In an archipelago is a work for sextet and electronics, or any combination of its constituent parts, from solos, various possible duos and trios, and so on, all the way up to the full band, for a total of 127 possible combinations. The work was composed during the
COVID-19 pandemic, where an uncertain future led to the idea of affording the extracting of solos from the commission of a chamber piece-to-be. Each instrument’s part was composed one-by-one, first as a mockup assembled from recordings of my past pieces, among other sources. I listened to each of these parts in different combinations and fine-tuned them as I went in order to compose in such a way that they could exist on their own or in this variable company. I then transcribed the parts into a notated chamber score.
Each instrument has a phoneme attached to it, drawn from the title, and the title of each performance becomes an assemblage of its parts.
Antonio Benítez-Rojo’s 1985 essay The Repeating Island set out a way of thinking borne of the postcolonial conditions of the Caribbean that challenges the binary ontologies of Analytical and Continental Thinking. An Archipelagic Thinking is one of multiplicity and polyrhythm which conceptualizes through fragmentary interrelations rather than a system or a totality. In composing this piece, I was thinking about
connectivity through isolation, and the idea that repetition brings necessarily a difference and a deferral. The kind of densely modular repetition I experiment with, where every moment is densely recontextualizable, is one that I hope offers an opportunity to collapse
binary listening.

In an archipelago was commissioned by Standing Wave.

Listen to the work as an interactive app, creating your own mix of the different instruments in any combination!
iOS:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/standing-wave/id1601878153
Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ChromaMixedMedia.StandingWave

In an archipelago - Standing Wave (full ensemble)

Radio Palma 016: Float on (my sea)
Mixed by Sweet Palma in Santander, Aug. 2022

Caveat emptor: This mix has been digitally treated for maximum fidelity. However, because of the age of the tape reels involved, some sonic artifacts may remain. I hope the music still shines through.

Tracklist:

01 - Gianni Marchetti - September
02 - Pink Floyd - Wot's... Uh The Deal
03 - Sylvester feat. the Two Tons of Fun - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) (Epilogue)
04 - Grateful Dead - Comes A Time (Jam) - Live in Berkeley/July '76
05 - Grateful Dead - Dark Star (Jam) - Live in Portland/July '72
06 - Riff Raff - Original Man
07 - Brainstorm - Das Schwein Trugt
08 - Marvin Gaye - I Got to Get to California
09 - Clarence Reid - Like Running Water
10 - Grant Green - Vulcan Princess > Skin Tight > Woman’s Gotta Have It (Live in Vancouver, 1975)
11 - James Taylor - Woman's Gotta Have It
12 - Tal Armstrong - So Much Feeling (In Your Love) (Pt.1)
13 - Womack & Womack - MPB (Missin' Persons Bureau) (Folk Version)

Radio Palma 016: A Greeting from New Mountain

Discount Heaven House Band

Cassette $8.00
Here: https://goatytapes.com/#!/tape/discount-heaven-house-band/

Discount Heaven House Band is an elegy for friends long made and suddenly lost. These are low-lit, ember-glowing vignettes captured during the hours between late night and early morning in Tijuana, Mexico. Played by Alfonso Azcaiturrieta, Ian Collins, and Brandon Ángeles with an appearance by Peter Gray Hurley, the recordings were made in memory of Kiva Ivey, taking on new depth and complexity following the death of Ángeles. Grooving but doleful, extended yet broken, they are loose, ludic, and ever-unfolding. Thick basslines bend under the shuffle of a rhythm box, pangs of melodica cut through glittering synth aureoles. Emissions from a celestial lounge act, misty and hypnotic, to accompany a final ascension.

Discount Heaven House Band - Ivey's Gospel

Dime Store Radio would like to invite y’all to listen to a couple dozen of the finest tunes ever written!
Links in bio & story
Curated by @pauldufrene
((Intro by John Hartford))
Back Home In Huntsville Again - Bobby Bare
To Love Somebody - The Flying Burrito Brothers
I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) - Glen Campbell
You Are Not Needed Now (album version) - Townes Van Zandt
Yes I Guess They Oughta Name A Drink After You - John Prine
You Won't Believe This - Maddox Brothers & Rose
Little Black Train - Peggy Seeger
Cold And Windy Night - Buzz Busby
La Robe Barrée [The Striped Dress] - Canray Fontenot
The Hills Of Isle Au Haut - Jody Stecher
Pray On, My Child - Willamette Gospel Singers
I Shall Be Released - Brothers & Sisters
Pouring Water On A Drowning Man - James Carr
The Atomic Aces - Give Me Your Love - A.C. Jones
Mama Didn't Know - Major Lance
Sorry I Hurt You  - Nat Phillips
That’s How Strong My Love Is - Mattie Moultrie
Don't Play That Song - Rocky Robert and the Airedales
Jolene - Kellee Peterson
Cigarette s n Whiskey - Sons Of Pioneers
Amazing Grace - Amazing Rhythm Aces
That Man - Billie Jo Spears
There Goes My Baby - Webb Pierce
Hi-Fi to Cry By - Bonnie Owens
What Can I Tell The Folks Back Home - Melba Montgomery
Saro - Bob Dylan
My Love Don’t Care About Time - Gene Clark
In My Hour of Darkness - Gram Parsons
Birds - Neil Young
There Won’t Be Many Coming Home - Roy Orbison

Dime Store Radio #7 :: January 8, 2023

Michael Nesmith - Harmony Constant
Ramblin Jack Elliott - Girl Of The North Country
The Louvin Brothers - In The Pines.mp3
The Stanley Brothers - Highway Of Regret.mp3
Wade Mainer & Zeke Morris - Down In The Willow
Ferlin Husky - Wings of a Dove
Blue Sky Boys – What Does The Deep Sea Say?
Elder David Ross - He Gave Me A Heart To Love
Brothers & Sisters - Mr. Tamburine Man
Jackson Gospel Singers - Someday Im Gonna Walk with Jesus
The Persuasion - The Man In Me
Big Maybelle - Old Love Never Dies
Nina Simone - Buck
Bobby Moore - Chained To Your Heart Man
Maurice and Mac - You Left The Water Running
Otis Redding – Dreams to Remember
Willis Brothers - Diesel Smoke on Danger Road
Johnny Rodriguez - Riding My Thumb To Mexico
Sammi Smith - The Weight
Bobby Austin - Apartment #
Johnny Paycheck - Old Violin
Marty Robbins - The Story Of My Life
George Jones - Im Gonna
Faron Young - Here's To The Girls
Jean Shepard - Don't Fall In Love With A Married Man
George Jones - Until I Remember You're Gone
Hank Snow - I Really Don't Want To Know (Instrumental)
Tom T. Hall - Ballad Of Forty Dollars
Porter Wagoner - I'll Go Down Swinging
Patsy Cline – Strange
Hank Locklin – Almost Persuaded
Tammy Wynette- Singing My Song

Dime Store Radio #8 :: February 5, 2023

Why must I love you so much

The Dime Store Companion for February is up on Mixcloud, Soundcloud, Spotify and Apple Music! 

Curated by @pauldufrene 

Links in bio & story! 

The Everly Brothers - Crying In the Rain 
Dock Boggs - Sugar Baby 
Earl King, Professor Longhair - Big Chief - Complete Version 
Lonnie Johnson - Long Road to Travel 
Bessie Jones, Alan Lomax - Diamond Joe 
Ernest Tubb - Walking The Floor Over You 
Rockin' Dupsee - Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You 
Michael Doucet, BeauSoleil - Canray's Contredanse 
Hank Locklin - Fraulein 
Pee Wee King & His Golden West Cowboys - Tennessee Waltz 
Buffy Sainte-Marie - Cripple Creek 
Fats Domino - Walking To New Orleans 
Irma Thomas - It's Raining 
Ernie K-Doe - A Certain Girl 
Nina Simone - Little Liza Jane 
Ralph Stanley - Gloryland 
Faron Young - Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young 
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire 
John Fahey - On The Sunny Side Of The Ocean 
Bessie Jones - Go to Sleep Little Baby

Dime Store Companion #2 :: February '24

Tempus Fugit

Lullaby 4 Nina

A mixtape compiled by Dan McMahon (Fist of Kong) featuring selections from his private collection of Sun City Girls releases, 1984-2004.

PLAYLIST
“Shin Paku,” 330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond the Rig Veda (1996)
“Krung Thep Cut-Up” [excerpt], Carnival Folklore Resurrection Radio, Vol. 11 (2004)
“Nites of Malta,” Live at C.O.N. Artists (1993)
“The Multiple Hallucinations of an Assassin,” The Multiple Hallucinations of an Assassin (1989) 
“Kal El Lazi Kad Ham,” Pelican ‘92 (1992/2017)
“Abydos,” Fruit of the Womb (1986)
“Blood of Guadalajara,” Carnival Folklore Resurrection: Lo Pacific, Vol. 10 (2002)
“Seat Belts Cause Cancer,” Carnival Folklore Resurrection Radio, Vol. 11 (2004)
“Wild World of Animals,” To Cover Up Your Right to Live (1987)
“Krung Thep Cut-Out,” [edited excerpt], Carnival Folklore Resurrection Radio, Vol. 11 (2004)
“The Night Fears Black Lajoon,” Carnival Folklore Resurrection: Sumatran Electric Chair, Vol.6 (2001)
“Dead Chick in the River,” Kaliflower (1993)
“Radar 1941,” Torch of the Mystics (1990)
“Radio Morocco,” Grotto of Miracles (1986)
“Cineraria Blue,” 330,003 Crossdressers from Beyond the Rig Veda (1996)
“My Painted Tomb,” Sun City Girls (1984) 
“Drifters of the Grand Trunk,” Carnival Folklore Resurrection: Sumatran Electric Chair, Vol.6 (2001)
“Foreign Policy #13 & #36,” Carnival Folklore Resurrection: 98.6 is Death (2004)
“Bangalore Porch Lights,” Carnival Folklore Resurrection: 98.6 is Death (2004)

RIAFC 013

Sun City Girls, 1984-2004 (RIAFC 013)

A Nunpod by Bruce Russell (Dead C and Xpressway Records) originally broadcasted on Volcano Radio in Lyttelton, community radio - live and local - www.volcanoradio.co.nz

TRACK LISTING:

1.	Alastair Galbraith &amp; Graeme Jefferies Timebomb [Xpressway 7”, 1989]
2.	The Builders America [no label 7”, 1982]
3.	The Riptoids The Devil Paid a Visit [Onset/Offset 7”, 1985]
4.	The Swingers Certain Sound [Ripper LP, 1979]
5.	Herco Pilots NZ Rec [Rem 7”, 1982]
6.	Naked Spots Dance Crescendo/Circle Moon [Sausage LP, 1980]
7.	Playthings Coloured [no label 7”, 1981]
8.	Life in the Fridge Exists Have You Checked the Children? [Sausage LP, 1980]
9.	The Wasp Factory Steel Blue Sky [F-Star 7” 1986]
10.	Toerag When the Moon is Strong  [Onset/Offset 7”, 1985]
11.	Fetus Productions Marvellous [no label LP, 1980]
12.	Shoes This High Not Weighting [no label 7”, 1980]
13.	George Henderson &amp; Alastair Galbraith Maquarie Island [Turbulence box set, 1991]

… and the maggots dance, 1…2…3… [Bruce Russell, Dead C - podcast]

https://clairerousay.bandcamp.com/album/a-softer-focus

Dime Store Radio #8 :: February 5, 2023

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