Speechless
Empty Set - Beyond 2
CD on Caravan Records. Modern dub. Lovely.
Merle Haggard - Gone Crazy
From the album “Branded Man”. Yup.
Ben Simmons - untitled
A fragment of an untitled tune from “Living Is Hard : West African Music In Britain 1927-29” on the ever reliable Honest Jon Records.
Gui Boratto - I’m In Love With A German Film Star rmx.
Technically, this is a remix of Sam Taylor Wood’s remix (produced by the Pet Shop Boys...and they freely admit it? Tasteless.), but I suspect Boratto went back to the original. Wood’s attempt is pretty awful. Kompakt.
Baaba Maal - Television.
The title track from this Senegalese musician’s 2009 album.
Ryan Hardy - Birds Fly Around My Head.
The first of four from Ryan Hardy in session.
Ryan Hardy - Fly Free.
Another intense and crazy episode from Ryan.Truly original music.
Shakleton - Tudeldub rmx.
The original is by Jacques Palminger. 12” on Pudelprodukte, including a remix by favourites of the show “Hey O Hansen”.
The Goodies - The Policemans Opera.
From the LP “Nothing To Do With Us”. A lost favourite from my youth that I’d been searching for for years, recently turned up on ebay. A mint copy from 1976. For some reason, this album is no longer in print. I believe it was their best...well, actually, there only serious record, proving Bill Oddie’s great musical talent. What a loss. What if he had got together with, say, Neil Innes? Or Eric Idle. That could have been something.
Ryan Hardy - Conjure Up Under The Sun.
I often prefer instrumental music because I’m not interested in what people have to say....not interested in their stories... Ryan, on the other hand, sings, humbly, of very real human states dressed up as whimsy. Pay attention to this.
The Corley Family - Give The World A Smile
Recorded in Dallas in 1929. Taken from “Down In The Basement-Joe Bussard’s Treasure Trove Of Vintage 78s” CD on Old Hat records, a fine collection of vintage country music. Bussard really knows his onions. I originally intended to play you all of this, but as I refined the mix, it faded to a fragment. It is a source of constant annoyance to me that christianity has been the only vehicle of spiritual expression amongst the majority in our culture for several centuries. Country music is especially prone to this, and all the bejesusing has put me off many a fine tune. I’m with Gore and Gibbons on this one.,,Diocletian made them shed the most light.
Unknown - All Is Full Of Love rmx
White label on Nu-Urban Records from this summer. I love the Bjork original. See the famous Chris Cunningham video here.
Cheb Khaled - Hada Raikoum
The title track of his superb 1985 album, which is now hard to find. This, and a few other cuts from it, appear on a recent compilation called “Rebel Of Rai”. He had a new album out this year, allegedly a return to form. I don’t think so. He never matched this.
Bridges - Live In China track 8
A collaboration between Norse folkies and Dong musicians from S/W China, recorded in the Norwegian embassy in Beijing in 2005. I can’t tell you the name of the track because the liner notes are in Chinese. A truly astonishing CD from Grappa records.
Sonny Chillingworth - Liloa’s Mele
Hawaiian Slack Key guitar on Dancing Cat records.
Ryan Hardy - Bumblebee.
Sarah and I both laugh out loud at the line about looking for a job that involves honey. Too cute. The last from Ryan.
Dana Lyons - Cows With Guns.
Actually, I’ve often fantasised about arming the prey...cows, sheep...foxes as well. And rabbits. I live in the countryside, and I often hear local farmers out shooting bunnies at night. (They attach torches to the barrels. The light startles the rabbits, who freeze. Easy pickings.) Makes them feel like big men. Meat eating has nothing to do with diet or taste, it’s about power...the insane belief that by bullying someone we dominate them. We do no such thing, of course, that’s just part of the sick fantasy. The outcome of bullying is plain to see the world over. Systems collapse, energy dissipates. As long as we eat our brothers, the likes of the american war of terror are inevitable.
Moderat - A New Error
Apparat and Modeselektor on BPitch Control. The “band” I’d currently most like to see.
An Albatross - The Hymn Of The Angel People
From their “Family Album”. Echoes of 70s prog-rock and a real loved up affair.
Blakemarket - Moravagine
Also known as Black Market. Taken from his free mp3 album “Polynesia Town” on the Acroplane net label. Here
C K Mann - Funky Hi-Life
I used to think Fela Kuti (specifically, his drummer, Tony Allen) was the funkiest music ever, until I heard this. Three and a half minutes from his 1973 album “Funky Hi-Life”, taken from the CD “Rough Guide To Nigeria & Ghana”. I would love to hear the rest of this Ghanaian gem, but I haven’t found a copy of the album yet. If you know of one, please let me know. (n.b. I just found a copy on ebay for £120. I don’t want it that much. Art traded for profit...ego triumphant.)
Mad EP - A Major
24 Breakbeats mp3 album. Another freebie from Acroplane. Dark IDM. I like this album a lot.
Toumast - Kik Ayittma
Touregs, resident in France. From a cheap “Beginners Guide To Africa” on Nascente records.
Mike Heron - Flowers Of The Forest
He of The Incredible String Band, from his 1971 solo album “Smiling Men With Bad Reputation”. This cut from “An Island Folk Rock Anthology”, one of three compilations Island released this year to celebrate some corporate event or other. Note the exquisite, unmistakable twang of Richard Thompson on guitar, here oddly reminiscent of the Allman Brothers.
Mighty Panther - The Big Bamboo
From “Legends Of Calypso” Cd on ARC music, a pretty decent calypso collection. No date is given, but I’d guess this was recorded c.1950.
That’s all for this time. Back with another soon, I think,
including a session from Vernon Lenoir.
Not The Peter Nelson Show
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
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