Month: November 2009

on by Brian Cullman

Songs on Toast – 11/29/2009

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Ku tando 3:33 Bonga Angola
Voodoo 3:03 Tubby Hayes Voodoo Session
Ndjango 5:42 Massukos Bumping
(Do The) Push And Pull Rufus Thomas Did You Heard Me?
Akampanye 4:27 Sweet Talks Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds
Iya 1:48 Ali Keïta Sellam, Renne & Ali Keïta, Abidjan
La Marea (Version Album) Sidestepper Continental
Mbira Shuffle 4:58 Pops Mohamed How Far Have We Come?
Morceau D’Amour 6:37 Mahala Raï Banda Mahala Rai Banda
Jinah Jinah Tave 6:50 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Missives From Allah
Hava Ka Zor Hi Kaafi Bahaana Hota Hai 9:55 Hariharan Visaal
Mbui Mbui 1:40 Various Tanzanie, Tanzania
Mas Papaya 3:35 Sidestepper 3am: In Beats We Trust
Mwazi 1:06 The Very Best Warm Heart Of Africa
Mein Sahib Teri Bandi Haan Faiz Ali Faiz Teri Bandi Haan
Bolder Than Paradise 5:27 Shannon McNally Coldwater
Rescue 5:35 Lucinda Williams West
Lonesome, Ornery and Mean Shannon McNally Coldwater
Nobody’s Fault But Mine Nina Simone The Soul Of Nina Simone
You Monopolise Me 3:14 The Ogyatanaa Show Band Ghana Special: Modern Highlife,
Lamento: Ene Sarére 2:35 Jordi Savall Istanbul
Morgengruß 5:08 Matthias Goerne Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, Op.25 D.795
Der Neugierige 5:20 Matthias Goerne Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, Op.25 D.795
God Shall wipe all tears away 3:07 Mahalia Jackson The Gospel Train is Leaving 1930-1945

on by Brian Cullman

Songs on Toast – 11/27/2009

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Ku tando 3:33 Bonga Angola
Voodoo 3:03 Tubby Hayes Voodoo Session
Ndjango 5:42 Massukos Bumping
(Do The) Push And Pull Rufus Thomas Did You Heard Me?
Akampanye 4:27 Sweet Talks Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds
Iya 1:48 Ali Keïta Sellam, Renne & Ali Keïta, Abidjan
La Marea (Version Album) Sidestepper Continental
Mbira Shuffle 4:58 Pops Mohamed How Far Have We Come?
Morceau D’Amour 6:37 Mahala Raï Banda Mahala Rai Banda
Jinah Jinah Tave 6:50 Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Missives From Allah
Hava Ka Zor Hi Kaafi Bahaana Hota Hai 9:55 Hariharan Visaal
Mbui Mbui 1:40 Various Tanzanie, Tanzania
Mas Papaya 3:35 Sidestepper 3am: In Beats We Trust
Mwazi 1:06 The Very Best Warm Heart Of Africa
Mein Sahib Teri Bandi Haan Faiz Ali Faiz Teri Bandi Haan
Bolder Than Paradise 5:27 Shannon McNally Coldwater
Rescue 5:35 Lucinda Williams West
Lonesome, Ornery and Mean Shannon McNally Coldwater
Nobody’s Fault But Mine Nina Simone The Soul Of Nina Simone
You Monopolise Me 3:14 The Ogyatanaa Show Band Ghana Special: Modern Highlife,
Lamento: Ene Sarére 2:35 Jordi Savall Istanbul
Morgengruß 5:08 Matthias Goerne Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, Op.25 D.795
Der Neugierige 5:20 Matthias Goerne Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, Op.25 D.795
God Shall wipe all tears away 3:07 Mahalia Jackson The Gospel Train is Leaving 1930-1945

on by Rafi Zabor

Updoc 68: Heroes For More Than One Day: 11/27/09

1.    John Coltrane: Crescent; The Classic Quartet – The Complete Studio Recordings (Impulse)
2.    Dmitri Shostakovich/USSR Symphony Orchestra/Maxim Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Symphony No. 5 – “Michurin” Suite (RCA/BMG)
3.    Dmitry Shostakovich/Staatskapelle Dresden/Kyrill Kondrashin: Symphony No. 4 [title tune] (Profil/Hänssler)

on by Bruce Mack

FreeWorldNetworkRadio-X – 11/25/2009

This episode No.25 is an FWNR-X Special featuring culture-commentator/writer – Michael Gonzales as guest-host and music selector. In this interview, Michael talks about Curtis Mayfield and the making of the score and original soundtrack for the film “Superfly”. This show sort of serves as an aid to the more detailed featured story that Michael Gonzales wrote for Wax Poetics issue #38 which was released on November 22nd. For more information on this story (which is EXCELLENT!) visit waxpoetics.com

Time Song Artist Album
noon Superfly Curtis Mayfield Superfly (Original Soundtrack)
  New World Order Curtis Mayfield New World Order
  Sunshine & The Rain Joi Released as a single only
  Little Child Runnin' Wild (in background) Curtis Mayfield Superfly (Original Soundtrack)
  Brother On the Run Johnny Pate Brother On the Run (Original Soundtrack)
  Junkie Chase Curtis Mayfield Superfly (Original Soundtrack)
  Let's Do It Again (background) The Staple Singers Let's Do It Again (Original Soundtrack)
  Chocolate City Mavis Staples A Piece Of The Action (original Soundtrack)
  Give Me Your Love (background) Curtis Mayfield Superfly (Original Soundtrack)
  Short Eyes (background) Curtis Mayfield Short Eyes (Original Soundtrack)
  Giving Him Something He Can Feel Envogue Best Of Envogue
  Shaft In Africa Johnny Pate Shaft In Africa (Original Soundtrack)
  Pusherman Curtis Mayfield Superfly (Original Soundtrack)
1pm I'm Your Pusher Ice-T Power
  I Want To Thank You The Staple Singers Let's Do It Again (Original Soundtrack)
  Sparkle Aretha Franklin Sparkle (Original Soundtrack)
  Think (Instrumental) Curtis Mayfield Superfly (Original Soundtrack)
  Message To The Universe (Message To Love) Jean-Paul Bourelly Tribute To Jimi Hendrix
  Skew It On The Bar-B Outkast Aquemini
  Billy Jack Lenny Kravitz A Tribute To Curtis Mayfield
on by Todd Morman

Monkey Mind – 11/22/2009

Ha. I seem to have enjoyed the early 70s a lot during the 2nd hour this week. Hope you do too.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Crusoe The Ex and Tom Cora Scrabbling at the Lock
  Lay in the Sun The Godz Contact High with The Godz
  You Can't Win Kinks Kink Kontroversy
  Explosive Mouth T. Rex 1972-1977 The B-Sides
  The Fabulous Sequel Pere Ubu New Picnic Time
  Don't Be Square Be There Adam and the Ants Kings of the Wild Frontier
  Thos. Dudley Ah! Old Must Die Gastr del Sol Crookt, Crackt, or Fly
  Fulani Chant Sweet Honey in the Rock In This Land
  Evolution Pete Townshend/Ronnie Lane Who Came First
  Coolidge Rising Leo Kottke 6- and 12-String Guitar
  Little Geneva Muddy Waters The Real Folk Blues
  Ya Strugglin' Boogie Down Productions Edutainment
  Motherless Child Gregory Isaacs The Winner: The Roots of Gregory Isaacs
  Disposable Society Esther Phillips Performance
  Automatic Max de Wardener Where I Am Today
  Short Ride in a Fast Machine John Adams/BBC National Orchestra of Wales
  Adaptations for Barrel Organ: Continuum Gyorgy Ligeti Gyorgy Ligeti Edition vol. 5: Mechanical Music
4pm Almost Got Hit By A Truck Daniel Johnston Yip/Jump Music
  This May Be the Last Time Five Blind Boys of Alabama Oh Lord Stand By Me
  He Sends Me Nellie Lutcher Best of Nellie Lutcher
  The Man in Me Persuasions Street Corner Symphony
  Almost Independence Day Van Morrison Saint Dominic's Preview
  The End of Our Road Temptations Solid Rock
  As the Crow Flies Tony Joe White Best of Tony Joe White
  Harlem/Cold Baloney Bill Withers Bill Withers Live at Carnegie Hall
  Sugarloaf Harvey Mandel Shangrenade
on by Brian Cullman

Songs on Toast – 11/20/2009

8eauti4ul 5tran6e Intro 1:20 Prince 8eauti4ul 5tran6e
It’s Not Easy 4:28 Ofege Try And Love
If I Had A Heart 2:39 Fever Ray 10
Holy, Holy, Holy Moses 3:36 Alec Ounsworth Anti Sampler Fall 2009
Positively 4th Street 4:50 Lucinda Williams The Village: A Celebration Of The Music Of Greenwich Village
Je t’aime 5:01 Staff Benda Bilili Womeximizer 2009
Rumble in the Jungle 7:18 Max Roach M’Boom
Gayang karwang 5:22 E Koestyara &Gapura Sangkala
Chico 1:36 Ali Keïta Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Wandering Souls 9:14 Dave Douglas Songs for Wandering Souls
est-ce que tu peux me voir? 4:26 Jun Miyake Stolen From Strangers
Wild Roses 3:40 Hope Sandoval Through The Devil Softly
Taksim (Lira) 1:32 Jordi Savall Istanbul
Drifting 2:34 Chris Whitley Perfect Day
Reunion 1:10 Bruno Coulais Coraline
The Wedding 2:41 Abdullah Ibrahim Water From An Ancient Well
Faith In Your Heartbeat 1:57 Lou Barlow Goodnight Unknown
Been So Long 1:30 Nina Nastasia The Blackened Air
Sportin’ Life 3:47 Dave Van Ronk Somebody Else, Not Me
Take My Hand Precious Lord 1:45 Nina Simone Saga Of The Good Life & Hard Times
Let Me Ride – Memphis Minnie 3:00 Memphis Minnie The History of Black Gospel Vol 3
The World Is Going Wrong -3:09 Geoff Muldaur Things About Comin’ My Way
Chauffeur 2:38 Rosie Flores Girl of the Century
Taksim (Kanun, Tanbur, Santur et Oud) Jordi Savall Istanbul
La Partie D’abeille 1:11 Annie and the Beekeepers Squid Hell Sessions
Street Dance 5:34 M’boom Collage
Capitão do Asfalto 5:32 Bahia Black Ritual Beating System
Mundo Verde 5:55 Nana Vasconcelos Fragments
Izeze 1:06 Various Tanzanie, Tanzania : Masumbi, Musique de divertissement Wago
Nana Nina 2:59 Bush Y Sus Magnificos Panama!
La Confianza 3:03 Menique El Panameno Con Bush Y Los Magnificos Panama!2
Dwarfs yodel song 2:36 Comedian Harmonists The Comedian Harmonists Exile
Welcome 3:02 Harmonia & Eno ’76 Tracks And Traces

on by Rafi Zabor

Updoc 67: Idle Moments: 11/20/09

Opening theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago: Nice Guys [title tune]  (ECM)

1.    Grant Green: Idle Moments [title tune] (Blue Note)
2.    Rabih Abou-Khalil: La Séduction – Charab et Tout; Il Sospiro (Enja)
3.    Rabih Abou-Khalil)/Joachim Kühn/Jarrod  Cagwin: Die Brücke; Journey to the Centre of an Egg (Enja)
4 – 6. Rolf Lislevand: Ricercata Prima; La Perra Mora; Susanne un Jour – Ricercata Settima; Diminuito (ECM)
7.    Grant Green: Jean de Fleur; Idle Moments (Blue Note)
8.    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Leon Fleisher/Stuttgarter Kammerorchester: Piano Concerto No. 23; Mozart – Piano Concertos (Sony)
9.    Grant Green: Nomad; Idle Moments (Blue Note)
10.    Lou Harrison/Lucy Stoltzman/Keith Jarrett/New Japan Philharmonic/Robert Hughes: Suite for Violin, Piano, and Small Orchestra: Piano Concerto, Suite etc. (New World)

Out theme: Grant Green: Django; Idle Moments (Blue Note)

on by Rafi Zabor

Updoc 66: Cowboy Charles, Among Others: 11/13/09

Opening theme: Charlie Haden Family and Friends: Old Haden Family Show; Rambling Boy (Decca)

1.    Ornette Coleman: Country Town Blues; The Complete Science Fiction Sessions (Columbia)
2.    Gavin Bryars/Charlie Haden: By the Vaar; Farewell to Philosophy (Point Music)
3-4.    Carla Bley: Hotel Overture; Why; Escalator Over the Hill (WATT)
5.    Dmitri Shostakovich/Heinrich Schiff/Sinfonie-Orchester Bayerischen Rundfunks/Maxim Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 2; Shostakovich Cello Concertos Nos. 1&2 (Philips)
6.    Charlie Haden/Carla Bley: Song for Che; Liberation Music Orchestra (Impulse)
7.    Aaron Cass/Vastearth Orchestra: Green Bird [title tune] (Beshara Publications)
8.    Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman: Trigonometry; Song X: Twentieth Anniversary (Nonesuch)
9.    Manuel Vallejo/Nino Ricardo: Yo voy por la calle loco; La Nina de la Pueblo & Manuel Vallejo (Nuevos Medios)
10.     Benjamin Britten/Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Richard Hickox: Suite on English Folk Songs: Lord Melbourne; Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (Chandos)
11.     Charlie Haden Family and Friends: Oh Shenandoah; Rambling Boy (Decca)

on by Brian Cullman

Songs on Toast – 11/13/2009

I Faram Gami I Faram 2:19 Mulatu Astatke New York – Addis – LondonThe Story of Ethio Jazz 1965-1975
Hun Dee Ani Ti Mam Dee Ani? 3:54 Atongo Zimba Barefoot In the Sand
Cream 2:48 Prince Live 2004
Skinny Love 3:59 Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
Me and You, Watson 3:41 Alec Ounsworth Mo Beauty
The Wine Song 2:26 Annie & the Beekeepers Squid Hell Sessions
That’s It 3:11 Bill Frisell Things About Comin’ My Way
Taksim (Kanun) Jordi Savall Istanbul
Los Paxaricos (I.Levy II 5:06 Jordi Savall Istanbul
Tell Me 3:30 Catfish Haven Tell Me
Respect 3:58 Kukumbas Psych Funk 101
Monk Time 2:25 The Monks The Early Years 1964 – 1965
Cedric Zydeco 2:54 Cedric Watson Womeximizer 2009
Mama Too Tight 5:26 Archie Shepp Mama Too Tight
Man Chali 3:56 Jaipur Kawa Brass Band Fanfare Du Rajastan
Follow Me 4:24 Bahia Black Ritual Beating System
Que Mimporta 4:12 Bebe Y.
Don’t Let Him Ride 3:22 Mississippi Nightingales Fire in My Bones : Raw, Rare & Otherworldly Gospel
Femme Fatale 3:50 Elvis Costello & The Sugarcanes Massey Hall, Toronto ON, August 28, 2009
Just for You 4:02 Darrell Nulisch Just for You
Back Back Train 4:36 Luther Dickinson The Sons of Mudboy
May Be The Last Time, I Don’t Know Ndidi Onukwulu No, I Never
Djôn’maya 4:10 Victor Démé Victor Démé
How Will You Meet Your End 4:02 A.A. Bondy American Hearts
Taksim (Oud) 1:18 Jordi Savall Istanbul
Livin’ In a Strain 4:47 Kelly Joe Phelps Things About Comin’ My Way
Bofoo Beye Abowa Den 3:15 St. Peter & The Holymen Ghana Special
Eyes 4:13 Womack & Womack Radio M.U.S.C.
I’m In The Mood 2:47 John Lee Hooker The Real Folk Blues
Haidara 10:57 Jali Musa Jawara Yasimika
Mkapa 1:28 Various Tanzanie, Tanzania : Masumbi, Musique de divertissement Wago

on by Brian Cullman

Songs on Toast – 11/08/2009

Cabbage Alley 3:30 The Meters Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology
Calvary 4:53 Levon Helm Dirt Farmer
Down Into Mexico 4:35 Delbert McClinton Cost of Living
Calcutta Monsoon 5:03 Garland Jeffreys Garland Jeffreys
haiti 3:35 Dede Saint-Prix Le Meilleur de
I Come From Jamaica Clifford Brown Clifford Brown – Brownie Speaks
Alabama Song 5:26 Mike Zwerin &Eric Dolphy Theatre Music Of Kurt Weill
Carry Me Back To Old Virginny Ray Charles The Genius Hits The Road
Dakar Moon 3:16 Baaba Maal Televison
Down In Mississippi 3:17 J.B. Lenoir Vietnam Blues
Back In the USSR 2:56 The Beatles White Album acoustic demos
Canal Street Blues 2:45 John Lee Hooker Graveyard Blues
I Love To Wake Up In New Orleans Larry John McNally Dandelion Soul
New Orleans Hopscop Blues Geoff And Maria Muldaur Pottery Pie
Leaving Louisiana In The Broad Daylight Rodney Crowell The Rodney Crowell Collection
Louisiana Stomp 2:51 Clifton Chenier Zydeco Dynamite The Clifton Chenier Anthology
Orleans stomp 2:47 The Cruel Sea The Honeymoon is Over
South Philadelphia (Drug Days) Alec Ounsworth Mo Beauty
Funky Kingston 4:56 Toots & The Maytals Anthology
Girl From Addis Ababa 3:28 Mulatu Astatke New York – Addis – LondonThe Story of Ethio Jazz 1965-1975
Girl from the North Country Howard Tate Howard Tate
All The Way From Memphis 5:02 Mott The Hoople All The Young Dudes
Arrivederci Roma 2:16 Earl Bostic Earl Bostic – All His Hits
Bus horn in India 0:13
Arabia 2:32 Delcos Doo Wop Box II (1960-1963)
Birmingham 2:47 Randy Newman Good Old Boys
Cottonwood 3:43 Byron isaacs At Home
Coconut Grove 2:46 Lovin Spoonful Anthology
Canal Saint-Martin 1:39 Les Primitifs Du Futur Tribal Musette
Harlem Nocturne 2:48 Joe Goldmark Goldmark Round-Up – Steelin’ From His Past
Harlem Bound 3:57 Garland Jeffreys Garland Jeffreys
Underneath The Harlem Moon Randy Newman 12 Songs
In New Jerusalem 1:37 Turner Junior Negro Religious Songs And Services
O Venezia 3:46 Nino Rota Casanova Soundtrack
California Dreamin’ (Reprise) Eddie Hazel Games, Dames, And Guitar Things