Month: April 2012

on by Rafi Zabor

Updoc 181: Appalachian Nudge: 4/27/12

Opening theme: Archie Shepp: You’re What This Day is All About; The Magic of Ju-Ju (Impulse)

1.    Jesse Winchester; The Nudge; Jesse Winchester (Wounded Bird)
2.    The Band: Look Out Cleveland; The Band (Capitol)
3.    Levon Helm: I Want to Know; The Midnight Ramble Sessions, Vol. 2 (Levon Helm Studios)
4.    Masabumi Kikuchi Trio: Ballad #1; Sunrise (ECM)
5.    William Bolcom/Richard Stoltzman/Lancaster Festival Orchestra/Gary Sheldon: Concerto for Clarinet: Ragomania – Music of William Bolcom and Clare Fischer (Marquis Music)
6.    The Band: King Harvest (Has Surely Come); The Band (Capitol)
7.    Billy Hart: Ohnedaruth; All Our Reasons (ECM)
8.    Monica Zetterlund: Dream of You; Love Lips (Columbia Sweden)
9.    The Band: Jawbone; The Band (Capitol)
10.    William Bolcom/Lancaster Festival Orchestra/Gary Sheldon: Ragomania – A Classic Festival Overture: Ragomania – Music of William Bolcom and Clare Fischer (Marquis Music)
11.     The Band: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down; The Band (Capiol)
12.     Billy Hart: Nigeria; All Our Reasons (ECM)
13.     Aaron Copland/San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson-Thomas: Appalachian Spring (Chamber Orchestra Version); Ives Holidays Symphony – Copland Appalachian Spring (San Francisco Symphony)

Out theme: The Shields [Don Burch & Levon Helm, composers): You Cheated, You Lied; The Doo-Wop Box (Rhino)

on by Brian Cullman

Songs on Toast – 04/27/2012

Word up 4:39 Willis EP
Got To Be More Careful 6:43 Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen House M.D.
North Side Gal 2:32 JD McPherson Signs & Signifiers
I Can’t Stand It 2:42 Chambers Brothers The Time Has Come Blues
Abayetidu Ma 4:18 Bola Volume 7
Locked Down 4:59 Dr. John Locked Down
Kazdoura 5:29 Yasmine Hamdan Cheftak
Entre les lâches & les héros 4:24Ami Karim Entre les lâches et les héros
In the Night (Accoustic) 5:22 Ijahman Levi Versatile Life
Double Lifetime 2:18 Loudon Wainwright III Older Than My Old Man Now
Go on Wide (First) mp3 2:33 Fraser Anderson private recording
Life Is A Problem 4:03 Spiritualized Sweet Heart Sweet Light
Tabula Rasa 2:55 Research Turtles Time Machine EP
Lady Don’t Fall Backwards 2:17 Peter Doherty Grace/Wastelands
The Other Shoe 4:02 The Mastersons Birds Fly South

Strawberry Wine 2:35 The Band Stage Fright
Don’t Do It 4:45 The Band To Kingdom Come
You Can’t Win ‘Em All 3:11 Levon Helm Levon Helm
All La Glory 3:36 The Band Stage Fright
Jemima Surrender 3:31 The Band The Band
Yazoo Street Scandal 3:29 The Band The Basement Tapes
Rag Mama Rag 3:03 The Band The Band
Calvary 4:53 Levon Helm Dirt Farmer
Feelin’ Good 3:31 Levon Helm Dirt Farmer
Rock Salt nails 5:02 John Martyn/Levon Helm Classics Volume 2
Watermelon Time In Georgia Levon Helm The Ties That Bind
Up On Cripple Creek 4:33 The Band The Band
Farther Up The Road 3:05 The Band Crossing The Great Divide
When I Get My Rewards 4:26 Levon Helm The Ties That Bind

on by David Menestres

Tone Science – 04/22/2012

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Time Song Artist Album
8pm Spooky Drums No. 1 & 2 Baby Dodds Talking & Dream Solos
 
  Millie's Not Afraid / Blue Ghost Blues Haunted House Blue Ghost Blues
  10 Alfred Harth & Wolfgang Stryi Modern Post
 
  Astral Projection Chicago Trio Velvet Songs to Baba Fred Anderson
  The Gearbox Explodes! Sunny Murray, John Edwards, & Tony Bevan The Gearbox Explodes!
 
  Sunrise in the Western Sky Sun Ra The Great Lost Sun Ra Albums: Cymbals/Crystal Spears
  Part II Samuel Blaser Quartet Boundless
 
  Part 5 Denman Maroney Fluxations
on by Brian Cullman

Songs on Toast – 04/20/2012

Yeah Yeah 4:43 Willis Come Get Some
Well, Well, Well 2:21 John Sebastian The Four Of Us
Ice Age 4:24 Dr. John Locked Down
Guessi-Guéré-Guess Orch Super Borgou de Parakou The Bariba Sound
Burilbunbol Suma 6:43 Bola Volume 7
Congas de mi Cuba 5:33 Los Papines Los Papines
Enoralehu 3:56 Gigi Gold & Wax
Come Together 5:07 Dr. Lonnie Smith Rise Up!
Takin’ Care Of No Business Jimi Hendrix Axis Outtakes
Call On Me 2:58 Anders Osborne American Patchwork
Talk To Me 2:31 Willis Come Get Some
Ea Nyoloha Khanyapa Manka Le Phallang South African Traditional Folk Music
Turn Around Baby 2:14 ? & The Mysterians 96 Tears
You’re No Good 1:37 Bob Dylan Bob Dylan
The Angel of Death 3:29 The Great Republic of Rough and Ready The Angel of Death EP
Birds Fly South 4:16 The Mastersons Birds Fly South
Paper & Stone 3:26 Willis Come Get Some
Crew Cut 5:00 Hank Roberts Everything Is Alive
Amejelo 7:29 Don Cherry Mu First Part
Crippled Symmetry 26:00 Morton Feldman Crippled Symmetry Cd1
Mid Air 2:30 Paul Buchanan Mid Air
Nacht und Träume, D. 827 Matthias Goerne Schubert: Nacht und Träume
Dreams Of a Hobo 3:20 Bobby Whitlock Bobby Whitlock
Puccia canaja 3:09 Anna Cinzia Villani Fimmana, mare e focu

on by Rafi Zabor

Updoc 180: Blues for Popcorn Superhet: 4/20/12

Opening theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Ninth Room; Tutankhamun (Black Lion)

1.    Sonny Rollins: Blues for Philly Joe; Newk’s Time (Blue Note)
2.    Duke Ellington: Snibor; . . . And His Mother Called Him Bill (Bluebird)
3.    Miles Davis: Walkin’; The Paris Concert (JZCD)
4.    Béla Bartók/Jennifer Koh/Grant Park Orchestra/Carlos Kalmar: Two Portres; Jennifer Koh – Portraits (Çedille)
5.    Dmitri Shostakovich/Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Neeme Jårvi: Suite from Katerina Ismailova – Passacaglia; Five Ballet Suites (Chandos)
6.    Jonny Greenwood/Aukso Orchestra: Popcorn Superhet Receiver; Krzysztof Penderecki/Jonny Greenwood – Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, etc. (Nonesuch)
7.    Radiohead: Pyramid Song; Amnesiac (EMI)
8.    Bryan Ferry: Mamouna [title tune] (Virgin)
9.    Radiohead: Knives Out; Amnesiac (EMI)
10.     Bryan Ferry: Don’t Want to Know; Mamouna (Virgin)
11.    Arnold Schoenberg/Jennifer Koh: Phantasy, Op. 47; Jennifer Koh – Violin Fantasies (Çedille)
12.    Pavel Haas/Janacek Chamber Orchestra: Study for String Orchestra; Czech Music for Strings (Chandos)
13.     William Bolcom/Louisville Orchestra/Lawrence Leighton Smith: Symphony No. 1; Bolcom – Symphonies Nos. 1, 3, Seattle Slew Suite (First Edition)
14.    Béla Bartok/András Keller/János Pitz: Serbian Dance; 44 Duos for Two Violins (ECM)

on by Todd Morman

Monkey Mind – 04/16/2012

Managed to include a bunch of obscure 60s psychedelic tunes among the usual mix this week. That ’94 Baker Street’ comp is great, as is the Rhino ‘Baseball’s Greatest Hits.’ I’ll get to volume 2 next week.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Nerdwood Swamp Looping Jaw Harp Orchestra Universal Language
  Cunde Echa Un Pie Cachao Master Sessions Vol. 2
  El Guayubin Cuarteto Hernandez Stripping the Parrots: Essential Merengue
  Shame, Shame, Shame Shirley & Company Shame, Shame, Shame
  Pant Leg Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Extra Width
  Stay Loose Mother Goose Freddie Bell & the Bellboys Rare Rock 'n' Roll Rampage
  The Ball Game Sister Wynona Carr Baseball's Greatest Hits
  Everybody's Got Something to Hide But Me and My Monkey The Feelies Crazy Rhythms
  Black Roses Clear Light Clear Light
  Reputation Warren S. Richardson Jr. Warren S. Richardson Jr.
  Romantic Attitude John Fitch & Associates 94 Baker Street: The Pop-Psych Sounds of the Apple Era, 1967-1969
  Meet the Comer Tommy James Tommy James
  Eastern Cloth Children of One Children of One
  Ondarnyng Ayany Kongar-ol Ondar & Paul Genghis Blues
4pm Walking Slow Behind You Judy Roderick Woman Blue
  You Better Watch Yourself, Bub Nellie Lutcher The Best of Nellie Lutcher
  My Man Stands Out Julia Lee and Her Boy Friends Risque Rhythm: Nasty 50s R&B
  7th Avenue Sunrise Isoo Fukui Quartet Sunrise/Sunset
  Di Black Petty Booshwah Linton Kwesi-Johnson Bass Culture
  Helelyos Zia Pomegranates: Persian pop, funk, folk and psyc of the 60s & 70s
  'Cept Me Focal Point 94 Baker Street: The Pop-Psych Sounds of the Apple Era, 1967-1969
  Sixty Minute Man Rufus Thomas Do the Funky Chicken
  On The Serious Side Tower of Power In The Slot
  Fantality Osiris O-Zone
  The Umbrella Man Dizzy Gillespie Odyssey: 1945-1952
  Just A-Settin' and A Rockin' Billy Strayhorn The Peaceful Side
  Juramento Armando Garzon Boleros
  Poet With Wings Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Quicksilver Rides Again
  Gonna Get Tight Moon Mullican I'll Sail My Ship Alone
on by Rafi Zabor

Updoc 179: Holiday Expoobidence: 4/13/12

Opening theme: Archie Shepp: You’re What This Day is All About; The Magic of Ju-Ju (Impulse)

1.    Lee Morgan: Fire; Expoobidence (Vee-Jay)
2.    Lee Morgan: Midtown Blues; Leeway (Blue Note)
3.    Lee Morgan: Fire [take 8]; Expoobidence (Vee-Jay)
4.    Jackie McLean: Demon’s Dance [title tune] (Blue Note)
5.    Lee Morgan: The Hearing; Expoobidence (Vee-Jay)
6.    Charles Ives/San Francisco Symphony and Chorus/Michael Tilson-Thomas: Holidays Symphony; Holidays Symphony – Appalachian Spring (San Francisco Symphony)
7.    Dorothy Love Coates: I Shall Know Him; The Best of Dorothy Love Coates and the Original Gospel Harmonettes (Specialty)
8.    Soeur Marie Keyrouz: Alleluia; Chant Byzantin – Passion et Resurrection (Chant du Monde)
9.    Marion Williams: Poor Little Jesus; My Soul Looks Back (Shanachie)
10.    Unknown Ladino Vocalists: Chad Gadya [title tune] (Folkways)
11.    Georg Friedrich Handel/Choir of Clare College/Freiberg Barockorchester/René Jabobs: Worthy is the Lamb/Amen; Messiah (Harmonia Mundi)
12.    Sister Rosetta Tharpe: Forgive Me Lord and Try Me Again; Best of Southern Gospel (Northquest)
13.    Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers: Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone; Sam Cooke’s SAR Record Story 1959 – 1965 (ABKCO)
14.    Georg Friedrich Handel/The Eighteen/Harry ChristophersAmen; Messiah (Coro)
15-16. Johann Sebastian Bach/Carol Hall/Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner: Agnus Dei, Dona Nobis Pacem; Mass in B Minor (Archiv)

on by David Menestres

Tone Science – 04/15/2012

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Time Song Artist Album
8pm Poppies Nina Simone Emergency Ward
 
  Run Peacock Run Apache Dropout Apache Dropout
  Old Ash Maps & Atlases Beware and Be Grateful
  Don't Lie Down AU Both Lights
  Boy In The Moon Julia Holter Ekstasis
 
  Some Old Slapstick Routine Greg Kelley / Olivia Block Resolution
  [untitled] C. Spencer Yeh and Paul Flaherty with Greg Kelley New York Nuts & Boston Beans
  I Am Not About To Rip Masks Off Anyone Greg Kelley Trumpet
 
  Knots Oren Ambarchi Audience of One
  Buoyant The Necks Chemist
 
  Myule Drelwa, Calling Down of Deities to Subjugate Evil Spirit; And Kulwa, Its Death, Stabbed by... Tibetan Buddhist Rites from the Monasteries of Bhutan
on by Brian Cullman

Songs on Toast – 04/13/2012

Zoologico Negro 2:30 Los Aragon Mex-icodelico
Mr. Tambourine Man 2:31 Stevie Wonder Down To Earth
I Wanna Be Your Mama Again 2:13 Nicki Bluhm Driftwood
Last Train To Clarksville 2:32 Flatt & Scruggs 1964-69
Goin’ To The Party 1:46 Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls
Honey Now 1:52 Gillian Welch Hell Among The Yearlings
People 4:24 Kim Taylor I Feel Like a Fading Light
Imik Si Mik (Album Version) 3:53 Hindi Zahra Stephane Pompougnac: Night & Day
Ce n’est pas Possible Chouchou 4:38 Franco Franco Guitar Hero
Gandigui 3:03 Orchestre Super Borgou de Parakou The Bariba Sound
Who Is Golden 3:48 Kim Taylor I Feel Like a Fading Light
La Bella Cubana 4:05 Bebo Valdes Bebo
Blues For Lady Day 3:52 Mal Waldron Blues For Lady Day
Eclipse 3:04 João Gilberto João Voz E Violão
Mode:Raml Maya Improvisation 3:05 Mustafa Skandrani Istikhbars & Improvisation
Mode:Moural 2:31 Mustafa Skandrani Istikhbars & Improvisation
Kleopatra 5:07 Salah Ragab Egyptian Jazz
Gilda & Gunshots 3:17 Pierre Raph The B-Music of Jean Rollin
Mihtara Bein Ithnein 7:42 Sonia M’Barek Mediterraneo
We Move by Wagon Train 4:19 Drew Gibson The Southern Draw
White Kite at Georgetown Green 4:19 Devon Sproule Upstate Songs
The Black Dog 5:01 Shooter Jennings Family Man
Baby I Need You 4:02 Kim Taylor I Feel Like a Fading Light
Boys & Girls 3:26 Alabama Shakes Boys & Girls
Up Memphis Blues 3:14 Tommy Womack Stubborn
I’ve Been A Long Time Leaving 2:43 Waylon Jennings Dreaming My Dreams
Oh, Pretty Woman 3:37 Steve Cropper With A Little Help From My Friends
Green River 4:37 Sir Douglas Quintet Limmathaus, Zurich CH, May 24, 1983
Keep Us Steadfast 2:45 Lyle Lovett Release Me
Sel Mah Ton – Sonia Laaraisi 3:57 Sonia Laaraisi Mediterraneo
Blind Songbird 0:39 Nicole Romain The B-Music of Jean Rollin
Lovina 3:10 Maria Kalaniemi Ahma
Wish I Would See You Again 1:27 Philip Glass The Illusionist

on by Rafi Zabor

Updoc 178: Ice Mice En Blanc et Noir: 4/6/12

Opening theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Ninth Room;Tutankhamun (Black Lion)

1.    Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Ping Pong; Three Blind Mice, Vol. 2 (Blue Note)
2.    Dave Soldier/Kurt Vonnegut/Manhattan Chamber Orchestra/Richard Van Aulden: Ice-9 Ballads [title tune] (Mulatta)
3.    Cecil Taylor: Tales (8 Whisps); Unit Structures (Blue Note)
4.    Frédéric Chopin/Alfred Cortot: Prelude in C-Sharp minor; Alfred Cortot – The Master Pianist (EMI)
5-7. William Bolcom/Marc-André Hamelin: Twelve New Etudes, 1, 2, 6; M-A Hamelin – Works by Bolcom and Wolpe (New World)
8. Claude Debussy/Katia & Marielle Labêcque: En blanc et noir (1st mvt); Debussy/Stravinsky (KML)
9. Claude Debussy/Orchestre National de Lyon/Jun Märkel: En blanc et noir (2nd mvt); Debussy – Complete Orchestral Works (Naxos)
10. Claude Debussy/Katia & Marielle Labêcque: En blanc et noir (3rd mvt); Debussy/Stravinsky (KML)
11. Max Frankl: Der Bär Kommt Heim; Home (Material)
12. Dane Rudhyar/Stephen Schleiermacher: Third Pentagram; Dane Rudhyar – Works for Piano (Hat Art)
13. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: This is for Albert; Caravan (Riverside)

Out theme: Art Blakey and the Afro-Drum Ensemble: Ife l’Ayo; The African Beat (Blue Note)