NEW SSSSSS

Andy boay was here, i can't find his play list - i misplaced it in the pre-holiday shuffle at the station...

listen to the show HERE, it was sick

here's a video to make up for lack of traxx listing

NEW SHAKES December 5th 2011

Listen to this edition of the show courtesy of the CKUT archives.

• Chris Watson - El Tren Fantasma - El Divisadero (Touch)
• Chris Watson - Cross Pollination - The Bee Symphony (Touch)
• Dixie's Death Pool - The Man With the Flowering Hands - A Bird is Suddenly Inside (Drip Audio)
• Picastro + Nadja - Fool, Redeemer - Darnia (Alien8)
• Aun - Phantom Ghosts - Phantom (Denovali Records)
• thisquietarmy - Resurgence -Birds, Ashes and Fire (Denovali Records)
• Savaging Spires - Bending the Rules of Time EP (Critical Heights)
• Psychic Ills - Hazed Dreams (Sacred Bones Records)
• Yamantaka/Sonic Titan - Y/ST (Psychic Handshake)
• Holy Moly - Gumps and Cats/Big Shit - all of side A (self-released in 2003...reforming to play this thing in January 2012!))
• Ancient Kids - Odd City - (self-released)
• Steve Godin - Trust Me

NEW SHRINK November 28, 2011

Eola - Deo Gracias - Concentrate (Does Are)

Aun - Phantom Ghosts - Ghosts (Denovali records)

Charlambides - Exile - Immovable (Kranky)

Hildur Gudnadottir - Without Sinking - Unveiled Baer (Touch)

Chris Watson -El Tren Fantasma - Los Mochis (Touch)

Planetary Assault System - The Messenger - Beauty in The Fear (Ostgut Ton)

Rogelio Sosa - Raudales - Intoxicante - (Subrosa New Framework Series)

Jamka - Pari Passu - Sland (Subrosa New Framework Series)

KK + S* - Glyphs of Erebus Sublime - Ex-Dreams of Artemis - io sound)

Picastro + Nadja - Fool Redeemer - Skullduggery (Alien8)

Psychic Ills - Hazed Dreams - Incense Head (Sacred Bones )

Crystal Stilts - RadianT door - Low Profile (Sacred Bones)

Swod - Drei - Helleruu (City Centering Offices )

Steve Hauschildt - Tragedy and Geometry - Batteries May Drain (Kranky)

Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - A Star Over PureLand (Psychic Handshake recordings)

NEW STEAM: November 21, 2011

This week - all steaming Canadian Shit - some new some
not so new -
but all seared morcels of savourable sound arrangements
Listen to it: check the archives

artist - album title - song (record label)

KK +S* - Glyphs of Erebus Sublime - Eclipse (io sound)

Pas Chic Chic - 12" - Premier Souffle (Semprini)

Les Momies De Palerme - L'amour Sincere EP - L'amour Sincere (Self Released)

Le Revelateur - Fictions 12" - Age Maze (Gneiss Things)

Gmackrr - Private Performance single cut lathe - Private Performance 3 (fluorescent Friends)

Bernardino Femminielli - Carte Blanche Aux Desirs - Fantasias (Los discos Enfantasmes)

Andy Boay - Evil Masters - Evil Masters (Does Are)

The Blanket - Be Your Own Boss - I'm on Fire (Blocks Recording Club)

Drainolith 7" - Deepwater PA(Psychic Handshake)

Picastro + Nadja - Darnia (Alien 8 recordings)

Fortner Anderson - Solitary Pleasures - October 2 (&Records)

Fortner Anderson - Solitary Pleasures - October 9 (&Records)

Fortner Anderson -Solitary Pleasures - October 11 (&Records)

Fortner Anderson - Solitary Pleasures - October 16 (&Records)

Colin Stetson - Those Who didn't run 10"- Those Who Didn't Run (Constellation)

Gmackrr - Private Performance - Single Cut Lathe - Private Performance 3 (Fluorescent friends)

Duchess Says - In a Fung Day T - Mayakovsky(Alien8 Recordings)

Olek -Imposure & Vacuity - Mysterious Ways (Les Encodages de L'oubli)

NEW SHARE: November 7, 2011.

Black Star - Rawkus Records- best of a decade - Respiration
Black Star - Rawkus records - best of a decade - Definition

A Winged Victory for the Sullen - We played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced(Kranky)
Tim Hecker - Dropped Pianos - Tr.1 (Kranky)
Aaron Martin - Experimedia Samples 2011 - Water Tongue (Experimedia)

MonoType is a label that is based in Warszawa Poland that is dedicated to putting out creative
music by a wide array of musicians, in existence since - their artist roster is growing and the label is becoming a place to find qualitly experimental-avant garde- radiophonic-electroacoutic composers and compositions, are coming out with a trifecta of new releases.

Mia Zabelka - M - Mind Scratching (MonoType Records)
Mia Zabelka - M - Koperklang Maschine (MonoType Records)

Mecha Fixes Clocks - Teoria dell'elasticità di Girolamo Papariello - Stresses due to galactic bending - (& Records)
Lanterner - lanterner -The Files of Endless correspondence (Oral)
MAussade - a la neantisation de la vie par l'homme rationnel (Oral)


Adam of Adam and The Amethysts live in Studio + interview

Adam and the Amethysts - Flickering Flashlight - Dreaming (Kelp)
Eugene Chadbourne + the Dropouts - Bird Song (Monotype)

NEW SCARES: OCTOBER 30 2011.

The Lickets - Here(on Earth) - The Glorioous Eye of Stellar (international corporation)
Yetis MEtis - Sons epeurants D'Halloween - verdun massacre(fluorescent friends)
Tom Waits - Mule Variations - What's he building (ANTI_)
Unknown artist - house of 1000 corpses o.s.t. - dr. Satan
Ruth White - Flowers of Evil - Litanies of satan

DJ Shadow - the Less You Know the better - give me back the night
Bappi Lahiri - Bollywood Bloodbath - He Met me in the Guest House (b-music/F.K)
Pregnant - Ike Wimmin - What we all Know (KDVS)
Michael Hurley - Hi-Fi Snock uptown - Twilight Zone
Celine Beyond - Sons Epeurants d'Halloween -Hall'oweening(Fluorescent friends)
Wooden shjips - West - Fight (Thrill Jockey)
Pampers - s/t - erruptions (jackshack)

DVA Damas - 7" split w/ le face - Man Skin Pants
Burnt Witch Survivors Group - Support EP - Come out Get
Bad Vibration - Black Train - Black Train
Hunters - Hands on Fire - Track 03
Outdoorsmen - split 7" - tell your folks i'm a gonner (Psychic Handshake)

NEW SUMS OCTOBER 24 2011

FUNDING DRIVE EDITION!!

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We are very excited to have Ed Askew in studio for a live session this week

During the late ‘60s Askew recorded the psychedelic folk masterpiece “Ask the Unicorn” – his only album which has been released commercially until recent reissues – with only his ten stringed tiple accompanying himself. Little happened when it was released in 1968 by ultra-noncommercial ESP-Disk, the label which was best known for its free jazz releases and which is considered to be one of the most legendary independent labels of the ‘60s. Receiving barely any attention at all the record soon descended into obscurity even among the best informed enthusiasts of the in-crowd.

This in itself is not a unique story. It happens all the time. What makes this story worthwhile telling however is the fact that during all those years after its release its fire was kept alive solely by its unmatched and overwhelming urgency. His music proved so powerful that even time could not take it down. Slowly but surely more and more people started discovering the album. Word got around very gradually. It stole the hearts of listeners one by one. Something within this record made people fall for it like nothing before.

These are the kind of stories that should be told. Songwriters who are largely unknown to the public but have managed to find their place in the history of music, changing its landscape indefinitely and inspiring other artists for many decades without ever getting the deserved recognition. This small series of posts is dedicated to my favourite songwriters who were undeservedly forgotten.

Ed Askew grew up in Stanford, Connecticut after which he moved to nearby New Haven to attend Yale University in the early 60s. After having earned his art degree as a painter he briefly taught art at a high school in New York. It was then when he sent a demo tape to Bernard Stollman of ESP-Disk who quickly invited him to record his first record which would become known as “Ask the Unicorn”. The album received practically no promotion from the label – which was already plagued by financial difficulties – and quickly disappeared from circulation. The second album which Ed Askew recorded for ESP-Disk was never released – due to the eventual bankruptcy of ESP-Disk in 1974 – until the limited vinyl-only release on De Stijl in 2003.

When you talk about independent record labels you automatically talk about ESP-Disk. A New York-based record label, founded in 1966 by Bernard Stollman who was known for his almost spartanesque production methods and a strict no-retakes policy. With the motto: “The artists alone decide what you will hear on their ESP-Disk”; the label opened the door to a wide range of wildly creative sounds including Albert Ayler’s “Spiritual Unity” and is considered to be the most important exponent of free jazz. It is probably no coincidence that it took such a label to discover Ed Askew’s talents. And with our current discussion about independent music and its role in our musical landscape there could be no better example than Ed Askew’s “Ask the Unicorn”.

“Ask the Unicorn” contains a certain urgency. Like the recording of it was an act of desperation. The moment he starts singing and you hear his uniquely strained voice you immediately feel that he is frantically trying to tell you something extremely important. Part of this comes from a less romantic and more practical situation. The instrument which he is using, the ten stringed tiple, is notoriously difficult to master and takes so much pressure to keep it under control that you can actually hear his continuing struggles in his singing. The tiple – which he describes as an instrument shaped like a baritone ukulele – offers stunning arrangements to his harrowing psychedelic folk songs and challenges conventional structure.

“Little Eyes” was recorded immediately following the poorly selling debut. The record shares a similarity with “Ask the Unicorn” when it comes to his strained vocals and his use of the tiple but it also shows his newfound interest in the piano. And again all the songs were recorded in one continuous take.

Lyrically, Ed Askew manages to create emotionally engaging images with tripped out, dreamlike lyrics which effortlessly seem to flow from him. Often abstract and abruptly shifting, his lyrics possess a certain timelessness. He addresses still difficult topics in a way that was well ahead of its time, managing to strip down his songs to the pure and beautiful essence with poetic elegance.

After more than 35 years Ed Askew’s music is more relevant than ever, still able to mesmerize its audience. As David Shirley once truthfully wrote: “This is music that will endure.”

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Cobra and Vulture - Seer ep- Station Agent of Change (Self Released)

Reverend Charlie Jackson - You gotta move live recordings vol 1 - 50 miles of elbow room

Village of Spaces - Alchemy and Trust - Montana Telephone (corleone)

Wooden Wand - Death Seat - the Mountain

Art Lessing - Lectures - Goodbye Louabie - (electric eggplant)

Ted Lucas - Ted Lucas - Plain and Sane and Simple Melody (Yoga)

Rachel Mason and Litte Band Of Sailors - Live in studio - the Everglades, For Saddam

Rachel Mason Interview

Rachel Mason - Code Flight - Nat Turner (Self Released)

Ed Askew with Tyler Evans and Jay Pluck live in Studio

- Rodaio Rose

- Settle(?)

- Blue Eyed Baby

Interview with Ed Askew

Ed Askew with Tyler Evans and Jay Pluck live in Studio

- Moon In the Mind

- Little Eyes

- The garden

Ed Askew - Ask the Unicorn - Ask the Usicorn (ESP)

Abner Jay - Underground Atlanta - Woke up this Morning (Mississippi Records)

Abner Jay - Underground Atlanta - My Mule (Mississippi Records)