This month's show is on line....subtitled 'The Sonic Re-creation of the end of the world...a bad joke which will become obvious after you listen to the opening half hour or so...on Mixcloud Here
I am very pleased to announce that EMFAB is now back to its regular, monthly 2 hour slot of new and newish music. In fact December 2023's show is here already...a few days ahead of schedule. Stream at Mixcloud here It's Just A Ride
I want to say a few words more...doing this show has helped me with my recovery...it sharpens my communication, and the music itself is a tonic for me. My internal organs dance along.
Now, I always put great effort into tune selection and the order I play them. There is a narrative built into each one, which may require some knowledge of current music to decipher. One tune to the next...there is always a reason..musical or historic link. For instance, I once followed Shel Silverstein's 'I Was Stoned And I Missed It' with 'A Boy Named Sue', because Shel wrote that song!
Unknown - Dancing Queen (Back To Your Roots PWL Mix)
Crabtree - Heart Of Glass - Crabtree remix
Bill Hicks - It's Just A Ride 1992
Camille Doe - Alright (Extended Mix)
ECC - The Fucking Moon
Steely Dan - Do It Again
Bill Hicks - It's Just A Ride
The Sacred Four - Somebody Watching You
The Broken Family Band - Queen of the Sea
Holy Tongue meets Shackleton - Ancient Model
Aleph One - Prickles and Goo
Allan Sherman - Crazy Downtown
Dj Eely - Other Spaces
Gnasha - Ghost of Rot
Piero Umiliani - Mah-Na-Mah-Na
Spirit - I Don't Want Nobody
Bill Morrison - Go Climb A Rock
Eek A Mouse-Wa Do Dem ext
Aleph One - Paraphrase
DJ Jackum - Do You Know
Jules Ahoi - Magnolia
Neil Innes - How Sweet to Be an Idiot
Garlington - Lorelei
Holy Tongue meets Shackleton - The Other Side Of The Bridge
I enjoyed making that show so much, and I was so touched by your response, that I've already started to prepare a follow up...to be published next month. The theme will be a return to the familiar EMFAB shows of the past...mostly new music, with lots of dubby techno...plus a few wild cards to make you laugh...and 'The Fucking Moon'...I promise. Join my mailing list or favourite me on Mixcloud to receive a notification when it's ready...or drop back here again at the beginning of December.
After a long break...several months; because...weird thing...I had a stroke in January. But now, as part of my healing path, I'm preparing a new show. Check back here later or get on my mailing list...just email me at nelson at wombnet dot com, and say you want to be on it. Or if you are on mixcloud...just watch out for a notification. It's called 'Still Hear'. Playlist and links will be posted on this site in due course. It is a collision of several incomplete playlists from my past...mainly 'Songs My Daddy Taught Me' about the music I inherited from my father's naive taste. Another playlist involved in this pile up is 'Time'...which is all songs mentioning, or about Time. Plus a few other tunes that grabbed my ear. This is very probably the last gasp for Eclectic Music For Mind and Bodhi...unless I get that call/email from the BBC that I've been waiting for for 20 years...well, you never know. But that is unlikely and would be a fookin miracle.
Below you will find a direct link to download the whole thing, and a link to Mixcloud where you can go to stream it. I feel I must apologise for the many mistakes in my commentary...but you see I currently have the short term memory and attention span of a fish. One mistake in particular that I want to correct is that I refer to Peter Hook as the bass player and vocalist of Joy Division...that was of course the remarkable Ian Curtis. Hook was the bassist and principle song writer.
Here is the playlist:
Please note this is not a new music episode, but rather me looking back to the records I played most in my youth, particularly the ones from my father.
I can't seem to summon the wherewithal to do a show this month. In fact, I need to take a break for a few months. Zappas (the units of creative expression) don't flow constantly in me, as is true for many artists. I need to re-charge. There's much to do in the garden.
Join my mailing list (nelson@wombnet.com), or follow me on Mixcloud, so that I may let you know when the rivers run down the mountainside once more.
This month's title is a reference to a television programme, 'At Last The 1948 Show', that only British people of advanced years will remember. I never saw it, but I heard plenty about it, because it was the first appearance on main stream TV of many who later became stalwarts of British comedy...The Pythons, The Goodies etc. It was broadcast in 1967. (A clip below.) I broadcast my first EMFAB show in 2005.
All this month's tunes were released, or re-released, in 2022. That statement is not true, but it is nearly true. A nice distinction.
This month's Eclectic Music For Mind And Bodhi is an indulgent celebration of my sixtieth birthday, which falls at the end of February (George Harrison, Renoir, Rashida Jones).
I did something like this for my 50th, called, imaginatively, 'Fifty', in which I selected what I considered 50 of the best tunes I'd ever heard and merged them, edited down, into a 2 hour show for Dandelion Radio. You can download that old show here Fifty
This time, I haven't tried any fancy editing, but just selected a bunch of songs that I listen to frequently, quite often during drunken sentimental youtube expeditions. These are songs that haunt me. Some are quite well known. A few you won't have heard of. If you do know all of them...well, come over one evening...we'll share a few bottles and eviscerate my CD collection.
A few of these tunes have been favourites for several decades, 1 or 2 for only a couple of years.
