May 18, 2011: Loud Day

It is Loud Day. A time when children are a-loud to be loud in museums. I only learned this fact late in the day, but was able to ensure significant loudness in the museum of the strange that is The Sand In Your Head.

Geoff Berner's unrepresentative "Oh My Golem" is, I think, I decent attempt at bridging the high-energy  body-moving beats of The Hustle to our panoply of musical oddities. Berner recently played the Artel, and he is really worth seeing live and in possession of his full whiskey rabbi powers.

A big boat of cars from Stanley Park

I was reminded of Berner during a recent trip to Vancouver, this song became an uncomfortable earworm for me while I wandering through Stanley Park.

Oh My Golem is a Bad Song that Rocks. Above is bad art that stalks. From a thrift store in which I bought some Buffy Sainte-Marie

Vancouver is quite green, I saw many green trees, which would please artist Steve Hillage, who I believe was not involved in Planet Gong Live Floating Anarchy. 

Lynn Canyon. Green and inviting.

 Lots of unidentified entities referred to in this week's musical selections, not intentional.

Surreal. Dali would certainly have considered this to be a representation of part of his unconscious.

Robot News was really neat this week, the result of a team of researchers delving into the literature in order to bring you this stimulating headline: "Robots Taught to Create Language, Speak". The team has followed up on this research and can confirm that the conclusions are included in an article published at the The International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Can't say for sure whether this is peer-reviewed, but it looks pretty legit. Here's the image I mentioned in the program:

Robots invent language and agree on place names.

 Played List
Artist - Track - Album

Bad Song that Rocks
Geoff Berner - Oh My Golem - Victory Part

Steve Hillage - Unidentified Flying Being - Green
Steve Hillage - U.F.O. over Paris  - Green
Gong - Allez Ali Baba Blacksheep Have You Any Bullshit: Mama Maya Mantram - Planet Gong Live Floarting Anarchy

Ramones -Down in the Basement - Ramones
Ramones - Judy is a Punk  - Ramones

Don Caballero - [Side B Track1] -  Don Caballero 2

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Acid Heart Mother Part 2 - Troubadours From Another Heavenly World

May 4, 2011: Hello!

Hello! The first show in the new time slot involved some of my favorite psychedelic, krautrock and progressive music. I also bragged and name-dropped about a trip I took to New York. 

At the Museum of the Moving Image in NYC. This film projector played records.

See? Huge Records!

Artist Molly Crabapple, making. From the High Line in NYC

I really ought to point out that my references to the "Book of Mormon" during the program were not to the religious text but the hit Broadway Musical by the creators of South Park and Avenue Q. I very funny play, but not for those without an open mind to... edgy satire.

The original purpose of my journey was the music of Steve Reich, which was played by Bang On a Can All-Stars, Eighth Blackbird, So Percussion and Cronos Quartet. The latter performing the premiere of Reich's WTC/911 which concerns the attacks of September 11, 2011. (WTC actually refers to "World To Come"). We heard a movement from Double Sextet on the show last night, played by Eighth Blackbird. Unlike earlier performances of the piece, in which one of the sextets was pre-recorded, last Saturday Bang On a Can All-Stars filled in at Carnegie Hall.

James Carter Organ Trio with Nicholas Payton & James "Blood" Ulmer at the Blue Note

I played music on vinyl LP, cassette, compact disc and mp3, a range almost as broad as the musical selection. I hope folks enjoyed this Gentle Giant selection, it was the catalyst that made me really get into them. I wonder what did it for Sherman Hemsley...

It took me a while to finally listen to the tape I purchased from Montreal artist Drainolith, but boy am I glad I did. (Also glad I haven't thrown out that dusty, slightly broken tape deck.) We heard Pushing Sand from that tape, something I do weekly.

Re-listening to the show I should also clarify that the pirate micro-bots I spoke of, are robots designed to spy on pirates, not pirates designed to spy on robots. I mispoke. Twice. 

Played List 

Track - Artist - Album

Hello Radio - They Might Be Giants - Then: The Early Year

Time Out For Fun - Devo - Oh No! Its Devo

Can - Butterfly - >>Delay<<

Flower Traveling Band - Satori Part I - Satori

Bardo Pond - Don't Know About You - Bardo Pond

Drainolith - Pushing Sand - Drainolit

Gentle Giant - I Lost My Head - Intervie

Robot News - Pirate Fighting Micro-Bots 

Steve Reich  Eighth Blackbird Bang on A Can - Double Sextet I Fast

Daniel Higgs - Say God - Say God

New Time Slot Wednesdays at 11pm.

Tonight at 11 p.m., tune in to CFRC 101.9 FM in the Kingston area or listen live at cfrc.ca for the first show in the new time slot!

A Sandstone Head

I will be playing some Steve Reich following my experience of witnessing his uplifting percussive tones at Carnegie Hall last weekend. Also look forward to (hopefully) some Flower Traveling Band, They Might be Giants, Bardo Pond and, as usual, Robot News.

Stay tuned for more experimental music on CFRC, with Suspended Particulate at midnight.