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Monkey Mind – 03/09/2015

Posted by Todd Morman on March 9, 2015 @ 3:00 pm | Comments Off on Monkey Mind – 03/09/2015

This week’s collection, enjoy:

Nurse With Wound – You Walrus Hurt The One You Love (Sylvie & Babs Hi-Fi Companion)
Samuel Adler – Four Dialogs for Euphonium & Marimba, Brian Bowman & Gordon Stout
John Adams – Gnarly Buttons (2nd movement, Hoedown), Ensemble Intercontemporain (American Clarinet, 1999)
Sun City Girls – The Bearded Hermes
Meat Puppets – Seal Whales
Kenny & the Fourth Dimension – See If I Care
Memphis Minnie – Don’t Bother It
Andrea Parkins, Nels Cline, Tom Rainey – Lower Story (Out Trios, Volume 3)
Those French Girls – O-O-O-O-O
Rip Rig & Panic – Bob Hope Takes Risks
Three Johns – Secret Agent
Selecter – Black & Blue
Heptones – Autolene (1973)
Patricia Barber – White World/Oedipus (Mythologies 2006)
Annie Ross & Gerry Mulligan – All of You
Andrews Sisters – Shoo, Shoo, Baby
Wright Holmes – Good Road Blues
Sam Cooke – Good News
Sam Cooke – Shake
Prof Johnson & His Gospel Singers – Standing in the Safety Zone
Cheo Feliciano – Medianoche Y Sol
Gil Scott-Heron – When You Are Who You Are
Nick Lowe – American Squirm
Chris Knox – Mirror Mirror (Songs of You & Me)
Gene Vincent – Cat Man
John Zorn/Mark Ribot/Tim Sparks (Masada Guitars) – Katzatz
Walter Ross – Partita for Euphonium & Piano (Brian Bowman & Marjorie Lee)

Monkey Mind – 02/09/2015

Posted by Todd Morman on February 9, 2015 @ 4:41 pm | Comments Off on Monkey Mind – 02/09/2015

Hope it’s an interesting mix of genres for folks who don’t live inside my skull.

Peter Askim – Eight Solitudes – Peter Askim, double-bass & Douglas Ashcraft, piano
Marc Ribot, Ned Rothenberg et al – Geese (Scelsi Morning)
Fumio Yasuda & Theo Bleckmann – Oh Dear, What Can The Matter Be? (Mother Goose’s Melodies)
Peggy Lee & Benny Goodman – Blues In The Night
Kongar-ol Ondar & Paul ‘Earthquake’ Pena – Ondarnyng Ayany (Medley in the style of Ondar)
The Roches – Losing True (Keep On Doing)
Peter Kelley – Inspiration
Sister Rosetta Tharpe – There Is Something Within Me
Kanui & Lula – Tomi, Tomi (Steel Guitar Classics)
Linton Kwesi Johnson – Man Free (Dread Beat An’ Blood)
Chris Knox – The Face of Fashion (Seizure)
Warren Richardson, Jr – Shady Lady
Merry Clayton – Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35 (Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow)
Irma Thomas – I Did My Part
James Hunter – No Smoke Without Fire (People Gonna Talk)
Alan Sondheim with Christopher Diasparra & Edward Schneider – Krypton (Cutting Board ESP 2014)
Lol Coxhill & Steve Miller – Will my thirst play me tricks?/The ant about to be crushed ponders not the wherewithal of bootleather/Maggots/Bath ’72
Cut Chemist – Lesson 4: The Radio
Friends of Distinction – Bring Us A Better Day
Anita O’Day & Cal Tjader – I Believe In You
Duke Ellington & Jimmy Blanton – Pitter Panther Patter (Solos, Duets & Trios)
John & Beverley Martyn – Parcels (Road To Ruin)
Thomas Ades – Concerto Conciso

Monkey Mind – 01/05/2015

Posted by Todd Morman on January 5, 2015 @ 2:51 pm | Comments Off on Monkey Mind – 01/05/2015

Monkey Mind – 12/29/2014

Posted by Todd Morman on December 29, 2014 @ 3:00 pm | Comments Off on Monkey Mind – 12/29/2014

Mondays 3-5pm (EST) & Fridays 9-11am

Red Krayola – Save the House
Half Japanese – Three Rings
Sam Gopal (early Lemmy from Motorhead) – Grass
Kevin Ayers – Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes
Stefan Grossman Sister Kate’s Syncopated Dance
Bert Jansch – Lucky 13
Boyce & Hart – It’s All Happening on the Inside/Abracadabra/Jumpin Jack Flash
Candi Staton – Freedom Is Beyond the Door
Lloyd Robinson – Fire Fire
Andy Bey – Experience
The Waitresses – Jimmy Tomorrow
Derek Bailey & Henry Kaiser – HK d&b
Eddie Fisher Quintet – Scorched Earth
Quincy Jones – Hicky Burr
Back Door – Folk Song
Bar-Kays – Be Yourself
Mary Wells & Marvin Gaye – Waht’s the Matter With You Baby?
Nico – Ari’s Song
Harry Partch – 11 Intrusions
Carmen Miranda – Mama Eu Quero
Porter Wagoner – Ivory Tower
Fanny Hill – Think About the Children
Faye Victor Ensemble – Joe’s Car
Lou Reed – Street Hassle

Monkey Mind – 05/06/2013

Posted by Todd Morman on May 6, 2013 @ 3:00 pm | 1 Comment

This week’s stew; hope you enjoy. That Ligeti box set is a challenging, wonderful gem, if you’re into that sort of thing.

B.P.R.D. – 04/07/2013

Posted by Todd Morman on April 7, 2013 @ 8:00 am | Comments Off on B.P.R.D. – 04/07/2013

This week’s show is devoted to the French composer Germaine Tailleferre, a woman associated with “Les Six,” a group of musicians loosely organized around Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau for a brief spell in the early 1920s. In order:

The Pastorale in D (1919), Talleferre’s contribution to L’Album Des Six
The finale of the 1919 String Quartet
Sonatina for cello and piano by Arthur Honneger (another Les Six member)
Tailleferre’s Partita for flute, oboe, clarinet and strings (1962)
3 of the Chansons Populaire Francaises (1952-55)
Allegro of the Sonata #2 for violin and piano (1951)
The famous Piano Concerto of 1924
1st movement of the 1973 Sonatina for violin and piano
Valse Brilliante for two pianos (1962)
Homage a Debussy (1920)

Monkey Mind – 03/18/2013

Posted by Todd Morman on March 18, 2013 @ 3:00 pm | Comments Off on Monkey Mind – 03/18/2013

A jittery mix for jittery minds. Actually, this one felt a bit calmer than usual; lots of downtempo stuff to relax into. Hope you enjoy.

B.P.R.D. – Benjamin Lees, Margot Wright, Paul Hindemith, Ned Rorem

Posted by Todd Morman on March 10, 2013 @ 1:01 pm | Comments Off on B.P.R.D. – Benjamin Lees, Margot Wright, Paul Hindemith, Ned Rorem

This week, both sides of a 1973 Desto Records LP I found buried in a nearby record shop, plus a couple of short extras.

First, side one: Benjamin Lees’ Sonata #2 for Violin and Piano, which hits that perfect sweet spot between non-serialist avant and traditional classical. Lees died in 2010 but his official site has lots of interesting info.

Second up is the final movement of the Piano Quintet by British “light music” composer Margot Wright, from this collection of works spanning her long 20th century career. The liner notes aren’t exact but the quintet appears to be from the early 1930s; the finale is delicious. Performed by the all-female Camilli Quartet with Frank Mol on piano.

Next, the 3rd movement from Paul Hindemith’s 1939 Sonata for Horn, written when Hindemith was in Swiss exile just after he’d been condemned by Nazi officials for his “degenerate” music.

Finally, side two of the Desto LP: Ned Rorem’s 1972 composition for violin and piano, Night Music, performed by the married team of Earl Carlyss and Ann Scheinn in an auditorium at the Library of Congress in 1973. Written as a complement to Day Music from a few months earlier, it’s divided into 8 sections with titles like “Mosquitoes and Earthworms,” “Epeira Sclopetaria” and “Gnats.”

Interesting side note: I’d never heard of Desto Records, so nosed around online. Turns out it was an indie label in existence from the mid-60s to mid-70s, releasing over 150 records focused mainly on non-mainstream classical recordings. A 1970 Billboard article, “Desto to Releases Boxes of Music by Black Composers”, and another from a few years later, “Desto in High Via Low Overhead”, are neat snapshots into the label’s history (…proving that a small classical manufacturer can survive and prosper among the biggies if it is carefully managed and takes full advantage of opportunities), and into the fundraising and commissioning practices of the time.

Digging a bit deeper we find that Desto was started by Horace Grennell, who also happens to be the person behind Young People’s Records and the Children’s Record Guild in the late 1940s, “the first commercially significant record clubs in the world,” with over 100,000 members in the immediate post-WWII era. That’s according to the book Revolutionizing Children’s Records: The Young People’s Records and Children’s Record Guild Series, 1946-1977, which I’m happy to note just arrived via inter-library loan. The book’s official site explains, “these two labels intersected important developments in the histories of mass marketing, recording technology, educational philosophy, folk music, contemporary composition, and Cold War politics,” with blog posts noting connections to the Folkways label, Groucho Marx and more. Looks great, can’t wait to dive in.

Anyway, hope you enjoy this week’s music, and hope you find some of the links interesting.

Monkey Mind – 02/18/2013

Posted by Todd Morman on February 18, 2013 @ 10:53 am | Comments Off on Monkey Mind – 02/18/2013

This week’s mix, more gentle than usual. That first cut is by Israel “Cachao” Lopez; guess the playlist generator doesn’t like quotes. Enjoy.

Monkey Mind – 12/24/2012

Posted by Todd Morman on December 24, 2012 @ 3:00 pm | Comments Off on Monkey Mind – 12/24/2012

Hope you like the mess this week. I think that Red Krayola song belongs after the Gabor Szabo/Bobby Womack. I’m sure of it, actually. Enjoy. The find of the week is that odd Roots of Hip Hop collection of early- and mid-20th century blues “raps” on Harte Records. The 1970 Scott Dunbar reissue on Fat Possum is a nice treasure, too.