Monkey Mind - 05/03/2010

This week’s scatter-brained presentation of all kinds of sounds.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm I Can Understand It The New Birth Greatest Funk Classics
  Spoon Cut Chemist The Audience's Listening
  Into the Water Dj Krush Krush
  Desconfianza Perez Prado Havana, 3 a.m.
  Heavy Heavy Heavy Geraldo Pino Afro-Rock presents Deep Funk Africa
  My Gentleman Friend Nancy Wilson/George Shearing Quintet The Swingin's Mutual
  None of Us Are Free Solomon Burke Lifted: Songs of the Spirit
  True to Life Uncle Tupelo Still Feel Gone
  Willow Tree Riley Baugus Long Steel Rail
  Gypsy Pieces: Visel Som Ensemble Caprice w/Matthias Maute Teleman: The Baroque Gypsies
  Sonic Lullaby Me-Sheen Excursions in Ambience: The Fourth Frontier
  Drumming (Part Four) Steve Reich and Musicians From the Kitchen Archives No. 2: Steve Reich and Musicians, Live 1977
4pm Sear Me MCMXCIII My Dying Bride Turn Loose the Swans
  I'd Much Rather Be With the Boys Nikki Sudden Waiting on Egypt
  Shame On You Marc Bolan & T. Rex Work in Progress
  I Ain't About to Give You My Name Thee Headcoats Heavens to Murgatroyd, Even!
  Doggin' the Blues (Low Dog Blues) Big Joe Turner Joe Turner 1941-1946
  Time is Passing Louis Jordan & His Tympani Five One Guy Named Louis: The Complete Aladdin Sessions
  What is a Disk Jockey? Spike Jones & His City Slickers Thank You Music Lovers: A Proper Introduction to Spike Jones
  Barcelona The Al Gafa Quinteto Leblon Beach
  Kid Sparkle and the Parliament Prince Pulsoptional Pulsoptional
  Sonata for oboe & piano: 2nd movement, Scherzo Francis Poulenc Sonatas
  Until the Real Thing Comes Along Ella Fitzgerald and Ellis Larkins Pure Ella
  Up To Yourself James Gang Passin' Through
  9 'Til 5 The Meters Look-Ka Py Py
  Forever Suffering James Brown The Payback

Monkey Mind - 04/26/2010


Time Song Artist Album
3pm June Komet Chronologi: 12k: Year 1 - Year 4
  Hubble Bath Spaceheads and Max Eastley The Time of the Ancient Astronaut
  Ebawa Se Nigerian Army Rhythm Group Lagos Chop Up: Fuji & Afrobeat, Highlife & Juju
  No More Trouble The Wailers Catch a Fire
  What A Wonderful Feeling Humbard Family The Gospel Tradition: The Roots and the Branches, Vol. 1
  Sitna Lisa 3 Mustaphas 3 Heart of Uncle
  Song of Queztecoatl Lou Harrison/Maelstrom Percussion Ensemble Labrynth
  Rat Race Drifters Under the Boardwalk
  Blue Light Mazzy Star So Tonight That I Might See
  Wild Sage Mountain Goats Get Lonely
  Guilty Randy Newman Good Old Boys
  Not To Touch the Earth The Doors Waiting for the Sun
  22 Acacia Avenue Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast
  Fierce Beast God Is My Copilot Tight Like Fist
4pm Shah Mot (The Shah is Dead/Checkmate) Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson 1980
  Musical Massacre Eric B. & Rakim Follow the Leader
  Double Trouble The Roots things fall apart
  Black-Eyed Blues Esther Phillips Black-Eyed Blues
  Little Linda Bloodstone Very Best of Bloodstone
  Orchestra Lissanga Okuzua Afro-Rock presents Deep Funk Africa
  Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ Steve Reich & Musicians Drumming
  Live (excerpt) Richard Chartier Chronologi: 12k: Year 1 - Year 4

Monkey Mind - 03/29/2010

This week’s menu. Love that Crabby Appleton and the Coleman Hawkins Proper box.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Let Me Ride Bloodstone Very Best of Bloodstone
  We Need Order Chi-Lites Best of the Chi-Lites
  Better Off Dead Bill Withers Bill Withers Live at Carnegie Hall
  Mondj egy meset Piramis Well Hung: 20 Funk-Rock Eruptions From Beneath Communist Hungary
  Peace By Peace Crabby Appleton Crabby Appleton
  This I Know Green on Red Gas Food Lodging
  All the Gold Nikki Sudden Waiting on Egypt
  Let's Buy A Bridge Swell Maps Jane From Occupied Europe
  No Looking The Raincoats The Raincoats
  Alma Libre Los Munequitos de Matanzas Real Rumba
  Wednesday - Eighth Malachi Holy Music
  Pollock Neil Welch Bad luck.
  Someday My Wife The Kingdom of Simitz In Search of the Puckerless Persimmon
  Can't Live My Life Crabby Appleton Crabby Appleton
4pm Graham Greene John Cale Paris 1919
  See the Sky About to Rain Neil Young On the Beach
  Old Man Inside a Young Man Richard & Linda Thompson Hokey Pokey
  That I Remember Dwight Twilley XXI
  Work Ethic/Hustle Action Patrol On Patrol: 1993-96
  Free Speech for the Dumb Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
  Bar-B-Q Pope Butthole Surfers Butthole Surfers
  Some Say Nina Simone Silk & Soul
  Have You Ever Had the Buts? Professor Harold Boggs w/ Warner Buxton Have You Ever Had the Buts?
  The Traffic Cop (Dance) Bloodstone Very Best of Bloodstone
  In the Open Freddy King Hide Away: The Best of Freddie King
  April in Paris Coleman Hawkins Coleman Hawkins: The Bebop Years
  Smack Coleman Hawkins Coleman Hawkins: The Bebop Years
  Father Co-operates Cozy Cole All-Stars w/Coleman Hawkins Coleman Hawkins: The Bebop Years
  Fourth Dimension/Coaxing the Piano/Stumbling (Paraphrase)/Dizzy Fingers/Meandering Zez Confrey Piano Music

Monkey Mind - 03/22/2010

This week’s collection of oddball stuff. Sorry I didn’t get to more of the Kingdom of Simitz psychedelia; next week.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm We Believe in Microphones The Kingdom of Simitz In Search of the Puckerless Persimmon
  Le Premier Bonheur du Jour Os Mutantes Os Mutantes
  Growler in the Rumbleseat Kingsbury Manx Aztec Discipline
  February Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 Strangers From the Universe
  Smiles and Grins Jack Bruce Harmony Row
  Land of Ladies Brothers Johnson Looking Out For #1
  Witchy Woman Johnny Hammond The Prophet
  Born in Xixax Nina Hagen Nunsexmonkrock
  Thrash Cowboys International The Original Sin
  Men (Come on Men) The Frogs It's Only Right and Natural
  Lives Modest Mouse The Moon and Antarctica
  Came to see me yesterday in the merry month of Tom Rush Wrong End of the Rainbow
  Your Friend and Mine - Neil's Song Love Love Story 1966-1972
  Fast Livin' Blues Jon Hendricks Fast Livin' Blues
  Rough-Trax P.Q. Phan Banana Trumpet Games
4pm toydogmusic Brooke Joyce/Carol Hester Waves of Stone
  Crusoe The Ex and Tom Cora Scrabbling at the Lock
  Getting Older The Clean Anthology
  Go! Go! Go! The Treniers A Proper Introduction to the Treniers
  Jesus You've Been Good To Me Gospel Keynotes Reach Out
  Childhood Days Universal Jubileers Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal
  Sweetness in the Dark Temptations Wings of Love
  Solomon Jones Aceyalone Magnificent City
  Emergency Call Judy Mowatt Reggae Songbirds
  Things Go Better The Freedom Sounds featuring Wayne Henderson People Get Ready
  Western Mimikry Jan Jelinek Kosmicher Pitch
  #4 13 definitions of Truth Tatsuya Nakatani & Peter Kowald
  Building a Desert Blizzard Ken Butler Voices of Anxious Objects

Monkey Mind - 03/15/2010

This week’s menu. Audibly delicious molecular gastronomy.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm oberhausen Society for the Emancipation of Sampling Circulations
  Akku Raushan Orazbaeva Rough Guide to the music of Central Asia
  9th String Quartet, Allegretto Dmitri Shostakovich/Fitzwilliam String Quartet The String Quartets
  Asozan OOIOO
  Festival Kite Operations Festival
  Ancient Fire Mecca Normal Calico Kills the Cat
  Little Star of Bethlehem Can Delay 1968
  The Omen Bobby Hutcherson Happenings
  Left Alone Abbey Lincoln Straight Ahead
  Baia Perez Prado Havana, 3 a.m.
  Eight Men, Four Women O.V. Wright
  I'm Gonna Dress in Black Them The Story of Them
4pm Carsamba Mustafa Ozkent Genclik Ile Elele
  Pedigree Brother Ali The Undisputed Truth
  Song of Blood Linton Kwesi-Johnson Dread Beat an' Blood
  The Power of My Mind Andy Bey Experience and Judgment
  Happy Doing What We're Doing Brinsley Schwarz Original Golden Greats
  Public Domain Jerry Jeff Walker Ridin' High
  Rage Breeds Rage R.I.S.E. (Rising Appalachia) Revolutions in Sound: Live
  Aktamak Koktamak Abdorahman Nurak Rough Guide to the music of Central Asia
  Faraballet/Faraballet in dub Society for the Emancipation of Sampling Circulations
  c/pach Autechre tri repetae
  Cookies & Cream live mix Cookies & Cream feat. Mark 'Ruff' Ryder and MC Kie Very best of 101% Speed Garage Anthems
  i'm 9 today mum Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK
  Las Cuevas de Mario Art Pepper Friday Night at the Village Vanguard

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