SESSION 33: At Home With Rose

Synth-tastic Pleasures!

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Oh my god, I've had fun this week, dredging up 80s treasures and some of the latest synth-inspired tunes. I've been quite giggly with the fun of it all!

Been watching lots of DVDs including If.... which was fantastically good. Working on some fun design stuff at the office and hoping to have our website up in the next few weeks.

It's very late - past midnight and I should be in bed. So no more pissing around.

Here's the night's playlist. I might be doing live voice-over (finally). We shall see - depends on whether I get the technology working appropriately.

Delia Derbyshire, 'Dr Who Theme', Doctor Who: 30 Years At The Radiophonic Workshop, BBC Records. (1:30)
Stuk Bambuka v 11 chasnov, 'Beliy Chert Landish', Legkoe delo holod, Izhitsa Records. (3:53)
Delia Derbyshire, 'pot au feu', Music from the BBC radiophonic workshop, BBC and Rephlex Records. (3:26)
Delia Derbyshire, 'ziwzih ziwzih 00-00-00', Music from the BBC radiophonic workshop, BBC and Rephlex Records. (1:54)
Kraftwerk, 'Die Roboter', single, Kling Klang. (6:10)
Stuk Bambuka v 11 chasnov, 'Kakavella', Legkoe delo holod, Izhitsa Records. (1:41)
Disasteradio, 'Blame the Speakers', Disasteradio CDr, Red Letter Zine Distro. (1:16)
Disasteradio, 'Telephone Senor Kleeno', Disasteradio CDr, Red Letter Zine Distro. (3:02)
Disasteradio, 'Trash City', Disasteradio CDr, Red Letter Zine Distro. (1:09)
Sun City Girls, 'Dry Valley', Jukebox Buddha, Staubgold. (5:40)
Kites, 'Dirt', Peace Trials, Load Records. (1:49)
Thick pigeon, 'Silhouettes', Crepuscule for Cafe Apres-Midi vol 1, Victor Entertainment Japan. (3:26)
Silver Apples, 'Oscillations', Silver Apples, Kapp Records. (2:50)
Nini Raviolette, 'Suis-je Normale', So Young But So Cold - Underground French Music 1977-1983, Tigersushi. (4:03)
Stereolab, 'Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (Foamy)', The Groop Played "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music", Too Pure. (2:14)
Stereolab and the High Llamas, 'United States of Surrealism', Turn On, Duophonic. (1:23)
Adn Ckrystall, 'Cocaina Vitamina', Collected Works, MetaWaveClassix. (6:50)
Mekanik Kommando, 'White Soldier', It Would Be Quiet in the Woods if Only a Few Birds Sing, Torso. (3:19)
Xex, 'S.N.G.A.', Xex, The Smack Shire. (2:27)
Arthur Harrison & Rupert Chappelle, 'Interstellar Safeway', Jobs For America, Thermidor. (4:42)
Die Gesunden, 'Die Gesunden Kommen', [va] New Deutsch, International Deejay Gigolo Records. (3:40)
Minny Pops, 'Total Confusion', Drastic Measure, Drastic Movement, Plurex Records. (2:12)
Neuland, 'Triola', VA But Then Again, ~SCAPE. (5:47)
Silverstone, 'Why', Time Will Heal, Poni Republic. (3:44)
Douglas Lilburn, 'five toronto pieces (1963) - sings harry', Complete Electro-Acoustic Works, Atoll Records. (5:06)
Eleanoora Rosenholm, 'Bolly Palkkionmetsästäjä', Ala Kysy Kuolleilta, He Sanoiv, Fonal Records. (3:08)
Ahlgul Ouijaha, 'Kid-o Chant to Krystiall Glass', Outro to Finale, AMENOREA. (1:06)
Ahlgul Ouijaha, 'Ahh, Initiation in Click and K', Outro to Finale, AMENOREA. (4:42)
Disco Inferno, 'Starbound: All Burnt Out & Nowhere To Go', D.I. Go Pop, Rough Trade (UK). (4:02)
Eleanoora Rosenholm, 'Vladimir Grut˚ov', Ala Kysy Kuolleilta, He Sanoiv, Fonal Records. (2:30)
Lime, 'On The Grid (Re-Mix Dub)', VA The Dark Side Of Disco Vol. 1, Soho. (9:29)
Yaz, 'Only You', Napoleon Dynamite soundtrack, LAKESHORE RECORDS. (3:10)

Many thanks tonight to:

Conrad (pictured) for his glitter and general synth-tasticness.
Lorrie, from I Will Not Return Your Records, for her neverending support and sisterhood.
David, for pouring the wine, Doctor Who facts, and being an all-round lovely man.

SESSION 32: At Home With Rose

Psych folk and other mysteries (co-starring Michael McD)

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Bit of a change of routine for the show this week - I've asked my friend Michael along to co-host the show. I gave him the genre: psych folk (or just psych) and we get an hour each. We weren't allowed to divulge our list and if there were any double-ups, well so be it. But there weren't. Looking forward to sharing the show. Might be the start of some other collaborations for the show.

I realised I've ended up playing a few of the artists I've been playing lately anyways. Boring of me, but hey, I've been enjoying my pysch-folk shit lately. Next week, however, will be quite different when I play all synth tracks!

Just a note about one of the labels from tonight's show: Music Your Mind Will Love You (MYMWLY) - Autumn Galaxy is the artist I am playing who is on MYMWLY.

MYMWLY was an Australian independent label run by Mike Donnelly (of Terracid [plays on tonight's show], 6majik9, Soarwhole, Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood, etc.). All releases were recorded on CDRs and the copies are very limited. The label just closed shop at the beginning of this year, but I think there may still be some back catalogue stuff available via the MYMWLY blog.

However, Mike has just started another label, Pacific Soma. Apparently the rebranded label will be releasing both the old format CD-Rs as well as CDs and LPs. I'll be watching closely!

Not much to say about my week except that my sore shoulder and neck are getting better after a trip to my acupuncturist and my osteopath and a day at home watching movies. An expensive week.

And so to the playlist:

My hour:
Hush Arbors, 'The Werewolf Om', Hush Arbors, Ecstatic Peace! (4:24)
Autumn Galaxy, 'The Book of Rituals', Harappa, Musicyourmindwillloveyou. (5:53)
Charalambides, 'Magnolia', Unknown Spin, Kranky. (9:43)
Christina Carter, 'Moving, Intercepted', Electrice, Kranky. (8:23)
Flying Saucer Attack, 'Popul Vuh 1', Flying Saucer Attack, AKA Rural Psychedelia, VHF Records. (10:19)
Fursaxa, 'Lunaria Enters the Blue Lodge', Alone in the Dark Wood, Eclipse Records.(3:25)
Jackie-O-Motherfucker, 'Good Morning Kaptain', Flags of the Sacred Harp, ATP Recordings. (5:53)
No-Neck Blues Band, 'A Spiritual Knifewound', The Collective Imaginings of Quantarenius, Cook, & Co, Sound@One. (2:43)
Terracid, 'In Glowing Rings in Rows', The Palace Carries The Eggtooth As Its Crown, Foxglove. (4:06)
Jackie-O Motherfucker, 'Bone Saw', The Magick Fire Music/Wow! ATP Recordings. (13:07)
Leary Jam, 'Akron/Family', Tour Album, Not On Label. (4:30)

Michael's hour:
Pierre Henry & Michel Colombier, 'Psyché Rock', Messe Pour Le Temps Présent, Phillips. (2:51)
Linda Perhacs, 'Hey, Who Really Cares?', Parallelograms, Sunbeam. (3:02)
Moolah, 'Crystal Waters', Woe Ye Demon Possessed, EM. (5:24)
Bobby Beausoleil & The Freedom Orchestra, 'Lucifer Rising Part I, Lucifer Rising', OST, Arcanum/White Dog. (4:10)
Erkin Koray, 'Turku', Elektronik Turkuler, World Psychedelia. (8:54)
Selda, 'Yaz Gazeteci Yaz', Selda, Finders Keepers. (2:45)
Kim Jung Mi, 'The Wind', Now, World Psychedelia. (3:16)
Orchestre Régional De Kayes, 'Sanjina', Orchestre Régional De Kayes, Mississippi. (6:00)
Fraction, 'Sanc-Divided', Moon Blood, Radioactive. (3:52)
D.R. Hooker, 'The Sea', The Truth, Subliminal Sounds. (4:26)
Chrissy Zebby Tembo & Ngozi Family, 'Fisherman'. (3:31)
Cold Sun, 'Ra-Ma', Dark Shadows, World In Sound. (11:19)

SESSION 31: At Home With Rose

Cold is a soft thing: pretty drones from Lau Nau to Tangerine Dream.

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It's all sweetness and light tonight. Well, with some dark bits of course, because with me there will always be a few dark moments. Just to set off the lighter moments, of course.

Note two tracks by Russian group Stuk Bambuka V 11 Chasov (rus. “Bamboo knocks at 11 o’clock”), from the album “Legkoe Delo Holod” (rus. “Cold is a soft thing”) which came out in 1991. The most information I could find out about them was here. My Russian friend introduced me to them and I must say, they are pretty fantastic. All images in the posting are Stuk Bambuka V 11 Chasov's album artwork.

So what's been happening lately? Well, Dave has been up at the Adam Art Gallery installing his part of the Wall Works show which is the tenth anniversary of the gallery. He's been having fun, and I haven't seen much of him in the last few nights because he's been gadding about, including tonight. Where's my cup of tea! Oh fuck, I had to get it myself. What a bore.

Anyway, the show is open already, as the installations happen. Everything will be finished by the end of the week and then there's going to be a fun party to celebrate the anniversary. Should be lots of fun. There'll be music too - Bek Coogan and Torben Tilly (normally performing as Full Fucking Moon). All the better. Apparently VBC, the student radio station, are broadcasting the event.

Other than that, we have not been up to much. I've been suffering from a sore shoulder and neck, so early nights have been a must. Groan groan. God, I'm getting old! My body is starting to crap out. It's all very depressing.

Okay - enough whingeing! Here's the playlist for this week's show:

Sack und Blumm, To Go To, The Invisible Pyramid Elegy Box, Last Visible Dog. (3:38)
Iris, A Bath, 4 women no cry, Monika Enterprise. (3:26)
chie mukai, untitled, Grain - A compilation of 99 tracks, dot dot dot music. (0:45)
Susumu Yokota & Rothko, Clear Space, Distant Sounds of Summer, Lo Recordings. (5:24)
Koen Holtkamp, Half Light, Field Rituals, Type. (2:44)
Labradford, Soft Return, Prazision, Kranky. (3:28)
Chamellows, Siggur, Rat Hearts, Fonal Records. (3:03)
Kuupuu, tuli uni, Yokehra, Dekorder. (2:52)
Koen Holtkamp, Night swimmer, Field Rituals, Type. (5:18)
Ballrooms of mars, untitled 07, cedre, Nexsound. (2:27)
Tenniscoats, abi and travel, Tan-Tan Therapy, Häpna. (3:14)
Kemialliset Ystavat, Systeemi 1, Lumottu Karkkipurkki, Fonal Records. (3:19)
Khonnor, I was everything you wanted until I quit, Lost Pets, Please Do Something. (1:24)
Lau Nau, Tulkaa!, Kuutarha, Locust Music. (5:32)
Molloy and his Bike, Open Sea, Oblivion's Fiery Limelight, Dog Eared Records. (10:45)
Vincent Gallo, A Somewhere Place, Recordings of Music for Film, Warp Records. (3:03)
Kiwi Pacific, Track 51, A Treasury of New Zealand Birdsong, Kiwi Pacific. (1:14)
Moondog, Tree Trail, Moondog, Prestige. (2:19)
Jesse Glass, Written on Hell Money, Grain - A compilation of 99 tracks, dot dot dot music. (1:09)
Neu!, Lieber Honig, Neu! Astralwerks. (7:19)
Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos, Torn, River Falling Love, Ajax Records. (8:35)
Stuk Bambuka v 11 chasov, Le chval de ma vie, Legkoe delo holod, Izhitsa Records. (4:35)
Windy and Carl, undercurrent, Depths, Kranky. (4:42)
Taiga Remains, Ordinary Lack, Frannce Compilation CD3: Rouge, RuralFaune. (7:44)
Labradford, Texas, The Kahanek Incident, Vol. 3, Trance Syndicate. (7:36)
Stuk Bambuka v 11 chasov, Tyaga, Legkoe delo holod, Izhitsa Records. (5:48)
Bongwater, Mr. Soul, The Bridge - A Tribute to Neil Young, Caroline Records. (3:31)
This Kind of Punishment, The Men By The Pool, In The Same Room + 5 by Four, Flying Nun Records. (3:25)
Loren Mazzacane Connors, Siren, 9th Avenue, Black Label. (2:53)
Matmos, Roses And Teeth For Ludwig Wit, The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth of a Beast, Matador. (3:24)
Tangerine Dream, Resurrection, Electronic Meditation, Ohr. (3:25)

SESSION 30: At Home With Rose

Drones Drums Squawks

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Oh, I'm so late getting this playlist up. Should have been up last night and here we are 2 hours before broadcast and it's just going up. Bad form, Miss Miller!

I went to Frederick Street venue for the first time the other night and Butt Simpson, Sam Hamilton and LA LAKERS were playing. All were fucking brilliant. So they're all on this weeks playlist.

Here we go:

Ben Spiers, Spin You, Spin You, Transient Recordings. (13:01)
Lau Nau, Jouhet, Nuukuu, Locust Music. (4:31)
Joan of Arc, My Girlfriend Dumped Me After The Free Trip To Japan, The Intelligent Design Of Joan Of Arc, Polyvinyl Records. (5:35)
LA LAKERS, Track 07, silk lettuce whitney houston CDR, Dungeon Taxis 6. (4:51)
Akron/Family, Onward, Tour Album, Not On Label. (6:00)
Tanakh, Stereognosis Remix, Frannce Compilation CD1: Bleu, Ruralfaune. (5:29)
Jackie-O Motherfucker, Nightingale, Ballads of the Revolution, Fire. (5:12)
Pelt, Bestio Tergum Degero Pt.1, Skullfuck / Bestio Tergum Degero, VHF Records. (17:26)
LA LAKERS, Track 04, silk lettuce whitney houston CDR, Dungeon Taxis 6. (5:46)
Lau Nau, Jos Minulla Olin, Kuutarha, Locust Music. (3:54)
Felix Building, The Painter OST, Sans Nostalgie, www.umor-rex.org. (3:35)
Sam Hamilton, Epoch of Snares, Sooty Symposium, Tumblingstrain. (16:07)
frey, therefore, cronica, demo. (3:04)
This Heat, 24 Track Loop, This Heat, Piano. (5:57)
Ben Reynolds, Bridget Hayden, Kirstie Penman, untitled 1, Ben Reynolds, Bridget Hayden, Kirstie Penman. (6:36)
CJA, jenin 1, Jenin. (8:09)
Butt Simpson, SHROOM, Butt Simpson CDR. (2:37)
Kites, Downward / Creepy Crawl, Peace Trials, Load. (5:20)

SESSION 29: At Home With Rose

Finnish Music and Other Things I Found on My Way to Somewhere Else

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For starters, I have changed my show to Wednesday nights to work around my Film Society commitments. I haven't been able to get to a meeting now for months and it seems pointless being on the committee if I can't get to meetings. So Wednesday nights now I'll be in my room with my laptop and headphones loading the music up onto the interweb.

I've been getting into a bit of Finnish music lately. I'm sure there is more than just the Fonal label, but that is what I have discovered so far. I'm looking forward to hearing more.

Otherwise, this week is pretty drone-y and lofi. My faves this week are Seht's "Requiem to John Fahey" and Delia Derbyshire's "Celestial Cantible". She's the one who brought us the Doctor Who theme. She really did made amazing music.

Paavoharju, Pimeänkarkelo, Laulu Laakson Kukista, Fonal. (3:57)
Leafcutter John, Khoms, The Housebound Spirit, Planet Mu. (5:11)
Armpit, Bruiser, Society of Dogs Split CDr, Jewelled Antler Collective. (2:20)
Seht, Requiem for John Fahey, The Voice Of The Taniwha, Last Visible Dog. (10:57)
Pumice, Hulk Joke, White, Stabbies. (8:56)
Molloy and his bike, I live in a spiral town, Spiraltown Cartographers, www.umor-rex.org. (6:51)
Glacial Dreaming Tour Artists, In Dream, Glacial Dreaming Tour 7", Honeyspiderthree. (2:39)
Jessica Bailiff, sunshower, even in silence, Kranky. (2:39)
Mount Eerie, Through The Trees, Wind's Poem, P.W. Elverum & Sun. (11:33)
Islaja, Kristallipallosilmät, Meritie, Fonal. (3:48)
Kemialliset Ystavat, Olen Paattanyt Olla Ikuinen, Latvasta Laho, Fonal. (6:49)
Keith Fullerton Whitman, Stereo Music for Acoustic Guitar, Bucla Music Box 100, Hp Model 236 Oscillator, Electric Guitar, and Computer - Part One, Multiples, Kranky. (5:30)
Delia Derbyshire, Celestial Cantible, Electrosonic, Glo Spot Records. (3:30)
Islaja, Palaa Aurinkoon, Blaze Mountain Recordings, Ecstatic Peace! (5:12)
Cagey House, enter the beard, Elephant Orange, www.umor-rex.org. (2:33)
Group Doueh, Sabah Lala, Guitar Music from the Western Sahara, Sublime Frequencies. (5:29)
Hala Strana, Nettles, The Jewelled Antler Library Book 1, Jewelled Antler Collective. (3:14)
Birdcatcher, untitled, The Sky Tied Down, Pseudo Arcana. (9:22)
Alan Sparhawk, How a freighter came into the habour, Solo Guitar, Silber/Darla.(17:53)
Wolf Eyes, Track 04, Slicer, Hanson Records. (10:50)

DORKWIND!

Very much looking forward to getting along to Happy this Saturday night to see noise band Dorkwind (has the be THE most inspired band name I have heard for a while).

SESSION 28: At Home With Rose

Music for a cranky head

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I'm in a crotchety mood. I'm reasonably sure it's work that has brought this on. Too much work, not enough staff. I think that some employers have taken advantage of the recession by getting rid of people and expecting everyone else to take up the slack. The public sector do this by way of constant restructuring. And now small industries can do it by just chucking people out and saying that it's because of hard financial times for the business (of course, sometimes it is, but I'm not going to be the devil's advocate here). And everyone is working their arses off because they don't want to lose their jobs. I'm getting pretty fucking sick of it. It's stressful and I'm not sleeping well. I feel I'm being taken advantage of - probably because I am.

I think this is reflected in my music choices for this show. Rather than calming, I seem to have chosen some glitchy stuff that gets under your skin. You'd think I'd be looking for stuff to chill myself out, but I guess I'm just a contrary woman.

Anyway – less about me, more about the music.

There are a few tracks from a really nice compilation called Frannce, out under RuralFaune. Here's a piece by Brad Rose on Foxy Digitalis about the label. There's also a review of Frannce on Foxy.

Compilations are one of my favourite ways to find new music. Say you like an artist - check out if they are on any compilations and chances are there'll be something else on there you like. Think of them like a curatorial process. Of course, it might just be a label promo and the songs might not sit together well, but often they are lovely things with some interesting concepts. Take Grains: A Compilation of 99 short tracks, out under Dot Dot Dot Music. Most of the tracks are under 1 minute - like a short short story. The song has to play out is such a short time, but a lot can happen in these tracks in 1 minute. I really like this compilation.

Two other compilations I feature here are Potatoes: A Collection of Folk Songs out under Ralph Records (The Residents' orginal label, apparently), and Invisible Pyramid - Elegy Box (6 CDs!) released by the wonderful Last Visible Dog. Also both wonderful compilations.

Secret Mommy, A bear at Hotel Cuba, Plays, Ache. (3:50)
Zort, Ojo de agua, foco lejos, Zort. (4:12)
Ahlgul Ouijaha, Welkin Star Outside, Outro to Finale, AMENOREA. (7:36)
The Psychic Paramount, Magatheion, Gamelan into the Mink Supernatural EP, (2:46)
Deadfood, Small men leave puddles, Grain: A Compilation Of 99 Short Tracks, Dot Dot Dot Music. (0:41)
Deerhoof, Kidz Are So Small, Friend Opportunity, ATP Recordings. (2:00)
Half Japanese: T For Texas (Blue Yodel #1), Potatoes: A Collection of Folk Songs, Ralph Records. (2:44)
Up-Tight, Falling Into A Doze, Invisible Pyramid - Elegy Box, Last Visible Dog. (6:07)
Negativland, Perfect Scrambled Eggs, Potatoes: A Collection of Folk Songs, Ralph Records. (2:44)
Felix Building, 19 Janvier, Sans Nostalgie, www.umor-rex.org. (3:02)
tangent, dissolute, a pictorial history, postmoderncore. (6:04)
Ping Pong Parrot, Typewriter Resonance, Scattershot Bill's 7 Day Safari, www.umor-rex.org. (4:15)
Tom Smith, Settled For Less, New Weird Australia, Volume One, www.newweirdaustralia.com. (3:09)
Terracid, The Gravity of Floating Iron, The Palace Carries The Egg Tooth As Its Crown, Foxglove. (6:47)
Gang Gang Dance, God's Money VII, God's Money, The Social Registry. (3:16)
decadent landscapes, a delicate arc, Grain: A Compilation Of 99 Short Tracks, Dot Dot Dot Music. (0:42)
Sinking Infinities, Lora, The Life of Riley, United Fairy Moons. (21:16)
Lichens, Shore Line Scoring, The Psychic Nature of Being, Kranky. (9:45)
Lamppukello, 161104 French Fries, Frannce Compilation, RuralFaune. (3:54)
Seht, MPFH, HRRY, Foxglove (4:23)
Mike Tamburo, Headphone Music for Brigitte Bardot, Frannce Compilation, RuralFaune. (10:00)
The Futurians, Futuna, Frannce Compilaton, RuralFaune. (1:33)
Rachel's, 4 or 5 Trees, Systems/Layers, Quarterstick Recordings. (6:05)
Rosy Parlane, Atlantis, Touch 25, Touch. (4:03)

SESSION 27: At Home With Rose

Guitars play my heartstrings

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My mum used to have an Andrès Segovia record that was always one of my favourites. The sound of an acoustic guitar has always had a way of making me feel great. There's the link of home - my bro strumming on his guitar on a sunny morning was always a relaxing background sound. We had a boarder staying at our house when I was young who was a classical guitarist and used to practice (which made my mother swoon). I wasn't planning on any kind of theme to Session 27, but I notice there is one - acoustic guitar seems to thread it's way through the tracks, and that works for me.

Of particular note is the glorious fourteen-and-a-half minute track by Jack Rose (of Pelt).

I have to also mention an online friend, Eduardo Padilla, who runs Umor-Rex Records in Mexico. He has two of his own musical projects: Molloy And His Bike (his experimental folk) and Ping Pong Parrot (his digitally produced tracks). Umor-Rex is a wonderful net label where you can download albums by the artists they represent - for free - complete with artwork you can cut up as covers for the CDs if you care to burn them. It's all about the music. Eduardo is pretty busy with another label, too, Dog Eared Records.

Of course, I had to end with some Andrès Segovia. Just for me dear old mum.

One last thing I want to say - no more New Zealand only shows. I had far too good a time last week mixing it up.

Gong, Wet Cheese Delirium, Camembert Electrique, Charly. (0:35)
Telafonica, Time and Distance, New Weird Australia, Volume One, www.newweirdaustralia.com. (6:32)
Dsic, Help Enfolding, Ambiences 1, If Records. (2:30)
Sunn O))) & Boris, The Sinking Bell (Blue Sheep), Altar, Southern Lord. (7:38)
Douglas Lilburn, soundscape with lake and river, Complete Electro-Acoustic Works, Naxos. (11:05)
Matmos, Semen Song For James Bidgood, The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast, Matador Records. (5:02)
Silver Apples, Lovefingers, Silver Apples, Whirlybird Records. (4:13)
Frey, therefore, cronica_demo, www.frey.co.nz. (3:04)
Stars of the Lid, 24 inch cymbal, The Ballasted Orchestra, Kranky. (5:55)
Grouper, Travelling Through A Sea, Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill, Type. (4:24)
Max Richter, Arboretum, The Blue Notebooks, Fat Cat. (2:54)
Ballrooms of Mars, untitled 04, Cedre, Nexsound. (5:04)
Horticultural Compass, Moss Urn, The Apparition of Bees, Jewelled Antler. (6:40)
Molloy and His Bike, The distance between a chair and a table, Oblivion's Fiery Limelight, Dog Eared Records. (4:12)
The Muons, little star, Heat & Birds: Jewelled Antler Collective, Jewelled Antler. (3:51)
Jack Rose, Red Horse, Red Horse, White Mule, Eclipse Records. (14:48)
Molloy And His Bike, Kaspar gets reflected, Spiraltown Cartographers, www.umor-rex.org. (3:11)
Brightback Morning Light, amber canyon magik, Brightback morning light, Matador Records. (4:54)
Molloy And His Bike, I Refused to Chase My Hat, Uphill, Downhill, www.umor-rex.org. (3:11)
Autistic Daughters, Liquid and Starch, Uneasy Flowers, Phantom Sound & Vision. (4:32)
Josephine Foster & The Supposed, Nana, All The Leaves Are Gone, Locust. (4:30)
Psychic TV, Only Love Can Break Your Heart, The Bridge - A Tribute To Neil Young, No. 6 / Number Six. (6:08)
Arthur Russell, Losing my taste for the night time, Another Thought, Orange Mountain Music. (4:33)
Andres Segovia & John Williams, J.S. Bach: Sarande, The Art of the Guitar, Madacy Records. (4:11)

SESSION 26: At Home With Rose

The Not-New-Zealand-Music radio show

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Firstly, this pic is a piece I just exhibited at Thermostat Gallery's annual group show, Vent. It's called 'Now Hear The Word Of The Lord'. It sold at the show, which makes me pretty happy and very encouraged to keep on with making art.

There's no New Zealand music this week. It's not that I'm bored with New Zealand noise, drone etc. I just felt like having a bit more variety. So here we are. A slice of other sounds. Variety. The spice of life and all that.

I have nothing to much to say this week, except enjoy the music. Oh, and that the tracks by Nightshift are by my friend Vladimir from Yaroslavl in Russia. And they are GOOD. There's a Foxy review here.

Cologne Sequentia Ensemble for Medieval Music, Laus Trinitati, Hildegard Von Bingen: Voice Of The Blood, RCA. (1:36)
Popol Vuh, Mantra 2, Nosferatu, Spalax Music. (3:51)
paul condon, bloom of ma worryhood, Grain: A Compilation Of 99 Short Tracks, Dot Dot Dot Music. (0:44)
es, Kaikkeuden Kauneus Ja Käsittämättömyys, Kaikkeuden Kauneus Ja Käsittämättömyys, (K-RAA-K)³. (9:25)
Fabio Orsi, 3 Untitled, I'm ep here, private press. (4:58)
Kites, Hallucination Guillotine, Hallucination Guillotine/Final Worship, Load Records. (4:44)
Nightshift, du, Nightshift EP, 267 Lattajjaa. (6:13)
Nightshift, glon, Nightshift EP, 267 Lattajjaa. (3:22)
Nightshift, ongum, Nightshift EP, 267 Lattajjaa. (6:46)
Nightshift, bab, Nightshift EP, 267 Lattajjaa. (6:54)
Vincent Gallo, Goodbye Sadness, Hello Death, Recordings of Music for Film, Warp Records. (1:13)
The Dead Texan, Taco Me Manque, The Dead Texan, Kranky. (2:36)
Benoit Pioulard, Moth Wings, Précis, Kranky. (1:17)
Benoit Pioulard, Hirondelle, Précis, Kranky. (2:23)
Fennesz, Laguna, Venice, Touch. (2:56)
Anal Magic & Rev. Dwight Frizzell, Destruction - Slaying Of Hyperion, Drowning Of Helio, Suicide Of Selene And The Wandering Madness Of Basilea, Beyond the Black Crack, Paradigm Disks. (2:24)
Black Moth Super Rainbow, Lake Feet, Falling Through a Field, Graveface Records. (2:20)
Shoeb Ahmad, Mixed Doubles, Mixed Double EP, hellosQuare Recordings. (4:59)
Bardo Pond, Be A Fish, Amanita, Matador. (4:42)
Jackie-O-Motherfucker, Hey Mr. Sky, Flags Of The Sacred Harp, ATP Recordings. (6:47)
Fursaxa, Of Tubal Cain, Alone in the Dark Wood, ATP Recordings. (2:24)
Jessica Bailiff, Beautiful Soul, even in silence, Kranky. (9:30)
Hush Arbors, People Died Today, Hush Arbors, Ecstatic Peace! (3:42)
Ping Pong Parrot, Lightning storms make psychic debris come to life, Scattershot Bill's 7 Day Safari, Umor-rex.com. (3:41)
Animal Collective, Penguin penguin, Danse Manatee, FatCat Records. (2:12)
Jessica Bailiff with The Dithering Effect, Renee, Jessica Bailiff with The Dithering Effect, Resonant. (4:26)
Tenniscoats, One swan swim, Tan-Tan Therapy, Häpna. (6:03)
Blixa Bargeld, Little Yellow, Jukebox Buddha, Staubgold. (1:08)
Boredoms, 777, Rebore Vol. 0, Warner Music. (7:26)
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Holly Hobby (version), Etiquette, Tomlab. (2:44)
Chamellows, Rooftops, Rat Hearts, Fonal Records. (1:51)

SESSION 25: At Home With Rose

Honey gets stuck in my ears

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I've just had a week off work so I could get along to as many films as possible at the Film Festival. I haven't tallied up the amount of films I got along to in the past two weeks but I think it's getting up towards 40. It put me in a really great mood. Brain food I guess. I sure as fuck didn't want to go back to work today, so I've cheered myself up with some tunes I really like. There's a wee bit of poppy sweetness going on at the beginning, but the honey is interspersed with a bit of gorse here and there for good measure. Prickles in the honey. But mostly honey I reckon.

I'm going through a massive Alastair Galbraith phase at the moment. Can't get enough. I love his faltering New Zealand voice and his lyrics make me smile.

In other news, I have a piece in the annual group show, Vent, at Thermostat Gallery in Palmerston North. I'm going up there this weekend to see the show and take some pics so I'll stick a pic up on the blog next week. I couldn't make it for the opening, unfortunately.

Back to the film fest - the two best films I saw were Lars von Trier's Antichrist (which I only saw last night and so am still mentally digesting) and Dogtooth. Up there as well were We Live in Public, Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, Bluebeard, and Enjoy Poverty.

Here's this week's playlist:

Kiwi Pacific, Kiwi South Island, A Treasury of New Zealand Birdsong, Kiwi Pacific Records International Ltd. (1:18)
Seht, [Preamble], The Voice of the Taniwha, Last Visible Dog Records. (1:14)
Alastair Galbraith, Milky Milo Man, Seely Girn, Feel Good All Over. (1:01)
Alastair Galbraith, Fall, Morse and Gaudylight, Emperor Jones. (3:06)
Alastair Galbraith, Ivy Bound, Morse and Gaudylight, Emperor Jones. (3:06)
Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos, Lots of Heart, River Falling Love, Ajax Records. (5:23)
Alastair Galbraith, From the Empire, Cry, Emperor Jones. (2:12)
The Verlaines, Hanging By Strands, You're Just Too Obscure For Me, Flying Nun Records. (3:38)
Superette, Waves, Topless Women Talk About Their Lives, Flying Nun Records. (3:18)
The Bats, Afternoon in Bed, Thousands of Tiny Luminous Spheres, Flying Nun Records. (3:50)
Thela, Track 04, Untitled, Ecstatic Peace! (5:50)
This Kind of Punishment, Ahead of Their Time, This Kind of Punishment, Flying Nun Records. (4:23)
Trash, Telecom South, Killing Capitalism with Kindness, Turbulence Records. (5:06)
The Skeptics, Rain, Ponds, Flying Nun Records. (3:47)
White Winged Moth, Untitled 4, I Can See Inside Your House, Poon Village. (7:07)
With Throats As Fine As Needles, Track 02, With Throats As Fine As Needles, Digitalis Recordings. (9:16)
Sunken, Tackle, Eye Electric Organ, Brain Electric Nerve, PseudoArcana. (11:09)
1/3 Octave Band, Luminous, Sub Lumina, Humbug. (12:18)
Seht, TBOD, HRRY, Digitalis Recordings. (3:52)
Swung, Dudi, Voice and Key, PseudoArcana. (4:26)
The Stumps, Ex-Fracas, Lost Weekends, Foxglove. (5:24)
The Stumps, Bad Lines, Lost Weekends, Foxglove. (1:34)
5454, Track 10, Travelogue, Artless Intent. (1:27)
Shocking Pinks, Blonde Haired Girl, Shocking Pinks, DFA. (1:48)
5454, Track 02, Travelogue, Artless Intent. (1:27)
Grayson Gilmour, Shuffle, Shuffle, Shuffle..., Phantom Limbs, Self Release. (1:42)
Golden Axe, Track 02, CDR, (2:20)
Kraus, Autocrat, The Facts, Dreamtime Taped Sounds. (1:17)
Glory Fckn Sun, Glare, Spectra, Tipped Bowler Tapes. (1:56)
Garbage and the Flowers, Sweet Pea, Runner: A Compilation of NZ Music, Next Best Way. (3:29)
Kiwi Pacific, Broad Billed Prion, A Treasury of New Zealand Birdsong, Kiwi Pacific Records International Ltd. (1:12)
A Handful of Dust, Masonic Inborn (Parts 2 & 3), Killing Capitalism With Kindness, Turbulence Records. (4:11)
Greg Malcolm, Shipwreck, Hung, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon. (4:23)

SESSION 24: At Home With Rose

Rocking the Audio Foundation(s)

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WARNING: 1 MINUTE SILENCE AT BEGINNING OF PODCAST DUE TO TECHNICAL HITCH!

I have very little time to get my show sorted for tomorrow night. I was pondering this on the walk back to my car after seeing three Festival films back to back (the reason for my lack of planning time!) . I happened to be listening to podcast tracks I had subscribed to off the Audio Foundation website and thought what a great idea it would be to do an Audio Foundation show and give them a plug. They play a very important role in the NZ sound art scene.

In a nutshell, the Audio Foundation supports and promotes New Zealand audio projects. I find the Foundation an essential resource for my music show. The AF mailing list is active on an almost daily basis with the sharing of information on all facets of sound art in New Zealand.

The AF mailing list is just one of the Foundation's initiatives. They also organise sound art events as Alt Music (with funding from Creative New Zealand). They run an MP3 library (just in Auckland, as far as I know. They recently released a great compilation, Dirt Beneath the Daydream, which accompanied Wire magazine. The CD featured 21 tracks selected from an open call for submissions of previously unreleased experimental music from New Zealand.

I think we are really lucky in New Zealand to have this amazing resource. It's a collaborative community effort, but massive thanks and credit obviously go to Zoe Drayton who was instrumental in setting up the Foundation back in 2004.

One more thing - BUY MUSIC! Keep our artists fed! Downloading is good for a taster, but support our local artists by paying for their music.

The notes on the playlist come from either the track ID tags or from the AF website. If no notes appear, there were simply none to be gleaned.

Seven Twenty Seven, Will Gresson + Luke Munn. (7:27)
Six Oh Seven, Will Gresson + Luke Munn. (6:07)
Both tracks are sound collaborations between Will Gresson (guitar, loops, field recordings) and Luke Munn (keyboards, loops, vocals). Entirely composed, recorded, mixed, and produced in 12 hours.
Going places with Aung San Suu Kyi (abridged), ian-john. (3:01)
Wreckorded in locations through which the microphone chances to pass and collaged in chronological order. On durations wire the voices barb is set. (abridged version of an abridged version of a version necessarily abridged).

Tape Rain, Pumica (6:11)
Described as "the band that Real Groove was too scared to review!"

Voices in a Room (excerpt), David Khan. (4:18)
From the album Music for Performance, 2003.

Moth, Joyoti Wylie. (4:48)
Joyoti Wylie is a practicing multimedia artist.

Grinders (eloc-knockt) tape worm pull ah13.121, WITCYST. (2:58)
Legendary outsider. http//:www.witcyst.blogspot.com
From the album Stick With It.

FLIP, CHIKY TRWIXT. oilM. 20.121, WITCYST, (1:03)
See above.

Friendly Fire, ian-john. (0:49)
Friendly Fire is a collection of memories of gunshots from various locations and begins to investigate the poetry of that sound so happily lodged in our minds, and so easily brought to mind...or maybe it's just another hail of bullets?

0O0O0O0O0, Sam Hamilton. (5:04)
This is what happens if you loose your self in the dark jungle with the snakes and the bats and the wig tarsh grapplers.

Wormy Justice, Dead Kid Harvester. (6:11)
A song about the Worms series of video games, partially inspired by Black Sabbath's Electric Funeral.

Summer Skin, fiffdimension. (6:20)
Opening track from 2003 album 'Loose Autumn Moans'. Analogue recording, no overdubs. Dave Edwards - acoustic f-hole guitar, harmonica, vocal, composer Sam Prebble - violin, shaker Mike Kingston - cello

Droszkhi's Gate, Droszkhi (Torben Tilly). (5:18)
Solo piece for harmonium and stereo gate, composed for the exhibition & audio CD compilation Gating, curated by Michael Graeves, West Space Inc., Melbourne, 16 May - 8 June 2002

Yeongtongdong bus song, fiffdimension. (2:34)
Samples of Korean musical instruments (gayageum, janggu, kkwaenggari) warped into a techno track and drizzled with Korean voices and bus-stop announcements.

Live @ K-77, Johnny Chang, Paula Matthusen, Keith O'Brien
Following an invitation to perform at K-77 (or Lichtblick Kino) in Berlin, this is an excerpt from an improvised set with Keith O'Brien on electric guitar/electronics) Paula Matthusen (electronics) and myself on violin.

JZZA {mature edit}, Seht. (2:56)

The Corridor (edit), The Beautiful Losers. (5:16)
From The Beautiful Losers double album 2003. Featuring Peter Wright (guitar, e-bow, production), Rustle Covini (drums), David Khan (sampling keyboard, analogue synth, production).

A Square A Cross A Circle (edit), The Beautiful Losers. (5:49)
See above.

radio 45, David Merritt. (1:03)

Agalaya, Joyoti Wylie. (2:04)

untitled tr.1 xcrt, sci hi. (2:01)
A track of solo electronic feedback, played by sci hi and released on the cdr Nature Machine.

corale and cannon, zombie cheeses. (1:36)
rom #1 Skunkies - 16 chunks of dada sound collage art satire by zOmbie Cheeses issued on cdr by edengully.

Radiation, Dead Kid Harvester. (3:45)
A song with a spiritual story for which the meaning is unclear. Partially inspired by gothic rock.

Sleep/Grease, fiffdimension. (2:57)
Solo acoustic guitar + spoken word track from the 2003 album 'Loose Autumn Moans'.

piano i think, piano by R.G Shaw edited by William Shaw. (4:44)

Trains in Trouble, Stanier Black-Five. (5:59)
From Train Tracks, Argot Records

Take it Off, ian-john. (3:00)
Accompanied by voices of palpable anticipation and glee, wrapping paper is eagerly torn away from gifts on Christmas Day.

comes to those who fly, zombie cheeses. (2:36)
for more zombie cheeses write to edengully at gmail dot com

partial electrosmog study, Adam Willetts. (4:42)

slow cradle (excerpt), buildings. (6:08)
edengully at gmail dot com

Gig at Happy

SESSION 23: At Home With Rose

Hammer me with your noise machine

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Spend some time with noise and drone, and music (or anything else, for that matter) will never be the same again. It'll dismantle your hearing and put it back together in a completely different way.

I've compiled a range of noise tracks here. Probably the least noise-like is The Stumps - there's some instrumentation in here and some discernible melody. But they fit.

You'll see plenty of Dsic. He is the master of blippy white-noise noise. I've probably chosen the least harsh of his tracks really. He's an ex-Wellingtonian, moved to the Bristol, UK. I've asked him, and he still definitely considers himself a NZer. Check out his site.

Oh, and I think I may have said this before, but isn't The Polyamourous Love Cult just about the best band name ever?

It's late tonight for me to be uploading the playlist - past midnight - so no more jabbering on from me. Here's the playlist:

Doublas Lilburn, White Noise Study, Complete Electro-Acoustic Works, Atoll. (3:13)
Will Gresson and Luke Munn, Six Forty Seven, Saturday, March Fourteenth, Creative Commons. (6:47)
Kraus, If These Jaws Could Talk, The Facts, Dreamtime Taped Sounds. (4:25)
Crude, On An Industrial Scale, Syringes and Insects, Open Source Audio. (7:02)
CJA, Mess, Pink Metal, Pseudo Arcana. (3:47)
seht & stelzer, Exactly What You Lost 4, EXACTLY WHAT YOU LOST, Intransitive. (2:03)
Dsic, Ikea PDF Catalog Love, audio log, http://dsic.autmusic.com. (4:04)
Omit, section;two. pre-zero [the growing of the grey], Zero; Towards the Growing of the Black, Deepskin Conceptual Mindmusic. (2:24)
Dsic, INIT (Reset Signal), A History of Microprocessing Vol. 2, Audio Log. (3:28)
Peter Wright, Track 11, Peter Wright LP (6:44)
Dsic, Flexitime, Love City, If records. (5:18)
Duncan Bruce, Plane of Matyrs, New Glass Tapu, lf records. (5:03)
Duncan Bruce, Untitled, New Glass Tapu, lf records. (1:34)
Dsic, Bedminster Parade, P45, lf records. (0:55)
Dsic, Colon Cleanes, P45, lf records. (5:00)
Dsic, Imitator Ambience, Ambiences 1, lf records. (7:29)
Dsic, CarPexBomb, audio log, (4:21)
Dsic, Love is the final solution, Love City, LF Records. (3:02)
The Polyamourous Love Cult, The PLC Anthem, The Polyamourous Love Cult, Drunken Fish Records. (3:36)
K-Group, Forced out of the Sky, K-Group, Hermes. (3:14)
The Stumps, that with the greatest mass (will be indicated), split fleet dodge, Palindrone. (8:27)
Ian Watson/Dsic, Phantom Scum 1, Phantom Scum, If Records. (8:30)
Dsic, Ambient Deathbed II, Love City, If records. (6:09)
Dorkwind, Track 06, Shit Happens, CDr, self release. (10:53)

That final track has phenomenal drumming. Thanks Ryan! And how's that band name?!

Noise from the soul

I've just been reading a treatise on why noise has soul by Raz Mesinai: "The soul is the same concept to me as music is. The soul is intangible, but can also be developed and improved upon, just like things that are tangible." Read more…

SESSION 22: At Home With Rose

There's something out there...

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I'm excited because I've just bought my tickets for the Film Festival. I'm taking a week off so will be going lots of daytime screenings. I love going to the movies during the day when everyone else is at work. It seems the most decadent way to spend your time.

The theme tonight is field recordings. I like listening to these with my headphones walking down the street. Quite a surreal experience - like being in two places at once.

Witching Hour – Field Recordings of Nighttime is on Tim Coster's label, CLaudia. Definitely worth checking out.

Travelogue 5454 was a CDR I picked up at a gig one night. Released under Artless Intent. Field recordings while travelling in Greece. 5454 is on myspace.

Stanier Black-Five creates amazing pieces from field recordings of trains.

The rest of the show is a lovely 60 minute piece from Seht.

I think field recordings are great to listen to as an "opening your ears" exercise. They're also very soothing. I lived in a flat once where my room was in the middle of the building with no windows (sounds grim but it was a massive room and kinda cool). Anyway, I never used to hear the weather so I used to borrow this lovely album off my flatmate of recordings of the countryside. On one side is a gentle rainy day in the paddocks complete with sheep, and on the other is a full-on storm with thunder and pelting rain and wind. There was nothing better as a soporific. Put me off to sleep with a smile on my face.

I think my fave track is the one of Phil Dadson's - essentially 15 minutes of snoring.

5454, Track 04, Travelogue, CDR (0:38)
5454, Track 07, Travelogue, CDR (1:33)
Paintings of windows, gilgit, Witching Hour – Field Recordings of Nighttime, CLaudia (6:58)
Stanier Black-Five, Double Headed, Train Tracks, Argot (5:58)
5454, Track 14, Travelogue, CDR, (3:18)
Richard Francis, Nightfields (for Johnny Osbourne), Witching Hour – Field Recordings of Nighttime, CLaudia (8:05)
Phil Dadson, Sleep Trio, Witching Hour – Field Recordings of Nighttime, CLaudia (14:59)
Felicity Lord, Midnight Kitchen, Witching Hour – Field Recordings of Nighttime, CLaudia (8:04)
Seht, Goodbye America and Have a Nice Day, Pseudo Arcana (60:00)
P. Westbourne, Dawn Chorus, Witching Hour – Field Recordings of Nighttime, CLaudia (12:28)

SESSION 21: At Home With Rose

Leading You Down the Garden Path Backwards

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It's so cold. So very cold. In summer I yearn for winter. I can't stand the heat. But what I would do right now for a warm sunny day. I keep needing to shower before bedtime just to warm up. I wish I could find the electric blanket plugs... They are hidden away somewhere after last winter.

I saw a neat movie last week: A Handful of Dust, based on an Evelyn Waugh novel. Depressing, just how I like my movies. Thoroughly recommended. I also watched the latest Hal Hartley, Fay Grim, which I didn't think was so good. Okay, but not great. Parker Posey was super cute though. She had the most fabulous black coat.

I'm extremely excited about Where The Wild Things Are, based on the Maurice Sendak children's book. The film opens here in NZ on December 3. The trailer is best viewed on the Warner Bros website, not on YouTube where it doesn't look nearly as sharp. I read ages ago that Dave Eggers has written the screenplay, so that makes me even keener to see it. Directed by Spike Jonze.

Another thing I saw this week was a very very cool 15-minute short film, I Love You More, directed by Sam Taylor-Wood, more well known for her work in the gallery. I saw it on a DVD magazine put out by McSweeney's - Wholphin - to which I subscribe. It was based on a short story by Patrick Marber, called "Pete Shelley", and it kicked arse. I really loved it. I didn't know it was by Taylor-Wood till afterwards and I was kind've shocked cos I don't really like her art all that much. I'll be interested to see what she does from here in the film world. A feature? I hope so. I want to read that short story now. I have a feeling I'll like that rather a lot.

And so on to the music. This week is another reasonably unthemed bunch. I usually start out with the low-fi easier songs and then on to some drone and noise, but I've flipped that round a wee bit this time.

One band to mention is Full Fucking Moon - Bek Coogan (Cortina) has teamed up with Torben Tilly (The Garbage and the Flowers, Minit, Bad Statistics). A friend dropped the CDR in to us and it's very nice. I really like Coogan's voice in the track I've chosen - kind of chanty and doesn't overshadow the instruments.

Alastair Galbraith, Policemen on Ether, Talisman, Next Best Way (1:49)
Omit, Din-Cycle, Tracer, Helen Scarsdale Agency (2:55)
Seht, cydonia, The Green Morning, Digitalis Recordings (5:36)
Tim Coster, Mornings, Mornings, Pseudo Arcana (2:36)
Lovely Midget, three months in mulheim, Lovely Midget, Corpus Hermeticum (2:21)
Seht, A Dance; Four Movements, Dead bees ((the((quiet)earth))suite), Pseudo Arcana (23:48)
K-Group, intercity, K-Group, Corpus Hermeticum (2:43)
Parmentier, Untitled, Luxsound, Sigma Editions (7:11)
Full Fucking Moon, Track 04, Fantasy/horror, CDR (5:11)
Pumice, the space writer proves anything is possible, White, Stabbies And The Rocket Recordings (4:14)
Alastair Galbraith, Screaming E, Morse / Gaudylight, Emperor Jones (3:11)
Alastair Galbraith, Semaphore, Morse, Stiltbreeze(2:27)
Alastair Galbraith, Mavis Grind, Seely Girn, Feel Good All Over (3:22)
This Kind of Punishment, In View of the Circumstances, This Kind of Punishment, Flying Nun Records (5:02)
This Kind of Punishment, Out of My Hands, In the Same Room/5 By Four, Ajax Records (3:32)
This Kind of Punishment, Trepidation, A Beard Of Bees, Ajax Records (3:56)
Wreck Small Speakers on Expensive Stereos, Rain, River Falling Love, Ajax Records (2:18)
Graeme Jefferies, All The Colours Run Dry, Messages For the Cakekitchen, Flying Nun Records (2:45)
Kathy Bull, Eyes are the Door, Killing Capitalism with Kindness, Turbulence Records (2:43)
Sandra Bell, Lost Train, Killing Capitalism with Kindness, Turbulence Records(2:11)
Leila Adu, Answerphone, Cherry Pie, Hen Records (3:38)
Kraus, Sebastian, The Facts,Dreamtime Taped Sounds cassette (2:32)
Lawrence Arabia, The Thinnest Air, Lawrence Arabia, Honorary Bedouin Records(4:24)
Marie and the Atom, Isol, Tuatara – A Flying Nun Compilation, Flying Nun Records (5:21)
HDU and Peter Gutteridge, Point That Thing Somewhere Else, God Save The Clean, Flying Nun Records (5:07)
Onaweta, Dance Little Children, Killing Capitalism With Kindness, Turbulence Records (2:39)
Suka, Ebony Oriental, Flying Way Too High, Arc Recordings (4:54)
Lamp Of The Universe, Love, Echo In Light, Cranium Music (5:17)

SESSION 20: At Home With Rose

The Hissing of Beautiful Things

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I was going to flag doing a show this week and just spin out an old show - I just had a weekend away and I figured I might still be feeling like a break. But after taking a week off last week from the show, I was feeling revived and invigorated. A weekend of lolling around in a cute little cottage out of town tends to do that.

So here we are with two hours of hissing loveliness. Droney goodness.

Thanks to David Coventry for a couple of unreleased tracks - very nice thank you very much!

Roy Montgomery, Entertaining Mr Jones, And Now The Rain Sounds Like Life is Falling Down Through It, Drunken Fish Records (4:58)
MHFS, Track 04, West Auckland Driving Songs, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon (2:20)
David Coventry, Under the Math, unreleased (4:55)
White Winged Moth, Untitled 1, Silo Blanket, Formacentric Disk (8:23)
Peter Wright, Little Voices, The Terrifying Realisation We Might Be Wrong, Dirty Knobby (1:54)
Roy Montgomery, Ill at Home, And Now The Rain Sounds Like Life is Falling Down Through It, Drunken Fish Records (11:15)
David Coventry, Dip and Tear, unreleased (3:09)
Roy Montgomery, Suzanne Said, 324 E. 13th Street #7, Drunken Fish (4:49)
Antony MIlton, Dream (Lame), Sirens/And Where The Coloured Planes are Rafts, Last Visible Dog (4:27)
Cakekitchen, World of Sand, World of Sand, Homestead Records (4:26)
Greg Malcolm and Tetuzi Akiyama, so we go, six strings, Korm Plastics (9:53)
Antony Milton, Breezeless, Sirens/And Where The Coloured Planes are Rafts, Last Visible Dog (2:52)
5454, Track 05, Travelogue, Cdr (2:47)
Swagger Jack, Internet Cafe, The Feral Blood of Swagger Jack, Last Visible Dog (2:49)
Rory Storm, Kepler Sattelite, ZstarshipZ, Foxglove (12:42)
Peter Jefferies, While I've Been Waiting, The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World, xpressway (2:55)
Witcyst, 60: Witcyst, The Year of the Root, Cdr (10:04)
Birdcatcher, Untitled, The Sky Tied Down, Pseudo Arcana (23:26)
Alistair Galbraith, This Time He Has Come, More Oar: A Tribute To The Skip Spence Album, Birdman Records (5:18)
The Skeptics, Pch Mix, Sensible, Flying Nun Records (4:25)

Holiday for me

There won't be a live show for the next two weeks. Tomorrow night I have an important meeting for Wellington Film Society (I'm on the committee). And next week (hurrah!) I'm off for a holiday to celebrate my birthday. I need a little break, so Dave and I are off to spend two nights in a little cottage in the Wairarapa. Main draw is a big old clawfoot bath and an open fireplace. Gonna be nice. Hopefully, Jeff at Radio23 is gonna be able to replay one of my old shows.

Don't forget, you can download most of my old shows from that list on the right over there...

Evil

Just found a clip on YouTube of Andy and Liz's band Evil Ocean. They're playing on Saturday night at The Adelaide with Dave's band, Can't Play Won't Play, and Detrytus. So looking forward to it.

SESSION 19: At Home With Rose

I Dreamed I Was Prog Rock...

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Sounding kinda proggy and slightly psych this week. And sometimes a little saccharine. Ah well. I'm still feeling a bit crappy from my cold which is nearly gone and I'm not much in the mood for noise this week.

I've included are a couple of tracks from debut album, Circa Scaria, by An Emerald City. The album was recorded in a big cave over two days. How cool is that? I definitely slot this album in the prog section. And hey! - that's not necessarily a bad thing. I was weaned on Emerson Lake and Palmer and Genesis, man! It's in my fricking blood, okay? Apparently the An Emerald City have moved to Berlin. Their debut gets some bad reviews, and it gets some good reviews.

Okay, it's not all prog, but it flows...

Disasteradio, Trash City, Disasteradio Cdr, creative commons. (1:09)
Disasteradio, Track 06, creative commons. (2:37)
i.ryoko, Cut Too Short for Contentment, unreleased, Sonorous Circle. (3:56)
Gydja, A Siren Stood Hymning upon Each Circle, Umbilicus Maris, Mystery Sea. (11:23)
Thela, Untitled, Thela, Ecstatic Peace! (5:27)
An Emerald City, Reindeers Running, Circa Scaria, Banished from the Universe. (7:49)
Lamp of the Universe, Dream Sequence, Echo in Light, Cranium Music. (16:59)
100 SUNS, Perpetual Balance, Sonorous Circle. (39:08)
100 SUNS, Intertwine, Sonorous Circle. (7:01)
An Emerald City, Moon, Circa Scaria, Banished from the Universe. (5:25)
Lamp of the Universe, Resonance, Echo in Light, Cranium Music. (6:27)
The Inkling, Marriage of Figurines, Deluge, Capital Recordings. (8:14)
Shocking Pinks, The Narrator, Shocking Pinks, DFA. (3:00)
The Enright House, Do Re Mi, A Maze and Amazement, A Low Hum. (4:17)