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August 8, 2003: Show 170: fill-in for Frank O'Toole (listen to entire show / each individual set / each individual song)
The start and end times of each song and set are exact.
Show time: 11 PM - 2 AM
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Set 1 (Listen to this set: Real) |
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| Lee Konitz | I'll Remember April (track 5) | Motion | Blue Note | Cool-slinky, a little zippy, a quiet end. I like his comment in the liner notes: "Fortunately for me, I never really made it professionally...." In other words, kinda like Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken - the less travelled one made all the difference. | |||
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Mic break between Sets 1 & 2. Background music for it: (Listen to this set: Real) |
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| Les Chakachas | Love is like a Violin (track 4) | Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | |||
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Set 2: Psych & acid: sometimes quiet, sometimes different, sometimes lush, sometimes beautiful. (Listen to this set: Real) |
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| Tuxedomoon | James Whale (Side A, track 6) (Listen: Real) | Half-Mute | Cramboy | Bells, low key, quiet spookiness, acid. | |||
| Jon Hassell | The Elephant And The Orchid (Side B, track 2) (Listen: Real) | Power Spot | ECM | Bit softly lush & mysterious, like slowly crossing a mysterious desert. | *** | ||
| Warlocks | Cosmic Letdown (track 5, ended at -1:40) (Listen: Real) | Phoenix Album | Birdman | Kinda druggy & mysterious, long instrumental part to begin, then builds, with an edge. | |||
| Loop | Fade Out (Side A, track 1) (Listen: Real) | Fade Out | Rough Trade | ||||
| Dimentia 13 | Disturb The Air (Side B, track 1) (Listen: Real) | Disturb The Air | Midnight International | One of the finest lush, neo-psych albums, from the late 1980s. | |||
| Sciflyer | Burning Down The House (track 4) (Listen: Real) | Fair Weather Karma | Claire | Fine, beautiful, long, shimmering, introspective. | *** | ||
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Mic break between Sets 2 & 3. Background music for it: (Listen to this set: Real) |
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| Les Chakachas | Love is like a Violin (track 4) | Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | |||
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Set 3: the old radio show portion of the evening. (Listen to this set: Real) |
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| Harry Lyme, The Third Man | Ticket To Tangier | (none) | from August 24, 1951 | A 1 year long, 52 episode series broadcast from the summer of 1951 to the summer of 1952, it capitalized on the popularity of the movie The Third Man. Both the movie and this series starred Orson Welles. He does a great job in this series as well. The episode we hear is the 4th in the series. | |||
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Mic break between Sets 3 & 4. Background music for it: (Listen to this set: Real) |
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| Les Chakachas | Love is like a Violin (track 4) | Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | |||
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Set 4: from heavy-core to rock. (Listen to this set: Real) |
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| Sunn O))) | My Wall (track 1) (Listen: Real) | White 1 | Southern Lord | This is the heavy-core. The first 10 minutes or so is an intense poem, written and read by Julian Cope, over heavy-core by Sunn O))). The second half of the piece: pure, glorious solo heavy-core. | *** | ||
| Tia Carrera | (no title) (begun at -14:07, ended by -0:15) (Listen: Real) | Live At Room 710 | (unreleased) | Easy tempo, but major, in-the-red distort-o rock, with a definite psych feel. The last few minutes are much calmer. | *** | ||
| Scientists | We Had Love (CD #2, track 1) (Listen: Real) | Tales From The Australian Underground: Singles 1976 - 1989 | Feel Presents | Almost 5 minutes of great, solid rock. | *** | ||
| Cosmic Psychos | Lost Cause (CD #2, track 20) (Listen: Real) | Tales From The Australian Underground: Singles 1976 - 1989 | Feel Presents | Heavier, more raw, faster. | *** | ||
| Comets On Fire | Comets On Fire (track 8) (Listen: Real) | Comets On Fire | Alternative Tentacles | As usual, the fastest in the set comes last. | |||
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Mic break between Sets 4 & 5. Background music for it: (Listen to this set: Real) |
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| Les Chakachas | Love is like a Violin (track 4) | Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | |||
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Set 5: some gamelan from the court of Yogyakarta. (Listen to this set: Real) |
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| played on the Gamelan Kanjeng Kyahi Madu Kentir (The Venerable Madness Of Honey orchestra) | Gending Wasital Asih, pelog nem (excerpt from track 1) | Java: Palais Royal de Yogyakarta 4: La Musique de Concert | Ocora/Radio France | I've selected the most beautiful part, situated roughly in the middle of the piece. It's a rarified, intensely beautiful and celestial part, of a style rarely heard outside the confines of the palace. | *** | ||
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Mic break between Sets 5 & 6. Background music for it: (Listen to this set: Real) |
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| Les Chakachas | Love is like a Violin (track 4) | Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | |||
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Set 6: some more jazz I've been listening to, to end the show. (Listen to this set: Real) |
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| McKinney's Cotton Pickers | Do You Believe In Love At Sight (track 5) (Listen: Real) | City Of Ghosts soundtrack | United Artists | Easy, syncopated, bouncy - but relaxed about it. A real pleasure. | *** | ||
| Jackie McLean | Iddy Biddy (track 10) (Listen: Real) | Vertigo | Blue Note | Bit bluesy, bit soul-jazz, very Jackie. | |||
| Coleman Hawkins | Riviera Blues (track 5) (Listen: Real) | Dali | Stash | We get to hear both Coleman Hawkins and some hot electric guitar. | *** | ||
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End of show mic break. Background music for it: (Listen to this set: Real) |
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| Les Chakachas | Love is like a Violin (track 4) | Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | |||
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