Favourite Musical Things '08

After much umm-ing and arr-ing, here it is... "a few records I dug this year" (not a Top 10 list or anything). Click on the covers to find out what they are (because I'm too lazy to write what they are and the covers are pretty).

December Playlists

28.12.08
Fill-in for Sunday Breakfast, 9-12am
Milton Cross - It's Almost Been a Year
Yuichiro Fujimoto - Little Sunset
Goldmund - Image-Autumn-Womb
Maynard Baird and his Orchestra - Just for You
Sarah Vaughan - You Stepped Out of a Dream
Patty Waters - I've Got a Crush on You
John Fahey - Bean Vine Blues #2
Lonnie Johnson - I Done Told You
Ruthann Friedman - Typical Sunday
Vashti Bunyan - Wayward
The Barbara Moore Singers - Singing Low
Piero Umiliani - Bob & Hellen
Duke Pearson - The Fakir
Eden Express - Kaleidoscope
Montage - Desiree
The Ronnettes - Sleigh Ride
Scott Walker - The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime)
Brian Eno - Kurt's Rejoinder
Unknown artist - Dum Maro Dum
Jaume Sisa - Carrer
Johnny Rivers - California Dreamin'
OP8 feat. Lisa Germano - Sand
The Sea and Cake - Fuller Moon
Ersen - Kara Yazi
American Analog Set - I Must Soon Quit the Scene
Pepi Ginsberg - In My Bones
Davy Graham - Hummingbird
Van Dyke Parks - Donovan's Colours
Girma Hadgu - Ene Alantchi Alnorem
Hilton Valentine - Listen
Smog - Ex-con
The Comsat Angels - Independence Day
Orchestra Harlow - Freak Off
John Berberian & the Middle Eastern Ensemble - Flying Hye
The Tammys - Egyptian Shumba
The Zombies - Summertime
Rodriguez - Sugar Man
Aloha - Brace Your Face
Vetiver - Blue Driver

25.12.08
Fill-in for Timmy Schumacher, 11-1am
Robbie Basho - Pavan India (live in Germany, '80)
Clem Alford - Raga Charukeshi
Asha Bhosle & Chorus - Aao Yaro Gao
Michael Flower - FFR#1
East of Eden - Gum Arabic/Confucius
Anthony Braxton, William Parker & Milford Graves - First Meeting
Max Roach - Filidee
Yusef Lateef - Samba de Amor
Terry Riley - Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band
Koen Holtkamp - Free Birds


1-3am
Xenis Emputae Travelling Band - Generatio Mentis
Peter Michael Hamel - The Voice of Silence
Super Minerals - Photic
Bruce Langhorne - Opening Theme from The Hired Hand
Bird Show - Green Vines
Cursillistas - New Seeds
Brigitte Fontaine with the Art Ensemble of Chicago - Le Brouillard
Dakota Suite - The End of Trying Part I
Richard Skelton - Fold
Arve Henriksen - Parallel Action
Ilyas Ahmed - Golden Universe
Zak Riles - Pacific Siren
Ateleia - Formal Barrier
Windy & Carl - Snow Covers Everything
Christina Carter - Capable of Murder
Jacaszek - Rytm to Niesmiertelnosc II


23.12.08
Fill-in for Darcy & Tim, 7-9pm
Stag Hare - Holy Quinn
Stelvio Cipriani - Face to Face
The Jacks - Ii Ko Da Na
Sarolta Zalatnay - Egy Szot Se Szolj
Charles Mingus - Solo Dancer
Leola Manning - Satan is Busy in Knoxvile
Unknown artist - Yumma, Al Hilou
Robert Pollard - Maggie Turns to Flies
Richard Swift - Knee-High Boogie Blues
Jack Rose - Kensington Blues
Karen Dalton - In a Station
R. Stevie Moore - Play Myself Some Music
Masha Qrella - Everything Shows
Big Tobacco - Bum Leg
Dino Felipe - Found 2 Photos
The Gurus - Louie Louie
TV-Resistori - Naen Tansivvan Sun Uundestaan
Raccoo-oo-oon - Behold Secret Kingdom
Ulaan Khol - Untitled 3
Grouper - Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping
Anne Briggs - Hills of Greenmor
Sandy Bull - Little Maggie
Julie Doiron & the Wooden Stars - The Longest Winter
Rex Holman - Today is Almost Here
Glen Clampbell - Sing
Judee Sill - Crayon Angels
The Replacements - Androgynous
Darlene Love - Marshmallow World


19.12.08
Sun Ra - The Cosmos
Steve Reich - America-Before the War
Ashtray Navigations - Beechwood Piss Crescendo
Qua - On Clouds
Sein Sah Thin - Really Strange and Weird Things
The Alps - A Manha Na Praia
Matthew De Gennaro - Henning Christiansen
Stephan Mathieu & Ekkehard Ehlers - Rose
Teeth Mountain - Black Jerusalem
Moondog - Trees Against the Sky
Ducktails - Beach Point Pleasant
Gary War - Grown in Shells
Papoose - Marie Song
Ray Barretto - Acid
Deerhunter - Grayscale (Joshua M. Fauver Mix)
Ed Lincoln - Ali Tem
Pascal Comelade with Robert Wyatt - September Song
Evan Miller - Excursus in Day-Glo
Fotheringay - The Pond and the Stream
Es - Sadepaivat
Tir Na Nog - So Freely
The Durutti Column - Party
Nick Castro & the Poison Tree - Sun Song
Songs of Green Pheasant - I Am Daylights
Neil Halstead - Always the Good


12.12.08
Brethren of the Free Spirit - The Wolf Also Shall Dwell with the Lamb
Alexander Turnquist - White Out
Iannis Xenakis - Concret PH
Emeralds - The Quaking Mess
Way of the Cross - Asahara Renunciate
Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda
Michel Moulinie - Le Philtre d'Echordus
Matt Hill - II
Fennesz - Glass Ceiling
Jon Hassell - Empire V
Tirath Singh Nirmala - Moor Brink Hush
Erik Amlee - Melting Trees
Valet - Drum Movie
Peter Broderick - Broken Patterns
Arvo Pärt - Spiegel Im Spiegel


05.12.08
with Special Guest DJ Tim Coster
Susan Alcorn - Heart Sutra
Kemialliset Ystavat - Tassa Maassa Kun Nain Makailen
Rudi Arapahoe - Forest of Arches
The Child Readers - Death of a Cloud
Tom Carter & Christian Kiefer - The Coo-Coo Bird
Odetta - 900 Miles
Pumice - Heavy Punter
Ducktails - Gem Part 1 and 2
U.S. Girls - Prove It All Night
MV & EE with the Golden Road - Bong Judge
Unknown Rembetika Artist - ???????
Larkin Grimm - Dominican Rum
Mimi & Richard Farina - Another Country
Virgin Insanity - The Ballad of Clifton T.
The Monks - Love Came Tumblin' Down
Woods - The Hold
Scott Walker - The Seventh Seal
Oriental Sunshine - Across Your Life
Fabulous Diamonds - LP2
King Darves - This Ivory
Arthur Russell - Get Around to It
George Duke - North Beach
Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides - Wooden Eye with Burning Vision
Sun Araw - Horse Steppin'
Monette Moore - Somebody's Been Loving My Baby

Fill-ins Galore

It's the holiday season so most of the specialist bFM DJs are taking a break, which means us weirdo graveyarders get to swoop in and claim daytime slots for a change. I did my second ever yesterday, filling in for Darcy & Tim's show from 7-9pm and it was slightly nervewracking to start with (I started playing the Sarolta Zalatnay LP at 45, cringe); as Stinky Jim mentioned when I finished up, it's a bit more "naked" when there's light. I'm gonna try my hand at a few more, 9-12 this Sunday morning and 7-9am next Sunday, or maybe 9-12 again depending how this one pans out. Plus tomorrow, I've decided to fill in Timmy Schumacher's 11-1am slot all the way through to my 1-3 so it's going to be a FOUR-HOUR-LONG extravaganza show. Cripes. Fun radio times. Listen in if you're around - and Merry Christmas!

Download Shows

I've uploaded mp3s of a few past shows (24.10.08, 03.10.08, 15.08.08) - feel free to download and check them out!

November Playlists

28.11.08
Tom James Scott – Flickering Shadow of Ashes
Goldmund – Threnody
Early Day Miners – Mosaic II
Chihei Hatakeyama – Towards a Tranquil Marsh
Milton Cross – It's Been Almost a Year
James Blackshaw – Past Has Not Passed
Marissa Nadler – Silvia
Xela – Linseed
Natural Snow Buildings – Salt Signs
Lau Nau – Painovoimaa, valoa
Feathers – Tiny Lights
Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions – Suzanne
Julianna Barwick – Untitled 2
Animal Collective & Vashti Bunyan – Baleen Sample
Brigitte Fontaine – Brigitte
Jolie Holland – Fox in its Hole
Fire on Fire – Liberty Unknown
Greg Weeks – Lay Low
Max Ochs – Raga 1


21.11.08
El Heath – Bees
Machinefabriek & Soccer Committee – For I Have None
Tape – Dripstone
Alastair Galbraith – Head Down
Death Chants – Ascent by Silver Blood
Pocahaunted – No More Women
C. Joynes – Down in the Devil's Own Garden
Harry Taussig – Blues for Zone VII
Clogs – Kapsburger
Pantaleimon – Dance of the Honey Bees
Sharron Kraus – Horn Dance
Karen Beth – Come December
Milton Cross – Light in the West Where It Will Always Be Morning
Raccoo-oo-oon – Mud Mound
Ignatz – Two Nights and a Day
Rings – Is He Handsome
Sandy Bull – No Deposit, No Return Blues
Christina Carter – The Lights Went Out Last Night
Cloaks – Improvisation for Guitar and Piano


14.11.08
Taku Sugimoto – Birds of Afternoon
Bruno Nicolai – Drug Party
The Blithe Sons – Animals of the Seashore
Janek Schaefer – Spindle Spider
Seht – Vallis Marineris (succint edit)
Hauschka – Rode Null
The Lost Jockey – Phrase Book
Hannu – Sumu
Goldmund – Larrows of the Field
Pierre Bastien – Damn Mad
Ravi Shankar – Fantasy
Richard Youngs – Something Like Air
llyas Ahmed – Kabhi Ma Boley Ashista
Inca Ore – Alone in the Supreme
Matt Valentine & Erika Elder – The Golden Cocola
Dolphins of East Belgium – Dawn Vision
Paavoharju – Kirkonvaki
Vapaa – Night of Irregular Waves
Steven R. Smith – Marjan
Brethren of the Free Spirit – All Things Are From Him, Through Him and In Him


07.11.08
Sanso-Xtro – Frangipani Gardens
Goblin – Suspiria
The Associates – Deeply Concerned
Scott Walker – The Seventh Seal
Shirley Scott – Soul Sauce
Mulatu Astatke – Munaye
Clark-Hutchinson – Improvisation on a Modal Scale
San Ul Lim – It Was Probably Late Summer
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – Sankofa
France Gall – Chanson indienne
Bill Fay – Omega Day
The Fugs – Skin Flowers
Gary War – Eye in the Sky
Religious Knives – The Storm
ISAN – Gunnera
Spires That In The Sunset Rise – Morning Song
Art Ensemble of Chicago – Theme de l'Amour Universel
Michael Yonkers – Tripping Through the Rose Gardens
Magpahi – Horses in the Night
Bert Jansch – The January Man
Linda Perhacs – Hey, Who Really Cares?
Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh – Beneath Halo
Peter Walker – River
Colleen – The Heart Harmonicon
Helios – Hollie