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Eclectic Mainline 4th January 2012

It seems to have become a pattern that early in each year I discover something amazing that passed me by the year before.  This has happened again, in that I have only just heard the wonderful album  Nº 1 by Christina Vantzou. The entire album can be streamed on Soundcloud:

Christina Vantzou – Nº 1 by christina vantzou

Christina made visuals to accompany the whole album.  Publicity for the project describes it thus:

“The hierarchical relationship between image and sound which we’ve grown accustomed to from music videos and cinema is flipped upside down and ultimately erased, to produce a cohesive, synesthetic experience.“

This is track 1 from the visual element to Nº 1:

All 9 visual episodes are being released on DVD, with an accompanying CD of remixes.  I played one of the remixes in tonight’s show.

While searching Vimeo and Youtube for an extract to include in this blog I found another pleasant surprise.  Christina Vantzou produced visuals to accompany Sparklehorse on tour in 2007.  Here’s one of them, ‘Spirit Ditch’, a song that never fails to give me goosepimples:

If you wish to hear the show, you do so on the BCB Listen Again service. Here is a list of all the tunes I played in tonight’s show:

DJ Food – “GIANT (feat. Matt Johnson)” (LP – “The Search Engine”) (Ninja Tune)
MJ Hibbert & The Validators – “Please Don’t Eat Us” (LP – “Dinosaur Planet”)
Christina Vantzou – “Small Choir (Ben Vida remix)” (CD+DVD – “Nº 1: DVD and Remixes”) (The Numbered Series)
The Twilight Sad – “Nil” (LP – “No One Can Ever Known”) (Fat Cat)
Tyme. x Tujiko – “Heart Koorasete” (LP – “GYU”) (Editions Mego)
Trailer Trash Tracys – “Candy Girl” (double A-side single with “Strangling Good Guys”) (Double Six)
Raffertie – “Mass Appeal” (EP – “Mass Appeal”) (Ninja Tune)
Exteenager – “I Am Shy Song” (Various Artists LP – “Inner Self Globophobic Clown Tester (Part. 1)”) (Wildrfid)
SOKO – “I Thought I Was An Alien” (single) (Because)
Dan Sartain – “Even At My Worst I’m Better Than You” (LP – “Too Tough To Live”) (One Little Indian)
Decoy Child – “Nocturne (Crewdson Remix)” (single b/w “Pray”) (Ninja Tune)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – “Hysterical” (single) (V2)
Russell Haswell – “Acid nO!se #6 (WS+TS)” (LP – “ACID nO!se Synthesis”) (Editions Mego)

Friends, Caged Animals & East Park Reggae Collective on The BCB Sessions!

4 January

Hello you,

Happy New Year!

Hope happy days are here and all’s good. So far, I’ve slipped down a flight of stairs and given myself a royal pain in the neck (*muted shrieking hoping no-one would notice – I’ll never make a scientologist*), nursed a cold that makes me sound like Pat Butcher (God rest her soul), cancelled my holiday (wtf?) and been stuck for hours on a broken down train while a young girl sang Abba medleys and read the bible out loud. The youth of today… There’s more but that’ll do, this isn’t an episode of Enders.

Needless to say, I’m reaching out the hand of sympathy and solidarity to those of you who are also getting all their bad luck out the way on days one, two and three…

So, here’s the show that’ll make you feel better.

Friends – Friend crush

The Wave Pictures – Eskimo kiss

Stay Positive – Dandelion

Still Corners – Endless summer

East Park Reggae Collective – The Frontline (love these guys – get their latest album from Bandcamp)

Fol Chen – So good

Everything Everything (BCB Sessions Archive) – Suffragette Suffragette

Kaiser Chiefs – Little shocks

Crackpot – Star

Willard Grant Conspiracy (BCB Sessions Archive) – Drunkard’s Prayer

Moby (Kleerup remix) – The right thing

Caged Animals – Piles of $$$

The Wooden Machine – Dearest Rose

Get in touch if you’ve got music you’d like me to play on the show – either tweet me @laurarawlings or email laura.rawlings@bcbradio.co.uk

And if you missed the show, listen again at www.bcbradio.co.uk

See you next Wednesday night at 9pm.

Lx

Islands, Casio Kids & Miike Snow on The BCB Sessions!

Wednesday 28 December

Hey up,

Trust your Christmas was full of the festive frolics we all know and love… for me it’s a great time to catch up with new releases and listen to loads of music while zooming up/down the motorway. The result is here for your listening pleasure on The BCB Sessions and we’ve got some right belters to end 2011!

Casio Kids – Golden years

Django Django – Default

Dan Sartain (feat. Jane W) – Now, now, now

Sparrow and the Workshop (BCB Session Archive) – Medal around your neck

Miike Snow – Devil’s work

Thomas Truax – December song

Clap your Hands Say Yeah – Hysterical

Islands – This is not a song

Crackpot – Robopotamus

Les Shelleys (BCB Session Archive) – I’m on fire

Pocket (Feat. Steve Kilbey) – Hear in Noiseville

The Raise (Feat. Krome) – Love of hip hop

The Internet (Little Dragon Remix) – Cocaine

Of Montreal – Wintered debts

See you next Wednesday from 9pm on BCB 106.6FM and online at www.bcbradio.co.uk If you missed this week’s show – don’t forget you can catch it again via www.bcbradio.co.uk

Lx

 

World Waves, 3rd January 2011

PLAYLIST FOR 3/1/12

LISTEN AGAIN HERE

Feyzullah Cinar – “Merhaba”
(from Nefes, Kalan)

Rocha – “Olha Nos Ai”
(from Journey to Brazil, Playasound)

Malang Najrabi – “Solo De Zer”
(from Afghanistan, Playasound)

Kim Sinh – “Lieu Xuan Nuong”
(from Music From Vietnam Vol. 4: the artistry of Kim Sinh, Caprice)

Abdu-Halq & Husanjan Mamat – “Mushawarik Muqam (dastan marghul)”
(from Xinjiang: The Silk Road, Playasound)

Morteza Mahjubi – “Avaz-e Bayat-e Tork”
(from The Art of the Piano, Mahoor)

Feyzullah Cinar – “Hudey Hudey”
(from Nefes, Kalan)

V/A – “Kopan”
(from Outsinging the Nightingale: Lost Treasures of Bulgarian Music 1905-1950, JSP)

Ioana Bud – “Semnal de Primavera”
(from World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, Vol. XVII: Romania, Rounder)

V/A – “Zasviri Bozhil S Kavala”
(from Outsinging the Nightingale: Lost Treasures of Bulgarian Music 1905-1950, JSP)

Sayim Sabir – “Worksong”
(from Xinjiang: The Silk Road, Playasound)

Abdul Majeeb & Muhammad Wali – “Solo De Tumbur Accompagné Au Tabla”
(from Afghanistan, Playasound)

Going North from Nashville plays the very best of Americana 2011! Monday 2nd January 10-11pm

Get the New Year off to a good start by revisiting some of the best tunes played on GNfN during 2011!

The Decemberists : Calamity Song

The Low Anthem : I’ll Take Out your Ashes

Iron & Wine : Rabbit Will Run

Or, The Whale : No Love Blues

Josh T Pearson : Country Dumb

John Grant : Chicken Bones

Young Rebel Set : Lion’s Mouth

Andy Doonan : Malcolm

Ben Ottwell : Blackbird

Foreign Slippers : Old Ghosts

Ahab : Lightening Bug

Levi Weaver : An Incomplete Theorem

Blueflint: I Climbed a Mountain

Anna Elias : Evensong

Wilful Missing : Wilful Missing

When Big Joan Sets Up 29.12.11 – Guitar Frenzy Night!

Christmas presents broken already? Only the Toffee Pennies and Orange Creams left in the Quality Street tin? Chitty Chitty Bloody Bastard Bang Bang on the TV? – This week Big Joan took it upon itself to enliven this most perineal of weeks with a dozen guitar blow outs from 2011 plonked right in the middle of the prgramnne without tedious DJ chat, Feel the fuzz!

Batida – “Yumbala” (EP – “Yumbala”) (Ghetto Bassquake)
James Ferraro – “Fro Yo And Cellular Bits” (LP- “Far Side Virtual”) (Hippos In Tanks)
PJ Harvey – “This Glorious Land” (LP – ‘Let England Shake”) (Island)
Badboe – “Stop, What’s That Sound?” (v/a download LP – “Funk Against Fascism”) (Cult Music)
White Ring – ‘Hey Hey, My My” (12″) (Handmade Birds)

BIG JOAN’S GUITAR FRENZY
Apache Dropout – “Radiation” (7″) (Mexican Summer)
Pygmy Shrews – “AM Breakout” (LP – “You People Can All Go Straight To Hell”) (Jack Shack)
Deadbeat Beat – “I Think You Stink” (Cassette – “When I Talk To You”) (Self Released)
Blasted Canyons – “Fries Yr Eyes” (LP – ‘Blasted Canyons”) (Castleface)
Cosmonauts – “Flowerbomb” (Cassette – “New Psychic Denim”) (Burger)
The Barrercudas – “Baby, Baby. Baby” (LP – ‘Noctournal Emissions”) (Douchemaster)
Kids On A Crime Spree – “Trumpets Of Death” (LP – “We Love You So Bad”) (Slumberland)
Total Abuse – “Rotting Foil” (LP – “Prison Sweat”) (Post Present Medium)
The Wax Museums – “Jackoff Rat” (LP – ‘A Zoo Full Of Ramones”) (Tic Tac Totally)
The K-Holes – “Speedy Greedy” (LP – “The K-Holes”) (Hozac)
Amateur Party – “Simpatico” (LP – “Truncheons In The Manor”) (Rorshach)
Fleshlights – “The Biggest Mistake” (LP – “Muscle Pop”) (Twistworthy)

Flex and G-Star – “What A Gwan” (7″) (DJ Frass)
DJ K-Rlos – “Night Rhythm” (EP -“Vol.2”) (Sinthetic)
The Orioles – “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?” (3 CD Set – “For Collectors Only”) (Collectables)

Eclectic Mainline 28th December 2011 – a special show of sorts

I should make it clear from the outset – tonight’s show was not a ‘best of 2011’ show.  If it was, I would have included ‘Try to Sleep‘ by Low, the song which had my favourite video of 2011:

Low + Film Noir.  It was always going to impress me with that formula.

If tonight’s show was a proper 2011 review show I would also have had to play something from PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake album.  I’ve not really given much thought to what my favourite album of 2011 was, but if I did give it much brain time, this album would never have been far from those thoughts.

Each of the 11 songs on Let England Shake has a video.  You’ll find them all on the Let England Shake Youtube channel.

So, to what tonight’s show was, rather than what it wasn’t.  It was kind of a summing up of what’s changed in Eclectic Mainline over the past 12 months or so.  There are a number of factors.  One factor is what actually lands in my post pile.  I have to admit that I don’t have a great deal of spare time to seek out new music; often it’s a case that I play the music that finds me.  The music I have received has changed over the past year or so, and tonight’s show reflected that.  Or to be more specific, the music that arrives in the post has changed.  There are an ever-increasing number of promos that arrive digitally, and I don’t have time to listen to them.  This fact is to the benefit of those CDs and records that arrive the old fashioned way: in the post.

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Eclectic Mainline 21st December 2011

This show has turned out to be rather more festive than I first thought when I picked up a pile of CDs to bring into BCB. So, in light of that, here is this year’s seasonal offering from Shonen Knife:

If you wish to listen again to this show, you should find it somewhere around about here.

Here’s a list of all the tunes from tonight’s show:

Mogwai – “Christmas” (“Mogwai EP” – CHEM036) (Chemical Underground)
Plug – “Come On My Skeleton” (LP – “Back On Time”) (Ninja Tune)
Gruff Rhys – “Slashed Wrists This Christmas” (“Athiest Xmas EP”) (OVNI/Turnstile)
Bill Ryder-Jones – “Intersect” (LP – “If”) (Double Six)
Shonen Knife -“We Wish You A Merry Christmas” (b-side to “Sweet Christmas” single) (Damnably)
No UFO’s – “Evidence / Century Park” (LP – “Soft Coast”) (Spectrum Spools)
Low – “Blue Christmas” (LP – “Christmas”) (Tugboat)
Still Corners – “Cuckoo” (LP – “Creatures of An Hour”) (Sub Pop)
Serph – “Alechemy” (LP – “Winter Alchemy”) (Noble)
Odonis Odonis – “Handle Bars” (LP – “Hollandaze”) (Fat Cat)
Slow Club – “Christmas, Thanks For Nothing” (“Christmas, Thanks For Nothing” EP) (Moshi Moshi)
Fennesz + Sakamoto – “0401” (2CD – “Flumina”) (Touch)
Frightened Rabbit – “It’s Christmas So We’ll Stop” (single) (Fat Cat)
Crystal Stilts – “Practically Immaculate / Jesus Claus mix 2” (free download from various sources – try The Quietus on Soundcloud or Fortuna Pop)

World Waves, 20th December 2011

PLAYLIST FOR 20/12/11

LISTEN AGAIN HERE

Freckleton Brass Band – “In the Bleak Midwinter”
(from YouTube)

John Baker – “Christmas Commercial”
(from BBC Radiophonic Music, BBC Records)

Shirley Collins & Davy Graham ‘ “Cherry Tree Carol”
(from Folk Roots New Routes, Topic)

Michael Hurley – “Abominable Snowman”
(from Parsnip Snips, re-issued via Mississippi Records)

Jean Michel Jarre – “The Abominable Snowman”
(from Deserted Palace, Sam Fox)

Björk Guðmundsdóttir – “Fúsi Hreindýr (Fusi the Reindeer)”
(from Björk, Fálkinn)

Theophilius Chiverton – “Mummies”
(from Caribbean Island Music: Songs & Dances, Nonesuch)

Various artists – “Sarinda II”
(from Tresors du Pakistan, Playasound)

Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers (featuring Frankie Half-Pint Jaxon and Punch Miller) – “Christ was Born on Christmas Morn”
(from Where Will You Be Christmas Day?, Dust-to-Digital)

John Fahey – “Medley: Hark The Herald Angels Sing, O Come All Ye Faithful”
(from The New Possibility: John Fahey’s Guitar Soli Christmas Album, Takoma)

O.B. Jackson – “Santa Claus is Coming to Town/ Big Fat Turkey/ Happy Birthday to You”
(from Hollerin’, Rounder Select)

Tonte Theintan – “Lover Of The Winter And Snow”
(from Princess Nicotine: Folk And Pop Sounds Of Myanmar (Burma) Vol. 1, Sublime Frequencies)

Ramazan , Subeit Bin Ambar – “Taksim nahwandi – wimbo wa vinanda viwili
(from Poetry and Languid Charm – Swahili Music From Tanzania and Kenya, Topic)

Simon & Garfunkle – “Homeward Bound”
(from Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme, Columbia)

The Watersons – “Here We Come A-Wassailing”
(from Frost and Fire: A Calendar of Ceremonial Folk Songs, Topic)

Electronica special on The BCB Sessions!

Hey y’all,

Big party on the show playing some of the best electronica tunes of 2011! Join me on BCB 106.6FM in Bradford and online at www.bcbradio.co.uk on Wed 14th Dec, 9pm. If you can’t make it, make a little window and listen again via www.bcbradio.co.uk

I spent an afternoon trying to whittle down the long list of fine electronica albums.. and after some faffing and juggling here’s what on The BCB Sessions:

The Advisory Circle – Now ends the beginning

Ladytron – Altitude blues

Siriusmo – Idiologie

Kolombo – Waiting for

Ghosting Season – Far end of the graveyard

The Field – Is this power

Andy Stott – Passed me by

Wolfgang Voight – Frieden

Apparat – Goodbye (feat. Soap & Skin)

Walls – Sunporch

Emika – 3hrs (promise you’ll play this really LOUD! It’s the best).

On next Wednesday’s show, the celebrations roll on with more faves from 2011 – all kinds of music, likes of Tame Impala, St Vincent and Daedelus… Come wrap your pressies to it.

Lx