
5. Eve Egoyan (on piano) = “Valse-ballet Op. 62 (c1885-6)”, Hidden corners (Recoins). [Erik Satie composition]
6. Michel Legrand (on piano) = “1^ere gymnopedie”, Erik Satie // Michel Legrand. [Erik Satie composition]
7. Chicha Libre = “Gnosienne no. 1”, !Sonido Amazonico! [Erik Satie composition]
8. Chicha Libre = “The ride of the valkyries”, Canibalismo
9. Psapp = “King Kong”, Tiger, my friend
10. Bishop Allen = “Things are what you make of them”, Charm school
11. Modest Mouse = “Willful suspension of disbelief”, Everywhere and his nasty parlour tricks
12. Klaus Nomi = “Nomi chant”, Klaus Nomi
13. Miss Murgatroid & Petra Haden = the third song, Hearts & daggers
14. The Raincoats = “Dance of the hopping mad”, moving
15. Robert Glasper Experiment (feat. Erykah Badu) = “Afro blue”, Black radio
16. Nneka = “Soul is heavy”, Soul is heavy
17. Ada Richards = “I’m drunk and real high (in the spirit of God)”, Born again funk
18. Untempered Ensemble = “Poverty is the father of fear”, Untempered Ensemble

April 30: Doomsday Radio

I subbed for Matt E to produce his Doomsday Radio with a The Liz twist. It begins with lots o jazz to honor Matt, jazz fulla drums and whimsy to please my own aural palate.

Here you can hear a new one from Esperanza Spalding, who will appear at the A2 Summer Festival.

“Mad without him, sad without him, how can I be glad without him blues” is another song you can hear here.

And TUURD emerges, odoriferous, with special guests, during Events Information. Was there a tuurd in the punchbowl on Satuurday? Learn all about it here!

John Sinclair ends the show by passing around a joint.

(2.5 hours)
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Playlist
Artist = “Song title”, Album title. [Notes.]
1. Oscar Pettiford = “Out is in”, Discoveries…on cello and bass with Hank Jones, Charles Mingus, Paul Quinichette, Herbie Mann, Billy Taylor
2. Saheb Sarbib Quartet = “(part of) Living right on Central Park”, Seasons
3. Woody Herman and his swinging herd = “The sound of music”, My kind of Broadway
4. Billy Rowland = “Mad about him, sad without him, how can I be glad without him blues”, Billy Rowland plays boogie woogie
5. George Duning = “Wife meets mistress”, Any Wednesday soundtrack
6. Ergo = “Sorrows of the moon”, If not inertia
7. Oscar Pettiford = “Oscalypso”, The finest of Oscar Pettiford
8. Esperanza Spalding = “Radio song”, Radio music society
9. Brian Turner = “Disco Hiroshima”, WFMU reinterprets the music of SUN RA
10. Negativland = “Cats, in between frequences, etc”, The Willsaphone Stupid Show
11. Negativland = “Comb music”, The Willsaphone Stupid Show II
12. Basketball = “Andika”, Maw
13. Spoek Mathambo = “Father creeper”, Father creeper
14. Kevin Kastning, Sandor Szabo, and Balazs Major = “Triptych III”, Triptych
15. Konrad = “All you thought”, Shadow boxing
16. Cake = “Comanche”, Motorcade of generosity
17. Spike Jones and his City Slickers = “Oh! by jingo”, Riot squad
18. Of Montreal = “Malefic dowery”, Paralytic stalks
19. Solid Home Life = it was impossible to say what the track name was, Solid home life
20. Thao & Mirah = “Folks”, Thao & Mirah
21. Tuurd = “Reese’s feces”, I wish my wife was this dirty
22. Tuurd = “I wish my wife was this dirty”, I wish my wife was this dirty
23. Clear Plastic Masks = “Uncle Chris”, Clear Plastic Masks
24. Pianosaurus = “Love is a two-way street”, Groovy neighborhood
25. The Dinner Ladies = “These knees have seen the world”, These knees have seen the world
26. Phranc = “Female mudwrestling”, Folksinger
27. Robin Flower = “Temperance reel (traditional)”, Green sneakers
28. Jo Pie Whyld = “Flame & felt”, Songs for Noah
29. Nightlife = “Wait”, Nightlife EP
30. Tiger High = “Carry my love”, Myth is this
31. Buck 65 = “Lipstick”, Situation
32. Horacee Arnold = “Tales of the exonerated flea”, Tales of the exonerated flea
33. John Sinclair & Plant D Nonet = “If you’se a viper”, Viper madness