Posted by Brian Cullman
on July 31, 2009 @ 12:00 am | Comments Off on Songs on Toast – 07/31/2009
Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
10pm |
Tonight's the Night |
Neil Young |
Tonight's the Night |
|
Marijuana Hell |
Ron Nagle |
Bad Rice |
|
Sister Morphine |
The Rolling Stones |
Sticky Fingers |
|
Don't Bogard That Joint |
Little Feat |
The Last Record Album |
|
Jive |
Bobby Darin |
Aces Back To Back |
|
Cocaine |
JJ Cale |
Anyway the Wind Blows |
|
My Medicine |
Snoop Dogg Feat. Everlast |
Ego Trippin' |
|
Psycotic Reaction |
Count Five |
Roots of the Sex Pistols |
|
Bop Pills |
The Cramps |
Stay Sick! |
|
Junko Partner |
Holy Modal Rounders |
I & II |
|
Drugs |
The Talking Heads |
Fear of Music |
|
Bass Strings |
Country Joe & The Fish |
Electric Music for the Mind and Body |
|
Losing |
David Forman |
Song of Persia |
|
Old Fashioned Morphine |
Jolie Holland |
Escondida |
|
Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire |
Joni Mitchell |
The the Roses |
11pm |
Peter's Trip |
The Electric Flag |
The Trip |
|
That Cat Is High |
The Ink Spots |
Street of Dreams |
|
Are You Hep to the Jive? |
Cab Calloway |
Are You Hep to the Jive? |
|
Euphoria |
Holy Modal Rounders |
Last Round |
|
I'm Waiting for the Man |
Velvet Underground |
The Velvet Underground & Nico |
|
Flying on the Ground is Wrong |
Neil Young |
Neil Young Archives |
|
Too High |
Stevie Wonder |
Innervisions |
|
Poverty Train |
Laura Nyro |
Eli and the Thirteenth Confession |
|
Sweet Cocaine |
Fred Neil |
The Many Sides of Fred Neil |
|
Cocaine |
Dave Van Ronk |
The Two Sides of Dave Van Ronk |
|
Roll Another Number |
Neil Young |
Tonight's the Night |
|
Cocaine Habit Blues |
Memphis Jug Band |
Ruckus Joic & Chitlins: The Great Jug Bands |
|
Needle of Death |
Bert Jansch |
Dazzling Stranger |
|
The Needle & the Damage Done |
Neil Young |
Harvest |
|
Junco Partner |
Professor Longhair |
'Fess: The Professor Longhair Anthology |
|
Hashishin |
Buffy Sainte-Marie & Ry Cooder |
Performance |
|
Heroin |
Velvet Underground |
The Velvet Underground & Nico |
|
Junker's Blues |
Champion Jack Dupree |
Blues from the Gutter |
Posted by Bruce Mack
on July 30, 2009 @ 12:00 am
So far my favorite concert of the summer: Tuesday night i went to see and hear Tower Of Power put a hurtin’ on the stage at City Winery in NYC! City Winery (generic names are the trend right now…you know the deal.. no hype leaves something to be desired) is a very beautiful room themed of dark wood&iron sort of like a fancy wine cellar and has fine food and spirits I might add… it is a place you can bring the whole family and apparently is owned by Michael Dorf of Knitting Factory fame. I got home from the show around 1:30am and by 2:42am I still couldn’t settle down. I just wanted to pll out all the Tower Of Power CDs or vynyl I have and play it loud! Beside being in top form, Tower Of Power is in their 41st year and they played as if they were in their 2nd year of existence with something to prove. As many of you know, this band has nothing to prove to anyone… they’ve done that already by influencing a world of musicians and are part of a very special time for creation in popular American music -the late 1960’s and 1970’s. It was a crazy tight and funky set featuring founding members, leader- Emilio Castilio on tenor sax&vocals, Stephen “Doc” Kupka- Baritone sax&vocals, Francis “Rocco” Prestia-Bass, and David Garibaldi-Drums! The new singer -Larry Bragg has a clear and expressive tenor voice that cuts through all the syncopation of T.O.P.’s unique rhythm section with ease. He clearly has a voice of his own but really gets what T.O.P. is about. You can hear glimpses of the great and former lead vocalist Lenny Williams in him of course… I mean how could one not bring that to the table for anyone ready to digest Tower Of Power? I mean outside the horns and rhythm section, Lenny’s voice became just as much a signature of the band as the other components to the point where one might imagine him to be there while knowing he left the band after only a 2 and 1/2 year stint (1972-74)! A big impact Lenny made and obviously some big shoes to fill for anyone not to slight the rest of the band by NO MEANS… So I give much props to Larry Bragg, because he did his thing in a world where singers come a dime-a dozen. But that wasn’t it, former band member and lead tenor sax soloist – Lenny Pickett joined the posse for some cameo stage time and exceptional solos! Come on now, it just doesn’t get much better for a TOP fan after 40 years… Lenny Pickett blew his horn ’til it literally whistled elongated tones reminiscent of the late-great St. Clair Pinckney (The JB’s)- he was blazing! Then one of my favorite trumpeters appears as special guest sololist – Mr. James Zollar! Yo!!! Mr. Zollar (who I met while working with Atiba Wilson) was killin’! He soloed on “You’re Still A Young Man” beautifully and later (in the 2nd set which I was so fortunate and grateful to be around for – thanks Jared & Mr. Dorf) he and Lenny blew the audience away with killer solos on “What Is Hip”! Oh, btw, the fact that in the middle of their sets they performed a mini-tribute to James Brown didn’t help to calm things down – they flat out tore up “It’s A New Day” and “There It Is”!
All I can say is… it is almost 3am now and I still can’t settle down. It felt as though it was a new sound, yeah, just that fresh it was. Pure hotness! I guess you realize I’ve been funktified again… which isn’t hard for me to be since that’s what I’m pretty much about… so bare with me if I roll with some back-to-back funk in this show.
I deliberately do not play stuff back-to-back because it would stifle may various tastes and be just self gratifying ALL THE TIME. Even one’s own gratification can become boring to the gratified one. That being said, one day I’ll have to do a funk special and trust that T.O.P. will be somewhere at the top of the list along with other horn-based soul/funk and afro-caribbean funk bands like Mandril, The JB’s, The Beginning of the End, Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns, Maceo & The Macks, Kool & The Gang, The Brecker Bros (r.i.p. Michael Brecker), Earth, Wind&Fire, Blood Sweat&Tears, Parliament, the Ohio Players, Fishbone and others… but one thing I found… I still be diggin’ on James Brown…!
As a matter of fact and in keeping within the format of what I do: I have some new funk from the artist- Dayton Flic and something I just picked up after meeting a band I enjoyed in Philadelphia known as the Ross Brown Project, so that’s how we’ll start off this set. Enjoy. – Bruce
Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
noon |
Just Enough and Too Much |
Tower of Power |
In The Slot |
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Treat Me Like Your Man |
Tower of Power |
In The Slot |
|
Soul Vaccination |
Tower of Power |
Tower of Power |
|
Chocolate Chip |
Miles Davis |
Doo Bop |
|
You Got Me Floatin' |
P.M. Dawn |
Stone Free: A Tribute To Jimi Hendrix |
|
I'm Mad |
Dayton Flic |
unreleased |
|
Funk Stick |
Ross Brown Project |
Frank Freed Fred: The Aliens Are Getting Angry |
|
South East Theme |
Ross Brown Project |
Frank Freed Fred: The Aliens Are Getting Angry |
|
Doninke |
Kandia Kouyate |
In Griot Time-String Music from Mali |
|
Yelele |
Claude Gomis |
Mandiago |
|
When I Think of One |
Kevin&Patrice |
Starting Now (EP) |
|
Casket |
IsWhat!? |
The Life We Chose |
1pm |
Babes In Toyland |
Smitty |
Like A Child |
|
Bula Malaya |
Voyager Series |
Memories of Fiji |
|
Everything |
Radio Citizen |
Berlin Serengeti |
|
Go For Broke |
Bo Diddley |
Tales From the Funk Dimension |
|
Al Atal |
Cairo Orchestra |
Cafe Hookah: Exotic Flavours From The Orient |
|
The Road |
Black Pocket |
Beat Dimensions Vol.1 |
|
Take Your Time |
Jeremy Ellis |
Lotus Blooms |
|
The Hunt |
Aceyalone |
A Book of Human Language |
|
You'll Find A Way |
Santigold |
Santigold |
|
Packed My Bags |
Chaka Khan |
Funk This |
|
Fly |
Othello feat. Ohmega Watts & Braille |
Alive at The Assembly Line |
|
Mandira |
Craig Harris |
Instanbul |
|
Musashi |
John Esposito |
The Blue People |
|
Evil Is Alive And Well |
Jacob Dylan |
Seeing Things |
|
Wild Flower |
Aaron Neville |
Wild Flower |
Posted by Todd Morman
on July 29, 2009 @ 10:20 pm | Comments Off on Van Morrison’s contractual obligation album
Why has it taken me so long to discover the album Van Morrison recorded to get out of his contract with Bang Records? Songs like “Want a Danish,” “Ringworm” and “Blow In Your Nose” make it one of the great ‘fuck you’s’ in rock history:
In order to fulfill his obligation to his early solo label Bang Records, Van Morrison sat down in 1967 or so and cranked out 31 songs on the spot, on topics ranging from ringworm to wanting a danish, to hating his record label and a guy named George. Make sure you get past the first few tunes – it takes him a few to get cooking.
[via this Metafilter thread about this fun linguistic analysis of a Morrison audience insult (marred only by the linguist’s inexplicable inability to appreciate Morrison’s musical genius)]
Posted by Todd Morman
on July 29, 2009 @ 9:52 pm | Comments Off on Monkey Mind – 07/27/2009
Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
3pm |
The Gardener |
Sky Saxon Blues Band |
A Full Spoon of Seedy Blues |
|
What Do You Do When Love Dies |
Dusty Springfield |
Dusty in Memphis |
|
After Hours |
Roy Buchanan |
Second Album |
|
When You Have to Sneak (You Have to Sneak) |
David Porter |
Victim of the Joke? - An Opera |
|
Two Lonely Hearts |
Richard & Linda Thompson |
Sunnyvista |
|
The Highland Watch |
Puirt a Baroque |
Return of the Wanderer |
|
Night Rider's Lament |
Jerry Jeff Walker |
Ridin' High |
|
Lord I Want You To Lead Me On |
Sister O.M. Terrell |
Country Gospel: The Post-War Years (1946-1953) |
|
Pray For Me Mama (I'm a Gypsy Now) |
Jason and the Scorchers |
Fervor |
|
Sandrevan Lullaby/Lifestyles |
Rodriquez |
Light in the Attic Records 2009 Sampler |
|
Sadie Green The Vamp of New Orleans |
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band |
Rare Junk |
|
Cedar Hill |
Country Cooking |
26 Bluegrass Instrumentals |
|
Corpses/Pol Pot/Creator Has A Master Plan |
Eugene Chadbourne |
Corpses of Foreign Wars |
|
It Tango |
Laurie Anderson |
Big Science |
|
Consent |
Clock DVA |
White Souls in Black Suits |
|
Laugh the World Away |
Mission of Burma |
Mission of Burma |
|
Complicated Game |
XTC |
Drums and Wires |
|
Earth Blues |
Jimi Hendrix |
First Rays of the New Rising Sun |
|
Don't Mess With People |
Mandrill |
Composite Truth |
|
Unity |
Desmond Dekker |
Let's Do Rocksteady (1966-68) |
|
Honey in Your Hips |
Yardbirds |
Eric Clapton & the Yardbirds |
|
It's Only Money Part 2 |
Argent |
In Deep |
|
Fuzzhead |
The Bellrays |
Let it Blast. |
|
Woe-Is-Uh-Me-Bop |
Fast 'N' Bulbous |
Waxed Oop |
|
Travelling Mood |
Dr. John |
|
|
The Funky Grass Band |
Porter Wagoner |
Porter |
|
No Rump to Bump |
Parlet |
Funk Essentials: Best of Parlet |
Posted by Rafi Zabor
on July 25, 2009 @ 6:48 am | Comments Off on Updoc 51: The Heat: 7/24/09
Opening theme: Sidney Bechet: Summertime; Giants of Jazz (Time-Life)
1 – 2. Kip Hanrahan: Two (Still in Half-Light); Far From Freetown: Desire Develops an Edge (American Clavé)
3 – 6. Kip Hanrahan: Sharazade (Opening); Aziz and Azizah (Opening); Diente De Oro; Aziz and Azizah (Continued): A Thousand Nights and a Night (American Clavé)
7 – 8. Silvana DiLuigi: La Cumparsita; Discepolin: Yo! (American Clavé)
9 – 12. Jon Balke/Amina Alaoui: Safwati; Itimad; Thulâtiyat; Toda ciencia Trascendiendo: Siwan (ECM)
13 – 14: Silvana Diluigi: Cuesta Abajo; Milonga de los Vientos: Yo! (American Clavé)
15 – 18: Kip Hanrahan: Busses From Heaven; Caravaggio – A Quick Balance; One Summer Afternoon (for Gil Evans); Salt in the Mozambique Evening: Beautiful Scars (American Clavé)
Out theme: Brigitte Bardot: Les Amis de la Musique; Hellenika Diethni (Lyra)
Posted by Brian Cullman
on July 24, 2009 @ 12:00 am | Comments Off on Songs on Toast – 07/24/2009
Covers (instr.)
Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
10pm |
I Heard It Through the Grapevine |
Bill Frisell |
East/West |
|
Dear Prudence |
Brad Mehldau |
Largo |
|
I Want You (She's So Heavy) |
Eddie Hazel |
Games, Dames, And Guitar Things |
|
A Day in the Life |
Jeff Beck |
live at Ronnie Scott's |
|
Tom Dooley |
Big Jack Johnson |
The Oil Man |
|
Peter Gunn |
Roy Buchanan |
Dancing on the Edge |
|
Sleep Walk |
Danny Gatton |
Unfinished Business |
|
I Think It's Going To Work Out Fine |
Ry Cooder & David Lindley |
Bop Till You Drop |
|
Ruby Tuesday |
Tim Ries |
The Rolling Stones Project |
|
Flying |
Duke Levine |
Beneath the Blue |
|
Chain of Fools |
Bill Frisell |
Is That You? |
|
Boo0-G0-Loo Down Broadway |
Steve Cropper |
With A Little Help From My Friends |
|
In My Room |
Danny Gatton |
88 Elmira St. |
|
Back's In Black |
Joe Goldmark |
Steelin' The Beatles |
|
Blueberry Hill |
Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy |
Avant Pop |
11pm |
Teddy Bears' Picnic |
Kamikaze Ground Crew |
Kamikaze Ground Crew |
|
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' |
Steve Jordan |
25 Golden Hits |
|
Downtown |
Booker T & The MGs |
Soul Men |
|
Twilight Time |
Earl Bostic |
Earl Bostic - All His Hits |
|
Mister Pitiful |
Dave Douglas |
Spirit Moves |
|
It Ain't Me Babe |
Duane Eddy |
Duane Does Dylan |
|
All I Really Want To Do |
The Peggy Lee Band |
New Code |
|
You Are My Sunshine |
Ben Mondor |
Excavation |
|
Georgia On My Mind |
John Scofield |
That's What I Say |
|
Ferry Cross The Mersey |
Pat Metheny |
One Quiet Night |
|
Wonderland by Night |
Leo Kottke |
Pecularoso |
|
River Man |
Brad Mehldau |
Songs |
|
Surfer Girl |
Angel Corpus Christi |
Accordian Pop vol. 1 |
Posted by Bruce Mack
on July 23, 2009 @ 12:00 am
This is epsiode No.7. The interview with Michael Hill’s Blues Mob (featured in episode 6, hour-2) can be heard in 3 parts at http://www.brucemack.com/fwnr. Also, if you do not see a play-list posting for any particular week, please send me an email request and I will send it to you. E-mail to bruce.mack@taintradio.org
Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
noon |
Aint You Fine |
Austin Willacy |
Rock 'N' Roll Reparations Vol.1 |
|
Fury In My Eyes |
RZA feat. Thea |
Afro Samari |
|
Honey Bee |
Cassandra Wilson |
CMJ (Vol.118) |
|
An a Veli |
Rewasese Entertainment |
Music of The Fiji Islands |
|
Circus |
Superlito |
Tripping Tropicana |
|
Exchange |
Matana Roberts |
The Chicago Project |
|
Monkey Tamarind |
The Beginning of The End |
Funky Nassau |
|
Fantastic |
IsWhat!? |
Unreleased |
|
Rafiki (Rise Ashe) |
Bob Holroyd |
Traveler '03 |
|
Power of The Gospel |
Reverend Vince Anderson & His Love Choir |
100% Jesus |
|
Spiritual Rebirth |
Albert Ayler |
Live In Greenwhich Village |
|
Take My Hand |
Lisla |
Get It |
5pm |
The Dance (Ballad For The Dancer) |
M. Nahadr |
Eclectic is M |
|
Erratica |
Mitch Kessler |
Erratica |
|
There In Theatre |
On Ka'a Davis |
Seeds of Djuke |
|
Transition |
Mike Harrison & Paul Olsen |
ScrapOmatic |
|
The Cow |
Ali Shaheed Muhammed |
Shaheedullah And Stereotypes |
|
Mojuba |
Melvin Gibbs' Elevated Entity |
Ancients Speak |
|
Good Over Evil |
Assasin |
Strictly The Best (Vol.35) |
|
Freedom In 350 Variations |
Tricky Dilemma |
John P. Parker: Viewed From 9 Dimensions |
|
In The Sky |
Secretary feat. Big Boss |
In The Skyscraper |
|
Funky Fly |
Bo Diddley |
Tales From The Funky Dimension |
|
Just Friends |
John Esposito |
The Blue People |
|
Blessings |
Michael Hill's Blues Mob |
Suite: Larger Than Life |
Posted by Todd Morman
on July 20, 2009 @ 4:48 pm | Comments Off on Monkey Mind – 07/20/2009
“I’m Reaching Out on All Sides” by the British 70s band If is dedicated to Steve, cohost of the new Taint show “The Hidden Places.” (Progrock 4evah.) I guess the others are dedicated to everyone else. Btw, and apropos of pretty much nothing, if you’ve never read Frank Zappa’s piece from the June 1971 issue of Stereo Review, about his childhood obsession with Edgard Varèse, treat yourself. It’s great.
Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
3pm |
Lyndon Tree |
Shuttle358 |
Chronologi: 12k: Year 1 - Year 4 |
|
Jesus Christ Pose |
Wheedle's Groove |
Light in the Attic 2009 Sampler |
|
Sam |
Pisces feat. Linda Bruner |
This LP Crashes Hard Drives |
|
Dance Girl |
Fatback |
Fatbackin': The Perception Sessions |
|
Cookie Jar |
Parlet |
Funk Essentials: Best of Parlet |
|
She's Allright |
Real Kids |
The Real Kids |
|
Although They Appear |
This Kind of Punishment |
A Beard of Bees |
|
I Can't Dance With You |
Small Faces |
The Anthology: 1965-1967 |
|
When's the Fun Begin? |
Pink Fairies |
Kings of Oblivion |
|
Room to Move |
John Mayall |
Best of John Mayall |
|
Goonur (Woman Doctor) |
Seachnasaigh |
The Didjeridu - Dharpa: Sons of the Dreamtime |
|
Agwado Song |
Aluku field recordings |
The Spirit Cries: Music from the Rainforests of South America & the Caribbean |
|
I Gotcha |
Joe Tex |
Best of |
4pm |
Melt Yourself Down |
James Chance |
Irrestible Impulse |
|
Fever 1 |
Pierre Henry |
Variations for a Door and a Sigh |
|
Fox Call |
Buckminster Fuzeboard |
How to Make C60Br24 |
|
Naked Pilsners |
Portastatic |
I Hope Your Heart is Not Brittle |
|
Let's Take Some Drugs and Drive Around |
The Silos |
Susan Across the Ocean |
|
Last of the Rock Stars |
Elliott Murphy |
Aquashow |
|
What's Going Ahn |
Big Star |
Radio City |
|
How Can I Live |
Fat Mattress |
The Black Sheep of the Family: Anthology |
|
I'm Reaching Out on All Sides |
If |
If |
|
Expect Nothing |
Cabaret Voltaire |
Mix-Up |
|
Dominator D |
Dopestyle |
The Little Happy |
|
3rd Party |
Giant Panda |
Fly School Reunion |
|
What is This |
Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens |
This LP Crashes Hard Drives |
|
A Part From That |
Flamin Groovies |
Supersnazz |
Posted by Todd Morman
on July 19, 2009 @ 1:31 pm | Comments Off on B.P.R.D. – 07/19/2009
This week, a few dada- and jazz-inspired classical pieces from Ervin Schulhoff, Darius Milhaud and Stefan Wolpe, mostly from the 1920s, an amazing period for this kind of stuff. Schulhoff’s ‘Sonata Erotica’ is all the more hilarious for being written in 1919 – it’s a short vocal piece for a woman who whispers, giggles, coos, builds to a shrieking orgasm (twice) and then relaxes with a drink. My kinda tune. If you don’t know him, Schulhoff’s a fascinating guy – well worth a click or two.
Time |
Song |
Artist |
Album |
2pm |
Symphonia germanica |
Ervin Schulhoff/Ivan Kusnjer/Tomas Visek |
Chamber Works, Vol. 5 |
|
Bassnachtigall: Three Recital Pieces for Double Bassoon Solo |
Ervin Schulhoff/Lubos Fait |
Chamber Works, Vol. 5 |
|
Divertissement for Oboe, Clarinet and Basson |
Ervin Schulhoff/Novak Trio |
Chamber Works, Vol. 5 |
|
Sonata Erotica |
Ervin Schulhoff/Diana Stone |
Chamber Works, Vol. 5 |
|
La Creation du Monde |
Darius Milhaud/Contemprary Chamber Ensemble |
Kurt Weill/Darius Milhaud |
|
Quartet for Trumpet, Tenor Saxophone, Percussion and Piano |
Stefan Wolpe/Contemporary Chamber Ensemble |
Spectrum: New American Music, Vol. 4 |
Posted by Rafi Zabor
on July 18, 2009 @ 5:23 pm | 2 Comments
Opening theme: Art Ensemble of Chicago: Nice Guys [title tune] (ECM)
1 – 3. Steve Kuhn/Sheila Jordan: Tomorow’s Son, Gentle Thoughts, Poem for No. 15: Life’s Backward Glances – Solo and Quartet/Playground (ECM)
4. Maurice Ravel/Jean-Yves Thibaudet: Gaspard de la Nuit; L’Oeuvre Pour Piano Seul (Decca)
5. George Russell/Sheila Jordan: You Are My Sunshine; The Outer View (Riverside/Prestige)
6. Steve Kuhn: I Want to Talk About You; Mostly Coltrane (ECM)
7. Ravel/Thibaudet: Le Tombeau de Couperin; L’Oeuvre Pour Piano Seul (Decca)
8 – 10. Steve Kuhn/Sheila Jordan: The Zoo, Deep Tango, Life’s Backward Glance; Life’s Backward Glances – Solo and Quartet /Playground (ECM)
11. Steve Kuhn: With Gratitude; Mostly Coltrane (ECM)