New album " Bygone Dreams" is out!
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Video:
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Bygone Dreams

The Chemicals

Jon Heilbron - double bass
Fredrik Rasten - e-bowed acoustic guitar, composition

Murmurations I (excerpt) - Arches - Jon Heilbron & Fredrik Rasten

The John Peel Sessions

Rocket Fuel (John Peel Session)

This episode looks at the ballad Young Ramble Away aka Derry Down Fair aka Brimbledown Fair aka Burlington Fair aka Brocklesby Fair.

Tracklist

Frank Purslow & John Pearse – Young Ramble Away
The Young Tradition – Derry Down Fair
Chapter Three – Ramble Away
Al O’Donnell – Ramble Away
Jean Redpath – Rambleaway
Derek Sarjeant & Hazel King – Ramble Away
George Withers – Brimbledown Fair
Tommy Tourish – Ramble Away
Mel, Mel and Julian – Ramble Away
Johnny Flynn – Rambleaway
Joe Hickerson – Ramble Away
Tattiebogle – Rambleaway

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Young Ramble Away

The lost Belgian blueprint of Brussels based jazz fusion and how free form Franco-Flemish punk put Zeuhl school in the Classroom via to the conception of COS.

Emerging from behind the same clouds that kept formative Belgian progressive jazz records like Brussels Art Quintet and Kiosk’s Mona Call in tangible obscurity, these impossibly rare early Euro jazz recordings shed a new ray of light on the intricate foundations of the scene that elevated COS, Marc Moulin, Placebo, Marc Hollander and Telex to Zen master status, while also capturing one of Europe’s best female vocal artists in the midst of her wide eyed and uninhibited prime.

Idiosyncratic, intrepid, psychedelic, scholastic? Affirmative. But not once do these recordings resemble pages of a dog-eared sketchbook. Expertly executed and recorded, this semester of progressive proto jazz fusion symposiums capture the group as they unveil the unique strain of experimental ‘Flower Music’ (a title worthy of a lost Don Cherry album?) that would imminently blossom into the trailblazing COS powerhouse. Listen closely and hear the sound of this outernational mutating quintet as they tear up the rule book and still graduate onto the International jazz rock scene with flying psychedelic colours. Fans of COS tracks such as Mein maschine ist schön and L’Idiot Léon will herein identify the foundations of Pascale Son’s early experimental, non-lyrical and onomatopoeic vocalisations which would earn the band favour amongst early Zeuhl aficionados, thus winning the group support slots with Magma and historically leading directly to the Classroom/COS overnight metamorphosis. These recordings capture that precise chink in time and the eureka moment where Daniel Schell’s experiments become a leading life force. Constantly forward-thinking with a don’t look back mantra, these recordings have remained nestled on old acetates and magnetic tape akin to similar lost Low Country albums such as Alain Pierre’s mythical L’enfant grandit synth opus and Placebo’s coveted Three Days In April TV recordings.

Never before released on vinyl, these tracks provide us with a sonic chalkboard of Daniel Schell’s ambitious musical equations, recalculated by precocious polymaths, then conveyed via Pascale Son’s inquisitive child-like vocal explorations. For those keen to learn the Histoire De Melody COS? The classroom door is open - prepare to be schooled!

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Classroom

Sur deux

Classroom - Sur deux

In dieser Episode machen sich Krsto und Danijel mal wieder unbeliebt, denn sie reden über ein Land, dass grundsätzlich bei vielen Leuten hoch angesehen dürfte: Italien - gutes Essen, schöne Strände und nicht zu vernachlässigende Beiträge zur Popkultur, über deren Qualität man durchaus streiten kann.

Allerdings ist es auch das Geburtsland des Faschismus. Darüber wird auch geredet. Eher weniger wird darüber geredet, was der italienische Faschismus auf dem Balkan so veranstaltet hat. Denn tatsächlich ist der Versuch von Mussolini und Co. ein Großreich in vorwiegend nicht-italienisch bewohnten Gebieten entlang der Adria zu errichten, direkt verantwortlich für den Tod von zehntausenden Menschen.

Summarische Erschießungen, verbrannte Erde, Todeslager. Komischerweise hört man davon im Westen eher wenig, dafür umso mehr über die Verbrechen, die an Italienerinnen und Italienern begangen wurden - und diese beklagen besonders lautstark die ideologischen Erben Mussolinis. Eine Schlagseite in der historischen Erzählung, die wir in diese Episode ein bisschen geraderücken wollen. Denn merke: Es gibt keinen netten Faschismus.

Außerdem erfahrt ihr diesmal, wer wirklich die ganz echte, unverfälschte Wahrheit über Sebastian Kurz auf die Leinwand bringt, wie Vučićs Medien einen Terroranschlag im Kosovo umdeuten und warum sich Christian Schmidt und Milorad Dodik endlich ein Zimmer nehmen sollten.

# 73: Italienische Ansprüche oder Es gibt keinen netten Faschismus

A piece to assist with meditation. The water was recorded in my backyard. It's the water running over a small ledge in our swimming pool. 

Meditation #2

The BC crew sets their sights on the Academy Award winning, semi-autobiographical film, Almost Famous. But what are some of the differences between the theatrical release and Untitled: The Bootleg Cut? What are Griffin and David’s thoughts on Marc Maron and Jimmy Fallon’s cameos? How has Billy Crudup’s career trajectory drastically changed since 2000? Together, Griffin and David discuss Philip Seymour Hoffman’s stellar performance as legendary rock critic Lester Bangs, Kate Hudson’s boyfriends over the years, Led Zeppelin rumors and locking the gates.

Almost Famous

I had a lot of fun covering this piece! The guitars were played on the Marblehead using the guitar pod. The bass was played on the Fender Jazz bass using the bass pod. The drums were from Session Drummer, the Evil Joe kit. The cellos and double basses were from East West Hollywood Strings, Diamond.

Red - King Crimson (cover)

The Versions

History Version

Ielasi & Malatesta "Rudimenti" (Entr'Acte)

Not just another bad movie podcast, Blank Check reviews directors' complete filmographies episode to episode. Specifically, the auteurs whose early successes afforded them the rare ‘blank check’ from Hollywood to produce passion projects. Each new miniseries, hosts Griffin Newman and David Sims delve into the works of film’s most outsized personalities in painstakingly hilarious detail. Produced by Ben Hosley.

Almost Famous

Blank Check Podcast

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