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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.

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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.

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Japanese Noh Music

Japanese Noh Music

Lyrichord LST 7137
by Hemroid The Leader

In the 6th century, ancient music and dance came to Japan from the Kingdom of Kudara in what is now Korea.  In the 8th century the Chinese circus came to Japan, with acrobatics, pantomime, and comedy.  These influences, in combination with indigenous rituals related to the passing of the seasons or cultivation of rice, form the basis for Noh theater, which took on its present form in the 14th century.

Noh theater troupes are led by a Grand Master and all members are blood relatives or adopted.  Sons reprise roles of their fathers.  Small gestures are mimicked through generations, eventually commanding much of the audience’s focus.  The audience is made up of the Shogun, feudal lords, sophisticates and wealthy commoners.

This record features members of the Kyoto Noh Theater, designated as an Important Intangible Cultural Property by the Japanese government in 1957.   It may seem like not much is going on.   A wooden flute plays an ancient pentatonic melody, taiko strike here and there, a woodblock plays a slow roll as characters enter and exit the scene, dancers move in exact synchronization.  The main character wears a wooden face mask, an ornate robe, and speaks in Old Japanese.  A ceremonial tone pervades throughout.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Stone Cold Lampin’ #7

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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.

Hour 2:

Hour 3:

Hour 4:

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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.
Hour 2:

Hour 3:

Streams via kfjc.org