Friday, November 25, 2011

Exquisite Thanksgiving Corpse - 11.24.2011

More songs about chicken and bananas than you can shake a nut pumpkin at. Many thanks to AV for all the soda poppin' around. All miam miam all the time!


1:58 PM Lorrie Collins Soda Poppin' Around Rockabilly Stars Vol 3
1:46 PM Gaynor and Dorothy Maddox (backed by Jimmy Smith) Steak Dinner (backed by Messy Bessie) 365 Days Projects (Plus, back at the Chicken Shack)
1:42 PM Lucie Therrien Le grain de mil Mademoiselle, voulez-vous danser?
1:42 PM Serge Gainsbourg Mambo miam miam Couleur café
1:28 PM The Mothers of Invention Call Any Vegetable Absolutely Free
1:25 PM XTC Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen Rag & Bone Buffet
1:23 PM Talking Heads Sugar On My Tongue CBS Demos, 1975
1:21 PM The Undertones More Songs About Chocolate and Girls Hypnotised
1:19 PM DQE Go Bananas The Queen of Mean
1:16 PM Liz Phair w/ Material Issue (*req) The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana) Saturday Morning Cartoons
1:13 PM Andre Williams (*req) The Greasy Chicken Mr. Rhythm
1:09 PM The Dragons Food For My Soul BFI
1:05 PM Dinosaur L #1 (You're Gonna Be Clean On Your Bean)
12:55 PM Joy Allan-Wilsher Nut Pumpkin 365 Days Project
12:53 PM Jimmy Murphy Put Some Meat on Them Bones Rockabilly Stars Vol 3
12:47 PM Hoosier Hot Shots I Like Bananas, Because They Have No Bones Flashbacks #2: Novelty Songs Crazy and Obscure
12:47 PM Roaring Lion Bananas Sacred 78s
12:43 PM John Fahey Give Me Cornbread When I'm Hungry Best of John Fahey 1959-77
12:41 PM Lee Perry Roast Fish and Cornbread Reggae Greats
12:35 PM Steppin in It (*req) Fishin' Blues Children Take Your Shoes Off
12:31 PM Strawberry Alarm Clock Incense and Peppermints Nuggets
12:30 PM Beach Boys Vega-Tables The Smile Sessions
12:30 PM The Ink Spots Whoa Babe! (oops, wrong cd...) Flashbacks #4: Heartbreakers Blue and Lonely
12:23 PM The Lovett Sisters Bacon and Eggs The Gals of the Big "D" Jamboree
12:20 PM Altyrone Deno Brown Sweet Pea Home Schooled: The ABCs of Kid Soul
12:18 PM Little Joe & The Thrillers Peanuts Doo Wop Vol.II
12:15 PM Fats Waller You're Not the Only Oyster in the Stew Complete Fats Waller Vol.1 1934-1935
12:10 PM Louis Armstrong All That Meat and No Potatoes Satch Plays Fats
12:06 PM Dr. Alimantado Best Dressed Chicken In Town Best Dressed Chicken in Town
12:04 PM Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens Greatest Hits


Hour one
Hour two

Monday, November 21, 2011

Exquisite Corpse - 12.08.2010

From last year. WCBN shows a free music related movie once a month. On December 7th 2010, the movie night was R Kelly's Trapped in the Closet. Then this happened (45 minutes into the first hour). Sadly, the archives for the second hour of the show didn't seem to work, but at least the reggae Christmas tunes courtesy Byron Lee & the Dragonaires survived...

2:55 PM Grant Green Put On Your High Heel Sneakers Iron City
2:43 PM Eero Kivistoinen & Co 3rd Version 3rd Version
2:38 PM Gregory Isaacs Get Ready Mr Isaacs
2:36 PM Byron Lee & The Dragonaires Winter Wonderland Reggae Christmas Party Time in the Tropics
2:28 PM Soldedad Miranda La Verdad Absolute Belter
2:23 PM Tavus Havasi Baba Zula Crossing The Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
2:21 PM Ros Sereysothea Shave Your Beard Dengue Fever Presents: Electric Cambodia
2:17 PM Titus Andronicus My Time Outside The Womb The Airing of Grievances
2:16 PM Trio Sourire Satisfaction Girl Group Power
2:11 PM Terry Callier Gotta Get Closer To You I Just Can't Help Myself
2:07 PM Lou Rawls Old Man's Memories / It Was a Good Year Soulin'
2:01 PM Deerhoof vs. Kasai Allstars Travel Broadens the Mind Tradi-Mods vs. Rockers
1:57 PM Chico Mann Anima Analog Drift
1:52 PM Anita Ward Ring My Bell Songs of Love
1:44 PM Jauk and Barong dance contest at STSI Denpasar Trance Gamelan in Bali (recorded by John Noise Manis)
1:37 PM James Blackshaw Part 3 All is Falling
1:25 PM Antony & The Johnsons (w/ Bjork!) Flétta Swanlights
1:18 PM Gérard Manset Vivent les hommes La mort d'orion
1:16 PM Claude Lombard Polychrome 1969
1:14 PM Roberto Conrado & Piero Montanri Save Up Flipper Psychout: Original Italian Library Music From the Vaults of Flipper
1:10 PM The Cake Medieval Love The Cake
1:05 PM Bruce Haack Man Kind Farad
12:59 PM Colin Newman Better Later Than Never It Seems
12:49 PM New Order Perfect Kiss BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert
12:47 PM The Psychic Alliance Tri-Scare-A-Tops Now With More Music: Live Sessions From CJSW 90.9 FM Calgary!
12:43 PM Split Enz (*req) Six Months in a Leaky Boat Time and Tide
12:34 PM Barney Wilen Respect Dear Prof. Leary
12:28 PM Aurra Make Up Your Mind A Little Love
12:22 PM Skyy Let's Turn It Out Skyy
12:14 PM Pieces of Peace Pollution (instr) Pieces of Peace
12:02 PM Tony Allen Hustler Jealousy

Hour one
Hour three

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Emergency Exquisite Corpse Hour - 11.17.2011

A whole four hours on Thursday, covering for David S and the Emergency Broadcast Hour. Start vertical with George Russell, climb the tower of meaning with Arthur Russell, and stretch across continents in your beefy shoes with la Bolduc and Mingus.


3:31 PM Charles Mingus Cumbia and Jazz Fusion Cumbia and Jazz Fusion
3:25 PM Alpay Ben Armudu Dislerim Anatolia Rocks 2
3:22 PM The Incredibles There's Nothing Else to Say The Twisted Wheel: The Northern Soul Story Vol. 1
3:19 PM Cinc At the North of Canada osecev sjaj (shine of wot?)
3:16 PM Les Rockets The Blob Compilation Vente de Garage vol. 2
3:13 PM La Bolduc Danse en souliers de boeuf (!!) La Bolduc Chante la Bolduc
3:10 PM Henri Tachan Bosco Henri Tachan
3:05 PM Jacques Brel Fernand Au Suivant
2:59 PM Markos Vamvakaris I Plimira Bouzouki Pioneer: 1932-1940
2:53 PM Arthur Russell Track 5 Tower of Meaning
2:47 PM Charanjit Singh Raga Malkauns Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat
2:41 PM Gino Soccio Remember Face to Face
2:37 PM Julie Doiron Le piano Désormais
2:25 PM Birdsongs of the Mesozoic The Common Sparrow Dawn of the Cycads
2:16 PM Sun Araw Crete Ancient Romans
2:14 PM Wild Flag Romance Wild Flag
2:06 PM Bio Ritmo Dina's Mambo La Verdad
1:57 PM One Blood Be Thankful For What You've Got Hustle! Reggae Disco
1:53 PM Class Actress Limousine Rapprocher
1:47 PM Moondog Witch of Endor Moondog (1969)
1:44 PM Matthew Young No Reason Recurring Dreams
1:39 PM Carl Weingarten & Walter Whitney Pipe Winds Dreaming in Colors
1:26 PM Monomono Get Yourself Together The Dawn of Awareness
1:22 PM S.P. Balasubrahmanyam & Chorus Sorgam Madhuvile Ilaiyaraaja - Solla Solla and the Electronic Pop Sound of Kollywood: 1977-1983
1:20 PM Kookie Cook Revenge Winter is Blue c90 mixtape
1:17 PM Bush Tetras Stare You Down Tetrafied: Rare and Unreleased Recordings
1:13 PM Vogel Flaschenzug Recommended Records Sampler
1:09 PM This Heat Cenotaph Deceit
1:02 PM Roman Stolyar / Lenny Sendersky Dedon-bedon Extreme Points
12:55 PM Miya Masaoka Trio Japanese Folk Song Monk's Japanese Folk Song 
12:52 PM Pierre Bastien Air de style exquis Eggs Air Sister Steel
12:37 PM Akira Sakata & Jim O'Rourke with Chikamorachi Nagoya 3 s-t
12:31 PM Codo Saudade da Minha Terra Coisas da Minha Terra
12:28 PM Jorge Ben Capoeira Sacundin Ben Samba
12:17 PM Terry Riley & John Cale Ides of March Church of Anthrax
12:03 PM George Russell Event II Vertical Form VI: A Composition for Jazz Orchestra

Hour one
Hour two
Hour three
Hour four

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Exquisite Corpse - 11.10.2011

Today's show. Ambient sounds! Basses! Dodgy picks! Live radio!


1:56 PM Dirty Projectors + Björk Sharing Orb Mount Wittenberg Orca
1:53 PM D. Nzomo Twika Wakwa Kenya Folk Songs
1:46 PM Yusef Lateef Mu Omi (Drink Water) In Nigeria
1:42 PM Tito Puente TP Treat El Rey Tito Puente
1:39 PM Brother Jack McDuff Theme From Electric Surfboard Down Home Style
1:36 PM Jimmy McGriff Spear for Moondog, Part 1 Electric Funk
1:24 PM Jean-Claude Vannier Bombarde lamentation / L'ours paresseux Electro Rapide
1:19 PM Salma Agha Come Closer Kasam Paida Karnewale Ki (OST by Bappi Lahiri)
1:15 PM Paul McCartney Summer Day's Song McCartney II
1:12 PM Brian Eno (*req) Kurt's Rejoinder Before and After Science
1:08 PM Skyy Miracle Skyyjammer
1:03 PM Godmoma Godmoma Here s-t
12:58 PM Alvarius B Mussolini's Exit Baroque Primitiva
12:55 PM Duchess Says Mayakovsky In a Fung DAY T!
12:51 PM Damned Dogs Dogma Damned Dogs Tape
12:51 PM High Places Universe s-t
12:44 PM Dos Silence Numero Dos EP
12:35 PM Joëlle Léandre Ouverture Contrebassiste
12:29 PM Marc Ducret La mazurka Un certain malaise
12:23 PM Tom Cameron Balsa Music To Wash Dishes By
12:17 PM Corey Fuller November Skies Tokyo Seas Between
12:14 PM Pierre Henry Penetration Mise en musique du corticalart de Roger Lafosse
12:09 PM Zawinul The Great Empire Dialects
12:01 PM Gary McFarland 80 Miles an Hour Through Beer-Can Country Requiem for Gary McFarland

Hour one


Hour two

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Québec Rock Special - 08.12.2010

This was a show I did last summer after getting back from Montréal with some psychedelic sounds from la belle province in the late 1960s. Some of the records out on Gamma in 68 and 69, like Louise Forestier's second self-titled album and Robert Charlebois' Lindberg struck me as something not far off from a Québecois equivalent to Tropicalia, in its effort to mix psych rock with local musical idioms. It'd never occurred to me that there'd be much of a scene for this stuff, but it's not surprising that there would be. A bit of online digging around led me to great resources like Vente de garage and Patrimoine PQ, which gave me access to a lot of the music I used for the show.


But I'm motivated to post this now after coming across this fascinating article by Will Straw in the course of other research. I especially appreciate his section on "musical recordings as cultural waste." What happens when pop culture refuse starts to haunt thrift store and record store bins in the future, especially in places like Québec that produce cultural artifacts in such great quantities? Formats matter here, Straw explains:

In Montreal there were, until recently, several large retail stores, of a scale I have seen nowhere else, offering old vinyl records for sale. Over the past five years, many of these have closed, their stocks ending up in the few stores which remain; more generally, one can see the consolidation of used record stocks as they move from radio station libraries and small independent stores towards a very few retail outlets. There the records tend to remain, static, their very bulk conveying their undesirability in almost monumental terms. The compact disc, on the other hand, is one of the most efficiently mobile of commodity forms, moving through primary and secondary markets in ways which link it to a whole set of legal and illicit economic activities. Newspapers, over the last half decade, have written extensively about the heroin trade in Vancouver, a city which is now considered to be the heroin addiction capital of North America. Part of the economy of addiction, it is suggested, are the proliferating second-hand stores and pawnshops in Vancouver, commercial institutions through which funds for drug purchases might be quickly raised. Compact discs are considered one of the key commodities within this commerce insofar as they are easily stolen, easily converted into cash, and easily resold. The compact disc circulates quickly and relatively easily from retail stores to apartments, and from there to pawnshops or second-hand stores and back into individual collections.

I could probably go to Montréal tomorrow and come with stacks of unwanted records that are a lot cheesier than the local Motown knockoffs that open this show, but the fact that I'd have a harder time finding similar shitty Canadian albums in Toronto, Calgary, or Vancouver probably says something, doesn't it? This article is from ten years ago, though, and I wonder if the landscape has changed with more digital downloading. Are 90s Québecois alternarock CDs starting piling up in pawn shops, thrift stores, and record stores the same way that earlier easy listening and disco LPs fill the bins? How long is that stuff gonna take to be cool again? Anyway, it's an article worth skimming as you listen to the sounds of sixties Québec. Enjoy!

4:28 PM Les Coquettes Jimmy Mack Girl Group Power
4:26 PM Réal Barrette Y faut jamais faire brailler sa blonde 45 tours... Simple 1969
4:20 PM Pierre Létourneau Chanson d'Amérique s-t London 1967
4:18 PM La Famille Casgrain Peel Ste-Catherine Jeudi Soir 9 Heures Simples Barclay
4:12 PM La Nouvelle Frontière Pacification s-t Gamma 1970
4:10 PM Louise Forestier J't'aime en masse s-t Gamma 1969
4:04 PM Tony Roman Au Canada 45 tours...
3:59 PM Cyril Cendrillon Le Québec se cherche un chef 45 tours... DSP
3:56 PM Robert Charlebois Egg Generation Lindberg Gamma 1968
3:53 PM Claude Gauthier Concerto déconcertant pour flûte homme et enfant Cerfs-Volants Gamma 1969
3:46 PM The Medium Give Me A Peace The Medium Gamma 1969
3:41 PM Les Classels L'herbe de la paix
3:36 PM Melchior Alias Chu mnu en métro automatique Melchior Alias... Capitol 1968
3:33 PM Les Anteks Cheveux Blonds et Pantalons People of Tyme: Canadian Garage Beat '66
3:30 PM Les Sultans Tu es impossible Les Sultans
3:27 PM Norman Fréchette et les Hou Lops J'étudie mon grec 45 tours... Riviera 1967
3:25 PM Les Différents Soyons différents 45 tours... Disques Monde 1967
3:20 PM The Dandy's Amour et mariage Girl Group Power...
3:18 PM César et Ses Romains Money Les Super Succès Rhythm & Blues DSP 1968
3:15 PM Les Beatlettes C'est grâce à toi Girl Group Power - Quebec Girl Groups
3:13 PM Denis S. Pantis Les mauvais garçons 45 tours... Jeunesse Franco
3:12 PM Les Napoléons Fou de toi Gogo 1966
3:09 PM Gilles Brown Le karaté 45 tours... Télédisc 1966
3:07 PM Marcel Martel Sous le soleil du Mexique s-t
3:06 PM The Four Pladds Gros Poulet/Scratch Compilation vente de garage vol. 3- Rock, Cowboy, Rock

Hour one (show starts around 3 and a half minutes in)


Hour two

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Exquisite Corpse - 11.03.2011

    This afternoon's show. I'm always playing Brigitte Fontaine, but this jam's really off the hook. Check the moog on Ananda Shankar's "Light My Fire." If my science were tighter, I would've mixed it with The Mops doing to the same tune, but I couldn't get the beats to match. 
  1. Ahmad Jamal - Manhattan Reflections :: Tranquility
  2. Charles Earland - Morgan :: Kharma
  3. T.K. Ramamoorthy - Udaqya Ravu Chandrika :: Fabulous Notes & Beats of the Indian Carnatic Jazz
  4. Kamal Ahmed ft. Nahid Akhtar - Don't Drink :: Life is Dance
  5. Ursula - I Am Falling In Love :: Deewar (OST by RD Burman)
  6. Ananda Shankar - Light My Fire :: Ananda Shankar (1970)
  7. Brigitte Fontaine - Le goudron :: 7"
  8. The Mops - Blind Bird :: Psychedelic Sounds in Japan
  9. Chai Mueangsing - Hua Di Mai Mi Ngoen :: Sing Thao Khao Wongkan
  10. Norma Jean - I'm A Walking Advertisement (For the Blues) :: Heaven Help the Working Girl
  11. Labelle - Ain't It Sad It's All Over :: Moon Shadow
  12. Defunkt - In the Good Times :: Defunkt
  13. Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Mister Softee :: 12" single
  14. E.U. - Ooh La La La :: Go Go Crankin'
  15. Afrique - Hot Mud :: 7" b/w Soul Makossa
  16. Googoosh - Nimeyeh Gomshodeyeh Man :: Googoosh
  17. Ephrem Tamiru - Ney Ney :: Unknown Awesome Tape From Africa (Ethiopia)
  18. Lee Perry - Chicken Scratch :: Chicken Scratch
  19. Amadou Ballaké et l'Orchestre Super Volta - Oye Ka Bara Kignan :: Bambara Mystic: The Raw Sound of Burkina Faso 1974-1979
  20. The Clean - Thumbs Off :: Anthology
  21. Twin Sister - Gene Ciampi :: In Heaven
  22. Linda Rich - Sunlight Shadow :: Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies from the Canyon
  23. Fred and Gertrude Gossett - All the Good Times are Past and Gone :: Flowers in the Wildwood: Women in Early Country Music 1923-1939
  24. Paul Robeson - Speech :: At Peace Arch Park, 1953


And the last bit of Mr. Robeson's speech. Three cheers!

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Exquisite Corpse - 10.20.2011

    Here's a show from two weeks ago, right after getting back from Madison. Or was it Bangkok? 
      Luckily, someone named DJ Matto sold his 30 year old disco collection to Strictly Discs, hence Candi Staton, Don Armando's Second Ave Rhumba Band, and Poussez. More to come. I'll be posting some of the archives from further back when I get the time, but here's to finally starting this thing!
      1. Pharaoh Sanders - Kazuko (Peace Child)
      2. Ned Rothenberg - Do Omoi (to Katsuya Yokoyama)
      3. Vinny Golia - Hand As Tongue
      4. Björk - Hollow
      5. Jean-Claude Vannier - Les coquelicots
      6. São Paulo Underground - Six Six Eight
      7. Candi Staton - Me and My Music
      8. Slave - Watching You
      9. Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band - Deputy of Love
      10. The Clash - Outside Broadcast
      11. Malcolm McLaren and the World Famous Supreme Team - Buffalo Gals (scratch version)
      12. Femminielli - Chauffeur
      13. Bappi Lahiri - Disco Title Music from Dahshat
      14. Prince Rama - Portaling
      15. The Au Pairs - Stepping Out of Line
      16. The Stylistics - People Make the World Go Round
      17. Freda Payne - I Shall Not Be Moved
      18. Marvin Gaye - That's the Way Love Is
      19. Mae Young - The Man Puts Sugar In My Soul
      20. Cubic Zirconia - Take Me High
      21. Poussez! - You're All I Have