For a while I’ve hoped for a CD-release or mp3s of Brian Briggs classic 1980 wave record Brian Damage — both my copy and that of the local station, KGLT-Bozeman, have gone missing. Well, wait and ye shall find (motto of the Internet?), it’s now up at the Play It Again, Max blog, “featuring out-of-print LPs never issued on CD.” Lotsa great tunes on the album, but the KGLT fave was this story song about a Frankie & Moe’s fast & furious game of chicken: train vs. scooter, “See You on the Other Side” (3:33 mp3):
This week’s HV cast for a hot Summer’s day— It is 120°. The birds and animals, and even insects hide. We hear the the words, thoughts and sounds of desert residents: writer Charles Bowden, the Tohono O’odham poet Ofelia Zepeda, and ambient composer Steve Roach, whose composition “Slow Heat” scores the piece. A story by Jeff Rice, “Heat- extended mix” (7:30 mp3):
My bud and WFMU Blogger, Lukas posted the source of many of the samples in The Avalanches‘ classic audio collage “Frontier Psychiatrist.” They appropriated a 1959 comedy piece of the same name by Canadians Wayne and Shuster, “Frontier Psychiatrist” (mp3 at WFMU Blog). The Avalanches’ vid for their song is about as good as MTV ever got, “Frontier Psychiatrist:”
Posted at DIYmedia.net among some other Rush Limbaugh Collages is a cut-up musician calling himself Rush Limbaugh Hater with “Rush Sings I’m A Nazi” (3:41 mp3 | lyrics):
This week’s HV cast for Independence Day— People with different regional, ethnic, and national accents recite and reflect upon the single-sentence, century-old poem “The Pledge of Allegiance.” A story by Barrett Golding, “The Pledge” (5:23 mp3):
WFMU’s blog has mp3s of Head and Leg’s In Your Dreams, a spoken-weird, oddio art, musicollage. I suggest you buy the CD, as I did, from Seeland, Negativland’s mail-order label, if only for the exquisite artwork inside by Pauline Lim:
This week’s HV cast starts Summer with some Mississippi moonshine, barbecued goat and the last of the old-time Fife & Drum picnics. A story by Ben Adair, “Otha Turner’s Picnic” (13:10 mp3):
Now, maybe we have heard everything: the 180-Gs do a’cappella covers of Negativland classics, including Casey Kasem cursing over U2 (“I Still Haven’t Found”). Among the downloads at myspace.com/180gs, from their CD is 180 d’Gs to the Future, “Christianity is Stupid” (3:55 mp3):
This week’s HV cast is a Father’s Day ditty. Going in and out of cool, in syncopated time, a daughter and dad’s ever-changing relationship moves to the beat of a jazz standard. A story by Rebecca Flowers, “My Father’s Music” (mp3 6:30):
I’m abnormally attracted to spoken-word sampled music, by folk like Lemon Jelly, The Avalanches, The Books. Of that ilk are the filmclip-infested beats of Wax Tailor (JC Le Saoût, a French DJ and member/producer of early 90s rappers La Formule). I’ve been overplaying has last CD, Tales of the Forgotten Melodies. And will likely do the same with his latest Hope & Sorrow. Here’s a track from each…
Wax Tailor “Que Sera” Tales of the Forgotten Melodies (2:44 mp3):
Wax Tailor “Once Upon A Past” Hope & Sorrow (4:47 mp3):
Feel like you’re going to hell? Why not try the audio-tour first: Radio Inferno Hörspiel nach Dantes Inferno in 34 Gesängen. Translated from the Nazi, er, I mean German, “hörspiel” means “ear-play.” “Radio Inferno” was a 1993 radio drama of Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” by artist Andreas Ammer with music by FM Einheit (of Einstürzende Neubauten). BBC DJ John Peel is “The Radio” (the narrator), and there’s guest appearances from Bootsy Collins and many others. All the tracks are posted (MP3s) at UBUWEB and at WFMU…
“Canto V” Radio Inferno:
“Canto VII” Radio Inferno:
From “Canto XVII” in the Third Circle of Hell: “Here beatnik Burroughs has to read his own books for all time.”
Duplex Planet is a ’zine in which: “For more than a quarter century David Greenberger has been talking with old people in nursing homes, mealsites and senior centers, collecting conversations and stories.”
It’s also a radio series and set of CDs. DG performs these people’s stories, backed by original music from the likes of Los Lobos, 3 Leg Torso, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic , Terry Adams (NRBQ), and here’s David Greenberger & The Shaking Ray Levis from their CD Mayor of the Tennessee River with “Blood n the Pulpit” (3:06 mp3):
THE DUPLEX PLANET issue #38, July, 1982:
GENE EDWARDS: I don’t like nothin’ about summer, it’s too hot. I know it’s better than winter, but that’s all I can say. I like spring and fall.
RODNEY BRAGG: I swim in cold water, I always go swimmin’ in cold water. I dive right in the water and go swimmin’ under the bridge. One time my sister fell in a mud hole out in the woods. I pulled her out of the mud hole, I had to get a rope and pull her out. Had to buy a rope at the store, it cost money. You can’t get nothin’ for nothin.’
BILL SEARS: In summer you go to beaches, go swimmin,’ go fishin,’ go to the amusement park. You go on the roller coaster and you go on the Dodge-’ems. You go on the Whip, you go for a boat ride. You go on a train, a train ride. You go on the Ferris Wheel. you go blueberry pickin.’ And, ah, you go ridin’ horses. You take a tramp in the woods. that’s about all.
WALTER KIERAN: I used to go from Salem Willows to Nantasket Beach in a passenger boat. It was about two hours and cost two dollars. you buy your food on the boat, that cost you a dollar or two. they had movin’ pictures on the boat, and a six piece orchestra would play. You could dance, there were girls there. you’d take a girl out to dinner on the boat and then you’d hire a room outside the boat and give her a little lovin.’ and after that you’d take her to the movin’ pictures. then after that you’d take her to Salem Willows and give her popcorn and kisses — candy kisses, homemade ones by the Woods Brothers of Salem, candymakers. Besides that work they were salesmen for the Kennedy Clothing Company. you could buy a suit of clothes from them for fifty dollars, no hundred dollars. they had a tailor, used to fix you up, Bill Hanson his name was. He left Clark & Friend Clothing Company and went to Kennedy & Company clothing Company. I worked at Clark & Friend’s as an errand boy. I got all my stuff for nothin’ from Clark & Friend’s, I didn’t have to pay for it. for workin’ for ’em, instead of just gettin’ money, I’d get clothes.
THE DUPLEX PLANET: The truth about coffee, money, dogs, sandwiches, vampires, television, toasters, haircuts, romance, dancing, faith, hope, trust, and the part of us each that moves forward into and through the final years of life.
You can hear more David Greenberger pieces and music reviews on NPR.
This week’s HV cast: The eerily beautiful music of moth wings. A tale of bat-detectors, beehive destruction and the intersection of insect and synthesizer. A story by Jeff Rice, “Moth Music” (mp3 3:02):
This week’s HV cast is for Memorial Day, part two (of 2) of our special “For the Fallen“: Host Major Robert Schaefer, U.S. Army Special Forces, a Green Beret and poet, presents troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, reading their emails, poems, and journals, as part of the NEA project: “Operation Homecoming,” and selections from the NEA CD Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience with well-known authors reading their poems, prose, and essays about their time in the military. Major Schaefer, the Host of this special, contributed the poem “Clusters” to the book.
Mashups, I know, are sooooo 2006, but still they persist. Sounds For The Space-Set is a new collection from mashartists RIAA (22 free mp3s). Sun Ra meets Space Odditey mates with the Four Tops– and that’s just in the first song. Try “Salvador Dali Teaches Rex Harrison How To Say ‘Butterfly'” (Dick Hyman “The Moog and Me,” Salvador Dali interview, Chicks on Speed “Wordy Rappinghood”):
“The Wonder Is All Around Us” (Vangelis “Alpha,” Dr. Michael Shermer and James Randi interview: “Skepticality” podcast interview, Ken Nordine “Satellite”):
This week’s HV cast is for Memorial Day, part one (of 2) of our special “For the Fallen“: Host Major Robert Schaefer, U.S. Army Special Forces, a Green Beret and poet, reveals his love-hate relationship with the bugle call “Taps.” We join a “Military Honor Guard” in Long Island, recorded by Charles Lane. We hear interviews with World War Two and Vietnam vets from the public radio’s StoryCorps and This I Believe series. Composer Phil Kline sets to music the slogans Vietnam soldiers etched into their lighters, in Zippo Songs. And we attend the daily ceremony by Belgian veterans honoring the WWI British soldiers who died defending a small town in western Belgium (produced by Marjorie Van Halteren and Helen Engelhardt).
This week’s HV cast is from the Song and Memory series. What song from your past brings back a strong memory? Kelly Kinsey tells us about a Beatles tune that takes her back. Produced by Ann Heppermann, Rick Moody & Kara Oehler, “Eleanor Rigby” (mp3 3:23):
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