Lots of Umlauts, Funny Characters, and Dragonflies (Dec. 20, 2007)
Posted by: Greg in Playlist
Playlist for
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
December 20, 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:
– My co-host for this program was freelance music writer Justin Farrar. He brought in a pile of incredible music, most of which had come his way sometime this year, and we mixed it up with some ditties I brought in and new stuff at the station. My favorite moment of the show was the mash-up of the Swedish black metal band, Vondur, with the sultry tones (and overtones, and undertones) of a Tuvan throat singer. Vondur didn’t stand a chance, really, despite the starpower of It, a man so evil he cannot have a name, and his then-bandmate, All, from Abruptum (a band which, according to It’s myspace page, is "the audial essence of pure black Evil"). This 1995 Abruptum side-project record, with its über-menacing Darth Vader album cover, is one of my favorite Swedish black metal records.
– Justin piled on the Scandinavian and other foreign stuff here, with the Finnish noise-rock of The Silver from 1980 (which is the B-side to a generic new wave song), fellow Finns Kemialliset Ystävät (from their latest self-titled record on Fonal), the Swedish late-60s heavy psych of Baby Grandmothers (which we decided was a bridge between Cream and Black Sabbath), the Canadian folk-rock tandem of Fraser & Debolt, the mid-70s Gipsy Rock of Spanish female duo Las Grecas, and the early-70s Turkish rock of Bunalim. He’s also responsible for the new Sightings, which is superb, and the sounds of Big Blood and Jimmy Cousins from the American underground. We had a blast, and I predict you will hear more from Justin on WPVM in the near future.
– Our background music of Beefheart (the instrumental bed for Trout Mask Replica) and later the dragonflies of southeast Asia (from the Sublime Frequencies CD) almost drove us both insane–in a good way, I think.
Background Music: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Grow Fins (Rarities 1965-1982) (Revenant Records) Disc 3: Trout Mask House Sessions (1969)
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments | New |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sightings | The Electrician | Through the Panama | Load | produced by Andrew W. K. | * |
| Black Dice | Kokomo | Load Blown | Paw Tracks | compilation of EP Material | * |
| Cough Suppressant Alcoholics | The Tab at the Liquor Store Is Evergrowing | Metal Is Not Dead 7" | Arson | 1996 Pennsylvania | |
| The Silver | Popper | Do You Wanna Dance? | Pop Con | 1980 Finnish | |
| Smiley Lewis | Bee’s Boogie | I Hear You Knocking | Collectables | New Orleans c. 1950 | |
| Fraser & Debolt | The Waltze of the Tennis Players | With Ian Guenther | Fallout | 1971 Canadian folk rock reissued | * |
| Sister Fleeta Mitchell and Rev. Willie Mae Eberhart | Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down | Art of Field Recording Volume 1 | Dust-to-Digital | Art Rosenbaum recordings | * |
| Big Blood | A Friendly Noose | Strange Maine | s/r | ex-Cerberus Shoal, now Fire on Fire | |
| Ed Askew | The Accordian Man | Little Eyes | De Stijl | 1970 folk | * |
| Jimmy Cousins | Easter Sunday | Jazz June (10") | s/r | 2007 | |
| Grinderman | No P*sy Blues | Grinderman | Anti | Nick Cave | |
| These Are Powers | You Come with Nothing | Terrific Seasons | Hoss | Brooklyn, ex-Liars | * |
| Baby Grandmothers | Somebody Keeps Calling My Name | s/t | Subliminal Sounds | Swedish psych c. 1969 | |
| Vondur | I Eldur og Drumur | Stridsyfirlysing | Necropolis | 1995 Swedish black metal | |
| Oorjak Hunashtaar-ool | Reka Alash (Alash River) | Melodii Tuvi: Throat Songs and Folk Tunes from Tuva | Dust-to-Digital | 1969 recordings originally issued in the USSR | * |
| Culture Brothers | Celebrate | Learn How to Respect | s/r | Tibetan and Inuit lads | * |
| Omar Souleyman | Jani | Highway to Hassake | Sublime Frequencies | Syrian pop | |
| Las Grecas | Bella Kali | Gipsy Rock | Underground Masters | 1974 Spanish | |
| Bunalim | Tas var köpek yok | s/t | Normal | Turkish 1970-72 | |
| Kemialliset Ystävät | Lentävät Sudet | s/t | Fonal | 2007 Finnish | |
| Dragonflies | Morning Fanfare | Broken Hearted Dragonflies | Sublime Frequencies | Insect Electronica from Southeast Asia | |
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