In a bonus from Line Noise's recent Trip City episode, we present the full interview with UK electronic music legend A Guy Called Gerald. Includes a fabulous anecdote about how he re-programmed his entire live set one hour before a gig and basically invented jungle.

Line Noise Episode 77 (A Guy Called Gerald interview - Trip City Bonus )

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Sons of Membertou - "Kepmite'tmnej (Mi'kmaq Honour song)"

Manerva is evolved from the ongoing Live Sessions from A Guy Called Gerald.

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Manerva

Meklit - "Lefeqer Enegeza"

In South Louisiana, Clifton Chenier (1925-1987) grew up hearing his father play a style of music known as La La at house dances held in Black French Creole communities. It had a percussive and syncopated sound, played in spare combinations of an accordion and a washboard used to scrub out a rhythm. After picking up accordion as a curious teenager, Chenier soon brought into this sound the rhythm and blues that dominated radios and jukeboxes, crafting a new style that would be called zydeco. In the 1950s, he recorded for Elko, Specialty, and Chess, and joined national package show tours with stars like Little Richard and Etta James. A decade later, Chenier was quietly settled in Houston, the big stages seemingly behind him. But one rainy Saturday night at a Houston neighborhood bar, Chenier’s cousin Lightning Hopkins introduced him to Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records, where zydeco and Clifton Chenier would find a new home and champion.  

King of Louisiana Blues & Zydeco is a 4 CD/6 LP retrospective box set assembled in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Chenier’s birth. The set features a chronology of Chenier’s landmark work with Arhoolie and other labels, alongside a healthy dose of previously unissued gems. The 160-page book includes photos, posters, and other graphic artifacts from the Strachwitz Collection and deeply researched liner note essays by Grammy award-winning writer Adam Machado, public folklorist and radio host Nick Spitzer and longtime Louisiana journalist Herman Fusilier, along with a moving personal remembrance by Clifton’s son, Zydeco musician C.J. Chenier. The set is the first release on Arhoolie since the label became a part of Smithsonian Folkways.  

With music and storytelling and abundant visual imagery, this set demonstrates Clifton Chenier's life as a transformative artist -- from his earliest days practicing in the barn back home, to his reign as the undisputed King of Zydeco. 

Clifton Chenier - "My Mama Told Me" (Live)

The fourth track in the A Guy Called Gerald Live Sessions digital series. 

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G-Dance

Chasing After Deer

Our next guest should need little introduction. As one third of NorthSouth along with fellow producer/selectors Sam Bangura and Harry McCanna (aka Henry Hyde), this guy is no stranger to a party or two and you can be damn sure for that to resonate full throttle in our next edition.

Forget the current state of affairs at the moment, and let those toes tap in the sunshine to this groovy hour of sickness.

It brings us great pleasure to introduce Dale Mussington to the series.

DRIFTED AUDIO 009 | DALE MUSSINGTON

Classical techno.
This track was recorded on an MM6 Synthesizer. The melodies are recorded live, so not sampled.
It's basically baroque music with techno rythms. Compositions are original..

Chasing After Deer

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