The Sand Returns to Being in Your Head!

I will be co-hosting an episode of "Lady Mary and Her Heavy Friends" this Saturday, August 4, 2012 on Ottawa's CKCU 93.1 FM. 8 PM

Not the real Lady Mary, but actress Michelle Dockery playing the presumptibe lady Mary in Downton Abbey. A very excellent actress, see her as Death's Grandaughter in the Hogfather. She can lady marry me if so inclined.

Expect heavy music with a possible racing theme! Hmm, maybe smooth heaviness?!

With Bijon Roy and Bill Guerrero.  

Hopefully a brief Robot News segment.

February 29, 2012: Thank-you, and Goodnight

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Jobim being coy, timeless

At the height of their powers.

The popular kids took my RHCP, not so much my J&MC

 

This band sustained my needs for 12 years.

Sharp, Mr Eno

Its actually 616, area code of the beast.

Hosting the Sand in Your Head has been one of the most compelling adventures of my life so far. Thanks so much to cfrc and Queen's for providing me with the opportunity. And thank you for listening and reading this blog. But for a move out of the city, I would gladly continue the enterprise. 

On this final show I tried to fit in as much of my defining musical influences as possible. Beginning with Van Halen in the iconic year/album 1984. I went from party metal to shoegaze in the 1990's with Jesus and Mary Chain, keeping some of the fun alive with George Clinton-produced Red Hot Chilli Peppers. They Might Be Giants has been a constant fixture in my taste as they alone seem to posses the variety and nonsensical attitude that best matches my interest. Pixies became the greatest thing ever for me a few years post-break-up. Jobim and Brazillian samba kept me sane during the grunge era, as did the Ramones. The Ramones are simply rock and roll perfected. 

Recent years have reinvigorated my interest in current music thanks to the legacy of folks like Eno and Flower Travellin' band. Wish I could have fit in some current psyche and dronzge music like White Hills, Oneida, Plastic Crimewave Sound and Wooden Shjips, but alas, 60 minutes. 

Thanks for coming on the ride, and watch out for the Robocopolypse!

Riding a Tire Down the River Euphrates, I am Sailin' on, 

-Sandy

Played List

Artist - Track - Album

Van Halen - Hot for Teacher - 1984

Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills - The Number of the Beast

Flower Travellin' Band - Satori Part 1 - Satori

Ramones - Beat on the Brat - Ramones

They Might Be Giants - Where Your Eyes Don't Go - Lincoln

Max Webster - Toronto Tontos - Max Webster

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Blackeyed Blonde - Freakey Styley

Pixies - River Euphrates - Surfer Rosa

Brian Eno -  Golden Hours - Another Green World

Antonio Carlos Jobim -  Aquas de Marcos (Waters of March)

Boards of Canada - Aquarius - Music has the Right the Children

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey - Psychocandy

Toots and the Maytals - Sailin On - Funky Kingston

January 23, 2012: Rejoice

Listen!

Harry Belefonte, is he happy? I presume Danny Glover is...

Sun Ra.

Music of celebration. I hope you are happy. I sure was. I guess I am too edgy and cool to play straight-up happy music, see Sinead O'Connor and (surprisingly) World Party below. So, yeah, I'm cool and, oh yeah, the loggins.

Robot News: Finally! A robot pig you can make out with!

Played List

Artist - Track - Album

Harry Belafonte - In That Great Gettin' Up Mornin' - Belafonte

Gary Numan - Music for Chameleons - I, Assasin

Moon Duo - Escape - Escape

Santana - Life is A Passing Parade - Oneness

The Mammas & the Pappas - Twelve Thirty - The Pappas & the Mammas

Bob Marley & the Wailers - Sun is Shining - Soul Revolution

World Party - When the Rainbow Comes - Keep the Fire

Kenny Loggins - This is It - Keep the Fire

Sinead O'Connor - Someday My Prince Will Come - Stay Awake

Sun Ra & his Arkestra - Pink Elephants on Parade - Stay Awake

Harry Nilson - Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah - Stay Awake

John Lennon - Kiss Kiss Kiss - Double Fantasy

James Taylor - Second Star to the Right- Stay Awake

January 4, 2012: Good Music is Really Good!

Listen!

This is just what happened when I Googled "GONG YOU". Pretty good for a TV Guide cover.

Kevin has got that smile that says: "40 years from now, people will still be discovering how mind-meltingly genius I am." Or am I projecting a tad? I really like Soft Machine. Why was I sleeping?

Making up for the indulgence of last week's journey into music so out there, that it looped back as cheesy mainstream. This is just desperately good stuff.

Robot News: Boxy the Cutest herald of the inevitable robocalypse to date.

Played List

Artist - Track - Album

Grateful Dead - Box of Rain - American Beauty

Love - A House Is Not A Motel- Forever Changes

Spectrum - Trilha Antiga - Love, Peace & Poetry Brazillian Psychedelic Music

Soft Machine - Pig - Volume Two

Soft Machine - Orange Skin Food - Volume Two

Soft Machine - A Door Opens and Closes - Volume Two

Bardo Pond - Chicken Gun - Peri

Gong - The Isle of Everywhere - You

Wooden Shjips - Home - West 

Plastic Cloud - Art's a Happy Man - The Plastic Cloud

Singing Post Family - Daddy Sang Bass -The Singing Post Family

Oneida - Pre- Human - Absolute

December 28, 2011: Holiday Special, 2nd Annual Bad Songs That Rock

LISTEN!

Sammy Hagar, two at once!

Not a mini, MOOG!

Post-Collwell-Bros-Up with People - hooray for everything is terrible

I had been trying to limit the amount of kitchy music played on the program, saving up some gems for this year's parade of questionable sound. Some songs are interesting, some are fun, some are just plain bad.

I couldn't resist laying down some of the Hagar promo disc that I discovered in a Carruthers Hall sub-basement, but that track was too much to be played in full, and the former Halenite's VOA was asking for it. I think Sammy's troubling "Dick in the Dirk" it made for a wonderful contrast to the Collwell Brothers' musical crew cut titled "You Can’t Live Crooked and Think Straight". These brothers seem to be a combo designed for those who found the Kingston Trio too edgy.

We couldn't let the event pass without a second helping of Ananta, Saga and more from the 80's video game album. Ringo Starr's Snookeroo? It gets exactly that, Elton John wrote it. Perhaps, while penning it he thought, "Y'know, what I'd really like to be doing is Disney soundtracks". 

The Cheetah record was a 50 cent find in North Bay. They appear to be Heart, but without the ability to play instruments, write songs or sing that well. Still, there was some soul there, perhaps draw out by the production of Vanda and Young?

Played List

Artist - Track - Album

Did You Really Have To? - Roger Whittaker - Roger Whittaker in Kenya

Gershon Kingsley - Have It - Or Grab It - Or Go

Buckner & Garcia - Mousetrap - Pac Man Fever

Wings - Cook of the House - At the Speed of Sound

Sammy Hagar - Turn Up the Music - A Little Rap & a Lot of Rock n’ Roll

Ananta - Home Sweet Home - Night & Daydream

Saga - Social Orphan - Heads or Tails

Colwell Brothers with Up With People - You Can’t Live Crooked and Think Straight - Up With People

Sammy Hagar - Dick in the Dirt - VOA

Voivod - Fuck Off and Die - Rrroooaaarrr

Cheetah - Sufferin’ Love - Rock n Roll Women

Ringo Starr - Snookeroo - Goodbye Vienna

They Might Be Giants - Disappointing Show - They Got Lost

Roger Whittaker - High - Roger Whittaker in Kenya

Magma - Gama Anteria - “Inedits”

December 7, 2011: Maximum Flower Power

Listen!!

Yuya Uchida. It gets exactly that. [schwarzerabt]

Barn Owls on Porras and Evan Caminiti - [Credito: R&ssell Yip / The Chr*nicle]

Jus sum gud musik. Yuya Uchida - wow! Many technical fumbles... but good music.

Robot news: Not Obelisk robot...


Played List
Artist - Track - Album

Yuya Uchida & the Flowers - Combination of the Two - Challenge!

Flower Travellin' Band - Satori 5 - Satori
The Soft Machine - Why Are We Sleeping - The Soft Machine
Dark Fog - Tomorrow - The Ultimate Cult of Psychedelic Psychosis

Wooden Shjips - Flight - West
Saffron Sect - Phosphorous Flash - [Single]
Nordic Nomad - The Soft Way - Worldwide Skyline


Bardo Pond - Karwan - Peri

Barn Owl - Turya - Lost in the Glare

O Bando - E Assim Falava Mefistopheles - Love, Peace and Poetry, Brazillian Psychedelic Music

December 21, 2011: Age of Winters

Get It HERE!

Winter Is Here

Sleep. 'n rights.

The longest, darkest night ever, well at least since 1683. (You laugh, but because of the tides, the Earth's rotation is slowing, every Winter Solstice means the longest night ever.)

This fact, and the host's failure to go to bed the night before resulted in some heavy slowness, just perfect for the insatiable alpha state. Apologies for the abrupt ending of Sleep's Jerusalem Part 1. I'd much rather play all of Dopesmoker, but the 63-minute epic will not fadge with our format. Instead we get Conifer and The Sword.

El Nueveo Roboto: Japan working on 13-foot robot[!]

Played List
Artist - Track - Album
 
ESG - You Make No Sense - Come Away with ESG

Sleep - Jerusalem Part1 - Jerusalem
Conifer - Cruciform Epinage - Crown Fire
Barn Owl - The Darkest Night Since 1683 - Lost in the Glare


Blood Ceremony - Th Great God Pan - Living with the Ancients
The Sword - Winter's Wolves - Age of Winters
Arboretum - When Delivery Comes - The Gathering
White Hills - The Condition of Nothing - H-p1
Moon Duo - Winter - [Single]

Stan Rogers - Canol Road - Northwest Passage