Monday, March 31, 2014
Monday, March 24, 2014
Episode #19: Transcendental Numbers
1. Facelift- The Soft Machine
2. Meeting of the Spirits- Mahavishnu Orchestra
3. All You Need to Make Music- The Stark Reality
4. Hocus Pocus- Focus
5. I've Got My Car and My TV/Picnic on a Frozen River- Faust
6. Jail-House-Frog- Amon Duul II
7. All Green- Xhol Caravan
8. Six- Hampton Grease Band
9. Colours of Chloe- Gary Burton
10. Providence- King Crimson
11. O Ksenos Zitianos- Kastores
12. Arrow Head- Osage Tribe
13. In the Court of the Crimson King- King Crimson
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Monday, March 17, 2014
Interplanetary Interlude #13: From Swerve of Shore to Bend of Bay
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1. White Trash Raga- Mermen
2. This is the Metal That Do Not Burn- Cul de Sac
3. The First 10 Minutes of Cocksucker Blues- Chris Forsyth
4. As In Life: Carlion Call/Prenatal/Sidewalk University/Can't- Nels Cline
5. Old Black- Earth
6. P- Labradford
7. Deep Waters- Dirty Three
While it's named from a line in the great Irish novel, Finnegans Wake, this interlude has nothing to do with Ireland. (Then again, St. Patrick's Day may have less to do with Ireland than you think.) I recommend listening to last year's Interlude to get yer Irish kicks.
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Thursday, March 13, 2014
Experiment #5: Kali Yuga
Hindu philosophy sees history as a cycle of four ages or yugas, beginning with a golden age, the Satya Yuga. The process is one of decline, away from the gods, away from virtue. Even lifespans shorten, from an incredible 100,000 years down to 20. Each age is represented by the demon Kali (not to be confused with the goddess of similar name) cutting off one of the legs of the sacred cow. The final age is Kali Yuga, the demonic age of vice, in which there is one-quarter virtue and three-quarters sin.*
How appropriate, then, to characterize the contemporary age in the minds of the right-wing conspiracy theorists who are featured in this piece. The rants range from psuedo-scholarly predictions that there will be a full communist takeover of America by the 1970s (a Bircher-type conspiracy theory put out in 1973 by something called "Fact Records"), to the full blown schizophrenic ravings against the Communist Gangster Computer God by the notorious Francis E. Dec. Also included is the infamous evangelical interpretation of backwards recordings of Led Zeppelin and the Satanic/Nazi imagery of KISS (a version of this is also on the new Mogwai album, Rave Tapes). The soundtrack to all this decadence is provided by the seminal drone-metal album Earth 2.
The language on this recording is often offensive, always absurd.
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* According to most interpretations, the Kali Yuga began in the bronze age and still continues, and since whole civilizations have risen and fallen in that time, the Hindu cosmic-cycle schema is actually totally inapplicable to contemporary politics, except as a metaphor.
Friday, February 14, 2014
Interplanetary Interlude #12: The Triumph of Perversity
Playlist
1. How Fucking Romantic- Magnetic Fields
2. Maria- Hampton Grease Band
3. Cum in My Mouth- Tobie Columbus
4. Shave 'em Dry- Lucille Bogan
5. Rated X- Loretta Lynn
6. Whips and Things- David Allan Coe
7. Oh Bondage Up Yours!- X-Ray Spex
8. Sex Bomb- Flipper [edit]
9. Lola- The Raincoats
10. Jet Boy Jet Girl- Elton Motello
11. The Hyperemiator- Tuli Kupferberg
12. Pornoshop- Sun City Girls
13. When I'm Fucking- The Poetics
14. Sappho's Hymn to Aphrodite- The Fugs
15. Kiss of Flesh- The Residents
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Another filthy set of songs about fucking for Valentine's Day. Check out last year's set of smut if you're the insatiable type.
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Interplanetary Interlude #11: The Owl in the Sarcophagus
1. Kaneda- Geinoh Yamashirogumi
2. Death Rides a Horse- Ennio Morricone
3. Tetsuo- Geinoh Yamashirogumi
4. Chasmaeon- Ga'an
5. Doll's Polyphony- Geinoh Yamashirogumi
6. Still I'm Sad- The Yardbirds
7. Where is Yesterday?- The United States of America
8. Shohmyoh [edit]- Geinoh Yamashirogumi
9. Voice and Bowed Percussion- Arrington de Dionyso & Ravi Padmanabha
10. Mutation- Geinoh Yamashirogumi
11. Hymn of the Cherubim- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
12. Aguirre- Popol Vuh
13. Z Point- David Grubbs
14. Requiem- Geinoh Yamashirogumi
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Most of this interlude comes from the soundtrack to the classic anime Akira. The rest was suggested by the polyphonic and choral elements of its great soundtrack. Ennio Morricone and Popul Vuh are also soundtrack masters, of Italian and German cinema respectively. David Grubbs was a member of one of the best post-rock acts of the 90's, Gastr del Sol. The episode's title is as usual pilfered from Wallace Stevens. Perhaps you could read while you listen.
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