Monkey Mind - 02/15/2010


Time Song Artist Album
3pm Little Ole Country Boy Parliament Osmium
  Take A Look In The Mirror Toots & the Maytals In the Dark
  At the Cross Swan Silvertones Move Up
  Love Medley Andy Bey & the Bey Sisters Andy Bey & the Bey Sisters
  If You Can Beat Me Rockin' (You Can Have My Chair) Laura Lee Invictus/Hot Wax Gold Collection, vol. 2
  Bulchensko Ratchenitsa Ivo Papasov & His Bulgarian Wedding Band Orpheus Ascending
  The Object is a Hungry Wolf Andrew Poppy The Beating of Wings
  Stay Away From Heaven Yo La Tengo A Smattering of Outtakes and Rarities: 1986-2002
  Anthropod Hovercraft Experiment Below
  You Get Nothing Halo of Flies Music for Insect Minds
4pm A Blonde's Blonde Kicking Giant Alien I.D.
  Fiya tUnE-yArDs Bird-Brains
  Moonshine Heather Parliament Osmium
  Mona NRBQ Peek-A-Boo: Best of NRBQ
  Jackrabbit Elton John Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player
  Zaguiero Jorge Ben Brazilian Collection: From A to Z
  Chimmey Sweet You Dee Through the Tulips
  Thirty Shades of Grey Terre's New Wuss Fusion Terre Thaemlitz presents...You? Again?
  Ratchet (Como Se Va La Cosa) Mandrill Beast from the East
  Free At Last! Albert Ayler New Grass
  Dub to the Rescue King Tubby Dub Gone Crazy: The Evolution of Dub at King Tubby's 1975-1979
  Nahwat Baka Beyond Spirit of the Forest
  Jersey Bounce Ella Fitzgerald Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie
  Sonata no. 59 for Piano in E-flat Major: Allegro Joseph Haydn/Emanual Ax Piano Sonatas
  The Silent Boatman Parliament Osmium

B.P.R.D. - 02/14/2010

We start with an early-80s Steve Reich piece for flutist Ransom Wilson (Reich had originally turned Wilson down, saying he couldn’t adapt his style for a solo instrument), then hear Hindemith’s 1958 Octet and close with a spare, fascinating string quartet by modern composer David Epstein. Interspersed are short pieces from a 2-CD collection of the complete chamber works of the often-overlooked French composer Jacques Ibert, mostly so I can have time to switch records around without making you wait through silence. Hope you enjoy.

Time Song Artist Album
2pm Vermont Counterpoint Ransom Wilson/Steve Reich Reich Glass and Becker
  Jeux, sonatine for flute and piano - Anime Jacques Ibert Complete Chamber Music
  Octet (1957-58) Paul Hindemith/members of the Vienna Octet Vienna Octet: Britten/Hindemith
  Impromptu for trumpet and piano Jacques Ibert Complete Chamber Music
  String Quartet (1971) David Epstein/Philadelphia Quartet Music by David Epstein

Monkey Mind - 02/08/2010

2nd half of this week’s playlist, just the usual twitchy mix of oddball sounds.

Time Song Artist Album
4pm Waiting for the Great Leap Forward Billy Bragg Workers Playtime
  Starting Over Black Lips 200 Million Thousand
  P.C.A. Action Patrol On Patrol: 1993-96
  Bodies Tall Dwarfs Weeville
  Squeak Godz Godz 2
  I Was A Young Man Martin Carthy Shearwater
  Know Nick Drake Pink Moon
  I'll Be Going to Heaven Sometime Flatt & Scruggs Foggy Mountain Breakdown
  Domino Two-Step Nathan Abshire J'ai Ete Au Bal (I Went to the Dance)
  Life on the Line Raincoats The Raincoats
  Eccentric Ditch The Ruins Refusal Fossil
  The Coveting Disque 9 des incurables
  Your Body Belongs to the State Consolidated Friendly Fascism
  Heart Love Albert Ayler/The Soul Singers New Grass
  The sound of someone you love who's going away and it doesn't matter Penguin Cafe Orchestra Music From the Penguin Cafe

Monkey Mind - 02/08/2010

The first hour of this week’s show is all Johnny Otis-related, from his 40s big-band/bebop through his 50s R&B to his 60s and 70s soulfunkblues - including the hilariously, incredibly raunchy “Snatch and the Poontangs” album he released in 1969 (almost certainly with his teen son Shuggie on guitar). I knew about Johnny Otis, sure, but hadn’t really explored his career until now. Motherfuckin WOW.

Time Song Artist Album
Midnight The Great Stack A Lee Snatch and the Poontangs
3pm Hey Shine Snatch and the Poontangs Snatch and the Poontangs
  Don't Stretch This Good Thing Too Far Johnny Otis Show w/Margie and Delmar Evans Cuttin' Up
  Sadie Johnny Otis Legendary Dig Masters, vol. 1: Johnny Otis
  Be Bop Baby Blues Johnny Otis Band w/ Joe Swift Be Bop Baby Blues
  Walking Blues Big Mama Thornton
  Midnight Creeper Part One Johnny Otis Band Creepin' with the Cats: Legendary Dig Masters, vol. 1: Johnny Otis
  Two Time Slim Snatch and the Poontangs Snatch and the Poontangs
  Ice Cold Daydream Shuggie Otis Freedom Flight
  Two Girls in Love (With Each Other) Snatch and the Poontangs Snatch and the Poontangs
  Cold Shot Johnny Otis Show Cold Shot
  Cuttin' Up Johnny Otis Show Cuttin' Up
  Big John Jeeter Snatch and the Poontangs Snatch and the Poontangs
  A Woman Don't Want a Good Man No More Johnny Otis band with Earl Jackson Be Bop Baby Blues
  Ali Baba's Boogie Johnny Otis Orchestra Creepin' with the Cats: Legendary Dig Masters, vol. 1: Johnny Otis
  Someone's Always Singing Shuggie Otis Freedom Flight

B.P.R.D. - 02/07/2010

Found a wonderful LP of modern compositions by Arthur Berger and Richard Donovan at the local used shop. It’s performed by a chamber group with Gunther Schuller conducting, sometime around 1966-67. I’ve interspersed the 4 pieces from that LP with selections from the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s excellent 1994 CD “A Set of Pieces: Music by Charles Ives.” Funny bit of synchronicity - pianist Gilbert Kalish appears on both recordings, which I didn’t realize until I was half-done recording this week’s show. The five Elizabethan lyrics, by the way, include great 17th-century lines like “If single love be such a curse, to marry is to make it ten times worse.” Hope you enjoy.

Time Song Artist Album
2pm 3 Pieces for 2 Pianos Arthur Berger/Paul Jacobs & Gilbert Kalish W.W. Naumburg Foundation American Composition Awards: First Recordings
  The See'r Charles Ives/Orpheus Chamber Orchestra A Set of Pieces: Music by Charles Ives
  Chamber Music for 13 Players Arthur Berger/Gunther Schuller conducting the Columbia Chamber Ensemble W.W. Naumburg Foundation American Composition Awards: First Recordings
  The Ruined River Charles Ives/Orpheus Chamber Orchestra A Set of Pieces: Music by Charles Ives
  Music for 6 Richard Donovan/Gunther Schuller conducting the Columbia Chamber Ensemble W.W. Naumburg Foundation American Composition Awards: First Recordings
  In the Inn Charles Ives/Orpheus Chamber Orchestra A Set of Pieces: Music by Charles Ives
  5 Elizabethan Lyrics for Soprano and String Quartet Richard Donovan/Adele Addison with the Galimir String Quartet W.W. Naumburg Foundation American Composition Awards: First Recordings
  Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut Charles Ives/Orpheus Chamber Orchestra A Set of Pieces: Music by Charles Ives

Monkey Mind - 02/01/2010

This week’s scattered, smothered and covered collection of all kinds of tunes. Hope you enjoy; I sure had fun cooking it up. Oh, and “Rock & Roll Bullshit” by Government Issue should come after the Dils’ “I Hate the Rich.” Mistakes were made.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Memphis, Tennessee Sandy Bull and Billy Higgins Inventions for guitar, banjo, oud, electric guitar and electric bass
  Alteleyeshegnem Alemayehu Eshete Ethiopiques, vol. 10: Ethiopian Blues and Ballads
  Nyoka Boko II Sweet Honey in the Rock The Women Gather
  The Lost Voices feat. Sly & Robbie DJ Krush Japan For Sale, vol. 3
  Piano Playa Hata Wagon Christ Tally Ho!
  Joe Dropped the Swing Pimp Daddy Nash Selected Material: Sound in the 8th Dimension, vol. 2
  Not A Care in the World Peggy Lee/Benny Goodman Peggy Lee & Benny Goodman: The Complete Recordings 1941-1947
  There'll Be Some Changes Made Dinah Washington Dinah!
  It's Coming Fay Victor Ensemble Cartwheels Through the Cosmos
  Living in the Air Age Be-Bop Deluxe Sunburst Finish
  I Hate the Rich The Dils We're Desperate: The L.A. Scene 1976-1979
  You're So Strange The Zippers We're Desperate: The L.A. Scene 1976-1979
  This Time One Last Wish 20 Years of Dischord
  Rock & Roll Bullshit Government Issue 20 Years of Dischord
  Knuckle Down XTC English Settlement
4pm Sunlight Tune-Yards Bird-Brains
  Tide to the Oceans Silver Jews Starlite Walker
  Looks Like I'm Up Shit Creek Again Tom Waits The Early Years
  New Amsterdam/You've Got to Hide Your Love Away Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve Live in Rome
  Tullochgorum Puirt a Baroque Return of the Wanderer
  Concertino for 12 instruments Igor Stravinsky/Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Shadow Dances: Stravinksy Miniatures
  That Old Black Magic Clark Terry Quintet Serenade to a Bus Seat
  My Baby Specializes William Bell & Judy Clay The Very Best of William Bell
  Highway to Heaven The Dramatics Best of the Dramatics
  Survival Bob Marley & the Wailers Survival
  Beauty Secrets Be-Bop Delux Sunburst Finish
  Straight Arrow Spirit Spirit
  All You Little Suckers East River Pipe The Gasoline Age
  Learn How Mission of Burma Mission of Burma
  The Swinging Preacher Andy Bey & the Bey Sisters Andy Bey & the Bey Sisters
  Love's Miracle Curtis Mayfield Love

B.P.R.D. - 01/31/2010

Brahms and the Schumanns this week. The Brahms piano trios are currently my favorite music on the planet. That’ll change soon, I’m sure, but it’s very nice right now. I have no idea if I pronounced “toccatina” correctly.

Time Song Artist Album
2pm Piano Trio in C Minor, op. 101 Johannes Brahms/Beaux Arts Trio Brahms: The Piano Trios
  Theme and Variations for Piano Johannes Brahms/Emanuel Ax Brahms Sextets
  Quartet for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello: Scherzo and Finale Robert Schumann/Glenn Gould/members of Julliard String Quartet The Glenn Gould Edition
  Toccatina Clara Schumann/Micaela Gelius Piano and Chamber Music
  Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (first movement) Clara Schumann/Micaela Gelius, Sreten Krstic, Stephan Haack Piano and Chamber Music

Monkey Mind - 01/25/2010


Time Song Artist Album
3pm Listening In Andrew Poppy The Beating of Wings
  Feelings Plug Drum n' Bass for Papa
  Hole In Your Pocket Y Society Travel at Your Own Pace
  Drop it in the Slot Tower of Power Drop it in the Slot
  Put it on the Line Lyn Collins James Brown's Funky People (Part 2)
  A Really Good Time Roxy Music Country Music
  Dinner Bell Kingsbury Manx Aztec Discipline
  Nothing Seems To Matter Bonnie Raitt Give It Up
  However Much I Booze The Who Who By Numbers
  I Thought I Held You Wilco A.M.
  Polongui Cuarteto Flores Lamento Borincano: Early Puerto Rican music 1916-39
  Sailing On Toots & the Maytals In The Dark
  I've Been Searching O.V. Wright The Soul of O.V. Wright
4pm Anomia Bruno Ruviaro 541 vol. 3: Music from Stanford
  ... Sigur Ros ( )
  The Death of Martin Luther King, Jr. Coretta Scott King
  Grievin' Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra Billy Strayhorn: Passion Flower
  As Long As I Live Ella Fitzgerald w/ the Marty Paich Dek-tette Ella Swings Lightly
  I'm Tore Down Freddie King Hide Away: The Best of Freddie King
  Jesus Remembers Swan Silvertones Move Up: 28 Gospel Classics
  Bourgeois Blues Tav Falco's Panther Burns Behind the Magnolia Curtain
  Reggae Reggae Real Kids The Real Kids
  Sink the West Coast/A.P.B./A Was For Anarchy The Monorchid Who Put Out the Fire?
  The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch Brian Eno Here Come the Warm Jets

Monkey Mind - 01/17/2010


Time Song Artist Album
3pm Shakey Jake Joe McPhee Nation Time
  Open My Box Spaceheads Spaceheads
  There Is A Number of Small Things Múm Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK
  In the Rain Dramatics Best of the Dramatics
  Didn't Take Your Man Ann Peebles Best of Ann Peebles: The Hi Records Years
  F. U. N. K. Betty Davis Nasty Gal
  Take the 'A' Train Ella Fitzgerald Ella in Hollywood
  Donna Lee Jorge Pardo Las Cigarras Son Quiza Sordas
  Happy Brick Brick
  Real People Chic Real People
  Astro Man Jimi Hendrix First Rays of the New Rising Sun
4pm Preaching the Blues Gun Club Fire of Love
  You Can't Win Kinks The Kink Kontroversy
  Soulnik Doug Watkins/Yusef Lateef Soulnik
  Double Concerto for Oboe, Harp and Chamber Orchestra: Marziale e grotesco Witold Lutoslawski Orchestral Works, Vol. 8
  Sonata for oboe & piano: 2nd movement, Scherzo Francis Poulenc Sonatas
  Pearly Turbo Nels Cline, Andrea Parkins, Tom Rainey Ash and Tabula: Out Trios, vol. 3
  O Maria Beck Mutations
  Sitting Here T. Rex Great Hits: 1972-1977 The B-Sides
  See What A Love Can Do Grin The Very Best of Grin featuring Nils Lofgren
  Play the Harp John Mayall Best of John Mayall
  Someday Bobby Bland Best of Bobby Bland
  Piano Improvisation No. 1 Duke Ellington Piano in the Foreground

Monkey Mind - 01/04/2010


Time Song Artist Album
3pm Yawning Pierre Henry Variations for a Door and a Sigh
  Strange Wire Pink Flag
  Positions d'amour Ensemble Supermusique
  Horner's Corner Wild Child Butler Keep On Doing What You're Doing
  Come On and Get a Piece Willie Bobo Live at the Watts Jazz Festival Vol. 1
  Newtons Gravitatlichkeit Einsturzende Neubauten Silence is Sexy
  Burning Rubber Teenage Jesus & the Jerks Everything
  I See Lights King Khan and the Shrines What Is?!
  Blessed Quietness Swan Silvertones Move Up: 28 Gospel Classics
  They Are Falling All Around Me Sweet Honey in the Rock Selections: 1976-1988
  Come Away With Me The Moments Look At Me
  Keep it Busy, Keep it Moving Fay Victor Lazy Old Sun
4pm Remind Me Hamza el Din Escalay: The Water Wheel
  What the Majority Believes/Glory to the Male Womb Harry Partch Revelation in the Courthouse Park
  Communication Yusef Lateef Autophysiopsychic
  Passin' Me By Pharcyde Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
  Don't Mess With People Mandrill Composite Truth
  Mos' Scocious Doctor John Definitive Pop Collection
  Marilyn Elliott Murphy Aquashow
  I Learned to Pray The Pattersonaires Free At Last: Gospel Quartets from Stax Records' Chalice Label
  Boog-a-Boo Baby Moon Mullican I'll Sail My Ship Alone
  New Rochelle Suite Poul Ruders/David Starobin/Daniel Druckman Family Album - New Music with Guitar, Volume 7
  Bagatelle for Wind Quintet Gyorgy Ligeti Chamber Music