July 11, 2011

"Way down" - The Feelies (Here before)
"The wanderer" - McCoy Tyner (Extensions)
"Widgets" - Disco Biscuits (Planet)
"Eight miles high" - Leo Kottke (Mudlark)
"Eight miles high" - Rufus Harley (Courage: the Atlantic years)
"Eight miles high" - East of Eden (Mercator projected)
"Eight miles high" - Husker Du
"Altered dominance" - Lorna MaLachlan (Time 4 change)
"Repetition" - TV On The Radio (Nine types of light)
"Abdulmajid" - Philip Glass ('Heroes' symphony)
"Greenwood laddie/Mrs. Capron's reel/Tune" - Eliza Carthy (Red)
"Space circus" - Corea, Clarke & White (Forever)
"Sea of time" - The Beatles (Yellow submarine soundtrack)
"Nice-boy" - Jookabox (The eyes of the fly)
"Dance of death" - Calexico (I am the resurrection: a tribute to John Fahey)
"Southern Pacific" - Neil Young & The International Harvesters (Treasure)
"French countryside" - Psychedelic Horseshit (Laced)
"Saucisse a la Berg" - Francois Bourassa Quartet (Idiosyncrasie)
"La ligne de chance" - Eric Hofbauer and the Infrared Band (Level)
"Rhapsodic membrane" - Heavy Tin (Space cats)
"No guarantees" - Black Phoenix Orchestra (Black Phoenix Orchestra)
"Concerto grosso: sarabande" - Ralph Vaughan Williams (Works for string orchestra)
"My kingdom" - Soundslab (Empirical state)
"Depth perception" - Jack Curtis Dubowsky (Ensemble III)
"Judy's smile III" - Amalgam (Prayer for peace)

Two notable things this week:

1) I came across a number of interesting versions of the Byrds' song "Eight miles high" and figured I'd play them all in a set in today's show, which I did. I thought they were all good examples of how a song can be covered in a way that bears a resemblence to the original but also heads out in other directions.

2) This week and last, I've had the pleasure of training a new programmer, Matt. He's keen and is picking everything up very well. Today, he ran the board for much of the show, played ads, and made the PSA announcements. Next week, he'll be hosting the 8-10 am section of Breaking The Tethers (I'll be doing 7-8 am only). He should do well.

Andrew

July 4, 2011

"I hate the 80s" - The Vaselines (Sex with an x)
"Leroy Jenkins's air steps (for Leroy Jenkins)" - Wadada Leo Smith's Organic (Heart's reflections)
"Paperback writer" - The Fantastic Pickin' On Series (Bluegrass sampler)
"Etude" - The New Gary Burton Quartet (Common ground)
"Evil seeds" - The Raveonettes (Raven in the grave)
"Under the Mersey wall" - George Harrison (Electronic sound)
"Raisans" - Jr. Gone Wild (Simple little wish)
"Frank Sinatra" - The Peter Evans Quartet (The Peter Evans Quartet)
"Shelter" - Sila and the Afrofunk Experience (Black president)
"Happy birthday" - Doomeastvan (Songs in the key of death)
"Coax" - James Farm (James Farm)
"Meanwhile" - Benoit Delbecq (Biobeat)
"I've been leavin' too long" - A Cast of Thousands (A Cast of Thousands)
"?" - Andrew Vivona (Slow down for me)
"Dancing with a notion" - Lucas Haneman (This is what's up)
"The 911 curry" - Cornershop (Cornershop & the double 'o' groove of)
"Sam's float" - Dave Liebman (Lookout farm)
"Aboriginal" - Terumasu Hino (Double rainbow)
show promo - Peter Evans with Chris Dadge and Rachael Wadham (Live @ Emmedia)
"Put out that cig" - Brazilian Monkey (This is not a dream)
"I'm sticking with you" - Jason and the Scorchers (Clear impetuous morning)
"Blue Miss Sunday" Devics - (If you forget me…)
"Niglo 1 waltz" - Les Doigts de l'Homme (1910)

This was the exact 5th anniversary of Breaking The Tethers going on the air, though I didn't really celebrate this, just mentioned it a couple of times. Maybe I'll do more for future events of this nature.

Perhaps the most interesting element of the show today was the country element. Though it was far from an all-country program, country-ish sounds popped up in a few numbers (e.g. Jason and the Scorchers, Cast of Thousands, etc.). It all adds to the variation on BTT.

Andrew

June 27, 2011

"My friend Dave" - Dave Holland/Pepe Habichuela (Hands)
"Rhizome 1-010011010011011" - Richard Pinhas & Merzbow (Rhizome)
"Mina Loy" - Thurston Moore (Demolished thoughts)
"AP touro" - Rebirth Brass Band (Rebirth of New Orleans)
"Initial machine experiments" - Pete Townshend (Scoop)
"Whitecoats" - New Model Army (Anthology)
"Lady Madonna" - Booker T. & The MGs (McLemore Avenue)
"L'aube" - Francois Couturier (Un jour si blanc)
"I-95" - Ruckus Fo'tet x Milla Thyme (Round one)
"The cloisters" - Bill Dixon (Odyssey)
"Shift" - David S. Ware/Cooper-Moore/William Parker/Muhammad Ali (Planetary unknown)
"Pride of man" - Quicksilver Messenger Service (Quicksilver Messenger Service)
"People make the world go round" - Milt Jackson (Sunflower)
"Death walk" - Fuel Injected .45 (Past demo-ns)
"Holdin onto black metal" - My Morning Jacket (Circuital)
"Sounddance part 2" - Muhal Richard Abrams (Sounddance)
"Spinet train" - Jack Curtis Dubowsky (Ensemble III)
"Captain Marvel" - Corea, Clarke & White (Forever)
"West african strut" - Dr. Michael White (Adventures in New Orleans
jazz part 1)
"Blue in green" - Screaming Headless Torsos (Screaming Headless Torsos)
"Space cats" - Heavy Tin (Space cats)
"Multi-d" - Nasar Abadey & Supernova (Diamond in the rough)
"Strange days" - Chris Andrew (Strange days)
"Tait's traced traits" - Farmers By Nature (Out of this world's distortions)

This was another program with a bit of a "new" and "jazz" slant though there were lots of other odds and ends featured. Probably more of a mixed-bag next week.

Speaking of next week, I noticed that the July 4 program will be the 5th anniversary of Breaking The Tethers. I'm not sure whether I will do anything special that day but it's good to recognize the significance.

Andrew

June 20, 2011

"Ghosts and giants" - Eric Hofbauer and the Infrared Band (Level)
"Polliwog" - James Farm (James Farm)
"Hazey Jane II" - Nick Drake (Bryter Layter)
"Marburg" - Brad Shepik (Across the way)
"Agho" - Sir Victor Uwaifo (Guitar-boy superstar)
"Quirino con su tres" - Jane Bunnet & Hilario Duran (Cuban rhapsody)
"Bad big hill" - The Craig Pedersen Quartet (Early winter)
"Storm warning" - Bela Fleck & The Flecktones (Rocket science)
"Death by Pollyanna" - Cheer-accident (No ifs, ands or dogs)
"Man vs. nature" - Killdozer (12 point buck)
"Upward spiral" - Search Engine (I'm feeling lucky)
"Ecce apparebit dominus" - Cinquecento (Missa ego flos campi)
"Swept into a desert (calm becomes the storm)" - Lucas Haneman (This is what's up)
"Two labors" - Au vs Masanka Sankayi (Tradi-mods vs rockers: alternative taks on congotronics)
"Whatever" - Alphonse Mouzon (Angel face)
"Hurricane" - Ray Manzarek/Roy Rogers (Translucent blues)
"Algiers" - Austin Peralta (Endless planets)
"In love (vocoded freak testimonials)" Leb Laze - (Music for troubled machinery)
"You can run" - Seun Anikulapo Kuti & Egypt 80 (From Africa with fury: rise)
"Now longer" - Harris Eisenstadt (Canada day II)
"Henya" - Ambrose Akinmusire (When the heart emerges glistening)
"Vuoto a rendre" - Paolo Angeli/Takumi Fukushima (Itsunomanika)
"Dick & Jane" - Sidney York (Apocalyptic radio cynic)
"Ocean tales" - Steve MacLean Ensemble (GPS)
"Alto 1" - Kaoru Abe (Solo 1972)

Like last week, this program featured a pronounced lean in the directly of newly-released jazz. This week's show retained the same direction though to not as much of an extent; there was a nice mixed bag of other tunes and songs featured. Looking at what's on deck, I suspect that the June 27, 2011 will be similar to today.

I hope I'm not letting the cat out of the bag (too much) but it looks like CJSW Funding Drive 2011 will take place from Oct. 21-28. Should be fun! Stay tuned over the next few months for more information.

Andrew

June 13, 2011

"All the way" - The Elements of Jazz (The Elements of Jazz)
"Heart's reflections: splendors of light and purification (for Shaykh Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili): the dhikr of radiant hearts, part II" - Wadada Leo Smith's Organic (Heart's reflections)
"Little by little" - Gregg Allman (Low country blues)
"Clearance ridge" - Bryan Carter (Enchantment)
"Biobeat" - Benoit Delbecq (Meanwhile)
"Searching for the right door" - Billy Cobham (Spectrum)
"Divination unfathomable" - David S. Ware/Cooper-Moore/William Parker/Muhammad Ali(Planetary unknown)
"Monster Smith" - Afuche (Highly publicized digital boxing match)
"R.R.K. Rahassan" - Mark Alban Lotz (Istanbul improv sessions May 5th)
"You know you know" - Rebirth Brass Band (Rebirth of New Orleans)
"A chinese saloon" - Jerry Granelli Trio (Let go)
"Old time indians/Meeting of the chiefs" - Irvin Mayfield (A love letter to New Orleans)
"The covenant" - Nasar Abadey & Supernova (Diamond in the rough)
"Wait for it" - Chris Andrew (Strange days)
"I am a wanderer" - Steve Earle (I'll never get out of this world alive)
"Island" - Gosta Berlings Saga (Glue works)
"Wo ist zu hause mama" - Johnny Cash
"This is" - Ruckus Fo'tet x Milla Thyme (Round one)
"Mud, mapped" - Farmers By Nature (Out of this world's distortions)
"Ahead of the game" - Blue Sky Black Death (Jean Grae: the eveil jeanius: instrumentals)
"Inception" - Melvin Jones (Pivot)
"Lyman Place" - Keiran Hebden/Steve Reid (NYC)

In the days prior to this edition of Breaking The Tethers, a large number of new jazz CDs and new CDs that lean in a jazz direction crossed my path. Most fit the BTT style so I gave them a whirl in this show. It was probably the most jazz-focused program since BTT left the jazz-only format. A few other items slipped in (Johnny Cash singing in German, Steve Earle, etc.) but it definitely had a jazz bent. As always, next week will be different, maybe way different.

I am late with posting the playlist for the June 6, 2011 program. My apologies. But I should have it on the blog later today.

Andrew

June 6, 2011

"Calamity song" - The Decemberists (The king is dead)
"To eh" - Harris Eisenstadt (Canada day II)
"Raggle taggle gypsy/Tabhair dom do lamh" - Planxty (Planxty)
"The laughing cavalier" - Reynold D. Philipsek (Tales from the north woods)
"The pseudocarp walks among us" - Weasel Walter-Mary Halvorson-Peter Evans(Electric fruit)
"Go gaunt green" - Cheer-accident (No ifs, ands or dogs)
"Got it" - Amanda Tosoff (Looking north)
"The hollow men" - Marlon Brando (Apocalypse now soundtrack)
"Mr. Fox" - Mr. Fox (Join us in our game)
"Southern coast" - We're Not Popstars (Full colour)
"Read your name" - Randall of Nazareth (Randall of Nazareth)
"Go Back Home" - Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir (Ten Thousand)
"Bloodhound" - The Donkeys (Born with stripes)
"God?" - The Dodos (Visitier)
"Radio generation" - Pat Jordache (Future songs)
"Alligator"(choir version) - Grizzly Bear (Friend EP)
"Sycamore" - Bill Callahan (Woke on a whaleheart)
"Guns" - Megafaun (Gather, form & fly)
"August four, year-of-our-lord blues" - Efrim Manuel Menuck (Plays "high gospel")
"Bound to be that way" - Do Make Say Think (You, you're a history in rust)
"Heaven" - Ebo Taylor (Life stories: highlife & afrobeat classics 1973-1980)
"Make the road by walking" - Menahan Street Band (Make the road by walking)
"Swedenborgske rom" - Jaga Jazzist (What we must)
"Insects" - Fridge (The sun)
"Dawn chorus" - Boards of Canada (Geogaddi)
"Repeat" - Prefuse 73 (The only she chapters)
"Lost & found" - Amon Tobin (Isam)
"Dark advances" - Male (We are all welcome)
"Down by the river" - Low & Dirty Three (In the fishtank)

Finally, here's the list for the June 6, 2011 program. I was only able to be behind the board for the first hour of the show; Myke Atkinson very kindly took over the last two hours and did his usual great job. Many thanks to Myke! Myke's set began with the Randall of Nazareth track; everything before that was played by me.

Andrew

May 30, 2011

"Draw your brakes" - Scotty (The harder they come)
"Here's to here's to toast" - Afuche (Highly publicized digital boxing match)
"Here's to toast" - Afuche (Highly publicized digital boxing match)
"Meet me in the alleyway" - Steve Earle (I'll never get out of this world alive)
"Night and day" - The David Leonhardt Jazz Group (Plays Cole Porter)
"Rabbit in the log" - Chris Thile & Michael Daves (Sleep with one eye open)
"Magic bullet" - The Alex Goodman Quintet (Bridges)
"I am" - Matana Roberts (Coin coin chapter one: les gens de couleur libres)
"Golden brown" - The Jolly Boys with Albert Minott (Great expectation)
"Red clay" - Freddie Hubbard (Red clay)
"Lee Majors come again" - Beastie Boys (Hot sauce committee, part two)
"The plains/Bitter dancer" - Fleet Foxes (Helplessness blues)
"Zebra boogie" - Diesler (The breakers)
"Waves" - Gosta Berlings Saga (Glue works)
"Falling forward" - Bela Fleck & The Flecktones (Rocket science)
"Easy now revisited" - Hot Tuna (Steady as she goes)
"Wild man" - Galactic (The other side of midnight: live in New Orleans)
"I can't leave home part one" - Holzkopf (Sober materials #5)
"Letter to Bjork" - Jerry Granelli Trio (Let go)
"Invasion of the mind snatchers" - Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine(Enhanced methods of questioning)
"Concert on the runway" - Miles Davis with Michel Legrand (Perfect way: the Miles Davis anthology: the Warner Bros years)
"German taco" - Brad Shepik Quartet (Across the way)
"Rhizome 4-110101100010000" - Richard Pinhas & Merzbow (Rhizome)
"Alice" - Jaffa (Echoes)
"New York City hotel blues" - Margot and the Nuclear So And So's (Buzzard)
"Tabla suite" - The Giuseppi Logan Quartet (Dance of satan)
"Banished to Niflheim" - Occulus (Occulus)

At CJSW, Breaking The Tethers falls into a class of program called "mixed block". I think this week's show very much merits the "mixed block" label; it was very much a "mix". A particular (unplanned) feature of the program was the fact that 20 of the 27 tracks were pretty much brand new (and a few of the others weren't too old e.g. 2010 releases). There were also a few nifty titles this week, such as "German taco" (Brad Shepik Quartet) and the "Here's to toast" pair (Afuche).

Next week's edition of BTT will feature a split-host format. I will only be behind the mic for the first hour (I have a conflict that I can't alter in hours two and three) and then the one-and-only Myke Atkinson will take over from 8-9 am and from 9-10 am. Myke has covered BTT a few times in recent months and will be a great host.

Andrew