Favoriting Brian Turner: Playlist from June 24, 2014 Favoriting

Order and disorder in a freeform haze of terribly-played guitars, shorted-out electronics, found audio detritus, strange sounds from strange lands all around. Psych-punk-junk, collage, even pop. Lots of in-studio live performances to boot.

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Favoriting June 24, 2014: SUN RA Centennial Special 4-6pm w/guests Michael Anderson (Sun Ra Archive) + Irwin Chusid

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Artist Track Album Label Comments New Approx. start time
Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman  Lunar Rhapsody   Favoriting First Electronic Chillout Music  Black Sweat    *   0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Clone  Son of Octabred   Favoriting Son of Octabred  Dead-Cert    *   0:03:19 (Pop-up)
Dan Melchior und Das Menace  Town Feeling   Favoriting Hunger  Castle Face  Kevin Ayers cover  *   0:13:11 (Pop-up)
Drunks With Guns  A Beer   Favoriting none  Drunks With Guns      0:21:28 (Pop-up)
Sick Thoughts  Let Myself Think   Favoriting 7"  Zaxxon    *   0:23:31 (Pop-up)
In School  Conquest Fear   Favoriting Praxis of Hate EP  Kill Test    *   0:25:56 (Pop-up)
Die Welttraumforscher  Die WTF in der Disco   Favoriting Herzschlag Erde / Verdunkelt die Sinne  Alga Marghen    *   0:28:07 (Pop-up)
Half High  High at 55   Favoriting Various: Squawkabout: Australian Sampler (my 2014 Marathon Premium)  No Label    *   0:31:43 (Pop-up)
Omid Walizadeh  Excerpt   Favoriting Modern Persian Speech Sounds  Bta'arof    *   0:37:26 (Pop-up)
Ivan Navarro  Decomposition I   Favoriting Decomposition I  Hueso    *   0:40:36 (Pop-up)
David Chesworth  The Unattended Serge   Favoriting The Unattended Serge 1978 / Five Evolutionary Things 1979  Planam    *   0:46:48 (Pop-up)
Tom Kovacevic  Steady Stream of Course   Favoriting Universe Thin As Skin  Immune    *   0:50:30 (Pop-up)
King Buzzo  Drunken Baby   Favoriting This Machine Kills Artists  Ipecac    *   0:54:37 (Pop-up)
Dark Matter  Tomorrow   Favoriting Dark Matter  Siltbreeze    *   0:57:30 (Pop-up)
Michael Anderson & Irwin Chusid  Interview   Favoriting     On Tuesday June 24, Brian Turner will host his WFMU colleagues Michael D. Anderson (The Good Doctor) and Irwin Chusid to discuss the Sun Ra centennial. Anderson is Executive Director of the Sun Ra Music Archive, an extensive collection of original Sun Ra master tapes acquired after he was appointed the bandleader's tape librarian during the 1970s. Anderson has spent the subsequent decades reviewing, cataloguing, and preserving these historic tapes. Chusid recently became the interim representative of Sun Ra LLC on behalf of the heirs of the late musician. To commemorate this year's 100th anniversary of Sun Ra's arrival on Planet Earth, Anderson and Chusid issued 21 meticulously transferred and restored classic Sun Ra albums from the 1950s thru the 1970s as part of the 24-bit Mastered for iTunes series. Anderson and Chusid will talk about the Sun Ra legacy and play lots of music, including unreleased material. We'll also be airing a segment of the incredible live session from Brian's show last year featuring the Arkestra's Marshall Allen and Danny Thompson at WFMU. Check out the new albums at iTunes.com/sunramusic and also check out the new video channel on You Tube    2:13:15 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra  Moon Dance   Favoriting Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy  Enterplanetary Koncepts      1:16:58 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra and His Arkestra  El is the Sound of Joy   Favoriting Supersonic Jazz  Enterplanetary Koncepts      1:21:53 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra  The Bridge   Favoriting The Singles  Enterplanetary Koncepts      1:41:21 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Arkestra  New Planet   Favoriting Continuation Vol. 1  Enterplanetary Koncepts      1:45:22 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Arkestra  Meteor Shower   Favoriting Continuation Vol. 2  Enterplanetary Koncepts      1:49:51 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra and His Arkestra  India   Favoriting Supersonic Jazz  Enterplanetary Koncepts      2:10:18 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Arkestra  Otherness Blue   Favoriting My Brother the Wind Vol. 2  Enterplanetary Koncepts      2:15:09 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra  The Wind Speaks   Favoriting My Brother the Wind Vol. 2  Enterplanetary Koncepts      2:22:47 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra  Music From the World Tomorrow   Favoriting Angels and Demons At Play  Enterplanetary Koncepts      2:23:11 (Pop-up)
Marshall Allen / Danny Ray Thompson / Charles Cohen / Ed Wilcox / Jerry Mayall  Live here on the show 5/5/13   Favoriting WFMU studios        2:35:27 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Cheri Pi:

CP to ground control.
Avatar 3:02pm
Lopez:

What an ethereal way to start the Sun Ra show! Yes!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:03pm
DCE:

i like baby avocados
Avatar 3:03pm
Perpetually New Listener:

Hi Brian
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
Andrew Waterloo:

yah, Sun Ra!
  3:13pm
sonictooth:

Sounds good, hi Brian & everyone aboard
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:15pm
Greg from Bloomfield:

Ahoy Brian & everyone!
Avatar 3:16pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Calling Planet Earth !
...Preparing for the presence of the Living Myth...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:19pm
Santos L Halper:

Heard Irwin and Michael on WKCR recently, was great. Looking forward to some more rare Ra and conversation.
  3:20pm
idiot fuel:

Did I hear mention of a Peter walker gig in NYC on last weeks show?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:21pm
DCE:

now that's clever
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Billy Jam:

sounding real good!
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rob t:

hello all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:23pm
DCE:

oh if you insist, sure, I'll have one
Avatar 3:29pm
Lopez:

Outstanding Eastern Bloc synth action!
Avatar 3:29pm
Neg-guh-tor:

Die Welttraumforscher! lOVE THESE GUYS.
  3:36pm
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This is fab.
  3:44pm
BriJet:

Hello!
  Swag For Life Member 3:45pm
BarbR:

Just got your CD this week! Awesome stuff!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:56pm
common:

hey hey.
Avatar 3:56pm
Lopez:

Acoustic Buzzo is so gruff and wily
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:05pm
Doug S.:

Praises to the Good Doctor and Ol' Pal Irwin.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:18pm
Greg from Bloomfield:

LOVE this. Can Michael and Irwin (and commenters!) recommend a gateway for the largely uninitiated?
Avatar 4:22pm
Lopez:

Great great great stuff
  4:23pm
mb:

This one gives me chills everytime. "The sound of joy."
  4:24pm
BriJet:

Me likee!
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Cheri Pi:

Greg, Angels and Demons at Play is a nice gateway en.wikipedia.org...
  4:25pm
Dean:

For Greg, I have my own skewed recommendations, nowhere approaching the authority of our DJs today. Disco3000 is a good intro to the smaller ensemble. I *love* the complete Detroit Jazz Center Residency, 28 disks, transcribed from cassette. Sound is so-so, but an entire week of sets is mind-blowing. Also, as I've mentioned before, nobody but nobody should be without Sun Ra's duets with Walt Dickerson on Steeplechase, Visions. It is a desert island disk.
  4:28pm
Dean:

Per Google's ngram viewer, "supersonic" appeared in the literature during the early '20s, peaked in '55.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:29pm
Pat in Philadelphia:

Greg, might I suggest "Lanquidity". I think that's a great place to start.
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Jeff Golick:

The sound of joy, indeed.

The quartet recordings on Horo are also, perhaps, great entry points for smaller-scale Ra. Can also second Lanquidity, as per Pat.

Anyway, thanks, gents, for all you've done to restore these Ra recordings!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:33pm
Greg from Bloomfield:

Thanks, all! It's gonna be a Sun Ra Summer.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:34pm
Pat in Philadelphia:

Also, I'm sincerely enjoying all this talk about compression. Though I suppose I'll be forever rebuying and rebuying Sun Ra's music.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:39pm
common:

great info to receive. thank you guys!
  4:41pm
Dean:

See Graham Lock's book Blutopia for more about the legacy of science fiction, spirituality, and redemption in the work of major African-American composers Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton.
Avatar 4:43pm
Droll:

. o O ( Where's that confounded bridge? )
Avatar 4:44pm
t_J:

this is gr8 .. hi Brian and every1, plus guests
Avatar 4:47pm
t_J:

we are shifting of paradigm thinking i sense so this kind of visionary approach to art is more than welcomed
Avatar 4:47pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Coltrane credited John Gilmore (he was not @ all above being influenced)...I wonder if Lonnie Holley credits Sun Ra specifically...I wonder what the direct links to 'White'/Rock Psychedelia are; most of those people knew their Jazz pretty well...I wonder if even Joe Meek was exposed to this stuff &/or thot about it - & I wonder just *how much* earlier Sun Ra was 'Psychedelic' before everyone else (10 years? more??)...
- Sounds amazing btw & mucho props for what must be painstaking work as per sonics !
  4:49pm
sonictooth:

I love this delay
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:50pm
Jeff Golick:

I believe Iggy Stooge has talked about listening to Sun Ra records in the late 1960s and trying to capture something of that in the Stooges sound...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:50pm
Pat in Philadelphia:

This is the first I'm hearing stuff off Continuation and I'm way into it!
  4:51pm
mb:

Ok. This one kinda shakes me up. I've had that piano bass line in my head for weeks at a time. Continuation was my first OG Saturn record I bought. Luckily the man I bought it from, named Gilbert, had mercy on me and threw in WE Travel The Spaceways to soothe my soul. Thx for reading.
Avatar 4:53pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

MC5 in Detroit credited Ra - directly as composer - on 'Starship' - Rob Tyner was named after McCoy Tyner even, so we know where they were @...& The Stooges were the 'Psychedelic' Stooges to begin w/, lest anyone forget (Iggy:'Our tastes were sophisticated, our abilities limited') - & George Clinton was of course Detroit...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:54pm
Pat in Philadelphia:

Absolutely Jeff. The Arkestra did a residency in Ann Arbor in '69 I believe and the MC5 opened for them a bunch of times. Sent shockwaves through all those rockers brains.
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t_J:

part of the probl here was the eccentric level involved that might had wrongly suggested lots of people to glimpse instead of interpretate. (referring to all the funk related psych)
Avatar 5:00pm
Monica:

Brian, could you ask Michael if he's familiar with the Outerspace Visual Communicator (The OVC) that the Jonzun Crew referred to in their debut single, Space Is The Place (Look Out for the OVC)?
Avatar 5:01pm
t_J:

even this makes me wonder where did improv good strong jazz meets lyrics if not in soul or funk mainly.. theres a lack of expansion in jazz music imo rock jazz bands are mainly wrongly instrum.. thank God for Morphine
Avatar 5:08pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...I've observed that many Free Jazz artists have deep backgrounds in Roots Music - R&B, Gospel - & I wonder if that holds up - or is it just the projection of a Rock-oriented person such as myself...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:14pm
Jeff Golick:

Is the CONTINUATION on Enterplanetary Koncepts the same as on Corbett v Dempsey? Or remastered?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:21pm
Mike East:

This is badass.
Avatar 5:22pm
Droll:

BT, I got a page not found for the YT link, looks like there's a stray " at the end of the URL.
Kudos to the DJs for the fantastic space journey with annotation.
Avatar 5:22pm
t_J:

i've always wondered why there aren't more vocalists in jazz .. besides experimental music with the voice that we see regarding etnographic music or even free improv..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:24pm
Andrew Waterloo:

@TJ, lots of vocalists in jazz. Probably don't see a lot of vocalists in free jazz for the same reason you don't find a lot of guitars. They're just not natural instruments for it.
  5:25pm
Kaspar:

Music for what kind of BBQ?
Avatar 5:30pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

June Tyson - vocalist for Ra's Arkestra is especially beloved.
  5:30pm
R.Wornum:

Thanks for the heads up about the children's books... read to my 4 year old tonight (UK here) till he slept with the programme coming in on low sound. Just bought them... great show all :)
Avatar 5:33pm
Brian Turner:

Sorry about that You Tube link, I dont know why it's not working.... just search "Sun Ra Music Channel"
  5:34pm
R.Wornum:

The Sun Ra Arkestra are at Cafe Oto, London E8, 25, 26 June; and at Glastonbury on 27 June.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:35pm
Andrew Waterloo:

The Arkestra is also scheduled for Guelph in September
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:36pm
Cory:

Sun Ra Music Channel
www.youtube.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:41pm
Andrew Waterloo:

Just a heads up. The Viking of 6th Avenue Kickstarter has less than 48hrs to go and it's still looking for support www.kickstarter.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:58pm
Greg from Bloomfield:

Great show today- thanks, Brian!
Avatar 5:58pm
oldjollymon:

Thanks gents for the great commentary & tunes!
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