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

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

July 27, 2011: Yesness

Yes' Relayer. Excellent artwork.

Yes: yes.  I think the music speaks for itself this week. I played Brian Eno's new album this week again and I will likely play more next week since my vinyl copy just arrived from Enoshop.

Neat little Robot News this week, another step.

Robots have mastered human techniques and move on to messianic feats

I thought I was going to play Souljazz Orchestra's Kapital in response to silly debt-ceiling drama. I thought better of it and remembered that the best response to this stuff is Nonsense. Accordingly I chose Grasshopper and Toad from also from Manifesto.

I just added this picture because it is brilliant. How "put on" do you reckon these faces are

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I realize that Amy Winehouse passed recently. I actually picked up her first album but I couldn't bring myself to play it. The event did inspire me to start off with something from a  survivor. 

Played List

Artist - Track - Album

Ike and Tina Turner - Betcha Can't Kiss Me Just One Time - So Fine

Souljazz Orchstra - Grasshopper & Toad - Manifesto

Gentle Giant - As Old As You're Young - The Missing Piece

They Might Be Giants - Purple Toupee - Lincoln

Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible - Flying Teapot

Alexander Tucker - Dark Rift / Black Road - Dorwytch

Do Make A Say Think - Herstory of Glory - You, You're a History in Rust

Robot News - Water-Walking Bot No Jesus

Brian Eno - Breath of Crows - Drums Between the Bells

King Crimson - I Talk to the Wind - The Court of the Crimson King

Yes - Sound Chaser - Relayer

July 20, 2011: Wundermike Oldfield

Iconic label, iconic group. Led to great hip hop.

All I knew about tonight's show was that it would start with the Sugar Hill Gang and end with Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn. 

Iconic label, led to a bearded billionaire, space ships, and THIS

Well, I was wrong about that. We ended with Sun Ra's version of Pink Elephants on Parade. I had become familiar with the Arkestra's version of the track from the Stay Awake album, see below, and had concluded that this was a freakier version of a Fantasia classic. Accordingly, I downloaded it as an alternative to the Lion King tracks repeatedly requested by a 2 year-old friend of mine. Turns out the song animates Dumbo's psychedelic reaction to alcohol. 

What was in that drink!?

Anyway the kids loved it and so did I.

Robot News is just a sample of the fun things one can do with what is now readily available tech. I await the fully interactive light sabre duel bots, but this is a start!

Nerd Alert! Next, robot girlfriend. Oh wait.

Played List 

Artist - Track - Album

Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper's Delight (short version) - [Single]

Tackhead - Hard Left - Tape Time

Mugstar - Ouroboros - Imprec300 Collection

Four 'n'giv'r - The Rom Downstairs - Second Psychle

Soft Machine - Dada Was Here - VolumeTwo

Soft Machine - Thank You Pierrot Lunaire - VolumeTwo

Robot News

Six Organs of Admittance - Dark Noontide - Dark Noontide

Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn - Ommadawn Band 1

Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn - Ommadawn Band2

Sun Ra and his Arkestra - Pink Elephants on Parade - Stay Awake (Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films

July 13, 2011: Eno for 10,000 Years Please

Brian Eno

The release of a new album by Brian Eno gives me the opportunity to dedicate a show to him. I discovered Eno about 4 years ago and have being playing catch-up ever since. The man's talents and achievements are legendary. He just seems to have a brilliant perspective on the world that leads to fascinating art and culture generally. For me his music was the rainbow bridge, taking my ears from the grey Ragnarok of indie music to the kaleidoscopic Valhalla of prog-psych-ambient etc.

Check out this talk he gave with game designer Will Wright. He just throws out these incredible insights such as "Reggae and Dub is taking things away". 

Eno in his natural habitat

Always an innovator he is possibly the world's most famous music producer. While his solo projects are very experimental, ranging from 70's glam pioneer to new age ambient and electronica, Eno is never condescending or self-centred. His left bank and oddball style doesn't stop him from working with mainstream artists. One gets the feeling that he is all about process. In fact he is the personification of genuine humility and has a great sense of humour.

Ambient music, electronica, oblique strategies, the Long Now Foundation: all Eno projects. I am pretty sure he has also cured a water-bourne disease, saving millions of Tasmanian lives, and is credited with he inventing the oboe and the artisinal tuna sandwich. He has also found time to create 77 million paintings.

Eno getting his Roxy Music glam on.

Please check out the Robot News link below for info on the Clock of the Long Now. It is a symbolic project to develop very long-term thinking by designing a clock that will keep good time and chime once a day for 10, 000 years with almost no human assistance. Mr Eno designed the chime sequence which will generate a unique series of tones, every day, for a hundred centuries.

Played List

Artist - Track - Album

Brian Eno and Rick Holland - Sounds of Alien Events - Drums Between the Bells

Roxy Music - In Every Dream Home a Heartache - For Your Pleasure

Brian Eno - The True Wheel - Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy

Brian Eno - No One Receiving - Before and After Science

Robot News

Brian Eno and Rick Holland - Glitch - Drums Between the Bells

Robert Calvert  - Voyaging to Vinland - Lucky Leif and the Longships

David Bowie and Brian Eno - African Night Flight - Lodger

Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In the Bush of Ghosts - Regiment

Jane Siberry - Sail Across the Water - When I Was A Boy

Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Roger Eno - Under Stars II - Appollo - Atmospheres and Soundtracks

Brian Eno - Prophecy Theme - Dune, The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Brian Eno - On Some Faraway Beach - Here Come the Warm Jets

July 6, 2011: Destination Ananta!

Vishnu chillin' on Ananta S’esha

Not just for many headed serpents, the term "Ananta" also refers to a UK music combo from the late '70s that produced an album which somehow found its way into my possession by way of a Brighton Ontario yard sale.

The group was formed in England by Latin Grammy award winner Ilan Chester and fellow Venezuelans "the Spiteri Brothers", whoever they are. These men hooked up with a number of UK musicians and put out two albums, Night and Daydream and Songs From The Future. 

I obtained the former album which is a decent effort at spiritual-pscych-prog. I have seen reviews calling this both the best and worst item in various personal collections.

Ananta's Night and Daydream

I haven't really made up my mind about this LP musically, my first impression was that it is mediocre at best. What has really captivated me about this album is its marketing technique. A friend and I were both monetarily misled to think that this unknown group really did collaborate with Santana, Stevie Wonder, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley and George Harrison. 

John McGlaughlin (left) and Carlos Santana (right) sandwiching Sri Chimnoy. The latter being a guru with questionable claims of personal strength, but whose followers make a damn fine lentil soup.

However, closer inspection suggested that these artists are listed on the back cover not as participants to the recording but for their inspiration and assistance in Ananta's "Worldwide Projects". Indeed, those artists had nothing to do with the record and it is very interesting to think that this apparently peace-love-oneness band employed such a shameless marketing ploy. There is some reason to think that the record was peddled by Hare Krishna people on the street, using the hard sell. (The notes say that it is a benefit recording). Lots of fun blog posts about Ananta online. Check out this forum in which the release is called both "a very under-rated and unique sounding band" as well as "the world's least saleable record".

The backside of Night and Daydream, read the small print!

Make up your mind for yourself after listening to the name-dropped artists played on the broadcast before I unleashed what I think is the best track on the record. Lacking a solid knowledge of good non-hit, non-Beatles George Harrison songs, I opted for the uninspired Gone Troppo with a track that one blogger said was the worst song on the record. As Apfran says, no one got better in the eighties. I realize that I need to make an effort to get to know Harrison's work from the 1970's. Write me with suggestions!

George Harrison, getting to know India in 1966. I plan to get to know both George and India a bit better in 2011.

Because the show was pre-recorded, the end got cut off in the archive for TSIYH's hour. Listen to the full song here.

Not much time for robot news this week, but here is the link to the teaser headline. It sounds better than it looks in this video. But we are getting closer to this and ideally, this.

Played List

Artist - Track - Album

Frank Zappa - Dancing Fool - Sheik Yerbouti

Stevie Wonder - Jesus Children of America - Innervisions

Santana - Waiting - Santana

Genesis - The Return of the Giant Hogweed - Genesis Live

King Crimson - Inner Games - Lizard

Saga - Don't Be Late - Silent Knight

Robot News

Bob Dylan - The Ballad of Hollace Brown - The Times They Are A-Changin'

Neil Diamond - Cracklin' Rose - Hot August Night

George Harrison - I Really Love You - Gone Troppo (bad song that rocks)

Ananta - Fill Your Heart and Mind - Night and Daydream

June 29, 2011: Computer Love and Other Stories

It gets exactly that.

The planets aligned this week in terms of a great segue-way from the Hustle to Robot News, with Eruption's Computer Love followed by a story of a man falling for a chat bot. AI is getting there. Check out cleverbot.com and see how easy it is to mimic human responses. 

Yes, that is Kim Mitchell, its as good as he gets

I could do an entire program of Brazilian music, and some day I will. But tonight, following some dronney psych we got into a trio of Milton Nascimento songs about Pablo, prefixed by traditional Portuguese music. All in aid of bringing on Bebeto, a mail order find by way of the less inspiring Last.fm. If anyone knows where to find a cut of Bebeto's Segura Nega, please let me know.

Some pretty smooth music on this platter, reminiscent of Jobim

I also played a pretty funky selection from George Benson's The Other Side of Abbey Road. A garage sale find. CTI, with a great team of supporting artists including Herbie Hancock. Best dollar I've spent in years. Less good was the Ananta purchase, but there will be an entire show dedicated to that fiasco, perhaps next week.

I've heard Abbey Road from Both Sides Now

Played List

Artist - Track - Album 

Eruption (featuring Precious Wilson) - Computer Love - Eruption

Robot News - Computer Love and  Clever Bots

Max Webster - Moon Voices - A Million Vacations

Dark Fog - Out of My Mind - The Ultimate Cult of Psychedelic Psychosis

Moon Duo - In the Trees - Escape

Alexander Tucker - Superherder - Furrowed Brow

Esturdia dos Componeses de Godinhacos - A Vida E Assim Mesmo - Folklore de Mihno

Milton Nascimento - Pablo II- Journey to Dawn

Milton Nascimento - Pablo - Journey to Dawn

Milton Nascimento - Pablo II - Journey to Dawn

Bebeto - Bartuque  - Bebeto

George Benson - Because/Come Together - The Other Side of Abbey Road

Sun Ra - Plutonian Nights - The Nubians of Plutonia

June 22, 2011: For the Benefit

Say what you will about Sgt Pepper, but you must admit the album art  was influential

Listen to the show! 2011 22 2300





This week featured a heavy dose of AMT&MPU.F.O. preceded by "benefit" music from False Face and... the Beatles!


I just can't seem to get enough early German psych. Played my new Magama. I guess I can thank people like Heino for pushing the German youth of the sixties and seventies into the outer limits of creative exuberance.

This Heino picture would probably put a certain CKCU host into a coma. He has yet to wrestle that poodle!

Robot News was about drawing robots. Not sure how much this is initiation or imitation. I think the images are kewl though.

A Robot "drew" this.

Played List
Artist - Track - Album

Yaz - Sweet Thing -


Mountain - Don't Look Around - Nantucket Sleigh Ride

Year of the Benefit of the Doubt Part Two - False Face and Michael Davidge - AC5
For the Benefit of Mr Kite - The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
Brian Eno - Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch - BBC Sessions


Robot news

Magma - Neber Gudahtt - Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh

Acid Mother's Temple - Pink Lady Lemonade - Part 1 A
Acid Mother's Temple - Pink Lady Lemonade - Part 1B

June 15, 2011: L'Ambiance

This just screams 1991

"Full moon... Just go out and howl at it."- Tree McLicky

The last full moon before the solstice illuminated the sound of the Sand In Your Head during this week's broadcast.

I started off with a random purchase from my very early days of record collecting, when I thought the movie Trianspotting was the greatest thing ever. This was days before I would revisit Smokey and the Bandit (see last week's post).

We heard three very different tracks by Canadian artists, old and new. I must visit Ottawa and pick up more <>>>>, Biker Smell is not enough. Snowblower, is a pretty much defunct Toronto operation featuring the inspired lyrics, if not more reserved style,  of acid toilet rock pioneer, Craig Dean, formerly of satirical metal band "Gash". I am intrigued by Les Cailloux, a thoroughly Outaouais combo, who seemed to have had their moment and are now relegated to Value Village vinyl bins.

Gash with Beauregard Beechcliffe in all their "glory"

I then moved into the ambient from Six Organs of Admittance and Lords of Falconry. Pleased to have found M83's Saturdays= Youth in Vancouver, but sad to find out that the track I played is not typical of the album. I will give it time.

Real lords of falconry

ROBOT NEWS = ROBOT HUMMINGBIRD

Robots.net article

DARPA

Played List

Artist - Track - Album

Leftfield - A Final Hit (Instrumental) - Trainspotting Sampler

[The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol] - Biker Smell -  Pantheon of Fuckery Part 2 - Blues in Goddamn

Snowblower - C'est Dommage - In Fear of Snowblower

Les Cailloux - Envoyons D'L'Avant - Les Cailloux

Six Organs of Admittance - Anasthesia - Luminous Night

Lords of Falconry - Creeping, the Ether - Lords of Falconry

This Will Destroy You - The World Is Our ______ - Young Mountain

Jim O'Rourke - Not Sport, Martial Art - Halfway To A Threeway

M83 - Midnight Souls Still Remain - Saturdays = Youth

Neu!- "Sonderangebot" ("Special Offer") - Neu!

June 8, 2011: Forcast of Racing

Racing's "Flavio" (right in blue shades), races uncomfortably around Monaco.

 It was a dark and stormy night. Tom Waits is called for as well as some Eno and Conifer. These were a salve for the DEEP HURTING that was to follow in this week's program.

Tom Waits

Yes it is Grand Prix racing time in Montreal this weekend, a theme that I approached through the backdoor way of first focusing on songs with "outro's". Did I coin a term? This led us inevitably to "The Chain" by Fleetwood Mac (borderline "In-Line Rock"). The Chain is interesting because it demonstrates that a good outro can make for a great "intro".

Speedy Marie, on this album, has a great "outro".

This of course, leads us into racing and auto music. We hear from, literally, the Father of French electro-new-wave-ambient-music, Maurice Jarre with his soundtrack to 1966's Grand Prix movie.

Truly deeply hurty then was the broadcast of the two Smokey and the Bandit songs from two Smokey and the Bandit movies, each featuring the vocals of a different star from the respective films. The shameless excess of these movies and recordings may have been a herald of end times. I like the Jerry Reed, actually.

Smokey [not pictured here and the Bandit (right).

Shortest Robot News eva. Yes, shuffle board playing bots sure to take over world... of shuffle board.

Played List
Artist - Track - Album
 
Brian Eno - Flint March - Small Craft on a Milk Sea
Brian Eno - Horse - Small Craft on a Milk Sea

Tom Waits - Strange Weather - Big Time
Saffron Sect - Phosphorus Flash - [single]
Fever Ray - When I Grow Up - Fever Ray


Conifer - Surface Fire - Crown Fire

Citizen Cope Easy Star All Stars- Karma Police - Radiodread
Speedy Marie- Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain - Rumours


Maurice Jarre - Sarti’s Love Theme (Bossa Nova) - Grand Prix The Motion Picture Soundtrack 
Jerry Reed - Eastbound and Down and Incidental CB Dialogue - Smokey and the Bandit the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Burt Reynolds - Let's Do Something - Let's Do Something Cheap and Superficial - Smokey and the Bandit 2, the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack


Angelo Badalamenti - Dub Drive - Lost Highway, the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Angelo Badalamenti - Red Bats with Teeth - Lost Highway, the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

June 1, 2011: Slice That Hammer and Robot News Gets a Theme!

Chain gangs were not fun for anyone. The despair and suffering of this approach to correctional services is vividly drawn out in Harry Belafonte's re-creation of some of these melodies in the powerful LP "Swing Dat Hammer". We played one track, but stopped there, these songs are intense. 

Ontario of the Future?

I've been waiting to play a significant amount of folk music and this seemed like a great opportunity to play some non-country hurtin' songs. The British/Smithsonian collection of Child songs performed by Jean Ritchie is a real gem. These are old British ditties that survived the migration to America and are still sung with feelin' by the families in the mountains of the US south. Ritchie is a master of the dulcimer and I couldn't resist playing two tracks.

Jean Ritchie

Had to acknowledge Mr Dylan's big 70th birthday. I bought Desire for Hurricane, but I keep it for Isis.

The second hunk of the program featured some selections that were less heavy musically, if not instrumentally.

Someone's shield is hungry.

Robot News was an example of how security bots have become commonplace. The fact that it was a robot that burned down this house was not the news in this story![1] Perhaps the real news today is RB's new theme!

Played List

Artist - Track - Album 

ESG - You Make No Sense - Come Away With ESG

Harry Belafonte - Look Over Yonder - Swing Dat Hammer

Jean Ritchie - British Folkways [Child Songs] - False Sir John

Jean Ritchie - British Folkways [Child Songs] -Hangman

Buffy Ste-Marie - God Is Alive... Magic is Afoot - Best of Buffy Ste-Marie

Ian & Sylvia - Un canadien Errant - Ian & Sylvia

Bob Dylan - Isis - Desire

Marissa Nadler - River of Dirt - Little Hells

Robot News

Judas Priest - Prelude - Hero Hero

Sonic Youth - The Good and the Bad - Sonic Youth

Wooden Shjips - Down By the Sea - Dos

Jimi Hendrix - Long Hot Summer Night - Electric Ladyland

May 25, 2010: The Pacific

This week  I started off with what I've always believed to be a dance track from Stevie Wonder from The Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants. Interesting record.

Plants are alive.

I rounded out the day with all of side 2 of Can's Monster Movie: You Do Right. The show was precorded and I figured that these occasions are ideal for long tracks.

Long songs? Long Cat!

Book-ended by Stevie Wonder and Can are some selections related to the pacific ocean. I am particularly fond of the scratchy record of Maori recordings which features a m ix of  traditional warrior-style chanting and New Zealand's version of aboriginal Schlager. I also threw in some Stan Rogers and percussive schlager from Reader's Digest Records. Recorded in Dynagroove and "pleasure programmed" this six-disc box set is incapable of good music. Count this as a Bad Song that Rocks.

Painting of Potatau Te Wherowhero and two other Maori chiefs

I felt a bit bad about the Reader's Digest Deep Hurting, so I played some Brazilian Psych, Magma and Jesus and Mary Chain, just to keep it Cheddar.

Robot News featured new ideas about Swarm Robots for Mars Exploration, which I found out about by way of the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe podcast. Hello to any new robot news enthusiasts!

Played List 

Artist - Track - Album

Stevie Wonder - Race Babbling - Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants

1979 basd on the 1973 book by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird

Som Imginaro - Super God - Sweet Dandilion

Magma - Gamma - Inedits

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Blues from A Gun

Robot News

Haka: Ringa Pakia - Henare Take - New Zealand "Maori" Concert Party

E Pari Ra - Henare Take - New Zealand "Maori" Concert Party

Haka: Te Peruperu/Whiti Whiti - Henare Take - New Zealand "Maori" Concert Party

Stan Rogers- Rollin' Down to Old Maui - Between the Breaks... Live!

Douglas Gamley (and the Reader's Digest Orchestra?) - Jungle Drums - South Sea Island Magic

The Can - You Do Right - Monster Movie

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