January 3, 2010

"The jezebel spirit" - Brian Eno/David Byrne (My life in the bush of ghosts)
"Puppet mischief" - John Ellis & Double-Wide (Puppet mischief)
"Loving love" - Jeffre Cantu-Ledesma (Love is a stream)
"Stop rocking" - Anna Webber (Third floor people don't need to worry about anything)
"Jacques' groove" - William Parker Organ Quartet (Uncle Joe's spirit house)
"The drum" - Ohama (Earth history multiambient)
"Candy says" - Lou Reed (Animal Serenade)
"Remembered as" - Jon Mueller (The whole)
"From darkness to light" - Steven McGill Project (Kujichagulia: self determination)
"Lady in the yellow dress" - Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk (Stories from home)
"New tribe" - Gerry Hebert Quartet (The Beat Niq sessions vol. 3 - conversations)
"Zaar" - Peter Gabriel (Passion)
"The song goes on" - Herbie Hancock (The imagine project)
"Force field" - Stanley Schumacher and the Music Now Ensemble (Jive at 5:05)
"Amsterdamned" - Joal Kamps (Sojourner)
"Happy birthday, Mr. Burns"
"Duck" - Celano Baggiani Group (Alienology)
"Disco bush" - Day of the Maniac (Day of the Maniac)
track 2 - Hype Williams (Find out what happens when people stop being polite, and start gettin reel)
"Lorraine" - Barnacle Bill (Trio)
"Come to New Orleans" - Aloon Aluna (Bird milk)
"Elephants" - Chet Singh (Recessionary revolutionaries)
"Sen ben" - Barana Quintet (Sarap wine)
"TX1, opus 161-2" - Richard O. Burdick (Nice notes for horns)
"Little old guy" - Pancho-San (Oh, mellow melody)
"Segue 5/Dry bones/Segue 6" - Robert Randolph and the Family Band (We walk this road)
"Whistling wind" - The New Family (The New Family)
"229" - Gordon Grdina Trio With Mats Gustafsson (Barrel fire)
"Face a: salaryman's dream" - Philippe Petit (Scores Henry: the iron man)

This first program of 2011 definitely had an experimental edge to it. I didn't quite plan things this way but I ended up playing a fair number of pieces that could be labelled "experimental music" in some way or other. And I fit in the Ramones' appearance on the Simpsons plus started things off with a recording of an exorcism (from Eno and Byrne's freaky "The jezebel spirt"). This all sounds good to me.

I will be away for the next two shows, January 10 and 17, 2011. Breaking The Tethers will still take place, with a fill-in host or hosts (I'm not sure who will be I will return to the air for the January 24 edition, which will feature a live performance by Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk (who I played today).

Andrew