Playlist: March 27, 2009

KZSU playlist for Friday, March 27, 2009, 3:00 p.m. to 5:20 p.m.

Items of note:

….. Saxophonist Frank Gratkowski will be in town next week for, among other things, a CD release concert for Mimetic Holds, a quartet acoustic improv offering on Balance Point Acoustics, Damon Smith’s record label. Quick review of Mimetic Holds here.

….. Two items from the San Diego haul made the playlist: MMW‘s Book of Angels entry, and Asobi Seksu, which turns out to be in rotation here at KZSU (meaning it’s on the list of stuff we’re encouraged to play repeatedly).

….. Interesting start to the show. MMW was going to be my opener, but Ben, who did the show before mine today, closed things out with “Rod Poole’s Gradual Ascent to Heaven,” a long, heartfelt piece from Nels Cline‘s latest album, Coward. The mood (dark but not too heavy) and the elements of creeping dissonance, made the Robert Moran all-percussion piece a more ideal starting point.

Most album titles link into KZSU’s Zookeeper database; the icon means there’s a review or description there as well.

Artist	Track		Album/Label
Moran, Robert	Kboco		Mantra Innova Recordings
Medeski Martin & Wood	Agmatia		Zaebos: Book of Angels Vol. 11 Tzadik
Mosher, Rob / Storytime	The Sands Of Maundune		Tortoise, The Old Mill
Downs, Lila	Naela		Casa De Los Babys Hybrid Recordings
Axis Trio	Peacekeeper (For Darfur)		Hand, The Snp Records
Ware, David S.	Reflection		Shakti Aum Fidelity
Burgener, Teitlebaum, Muller	Interiorities		Shift For 4 Ears Records
	— (4:00 p.m.) —
Fennesz	Perfume For Winter		Black Sea Touch
Stein, Norbert / Pata Generators	Chameleon Nature		Direct Speech Pata Music
Seksu, Asobi	Transparence		Hush Polyvinyl Record Co.
Gratkowski, Frank and Graewe, Georg	Ve 4		Vicess Etudes Random Acoustics
Malaby, Tony / Cello Trio	Chicotaso		Warblepeck Songlines Recordings
Helias, Mark/Open Loose	Momentum Interrupted		Atomic Clock Radio Legs
Ornstein, Leo	Three Tales: Midnight Waltz		Fantasy And Metaphor New Albion Records
Frank Gratkowski, Scott Looney, Damon Smith, Kjell Nordeson	Diverse Xenon Loops		Mimetic Holds Balance Point Acoustics
Haden, Charlie	For Turiya [With Alice Coltrane]		Closeness A&M Records
	— (5:00 p.m.) —
Cleaver/Parker/Taborn	Not Unlike Number 10		Farmers By Nature Aum Fidelity