The Beat-Beat-Beat of the Tom-Tom

And here it is....

1. 'Ego Death' - A Place To Bury Strangers

2. 'Ostia' - Zu

3. 'Gladiator' - Jesus Lizard

4. 'Halloween' - Mudhoney

5. Dere Geliyor Dere - the Ex & Tom Cora

6. 'Lola' - The Raincoats

7. 'Launderette' - Vivien Goldman

8. 'We Are Time' - the Pop Group

9. 'The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness' - the Feelies

10. 'Aidy's Girl's A Computer' - Darkstar

11. 'Meltdown' - King Midas Sound

12. 'Pithecanthropus Erectus' - Charles Mingus

13. 'Cotton Tail' - Duke Ellington

14. 'Night And Day' - Ella Fitzgerald

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Full liner notes in Frank's Apa #114. Now, back to Henry Cow....

Buckfast of Champignons - Not Can

A colleague of mine has recently heard Can for the first time. I envy him having the opportunity to listen to that great music with fresh ears! I thought I'd help him on his way by making a Can compilation for him. In doing so I re-discovered a playlist I'd put together as a potential TOAD some time ago, titled Buckfast of Champignons. I was intending it for use at Sunday brunch, you see. But now I have re-jigged it and expanded into what I think is a reasonable selection of music you might like if you also like Can. And which if us does not like Can? I have also re-named it:

Not Can

Much of this will be familiar to most of the regulars visitors to this blog. I hope you all enjoy nonetheless.

1. She is a Rainbow in Curved Air - Acid Mothers Temple

2. Ali's Here - Ali Farka Toure

3. You don't Pull no Punches, but you don't Push the River - Van Morrison

4. Spiders (Kidsmoke) - Wilco

5. Rolling Thunder - Steffan Basho-Junghans

6. Fur Immer - Neu!

7. Wished I Was in Heaven Sitting Down - Mississippi Fred McDowell

8. Spem in Alium - King's College Choir & Stephen Cleobury / Thomas Tallis

9. SHIRIN: Chaharmezrab-e bidad - Behnam Manahedji

10. Chaminuka We - Hakurotwi Mude, Cosmas Magaya, Luken Pasipamire, Ephat Mujuru

11. Kabacha Meflayey - Tsehaytu Beraki

12. E-Musik - Neu!

13. Can I Sleep In Your Arms? - Willie Nelson

14. Galactic Joke (B) - Cosmic Jokers

15. Barnowl - Caribou

16. Hallogallo - Neu!

17. A Raga Called Pat, part 4 - John Fahey

18. Homesickness - Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou

Rory.

TOAD: Two movies

These are the 2 movies I originally intended to distribute on a DVD, via the post.
If you need or want that, it can be arranged. Let me know.

Otherwise, start your download engines...

Kill your idols

A thrilling, comprehensive guide to New York’s buzzing downtown underground post-punk scene. Director Scott Crary kicks things off with the birth of No Wave in the late 1970’s, providing an angular rush with a priceless collection of live performances from Suicide, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, the Theoretical Girls and DNA. From this initial explosion of artistic energy, the film moves through the 1980’s, passing the torch to Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo of Sonic Youth and Michael Gira of Swans, before crashlanding in the noisy Now! of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Black Dice, Liars, A.R.E. Weapons and the Gypsy stylings of Gogol Bordello. Interviews connect the threads between the past and the present, an ever-fertile scene is defined, celebrated and trashed with equal amounts of enthusiasm, and the creators of some of the most challenging rock music of all-time get to explain what they do, why they do it and where it’s all heading.



Downtown 81

Starring the legendary artist Jean Michel Basquiat, Downtown 81 vividly depicts the explosive downtown New York art and music scene of 1980-81.

A young artist needs money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into. He finally manages to sell his painting but he’s paid by check. He spends the evening wandering from club to club, looking for a beautiful girl he had met earlier, so he’ll have a place to spend the night.

The cast includes Deborah Harry, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, James White and the Blacks, DNA, Tuxedo Moon, the Plastics, and Walter Steding and the Dragon People. Also on the soundtrack are Melle Mel, John Lurie, Lydia Lunch, Suicide, Vincent Gallo, Kenny Burrell and Basquiat’s own band, Gray.

Rory.

TOAD: Re:cent 0509 - "Lonely Planet Nothing Left"

Twenty more mind-expanding pieces of modern music for you, plus a bonus. Starts quietly, then heads for the back of your skull with all the subtlety of a lame new Hollywood remake of Driller Killer.

Titled, BTW, after the A & B side of a recent dubstep single by Randomer. The two titles seemed to run together nicely as a kind of concentrated SF poem. Can the world be as sad as it seems?

01. Teitur - The Singer
02. Gala Drop - Ital
03. Working for a Nuclear Free City - The 224th Day / Troubled Son
04. Fever Ray - When I Grow Up
05. Grails - Reincarnation Blues
06. Farflung - Endless Drifting Wreck
07. The Bug w/Flowdan - Warning
08. Van Shipley - Jan Pahechan Ho
09. The Sight Below - Dour
10. Anthony Newley & Delia Derbyshire - Moogie Bloogies
11. Franz Auffray - Sweet Popcorn part 2
12. Lacrymosa - Welscher Tanz "Wascha Mesa"
13. Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women
14. Savant - Sensible Music
15. Distance - No Sunshine
16. Amesoeurs - Gas in Veins
17. Sideshow w/Samar - French Model in Dub
18. Mikey Dread - Mikey Dread in Action
19. Virgin Prunes - Moments 'n' Mine
20. Raccoo-oo-oon - Untitled I
+ a bonus track that's about three weeks past its listen-by date

Download here [new MU link] or here [ShBee] [141 Mb].

Xmas 2008: Slush

So this is Xmas and... what have you DONE?

01. The Free Design - The Now Sound of Xmas
02. Mojochronic - Yuletide Zeppelin
03. Fleshtones - Super Rock Santa
04. Dean Martin - Jingle Bells (Dan the Automator remix)
05. Ween - We're All Snowflakes
06. Wormburner - Bells of St Ignatius
07. Thurston Lava Tube - Sleigh Ride
08. Dies Irae - Silent Night
09. Arcanta - Carol of the Bells
10. Molly Bee - Where Did My Snowman Go?
11. Mr Bob Francis - That Swingin' Manger
12. Neil Innes - Dear Father Xmas
13. Bad Tattoo - Are You Going to Stop the White Xmas
14. The Fab Four - Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
15. Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio - I am Santa Claus
16. Killwhitneydead - Holiday Medley
17. The Candy Store - Little Drummer Boy
18. Lee Scratch Perry & Sandra Robinson - Merry Xmas, Happy New Year
19. Divide & Kreate - Velvet Santa
20. Sam Flanagan - Frosty DMC
21. Kirsten & Heather Mayne - Silver Bells
22. Vic Mulkey & the Blue Veins - Ain't Got Time for Christmas
23. Lycia/The Unquiet Void - We Three Kings
24. Twice as Much & Vashti Bunyan - The Coldest Night of the Year
25. The Three Little Dwarfs - Hardrock, Coco & Joe
26. Toots & the Maytals - Christmas Feeling Ska
27. Girls Aloud - Not Tonight Santa
28. Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo - This Christmas
29. Kekal - God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
30. Glasvegas - Fuck You, It's Over
31. Evangelicals - The Last Xmas on Earth

... plus the usual raft of merry hangers-on and inappropriate festive interruptions. HFXmo! -- marco & crew

Download (MP3 plus cover, 139 Mb)

TOAD 4U

I know, rush rush rush. Anyway, the URL given in the APA is wrong... because, well, let's just say someone objected to one of the tracks on this. But here's an unedited repost, so D/L these two sections (they are separate parts of the archive so you don't need both... though you do need them):

Part 1 | Part 2

An Eclectic Collection of Memorabilia

OK, here is the third of the three disks. This one is more conventionally jazzy than the others.

Download it here (94MB)

1. Vassilis Tsabropoulos, Arild Andersen & John Marshall – The Spell (Achirana, 2000)
2. John Surman – Figfoot (Adventure Playground, 1992)
3. Anouar Brahem – Kashf (Thimar, 1998)
4. Eberhard Weber – Maurizius (Later That Evening, 1982)
5. Jan Garbarek – I Took Up The Runes (I Took Up The Runes, 1990)
6. Tord Gustavsen Trio – Being There (The Ground, 2004)
7. Ketil Bjørnstad, Terje Rypdal – The Sea IX (Life in Leipzig, 2008)
8. John Surman Quartet – Promising Horizons (Stranger Than Fiction, 1994)
9. Doran, Studer, Burri, Magnenat – SCD (Musik für zwei Kontrabässe, Gitarre & Schlagzeug, 1991)
10. Christy Doran, Fredy Studer, Stephan Wittwer – Canon Cannon (Red Twist & Tuned Arrow, 1987)

Exquisite Choral Moments

Hi,

This, the second of three ECM TOADs, groups various pieces that involve song or classical music. The Hilliard Ensemble feature on several of these. A couple of the pieces are rather long - Evening Prayers is about 15 minutes and it is still the shortest piece from that album.

You can download it here (100MB).

1. John Dowland – Weep You No More, Sad Fountains (In Darkness Let Me Dwell, 1999)
2. Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble – Quechua Song (Mnemosyne, 1999)
3. Paul Giger – Organum (Ignis, 2000)
4. Hilliard Ensemble – Introitus (Lassus, 1998)
5. Giya Kancheli – Caris Mere (Caris Mere, 1997)
6. John Surman – You Never Know (The Spaces in Between, 2007)
7. John Adams – Negative Love (Harmonium, 1984)
8. Giya Kancheli – Evening Prayers (Abii ne Viderem, 1995)
9. John Dowland – Flow My Tears (In Darkness Let Me Dwell, 1999)

The Echo of Contrapuntal Melodies

I've uploaded the first of three ECM TOADS on rapidshare. There are also shiny disks of all three TOADS in the post to Mark, Robin, Ian&Irene, Scott, Mark and Dave. I intend to upload the next two installments over the next week or so, and to include full details of the TOADS in the next mailing.

This first disk features almost 25 years of John Surman, particularly his solo or duet work, plus some similar tracks from Jan Garbarek and Eberhard Weber. My title is probably wildly inaccurate, as I doubt that there is any actual counterpoint going on, but it seemed appropriate in an impressionistic (i.e. wrong) sort of way.

Download it here (85MB).

1. John Surman – Portrait of a Romantic (Private City, 1988)
2. John Surman – Trethevy Quoit (Road to St Ives, 1990)
3. John Surman, Jack DeJohnette – Fair Trade (Invisible Nature, 2002)
4. Jan Garbarek – The Arrow (Visible World, 1996)
5. John Surman – Druid’s Circle (A Biography of The Rev. Absalom Dawe, 1995)
6. Eberhard Weber – Street Scenes (Pendulum, 1993)
7. John Surman – Debased Line (Free and Equal, 2003)
8. John Surman – For the Moment (Coruscating, 2000)
9. John Surman – Edge of Illusion (Upon Reflection, 1979)
10. John Surman – Fide et Amore (The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon, 1981)
    

TOAD : Après UP! : Le Rebel Accidentel

This TOAD came about by accident - 7 of the songs here grouped themselves together via the magic of iTunes alphabetics.

It was completed by design - this is intended as music to listen to when you get home from the Rebel Up Soundclash, the monthly party that Seb runs in Amsterdam.

Don't worry if you don't live near enough to ever go to Rebel Up.
You will still enjoy this, I'm sure.

Best listened to between the hours of 00:00 and 12:00.

Après UP! : Le Rebel Accidentel

1/Radicalfashion ~ Shousetsu
2/Ensemble Modern ~ Pulses
3/Burial ~ Shell Of Light
4/Flower Travellin' Band and Terumasa Hino Quartet ~ Doob
5/Hurdy Gurdy ~ Luder Anders/ Skuren
6/Radio Malanga ~ Barceloneta
7/Ragunath Seth ~ Shuddh Sarang
8/Rahsaan Roland Kirk ~ Haunted Feelings
9/Sorcha Ni Ghuairim ~ Mainistir Na Buille
10/Rahul Sharma ~ Mela
11/Rail Band ~ Rail Band
12/John Lee Hooker ~ Bumblebee, Bumblebee
13/Margaret Barry ~ She Moved Through The Fair
14/Rita Abatzi ~ Gazeli Neva Sabah
15/Stubbs, Surman, Homburger, Guy ~ In Darkness Let Me Dwell
16/Various Madang Artists ~ Gomkail. Bak. Borai.
17/Damon And Naomi With Michio Kurihara ~ Tanka
18/The Raincoats ~ Don't Be Mean

Download (Rapidshare, 69mb)