December 7, 2011: Heavy Plastic

  Listen!

Now Jeff Lebowski won't listen.  I played Creedence last week! Looking for an LP of bowling strikes.

Some heavy music, some is light hearted, some is less so. You know that feeling when someone has been telling you to listen to some album for ages and then you do and it re-defines your universe? Melvins, Bad Brains...

Nice lair, Crimewave.

Also some surprisingly good music from Anvil and we let Hawkwind play us out. 

Robot News Human? Robot pick a side! Robots show their human side.

Played List

Artist - Track - Album

Don Felder - Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride)

Bad Brains - Big Take Over - Bad Brains

My Bloody Valentine - All I Need - Isn't Anything

Plastic Crimewave Sound - I Am (Planet Crushing) - Plastic Crimewave Sound

Anvil - 666 - Metal On Metal

<><>>>> - Mescal Temple - <><>>>> vs. the Purveyors of Conspicuous Authenicity

Melvins - Joad of Arc - Houdini

White Hills - No Other Way - H-p1

Hawkwind - You Shouldn't Do That - In Search of Space

November 30, 2011: Good News About the Creedence

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Hard to resist an album with a cover like this.

This week we started off with a rare-find EP compiled of Afro-funk from singles recorded by an outfit called the Psychedelic Aliens. While they are pefhaps remembered more for their name and signature "Psycho African Beat" than any exceptional music, this Academy release is worth it just to drop into that time and place of Ghana in the late sixties. The large booklet in the vinyl release is also worth a glance.

I defy anyone to create an inner sleeve that is anymore hip. Okay, maybe if the cat had a moustache.

New music from Quest for Fire's Chad Ross. Very similar to Quest's sound this is a little more dreamuy and guitarey.

Eno's leavings beat most other's mains.

Left over from this year's "Drums Between the Bells", the music of Eno and the words of Rick Holland are extended with this EP. A decent afterthought to enjoy on a crisp late winter morning. 

This week's robot news claim is truly staggering, a can-bot that seems to recognize itself in a mirror and a claim that it is self-aware. Before you get all "...not just ro-bot, Number 5 is... alive!" pn us, we have not been able to verify who exactly performed this research and whether the claim is accurat or plausible. The bot is possibly the child of "Thecorpora Robot Company" who appears to have posted a blog explaining the experiment. Certainly no academic institution seems to be associated with this claim much less any published paper setting out what is meant by "self-aware" or demonstrating that this has occurred. This could be an exaggeration, or an all out hoax.

Played List

Artist - Track - Album

The Psychedelic Aliens - We're Laughing - The Psycho African Beat

Wooden Shijps - Black Smoke Rise - West

Wooden Shijps - SOL '07 - Vol. 1

Four n' Giv'r - You Are Who - Second Psychle

Four n' Giv'r - Song for Sahm - Second Psychle

Nordic Nomadic - Worldwide Skyline -Worldwide Skyline

Quest for Fire - Hinterland's Who's Who - Lights from Paradise

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory - Ramble Tamble

Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain

Brian Eno - in the future - Panic of Looking

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November 16, 2011: Trans Europe Express or Work it Out

DDR-era radio.

Your host went to some Northern European countries, not entirely as an excuse to play Saga and Helloween

Occupy Amsterdam

A Lucky Leif-era Longship in Oslo

Saga lives (in Germany)

Robot News = Robot Ostrich

Played List

Artist - Track - Track

Public Enemy- Brothers Gonna Work it Out - Fear of a Black Planet

Helloween- Keeper of the Seven Keys- Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2

Can - 19th Century Man - Delay 1968

Saga - No Stranger Chapter VIII - Worlds Apart

Robert Calvert - Storm Chant of the Skraelings - Lucky Leif and the Longships

Islaja - Palaa Aurinkoon - Palaa Aurinkoon

Focus - Focus (Vocals) - In and Out of Focus

Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express - Trans Europe Express


thirsty?

Preview: Trans Northern Europe

Trains, Misty Countryside and Music. Who needs gin?

Been on hiatus and re-runs for a bit. Weds' show is a pre-record filled with music from and for Europe. Can, Focus, Kraftwerk, Saga, Islaja, Robert Calvert, Helloween and Public Enemy.

October 12, 2011: The Sand In Your Eyes

Exact.

Sun o))) and Boris at ATP 2010, I should be somewhere near the front left. I was tired sweaty and all my cells were vibrating.

Some music can only be truly appreciated when you have not slept for more than 36 hours. This is some of that. I will be on hiatus soon for 4 weeks and will try to pre-record. Look forward to the band Sleep in one of those shows, really couldn't edit any of that for this broadcast.

Played List

Artist - Track - Album

Air -The Voyage of Penelope

Windy & Carl - When We Were -Songs for the Broken Hearted

Rock Plaza Central -  I Am An Excellent Steel Horse - Are We Not Horses

Now, A Robot That Can Think (with knowledge)

<>>> - Saur Kraut - <><>>>> vs The Purveyors of Conspicuous Authority

Bardo Pond- Absence -Bufo Alvarus

Sun o))) & Boris - N.L.T. - Altar

My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes - Loveless

Antonio Carlos Jobim - Insansatez - Greatest Hits

Milton Nascimento - Pai Grande - MPB

They Might Be Giants - Road Movie to Berlin - Flood

October 5, 2011: Life is Precious, and God, and the Bible

'Course it's a good idea!

Whether it be religion, deity, or parasitic meme, the Jesus and his super best friends etc. sure have generated some interesting sounds over the millennia. The Sand took a trip into to the sacred and the blasphemous this week. Or maybe it was just another excuse to play Hoof-prints on the Ceiling of my Mind.

The Super Best Friends. Can't we all just get along and combat the real problem... David Blaine?

No faith and want some? Try this.

Got faith and want to lose it? Check this out.

Want it back? Go here.

Don't want to decide? Sit back and enjoy the ride.

Ride again.

I prefer my gods to carry a hammer and ride goat-pulled chariots.:

Thor, God of Thunder, Farming and Law. (Before his recent new-age-shroom-trip-Brannagh makeover.)

Oh yeah. I've mentioned it before, but this really is a good show:

The Book of Mormon, the Musical! (In 1978 god also created Corvette Summer)

By the way, the Avenue Q guy is Robert Lopez. 

To fully understand the title of this episode, watch THIS episode (particularly part 2).

Robot News

I am sure that someone in Japan will soon succeed in a claim that a robot has a soul. Until then, robots can continue as indentured slaves!

Played List

Artist - Track - Album

Tom Waits - Way Down in the Hole - Big Time

Bardo Pond - Don't Know About You -

Pixies - This Monkey's Gone to Heaven - Doolittle

The Jesus & Mary Chain - Fall - Darklands

Rush - Freewill - Permanent Waves

Geoff Berner - Rabbi Berner Finally Reveals his True Religious Agenda - Victory Party

Lou Reed - Busload of Faith - New York

They Might Be Giants - Kiss Me, Son of God - Lincoln

Buffy Sainte-Marie - God is Alive Music is Afoot - Best of Buffy Sainte-Marie

Andrew Rannells - I Believe - The Book of Mormon, the Original Broadway Cast

Daniel Higgs - Hoofprints on the Ceiling of Your Mind - Say God

September 28, 2011: Curried Souljazz Birds

I always felt the theme for As It Happens sounded like The Stones' Satisfaction

I also feel that Bison Eyes from Quest for Fire's "Quest for Fire" recalls, Iron Maiden's "Iron Maiden" from Iron Maiden

And virtually identical album covers!

Tonight's selections were pretty random, other than I am all about Ravens and Crows as I read A Song of Ice and Fire. Accordingly, three bird songs. I declined to bring you the Beatles' Blackbird to colour coordinate the three-play. Who needs to hear that when we can play The Flock?

Can't really cal it robot "news" this week, as it comes from 1944! Check out the amazing Monopoly-man coffee ad and circus disaster photo layout!

Played List

Artist - Track - Album 

The Souljazz Orchestra - Mista President - Freedom No Go Die

Snakefinger - Kill the Great Raven - Kill the Great Raven/What Wilbur 7''

The Flock - Big Bird - Dinosaur Swamps

Brian Eno - Breath of Crows - Drums Between the Bells

Robot Olds

White Hills - Hand in Hand - H-p1

Oneida - Pre-Human - Absolute II

Quest for Fire - Bison Eyes - Quest for Fire

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

Moe Koffman - Curried Soul - Curried Soul

The Sand Will Curry Your Souljazz

curried soul, as it happens

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September 21, 2011: Fuzzpedals Come Alive

Non functional use of parasol?

I already feel illuminated, just looking at this album cover.

The music on this show was inspired by a friend of the show. Thanks for leading me to this great music. It all started by being sent the following link: ENO lip-synchs in a digital landscape.

Played List

Artist - Track - Album

 

Brian Eno - Seven Deadly Finns - The BBC Sessions

Neu! - Negativland - Neu!

Wooden Shjips - Shrinking Moon for Now - Volume 2

Robot "news" 1

Robot "news" 2

Affinity - United States of Mind - Affinity

Buffy St. Marie - Mary - Illuminations

Melissa Nadler - Mary Come Alive - Little Hells

Fursaxa - Well Of Tuhala - Mycorrhizae Realm

Linus Pauling Quartet - 40oz. - All Things Are Light

Supertramp - Fool's Overture - Even in the Quietest Moments

September 14, 2011: Oneida and Stuff

Oneida. Brooklyn 2010

Played List

Artist - Track - Album

Scratch Perverts / Grandmaster Flash - Adventures of the Wheels of Steel - Still the Joint CD2

Fuck Buttons - Colours Move - Street Horrsing

Pterodactyl - First Daze - Worldwind

Women - Locust Valley - Public Strain

Robot News

Vertically-challenged-celebrity-chef-porn-look-alike-badger-den-death News

Oneida  - River - Rated O

Oneida - Gray Area - Absolute II

Sun Araw & Eternal Tapestry - Night Gallery III

Plastic Cloud -  Art's A Happy Man - Plastic Cloud

Yusef Lateef - The Eboness - The Diverse Yusef Lateef

September 7, 2011: Back In Our Schools

Nerd Alert Stanley!

Funkadelic, I see many 'Back to School" clothing ideas.

Study hard and hunker down Queensians, winter is coming.

I journalized a second story(*) of the robot mundane. A second "injured" robot is described in this week's news. I may start a sub-feature on instances when robots are reported in the media as members of our society, rather than tools.

Played List

Artist - Track - Album

Funkadelic - Back In Our Minds - Maggot Brain

Blood Ceremony - My Demon Lover -Living with the Ancients

Steve Hillage -  Musik of the Trees - Green

Pontiak - Mr Wilson- Kale

Robot News

Santana and Alice Coltrane - Angel of Sunlight - Illuminations

Windy & Carl - When We Were - Songs for the Broken Hearted

White Hills - Hand in Hand - H-p1

Stanley Clarke - School Days - School Days

August 24, 2011: Plastic Cloud to Blood Ceremony

Blood Ceremony's Alia O'Brien

 

 

 

White Hills playing at Kutcher's Resort, ATP 2010

 

Tonight's broadcast featured was a welcomed venture into great music past, but mostly present in the space-stoner-psychedelic realm. I don't have much to say other than to note that it is nice to see that two of the bands include female members whose instruments are instrumental.

Played List

Artist - Track - Album

 

The Plastic Cloud - Epistle to Paradise - The Plastic Cloud  1968

White Hills - Paradise - H-p1

La Otracina - Hail Fire - Reality Has Got to Die

Robot News

Black Sabbath -  - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Hawkwind - You Shouldn't Do That - In Search of Space

Blood Ceremony - Morning of the Magicians

MPB-4 - Beco Do Mota - Brazil Bossa, Bossa Nova and the Story of Elenco Records, Brazil

Preview: August 24, 2011 - Psyche!

I've just aqcuired a load of new psychedelic records for your listening pleasure tonight at 11 pm on cfrc.ca and 101.9 FM in Kingstonia.

Look forward to lots of Canadian psycheness: The Plastic Cloud, Blood Ceremony, <>>>>, as well as maybe some Windy and Carl, White Hills and more Hawkwind.

The Plastic Cloud, being neither.

What is with Canadian 60's bands and rivers? 

Now, COME ON!

August 17, 2011: Smooth Sailing

The Iconic Yacht Rock Album

What do hard rockers Van Halen and McDonald-era Doobie Brothers have in common? Yacht Rock Producer Ted Templeman!

Kenny Loggins swims a life vest over to Michael McDonald , in the shape of "What a Fool Believes"... within barf-scent range of castaway Jimmy Messina.

You MUST check out the Channel 101 series to truly understand the proliferation of flawless smiuothe miusique that dominated the airwaves from 1976 to 1984, and its distinction from rock and pop and soft rocking. It is none of those things, it is Yacht Rock!

Yacht Rock progenitors,  JD Ryznar, (Michael McDonald)  , David B. Lyons (Koko Goldstein), "Hollywood" Steve Huey and Hunter Stair (Kenny Loggins), at the launch of Yacht Rock 12 in NYC, 2010

Here is an incredibly simplified Venn diagram: 

Note, no yachts required.

Played List 

Artist - Track - Album

Rush - The Weapon - Signals

Bass Communion & Pig - Sucedio Antes - Imprec300

Iron Maiden - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Live After Death

Van Halen - Light Up the Sky - Van Halen II

Van Halen - Spanish Fly - Van Halen II

Robot News

Steely Dan - The Fez - The Royal Scam

The Doobie Brothers - It Keeps You Runnin' - Takin it to the Streets

Kenny Loggins - What a Fool Believes - Kenny Loggins Live

Toots and the Maytalls - Sailin' On - Funky Kingston

August 9, 2011: Space Is Deep(ends)

I would love to see a movie version set in the late 1800s.

If you are a regular listener, you will have heard the topic of outer space raised in previous episodes. Why an entire space show this time? The answer lies in Peterborough. I picked up Pac-Man Fever and the Yes Album in the electric city last week. I couldn't bear to play the title Pac-Man track, but found the assortment of video game sounds circa 1980 to be particularly fun, especially The Defender. Couple that with Star-ship trouper from Yes, and we have a theme.

This picture is somewhat misleading as to the graphics contained therein.

Great reason to play some Hawkwind!

Searching for Space?

Robot news this week is arguably, hum drum. But perhaps it is a great statement of our times that despite the economic pressures, we are still sending robots to Jupiter! 

There is other space news which I cannot resist noting. Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Institute for Astrophysics have apparently used Kepler data to locate the Harkonnen home world of Geidi Prime!

Space findings! Blacker than coal!

Ended things off with Journey of the Sorcerer, the best thing the Eagles ever did, thanks to Douglas Adams' use of the tune.

Played List

Artist - Track - Album

 

Jeff Wayne - The Eve of the War - Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds

Hawkwind - The Black Corridor - Space Ritual

Hawkwind - Space is Deep - Space Ritual

Donovan - Intergalactic Laxative - Cosmic Wheels

Buckner & Garcia - The Defender- Pac-Man Fever

Saga - Give 'Em the Money - Saga

Yes - Starship Trooper - The Yes Album

(the) Ventures In Space - War of the Satellites - Out of Limits/Penetration

The Might Be Giants - For Science - Then: The Early Years

Brian Eno - Glitch - Drums Between the Bells

Robot News

The Eagles - Journey of the Sorcerer - One of These Nights