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Music of all kinds that hits me in the pit of my stomach, all arranged to find your sweet spot, too. Plus radio shows from the 1940s & 1950s: dramas, mysteries, sci-fi, detectives, and more.
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October 28, 2005: Show 181: filling in for Bryce (listen to entire show / each individual set / each individual song)
The start and end times of each song and set are exact.
Show time: 11 PM - 2 AM
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Set 1: the beautiful music portion of the evening. (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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Ketawang: Pusawarna (track 1) (Listen: Pop-up) | Court Gamelan From The Pura Paku Alaman, Jogyakarta | Nonesuch (Explorer series) | In these 3 pieces, we hear the most beautiful gamelan music I know. To me, they are a culmination of it, in this specific case of the royal court music of Paku Alaman. The first 2 tracks really stand out, with #2 the most beautiful of all. Written around 1755, the work is considered a pusaka (heirloom), and is justifiably famous. | *** | ||||||
Gending: Tedjanata/Ladrang Sembawa/Ladrang Playon (track 2) (Listen: Pop-up) | Court Gamelan From The Pura Paku Alaman, Jogyakarta | Nonesuch (Explorer series) | *** | |||||||
Gending: Mandulpati/Ladrang Agun-Agun (track 3) (Listen: Pop-up) | Court Gamelan From The Pura Paku Alaman, Jogyakarta | Nonesuch (Explorer series) | ||||||||
Soeur Marie Keyrouz | Magnificat (track 1) (Listen: Pop-up) | Cantiques de l'Orient | Harmonia Mundi |
Quite beautiful. It's her interpretation of Eastern (Middle Eastern) Christian liturgical singing, but sung in Arabic. And she gets the full studio treatment.
She has recorded several albums, all of which I recommend highly. |
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Mic break between Sets 1 & 2. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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Les Chakachas | Love is like a Violin (track 4) | Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | ||||||
Set 2: the old radio show portion of the evening. (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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Radio City Playhouse | Mother | Originally broadcast September 11, 1948 | (no label) |
New Year's Eve...everyone's having fun except over-moralizing and scornful Mary...an invalid mother - she says...schizophrenic Mary, lonely Mary - who finally meets a fella on the way home and falls in love...she lies and chases him away...and about that mother - it seems she's been dead for 2 years. This episode is #12 in the series.
Radio City Playhouse, on air from 1948 - 1950, was known for its solid writing and acting. |
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Mic break between Sets 2 & 3. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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Les Chakachas | Love is like a Violin (track 4) | Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | ||||||
Set 3 (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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William Basinski + Richard Chartier | (no title: track 1) (Listen: Pop-up) | William Basinski + Richard Chartier | Spekk | Not quiet and beautiful / sentimental / melancholic like Basinski's other music. Dark, bit creepy, more electronic experimental. | ||||||
S.Q.E. | Diamond (version 2) (track 6) (Listen: Pop-up) | The Abyss Stares Back | Influx Communications | Dark electronic drone, slow, atmospheric. | ||||||
Thomas Fehlmann | Springer (track 9) (Listen: Pop-up) | Lowflow | Plug Research | Kind of electronica - industrial, even funky, easy tempo. | ||||||
The Vanishing | Toothless Tigers (track 11) (Listen: Pop-up) | Still Lives Are Falling | GSL | Bit avanty electro, reverbed sax, easy tempo, bit druggy & robotic. | ||||||
Brian Eno | Noone Receiving (track 1) (Listen: Pop-up) | Before And After Science | Astralwerks/Virgin | Kind of avanty-funky-acidy, but not intense, soft singing, somewhat head-music. | ||||||
Mic break between Sets 3 & 4. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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Les Chakachas | Love is like a Violin (track 4) | Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | ||||||
Set 4 (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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William Basinski | (no title: track 12) (Listen: Pop-up) | Melancholia | Musex International | Dreamy. | ||||||
Larsen | S (track 3) (Listen: Pop-up) | Play | Important! | Low key, kind of sentimental, chimes. | ||||||
Set Fire To Flames | Steal Compass / Drive North / Disappear (track 3) (Listen: Pop-up) | Sings Reign Rebuilder | Alien 8 | Quietish & sentimental, builds a bit & becomes a little richer but still airy, instrumental. | ||||||
Sciflyer | Never Come Down (track 5) (Listen: Pop-up) | The Age Of Lovely, Intimate Things | Clairecords | Stately, dreamy, acidy & lush psych rock, vocal harmonies in background. This is the type of music they do best. | *** | |||||
Mic break between Sets 4 & 5. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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Les Chakachas | Love is like a Violin (track 4) | Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. | ||||||
Set 5 (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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Jonathan Kane | Guitar Trio (track 5) | February | Table Of The Elements | Best track on a solid CD, steady & easy, harmonically ascendant then quieter & slower, builds again to like first half, moderately active last 2 minutes. His version of Rhys Chatham's piece. | ||||||
End of show mic break. Background music played during it: (Listen to this set: Pop-up) |
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Les Chakachas | Love is like a Violin (track 4) | Arriba! | RCA International | Phat, sentimental sound. Feels like it's the slow song at the record hop. |
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