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Playlist for Andrew Listfield - April 29, 2006

April 29, 2006: Show 183: filling in for Laure (listen to entire show / each individual set / each individual song)

The start and end times of each song and set are exact.

Show time: 2 AM - 6 AM

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(*** = special)

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Comments	Special
Set 1: the blues, the surf. (Listen to this set: Real)
Richie Allen And The Pacific Surfers	Rumble (track 12) (Listen: Real)	The Rising Surf	Sundazed	I like the bluesy guitar in the middle.
Jonathan Kane	BQE (track 1) (Listen: Real)	I Looked At The Sun	Table Of The Elements	Sustained, warm & bluesy, propulsive in its own special way, bit of a western feel. From a preview of his upcoming CD. I'm really happy for him: I think he's found his true musical style at last.	***
The Lost Patrol	When Stars Collide (track 10) (Listen: Real)	Lonesome Sky	(no label)	Easy tempo western tinged surf rock (or something...), kind of sentimental. Play it at a slightly elevated volume. I'm really happy for The Lost Patrol as well.	***

Mic break between Sets 1 & 2. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)
Les Chakachas	Love is like a Violin (track 4)	Arriba!	RCA International	Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 2: 44 minutes of golden heaviness. (Listen to this set: Real)
Nadja	Bug / Golem (track 1) (Listen: Real)	Truth Becomes Death	Alien 8	Slow, dark, beautiful in its way, some soft vocals from time to time waaay under, even peaceful.	***
Om	On The Mountain At Dawn (track 1) (Listen: Real)	Variations On A Theme	Holy Mountain	Easy tempo, a bit like old Black Sabbath, sweet and close to a golden sound.

Mic break between Sets 2 & 3. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)
Les Chakachas	Love is like a Violin (track 4)	Arriba!	RCA International	Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 3: the first old radio show portion of the evening. (Listen to this set: Real)
Radio City Playhouse	Betrayal	Originally broadcast August 30, 1948	(no label)	On the air from 1948 - 1950, most stories were action-related melodramas. This one, though, is a human interest story about a 1940s street kid with a good heart and the cop that befriends him. Contributing writers to the series included Ray Bradbury, Cornell Woolrich, and Agatha Christie.	***

Mic break between Sets 3 & 4. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)
Les Chakachas	Love is like a Violin (track 4)	Arriba!	RCA International	Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 4: often quiet, often quietly beautiful. (Listen to this set: Real)
William Basinski	(no title: track 14) (Listen: Real)	Melancholia	Musex International	Melancholic, sure. But also beautiful, gentle, even comforting, "a love letter to a broken world".	***
Set Fire To Flames	The Thing Between Us Is A Rickety Bridge Of Impossible Crossing (CD 2, track 9: played from -5:24 to -1:35) (Listen: Real)	Telegraphs In Negative / Mouths Trapped In Static	Alien 8	Spare and beautiful, slow and ambient.
Tom Recchion	The First Thing To Crawl On Land (track 14) (Listen: Real)	I Love My Organ	Birdman	Fades up slowly to softly ambient, quiet, a slow dawn breaks over the land....	***
Grouper	Where It Goes (track 9) (Listen: Real)	Way Their Crept	Free Porcupine Society	A hymn-like lullabye in its way, quite sentimental.	***
Organum	Sanctus I (track 1: ended at -1:13) (Listen: Real)	Sanctus	Robot	Warm, somehow inspirational, slightly deep surges, organ-like tones, the uplift needed to end the set.	***

Mic break between Sets 4 & 5. Background music played during it:
Les Chakachas	Love is like a Violin (track 4) (Listen: Real)	Arriba!	RCA International	Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 5: the second old radio show portion of the evening. (Listen to this set: Real)
Pete Kelly's Blues	Gus Trudeau	Originally broadcast August 22, 1951	(no label)	A tough story of crime, Prohibition, and Dixieland music, starring Jack Webb. No happy ending here. A movie was also made out of the series, directed, you guessed it, by Jack Webb. Here's one good quote: "The sun hadn't come up yet and the night was too tired to care." Here's another one: "He's a quiet little guy - wouldn't give you the sweat off an ice pitcher."	***

Mic break between Sets 5 & 6. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)
Les Chakachas	Love is like a Violin (track 4)	Arriba!	RCA International	Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 6: close to an hour of some really fine psych & psych rock. (Listen to this set: Real)
F/i	Blanga's Love Song (track 5) (Listen: Real)	Blanga	Lexicon Devil	Ambient and shimmering, warm, with a sitar in the background.	***
Ash Ra Tempel	Jenseits (track 2) (Listen: Real)	Join Inn / Starring Rosi	Purple Pyramid	Soft, sentimental, beautiful, dreamy, slow, but a little faster in the last few minutes.	***
F/i	In The Garden Of Blanga (track 1) (Listen: Real)	Blanga	Lexicon Devil	Echoey and phased quiet guitar intro with an acidy edge, becomes psych rock, instrumental.	***
Black Angels	Young Men Dead (track 1) (Listen: Real)	Passover	Light In The Attic	Easy, heavy, fuzzy guitar, dark.
Th' Faith Healers UK	This Time (track 2) (Listen: Real)	Peel Sessions	Ba Da Bing	Solid and heavy psych rock, easy(+) tempo.
ST 37	Taboo Down Under (track 7) (Listen: Real)	Future Memories	four / four	Medium tempo psych rock.
Skywave	Kill Me Dead (track 13) (Listen: Real)	Synthstatic	Alison / Blissent	Heavy, a sonic assault, dark.	***

Mic break between Sets 6 & 7. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)
Les Chakachas	Love is like a Violin (track 4)	Arriba!	RCA International	Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

Set 7: a haunting end. (Listen to this set: Real)
Marissa Nadler	Under An Old Umbrella (track 1) (Listen: Real)	The Saga Of Mayflower May	Eclipse	A dark love story. She has one of the most haunting voices I've ever heard. She sings & writes somewhat in the style of traditional English folk / ballads. But who knows what her upcoming CD will bring?	***
B. Fleischmann	Aldebaran Waltz (track 8) (Listen: Real)	The Humbucking Coil	Morr	A gentle & deep tone starts us off, then stays a slow ballad, with a quiet end.

End of show mic break. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Real)
Les Chakachas	Love is like a Violin (track 4)	Arriba!	RCA International	Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop.

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