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September 22, 2008: Show 204
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Show time: 12 AM - 3 AM
The start and end times for each individual set and each individual song are exact.
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Set 1: a quiet way to calm down after 2 days of great live music at All Tomorrows Parties. (Listen to this set: Real) |
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| Lawrence English | Soft Fuse (track 2) (Listen: Real) | Kiri No Oto | Touch Tone | Quiet, almost floating sound. | |||
| Aidan Baker | Survival (track 2) (Listen: Real) | Book Of Nods | Beta-Lactam Ring | Best track on CD; beautiful, dreamy, rhythmic, slightly surging, I just keep liking it more and more as it goes along. | *** | ||
| Jasper TX | Black Sleep III (track 3) (Listen: Real) | Black Sleep | Miasmah | Quiet start, a warm and even beautiful ballad, really nice and calming. Hard to believe almost noone at FMU played this CD.... | |||
| KTL | Estranged (track 1) (Listen: Real) | KTL | Editions Mego | Beautiful, soft & subtly fluctuating sound, occasional spacey / druggy sounds come in and work well with it. | *** | ||
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Mic break between Sets 1 & 2. Background music played during 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: the old radio show portion of the evening. (Listen to this set: Real) |
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| Quiet, Please | Calling All Souls | Originally broadcast October 31, 1948 | (no label) |
This episode: on Halloween, an innocent man on death row sends his soul out of his body to find out who really did the murders - but he finds out too late: "They hanged you half an hour ago."
The series is now considered by many to be 1 of old-time radio's best science fiction / horror series – if not THE best. It was always very reductive: very few people were in any episode, and all the action centered around 1 extraordinary actor: Ernest Chappell. Excerpts about Quiet, Please from Dunning's Encyclopedia Of Old-Time Radio: "...unsung and little-heard in it's day...Creator Wyllis Cooper was radio's best practitioner of an almost surrealistic dramatic form....His characters walked in a fuzzy dream world where the element of menace was ripe and ever-present...." All in all, superior radio. |
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Mic break between Sets 2 & 3. Background music played during 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 psych rock portion of the evening - on the heavier side, this time. (Listen to this set: Real) |
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| Grails | Belgian Wake Up Drill (track 3: begun at -3:15, ended at -0:35) (Listen: Real) | Black Tar Prophesies Vol's 1, 2 & 3 | Important | Sweet, warm and quiet --> easy, dark and heavy acid psych rock. | |||
| Skullflower | Rotten Sun (track 6) (Listen: Real) | IIIrd Gatekeeper | Crucial Blast | Heavy, dark psych rock, calms down near end. | |||
| Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound | D. Brown (track 7) (Listen: Real) | Ekranoplan | Tee Pee | Heavy psych rock. | |||
| F/i | Grandfather Blanga And His Band Light It Up (track 6) (Listen: Real) | Blanga | Lexicon Devil | Heavier and serious psych rock, stately tempo until gets faster last 2:30 or so. | *** | ||
| Hawkwind | You Shouldn't Do That (CD #3, track 4) (Listen: Real) | Greasy Truckers Party | EMI | Easygoing, ambient space-psych rock. | |||
| Cosmic Psychos | Jellyfish (CD #1, track 12) (Listen: Real) | Fifteen Years, A Million Beers | Dropkick | Who would have thought they'd do music that would wind up in a set like this? Me, neither, but psych rock it is. | |||
| Up-Tight | Sweet Sister Session (track 5) (Listen: Real) | Five Psychedelic Pieces | Static Caravan | Easygoing start, slower at times, blues-influenced psych rock, active and almost hallucinatory last few minutes. | *** | ||
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Mic break between Sets 3 & 4. Background music played during 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: a quiet way to start the show, a quiet way to end it. (Listen to this set: Real) |
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| The Fun Years | My Lowville (track 1) (Listen: Real) | Baby, It's Cold Inside | Barge | Sentimental, with just a little bit of an experimental edge, gradually building soft harmonies come in. | |||
| James Blackshaw | Shroud (track 5) (Listen: Real) | Litany Of Echoes | Tompkins Square | Sharp and sweet sound, very nice. | |||
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End of show mic break. Background music played during 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 | |||
Mon. 9/22/08 12:40am
From:
(mta) Tony
Good morning, Andrew! Just tuned in. Looking forward to your upcoming sets. Thanks for the prior advisory via eMail.
Mon. 9/22/08 12:46am
From:
Andrew
Thanks, Tony. I'm looking forward to them as well! If anyone wants to be on my email list about my upcoming shows (I send out an email a day before I do a show, containing an outline of what I'm gonna play), you can let me know either here or privately at andrew@wfmu.org.
Mon. 9/22/08 1:02am
From:
Ike
That set was great. Lovely drifting.
Mon. 9/22/08 1:16am
From:
Andrew
A different kind of drifting going on now...Especially if you close your eyes or turn off the lights.
Mon. 9/22/08 1:34am
From:
(mta) Tony
Wow. What a journey! Has anyone noticed the similarity to "The Thin Blue Line" film by Errol Morris? Andrrew?
Mon. 9/22/08 1:48am
From:
Andrew
I know I saw the movie, but my memory being what it is don't remember it too well....
Mon. 9/22/08 1:49am
From:
Andrew
I'm glad you liked Quiet, Please!
Mon. 9/22/08 3:05am
From:
(mta) Tony
The film had an innocent man on Death Row in Texas while the real killer was his new-found buddy.
Mon. 9/22/08 3:13am
From:
(mta) Tony
Only ther were no ghosts involved, so I guess the analogy doesn't really apply.
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