Friday, June 22, 2012

Rat Salad Radio • June 20, 2012


 

Nabonga by Dex Romweber
from the album
Blues That Defy My Soul (Yep Roc)
Dex Romweber & The New Romans TOMORROW night at Duke Gardens, rain or shine. Info here: http://dukeperformances.duke.edu/artists-genre/music-in-the-gardens

 

Come Back by Dex Romweber
from the album
Blues That Defy My Soul (Yep Roc)
(usually the Duke Gardens things are on Weds... not this week)

 

Our Lips Are Sealed by Füxa
from the album
Electric Sound of Summer (Rocket Girl)
song written by Go-Go's guitarist Jane Wiedlin and Specials and Fun Boy Three singer Terry Hall.

 

Mind Walk by BLO
from the album
Step Three (Hot Casa)
Nigeria, 1975

 

African Bounce by Madlib
from the album
Medicine Show Vol. 3 - Beat Konducta in Africa (Madlib Invasion)
2010 mash-ups

 

Cholie by Paul Béhanzin et son Ensemble
from the album
(VA) Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM (Dust-To-Digital)
Benin, W. Africa, early 1950s. Possibly a funeral song.

 

Saka Amodu by Kekere Tiamiyu and his Group
from the album
(VA) Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM (Dust-To-Digital)
Nigeria, sung by Yoruba Muslims, 1950s. You can hear a "goje" fiddle in this.

 

Ngwop by Youkoui Bamileké
from the album
(VA) Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM (Dust-To-Digital)
Call & response, whistles etc. Yemba language. Cameroon, 1940s.

 

African Map Watch by Madlib
from the album
Medicine Show Vol. 3 - Beat Konducta in Africa (Madlib Invasion)

 

Tastes of Kindness by Angel Eyes
from the album
Vice to Vice (Moon Glyph)
new lo-fi hypno pop from Melbourne Australia

 

Le Concombre de Chicoutimi by Benoit Delbecq & Francoise Houle
from the album
Because She Hoped (Songlines)
piano/clarinet compositions from a Frenchman & a French Canadian.

 

Enlightenment by Sun Ra & His Astro-Galactic Infinity Arkestra
from the album
Sun Ra - The Singles (Evidence)
Recording from the early 70s

 

Iron Man by Eric Dolphy
from the album
Vintage Dolphy (GM Recordings)
Recorded in April 1963. He died the next year. Birthday shout-out to Mr. Dolphy, who would have been 84 today.

 

Piratman by Erland Dahlen
from the album
Rolling Bomber (Hubro)
New percussion work from Norway. Per Discogs.com, he plays: Drums, Saw [Musical Saw], Timpani, Gong [Gongs], Musical Bow [Bow On Cakeform With Springs], Percussion [Tank Drums], Cuica, Maracas, Kalimba, Temple Block [Temple Blocks], Steel Drums, Percussion [Logdrum], Bells, Electronics, Performer [Megaphone], Performer [Sticks/mallets On String Instruments (monkey Drummer With Battery)]

 

Cerberus by Amon Düül II
from the album
Yeti (Repertoire)
Germany, 1970

 

Ouskeh Gukas by Nishan Keljikian
from the album
(VA) To What A Strange Place: The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1929 (Tompkins Square)
Beautiful new 3-disc comp. Keljikian was born in Turkey in 1886 and came to Massachussetts in 1911. This song is his reflection on America's "melting pot." 1929.

 

Andouni by Armenag Chah-Mouradian
from the album
(VA) To What A Strange Place: The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-1929 (Tompkins Square)
b. 1878. Moved to Paris later and performed in the US too. Recording from 1917.

 

Wasteland by Wood Ear
from the album
Steeple Vultures (Churchkey)
New local music, out last week.

 

The Goat by Michael Rank & Stag
from the album
KIN (Louds Hymn)
more new local stuff

 

When You Said by Broken Water
from the album
Tempest (Hardly Art)
new from Olympia, Washington trio.

 

Sky Blue by Death By Chocolate
from the album
Death By Chocolate (Jetset)

 

Daddy's Out Of Focus by Death By Chocolate
from the album
Death By Chocolate (Jetset)
IS he, now? Well, yeah, I guess.

 

Planet Travel by Eric Peters
from the album
(VA) G-Spots: The Spacey Folk Electro-Horror Sounds of the Studio G Library (Trunk)
Collection of stuff used in TV shows & commercials at London's Studion G, mostly 60's and 70's era I think.

 

Funny Man Under Anesthesia by Messer Für Frau Müller
from the album
(VA) Russkie Wig-Out! - Demented Surf/Electro/Exotica from Behind The Iron Curtain (Omni)
really fun disc that came out last summer

 

Le Ridicule Ne Tue Plus by Stereo Total
from the album
Cactus Versus Brezel (Staatsakt)
new ST!

 

Joe by Mirel Wagner
from the album
Mirel Wagner (Friendly Fire)
New, haunting, beautiful

 

Dorothy/Calvert Street Blues by John Fahey
from the album
Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You (Dust-To-Digital)
Extensive new Fahey box set. This tune recorded February 1962 at St.Michael's Church, Adelphi, Maryland.

 

Ookpik Waltz by Chris Thile & Michael Daves
from the album
Sleep With One Eye Open (Nonesuch)
nice album from last year

 

Gonna Fly Now (Theme from ROCKY) by Bill Conti
from the album
United Artists 7-inch (United Artist)
You still have today & tomorrow to get downtown to the Carolina Theatre cinema to see ROCKY, the original film, on the big screen. This is the actual 45 single I bought in 1977. :)

 

Chug Chug Chug-A-Lug (Push N' Shove) Part II by The Meters
from the album
(VA) What It Is! Funky Soul and Rare Grooves (Rhino)

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