Podcast appearances and mentions of Sonny Sharrock

Episode 174 Chapter 33, Digital Synthesizers and Samplers. Works Recommended from my book, Electronic and Experimental Music  Welcome to the Archive of Electronic Music. This is Thom Holmes. This podcast is produced as a companion to my book, Electronic and Experimental Music, published by Routledge. Each of these episodes corresponds to a chapter in the text and an associated list of recommended works, also called Listen in the text. They provide listening examples of vintage electronic works featured in the text. The works themselves can be enjoyed without the book and I hope that they stand as a chronological survey of important works in the history of electronic music. Be sure to tune-in to other episodes of the podcast where we explore a wide range of electronic music in many styles and genres, all drawn from my archive of vintage recordings. There is a complete playlist for this episode on the website for the podcast. Let's get started with the listening guide to Chapter 33, Digital Synthesizers and Samplers from my book Electronic and Experimental music.   Playlist: DIGITAL SYNTHESIZERS AND SAMPLERS   Time Track Time Start Introduction –Thom Holmes 01:38 00:00 1.     Jon Appleton, “Syntrophia”(1978) from Music For Synclavier And Other Digital Systems. Composed and performed on the Synclavier, Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer, Jon Appleton. 08:55 01:40 2.     Claude Larsen, “Nitrogen” (1980) from Synthesis. Sounds a bit like “Oxygen” by Jarre from 1976. Programmed, performed, Fairlight CMI Music, Roland System 700, Oberheim TVS-1 Four Voice, Polymoog, Roland MC 8 Micro-Composer, Syntovox vocoder, Claude Larson. 02:31 10:36 3.     Eberhard Schoener, “Fairlight 80” (1980) from Events. Featured the Fairlight CMI played by Schoener and vocals by Clare Torry. 04:20 13:04 4.     Eberhard Schoener, “Events - A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu” (1980) from Events. Mellotron, Violin, Piano, Moog, Oberheim, Fairlight CMIsynthesizers, Eberhard Schoener;  Fairlight CMI, Morris Pert; Gong, Percussion (Gede, Kempli, Rejong), Furst Agong Raka; Gong, Percussion (Gender, Lanang, Rejong), Ketut Tama; Gong, Percussion (Wadong, Rejong), Rai Raka; Percussion, Morris Pert; Fender electric piano, Roger Munnis; tenor saxophone, Olaf Kübler; Drums,  Evert Fraterman, Pete York; Electric Bass, Steve Richardson; Electric Guitar, Ian Bairnson. 11:07 17:26 5.     Klaus Schulze, “Death Of An Analogue” (1980) from Dig It. All music played on the Crumar GDS digital synthesizer/computer. All percussion by F.S. Drum Inc. and GDS. 12:20 28:31 6.     Klaus Schulze, “The Looper Isn't A Hooker” (1980) from Dig It. All music played on the Crumar GDS digital synthesizer/computer. All percussion by F.S. Drum Inc. and GDS. 07:05 40:52 7.     Joel Chadabe and Jan Williams, “Song Without Words” (1981) from Rhythms For Computer And Percussion. "The equipment used in RHYTHMS is a portable minicomputer/digital synthesizer system designed and manufactured by New England Digital Corporation in Norwich, Vermont, expressly for making music.” This was an early Synclavier without a keyboard controller. Synclavier digital synthesizer, Joel Chadabe; Percussion, Vibraphone, Marimba, Slit Drum, Log, Wood Block, Temple Block, Cowbell, Singing Bowls, Jan Williams. 07:24 47:54 8.     Don Muro, “Deanna Of The Fields” (1981) from Anthology. Vocals, Piano, Electric Piano, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Synthesizer, Korg M1 Music Workstation, Bass, Drums, Percussion, Don Muro. 02:52 55:18 9.     Nervous Germans, “Hometown” (1981) from Nervösen Deutschen. Bass, Producer, Micki Mäuser; Drums, Udo Dahmen; Guitar, Manni Holländer; Vocals, Casio VL Tone micro keyboard, Grant Stevens. 05:15 58:10 10.   Tuxedomoon, “Blind” from Time To Lose, Blind. Effects, Guitar, Peter Principle; Casio M-10, Blaine L. Reininger; Vocals, Moog, Soprano Saxophone, Steven Brown; Vocals, Winston Tong. 07:44 01:03:26 11.   Herbie Hancock, “Rough” (1983) from Future Shock. Fairlight CMI, AlphaSyntauri, Emulator, Herbie Hancock; Background Vocals, Bernard Fowler, Grandmixer D.ST., Nicky Skopelitis, Roger Trilling; Bass, Bill Laswell; Drums, Sly Dunbar; Lead Vocals, Lamar Wright; Prophet-5, Michael Beinhorn; Turntables, Voice, Grandmixer D.ST. 06:54 01:11:00 12.   Wendy Carlos, “Genesis,” “Eden,” and “I.C. (Intergalactic Communications)” (1984) from Wendy Carlos' Digital Moonscapes. Programmed All Sounds programmed and performed on the Crumar GDS/Synergy digital synthesizer, Wendy Carlos. 15:20 01:17:50 13.   Ron Kuivila, “Household Object” (1984) from Fidelity. Casio VL toneand homemade electronics, Ron Kuivila. 09:34 01:33:20 14.   Lejaren Hiller, “Expo '85” (1985) from Computer Music Retrospective. Four short pieces highlight the versatility of the Kurzweil K250: “Circus Piece - A Cadential Process” (4:04), “Transitions - A Hierarchical Process” (2:12), “Toy Harmonium - A Statistical Process” (1:41), “Mix Or Match - A Tune Generating Process (5 Examples)” (3:44). 11:55 01:42:52 15.   Third World, “Can't Get You (Out Of My Mind)” (1985) from Sense Of Purpose. Yamaha DX7, Prophet 5, PFR Yamaha, Grand Piano Yamaha Acoustic, Organ Hammond B3, Clavinet Mohner D6, Percussion, Vocals, Michael "Ibo" Cooper; Backing Vocals, Glenn Ricks, Meekaaeel; Bass, Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vocals, Percussion, Richie "Bassie" Daley; Drums Yamaha Acoustic Drums, Electronic Drums Simmons, Drum Machine D.M.X., Drum Machine Linn Drum Machine, Percussion, Backing Vocals, Willie Stewart; Keyboards, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Harmonica, Acoustic Guitar The Washburn Electro Acoustic, Vocals, Percussion, Stephen "Cat" Coore; Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Bill "Bunny Rugs" Clarke; Percussion, Neil Clarke; Percussion, Binghi Drums, Junior Wedderburn, Tschaka Tonge. 03:37 01:54:46 16.   George Todd, “Sound Sculptures” (1985) from Music For Kurzweil And Synclavier. Synclavier Digital Music System, George Todd. 09:02 01:58:22 17.   Russ Freeman, “Easter Island” (1986) from Nocturnal Playground. Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Guitar Synthesizer, Keyboard Bass, Emulator II, Linn 9000 Drum programming, Russ Freeman; Drums, Percussion, David Renick; Percussion, Emulator II programming, Steve Reid; Alto Saxophone, Brandon Fields. 05:30 02:07:22 18.   Donald Steven of G.E.M.S., “Images - Refractions Of Time And Space (1986)” from Group Of The Electronic Music Studio - McGill University. Yamaha DX7, Laurie Radford; Bass, John Oliver; Electric Flute, Jill Rothberg; Percussion, Elliot Polsky, François Gauthier. 11:42 02:12:52 19.   Jane Brockman, “Kurzweil Etudes” (1-3) (1986) from Music For Kurzweil And Synclavier. Kurzweil K250, Jane Brockman. 10:19 02:24:32 20.   Richard Burmer, “Across The View” (1987) from Western Spaces. Emulator II plus an analog synth, Richard Burmer. 04:38 02:34:48 21.   Sonny Sharrock Band, “Kate (Variations On A Theme By Kate Bush)” (1990) from Highlife.  Electronics, Korg M1, Korg Wave Station, Dave Snider; Bass, Charles Baldwin; Drums, Abe Speller, Lance Carter; Guitar, Sonny Sharrock. 05:52 02:39:32 22.   Second Decay, “Taste” (1994) from Taste. Produced with the Roland Compu Music CMU-800R workstation and without MIDI; Simmons Electronic Drums,Thomas V.. Other synths used: ARP Odyssey, ARP 2600, PPG Wave 2.0, Emulator I and II, Roland SH-101, SH-7, CR-78, TR-808, MC-4, TR-606, EMS Synthi A, Solina String, Mellotron, Crumar Performer, Teisco 110F, Wasp, Linn LM-1, SCI Pro-One, Minimoog, Korg Mono-Poly, SQ-10, Elektro Harmonix Minisynth, Vocoder and effect devices, Compact Phasing A, Roland Echos RE 201, SRE 555.  04:20 02:45:18   Additional opening, closing, and other incidental music by Thom Holmes. My Books/eBooks: Electronic and Experimental Music, sixth edition, Routledge 2020. Also, Sound Art: Concepts and Practices, first edition, Routledge 2022. See my companion blog that I write for the Bob Moog Foundation. For a transcript, please see my blog, Noise and Notations. Original music by Thom Holmes can be found on iTunes and Bandcamp.

On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it's Whitney Johnson! Whitney did something I've always dreamed about - releasing two different albums (under two separate names no less!) on the same day, and both of them are fabulous. We talk about that and some other sound projects before diving into all the sides of Sonny Sharrock, Prince's all-time greatness, unrepentant love for ABBA, Psychic TV destroying us, the Steve Winwood hypetrain, and FINALLY someone's favorite song is also my favorite song, so we had a moment at the end. Plus more, obviously!Listen to all of Whitney's picks HERE“Hav”“Stena”Whitney on InstagramSongs of Our Lives is a podcast series hosted by Brad Rose of Foxy Digitalis that explores the music that's made us and left a certain mark. Whether it's a song we associate with our most important moments, something that makes us cry, the things we love that nobody else does, or our favorite lyrics, we all have our own personal soundtrack. Join Foxy Digitalis on Patreon for extra questions and conversation in each episode (+ a whole lot more!)Follow Foxy Digitalis:WebsitePatreonInstagramTwitterBlueskyMastodonThe Jewel Garden

Almost every episode of Deep Focus is now available here as a podcast.  I say "almost" because there are a handful that, for technical reasons, were not recorded completely or not recorded at all (if anyone has a home recording of the show that I did with Greg Tate on the band VSOP, please send it my way!).   This is the first of those episodes to be posted to the podcast, and it's a great one: Melvin Gibbs on the topic of Sonny Sharrock at Soundscape.  It was recorded September 13, 2010 and here is the recording in its entirety.  

Not all of our heroes have streets named after them but this one does.  So, will we be playing recordings of Sonny Sharrock on Deep Focus this Monday night (Feb 5)?   Will they be recordings that you've never heard?   Will we have an insightful listening session with drummer/conceptualist William Hooker?    Find out Monday night from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org.  Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/   Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/   Photo credit: Mitch Goldman October 2, 2010.   #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #WilliamHooker #SonnySharrock #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast  

Not all of our heroes have streets named after them but this one does.  So, will we be playing recordings of Sonny Sharrock on Deep Focus this Monday night (Feb 5)?   Will they be recordings that you've never heard?   Will we have an insightful listening session with drummer/conceptualist William Hooker?    Find out Monday night from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org.  Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/   Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/   Photo credit: Mitch Goldman October 2, 2010.   #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #WilliamHooker #SonnySharrock #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast  

Not all of our heroes have streets named after them but this one does.  So, will we be playing recordings of Sonny Sharrock on Deep Focus this Monday night (Feb 5)?   Will they be recordings that you've never heard?   Will we have an insightful listening session with drummer/conceptualist William Hooker?    Find out Monday night from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR-HD and wkcr.org.  Next week it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/   Find out more about Deep Focus at https://mitchgoldman.com/about-deep-focus/   Photo credit: Mitch Goldman October 2, 2010.   #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #WilliamHooker #SonnySharrock #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast  

This season we discuss over 300 albums of the 1990s selected from https://besteveralbums.com. The show starts at (2:45). The Five Singles segment starts at (5:57). This episode covers the following albums: Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages (46:07), Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1:06:59), Slint - Spiderland (1:32:50), and Pearl Jam - Ten (1:58:23). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/combingthestacks/message

This week on the show, we're joined by Sam Shepherd, AKA Floating Points. His discography is full of beautiful and strange electronic music—bubbling Buchalas, skittering beats, washes of synthesized sound, and even moody, spacious post-rock. But underneath it all, his love of jazz is clear. In 2021, he teamed with an actual jazz legend: the late Pharoah Sanders, as well as the London Symphony Orchestra for Promises, a single 46-minute composition broken into nine movements.  Though the artists were separated by decades in age, their approach is simpatico. Just as Shepherd has moved between genres and styles, so did Pharoah. His early work with John and Alice Coltrane established him as a dynamic, sometimes frighteningly intense sideman, and his first run of records, including 1969's Karma, featuring “The Creator Has a Master Plan,” helped set the stage for what we now call “spiritual jazz.”  But Sanders, who passed away in 2022 at the age of 81, cared very little about what genre you filed his records under. “I just play whatever I feel like playing,” he told The New Yorker. Sanders stayed restless and creative—listen to his playing on Sonny Sharrock's masterful Ask the Ages or his works with Bill Laswell, and you'll hear what we mean. In 1977, he waded into deeply personal waters with the self-titled Pharoah, which will be reissued by Luaka Bop on September 15th. Exploring new age adjacent sounds, funk, and passionate ballads, it's a radical departure from his early work, but perfectly in keeping with Sanders' unpredictable ethos.  Likewise, Promises is hardly the “back to basics” late career album you might expect an 80-year-old artist to make. It's its own thing, a meditative sojourn that relies on silence as much as sound. And next week, on September 20th, Floating Points will be joined by past Transmissions guest Shabaka Hutchings, as well as Caribou, Four Tet, the Sun Ra Arkestra, and others for the first-ever staging of Promises live at the Hollywood Bowl. Ahead of that show, Shepherd joined us from his studio to discuss his his years collecting records, making Promises—and we even got him to reveal Pharoah's favorite place to eat in LA.  Transmissions is a part of the Talkhouse Podcast Network. Visit the Talkhouse for more interviews, fascinating reads, and podcasts, like Drifter's Sympathy, with Emil Amos of Grails, Om, Holy Sons, who will be our guest next week on Transmissions. And of course No Way Out: An Oral History of Sunburned Hand of the Man, curated and produced by J Kelly Davis and presented by Aquarium Drunkard and Talkhouse. Back soon. Next week on the show, Jarvis Taveniere of Woods.

This week, Sam and Jason stomp on the topic of fuzz boxes, distortion pedals, gain, and direct-into-the-board breakup. It's a "distorted" episode, with weigh-ins from the Clickhead live chat and discussions of Neil Young, Marty McFly, Os Mutantes, Sonny Sharrock, and the mystical, mysteriously far-out visions of musical gear inventor, computer animator, and musician CCDB. Plus, the duo dish on Band Shirt Day and share their cover of The X-Files theme via Perpetual Doom. Originally taped live via the WASTOIDS YouTube, aired August 30, 2023. Originally taped live via the WASTOIDS YouTube, aired August 30, 2023. Call us anytime at 1-877-WASTOIDS. More podcasts and videos at WASTOIDS.com | Follow us on Instagram and YouTube.

We all know about fusion - the (sometime unholy) union of jazz and rock that tried to find a new audience for instrumentalists in the 1970s.  But there have always been, well, odder experiments with electricity in jazz, more like intrusions of the rock world than integrations, and we look at four rather varied examples in this here podcast.  Running the gamut from harmolodic blues-slinger to fusion axe-hero to . . . Herbie Mann? - these artists let the guitar off da hook and, possibly, into your hearts.  Herbie Mann - MEMPHIS UNDERGROUND ; James Blood Ulmer – BLACK ROCK;  Alan Holdsworth – NONE TOO SOON; Jay Hoggard - RIVERSIDE DANCE.

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! This week, we travel BACK IN TIME!!! The film? 2004's "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" When Giant Robots attack 1930s New York City, and kidnap all of the worlds most famous scientists... there's only one man to call.... JUDE LAW!! Gwyneth Paltro and Jude Law team up with an all star cast including Giovanni Ribisi and Angelina Jolie in one of the first major Hollywood films to be made almost completely digitally So crank that volume, crack yourself a beer, turn that refrigerator box into a plane, and help a couple of Dix earn their wings Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Movie Intro: "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow OS" Voice clips:  "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow)" Outro: Aces High (1998 Remaster)" --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dixtalkflix/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dixtalkflix/support

Erik Lawrence has toured the world as a saxophonist, flutist and composer, sometimes with his own original groups and often in support of a wide variety of legendary artists, from The Band, Levon Helm, Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello to Chico Hamilton and Sonny Sharrock, from Tibetans Yungchen Lamo and Nawhang Khechog to poet Robert Pinsky, from David Amram to the Spin Doctors, My Morning Jacket, Roger Waters, Joan Osborne, Bob Weir and Phil Lesh, Aaron Neville, Hubert Sumlin, Buddy Miles, Henry Butler, Big Chief Russell Moore and countless others. He's currently a member of the legendary band Little Feat and Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra. In addition to a busy concert and recording schedule, Erik performs musically guided meditations, which he calls Sound Sanctuary. Often performed solo or with one, two or three other like minded musicians, these are intended to calm, uplift and respond to the listener and help them to attain a higher sense of peace and confidence. He also offers private sessions, and in both settings Erik engages the listener/participant to release stress, trauma, grief, conflict and anger. Erik has working with physical trauma, illness, migraines, end of life care, grief, with ailing or troubled pets, as well. Erik has given lectures and demonstrations at music therapy pain symposiums (recertification program), nursing continuing education, the New Jersey Piano Tuner's Guild, arts centers, yoga and healing centers, private and public universities and high schools, and in other formal and informal settings. http://www.eriklawrencemusic.com/ Natalie Brown: http://www.soundshealstudio.com http://www.facebook.com/soundshealstudio.com http://www.instagram.com/nataliebrownsoundsheal http://www.youtube.com/soundshealstudio Music by Natalie Brown, Hope & Heart http://www.youtu.be/hZPx6zJX6yA This episode is sponsored by The Om Shoppe. The OM Shoppe & Spa offers a vast array of Sound Healing and Vibrational Medicine tools for serious professionals and for those ready to make sound and vibration part of their ongoing lifestyle. More and more we are coming to understand that our individual wellness is a direct reflection of our personal vibration. How we care for ourselves, our physical bodies, our minds and our spirits. The OM Shoppe is ready to help you today in a variety of ways. They offer the countries largest showroom of Quartz Crystal Singing bowls, sound healing instruments and vibrational medicine tools. If you are ready to uplevel your sound healing practice The OM Shoppe is a great place to get guidance and direction. They are available to consult with you directly by phone or you can shop online. They really enjoy getting to know their clients and customers one on one to better help recommend the right sound healing tools in the right tones for you. Call them today or visit them at http://www.theomshoppe.com. If you are ever near Sarasota, Florida, do consider stopping in and visiting with them or enjoy a luxury spa treatment such as sound healing, energy work, massage, vibroacoustics or hypnotherapy. They truly offer a full holistic experience for practitioners and those seeking healing through natural means.

Número de Abril de Libertad Jazzera, con el mejor Free Jazz y Avantgarde, que hemos empezado con el nuevo trabajo de John Zorn, esta vez junto al Ensemble Simulacrum, en 444, recientemente publicado para Tzadik este 2023. Del multiinstrumentista y compositor Erik Hall hemos escuchado su versión de la obra maestra firmada por Steve Reich en 1976, Music for 18 Musicians y que a su vez se publicó en el 2020. Desde el londinense Café Oto, una de las mecas del Free Jazz, hemos disfrutado con el directo de The Flame, en Towards The Flame, Vol. Seguir leyendo Libertad Jazzera 04.2023. Abril. John Zorn. Erik Hall. The Flame. Anthony Braxton. Sonny Sharrock. Pharoah Sanders. Helen Svoboda, Joe O’Connor and Tim Green. Borah Bergman & Andrew Cyrille. en La Montaña Rusa Radio Jazz.

Welcome back to another episode of Dix Talk Flix!! It's been quite a while since our last upload... Sorry about that, time moves differently in space! Tonight, we bring to you, 1996's "Space Truckers" Dennis Hopper and Stephen Dorff must deliver a mysterious load to Earth.. Problem is, they can't seem to escape the world of Space Pirates, killer robot women, android di*ks and more!! So turn up that volume, chug that zero gravity beer, strap those strings to your waist, and thrust your way out of orbit with a couple of Dix..!! Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Movie Intro:  "Chris Knight-Highway Junkie('Space Truckers' Version)" Voice clips:  "Space Truckers" Outro: "Space Truckin' (2012 Remaster)" --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dixtalkflix/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dixtalkflix/support

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Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Have you had enough of this crazy winter? Warm yourself up with tonight's film, 1989's "Weekend at Bernie's" Our main guys get invited out to their boss Bernie's beach house for the weekend... There's only one problem.... Bernie is DEAD!!! So turn up that volume, crack yourself a beer, drag your lifeless body to the nearest couch, and enjoy this comedic classic with a couple of Dix..!! Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Movie Intro: "Jermaine Stewart - Hot And Cold" Voice clips - "Weekend at Bernie's" Outro - "ISA: "Moving Like Berney" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/support

Happy Thanksgiving from Dix Talk Flix!! Tonight, we stuff our faces with an absolute banger.....IN SPACE!!! Our movie? No other, than "Thankskilling 3" Turkey is back, and this time, its personal.. So turn up that volume, grab that bowl of gravy, and get your ass stuffed, with a couple of Dix..!! Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Movie Intro: "ThanksKilling 3 Soundtrack - 01 ThanksKilling Dubstep Theme Voice clips - "Thankskilling 3" Outro - "Sprinkle of Wrinkle by Marc M (NSFW)" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/support

This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives, Mitch Goldman welcomes drummer Don McKenzie back to the studio for a very special Deep Focus on the supergroup Last Exit (Peter Brotzmann, Sonny Sharrock, Bill Laswell, Ronald Shannon Jackson), a rebroadcast from 2015. The band was known for its uncompromising musical ferocity, fueled by the band members' confrontational attitudes. Greg Kot wrote that they brought a level of "volume and violence that makes most rock bands sound tame."  Although Last Exit left a mere handful of recordings and made only limited tour dates, they left a reputation for scorched earth; dazzled, sputtering listeners and no apologies.  A quarter century later, however, when the swagger of the music's creators has been set aside, what emerges is magnificent improvisation (they never rehearsed) with glistening shards of beauty from each of the composer/bandleader members.  This will be especially well borne out by the unreleased live recordings to be presented on Monday night, music the world has almost never heard.   Drummer Don McKenzie, well-known for his playing with Elliot Sharp, Marc Ribot, Vernon Reid and Roswell Rudd among many, many others, brings special insight into this ensemble, so often discussed but so seldom brought to light.   WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org.   Catch it on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com.   #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #LastExit #DonMcKenzie #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #PeterBrotzmann #SonnySharrock #BillLaswell #RonaldShannonJackson #JazzRockFusion #NoWave   Photo credit: no publishing information available.

This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives (6pm to 9pm) Mitch Goldman welcomes drummer Don McKenzie back to the studio for a very special Deep Focus on the supergroup Last Exit (Peter Brotzmann, Sonny Sharrock, Bill Laswell, Ronald Shannon Jackson), a rebroadcast from 2015. The band was known for its uncompromising musical ferocity, fueled by the band members' confrontational attitudes. Greg Kot wrote that they brought a level of "volume and violence that makes most rock bands sound tame."  Although Last Exit left a mere handful of recordings and made only limited tour dates, they left a reputation for scorched earth; dazzled, sputtering listeners and no apologies.  A quarter century later, however, when the swagger of the music's creators has been set aside, what emerges is magnificent improvisation (they never rehearsed) with glistening shards of beauty from each of the composer/bandleader members.  This will be especially well borne out by the unreleased live recordings to be presented on Monday night, music the world has almost never heard.   Drummer Don McKenzie, well-known for his playing with Elliot Sharp, Marc Ribot, Vernon Reid and Roswell Rudd among many, many others, brings special insight into this ensemble, so often discussed but so seldom brought to light.   WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org.   Catch it on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com.   #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #LastExit #DonMcKenzie #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #PeterBrotzmann #SonnySharrock #BillLaswell #RonaldShannonJackson #JazzRockFusion #NoWave   Photo credit: no publishing information available.

This Monday night on Jazz Alternatives, Mitch Goldman welcomes drummer Don McKenzie back to the studio for a very special Deep Focus on the supergroup Last Exit (Peter Brotzmann, Sonny Sharrock, Bill Laswell, Ronald Shannon Jackson), a rebroadcast from 2015. The band was known for its uncompromising musical ferocity, fueled by the band members' confrontational attitudes. Greg Kot wrote that they brought a level of "volume and violence that makes most rock bands sound tame."  Although Last Exit left a mere handful of recordings and made only limited tour dates, they left a reputation for scorched earth; dazzled, sputtering listeners and no apologies.  A quarter century later, however, when the swagger of the music's creators has been set aside, what emerges is magnificent improvisation (they never rehearsed) with glistening shards of beauty from each of the composer/bandleader members.  This will be especially well borne out by the unreleased live recordings to be presented on Monday night, music the world has almost never heard.   Drummer Don McKenzie, well-known for his playing with Elliot Sharp, Marc Ribot, Vernon Reid and Roswell Rudd among many, many others, brings special insight into this ensemble, so often discussed but so seldom brought to light.   WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD1 and wkcr.org.   Catch it on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com.   #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #LastExit #DonMcKenzie #DeepFocus #MitchGoldman #PeterBrotzmann #SonnySharrock #BillLaswell #RonaldShannonJackson #JazzRockFusion #NoWave   Photo credit: no publishing information available.

I have said two things all season long. The first is that we're going to be exploring a single topic for ten episodes, and that topic is fusion. But the second thing I've been saying is that what I'm talking about when I say the word fusion isn't a style or a genre, but a state of mind. It's not what you play, it's how you approach music-making.In previous episodes, we've talked about what people typically think of as fusion, which drummer Lenny White, who appeared in episode two of this series, prefers to call jazz-rock. That's the version that more or less starts with Miles Davis's Bitches Brew and Tony Williams' Lifetime and branches out to include Mahavishnu Orchestra and Return To Forever and Weather Report. But my version of that continuum also includes early Seventies Santana, it includes the Fania All Stars collaborating with Jan Hammer and Billy Cobham, it includes adventurous funk and R&B fusion, like P-Funk and Earth, Wind & Fire and the Ohio Players and Slave, and it includes jazz-funk acts like Donald Byrd and Freddie Hubbard and George Duke.Vernon Reid is a guitarist who was born in England but grew up in New York. He's best known as the leader of Living Colour, and one of the co-founders of the Black Rock Coalition along with the late writer Greg Tate, but he's got a long and varied discography that encompasses solo material, duo and trio work with other guitarists like Bill Frisell, David Torn and Elliot Sharp, and guest appearances with a ton of groups from Public Enemy to the Rollins Band, Mick Jagger, Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Santana, and many, many more. His solo album Mistaken Identity from 1996 is the only album to carry co-producer credits from Prince Paul and Teo Macero. Back in 2012, he made an album with a group called Spectrum Road which featured John Medeski on keyboards, Jack Bruce on bass, and Cindy Blackman Santana on drums — it was conceptually a tribute to Tony Williams Lifetime, but it's very much its own thing as well, so definitely check that out.Reid got his start, though, with drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson's band the Decoding Society. He played guitar, banjo, and guitar synth with that group, which had two bassists: Melvin Gibbs, who was on this podcast a couple of years ago, and Reverend Bruce Johnson, and then some horn players, mostly Zane Massey on saxophones and Henry Scott on trumpet. It's high-energy music that's also really melodic in a kind of post-Prime Time way — jazz, funk, rock, Texas blues and West African music all swirled together and thrown straight at your face at a hundred miles an hour. Their albums Nasty, Street Priest, Mandance, Barbeque Dog, Montreux Jazz Festival and Earned Dreams are all incredible. They're all out of print right now, too, but some of them are on streaming services, so dig up whatever you can. Reid has a new record out with the group Free Form Funky Freqs, a trio with bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma, who's also been on this podcast before, and drummer Calvin Weston, and as he explains in this conversation, it's full-on improv, starting from zero every time they play together, and because it's so limited – no rehearsals, no soundchecks with all three members – they know exactly how many times they've played together. The album represents their 73rd encounter. It's called Hymn Of The 3rd Galaxy, sort of a tribute to Return To Forever there, who had an album called Hymn Of The Seventh Galaxy, and you'll hear a little bit of the music late in the podcast. I think you'll really enjoy this episode. I've been a fan of Vernon Reid's music for about 35 years. The first Living Colour album came out when I was in high school, and I saw them play on the first Lollapalooza festival in the summer of 1991. And I interviewed him once before, about 10 years ago, when he was doing a multimedia presentation called Artificial Africa. So in this conversation, we talk about his work with the Decoding Society, about the Free Form Funky Freqs, about the whole wave of guitarists who came up at the same time he did, including Michael Gregory Jackson and Kelvyn Bell and Jean-Paul Bourelly and Brandon Ross, as well as older players like James "Blood" Ulmer and Pete Cosey and Sonny Sharrock… we talk about a lot of things, and I'm just gonna end this introduction here, so you can dive in.MUSIC IN THIS EPISODE:Living Colour, “WTFF” (from Stain)Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society, “Iola” (from Mandance)Vernon Reid & Bill Frisell, “Size 10 1/2 Sneaks” (from Smash & Scatteration)Free Form Funky Freqs, “Outer Arm” (from Hymn of the 3rd Galaxy)

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Tonight, we realize how badass Clint Eastwood is..... Our film, 1973's "Magnum Force" There are crooked cops on the loose. And Dirty Harry is sick of this shit!! So turn up that volume, crack yourself a beer, grab the nearest woman, and watch Clint Eastwood put crime in its place with a couple of Dix..!! Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Movie Intro: "Magnum Force Theme(1973)" Voice clips - "Magnum Force (1973)" Outro - "Magnum Force Theme(1973)" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/support

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This time it's personal. Many of my happiest music memories are of performances at Michael Dorf's Knitting Factory between the mid-Eighties and the early-2000's. Michael must have heard thousands of bands in those years but when I asked him who we should hail on Deep Focus, he answered immediately: Sonny Sharrock.  Sonny, who reinvented the guitar to suit his own extravagant purposes every time he played it, left us nearly 28 years ago but he is not forgotten. His music is indelible and we've got the goods to prove it!  In this rebroadcast from 2019, the WKCR archives deliver the kind of jaw-dropping annihilations that make Sonny Sharrock a cult hero to this day.   This Monday night (4/11) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org.  Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/   #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #SonnySharrock #MichaelDorf #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #NoWave    Photo credit: no publishing information available. 

This time it's personal. Many of my happiest music memories are of performances at Michael Dorf's Knitting Factory between the mid-Eighties and the early-2000's. Michael must have heard thousands of bands in those years but when I asked him who we should hail on Deep Focus, he answered immediately: Sonny Sharrock.  Sonny, who reinvented the guitar to suit his own extravagant purposes every time he played it, left us nearly 28 years ago but he is not forgotten. His music is indelible and we've got the goods to prove it!  In this rebroadcast from 2019, the WKCR archives deliver the kind of jaw-dropping annihilations that make Sonny Sharrock a cult hero to this day.   This Monday night (4/11) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org.  Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/   #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #SonnySharrock #MichaelDorf #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #NoWave    Photo credit: no publishing information available. 

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Tonight, we get our robot boners out for this badass flick..... 1989's "Robot Jox" World War 3 has ended, and all territory is claimed by way of giant Robot battles! Robots are smashed, rules are broken...But we must fight on for control of Alaska!!! Crash and Burn!! So turn up that volume, crack yourself a beer, jump in that Shining Gundam, and chainsaw dick your way through this classic with a couple of Dix..!! Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Movie Intro: "Frederic Talgorn - Robot Jox - Theme [Extended by Gilles Nuytens]" Voice clips - "Robot Jox (1989)" Outro - "PhaseOne - Crash & Burn (ft. Northlane" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/support

This time it's personal. Many of my happiest music memories are of performances at Michael Dorf's Knitting Factory between the mid-Eighties and the early-2000's. Michael must have heard thousands of bands in those years but when I asked him who we should hail on Deep Focus, he answered immediately: Sonny Sharrock.  Sonny, who reinvented the guitar to suit his own extravagant purposes every time he played it, left us nearly 28 years ago but he is not forgotten. His music is indelible and we've got the goods to prove it!  In this rebroadcast from 2019, the WKCR archives deliver the kind of jaw-dropping annihilations that make Sonny Sharrock a cult hero to this day.   This Monday night (4/11) from 6pm to 9pm NYC time on WKCR 89.9FM, WKCR HD-1 and wkcr.org.  Tuesday morning it goes up on the Deep Focus podcast on your favorite podcasting app or at https://mitchgoldman.podbean.com/   #WKCR #JazzAlternatives #DeepFocus #SonnySharrock #MichaelDorf #MitchGoldman #JazzRadio #JazzInterview #JazzPodcast #NoWave    Photo credit: no publishing information available. 

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Tonight, we dive into another classic featuring an all star 80's comedy cast.... 1981's "Stripes" Life isn't going so well for Bill Murray. So Bill and his best friend, Harold Ramis, decide to join the Army! Also John Candy!! So turn up that volume, crack yourself a beer, storm the enemy lines for some sweet...sweet titties, and enjoy this classic with a couple of Dix..!! Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Movie Intro: "Elmer Bernstein:"Stripes"(1980)-Main Theme" Voice clips - "Stripes (1981)" Outro - "Manfred Mann - Do Wah Diddy Diddy Lyric Video" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/support

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Tonight, we dive into another banger from the best year for movies... 1993's "Carnosaur" Mad scientist mixes chickens with science, causing women to birth eggs, thus recreating Dinosaurs!! Also Clint Howard! So turn up that volume, crack yourself a beer, shit out that egg and scramble it, while you enjoy this classic with a couple of Dix..!! Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Movie Intro: "Carnosaur (1993) soundtrack - Main Theme" Voice clips - "Carnosaur (1993) Full Movie" Outro - "Was (Not Was) - Walk The Dinosaur" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/support

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Tonight, Gregg's pick takes through another one of Joe Dante's greats...The one and only....1998's "Small Soldiers" Ever wanted your toys to be alive? Shove some discontinued military tech inside of them, and see where it takes us... So turn up that volume, crack yourself a beer, strap some fireworks to your favorite toys, and enjoy this classic with a couple of Dix..!! Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Movie Intro: "Small Soldiers Soundtrack - Main Titles" Voice clips - "Small Soldiers" Outro - "Toy Story - I will go sailing no more - Randy Newman - Lyrics" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/support

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Happy belated Christmas, bros! Tonight we celebrate our inner therianthrope... Our watch? 2020's "Creepshow Holiday Special" So hey, turn the volume up, crack yourself a beer, transform into your true inner beast, and tune in to a couple of Dix laugh their way through this holiday gem... "Santa's comin to town!!" Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast INTRO" Voice clips - "Creepshow Holiday Special" Outro - "Adam Oh - Santa Tell Me x My Neck My Back (Mashup) | TikTok: @adamohmusic

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Tonight, Gregg's pick takes through one of Lloyd Kaufman's best films... 2006's "Poultrygeist" Some corporate asshole has built a new chicken restaurant on top of an Indian burial ground... both natives and chickens alike, are PISSED!! So turn up that volume, crack yourself a beer, buy a bucket of chicken and shove it up your ass, as you tune into a couple of "Dix" laugh their way through a true Troma gem..!! Bagawk! Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Movie Intro: "Poultrygeist Theme" Voice clips - "Poultrygeist" Outro - "Annihilator - Hunter Killer [HD/1080i]" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/support

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Happy belated Thanksgiving, bros! Tonight we stuff our a**.. I mean FACES with a heavy dose of everyone's favorite holiday bird.... the evil Turkey himself! We celebrate with 2009's "Thankskilling" So hey, turn the volume up, crack yourself a beer, slather your di*k with gravy, and tune in to a couple of Dix (and a chick) laugh their way through this holiday gem... "Get Stuffed!!" Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast INTRO" Voice clips - "Thankskilling" Outro - "Thankskilling Main Theme(Treu Hawk Dubstep Remix) *FREE" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/support

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Tonight, we discuss a handpicked episode from one of Billy's favorite shows... 2013's "The IT Crowd" Specifically, Episode 1 of Season 2... "The Work Outing" So turn up that volume!! Grab the nearest cock, and scream your love for wieners!! And tune in to a couple of....&*#69!*(@##^(*&&)%@@@.......... Is your computer acting up? Have you tried turning it off and on again?! Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme Movie Intro - "The IT Crowd - Intro" Voice clips - "The IT Crowd: Season 2, Episode 1" Outro - The IT Crowd Theme (The Apex Beat Remix) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/support

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Tonight, we celebrate our year anniversary of the show by watching 2001's "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra" A "B movie" tribute to Sci Fi flicks of the past So turn up that volume!! Fold yourself in half!! And tune into a couple of....... I SLEEP NOW!! Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Them Movie Intro: "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra Theme" Voice clips - "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra" Outro - "Bonetrousle but I actually broke it and it still slaps" PS. Thank you to anyone who has given us a listen, or even stuck around over the course of this first year. Thank you Gregg for randomly teaming up with me on this podcast! I'm extremely thankful to be able to do this with my brother... and here's to another year!! Cheers! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/support

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Tonight, load up the beer bongs cuz we're partying with the Ghoulies in 1990's "Ghoulies 3: Ghoulies Go To College" It's time for our Ghoulie bros to venture out into the world of nonstop titties and pranks...AKA... College!! So turn up that volume!! Buttchug that beer!! And tune into a couple of "Dix" relive the glory days of creature features!! Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Movie Intro: "Doug and The Pontiacs - There's a Party Goin' On (Soundtrack Unreleased)" Voice clips - "Ghoulies 3: Ghoulies Go To College" Outro - "Hot Action Cop - Fever for the Flava [ORIGINAL!]" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/support

A sit down with bassist and composer Melvin Gibbs. Emerging from the fertile New York art scene of the early '80s where he played with Defunkt, Gibbs has brought grace and heaviness to work with Arto Lindsey, John Zorn, Caetano Veloso, Bill Frisell, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Sonny Sharrock, and dozens more jazz luminaries, in rock bands like Rollins Band and Harriet Tubman, and on records by dead prez and David Byrne. His latest project is an EP, 4 + 1 equals 5 for May 25. which reflects on the murder of George Floyd and the spirit of the protests that arose in its wake. He also teams with visionary drummer Greg Fox and guitarists Sahsa-Frere Jones and Grey McMurray in Body Meπa, which recently released The Work Is Slow, a mind-melter of rock abstraction. Gibbs joined host Jason P. Woodbury for a wide-ranging discussion this week on Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions.

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Tonight, Gregg takes Billy on a romantic journey with this weeks episode...... 1992's "The Bodyguard" Someone keeps jerking off in Whitney Houston's house. And it's up to Kevin Costner to protect her from all that meat... So turn up that volume, crack yourself a beer, harness your inner monk skills, and tune into a couple of "Dix" laugh their way through sexy flick Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Movie Intro: "Theme from The Bodyguard" Voice clips - "The Bodyguard" Outro - "Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You (Audio)" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/support

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Tonight we discuss 1983's "Rock & Rule" Have you ever finished j**king off to Heavy Metal for the umpteenth time, and wondered.... "I bet this would be hotter with some rats...." ?? Well turn up the volume, crack yourself a beer, pull down them pants and tune into a couple of "Dix" discover this cult classic Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Movie Intro: "Rock & Rule OST - Intro Theme" Voice clips - "Rock & Rule" Outro - "Lou Reed - My Name Is Mok (Remastered)" *Also, excuse the thunderstorm in the background throughout this recording... It rains every day here...* --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/support

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Tonight we discuss 2002's "Rollerball" Omaha's finest, Chris Klein teams up with LL Cool J to start a global revolution by way of their sick ass Rollerball skillz! Also including: Titties So hey, turn up the volume, crack yourself a beer, put on your mask and lace up those skates cuz iiiittsss ROOOLLLLLLEEERRRRBAAAAALLLLLLL!!!! Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Movie Intro: "rollerball soundtrack eric serra - Eghnev" Voice clips - "Rollerball (2002)" Outro - "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/support

On today's episode, I talk to bass guitarist and record producer Melvin Gibbs. A native of Brooklyn, He has been called "the greatest bassist in the world" by Time Out New York magazine and was last year's winner of JazzTimes Magazine's Critics Poll in the Electric Bass category. Melvin's wide-ranging musical resume includes membership in bands ranging from the no-wave of Defunkt to the avant-jazz of the Decoding Society, to Power Tools with Bill Frisell & Ronald Shannon Jackson, Rollins Band (where he was nominated for a Grammy), Socialybrium with Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame inductee Bernie Worrell, and the Zig Zag Power Trio with Vernon Reid and Will Calhoun of the band Living Colour. As a bassist and producer, he has worked with Femi Kuti, Caetano Veloso, dead prez,  David Byrne, Arto Lindsay, and Sonny Sharrock. He is currently a member of the band Harriet Tubman, who The New York Times twice called "The Best Jazz Performance" of the year, and his latest album is 4 + 1 equals 5 for May 25, an EP he recorded reflecting on the murder of George Floyd, was just released a little while ago, and it's great! This is the website for Beginnings, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, follow me on Twitter.

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Tonight we discuss 1994's "Guyver: Dark Hero" David Hayter(Solid Snake) himself as the Guyver, fighting alien Zoanoids to protect his new girlfriend!! And I guess the planet? So hey, turn up the volume, crack yourself a beer, throw some punches around your living room while you pretend to be The Guyver, and join a couple of Dix share a few laughs with this deep dive into mid-90's nostalgia... Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Movie Intro: "Les Claypool III - "Guyver: Dark Hero Main Theme" Voice clips - "Guyver: Dark Hero" Outro - "Corrupted Machines - 強殖装甲 (Guyver '89 OST Remix) | Synthwave 80s" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/support

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Tonight we discuss 1989's "Meet The Feebles" Peter Jackson's puppet filled second film! Back in his amazing early days, long before the Hobbit phenomenon..... a time long forgotten.... So hey, turn up the volume, crack yourself a beer, grab the nearest puppet and shove it up your ass, while you join a couple of Dix share a few laughs with this amazingly grotesque piece of work Long live early Peter Jackson!! Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Movie Intro: "meet the feebles theme song" Voice clips - "Meet The Feebles" Outro - "The Muppet Show Opening and Closing Theme 1976 - 1981 (With Snippets)" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/support

Harmony Holiday, a writer, dancer, and archivist, joins Nikita Gale and Alexander Provan to speak about Black performers whose songs and struggles reflect the ongoing trauma of the “African holocaust.” They discuss the pressure to pander to white audiences as well as the impulse to seek a form of expression (and of being) that is chosen and not imposed by force. They listen to songs written and recorded by Holiday's father, the soul singer Jimmy Holiday, as well as to Albert Ayler, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday, Amiri Baraka, and Kanye West.Holiday's essay “The Black Catatonic Scream,” a meditation on Black silence, was published by Triple Canopy last year. Her book of poems on the “African holocaust,” naming, and erasure, Maafa, is being published by Fence Books in 2021. Holiday is currently working on a biography of the singer Abbey Lincoln and a collection of essays, Love Is War for Miles.In this episode, Holiday, Gale, and Provan speak about Fred Moten's In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003); Édouard Glissant's The Poetics of Relation, trans. Betsy Wing (University of Michigan Press, 1997); the writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter, whose work is the subject of Katherine McKittrick's Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis (Duke University Press, 2014); Mack Hagood's Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control (Duke University Press, 2019); Amiri Baraka, the poet, author, and luminary of the Black Arts Movement, about whom Holiday has often written.In order of appearance, the music and other recordings played on this episode are: Sonny Sharrock, “Black Woman” (feat. Linda Sharrock), Black Woman (Vortex Records, 1969); a concert by Kanye West as part of his Saint Pablo Tour, 2016; West's “Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 1,” The Life of Pablo (Def Jam, 2016); Jimmy Holiday, “We Got a Good Thing Goin',” Turning Point (Minit, 1966); Ray Charles, “Somebody Ought to Write a Book About It” (ABC Records, 1967); Thelonious Monk, “You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart,” Thelonious Alone in San Francisco (Riverside, 1959), James Brown, “The Payback,” The Payback (Polydor, 1973); Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, “A Sailboat in the Moonlight” (Vocalion, 1937); Amiri Baraka reading “Black Art” on Sonny Murray's Sonny's Time Now (Jihad Productions, 1965); Albert Ayler, “Ghosts (Variation 2),” Spiritual Unity (ESP-Disk, 1964); an advertisement for Beats by Dre headphones featuring Colin Kaepernick, 2013. The title of this episode is taken from Albert Ayler's Holy Ghost: Rare and Unissued Recordings (1962–70) (Revenant Records, 2004). Medium Rotation is produced by Alexander Provan with Andrew Leland, and edited by Provan with Matt Frassica. Tashi Wada composed the theme music. Matt Mehlan acted as the audio engineer and contributed additional music.Medium Rotation is made possible through generous contributions from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Nicholas Harteau. This season of Medium Rotation is part of Triple Canopy's twenty-sixth issue, Two Ears and One Mouth, which receives support from the Stolbun Collection, the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, Agnes Gund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Happy belated holidays *cough cough* Tonight we discuss another 1993 banger! "Ticks" A young Seth Green led jam, with a few surprise cast members Mixing marijuana with bugs is bad mmmmkaayyy.... So hey, turn up the volume, crack yourself a beer, rip another bowl, and join a couple of Dix share a few laughs with this amazing horror flick from Billy's childhood Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Movie Intro: "Mark Free - High Life" Voice clips - "Ticks" Outro - "Lil Dicky - Too High (Official Video)" Post Outro Encore: "Jack Stick skit from the late...great....Stickdeath.com....RIP:(" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/support

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Tonight, we discuss, 2010's, "Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie" Sweet movie title btw..... This week, Gregg's film is on deck. So hey, turn up the volume, crack yourself a beer, grab your bolter, and join a couple of Dix as we prepare to "KILL THE HERETIC!!" Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Voice clips - "Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie" Outro - "Dawn of War II - Angels Of Death (Space Marine Theme) (HD)" Post Outro Encore: "It's Russian Badger's "FOR THE EMPEROR" video except it is just Dawn of War 2 Voice Lines" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/support

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Tonight we discuss 1993's "Tombstone" We have a guest co-host this week! Making his debut to the show, one of my all time friends, Shaun! This week we spend some time down at the O.K. Corral, with a freakin all star cast! So hey, turn the volume up, drink yourself through tuberculosis, and tune in to a couple of Dix drool over Val Kilmer in this Western classic! RIP Bill Paxton :( Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Voice clips - "Tombstone" Outro - "Kirin J Callinan - Big Enough (Official Video) ft. Alex Cameron, Molly Lewis, Jimmy Barnes" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/support

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Tonight, we discuss, 2019's, "Color Out Of Space" Tis the season for love, as we'll be picking 2 flicks that we adore for various reasons This week, Gregg's film is on deck. So hey, turn up the volume, crack yourself a beer...........wait......do you hear that....whistle?...........??......?.. aNd TuNe InTo A cOuPlE oF dIx TaLk FLLLLLLIiiiixxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx........I don't think I feel so good...... Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Voice clips - "Color Out Of Space" Outro - "Metallica - The Call of Ktulu (HD)" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message

Snot-caked pants, wild banshee shit, the cadence and emphasis of Robert Ashley. The New York-based composer and multi-instrumentalist discusses three important albums.

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Tonight, we discuss, 1995's, "Mallrats" Tis the season for love, as we'll be picking 2 flicks that we adore for various reasons Also, returning guest co host and fellow Mallrat...Joe!! So hey, turn the volume up, crack yourself a beer, use the mall as your teenage emotional playground, and tune in to a couple of Dix spill their love for "Mallrats" Snoochies Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Voice clips - "1995 Mallrats" Outro - "Susanne" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Tonight, we discuss, 1931's, "Dracula" Featuring the OG Dracula himself, Bela Lugosi So hey, turn the volume up, crack yourself a beer, throw on some Wolfsbane, and tune in to a couple of Dix discover the greatness that was...... the Universal Monsters series "The D on the grave stands for Dracula!" - Master Shake Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Voice clips - "1931 Dracula" Outro - "MASHUP - Tear You Apart + Bela Lugosi's Dead - DJ ALANT Mix - She wants revenge / Bauhaus Re-Upload")" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! We try something a little different this week, as we review a few handpicked episodes of 1993's hit tv show... "Rocko's Modern Life" Heavy thoughts episode warning lol So hey, turn the volume up, crack yourself a beer, stay wildly optimistic as life crumbles around you, and tune in to the crew laugh their way through this amazing piece of culture. Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Voice clips - "Rocko's Modern Life" Outro - "Hobo Johnson - All In My Head" "Stick Stickly short, Nickelodeon" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Happy New Year!! Although 2021 is off to a fancy start... we're here to help you briefly forget that. Tonight, we discuss, John Wayne's masterpiece.......1956's, "The Conqueror" So hey, turn the volume up, crack yourself a beer, let yourself be soothed by the sexual tones of Sir John Wayne, and tune in to the crew laugh their way through this ridiculous piece of....... art? Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Voice clips - "The Conqueror" Outro - "Sugaan Essena (Original Music from "Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order")" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! And welcome to our CHRISTMAS SPECIAL!! BWAM bwam BWAAAAM!! Tis the holiday season! We have a packed house here tonight, to bring you all your nostalgic needs! Technical difficulties delayed this Pod's release... What caused this you ask?! Maybe, just maybe, it was Gremlins...!!! Tonight, we discuss, the One True Meaning of Christmas.......1984's, "Gremlins" So hey, turn the volume up, pour yourself some eggnog, feed those bastards after midnight, and tune in to the crew laugh and cry their way through this amazing piece of art! Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas... and Tis The Season... For Gremlins!! Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Voice clips - "Gremlins" Outro - "DANCE WITH THE DEAD - Gremlins Theme (Remix)" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Where we discuss 1989's "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" Tis the holiday season! Our guest co-host, Tosh, is here for all your nostalgic needs! Family can suck. But we all do our best "Clark", and stay positive through the holidays. So hey, turn the volume up, pour yourself some eggnog, and tune in to a couple of Dix laugh at the Griswald family's misfortune! With holiday love of course!! Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Voice clips - "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" Outro - "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Theme" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Where we discuss 1964's "Santa Claus Conquers The Martians" Tis the holiday season! Our guest co-host, Joe, is here for all your nostalgic needs! Life on Mars sucks. So they decide to steal Earth's Santa Claus to help cheer up their abused children. So hey, turn the volume up, pour yourself some eggnog, and tune in to a couple of Dix laugh at Martian misfortune! With holiday love of course!! Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Voice clips - "Santa Claus Conquers The Martians" Outro - "Santa Claus Conquers The Martians" --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Where we discuss 1985's Police Story We're back for another Gregg led show! Packed to max with brutal kung fu action! So hey, turn the volume up, crack yourself a beer, and tune in to a couple of Dix confess their love of Kung Fu, insane stunts, and everything Jackie Chan alike! Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Voice clips - Police Story Outro - Jackie Chan - The Hero Story (Theme to "Police Story") --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Where we discuss 1986's Chopping Mall It's Black Friday season, and we're here for all of your shopping needs! With this crazy year, they're going to need to pump up security. But they might of gone a little too far. So hey, turn the volume up, crack yourself a beer, and tune in to a couple of Dix confess their love of malls, 80's electronica, and killer robots alike! Have a nice day!! Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Voice clips - Chopping Mall Outro - Chopping Mall Soundtrack --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Where we discuss 1982's Mazes And Monsters. Our first Gregg led show!! So hey, crack yourself a beer, and listen to the Master Controller explain your dice rolled fate. Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Voice/Song clips - Mazes and Monsters Outro - Never Split The Party · Emerald Rose --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message

This time we are diving into Todd Terje's "It's Album Time" (2014) and Sonny Sharrock's, "Ask the Ages" (1991). Send an email: dancablepresents@gmail.com IG LINKS @bobbygrooves @dancablepresents @highpulpmusic @sunkingexperiment @vrtxmag @insidevoices @kingunderground

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix.... and sometimes... Chix???!! Where we introduce our first guest of the show! Guest's choice as we discuss, 1994's Brainscan. Video Games KILL!!! In this mid 90's "slasher" flick, starring the one and only, Edward Furlong! So hey, crack a beer, jack yourself in, and trip out to intense VR action with a couple of Dix (&Chix?!) Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Voice clips - Brainscan Outro - Primus - Wynona's Big Brown Beaver --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message

Welcome back to Dix Talk Flix!! Where we discuss, somewhat of a cult comedy, 2004's Kung Fu Hustle. Somewhat of a love song to old school Chinese kung fu films, but with very modern twists. So hey, turn the volume up, crack yourself a beer, and tune in to a couple of Dix play clips while failing to contain their loads from pure love of this flick. Sound clip credits: Intro- "hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Voice clips - Kung Fu Hustle/Tenacious D - Pick of Destiny/Reservoir Dogs Outro - Goku - Jaden Smith/Juice WRLD quote - Eminem - Godzilla ft. Juice WRLD --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message

The first ever episode of Dix Talk Flix!! Where we discuss 2002's cult comedy, Kung Pow - Enter The Fist An American satire on late 70's Kung Fu. Comedy gold, according to one host.... So hey, turn the volume up, crack yourself a beer, and tune in to a couple of Dix play clips while laughing their way through this "terrible?" flick!! Sound clip credits: Intro- "Hit Single" by Sonny Sharrock. Or more famously known as "Space Ghost Coast To Coast Theme" Voice clips- Kung Pow - Enter The Fist Outro- Fantasy Mission Force - Main Theme --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dixtalkflix/message

In una puntata di Jazz Anthology dell'ottobre 2019 avevamo ascoltato alcune novità della RareNoise, fra cui un album del quartetto del pianista e tastierista Jamie Saft. Ritroviamo Jamie Saft in due album RareNoise usciti quest'anno. Music from the Early 21st Century è cointestato a Bobby Previte, batteria, Saft, organo Hammond, Fender Rhodes e MiniMoog, e Nels Cline, chitarra. L'organico fa pensare a quello degli Hammond trio, ma la musica è ben diversa: questo è caso mai un Hammond trio passato attraverso l'esperienza dell'hard rock, di Hendrix, del free jazz, di un chitarrista d'avanguardia come Sonny Sharrock. Musica di tutt'altro tipo in The Gerry Granelli Trio Plays Vince Guaraldi & Mose Allison: classe 1940, Granelli è il batterista del fortunatissimo album A Charlie Brown Christmas di Vince Guaraldi, e ha lavorato poi regolarmente con quel singolare pianista e cantante che è stato Mose Allison. Granelli non è un habitué della rivisitazione di momenti del proprio passato, su cui torna qui con classe, con Bradley Jones al basso e con Saft che al pianoforte dà un'altra prova della sua versatilità e del suo talento.

Join Michael Litten "The Last DJ" for an in-depth discussion.Featuring a variety of songs.Sponsored by DrinkmateTheme music provided by Peter PerkinsSpecial Thank You to Lucy Piller/ARN Entertainment for providing the talent Troy Redfern combines the rawness of Hound Dog Taylor, the free-form approach of Sonny Sharrock, the firebrand playing of Johnny Winter and the technique of Dave Hole, mixed with the ghost of Elmore James’. There’s something about the Welsh marches. As guitarist Troy Redfern tells it, he grew up in the shadow of Hergest Ridge, made famous by Mike Oldfield. The Welsh borders - roughly that area between Hay on Way, Brecon and Hereford - might not quite evoke the arresting geography and climate of say Louisiana, but there’s something about the freedom of that area... Read more Biohttp://troyredfern.com/

Dopo i suoi primi tre album per la Blue Note, Shorter in alcuni degli album seguenti passa a formazioni più ampie: è il caso dell'album immediatamente successivo, The Soothsayer, inciso nel '65 (ma all'epoca Shorter registra molto per la Blue Note e non tutto esce subito: per questo album bisognerà aspettare il 1980), in sestetto con Freddie Hubbard alla tromba, James Spaulding al sax alto, McCoy Tyner al piano, Ron Carter al basso e Tony Williams alla batteria, questi ultimi due suoi compagni nel gruppo di Davis. Dopo avere inciso altri quattro album, alla fine degli anni sessanta, nella fatidica estate del '69 (pochi giorni dopo le sedute di incisione da cui nasce Bitches Brew di Miles Davis), Shorter realizza un album folgorante, Supernova: con lui, che ormai impiega anche il sax soprano, ci sono John McLaughlin e Sonny Sharrock alle chitarre elettriche, Miroslav Vitous al contrabbasso, Jack DeJohnette alla batteria e Chick Corea alla batteria e al vibrafono, questi ultimi due suoi compagni nel nuovo gruppo di Davis (Corea alle tastiere ma talvolta dal vivo anche alla batteria). Pieno di atmosfere originali, speciali, anticipatrici, Supernova è uno degli album che meglio rappresentano l'affascinante epoca musicale della fine degli anni sessanta.

Enjoying the show? Please support BFF.FM with a donation. Playlist 0′00″ Come to Life by Arthur Russell on Iowa Dream (Audika) 3′48″ Whitey on the Moon by Gil Scott-Heron on The Revolution Begins: The Flying Dutchman Masters (Ace) 8′45″ Color of Anyhow by Beverly Glenn-Copeland on Beverly Glenn-Copeland (Super Sonic Jazz Records) 12′17″ Morning Prayer by Hypnotic Brass Ensemble on Book of Sound (Honest Jon's) 16′32″ Spirits by Albert Ayler on Prophecy (ESP-Disk) 26′23″ When Will It Ever End by The Awakening on Hear, Sense and Feel (Ovation Records) 33′45″ Ishmael (Live) by Dollar Brand / Abdullah Ibrahim on Live At Montreux (Enja Horst Weber) 43′49″ WHATTHEFUCKDOYOUWANT 1 by Peter Brotzmann, Sonny Sharrock on WHATTHEFUCKDOYOUWANT (Trost) 50′43″ El Hajj Malik El Shabazz by Phil Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble on The Malcom X Memorial - A Tribute In Music (Katalyst) 57′49″ Trance Celestial - Movement 3 by Laraaji on Connecting With The Inner Healer Through Music (Leaving Records)

Enjoying the show? Please support BFF.FM with a donation. Playlist 0′00″ Come to Life by Arthur Russell on Iowa Dream (Audika) 3′48″ Whitey on the Moon by Gil Scott-Heron on The Revolution Begins: The Flying Dutchman Masters (Ace) 8′45″ Color of Anyhow by Beverly Glenn-Copeland on Beverly Glenn-Copeland (Super Sonic Jazz Records) 12′17″ Morning Prayer by Hypnotic Brass Ensemble on Book of Sound (Honest Jon's) 16′32″ Spirits by Albert Ayler on Prophecy (ESP-Disk) 26′23″ When Will It Ever End by The Awakening on Hear, Sense and Feel (Ovation Records) 33′45″ Ishmael (Live) by Dollar Brand / Abdullah Ibrahim on Live At Montreux (Enja Horst Weber) 43′49″ WHATTHEFUCKDOYOUWANT 1 by Peter Brotzmann, Sonny Sharrock on WHATTHEFUCKDOYOUWANT (Trost) 50′43″ El Hajj Malik El Shabazz by Phil Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble on The Malcom X Memorial - A Tribute In Music (Katalyst) 57′49″ Trance Celestial - Movement 3 by Laraaji on Connecting With The Inner Healer Through Music (Leaving Records) Check out the full archives on the website.

O episódio desta semana conta com People, DAF, Luc Van Acker, THE WHO (World Health Organization), Lorenzo Senni, Sonny Sharrock e muito mais. Com Gonçalo Formiga & Zé Maldito dos Cave Story

O episódio desta semana conta com People, DAF, Luc Van Acker, THE WHO (World Health Organization), Lorenzo Senni, Sonny Sharrock e muito mais. Com Gonçalo Formiga & Zé Maldito dos Cave Story

This week: Abdoulaye Cisse; Omar Pene & Super Diamono; Dinkar Kaikani; Jemeel Moondoc; Louis Moholo Octet; Freddie Redd; Sonny Sharrock; Jorge Humberto; Nancy Vieira; Elizeth Cardoso; Trio Pagú;  Tcheka; Rancapino; Nass el Ghiwane; much more...  Always FREE of charge to listen, stream, download, and subscribe. PODBEAN: https://conferenceofthebirds.podbean.com/ iTUNES: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conference-of-the-birds-podcast/id478688580 Playlist via Spinitron:  https://spinitron.com/WRFI/pl/10389681/Conference-of-the-Birds Archived PLAYLISTS: via WRFI: https://www.wrfi.org/localprograms/conferenceofthebirds/ via blogspot: http:confbirds.blogspot.com Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conferenceofthebirds/?ref=bookmarks Contact: confbirds@gmail.com

Support Burning Ambulance on Patreon Get the Burning Ambulance email newsletter It's true: After a three-month hiatus, the Burning Ambulance podcast is back, with an interview with legendary saxophonist Peter Brötzmann! Brötzmann first emerged onto the global scene in the late '60s — he released his first album, For Adolphe Sax, named for the inventor of the saxophone, in 1967. A year later, he made Machine Gun, which is a landmark record not just in free jazz but in jazz history, period. A lot of critics have said that the music on Machine Gun was more extreme than anything that had come before, mostly because Brötzmann and the other two saxophonists, Willem Breuker and Evan Parker, seemed to be going even farther on their horns than John Coltrane or Pharoah Sanders or Albert Ayler had gone, but when you pay close attention to it you’ll hear that there are actually riffs — really big, honking, fist-pumping riffs, especially at the end. And Brötzmann has said many times that the music was inspired by Lionel Hampton’s big band, which had four saxophonists up front blowing in unison. I’ve been a fan of Brötzmann’s for a long time, and I’ve seen him live twice. The first time was in January 1997, at the Cooler in the Meatpacking District in Manhattan, with Thomas Borgman on saxophone, William Parker on bass, and Rashid Bakr on drums, a show that was released on CD under the name The Cooler Suite. The other time was at Tonic, with a version of his quartet Die Like A Dog. On record, that band usually featured Toshinori Kondo on trumpet, William Parker on bass, and Hamid Drake on drums, but at this gig Kondo wasn’t there for whatever reason, and Roy Campbell subbed in. I was also a big fan of Last Exit, a group formed by Bill Laswell that included Brötzmann, Sonny Sharrock on guitar, and Ronald Shannon Jackson on drums. Their music was a combination of free jazz, metal, and funk, totally improvised in the moment, and some of it is amazing. It used to be hard to find their CDs, but now you can get almost all of their albums on Laswell’s Bandcamp page. This interview was recorded back in early October, and a lot of it’s about his new solo album I Surrender Dear, and about his connections to jazz history. He really loves old school players like Don Byas and Coleman Hawkins, and he absolutely loves the blues, so we talk a lot about that. I think you’ll really get a sense of him as a music fan — he talks about all the bands he saw growing up in Germany in the '50s and '60s. We talk about what he looks for in collaborations, and how he chooses projects, too, 'cause he gets more invitations than he accepts. We also talk about his visual art, which is just as important as the music — he had originally planned to be a visual artist, with music as a side thing, but it didn’t work out that way. Still, he’s designed almost all of his own album covers for the last 50 years, and he’s got an instantly recognizable visual style, very blocky and heavy like a printmaker. It’s a perfect complement to his sound on the horn. And at the very end of our conversation, I ask him about Ginger Baker, who had died just a few days before we spoke. The two of them played together for three gigs in 1987 in a band that included Sonny Sharrock and Nicky Skopelitis on guitars, and Jan Kazda on bass, under the name No Material. So that’s where this conversation ends. I hope you enjoy the interview, and thanks for listening. If you do enjoy this podcast, please consider visiting patreon.com/burningambulance and becoming a subscriber. For just $5 a month, you can help keep this show and Burning Ambulance as a whole active and thriving. Thanks! Music heard in this episode: Peter Brötzmann, "I Surrender Dear" (I Surrender Dear)

Guitarhjørnet præsenteres af Radio Jazz studievært Bjarne Roupé, der denne gang sætter focus på guitaristerne Mick Goodrick, Matthew Stevens, Pat Metheny, Derek Bailey, Henrik Olsson og Sonny Sharrock. Sendt i Radio Jazz i 2019 Der er mere jazz på www.radiojazz.dk

Wendy Eisenberg is a jazz guitarist by training who can often be heard playing just about anything but conventional jazz guitar. That includes free improv, art pop, noise and avant-garde punk with radically inventive bands like the now-defunct Birthing Hips and the currently active Editrix. In 2018, during an episode of Jeremiah Cymerman's excellent 5049 Podcast, Wendy — who uses gender-neutral pronouns — made a passing mention of their love for the Australian death-metal band Portal, and at that point, I knew I wanted to speak to them for Heavy Metal Bebop. We met up in March and delved into Wendy's vast musical universe. Topics discussed include: how hearing Sonny Sharrock helped expand their musical horizons, why Portal is their favorite band ever, why they feel like an outsider in both jazz and metal, how Birthing Hips flourished within the context of higher education, why they're not a fan of jazz covers of pop and rock tunes, how their early love for Pantera informs the music of Editrix, what they took away from playing with Curtis Fuller and Earl Klugh, and much more.

Melvin Gibbs is an extraordinary bass player who for the better part of the last four decades has been a key figure in the worlds of rock, jazz, funk and the New York avant-garde. An original member of the Black Rock Coalition and a veteran of bands led by Ronald Shannon Jackson, Sonny Sharrock, Henry Rollins and others, Melvin has led an incredibly varied and colorful career. Ahead of his appearance this Thursday at the 2019 Vision Festival, Melvin stopped by to talk about his new project the God Particle, a collaboration with physicist and musician Stephon Alexander.

Alex Skolnick discusses his latest guitar lessons available on TrueFire, performs, and answers questions. To learn more and watch the video from this live session, please visit truefire.com/live.About Alex Skolnick: Alex Skolnick is both an original member of Bay Area thrashers Testament (which he joined at age sixteen) and a respected New York improviser of multiple styles.Emerging as one of the original melodic thrash guitarists (alongside Marty Friedman), Alex later moved to New York and earned a BfA in Jazz from The New School, studying with such prestigious artists as George Garzone, Cecil McBee and Reggie Workman.Now a longtime resident of Brooklyn New York, he has gone on to release several critically acclaimed albums with the Alex Skolnick Trio, described as thus by jazz journalist Bill Milkowski: “Skolnick runs the guitaristic gamut from lush chord melodies to Wes Montgomery-style octaves to screaming Sonny Sharrock-esque skronking” (Downbeat Jan 2017).

All'anagrafe Linda Chambers, nata a Filadelfia nell'aprile del '47, afroamericana, Linda Sharrock comincia a cantare in chiesa e nei cori scolastici. Arriva a New York alla metà degli anni sessanta, studia arte e si dedica alla pittura, ma si cimenta anche col canto classico. Siamo negli anni in cui a New York il free jazz ribolle, e Linda viene attratta da questa nuova musica: partecipa a qualche concerto, poi fa parte del gruppo del sassofonista Pharoah Sanders, una delle figure di punta dell'epoca. Conosce il chitarrista Sonny Sharrock, si sposano e fanno coppia anche artisticamente. Nel '67 entrambi vengono ingaggiati dal popolare flautista Herbie Mann. Nel '69 esce Black Woman, primo album intestato a Sonny Sharrock e primo album in cui si ascolta Linda: in copertina compaiono entrambi. Sonny Sharrock è un caso più unico che raro di chitarrista nel free jazz: del suo stile non convenzionale si accorge anche Jimi Hendrix, a cui non sfugge l'affinità dell'approccio di Sharrock con il proprio (ma Sharrock non è affatto un imitatore di Hendrix); per parte sua del free jazz Linda Sharrock è uno dei rari casi di vocalist: in Black Woman, dove la musica è spesso una colata di lava incandescente, la sua vocalità non ha niente del canto jazzistico, è urlo, libertà senza freni, ma non manca, così come la chitarra di Sharrock e la musica nel suo insieme, di un forte elemento estatico, anche se declinato in maniera estrema. Nel '70 Linda e Sonny sono a Parigi, dove nella scia della bollente estate del free di cui Parigi è stata teatro nel '69, con due musicisti francesi incidono per la Byg Actuel l'album Monkey-Pokie-Boo, di nuovo intestato al solo Sonny Sharrock, di nuovo con entrambi in copertina.

All'anagrafe Linda Chambers, nata a Filadelfia nell'aprile del '47, afroamericana, Linda Sharrock comincia a cantare in chiesa e nei cori scolastici. Arriva a New York alla metà degli anni sessanta, studia arte e si dedica alla pittura, ma si cimenta anche col canto classico. Siamo negli anni in cui a New York il free jazz ribolle, e Linda viene attratta da questa nuova musica: partecipa a qualche concerto, poi fa parte del gruppo del sassofonista Pharoah Sanders, una delle figure di punta dell'epoca. Conosce il chitarrista Sonny Sharrock, si sposano e fanno coppia anche artisticamente. Nel '67 entrambi vengono ingaggiati dal popolare flautista Herbie Mann. Nel '69 esce Black Woman, primo album intestato a Sonny Sharrock e primo album in cui si ascolta Linda: in copertina compaiono entrambi. Sonny Sharrock è un caso più unico che raro di chitarrista nel free jazz: del suo stile non convenzionale si accorge anche Jimi Hendrix, a cui non sfugge l'affinità dell'approccio di Sharrock con il proprio (ma Sharrock non è affatto un imitatore di Hendrix); per parte sua del free jazz Linda Sharrock è uno dei rari casi di vocalist: in Black Woman, dove la musica è spesso una colata di lava incandescente, la sua vocalità non ha niente del canto jazzistico, è urlo, libertà senza freni, ma non manca, così come la chitarra di Sharrock e la musica nel suo insieme, di un forte elemento estatico, anche se declinato in maniera estrema. Nel '70 Linda e Sonny sono a Parigi, dove nella scia della bollente estate del free di cui Parigi è stata teatro nel '69, con due musicisti francesi incidono per la Byg Actuel l'album Monkey-Pokie-Boo, di nuovo intestato al solo Sonny Sharrock, di nuovo con entrambi in copertina.

All'anagrafe Linda Chambers, nata a Filadelfia nell'aprile del '47, afroamericana, Linda Sharrock comincia a cantare in chiesa e nei cori scolastici. Arriva a New York alla metà degli anni sessanta, studia arte e si dedica alla pittura, ma si cimenta anche col canto classico. Siamo negli anni in cui a New York il free jazz ribolle, e Linda viene attratta da questa nuova musica: partecipa a qualche concerto, poi fa parte del gruppo del sassofonista Pharoah Sanders, una delle figure di punta dell'epoca. Conosce il chitarrista Sonny Sharrock, si sposano e fanno coppia anche artisticamente. Nel '67 entrambi vengono ingaggiati dal popolare flautista Herbie Mann. Nel '69 esce Black Woman, primo album intestato a Sonny Sharrock e primo album in cui si ascolta Linda: in copertina compaiono entrambi. Sonny Sharrock è un caso più unico che raro di chitarrista nel free jazz: del suo stile non convenzionale si accorge anche Jimi Hendrix, a cui non sfugge l'affinità dell'approccio di Sharrock con il proprio (ma Sharrock non è affatto un imitatore di Hendrix); per parte sua del free jazz Linda Sharrock è uno dei rari casi di vocalist: in Black Woman, dove la musica è spesso una colata di lava incandescente, la sua vocalità non ha niente del canto jazzistico, è urlo, libertà senza freni, ma non manca, così come la chitarra di Sharrock e la musica nel suo insieme, di un forte elemento estatico, anche se declinato in maniera estrema. Nel '70 Linda e Sonny sono a Parigi, dove nella scia della bollente estate del free di cui Parigi è stata teatro nel '69, con due musicisti francesi incidono per la Byg Actuel l'album Monkey-Pokie-Boo, di nuovo intestato al solo Sonny Sharrock, di nuovo con entrambi in copertina.

Melvin Gibbs is the bassist for the avant-rock/jazz/metal/dub trio Harriet Tubman, whose new album The Terror End of Beauty is out now and sweeping up rave reviews everywhere. Before forming Tubman with guitarist Brandon Ross and drummer JT Lewis in 1998, Gibbs was a founding member of Defunkt and of Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society (alongside future Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid); he played in Sonny Sharrock's band; he appeared on John Zorn's Spillane and The Big Gundown; he was a member of Arto Lindsay's band Ambitious Lovers; and from 1994 to 1998, he was the bassist for the Rollins Band. In this episode of the Burning Ambulance podcast, Gibbs talks about his time with Jackson, with Rollins, and with Harriet Tubman; about whether his music is jazz, and how one even defines such a thing; and much, much more. This is the standard, free version of this episode, and runs 64 minutes. There is an extended, 92-minute version of the podcast available exclusively to Patreon subscribers; join at patreon.com/burningambulance for $5 a month to hear it. Future episodes of the podcast will be similarly expanded, and additional subscriber-only stories will also show up from time to time.

This week's episode of Out There is about the amazing free jazz guitarist Sonny Sharrock, and features tracks from his albums as a leader as well as songs from albums he recorded as a sideman with Herbie Mann, Pharoah Sanders, Wayne Shorter, and more, and also features a reading of excerpts from an essay on improvising by Sharrock found in full here:   http://www.jazzguitar.com/features/sharrock.html   Also, this might be the last episode of Out There for a while, as I want to focus on doing fewer, better episodes, and so will be either integrating the avant garde stuff into the regular WNPM episodes or just doing them sporadically.  Enjoy!

DC’s Mike James and Mollie Ames discuss: Mollie's first forays into the world of competitive pinball. (Part 1 of the Podcast only content) Browns lost to the Raiders for more reasons than the mere lack of "irrefutable evidence" being used in replay to overturn that first down that would have ended the game with Cleveland victorious. Terrence Mitchell's broken wrist could be the fallen domino that turns this promising team full of talent into a bad team with not enough talent. Baker Mayfield might need to learn how to throw a more catchable pass, and the Browns still haven't had a winning record after 4 games since 2001. Taking a closer look at the Mole Skin notebook Mollie bought for Mike. (Part 2 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 1:09:00 mark) Let Me Tell You A Story: Lachlan MacKinnon’s “TV Party” (begins at the 1:18:00 mark) Mollie asks if Shambles qualifies as a fan hobo and almost gets bitten by Shambles for saying it... The Cleveland Indians are about to begin their postseason run! ...Finally. Sexy form fitting team Chelsea underwear is fine because they're meant to fit under athletic shorts, but if you go to high school in Hamilton County, Tennessee you're not even allowed to wear athletic shorts, and you can "blame the girls" for why that is, apparently. (Part 3 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 1:56:00 mark) Corey Kluber's strikout rate caused alarm all year but it's recently been off the charts great again, and his timing for this return to form couldn't be better.  Mollie’s PuhFooFuh Spotlight Part 3: The Oakland Raiders crazed fans in general are all fan hobos, but Dr. Death's level of crazy even stands out in this sea of crazy. (Part 4 of the Podcast only content, begins at the 2:47:00 mark) Counting some of the ways you can measure your Cleveland Indians, unlike last season when they streaked to end the regular season and ran out of gas, are set up this time around to peak now in the postseason. Mike decides to watch Premier League soccer instead of Division 1 NCAA football on Saturday afternoons, now all he has to do is find a team to root for and it could prove to be a much harder decision than you might think. All this and so much more on this episode of the Defend Cleveland Podcast. Enjoy~ Check out Lachlan MacKinnon’s best selling book, ‘Let Me Tell You A Story: Small Stories Of A Large Family’! Thank you to KidForce Pinball for sponsoring the podcast, 91.1-FM WRUW Cleveland for being home to the show, engineer extraordinaire Mollie Ames, and to the city that inspires us, Cleveland, Ohio. Your recommended listening for the week is the 1991 album by Sonny Sharrock called "Ask The Ages" originally released on Bill Laswell's  record label Axiom. This hidden jazz gem also features the titans of Elvin Jones on drums, Charnett Moffett on double bass, and Pharoah Sanders on tenor and soprano saxophones. Dig~   The intro and outro to Lachlan’s segment is the song “My Summer In Traction” by the band Ohio Civil War , and it’s used with permission.

Episode 15 features an interview with avant-garde jazz pianist Dave Burrell, who is being honored at the 2018 Vision Festival at Roulette in Brooklyn and who performed at Cecil Taylor's funeral on April 10, the day before this interview was recorded. Dave Burrell has been a respected and admired figure on the free jazz scene since he arrived in New York in 1965. He was born in Ohio, but raised in Harlem before his parents moved to Hawaii for much of his childhood—he later studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston. In the late 1960s, he recorded as a leader and played on albums by Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Marion Brown, Noah Howard, Sonny Sharrock, Sunny Murray, and many others. He moved to France in 1969 and played at the Pan-African Festival and recorded for the legendary BYG Actuel label. In this hour-long interview, he discusses his classic albums; his relationships with Cecil Taylor, Sunny Murray, Archie Shepp and others; his plans for the 2018 Vision Festival; and much more. The Osiris podcast network, which the Burning Ambulance podcast is part of, is conducting a brief listener survey, and we'd really like you to fill it out. We value your support of this show, and your opinion. As the network continues to grow, we want to learn a bit more about you—your podcast and music listening preferences, other podcasts you listen to, what your interests are, and what you think we can do better. If we start to get sponsors on this show, we want to make sure that those sponsors align with your interests. We won’t be bringing on advertisers that don’t bring you products or services we actually think you’ll be interested in. There are prizes for filling out the survey: You can win an LP of Phish's Rift signed by band lyricist Tom Marshall, or a $100 Amazon gift card. We’ll never share your information with anyone, and the survey won’t take more than 10 minutes to complete. Take the survey here.

Two avante garde guitars two generations apart are the focus this time, as Mike and Pat look at releases from Sonny Sharrock and Mary Halvorson. Plus, Mike unloads on Pat for his Beach Boys obsession. Sonny Sharrock – GUITAR, ASK THE AGES; Mary Halvorson – MELTFRAME; Tomeka Reid Quartet – SELF TITLED.

Join Scott and Shawn as they breakdown and review a classic episode of a subversive animated talk show, hosted by a superhero and featuring his two imprisoned adversaries: "Space Ghost: Coast to Coast"! Listen as they discuss "Banjo", the highly rated episode featuring Space Ghost's monstrous pet sea monkey as well as celebrity guests Schooly D and Weird Al Yankovic! They'll talk about the history of the characters of Space Ghost, from the  1960's Hanna-Barbera cartoon "Space Ghost and Dino-Boy", to Adult Swim spin offs like "The Brak Show", and even DC Comics like "Future Quest"! They'll also discuss the great voice work of the late C. Martin Croker, who voiced the hilarious villains Zorak and Moltar and the great musical work of the late Sonny Sharrock. Plus, Shawn will also talk about the amazing experience of seeing Weird Al Yankovic live! So don't forget your super-special vitamin, feed your sea monkeys, and get ready to receive a transmission from the Ghost Planet!  Please email us at hittingplayshow@gmail.com  Hitting Play on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/HittingPlay  Scott's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/MCandFriends  Scott's Vine: http://www.vine.co/MCandFriends  Shawn's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Weazel1978  Shawn's YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/3BMMC 

GREETINGS CITIZENS! This week, we discuss Dragon Quest VII, adventures in LARPing, Blizzard's Battle.net, Pokemon (of course), Nintendo fan games, and the wonder that is Space Ghost: Coast to Coast. The song this week is 'Hit Single' by Sonny Sharrock.

Brad Mehldau y Kevin Hays enfrentan y complementan sus pianos en "Modern Music" con los arreglos de Patrick Zimmerli. En esta edición de "Club de Jazz" del 7 de diciembre de 2011 escuchamos su música y la de algunos de sus referentes: Philip Glass o Steve Reich. Otro pianista, el italiano Stefano Bollani, se reúne con la NDR BigBand de Hamburgo en "Bigband!" bajo los arreglos y dirección de Geir Lysne. Jesús Moreno recupera "desde mi cadiera" la Last Exit de Sonny Sharrock (gt), Ronald Shannon Jackson (bt), Peter Brötzmann (sx) y Bill Laswell (b) a través de su "Köln" de 1990. En los "Ritmos Latinos" Anxo recuerda al guitarrista portugués Carlos Paredes mientras Alberto Varela bucea en el "Jazz Porteño" por la "Grappelliana" del grupo Cordal Swing. Tiempo también para "Notturno Mediterraneo", proyecto del compositor Angelo Valori junto a músicos como Gabriele Mirabassi (cl) o Gil Goldstein (p). Toda la información y derechos: http://www.elclubdejazz.com

Brad Mehldau y Kevin Hays enfrentan y complementan sus pianos en "Modern Music" con los arreglos de Patrick Zimmerli. En esta edición de "Club de Jazz" del 7 de diciembre de 2011 escuchamos su música y la de algunos de sus referentes: Philip Glass o Steve Reich. Otro pianista, el italiano Stefano Bollani, se reúne con la NDR BigBand de Hamburgo en "Bigband!" bajo los arreglos y dirección de Geir Lysne. Jesús Moreno recupera "desde mi cadiera" la Last Exit de Sonny Sharrock (gt), Ronald Shannon Jackson (bt), Peter Brötzmann (sx) y Bill Laswell (b) a través de su "Köln" de 1990. En los "Ritmos Latinos" Anxo recuerda al guitarrista portugués Carlos Paredes mientras Alberto Varela bucea en el "Jazz Porteño" por la "Grappelliana" del grupo Cordal Swing. Tiempo también para "Notturno Mediterraneo", proyecto del compositor Angelo Valori junto a músicos como Gabriele Mirabassi (cl) o Gil Goldstein (p). Toda la información y derechos: http://www.elclubdejazz.com

Nick and Daryl cover everything from Jazz guitarist Sonny Sharrock to Country artist Glen Campbell, from Hot Buttered Soul to the Jazz equivalent of cookie-monster death metal. This is a look at some unique music that we can't get enough of.

Nick and Daryl cover everything from Jazz guitarist Sonny Sharrock to Country artist Glen Campbell, from Hot Buttered Soul to the Jazz equivalent of cookie-monster death metal. This is a look at some unique music that we can't get enough of. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/me-and-mister-80s/support

"Oh What A Bastard I Am" from some 60s musical about Merkins "5 Minutes" by Bonzo Goes To Washington Michael Jackson Melody by Patrick Adams "Konk Party" (some sort of extended mix) by Konk ? "Jingle Bells" by ? from _A Reggae Christmas "People Get Ready" by Pat Kelly "Blind Willy" by Sonny Sharrock ? by Anthony Moore "Kyoko's House" by Philip Glass "It's Not Up To Us" by Byard Lancaster "A Portrait of Linda in Three Colors, All Black" by Sonny Sharrock