Monkey Mind - 02/28/2011

This week’s mix. I left off the Derek Bailey cut starting a set just before the Tom Waits; it was “CLB Drums” from his excellent PlayBacks CD. Hope you enjoy.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Song Played Backwards Don Pullen Solo Piano Album
  Prospection for triple piano in sixth-tones Henri Pousseur Electronic Experimental and Microtonal 1953-1999
  When the Catfish is in Bloom John Fahey Requia
  Bye and Bye (Gonna See the King) Ronnie Lane and Slim Chance Anymore for Anymore...Plus
  Sweet Virginia Jeff Lang Exile on Blues Street
  Solstice: Entrance of the Moon Bull Lou Harrison In Retrospect
  Push On Jesse Jackson Pace-Setters 45 single
  Let the Funk Flow EPMD Strictly Business
  How Long Do I Have To Wait For You? Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Naturally
  I Know You Know Esperanza Spalding Esperanza
  Pakugyenda Balebauo Warema Masiaga Cha Cha & Bela Fleck Throw Down Your Heart: Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3 - Africa Sessions
  Pillar of Fire Crash Worship Asesinos
  7th Dimension Ruins Refusal Fossil
4pm Quinie Q/Pump Action/Making Babies God is My Copilot Puss 02/Straight Not
  Waving My Arms Birthday Party
  The Face of Fashion Chris Knox Seizure
  Shore Leave Tom Waits Beautiful Maladies: The Island Years
  Tell Her For Me James Hunter People Gonna Talk
  It's a Shame J.J. Malone 45 single
  Humanity Dub Yabby You Dub it to the Top: 1976-1979
  Survival Osibisa 45 single
  Clicktalk Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth
  Stop It Pylon Gyrate
  The Twitch James Chance Irresistable Impulse
  I Get High On You Sly Stone Ten Years Too Soon
  Working On a Building Cowboy Junkies The Trinity Sessions

Monkey Mind - 02/07/2011

Faves from this week are Sarah Pillow’s modern remixes of 17-century vocal tunes, the Bela Fleck Throw Down Your Heart African acoustic collection and the 1974 LP from Jobriath, the world’s first openly gay rock star (well, attempted rock star, anyway).

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Mr. Big Aretha Franklin Rare & Unreleased Recordings
  When Romance Says Goodbye Betty Davis Is It Love or Desire
  Ode to Premier Jour du Mai Sarah Pillow Remixes
  Kabibi Anania/Bela Fleck Throw Down Your Heart
  Keep Your Hands Off My Lady Ronnie McNeir Ronnie McNeir
  Grey Rainy Days Lonnie Jordan Different Moods of Me
  Diba Diba Boby LaPointe Pop a Paris, vol. 4: Minet Jerk
  Children of the Sun The Misunderstood Before the Dream Faded
  Jogo de Calcada Os Mutantes a divina comedia ou
  A Letter of Thanks Jack Bruce At His Best
  Blow My Mind The Critters Anthology: The Complete Kapp Recordings 1965-67
  Little Darlin' The Gladiolas Southern Rhythm 'n Rock: Best of Excello Records, vol. 2
  Bones Porter Wagoner Rubber Room
  One Rose Michael Nesmith Michael Nesmith and the First National Band
  Holly and Harry meet Anton Karas Third Man soundtrack
  ---- The Fall The Fall: 88-08 comp
  2 Meats Beat as 1/miinan laulu/zonnebloem God Is My Copilot Tight Like Fist
4pm People Ain't No Good The Cramps A Date With Elvis
  Slow Death Flamin Groovies Grease: Complete Skydog Singles Collection
  Matted Spam Pete Ham 7 Park Avenue
  Harry Hippie Bobby Womack Stop on By
  Scumbag Jobriath Creatures of the Street
  Zig Tim Perkis Motive
  Due Luci Ridenti Sarah Pillow Remixes
  Djorolen Oumou Sangare/Bela Fleck Throw Down Your Heart
  Texas Uphere Tennessee Billy Joe Shaver When I Get My Wings
  No Smoke Without Fire James Hunter People Gonna Talk
  Cassius Clay Dennis Alcapone Sucker Punch: Jamaican Boxing Tributes
  One Less Dick Blowfly Blow Fly on TV
  Paper Thin MC Lyte Hip Hop Essentials 1979-1991, vol. 2
  Skills Gang Starr Mass Appeal: The Best of Gang Starr
  Look What You Done To Me Sheila Skipworth Movements: 14 Deep Funk Pearls
  My Mumblin' Baby Rudy Green Southern Rhythm 'n Rock: Best of Excello Records, vol. 2

Monkey Mind - 01/31/2011

This week’s melange of worldwide smash hits. Eugene McDaniels is particularly worth reading about for the delicious story of Spiro Agnew calling Atlantic Records after Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse was released and telling them they’d better not release any more records by that guy. Who cares if it’s true; it’s a great fucking story. Enjoy.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Charles A. Lee: In Memoriam John Fahey The Yellow Princess
  Fish Pond Doug Cox and Salil Bhatt with Ramkumar Mishra Slide to Freedom
  Stereo Kiss Replicant Rumba Rockers A Rather Interesting Mix
  House That Jack Built Davell Crawford Ain't No Funk Like N.O. Funk
  Headless Heroes/Susan Jane Eugene McDaniels Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse
  Lazy Lessons Organos The Limbs EP
  Henry Lane Steamhammer Mountains
  Half Moon Janis Joplin Pearl
  What Kinda Girl Roseanne Cash Seven Year Ache
  Starry Eyes The Records Poptopia! Power Pop Classics of the 70s
  I Want To Live (So God Can Use Me) Brother Willie Eason and his Gospel Guitar Fire in My Bones: Raw & Rare & Other-Worldly African-American Gospel 1944-2007
  The Thirteens (Black)/The Thirteens (White) Maya Angelou Black Pearls: The Poetry of Maya Angelou
  The Bird/Tribute (Quasimodo)/Embraceable You (attacca) Sheila Jordan & Cameron Brown I've Grown Accustomed to the Bass
4pm Image of a Single Thought Peter Jefferies A Chorus of Interludes
  West Side Story Pere Ubu Song of the Bailing Man
  Square Dunce the History of Unheard Music Drop It
  I Just Left Myself Terry Allen Lubbock (On Everything)
  Cobra Tattoo Mountain Goats Get Lonely
  You Don't Pull No Punches, But You Don't Push The River Van Morrison Veedon Fleece
  Alone Together Billie Poole w/the Junior Mance Trio Confessin' the Blues!
  You Better Believe It Rhythm Makers Soul On Your Side
  Something's Wrong With This Picture Galactic Ain't No Funk Like N.O. Funk
  Nora Neoton Well Hung: 20 Funk-Rock Eruptions From Beneath Communist Hungary
  It's Growing Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers
  Knife and Fork Dubwise King Tubby and the Roots Radics Dangerous Dub
  Bulbs Van Morrison Veedon Fleece

B.P.R.D. - 01/30/2011

Three pieces this week:

John Adams’ Fearful Symmetries (1988), with Adams conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke’s with synthesizer. Adams is quoted in the notes calling the work “confrontational” but it has humor as well, including “Liberace in Hell,” a section where the synth “becomes a campy silent-movie organ.” The notes also point out that early on, “the melodic line is suavely crooned by the ‘lounge lizard’ quartet of saxophones, English horn, and bassoon.” I love that.

Next is Jose Luis Greco’s boisterous I’m Superman! (1994), with its Carl Stalling-like frenzied shifts, performed by the Orquesta Filarmonica de Gran Canaria.

Finally, one of my favorite “new music” pieces, Ezra Laderman’s 1962 Nonette for six winds, violin, cello and piano, recorded by the New York Philomusica in 1996 for this 2-cd set (which has 5 more tracks than listed at that page). Hope you enjoy. The BPRD airs Sundays at 2pm, with repeats Tuesdays at 11am and Fridays at 7pm.

Monkey Mind - 01/24/2011

This week’s mix. I’ve been especially loving that Tony Scott/Bill Evans LP and the experimental stuff from Jace Ewing. If only all unsolicited homemade CDs someone hands you for free were as interesting…

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Three Strings Jace Ewing EP
  Beach Red Lullaby Flying Saucer Attack Chorus
  Water Toy Pram Iron Lung
  Buddha's Blues Don Cherry Hear and Now
  Comin' At Ya Baby Johnny Otis Watts Funky: Johnny Otis & Friends
  All Your Kissin' Sho' Don't Make True Lovin' Betty Wright I Love the Way You Love
  Canadian Sunset Danny Gatton Hot Rod Guitar: The Danny Gatton Anthology
  For Stefan Wolpe Tony Scott/Bill Evans Trio Sung Heroes
  String Trio, Op. 45, Part 2 Arnold Schoenberg The Music of Arnold Schoenberg, Vol. 11
  GAO Red Krayola Hazel
  Long Live the Aged The Ex Singles. Period. The Vinyl Years 1980-1990
  We Did It Again Soft Machine The Soft Machine
  L.T.D. (Life, Truth and Death) Jimmy Castor Bunch It's Just Begun
  Ark of Covenant The Congos Heart of the Congos
4pm Carry Go Bring Come The Selecter Too Much Pressure
  Isla Verde Noro Morales and his Orchestra More than Mambo: An Introduction to Afro-Cuban Jazz
  Turn Around Terranova Close the Door
  Square Root of Two Jace Ewing EP
  Beauborg, Part II Vangelis Beauborg
  One For Lenny Danny Gatton Hot Rod Guitar: The Danny Gatton Anthology
  My Brand of Blues Porter Wagoner The Thin Man From the Plains
  Paper Boy Boogie Texas Bill Strength Hillbilly Boogie
  The Highway Patrol Red Simpson The Man Behind the Badge
  Rock-a-Beatin' Boogie The Treniers Rare Rock 'n' Roll Rampage
  That's the Groovy Thing Jimmy Cavallo and his House Rockers Rare Rock 'n' Roll Rampage
  OK, So What? Freddie North Night Train To Nashville, Vol. 2
  Sonny Boy Williamson Don't Let Your Right Hand Know Keep It To Ourselves

Monkey Mind - 12/06/2010

Heavy on the obscure British 70s stuff this week, mostly thanks to a pal, Dickie, who freed them into the wild from his amazing collection. There’s another Tempest song, “Stargazer,” that I forgot to include in the set list; it shows up between the Caravan and Steamhammer.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Waiting For A Miracle Tempest Living in Fear
  Aristocracy Caravan In the Land of Grey and Pink
  City Song Lindisfarne City Songs
  Aux Anciens Parapets Martin Carthy The Kershaw Sessions
  Lead Us Neil Innes & The World Lucky Planet
  Congo Lafayette Afro Rock Band Darkest Light: Best of the Lafayette Afro-rock band
  Can We Try Love Again Kool Blues Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label
  It's Hard to Stop Betty Wright Best of Betty Wright
  Ain't No Time For Tears Ash Ra Tempel The Best of the Private Tapes
  Holy Thursday David Axelrod Song of Innocence
  With All In Mind Clear Light Clear Light
  Full Circle Song Gene Clark Roadmaster
  The Girl Who Danced Oklahoma Terry Allen Lubbock (On Everything)
4pm Eye-On Ergonomics Ken Butler Voices of Anxious Objects
  Goodbat Nightman Scaffold Thank U Very Much: The Very Best of Scaffold
  Golf Girl Caravan In the Land of Grey and Pink
  Levinia Steamhammer Mountains
  Jamaican (played just after "The Girl Who Danced Oklahoma," sorry) tUnE-yArDs Bird-Brains
  Sail Away Neil Innes & The World Lucky Planet
  Bodang Buck McGuiness Flint McGuiness Flint
  Rain Dando Shaft An Evening with Dando Shaft
  Sonata Mongolia Štěpán Rak The Guitar of Štěpán Rak
  Reverse the Charges Etta Jones Hollar!
  Everybody Step Ella w/Chick Webb Orchestra American Songbood Series: Irving Berlin
  Show Me Joe Tex
  One Room Country Shack Shuggie Otis Al Kooper Introduces Shuggie Otis
  I'm Gonna Keep On Loving You Kool Blues Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label

Monkey Mind - 11/29/2010

This week’s collection. Been really getting into the early Nico solo albums, that Help Yourself “Strange Affair” LP and that great African Scream Contest comp of Benin 70s stuff. Enjoy.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Twin House Larry Coryell and Philip Catherine Twin House
  Rock Me Carey Bell & Lurie Bell Second Nature
  Triple Ballade Sandy Bull Inentions
  I'll Be Rested (When the Roll is Called) Blind Roosevelt Graves and Brother American Primitive Vol. 1: Raw Pre-War Gospel (1926-36)
  The Drunken Driver/Moonshiner/Drunkard's Hiccups/I Saw A Man At the Close of Day New Lost City Ramblers American Moonshine & Prohibition
  The Mess Inside Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas
  My House Lou Reed The Blue Mask
  Ari's Song Nico The Marble Index
  Save Me Nina Simone Silk and Soul
  Grunt The People's Choice I Likes To Do It
  Can't Go Back Elaine Brown Elaine Brown
  Rockochet Duke Ellington Small Band Intimacy of the Blues
4pm Strange Affair Help Yourself Strange Affair
  Sweet Dreams Roy Buchanan Sweet Dreams: The Anthology
  Mercy Wire Chairs Missing
  Lie for a Lie Built To Spill Ultimate Alternative Wavers
  Exit Music I: The Wasting of Lucrecetzia Kenneth Gaburo/New Music Choral Ensemble Music for Voices, Instruments & Electronic Sounds
  Breakfast Curlew A Beautiful Western Saddle
  Grosser Bogen You Dee Through the Tulips
  Strudel Strut Aromadozeski Therapy Future Primitive Sound
  It's a Vanity Gabo Brown & Orchestre Poly-Rythmo African Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds fro Benin & Togo 70s
  Dance Music Penahi Raks Raks Raks: 27 Golden Garage Psych Nuggets from the Iranian 60s Scene
  Roast Possum Carter Brothers The Essential Carter Brothers
  Hot Cinders Big J Big Jay in 3-D
  Loose Wig Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra Flying Home
  Little Women Kinks Face to Face
  Variations for Piano, Op. 27 Anton Webern, performed by Beveridge Webster Piano Music of Berg, Schoenberg and Webern

Monkey Mind - 11/01/2010

Back after a couple of weeks off with another batch of what I think are gems, anyway. I’ve been especially loving that early Larry Coryell stuff and the Fred Astaire/Oscar Peterson small group session from 1954. Great smooching music. Hope you enjoy.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Indeterminacy John Cage/David Tudor Indeterminacy
  Rat City Les Sinners Les Sinners?
  Be With You Soon The Sweet Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be
  Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes Kevin Ayers The Best of Kevin Ayers
  Boy, I Really Tied One On Esther Phillips Capricorn Princess
  The World's On Hard Slave Hardness of the World
  Offering Larry Coryell Offering
  Save Yourself Soft Machine The Soft Machine
  Problem Child Damned Neat Neat Neat: The Alternative Anthology
  A-So The Willows Reggae Classics
  This Land Is Your Land Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Naturally
4pm Heaven At Once Kook and the Gang Wild and Peaceful
  Run Charlie Run Temptations All Directions
  Your Man My Man Betty Davis Betty Davis
  Trying Times Sweet Honey in the Rock In This Land
  You're Fine You're Fine Les Sinners Les Sinners?
  Cats in a Bowl Dinosaur Jr. Dinosaur
  Sundown Son House Father of the Delta Blues: The Complete 1965 Sessions
  Well Oh Well Moon Mullican I'll Sail My Ship Alone
  I've Got My Eyes On You Fred Astaire w/Oscar Peterson The Astaire Story
  Solid Foundation The Congos Heart of the Congos
  A Certain Kind Soft Machine The Soft Machine
  All Your Kissin' Sho' Don't Make True Lovin' Betty Wright I Love the Way You Love
  Just Passing Through Smokey Robinson Pure Smokey
  Pillars of Hercules Extremadura/Muslimgauze Occupied Territories

Monkey Mind - 09/27/2010

This week’s collection. Hope someone out there loves Steve Reich’s “Tehillim” half as much as I do, and that new Esperanza Spalding is just amazing. There’s a great review of the Selecter’s dark, joyful, angry 1980 debut here. Enjoy.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Tehillim Steve Reich & Musicians Tehillim
  Pearly Turbo Nels Cline, Andrea Parkins, Tom Rainey Out Trios volume 3
  Cumulus Pram Iron Lung
  Constantly Changing Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth
  Men 2nd Wire Chairs Missing
  Whaddit I Done Animal Collective Sung Tongs
  Rollin' Over Small Faces Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake
  Hello Trouble Kaleidoscope Pulsating Dreams: The Epic Recordings
  Til the Day i Die Vern Williams Band Bluegrass from the Gold Country
  Crazy Finger Blues Reno & Smiley Vintage Bluegrass Masters
  Butterfly Dance Kevin Ayers Banana Productions: The Best of Kevin Ayers
  James Bond The Selecter Too Much Pressure
  I Was Appointed Junior Murvin Police and Thieves
4pm It's Growing Margie Joseph Atlantic Unearthed: Soul Sisters
  Give Me Some Courage Howard Tate Get It While You Can
  Right On Boogaloo Joe Jones Right On Brother
  Good Love Isaac Hayes Black Moses
  Casa Forte Edu Lobo Sergio Mendes presents Edu Lobo
  Knowledge of Good and Evil Esperanza Spalding Chamber Music Society
  Sida (DJ Spider Remix) Ibrahim Hamma Dicko Frikyiwa Collection 1
  Honey in the Rock Blind Mamie Forehand American Primitive Vol. 1: Raw Pre-War Gospel (1926-36)
  Mr. Clarinet Birthday Party Hee-Haw
  Loser=Weed Residents Third Reich 'n Roll
  Rompicapo Andrea Sartori Il Tagliacode
  Catacomb Dub Muslimgauze Lo-Fi India Abuse
  Out on the Streets Selecter Too Much Pressure

Monkey Mind - 09/13/2010

Some new (to me) female vocalists made my life better this week: Billie Poole, Sheila Jordan and Audrey Morris. Enjoy.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Precious Precious Isaac Hayes Presenting Isaac Hayes
  Tribute (Quasimodo) Sheila Jordan/Harvie Swartz Old Time Feeling
  Jealous Order of Candied Knights Matmos The Civil War
  Hubble Bath Spaceheads and Max Eastley The Time of the Ancient Astronaut
  Sendero Luminoso Crash Worship Asesinos
  Gloria's Step Larry Coryell Spaces
  Glad to be Unhappy Audrey Morris The Girls of Bethlehem, Vol. 1
  Riches and Wonders Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas
  I've Just Destroyed the World Willie Nelson Crazy: The Demo Sessions
  Sit Down Sister Rosetta Tharpe The Gospel of The Blues
  Pavan Hindustan Robbie Basho Bashovia
4pm Good Looking Stranger John Mayall Best of
  Teenage News Sylvain Sylvain Sylvain Sylvain
  Meadows of the Sea Marc Bolan & T. Rex Work in Progress
  Laugh Laugh Augusto Alguero Sensacional Soul: 37 Groovy Spanish Soul & Funk Stompers 1966-1976
  Terror The Grippers Return of the Delfi and Donna Story
  Behold Bob Meyer & the Rivieras Very Best of
  Amazon Cal Tjader Solar Heat
  Gotcha Bobby Hutcherson Solo Quartet
  Hey Man/We Gotta Get You A Woman Four Tops Nature Planned It
  Don't Wanna Come Back Mother's Finest Very Best
  You Call Everybody Darling Andrews Sisters Apple Blossom Time
  The Man That Got Away Billie Poole w/the Junior Mance Trio Confessin' the Blues!
  It's Always You Audrey Morris The Girls of Bethlehem, Vol. 1
  Why Should We Try Anymore Hank Williams Long Gone Lonesome Blues
  Nothing Comes Clear Chris Knox Songs of You & Me