“…discovering old stories in sound archives and creating new stories to complement them – transforming sampled archival material including field recordings, transcriptions, and historic recordings into newly re-contextualized sound collages…” the fantastic Dust to Digital label…
Rawhead & Bloodybones…
“Seven miles north of Hyden, Kentucky there’s a town called Dryhill. Locals know it also as Hell for Certain and spelt as spoken in the book South from Hell-fer-Sartin: Kentucky Mountain Folk Tales, the best-known book by folklorist Leonard Ward Roberts. The folk tales that Brian Harnetty samples in Rawhead and Bloodybones can be found there. Roberts collected his tales “on the north side of the Pine Mountain range,” in the late 1940s and early 1950s. At the school in Hyden, he found Jane Muncy, aged 11, who’d heard “Merrywise” from the grandmother raising her…
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Just in case you missed it in Episode 369 a reminder about this – it was at the end of the show but in the middle of the Mixcloud.
The Golden Apples have been fans of Jonathan Wilson for a long time… we loved the song and video for Desert Raven way back in 2011.
Loving You is a beautiful Jonathan Wilson track featuring collaboration with Laraaji a self-produced tape of spiritual and devotional songs made in the mid-’80s. You need to check out Vision Songs Vol 1. on Numero “… the Laraaji album like no other, located at the intersection of new age and gospel, his outlier and magnum opus, the feel-good DIY tape of the century. Casio synth jams recorded at spiritual retreat guest rooms and a tiny bedroom on the Upper West Side..”
This is the earliest episode of Laraaji’s Manhattan Group W public access cable program “Celestrana” known to exist. Laraaji’s then-partner and collaborator Vina Devi joins him to discuss crystals and create beautiful improvised music.
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Claude Mono presenting Episode 369 – from The Night of the Hunter to Palmbomen II – from The Soundcarriers to Kriedler – its two hours of sound colors – its a shapeshifting Hypnagogic Hauntological Deep Folk experiment of many things …enjoy the trip
Show restream here
High Definition Mixcloud here – just the music no chit chat
PLAYLIST (Mixcloud Edition)
Bud and Travis – Golden Apples of The Sun – Bud and Travis
Vic Mars – Mortimer’s Cross (1461) – The Restless Field
Harold Winter and Margaret Winter – Lie Down, Lie Down – Songs of the Mountains: Harold and Margaret Winter of Wee Loch
Jack White – Wayfaring Stranger – Cold Mountain
Rawhead & Bloodybones – Merrywise – Rawhead & Bloodybones
Brian Harnetty – Boy – Aquabear Legion, Vol. 6
Brian Harneetty -To Hear Still More – Silent City
Walter Schuman – Pretty Fly – The Night Of The Hunter
SPECIAL SELECTIONS from Ben Watt’s Deep Folk Mixtapes (learn more and listen here)
Simon Spiers – Found sound: Weather report, London Volmet South, The Burns Day Storm
The Roches – Star of Wonder – We Three Kings
Smoke Fairies – Snowglobe Blizzard – Wild Winter
Mica Levi – Love – Under the Skin OST
Tim Hecker – Radiance – Virgins
Kieran White – Hummingbirds – Wayfaring Stranger Lonesome Heroes
David Wiffen – One Step – One Step
Mutual Benefit – Advanced Falconry – Love’s Crushing Diamond
SPECIAL SELECTIONS END
The White Buffalo – The Woods – Hoghead Revisited
The Soundcarriers – Step Outside – Celeste
Agnus Dei – Beneath a weeping willow (O Willow Waly)
Jacco Gardner – Hypnophobia – Hypnophobia
Jonathan Wilson – Loving You – Rare Birds
Palmbomen II – Memories of Cindy (Video Excerpts) – Memories of Cindy
Palmbomen II – Peter Accepts Death – Memories of Cindy
Tendts – Gold Silk (Palmbomen II Remix)
Palmbomen II – John Lee Roche (Frietboer & Eigenheimer Remix)
Lo Five – Ridin on Air – Look to me for Love
Mark Pritchard 3 / 4 Heart – Warp Recreated
Seefeel – Minky Starshine – Plainsong EP
Palmbomen II – Cyber Tears – Memories of Cindy
Carmen Villain – Obedience (Bjorn Torske Remix)
Kreidler – Kannibal – European Song
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Curated by Raine van Dyle
Conjuring the primal wildness of the Viking era and Northern European Bronze Age, with words from rune stones, amulets and other ancient artefacts. Mixed amongst some more modern sounds from the same region.
Restream the show here – select 15 April
Mixcloud HQ here
PLAYLIST
2:00:47 Fever Ray – If I Had A Heart
2:05:00 Heilung – Krigsgaldr
2:14:44 Fever Ray – Keep The Streets Empty
2:20:17 Aurora – Little Boy in The Grass
2:24:25 Wardruna – Isa
2:32:22 Heilung – Hamrer Hippyer
2:45:30 Fever Ray – The Wolf
2:50:06 Heilung – Alfadhirhaiti
2:57:07 Wardruna – Helvegen
3:04:07 Einar Selvik – Snake Pit Poetry
3:12:16 Hagalaz Runedance – The Dawning
3:17:06 Corvus Corax – Sverker
3:22:27 Ivar Bjørnson – Kvervandi
3:28:26 Forndom – Resan
3:32:05 Trobar de Morte – Summoning The Gods
3:36:41 Solstafir – Fjara
3:43:35 Garmana – Herr Mannelig
3:50:50 Eivør – Trøllabundin
3:54:07 Wardruna – Solringen
SOSPETTO loves the soundtracks of italian movies from the 70ties, especially the wide world of giallos and cop-flicks and brings you new compositions with a mixture of orchestral sounds, funky beats and grooves and experimental jazz stuff…
Please follow us on a musical journey through all the exploitation we love…
Dave Simpson from The Guardian 2016 article
It’s a song that follows me around. There’s a beer named after it, and I just found an Italian bread called Little Fluffy Clouds at Brixton market. When I moved house, I came across the original cassette tape that fan sent to Youth. Some time ago, the record company even suggested I interview Rickie Lee Jones. It’s a shame it never happened. My first question was gonna be: “So what were the skies like when you were young?”
We started making acid house tracks before it was called acid house. It was electronic indie dance music, really. I was sharing a council flat with Alex in Battersea, which had a bedroom studio. Jimmy Cauty from the KLF, who’d been in my band Brilliant, came round a lot and Andrew Weatherall lived upstairs. Alex and I started a label called WAU! Mr Modo, which stood for weird and unusual. It became a community.
Me, Jimmy and Alex were DJs at the Land of Oz, this amazing club night at Heaven. Working-class football hooligan cats came in from all over London, on ecstasy for the first time. They were big heavy guys who’d normally be beating the crap out of each other, but suddenly they’d be playing with a pocket calculator for half an hour, then give you a hug.
We set up the first chillout room there, the White Room, playing ambient music and film soundtracks. No one danced; they were all lying down. There were five or six turntables, and we’d play different records all at once. We thought: “Why don’t we do this in a studio?”
Jimmy and Alex started making records as the Orb, including the single A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld, which was built around a sample of Minnie Riperton’s Lovin’ You. People described it as ambient house for the E generation. Jimmy and Alex were making an album called Space when they had a big argument. Jimmy stormed off, took all of Alex’s bits off the record and released it under his own name. Alex was mortified. I told him not to worry – we’d make a record that was even better.
A fan who worked in a record shop in Birmingham sent me a tape with a note saying it would be perfect for the Orb. On one side, Pat Metheny was playing Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint. On the other was an interview with Rickie Lee Jones. Someone asked her: “So what were the skies like when you were young?” and she launched into a trippy monologue about stars and clouds. I sampled it and put it over a basic pulse. That was the start of Little Fluffy Clouds.
Youth and I went to school together, and I was one of the pallbearers at his father’s funeral. You don’t get closer than that. So when Jimmy and I fell out and Youth said we could make a better record together, it was a challenge.
He plays a bassline and a keyboard riff, but Little Fluffy Clouds is basically a song made from samples. I took a whistling harmonica from an Ennio Morricone soundtrack, some of the Steve Reich song and some drums from Harry Nilsson’s Jump into the Fire, but slowed them right down. I kept that secret for years. And not many people know that Lee “Scratch” Perry’s on there, either. I’m not saying which of his tracks we used, so good luck finding it.
Youth had just had a massive hit with Blue Pearl’s Naked in the Rain. When the record label Big Life signed Blue Pearl, they wanted a second act to develop and chose the Orb. Youth and our sound engineer Thrash made a short version of Little Fluffy Clouds to release as a seven-inch single. I thought it was too poppy, but people loved it.
Once it was a smash, Rickie Lee Jones wanted some cash for our use of her vocal, so the record company coughed up $5,000. Years later, we got a letter from Steve Reich’s lawyers, but he was a proper gentleman: he wanted 20% from then on and asked us to do a remix of one of his tunes, which we did.
‘The song still follows me around. There’s a beer named after it now – and a loaf of bread’
This version is quite special – The Orb featuring The Kakatsitsi Drummers – Glastonbury 2013
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Em Burrows: “I’ll be hosting Golden Apples of the Sun today with my dear friend Rhien Tan of Shy Panther. We first bonded over a mutual love of 60s psych-folk-rock (and English tv shows) and Rhien has since mixed and produced Invisible Seams and is currently working on my next record. Nobody listens to more music than this guy and I cannot wait to hear what he picks for this show!”
Show-restream here – select 8 April
PLAYLIST
Neu – Weissensee
Suzanne Ciani – Clean Room ‘ITT TV Spot’
Tangerine Dream – Stratosfear (7″ Single Edit)
Midlife – Phase
Mohammed Nouri – Ba Bare Safar Bebandeem
Magnetic Mind – In Silence
The Dandelion – I Stole the Medicine Man
Satan’s Pilgrims – Dilation
Jane Weaver – Your Time in this Life is Just Temporary
The Superimposers – Seeing is Believing
Giles and Fripp – I Talk to the Wind
Lake Ruth – Greenfield Industrialist
Shy Panther – Bernard
Paul McCartney – Distractions (Demo)
The High Llamas – Dorothy Ashby
Life on Earth – Come Closer
The Cardigans – Iron Man
Michael Rault – Sleep With Me
Visions – Oriental Sunshine
Googoosh – Digeh Geryeh Delo Va Nemikoneh
Fairport Convention – Crazy Man Michael
Trees – Murdoch
Pentangle – Jack Orion
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“…they were beautiful, the most beautiful skies as a matter of fact, the sunsets were purple and red and yellow and on fire, and the clouds would catch the colours everywhere, and the sounds were otherworldly with fragments of electronica, psychedelia, Giallo and Hauntology – there were church bells and old ivy-covered walls, and strange shadows in the midnight-mist of an apple orchard…” – Rickie Lee Jones/Claude Mono
Re-stream the show here (Select 1 April)
Mixcloud HQ here – extra tracks/just the music/no chit chat
PLAYLIST
Mirka Krivankova with Jiri Stivín & Jazz System Co – Mlhave Doteky – Zrcadleni=Reflections
Andrea Daltro – Kiua – Outro Tempo: Electronic and Contemporary Music From Brazil 1978 to 1992
—> check out the Golden Apples of Brazil Mixtape here
Paper Dollhouse – Pearl’s Theme – The Sky Looks Different
Paper Dollhouse – Moon – A Box Painted Black
Sospetto – Il Sonno Sano Ripetendo 1 2 and 3 – Il Sonno Eterno
Sospetto – Il Sonno Eterno – Il Sonno Eterno
Edda dell’Orso and Stelvio Cipriani – Marys Theme – Femina Ridens
Edda dell’Orso and Stelvio Cipriani – Papaya Song
Broadcast – Where Youth and Laughter Go – The Future Crayon
Stereolab – Super Falling Star Moog Version
Stereolab – Free Witch & No Bra Queen
Pete Brandts Method – What You Are – Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe 1980-1991
Mercury Rev – Observatory Crest
Lani Hall – Love Song – Sun Down Lady
Temples – Move with The Season (Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve Re-Animation)
Beautify Junkyards – Sybil´s Dream – The Invisible World of Beautify Junkyards
Beautify Junkyards – Claridade – The Invisible World of Beautify Junkyards
Suzanne Ciani – Plays Moog Modular System 55
Sky H1 – I Think I Am – Motion
Death and Vanilla – Necessary Distortions – To Where the Wild Things Are
Kraftwerk – Expo 2000
Bruno Spoerri – Winding Down – Teddy Bar/Lilith
Le Futur Pompiste – Bergsjön (demo)
Le Futur Pompiste – Seeds – Your Stories and Your Thoughts
The Limiñanas – Garden of Love (feat. Peter Hook)
Heather Trost – Bloodmoon – Agistri
MIXCLOUD BONUS
Heather Trost – Heather Trost – Agistri – 01 Agistri
Honey Ltd. – Silk ‘n Honey – The Complete LHI Recordings
Time piece 1 (Harpsichord Bugalu) – The Greg Foat Group – Dark Is The Sun
Farlocco – Superpotenza – Farlocco, Tecnologia
New LP
Paper Dollhouse are Astrud Steehouder amd Nina Bosnic, and have been a Golden Apples favourite from right back to 2012’s debut LP A Box Painted Black on Bird Records. The new 2018 LP The Sky Looks Different Here sees Astrud and Nina on Moondome Records – read a detailed review at Fact Magazine here
Mixtape
Secret Thirteen Mix 219 created by Paper Dollhouse sways between sharp intelligent dancefloor grooves and introspective abstract sounds. Thus the kosmische fantasy fairytale of Emerald Web nicely gives way to the darkly futuristic sci-fi drone of “Sleep Deprivation 2” by UK IDM masterminds The Black Dog and the naive and chaotic “Every Day” by AFX. It’s no wonder that we find quite a number of tracks by Paper Dollhouse on here helping to trace the influences and evaluate their relative impact on Astrud and Nina’s sound. The selection shifts gears quite rapidly and gets even more intense towards the second half with a classic electro cut from Drexciya, a fast-paced Basic Channel remix, putting their signature dub techno into an almost trance-like rush, or the chilled pulsations of Nordic italo producer Skatebård. The same pattern is maintained with Legowelt’s two lesser known aliases, Seaside Houz Boys and Sammy Osmo, with their respective weird house and kosmische grooves.