May 26 2014

A little tune to lift your spirits, on this beautiful spring day. Mary Dear, from “Honeymoon Lane” by Creamer, Dowling, & Hanley. Played via Welte-Mignon Reproducing Player Piano Roll. This roll, # 75262, was recorded in June of 1927 by Harry Perrella. Mr. Perrella, (1900-1939), was a member of the Paul Whitman Band, and several other bands. There is very little information about him, out there, but suffice it to say, he is one of my favorite Welte Artists. Played this afternoon on my 1921 6’2” Baldwin Welte-Mignon Reproducing Player Piano.  Please listen with headphones for best fidelity, and thanks for listening.

Mary Dear

Not Bad (No. 3) Vocal Jimmy Farrell & Marjory Logan

Taken from the forthcoming album PLEASE. 
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BAD LAW video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkyUKXdFw_E
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BAD LAW

My baby surrendered to fate
And I couldn’t even say how I felt later on that evening
Stating my name to the officer’s aide was in vain 
Cause I knew they were out to get me

Place four of five fingers flat on a sticky plastic bat
Scan my blue bloodshot eyes for the history of my trials

When crimes are passionate can love be separate?

En route to my cell I retraced every step
and found a way to redact and retell my story
No evidence and no witness to summon or finesse
I confess, it all sounds unlikely

A sweaty, paranoid palm pressed against a leathered wall
The law in all its flaws, me in an oversized overall 

When crimes are passionate can love be separate?

Baby it’s a bad, bad law 
It’s a bad, bad law, Geronimo
Baby it’s a bad, bad law 
It’s a bad, bad law, Geronimo
 
I straddled out on the stand
My defense scrawled on my hand
Killed time and time again but then I lost again

When crimes are passionate can love be separate?

Words & music by Sondre Lerche
Recorded, mixed and produced by Kato Ådland at Studio 5071, Bergen July/Dec 2013. 
Drums recorded by Henning Vatne Svoren at Ocean Sound, Giske July 2012.
Sondre Lerche: vocals, guitars.
Kato Ådland: bass, keyboards.
Dave Heilman: drums, percussion.

iTunes

Sondre Lerche - Bad Law

Dieter Moebius charted new "Krautronik" ground as one half of Cluster (with Hans-Joachim Roedelius) for many years. The Americans Tim Story and Jon Leidecker are two electronic musicians who could not be more different to one another. Story is known for his warm soundscapes whilst Leidecker has made an name for himself, or rather for his "Wobbly" pseudonym, with experimental adventures in sound. "Snowghost pieces" features harmonious, electronic improvisations of the highest order. Hypnotic rhythms embellished with sometimes bizarre, always surprising sounds and noises. On CD / LP+CD / DL

Moebius Story Leidecker - "Snowghost Pieces" (snippets). Out June 6, 2014

Cupid Deluxe

It Is What It Is

Dol. Pauscher dir. unknown personnel; Lászlo Mocsányi and Tibor Lakos, v.

Radius M 516 mx. 14487

Prague, c. November 1932

Harlem Melody Band - Oh Monah! - 1932

Vic Quam dir. unknown personnel and vocalist (?)

MacGregor & Sollie Musical Library 395 mx. MS 2003

San Francisco, 1936.

Vic Quam & Orchestra -  I'm Building Up To An Awful Let-Down - 1936

Broadcast South Pacific 50th Anniversary WQXR 1999

Grenville Walker directing unknown personnel; Howard Barrie, vocal.

Columbia 1010 (matrix unknown - recorded by Trans-Air Broadcast Corporation)

1775 Broadway, New York City, June 21, 1932

Grenville Walker and his New York Knights - Living In Dreams - 1932

Etting Interview 1

04. Krautrock  Return To The Source – DJ Set Mix

A 1933 Rudy Vallee recording via OTR CAT dot com, of "I Hate to Think That You'll Grow Old, Baby" from the musical "Forward March".

I Hate to Think That You'll Grow Old, Baby

Vincent Price Cooking Lesson 3 - Small Boys

Live performance from Indiana University on Sept. 26th, 1996.

Not Bad (No. 3) Vocal Jimmy Farrell & Marjory Logan

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