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Favoriting July 29, 2004: Kismet Motel



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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments Approx. start time
Nino Rota  Piano Concerto, 1st movement   Favoriting Piano works  Auvis    CD  Danielle Laval, City of Ferrara Orchestra  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Karen Mantler
 
Vacation   Favoriting My Cat Arnold  Watt  1989  LP    0:04:32 (Pop-up)
Curtis Mayfield  The Underground (Demo)   Favoriting Superfly (remix)  Rhino /Curtom  1972 / 97  CD    0:08:33 (Pop-up)
Dub Project  Love Humanity   Favoriting Dub Project  M  2004  CD    0:11:50 (Pop-up)
Sam Rivers  Violet   Favoriting Hues  Impulse  1975  LP  with Cecil McBee & Barry Altschul, recorded live at Yale.  0:15:49 (Pop-up)
Myles Davis & Ray Herrmann    Hybrid Vigor  Red House Records  1984  LP  minimalist ambient mild funk romantic mostly instrumental music. Here one day gone the next.  0:21:46 (Pop-up)
 
AkiTakase
 
Down Dance   Favoriting Perdido  Enja  1995  CD    0:33:51 (Pop-up)
Alan Stout  For Prepared Piano   Favoriting Prepared Piano: The First Four Decades  Musical Heritage Society  1983  LP  Performed by Richard Bunger. Also music by Cage, Lou Harrison, Samuel Pellman. this seems not to have been released on any other label.  0:40:46 (Pop-up)
Elvis Presley
 
I'm Coming Home   Favoriting Something for Everybody  RCA  1961  LP  Nice Charlie Rich song. Very good post-Army Elvis product. CD release is better.  0:49:09 (Pop-up)
 
Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande  Madhya Bandesh in Tintel   Favoriting Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande  India Archive  2004  CD  Terrific liner notes by Deepak Raja.  0:58:50 (Pop-up)
Gustav Holst
 
Beni Mora: In the Street of the Ouled Nails   Favoriting Orchestra Works  Naxos  1998  CD  Royal Scottish National Orchestra cond. by David Lloyd-Jones. Holst repeats a single, brief Algerian flute riff 163 times through a constantly shifting baclground.  1:03:50 (Pop-up)
Philip Glass  Violin Concerto Movement 3   Favoriting Violin Concerto  Naxos  2000  CD  Adele Anthony, Violin. Ulster Orchestra cond. by Takuo Yuasa  1:10:58 (Pop-up)
 
Jimmy McGriff  Malcolm's Blues   Favoriting Something to Listen to  Blue Note BST 84364  1970  LP  Half a good album - Jimmy plays piano on the other half. No personnel crdits.  1:27:33 (Pop-up)
Ornette Coleman  Broadway Blues   Favoriting New York Is Now  Bluenote  1968  CD  w/ Dewey Redman, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones  1:33:54 (Pop-up)
Neil Young
 
Revolution Blues   Favoriting On the Beach  Reprise  1974  CD  A scary, observant song on a scary, self-observant album.  1:41:40 (Pop-up)
 
A typical therapy session with Dr. K
XTC  All of a Sudden   Favoriting English Settlement  Caroline (Geffen)  1982  CD  Some thought it 'slick." at the time. It sounded to me like updated Zombies; British suburban, breadth of subject matter; tuneful; skilled, emotionally not a little frightening.
 
1:46:42 (Pop-up)
Distraction Boys  We're Going to Hell   Favoriting Don't Adjust Your Set - there's nothing wrong with your needle!  Cryptovision  1986  LP  when u needed a needle!  1:57:18 (Pop-up)
Edith Frost
 
The Fear   Favoriting Wonder Wonder  Drag City  2001  CD    2:01:04 (Pop-up)
Polvo  Tragic Carpet Ride   Favoriting Old Enough to Know Better: 15 Years of Merge Recoirds  Merge  2004  CD  Great anthology. Great band. Song from 1994. originally on Polvo CD "Celebrate the Dark New Age."  2:05:25 (Pop-up)
Gloria Coates 
String Quartet #5, Movement 3, "In the Fifth Dimension"   Favoriting String Quartets Nos. 1, 5 & 7  Naxos  2002  CD  Performed by Kreutzer Quartet. I listen to a lot of quartet music, this is unlike anything I've heard. Music comprised almost entirely of glissandi.
 
2:08:10 (Pop-up)
Fibonaccis  Purple Haze   Favoriting Radio Tokyo Tapes Volume Two  Enigma  1984  LP  They only sound Japanese.  2:16:50 (Pop-up)
Fugazi  bed for scraping   Favoriting Red Medicine  Dischord  1994  CD    2:19:55 (Pop-up)
 
Mar-keys  Angel Dust   Favoriting Memphis Experience  Stax    LP    2:34:55 (Pop-up)
Eddie Floyd  Linda Sue Dixon   Favoriting Down to Earth  Stax    LP  Hardly primo Eddie, but this Steve Cropper co-produced LP has a few peculiar treasures, like this one. L.S.D., get it?  2:38:16 (Pop-up)
Taj Mahal  Music Keeps Me Together   Favoriting Music Keeps Me Together  Columbia  1975  CD  with the "Intergalactic Soul Messengers Band"  2:40:29 (Pop-up)
Angelo Bond  What's Bad About Feeling Good?   Favoriting Bondage  ABC  1975  LP  In the value world of Bond, this is not a rhetorical question. He sings everything falsetto.  2:43:44 (Pop-up)
Latimore  There's a Red-Neck in a Soul Band   Favoriting Latimore III  Glades  1975  LP  The "red-neck" is probably played by Little Beaver Hale, who is definitely not. Benny Latimore made 3 or 4 fine LPs for Glades/TK in the Seventies, writing, arranging, singing & playing excellent keyboards.
 
2:48:00 (Pop-up)
Booker T & MGs  Down at Ralph's Joint   Favoriting Uptight  Stax  1968  CD  Soundtrack music for a Jules Dassin remake of John Ford's "informer," this predates "Shaft" & contains some very unusual, entertaining music including "Time Is Tight."
 
2:52:14 (Pop-up)
Mermen  Ocean Beach   Favoriting Beyond the Beach  Upstart  1994  CD  compilation, one of the better of it's kind.  2:55:43 (Pop-up)
Booker T & MGs  Deadwood Dick   Favoriting Uptight        "Until that time, just close your eyes & pretend to be asleep."   
 
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