This is the official podcast of blogcityblog.com. It's a weekly mix of eclectic music, spoken word and various sounds found in a variety of places, including the web, television, radio and real life.
There's a snow storm brewing on the east coast of the United States. Inside the spartan studios of the sounds found audio yard, we're turning Pretenders loops into irregular heart beats and setting a melancholy tone, noting the passing of the beautiful singer Lhasa De Sela. Our musical selections include Tsegué-Maryam Guébrou (from Ethiopiques Vol. 21), Bola De Nieve, Lhasa De Sela, and Ramito, with Chuito el de Bayamón. We have sounds found from the Pretenders, Sharpe James and Mr. Softee.
You listen. You really listen. We're celebrating our largest jump in listeners since we started this podcast. Thanks. We appreciate your ears. We have sounds found from a 2005 interview with jazz great Paquito D'Rivera, Cheech & Chong, and the JC sanitation department. Our musical selections include some samples of Charles Mingus, playing piano, singing, and playing bass, of course, Los Lobos, a mix of various Tango selections, including Astor Piazzolla, Maxwell, Lou Reed and Friends of Dean Martinez. We welcome your comments and contributions. Send e-mail to soundsfoundaudio@gmail.com.
Old skool Salsa greats and weird-ass hip hop sampling make for a heady SF experience. We have sounds found from Paul Okenfold, LL Cool J, Biz Markie, De La Soul, Clifford Brown, Tila Tequila, Paula Abdul, the Jersey City Police Department, Eddie Palmieri and Ray Barretto. Musical selections include John Coltrane, Grupo Jose Maria Vitier, Mahalia Jackson and Bebo Valdes and Cigala. We welcome your comments and contributions. Send e-mail to soundsfoundaudio@gmail.com.
Psychedelia leads to a heady mix of Coltrane (Alice) and Stones (Rolling), along with sounds found from renowned Latin music scholar and author Isabelle Leymarie. Musical selections include Bob Dylan, Music Music Music, Paul Simon, Teddy Pendergrass (RIP TP!) and the Flamingos.
It's a new year and a new Sounds Found. Vicky takes a break, for starters, and the producer takes over. Our musical selections include Joe Jackson, Prince, James Brown, Talking Heads, Miriam Makeba, Tito Puente, Carole King, Diane Birch, Thelomious Monk and Charles Mingus. We welcome your comments and contributions. Send e-mail to: soundsfoundaudio@gmail.com.
On the last week before Christmas Vicky is thinking warm thoughts. We have sounds found from the beach at Asbury Park, a special reading of "the Christmas Cow" with Gary Walker, Doug Doyle and Andrew Meyer and the Jetsons Theme. Our musical selections include Bebel Gilberto, Marissa, Ojos de Brujo, Mono Blanco, Chicago and the Waitresses. We welcome your comments and contributions. Send e-mail to soundsfoundaudio@gmail.com.
As we hustle and bustle towards Christmas, we have sounds found from the bells of St. Anthony's Church, a sample of Yomo Toro, Juan Cartagena explaining el asalto navideño and John Green reading Jabberwocky. Our musical selections include Jimmy Smith, Louis Armstrong, Ramito de Puerto Rico, Ray Charles, the Clash, Canned Heat, ELO, Prince, Jorge Ben, Charlie Parker, and Yo Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin. We welcome your comments and contributions. Send e-mail to soundsfoundaudio@gmail.com.
Wherein Vicky returns after a short vacation. (Thanks for filling in, Alex.) We have sounds found from a kiss off phone message, stories told out of school and a call to prayer from places unknown. Musical selections include the Beatles, King Coya, the Specials, Cornershop, MFSB, the Bells, Wyn Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb (Miles sat out), Isaac Hayes, Nat Cole Trio, Leny Andrade, Concha Buika, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Serge Gainsbourg with Eddie Mitchell and the Dip Tse Chong Ling Monastery. We welcome your comments and contributions. Send e-mail to soundsfoundaudio@gmail.com.
Vicky finally has a day off. Alex has an uneven debut on the mic., but makes up for it in the lab. We have some seasonal sounds found from an instructional video on carving your bird and a Thanksgiving call home. Our musical selections include The Ventures, a Beatles, Joe Jackson and Electric Light Orchestra mix, Gary Wright, David Bowie, Erik Satie, Natural Spiritual Orchestra, Charles Mingus samples, Dave Cortez and the Moon People, Cortijo y su Combo (featuring Ismael Rivera), Laurie Anderson, Lole y Manuel, Yusa, Bob Marley and Quinteto Villa-Lobos. We welcome your comments and contributions. Please send e-mail to soundsfoundaudio@gmail.com.
In which Vicky takes a request and says a belated Arriba! We have sounds found from the Jersey City police department, a sample of "Mas Que Nada" by Sergio Mendes, Cachaito, and George Carlin. We have music from Tipica 73, Ray Barretto, Los Zafiros, a Frank Sinatra/Skanatra mash-up (by request), Bad Plus, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Armstrong with Duke Ellington and his orchestra. We welcome your comments and contributions. Send e-mail to soundsfoundaudio@gmail.com.
It's Ladies Night on SF, all beers half price! To celebrate, we have sounds found from an episode of "Scrubs" (for Judy), and an exclusive interview with the Commander in Chief. We have music from Omara Portuando, Sarah Vaughn, Blossom Dearie, Uxia, Fiona Apple, La Lupe, Janis Ian, and Rotary Connection. We welcome your comments and contributions. Send e-mail to soundsfoundaudio@gmail.com.
It's story time as Vicky celebrates Halloween. We have sounds found from Miles, Diz and Michael Morreale (accompanying Lykke Li), some African drummers of unknown origin, and Civil War expert Jim Madden. We have music from Ms. Li, Monica Salmaso, Mandrill, Bobby Sanabria, Flat Earth Society, J. Geils Band, the Police, Led Zeppelin and David Lindley. We welcome your comments and contributions. Send e-mail to soundsfoundaudio@gmail.com.
Wherein Vicky celebrates Dizzy Gillespie's birthday. We have sounds found from Dizzy, Izzy Sanabria, Rudy Giuliani, Maya Angelou and William S. Burroughs. We also have music from Dizzy (and Bird), Notorious B.I.G. with Frank Sinatra (a Jon Moskowitz mix), Grand Master Flash, Ibrahim Ferrer, Hijas Del Sol, Crosby, Still, Nash & Young and Joe Jackson. We welcome your comments and contributions. Send e-mail to soundsfoundaudio@gmail.com.
In which Vicky works through her sadness. We have sounds found from Robert Frost and Felipe Luciano and music from Friends of Dean Martinez, the Clash, Muddy Waters, Erik Satie, Louis and Ella, John Mellencamp, Mongo Santamaria, Roberto Roena and Roberto Fonseca. We welcome your comments and contributions. Send e-mail to soundsfoundaudio@gmail.com.
During which John can't seem to take "no" for an answer. We have sounds found from Betty Carter, The Beatles, George W. Bush and De La Soul. We also have music from Alice Coltrane, Neil Young, Bob Marley, Lole y Manuel, Tribe Called Quest, Alan Parsons Project, Brazilian Girls, Miles Davis and the Randy Van Horne Singers. We welcome your comments and contributions. Send e-mail to soundsfoundaudio@gmail.com
During which Vicky makes some beats and laments the end of summer. We have sounds found from James Brown, Ojos de Brujo, Cypress Hill, Bruce Springsteen, Marilyn Wright reading Robert Byrne's "To a Mouse," accompanied by Spaulding Givens and Charles Mingus, plus a variety of summer sounds on the occasion of the season's passing. We also have music from Bow Wow Wow, Los Lobos, Arctic Monkeys, Sambalanço Trio, Frank Sinatra meets Skanatra, Oscar Peterson and Run DMC. We welcome your comments and contributions. Send e-mail to soundsfoundaudio@gmail.com
Wherein Rahsaan Roland Kirk breaks down Dvorak and Benny Goodman. We've got sounds found from Queen and Richard Pryor. We'll also hear what happens when a police stop goes bad, get commentary from Mr. Spock and a commercial message from Central Services. You'll hear music from the Peasall Sisters, Karen Dalton, Muddy Waters, Joe Jackson, Derek Trucks Band, Charles Mingus, the Westminster Choir and Ricky Ricardo. We welcome your comments and contributions. Send comments and clips to soundsfoundaudio@gmail.com.
Wherein we imagine a world where the Muslim call to prayer in Egypt and the bells of a New England church inspire peace and fade into a Hindu chant. Our sounds found include Don Odilio Gonzalez telling the story of how he came to own La Conguita on Grove Street, and Vicky enraptured by daytime TV. You'll also hear music from Ravi Shankar, Animal and the Sesame Street Band, Mulatu Astatke, Archie Bell & the Drells, Hector Lavoe & Willie Colon, Friends of Distinction, Talking Heads, Gene Pitney, and America. We have a new e-mail address: soundsfoundaudio@gmail.com. Please feel free to send us your sound, musical and otherwise. Peace.
We've got sounds found at a frat party just before it gets out of hand, a funeral cortege up Montgomery Street, poetry from Jim Morrison and Vicky takes a call from a fan. There's also music from Bjork, the Plugz, Curtis Mayfield, the Specials, English Beat, Laura Nyro, Lykke Li, Betty Carter & Ray Charles, Nellie Mcay, Yves Montand, Steel Pulse, Clark Terry with Oscar Peterson and Quincy Jones. We welcome your comments and mp3 submissions. Reach us at elbeat@comcast.net
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