Can't Play, Won't Play Will Play

My BF's band is playing next Saturday (13 June) at the Adelaide along with a coupla other bands. Dave's band is Can't Play Won't Play and they play alongside Evil Ocean (who has been played on my show on more than one occasion) and Detrytus. Should be a fun night! It's also a chance to celebrate my friend's 40th. God, we are all getting old.

Outside, they listen...

Here's my friend Conrad listening to my show last night. Kisses, Conrad!

SESSION 18: At Home With Rose

Pretty/Harsh

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I've been a bit sick with a headcold for the last few days. I only get a cold about once every couple of years, so when it hits me I feel pretty miserable. I spent almost the whole day yesterday in bed watching movies. Was kinda nice. Lemon and honey drinks and cups of tea. Plenty of snoozing off, too.

Being sick has left me with little time to get my show ready, but I seem to be getting quicker anyway. I usually get the tracks picked out on a Sunday evening and then the fine tuning and the playlist get done on Monday night. This time I've finished the whole shebang tonight, being Monday night. I'm not going to dilly-dally around telling you about the artists, cos I really need my kip, being sick and all.

I will say that I am playing a track by Stanier Black-Five (who has the best name I've bloody heard of for a while!) who I saw play at the Adam Art Gallery on Thursday night and she's pretty great. She's based in Christchurch, but originally from the UK. She runs her own label, Argot Records.

And so, with no further ado, here's the playlist for Session 18:

Sophie Moleta, 111 Taranaki St, Runner: A Compilation of New Zealand Music, Next Big Way. (2:45)
Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos, Torn, River Falling Love, Ajax Records. (8:35)
Roy Montgomery, Fine, Fine, Fine, 324 E. 13th Street #7, Drunken Fish. (5:25)
David Watson, Sinister 4, Fingering an Idea, XI Records. (4:59)
Alastair Galbraith, two wires and a violin, Wire Music, Corpus Hermeticum. (6:52)
Roy Montgomery, Rain Receding, Scenes From the South Island, Drunken Fish. (4:43)
Sophie Moleta, Can You?, Runner: A Compilation of New Zealand Music, Next Big Way. (1:55)
Stanier Black-Five, Double Headed, Train Tracks, Argot Records. (5:58)
Seht, chryse planitia, The Green Morning, Digitalis Recordings. (19:58)
John White, Instrumental, Balloon Adventure, She'll Be Right. (23:09)
Frey, out-20071020-215531-further, unrelased (20:33)
Thela, (Untitled #5), Argentina, Ecstatic Peace! (7:26)
Sandra Bell, Lost Train, Killing Capitalism with Kindness, Turbulence Records. (2:11)
Chris Heazlewood, Throb, Cash Guitar, Flying Nun. (1:12)
The Chills, Night of Chill Blue, Brave Words, Flying Nun. (2:57)
Claypipe, The Math of Random Fractures, Jewelled Antler Library Vol. 8: Wayside, Jewelled Antler. (3:59)
Swagger Jack, Stall, The Feral Blood of Swagger Jack, Last Visible Dog. (2:02)

SESSION 17: At Home with Rose

Bailter Space vs The Skeptics

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One hour of Bailter Space followed by one hour of The Skeptics.

It's not noise. It's not drone. But listen and you'll hear the influence both these bands have had on the New Zealand alternative and experimental music scene.

Two amazing and influential New Zealand bands: one still hanging in there in New York and the other sadly short-lived due to the death of singer David D'Ath in 1990.

Both of these bands were outstanding live. I was lucky enough to see The Skeptics play in Timaru many years ago - I think it was about 1984. I didn't know much about them at the time. The small unsophisticated crowd soon turned into a clutch of quietly enthralled people. My jaw dropped. I've been in love with them since. Their songs are surprising. They weren't like anything else that was around at the time. Yes, you can hear the punk coming through, and some influence from the Dunedin sound, but they also had a dark gothic bent. There's even an occasional smattering of reggae beats. They were The Skeptics. And they were pretty fucking incredible.

Read lots about the wonderful Skeptics here, including an obituary for David D'Ath by Chris Matthews.

After The Skeptics disbanded, band members John Halversen and Brent McLaughlan went on to join Bailter Space.

I've seen Bailter Space probably about five times live - two of those times were in the space of a week. They built huge sonic walls – I remember the time my black dress was banging against my legs with the force of the bass (I think my noise-induced hearing loss was partially caused by being too close to the speakers at Bailter Space concerts). These guys were truly loud. But they had an underlying sonic drone and soaring guitars and distorted feedback that are there in lots of the music I love. Really dreamy and shoe-gazer but also with huge sonic strength. Loud and soft all at the same time. Stuff to swoon to. Well, I do.

I've been known to go to sleep at night listening to Bailter Space's Tanker on many occasions...

You can read about Bailter Space on their MySpace page.

Here's my playlist for the two-hour set.

Bailter Space
I'm Love With These Times, Nelsh E.P., Flying Nun (3:20)
One More Reason, Tanker, Flying Nun (3:14)
Tanker, Tanker, Flying Nun (4:16)
Your Invisible Life, Tanker, Flying Nun (4:14)
Morning, Robot World, Flying Nun (4:04)
Galaxy, Vortura, Flying Nun (4:44)
Shadow, Vortura, Flying Nun (4:04)
x, Vortura, Flying Nun (4:48)
Projects, Vortura, Flying Nun (5:07)
Voltage, Wammo, Matador (4:36)
Glimmer, Wammo, Matador (4:07)
Colours, Wammo, Matador (3:02)
Shades, Capsul, Turnbuckle (3:02)
Argonaut, Capsul, Turnbuckle (6:57)
Space X, Solar.3, Turnbuckle (2:57)
Live For You, Solar.3, Turnbuckle (4:12)

The Skeptics
Sensible Shoes, Sensible, Flying Nun (4:26)
Spring, Sensible, Flying Nun (6:24)
Bub, Sensible, Flying Nun (6:00)
Splenal Langwems, Sensible, Flying Nun (3:16)
Men o' War, Sensible, Flying Nun (4:21)
All Sum Nul, Amalgam, Flying Nun (3:48)
Never Tire of Looking at the Stars, Amalgam, Flying Nun (2:22)
Pack Ice, Amalgam, Flying Nun (4:31)
Boo-chang, Chowder Over Wisconsin, Flying Nun (0:22)
Aud Balmoral, Chowder Over Wisconsin, Flying Nun (2:39)
Ponds, Ponds, ULP (3:52)
Two Pot Resin, If I Will I Can, Flying Nun (6:20)
Feeling Bad, III, Flying Nun (4:59)
Affco, III, Flying Nun (4:05)

Warning: this video may disturb! (and may induce vegetarianism)

SESSION 16: At Home With Rose

Two dollar mixture

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Lolly scramble tonight. Couldn't be arsed with a theme, so just some bits and pieces that I like.

First up is a 40-minute turn-up-your-stereo-and-blast-your-neighbours live recording, "Dread the Future", by Neoteric Sound Research Unit No. 0001. Fun and games. From magical to ferocious.

We move from there into lo-fi land puncutated by some nice field recordings from Greece by 5454. Thanks to David Coventry for sending me some tracks - included this week is a guitar piece by him. I love it when people send me stuff!

I've recently been introduced to David Watson, an ex-pat New Zealander living in New York. Thanks to the Fungus boys for pointing me in his direction. I'm very happy about that! David has worked with the likes of John Zorn and Lee Renaldo. According to Wikipedia, he helped start the alt.music festivals in 2001. He makes experimental bagpipe music! Yay for that, I say. I'm a fan of the bagpipes.

I've included some Douglas Lilburn to finish with. I kind of forget about his amazing music. He was the grand-daddy of electro-acoustic in New Zealand.

Neoteric Sound Research Unit No. 0001, Dread the Future, unreleased live recording. (44.05)
The Stumps, Destruction (Excerpt), Lost Weekends, foxglove (0:44)
The Stumps, Convolvulous, Lost Weekends, foxglove (1:33)
Frey, distant_buried, cronica, demo (3:34)
Frey, therefore, cronica, demo (3:04)
Frey, tweening, cronica, demo (2:01)
A Handful of Dust, Masonic Inborn (Parts 2 & 3), Killing Capitalism with Kindness, Turbulence Records (4:11)
Lame And Sorry, Minus Eleven, Le Jazz Non (A Compilation Of Nineties NZ Noise), Corpus Hermeticum. (4:11)
David Coventry, Give Some Love, unreleased (1:20)
5454, Easter Sunday (on location, documentation of service which took place on Easter Sunday 06 in the main church in Kantza, Athens, Greece), Travelogue cdr (3:34)
Pumice, I Want to Fuck Women, Society of Dogs - Pumice/Armpit split CDR
5454, Temporary Misplacement, Travelogue, cdr
Garbage and the Flowers, Born in the Dark Dear, Runner, Next Best Way. (3:56)
Armpit, Youse, tron ii (5:08)
Alistair Galbraith, fall, Morse, Stiltbreeze (3:06)
Alistair Galbraith, Hospice, Arc: Music of Dunedin, Arc (2:22)
Gate (3), To Kiss The Wall, Le Jazz Non (A Compilation Of Nineties NZ Noise), Corpus Hermeticum (3:52)
Alistair Galbraith, Identical, Cry, Emperor Jones (1:46)
David Watson, Sinister 2, Fingering an Idea, XI Records (4:57)
David Watson, Seventh Stomach, Throats, Ecstatic Peace! (2:22)
David Watson, Trachea, Throats, Ecstatic Peace! (1:43)
David Watson, Cutting, Throats, Ecstatic Peace! (3:05)
Douglas Lilburn, three inscapes - no. 1, Complete Electro-Acoustic Works, Atoll (2:35)
Douglas Lilburn, three inscapes - no. 2, Complete Electro-Acoustic Works, Atoll (4:34)
Douglas Lilburn, three inscapes - no. 3, Complete Electro-Acoustic Works, Atoll (4:58)

Dance dance dance to my ten guitar (picks)

Neoteric Sound Research Unit No. 0001

This week I'm going to be playing a live 40-minute recording by the new Wellington noise group Neoteric Sound Research Unit No. 0001. NSRUN 0001 are David Cauchi, Tribby Gonix, Laura Shepard, and Matt Whitwell. This is their first recording. Exciting!

neoteric Rare ~adj. 1. belonging to a new fashion or trend, modern: a neoteric genre. ~n. 2. a new writer or philosopher. [C16: via Late Latin from Greek neoterikos young, fresh, from neoteros younger, more recent, from neos new, recent] – neoterically adv.

The Aesthetics

Last night we went to see The Aesthetics at The Adelaide. It was lots of fun. I drank way too much beer. I enjoyed seeing Matt Middeleton play live as Crude. He's pretty entertaining. I hated the saxophone though. I really really hate noodly sax playing. It's just a thing of mine. It doesn't matter how much people improvise and how much they experiment. It still sounds like a sax. Must have been too much Kenny Gee on the radio in the 80s or something. Anyways, there were a couple of girls who played some really great garagey rock who go by the name of Newtown. They were lots of fun. Lots of power and plenty of balls. I thought they were pretty neat. Nice growly vocals. And yelling not screaming. Zombie Fuck were up next, and they sound good till the screeching vocals start. I wasn't big on that. I don't think I want to see them again. I've seen them once before at Happy and was not keen then either. Well there ya go. You can't like everything. Sorry if you read this, Zombie Fuck. I'm sure you've got your followers.

The Aesthetics were just great. Lots of energy, plenty of people up dancing. Matt Middleton has heaps of mad energy on the stage.

Here's what they have to say about themselves on their website: "Our mission : to keep the moronic in vogue, in focus. To apply our kollective learnings to the infantile and primitive ritual/release that is punk rock, to render the stupid the highest peak of aesthetic life, of life itself. To strip back the layers of self-deception and self-betrayal that is the everyday, the brattish hubub of late modern capitalism and , assisted by all types of poisons, brandish our musical weapons with ugly, stupid, turbulent simplicity. We , the Aesthetics : obviously boys, stupid men, drunk, in trance, yelping and stuffing down food offerings, pissing profits away, we activate a new, deep subconcious stream and , through our group ritual, keep new zealand on it's feet. For if these artists, these madmen, were to be denied their right to performance, the cancer that is 'straight' new zealand society would metastasize exponentally. 'Real men', all hair-product and credit, would wake up one gray morning, pick up a knife, and murder with android indifference. We keep this country on it's feet. We realize and heal these repressed subconcious collective evils bursting at the seams of the 'real world' through our music/ritual. All for no reward. Perhaps a strained, guilty half-smile from a city counsellor. WE ROCK. WE ROCK ON. WE ROCK ON . ONWARD - INTO OUR 30S. OUR 4OS."

It's a shame Pumice was on in the same night. I would have liked to have gone to that gig too. Always a bummer when they coincide.

Floyd the Phenomenal Cat Trophy

I wanna plug this guy. Floyd the Phenomenal Cat Trophy. I found him somehow or other on MySpace and ordered his CD (a data disk actually, of three albums of phenomenally wonderful lo-fi tracks in three handy bit-rates!). His voice is reminiscent of Peter Murphy's of Bauhaus, or even Paul Banks of Interpol. Deep and powerful. He can sing along sweetly, then suddenly roar in a powerful bass growl. Fuck, I love it. His songs are interesting. They have that feeling of Daniel Johnsonesque intimacy. With song titles like "things my robot said in a song for Bedt" and "summer as a fuckface" you know you're gonna want to listen hard and hear his lyrics. The instrumentation is pretty standard but nicely done. Drums, some organ drone, strumming guitar - nothing fancy. But that voice. He's phenomenal alright. Someone sign him! If I had a label, I would.

SESSION 15: At Home With Rose

Lullaby Droneland

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This week's show is for going to sleep to. This drone differs to this drone. Or is it hum?

Sweet dreams. xx

By the way, if anyone wants to chat to me during the show, you can contact me via the Chat facility on Radio23.org.

Claypipe, ~~~, Jewelled Antler Library Vol. 8: Wayside. Jewelled Antler (1:44)
CJA, 5:05, Ironclad, Last Visible Dog (5:10)
Lovely Midget, silent folk song, self titled. Corpus Hermeticum (1:33)
James Kirk, Lips, A Lowtides Rising (Explorations around the theme of NZ acoustic music). Pseudo Arcana (1:59)
Swung, Dudi, Voice and Key. Pseudo Arcana (4:26)
Gate (3), PlQuad.15.1, My Dear Sweet Reluctant Sweetheart. Hell's Half Halo (5:47)
RST, Crystalline, Axes, Last Visible Dog (5:53)
Tim Coster, Mornings, Mornings. Pseudo Arcana (2:36)
Torben Tilly, Droszkhi's Gate, Audio Foundation Audio Files. Creative Commons (5:18)
Rosy Parlane, Part 1, Iris, Touch (19:10)
David Khan, Sunlight (edit), Audio Foundation Audio Files. Creative Commons (5:40)
seht, B3. TDOB, HRRY. Digitalis Recordings (3:52)
seht, jet raga, dronemusic. Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon (4:09)
seht, valles marineris, The Green Morning. Digitalis Recordings (10:32)
seht, skin, Application Antarctica Download Form. Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon (18:26)
Lovely Midget, Raudive Rain, North Head. Family Vineyard (5:55)
Kneale.Francis.Milton, Hiss Methodology IV, Hiss Methodologies. Celebrate/Psi/Phenomenon (22:16)

SESSION 14: At Home With Rose

GREG MALCOLM SPECIAL

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Two hours of Greg Malcolm. Selections from five albums. On Radio23 from 7-9pm Tuesday night NZ time.

The playlist includes Greg's new album, out this year: Leather and Lacy

Homesick for Nowhere (Corpus Hermeticum)
Lonely Woman (6:56)
Homesick for Nowhere (5:03)
Chairman Mao (6:49)
Blues for Aida (6:12)
Strawberry Fields (1:33)
Oderbruch (3:59)
Incident at Owl Creek (6:56)

Swimming in it (K-RAA-K)³
Swimming in it (8:07)

Leather And Lacy (Interregnum Records)
Prayer (8:21)
The Crust (9:05)
Art (4:41)
Bone (2:05)
Ducks (7:29)
Blues For Aida (4:41)
Life On It's Way (5:27)

Hung (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon)
Ghost From The Past (4:48)
Drops (1:07)
The Bells (4:11)
Shipwreck (4:22)
Pretty Flash (2:41)
Maltronics (3:15)
Glow (1:45)


What is it, Keith? (Proper Music)
Moral Outlaw (3:31)
It's Popular Music (1:07)
Amazing Grace (1:26)
Art (4:26)
Some Kinda Kiwiana Exhibition (0:55)
Scandal in the Wind (5:37)

(Artwork for cover of What is it, Keith is by Bill Hammond, I noticed.)

An interview from the Christchurch Library website! Heh.

Greg Malcolm at Enjoy Gallery

Tonight we went to the White Fungus Relocation Party (Ron and Mark are off to Taiwan and publishing White Fungus from there). As part of the celebrations, Greg Malcolm made his way up from Christchurch for a one-off performance. I've seen Greg play twice before and really enjoyed his music and his warm-humoured delivery. There's a real playfulness with Greg's music, and none of the serious earnestness that can be kinda annoying with sound artists. It's pretty obvious that he spends a lot of time experimenting with sound. He brings out so many odd items to connect to his guitar in some way (dangling off it, rubbed against it, banging directly onto it) you wonder what he's gonna pull out next. While he strums sweet melodies on his guitar (an amazingly beautiful instrument) his toes are used on two guitars laid flat on the ground in front of him. It's great to watch. I loved it when he laid a marble on the strings of one of the prostate guitars and tipped it gently back and forth, resulting in a sliding drone.

The only downer of the night were the many people creating an irritating drone of their own. I do wonder why people come to performances when all they want to do is chat to their friends. It shows little respect for the artist. We noticed that Greg pumped the volume up quite suddenly at one stage and I picked up a tiny lift of a smile as he did so. Quite right, Greg. But he shouldn't have had to do that.

Because of the perfomance tonight, I've decided that my next show is going to be a Greg Malcolm special. I love his stuff. He's been included on my playlist before. I've been thinking about having single artist shows, so this is the first of those. I'm looking forward to putting it together tomorrow night.

SESSION 13: At Home With Rose

Raaaaawwwwwk.

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Yes, this week is the time for guitars and drums. Noise-as-rock/rock-as-noise. Some of it's borderline. Some of it you might call drone. But to me, there's a hint of rock in all these tracks. More testosterone than you can shake a stick at.

It's my pleasure to be involved with the wonderful Radio23, which just launched officially on April 23. I've been listening to shows by the other DJs and I've gotta give a plug for I Will Not Return Your Records, hosted by the lovely Lorrie in Montreal. It's become my favourite Friday afternoon kick. Nice way to end the week. Great playlists - country(ish), rock(ish), folk(ish). From Neil Young to Six Organs of Admittance, by a roundabout route.

Another show on Radio23 that I adore (it's magic) is PRAEMISSVM PLANTARIO. This show takes me on a trip. I can't listen to it at the office, so I download the podcasts and listen at my leisure. Lots of sonic layers and otherworldly mutterings.

And so, here is my playlist for this week:

Chris Heazlewood, International Smoker, Cash Guitar, Flying Nun. (4:23)
Sandoz Lab Technicians, Satan's Green Claw, Sandoz Lab Technicians, Siltbreeze. (3:51)
This Kind of Punishment, From the Diary of Hermann Doubt, A Beard of Bees, Ajax Records (2). (3:19)
Skeptics, Ponds, Ponds, ULP. (3:52)
Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos, All of This, River Falling Love, Flying Nun Records. (3:20)
This Kind of Punishment, North Head, In The Same Room/5 by Four, Ajax Records (2). (3:33)
Alistair Galbraith, Full soup head, Cry, Emperor Jones. (6:10)
Thela, Track02, Thela, Ecstatic Peace! (9:18)
Kraus, Guilia, Where are You Now?, The Facts, Creative Commons. (3:00)
Children's Television Workshop, Hat Chau Van, The Polyamorous Love Cult, Drunken Fish Records. (5:52)
Children's Television Workshop, Baby Walk, The Polyamorous Love Cult, Drunken Fish Records. (3:33)
Barge, Floating Backwards, Barge by Name Barge by Nature, cdr. (5:49)
Gfrenzy, Mouth of Bloody Vengeance, The Need For A Crossing: A New New Zealand, Vol. 1, Xeric. (1:38)
Bailter Space, Grader Spader, Tanker, Flying Nun Records. (3:47)
Skeptics, Bad Wiring, Amalgam, Flying Nun Records. (2:47)
Mrtyu, The Burning Ground, The Burning Ground, Battlecruiser. (5:41)
Skeptics, Two Pot Resin, I Will if I Can, Flying Nun Records. (6:20)
Evil Ocean, australopithecus afarensis, Bad demino, unreleased. (7:51)
Thela, (Untitled #2), Argentina, Ecstatic Peace! (8:07)
Birchville Cat Motel, Sublime Prince of Royal, Astro Catastrophies Disk 1, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon. (17:24)
Antony Milton, Halls and Malls, Rag Red Reverie, PseudoArcana. (6:43)
The Stumps, Untitled 3, The Black Wood, Last Visible Dog. (5:59)

Radio 23 launch

Woohoo! From today Radio 23 is no longer in beta. Bioig launch party! Wish I was in Brroklyn for this. They'll be having fun. I'll be on the road to New Plymouth to see my mum and sister for the weekend, so I won't get to listen.

Anyway, I'll be thinking of Jeff in New York and wishing them all the best.

SESSION TWELVE: At Home With Rose

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Last week was folksy overtones - this week it's electronic. Sure, there may be an occasional barely recognisable guitar chord, but this show is essentially digital maelstrom. I tucked in a little sweet girlie thing at the end that does have some guitar and drums. I just felt it needed it at the end. More for myself than my listeners, cos I'm a selfish bitch at heart.

I want to acknowledge the phenomenon of Creative Commons and free audio here. Not that there is anything wrong with paying for music. Oh no! But there is a new online culture where artists make their music available for download. So here's a plug for the four artists whose free music I am playing in this session:

Kraus: one of his albums was described in The Listener as "somewhere between a pop Moog record and the harshest no wave." Kraus has the best website I have seen for a long time. Highlight: his interviews with himself. Oh, and his music. I think he's pretty fucking fantastic.
Dsic: Ex-pat New Zealander living in Bristol, UK.
Crude: Matt Middleton has been making music in Dunedin since 1994.
Disasteradio: Luke is Rowell is a Wellington artist who is influenced by Commodore 64 games. You can tell this just by looking at his website.

Here's the playlist for the show:

Golden Axe, Track 02, unknown, (1:26)
Disasteradio, Mail Order Computer Kit, Disasteradio, Open source audio. (2:52)
Kraus, Birds, Red, Green and Blue: 1998-2003, free audio. (4:10)
Kraus, I Mould U Jelly O, The Facts, Creative Commons. (3:24)
Kraus, Exterminating Angel, Red, Green and Blue: 1998-2003, free audio. (3:51)
Kraus, Light and You, Red, Green and Blue: 1998-2003, free audio. (2:47)
MHFS, Tracks 01-08, west Auckland Driving Songs, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon. (Entire release -20:00)
Seht, Gas Reg Stn. + Carrilon, The Voice of the Taniwha, Last Visible Dog. (1:05)
Omit, Slip Link, Tracer, Helen Scarsdale Agency. (3:10)
Omit, Incrustation, Transmogrification, Deepskin Conceptual Mindmusic. (1:44)
Birchville Cat Motel, The Frog Prince, 7", Anthem Records. (4:58)
Crude, Aerosoll, Syringes and Insects, Open Source Audio. (13:29)
Crude, On An Industrial Scale, Syringes and Insects, Open Source Audio. (7:02)
Seht, cydonia, The Green Morning, Digitalis. (5:36)
Seht, B1. ERKK, HRRY, Digitalis (forthcoming release). (6:17)
dsic, Witchita, free audio (2:25)
dsic, 101005, free audio (2:31)
dsic, For Gary Boone, A History of Microprocessing Vol.2: T.I. TMS 1000, free audio.(3:40)
Gate (3), Dis.1.Beat, My Dear Sweet Reluctant Sweetheart, Hell's Half Halo. (4:01)
Gate (3), Pnc#2.aiff/Mry.1, My Dear Sweet Reluctant Sweetheart, Hell's Half Halo. (5:09)
Kraus, Washing Dishes (Electrolux Version), The Facts, Creative Commons. (2:53)
Bachelorette, Your Magic Air, Isolation Loops, Electroplate. (4:44)
dsic, Flat Air Oxygene, free audio. (3:01)
Kraus, Prance of the Ravening Eagle, The Facts, Creative Commons. (3:00)
Kraus, If These Jaws Could Talk, The Facts, Creative Commons. (4:25)
Kraus, I Can Explain, The Facts, Creative Commons. (0:59)
Omit, Eska-Flex, Tracer, Helen Scarsdale Agency (2:17)

Cloud tags

SESSION ELEVEN: At Home With Rose

It's been a really busy weekend so I have purposely chosen 4 long tracks. It's a nice contrast to last week anyway.

It's a bit of a swirling pysch-space-drone this week. No drugs required.

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Seht, One Moment, Dead Bees ((the((quiet)earth))suite), PseudoArcana (36:33)
Sunken, Sounding/Salt/Seacow, Eye Electric Organ, Brain Electric Nerve, PseudoArcana (29:90)
Lamp of the Universe, Levitation Orchestra, Arc of Ascent, Astral Projection (21:53)
Black Boned Angel, Endless Coming Into Life, Ashes , Celebrate Psi Phenomenon (32:29)

Those vikings love to fight and play...

Aussie music was big back in the early 80s - the height of my teens. Icehouse, Hoodoo Gurus, Hunters and Collectors, Mental as Anything, Midnight Oil. I've been reliving the beauty of these songs on YouTube and marvelling at the love of mop-hair, slap bass and horn sections. There were some very special songs. Remember the emotional draw of Hunter and Collector's "Throw Your Arms Around Me"?

Here's "Talking to a Stranger"



My favourite Mental As Anything song:

SESSION TEN: At Home With Rose

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Oh, a milestone! My tenth show. And still in Beta. But not for long. Radio 23 launches on April 23rd. Getting exciting!

My show this week is fairly folk-soaked - lots of acoustic guitar, but still plenty of surprising twists. My favourite finds have been two wonderful releases: A Lowtides Rising (Explorations Around The Theme Of NZ Acoustic Music) put out by PseudoArcana, and The Need For A Crossing: A New New Zealand, Vol. 1, out by US label Table of Elements. Both highly recommended.

The show moves to a new timeslot due to our daylight saving being over: now 7pm to 9pm NZ time.

Paintings of Windows/Antony Milton, Gilgit, Witching Hour – Field Recordings of Nighttime, CLaudia cdr
Swung, Lull, Voice and Key, PseudoArcana
Melita Johnson and Alastair Galbraith, Sidelined, Does it Float va, Trinder Music
Roy Montgomery, It's Cold Outside, 324 E. 13th Street #7, Drunken Fish
Autistic Daughters, A Boxful of Birds, Jealousy and Diamond, Kranky
Claypipe, Wayside, Jewelled Antler Library Vol. 8, Jewelled Antler
Seht, We Can Talk Quite Freely, A Lowtides Rising (Explorations Around The Theme Of NZ Acoustic Music), PseudoArcana
Pumice, Stars, The Need For A Crossing: A New New Zealand, Vol. 1, Table Of Elements
Ben Spiers, Smoon, Spin You, Transient Recordings
Claypipe, Constant, Jewelled Antler Library Vol. 8, Jewelled Antler
Pumice, Where You Helmet Laddd, A Lowtides Rising (Explorations Around The Theme Of NZ Acoustic Music), PseudoArcana
Roy Montgomery, Downtown To Vesuvio, Scenes From The South Island, Drunken Fish Records
Greg Malcolm, Oderbruch, Homesick for Nowhere, Corpus Hermeticum
Sunken, Staunch, Eye Electric Organ, Brain Electric Nerve, PseudoArcana
Gydja, Beyond the Earth's Edge, Umblicus Maris, Mystery Sea
K-Group, artificial sound disc, K-Group, Corpus Hermeticum
Crude, Beat Tactique, Faux, free release
track 08, golden axe, unreleased
Gfrenzy, Mouth of Bloody Vengeance, The Need For A Crossing: A New New Zealand, Vol. 1, Table Of Elements
Track 02, Golden Axe, unreleased
Seht, B5.JZZA, HRRY, unreleased
Richard Francis, 508, A Lowtides Rising (Explorations Around The Theme Of NZ Acoustic Music), PseudoArcana
Roy Montgomery, The Soul Quietens, Kranky Kompilation, Kranky
Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos, Lots of Hearts, River Falling Love, Ajax Records (2)
Gate (3), PE.ch.1.aiff, My Dear Sweet Reluctant Sweetheart, Hell's Half Halo

Blogging from bed

Reading: After Dark by Haruki Murakami

I've had a silly condition this week. On Thursday morning I had a major dizzy spell. I woke up, swivelled my head to look at the clock, and when I turned back I got the head-spins like you wouldn't believe. I closed my eyes and the room was spinning round. Immediate nausea - I felt like I was on a lurching boat. When I got up I had to hold on to the walls to make my way to the loo. Not pleasant. Anyways, I got a taxi to the doctor that morning and found out I had this thing called Benign Positional Vertigo. Apparently it is going to go away - takes 3 to 14 days to disappear. Bloody nuisance. I did some gardening and shopping yesterday and I think I overdid it a bit. This morning (Sunday) the whole room was whirling again so I have stayed in bed and have been dozing and reading. Decided to spend the time a little more usefully and listened to the podcast of Zoe Drayton, founder of the Audio Foundation being interviewed on National Radio. I found it interesting that she is so dismissive about her own music. I really rate her - she has only put out a small amount of music, but what she has done is so sublime, and really so different to what other people in the scene are doing. Her reason for not promoting herself is that others have been doing it for so much longer and she has only been making music for a short time. To me, that makes no difference. It's the end result that matters. Mind you, she mentioned that she was composing at the age of 10 and it sounds like she had some amazing influences as a child, being exposed to minimalist classical, folk, and jazz. She mentioned that her creative career was interrupted by having children in her 20's, and I can certainly relate to that. I feel I'm finding time now to find my own creative voice now that my child rearing days are over. Would have been nice to have been interspersed by some examples of the music she was describing though. So much time was spent trying to describe the genres and sub-genres - just bloody play some of it!

I've enjoyed reading my book. I haven't been doing enough reading lately. I really need to start getting to bed earlier. It's the only place I read and it's entirely reliant on me getting to bed early enough before I nod off and the book falls out of my hands.