What!? More Ska, a couple of tunes from my current fave TV show...'Barry', 'Surf's Up' twice, Haitian folk, some old and some new disco, and many more hits of today...yes, it's Eclectic Music For Mind And Bodhi May 2022!
Hopefully, I've fixed my long standing microphone problem...let me know.
About listening again/back...on Mixcloud, you can't 'rewind' unless you buy premium membership. The obvious solution is to download the whole MP3 using the link below.
Ska bejewels this month's Eclectic Music For Mind And Bodhi. Old Ska. Sixties Ska...mostly. There's some sweet techno from Ackermann and Echologist, another remixed disco classic, some growling metal and the usual smattering of the indefinable.
February got away with me. Suddenly it was March. I did compile a playlist for this month's show, but I couldn't seem to summon up the juice. Then we were in the car and listening to this old mix I did in 2015 for a dear friend's 65th birthday. I've never published it or even shared it with anyone else. I consider it a private, intimate gift. But here it is, with my friends permission, because it's time to let it loose. It's about an hour long, and exceedingly tender. I hope it grooves you.
As usual, you can download the whole thing as an mp3 here: Found Cake
Or you can stream it at Mixcloud here:
Roy Rogers - Don't Fence Me In
Premiata Forneria Marconi - Peninsula
John Martyn - Fairy Tale Lullaby
Kevin Ayers - Whatevershebringswesing
Neil Diamond - I Am...I Said
Davey Graham - Both Sides Now
Karen Dalton - Something On Your Mind
Richard Harris - McArthur Park
Ironbridge - Ironbridge
Family - Larf And Sing
Rod Stewart - Mandolin Wind
Martin Simpson - Kit's Tune, When A Knight Won His Spurs
Hello hello. A hoy hoy. Feb's show is sweet. Sweet. As well structured as a well structured thing. And that's pretty well structured I can tell you. The usual moments of beauty and unusualness abound.
You can download the whole 2 hour MP3 here: EMFABFEB2022
Or stream at Mixcloud below:
Ivor Cutler - I'm Happy
The New Improved Jook Savages - It's So Fucked
Canned Heat (Blind Owl Wilson) - Poor Moon
Fela Kuti - Zombie
Gheist - We Are Not Alone
Freddy Todd - Sanatine
Bonga Jean Baptiste - Papa Gede
Elvis Costello - A Good Year For The Roses
Bettye Swann - Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye
Allen LeRoy Hug - Too Soon
Imogen Rose - Talkin' Like You (Two Tall Mountains)
Galantis - Peanut Butter Jelly
The Magnetic Fields - The Book of Love
Beenie Man - Steve Biko
Papir - 7.1 (part I-III)
Tape Toy - Honey, WTF
Tom Verlaine - Let Go The Mansion
Freddy Todd - Reclaim The Means
George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
Yuragi - I Want You by My Side
Almighty/Diana Ross - Ain't No Mountain High Enough (12” Essential Mix)
This month's album of the month is 'Nineteen Ninety' by Freddy Todd. You can listen and buy at Bandcamp here: https://freddytodd.bandcamp.com
Freddy Todd is from Detroit, though he is currently based in North Carolina. Todd describes his sound as "Psychedelic Bassy Dancey Soulful Funky Glitchy Electronic Music."
Here's the excellent video for Galantis - Peanut Butter Jelly:
And here's some people dancing, looking like they were born to it:
Shirley Scott & The Soul Saxes - I Wish I knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
Response - I Don’t Want To Be Here
Agoria - What If Earth Would Turn Faster
Audiobooks - The English Manipulator
Donnacha Costello - Slowly Sinking In (2021 Remaster)
Townes Van Zandt - Loretta
Batty Ranks - Downtown Clown
Uriah Heep - All My Life
Abbacadabra - Dancing Queen (Back To Your Roots PWL Mix)
Van Der Graaf Generator - Refugees
Bill Callahan - Baby's Breath
Audiobooks - The Doll
Nicky Elisabeth - Celeste (Roman Flügel Remix)
Genius - Inspector Jones
Puuluup - Paala Järve Vaala Baar
Meitei - Happyaku-yacho
Prince Fari - Calling Over The Distant Sea
Rebekah Del Rio - No Stars
Mirko And Meex - Party Time
Sandy Denny - By The Time It Gets Dark
I'm suggesting an album of the month this time, and it's Audibooks - Astro Tough on Heavenly Recordings. Audiobooks are the duo of Evangeline Ling and David Wrench. This is their second release. They have a sparse website, but there's information at their label page: https://heavenlyrecordings.com/artist/audiobooks/.
You can listen and buy at Bandcamp: https://audiobookshq.bandcamp.com/album/astro-tough-2
As usual, a clutch of vids for your amusement:
Erasure performing Respect in 2018...Andy Bell...heroic self confidence...
Here's a very different rendering of the same song.
A few days late...never mind. Sometimes it's hard to find the few days necessary to make this happen. My life's quite busy. I'm not sure I like it. I've avoided being busy, generally, all my life. It makes the time speed by, having things...plans...to fill it. But right now I'm even having to keep a written schedule to know what I'm doing from day to day. I've always been an in-the-moment sort of person, longing for the old times...the old village life we once all lived, where we knew everyone and had little to do but forage for food. Lying in the sun...swimming...socialising...getting drunk...xxxxing...no .gov, no religion, no job, no time table...no time...May we all get back there was soon as possible. Fxxk progress. Fxxk the internet.
So here's me tunes for the month. The usual mixed bag, including Country, Disco, death by syphilis, Peter Hammill and respecting my authority.
