This week’s HV cast: A community radio station in Gondar, Ethiopia broadcasts health education programs on subjects ranging from HIV/AIDS prevention to the dangers of using dirty tattoo needles. A story by jake Warga, “Radio Gondar” (2:33 mp3):
The new Nature Conservancy/Visa-funded radio series, Stories from the Heart of the Land, is out (producers: Jay Allison & Emily Botein; music: Bill Frisell). Lotsa talented indies contributed pieces, including several of us from HV — Ann & Kara, Scott, me. Here’s a taste, Kitchen Sisters, “Cry Me A River” (16:39):
Stations: the series is free at PRX.
It’s true, I’m a sucker for vox-sampling bands. One of the most rhythmic of the spoken-weird snippet genre is The Coconut Monkeyrocket. Their new CD is With Birds (emusic). Their site has mp3s, as does (the excellent “free music Net Label”) Comfort Stand.
Try “Accidental Beatnik” (3:51 mp3):
And “Shopping For Explosives” (3:48 mp3):
Young@Heart, whose “members all lived in an elderly housing project in Northampton, MA,” sing The Ramones “I Wanna Be Sedated:”
Also see Zimmers, the WEST Band, and Nonstop Robot Fighting Machine.Thanks to Jim Kehoe, KGLT.
Joe Frank performs live at Largo in LA, Wednsesdays in September. Opening night is sold out. For info on the 12th, 19th, and 26th, Largo: 323-852-1073. Performances start at 9pm. Doors Open at 8pm. Largo’s at 432 N Fairfax (South of Melrose, North of Beverly).
Don’t know who the 2 folk are in above poster for Joe’s show; but between that lady’s lips and the guy’s diamond brain embed, well, how can anyone in LA county not attend?
HV got “Spotlight”ed by Podcast.com‘s blog. Thanks to JustinG.
Still catching up on the Radio Lab listening. From season two’s “Where Am I?“:
Pilots call it “G-LOC” (gravity-induced loss of consciousness, pronounced “G-lock” not “glok”). Turns out this kind of experience (call it what you want) occurs quite frequently among fighter pilots. Producers Ann Heppermann and Kara Oehler bring us the story. We’ll hear from pilots Tim Sestak, and Col. Dan Fulgham on what it’s like to lose yourself while flying a plane. And we’ll hear from Dr. James Whinnery, who simulates G-LOC by placing pilots in giant centrifuges. His research monitors their brain activity as they accelerate to speeds inducing this loss of consciousness.
Alix Spiegel spent some time with folk Stuck and Suicidal in a Post-Katrina Trailer Park, for a 2-part report on NPR All Things Considered, “Life at Scenic” and “What can Be Done” (20:43):
Nawlins jazz flute player Eluard Burt passed this week. We did a nice (if we say so ourselves) sound-portrait of him in 2005. It’s part of our New Orleans [Yawp] webwork.
Burt’s flute was recorded at Dave Brink’s 17 Poets January 2005. Here’s “Eluard Burt, NOLA” (5:28 mp3):
George Ingmire of WWOZ is playing a tribute to Eluard on his show today.
OK, I’ll try not to post an FoTC vid every week, but just had to embed this French lesson from last week’ show, Flight of the Conchords “Foux Da Fa Fa:”
This week’s HV cast: Great literature allows us to learn to empathize with the experiences of others. So how is it a man now on trial for crimes against humanity is an avid reader of fiction? Might he simple be reading the wrong books? A trip to The Hague to hand-deliver the ‘right’ books to Slobodan Milosevic. A story by Ben Walker, “Remedial Theory” (13:29 mp3):
Also found at WFMU’s Blog, “a battle between a pride of lions, a herd of buffalo, and 2 crocodiles at a watering hole in South Africa’s Kruger National Park.” You gotta watch it all; you’ve never seen nuthin like it. Note: the start may disturb those who have probs w/ how lions shop for meat:
WFMU posted Ralph Records 1987 “Collection of Folk Songs,” Potatoes. There’s mp3s by well-known weirdos like Negativland, artist Howard Finster, Mark Mothersbaugh, and Bongwater. My faves are the archive-sampled prison work songs and sounds by Rhythm and Noise, “Bertas Hammer” (3:16):
And at KGLT we wore the grooves of this get-back-at-ex-boyfren anon a-capella, “The Billy Bee Song” (1:24)”
Audio art from Brian Joseph Davis:
During April of 2006, I ran a recording studio at Mercer Union. Passersby were stopped and asked to sing, from memory and with no practice, the Beatles’ Yesterday. They were given headphones with an instrumental track to help them out. If they couldn’t remember the words, they were told to “just make it up.†Everyone was paid a $5.00 performance fee. I then took all the versions recorded and created a mix featuring 60 layered individual tracks of people trying to remember the words.
Brian Joseph Davis, “Yesterduh” (3:39):
The Daily News Record (Harrisonburg VA) today published an NPR=commies editorial, titled “An NPR Celebration?” It raves over a single word in an NPR piece on China’s red army.
The article is unattributed, and neglects to mention, among many other things, that the idea for their op-ed is lifted, in part word-for-word, from a National Review blog by Mona Charen — whose livelihood is based on bashing liberals.
This is nothing new, GOPs hate Dems and vice versa — their bickerings are what passes as political debate in this country. But what did fascinate me is nearly all the verifiable info (including the NatlRevu source) was provided not by the paper but by the readers in their online comments.
People argue whether the unwashed masses are qualified as “news” reporters. Or must raw info first be filtered by Qualified Journalists, the annointed arbiters of What We’re Told. Having worked in MSM for decades, I have developed an alternate theory: The News is Always Wrong; at least non-MSM sources have a chance of being right. I’ll tell ya about it sometime.
Flight of the Conchords was a BBC radio series, is an HBO TV show, and are New Zealand’s “fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo a cappella-rap-funk-comedy duo.”
From NPR World Cafe intervu, “Beautiful Girl” (3:09 mp3):
From HBO, “Bowie’s in Space”:
FoTC tackles the “Issues” (2:27 mp3):
MP3s from What the Folk fansite.
Soundsnap: “share free sound effects and loops.” From animals to audio art, available in .mp3 and .wav. Mix, match, & montage:
bass chord
horse
bowling ball
The legendary late-night interviewer Tom Snyder died this week. Here’s some of his CBS The Late Late Show and NBC The Tomorrow Show guests:
OMG!, the 365 Days Project (@ WFMU) posted 32 mp3s of The Cackle (DeZurik) Sisters, on the Checkerboard Squares Radio Show.
From the 1940s, “Old Dan Tucker” (1:36):
An Open Call For Fresh Fundraising Ideas: The Public Radio Talent Quest asks you to “Take a crack at re-imagining the style and sound of the public radio fundraising pitch.”
