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Music of all kinds that hits me in the pit of my stomach, all arranged to find your sweet spot, too. Plus radio shows from the 1940s & 1950s: dramas, mysteries, sci-fi, detectives, and more.
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June 23, 2008: Show 192: from Rhys Chatham To Jajouka (listen to entire show / each individual set / each individual song)
Show time: 12 AM - 3 AM
The start and end times for each individual set and each individual song are exact.
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Set 1: Just think: only 34 minutes to climb one of the summits of rock. (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Rhys Chatham |
Guitar Trio Pt. 1, Brooklyn (CD 1, track 1)
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Guitar Trio Is My Life! | Radium |
How do you take a single chord and make it into one of the summits of rock? This is how. Sure - - you could call it minimalist, "downtown," heavily influential on everything and everyone from Sonic Youth to Robert Longo....Forget all about that. Get swept along in the ecstatic wave of sound and just FEEL it. Supreme. And a hell of a lot of fun.
And this goes for Part 2, Brooklyn, which follows. |
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| Rhys Chatham |
Guitar Trio Pt. 2, Brooklyn (CD 3, track 3)
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Guitar Trio Is My Life! | Radium |
Unlike the way the concerts are split up and separated on the 3 CD set, we now hear the second half of the Brooklyn concert right after the first - just the way nature intended. This piece rocks even more intensely than Part 1.
Exciting music....and relaxing. |
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Mic break between Sets 1 & 2. Background music played during it: |
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| Les Chakachas |
Love is like a Violin (track 4)
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Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | ||||||
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Set 2: the old radio show portion of the evening. |
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| Radio City Playhouse |
Long Distance
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originally broadcast July 3, 1948. | (no label) |
Jan Minor stars, in an extraordinary, almost-solo performance.
The story: a wife desperately calls to prevent the execution of her innocent husband. It's 1/2 hour to the execution - and it all happens in real-time. From Dunning's Encyclopedia Of Old Time Radio: "Jan Minor created a minor sensation...." Radio Life said: "Not since Aggie Moorehead's tour de force in 'Sorry, Wrong Number' has an actress caused such a one-role stir." First episode of Radio City Playhouse. On from 1948 to 1950, Radio City Playhouse featured solid dramas, often with veterans of New York stage and radio (remember: there was no TV then!). Shows were often written by well known writers of fantasy and suspense, such as Ray Bradbury, Cornell Woolrich, and Agatha Christie. Shows often turned "on life and death situations, with strong male-female roles." (John Dunning, The Encylcopedia Of Old-Time Radio) |
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Mic break between Sets 2 & 3. Background music played during it: |
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| Les Chakachas |
Love is like a Violin (track 4)
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Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | ||||||
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Set 3: the psych rock portion of the evening. (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| MGR |
Shipping Gold (track 1)
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Shipping Gold / Calling For Vanished Faces (split CD) | Barge |
Relaxing, mellow psych feel for most of it, sounds like they too have found the lost chord, often atmospheric, gets kind of avanty last 4 minutes. On a split CD with Xela. MGR = Mustard Gas & Roses.
At times, just magnificent. |
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| LSD Pond |
We Are LSD Pond: 2nd Version (CD 2, track 1)
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LSD Pond | Archive | Nice and resonant, even sweet and mellow at times, has a rough edge, gets rockier, then hard-edged and even swirly, easy-tempo psych rock, fine psych rock jam, very quiet end. LSD Pond is comprised of members of LSD March, Bardo Pond, New Rock Syndicate. | ||||||
| Skullflower |
Godzilla (track 8: faded out at -2:08)
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IIIrd Gatekeeper | Crucial Blast | Anticipatory opening --> steady state and easy(+) tempo psych rock, instrumental, squally guitar, sort of a reflective feel....unless you play it loud! | ||||||
| a place to bury strangers |
breathe (track 6)
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a place to bury strangers | Killer Pimp | Very quiet opening seconds --> easy(+) tempo psych rock. | *** | |||||
| Kinski |
Punching Goodbye Out Front (track 8)
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Down Below It's Chaos | Sub Pop | Sustained easy+ tempo psych rock. | *** | |||||
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Mic break between Sets 3 & 4. Background music played during it: |
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| Les Chakachas |
Love is like a Violin (track 4)
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Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | ||||||
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Set 4. (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Master Musicians Of Jajouka |
Your Eyes Are Like A Cup Of Tea (track 6)
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Brian Jones Presents The Pipes Of Pan At Jajouka | Point Music |
Quiet solo flute --> percussion comes in and the beat gets faster and hypnotic.
Living in a hilltop village in Morocco and playing music descended from the Roman festival of Pan, they were *discovered* by the Beat poets of the 1950s and the Rolling Stones....This piece gives perhaps only a slight indication of what they do during the week-long festival itself. |
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| Trevor Watts Moire Music Drum Orchestra |
Brekete Takai (track 8)
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A Wider Embrace | ECM | An alto sax like a snake charmer over African drums and electric bass. | *** | |||||
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Mic break between Sets 4 & 5. Background music played during it: |
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| Les Chakachas |
Love is like a Violin (track 4)
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Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | ||||||
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Set 5: some soul-jazz, and a fairly quiet way to end the show. (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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| Don Wilkerson |
Senorita Eula (track 8)
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Blue 'n' Groovy Volume 2: Mostly Modal | Blue Note | Easy-cooking soul-jazz. | ||||||
| Duke Pearson |
Wahoo! (track 10)
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Blue 'n' Groovy Volume 2: Mostly Modal | Blue Note | Soul-jazz, on the quieter and mellow side. | ||||||
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End of show mic break. Background music played during it: |
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| Les Chakachas |
Love is like a Violin (track 4)
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Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | ||||||
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Listener comments!
Droll:
mary:
I was at the Brooklyn GUITAR TRIO. Yep. Fantastic.
Great- excellent music and a radio play late late Sunday night.
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david:
Mark:
Mike B.: