Pentangle - So Early In The Spring

Recorded "live" at the Royal Albert Hall, June 29th, 1968.

So here's another great hall with great acoustics, speaking of Webster Hall. It's right up there with Cleveland Music Hall. (See here for context.)

Cathy Berberian with the Juilliard Ensemble - Black Is The Colour

Arranged & conducted by Luciano Berio.

"Black is the Colour" is an American folk song with Scottish roots, re-melodicized by John Jacob Niles.

This performance was recorded at Webster Hall, New York City, December 1968. (Anyone planning to head down to Webster Hall tonight?)

Steely Dan - Rose Darling

I'm claiming this as the definitive Steely Dan deep cut. (Brooklyn, the song Gaucho, Green Earrings, Caves Of Altamira, Time Out Of Mind, Any Major Dude, the song The Royal Scam, and Midnight Cruiser don't count as deep cuts.)

The juxtaposition of this verse and this chorus yields an interesting mixture of colours/flavours. Close harmonies from Michael McDonald at 1:12. Perhaps his biggest challenge until he harmonized with himself on Peg?

The pre-chorus bit (at 1:04) reminds of this.

More Dan of Steel-related material coming tomorrow!

Danielsson & Pekkanini - Otroligt Blåst Och Dum

A question for our Scandinavian friends: Is the bit at 1:56 an old Swedish drinking song (I hope)?

Medicine Head - Rising Sun

May 16th? Feels like it's time to throw a couple of ice cold thirty packs of Stroh's in the back of the pickup truck, don jean shorts and no shirt, and head for the gorge with some Medicine Head on the box.

The Supremes - Love Is Here And Now You're Gone

So many "lost love" songs in the Supremes/H-D-H canon: Reflections, this one, Stop in the Name of Love, Where Did Our Love Go, etc. Are torch songs an endangered species in pop music these days?

The bass sound gets intriguing around the 0:36 mark, like there's chorus on it. I'm pretty sure this is because there's a Fender bass and an upright bass playing in more-or-less unison throughout.

Perhaps it was the harpsichord bit at 0:42 that earned Lamont Dozier the hard-earned sobriquet, "Black Bach"?

P.S. This is soooo much better than modern pop music!!!

The Supremes - Reflections

The psychic bow drawn at 0:40 is released at 0:50, like a corkscrew to your heart.

Holland-Dozier-Holland et al. cavorting quite near the tippy-top of Mount Parnassus on this one.

Les Espions - Casse-Tête Jungle

Some soundpillows for your spring.

Love - Can't Explain (mono mix)

Noisy proto-punk jangle from Arthur and the lads. One can easily hear why these folks covered it.

X-Ray Pop - Oh Oui J'Aime!

I wanted to post this four years ago (true!), but couldn't seem to find a copy of the record or tape (though it doesn't seem so difficult now?). Anyroad, thanks to the folks at Cache Cache for the reissue. All good things in all good time.

Killing Joke: Change

Saturday, 10 pm, 96 Orchard Street. I'll play the tuneskis, you drink the brewskis.

Edvard Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Book 1, Op. 12: No. 8. Faedrelandssang (National Song)

performed by Marian Lapsansky

Pain Teens - The Way Love Used To Be

The Move - Do Ya

Not an obscurity, but I never really paid any mind to this song or this version until it appeared in this mix. Clearly one of the great opening riffs; perhaps a descendant of this?

And yes, the image above is an ELO picture sleeve from Thailand.  Move audio, ELO sleeve. Deal with it.

SAVE THE DATE

DJ Emmett makes his triumphant return to Cafe Dancer (96 Orchard Street, Manhattan) on Saturday, May 3rd, at 10 pm.

Featuring space age relaxation for the climax of spring – electronic composition, colour and image projection, girls, and DJ Emmett.

Colin Tully - Theme to Gregory's Girl

Michael Jackson - Burn this Disco Out

Paul Williams - Nilsson Sings Newman

From the man who brought you The Rainbow Connection, or so I'm lead to believe.

Elvis Presley - Tomorrow is a Long Time

Warren Zevon - Bill Lee

It's back to baseball and another week of Greg Condon here in AD land.

 Equals - Police On My Back

Thanks to GC for the tip on this little slice of mod heaven. Many songs mention days of the week in succession (Lady Madonna et al.), but can you name another that runs the gamut from Monday to Sunday like this with no words between? (Seven days and eight beats, so you have to say "runnin'" first.)

BTW watch for some more GC contributions in the extremely near future.

Ensemble of the Bulgarian Republic - Ogreyala Mesetchinka (The Moon Shines)

Thanks to Jerry for the tip on this LP. Featuring semitones microtones, and just the weirdest intervals that you ever heard.

XTC: English Roundabout

Splash into spring with a soundbath tomorrow night (Saturday April 5th) at Cafe Dancer, 96 Orchard St, 10 pm to 2 am.

Have you had your bath today?

Josef K - Revelation

"Help Mom, I'm trapped in a maelstrom of harmonically complex noise with a genuinely funky underpinning, and I'm still getting rad guitar tones."

Rosa Yemen - Larousse Baron Bic

File alongside other semipermeable major/minor jammers such as this and this.

new Viva show (#153) in the ark hive

Podcast #9, recorded the evening of Saturday February 15th>Sunday February 16th, 2014.

Download/stream:
part the first
part the second

Join Sheridan Dupre, Emmett, Kathleen Turner, Beau Bridges, Laura Wilson, the Hutterites, Georges Bizet and many more for an evening of above-average music and sub-par speculation on God, Man's Place in the Universe, multiple discoveries, and more.

Part two to be uploaded by summer solstice, latest.

Y Pants - Barbara's Song

And the moon shined all night, the moon shined all night.

Broncho - Kurt (edit)

Getting psyched for summer with this top-drown cruiser. This is an edit. For the full version, buy the limited pressing 7" from CQ records.

Lexx - Jungle City

where the nightlife really steams

Del Jones - Vibe-ing Theme

More Duaneology for your Wednesday.

I'm sure this riff has many antecedents, but I'm reminded of this.

If you like a nice hi-hat-to-ride-cymbal climate change, see 0:56 and following.

Holland-Dozier - Don't Leave Me Starvin' For Your Love

Jermz - Power Cut

SAVE THE DATE  
DJ Emmett makes his triumphant return to Cafe Dancer on Saturday, April 5th, at 10 pm. Please reorganize your lives accordingly.

The Impossibles - The Drum

Solid early '90s Slapp Happy cover.  (There are many.)

Cissy Kraner - Der Novak läßt mich nicht verkommen

Quite possibly the first minor sixth chord vamp heard round these parts since this one.

René & Angela - I Love You More (Edit by Mr. K)

One of the great mp3s. I downloaded it from bumrocks.com in 2006, but it lay in wait on my IPOD for over a year before I heard it, and when I did 'twas one of the happiest eight minute periods of my life.

I wish that the same may happen for you.

The Anita Kerr Quartet - The Wayfaring Stranger

Cocteau Twins - A Kissed Out Red Floatboat

ELIZABETH FRASER!!!!!!!!

Silent Corner - Number One

Standing on a corner on a Saturday night
I’ve got nothing to do but stay at home
Won’t you join me, join me for the Number One

All the best chicks in town are there
The groovy ones, the special ones
They are going, going to the Number One

Where it’s all happening on a Saturday night
The music is heaven, the lights are dimmed
It’s new wave it’s new style, just go and find
The place you’ve been looking for, the Number One

First time you will ever hear of us
In a disco bar in our hometown
Cause they’re playing music you love to hear

You can always find us at Friday night
Silent Corner at a new event
They are going, going to the Number One

The Real Ones - Outlaw (Yngve & Timo Mix)

In mixolydian, the happiest of modes.

This track comes courtesy of mein bruder. Many high school evenings spent in Tolkien's pages and then the fortune to find a soundtrack for his escape.

Bo Hansson: Dreams In The House of Healing

Brent Mydland:  Dreams

Poking around the internet is really something.  A track from what I gather was to be Mydland's solo album.

Affairs Of The Heart - Waterloo Sunset

So apparently I've entered my Hi-NRG phase. We all knew this day would come eventually.

The way the vocalist (some say it's one of the girls from Strawberry Switchblade?!) sings "Friday night" at 2:56 is making me think there could be/should be/is an equally great Italodance cover of Captain Jack out there, somewhere.

Apologies to Sheridan for stepping on his post. It's 17 degrees outside and I feel like I'm losing my mind.

Quicksilver Messenger Service: Who Do You Love [suite]

Apropos of St Valentine's Day, herewith side one of 1969's Happy Trails.  The best way to listen to this is to call in sick to work on a cold day, really crank it up, and pretend you are playing cowboys and indians with Bob Weir somewhere in the hills of Novato.

Unless you're Bob Weir, of course. Actually, especially if you're Bob Weir.

Neil Young - Flying On The Ground Is Wrong (demo)

I've listened to versions of this by The Guess Who, The Buffalo Springfield, The Summer Snow, The Sneetches, The Rainy Day, and The Cascades, but I don't feel like any of them quite reaches the Platonic ideal of the song, so let's go with Neil's demo, as there's always something unimpeachable about the songwriter's original conception. Also: what is this song about?

Earlier start time this time (8 pm).

I know there are some south-of-14th-Street dads out there who can easily pop out after the kids are in bed and stroll over to Orchard Street for some brews and tunes. I'm counting on you guys!

Jinny - I Need Your Love (extended version)

for PSH