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Here are the tracks we played:

For those of you on Spotify the playlist is here: All Ears 009 Playlist.

Modern Classical – Tom Beesley and Marion Payne

Another visit to the loose genre of the modern classical, a number of the tracks have been included at the suggestion of Marion Payne. We’re always happy to look at building a selection around your ideas and proposals.

20:00 Discovery At Night – Ludovico Einaudi
20:04 Le Brasier De Tristesse – Sylvain Chauveau
20:07 Spiegel im spiegel – Arvo Part, Angele Dubeau, La Pieta
20:15 Baer – Hildur Guonadottir
20:18 Nunc dimittis – Arvo Part, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier
20:23 An Ending, a Beginning – Dustin O’Halloran
20:25 Image-Autumn-Womb – Goldmund
20:28 Underwood – Ludovico Einaudi, Daniel Hope

Tru Thoughts – Simon East

Tru Thoughts is a Brighton based record label formed in 1999 by Robert Luis and Paul Jones. The musical styles of most of the artists on label fuse Soul, Funk, Jazz and R&B – sometimes with classic 60’s production values, sometimes with a more modern feel.

20:31 Terrapin – Bonobo
20:34 Snakes in the Grass – Quantic
20:39 Hurry On Now – Alice Russell
20:43 Sandy – Jumbonics
20:47 Its On – Kylie Auldist
20:51 Actory – Hint
20:55 Its Real – Lack of Afro Remix – Hot 8 Brass Band

Fat Possum Records – Gareth Heaton

Until 1991 most of the artists that would record material for the newly formed Fat Possum record label were spending their days working the fields in the hill towns around the Oxford area of Mississippi. Their nights however were spent playing their own particular brand of the Blues, on porches, at parties and in juke joints across the region. Fat Possum then came along and captured their “Hill Country Blues” sound.

21:01 I Love You – Solo – Asie Payton
21:04 Old Black Mattie – R.L. Burnside
21:08 To the Left to the Right – T-Model Ford
21:11 Meet Me in the City – Junior Kimbrough
21:14 Mistreatin Me – Cedell Davis
21:16 Skinny Legs & All – Asie Payton
21:20 I’ll Do Anything You Say – Charles Caldwell
21:22 Sway – Heartless Bastards
21:27 Let My Baby Ride – R.L. Burnside

1979 – Tom Beesley

A highly personal selection of some of the most important releases from 1979, a pivotal year in the development of post-punk musical genres and the year I started at art school. I had just turned eighteen and was able to vote in my first general election, and we all know what happened next…

21:30 Germ Free Adolescents – X-Ray Spex
21:33 Three Minute Hero – The Selecter
21:36 At Home He’s a Tourist – Gang Of Four
21:39 The Eton Rifles – The Jam
21:43 Too Much Too Young – BBC in Concert: Live at Paris Theatre, 15 December 1979 – The Specials
21:45 Making Plans For Nigel – XTC
21:50 The Guns of Brixton – The Clash
21:53 Typical Girls – The Slits
21:56 Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick – Ian Dury and The Blockheads

Jonathan Richman – Gareth Heaton

Jonathan Richman originally came to public attention in the early 1970s as the leader of Boston 4 piece, The Modern Lovers, before becoming a solo artist in 1979. With his child-like, wide eyed outlook on life and ability to beautiful capture the essence of multiple genres, Jonathan has amassed an army fans whilst shying away from the main stream.

22:00 Instrumental – Live – Jonathan Richman
22:01 When We Refuse To Suffer – Second Version – Jonathan Richman
22:05 New England – Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
22:08 Government Center – The Modern Lovers
22:10 I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar – Jonathan Richman
22:14 No One Was Like Vermeer – Jonathan Richman
22:16 Es Como El Pan – Jonathan Richman
22:20 The New Teller – Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
22:22 Cosi Veloce – Jonathan Richman
22:24 Ice Cream Man – Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers

Dabke – Simon East

Dabke is an Arab folk dance, often performed at weddings, native to the Middle Eastern region around Syria. Recently Dabke has gained more exposure in the west with Omar Souleyman who has worked with Bjork and Four Tet. Also included is a related Egyptian Electro Chaabi track from Islam Chipsey’s band Eek.

22:30 Crystalline – Omar Souleyman Remix – Bjork
22:34 Khetyar Al Akkaze – Fares Karam
22:38 Love Is Not A Joke – Ahmad Al Kosem
22:42 Wenu Wenu – Omar Souleyman
22:48 El Bawaba – Eek
22:53 Shlown (How) – Sarya El Swas
22:57 Ya Baie – Najwa Karam

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These are the tracks we played:

For those of you on Spotify most of these tracks are in this playlist : All Ears 008 Playlist.

Erased Tapes – Simon East

The Erased Tapes label was founded in London by German-born Robert Raths in 2007. We have featured two of its artists, Nils Frahm and Dawn of Midi, in previous All Ears sets, so we have concentrated on some of the other artists on the label here.

20:01 Ljosio – Olafur Arnalds
20:04 Boundaries – Kyte
20:07 Distant Street Lights (iambic Remix) – Codes In The Clouds
20:13 A Snowflake – Peter Broderick
20:15 Odyssey – Rival Consoles
20:20 Atomos VI – A Winged Victory for the Sullen
20:23 Burnt – Kiasmos
20:25 Moonlight – Masayoshi Fujita

Joan Baez – Georgina Richmond

Baez’s distinctive vocal style and political activism had a significant impact on popular music in the early 60’s. She was one of the first musicians to use her popularity as a vehicle for social protest, singing and marching for human rights and peace. Hear a collection of her early traditional folk ballads and laments sung solely to her own guitar accompaniment.

20:30 Old Blue – Joan Baez
20:33 Sail Away Ladies – Joan Baez
20:35 Colours – Joan Baez
20:38 Carless Love – Joan Baez
20:40 Wildwood Flower – Joan Baez
20:43 The Lily of the West – Joan Baez
20:46 It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue – Joan Baez
20:50 Lonesome Road – Joan Baez
20:52 Pal of Mine – Joan Baez
20:55 Rake And Rambling Boy – Joan Baez
20:57 There But For Fortune – Joan Baez

Afrobeat – Tom Beesley

Afrobeat draws on West African musical genre’s including Highlife and US soul music by the likes of James Brown. Widely attributed to band-leader Fela Kuti and drummer Tony Allen the music developed in Lagos, Nigeria in the 1970s and was centred around Fela’s nightclub called the Afrika Shrine.

21:00 Water No Get Enemy – Fela Kuti
21:07 Kalabuley Woman – Pierre Antoine
21:11 Ise Nla – Tony Allen
21:17 Roforofo Fight – Fela Kuti
21:22 Gentleman – Fela Kuti

Tom Waits – Simon East

Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona with his trademark growl. Waits’ lyrics frequently present atmospheric portraits of grotesque, often seedy characters and places. He has incorporated blues, jazz, and vaudeville into his songs. Lately he has moved in more experimental directions.

21:29 Ol’ 55 – Tom Waits
21:33 Opening Intro – Tom Waits
21:36 Emotional Weather Report – Tom Waits
21:40 Jersey Girl – Tom Waits
21:45 16 Shells From A 30.6 – Tom Waits
21:49 Clap Hands – Tom Waits
21:52 Temptation – Tom Waits
21:56 Alice – Tom Waits

Riot Grrrl – Georgina Richmond

Underground punk movement, Riot Grrrl, originated in the early 90’s. As part of the third wave feminist movement it often addressed issues such as rape, domestic abuse, patriarchy, sexuality and female empowerment. It showed girls as a “revolutionary soul force” with the power to change the status quo.

22:00 Girl Germs – Bratmobile
22:02 Double Dare Ya – Bikini Kill
22:04 Cherry Bomb – The Runaways
22:07 Rebel Girl – Bikini Kill
22:09 Brat Girl – Bratmobile
22:11 New Radio – Bikini Kill
22:12 Sweet ’69 – Babes In Toyland
22:16 She’s A Carnival – Siouxsie and the Banshees
22:20 Reject All American – Bikini Kill
22:22 I Heard It Through The Grapevine – The Slits
22:25 Carnival – Bikini Kill
22:27 Queens Of Noise – The Runaways

Rhythm & Sound – Tom Beesley

The project was established by Mark Ernestus and Moritz Von Oswald at the back of the Hardwax record shop in Berlin in 1997 and was part of the Basic Channel group of labels. They became well known for blending deep Techno, sweeping synths, glitch and hiss.

22:30 Mango Drive – Rhythm & Sound
22:35 Never Tell You (with Paul St. Hilaire) – Rhythm & Sound
22:40 Masikulu Dub – Mark Ernestus, Konono No.1
22:46 Queen in My Empire (with Jennifer Lara) – Rhythm & Sound
22:52 Aground – Rhythm & Sound
22:58 Pattern 4 – Moritz Von Oswald Trio

These are the tracks we played:

For those of you on Spotify most of these tracks are in this playlist : All Ears 007 Playlist.

Pauline Oliveros – Tom Beesley

Born in the U.S. in 1932, Oliveros is a key figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music. Most famous for initiating the concept of ‘deep listening’ – an idea perfectly at home at All Ears.

20:00 Fragments – Pauline Oliveros
20:07 Thirteen Changes: No. 5, A Sip of Midnight Well Water – Pauline Oliveros, Silvia Tarozzi
20:10 Suiren – Pauline Oliveros
20:18 Deep Hockets – Stuart Dempster, Pauline Oliveros, David Gamper, Deep Listening Band
20:22 Sound Patterns – Pauline Oliveros, Vocal Constructivists, Jane Alden
20:25 Crossing the Sands – Pauline Oliveros

Freezing Hot – Robert Gibson

The Freezing Hot half hour concentrates on (mainly) jazz from northern climes. A combination of Scandinavian cool, Swiss precision and British-based intrigue.

20:30 Elevation of Love – Esbjorn Svensson Trio
20:36 Love Is Real – Viktoria Tolstoy
20:41 Modul 48 – Nik Bartsch’s Ronin
20:48 Maybe It’s You – Sonic Stories
20:53 Blessed Feet – Tord Gustavsen Trio
20:57 If Ships Were Made To Sail – Scott Walker

David Sylvian – Simon East

David Sylvian came to prominence in the late 70s as the lead vocalist and songwriter in the group Japan. For a while their record company promoted Sylvian as “the most beautiful man in pop.” Japan broke up in 1982, since when Sylvian has produced many recordings, collaborating with a large number of different musicians including Robert Fripp, members of CAN and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Born David Batt, as a fan of the New York Dolls, he adopted his stage name from Sylvain Sylvain.

21:00 …Rhodesia – Japan
21:04 Forbidden Colours – Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian
21:08 Sons Of Pioneers (Live) – Japan
21:13 Red Guitar – David Sylvian
21:18 Buoy – Mick Karn
21:21 Taking the Veil – David Sylvian
21:25 Blackwater – Rain Tree Crow

Super Fly – Tom Beesley

Written and produced by Curtis Mayfield, Super Fly was the soundtrack to the Blaxploitation film of the same title from 1972. Widely regarded as a classic of 70s funk and soul, Super Fly dealt with themes of drug use and deprivation with a social awareness – and made a great deal more money than the accompanying film.

21:30 Little Child Runnin’ Wild – Curtis Mayfield
21:35 Pusherman – Curtis Mayfield
21:40 Freddie’s Dead (Album Version) – Curtis Mayfield
21:45 Give Me Your Love – Curtis Mayfield
21:49 Eddie, You Should Know Better – Curtis Mayfield
21:51 No Thing on Me (Cocaine Song) – Curtis Mayfield
21:56 Superfly (Album Version) – Curtis Mayfield

Boiling Cool – Robert Gibson

Boiling Cool offers a bit of smoulder from the southern States; from Vietnam (via Paris) and Spain and concluding with an opportunity to ‘get on down’…

22:00 Ain’t Misbehavin’ (feat. Liam Noble & Paul Clarvis) – Mark Lewandowski, Liam Noble, Paul Clarvis
22:06 Love Me Like A River Does – Melody Gardot
22:10 Chinoir – The Nguyen Le Trio
22:15 Tupelo Honey/Angel – Cassandra Wilson
22:21 Cristobal – Renaud Garcia-Fons
22:26 I’m Confessin’ – Lizz Wright
22:28 Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine – James Brown

Progressive House – Simon East

Progressive house emerged in the UK after the first wave of US house music. It’s roots can be traced back to the early 1990s UK rave and club scenes. In 1992, Mixmag described it at the time as a “new breed of hard but tuneful, banging but thoughtful, uplifting and trancey British house.” The Guerilla Record Label was pivotal in defining the sound with acts like Spooky and DOP.

22:31 Metropolis – Metropolis
22:36 Funky Guitar (Uk Remix Lion Rock Inna Milanese) – TC 1992
22:39 I’m stronger now – Definitive Two
22:42 Body Medusa – The Leftfield Remix – Supereal
22:45 Here I Go – D.O.P.
22:47 Come Into My Life (Hart Fab Mix) – Abfahrt
22:52 Stereo – Spooky

These are the tracks we played:

For those of you on Spotify all of these tracks apart from Rachel Sedman’s Italian Soundscape are in this playlist : All Ears 006 Playlist

Italian Soundscape – Rachel Sedman

Sounds recorded during the course of a week in the Dolomite region of Northern Italy amongst alpine mountains and stunning lakes. An experiment in listening as part of learning to be and understand a place.

Stereolab – Simon East

Stereolab are an English-French band formed by Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier in 1990 in London. They were a couple at the time but separated in 2004. Their sound is heavily influenced by 70’s Krautrock and 60’s Lounge. They have also been influenced by the Marxist and Situationist movements. They have released almost all their music on their own Duophonic Records label allowing them total control over their output. The band has been on indefinite hiatus since 2009.

20:30 Mellotron – Stereolab
20:33 Avant Garde M.O.R. – Stereolab
20:37 The Free Design – Stereolab
20:41 Diagonals – Stereolab
20:46 Captain Easychord – Stereolab
20:51 Les Yper-Sound – Stereolab
20:53 Ping Pong – Stereolab
20:56 French Disko – Stereolab

Pop Genius – David Hesmondhalgh

Pop is often the most despised form of music but at its best reaches out beyond the niches and filter bubbles we live within, to connect with common experiences of loss, excitement, confusion, melancholy, hope, shame, lust, and love. Many people can hear the greatness in old pop like Bacharach and David and Barry White – but there’s some truly great pop music around today too.

20:59 Get It Together – Drake, Black Coffee, Jorja Smith
21:03 Stay – Rihanna & Mikky Ekko
21:07 Begin Again – Taylor Swift
21:10 Green Light – Lorde
21:14 Take a Walk – Passion Pit
21:18 SexyBack – Justin Timberlake & Timbaland
21:22 Call Me Maybe – Carly Rae Jepsen
21:25 Lean On (feat. M0 & DJ Snake) – Major Lazer

Contemporary Harp – Rachel Sedman

A taster of the diversity of modern harp sounds from psychedelic jazz harp to electronic modern harp with some folk in-between.

21:28 Journey In Satchidananda – Alice Coltrane & Pharoah Sanders
21:29 The Quiet at Night – Mary Lattimore
21:39 Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie – Joanna Newsom
21:43 Muted – Zeena Parkins
21:51 Essence of Sapphire – Dorothy Ashby
21:54 Sacrifice – Bjork
21:58 Talkin’ All That Jazz – Stetsasonic

Hip Hop Jazz Encounters – David Hesmondhalgh

Hip hop has always shown interest in jazz, whether sampling, or bringing in musicians. Recently, the links have grown stronger, and even more creatively fruitful.

22:03 Food – Ghostface Killah, BadBadNotGood
22:06 Maiysha (So Long) – Miles Davis, Robert Glasper, Erykah Badu
22:10 Institutionalized – Kendrick Lamar, Bilal, Anna Wise, Snoop Dogg
22:15 No Time To Play – Ronny Jordan, Guru’s Jazzmatazz
22:20 Jazz (We’ve Got) – A Tribe Called Quest
22:23 Walk On By – Thundercat & Kendrick Lamar
22:26 Special Affair – The Internet

Godspeed – Simon East

Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a Canadian experimental music collective which originated in Montreal in 1994. Their expansive sound ranges from post-rock to drone to ambient. The group have long been associated with the anarchist movement. A number of side projects have grown out of the original group, some of which we will play tonight, including Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, Fly Pan Am, HṚṢṬA, Esmerine, and Set Fire to Flames.

22:29 Storm – Godspeed You! Black Emperor
22:32 13 Angels Standing Guard ‘Round The Side Of Your Bed – Silver Mt. Zion
22:38 Bibi a nice, 1921 – Fly Pan Am
22:40 Hechicero Del Bosque – Hrsta
22:48 Deja, Comme Des Trous De Vent, Comme Reproduit – Set Fire To Flames
22:53 The Dead Flag Blues – Godspeed You! Black Emperor

 

These are the tracks we played:

For those of you on Spotify most of the songs are in this playlist : All Ears 005 Playlist

The Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto film we played you can find on vimeo here.

Absurdists – Simon East

A collection of acts that have produced odd, funny and sometimes absurd songs. Featuring: Ivor Cutler, The Bonzo Dog Band, Stump, Half Man Half Biscuit and more…

20:00 Hold My Hand – The Rutles
20:02 Jilted John – Jilted John
20:05 Barabadabada – Ivor Cutler
20:06 Whip It – DEVO
20:08 You’re My Drug – The Dukes Of Stratosphear
20:11 The Trouser Press – The Bonzo Dog Band
20:14 Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl – Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians
20:16 Gruts For Tea – Ivor Cutler
20:18 All I Want For Chrismas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit – Half Man Half Biscuit
20:21 Where’s Me Jumper? – Sultans Of Ping F.C.
20:24 Buffalo – Stump

Ryan not Bryan – Steve Parker

David Ryan Adams is an American singer-songwriter, musician and producer. He is best known for his prolific solo career, during which he has released fifteen albums.  He was born in 1974 in Jacksonville, North Carolina USA and was a member of alternative country band Whiskeytown with whom he released three albums before going solo.

At a concert in 2002, someone in the audience jokingly yelled out a request for “Summer of ’69,” a hit by the similarly-named Bryan Adams which he did not take well. In 2015, Ryan, who had since become friends with Bryan, played “Summer of ’69” at the end of a performance at the same venue.

20:28 Do You Still Love Me? – Ryan Adams
20:32 Firecracker – Ryan Adams
20:35 Nuclear – Ryan Adams
20:38 Two – Ryan Adams
20:41 Kim – Ryan Adams
20:44 Everybody Knows – Ryan Adams
20:46 Let It Ride – Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
20:50 This Is It – Ryan Adams
20:53 Anybody Wanna Take Me Home – Ryan Adams

Roots Reggae – Tom Beesley

By the end of the 60s Jamaican music was taking a more spiritual turn, combining Rock Steady, Blues, Gospel and Nyabinghi drumming with tenets from the Rastafarian religion. The new music spoke to the ghetto sufferer and the rural poor – addressing issues of oppression, black pride and a return to Africa – during a period of turbulent social change.

20:57 Unity – Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus
21:00 Lamb’s Bread Collie – Cedric IM Brooks & The Light of Saba
21:04 Know Jah Today – The Abyssinians
21:07 I and I Are the Chosen One – Prince Far I
21:10 African Roots – Extended – Johnny Clarke
21:16 Truths And Rights – Johnny Osbourne
21:19 Marcus Senior (Original Mix) – Burning Spear
21:24 None Shall Escape the Judgement – Johnny Clarke
21:27 Zion Gate – Yabby You

Sarah Records – Steve Parker

Sarah Records was a UK independent record label active in Bristol between 1987 and 1995. It is best known for its recordings of indie pop, mostly released on 7″ singles. It’s rare releases now command large sums.  The final track tonight is from a rare 12″ single by The Field Mice that is a very different sound from the jangly guitar pop they and many other Sarah Records acts tended to favour.

21:30 If You Need Someone – The Field Mice
21:34 It’s Only Obvious – The Orchids
21:36 Pristine Christine – Sea Urchins
21:39 Sensitive – The Field Mice
21:44 Sunflower – The Springfields
21:48 Please Rain Fall – Sea Urchins
21:51 Carbrain – The Wake
21:54 Triangle – The Field Mice

Noto & Sakamoto – Tom Beesley

This set features a film of a performance from 2016 by Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto that takes place in the iconic Glass House in Connecticut, designed by the architect Philip Johnson in1949. The artist’s sample sounds generated from the architecture and also incorporate sounds from the weather outside.

You can find on vimeo here.

PAN label – Simon East

PAN is a record label based in Berlin and run by Bill Kouligas. Their releases mainly focus on experimental electronic and dance music. They have released tracks from established artists like Rashad Becker, Trevor Wishart and Florian Hecker, and supported emerging talents such as M.E.S.H., Helm and Objekt.

22:26 Ratchet – Objekt
22:31 Olympic Mess – Helm
22:37 The Black Pill – M.E.S.H.
22:39 Fr3sh – Kareem Lotfy
22:43 Held – Malibu
22:49 Untitled Reversion – Lee Gamble
22:52 Severance – ADR

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