episode 7 - 1st of Feb 2009

Got in early today and got cracking with the Necks - the Gods of Australian music!!
here's a track list!!

The necks - buoyant - chemist (2006)
Fourplay - the fourplay remix project (2001) - Pimmon's freeformshugganah
Fripp & Eno - Altair - Equatorial stars (2004)
Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid - Electricity and drum will change your mind - (2006) (KH is better known as Fourtet)
Morphine - Kerouac - Potion (single)
Assumptions - Delayed again - Departures by Assumptions (2003)
Because of ghosts - the stars did wander (live) - No more reason no more doubt - Selected Recordings 2002-2004 (2006)
Devendra - Lend me your teeth - oh me oh my (2002)
7 Rockettothesky - a cute lovesong please - to sing you apple trees (2006)
Roam the hello clouds - a life of near misses - Near Misses (2007)

Oh me, oh my - how the year is flying by. This is episode 7 now and I'm almost running out of CDs to play to you ... not strictly true but perhaps you might have some suggestions as to future music to play - I'd love to get my hands on some obscure music from Australian musicians or outer-planet musicians in particular - people with strange and wonderful choice of instrumetns - weird, kooky and poetic lyrics that'll kind of twist our knickers in a knot, noise, electronic, acoustic, experimental boundary-pushing music of the HIGHEST order that will guarantee that listeners to the radio will switch me up louder and say "hmm, that's a bit odd .... "

suggestions - ?

Perhaps you make this kind of music and need to have it played - perhaps you'd like to send me a sign! or send me a CD - address GPO Box 1272, Hobart, Tasmania 7001. Australia

ciao belli
see you next week
jxo

Episode 6 (25-1-2009)

Covering for Stan - I had the Great Mordini as my guest programmer for the first hour with a focus on Aussie Chick musos - here's a fine selection

Laura Jean - Mikhael
Beatrix B Bowman - devil's company
Tecoma - air to me
Sarah Blasko - queen of apology
Holly Throsby - one of you for me
Pikelet - a bunch
Jess Green Septet - the singing fish
Sol Seppy - Move
Jen Cloher - Dead Wood Falls


Musical dissidents -

Biddy Connor - music box (demo)
Robin Fox - Voltaic Pile - also featured in Mona Foma.

Ghislain Poirier - Sous Le Manguier - Montreal DJ

Rockettothesky - Oh anna - from Medea (2008)
Bola - Sirasincerre - Bola Gnayse (2004)
Steve Reich - Fast - from Electric Counterpoint (1987)
Swod - Insects - from Sekunden
Roam the hello clouds - uniform 64 - from Near Misses
Eno & Byrne - the carrier - my life in the bush of ghosts (1980)

Laurie Anderson - example 22 - Big Science (1981)

Episode 5!! 18-1-2009 Soundtracks

the inaugral 5th episode of the MDs.

Episode 5!!
The soundtrack episode - songs played will be written in a nice colour.

Ennio Morricone – "the good, the bad, and the ugly" (1966)

Ry Cooder - "No Safety Zone" from Paris, Texas (1984) a film by Wim Wenders

These two guys have worked together a few times, most notably when Wim Wenders filmed Ry travelling to Cuba to rediscover the Beuna Vista Social Club. Wim’s use of music is incredibly important to his work as a film-maker in such films as incredible Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin) from 1987, or the mediocre Million Dollar Hotel (2000) which was part written by Bono – and indeed, the soundtrack feautures members of U2 amongst others.

U2 - "Funny face" - from the motion pic the Million Dollar Hotel

Passengers - Soundtracks No 1 (collection of songs by U2/Bono/Flood etc that have been made for short films and feature length films over the space of a few years).
- "Your Blue Room" from Beyond the clouds a film byWim Wenders and Michaelangelo Antonini.
- "One minute warning" from Ghost in the shell

- Bjork - "Ambergris March" from Matthew Barney's Drawing Retraint 9

In 1995, Jarmusch released Dead Man, a film set in the American West in the 19th century starring Johnny Depp and Gary Farmer that has been called a Western movie, an "acid western," an "anti-Western," and a "post-Western" by various critics. The film has been hailed as one of the few films made by a Caucasian that presents an authentic Native American culture and character, and Jarmusch stands by it as such; however, critics have both praised and decried the film for its portrayal of the American West, violence, and especially Native Americans.[5] The film was shot in black and white by Robby Müller, and features a score composed and performed by Neil Young.

Neil Young - from Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man "Guitar Solo, No. 3" (1996)

Other films of his that emphasise music and music culture are – Coffee and Cigarettes, which stars one of his favourites Tom Waits (who also starred in Down By Law directed by Jarmusch) along with Iggy Pop in one of the eleven short stories, GZA and RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan and even Jack and Meg White from the White Stripes. RZA also did the soundtrack to Ghost Dog: the way of the Samurai (1999), yet another film that had a huge emphasis on the sound and culture that hip-hop plays in the back-streets and parks of New Jersey.

"Kind Winds" - Getro (2002) Tasmania.

The Necks - Fife and Drum from The Boys, (1998)

Musik von Harmonia - "Watussi" (1974) Recorded on three revox recorders used in a pping-pong manner. Supergroup with Jans-Joachim Roedelius, Michael Rother and Dieter Moebius.

Barry Adamson - "Mr Eddy's theme no 2." from David Lynch's Lost Highway

Tricky – "Sex Drive", from Pre-Millenium Tension (1996)

- Bjork - "Pearl" from Matthew Barney's Drawing Retraint 9

Ghost Dog: the way of the Samurai - SamuraiCode final quote (2000) produced by RZA from the Wu Tang Clan.

Episode 4 - 11th Jan 2009

INcidental news - Eugene Chadbourne is playing tonight at the Peacock theatre as part of the MONA FOMA festival: well worth a look-see.

What we may indulge in on Sunday coming.


Splint!– Moro (2007) – “Fooj”
Apparat – Walls (2007) – “Not a number”
Antony and the Johnsons – “Another World EP (2008) - “shake that devil”
Naked on the vague – the blood pressure sessions (2007) – “Brown sun/Sydney Lane Rd”
Que – Nagambie Recordings (2008) – “…” (track 3)
Because of ghosts – this culture of background noise (2008) – “tape recursion”
Yoko Ono – Plastic Ono Band (1970) – “Greenfield morning I pushed a baby carriage all over the city”
Shakti and John McLaughlin – Natural Elements (1972) – “Happiness is being together”
Stephen Magnusson & Frank DiSario – Boundaries (2004) – “Don’t give up”
Splint! – Moro (2007) – “Ittobat”
Roam the hello clouds – Near Misses (2007) – “Geoff as the Hulk”

Episode 3 - 4th Jan 2009

A weekend playlist with some leanings towards industrial sounds - song titles in bold.

Cross Crisis in Lust Storm - Fripp & Eno, Beyond Even (1992-2006)
Silence - Portishead, Third (2008)
My beautiful Leah - PJ Harvey, Is this desire? (1998)
Matthew is Gay - track 2 (Glue gun records - track titles not listed) Independent - Adelaide
Dark Angel - Laurie Anderson, Life on a string (2001)
Jan Jelenek & Triosk - Mis-leader, 1+3+1 (2003)
Miles Davis - John McLaughlin, Bitches Brew (1969)
Pivot - my heart like marching band, O soundtrack my heart (2008)
Enjoy - Bjork remixed by Outcast, Telegram (1996)
- dedicated to Tim from Soudtracks will dissolve (happy 30th dude).
Pivot - Sing, you sinners, from O soundtrack my heart (2008)
Bjork & Evelyn Glennie - my spine, from Telegran (1996)
Portishead - We carry on - Third (2008)
PJ Harvey - Joy, from Is this desire? (1998)
Pivot - Didn't I furious, from O soundtrack my heart (2008)



If you have an experimental-music-bent-band or some music that you think would fit in amongst the illustrious company played on this show then feel free to send it to Edge Radio - attention Josh at the musical dissidents.

This coming weekend will showcase the MONA FOMA Festival curated by Brian Ritchie (of Violent Femmes fame). 

 - Robin Fox`s laser show will be well worth the look: I was lucky enough to witness one of his extravaganzas in a dry river bed in Alice Springs in 2007, which totally took my breath away. His sound art alone with a 2-dimensional projection was enough to my attention ... but then he decides to take on 3- dimensions and projects through the crowd in the most amazening fashion. This is something to experience. 

 - Fiona Burnett`s soprano sax virtuosity is on display a few times for free and it`s not often a talent the likes of her comes to the Apple Isle (let alone for free) so get your skinny arses down to watch and listen. 

 - Ansgsar Wallenhorst (what a name!!) will be playing Liszst`s fantasy and fugue plus a program of improvisations based on five artworks in the festival - at St David`s cathedral next Saturday ... should be a ripper 

 - John Cage`s Two Times 4`33" as played by Manon de Boer will be playing at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery daily from the 10th Jan till Feb.

 or you could just watch this - 

or check this for more interactive music -

and this one is even better - 

"When we separate music from life we get art" - john cage

Episode 2 - 14th Dec 2008

Artists and track names from that wonderful Sunday last year.

Assumptions - (no name) taken from album "2" (2003)
Bjork - Where is the line taken from "Medulla" (2004)
Einsturzende Neubauten - Bili Rubin lifted from "Strategies Against Architecture (1991-2001)"
Rockettothesky - Call Medea from "Medea" (2008)
Rickie Lee Jones - Howard from "Ghostyhead" (1997)
the Green Septet - the Singing Fish from "The singing fish and other stories" (2005)
Fripp & Eno - the heavenly music corporation pt II from "No Pussyfooting" (1971)
Brian Eno - Baby's on Fire from "Here come the warm jets" (1973) debut solo album
Kate Bush - Aerial Tal from "Aerial" (2005)
Mick Turner - part 1 from "Moth" (2003)
Rockettothesky - the dead dead water lily thing from "Medea" (2008)
Assumptions - We're away taken from "2" (2003)