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.
Eclectic Music For Mind And Bodhi
"Truly superb...2 hours of the best radio I've heard in a long time..." Tom Ravenscroft
Friday, 15 November 2024
Monday, 11 November 2024
Still Hear
I'm Still Hear
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.
The Abyssinians - Reason Time
Bettye Swann - Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye
Main theme to the movie Big Country
Bob Newhart - Introducing Tobacco To Civilisation
Doris Day - Dream A Little Dream Of Me
ECC - No Time For Yes
George Formby - We’ve Been A Long Time Gone
Jimmy Scott - Until It’s Time For You To Go
Laurel & Hardy - Trail Of The Lonesome Pine
Lee Marvin - Wanderin’ Star
Listen With Sarah - Tempus Trumpus
Matt McGann - Little Tricks Of Time
Roger Miller - King Of The Road
The Seekers - The Times They Are A Changin’
Simon Park Orchestra - Eye Level
Slim Dusty - A Pub With No Beer
Soko - We Might Be Dead Tomorrow
The Strawbs - Who Knows Where The Time Goes
Tippa Irie - All The Time The Lyric A Rhyme
Tom Waits - Time
Val Doonican - Paddy McGinty’s Goat
Van Morrison - River Of Time
Kevin Ayers - All This Crazy Gift Of Time
Martin Roth - An Analog Guy In A Digital World
Mixcloud link: Here
Or Direct download here: Coseyhead - Still Hear
Saturday, 8 April 2023
Hiatus
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.
Thursday, 2 March 2023
At Last The 2005 Show
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.
Download the whole thing here: EMFAB March 2023
Or stream on Mixcloud here:
The Tunes
To Rococo Rot - Intro (John Peel Session)
To Rococo Rot - Thomson Colour (John Peel Session)
Feuh - Fucking Asshole
Miss Kiyami & Dario Rodriguez - What The Fuck
Haiku Hands - Manbitch
Hieroglyphic Being - Frantic Moments
John Ondolo - Kenya Twist
Magic Peaks - The Quest for the Magic Strat
1 The Three Powers
2 Mystic Mead
3 Fantastica Nights
4 The Magic Strat
5 Dragon!-
Psychlona - 1975
Uffie - Where Does The Party Go
Pole - Stechmück
Ted Lucas - It's So Easy When You Know What You're Doing
Basia Bulat- The Garden (The Garden Version)
BCee - The Garden
Shit And Shine - Miami
Inni-K - An Tiarna Randal
Danger Liker - Boneshaker
Ventt & Keparys - Velaris
Kate Havnevik & Guy Sigsworth - Come Back
Tatora - IDWY
Mono - Scarlet Holliday
Snowpixels - The Argon Specimen
Parov Stelar (feat. Russian Gentlemen Club) - AKH Odessa
Matt McGinn - Little Ticks Of Time
The Vids
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Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Sixty
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.
Download the whole 2 hour whole shebang here:
Or stream on Mixcloud here:
The Playlist
Toots & The Maytals - Sweet And Dandy
The Weather Station - Way It Is, Way It could Be
Dr. Alimantado - Best Dressed Chicken in Town
Bee Gees - Night Fever
Stevie Ricks - Nice Beaver
Schneider TM & Kptmichigan - The Light 3000
Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up
Cowcube - Grooved For Extra Flava
Culture - Everyday Love Dub
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Scattered Pearls
Joy Division - Atmosphere
Tami Lynn - Love Is Here And Now You're Gone
Anne Murray - Snowbird
Paul Kalkbrenner - Feed Your Head
and the Native Hipsters - Mr Magic
Bobby Darin - Mack The Knife
Jaques Palminger - Tudeldub
Galantis - Peanut Butter Jelly
Wet Leg - Chaise Longue
Roni Size - It's A Jazz Thing
Van Morrison - Fair Play
The Seekers - Georgy Girl
Rumah Sakit - New Underwear Dance
Terry Allen - The Girl Who Danced Oklahoma
Rebekah Del Rio - No Stars
Silicone Soul - Right On Right On
Aretha Franklin - I Say A Little Prayer
Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
I Don't Know
This month's Eclectic Music For Mind And Bodhi doesn't have the answers you're looking for. It contains no secrets of the universe, no wisdom of the ages, no hidden messages of divine or secular importance. It is not esoteric or obscure, nor dark nor oblique. It is transparent and entirely meaningless.
As well as the usual scattershot of new releases, I focus on 2 particular areas of interest: the most enduring word in the English language, and the wide use and origin of the sample 'I don't know what this world is coming to'.
Listen by direct download here: Eclectic Music For Mind And Bodhi December 2022
Or stream at Mixcloud
The album of the month this time is 'The Winter Mission' by Brad Barr. Brad Barr is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter, best known for his work with The Slip, The Barr Brothers and Surprise Me Mr. Davis. 'The Winter Mission', his 2nd solo album after a gap of 14 years, is an record of scintillating beauty. Each track is individual, giving the impression that this collection of tunes has taken many years to compile. Listen to a couple more tracks at Bandcamp here.
This Month's Tunes
Dr. Alimantado - Conscious Man
Batida - Bem Vindo
Brad Barr - 3,4,5……6
Echologist - Reanimation
Amyl And The Sniffers - I Got You
Clap! Clap! / Domenico Candellori - Ox
Charlie Kane - Play Mi Selecta
Zoe Wanamaker - This Be The Verse
EEC - The Fucking Moon
Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar
The Broken Penis Orchestra - Fornication Under The Control Of The King
Shel Silverstein - Fuckem’ (find it at Archive.org here)
Feckin’ Mrs Doyle (on youtube here)
Sizzla - I Don't Give A Fuck
Brad Barr - Your Dad’s Awake
Pearly - Julianne Moore
Josephine Foster - Soothsayer Song
DJ Cam - Tropical Gypsy
Jessie Jackson - Brothers And Sisters
Public Enemy - Rebel Without A Pause (excerpt)
Billy Bunter & D'Zyne - Knowledge Is The Key
Thomas Brinkman - What This World Is
DJ Sprinkles - Sisters, I Don't Know What This World Is Coming To
The Soul Children - I Don't Know What This World Is Coming To (Live At The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum)
And some videos to accompany the show:
Zoe Wanamaker reads Philip Larkin's pithy masterpiece 'This Be The Verse'.
Thursday, 3 November 2022
Next
Next.
Incidentally, Limmy is not Brian Lemon, but Brian Limond. It amused me. A hugely varied show as usual. Download the whole 2 hour thing as an mp3 here:
Stream from RSS:
Or stream on Mixcloud:
The Playlist
Limmy - One Two Buckle My Shoe
The Hippy Boys - This Is It
Jacques Brel - Au Suivant
Scott Walker - Jackie
Henry Brooks - Greatest Debt To My Mother
Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee - Bambougou N’tji
Eek-A-Mouse - Mona Eeka
Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard - Yourself
DJ Kos - 4 The Nite (DJ Rap Remix)
Schlacthofbronx - Slowine
Doctor Stereo - La Cumbia Perdida (Tahiras Afro-Cumbia Remix)
Bloodhound Gang - Fire Water Burn
Barrington Levy - Moonlight Lover
Horace Andy - Natural Mystic (Saxxon Remix)
El Michels Affair feat. Piya Malik - Unathi
Oki (feat. Umeko Ando) - Iso Kaari Irehte (Bear Trap Rhythm)
Oki (feat. Umeko Ando) - Iuta Upopo (Pestle Song)
Morten Milde - I Need Help
Mouth of the Architect - A Vivid Chaos
Harihan - Mangal Murti Gauri Lala.mp3
Tim Iron - Anxiety (extended mix)
Le Tigre - Deceptacon (DFA RMX)
Boney M - Rivers Of Babilon Linus Ekstrand Electro Rmx
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Next
Honourable mention goes to El Michels Affair - Yeti Season, an American instrumental soul group led by New York-based musician Leon Michels.
Read more and listen to the album at their Bandcamp page: elmichelsaffair.bandcamp.com/album/yeti-season
Some videos to watch. Firstly, Jacques Brel singing his famous 'Ne Me Quitte Pas' in a very intimate and possibly somewhat intentionally ridiculous style: