March 28, 2011

"Rapid fire" - Judas Priest (British steel: 30th anniversary edition)
"Mayflower" - John Surman (Flashpoint: NDR jazz workshop, April '69)
"Maximum spare ribs" - Peter Stampfel & The Worm All-Stars (A sure sign of something)
"Slow turns" - Steve Dawson (Nightshade)
"Minor infractions" - Odean Pope (Odean's list)
"Up from the south" - The Budos Band (The Budos Band)
"I talk to the wind" - King Crimson (In the court of the crimson king)
"Glamour addict" - Perfect Vacuum (A guide to the music of the 21st century)
"Adeniji" - The Budos Band (The Budos Band II)
"The introduction" - Ghostkeeper (Ghostkeeper and the children of the great northern muskeg)
"Man from South Africa" - Joe Chambers (Horace to Max)
"Brain dance" - Carlo De Rosa's Cross-Fade (Brain dance)
"Whirl" - Fred Hersch (Whirl)
"Windows and doors medley" - Jean-Paul De Roover (Pitch pipes)
"Headless horseman" - Jad Fair (Beautiful songs: the best of Jad Fair)
"Los Angeles" - Kevin Eubanks (Zen food)
"Engine room" - Led Bib (Bring your own)
"I am going to jail" - Geoff Berner (Victory party)
"Home pictures" - Maciej Sikala/Piotr Leamnczuk/Tyler Hornby (Able to fly)
"L'oeil de l'entincelle" - Charles Pappasoff (Pappasoff, live)
"Imperfect persuasive element" - Planeta Imaginario (Optical delusions)
"Said the trapeze to gravity (why are you so old?)" - Gutbucket (Flock)
"A thing for Joe" - James "Blood" Ulmer (Inandout)
"Analog Paralysis, 1978" - Tim Hecker (Ravedeath, 1972)
"Quadrant" - Wallace Roney (If only for one night)
"10.15.07" - Robin Holcomb and Talking Pictures with Wayne Horvitz (The point of it all)
"Dewey square" - Joe Lovano/Us Five (Bird songs)

This show ended up being over 50% jazz, getting increasingly jazzier as the program went on, though I didn't quite plan it that way. Nothing wrong with how it turned out, though. Fave title this week: "Maximum spare ribs" by Peter Stampfel.

Andrew

March 21, 2011

"Last train" - Mavis Staples (You are not alone)
"Keleya" - Moussa Dombia (World psychedelic classics, vol. 3: love's a real thing)
"Whyte avenue pinwheel" - National Dust (Welcome to utopia)
"Little blue frog" - Miles Davis (Bitches brew: legacy edition)
"Cowboy boots" - Eddie Spaghetti (Sundowner)
"Run shaker life" - Richie Havens (Something else again)
"Minor shuffle" - BANN (As you like)
"An idea" - Sylvie Proulx (Sirocco)
"Sunset blvd. " - Mad Planet (Gliese 581g)
"Stop" - Buck 65 with Hannah Georgas (20 odd years)
"Improvisation 2" - John Zorn, Milford Graves, Bill Laswell (Tribute to Derek Bailey, The Barbican, London, June 17, 2006)
"Cartoon gold" - Drive-By Truckers (Go-go boots)
"Bass and time" - Ancient Astronauts (Into bass and time)
"Dimitri, Birks and Dewey" - Frank Butrey (Malicious delicious)
"Gondwana (edit)" - Tristan Mureil (Gondwana, for orchestra)
"Sonnet for Hank cinq" - Delfeayo Marsalis (Sweet thunder (Duke & Shak))
"Strange language" - Cowboy Junkies (Demons)
"Relent" - Roberta Piket (Sides, colors)
"Desert" - Francois Rabbath (The sound of a bass)
"Fair flower" - The John Renbourn Group (Live in America)
"Teenage wizard" - Haunted Beard (Video deathbed)
"Brown rice" - Don Cherry (Brown rice)
"The loser (xeftilis)" - A Hawk And A Hacksaw (Cervantine)
"Opus 44" - Dustin O'Halloran (Lumiere)
"In octopus country" - Entire Cities (I hope you never come home)
"Monoceros 2" - Evan Parker (Monoceros)
"Jharna kala" - Devadip Orchestra (Scandinavium, Goteborg, Sweden, November 11, 1979)
"Part II" - Ornette Coleman (Chappaqua suite)

This was a show with almost a split personality. Part of it was kinda mellow, more than I first planned. Part of it was pretty much the opposite of mellow, featuring some fairly "out there" jazz. I wonder what next week's program will be like... :-)

Andrew

March 14, 2011

"African sweets" - The Three Sounds (Elegant soul)
"Tard" - Charles Pappasoff (Pappasoff live)
"Birdyard" - Joe Lovano/Us Five (Bird songs)
"Nut popper #1" - The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (The original lost Elektra sessions)
"EST (trip to the moon)" - Alien Sex Fiend (All our yesterdays)
"Currents" - Fraser Hollins (Aerial)
"Alice and John" - Rob Hurst (Bob ya head)
"Baby duck" - Panda Attack (Applewood)
"It was never gonna turn out too good" - Gang Of Four (Content)
"Va va va voom" - Brett Smiley (Breathlessly Brett)
"Love song for a vampire" - The Rabid Whole (Autraumaton remixed)
"Rumbatto" - Boris Kovac (The last Balkan tango)
"All tensed up/Don't try to call/I'm not interested/Guns at my school/Push the button/Gilligan's island/MTC/Don't have a life" - Husker Du (Land speed record)
"Love is the answer" - Kenny Burrell (God bless the child)
"The beach" - Mark Segger Sextet (The beginning)
"Piano page" - Benoit Delbecq Trio (The sixth jump)
"Sunny ti de ariya" - King Sunny Ade and His African Beats (Juju music)
"Spider monkey café" - Kevin Eubanks (Zen food)
"Open up your heart" - Richard Bliwas (Rising rose bakery)
"Take the high road" - Peter Hum Quintet (A boy's journey)
"Mr. Sunshine" - Earl MacDonald (Re:visions: works for jazz orchestra)
"Space trucker lady" - Duke Garwood (Dreamboatsafari)
"Fortress" - Mary Kastle (Beneath the folds)
"Step right up!" - Mike Essoudry's Mash Potato Mashers (Mike Essoudry's Mash Potato Mashers)
"Believe in me and yourself too (malagasy version)" - Dean Pallen (Strathcona Park)
"Couch alternate (alternate)" - Robin Holcomb and Talking Pictures with Wayne Horvitz
(The point of it all)

The main feature of the show this week was that I had a co-host of sorts for part of the program, Mark. Mark is a new programmer at CJSW and I've been helping out with his training for the past three weeks (not that he really needed training; in the past, he was on-air at the Memorial University station and in Exeter, England). While he did some on-air talk last week, this was his first lengthy time behind the boards, about 45 or so minutes; looking at the list above, he played everything from Alien Sex Fiend through The Rabid Whole. Mark did a great job and I'm sure we'll hear him on air again at CJSW fairly soon.

Muscially, there was a strong jazz presence today. Not really planned but a number of new jazz CDs, mostly Canadian, came my way over the past week so might as well play them. I suspect next week's show will be less jazzy but I won't really know until it happens :-)

Andrew

March 7, 2011

"Unsquare dance" - The Dave Brubeck Quartet (Time further out)
"Boisterous voiceterous" - Frank Butrey (Malicious delicious)
"2024" - Cage The Elephant (Thank you, happy birthday)
"Comb your hair and curl it/Gweebara bridge " - Altan with the R.T.E. Concert Orchestra
(25th anniversary celebration)
"Great expectations" - Miles Davis (Bitches brew: legacy edition)
"American gothic " - Modern Skirts (Gramahawk)
"Last goodbye" The Wailin' Jennys (Bright morning star)
"Hollywood dream (instrumental)" - Thunderclap Newman (Hollywood dream)
"Twang" - John Scofield (54)
"Amy you went away " - Jad Fair (Beautiful songs: the best of Jad Fair)
"Flowers in the pond" - Ros Sereysothea (Dengue Fever presents electric Cambodia)
"Last payphone in Parkdale" - The Creaking Tree String Quartet (Sundogs)
"Two timing men" - Eve Hell & The Razors (When the lights go out)
"Alcoholic " - Alicia Hansen (Fractography)
"Homowo" - The Psychedelic Aliens (Psycho African Beat)
"My friends and neighbors (for Sam Rivers)" - Roberta Piket (Sides, colors)
"Welcome to the cheap seats" - The Wonder Stuff (Never loved Elvis)
"Half the fun" - Delfeayo Marsalis (Sweet thunder (Duke & Shak))
"Incidental music" - Usha Khanna (Psych funk sa-re-ga)
"Ohun merin" - Beautiful Nubia and the Roots Renaissance Band (Sun no dey sleep)
"Son of shaft" - The Bar-Kays (The best of the Bar-Kays)
"As you like" - BANN (As you like)
"Little by little" - Radiohead (The king of limbs)
"Yusek yusekc tepeler" - Minor Empire (Second nature)
"Chorinho" - Bill Charlap & Renee Rosnes (Double portrait)
"Cumberland gap" - Dock Boggs (Bound for glory)
"Track 1" - Linsey Wellman (Ephemera: for solo saxophone/pour saxophone solo)
"The point" - Bigger Fish Than Guns (The spoken sea)
"Tikal (scattering of the sun)" - Global Chilling (The trip hop tapes)
"Outlaw blues" - Jad Fair (Beautiful songs: the best of Jad Fair)
"Invention 8207AM" - Braxton-Hemingway (Old dogs (2007))

Some fave tracks from this week:

*The "Hollywood dream" instrumental from Thunderclap Newman. Nice melody on acoustic guitar and nifty use of pedal steel.

*Two songs from the Jad Fair compilation. Kind of "outsider music" featuring 108 tracks on 3 CDs compiled from 48 albums.

*Another great track from from Pysch funk sa-re-ga ("Incidental music").

*New Radiohead! ("Little by little") Kinda dense stuff.

I've been involved in the training of a new programmer, Mark, this week and last. He has done radio work before but not since 2002. He pretty much knows his stuff, though. His last day with me is next week, March 14, 2011. He will be programming the latter half of the show. I'm looking forward to hear what he has come up with.

Andrew

February 28, 2011

"Serpentine" - Mike Essoudry's Mash Potato Mashers (Mike Essoudry's Mash Potato Mashers)
"Good citizen swallow" - Larry Coryell (Spaces revisited)
"Wake up Dolores" - Los Lobos (Kiko)
"You won't make a fool out of me" - Flogging Molly (Live at the Greek Theatre)
"Escape" - Karl Schwonik Jazz Ensemble With Remi Bolduc (1 + 4)
"You and I " - Graham Coxon (Love travels at illegal speeds)
"Wally the frog" - Parker Abbott Piano Duo (Gallery)
"Against the drift" - Robin Holcomb and Talking Pictures with Wayne Horvitz (The point of it all)
"Reverie" - Richard Bliwas (Rising rose bakery)
"Early one morning" - Christine Fagan (Once)
"Natchez burning" - Howlin' Wolf (The real folk blues)
"Aliens" - Ronald Reagan
"C.T.A.-102" - The Byrds (Younger than yesterday)
"Sacre bleu" - Scott LaFaro (Pieces of jade)
"Steam engine" - Mark Segger Sextet (The beginning)
"Poursuite/Drum page" - Benoit Delbecq Trio (The sixth jump)
"Bad luck blues" - Fraser/Daley (Fraser/Daley)
"A dream of water" - Colin Stetson (New history warfare vol. 2: judges)
"Big Lou" - Peter Hum Quintet (A boy's journey)
"I hope things will turn around" - Chixdiggit (Safeways here we come)
"The traveler" - Alon Nechushtan (Words beyond)
"SpongeBob SquarePants" - The Black Lodge Singers (More kids' pow-wow songs)
"Bangkok 504" - Jamie Ruben's Groove-O-Ly-O-Scene (Organic mood stimulant)
"Lois on the autobahn" - Bruce Cockburn (Small source of comfort)
"Gimme shelter" - O. Rex (My head's in '73!)
"Put my little shoes away" - Margaret Leng Tan (She herself along: the art of the toy piano,
vol. 2)
"The city of Granada on the surface of Mars" - Music Intima (Rethink forever: the vocal music of Peter Hannan)
"Song for America" - Destroyer (Kaputt)
"The memory of water" - Chaya Czernowin (Maim (water))

Today's program was perhaps a bit more jazzier show than others recently but still featured the usual BTT variety. I was pleased to be able to play another track from the The Black Lodge Singers; I played their version of the Flintstones' theme in late 2006 and got great reaction at that time. Another fave this week was "The city of Granada on the surface of Mars"; it seems to be about a city on the surface of Mars, that's it. Notable too was O. Rex's version of "Gimme shelter"; holy extreme low-fi Batman!

Andrew

February 21, 2011

"Big 'stache" - The Creaking Tree String Quartet (Sundogs)
"Sarana" - Ray Russell (Rites and rituals)
"Oral roberto" - Robert Hurst (Bob ya head)
"If I were a carpenter" - Johnny Cash (Nieuwe Rai, Amsterdam, Holland, February 26, 1972)
"Spruce mountain pass" - Pharmakon MTL (To call out in the night)
"I can't get behind that" - William Shatner with Henry Rollins (Has been)
"Lay low" - My Morning Jacket (Z)
"We're laughing" - The Psychedelic Aliens (Psycho African Beat)
"Very large snowfall" - Harley Shit Fingers and the Bogus Gambler (Riding songs for father's knee)
"Marrket-place" - The Nightcrawlers (Down in the bottom)
"Invention 8207PM" - Braxton-Hemingway (Old dogs (2007))
"Which way to go" - Emma Hill and Her Gentlemen Callers (Meet me at the moon)
"The noose" - Zevious (After the air raid)
"Another sky" - Akron/Family (S/t II: the cosmic birth and journal of shinju TNT)
"East St. Louis, 1968" - Kurt Vonnegut and Dave Soldier (Ice-9 ballads)
"Stick w/ me kid" - The Dears (Degeneration street)
"Intro" - heRajiKa Tracks (Love universal)
"Good times bad times" - Dread Zeppelin (Hot and spicy beanburger)
"Caravan" - Graham Reynolds and the Golden Arm Trio (Duke! three portraits of Ellington)
"Morning Mr. Magpie" - Radiohead (The king of limbs)
"Morning Mr. Magpie" - Radiohead (Webcast, December 18, 2002)
"Della be della" - Jay Crocker (Co-stars)
"The mod trade" - The Black Beats (Psych funk sa-re-ga)
"Improvisation for piano" - Burkhard Mahler (Fusion white classics II)
"Miner" - No Age (Nouns)
"Encore" - Fred Anderson and Muhal Richard Abrams (Live in Verona)
"Sitar beat" - Klaus Doldinger (Psych funk sa-re-ga)
"Freddy's dead" - James Rolfe (Raw: chamber music by/musique de chamber de James Rolfe)
"Glow" - Features of Spheres (Features of Spheres)

A nice mixed bag show this week. Nothing too heavy, nothing too weird (maybe), some funny stuff (Shatner with Rollins, Dread Zeppelin), and a good sampling of groovy music from India (Psych funk sa-re-ga) and Ghana (The Psychedelic Aliens). Just wish I hadn't tripped over my tongue as much as I did. Oh well, I will be more fluid in the vocal department next week.

Andrew

February 14, 2011

"Billy's bones" - The Pogues (Rum, sodomy & the lash)
"Muppet shock" - Alon Nechushtan (Words beyond)
"100,000 raisons" - Harmonium (Harmonium)
"The night goes on" - Matt Savage (Welcome home)
"Nobody but me" - The Dickies (BASEketball soundtrack)
"Swift silver" - Vivienne Spiteri (Jalsaghar)
"The lonely spider" - Lhasa (Lhasa)
"Bolero" - Jimi Hendrix (West coast Seattle boy)
"Le marais" - Geggie Trio + Donny McCaslin (Across the sky)
"Shopping" - The Jam (Extras)
"The child" - Stephan Micus (Bold as light)
"Papa's got a brand new pigbag" - Pigbag (Volume one)
"Blues in the am" - Houston Person (Mellow)
"Two and one" - John & Eve McLaughlin (Studio 1974, NYC radio session 1970)
"Any more" - Chris Parrello + Things I Wonder (Chris Parrello + Things I Wonder)
"Once" - Christine Fagan (Once)
"Afterlife lottery" - Farewell To Freeway (Filthy habits)
"Travelling" - Mark Waind (Humantown music)
"Valse" - Parker Abbott Piano Duo (Gallery)
"Blissed out" - Junk Culture (Summer friends)
"Agnus dei" - Gothic Voices (The spirits of England and France - 4: the missa caput)
"Momentum" - Patrick Butler (Transcender)
"To touch the red brick" - Polar Bear (Hold on the tips of fingers)
"One adam 12 mambo" - Arturo O'Farrill (Risa negra)
"Devil's dance floor" - Flogging Molly (Live at the Greek Theatre)
"Inner eye light house" - Mourning Coup (Mourning Coup)
"Inner urge" - Larry Coryell (Prime picks: the virtuoso guitar of Larry Coryell)
"Dreamland" - Joni Mitchell (The seeding of the summer lawns)
"Eat yourself alive" - New Fight Scene (Glass dragons)
"The lawnmower" - Engine (Start)
"Downstairs" - Hey Rosetta (Seeds)
"Song for the underdog" - Fraser Hollins (Aerial)

This was a less "experimental" program than last week, maybe more of a mixed bag this week. Still good stuff, with lots of tracks played.

Happy Valentine's Day, one and all!

Andrew