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[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 39

Here’s my most recent mix for NTS Radio, in which I’m still on an autumnal tip. Psychy acoustic folk, dreamy shoegaze, and a really gorgeous, tears-inducing children’s choir rendition of a song from my childhood favorite, Watership Down. I hope you like it, and that you’re staying warm! You can download an mp3 version here.

Tracklist: 1. Woo – Fanfare 2. Eloy – Horizons 3. A.C. Marias – Looks Like 4. Maxine Funke – Make That Dream 5. April Stevens & Nino Tempo – You’ll Be Needing Me Baby 6. Esther & Abi Ofarim – Every Night 7. Woo – When You Find Your Love 8. Kyu Sakamoto – 上を向いて歩こう 9. Hydroplane – Wurlitzer Jukebox 10. Judee Sill – Jesus Was A Cross Maker 11. Colin Blunstone – Misty Roses 12. The Small Choir Of St. Brandon’s School – Bright Eyes 13. Ichiko Hashimato – A Stranger In Paradise 14. Cocteau Twins – Round 15. Linda Cohen – Madman Samba 16. Karen H. Oznick – I Miss You 17. Scribble – Mother Of Pearl

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 38: Robbie Băsho Special

This month for Getting Warmer on NTS Radio, I made a mix in homage to the great Robbie Băsho, who makes some of my favorite fall listening. I did my best to incorporate both his classics and some of his less known moments, all of which evidence such an incredible range of musicianship and emotion. Though Băsho’s life was tragically cut short by a freak chiropractic accident, he accomplished so much in his twenty years of making music and left us an impressive catalogue to celebrate. He went to military school, then pre-med. He painted, sang, played trumpet, played lacrosse, lifted weights, wrote poetry, and changed his name to Băsho after the Japanese poet. He went through phases of cultural and musical obsession, including Sufi, Buddhist, Hindu, Japanese, Indian classical, Iranian, Native American, English and Appalachian folk, Western blues, and Western classical “periods.” He “used open C and more exotic tunings and he developed an esoteric doctrine for 12- and 6-string guitar, concerned with color and mood. He spoke of ‘Zen-Buddhist-Cowboy songs’ a long time before Gram Parsons mentioned his vision of Cosmic American music.” He studied under Ali Akbar Khan. He pushed for a broader appreciation of the steel-string guitar as a classical concert instrument. He made 14 studio albums in 19 years. He wrote “a Sufi symphony” and another for piano and orchestra about Spanish and Christian cultures coming to America. He’s considered one of the geniuses of American folk and blues, and yet his name often gets lost in conversations about John Fahey, Leo Kottke, and Sandy Bull. If you’d like to hear more, you can listen to two of his records here and here. You can download an mp3 of the mix here. Take it for an afternoon walk if you’re able. I hope you enjoy it.
“My philosophy is quite simple: soul first, technique later; or, better to drink wine from the hands than water from a pretty cup. Of course the ultimate is wine from a pretty cup. Amen.”

Tracklist: 1. Robbie Băsho – Redwood Ramble 2. Robbie Băsho – Cathedrals et Fleur de Lis 3. Robbie Băsho – Roses and Snow 4. Robbie Băsho – Twilight Peaks 5. Robbie Băsho – Rocky Mountain Raga 6. Robbie Băsho – Rodeo 7. Robbie Băsho – The White Princess 8. Robbie Băsho – Mehera 9. Robbie Băsho – Variations on Clair de Lune 10. Robbie Băsho – Salangadou 11. Robbie Băsho – Basket Full Of Dragons 12. Robbie Băsho – Sweet Medicine 13. Robbie Băsho – Orphan’s Lament 14. Robbie Băsho – Call on the Wind

Guest Mix: Vojtěch a Irena

Guest mix by DBGO (Soundcloud / YouTube / Playmoss) This is a a selection of Czechoslovak music from 1974 to 1994. Please enjoy!

Tracklist: 1. Iva Bittová – Proudem Mléka (1990) 2. Irena Havlová a Vojtěch Havel – Ta jemná gamelánie III (1992) 3. Richter Band – Křišťálové Ráno (1992) 4. Mirka Křivánková ▪ Jiří Stivín & Co. – Mlhavé Doteky (1985) 5. Jaroslav Kořán, Michal Kořán, Marek Hanzlík – Ta Naše Jediná A Nejlepší (1991) 6. The Ecstasy Of Saint Theresa – Her Eyes Have It (1994) 7. Energit – Jarní Rovnodennost (1978) 8. Zuzana Homolová – Sneh (1989) 9. Poloviční Chytání Richter Band – Čínský Potůček (1989) 10. Michal Kořán ft. Marie Steinerová – Meditace a moll pro samplované rádiové alikvóty (live) (1994) 11. Irena & Vojtěch Havlovi – Ledová Krůpěj Medová (1992)

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 37: Country Special

I made an all-country* special for my most recent episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio. I grew up thinking I didn’t like country music because the woman who effectively raised me listened exclusively to the contemporary country radio station and it, uh, wasn’t very good. I didn’t get into the good stuff until I was 19 or so, and still regret being so late to the party. This is a mix of my favorite kind of Golden Age country: mostly from the 50s and 60s, swimming in reverb, warbly with ghostly backing choirs, hazy heatwavy pedal steel guitar, and some of the most gorgeously tortured vocals. I hope you like it! You can download an mp3 version here. *For the purists, a few of these tracks aren’t strictly country, but are definitely country-adjacent!

Tracklist: 1. Slim Whitman – Cool Water 2. Brenda Lee – Break It To Me Gently 3. Patsy Cline – Lovesick Blues 4. Don Gibson – Sea of Heartbreak 5. Connie Francis – Tennessee Waltz 6. Wanda Jackson – One Teardrop at a Time 7. Waylon Jennings – Love’s Gonna Live Here 8. Houston Wells – All For The Love of a Girl 9. Dolly Parton – Gonna Hurry (As Slow As I Can) 10. Roy Orbison – Blue Bayou 11. Kitty Wells – I Can’t Stop Loving You 12. Patti Page – Dark Moon 13. Conway Twitty – It’s Only Make Believe 14. Billie Jo Spears – It Makes No Difference Now 15. Lonnie Donegan – Nobody’s Child 16. Loretta Lynn – Any One, Any Worse, Any Where 17. Jack Greene – There Goes My Everything 18. Ray Price – Crazy Arms 19. Brenda Lee – Fool #1 20. Charline Arthur – Please Darlin’ Please 21. Connie Francis – Second Hand Love 22. Sammi Smith – Help Me Make It Through the Night 23. Patsy Cline – Sweet Dreams (Of You)

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 36

Here’s my newest episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio, also marking my show being three years old! I tried to get slightly out of my wheelhouse with this one and be a little braver about mixing genres and moods, but it still feels very airy and spacey and summery to me. I hope you like it. Mp3 download is here if you’d like it. Flyer image by Eric Epstein.

Tracklist: 1. Sandy Salisbury – Come Softly 2. MJ Lallo – Before Brazil 3. Goddess in the Morning – Ucraine 4. UCC Harlo – Ceres 5. Yumi Murata – TOKIの音 6. CFCF – Closed Space 7. Enno Velthuys – In the Royal Woods 8. Annie Haslam – If I Loved You 9. Kissing the Pink – How Can I Live 10. Mouth Music – Hoireann O 11. Matt Bianco – Half A Minute 12. Masashi Kitamura + Phonogenix – ヴァリエイション・III 13. All In One – Rich Man, Poor Man 14. Sth Notional – Yawn Yawn Yawn 15. Björk – Come To Me

Guest Mix: Appel d’Air Vol. 2


Guest post by John Also Bennett (JAB / Seabat / Forma). JAB’s debut solo album Erg Herbe was released on Shelter Press earlier this year.

This mix was compiled as the second volume in my “Appel d’ Air” mix series, the first volume of which is available here. It takes its name from the Michel Redolfi album of the same name. I’m always looking for music that uses flute or wind instruments, open spaces, and environmental sound in tandem, even if these conditions are only met loosely. In this collection I included two pieces of music originally composed as environmental music for video games (“Inside The Deku Tree” from Legend of Zelda and a Resident Evil Save Room theme), both of which  were designed to color the atmosphere of a virtual space, and both of which use flute (albeit electronic). Eva-Maria Houben’s “ein schlummer (a slumber)” uses flute and organ and their reverberations inside a large cathedral: the near silences between notes as the reverb tails off are as important as the notes themselves. I also included one of my own compositions, “Chanterai por mon coraige,” recorded in a decrepit mill in the French countryside, pictured above. Like many of the pieces included on this mix, the sound of the space in which the piece was recorded plays a role in the composition; in this case evening crickets and the churning of a nearby creek. You can download an mp3 version here.


Tracklist:
1. Daniel Kobialka – Organic Eternity (Excerpt)
2. Koji Kondo – Inside The Deku Tree (Legend of Zelda – Ocarina Of Time)
3. Mary Jane Leach – Downland’s Tears (Excerpt)
4. Vijay Raghav Rao – Raga Malkauns – Alap and Gat n Jhaptal
5. Jim Fassett – Symphony Of The Birds (Third Movement)
6. Eva-Maria Houben – ein schlummer (a slumber)
7. Steve Roach – Spectre
8. Mamoru Samuragochi – Resident Evil – Save Room (2002 Remake)
9. Harold Budd with Jon Gibson – How Vacantly You Stare At Me
10. Che Chen & Robbie Lee – This Was The Only Place That Was Green
11. JAB – Chanterai por mon coraige
12. Jefre-Cantu Ledesma – Joy

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 35: Summer Disco Special II

Hi! I’m still here, and still missing sharing music. The good news is that I just quit my day job to focus on food full time (scary, but cool!), and my plan is to continue blogging regularly once I’ve figured out how this whole new life format works. In the mean time, here’s my latest episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio. It’s full of what I want to listen to in the summer time: classic disco, funk, and soul. I hope you get a chance to listen to it en route to the beach, or at a barbecue, or that at the very least it makes you bop your head around a bit. You can download an mp3 version of it here. See you soon, thanks for being here 💙

Tracklist: 1. Jocelyn Brown – Somebody Else’s Guy 2. Melba Moore – Standing Right Here 3. Loose Joints – Tell You (Today) (Original 12” Vocal) 4. Bonnie Pointer – Free Me From My Freedom 5. Patrice Rushen – Never Gonna Give You Up (Joey Negro Re-Grooved Mix) 6. Family Of Eve – Having It So Bad For You 7. Phreek – May My Love Be With You 8. First Choice – Love Thang 9. Sybil Thomas – Rescue Me 10. Rose Laurens – American Love 11. Keiichi Oku – Heat Wave 12. Nile Rodgers – My Love Song For You

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 34

Hello! I’m still here, still up to my ears in food projects, still missing sharing music, and still very much looking forward to getting back to it. In the mean time, here’s my most recent episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio. This one is very spacey, with lots of reverb and a few psychy things. You can download an mp3 version here. Thanks as always for listening, and happy spring <3

Tracklist: 1. Gigi – Abay 2. Jun Miyake – Third Eye 3. Aragon – かかし 4. Francesco Messina – Comunicazioni Interne 5. Nuno Canavarro – Segredos M 6. Mychal Danna – Inanna 7. Bryan Ferry – Boys And Girls 8. Goddess In The Morning – 14 9. The Millenium – The Island 10. Yoshiaki Ochi – Dawning 11. Masayuki Sakamoto – Psy’chy 12. Quigley – If I Could Fly 13. Gigi – Guramayle (Slight Return) 14. Curt Boettcher – Lament Of The Astral Cowboy

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 33

Here’s my newest episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio. I was working on this as news was breaking about the fire at Notre Dame cathedral, so I was thinking a lot about sacred music and sacred spaces, but also about the hard lines we draw between devotional music and non-denominational music that still embodies some aspects of reverence for the divine, and what it means to enjoy music or other aesthetic remnants of religions that we don’t necessarily subscribe to or think are problematic. Some of this music is explicitly religious, and some of it isn’t. I hope you like it! You can download an mp3 version here.

Tracklist: 1. Skin – Blood On Your Hands 2. Roberto Musci – Lidia After The Snow 3. Kenji Kawai – 謡II (Ghost City: Chant II) 4. Les Nouvelles Polyphonies Corses With Hector Zazou – Eramu In Campu 5. Sœur Marie Keyrouz – L’Apostikhon de l’Office de Mercredi Saint (Prière de Marie-Madeleine) “Ya Rabbi”… 6. Sainkho Namtchylak – Haragannig 7. David Hykes & The Harmonic Choir – Kyrie Opening 8. Dead Can Dance – Wilderness 9. Geinoh Yamashirogumi – カライ・モーメ (さあ行きましょう、娘さん) 10. Urszula Dudziak – Po Tamtej Stronie Gory 11. Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir – Kalimankou Denkou 12. Dead Can Dance – The Host Of Seraphim 13. Jocelyn Montgomery With David Lynch – Alleluia 14. Geinoh Yamashirogumi – Kleenex 15. Elena Ledda & Mauro Palmas – Sett’ispadas De Dolore

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 32

This month’s mix for NTS Radio is predictably a spring wish fulfillment dream–lots of lush, green sounds, animals, a Dip In The Pool song that sounds uncannily like Scritti Politti, Gal Costa doing a live version of “Volta” that makes me cry forever, and the original and excellent version of “Kokorowa,” which you may have heard covered by Love, Peace & Trance. I hope you like it! You can download an mp3 version here if you like it. Cover image is by Hirō Isono. I also wanted to apologize for how quiet it’s been around here recently–I’m very much still here and appreciate that some of you have reached out to check in! I generally try to avoid too much cross-promotion, but I have a food project that has been keeping me unbelievably busy for the past few months and I’ve been struggling to keep up. I’ve been missing having music be an active part of my life and am very much looking forward to stepping back into it. Thanks always for reading and being here 💙

Tracklist: 1. Sally Oldfield – Night of the Hunters Moon 2. Waak Waak Djungi – White Cockatoo 3. Hajime Mizoguchi – A Giraffe And The Moon 4. Steve Hillage – Garden of Paradise (excerpt) 5. Pili Pili – Be In Two Minds 6. Killing Time – Kokorowa 7. Gal Costa – Volta (Live) 8. Katsutoshi Morizono & Bird’s Eye View – Imagery 9. Dip In The Pool – A Quasi Quadrate 10. Ryuichi Sakamoto – Dolphins 11. All In One – Come Live With Me 12. Today’s Latin Project – Danza Lucumi 13. Tomoki Kanda – Everybody Wants To Rule The World 14. Sunstroke – Nothing’s Wrong In Paradise 15. Taeko Ohnuki – 祈り (Inori)