my little yellow shoe

a mix by dj gilliflower (i.e., me)

2011-11-23T10:01:00.001-08:00

i began this mix in the summer of 2010 after hearing kemilliset ystävät’s “kun mina uppoan” (a non-album track included only on the kivikasan rauhassa ep) and glynis jones’ “schlum roomi” for the first time on the same day. to my ears, these tracks seemed to share a similarly strange yet innocent quality. i immediately imagined a small group of alien children who fell to earth and began to try and communicate in their unfamiliar—and often scary--surroundings. the mix, which i made quickly and instinctively, as I do a radio show, came to represent these beings’ journey of discovery. after letting the mix sit for several months, i made a few tweaks to the segues and track selection in november and december of 2010. it was shared with a few friends in early 2011 as new year's gifts, but i thought maybe a few more people might be interested to hear it. so here you go.

i still enjoy listening to it, and i hope you do, too.

if you're wondering what's on the mix, click here (and then click again to enlarge) to see the full version of the game board shown above; it's a graphic representation of the musical "journey" taken in the mix. (there's also a good old-fashioned text file included, though, so don't worry.) many thanks to pilllpat/agence eureka for the original scan of the game board, which i shamelessly nicked from her ever astounding flickr.

edit: yikes! i noticed there's a track missing from the game board: track 5 should be: es – sadepäivät. sorry! silly hidden layers...

more tumblrs (+ more radio coming soon)

2011-08-08T22:14:00.000-07:00

just popping in to say that i've revived my original tumblr, tinsel matrix. there's no particular theme--i'm just posting things that feel "right" for it, including some music and video every so often. i don't post a ton of stuff, but i usually add a handful of things every day, and i'm getting a lot of enjoyment out of it for some crazy reason.

i've also created a third tumblr, an offering to loplop, inspired by max ernst's bird (or bird-like) alter ego. i suppose i do enjoy art that incorporates the heads of birds a bit more than the average girl.

since ktru's switch to internet & hd only, i've been recording almost all of my radio shows. although i'm known to make some silly mistakes on air at times, i don't think the shows sound half bad (if i do say so myself). so watch this space. for real this time.

new tumblr / revived flickr / continued pinterest

2011-06-14T11:33:00.000-07:00

i've started doing a tumblr of photos and scans of some (hopefully) visually interesting things around our house: theworldissilence.tumblr.com

i'm also attempting to revive my flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gilliflower/

and i'm still pinning like a madwoman at my pinterest site: http://pinterest.com/gilliflower/pins/

(pictured above: a detail from a 1976 work by margaret webb dreyer - more info at my flickr: here.)

radio show, 8 may, 2011, 10am-12 pm, k-true rice university radio

2011-05-10T11:54:00.000-07:00

ikue mori / the gaze of basilisk [labyrinth] on the tzadik label.
altar eagle / battlegrounds [mechanical gardens] on the type label.
daphne oram / in a jazz style [oramics] on the paradigm label.
augustus pablo / java [skanking with pablo: melodica for hire, 1971-1977] on the trojan label.

master musicians of bukkake / in the twilight of kali yuga [totem three] on the important label.
chang loo / at three springtime [asian takeaways] on the normal label.
the focus group / starry wisdom [sketches and spells] on the ghost box label.
john chantler / untitled [the luminous ground] on the room40 label.
agitated radio pilot / for ft, at summer's end [the ebb & flow of distant moonlit grass] on the dirt music label.
jefre cantu-ledesma / womb night [love is a stream] on the type label.
exploding star orchestra / chromorocker [stars have shapes] on the delmark label.
blurt / this is my royal wedding souvenir [blurt + singles] on the ltm label.
volcano the bear / da oriente a occidente [what's your function: a tribute to franco battiato] on the sillyboy label.
brigitte fontaine / areski / art ensemble of chicago / le goudron [comme a la radio] on the saravah label.
sharron kraus / the prophet [the fox's wedding] on the jnana label.
chaino / ceremonial feast dance [africana & beyond!] on the dionysus label.

sharon van etten / one day [epic] on the ba da bing label.
michael chapman / leaving the apple [imaginational anthem volume two] on the tompkins square label.
belong / never came close [common era] on the kranky label.
faust / stretch out time [the faust tapes] on the rer label.
hedzoleh / rekpete [hedzoleh soundz] on the soundway label.
m. jarvis & a. jarvis / anatomist [jun] on the ruralfaune label.
zs / black crown creemony i: diamond terrifier [new slaves] on the social registry label.
bernard estardy / cha tatch ka [la formule du baron] on the vadim label.
the petch phin thong band / soul lam plearn [the sound of siam] on the soundway label.
wooden wand / wand arise [horus of the horizon] on the three-love label.
joe mccoy / pile driver blues [memphis masters: early american blues classics] on the yazoo label.
phil cohran & legacy / dogon [african skies] on the captcha label.
alessandro bosetti / jana (dogon) [zwolfungen: 12 portraits of languages i don't understand] on the sedimental label.
misha marks / joana sa / martin grutter / paul dunmall / joe sorbara / kyle bruckmann / untitled [sixty interpretations of sixty seconds by sixty solo improvisers] on the apprise records label.

mohammed "jimmy" mohammed / sethed seketelat [takkabel!] on the terp label.
ilk / honour's prospect [canticle] on the vhf label.
thirteenth floor elevators / splash 1 (live bonus track) [easter everywhere] on the charly label.

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my second show since k-true's transition to internet/HD-only broadcasting. i'm still trying to adjust to the situation. it just feels funny, ya know?

want to hear it? grab it here.

radio playlist, 24 april, 2011, 10am-12 pm, ktru fm (rice university radio)

2011-04-24T12:21:00.000-07:00

richard youngs / come hear us now [(k-raa-k) festival] on the k-raa-k label.
this kind of punishment / the diary of hermann doubt [a beard of bees] on the ajax label.
fugu / f22 (géorhyque de zech) [fugu e.p.] on the semantic label.
the pretty things / she says good morning [s.f. sorrow] on the emi/snapper label.

ñico estrada y su sonora (feat. vicky zamora) / ven pa' mi casa [¡gózalo! bugalú tropical, vol. 1] on the vampi soul label.
moondog / why spend a dark night with me [moondog 2 (1971)] on the cbs label.
the magnetic fields / you love to fail [the wayward bus] on the popup label.
volcano the bear / burnt seer [amidst the noise and twigs] on the beta-lactum ring label.
this heat / a new kind of water [deceit] on the these label.

man city lion / nah anad [siamese soul: thai pop spectacular, vol. 2] on the sublime frequencies label.
anna homler / oo'na to'ye [macaronic sines] on the lowlands label.
kemialliset ystävät / utuaurat [kellari juniversumi] on the fonal label.
fougou / oculus [reversed dreams of this nature] on the ikuisuus label.
bob cobbing / are your children safe in the sea? [the spoken word: early recordings 1965-1973] on the british library label.
psychic tv / orchids [dreams less sweet] on the some bizzare label.

rosa lee hill / bullying well [been here all my days] on the mississippi label.
alastair galbraith / portrait [morse/gaudylight] on the xeric/table of the elements label.
wolf people / silbury sands [steeple] on the jagjaguwar label.
ersen / gunese don cicegem [ersen] on the finders keepers label.
pudding / magic bus [rubble six: the clouds have groovy faces] on the bam caruso label.

the fall / the man whose head expanded [totally wired: the rough trade anthology] on the rough trade/castle label.
barbara manning / mark e. smith & brix [scissors] on the heyday label.
omar khorshid / wadil mulul (valley of the kings) [guitar el chark] on the sublime frequencies label.
ghost / who found a lost rose in the warship? [lama rabi rabi] on the drag city label.
the dentists / the little engineer's set [some people are on the pitch they think it's all over it is now] on the spruck/rev-ola label.
wire / mannequin [pink flag] on the pink flag label.

alasdair roberts / you muses assist [spoils] on the drag city label.
klimperei / les lapins dans la lune [tout seul sur la plage en hiver] on the in-poly-sons label.
dolly mixture / never let it go [demonstration tapes] on the royal mint label.
ivor cutler / cockadoodledon't [ludo] on the rev-ola label.
the friendly science orchestra / sutekina sora o [miniature album 7"] on the friendly science enregisterments label.

boards of canada / sixtyten [music has the right to children] on the warp/skam label.
belbury poly / caermaen [the willows] on the ghost box label.
forest / graveyard [the full circle] on the harvest/zap! label.
nick drake / fly [bryter layter] on the hannibal label.
young marble giants / wurlitzer jukebox [colossal youth] on the rough trade label.
abner jay / my mule [true story of abner jay] on the mississippi label.

can / sing swan song [ege bamyasi] on the spoon label.

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here's the playlist for my last broadcast on 91.7 fm at ktru. despite a significant effort from students/alumni/listeners to block the sale of the 91.7 frequency and transmitter to the university of houston, the fcc recently approved the transfer, and ktru will no longer be broadcast on 91.7 fm after 6 am (CST) april 28, 2011. ktru will continue to broadcast via ktru.org (streamable online and via several mobile devices) and via hd radio @ kpft hd 2.

for this special show, i selected several of my favorite bands and tracks and gave them one last spin on the houston airwaves. the selection is more song-oriented than my usual freeform shows, but with the temporary relinquishment of playlist requirements, i decided to take the opportunity to put together a show that was very, well...very me.

i got an enthusiastic call about the anna homler track, which made me very happy, because the caller's reaction mirrored my own when the song was first introduced to me by my fabulous friend dan plunkett (creator of nd magazine and co-proprietor of end of an ear records in austin, texas) sometime in the mid-to-late 90s. i also have dan to thank for introducing me to this heat's "a new kind of water". he first played it for me in his original record shop (the late, great 33 degrees in austin), and it was an unforgettable experience.

we attempted to make a digital recording of the show, but due to microphone issues (i.e., tons of static in the microphone), it's virtually unlistenable during the talksets (which overlap with the music on most occasions). i thoroughly enjoyed the music, though, and i WILL make a mix of these songs to share with friends & listeners soon. i just need to decide if i want to do a segued, music-only mix or a podcast with some commentary about the tracks played.

anyway, i'll continue to dj at ktru--and reach out to others electronically through music--for at least a little while longer. so stay tuned. (just not on fm anymore.)

image cribbed from this page at the always excellent 50 watts (formerly a journey round my skull) blog.

genetic memory radio playlist (1 hour by nan), 11 april 2011, ktru rice university radio

2011-04-13T14:08:00.000-07:00

smegma / mirage [mirage] on the important label.
chora / glasgeblase [the wax wheel] on the zero jardins label.
leonard emmanuel / hoot owl fight / mocking a fox / a cornered 'coon [hollerin'] on the rounder label.
stewart walden / mmmmorning [agdam compilation] on the agdam label.
derek rogers / signal space 1 [triagonals] on the ruralfaune synth series label.
susan matthews / mbox2 [temporal echoes] on the sirenwire label.
the compass rose / the plough horse [the plough horse] on the ekhein label.
asmus tietchens / weiter nicht [aus freude am elend] on the dom/die stadt label.
conrad schnitzler & wolfgang seidel / espana [consequenz ii] on the captain trip label.
christina carter / a blind eye [texas blues working] on the blackest rainbow label.
ariel kalma / le temps des moissons [le temps des moissons] on the beta-lactum ring label.
akemi ishijima / time drops [time drops] on the paradigm label.
m. holterbach & julia eckhardt / two stasis made out of electricity [do-undo (in g maze)] on the helen scarsdale agency label.
kahondo style / peach boy [green tea and crocodiles] on the nato label.
michel chion, lionel marchetti & jérôme noetinger / i'm dracula [les 120 jours] on the fringes label.
innercity / untitled [last year of obsolete reality] on the amnesia agency label.
demons / tropical depression [in between] on the aa label.
parashi / a surrender [troika] on the stunned label.
paul de vree / kleine caroli [henri chopin's revue ou] on the alga marghen label.
jean c. roché & jean thevenet / martinique, january 1969 [cicadas & crickets] on the sittelle label.
k11 / pietro riparbelli & philippe petit / chapter 3: doppelganger presence [the haunting triptych] on the boring machines label.
lily greenham / seascape [lingual music] on the paradigm label.

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these were the sound materials for the hour programmed by me (the first third of the show). there was some excerpting of tracks (but not much) and a lot of overlapping/layering. if you'd like to hear to the music mix (just a continuous music mix--no on-air announcements or anything), you can grab it here.

the entire radio show playlist (in reverse chronological order and including hk's choices, too) is at ktru's site: here.

image cribbed from the endlessly fascinating 50 watts blog, probably from one of the posts from livre de la sante.

genetic memory radio playlist by hk & nan, 14 february 2011, ktru rice university radio

2011-02-17T09:08:00.000-08:00

i've been remiss in posting playlists. in fact, i've been quite remiss in my blogging duties in general. but i've been so inspired by several great blogs lately (particularly a sound awareness, toys & techniques and the dunwich radio podcast), i've just GOT to revive this thing. i have lots of wonderful things to share. i really do.

after a fabulous 5-course dinner at t'afia, hk and i pulled ourselves out of our respective food comas and went over to KTRU to create our monthly genetic memory radio program. we split our 3-hour timeslot 50/50. here is what we played:

hk's set:
brian lavelle / the red and the white [avalonian] on the apollolaan label.
richard youngs / sussex pond (don't go backwards and forth mix) [atlas of hearts] on the apollolaan label.
marcus fischer / cascadia obscura [monocostal] on the 12k label.
gareth davis and machinefabriek / part two [grower] on the sonic pieces label.
aghast / sacrifice [hexerei im zwielicht der finsternis] on the cold meat industry label.
seefeel / aug30 [seefeel] on the warp label.
andrew liles / part three [the progeny of flies] on the beta-lactam ring label.
dick raaijmakers (as dick raaymakers) / piano forte (1959-1960) [an anthology of noise and electronic music volume 6] on the sub rosa label.
mz 412 / salvo honoris morte [in nomine dei nostri satanas luciferi excelsis] on the cold spring label.
cube of force / eye of vecna [book of vile darkness] on the onyudo label.
andrew paine / the rest will follow [the rest will follow] on the self-released label.
henrik nordvargr bjorkk / a wilderness of cloades 5-6 [a wilderness of cloades] on the old europa cafe label.
stephan mathieu / schwarzschild radius - original mix [a static place] on the 12k label.
dead voices on air / eyes i dare not meet in dreams [from afar all stars spark and glee] on the lens label.
wil bolton / slate [time lapse] on the hibernate label.
xela / eve's reposte [the sublime] on the digitalis label.
troum / the self-playing ocean [mare idiophonika] on the tourette label.
soliloquy sun / ii [soliloquy sun] on the sonic oyster label.

nan's set:
æthanor / laudanum tusk [en form for bla] on the vhf label.
ruth white / lover's wine [flowers of evil] on the creel pone label.
ron geesin / u.f.o. [electrosound] on the glo-spot label.
nmperign & jason lescaleet / the mystery disease that haunts my town [love me two times] on the intransitive label.
louise huebner / the turkish bean spell for tender love [seduction through witchcraft] on the warner label.
anna homler / robot love song [house of hands] on the nd label.
quiet evenings / cabin incense [cascades] on the hooker vision label.
leafcutter john / palm reader [tunis] on the tsuku boshi label.
lionel marchetti / la visite des morts [red dust] on the crouton label.
sidney sager / start title [children of the stones soundtrack] on the unreleased label.
throbbing gristle / persuasion [20 jazz funk greats] on the grey area/mute label.
pedestrian deposit / east fork [east fork / north fork] on the monorail trespassing label.
vanessa rossetto / swim bladder [mineral orange] on the kye label.
tim hecker / midnight whispers [my love is rotten to the core] on the alien8 label.
es / she puts out the fire in her heart with her tears [a love cycle] on the fonal label.
catherine jauniaux & ikue mori / i fall in love too easily [vibraslaps] on the recrec label.
pierre raph / bruits et voix dans le cemetaire [the films of jean rollin] on the lucertola label.
chris watson / gahlitzerstrom [stepping into the dark] on the touch label.
monos / a place of voices [above the sky] on the icr label.
teiji ito / true love found [from "maeva"] [music for maya] on the tzadik label.
rolf julius / brazil [für einen kleinen see] on the because tomorrow comes label.
vava kitora / from the deep woods [the spinning song] on the there label.
tapa paha tapa / i love it [more arctic hysteria / son of arctic hysteria] on the love label.
pantaleimon / pure raw heart (cloisters) [re-imaginging by plinth] [heart of the sun] on the durto/jnana label.

thanks to this post @ a sound awareness for the excerpt from the children of the stones soundtrack (which is still unreleased). thanks, once again, to a journey round my skull (best eye candy ever), the source of the lovely fish-people artwork. here's the original post from whence it came.

genetic memory radio playlist (all 3 hours), 13 december 2010, ktru rice university radio

2010-12-15T14:39:00.000-08:00

vava kitora / the spirit who knocks on the door [the spinning song] on the there label.
sugarconnection / untitled [track 2] [alien cakes] on the no mans land label.
vanessa rossetto / make good use of the ground [mineral orange] on the kye label.
alessandro bosetti / zahre [zwolfzungen] on the sedimental label.
john cage / radio music [fluxus anthology] on the anthology label.
people like us & wobbly / female convict [plus a little bit of "sardines" from people like us's "thermos explorer"] [music for the fire] on the illegal art label.
cassis cornuta / halo 10 [mag ik eens even in uw broek pissen?] on the ultra eczema label.
daphne oram / rockets in ursa major (except 1) [oramics] on the paradigm label.
of / ii [the quartz pool] on the jewelled antler label.
chris watson / ol-olool-o [weather report] on the touch label.
felix kubin / vogel ohne specht [echohaus] on the dekorder label.
andrew paine / lgb [thelordgodbird] on the (private pressing) label.
space weather / the weather's maiden [the weather's maiden] on the apollolaan label.
kuupuu / teen tulen tanaan [illusia] on the time-lag label.
philip sanderson / radium lab [seal pool sounds] on the seal pool label.
olivia block / mobius fuse, part 1 [last 11 min. or so] [mobius fuse] on the sedimental label.
silverman / this side of the door [time on thin ice] on the beta-lactum ring label.
current 93 / i have a special plan for this world [i have a special plan for this world] on the durtro label.
dead machines / dead end on olson street pt. 1 [dead end on olson street] on the ypsilanti label.
call back the giants / call back the giants [call back the giants] on the kye label.
chrystal belle scrodd / immanence [belle de jour] on the klanggalerie label.
teresa rampazzi / environ [musica endoscopica] on the die schachtel label.
pefkin / counting the leaves that tremble at dawn [zugunruhe] on the sound & fury label.
blood stereo / helium contract [the magnetic headache] on the bottrop boy label.
kemialliset ystävät / mestari ei väsy [ullakoppalo] on the fonal label.
lsd-march / kumoitachikumo [uretakumo nakunarutorika] on the beta-lactum ring label.
volcano the bear / planetary bethlehem [side b, excerpt] [planetary bethlehem] on the beta-lactum ring label.
ghédalia tazartès / six [antemortem] on the hinterzimmer label.
pietro grossi / modulzioni per michelangelo [combinatoria] on the die schachtel label.
monopoly child star seachers / waterfalls introduction [bamboo for two] on the olde english spelling bee label.
cosey fanni tutti / invisible whispers [mist while sleeping/invisible whispers] on the dirter promotions label.
joerg siegert & chorus of xii / viii [brain sound: an attempt to record coincidence] on the nero's neptune label.
runhild gammelsaeter / expanding the universe [amplicon] on the utech label.
maja s. k. ratkje / cyborgic [side a, excerpt] [cyborgic] on the last recording company label.
cyclobe / strix nebulosa [the visitors] on the phantom code label.
part wild horses mane on both sides / milky days [all cows are sacred] on the house of alchemy label.

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image shameless pilfered from the continuously inspiring 'a journey round my skull' blog, which is now 50 watts.

greengage sounds

2010-11-18T16:45:00.001-08:00

i've just created a blog for my newly revived record label, greengage sounds. the first release was a 7" lathe-cut split single by two sun tears & buddha on the moon.

forthcoming releases: fougou cd-r and kyle bruckmann 7" lathe-cut.

see greengagesounds.blogspot.com for more info.

radio playlist 17 october 2010, 10am-12 pm, ktru fm (rice university radio)

2010-10-17T12:21:00.000-07:00

alasdair roberts / a lyke wake dirge [no earthly man] on the drag city label.
black to comm / jonathan [alphabet 1968] on the type label.
tex la homa / orange moon [into timeless shadows] on the acuarela label.

dara puspita / mabuk laut (sea sick) [1966-1968] on the sublime frequencies label.
soul vendors / get with it [clement "coxsone" dodd: musical fever, 1967-1968] on the trojan label.
deru / goodbye [say goodbye to useless] on the mush label.
alice cohen / liquid letters [walking up walls] on the olde english spelling bee label.
alain savouret / time is only a revolution [50 ans de musique electroacoustique] on the fondazione teatro massimo label.
hassle hound / cicada circle [born in a night] on the staubgold label.

the shalabi effect / harpie [unfortunately] on the alien8 label.
shirley collins & davey graham / nottamun town [folk roots, new routes] on the fledg'ling label.
family fodder / kisses [more great hits!] on the jungle label.
tatsuya nakatani / untitled [9] [abiogenesis] on the h&h label.
robert a.a. lowe & rose lazar / fantomoj de la vitro domo [eclipses] on the thrill jockey label.

low red center / olive shaped [low red center] on the s-s label.
josef k / sorry for laughing [the only fun in town] on the ltm label.
ivor cutler / squeeze bees [jammy smears] on the virgin label.
lau nau / lue kartalta [nukkuu] on the locust label.

mississippi sheiks / yodeling fiddling blues [american yodeling 1911-1946] on the trikont label.
ebo taylor / kwame [love and death] on the strut label.
volcano the bear / my favorite tongues [classic erasmus fusion] on the beta-lactum ring label.
greg davis / fennel and tangerine [divorce series vol. 5 [split 7"]] on the ache label.
a.r. & machines / i'll be your singer you be my song [die grune reise] on the tangram label.

sharon van etten / one day [epic] on the ba da bing label.
lower dens / holy water [twin hand movement] on the gnomonsong label.
lsd-march / my mother has killed me [under milk wood] on the important label.
seaworthy & matt rosner / meroo lake pt. 1 [two lakes] on the 12k label.
machine for making sense / observance 8 [the act of observation becomes the object itself] on the rossbin label.

sitt wedoudah al-manyalawiyyah (with sami al-shawa) / asmar helwah ya nas uhibuh (oh people! i love this dark-skinned one) [women of egypt, 1924-1931] on the topic label.
terry riley / music for the gift, pt. 2 [music for the gift/bird of paradise/mescalin mix] on the organ of corti label.
budos band / budos dirge [iii] on the daptone label.
ephram carter, j.w. jones, james jones & floyd bussey / old hen cackled, laid a double egg [travelling in the jungle] on the testament label.
richard youngs / fountain of light [river through howling sky] on the jagjaguwar label.

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i haven't posted a playlist (or anything else) for a while now, but i did have quite a bit of fun on the air this morning, so i thought i'd slap this one up here. ktru is still on the air in houston, but our days are literally numbered unless we act now. to find out how you can help, visit www.savektru.org.

genetic memory radio playlist (1 hour), 6 september 2010, ktru rice university radio

2010-09-07T13:31:00.000-07:00

richard youngs / mountain got so lonely [inceptor] on the volcanic tongue label.
charles curse / u-bolt / sombre noble anti-fuck [rain in skull] on the olde english spelling bee label.
ghedalia tazartes / la vie et la morte legendaires du spermatozoide humuch lardy [diasporas / tazartes] on the alga marghen label.
venus handcuffs [AKA corpses as bedmates] / birds fly out [venus handcuffs] on the ad hoc label.
sean mccann / gaslit statues [fable shop] on the cylindrical habitat modules label.
alessandro bosetti / restless (mandarin chinese) [zwolfzungen] on the sedimental label.
rotten piece / hoof and mouth [within the apparatus are pockets of quiet] on the fleece label.
orphan fairytale / phantom shapes [ladybird labyrinth] on the ultra eczema label.
dylan nyoukis / these throats your feathers [inside wino lodge] on the no fun productions label.
brian lavelle / i did not go outside [magdelena] on the diophantine label.
milk from cheltenham / our dictator [triptych of prisoners] on the alga marghen label.
andrew paine & richard youngs / third call to solomon [guide to music] on the sonic oyster label.
graham lambkin / jumpskins [salmon run] on the kye label.
storm bugs / aboulia [let's go outside and get it over] on the snatch tapes label.
volcano the bear / all the paint i can breathe [guess the birds] on the beta-lactam ring label.
kodama / wandering around inside of "ourea" we blew into the breathing of the stochastic rushing water / and once again, the mirror was too steamed to cross the voracious throat [turning leaf migrations] on the olde english spelling bee label.
jim copp & ed brown / the duck, the tiger, the shrimp and the owl [a fidgety frolic] on the playhouse label.
alastair galbraith / dances for the blind owl 2 [dances for the blind owl] on the la station radar label.
anna homler / e'sha ko'la kee'yo [house of hands] on the nd label.

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tag-teamed last night's 3-hour genetic memory shift with austin caustic and hk. (the entire 3-hour playlist, in reverse order, is here. only my hour is posted above.) i did the middle hour. hk said it was like a neopolitan ice cream treat: austin (who went first) was the chocolate, i was the strawberry, and he (hk) was the vanilla. i asked hk if he minded being the vanilla, which suggests his hour was the blandest or most boring (which isn't true, of course). he said no. he said that vanilla serves a very important purpose with regard to the other flavors--i.e., it offsets/complements/enhances them. (i love vanilla ice cream, by the way.)

more freeform playlists coming soon, along with my first official mix, which is almost ready for posting. i just need a good visual to go along with it. working on that...

save ktru! (www.savektru.org)

(wonderful louis wain image from the journey round my skull archives: here)

my last three freeform radio shows on the air at 91.7 fm? (playlists from august 7, august 14, & august 21, 2010 on ktru rice university radio)

2010-08-22T15:40:00.001-07:00

august 21, 2010

hala strana / cutting durmast [jewelled antler library] on the porter label.

the alps / cloud one [iii] on the type label.
ghost / who found a lost rose in the warship? [lama rabi rabi] on the drag city label.
os mutantes / ave lucifer [ando meio desligado] on the omplatten label.
anton bruhin / schtandi [vom goldabfischer] on the alga marghen label.
ruby vass / old gospel ship [i'll meet you on that other shore] on the mississippi label.
twinsistermoon / with blackened eyes [levels and crossings] on the digitalis label.

rashied ali and frank lowe / duo exchange pt. 2 [new thing!] on the soul jazz label.
brigitte fontaine / il pleut [est...] on the saravah label.
archer prewitt / another peace of mind [gerroa songs] on the carrot top label.
rene hell / prize mischief hold [porcelain opera] on the type label.
augustus pablo / el rockers [el rocker's] on the pressure sounds label.
la vampires and zola jesus / searching [la vampires and zola jesus] on the not not fun label.
after dinner / paradise of replica [paradise of replica] on the recrec label.

omar souleyman / hot il khanjar bi gleibi (stab my heart) [jazeera nights] on the sublime frequencies label.
demdike stare / bardo thodol [liberation through hearing] on the modern love label.
agf / e-disaster 2010 [radio best of 2010] on the agf producktion label.
hype williams / han dynasty pt. 1 [han dynasty] on the de stijl label.
arthur russell / treehouse [the world of arthur russell] on the soul jazz label.

stereo total / holiday innn [juke-box alarm] on the bungalow label.
dara puspita / on vacation [1966-1968] on the sublime frequencies label.
donovan quinn and the 13th month / the door locks itself [your wicked man] on the shrimper label.
the chills / flame thrower [kaleidoscope world] on the homestead label.
the shadow ring / city lights [life review (1993-2003)] on the kye label.
weird weeds / untitled [help me name melody] on the autobus label.

papa charlie jackson / scoodle um skoo [good for what ails you: music of the medicine shows 1926-1937] on the old hat label.
daniel johnston / happy time [fun] on the atlantic label.
daniel padden / the isaac storm pt. 1 [the isaac storm] on the ultra eczema label.
lloyd miller & the heliocentrics / rain dance [s/t] on the strut label.
pentangle / let no man steal your thyme [early classics] on the shanachie label.

apagya show band / mumunde [afrobeat airways: west african shockwaves ghana togo 1972-78] on the analog africa label.
rosa yemen [lizzy mercier descloux] / decryptated [press color] on the ze label.
effi briest / mirror rim [rhizomes] on the sacred bones label.
monks / he went down to the sea [black monk time] on the light in the attic label.
sharades / dumb head [let's go: joe meek's girls] on the rpm label.

alastair galbraith / huxley [morse/gaudylight] on the emperor jones label.
richard youngs / halifax amore [airs of the ear] on the jagjaguwar label.
lickets / they turned our desert into fire [her name came on arrows] on the international corporation label.
sun ra / africa [angels and demons at play / the nubians of plutonia] on the evidence label.
fille qui mousse / magic-bag [se taire pour une femme trop belle] on the fractal label.
kemialliset ystavat / kun mina upoan [kivikasan rauhassa] on the fonal label.

the focus group / hey let loose your love [hey let loose your love] on the ghost box label.
the pretty things / bracelets of fingers [s.f. sorrow] on the snapper label.
julian cope / sunspots [fried] on the mercury [uk] label.
cosmic sound / backyard woods [vhs vision] on the s/r label.
this kind of punishment / from the diary of hermann doubt [a beard of bees] on the ajax label.

ilaiyaraaja / ethanai vagai [wings volume 1] on the rer label.
rudy ventura / yamasuki [absolute belter] on the finders keepers label.
afrirampo / kui! kui! [kore ga mayuku da] on the tzadik label.

buddha on the moon / ashioto (another dream) [between seasons] on the sonic oyster records label.

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august 14, 2010

yamasuki / aieaoa [le monde fabuleux de yamasuki] on the finders keepers label.
the lickets / in the garden of the london underground [her name came on arrows] on the international corporation label.
jerusalem and the starbaskets / lion free [battle of the orchids] on the the great pop supplement label.
pascal comelade / patafisikal re-polska [ragazzin' the blues] on the delabel label.
the family elan / the black planets of her eyes [bow low bright glow] on the alt.vinyl label.

3rd generation band / obiye saa wui [afrobeat airways: west african shockwaves ghana togo 1972-78] on the analog africa label.
koes plus / dheg dheg plas [dheg dheg plas & volume two] on the sublime frequencies label.
john lee ziegler / who's gonna be your man [been here all my days] on the mississippi label.
biota / private wire [object holder] on the rer label.
ame son / eclosion (marie aux quatre vents) [the byg deal] on the b-music/finders keepers label.

alastair galbraith / tin town [mass] on the siltbreeze label.
glynis jones / schlum rooli [music from the bbc radiophonic workshop] on the rephlex/bbc label.
monks of the bahill / le premier des cormorans [cormoran sophistry] on the akoustic desease label.
rene hell / c.g. mask [porcelain opera] on the type label.
ras g / discipline 09-4 [el-alylien part 1] on the leaving records label.
the white noise / love without sound [an electric storm] on the island japan label.

weird weeds / a drought [help me name melody] on the autobus label.
catalogue / demnachst mon amour [penetration] on the hat hut label.
ariel pink's haunted graffiti / bright lit blue skies [before today] on the 4ad label.
the muons / space man [jewelled antler library] on the porter label.
lubos fiser / the letter 2 / friends [valerie and her week of wonders ost] on the b-music label.
buddha on the moon / hemlock and thorns [between seasons] on the sonic oyster records label.

lee dorsey & betty harris / love lots of lovin' [new orleans funk] on the soul jazz records label.
naftule brandwein / nifty's freilach [king of the klezmer clarinet] on the rounder label.
uske orchestra / la lechuza (pour itsu et jarin) [niko et la berlue] on the sonig label.
deru / cottonmouth lothario [say goodbye to useless] on the mush label.
glass eye / maggie [huge] on the wrestler label.

still light / a remedy [lything] on the apollolaan label.
fougou / oculus [reversed dreams of this nature] on the ikuisuus label.
the advisory circle / new dimensions in [study series 02: cycles and seasons] on the ghost box label.
googosh / talagh [pomegranates] on the finders keepers label.
philip cohran and the artistic heritage ensemble / the african look [freedom, rhythm & sound] on the soul jazz label.

grass widow / shadow [past time] on the kill rock stars label.
thai thanh / bung sang (dawn) [saigon rock & soul] on the sublime frequencies label.
master musicians of bukkake / white death [the visible sign of the invisible order] on the abduction label.
kurmanjiang / babulao [ethnic minority music of northwest xinjiang, china] on the sublime frequencies label.
birdsongs of the mesozoic / bridge underwater [dawn of the cycads] on the cuneiform label.
tristes tropiques / untitled 2 [b9 bis: belgian cold wave 1979-83] on the ltm label.

phonophani (featuring haco) / gubijinso [kreken] on the rune grammofon label.
the north sea / bloodlines [bloodlines] on the type label.
emeralds / now you see me [does it look like i'm here] on the mego label.
lower dens / completely golden [twin hand movement] on the gnomonsong label.
thirteenth floor elevators / i had to tell you [easter everywhere] on the international artists label.
jackie mittoo / macka fat [macka fat] on the studio one label.

umberto / dream sequence [from the grave] on the sonic meditations label.
acre / jaguar mirror [sacrifice] on the digitalis label.
the cakekitchen / don't be fooled by the label [world of sand] on the homestead label.

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august 7, 2010

omar souleyman / dazeitlak dezzelli (i signal, you deny) [jazeera nights] on the sublime frequencies label.
les malas amistades / la maraton de san vito [jardin interior] on the psych-o-path label.
sugar minott / jahovia [sugar minott at studio one] on the soul jazz label.
kemialliset ystavat / silmujen marssi 2 [varisevien tanssi / silmujen marssi] on the lal lal lal label.
heather woods broderick / turned [from the ground] on the preservation label.
thuja / fable 2 (excerpt) [jewelled antler library] on the porter label.

alice coltrane / shiv-loka [journey in satchidananda] on the impulse! label.
espers / another moon song [iii] on the drag city label.
nico / the fairest of the seasons [chelsea girl] on the polydor label.
terry riley / music for the gift, pt. 4 [music for the gift] on the cortical foundation label.
people like us & wobbly / fiction [music for the fire] on the illegal art label.
ass / i've been here [my get up and go just got up and went] on the headspin/static caravan label.

wanda jackson / mean mean man [rockin' in the country] on the rhino label.
dara chom chan / give me one kiss [dengue fever presents electric cambodia] on the minky records label.
les gaiteros de san jacinto from colombia / sigan bailando (keep on dancing) [un fuego de sangre pura] on the smithsonian folkways label.
ddaa / la pluie de mai sur le papier de soie [action et demonstration japonaise] on the fractal label.
rameses iii / matanuska [matanuska] on the music fellowship label.
coconuts / silver lights [s/t] on the no quarter label.

fabulous diamonds / untitled [ii] on the siltbreeze label.
throbbing gristle / hometime [d.o.a.: the third and final report of throbbing gristle] on the mute label.
position normal / bucket wipe [stop your nonsense] on the mind horizon label.
pussy cats / la la lu [ultra chicks, vol. 2: lolita ya-ya!] on the ultra chicks label.
the three o'clock / as real as real [sixteen tambourines / baroque hoedown] on the frontier label.
amen dunes / murder dull mind [murder dull mind] on the locust label.
cyro baptista / coronation of a slave queen [infinito] on the tzadik label.

dry rib / the mouse and the bear [whose last trickle] on the hyped2death label.
belbury poly / rattler's hey [the owl's map] on the ghost box label.
ross bolleter / her long night's festival [night kitchen] on the emanem label.
roedelius / willkommen [lustwandel] on the bureau b label.
slapp happy / the drum [acnalbasac noom] on the rer label.
effi briest / cousins [rhizomes] on the sacred bones label.

evan caminiti / dust [west winds] on the three lobed label.
pan sonic & keiji haino / untitled [shall i download a blackhole and offer it to you] on the blast first (petite) label.
malombo jazz makers / sibathathu [giants, ministers and makers: jazz in south africa 1963-1984] on the strut label.
the attack / colour of my mind [about time!] on the rpm label.
pavement / in the mouth a desert [slanted and enchanted] on the matador label.
andrew paine / sub space divisions [sky station z4: first contact] on the sonic oyster label.
asmus tietchens / s.8 [the year 25] on the korm plastics label.

the paragons / wear you to the ball [let's do rocksteady] on the trojan label.
able tasmans / the cliff [somebody ate my planet] on the flying nun label.
minks / our ritual [ophelia] on the captured tracks label.
fns / i think she's asleep [fns] on the miasmah label.
yellow swans / going places (excerpt) [going places] on the type label.
the budos band / reppirt yad [the budos band iii] on the daptone label.
dolly mixture / miss candy twist [demonstration tapes] on the royal mint label.

onna / were you to become a mother [onna] on the holy mountain label.
kiila / auringonlunta [silmat sulkaset] on the fonal label.
anchiskhati choir / a mercy of peace [polyphonic voices of georgia] on the world audio foundation label.
jozef van wissem / in you dwells the light which never sets [it is all that is made] on the important label.
julian lynch / es's [underwater peoples winter review 2010] on the underwater peoples label.

yuganaut / wrenchwork [sharks] on the engine label.

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i am absolutely gutted.

on the evening of august 16th, some deeply upsetting news came to light: rice university was on the brink of selling ktru's fm frequency and transmitter for a mere $9.5 million to the university of houston/kuhf (an npr affiliate), to be used as an all-classical music station. no warning was given, there was essentially no time to organize a plan of action to attempt to block the sale. it was, in effect, already a done deal.

but we're not giving up without a fight.

if you are a supporter of creative radio, please visit savektru.org. there's a link to a petition there, as well as details on other ways to help.

if ktru becomes an internet-only station, i will continue to create freeform radio shows (and continue to be a part of the genetic memory specialty show rotation), if they will have me. i will continue to post playlists (hopefully less sporadically than in the past).

in addition, i hope to make some music mixes inspired by some of my favorite playlists, past & present, and post links to them here. since the audio of my radio shows has not been archived in any accessible way, many people have asked me to do this sort of thing, and i think it's finally time. watch this space...

radio playlist 17 july 2010, ktru fm (rice university radio)

2010-07-21T14:12:00.000-07:00

higuma / ocelot [den of the spirits] on the digitalis label.
ashimunar / golden bowl [ethnic minority music of northwest xinjiang, china] on the sublime frequencies label.
shirley collins / just as the tide was a flowin' [the power of the true love knot] on the fledg'ling label.
donato epiro / the circular age of the trees [three different kinds of poison] on the ark tarp label.
the family elan / kavalla oyun havasi [bow low bright glow] on the alt.vinyl label.

ros sereysothea / i will starve myself to death [electric cambodia] on the minky label.
tim feeney and vic rawlings / 2 (excerpt) [in six parts] on the sedimental label.
tape / augustan chalean [milieu plus] on the hapna label.
sean mccann / statis [chances are staying] on the dnt label.
claire thomas & susan vezey [philip sanderson] / bright waves [reprint] on the anomalous label.
joanna newsom / go long [have one on me] on the drag city label.
effi briest / rhizomes [rhizomes] on the sacred bones label.

hedzoleh soundz / omusus da fe m'musu [ghana special: modern highlife afro-sounds & ghanaian blues 1968-81] on the soundway label.
ludus / nue au soleil [the damage] on the ltm label.
piero umiliani / saudade (samba 1) [angeli bianchi angeli neri] on the easy tempo label.
daphne oram / tumblewash [oramics] on the paradigm label.
konk pack / roof party [the black hills] on the grob label.
fore thoughts / shabaz qualander [eastern standard time] on the weltraum label.

mountain man / dog song [underwater peoples winter review 2010] on the underwater peoples label.
cedric im brooks / rebirth [cedric im brooks & the light of saba] on the honest jon's label.
kraftwerk / harmonika [kraftwerk/kraftwerk 2] on the germanofon label.
eno moebius roedelius / tzima n'arki [after the heat] on the bureau b label.
eddie marcon / mukau [shining on graveposts] on the preservation label.
panda bear / slow motion [tomboy] on the paw tracks label.
yannis kyriakades & andy moor / sucker [rebetika] on the unsound label.

pink anderson / you don't know my mind [classic appalachian blues] on the smithsonian folkways label.
selda / gesi baglari [bearded ladies] on the bird/finders keepers label.
animals & men / terraplane fixation [never bought never sold] on the mississippi label.
zinja hlungwani / n'wagezani [shangaan electro] on the honest jon's label.
deux / game & performance [the minimal wave tapes volume one] on the stones throw label.

charalambides / tea [our bed is green] on the wholly other/kranky label.
jacques berrocal / lisylis pavillon [paralleles] on the alga marghen label.
richard youngs / the welcome sailor [migrating bird: the songs of lal waterson] on the honest jon's label.
daniel padden / the liar in between [pause for the jet] on the dekorder label.
the art museums / 30 seconds [rough frame] on the woodsist label.
takeshi terauchi and the bunnys / chakkiri-bushi [seicha tera uchi bushi] on the king label.
mike nichols & elaine may / bach to bach [improvisations to music] on the mercury label.

sf seals / flashback caruso [truth walks in sleepy shadows] on the matador label.
tafo brothers / bijli bhari hai [plugged in pakistani pops] on the disposable music label.
aki takase / cell culture [a week went by] on the psi label.
bernard parmegiani / pulsion [chants magnetiques] on the fractal label.
erik carlsson / vanity captured me once again [let's fall in love!] on the bombax bombax label.
anchiskhati choir / god is the lord [polyphonic voices of georgia] on the world audio foundation label.
starving weirdos / jumping over the fire [into an energy / offerings at midnight] on the bo'weavil label.
buddha on the moon / ashioto (another dream) [between seasons] on the sonic oyster records label.

the revolutionaries / pride & ambition version [drum sound] on the pressure sounds label.

genetic memory radio playlist (1 hour), 12 july 2010, ktru rice university radio

2010-07-21T14:10:00.000-07:00

tirath singh nirmala & richard youngs / untitled [a3] [tirath singh nirmala & richard youngs] on the hp cycle label.
burning star core / a curse on the coast [blood lightning 2007] on the no fun label.
linda aubry bullock / the story of mike [ray of dark] on the sedimental label.
ensemble economique / chamber of light [standing still facing forward] on the amish label.
runhild gammelsaeter / void [amplicon] on the utech label.
emeralds / overboard (off the deep end) [emeralds] on the hanson label.
book of shadows / spirits in the attic [twelve degree chandelier] on the tape drift label.
pekko kappi / vuonna '86 [vuonna '86] on the singing knives label.
the shadow ring / mind blocks crack [life review (1993-2003)] on the kye label.
islaja / unessa et... [tsuki no seika vol. 3] on the root strata label.
kinit her / the arc of acuity [glyms or beame of radicall truthes] on the hinterzimmer label.
volcano the bear / there in the house of the moon [guess the birds] on the beta-lactum ring label.
alessandro bosetti / chairo-no-kami [zwolfzungen] on the sedimental label.
fns / dream [fns] on the miasmah label.
jefre cantu-ledesma / beautiful thunderbolt (moon gazing in your skull) [shining skull breath] on the students of decay label.

radio playlist 10 july 2010, ktru fm (rice university radio)

2010-07-21T14:03:00.000-07:00

alastair galbraith / something happened [orb] on the nextbestway label.
popoff tuesday / 6/8 sutra [pop ahoy!] on the pickled egg label.
the method actors / my time [this is still it] on the acute records label.
fifty foot hose / if not this time [cauldron] on the big beat label.
eric zann / voolas [ouroborindra] on the ghost box label.

nubar bey & ibrahim bey / hicazkar pesrev [to scratch your heart: early recordings from istanbul] on the honest jon's label.
taj mahal travellers / 1 (excerpt) [august 1974] on the p-vine label.
clarinette / pointillistic nature [haze] on the ecstatic peace / father yod label.
pigeons / missing you [si faustine] on the olde english spelling bee label.
red chair fadeaway / happy with your lot [mesmerised] on the english garden label.
keith fullerton whitman / generator 6 [generator] on the root strata label.

les loups noirs d'haiti / jet biguine [tumbele] on the soundway label.
paul dunmall & chris corsano / identical sunsets [identical sunsets] on the esp-disk label.
svarte greiner / the boat was my friend [knive] on the type label.
soli / miravi [pomegranates] on the finders keepers label.
forest swords / hoylake mist [dagger paths] on the olde english spelling bee label.
la vampires and zola jesus / in the desert [la vampires and zola jesus] on the not not fun label.

shop assistants / somewhere in china [shop assistants] on the overground label.
effi briest / shards [rhizomes] on the sacred bones label.
israel quellet / pour orgue et percussions [soni sclavus] on the sub rosa label.
anibal velasquez y su conjunto / mi cumbia [mambo loco] on the analog africa label.
daniel johnston / jelly beans [fun] on the atlantic label.
indian jewelry / west alabama [fake and cheap] on the deleted art label.

ross bolleter / goya's dog [night kitchen] on the emanem label.
kemialliset ystavat / gelsomiinan naama [alkuharka] on the fonal label.
woods / from the horn [at echo lake] on the woodsist label.
louvin brothers / i'll never go back [goodbye, babylon] on the dust-to-digital label.
pelt / actias luna chase, or moth navigation [hand/eye] on the hand/eye (dark holler) label.
malombo / sangoma [next stop soweto, vol. 3: giants, ministers and makers: jazz in south africa 1963-1984] on the strut label.

neu! / isi [neu 75] on the gronland label.
seht & stelzer / part 3 [exactly what you lost] on the intransitive label.
john butcher / 1st zizoku [the geometry of sentiment] on the emanem label.
oval / oh! [oh] on the thrill jockey label.
nikasaya / cream pan [one summerheim] on the someone good label.
ly ngua o / vo' chong lam bieng [ho! #1 - roady music from vietnam] on the trikont label.
kouhei matsunaga / huui [self va.] on the important label.

the fall / gramme friday [totally wired] on the sanctuary label.
racoo-oo-oon / under the deck [the cave of spirits forever] on the time-lag label.
stock, hausen & walkman / vtol [organ transplants] on the hot air label.
omar souleyman / il raja behawakom [jazeera nights] on the sublime frequencies label.
alice / que pouvons-nous faire ensemble? [the byg deal] on the finders keepers label.
magic lantern / cypress [platoon] on the not not fun label.

richard skelton / scar tissue [landings] on the type label.
alessandro bosetti / laida and mikel looking for rhymes (basque) [zwolfzungen: 12 portraits of langues i don't understand] on the sedimental label.
richard youngs / wynding hills of maine [may] on the jagjaguwar label.
richard davies / chips rafferty [there's never been a crowd like this] on the flydaddy label.
fabulous diamonds / untitled [fabulous diamonds] on the siltbreeze label.
arnold dreyblatt / group velocity [animal magnetism] on the tzadik label.

genetic memory radio playlist, 12 april 2010, ktru rice university radio

2010-04-16T14:45:00.000-07:00

dylan nyoukis and jaap blonk / ballerman (pause take) [dubbeltwee] on the ecstatic peace! label.
ghédalia tazartès / untitled [track 12] [repas froid] on the tanzprocesz label.
étant donnés / le soleil, la mer, le coeur et les étoiles [l'autre rive / le sens positif] on the staalplaat label.
richard youngs & andrew paine / voidprint [roman concrete: volume i] on the sonic oyster label.
audrey chen & robert van heumen / bloodknot [abattoir] on the evil rabbit label.
child bride / rabbit moon [reflections on prism city] on the blackest rainbow label.
joji yuasa / aoi no ue (extract) [aoi no ue] on the edition omega point label.
john hegre / ka [the comfort of objects] on the [ohm] label.
unknown singers/speakers-in-tongue / pentecost community, oklahoma [okkulte stimmen - mediale musik: recordings of unseen intelligences] on the supposé label.
metal rouge / love, awaken [three for malachi ritscher] on the root strata label.
l.o.s.d. / part 2 [mort aux vaches] on the staalplaat label.
pierre yves macé / la pratique quotidienne de l'utopie [passagenweg] on the broccoli label.
the caretaker / you and the night [selected memories from the haunted ballroom] on the v/vm test label.
black to comm / rauschen [alphabet 1968] on the type label.
duncan cameron / journey [a horseback ride to the temple of montu] on the tanzprocesz label.
anne gillis / commentaraportion [rementact] on the rangehen label.
brendan murray and seth nehil / clothes tear [sillage] on the sedimental label.
alistair crosbie / wave 7, wave 8, wave 9 [this quiet house (the lonesome age of mirrors - volume 1)] on the lefthand pressings label.
xenis emputae tavelling band / rorasa [the pyrognomic glass] on the memoirs of an aesthete label.
robert hampson / ahead - only the stars [vectors] on the touch label.
coum transmissions / welcome to the alien camp [the sound of porridge bubbling] on the dais label.
marina rosenfeld / the conversation [plastic materials] on the room40 label.
von himmel / astronomer [space communion] on the sloow tapes label.
a handful of dust / masonic inborn (parts 2 & 3) [killing capitalism with kindness] on the turbulence/xpressway label.
seht & stelzer / untitled [track 4] [exactly what you lost] on the intransitive label.
stahlgren & ferguson / void: stereotype plus - polarity ink squash [printing with magnetic inks] on the hot air label.

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my portion (roughly an hour and 40 minutes' worth) of the genetic memory radio program on ktru.

as hk's curated blend of lush drones was drawing to a close with "ione" from oliveros, dempster & panaiotis' "deep listening" cd, i started in with some strange vocal sounds, warped ballroom melodies, ritual atmospheres, and transmissions from outer space.

as usual, this was one continuous mix, with several tracks blending with/overlapping each other.

radio playlist 10 april 2010, ktru fm (rice university radio)

2010-04-16T12:10:00.000-07:00

bird show band / quintet two [bird show band] on the amish records label.
guanaco / sky burial [sky burials] on the blackest rainbow label.
peter broderick / untitled #2 [four track songs] on the type label.

papa san / money a fe circle [dancehall 2] on the soul jazz label.
amos & sara / steel clear of england [the recommended sampler 1982] on the rer label.
fire engines / new thing in cartons [hungry beat] on the acute label.
lsd-march / tatamikomo [uretakumo nakunarutorika] on the beta-lactum ring label.
acid mothers temple & the melting paraiso u.f.o. / hallelujah mystical garden [are we experimental?] on the prophase label.
aaron martin / ice melts onto fingers [worried about the fire] on the experimedia label.
richard skelton / voice of the book [landings] on the type label.

joshua burkett / watching the darkness [where's my hat?] on the time-lag label.
hedzoleh soundz / edinya benya [ghana special: modern highlife afro-sounds & ghanaian blues 1968-81] on the soundway label.
patrice sciortino / berceuse du soleil [les cyclopes] on the a chardin label.
gal costa / pais tropical [gal] on the dusty groove label.
39 clocks / past tense hope & instant fears on 42nd [zoned] on the de stijl label.
dokaka / minato zake [human interface] on the dual plover label.
paavoharju / kevatrumpu [laulu laakson kukista] on the fonal label.

lim ling and the silvertones / where is the lady [singapore a-go-go] on the sublime frequencies label.
broadcast / poem of dead song [extended play two] on the warp label.
anchiskhati choir / alilo [polyphonic voices of georgia] on the world audio foundation label.
emeralds / fresh air, pt. 1 [fresh air] on the soundesign label.
deux / game & performance [the minimal wave tapes volume one] on the stones throw label.
mount vernon arts lab / scooby don't [e for experimental] on the ochre label.

witch / black tears [lazy bones!] on the normal label.
monks / complication [black monk time] on the light in the attic label.
twinsistermoon / perchta [levels and crossings] on the digitalis label.
kevin drumm / imperial horizon (extract) [imperial horizon] on the hospital label.
pengo / trans-love abattoir [a nervous splendor] on the haoma label.
woody sullender & seamus cater / the edge of a squall [when we get to meeting] on the dead ceo label.
lubos fiser / brother and sister [valerie and her week of wonders ost] on the b-music/finders keepers label.

bonnie 'prince' billy and the cairo gang / troublesome houses [the wonder show of the world] on the drag city label.
anne briggs / the snow it melts the soonest [a collection] on the topic label.
tape / star skid [milieu] on the hapna label.
circulasione totale orchestra / dancing in st. johan's iv, part 2 [bandwidth] on the rune grammofon label.
whitefield brothers / lullaby for lagos [black man's cry - the influence of fela kuti] on the now again label.

boduf songs / this one is cursed [boduf songs] on the kranky label.
brothers of the occult sisterhood / seraphim [molten strings, train wrecks, and birdsong] on the students of decay label.
pauline oliveros / horse sings from cloud [the wanderer] on the important label.
pandit jasraj / ram ko sumir kar: khayal darbari vilambit (ektaal) (extract) [musical homage to guru] on the hmv india label.
carter tutti / it was [feral vapours of the silver ether] on the cti label.
ducktails / horizon [ducktails] on the not not fun label.

getatchew mekuria & the ex / eywat setenafegagn [moa anbessa] on the terp label.
kyle bruckmann / rasps & fractures [gasps and fissures] on the 482 music label.
faust / lauft heisst das en lauft oder es kommt bald...lauft (alternate version) [faust iv] on the virgin label.
pan sonic & keiji haino / untitled 4 [shall i download a blackhole and offer it to you] on the blast first (petite) label.
nuno canavarro / bruma [plux quba] on the moikai label.
andreas martin / wurstfinger [lebenserinnerungen eines lepidopterus] on the robot label.
islaja / haikea, kirkas [meritie] on the fonal label.
shawn david mcmillen / noon [catfish] on the tompkins square label.
alastair galbraith / something happened [orb] on the nextbestway label.

daniel padden / full colour lemon [pause for the jet] on the dekorder label.
sun ra & his myth science arkestra / angels and demons at play [angels and demons at play / the nubians of plutonia] on the evidence label.
kreng / het wordt ouder [l'autopsie phenomenale de dieu] on the miasmah label.
ursula bogner / begleitung fur tubal [recordings 1969-1988] on the faitiche label.
kuni kawachi & his group / like a concert of angels [love suki daikirai] on the walhalla label.
leichtmetall / au bord de la seine [wir sind blumen] on the karaoke kalk label.

radio playlist, 3 april 2010, ktru fm (rice university radio)

2010-04-09T20:59:00.000-07:00

damon & naomi / judah & the maccabees [damon & naomi with ghost] on the sub pop label.
sir alick & the phaser / nursery chymes [astral glamour] on the hyped 2 death label.
espers / sightings [iii] on the drag city label.
kable / tardy all the time [tardy all the time] on the fleece label.
memphis minnie / where is my good man at? [memphis moaners] on the yazoo label.

gnonnas pedro et ses panchos / okpo videa bassouo [legends of benin] on the analog africa label.
boards of canada / telephasic workshop [music has the right to children] on the warp label.
omar khorsid / arrabia'h (the spring) [guitar el chark] on the sublime frequencies label.
greg davis / all things change [musique pour statues menhirs] on the arbouse label.

festival / zebulon [come, arrow, come!] on the language of stone label.
elodie lauten / andante cantabile (from concerto for piano and orchestral memory, 1984) [piano works revisited] on the unseen worlds label.
klimperei / adieu la maison [tout seul sur la plage en hiver] on the in-poly-sons label.
esp summer / on you [esp summer] on the perdition plastics label.
ivor cutler / my little black buzzer [velvet donkey] on the virgin label.

joanna newsom / kingfisher [have one on me] on the drag city label.
brigitte fontaine & areski / la tete bandee [l'incendie] on the get back label.
the a. lords / toypiano balalaika [the a. lords] on the barl fire label.
yellow swans / limited space [going places] on the type label.
a hawk and a hacksaw / vasalisa carries a flaming skull through the forest [delivrance] on the leaf label.
nicolae nemes & gheorghe cernescu / briu si sirba din cornereva [roumanie: la vraie tradition de transylvanie] on the ocora label.

plagal grind / midnight blue vision [plagal grind] on the xpressway label.
omit / din shader [tracer] on the helen scarsdale agency label.
young marble giants / wurlitzer jukebox [colossal youth] on the domino label.
les kings / oriza [tumbele] on the soundway label.
lizzy mercier descloux / jim on the move [press color] on the ze label.
between / primary-stage [einsteig] on the wergo label.
esplendor geometrico / moscu esta helado [the minimal wave tapes volume one] on the stones throw label.

the child readers / son of a man [music heard far off] on the soft abuse label.
pigeons / oubli [lunettes] on the soft abuse label.
the conet project / three note oddity [the conet project: recordings of shortwave numbers stations] on the irdial label.
rick reed / the fiery sound of light (extract) [a cleansing ascension] on the elevator bath label.
fns / dream [fns] on the miasmah label.
ramesh / sharm-e boos-e [pomegranates] on the finders keepers label.
cluster / halwa [sowiesoso] on the bureau b label.

the young tradition / lyke wake dirge [anthems in eden] on the sanctuary label.
belbury poly / the willows [the willows] on the ghost box label.
charles curse / this town is dry [rain in skull] on the olde english spelling bee label.
sam spence / ice glaze [sam spence sounds] on the finders keepers label.
richard youngs / the bells of spring [under stellar stream] on the jagjauwar label.

bill johnson's louisiana jug band / take the "l" on down the road [down in the basement: joe bussard's treasure trove of vintage 78s, 1926-1937] on the old hat label.
teiji ito / dwightiana [music for maya] on the tzadik label.
philippe lauzier & pierre-yves martel / sepik [sainct laurens] on the & records label.
richard skelton / green withins brook [landings] on the type label.
the pyramids / birth/speed/merging [music of idris ackamoor 1971-2004] on the em label.

fabio orsi & gianluca becuzzi / blue drones for a ballad (part one) [the stones know everything] on the digitalis label.

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once again, original image from the excellent a journey round my skull blog

radio playlist, 27 march 2010, ktru fm (rice university radio)

2010-04-09T20:51:00.000-07:00

ghost / daggma [snuffbox immanence] on the drag city label.
john butcher / a short time to sing [the geometry of sentiment] on the emanem label.
factums / me sing [alien native] on the siltbreeze label.
obeng ungu and jalan buntu with group uang wayang of palembang / maaf! bukan suling-suling [1951: sumantran ladies wearing hats as outlawed by government] on the hot air label.
the thai orchestra / untitled [track 6] [the thai orchestra] on the mississippi label.

mi and l'au / they marry [mi and l'au] on the young god label.
alessandro bosetti / fumatore non fumatore [her name] on the crouton label.
os mutantes / adeus maria fulo [os mutantes] on the omplatten label.
mapstation / mchiki cha [the africa chamber] on the ~scape label.
james knight and the butlers / funky cat [miami sound: rare funk and soul from miami] on the soul jazz label.
silver sand / kaw-liga [thai beat a go-go vol. 1] on the subliminal sounds label.

the child readers / infant wings [music heard far off] on the soft abuse label.
annea lockwood / wine glass [early works 1967-1982] on the em label.
joanna newsom / jackrabbits [have one on me] on the drag city label.
markos vamvakaris / the lifer [mortika: recordings from a greek underground] on the canary label.
flaming tunes / beguiling the hours [flaming tunes] on the life and living label.
the advisory circle / everyday electronics [other channels] on the ghost box label.
john baker / look and read [the john baker tapes volume one: bbc radiophonics rare and unreleased workshop recordings 1963-1974] on the trunk label.

mohammad nouri / biya bar-e safar bandim [pomegranates] on the finders keepers label.
jacques berrocal / dominique coster / roger ferlet / leila concerto [musiq musique] on the futura/fractal label.
lone ranger / m16 [dancehall] on the soul jazz label.
inuit vocal game singers / pirqusiqtuk [inuit du caribou, netsilik et igloolik] on the ocora label.
eric la casa / do you speak bees? [zone sensible 2/ dundee 2] on the room 40 label.
anchiskhati choir / alilo ver. 2 [polyphonic voices of georgia] on the world audio foundation label.

the goner / heaven send you love [behold a new traveler] on the deep water acres label.
van shipley / ghar ki murgi [bollywood steel guitar] on the sublime frequencies label.
nurse with wound / nana or a thing of uncommon nonsense [automating vol. one] on the united dairies label.
oneohtrix point never / eyeballs [rifts] on the no fun productions label.
der plan / 4 stapfen im schnee [geri reig / normalette surprise] on the ata tak label.
the one ensemble / horsehead waltz [wayward the fourth] on the secret eye label.

galaxie 500 / cheese and onions [uncollected galaxie 500] on the ryko label.
ersen / kozan dagi [ersen] on the finders keepers label.
the lines / white night [memory span] on the acute label.
white magic / the light [dat rosa mel apibus] on the drag city label.
topmost / the end [psychedelic phinland] on the love label.
myrmyr / baltic winds [the amber sea] on the digitalis label.

harmonia / kekse [deluxe] on the brain/lilith label.
vert [remixing louis moholo & stan tracey] / all these things i know [new thing at novara] on the sonig records label.
chris corsano / how should you throw it on other occasions? [the young cricketer] on the family vineyard label.
the monks / shut up [black monk time] on the infinite zero label.
dungen / stock och sten [stadsvandringar] on the subliminal sounds label.
simeon jacob / ashir lael [shir hodu - jewish song from bombay] on the renair label.

appendix out / the seven widows (the sprigs of night) [the night is advancing] on the drag city label.
13th floor elevators / reverberation (doubt) [the psychedelic sounds of...] on the decal label.
om / cremation ghat i [god is good] on the drag city label.
ian hawgood / sulci [snow roads] on the dragon's eye label.

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original image from the excellent a journey round my skull blog

radio playlist, 9 january 2010, ktru fm (rice university radio)

2010-01-14T12:07:00.000-08:00

alexander tucker and the decomposed orchestra / grey onion [grey onion] on the latitudes label.
the durutti column / sketch for winter [the return of the durutti column] on the factory once label.
broadcast / microtonics 09 [microtonics vol. 1] on the warp label.
john teo and the stylers / riding a trishaw around chinatown [singapore a-go-go] on the sublime frequencies label.

l'ensemble abricot / chongo [tumbele!: afro & latin sounds from the french caribbean] on the soundway label.
basil kirchin / plaques & tangles [charcoal sketches/states of mind] on the trunk label.
moniek darge / verbondenheid [soundies] on the kye label.
sun city girls / opium den [libyan dream] on the abduction label.
lloyd miller / gole gandom (version ii) [a lifetime in oriental jazz] on the jazzman label.

richard youngs / arise arise [under stellar stream] on the jagjauwar label.
paul giovanni / chop chop [the wicker man ost] on the silva label.
steve gunn / jadin's dream [boerum palace] on the three lobed label.
felix / what i learned from tv [you are the one i pick] on the kranky label.
true loving five / lord, hold my hand [fire in my bones] on the tompkins square label.

the pastels / something going on [wild summer, wow!] on the creation label.
negativland / four fingers [a big 10-8 place] on the seeland label.
haba haba group / sitogol #1 [folk and pop sounds of sumatra vol. 1] on the sublime frequencies label.
super som lord / br samba [black rio 2] on the strut label.
smegma / percrash [33 1/3] on the important label.

major stars / stop the fall [terrastock six] on the secret eye label.
alastair galbraith / portrait [morse and gaudylight] on the emperor jones/trance label.
courtis/moore / el sincio = silence oil [brokebox juke] on the no-fi label.
oneohtrix point never / woe is the transgression i [rifts] on the no fun productions label.
lucio menegon / rumors of success [sonic demons] on the edgetone records label.
kaa antilope / rise up helicopter, like a gird [coal heart for ever] on the sub rosa label.

tenor saw / ring the alarm [200% dynamite] on the soul jazz label.
fela kuti / suffering and smiling [the best of the black president] on the kalakuta sunrise label.
brion gysin / 3 permutations [revue ou] on the alga marghen label.
michael pisaro / sculpture for the blind [hearing metal 1] on the editions wandelweiser label.
raudive et al. / breakthrough 7" side a (excerpt) [the ghost orchid: an introduction to evp] on the parc label.
grouper / hold the way [grouper/roy montgomery split] on the root strata label.

don cherry and the jazz composer's orchestra / the queen of tung-ting lake [relativity suite] on the trio label.
om / meditation is the practice of death [god is good] on the drag city label.
the moles / treble metal [instinct] on the flydaddy label.
lucky dragons / take turns [rara speaks] on the maomoo label.
casey foubert /james mcalister / (c v. j v. x) + 1 [library catalog music volume 3: music for drums] on the asthmatic kitty label.
minny pops / dolphin's spurt [drastic measures, drastic movement] on the ltm label.

mattie delaney / tallahatchie river blues [mississippi masters] on the yazoo label.
the noc-a-bouts / jungle safari [heavy jelly: essential instrumentals] on the sub rosa label.
the son of p.m. / taloong jun loum [shadow music of thailand] on the sublime frequencies label.

dungen / mina damer och fasaner [4] on the kemado label.
locomotive gt / kergeskezu favagok [well hung] on the finders-keepers label.
sore eros / before animals [second chants] on the shdwply label.
john cale / the endless plain of fortune [paris 1919] on the rhino label.

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favorite segues: most of the sets worked (segue-wise, as well as content-wise) in the first half of the show, but i lost a bit of my radio mojo as the program went on. i was pleased with the segue from om ---> the moles, however.

notes: i had forgotten how absolutely beautiful that alastair galbraith track truly is.

you are sleeping, you do not want to believe...

radio playlist, 2 january 2010, ktru fm (rice university radio)

2010-01-06T10:19:00.000-08:00

greg malcolm / chairman mao [some other time] on the kning disk label.
vladislav delay / musta planeetta [tummaa] on the leaf label.
the starlights / jingle jungle [psychoses freakoid (1963-1978)] on the mucho gusto label.
destroy all monsters / jungle cracker [74-76] on the compound annex label.
liquid liquid / bell head [successive reflexes] on the grand royal label.

the skygreen leopards / jehovah i surrender [jehovah i surrender] on the jagjaguwar label.
tyrannosaurus rex / deboraarobed [prophets, seers and sages: angels of the ages] on the universal label.
six organs of admittance / bar nasha [luminous night] on the drag city label.
shankar bhattacharyya and sri gourisankar / raag jog [ktru north indian musical concert '09] on the s/r label.

volcano the bear / the first circle is the eye [the volcanic society at the bear and bird parade] on the beta-lactum ring label.
p.m. pocket music / pama rum kwan [shadow music of thailand] on the sublime frequencies label.
diminished men / perro chino [shadow instrumentals] on the abduction label.
hillaire belloc / tarantella [the spoken word: poets] on the british library label.
aaron martin / sugar and dirt [chautauqua] on the preservation label.

black flowers / polly on the shore [i grew from a stone to a statue] on the bo'weavil label.
alex neilson & richard youngs / it's all waves [george ferguson mckeating] on the bells hill label.
shirley collins / hares on the mountain [sweet england] on the topic label.
islaja / sata naakkaa sitten [meritie] on the fonal label.
art ensemble of chicago / waltz [a jackson in your house/message to our folks] on the byg label.

broadcast & the focus group / the be colony [broadcast and the focus group investigate the witch cults of the radio age] on the warp label.
the bevis frond / in another year [bevis through the looking glass] on the woronzow label.
mehr pooya / ghabileh-ye lily [psych-funk 101 1968-1975 a global psychedelic funk curriculum] on the world psychedelic funk classics label.
the heptones / fattie fattie [when rhythm was king] on the heartbeat label.
daw bandon / bong ja bong [siamese soul: thai pop spectacular vol. 2 1960s-1980s] on the sublime frequencies label.

julian lynch / venom [orange you glad] on the olde english spelling bee label.
space weather / they turned left [space weather] on the space weather label.
spectre folk / dusty's rag [compass, blanket, lantern, mojo] on the arbitrary signs label.
the carter family / don't forget this song [my clinch mountain home] on the rounder label.
elfin saddle / sakura [ringing for the begin again] on the constellation label.
eyvind kang / hour of fair karma, pt. 1 [the story of iceland] on the tzadik label.

circle / ydinaukio [forest] on the ektro label.
yoga / warrior [megafauna] on the holy mountain label.
picchio dal pozzo / merta [prog is not a four-letter word] on the finders keepers label.
matthew welch / bagpipe quintet [luminosity] on the porter label.
tafo / karye pyar [the sound of wonder] on the finders keepers label.

boards of canada / telephasic workshop [music has the right to children] on the warp label.
bob cobbing / viva rabelais [the spoken word: bob cobbing] on the british library label.
supersilent / 2 [9] on the rune grammofon label.
alva / kill everyone [slattery for ungdom] on the menlo park label.
the vitamin b12 / untitled [track 2] [morgan's corner] on the ruby red label.
nudge / harmo [as good as gone] on the kranky label.
brian allen/tony malaby/tom rainey / expecade [synapse] on the braintone label.

beavers / koishite aishite [love, peace & poetry: japanese psychedelic music] on the normal label.
clogs / canon [lantern] on the brassland label.
group bombino / kamoutalia [guitars from agadez, vol. 2] on the sublime frequencies label.

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favorite segues: i really enjoyed creating the set that started with boards of canada and ended with brian allen's ensemble, highlights being bob cobbing's delightfully unhinged "viva rabelais" (which includes source material for his collaboration with henri chopin on the classic miniatures album), alva's childlike homicidal choral piece, and brilliant stuff by the vitamin b12 (thanks, steviecat!).

radio playlist, 26 december 2009, ktru fm (rice university radio)

2009-12-26T10:52:00.000-08:00

alasdair roberts / the cruel mother [no earthly man] on the drag city label.
tama somio & omega / azt mondta az anyukám [well hung] on the finders-keepers label.
the clientele / graven wood [bonfires on the heath] on the merge label.
no-neck blues band / natural bridge [sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me] on the sound@one label.
dock boggs / danville girl [country blues] on the revenant label.

el rego et ses commandos / e nan mian nuku [legends of benin] on the analog africa label.
soul swingers / ca'-ba'dab' [wheedle's groove : seattle's finest in funk & soul 1965-1975] on the light in the attic records label.
shin jung hyun & the men (feat. jang hyun) / twilight [forge your own chains] on the now-again label.
ilk / carillon [the continuing saga of the visiting kitten] on the sonic dust label.
f.t. marinetti & aldo giuntini / sintesi musicali futuristiche [musica futurista: the art of noises] on the ltm label.
demdike stare / extwistle hall [symbiosis] on the modern love label.
circulasione totale orchestra / 3.3 [bandwidth] on the rune grammofon label.

salak silathong / sung nang [siamese soul: thai pop spectacular vol. 2 1960s-1980s] on the sublime frequencies label.
jean claude vannier / l'enfant la mouche et les allumettes [l'enfant assassin des mouches] on the b-music/finders keepers label.
avey tare / crumbling land [split series 9-16] on the fat cat label.
moniek darge / sand [soundies] on the kye label.
bass communion / pacific codex 1 [pacific codex] on the equation label.
expo 70 / your beard is growing psychic [sonic messenger] on the beta-lactum ring label.
panaswing / me lo dijo una gitana [panama!3: calypso panameno, guajira jazz & cumbia tipica on the isthmus 1960-75] on the soundway label.

amen dunes / castles [dia] on the locust label.
eric copeland / auto dimmer [alien in a garbage dump] on the paw tracks label.
svarte greiner / the boat was my friend [knive] on the type label.
mulatu astatke & the heliocentrics / phantom of the panther [inspiration information, vol. 3] on the strut label.
naftule brandwein's orchestra / turkische yalle vey uve (tanz) [klezmer: early yiddish intstrumental music: the first recordings, 1908-1927] on the arhoolie label.
maher shalal hash baz / sendai city [c'est la derniere chanson] on the k label.

taj mahal travellers / ii [august 1974] on the p-vine label.
anduin / octogonal forms [abandoned in sleep] on the smtg label.
white rainbow / major spillage [new clouds] on the kranky label.
im jahrtal / reprise iii [reprisen und instrumentalstuecke] on the sloow tapes label.
frank fairfield / to the sweet sunny south [frank fairfield] on the tompkins square label.

ooioo / o o i a h [armonico hewa] on the thrill jockey label.
mark iii trio / good grease [heavy jelly - essential instrumentals] on the sub rosa label.
houghas sorowonko / enuanom adofo [ghana special: modern highlife, afro-sounds & ghanian blues 1968-81] on the soundway label.
etienne jaumet / mental vortex [night music] on the domino label.
oneohtrix point never / months [rifts] on the no fun productions label.
the upsetters / soul constitution [upsetters a go go] on the heartbeat label.

linda yong and the silvertones / good luck in the new year [singapore a-go-go] on the sublime frequencies label.
jacques berrocal / dominique coster / roger ferlet / pieces a lanam [musiq musik] on the fractal label.
myrmyr / jurata [the amber sea] on the digitalis label.
oren ambarchi / intimidator [intermission 2000-2008] on the touch label.
spontaneous music ensemble / karyobin pt. 3 [karyobin] on the chronoscope label.

anna homler, with geert waegeman & pavel fajt / m'bo ye ye [macaronic sines] on the lowlands label.

radio playlist, 19 december 2009, ktru fm (rice university radio)

2009-12-26T10:43:00.000-08:00

evan camaniti / ice marg [digging the void] on the students of decay label.
mulatu astatke quartet / shagu [new york - addis - london] on the strut label.
edson / bobeira [black rio 2] on the strut label.
damon & naomi / memories [more sad hits] on the shimmy disc label.
six organs of admittance / acteon's fall (against the hounds) [luminous night] on the drag city label.

kiila / kehotuslaulu [tuota tuota] on the fonal label.
biota / wire talker [tumble] on the rer label.
sandy denny / blackwaterside [the north star grassman & the ravens] on the island label.
a. kostis / in the basement [mourmourika: songs of the greek underworld 1930-1955] on the rounder label.
neokarma jooklo trio / strange land [time's vibes] on the conspiracy label.

katherine young / terra incognita [further secret origins] on the porter label.
sebastien roux & vincent epplay / kool bottoms [concatenative mu] on the brocoli label.
graham lambkin / softly softly [softly softly, copy copy] on the kye label.
mirrored silver sea / flowers of eden [continual ascension] on the sound & fury label.
pastels & tenniscoats / so many stars [two sunsets] on the domino label.
ivor cutler / i had a little boat [ludo] on the rev-ola label.

joe gibbs & the professionals / treasure dub [african dub all-mighty, chapter 1] on the crazy joe label.
joseph spence / diamond on earth [happy all the time] on the hannibal label.
jack rose / red horse [wooden guitar] on the locust label.
reverend roger l. worthy & his sister bonnie woodstock / get back satan [fire in my bones] on the tompkins square label.
richard youngs / cluster to a star [under stellar stream] on the jagjaguwar label.

orchestre yaya mas / rampa rampa [africa boogaloo: the latinization of west africa] on the honest jon's label.
vern blair debate / super funk [texas funk: black gold from the lone star state 1968-1975] on the now-again label.
stella / j'achete des disques americains [stella: la collection sixties des ep's francais] on the magic label.
mei feng with tony and the polar bear five / secretly love you [singapore a-go-go] on the sublime frequencies label.
shogun kunitoki / riddarholmen [vinonaamakasio] on the fonal label.
rameses iii / the kindness of letting go [i could not love you more] on the type label.
super minerals / the view [multitudes] on the digitalis label.

silver summit / in-between place [silver summit] on the language of stone label.
sun city girls / blood clear [high asia & lo-pacific] on the abduction label.
smagul unbetbaev / zholdy konyr [music of kazakhstan] on the king record co. label.
molly berg & stephen vitiello / kora [the gorilla variations] on the 12k label.
nudge / harmo [as good as gone] on the kranky label.

sic alps / clarence [skulls without borders] on the siltbreeze label.
st. peter & the holymen / bofoo beye abowa den [ghana special] on the soundway label.
daniel padden & sarah kenchington / the ice house [the bellow switch] on the shadazz label.
maher shalal hash baz / more errors [c'est la derniere chanson] on the k label.
daniel johnston / ghost of our love [continued story / hi how are you: the unfinished album] on the eternal yip eye label.
sangthong seesai / kam kao [thai funk zudrangma vol. 2] on the zudrangma label.
his name is alive / country girl [stars on esp] on the 4ad label.
shoukichi kina / iyunu-pri [peppermint tea house] on the luaka bop label.

theo angell / wakeling [tenebrae] on the amish label.
oneohtrix point never / behind the bank [rifts] on the no fun productions label.
elfin saddle / the bringer [ringing for the begin again] on the constellation label.

genetic memory radio playlist, 14 december 2009, ktru fm (rice university radio)

2009-12-26T10:39:00.000-08:00

andrew liles / ether reel [my long accumulating discontent] on the nextera label.
starving weirdos / cypress groves [father guru] on the azul discografica label.
andre almuro / mantra 107 [musiques experimentales] on the disques ades / creel pone label.
nurse with wound [**request**] / mourning smiles [drunk with the old man of the mountains] on the jnana label.
israel quellet / pour orgue, voix [soni sclavus] on the sub rosa label.
rudi arapahoe / vulture phantasy [echoes from one to another] on the symbolic interaction label.
brian lavelle / star temple of avalon [avalonian] on the apollolaan label.
the blue tree / church of wattle [the blue tree] on the blackest rainbow label.
brian lavelle & andrew paine / hbdp [the continuing saga of the visiting kitten] on the sonic dust label.
john davis / imagined occasions [there's always tomorrow] on the students of decay label.
richard youngs / you don't [sleep deprivation 7"] on the five minute association label.
kuupuu / pollon pentu [lumen tadhen] on the time-lag label.
peter hammill / the moebius loop [loops and reels] on the fie! label.
africa germany germany mexico turkey australia / neglected harem [africa germany germany mexico turkey australia] on the olde english spelling bee label.
tom fazzini / yawnings in the awnings [neck to neck] on the locust label.
maciunas ensemble / bottled voices [number made audible] on the het apollohuis label.
bokar rimpoche / mahakala ceremony [sacred chants & tibetan rituals from the monastery of mirik] on the sub rosa label.
arrington de dionyso / mani malaikat window [malaikat dan singa] on the k label.
noveller / white rabbit [colorful disturbances] on the divorce label.
diane labrosse, ikue mori & martin tetrault / lactea via [ile bizarre] on the ambiances magnetiques label.
mama baer / alcoholisme - brut 2 [amerikanische poesie und alkoholismus] on the feeding tube label.
part wild horses mane on both sides / grapes engraved [bataille de battle] on the singing knives label.
bright duplex / the lady is waiting [strawberry trust] on the thor's rubber hammer label.
deux filles / tongues [double happiness] on the samphire label.
evan miller / marvel of creatures and strange things existing [transfigurations on lap-steel guitar] on the arbor label.
bhob rainey & ralf wehowsky / re: hi! [i don't think i can see you tonight] on the sedimental label.
wooden veil / gloom across the ice [wooden veil] on the dekorder label.

radio playlist, 12 december 2009, ktru fm (rice university radio)

2009-12-26T10:30:00.000-08:00

brigitte fontaine / le dragon [brigitte fontaine] on the saravah label.
p.m.7/jupiter / pone tala pone (twee sak) [shadow music of thailand] on the sublime frequencies label.
head of wantastiquet / she brings new water [mortagne] on the ecstatic yod label.
kreng / na de sex [l'autopsie phenomenale de dieu] on the miasmah label.
sir valentino con combo esclavos alegres / masters are gone [panama! 3] on the soundway label.

appendix out / frozen blight [the rye bears a poison] on the drag city label.
nomo / ma [invisible cities] on the ubiquity recordings, inc. label.
san ul lim / fireworks [anibeolsseo - ah! already] on the world psychedelia label.
sir richard bishop / ka'an azzaman [the freak of araby] on the drag city label.
hdhairy abou aziz / wenini [give me love: songs of the brokenhearted: baghdad 1925-1929] on the honest jon's label.
mapstation / bells and lions [the africa chamber] on the ~scape label.

espers / another moon song [iii] on the drag city label.
zaimph / a taste for the infinite [serpent's bite] on the heavy blossom label.
diane labrosse / magnetophone a ruban [musique pour objets en voie de disparition] on the ambiances magnetiques label.
yi yi thant & aung helna / good time [princess nicotine: folk and pop music of myanmar] on the sublime frequencies label.
tunng / take [good arrows] on the thrill jockey label.
c.o.b. / music of ages [spirit of love] on the lady eleanore label.

full blast [brotzmann/pliakas/wertmuller] / quarks up/down [black hole] on the atavistic label.
muzsikas / pe loc [the bartok album] on the hannibal label.
israel quellet / pour orgue [soni sclavus] on the sub rosa label.
wire / from the nursery [chairs missing] on the pink flag label.
nisar bazmi / meri marzi main gaoon [the sound of wonder] on the finders keepers label.

yann tiersen & shannon wright / sound the bells [yann tiersen & shannon wright] on the ici d'ailleurs label.
hood / hood is finished [the cycle of days and seasons] on the domino label.
lokai / 4 am [transition] on the thrill jockey label.
nmperign / fault [ommatidia] on the intransitive label.
flower man / close circuit seance [exotic cameo] on the upstairs label.
lydia mendoza / carino ciego [first queen of tejano music] on the arhoolie label.
limbus 4 / heiku [mittens ins ohr] on the ohr label.
valerio cosi / interstellar trane [immortal attitudes] on the foxglove label.

the homosexuals / prestel [an introduction to astral glamour] on the hyped 2 death label.
mogollar / madimak [danses et rythmes de turquie] on the world psychedelia label.
om / cremation ghat ii [god is good] on the drag city label.
matthew welch / blues for seraut [luminosity] on the porter label.
the creation / how does it feel to feel [nuggets ii: original artyfacts from the british empire and beyond 1964-1969] on the rhino label.
henry jacobs / chan [electronic kabuki mambo] on the locust label.
cantonese opera / the moon / two green lotus bitterly imprisoned [springs of time: 78s from the emi archive] on the honest jon's label.

group doueh / beatte harab [treeg salaam] on the sublime frequencies label.
diminished men / cooper's descent [shadow instrumentals] on the abduction label.
sean mccann / sunk eyes [phylum sigh] on the dnt/roll over rover label.
brian lavelle / the red and the white [avalonian] on the apollolaan label.
on / your naked ghost comes back at night and flies around my bed [your naked ghost comes back at night] on the type label.
alexander tucker / husks [portal] on the atp label.
erik enocksson / iii. nox egoque soli [man tanker sitt] on the kning disk label.

after dinner / a walnut [paradise of replica] on the recrec label.
wilmoth houdini / i need a man [poor but ambitious] on the arhoolie label.
lokonon andre & les volcans de la capital / mi kple dogbekpo [african scream contest] on the analog africa label.
rtfo bandwagon / dums will survive [dums will survive] on the dull knife label.

colleen / the zither song [mort aux vaches] on the mort aux vaches label.

radio playlist, 5 december 2009, ktru fm (rice university radio)

2009-12-06T20:41:00.000-08:00

sun ra / and otherness [cosmic tones for mental therapy / art forms of dimensions tomorrow] on the evidence label.
andrew paine & richard youngs / they may dismiss you [the great level] on the sonic oyster label.
larkin grimm / blond and golden johns [parplar] on the young god label.
moniek darge / caete [soundies] on the kye label.
christina carter / honey moon [masque femine] on the many breaths label.
anzala, dolor, vélo / ti fi la ou té madam' [tumbélé!] on the soundway label.
diminished men / ask the man who owns one [shadow instrumentals] on the abduction label.

holly golightly / virtually happy [virtually happy] on the damaged goods label.
the super vacations / solid gold [the super vacations] on the shdwply label.
charlie electric guitar band's sound of japan / carnation [singapore a-go-go] on the sublime frequencies label.
chico magnetic band / pop orbite [chico magnetic band] on the no smoke label.
daniel padden / crow crow growth [pause for the jet] on the dekorder label.
john butcher group / untitled 1 [somethingtobesaid] on the weightofwax label.
baldruin / schlaftrunken durch's nebellicht [split with hering und seine sieben sachen] on the sicsic label.

still life / a remedy [lything] on the apollolaan label.
stars of the lid / fac 21 [the tired sounds of] on the kranky label.
omar souleyman / jamila [dabke 2020] on the sublime frequencies label.
nico / all that is my own [desertshore] on the rhino label.
ass / escape from ny (main title) [my get up and go just got up and went] on the headspin label.
michael pisaro / sleeping muse (excerpt) [hearing metal 1] on the editions wandelweiser label.
dave razor / fall [transiscut period 6] on the skullbones and razorblades label.

fabulous diamonds / untitled [fabulous diamonds] on the siltbreeze label.
liliput / die matrosen [liliput] on the kill rock stars label.
deux filles / the snow falls the village is overflowing with children [double happiness] on the samphire label.
lucky dragons / power melody [open power] on the teardrops label.
pere ubu / chinese radiation [the modern dance] on the blank label.
m. jarvis & a. jarvis / tsuki yo [jun] on the ruralfaune label.
husnu orzkartal orkestrasi / su derenin sulari [psych-funk 101 1968-1975 a global psychedelic funk curriculum] on the world psychedelic funk classics label.

tetuzi akiyama, kevin corcoran & christian kiefer / four beams over the wreck [low cloud means death] on the digitalis label.
keiji haino / untitled [watashi dake] on the psf label.
hans reichel / welcome wurgl waltz [shaghaied on tor road] on the fmp label.
zorn & eye / test tube [nani nani] on the tzadik label.
sister ola mae terrell / how long [fire in my bones] on the tompkins square label.

the dentists / strawberries are growing in my garden (and it's wintertime) [some people are on the pitch...] on the rev-ola label.
the marmalade / i see the rain [nuggets ii: original artyfacts from the british empire and beyond 1964-1969] on the rhino label.
helena espvall & masaki batoh / tourdion [overloaded ark] on the drag city label.
belbury poly / time scale [from an ancient star] on the ghost box label.
lau nau / painovoimaa, valoa [nukkuu] on the locust label.
maher shalal hash baz / forgetting [c'est la derniere chanson] on the k label.
samara lubelski / empire's dream [future slip] on the ecstatic peace! label.
dj/rupture and andy moor / is it going [patches] on the unsuitable label.
tonstartssbandht / little april showers [an when] on the does are label.

gabo brown & orchestre poly-rythmo / it's a vanity [african scream contest] on the analog africa label.
the upsetters / rejoicing skank [dub echoes] on the soul jazz label.
johnny guitar / lao kratob mai [shadow music of thailand] on the sublime frequencies label.
stephan mathieu / the key to the kingdom pt. 1 [the key to the kingdom] on the dekorder label.
weird weeds / paratrooper seed [hold me] on the zum label.
the aaron sisters with the song-o-paters / how'm i doin'? [flowers in the wildwood: women in early country music] on the trikont label.
nikasaya / dantsuka [one summerheim] on the someone good label.
george "bongo joe" coleman / cool it right [bongo joe] on the arhoolie label.
harappian night recordings / headless mule [the glorious gongs of hainuwele] on the bo'weavil label.

pg six / come in / the winter it is past [the well of memory] on the amish label.
barn owl / the last parade [from our mouths a perpetual light] on the not not fun label.

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favorite segues: nothing outstanding, but i enjoyed the aaron sisters -> nikasaya; i also liked moniek darge mixed with christina carter -> the track from tumbélé!

notes: the sad news of guitarist jack rose's death hadn't reached me yet (and may not have even happened yet) when i was on the air. if i had known, i certainly would have paid some sort of unspoken tribute.

radio playlist, 28 november 2009, ktru fm (rice university radio)

2009-11-28T21:27:00.000-08:00

this heat / health & efficiency [health & efficiency ep/out of cold storage] on the this is/rer label.
bergendy / hétköznapi balladak [well hung] on the finders-keepers label.
aaron martin / shot tower [grass wounds] on the under the spire label.

dizzy gillespie / manteca theme [afro] on the norgran/verve label.
the barbecues / aaya lolo [ghana special] on the soundway label.
pierre bastien / aiguise l'aire de cette île [eggs air sister steel] on the in-poly-sons label.
richard youngs / all day monday and tuesday [under stellar stream] on the jagjaguwar label.
grouper / pale through [tsuki no seika, vol 1] on the root strata label.
kuupuu / sula [lumen tadhen] on the time-lag label.

lim ling and the silvertones / my unrequited love for you [singapore a-go-go] on the sublime frequencies label.
performing ferrets / howler monkey [no one told us] on the hyped 2 death label.
elfin saddle / temple daughter [ringing for the begin again] on the constellation label.
neu / cassetto [neu 2] on the gronland label.
cones / ran style [ice skating elephants] on the ikuissus label.
alastair galbraith / mrs. blucher [morse and gaudylight] on the emperor jones/trance syndicate label.
mcdonald and giles / flight of the ibis [mcdonald and giles] on the atlantic japan label.

fela kuti / water get no enemy [the best of the black president] on the kalakuta sunrise label.
samandtheplants / the eft [the eft] on the twisted nerve/finders keepers label.
ervena orgaeva / kotush [bardic divas: women's voices in central asia] on the smithsonian folkways label.
hattie hart / coldest stuff in town [memphis jamboree 1927-1936] on the yazoo label.
acid mothers temple and the melting paraiso u.f.o. / sorcerer's stone of the magi [lord of the underground: vishnu and magic elixir] on the alien8 label.
the open mind / magic potion [nuggets ii: original artyfacts from the british empire and beyond] on the rhino label.

bonnie prince billy / nomadic revery (all around) [i see a darkness] on the palace label.
songs of green pheasant / stars form birds [aerial days] on the fatcat label.
graham lambkin / copy copy [softly softly, copy copy] on the kye label.
the valerie project / dove, pearl, priest [the valerie project] on the drag city label.
watusi / oi gere [black rio 2] on the strut label.
abner jay / my mule [true story of abner jay] on the mississippi label.

cedric brooks / ethiopia [studio one rockers] on the soul jazz label.
om / cremation ghat i [god is good] on the drag city label.
velvet cactus society / can i borrow your baby [26 songs] on the shimmy disc label.
hu min-hong / dark sky [lao kou kou: 60s songs from taiwan] on the exoticaring label.
twinsistermoon / unseen seen [the hollow mountain] on the blackest rainbow label.
moniek darge / fairy tale [soundies] on the kye label.

methodishca tune / leisuretime [messthetics 107: diy london iii, '78-81] on the hyped 2 death label.
zelienople / all i want is calm [give it up] on the type label.
idea fire company / port lligat [lessons about history] on the spinny's disks label.
acre / untitled 3 [isolationist] on the isoundercore label.
sore & steal / echoes from a retromingent planet [many moons a go-go] on the lime stereo label.
es / les fleurs sont des bonnes auditrices [a love cycle] on the fonal label.
antonia leukers / bunny's dream [hasenlove] on the dekorder label.

discafric band / houiou djin nan zon aklumon [african scream contest] on the analog africa label.
shafiq husayn / the odd is c [shafiq en' a-free-ka] on the plug research label.
elder samuel patterson & the christian crusaders / this train [fire in my bones] on the tompkins square label.

man city lion / tid lom ta lai [thai pop spectacular] on the sublime frequencies label.

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favorite segues: alastair galbraith -> mcdonald and giles; cedric brooks -> om.

notes: my penultimate set (well, penultimate full set, i mean) featured a palimpsest involving idea fire company, acre, sore & steal and es. it kind of worked and was especially interesting when the sore & steal and es tracks were brought into the mix. i am so happy that ktru is getting releases from graham lambkin's kye label. are we actually getting promo service from kye? if so, that is amazingly cool. i love that mcdonald and giles track so much it almost hurts.

palimpsest photo taken in galveston, texas.

old family photos

2009-11-24T15:10:00.001-08:00

i recently acquired this beautiful photograph of my maternal grandmother as a young girl. it was given to me by my mother, who got it from her older sister. this photograph was taken in miskolc, hungary, before my grandmother emigrated, as a teenager, to the united states via ellis island. my mother is unable to identify the little girl with her.

i recently obtained this photograph of my maternal grandfather, too. he is the one who is seated on the left. this photo was taken in new york city, and, once again, my mother can't identify the other person in the photograph.

it's a little hard for me to grasp the fact that these photographs, as old as they are, depict relatives who are only separated from me by a single generation. both of my parents were the youngest children in their families (and my fathers family was very large indeed), so both of them were born when their mothers were older (nearing 40 in each case, i believe). and though i am an only child, my mother was herself approaching 40 when i was born. so i guess, in my family, generations take a little longer to, well, generate.

60 years ago today my parents (pictured above) were married--november 24, 1949. it's been 20 years since my father passed away, but the anniversary of this occasion still seems worth commemorating somehow.

ono's sales list 1965

2009-11-21T15:19:00.000-08:00

so, as i've mentioned before, i used to have a really cool job, where i regularly got to handle some very cool things. when i came across something i especially loved (and i could sneak away from my desk for a moment), i'd carefully make a photocopy.

one such thing was yoko ono's conceptual sales list from 1965. as she mentions on her website, 200 copies were sent out to people who followed her work at the time. i guess i was processing the papers of one such individual, because i was holding what appeared to be an original copy.

while the sales list included some "real" items (e.g., copies of ono's grapefruit book), one has to wonder if anyone ever tried to purchase any of the more conceptual works. i for one would have given an eye tooth to see guaranteed-not-to-be-artificial pink snow fall and cover someone's town.

"underwear to make you high"...only for women.

radio playlist, 21 november 2009, ktru fm (rice university radio)

2009-11-21T13:39:00.000-08:00

elise deshotel & the louisiana rhythmaires w/dewey balfa / la valse de bon baurche [cajun honky tonk: the khoury recordings - the early 50s] on the arhoolie label.
black forest / black sea / blackbird on a gray sky [black forest / black sea] on the last visible dog / secret eye label.
reiko + tori kudo / father [light] on the siwa label.

omar khorshid / rakset et fadaa [psych-funk 101] on the world psychedelic funk classics label.
paavoharju / tuoksu tarttuu meihin [laulu laakson kukista] on the fonal label.
vashti bunyan / winter is blue [some things just stick in your mind] on the dichristina label.
idea fire company / wunderwaffen [lessons about history] on the spinny's discs label.
23 skidoo / kongo do [urban gamelan] on the ronin label.
full blast / suzy [black hole] on the atavistic label.

los destellos / a patricia [the roots of chicha] on the barbes label.
lolitas / les cactus [fusee d'amour] on the new rose label.
hornet leg / i'm leaving you [ribbon of fear] on the k records label.
loosers / the cops protect you [otha goat head] on the open field label.
soul apollo with frederick clarke / chombo pa' la tienda [panama! 3!] on the soundway label.
the desperate bicycles / grief is very private [grief is very private 7"] on the refill label.
dong rong and the stylers / you are a heartless person [singapore a-go-go] on the sublime frequencies label.
arrington de dionyso / nama bersembunyi [malaikat dan singa] on the k label.
catalogue / stop stress/ultim arlene [pénétration] on the hat hut label.

area c / meeting mid-air [charmed birds vs. sorcery] on the students of decay label.
belbury poly / thorn [the willows] on the ghost box label.
the watersons / idumea [frost and fire] on the topic label.
phosphor / pt 2 [ii] on the potlatch label.
elm / fog water shroud [woven into light] on the blackest rainbow label.
mita stoicheva / trima bratya dyulgeri [song of the crooked dance: early bulgarian traditional music] on the yazoo label.
alan sondheim and myk freedman / track d [julu twine] on the porter label.

willie williams / keep on moving [studio one rub-a-dub] on the soul jazz label.
m. ashraf / pyar ka koee shola [the sound of wonder] on the finders keepers label.
broadcast / the book lovers [the book lovers ep] on the duophonic label.
rameses iii / no water, no moon [i could not love you more] on the type label.
rival consoles / indie is dead [helvetica] on the erased tapes label.
james polk & the brothers / power struggle [texas funk: black gold from the lone star state 1968-1975] on the jazzman/ now-again label.

chaan siang phin w/ mon siang phin / wasana gam par [molam: thai country groove from isan] on the sublime frequencies label.
amon düül ii / she came through the chimney [yeti] on the repertoire label.
os brazoes / tao longe de mim [os brazoes] on the rge/som livre label.
jean claude vannier / l'enfant assassin des mouches [l'enfant assassin des mouches] on the b-music/finders keepers label.
stellari string quartet / sterope [gocce stellari] on the emanem label.
stellar om source / the source pilot [rise in planes] on the black dirt label.
pulga / return to the forest of shoes [pulga loves you] on the fire museum label.

linda perhacs / chimacum rain [parallelograms] on the guerssen label.
damon and naomi / judah and the maccabees [damon and naomi with ghost] on the sub pop label.
alan courtis / part iii [antiguos dolmenes del paleolitico] on the sedimental label.
brian harnetty / i was interested in the story you just told me about the funeral [american winter] on the atavistic label.
p.m.7/jupiter / susie wong [shadow music of thailand] on the sublime frequencies label.

borbetomagus / concordat 5 [borbetomagus] on the agaric label.

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favorite segues: i wasn't really in "the zone" until the third hour, so probably none. maybe, if pressed, i'd say linda perhacs -> damon and naomi. i seem to remember that one being a rather pretty transition. also it wasn't exactly a segue (more of a "blending"), but alan courtis' controlled feedback layered nicely with the brian harnetty piece.

notes: how i love my molam. i must somehow get my hands on thai country groove, volume 2. 23 skidoo's "kongo do" is even better than i remembered. i loved the raw, theatrical calypso piece from the panama 3! compilation on soundway; the label's highly detailed liner notes make it even more fun to listen to. finally, one can never go wrong with the watersons, especially their haunting version of "idumea."

a frolic through the nww list, part 1: the letter a

2009-11-19T14:46:00.000-08:00

i had itunes on shuffle this afternoon and happened upon an odd little track by mama dada 1919. a quick google search revealed that mama dada 1919's only known release--a 1979 7" ep entitled slits, quick--held a place on the prestigious and legendary nurse with wound list.

since this was quite an obscurity, i started wondering just how many of the artists on the nurse with wound list i had in my itunes library. starting with the letter "a", i began to compile a playlist. delighted to find that i had almost all of the "a" artists already in itunes, i stopped there and did what i almost always do--i made a mix:

archaïa - le grand secret (archaïa 1977)
arcane v - abricot - suivi de danserie (marron dingue 1979)
agitation free - ala tul (malesch 1972)
pekka airaksinen - fos 2 (one point music 1972)
ash ra tempel - schizo (starring rosi 1973)
anal magic & rev. dwight frizzell - how to avoid simultaneity (black crack and the sole survivors, 1975, included as extra track cd reissue of beyond the black crack)
anima - how to dream (stürmischer himmel 1971)
archimedes badkar - thumb piano music (tre 1977)
älgarnas trädgård - viriditas (framtiden är ett svävande skepp, förankrat i forntiden 1972)
ame son - eclosion / marie aux quatre vents (catalyse 1970)
art zoyd - les fourmis (symphonie pour le jour où bruleront les cités 1976)
aksal maboul - tous les trucs qu'il y a là dehors (onze danses pour combattre la migraine 1977)
amon düül - eternal flow (eternal flow/paramechanical world single 1970, included as extra track on cd reissue of paradieswarts düül)
annexus quam - osmose i (osmose 1970)
arbete och fritid - knoga och knega (se upp för livet 1977)
alternative tv - vibing up the senile man (vibing up the senile man 1978)
albrecht/d. - instant life / instant love / instant death (abstract energy 1985)
amon düül ii - cerberus (yeti 1970)
alvaro - pallido sol (drinkin my own sperm 1977)
archaïa - mass confusa (archaïa 1977)
amm - what is there in uselessness to cause you distress (ammmusic 1966, extra track on cd reissue)

i'm just listening to it now and really enjoying it. it's just a hair over 80 minutes in length now, so when i properly mix it down, it will easily fit on a single cd-r for my (and hk's) car-listening pleasure.

i couldn't decide between two archaïa tracks--the lovably wacky (and slightly scary) "le grand secret" or the clearer nww antecedent, "mass confusa"--so i decided to include both.

beautiful vintage french pharmaceutical ads

2009-11-16T12:41:00.000-08:00

i'm not sure about the ethics of picking things out of the trash at one's place of employment, so i'll refrain from telling you where i used to work. i will just say that it was a place where one could find very interesting things in the rubbish bin.

it's been years since i worked there. all of the amazing things (which can generally classified as ephemera) that i acquired (things that were given to me, things that i retrieved from the bin and photocopies of other wonderful things that weren't being discarded) have been sitting in a file box, untouched, for many moons. i recently started going through them and i'll be sharing some of my favorite bits and pieces here.

there are some truly collectible things there--an art multiples or two, for example. but i would never try to profit from these items. even if i were so inclined, i could never part with them anyway. it was a special time, working that job. those things mean a lot to me.

these two vintage french pharmaceutical advertisements, designed by noted french poster artist jacques auriac, were rescued from the rubbish bin. i didn't realize that the designs were signed when i originally found them. i just marvelled at their beauty. after a quick web search, i've found that there is at least one book and an one exhibition that showcase auriac's gorgeous graphic work.

they have been sitting folded up in one box or another for more than half a century, but i now think they're suitable for framing. the only drawback is that i can't frame both of them--they are on opposite sides of a single page.

i have no idea what magazine they came from. these are also not the full-size ads. my scanner is not large enough to accommodate the whole page. but i'm hoping i was able to capture the graphics' beauty reasonably well.

tv time with hk

2009-11-15T15:20:00.000-08:00

i actually got hk to sit down with me for two and a half hours yesterday to watch some music-related stuff that i'd recently recorded/acquired.

first up, we watched "you're gonna miss me," a 2005 documentary about roky erickson, of course. while disjointed and far from perfect, it was certainly interesting, as it explores the roots of roky's (for lack of a better term) madness. in a way i wish there'd be a followup--"you're still gonna miss me" (or "you're gonna miss me, part ii")--to focus on the state of roky today. i can only assume that since he's been playing more (i remember him playing in austin at least twice during the six months we lived there in early 2009), that he is significantly better. i just saw roky play in houston this past summer, and he seemed rather unhappy to be onstage. perhaps he simply dislikes or has bad memories of houston. i truly hope that he is doing well these days.

next we watched kate bush's 1979 christmas special. i'd seen bits and pieces on youtube previously but never got to experience the full extravaganza before this. i read recently that kate bush was an early crush of richard youngs' (another of my longtime musical heroes). i don't know if he saw this programme as a 13-year-old lad, but if he did, there's no question why he (and zillions of others) fell in love with her. but i can't help but wonder if the show engendered negative reactions. i can't imagine it would have flown on this side of the pond. i'm still dying to see her "controversial" performance of "the man with the child in his eyes" on saturday night live, but i can't seem to find it anywhere.

i've loved kate bush since the first half of the 80s. one of my first jobs was as a shop clerk in a benetton store. my boss was the creative, hip sort (who somehow managed to make an asymmetrical haircut look cool), and she often played cassettes of hounds of love and the dreaming (which may have scared away customers) in the store. it sounds cheesy as hell but it was like i finally found music that spoke to me. i grew up listening to my mom's glen campbell and show tune records, then had a boyfriend who only let me listen to soft r&b and dan fogelberg. i'd been musically sheltered, and i was finally free. i finally traded in my top 40 radio station for whfs in washington, dc, which i suppose, back then, was still referred too as a "progressive" station. it pretty much changed my life. at this point in time i can't even imagine what my life would be like without my daily dose of music that's outside what's considered the "norm."

kate bush's 1979 christmas special is sublime. it's beautiful, it's theatrical, it's funny as hell to watch. she's so exquisite, so uniquely talented...can she really be real? hk's favorite part was a beautiful cover of roy harper's "another day" performed by kate and peter gabriel, so that's what i've linked here.

a very nice quality avi of the show is available at aesoteric sounds' blog:

kate bush - tv christmas special 1979

radio playlist, 14 november 2009, ktru fm (rice university radio)

2009-11-14T20:11:00.000-08:00

milford graves / speaking to the spoken [stories] on the tzadik label.
os diagonais / nao vou chorar [black rio 2] on the strut label.

lightning bolt / rain on lake i'm swimming [earthly delights] on the load label.
factums / me sing [alien native] on the siltbreeze label.
circle / saturnus reality [katapult] on the no quarter label.
simply saucer / mole machine [cyborgs revisited] on the sonic unyon label.
sinn sisamouth & [ros] srei sothear / go-go dance [cambodian psych out] on the defective label.

philip jeck / box of lamb [surf] on the touch label.
michael pisaro / sculpture for the blind [hearing metal 1] on the editions wandelweiser label.
pumajaw / spangler [curiosity box] on the fire label.
gulev, sarlandjiev & goshev / gaida avasi [village music of yugoslavia] on the nonesuch explorer label.

y pants / magnetic attraction [y pants] on the periodic document label.
39 clocks / aspettando godot [zoned] on the de stijl label.
john baker / au printemps [the john baker tapes vol. 1] on the trunk label.
les loups noirs d'haiti / jet biguine [tumbele! biguine, afro & latin sounds from the french carribean, 1963-74] on the soundway label.

six organs of admittance / anesthesia [luminous night] on the drag city label.
noveller / under the color cave [colorful disturbances] on the divorce label.
pekka streng / olen erilainen [psychedelic phinland] on the love label.
starless and bible black / popty ping [shape of the shape] on the locust label.
the silver mount zion memorial orchestra & tra-la-la band / built then burnt (hurrah! hurrah!) [born into trouble as the sparks fly upward] on the constellation label.

het / rain [let's het] on the woof/ad hoc label.
nmperign / variation v [ommatidia] on the intransitive label.
lokai / salvador [transition] on the thrill jockey label.
pram / cumulus [iron lung] on the too pure label.

green blossoms / hana akari [whiskey leaves] on the digitalis label.
helado negro / deja [awe owe] on the asthmatic kitty label.
ouinsou corneille & black santiago / vinon so minsou [african scream contest] on the analog africa label.
un caddie renverse dans l'herbe / to realise any count [now there's a weird taste in my mouth] on the dekorder label.
lsd-march / sekai no shizukesa [under milk wood] on the important label.
wimple winch / save my soul [nuggets ii: original artyfacts from the british empire and beyond 1964-1969] on the rhino label.

pierre schaeffer / l'oiseau rai [l'oeuvre musicale] on the ina-grm label.
john davis / the truth about my mother [there's always tomorrow] on the students of decay label.
belf's rumanian orchestra / khosidl [klezmer music: early yiddish instrumental music, 1908-1927] on the arhoolie label.
grutronic / foam sweet foam [essex foam party] on the psi label.
phantom orchard / omni [orra] on the tzadik label.
ooioo / hewa hewa [armonica hewa] on the thrill jockey label.
little jr. jesse & his teardrop tears / funky stuff [texas funk: black gold from the lone star state 1968-1975] on the now-again label.
ken ellis / one minute in the life of ivan denisovich [miniatures] on the blueprint label.
vladislav delay / tunnelivisio [tummaa] on the leaf label.

mögel / hall mej hart [1978-1981] on the massproduktion label.
nomo / elijah [invisible cities] on the ubiquity label.
volcano the bear / shake your crow [the idea of wood] on the textile label.
lee & jimmy / rasta train [voodooism] on the pressure sounds label.
mulatu astatke / emnete [new york - addis - london: the story of ethno-jazz 1965-1975] on the strut label.
henry jacobs / cigarette yoga [the wide weird world of henry jacobs] on the important label.

richard youngs / broke up by night [under stellar stream] on the jagjaguwar label.

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favorite segues: nmperign -> lokai -> pram; ooioo -> little jr. jesse & his teardrop tears

notes: the ken ellis piece is one of my all-time favorite short tracks to drop into sets (up there with dummy run's "f.d."). ooioo's "hewa hewa" packs a whole lot of fun into its one-and-a-half minute length. starless and bible black's instrumental, "popty ping," shamelessly wears its pentangle influence on its ruffled sleeve. former austinite sarah lipstate (noveller) has created a thing of true beauty in her piece "under the color cave" (from her new split lp with aidan baker).

many thanks to steviecat for turning me on to all-girl swedish post-punk group, mögel.

inspiration

2009-11-14T19:52:00.001-08:00

comes from ones of my musical heroes, the great ivor cutler (1923-2006).

i saw my granny at the pictures biting all the buttons off the seats
and singing cockadoodledo, i threw my little yellow shoe
she started singing cockadoodledon't
ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-dum-ba-dum-dum
(1, 2, 3)

--from "cockadoodledon't" by the ivor cutler trio from the album ludo (1967)

radio cd review time

2009-11-14T19:04:00.000-08:00

pretty excited about the three cd's i checked out at the radio station this morning:

v/a - "ghana special: modern highlife, afro-sounds & ghanian blues - 1968 81" (soundway)
the lickets - "they turned our desert into fire" (international corporation)
arrington de dionyso - "malaikat dan singa" (k).

i'll be writing up reviews of them shortly.

i'd be willing to bet that the soundway compilation is ace all the way through, as soundway's releases are always impeccably curated. and of course the hardback case-bound booklet is chockablock with gorgeous artist and record sleeve photos as well as great liner notes.

i haven't heard much by the lickets yet, but so far it sounds like lovely stuff.

and i'm quite taken by the arrington de dionyso. i was expecting more "breath of fire"-type experiments, but no. the experimentation is still there, but it's incorporated into more song-based pieces (a la old time relijun), sung entirely in indonesian. i've only dipped my toe in so far, but it sounds deeply groovy and deliciously intense.

here's the official video for "mani malaikat," just posted a week and a half ago. delicious.

down the garden path

2009-11-13T22:15:00.001-08:00

i found this vintage photo buried beneath some cardboard in a thrift shop picture frame. it seemed like an appropriate image to start with. the beginning of a journey.

i find social networking sites to be strangely alienating. i enjoy sharing photos/videos/thoughts/etc. on sites like facebook, but i tend to (rather irrationally) take it personally if no one expresses any interest in them. here i have no expectations that anyone will ever look at anything i post. i'll just assume that no one ever will and be pleasantly surprised if someone ever does.

it will simply become my online scrapbook of things i love: e.g., pictures of various "treasures"/oddities that i've acquired in thrift shops; musings on the strange and wonderful music that makes my world go 'round; my radio show playlists; links to my favorite videos on youtube; and of course whatever else strikes my fancy.

it's by me, it's for me. and if anyone else wants to take a peek, well, that's fine, too.

just another tree falling in the forest...

2009-11-13T22:08:00.000-08:00

thump. did you hear that? me either.