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

October Playlists

31.10.08
Steve Roden – A Slow Moving Boat
Gamelan Pacifica – Gending Erhu
Kuupuu – Hiillos
Aalto – Vedenneito
Talugung – Clouded, Crumbled
Sunburned Hand of the Man – What Color is the Sky in the World You Live In?
Sam Hamilton – 0O0O0O0O0
Lubomyr Melnyk – KMH, section 1
Harmonia – Walky-Talky
Adam Willetts – Untitled Edit 16/06/2008
Zbigniew Preisner – Decalogue
Deaf Center – White Lake
Bill Evans – Symbiosis 1st Movement C
Bill Evans – Symbiosis 2nd Movement A


25.10.08
Saturday Morning Fry Up Fill-in
Brightblack Morning Light – Summer Hoof
Evan Miller – Spell Against Indifference
Panda Bear – Untitled 1
Greg Davis – Shoes and Socks
MV & EE with the Bummer Road – Cold Rain
Mount Eerie – Great Ghosts
Mississippi John Hurt – Since I've Laid My Burden Down
Meg Baird – Riverhouse in Tinicum
Nick Drake – Rider on the Wheel
Juana Molina – El Vestido
Twi the Humble Feather – Higher than the End
Wali & the Afro-Caravan – Arcane Message
The West African Instrumental Quintet – Adersu-No.2
Billie Holiday – A Sailboat in the Moonlight
Susan Christie – Rainy Day
Ms. John Soda – Solid Ground
David Kilgour – A Head Full of Rolling Stones
Gene Clark – Silver Raven
Marconi Notaro – Sinfonia Em Re
Mojave 3 – Too Many Mornings
Dorothy Ashby – Life Has its Trials
The Drifters – Up on the Roof
Michel Polnareff – L'amour Avec Toi
Gal Costa – Baby
Petra Haden & Bill Frisell – When You Wish Upon a Star


24.10.08 (download: part 1, part 2)
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble – Field and Figure
Au – Summerheat
Silver Summit – Acadia
Duke Pearson – The Phantom
Les Baxter – Voodoo Dreams Voodoo
Airto – Wind Chant
Nico Muhly – Mothertongue: III. Hress
Telepathe – You Ought to Know
Bülent Ortaçgil – Bahar Türküsü
Neriman Altindag – Soyledi Yok Yok
Keijo & the Free Players – Warm Rain
Goldmund – To
The Alps – Hallucinations
Head of Wantastiquet – Draw Down the Moon
Magpahi – Through the Pine Forest
Ant Trip Ceremony – Violets of Dawn
Richard & Linda Thompson – Down Where the Drunkards Roll
The Brazda Brothers – Walking into the Sun
Sven Libaek – White Limestone Blues
Washington Phillips – What Are They Doing in Heaven Today
Bing and Ruth – Grand Banquet of the Dreamland Social Club


17.10.08
Stephan Mathieu & Ekkehard Ehlers – New Year's Eve
Mico Nonet – Cranes
Charlemagne Palestine – Sliding Fifths
Jack Rose – Spirits in the House
Brad Barr – Gin Gin
Craig Leon – Ring with Three Concentric Circles
Suarasama – Lebah
Harry Partch – A Son in Search of HIs Father's Face
Jackie-O Motherfucker – Ancona Raga (Dogs of the Acropolis)
Sunken – (Window) Sun
Hala Strana – Villages
Kayhan Kalhor & Brooklyn Rider – Silent City
James Blackshaw – Stained Glass Windows


10.10.08
Lichens – Kirilian Auras
Christina Carter – Silhouette
Alastair Galbraith/Alex Neilson/Richard Youngs – Coral
Telepathe – Devils Trident
Lafayette Afro Rock Band – Soul Makossa
Dimmer – Degrees of Existence
Triple Burner – Wall Socket Protector
The Charlatans – Oh! Vanity
Giant Skyflower Band – Feast of Blood
Kemialliset Ystävät – Kiimaniityn Kutsu
Ponytail – Beg Waves
Corker/Conboy – From the Hip
Eden Express – Corazon
No-Neck Blues Band – Witch
Appaloosa – The Day We Fell in Love
Deerhunter – Nothing Ever Happened
Sport of Kings – Parade
Andrew Pekler – Steady State
Antony Milton – A Valley
Grouper – Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping
Alejandro Franov – Pasando el Mar
Dino Felipe – 6 Feet Under
Arthur Russell – That's Us/Wild Combination


03.10.08 (download: part 1, part 2)
Tim Coster – Untitled (Track 3, Star Mill)
Evan Miller – Honey Loops
Mountains – Brown Glass Typewriter
Sivakumar Sarma – Raga Rageswari
The Necks – The World at War
William Parker – Morning Mantra
White Rainbow – Sun Shadow Drifter
Wooden Shjips – Shine Like Suns
Brian Eno – 1/1
Sir Richard Bishop – Ecstasies in the Open Air

September Playlists

26.09.08
Vikki Jackman – The Snow Queen
The Remote Viewer – Untitled
Nigel Wright – All Talk
Jandek – Harmonica
Peter Jefferies – Kitty Loop
Masahiko Satoh with Soundbreakers – Amalgamations [excerpt]
Yo La Tengo – The Room Got Heavy
Saddhu Brand – Babu Shoda
Erkin Koray – Yalnizlar Rihtimi
Basil Kirchin – Heart of the North
Eden Express – Loneliest Person
Eden Ahbez – Full Moon
Dana Gillespie – Souvenirs of Stefan
Simon Finn – The Courtyard
Fabulous Diamonds – LP1
The Black Angels – Doves
Teeth Mountain – Ghost Science
Valet – Streets
Tricorn & Queue – Free Falling to Crescent Meadow
Rameses III – Theme Five
Talk Talk – New Grass


19.09.08
Derek Bailey – When Your Lover Has Gone
Ilyas Ahmed – Circular Sky
Cian Nugent – First Time Away/The Wagoner's Lad
Elomar – Cantada
C. Joynes – West Cavaliers
Jeremy Kelly – August Bootfire
Islaja – Simla Amlis
Moondog – Tugboat Toccata
The Boats – They Gave Me This to Keep Me Quiet
Cursillistas – Crow in the Garden
The Child Readers – Planet Waters
Steven R. Smith – Untitled 4
Sun Araw – Canopy
Bailter Space – The Aim
Sarin Smoke – Blood Window
Josephine Foster – The Garden of Earthly Delights
James Blackshaw – Lost Prayers and Motionless Dances
The Dreamers – Goodnight Farewell My Friend


12.09.08
M. Jarvis/A. Jarvis – Hon Vantar
Richard Youngs & Tirath Singh Nirmala – Untitled
Badgerlore – We Are All Hopeful Farmers
Rothko – Windows Doors and Other
Do Make Say Think – The Universe!
Sun Ra – The Night of the Purple Moon
Paul Horn – Altura Do Sol
Susumu Yokota – My Energy
Dock Boggs – Coal Creek March
Lee Hazelwood – Hey Cowboy
Leo Kottke – The Fisherman
Pumice – Bold/Old
Carla Bozulich – How to Survive Being Hit by Lightning
Shugo Tokumaru – Lantern on the Water
Evolutionary Jass Band – Requiem for Andrew
Kan Mikami – ?????
Bird Show – Green Vines
The Family Elan – Over the Hills and Fields I Wander (The Bells of Earth Wonder)
Death Vessel – Block My Eye
Brightblack Morning Light – Oppressions Each
Brian McBride – Piano ABG
Scott Tuma – Tiktaalik


05.09.08
Djivan Gasparyan – Brother Hunter
Olafur Arnalds – Haust
Bing and Ruth – Chaperone to a Civil War
Pelt – Will You Pray For Me?
Gravenhurst – I Turn My Face to the Forest Floor
Juana Molina – Rio Seco
Tickley Feather – The Python
Jana Hunter – Bird
Grouper – Down to the Ocean
Matthew De Gennaro – Coal
Ali Akbar Khan – Misra Mand
Shirley Collins – Hori-Horo
Plants – The Western Lands
Robbie Basho – Roses and Snow
Bill Evans Trio – My Man's Gone Now
Cyann & Ben – Beyond Reality
Charalambides – Spring
The Fun Years – Fucking Milwaukee's Been Hesher Forever