KZSU's "Voice of Doom", June 16, 2002
The playlist for another intersession fill-in
show, this one on Sunday June 16, 2002, noon-3pm. This was
broadcast on KZSU, the Stanford college radio station (90.1
FM in the SF Bay Area, and kzsu.stanford.edu elsewhere).
I was going on the air after an extended set from Kesha
of the "Lift Jesus Higher" show, who had also done the board
operation for KZSU's broadcast of Stanford's commencement
ceremonies. When I signed up for the show, there was no
assurance that I wasn't going to be pre-empted by a baseball
tournament, so there isn't much of a plan to this one.
I fell back on my usual game plan: three-song sets, mixed
genre with seques smoothed over as well as I can.
And for background music to talk over during sets, I fell
back on some standard "Voice of Doom" theme music: the Zoviet
France album "A Flock of Rotations" (just for a change, I gave "Shouting at the
Ground" a rest.)
the playlist
set the first: a funky world
- Khaled - "E`Dir E`sseba"
- off of Kenza
track 5
- A modern Algerian-based band that I though would make a
good match with the funk-soul stuff that Kesha was
playing. This turned out to be an excellent invisible seque
I owe entirely to Decca's review stuck on the front cover of
this disk, which I grabbed out of the
A-file.
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- Spaceways Incorporated - "She Just Got Here"
- off of Version Soul
track 5
- A Ken Vandermark side project, unusually straight and
restrained for him. Funk jazz in 11/4 time.
- Another good transition, if I do say so myself, though
once again this is from the A-file,
and I owe it all to the excellent Wedge review.
- Garmarna - "Greenest Branch"
- off of the Nordic Roots compilation
track 14
- Really nifty music with a jungle/funk touch to the
rhythm and ethereal female vox (something like
celtic-Bjork).
- (I kinda blew the seque here. I made
an attempt at previewing the track and got the idea that it
took a long time to kick, so I started it way too soon: the
vocals almost cut in at the same moment that Spaceways Inc
cuts out.)
- From the the A-file.
set the second
- Geert Waegeman - "Potato Eyes"
- off of Vegetable Digitables
track 14
- This track is with lyrics and vocals by Anna Homler:
"Dark drawer dreaming, potato eyes/dark drawer dreaming,
strong and wise".
- Recorded in Leuven (Flanders-Belgium), 1999-2000.
- The Êdê - "Spasm of Sobs"/"Gong Playing Imitation"
- off of Vietnam: Anthology of Êdê music
tracks
7 & 8
- Some odd polyphonic bamboo flute playing from the
Êdê, of the Dak Lak plateau in Vietnam.
- (By the way for you non-iso8859 enabled
folks, without the hats on the "e"s, that name is: Ede)
- Carrier Band - "Automatic Inscription of Speech"
- off of Automatic Inscription of Speech
track 1
- A recent release from a Pauline Oliveros project
(with Peer Bode, Andrew Deutsch and Dick Robinson).
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set the third
- Matmos
- off of Live
tracks 1 & 2
- Some tracks recorded live at KZSU at the annual "The Day of Noise"
event that I organize.
- Some water noises (this was a duo,
electronics and bucket of oatmeal) followed by some heavy
electrical drone music.
- Weird bit of trivia: that's my voice that they led off
this CD with, a fragment of me introducing their set. I'm
saying something like "--let's turn it over, and see
what it sounds like".
- Six Organs of Admittance - "Regeneration"
- off of Dark Noontide
track 2
- Local SF group (though really I think it's pretty close to
being a solo project, by Ben Chasny). This is
slightly atypical track without vocals.
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- Plinth - "bracken"
- off of the You don't need darkness to do what you think is right compilation
track 16
- On the Geographic label.
- Slow, closing-of-the-day type instrumentals, horn and piano.
set the fourth
- C.J. Reaven Borosque with Rent Romus' Lords of Outland - "Contemplation"
- off of The Metal Quan Yin
track 4
- Largely instrumental with wordless female vocals. Leads up to a recitation
of the poem Contemplation: Tomorrow I crash/On a moon/This side of envy/The other side of sleep/I am rising like literature...
- New release from this local bay area group, setting
some of the poetry from last year's book "Metal Quan Yin" to
music.
- Label: Edgetone Records.
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- Peter Murphy - "Just for Love"
- off of Dust
track 4
- From the A-file
- Tom Heasley - "On the Sensations of Tone"
- off of Prelude
track 1
- Second release from Tom Heasley, local Bay Area artist
(and regular on KZSU's "Day of Noise").
- Really interesting ambient music using tuba and
electronics... Tom Heasley's style of long atmospheric tones
is the total opposite of stereotypic tuba oom-pah music.
set the fifth: satellite of loaf
The silly legal ID at the start of this mic break
is me trying to sound like I'm screwing around on purpose
while what I'm really trying to do is figure out why my
headphones aren't working:
"K--. K-- K! Zeeee... S. U! Stanford"
- 764 Hero - "Satellites"
- off of Nobody Knows this is Everywhere
track 7
- Folk-rock with male vocals from the A-file
- "You never did anything different/just sat there in
your armored chair."
- (Sounded good at first glance, but man it's repetitious,
and I hated this guys voice before it was over...)
- Masonic - "Sattelite tonight"
- off of Never stood a chance
track 3
- Yeah, they spelled it that way: "sattelite"
- From the A-file.
- This is a group of where more than half of the members
are named "Mason", hence the witty album title. Jennifer
Christen on vocals: never been too sure/if I like it/here in my world/looking for adventure...
- Sun Ra Arkestra - "theme of the stargazers/the satellites are spinning"
- off of Live at Praxis '84
(Disk II/track 8)
- (leads up to a nifty, stacatto male chant version of "the
satellites are spinning")
- (I'd forgotten about this version, though I see I
played it on the air two years ago.)
- Delicate piano lead that makes a nice interlude after
the indie rock pair there.
set the sixth
- Alvin Curan - "Spare Ribs & Short Circuits"
- off of Oasis: Music from Mills
track 8
- From the A-file
- The title of this CD aptly expresses the way the I feel about
the Mills College music department: an Oasis of real culture
in the SF Bay Area.
- This track is a nifty, choppy sounding, collection of samples.
- From the A-file
- Bob Zander - "Water Wheels/Daffodil Hill"
- off of Skyline to the Sea
track 8
- From the A-file
- A local artist, using the kalimba as his main
instrument, here with some pretty sweet strings (we
will not compare this to "New Age" or "Windam Hill"
because they really don't deserve the negative
connotations).
- William Parker Quartet - "Song of Hope"
- off of Raining on the Moon
track 2
- From the A-file.
- Vocals: Leena Conquest
- "My name is hope/I'm daughter of fate/mother of
time/father of harmony"
set the seventh
- Be'vinda - "Ter Outra Vez 20 Amos"
- off of the Queens of Fado compilation
Disk I, track 2
- From the A-file
- Knotworking - "not bigger"
- off of Notes Left Out
track 2
- From the A-file
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- Nagisa Ni te - "Me, On the Beach"
- off of the You don't need darkness to do what you think is right
track 7
- From the A-file
- Folk with female Japanese vocals
- On the Geographic label.
set the eighth
- Fred Frith's Maybe Monday - "Image & Atom"
- off of Digital Wildlife
track 2
- A guitar wailing, rocking track, harder than you usually
get from Fred Frith.
- Maybe Monday was originally a trio with Fred
Frith (probably the world's greatest living guitarist), Miya
Masaoka (an excelellent creative performer on the koto, aka "the japanese zither"),
and Larry Ochs (one of the members of the Rova
saxophone quartet). This release gives Fred Frith top
billing (I would guess they were tired of being thrown in
the "Misc M" section) and adds a fourth member on cello:
Joan Jeanrenaud.
- Some of the more brilliant work from The Scene Without
a Name (usually it gets called something like "bay area improv/creative/new music").
- C.J. Reaven Borosque with Rent Romus' Lords of Outland - "The Metal Quan Yin"
- off of The Metal Quan Yin
track 1
- Poetic ranting (cyber-beatnik?) with some electronic
processing: Acid bath running clay flesh away and leaving
behind/Strips of gold wire/Mesh/Where she wore them/As under
panties/And bled oil through them...
- Label: Edgetone Records.
- Six Organs of Admittance - "Spirits Abandoned"
- off of Dark Noontide
track 1
- This is a slightly atypical track for Six
Organs, in that it has vocals, but it's musically very
simple, largely just folky guitar.
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set the last
- Wobbly
- off of Playlist
track 1 & 2
- A 3 inch CD release.
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- ? - "Esemmu"
- off of Campur Sari Gunung Kidul Vol. 2
Side A, track 1
- A cassette tape of some popular music from
Indonesia. "Campur Sari" is the name of the genre. The
track title is pretty clearly "Esemmu" (presuming I was
really playing Side A, there's no obvious way to tell), and
has the additional notation "CIPT. MANTHOU'S
VOC. MANTHOU'S".
- I don't really know how to interpret the rest of stuff on
the cover of the cassette:
- Campur Sari
- Gunung Kidul
- CSGK
- Pimpinan: Manthou's
- Vol. 2
- Esemmu
- Manthou's
- Anik Sunyahni
- Nurhana
- Ciptaan: Manthou's
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closing theme
Thirteenth Floor Elevators - "Dr. Doom"
off of Bull of the Woods
track 9
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