Podcast and tracklist: http://cjsw.com/program/breaking-the-tethers/episode/20160111/
I found this to be a fun show to do, featuring mostly long tracks, some new and some old. I thought about playing something jazz-ish from David Bowie, who passed away the day before but I figured that there would be Bowie-galore on CJSW (and rightly so) and I could pass. On the subject of musicians who recently left this plane of existence, I did play a track by the late Paul Bley ("El cordobes" from the 1972 album, Paul Blye & Scorpio), who died on January 3.
Andrew
Monday, January 11, 2016
Monday, January 4, 2016
January 4, 2016
First show of 2016: http://cjsw.com/program/breaking-the-tethers/episode/20160104/
Most of the time on BTT, I play newly-released or newly-re-released material with a few trips into the past. For this show, I decided to play only non-recent tracks, nothing that could be called "new". I think it went well though I should be back to the usual format next week (or maybe the week after that).
Andrew
Most of the time on BTT, I play newly-released or newly-re-released material with a few trips into the past. For this show, I decided to play only non-recent tracks, nothing that could be called "new". I think it went well though I should be back to the usual format next week (or maybe the week after that).
Andrew
Saturday, January 2, 2016
December 28, 2015
The podcast and track list for this last show of 2015 are at http://cjsw.com/program/breaking-the-tethers/episode/20151228/.
I turned this into a mellow show, featuring only a few longer tracks, one new release and three older pieces, one of which ("Out-bloody-rageous" by Soft Machine) is an all-time favourite of mine. For the first show of 2016 (on Monday, January 4, 10-11 am MT), I think I'll do the same sort of thing and then back to the usual sort of Breaking The Tethers program after that.
BTW, apologies for not posting this earlier. I knew I likely wouldn't get to it on Monday but time just zipped by and, all of a sudden, it's Saturday.
Andrew
I turned this into a mellow show, featuring only a few longer tracks, one new release and three older pieces, one of which ("Out-bloody-rageous" by Soft Machine) is an all-time favourite of mine. For the first show of 2016 (on Monday, January 4, 10-11 am MT), I think I'll do the same sort of thing and then back to the usual sort of Breaking The Tethers program after that.
BTW, apologies for not posting this earlier. I knew I likely wouldn't get to it on Monday but time just zipped by and, all of a sudden, it's Saturday.
Andrew
Monday, December 21, 2015
Top 8 of 2015
Here's my Top 8 for music for 2015. I was aiming for a top ten list but it ended up being just eight (I've gone over ten in past years; I'm actually not sure how many times I've actually landed on ten). I found that there wasn't much that jumped out at me this past year and said "I"m great". Also, I suspect that there's a fair amount of music that I just missed, just didn't hear. Anyway, enjoy the list.
Andrew
Alice Coltrane – Universal consciousness
Andrew
Alice Coltrane – Universal consciousness
A reissue,
originally from 1971. Not quite as good
as World galaxy from the following year (World galaxy wins out
due to the guru + organ + funky drummer version of “A love supreme”) but still
a classic of freak jazz. It’s a swirl of
spirituality (mostly of the Hindu variety), Coltrane’s harp and organ,
skittering percussion, and spooky strings.
Miles Davis – At Newport 1955-1975:
the bootleg series vol. 4
A 4-CD survey
of Miles Davis’ musical styles recorded live at the Newport Jazz Festival. It’s got an all-star session with Monk and
others, the first and second great quintets, and a load of stuff from Davis’
rock years.
Steve Earle & The Dukes – Terraplane
Steve tackles
the blues, mostly. A few of the tracks are
in rock mode. Not his best but it’s
fun. Anyone who can make a song called
“Baby, baby, baby (baby)” work deserves some kudos.
Grateful Dead – 30 trips around the
sun: the definitive live story
Not the 80-CD
version, only a 4-CD edition, documenting one song from one show from each of
the 30 years of the Dead’s existence. Many nice choices, some expected and some
unexpected. The material from the later
years is better than I thought it would be.
Last Exit – Iron path
Another
reissue, the only studio album from the avant jazz supergroup. Featuring noise rock getting together with
free jazz, it’s a nice antidote to the masses of mushy jazz that exist in the
world.
Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra – Galactic
parables: volume 1
More crazed
cosmic music from the prolific Mazurek and gang. Sounds like Sun Ra on steroids plus more
electronics and spoken word.
Richard Thompson – Still
More very good
songs and playing from the (almost) always excellent Thompson. I like it better than his last release, Electric;
things just seem about a half-notch better here.
Ryley Walker – Primrose green
Yes, Ryley has
listened to an awful lot of Tim Buckley, John Martyn, and Pentangle and this
clearly shows on this recording. That
being said, there are far, far worse influences to be showing plus the album simply
works. The supporting musicians are from
the jazz world, which seems to add much to the proceedings.
December 21, 2015
http://cjsw.com/program/breaking-the-tethers/episode/20151221/
Mostly a no-Christmas pre-Christmas show today, though I did include a couple of Xmas mash-ups, "Merry fucking Christmas" by Alias Frequencies and an excerpt of "Xmas" by Wayne Butane. Most everything else was newly-released jazz, mostly Canadian.
Next show will be the last one for 2015, Monday, December 28, 10-11 am.
Andrew
Mostly a no-Christmas pre-Christmas show today, though I did include a couple of Xmas mash-ups, "Merry fucking Christmas" by Alias Frequencies and an excerpt of "Xmas" by Wayne Butane. Most everything else was newly-released jazz, mostly Canadian.
Next show will be the last one for 2015, Monday, December 28, 10-11 am.
Andrew
Monday, December 14, 2015
December 14, 2015
For today's show, the podcast and tracklist are at http://cjsw.com/program/breaking-the-tethers/episode/20151214-1/. Note that the first few minutes or so of the program were cut off; the recording starts part way through the first track, "Joban Dna Nopla" by Chick Corea and Bela Fleck.
Everything in today's program was newly released or newly re-released. I suspect that next week's edition will feature more trips to the past but we'll see how it turns out.
Andrew
Everything in today's program was newly released or newly re-released. I suspect that next week's edition will feature more trips to the past but we'll see how it turns out.
Andrew
Monday, December 7, 2015
December 7, 2015
The latest episode of Breaking The Tethers, with tracklist, is available at http://cjsw.com/program/breaking-the-tethers/episode/20151207/.
This was a somewhat mellower show than a few of the recent ones have been though still largely camped in avant/out there/free territory. As with most recent programs, most of the tracks were newly-released with a few trips into the past. Best title" "Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas" by Misha Mullov-Abbado; I saw that and I knew that I had to play it on BTT!
Andrew
This was a somewhat mellower show than a few of the recent ones have been though still largely camped in avant/out there/free territory. As with most recent programs, most of the tracks were newly-released with a few trips into the past. Best title" "Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas" by Misha Mullov-Abbado; I saw that and I knew that I had to play it on BTT!
Andrew
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