120212 ep. 26 Channeling the Spirit of Jazz, vol. 4

Reviving an old scheme devised in the early days of the show, just over 2 years ago, with gypsy guitarist Jérémie Coullon. From the deepest vibes of backward lounges to the fringes of electronic artistry, Channeling the Spirit of Jazz aims to trace the far reaching hand of jazz and all the corners it has grooved.

The evening was coloured by slick ivory licks and rambling bass lines. Most notably, East of Underground, a band of US servicemen based in Western Germany during the Vietnam War, whose covers of unorthodox jazz and funk rhythms will get even the most hardened dancing boots shuffling.


The seminal Art Ensemble of Chicago finally make an appearance of the show as well as the nomadic surrealist Ghédalia Tazartès. A surprising number of Cafe Oto luminaries came up tonight. In fact, AEC (and AACM) founder, saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell, will be taking up a two-day residency there in March. Click the flattering photograph for more information.

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JIMMY EDGAR Heartbeat Sexual
EAST OF UNDERGROUND (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below, We're All Going To Go
ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO Theme de Yoyo
MATTHEW SHIPP Vamp to Vibe
MOODYMANN I'd Rather Be Lonely
GHÉDALIA TAZARTÈS Casimodo Tango
MISEL QUITNO A Fancy Friendship
SHLOHMO Blankets, Outbound
BONDAGE FRUIT Prayer
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Words of Advice for Young People

120129 ep. 25 with Pote

Return to the airs after a quiet three months. Joined by Pote aka Potegan for a disconcerting return to form. This is the show I always wanted to broadcast. Loud, abrasive, difficult, fast & harsh or slow & heavy. Very little to sing along to but when there is, it will feel like medicine.



After a sullen beginning, we inadvertently slipped into the "loud, fast and abrasive" part of the show with some proto-post-punk, before returning to the electronics in a more collected manner. Dropping off with some jazz and sing-a-long songs, until Pote's choice cut of This Heat's This Heat tore through the speakers. The night ended in a delirious cacophony of cyclic drumming and electroacoustic meanderings.

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ÉTAT BRÛT J. Michaux
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER Nassau
KNXWLEDGE Beech
JEREMIAH JAE Vertical Pupils
SERVICES Element of Danger
KOSMONAUTENTRAUM Juri Gagarin
SECOND LAYER State of Emergency
MONKS I Hate You
ANSTAM Statical
BNJM One Sea (LUKID remix)
TIM HECKER No Drums
MOUNT KIMBIE Vertical
KLAUS Tusk
AIRHEAD Paper Street
PORTICO QUARTET Steepless
VENETIAN SNARES Ever Apparent All Being Shoulder
MOMUS Hypnoprism
ANIKA I Go To Sleep
BEAK> Backwell
THIS HEAT Horizontal Hold
T++ Voices No Bodies
COLIN STETSON Fear of the Unknown and the Blazing Sun
STEN HANSON How Are You
DENEIR My Chair, the Trumpet
ESPLENDOR GEOMÉTRICO Introspección
BASS COMMUNION v MUSLIMGAUZE Three

Intermission

Please excuse the lengthy intermission since the last broadcast. The recording server at IC Radio was burnt out by a power cut in college around All Hallows and replacing it has proved to be quite an ordeal. Hopefully the system will be sorted in the new year. Prepare your receivers...

In the meantime, here is a recording of a selection I played out at IC Music Tech's We Are Metric night at Imperial College Union. Try jerking the dancefloor to this load.

CARL ORFF O Fortuna
TEEBS Arthur's Birds
LURKER OF CHALICE This Blood Falls As Mortal pt. III
FLYING LOTUS Archway (TEEBS remix)
PATTEN Ndi Bem (MY PANDA SHALL FLY ''Unknown Igbo'' Incident)
MISEL QUITNO Tadd's Children's Lost in Coutances
METAMATICS What the Birds Overheard
ANDY STOTT New Ground
FLYING LOTUS Lullaby
PATTEN Out the Coast (SCULPTURE remix)

End Times by Not Indigo on Mixcloud

111009 ep. 24 farewell, Fabian

Last show with Fabian for the time being, as he heads back to the Motherland. We made sure to make it count. Starting off in some manner of half-there quietness, then setting off on an magnetic tangent catching a few electrons in some kind of time-skipping-well. Eventually the beats began to drop, fall off, come back and disappear again before a 1970's Spanish funk cover of a J.S. Bach classic, followed by some fine funkadelics. A ridiculous reenactment of James Brown led to a brief barrage of low end pummeling, interrupted by a free jazz interlude before cracking down to the gritty blues. The closing track was the result of a late night / early morning jam in Vienna with Fabian and Nick Appelgren, with me reciting a passage from Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Fall of the House of Usher. Like going to bed after a long day, faulty thoughts running into each other in your head.

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DICTAPHONE Rising Minimal

MISEL QUITNO Im Halbhohen Gras

HRVATSKI ewc3

KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN Stereo Music for Acoustic Guitar, Buchla Music Box 100, Hewlett Packard Model 236, Oscillator, Electric Guitar and Computer - Part One

KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN Stereo Music for Acoustic Guitar, Buchla Music Box 100, Hewlett Packard Model 236, Oscillator, Electric Guitar and Computer - Part Two

HIGH SKIES The Earth at Night

SEAZO Semilanceata

DAISUKE TANABE BFR014

INSIGHTFUL Agonate

WIDOWS Drama

MATTHEWDAVID All You'll Never Know

ALGO RITMICO Happy

FLYING LOTUS Melting3

FUSIOON Tocata y Fug

MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD Macha

HUGH MASEKELA Keep Me Hangin' On

RAMP Daylight

DANIMALS Nightshift in Blue

THE STEPKIDS Brain Ninja

JOSHUA REDMAN Hide and Seek

STEWWIWONDA IGotYou (I Feel Good)

ANTHONY "SHAKE" SHAKIR Flyswatter

T++ Tensile

ANTHONY BRAXTON The Bell

SHACKLETON Death is Not Final

TOM WAITS Make it Rain

HOWLIN' WOLF Smokestack Lightning

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND Some Kinda Love (Closet)

KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN Etude (1952)

FSHSTK / N.APP / IÑIGO Hark! A Zephyr / The Fall of the House of Usher

Music & dance in the 21st century

110710 ep. 23 once more before the summertime

Final transmission of the term before summer comes a knockin'... opening easy with Japanese psych-gem People and staying cool with offerings from Can members Jaki "Secret Rhythms" Liebezeit and Holger "Cool in the Pool" Czukay. Another highlight was the unreleased Immer.chic opus Fontain Bio which I really hope will cut the wax one day.

Later on experiencing some heavy electronic weight from a few modern characters. From synthesized wizardry (K.F.W.) to computational abuse (ae). Some beats steady (Kafka), others less so (Twin), and others mostly between the ears (not Panasonic).

Watch this space for summer intermissions in the form of off-air affairs to melt the ice and shine some light in your ears. Meanwhile, enjoy the summertime!

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PEOPLE Prologue + Shomyo Pt. 1
BURNT FRIEDMAN & JAKI LIEBEZEIT Royal Roost
IMMER.CHIC Fontain Bio
VLADISLAV DELAY Raamat
HEADCASE The Red Star
GOBLIN School at Night
BAD BRAINS Leaving Babylon
HOLGER CZUKAY Witches' Multiplication Table
BJØRN SVIN Browen
AUTECHRE y7
APHEX TWIN Meltphace6
KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN Disingenuousness
ALGO RITMICO La Cocina
EINTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN Ragout: Küchen Rezpt von Einstürzende Neubauten
WOLFGANG VOIGT Kafkatrax 1.1
SURGEON Whose Bad Hands Are These (AUTECHRE remix)
T++ Allied
TERRESTRIAL TONES Experimental Farm
PAN SONIC Liuos

Birds can also play guitar

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
Barbican Centre
Sat 27 Feb — Sun 23 May 2010

The Curve became a walk-through aviary for a flock of zebra finches, furnished with electric guitars and other instruments and objects in Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s commission.

Trained as a musician and composer, French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot creates works by drawing on the rhythms of daily life to produce sound in unexpected ways.

As the birds go about their routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they created a captivating, live soundscape.