Fugitive Waves presents a Hidden Kitchens World Podcast Trifecta with Frances McDormand and The Kitchen Sisters. In this episode Salman Rushdie talks about his Hidden Kitchen. We travel to Sicily for The Pizza Connection—a story of fighting the mafia through food. And on to England for the seldom heard saga of a small dog bred to run in a wheel that turned a roasting spit in medieval kitchens—The Turnspit Dog: The Rise and Fall of the Vernepator Cur.

The Pizza Connection

Part 2 of the Hidden Kitchens World Trifecta with host Frances McDormand and special guests Werner Herzog, Gael Garcia Bernal and Stories of Atomic Wine and The Romance and Sex Life of the date.

Atomic Wine

Part 3 of Hidden Kitchens World Trifecta with host Frances McDormand: Hidden Kitchens Russia, stories of the role of the kitchen in the downfall of the Soviet Union.  

Dissident Kitchens

Narrated by Andy Garcia. At the turn of the century until the 1930s in the cigar factories of Tampa and Ybor City, a well dressed man in a panama hat with a loud and beautiful voice sat atop a platform and read to the cigar workers as they rolled. These readers, known as Lectores de Tabaqueres, read Cervantes, Zola, Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, Jules Verne... It was the voices and words of these lectores - before radio and mechanization, who informed, organized, and incited the cigar workers, who labored by hand until the 1930s, when both the rollers and readers were replaced by mechanization. A lost tradition of story and smoke.

This is episode of Fugitive Waves is sponsored by Moth Light Creative.  Weird, but in a cool way.


11 -  Cigar Stories

Produced by The Kitchen Sisters in collaboration and translation with Raquel Bitton

She rose every day at dusk and rehearsed, performed, ate and drank until dawn.  Then slept all day, woke up and began to create and unravel again as the sun went down.  Nearly every song Edith Piaf sang came from a moment of her life on the streets of Paris.  She would tell her composer and musician lovers a story, or describe a feeling or show them a gesture and they would put music and words to her pain and passion, giving her back her own musical autobiography.  Charles Aznavour, Francis Lai, Georges Moustaki, Henri Contet, some of France's great musicians and writers recall their nights with Edith Piaf.   

Fugitive Waves is one of 10 podcasts in the Radiotopia Collective, some of the best story-driven podcasts on earth.  99% Invisible, The Truth, Love & Radio,Theory of Everything, Strangers, Radio Diaries, and us, The Kitchen Sisters. Come January you'll also be hearing Criminals, Mortified, The Illusionist and Heart.   Love Funding for this episode comes from Mothlight Creative and Audible.com.  Funding for Radiotopia comes from Mailchimp and The Knight Foundation and from all of you who backed the Kickstarter campaign that kicked some serious support.

12 - The Nights of Edith Piaf

Before Elvis walked through the door, before Sun Studios put Memphis on the map—Sam Phillips, a young man with a tape recorder, lived by the motto, "We Record Anything, Anywhere, Anytime." Weddings, funerals, marching bands, the Miss Memphis Pageant—Sam recorded them all—anything to keep his fledgling Memphis Recording Service open to record Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Little Junior, Ike Turner, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley. The raw and rocking, unrecorded music of the 1950s South.

13 - Sam Phillips and the Early Years of the Memphis Recording Service

In the early 1950s, at the same time legendary record producer Sam Phillips was making recordings of the pageants and events happening in Memphis' white community—across town, R.A. Coleman, an African American photographer, was making recordings of the black community—weddings, church choirs, nightclubs and dance halls.

Electronic Memories: R.A. Coleman's Memphis

Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote a poem about them.  Amy Tan's mother was serenaded by them as she lay in state.  Jessica Mitford's memorial procession was led by them. And more than 300 Chinese families a year hire the Green Street Mortuary Band to give their loved ones a proper and musical send-off through the streets of Chinatown.The band traces its roots back to 1911 and the Cathay Chinese Boys Band, the first marching group in Chinatown.

The Green Street Mortuary Band, made up of mostly Italians playing Christian hymns and dirges, accompanies traditional Chinese funeral processions through the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown. Tubas, gongs, firecrackers and spirit money tossed in the air, ward off evil spirits and carry on a tradition that dates back to 1911.

16 - The Green Street Mortuary Band

Michael Pollan, the award winning food and agriculture writer, sits with host Leah Rose to discuss his latest piece "The Trip Treatment" from the February 9, 2015 issue of The New Yorker. 

Pollan's article takes a comprehensive look at the renaissance of psychedelic research and the doctors who are currently giving high doses of psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, to people who are dying of cancer and battling addiction.

Psychedelic Cure: Michael Pollan on his story "The Trip Treatment"

A track i wrote a while back about what has to be my favourite cartoon series to have ever existed in the history of existence ... not everyone may share my love for the turtles but i hope you'll enjoy it had a lot of fun writing this one

TMNT

The Gammmmmma Ray-produced by Jordon walsh of the bearpatrice/goreforge/ etc...

Gamma Ray -Prod Jordon Walsh

My names Cyril Pittman , I'm 26 years old from newfoundland Canada , love making music for the hell of it , in it for the music , and if the money follows thats okay , if not well thats okay to , recently invested in some gear , not the best equipment but ill be working with what I got,learning as i go ,  and  putting out tracks monthly as best as possible from here on if all goes accordingly , always interested in collaborations ,and accepting beats from producers, local, near , far , if you want your track out there im your man , ill gladly write a verse or song on just about anything , just want to make music for the people to enjoy and working with them is the best place to start

TMNT

SIR-ILL (MC CYRIL)