Stone Cold Lampin #13

Stone Cold Lampin’ #13
9/26/15

This show marks a milestone. I’ve completed 13 graveyard shifts, and I can move on to daytime shifts. I’ve had a good time working the graveyard shifts and I will miss it. My family won’t. I’d go to bed around 7 PM the night before, wake up by alarm at 12:20 AM, and head in to the studio. Nami left me a banana, some granola, and a pot of coffee in a thermos. It worked pretty well. I didn’t get tired and I was often able to get calm enough to really contemplate the sound. I played some spaced-out music. I told my friend that I felt like a man holding a torch next to a vast ocean, surrounded by the dark night. I let the sound ring out into the darkness. Embers fell from my torch. When I got home, I napped for an hour or two right after breakfast.
For my last shift, I tried to find out something about contemporary composers. I played music of stringed instruments. I took a trip around the world.

Hour 1: Starts at 1:55 so you get a few minutes of Goodwrench. After a short stop at Norcal Noisefest 2000, the hour is bookended by Ligeti, older and younger. In between, traditional sounds from Korea, North America, Japan, Morocco, and Mexico.

Hour 2: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century sounds, the results of an inquiry into contemporary western classical music.

Hour 3: Sun Ra and Voicehandler set the tone for the second hour of inquiry about a contemporary.

Hour 4: I just had to figure it out, “What does classical music sound like now?” No conclusion.

Here’s the playlist.

Each mp3 is 70 minutes long and starts a few minutes before the hour, and ends a few minutes after.
Streams will be available until October 2.

Streams via kfjc.org.

Stone Cold Lampin’ #12

Stone Cold Lampin’ #12
9/19/15

Started out on a jazz trip, into a mix of international sounds from Japan, Mali, and South America. Western classical music rears its pretty head, Agnes Martin On Not Thinking, wrapping up strangely.

Hour 1: Starts at 1:55 so you get a few minutes of Goodwrench. Then it’s a Jazz trip for the first hour.

Hour 2: Jazz rolls on for twenty odd minutes, then Acid Mothers Temple guitarist Makoto Kawabata, then Tibetan exorcist chant.

Hour 3: Blues-pop from Mali. South American guitar instruments, blues, gospel, Schubert played by Peter Serkin.

Hour 4: Satie played slowly by Philip Corner, Agnes Martin speaks, Robert Crouch, Sibelius

Here’s the playlist.

Each mp3 is 70 minutes long and starts a few minutes before the hour, and ends a few minutes after.
Streams will be available until October 2.

Streams via kfjc.org.

Stone Cold Lampin #11

Stone Cold Lampin’ #11
9/12/15

Starting out digging in the reggae library, the show takes a left turn at the new William Parker CD, spends some time with Hector Villalobos and Henry Brant, ending up with some international vocal music and long-form Robert Crouch.

Hour 1: Starts at 1:55 so you get a few minutes of Goodwrench. Then it’s a reggae vibe for forty minutes

Hour 2: Villalobos, Wet Hair, Kyoto Nohgaku Kai.

Hour 3: Villalobos, Henry Brant.

Hour 4: Jazz, international vocal, ambient.

Each mp3 is 70 minutes long and starts a few minutes before the hour, and ends a few minutes after.
Streams will be available until September 26.

Streams via kfjc.org.

Stone Cold Lampin #10

Stone Cold Lampin’ #10
9/5/15

Starting out percussive and textural, the show gets more centered towards out jazz as it goes on.

Hour 1: Starts at 1:55 so you get a few minutes of Goodwrench. Ritual drumming, Haitian Vodou, minimalism.

Hour 2: Biff Rose, Brahms, contemporary jazz.

Hour 3: 70s jazz, out jazz, extended technique sounds, Oranges.

Hour 4: Uruguayan organ, vocal jazz, French, Brooklyn saxophone, Middle Eastern, Somniloquy.

Each mp3 is 70 minutes long and starts a few minutes before the hour, and ends a few minutes after.
Streams will be available until September 19.

Streams via kfjc.org.

Stone Cold Lampin #9

Stone Cold Lampin’ #9
8/22/15

It was good to get back in the studio. The show was good. Tighter transitions. I played lots of international music this week.

Hour 1: Starts at 1:57 so you get a few minutes of Goodwrench. African drums, Japanese psych, piano pieces for children.

Hour 2: Slow Satie, Peru, drumming, organ, oranges.

Hour 3: Sun Ra, Ives, Hindemuth.

Hour 4: Ambient leading in to Sal 9000.

Streams via kfjc.org
Streams will be available until September 5.

Stone Cold Lampin’ #8

Stone Cold Lampin’ #8
7/21/15

I chose all jazz this week. I played something from every jazz record in the currents and also some from the jazz library. It was inspired by my friend Weasel Walter’s FB status: “do musicians who play like their asses are on fire a service and don’t wait until they die to ‘like’ them. they walk among us.”

Hour 1: Starts at 1:53 so you get a few minutes of Mouthbreather. Funny enough, he played the same song that Muad’dib played for his final number, the same lead-in as my last show. It’s a really annoying song.  What are they trying to tell me?  It’s all jazz, most of it was far out but I played some straighter stuff too.

Hour 2: Ellery Eskelin, Entourage Music Ensemble, Don Cherry, Kamasi Washington.

Hour 3: Alice Coltrane, Jacques Coursil Unit, William Hooker begins.

Hour 4: William Hooker ends, Phil Yost, Han-Earl Park.

Streams via kfjc.org
Streams will be available until August 4.

Stone Cold Lampin’ #7

Stone Cold Lampin’ #6

Stone Cold Lampin’ #6
7/4/15

This was my first four hour show. Happy 4th of July. It was hot in the studio. We opened up the station to let the outside air come in. Sat Iva was in the booth for the show and we played a lot of different music. It flowed on by and the vibe was great.

Hour 1: Starts at 1:53 so you get a few minutes of Goodwrench.

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Stone Cold Lampin #4 5/17/15

Stone Cold Lampin’ #4
5/17/15

For this show, I play records that I got in Tokyo last month.  They are a mixture of story telling, singing.  There is some Shamisen, Japanese banjo. The story telling style is a style of itinerant begging from 1890. There’s a recording of a Kabuki play.

Hour 1: Starts at 2:53 so you get seven minutes of Soul Patrol.
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