Playlist for
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
November 29, 2007
Hosted by Greg Lyon on Thursdays at 2-4 pm
on WPVM Asheville (103.5 FM and www.wpvm.org)
This show is available for listening as an archive for one week after its airing at WPVM’s Archive Page (click on the STREAM button for this show–under the letter ‘G’)
Notes:
– Did you know that the venus flytrap was native only to the Carolina shore?!!! What a great album cover for a Carolina funk compilation! The liner notes are superb, and I was thrilled to find out the music is as well. I played a track from an obscure Asheville band, Innersouls, who used to play at the Orange Peel back when it was a black social club. I was impressed. Kudos to UK label Jazzman for putting this together.
– ST Mikael is a bedroom psych artist from Sweden who mostly recorded in the early and mid-90s. I always thought the artist name was a reference to a saint, or simply his initials, but I discovered another clue this week: there was a famous shipwreck in 1747 of a Dutch galleon called the S:T Mikael off the coast of Finland on course to St. Petersburg. Recent excavations have brought up much much booty. Back to the psych record–I found a copy of the 1996 Xotic Minds double record Soul Flower in London a couple of years ago, but I was living in Zurich at the time and asked my bud Nick to carry the thing back to the States with him, only to have it languish in his storage space until we could meet up in DC a couple of weeks ago. But now I have it in my grubby paws (mad, maniacal laugh)! Evidently, according to the Subliminal Sounds website, ST Mikael has just put out his first record in 11 years. Very nice.
Background Music: Cannonball Adderly Quintet - Accent on Africa (Capitol, 1968)
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | New |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Saints | Brisbane (Security City) | Prehistoric Sounds | Harvest | The overlooked 1978 third album | |
| Kim Salmon and the Surrealists | Sunday Drive | Just Because You Can’t See It | Black Eye | More Australian stuff from former Scientists frontman. 1989 | |
| Qui | Apartment | Love’s Miracle | Ipecac | David Yow’s new crew | * |
| A.K.A.C.O.D. | Happiness | Happiness | Sonophone | Morphine baritone saxist and his new band. Good. | * |
| Dial | White Lie | 168k | Cede | Jacqui Ham of UT’s new band | |
| Sonic Youth | In the Kingdom #19 | Evol | SST | "is also unwilling to die" | |
| Dan Melchior und das Menace | Cockroaches in Yr. Handbag | The Pink Scream E.P. | Shake Appeal | great one-sided 12" EP with etched vinyl on back | |
| Bobb Trimble | Selling Me Short While Stringing Me Along | Harvest of Dreams | Secretly Canadian | reissue of 1982 album | * |
| ST Mikael | Turkish Flower | Soul Flower | Xotic Mind | Sweden bedroom psych classic from 1996 | |
| Pekos | Track 1 | Pekos / Yoro Diallo | Yaala Yaala | can’t get enough of this stuff from Mali | * |
| Creative Source | Who Is He and What Is He To You (single version) | … and More | Polygram | 1974 disco funk | |
| Grizzly Bear | Knife | Friend | Warp | actually CSS covering Grizzly Bear | * |
| Einstürzende Neubauten | Let’s Do It a Dada | Alles Wieder Offen | Ryko | I’m diggin’ the new album | * |
| Clipse | Momma I’m Sorry | Hell Hath No Fury | Re-Up Gang/Zomba | Thurston Moore told me to listen to this, so I did–and made it FCC friendly | |
| The Upsetters | Touch of Fire | Return of Django | Trojan | 1969 | |
| Gamith | Darkness | Carolina Funk | Jazzman | from South Carolina? | * |
| Innersouls | Just Take Your Time | Carolina Funk | Jazzman | from Asheville! | * |
| Mary Lou Williams | Forty-Five Degree Angle | Black Christ of the Andes | Smithsonian Folkways | 1963, reminds me of Ellington’s Money Jungle trio record | |
| Sunny Murray | Angels and Devils | Sunny Murray | ESP-Disk | reissue of 1966 album | * |
| Uz Jsme Doma | Weight | Cod-Liver Oil | Skoda | hyper Czech stuff | * |
| The Fiery Furnaces | Automatic Husband | Widow City | Thrill Jockey | I guess I like this record after all | * |
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