Anti-Gravity Bunny

 
Kelly Lee Owens is probably techno record of the year. Upper Wilds is probably rock record of the year. The Bulgarian folk mixed with Nancarrow’s player piano work is so much better than I expected it to be. Also, check out the Discogs page for that Bulgarian record because I played 8 songs, each with a slew of musicians involved, so if you want to know who/what/etc, Discogs does a better job at conveying that info than I could here.
 

Air date: October 18, 2017

Background music: Kelly Lee Owens – 8 (from Kelly Lee Owens)

00:00:00 Big Bill Broonzy – Tell Me Who (from Blues / Folk Songs / Ballads)
00:03:38 Talk break
00:08:22 Anicon – From Teeth, From Tongue (from Exegesis)
00:16:57 Carlos Puebla – Canto A Puerto Rico (from Cuba: Songs For Our America)
00:20:03 House And Land – Johnny / Rich Old Jade (from House And Land)
00:26:01 Demen – Niorum (from Nektyr)
00:29:57 Talk break
00:35:04 Hellvete – Ode I (A-201) (from Ode)
00:37:19 J.R.R. Tolkien – Side B (from J.R.R. Tolkien Reads And Sings His The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers / The Return Of The King)
00:55:50 Upper Wilds – Let’s Build A Moon (from Guitar Module 2017)
00:58:52 Talk break
01:01:40 Falls Of Rauros – Arrow & Kiln (from Vigilance Perennial)
01:13:50 Rob Noyes – Paydirt / Oni (from The Feudal Spirit)
01:14:49 Blind Willie Johnson – Remembrances / Interviews (from Blind Willie Johnson)
01:22:18 Philip Jeck – Pilot/Dark Blue Night (from An Ark For The Listener)
01:30:57 Talk break
01:34:17 Francis “Scrapper” Blackwell – Mr. Scrapper’s Blues (from Blues That Make Me Cry)
01:37:05 Flatt & Scruggs With Doc Watson – Pick Along / Nothing To It (from Strictly Instrumental)
01:30:11 Various – Side A1 – A8 (from Songs And Dances From Bulgaria)
01:42:12 Conlon Nancarrow – Study No. 41a / Study No. 41b (from Complete Studies For Player Piano Volume One)
01:55:49 Haxen – Black Fire Suicide (from Haxen)
02:01:27 Talk break
02:04:26 Walter Vinson – When The Breath Bids The Body Goodbye (from Rats Been On My Cheese)

 
I’m back! Sorry about the past 2 weeks. Technical difficulties at the station made doing a vinyl show impossible. But that just means I have a backlog of excellent records to spin and I packed this episode tight with quality sounds. I’m especially fond of the Xela into GY!BE with Vietnam War recordings sprinkled in. And the new Rafael Anton Irisarri featuring Siavash Amini has me in heaven.

Also, the talk breaks might seem strangely timed but it’s because I started the show at 6:45 instead of 7. I had to run to a meeting right after 9:00 so I couldn’t push the show until then but I still wanted the full 2 hours, so here we are.

Air date: October 11, 2017

Background music: Barnett & Coloccia – Repeating Pit (from Retrieval)

00:00:00 Dennis McGee & Sady Courville – La Valse À Fruge (from Cajun Home Music)
00:02:15 Talk break
00:05:39 Cloakroom – The Passenger (from Time Well)
00:14:47 Talk break
00:16:13 Xela – In Misericordia (from In Bocca Al Lupo)
00:17:39 No artist – Side B (from Vietnam With The American Fighting Man)
00:30:57 Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Anthem For No State (from Luciferian Towers)
00:45:33 Talk break
00:49:10 Nicomedes Santa Cruz – La Muerte En El Ring (Death In The Ring) (from Cancion Protesta: Protest Song Of Latin America)
00:52:28 Atriarch – Inferno (from Dead As Truth)
00:59:56 Blind Lemon Jefferson – Hangman’s Blues / Gone Dead On You Blues (from The Country Blues – Texas)
01:06:04 The Lone Ranger – Noah In The Ark (from On The Other Side Of Dub)
01:09:16 Mamman Sani – Gosi (from Taaritt)
01:14:50 Talk break
01:18:36 Safiyya – The Devotion And Sacrifice Of Amal, The Maiden (from Shareek Hayaat)
01:20:14 Frank O’Connor – The Drunkard (from The Drunkard / My Oedipus Complex)
01:39:11 Rafael Anton Irisarri & Siavash Amini – The Faithless (from The Shameless Years)
01:50:19 Talk break
01:52:57 King Woman – Worn (from Created In The Image Of Suffering)
01:57:36 Sister O.M. Terrel – Life Is A Problem (from Life Is A Problem)
02:00:10 Talk break

 
More turntable problems. Everything frequently sounds like shit. Still had some good times, though.
 

Air date: September 20, 2017

Background music: Daniel Bachman – Brightleaf Blues (from Daniel Bachman)

00:00:00 Alger “Texas” Alexander – Thirty Day Blues (from Trouble Done Bore Me Down: Unreissued Tracks)
00:03:22 Talk break
00:07:12 Big Brave – Lull II / Borer (from Ardor)
00:27:39 Talk break
00:30:59 Kanhaiya Lall & Friends – Sahnai (Kedara) (excerpt) (from Ragas From Benares)
00:33:54 Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange – Falling (from Inventions For The Radio: The Dreams)
00:37:54 Craig Leon – Four Eyes To See The Afterlife (from Anthology Of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 1)
00:44:39 Charles Manson – Side A (excerpt) (from Live At San Quentin)
00:46:20 John Cage & David Tudor – Part 2 (excerpt) (from Indeterminacy: New Aspect Of Form In Instrumental And Electronic Music)
00:50:30 Sifir – I Want To Be A Suicide Bomber (from An Anthology Of Turkish Experimental Music 1961-2014)
00:51:51 Clutchy Hopkins – 4:08 (from The Life Of Clutchy Hopkins)
01:00:23 Talk break
01:05:59 Triumvir Foul – Asphyxiation (from Spiritual Bloodshed)
01:10:39 Bing & Ruth – Reflector (from Tomorrow Was The Golden Age)
01:12:06 Andrew Weathers Ensemble – The Dream Body Does Carve (Green Grave) / Uplift! Infinite Fracturing / Astral Swords (Nine – A Future) (from Build A Mountain Where Our Bodies Fall)
01:28:41 Talk break
01:35:43 Shelley Duvall – He Needs Me (from Popeye Soundtrack)
01:39:30 Anna Von Hausswolff – Come Wander With Me (from The Miraculous)
01:50:06 Smog – Wiched Man (from Back To Peru: Most Complete Compilation Of Peruvian Underground 64-74)
01:53:26 Robbie Basho – Babs (from The Falconer’s Arm)
01:57:57 Talk break
01:00:13 Henry Williams – Mureau, Mureau The Devil (from Peter Was A Fisherman: The 1939 Trinidad Field Recordings Of Melville & Francis Herskovits)

 
I got to play one of my all-time favorite songs (“Nine Brothers & The Wolf”) and what might very well be the metal record of the year (As We Cup Our Hands…). Good times all around. Still down to one turntable and I’m not sure when the other will get fixed, but I seem to be managing.
 

Air date: September 13, 2017

Background music: Millie & Andrea – Back Down (from Drop The Vowels) / Emptyset – Descent (from Borders)

00:00:00 Pick Temple – The Death Of Floyd Collins (from The Pick Of The Crop)
00:02:22 Talk break
00:06:00 Cavernlight – To Wallow In The Filth That Dwells Where Despair Is Born / A Shell Of One’s Former Self (from As We Cup Our Hands And Drink From The Stream Of Our Ache)
00:21:57 Vaska Ilieva – Air Da Ne Storish Majko (from Brass Pins & Match Heads: International 78s)
00:26:43 Unknown artist – Blue Basket (Instrumental Version) (from Cambodian Cassette Archives: Khmer Funk & Pop Music Volume 1)
00:28:01 Talk break
00:31:49 Dead Machines – Side A (from Plays Invasion Of The Body Snatchers)
00:33:31 Muslimgauze – All The Stolen Land Of Palestine (from Jerusalem)
00:39:30 Anatol Stern – Romans Peru (Frag) (from To Mor Row: Futurist Poetry)
00:43:06 The Aggrovators – More Warning (from King Tubby’s Special 1973-1976)
00:45:08 Bruno Jasieński – Marsz (from To Mor Row: Futurist Poetry)
00:49:25 Jakob Battick & Friends – Nine Brothers & The Wolf (from Bloodworm Songs)
00:59:33 Talk break
01:03:41 Salia And His Accordion – Tondo Muya (from Opika Pende: Africa At 78 RPM)
01:06:44 False – Hunger (from Hunger)
01:12:48 Chihei Hatakeyama – I Am A Cat (from Grace)
01:15:04 Kofu Kikusui with Shinshin School & Ikuta School musicians – Improvisations For The Reikin (Steel-Stringed Koto) (from Japanese Masterpieces For The Koto)
01:26:29 Koerner, Ray, & Glover – Linin’ Track (from Blues, Rags, & Hollers)
01:28:47 Talk break
01:32:21 Torturing Nurse – Ikiru (excerpt) (from Collapse / Ikiru)
01:34:03 Unknown artist – “Banta” Trance Speech, Rec. London, England, May 1948 (from Okkulte Stimmen – Mediale Musik: Recordings Of Unseen Intelligences 1905-2007)
01:39:07 Oikos – Marrow Of Prayer (from The Great Upheaval)
01:41:51 Irene Dailey & The Actors Company – Who Was It Closed The Door? (excerpt) (from The Wick And The Tallow By Henry Gilfond)
01:45:01 Colorado Shaman – Leaf Bundle Healing Technique (from Lowland Tribes Of Ecuador)
01:47:53 Phill Niblock – Held Tones (excerpt) (from Nothin To Look At Just A Record)
01:51:51 The Gamelan Son Of Lion – Braid (from Gamelan In The New World, Vol. 1)
01:58:22 Talk break
02:01:30 Couch Slut – Snake In The Grass (from Contempt)

 
This was a total mess of a show. I forgot my headphones. One of the turntables wasn’t working, which I used twice before noticing. The batteries on one of my Korgs died. Made it through mostly unscathed, though, with some surprisingly excellent moments, like the Deceh/Huxley section and basically the entire closing half hour.
 

Air date: August 30, 2017

Background music: Cluster & Brian Eno – The Belldog (from Old Land) / Tvlpa – Dragon Mound (from Mountain Of The Opposer)

00:00:00 Hedy West – Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie (from Accompanying Herself On The 5 String Banjo)
00:02:44 Talk break
00:05:25 Mournful Congregtion – The Monad Of Creation (from The Monad Of Creation)
00:26:20 Supelka & Tapan – Berovka (from Macedonian Folk Dances Volume II)
00:28:12 Talk break
00:31:22 Blind Uncle Gaspard – Marksville Blues (from Let Me Play This For You: Rare Cajun Recordings)
00:34:28 Ustad Ali Akbar Khan & Pandit Chatur Lal – Evening Raga: Rag Piloo (from Music Of India: Morning And Evening Rāgas)
00:36:55 Annea Lockwood – Lake Tear Of The Clouds, Mt. Marcy – The Source, Elevation 4,322 Feet June 19, 1982 At 2:00 PM / Feldspar Brook, Mt. Marcy – The Highest Tributary June 5, 1982 At 12:00 Noon / Calamity Brook, Mt. Marcy – A Tributary June 5, 1982 At 1:00 PM (from A Sound Map Of The Hudson River)
00:43:42 Alan Watts – Metamatic Ritual (from This Is It)
00:51:48 Evel Knievel – Evel Speaks To The Kids can you buy cialis online in australia (excerpt) (from Evel Speaks To The Kids)
00:59:32 Talk break
01:03:11 Deceh – Side A (from Deceh)
01:06:18 Aldous Huxley – Would You Say Something About The Process That Took You To Unorthodox Religion? / Surely Zen Is Inward Turning? / What Part Has The Supernatural In Your Life? / Symbols (from Speaking Personally)
01:08:44 Rhucle – Cicada (from Fantastic Garden)
01:20:41 Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch – The Mystery Of Heaven (Long Version) (from The Mystery Of Heaven)
01:30:19 Talk break
01:33:05 Los Destellos – Ronda Tropical (from Latinamericarpet: Exploring The Vinyl Warp Of Latin American Psychedelia, Volume 1)
01:36:06 United Sacred Harp Singers – The Last Words Of Copernicus (from United Sacred Harp Convention – The Alan Lomax Recordings, 1959)
01:37:50 Joe Clark – Border Passage (from Throw Me In The Susquehanna)
01:38:54 No artist – Lesson 18 (from Conversa-Phone’s Round-The-World – Swahili: Language Record Course)
01:42:55 The Conet Project – Three Note Oddity (from Recordings Of Shortwave Numbers Stations)
01:45:27 N’Guni musicians – N’Guni Tribal Song (from The Naked Prey)
01:47:10 Joanna Brouk – Diving Deeper, Remembering Love (from Hearing Music)
01:49:55 Good Stuff House – Untitled (B1) (from Good Stuff House)
01:51:55 Anatoli Kuular – Borbangnadyr With Steam Water (from Tuva, Among The Spirits: Sound, Music, And Nature In Sakha And Tuva)
01:54:12 Helen Money – Facing The Sun (from Become Zero)
01:59:02 Talk break
02:02:52 Hiran’ny Tanoran’ny Ntao Lo – Mazava Atsinana Ny Any Aminay (from The Music Of Madagascar: Classic Traditional Recordings Of The 1930s)

 
The Bark Haze / Traum record is a weird collab/split picture disc that plays from the inside out, ends in a locked groove, and each channel has one band’s music on it. So unless you’re playing the record through a mixer that lets you pan all the way to one channel, you’re listening to a collaboration between Bark Haze & Traum, but you’re technically able to listen to each band’s “side” separately. And I just found out it’s the second part of a 2001-themed trilogy (the other 2 records functioning the same way as this one), but they never ended up releasing the third one. The first one came out, though, and it’s with Windy & Carl and Heavy Winged! So now I totally need to get that too.

Also, I was able to include some more timely political speeches, this time Nixon’s Watergate resignation speech. I hope to hear something similar in the near future.
 

Air date: August 23, 2017

Background music: Blanck Mass – Rhesus Negative (from World Eater)

00:00:00 Robert Johnson – Preaching Blues (Up Jumped The Devil) (from The Complete Recordings)
00:02:51 Talk break
00:06:13 Anhedonist – Ouranophobia (from The Drear)
00:19:28 Leon Redbone – Sheik Of Araby (from Double Time)
00:22:01 Bermuda Strollers – Ride Your Donkey (from Bermuda Strollers ’73)
00:24:53 Talk break
00:30:52 Ben Vida & Greg Davis – Working Model 1 (from Working Models)
00:32:34 Richard Nixon – President Nixon’s Watergate Speech, April 30, 1973 (from Watergate: The Break In)
00:38:00 Bokar Rimpoche – Mahakala Ceremony (from Sacred Chants And Tibetan Rituals From The Monastery Of Mirik)
00:48:56 Bark Haze / Traum – Side A (from Monolith: Jupiter)
00:58:46 Talk break
01:01:07 Peter Peter & Peter Kyed – The Boat / Into Hell (from Valhalla Rising Soundtrack)
01:04:36 Anton LaVey – The Satanic Mass (from The Satanic Mass)
01:12:52 Balakrishna Of Travancore – Srirama Ramani (from Ragas: Songs of India)
01:17:48 Eluvium – Time Travel Of The Sloth Parts I & II (from Jesu / Eluvium split)
01:24:31 Dion McGregor – The Mogul (from The Dream World Of Dion McGregor (He Talks In His Sleep))
01:28:59 Talk break
01:32:54 Ex Eye – Anaitis Hymnal; The Arkose Disc (from Ex Eye)
01:44:41 Horseback – Finale (from Impale Golden Horn)
01:46:11 Douglas Ecker – Swallowtail Jig (from More Path Rent)
01:49:00 Roy Simmons, Joy Niedo, & Roe Kahrahrah – B1-B8 (from Comanche Peyote Songs, Vol. 1)
01:58:24 Talk break
02:01:15 Robert Johnson – Stop Breakin’ Down Blues (Take 1) (from The Complete Recordings)

 
I picked up the Churchill record about a month ago not knowing how appropriate his WWII-era speeches would be this past week or two.
 

Air date: August 16, 2017

Background music: Panicsville – Murdered Radio Wizard (from Imperfection Of The Organism)

00:00:00 Little Walter – Too Late (from Thunderbird)
00:02:45 Talk break
00:06:02 Moss – I Saw Them That Night (from Horrible Night)
00:16:54 Various Bulgarian artists – Side A1.1-A1.7 (from The Columbia World Library Of Folk And Primitive Music, Vol. XVII: Bulgaria)
00:17:57 Nicholas Szczepanik – Nostalgia / Over Your Dead Body / Long Gone (excerpt) (from We Make Life Sad)
00:29:46 Talk break
00:34:48 William Cody Watson – Untitled, In 6 Movements (from Bill Murray)
00:35:45 Winston Churchill – A1-A6.3 (from The Voice Of Winston Churchill)
00:56:05 Celestial Bloodshed – Spiraculum Mortis (from Ω)
01:02:16 Talk break
01:05:52 Svarte Greiner – Black Tie (from Black Tie)
01:06:55 Pope Paul VI – Side B (from The First Papal Mass In America)
01:25:00 Terence Hannum – Supreme Sacrilege (from Impiety)
01:28:00 Jim Nollman – Cello & Wolf Pack No. 1 / Vihuela – Cello And Pack (from Playing Music With Animals: Interspecies Communication Of Jim Nollman With 300 Turkeys, 12 Wolves And 20 Orcas)
01:30:56 Talk break
01:34:11 Mountains – The Whale Years (from Mountains Mountains Mountains)
01:35:22 Unknown Serrehule musicians – Dung N Kaheng (from African Flutes (Gambia))
01:39:49 Raymond Scott – Ohio Bell Mystery (from Three Willow Park (Electronic Music from Inner Space 1961–1971))
01:41:31 Giorgio Moroder – The Apartment (from American Gigolo Soundtrack)
01:44:00 John Pfeiffer – Forests (excerpt) (from Electronomusic – 9 Images)
01:48:40 Elizabeth Cotten – Look And Live, My Brother (from Elizabeth Cotten Vol. 2: Shake Sugaree)
01:52:30 Vukari – Her Bones Rattle In The Wind / A Hollow Promise (from Matriarch)
01:58:40 Talk break
02:01:51 The Kingsmen – To Be Alive (from One People)

 
As of this episode, A Thick Mist is no longer an exclusively vinyl radio show. It’s still mostly vinyl. My attempts at hooking up the Kaoss Pads to the turntables at the radio station failed, so I was left with two Kaoss Pads and a lingering desire to use them for A Thick Mist. Enter: my iPod, iPad, and a beastly collection of digital music that I never played on AGB Radio. So now I can play up to four tracks live on the air, two of which can include digital versions of records that are impossible to find or prohibitively expensive. I’m pretty psyched about this.

Dug deep into the Heavenly Shore box set on Tompkins Square from a few years ago which was fun. Some of those sermons are just insane.
 

Air date: August 9, 2017

Background music: Jack Dice – Murdered Out (from Block Motel)

00:00:00 Primitive Baptist Choir Of North Carolina – Fight On Your Time Ain’t Long (from When I Reach That Heavenly Shore (Unearthly Black Gospel 1926-1936))
00:02:46 Talk break
00:07:00 Subrosa – Despair Is A Siren (from For This We Fought The Battle Of Ages)
00:22:24 Unknown Congolese musicians – Wa-Bula-Matadi-Maxa-Cia-Kahia-Makusa (Fire Feet) / Tagati (Bewitched) / Hambuka Kunauga (African Love Ballad) (from Heartbeat Of The Congo!)
00:23:38 Hypnosis – Pineal Gland Room Tone (from Moon Of Death And Other Recent Works)
00:25:08 Grigoris Mathioudakis, Manolis Kartsonakis & Vassilis Kartsonakis – Omorfonios Psikhomakhi (from The World’s Musical Traditions, Vol. 11: Vocal Music In Crete)
00:30:37 Talk break
00:34:23 Eluvium – Memory Print Boutique (from Catalin)
00:36:19 Unknown artist – Side B (from Boston: Birthplace Of Liberty)
00:38:58 Alan Watts – Om (from Om: The Sound Of Hinduism)
00:40:25 Side A (excerpt) (from Tortura: The Sounds Of Pain & Pleasure)
00:53:34 Le Grand Maitre Franco – Pepe Ndombe Et Le T.P.O.K. Jazz – Anjela (from Attaquent Anjela)
01:02:46 Talk break
01:06:02 Ernst Wolff – Studio Auf Einer Reis’ (from German Students’ Songs)
01:07:48 Pyriphlegethon – Silence Of The Grave / Rising Of The Satanic Majesty (from Night Of Consecration)
01:11:43 Rev. A.W. Nix – Going To Hell And Who Cares (from When I Reach That Heavenly Shore (Unearthly Black Gospel 1926-1936))
01:13:13 Synergy – Artificial Intelligence (Monday, January 28, 1980) (from Computer Experiments, Volume 1)
01:15:44 Morris B. Abram – Side B (excerpt) (from An Address By Morris B. Abram, President Of Brandeis University, At The Century Plaza Hotel, Beverly Hills, California, June 26, 1969)
01:18:00 Tucker Martine – Morning Fanfare (from Broken Hearted Dragonflies: Insect Electronica From Southeast Asia)
01:25:41 Carlos Montoya – Compas Calo (from Spontaneous Flamenco)
01:29:18 Talk break
01:34:13 Duane Pitre / Pilotram Ensemble – The Ensemble Chord In Eb With A Minor 7th And A Pump Organ Base (from Organized Pitches Occurring In Time)
01:36:03 Side B (from Calls Of The Bushveld)
01:36:42 Unknown Ashanti & Ewe musicians – Parago / Akom / Adva 1 / Adva 2 / Atokwe 1 (from Drums Of Death)
01:54:45 Jubilee Gospel Team – Don’t Know When Death Will Call For Me (from When I Reach That Heavenly Shore (Unearthly Black Gospel 1926-1936))
01:58:20 Talk break
02:02:33 Rev. J.C. Burnett with Sisters Lucille Smith & Fannie Cox – Great Day Of His Wrath Has Come (from When I Reach That Heavenly Shore (Unearthly Black Gospel 1926-1936))

 
Got some strong Birdman vibes with the Stockhausen solo percussion alongside Julie Harris and I’m pretty happy with how well the Close Encounters score and King’s College Choir fell in the mix. Also definitely check out the Nordra debut on Sige. Excellent stuff. I’m shocked I only just heard the Laniakea record. It’s my new favorite thing, I’ve been listening to it nonstop, total ritual doomed space drone weirdness, I fucking love it.
 

Air date: August 2, 2017

Background music: Second Woman – 300528mj1 (from Second Woman)

00:00:00 Old Grey Goose – Goose’s Minuet / Doug’s Waltz (from Maine Country Dance Music And Song)
00:02:59 Talk break
00:06:30 Volahn – Najtir Ichik (from Aq’Ab’Al)
00:19:25 Unknown artist – Huon Peninsula to Maclay Coast (from An Introduction To The Music Of New Guinea)
00:20:50 John Williams – The Abduction Of Barry (from Music From Close Encounters Of The Third Kind)
00:25:30 Part V (from Voices Of The Night: The Calls Of 34 Frogs And Toads Of The United States And Canada)
00:26:50 Ferdinand Murphy – Reel (from An Island Carnival: Music Of The West Indies)
00:30:57 Talk break
00:35:30 Nordra – Apologize To Me, Humanity (from Nordra)
00:37:34 Willam Byrd performed by The Choir Of King’s College – Mass For Five Voices (from Mass For 5 Voices / Magnificat And Nunc Dimittis From The Great Service / Ave Verum Corpus)
00:48:03 Laniakea – The Contagious Magik Of The Superabundance (from A Pot Of Powdered Nettles)
01:03:41 Talk break
01:06:01 Mississippi Fred McDowell – Mercy (from Live In New York)
01:13:08 Karlheinz Stockhausen performed by Christoph Caskel – Zyklus (from Zyklus • Refrain / Transición II)
01:13:56 Julie Harris – Side C (from The Belle Of Amherst)
01:25:54 Harvestman – Cromlech (from Music For Megaliths)
01:29:47 Talk break
01:33:38 Vukari – Ad Delirium II (from Divination)
01:39:39 Phurpa – Side B (from Rituals Of Bön II)
01:42:05 Dylan Thomas – Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines / After The Funeral (from Reading Volume 3)
01:51:23 Anlo Ewe musicians – Possession Sequence / Invocation / Drum Calls / Finale (from Drums Of West Africa: Ritual Music Of Ghana)
01:58:59 Talk break
02:01:21 Memphis Minnie – Stinging Snake Blues (from The Best Of Memphis Minnie And Kansas Joe Vol. 2)

 
Lots of premium mixing in this one: Growing & Milton Feher’s guided relaxation techniques, Watusi ceremonial drums & old New England chorals, Aeronaut & Vietnamese song poems, and Rale & Abraham Brun’s cantorials

A weird thing happened with this recording. None of the sounds from the microphone got recorded (yes the mic was turned on). I trimmed out all of the talk breaks because without vocals this episode would’ve just had Ash Koosha’s “Feather” on low volume repeating every 30 minutes or so. Also, I had to mix this down to mono because the turntables were only coming out of one channel. Bad day for recoding, I guess.
 
Air date: July 19, 2017

00:00:00 Benjamin Reid – Percy Where Him Gone? (from Caribbean Island Music: Songs And Dances Of Haiti, The Dominican Republic & Jamaica)
00:01:54 Vile Creature – A Constant Yearning To Leave (from A Steady Descent Into The Soil)
00:17:11 Unknown artist & St. James Church Congregation – I’ll Meet You On That Other Shore (from I’ll Meet You On That Other Shore)
00:20:43 Popul Vuh – Letzte Tage – Letzte Nächte (from Letzte Tage – Letzte Nächte)
00:24:57 Growing – Fogged / Disembark (from Disorder)
00:26:03 Milton Feher – Relaxation: Body And Mind / Going To Sleep (from Relaxing Body And Mind)
00:45:21 Black Cilice – Timeless Spectre (from Banished From Time)
00:55:13 Ruanda – Watusi musicians – Ceremonial Drums (from African And Afro-American Drums)
00:56:28 Old Sturbridge Singers – Jesus Wept / Kittery / Judea / David’s Lament / Mortality (from The New England Harmony)
01:03:43 Aeronaut – American Gothic / Epilogue (from Aeronaut / Swamp Flower Rhyme Split)
01:07:00 North Vietnamese musicians – Hat A Dao (The Sung Poetry Of North Vietnam): Ba’c Phan (With Poem) / Ty-Ba (With Poem 1st Phrase, 20 Years Ago) / Ty-Ba (1st Phrase… Today) / Ty-Ba (Entire Poem) (from Music from North and South Vietnam: Sung Poetry of the North, Theatre Music of the South)
01:19:05 Abraham Brun – Machnisey Rachamin (from Cantorials, Vol. 3)
01:21:26 Rale – Side B (from Some Kissed Charms That Would Not Protect Them)
01:26:50 Obray Ramsey – Poor Little Ellen (from Good Old Mountain Dew: Banjo Songs Of The Southern Mountains)
01:32:12 Insect Ark – Octavia (from Portal/Well)
01:34:11 Seirom – I Could Not See You Through The Clouds (from And The Light Swallowed Everything)
01:41:16 Ast – Nekrolog Pt. 1 (from Fraktale)
01:45:23 Charley Patton – Moon Going Down (from Founder Of The Delta Blues)

 
I forgot how massive that Cough song is. Wish it was pressed at 45 so I could slow it down even more. The recording of a surgery mixed with Aquarelle and Locrian/Mamiffer is A+ in my opinion. Also don’t miss the new Ustalost vinyl from Gilead. So sexy.

The mask in the photo comes with the Palestine & Schaefer collab on Desire Path, designed by Chris Koelle, so naturally I had to put it on while I was spinning that and some Bengali tunes.
 
Air date: July 12, 2017

Background music: Tyondai Braxton – Amlochley (from Hive1)

00:00:00 Mississippi John Hurt – Weeping And Wailing (from Worried Blues)
00:02:57 Talk break
00:07:01 Cough – Athame (from Reflection Of The Negative)
00:25:36 Tallahassee Tight – Black Snake (from Down South: Louisiana – Mississippi – Alabama – Florida )
00:28:50 Talk break
00:31:23 Aquarelle – A Shifting Visage (from Alex Cobb / Aquarelle split)
00:32:39 Supervised Surgical Operation On A Small Boy With A Cyst In His Neck (from Sounds Of Medicine)
00:44:53 Locrian & Mamiffer – In Fulminic Blaze / Bless Them That Curse You (from Bless Them The Curse You)
01:01:28 Talk break
01:05:22 Purna Das – Ki Die Pujibo Hari Charana Tomar / Bloey Koey Manush Key Ki Sadhu Kora Jai? (from The Bauls Of Bengal)
01:07:06 Charlemagne Palestine & Janek Schaefer – Raga De L’Apres Midi Pour Aude (from Day Of The Demons)
01:18:43 Golden Eagle Gospel Singers – March, Children, March / He’s My Rock (from Living Humble)
01:24:20 Heavenly Gospel Singers – I’m Living Humble (from Living Humble)
01:27:27 Ustalost – IV (from The Spoor Of Vipers)
01:34:30 Talk break
01:38:51 Ian William Craig – Arrive, Arrive (from Slow Vessels)
01:40:14 Robert J. Lurtesma – Side A excerpt (from Dawn Chorus: The Birds Of Morning Pro Musica)
01:42:57 Unknown artist – Arrullo San Antonio / Los Cholitos (from In Praise Of Oxalá And Other Gods: Black Music Of South America)
01:49:05 Wendy Carlos – Love Theme / Tower Music – Let Us Pray (from Tron Soundtrack)
01:54:17 Agarttha – The Sphynx (from A Water Which Does Not Wet Hands)
01:59:59 Talk break
02:02:00 Buddy Boy Hawkins – Snatch It And Grab It (from Buddy Boy Hawkins & His Buddies 1927-1934)

 
In today’s pleasant surprises: mixing Francis Bebey with traditional Japanese flute and the Bible/Henry collab alongside amplified insect sounds.
 

Air date: July 5, 2017

Background music: Black Unicorn – Rediscovering Infinity (from Rediscovering Infinity)

00:00:00 Pickin’ Around The Cookstove – Elzic’s Farewell (from Pickin’ Around The Cookstove)
00:02:15 Talk break
00:05:49 Nihill – Oerbron: Returning To The Primal Matter (from Verdonkermaan)
00:15:22 Cris Williamson – Side A (from Lumière… A Science-Fantasy Fable)
00:16:18 Every Hidden Color – Side A (from Luz)
00:33:18 Talk break
00:37:44 Francis Bebey – Guinée (from Psychedelic Sanza 1982-1984)
00:39:07 Riley Kelly Lee – Ajikan (from Shakuhachi Honkyoku)
00:47:08 Saturnalia Temple – Golachab (from Impossibilum)
01:02:15 Talk break
01:04:43 Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry – Vryashn 2 (from Vryashn)
01:06:17 Harold & Abe – Old Shorty (from Cornbread, Molasses, And Sassafras Tea)
01:10:20 A. T. Gaul – Side B (from Sounds Of Insects)
01:23:45 Robbie Basho – The Golden Shamrock (from The Grail & The Lotus)
01:33:20 Talk break
01:36:10 Stillbirth – Melatonin (At Rest. In Bed. On Deck.) (from Toward Sailor)
01:37:46 Dylan Thomas – Lament / A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London (from Reading Volume 2)
01:45:50 Machakos Party – Meselou (from Bellyachers, Listen – Songs From East Africa, 1938-46)
01:51:08 Gnaw – Widowkeeper (from Horrible Chamber)
01:54:24 Matavera people & Ngapoko Kiritakave – Ute… Taimai (from Moments In Rarotonga)
02:00:26 Talk break
02:02:43 Vassar Clements – Crossing The Catskills (from Crossing The Catskills)

 
Midwife’s Like Author, Like Daughter is the best record of the year and it will be number one on my year end list.
 

Air date: June 28, 2017

Background music: James Place – Theatre (from Voices Bloom)

00:00:00 Django Reinhardt – Between the Devil And The Deep Blue Sea (from Django)
00:02:57 Talk break
00:05:52 Ash Borer – Descended Lamentations (from Cold Of Ages)
00:22:25 Midwife – Name (from Like Author, Like Daughter)
00:27:34 Talk break
00:33:19 Jon Gibson – Cycles (from Two Solo Pieces)
00:35:19 Willi Stelzhammer, Norma Mytteis, & Kathi Hahn – Side C (from Antifaschistische Lieder)
00:54:13 Gevurah – Flesh Bounds Desecrated (from Necheshirion)
01:01:55 Talk break
01:06:35 Pancrace – Side A (from Pancrace)
01:07:32 Arthur Conan Doyle read by Basil Rathbone – The Final Problem (from The Adventure Of The Speckled Band / The Final Problem)
01:26:21 Sunn O))) – Holy Water (from Rehearsal Demo Nov 11 2011)
01:35:14 Talk break
01:38:01 Yoshi Wada – Reed Modulations (from Attention Patterns)
01:40:46 Fritz Liechti – Yodele (from Mountain Songs And Yodeling Of The Alps)
01:43:42 Kyu Sakamoto – Kyu-Chan Ondo (from Sukiyaki And Other Japanese Hits)
01:49:12 Ti-Blanc Richard – La Valse Des Roses (from Ti-Blanc Richard)
01:52:34 Django Reinhardt – I Can’t Believe You’re In Love With Me (from Django)
01:56:34 The Body & Full Of Hell – Abel (from One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache)
02:01:33 Talk break
02:03:43 Django Reinhardt – Echoes Of Spain (from Django)

 
I can’t believe how good Rorcal sounded with Sun Circle playing alongside it. Fucking crazy. Also scope the reading of King Arthur at the end, some choice excerpts from that on top of Drøne’s new album.
 
Air date: June 21, 2017

Background music: John Williams – Desert Chase (from Raiders Of The Lost Ark Score)

00:00:00 Flatt & Scruggs – Good Times Are Past and Gone (from Folk Songs Of Our Land)
00:02:26 Talk break
00:06:21 Black Monolith – Adhere (from Passenger)
00:14:27 El Niño De Ronda – La Vuelta (from The Real Flamenco)
00:17:57 Do’a – Phoenix Of Love (from Ancient Beauty)
00:23:58 The Caretaker – A Losing Battle Is Raging (from Everywhere At The End Of Time – Stage 2)
00:28:49 Talk break
00:35:00 Keiji Haino – More More More / Even If I Break Through / Falling Apart / Try To Come This Far / Though I Want To Laugh / I Want To Return (from Watashi Dake?)
00:36:57 Tyrone Guthrie – Casting The Play / The Actors In Rehearsal / The Director In Rehearsal / The Designer’s Role (from Lecture On “Directing A Play”)
00:57:33 Amaduduzo – Umlilo (from Siyabamukela)
01:01:21 Talk break
01:04:58 Rorcal – I / D / II / V (from Világvége)
01:08:49 Sun Circle – Side A (from Sun Circle)
01:26:35 Mama Yancey & Art Hodes – Trouble In Mind (from Mama Yancey Sings, Art Hodes Plays Blues)
01:30:11 Talk break
01:34:47 Drøne – Back To Station / Cutting The Screen (excerpt) (from A Perfect Blind)
01:36:20 Charles W. Dunn – Arthur’s Feast At Caerleon (12th Century Latin Translated) / The Round Table (Middle English) / Arthur’s Farewell To Guenevere (Middle English) / Arthur’s Betrayal (Early Modern English) / King Arthur’s Death (Modern English) (from The Changing English Language And Changing Literary Style)
02:01:00 Talk break
02:03:01 Cisco Houston – It Takes A Worried Man (from Passing Through)

 
Kevin Gan Yuen’s solo debut of black minimalism goes surprisingly well with Bulgarian folk music. And I’m glad to have recently found a record of Ferlinghetti reading his 30-minute anti-Nixon poem because it’s sadly still so relevant.
 

Air date: June 14, 2017

Background music: Kraftwerk – Trans-Europe Express (from Trans-Europe Express)

00:00:00 Alfred Montmarquette – Reel De Chicoutimi (from Masters Of French Canadian Music 2)
00:02:26 Talk break
00:05:25 Nikhil Banerjee – Raga Hemant (from Ragas For Meditation)
00:06:19 Lawrence Ferlinghetti – Tyrannus Nix? (from Ferlinghetti)
00:31:00 Lori Goldston – Cruel Sister (from Creekside: Solo Cello)
00:37:25 Talk break
00:39:52 Krallice – Transformation Chronicles (from Prelapsarian)
00:52:10 Charles Manson – People Say I’m No Good (from Lie: The Love And Terror Cult)
00:55:32 Pete Seeger – The Mexican Blues (from Goofing-Off Suite)
00:57:28 Talk break
01:01:35 Kevin Gan Yuen – Liminal / To Pierce The Veil / Whispers In Dust / Static Bath (from Uncloaked Infinite)
01:02:56 Various – B18-B27 (from Bulgaria) (for full song details, see B1.1-B3.1 here)
01:18:54 Moondog – Witch Of Endor (from Moondog)
01:25:22 Vampillia & The Body – Cold Bark Bite (from xoroAHbin)
01:30:26 Talk break
01:36:47 Francis Kingsley & Emitais – Live In Peace (from Assalam Aleikoum Africa Volume 1 (Progressive And Popular Music Of West Africa))
01:48:25 Ryu Hankil, Hong Chulki, & Nick Hoffman – Side B (excerpt) (from Sonne)
01:49:05 No artist – Side B (excerpt) (from The Farm)
02:00:25 Talk break
02:02:23 Hexis – Exhausit (from Abalam)