Playlist: July 3, 2009

KZSU playlist for Friday, July 3, 3:00 to 9:00 p.m. Marathon session to start my long weekend. It’s been a long

… John Zorn‘s The Dreamers was the band I saw live at Yoshi’s, playing pretty much this whole album. Nice stuff, surprisingly accessible.

… The Splatter Trio‘s Clear the Club is an improv album at heart, but a surprisingly catchy one, with touches of reggae in some tracks, a hint of dark, evil rock in others. The group (Dave Barrett on sax, Myles Boisen on guitar or bass, Gino Robair on drums) did some great albums in the ’90s, now available on eMusic. The Splatter 3+N refers to the fact that the album uses recordings made with varying numbers of friends. They dipped into a couple year’s worth of jams and strung them together to create the album. Very cool.

….. Rigil is an indie songwriter type — really, a 20-year-old Brit named Robert Slade. He favors lots of synths and big, soaring, epic sounds. It’s overdramatic and often soundtrack-like, but he seems like a likeable chap.

….. Trombone Tribe is a Roswell Rudd grab bag o’ fun. You’ve got tracks with a three-trombone jazz sextet (Henry Grimes on bass), songs with a six-trombone band, and a small suite with the Gangbé Brass Band of Benin.

….. 15 Degrees Below Zero comes across more hardline electronics/noise on this album than on their previous one — or, at least that’s what I remember my ears hearing. No matter; it’s still good stuff, and the icy expansive sound I’d noted before is present on the 24-minute “2.5,” from which I took a patient six-minute excerpt. They’ll be on the air at KZSU on July 29.

Pianist Graham Connah has been performing under the name Admiral Ted Brinkley for some time now, popping up for the occasional show. Beth Lisick wrote one up back in 2004. Connah has been a longtime favorite of mine, playing heavily twisted cocktail jazz that, in more recent years, gets augmented with electric guitars and oddball vocals. He’s also got an album on Evander that, come to think of it, I really need to seek out. The next Adm. Ted installment comes Monday night, July 6, at the monthly Make-Out Room jazz session.

Two solo bass tracks! I’d planned to throw in a track from the really nice Solo Bass from local musician Devin Hoff. (I still remember being blown away by his instrumental chamber-pop band, The Redressers.) Meanwhile, the vinyl album I’d randomly pulled as my sound bed for mic breaks was a Gary Peacock album that includes a few tracks of solo bass. I do like to give a “complete” spin to the album that provided the sound bed, so what the heck. Hoff’s track was arco (bowed), a lyrically wandering improvisation. Peacock’s was pizzacato, a galloping composition.

I stayed on the air for a couple of hours after this, spinning more of a rock show. That playlist is located here; for the “proper” show’s playlist, look below the fold.

Album titles link into KZSU’s Zookeeper database; the icon means there’s a review or description there as well. Little links that say things like “more here” go to previous entries in this blog.

Artist	Track		Album/Label
Zorn, John (more here)	A Ride on Cottonfair		Dreamers, The Tzadik
Malaby, Tony	Alechinsky		Paloma Recio New World Records
Hard Cell	My First Phone		Feign Screwgun Records
Black, Jim/Alas No Axis (more here)	Lowers in a Nine Sense		Houseplant Winter & Winter
Fowler, Jarrod (mentioned here)	Works Cited/Index		“Percussion” As Percussion Patrick Lovelace Editions
Dorf, The (more here)	Track 3		Dorf, The Leo Records
Sublette,Ned & Weiner,Lawrence	Spiritus Et Materia		Monsters From the Deep Qbadisc
Fully Celebrated, The (noted here)	Enemy Of Both Sides		Drunk On The Blood Of The Holy Ones Aum Fidelity
Simmons, Sonny Trio	Ancient Egypt		Live – in Paris Arhoolie
	– (4:00 p.m.) –
Noonan, Sean / Brewed By Noon	Over-N-Out		Boxing Dreams Songlines Recordings
West, Rich	I’m A Cockroach; Adapt, Adapt – Part 1		Mayo Grout’s Known Universe PfMENTUM
Splatter 3 + N	Peter Herley Pt. 4		Clear The Club Rastascan Records
Rigil	Marble		Concertina Heart (No Label Information)
15 Degrees Below Zero	2.5 [excerpt]		Resting On A Edgetone Records
Moses, Rakalam Bob	Exhalation #3 (Fire Breath)		Father’s Day B’hash Sunnyside Communications
	– (5:00 p.m.) –
Rudd, Roswell	Astro Slyde		Trombone Tribe Sunnyside Communications
Actooon	Crypt’s Black Monastery [excerpt]		Cemetaryland Self
Gamelan Kyai Gedhong Gedhe	Kembang Kacang		Gamelan Of Central Java X: Sindhen Trio Felmay
Léandre, Joëlle & Quentin Sirjacq (noted here)	Ruin		Out Of Nowhere Actuelle Cd
Wilkes, Corey & Abstrakt Pulse (noted here)	First Mind		Cries From Tha Ghetto Pi Recordings
Ton Trio	Switches		Way, The Singlespeed Music
Flinner, Matt Trio	Inferno Reel		Music Du Jour Compass Records
Hoff, Devin	The Cause		Solo Bass self-released
At Jennie Richie	The Bicycle Considered Part One		Bicycle Considered, The Self
Etkin, Oran	Not A Waltz		Kelenia Motema Music
Sun Ra	Sea Of Sounds		Space Is The Place Impulse Records
Connah, Graham Sour Note Six	Moo Is a Plea for Mercy		My God Has Fleas Rastascan Records
Spirit Moves Us, The	Chunk		Mudwagon, Vol. 1 Edgetone Records
Sexmob Meets Medeski (noted here)	Odd Job/You Only Live Twice		Live In Willisau 2006 Thirsty Ear Recordings
Bjork	My Spine		Telegram Elektra Records (Metal)
Sangare, Oumou	Sounsoumba		Seya World Circuit
Bloom Project (noted here)	The Phantom Shade		Sudden Aurora Edgetone Records
	– (7:00 p.m.) –
Peacock, Gary	Snow Dance		December Poems Ecm Records
Shulman, Adam Quintet	When I Dream		Patterns Of Change Kabocha