MUSIC/FUN - a review of a recent ElectroZone event

The Electrozone will be doing online musical events every Friday and Saturday night until lockdown ends. These reviews are about the program titled MUSIC/FUN (https://www.facebook.com/events/606473500216982/), which went live on Friday, April 24th, 2020.

Here are my capsule reviews of what went on. I strongly recommend that you check out the shows video archives. Links below.

Deep Creature (twitch.tv/deepcreaturemusic)

Deep Creature is the solo project of New Jersey keyboard player Sam Gutman. This guy has a sound that reminds me of Roger Powell (circa Cosmic Furnace) with a little bit of George Duke and mid-70s Herbie Hancock tossed in for good measure. A very vintage, analogue sound. Three keyboards and a roomful of other electronic goodies. One piece features the voice of the late Carl Sagan, describing our planet in loving detail, another the sampled calls of songbirds.

Samuel Aronoff (http://www.samuelaronoff.bandcamp.com)

Much more minimalist setup than the previous act, only two keyboards and a sequencer. But the sound is no less fat, or vintage. And it's no less engaging. Samuel does a lot with his minimal setup. If you weren't watching, you might think he was playing a room's worth of analogue synths. Faint echoes of Kraftwerk, circa Autobahn.

Grant Bouvier (http://www.grantbouvier.com)

Sounds a bit like we may have another Kitaro here! His instrumental stylings owe more than a little to Asian musical styles, at least until he gets into full-on analogue-flavored noise-music mode before returning to more mellow but no less interesting electronic sound. Rather than show images of himself at the controls, his highly-psychedelicized videos accompanying the music are of trains, urban scenes and machinery. The sampled vocals are equally spacey.

Viola Yip (http://violayip.com/)

I last saw Viola Yip perform at the Greyhaven Motel in Ithaca a few years ago. Her music was unconventional to say the least. It involved electric buzzers which injected buzzing tomes into the mix, and controlled a bank of different-colored light bulbs. This time, she is playing a specially-modified PVC pipe which is rigged as an amplified one-stringed instrument. It produces some dreamy, droney and sometimes mildly disturbing sounds. She plays it by hand, or with a bow, a stick, and/or a motorized wire brush (shades of Remko Scha!).

To see future and past ElectroZone online performances, follow the links below:
Live link: https://www.twitch.tv/the_electrozone
Archive: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyCbFTaMYPshyMQLaQS4s7Q

Donations of US$10.00 can (and should) be made at 
venmo @electrozone.
Or via PayPal - ithacaelectrozone@gmail.com

Playlist for June 24th, 2009

Sorry I'm so late with this week's playlist. I had a previous commitment.

Clash
Asbury Park
1982 (excerpt)

Sonic Youth - Anti Orgasm - The Eternal (Matador)
MX80 - Fender Bender - Out Of Control (Atavistic)
Morphine - Cure For Pain - Cure For Pain (Ryko)
Glenn Branca - Sympony #10 Second Movement - Selections from the Symphonies (Atavistic)
Jimi Hendrix - Drivin' South (Top Gear, November 1967) - BBC Sessions (MCA)

Frank Zappa - I'm The Slime - Overnite Sensation (Ryko)
Brian Eno - Third Uncle - Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy (All Saints)
Up, Bustle and Out - The Hand of Contraband - Untuchable Outcaste Beats (Tommy Boy)
Television - Marquee Moon - Marquee Moon (reissue) (Rhino/Elektra)

Cornershop - Brimful of Asha (Fat Boy Slim Remix)Zero Accidents on the Job (Luaka Bop)
Future Sound Of London - Smokin' Japanese Babe - ISDN (Astralwerks)
Jon Appleton - Newark Airport Rock - Contes De La Memoire (Empreintes Digitales)
Metrodub - Cut Up Music - Unknownwerks (Astralwerks)
System 7 - Exdreamist - Golden Section (Hypnotic)
Marcio Local - Minha Rosa - Don Day...(Luaka Bop)
Dick Hayman - The Look of Love - Genuine Electric Latin Love (Command)

Brian Eno/Jah Wobble- Steam - Spinner (All Saints)
Ear Pwr - Furture Eyes - Super Animal Bros III (Carpark)
Booker T And th MG's - Green Onions - Striptease (sndtrk)(EMI)
The Who - Pure and Easy - Odds & Sods (Track)
The Clash - The Prisoner - Clash on B'Way (Columbia)

DJ Steve Porter - Rap Chop (via Youtube)

Playlist for April 1, 1978

Elvis Costello
El Mocambo Club
Toronto Canada
6-March-1978
(Rykodisc promo)

Alice Cooper - Lay Down & Die, Goodbye - Easy Action (Straight, 1970)
Alice Cooper - Public Animal Number 9 - School's Out (Warner Bros, 1972)
Led Zeppelin - Hots On For Nowhere - Presence (Swan Song, 1976)
Nick Lowe - I Love The Sound of Breaking Glass - Jesus of Cool (Radar,1978)

King Crimson - Easy Money - Larks Tongues In Aspic (EG, 1973)
Blue Cheer - Second Time Around - Vincebus Eruptum (Philips, 1968)

Brian Eno - The Fat Lady of Limbourg - Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy (All Saints, 1974)
Brian Eno - Golden Hours - Another Green World (All Saints, 1975)
Brian Eno - Dead Finks Don't Talk - Here Come The Warm Jets (All Saints,1973)

Fred Blassie - Pencil Neck Geek - King Of Men (Rhino,1977)
Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop - Hardcore Jollies (Priority, 1976)
Funkadelic - Grooveallegiance - One Nation Under A Groove (Priority, 1978)
Blues Image - Outside Was Night - Blues Image (Atco, 1969)

Johnny Almond - Tales Of Junior - Patent Pending (Deram, 1969)
Creation Rebel - Dub From Creation - Dub From Creation (On-U Sound, 1977)
Chris Bell - Got Kinda Lost - I Am The Cosmos (Ryko, 1978)
Blondie - Look Good In Blue - Blondie (Chrysalis, 1977)
Robert Palmer - Sailing Shoes, Hey Julia, Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley - Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley (Island, 1974)

The Damned - Neat Neat Neat - Sessions Of The Damned (Fuel 2000, 1976)
The Damned - New Rose - New Rose (alt) - The Best of the Damned (Imago)
Iggy & The Stooges - Real Cool Time - The Stooges (Elektra, 1969)
Tuff Darts w/Robert Gordon - Slash - Live At CBGB's (Atlantic, 1977)
Buzzcocks - What Do I Get - Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit, 1977)
Chesterfield kings - I Ain't No Miracle Worker - Night of the Living Eyes (Mirror)
Frank Zappa - Let Me Take You To The Beach - Lather (Ryko)
Jeff Simmons - Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up - Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up (Straight, 1969)

The Doctor is now blogging for PREX!

Photo copyright by Princeton Record Exchange.

The Doctor is now writing music reviews and articles for the Princeton Record Exchange's weblog, which can be found here or by clicking the above picture. My first entry for the Prex blog is here.

Oh yes, the Princeton Record Exchange is a very nice place to "dig"!

Bad News and Good News

Photo Creative Commons by fofurasfelinas.
Non-comm, attrib, no derivs.


The bad news is, I'm sick and won't be on the air this week. Don't know what I've got (and apparently my doctor don't know either) but it sure is a bear.

Bummer.

The good news is that I'll soon be blogging on the Princeton Record Exchange's blog. I'll be doing articles and reviews of music, new and old.

More good news: My last two weekly podcasts (see links at end of te two most recent playlists) are still available for your perusal and enjoyment.

I'll be on the air next week, cross my heart and hope I don't die!

Playlist for March 4th, 2009

Tim Buckley
live at the Felt Forum, NYC
1972-23-09
(Opening for Frank Zappa!)

Setlist:

1. Buzzin’ Fly (7.46)
2. Love from Room 109 (4.36)
3. Happy Time (5.53)
4. I just don’t work right
in the morning (16.07)
5. Gypsy Woman (17.18)

Tim Buckley: 12 string guitar
Lee Underwood:Lead guitar
Carter CC Collins: conga drums
Maury Baker: drums
Mark Sporer: Bass

Buzzcocks
Manchester Polytechnic
1980 05 22
Radio Broadcast FM

01. I Don’t Mind
02. Ever Fallen In Love With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve
03. What Do I Get
04. Strange Thing
05. Why she’s A Girl from the Chainstore
06. What Do You Know
07. Autonomy

Sonny Sharrock/Nicky Skopelitis - Sacrifice - Faith Moves (CMP)
Spring Heel Jack - Obscured - Amassed (Thirsty Ear)
Joy Division - She's Lost Control - Unknown Pleasures (Factory)
John Cale - Barracuda - Fear (Island)

Hot Chip - Sexual Healing - Remixes and Rarities (Astralwerks)
Southern Culture on the Skids - She's Bought A Dog - Too Much Pork... (Moist Records)
Funkadelic - I'll Bet You - Funkadelic's Greatest Hits (Westbound)
The Fugs - Turn On Tune In Drop Out - Tenderness Junction (Reprise)
R. Stevie Moore - Cathy Cline - I Killed The Monster (various artists) (Second Shimmy)

Mr. Scruff - Nice Up The Function - Mr. Scruff (Ninja Tune)
Modern Lovers - Dodge Veg-O-Matic - Rock & Roll with the Modern Lovers (Berserkeley)
The Bran Flakes - Marchy March - I Have Hands (Illegal Art)
Tom Verlaine - A Town Called Walker - Flash Light (IRS)
Jefferson Handkerchief - I'm Allergic To Flowers - Pebbles Vol 3 (BFD)

Hot Water Music - Jet Set Ready - No Division (Some Records)
Funkadelic - Free Your Mind & Your Ass Will Follow - Free Your Mind &
Your Ass Will Follow (Westbound)
Parliament - Presence of a Brain - Up For the Down Stroke (Casablanca)
Southern Culture On The Skids - Camel Walk - Dirt Track Date (DGC)*
Funkadelic - Super Stupid - Maggot Brain (Westbound)

Charles Manson - Don't Do Anything Illegal - Charles Manson Sings (ESPdisk.com)

Playlist for February 18, 2009

The Cramps
New York
August 8, 1979
via FM broadcast

Cramps - Lonesome Town - Gravest Hits (IRS)

T-Rex - Buick Mackane (alt version) - The Slider (reissue - Rhino)
Delta 5 - You - Singles & Sessions 1979-81 (Kill Rock Stars)
The Distillers - LA Girl - Give Em The Boot II (Hellcat)
Asobi Seksu - Sing Tomorrow's Praise - Hush (Polyvinyl)

Smashchords - Brand New Rambler - The Smashchords (Smash Trade)
Hanoi Rocks - Better High - What About Finland (AV Kopiset)
The Move - Walk Upon The Water - Move (Repertoire)
Was Not Was - I Feel Better Than James Brown - Are You OK? (Chrysalis)
Boom Boom Satellites - Push Eject - Push Eject (Sony)

Pere Ubu - Street Waves - Datapanik in the Year Zero (Geffen)
Dead Kennedys - Buzz Bomb from Pasadena - Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death (Alt Tentacles)
Atilla The Stockbroker - New World Order Rap - Live In Belfast (Helmet)
Sonic Youth - Computer Age - Daydream Nation (reissue - Geffen)

The Bad Plus - Comfortably Numb - For All I Care (Heads Up)
Vaselines - Sex Sux - Way of the Vaselines (Sub Pop)
The Wedding Present - I Found That Essence Rare - Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit)
Del McCoury - I Feel The Blues Movin In - Best Of Del McCoury (Groove Grass)
Penn Jillette - Great Green Globs - Goobers (Tec Tones)

Cramps (tribute to Lux Interior):

Bikini Girls With Machine Guns - Stay Sick (Enigma)
Surfin' Bird - Gravest Hits (IRS)
What's Inside a Girl? - Rockin and Reelin... (Vengeance)
Eyeball in My Martini - Look Ma, No Head! (Restless)
Sheena's In A Goth Gang - Big Beat from Badsville (Epitaph)
Sinners - Flamejob (Medicine)
She Said - Bad Music For Bad People (IRS)
I Aint Nothing but a Gorehound - Smell of Female (Illegal)
'm Cramped - Songs The Lord Taught Us (IRS)

The Delta 72 - Rich Girls Like to Steal - The R&B Of Membership (T&G)
Horseflies - Human Fly - In The Dance Tent
Bevis Frond - Once More - Inner Marshland (Rubric)

Milton Berle - Yellow Submarine

PODCAST Finally Available HERE!

Playlist for September 17th, 2008

Gone
“The Joint”
WBRS-FM
Brandeis University,
Boston, MA
July 14, 1986
(WBRS-FM)

taper: Harrison Merims

Taper's Notes:

Here (finally!) is the last of Harrison’s recordings from the Boston area. It’s Gone!, featuring Greg Ginn of Black Flag (who had just played their final show 2 weeks prior), with who would comprise the Rollins Band rhythm section later, Andrew Weiss and Sim Cain!

All of the songs are instrumentals and, not having studied their catalog, I will leave the song titles fer you to figure out. What you’ll get here is a smattering of styles from spazz-funk to jazz to driving rock, it’s all here. It’s pretty lengthy too at 65mins. Feel free to add yer own Rollins style lyrics…throw in stuff about being ugly and a machine and lots of YEAH!s…you know the drill;))

Harrison was lucky enough to witness this live, a very intimate show in the summer at the mostly empty campus of Brandeis University. Now you can hear it… I figure this will make a nice back to school gift fer you kiddies out there…

Tribute to Rick Wright (R.I.P):
Pink Floyd - Paris Theater, London
July 16th, 1970

1. Embryo
2. Green Is The Colour
3. Careful With That Axe Eugene
4. Let There Be More Light
5. Murderistic Woman
6. Point Me At The Sky
7. The Narrow Way
8. Julia Dream
9. A Saucerful Of Secrets
10. One of These Days
11. Echoes

Space Mix - Ingredients:

Klaus Schulze - In Cosa Crede Chi Non Crede - Mirage (Revisited)
Ken Nordine - I Sometimes Think - Upper Limbo (Grateful Dead)
Steve Reich - It's Gonna Rain (Part 2)
Pink Floyd - Quicksilver - More (Capitol)
Pink Floyd - Set The Controls for the Heart of the Sun - Saucerful of Secrets (Capitol)
Boards Of Canada - Skyliner - Trans-Canada Highway (Warp)
William Spencer-The Eternal Machines - from the Mindwebs series

Playlist for May 7th, 2008

Herbie Hancock
Omaha, Nebraska 17-NOV-75

Watermelon Man
Hang Up Your Hang Ups
Steppin' In it
Bubbles
Rima

+++++++++++++++++++

Tony Williams Lifetime
New York
November 1969

Tony Williams
John McLaughlin
Larry Young

01 - To Whom it May Concern
02 - Emergency
03 - Unknown Title
04 - A Famous Blues
05 - Something Spiritual


**** taper's notes ****
songs 1 & 2 are from the tape that was broadcast
songs 3,4,5 are off the unedited radio station master reel

A 5 song radio broadcast from late
November 1969.

in the USA " Emergency " was released as 2 separate LP's and it appears
Polydor to stimulate interest in the 2nd LP release gave a tape with
a couple of live tracks to a New York radio station ("Emergency" and
a new song the as yet unrecorded "To Whom it May Concern")
The radio station must have asked for more so they could play a
longer live broadcast and Polydor recorded Lifetime in the studio
and gave them this tape.

Whether all 5 songs are from the same session or 2 sessions or
a mix of live and studio will only be answered when someone writing
a Tony Williams discography has access to the Polydor recording
session files.

The Coalition - Tuna Whiskey - Naked Movies (Midlantic Records)
Bobby Womack & Peace - Harlem Clavinette - Rubare Alla Mafia E Un Suicido (Dagored)
Bobbi Humphrey - Smiling Faces Sometimes - Dig This (Bue Note)

San Francisco Express - Getting to the Moon - Getting It Together (Reynolds Records)
Frank Zappa - Voice of Cheese/9 Types of Industrial Pollution - Uncle Meat (Ryko)
Thurgood Marshall-Sugarchile Robinson - Sticks & Stones - Movement Soul Vol 2 (espdisk dot com)

Nate & Kate - Interview & Songs

TTYL Now
Pissin' Into the Wind
Face In The Checkout Aisle

Nate & Kate are playing at the Cyber Cafe West, Friday, May 9th at 9PM.

Shuggie Otis - Freedom Flight - Inspiration Information (Luaka Bop)
Christine Lavin - Making Friends With My Grey Hair - I Was In Love with a Difficult Man (Redwing Music)
Cleavers- Guns - Any Which Way You Can (demo cassette)

R. Stevie Moore - Cool Daddio - Delicate Tension (reissue) (Flamingo)
R. Stevie Moore - Schoolgirl - Delicate Tension (reissue) (Flamingo)
R. Stevie Moore - Pledge Your Money - Contact Risk (Fruit of the Tune)

I will be on the air next week (May 14th)
at 7AM, as usual. I will not be on the air on
Wednesday, May 21st.
- The Doctor

Playlist for April 30 2008

Procol Harum
April,1969

Troubadour, LA

1-conquistador
2-stoke poges
3-kaleidoscope
4-homburg
5-repent walpurgis

Fillmore West, S.F.

6-shine on brightly
7-goin' down slow ( 1 )
8-juicy john pink
9-cerdes
10-skip softly my moonbeams
11-crucifixion lane
12-wish me well
13-rambling on
14-goin' down slow ( 2 )
15-whiter shade of pale

From record company archive reels

Special All-Vinyl Program!

The Crusaders - In The Middle of the River - Unsung Heroes (Blue Thumb)
Michael Urbaniak - Bengal - Fusion (Columbia)

Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Noonward Race - Mar Y Sol (Atco)

The Electronic Concept Orchestra - Grazing In The Grass - Moog Groove (Limelight)
Flying Lizards - Flesh & Steel - Debut Vinyl Magazine Issue 6

Ramsey Lewis - Dreams - Funky Serenity (Columbia)
Michael Stearns - Sanctuary - Lyra Sound Constellation (Continuum-Montage)

Tyla Gang - Young Lords/Styrofoam - Bezerk Times (Berserkeley)
Bernie Travis, etc. - You Can't Fool the People - The Pentagon Papers (Audio Fidelity)
The Beatles - With A Little Help From My Friends - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts' Club Band (Capitol)

Bruce Haack - Oo Bah Humbug - Ebenezer Electric (Dimension 5 Records)
Masquerade - Pinocchio (Prelude)

Pat Boone - As Tears Go By - 7-inch (Dot)