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Today I am doing something I love
I hope you are doing what makes you happy my femme friends
For a few weeks I’ve been collecting heartfelt moods and expansive ideas for todays show
Peace and Love
Jemima
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PLAYLIST
2:02:00 Mary Hampton – Song of Wandering Angus
2:08:00 Jessica Pratt – Nowhere It Was
2:11:00 Retep Folo & Dorothy Moskowitz – Running Time
2:16:00 Retep Folo & Dorothy Moskowitz – Moon
2:23:00 Tia Blake and her Folk-Group – Lost Jimmy Whalen
2:25:00 Akaitori – Hotaru (Firefly)
2:29:00 Co-Pilot – Spring Break
2:36:00 Sophie Cooper – Fire Leap
2:38:00 somesuprises – Be Reasonable
2:45:00 Garndarf – Song for a Girl
2:52:00 Roger Fakhr – Lady Rain
4:53:00 Lisel – Rising Mist
2:57:00 Astrid Sonne – Say you love me
3:00:00 Cath Carroll – Beast on The Streets
3:10:00 Virginia Astley – Im Sorry
3:17:00 Broadcast & Mamman Sani (Mash-up) – Five Hundred Miles
3:19:00 Leaving – Journey
3:27:00 Midwinter – Scarborough Fair
3:29:00 Elsa Hewitt – Citrinitas
3:33:00 Suttee – Blue Rose
3:36:00 Lisel – Stalactite
3:40:00 Yu Ching – Love
3:48:00 Mono – Kyo De Sayonara
3:50:00 Dana Gavanski – Singular Concidences
3:55:00 Ten Nin Go Sui – Gomenne
3:57:00 Moe Tucker – Pale Blue Eyes
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A Year at the Country on Willows Songs
GOLDEN APPLES SUMMER SCHOOL
Running from December 2023 through to February 2024, The Golden Apples of the Sun presents ’Summer School’. The show’s regular presenters, guests and friends present a curated season of weekly 2-hour explorations to different musical places. Summer School commences Sunday 24 December with ‘Summerisle Song Mists’.
Fitting perfectly between the Winter Solstice and Chistmastide Summer, School commences with ‘Summerisle Song Mists’. Inspired by The Wickerman and the psychogeography of its musical influences.
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PLAYLIST
Golden Apples Lord Summerisle Theme
Far Black Furlong – Far Black Furlong – The East Room (2006)
Carl Turney & Brian Campbell – SumerIsIcumenIn – Folklore Tapes Calendar Customs Vol.II – Merry May (2015)
Magnet – Lullaby – The Wickerman OST (1973)
The Owl Service – Wake the Vaulted Echo (excerpt) – Wake the Vaulted Echo
Ivan The Tolerable – Gently Johnny – Library Of The Occult (2021)
Woodwose – Frenetique – Dancing Stones (2012)
Matt Berry – Fire Chant Alternate – Kill The Wolf (2020)
Matt Berry – Village Dance – Kill The Wolf (2020)
Doves – Reprise – Lost Souls
Doves – Reprise (Music Box)
Gwenno – Hi A Skoellyas Liv A Dhagrow (excerpt) – Le Kov (2018)
David Colohan – Loving Couples – The Ruined Church (excerpt) – Ballads Of Seduction, Fertility And Ritual Slaughter(2023)
Gwenno – Tonnow – Tresor (2022)
Hanna Peel – Pregnant – The Midwich Cuckoos (2022)
Hannah Peel – Ecovocative (Paddy Kingsland Remix) – Unheard Delia
Arianne Churchman – Fire Rites – Folklore Tapes Calendar Customs Vol.III – Mid-Winter Rites & Revelries
CLANN – Unseelie – Seelie (2017)
Keith Seatman and Douglas E Powell (feat Belbury Poly) – Broken Folk – Broken Folk EP (2018)
Murmur Mori – Willow’s Song ( The Wicker Man ) – self titles cassette (2014)
Johnny Jewel – Decay (excerpt) – Home OST
Pulp – Wickerman – We Love Life (2001)
Pulp – Sunrise (excerpt) – We Love Life (2001)
David Colohan – Loving Couples – The Ruined Church excerpt Ballads Of Seduction, Fertility And Ritual Slaughter
Gazelle Twin & NYX – Fire Leap – Deep England (2021)
The Hardy Tree – Chuffy – The Stone Tape Analysing A Ghost By Electronic Means (2023)
Lutine – So it Goes (Pete Wiggs mix) – Died of Love Remixes (2016)
CLANN – The Faerie Court (Under Sun) – Seelie
Magnet – Sunset (excerpt) – The Wickerman OST (1973)
Sneaker Pimps – How Do (Willows Song) – Becoming X (1996)
Yage – The Hunters Moon – The Woodlands of Old (2008)
Dialogue Appointment with The Wickerman
Cocteau Twins – Alice – Violaine EP (1996)
Jane Weaver – Arrows (Loops Variation) – Loops In The Secret Society (2019)
Matt Berry – October Son Live – Matt Berry and the Maypoles (2015)
The Heartwood Institute – The Old Way – Astercote
July Skies – Girl On The Hill – The Weather Clock (2008)
Vic Mars – Ystradfellte – The Beacons (2023)
Sproatly Smith – Gently Johnny – The Yew and the Hare
Murmur Mori – The Age of Conquest – Murmur Mori
WANT MORE?
Ballads Of Seduction, Fertility And Ritual Slaughter (2023)
About the LP – Why create it? here
Track by Track here
Ballads Of Seduction, Fertility And Ritual Slaughter on Bandcamp
The Stone Tape Analysing A Ghost By Electronic Means (2023)
Christmas Day 2022 marked 50 years since the original broadcast of the ground-breaking BBC supernatural thriller, ‘The Stone Tape’, written by Nigel Kneale.
In early 2023 Hidden Britain commissioned a group of UK based musicians to produce a new piece of work inspired by this extraordinary 1972 TV film.
Folk Horror Tracks – List of almost 200 Tracks
This list is very complete and very recommended as a Launch Pad. Also includes a list of Finnish Folk Horror for a real deep dive.
The list is by Liero and can be found here
…and the Finnish Folk Horror list here
Pulp’s track Wickerman
Jarvis Cocker reciting “Wickerman” (Rough Trade East, 5th Dec 2011) with slide show by Jarvis.
“Eight minutes long, “Wickerman” is the album’s centrepiece: it’s about a real river that flows underneath Sheffield, channelled through “dirty brickwork conduits.” Cocker’s lyrics make me think of John Cooper Clarke’s “Beasley Street” or Morrissey’s “river/ the color of lead.” This is a stream of memory that carries Jarvis back to moments in love, like a first kiss in a shabby cafe where outside “a child’s toy horse ride… played such a ridiculously tragic tune.” This girl is a composite of lost lovers: he recalls another riverbank vignette, “except you were somebody else”. The river is also a witness, a Cocker-like observer of ordinary lives, flowing beneath “pensioners gathering dust like bowls of plastic tulips” and passing an old sweets factory that burned down decades ago leaving “caverns of nougat and caramel.” Finally, the river is also some kind of life-force, the polluted pulse of a bygone England, distorted by industrialisation yet indomitable. Jarvis imagines following its course all the way through and surfacing “surrounded by grass and trees”. Like Neil Young, he knows he’ll find “her” there”.
From Simon Reynolds review of We Love life (2-001) posted at Reynolds Retro
Wickerman
Just behind the station, before you reach the traffic island, a river runs through’ a concrete channel.
I took you there once; I think it was after the Leadmill.
The water was dirty & smelt of industrialisation
Little mesters coughing their lungs up & globules the colour of tomato ketchup.
But it flows. Yeah, it flows.
Underneath the city through’ dirty brickwork conduits
Connecting white witches on the Moor with pre-raphaelites down in Broomhall.
Beneath the old Trebor factory that burnt down in the early seventies.
Leaving an antiquated sweet-shop smell & caverns of nougat & caramel.
Nougat. Yeah, nougat & caramel.
And the river flows on.
Yeah, the river flows on beneath pudgy fifteen-year olds addicted to coffee whitener
And it finally comes above ground again at Forge Dam: the place where we first met.
I went there again for old time’s sake
Hoping to find the child’s toy horse ride that played such a ridiculously tragic tune.
It was still there – but none of the kids seemed interested in riding on it.
And the cafe was still there too
The same press-in plastic letters on the price list & scuffed formica-top tables.
I sat as close as possible to the seat where I’d met you that autumn afternoon.
And then, after what seemed like hours of thinking about it
I finally took your face in my hands & I kissed you for the first time
And a feeling like electricity flowed through’ my whole body.
And I immediately knew that I’d entered a completely different world.
And all the time, in the background, the sound of that ridiculously heartbreaking child’s ride outside.
At the other end of town the river flows underneath an old railway viaduct
I went there with you once – except you were somebody else –
And we gazed down at the sludgy brown surface of the water together.
Then a passer-by told us that it used to be a local custom to jump off the viaduct into the river
When coming home from the pub on a Saturday night.
But that this custom had died out when someone jumped
Landed too near to the riverbank
Had sunk in the mud there & drowned before anyone could reach them.
I don’t know if he’d just made the whole story up, but there’s no way you’d get me to jump off that bridge.
No chance. Never in a million years.
Yeah, a river flows underneath this city
I’d like to go there with you now my pretty & follow it on for miles & miles, below other people’s ordinary lives.
Occasionally catching a glimpse of the moon, through’ man-hole covers along the route.
Yeah, it’s dark sometimes but if you hold my hand, I think I know the way.
Oh, this is as far as we got last time
But if we go just another mile we will surface surrounded by grass & trees & the fly-over that takes the cars to cities.
Buds that explode at the slightest touch, nettles that sting – but not too much.
I’ve never been past this point, what lies ahead I really could not say.
I used to live just by the river, in a dis-used factory just off the Wicker
The river flowed by day after day
“One day” I thought, “One day I will follow it” but that day never came
I moved away & lost track but tonight I am thinking about making my way back.
I may find you there & float on wherever the river may take me.
Wherever the river may take me.
Wherever the river may take us.
Wherever it wants us to go.
Wherever it wants us to go.
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photo: Desert Listening Party
Has it really been a decade? On May 27 2013 a listening event for the upcoming Boards of Canada album Tomorrow’s Harvest took place at the abandoned Lake Dolores Waterpark, in the middle of the desert in California. (Approximately 100 fans attended after decoding cryptic clues from the band’s Twitter account.)
curated by with Claude Mono
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PLAYLIST
Intro feat Boards of Canada – Telepath
Intro feat Kate Dilemma – Dive (intro – excerpt) – Underneath
Intro feat Gwenno – Hi A Skoellyas Liv A Dhagrow – Le Kov
Intro feat Mani Xavier – Song of Wandering Aengus
Danger Mouse Karen O – Nox Lumina – Lux Prima
Danger Mouse Karen O – Lux Prima – Lux Prima
Lionel Liminana – Prologue – The Ballad of Linda L. (OST)
Gwenno – Jynn-amontya – Le Kov
Gwenno – Herdhya – Le Kov
Golden Bug – Kotodama (Part I)
Golden Bug – Variation sur 3 bancs feat. The Liminanas
Bradford Cox – Spanish Plastic – Teenage OST
Bradford Cox – Canopy– Teenage OST
Bradford Cox – Quick Canal – Logos (Leaked Demos)
Pye Corner Audio-Black Mist (Long Version) – The Black Mist EP
Tangerine Dream – Love on a Real Train
Tangerine Dream – Love on a Real Train (Williams Odyssey Mix)
Global Communications – Maiden Voyage Original 8 07 5 23 Version 1994
Discodor – Orange – Discodor EP2
Bertrand Burgalat – Aux cyclades de Vanessa Original Mix – Show Music 2017
Tricatel – married to French fashion designer Vanessa Seward
Stereolab – Nothing To Do With Me – Sound-Dust
Stereolab – Gus The Mynah Bird – Sound-Dust (not on Mixcloud – new rules)
Stereolab – Baby Lulu – Sound-Dust (not on Mixcloud – new rules)
Boards of Canada – Come To Dust (Excerpt) (not on Mixcloud – new rules)
Boards of Canada– Nothing Is Real
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Brought to you by Tristan, an ellipsis, and French quotation marks.
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Colleen – Subterranean Movement I – Le jour et la nuit du reel
Roy Budd – Main Theme – Cater Gets a Train – Get Carter OST
Virna Lindt – Episode One – Shiver
Desmond Briscoe and Glynis Jones – Application for an Exorcism – The Stone Tape OST
The Advisory Circle – Sky Court – Full Circle
The Purge of Tomorrow – Waves – The Other Side of Devastation
Virginia Astley – Afternoon: When the Fields Were on Fire – From Gardens Where We Feel Secure
Bohren und Der Club of Gore – Maximum Black – Bohren for Beginners
Robbie and Mona – Always Gonna Be a Dead Man – Tusky
Biosphere – Genkai – 1 – N-Plants
Naaartaaat – Fields of Dusk
Colleen – Subterranean Movement II – Le jour et la nuit du reeel
Eric Zann – The Human Chord Ouroborindra
Kate NV – Asleep – Wow
Gilberto Gil – Miserere Nobis – Tropicalia ou Panis et Circencis
Gal Costa – Mamae Coragem – Tropicalia ou Panis et Circencis
Caetano Veloso – Tropicalia – Caetano Veloso
Anne Gillis – Appel A la base – <<…>>
Virginia Astley – Morning: A Summer Long Since Passed – From Gardens Where We Feel Secure
Shirley Collins – Hares on the Mountain – Archangel Hill
Kenji Kawai – Making of Cyborg – Ghost in the Machine OST
Phew – Our Likeness – Our Likeness
Weyes Blood – Twin Flame – And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow
Colleen – Subterranean Movement III – Le jour et la nuit du reel
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Everyone’s favorite Hauntologist returns to curate this edition of Golden Apples
Brought to you by Tristan and many other folk.
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Ernest Hood – Pleasant, This Garden – Back to the Woodlands
Brian Eno – Sherry – Foreverandevernomore
John Cale – Moonstruck (Nico’s Song) – Mercy
Tolerance – Sacrifice – Divin
Hans-Joachim Roedelius – Tempera – Jardin au Fou
Kate NV – Confessions at the Dinner Table – WOW
Sidney Sager – Children of the Stones Opening Theme – Children of the Stones OST
Meg Baird & Mary Lattimore – Damaged Sunset – Ghost Forests
Yoko Ono – Shiranakatta (I Didn’t Know) – Approximately Infinite Universe
Ron Geesin – Sky High Balloons – Sunday Bloody Sunday OST
Paul Ferris – Peaceful Interlude – Witchfinder General OST
The Devil – Andrzej Korzynski – Diabel‚
Lucrecia Dalt – Contenida – Ay!
Alain Pierre – Des Morts (Alternative Theme) – Des Morts OST
Josephine Foster – Pendulum – Domestic Sphere
Richard Dawson – Museum – The Ruby Cord
Paddy Kingsland and BBC Radiophonic Workshop – Home Alone (Nicky’s Theme) – The Changes OST
Gabor Szabo – Galatea’s Guitar – Dreams
The Advisory Circle – Wait Hear Now – Full Circle
To Rococo Rot – Rocket Fuel – The John Peel Sessions
Deux Filles – L’Intrigue – Silence & Wisdom
Romance & Dean Hurley – Pure Love – River of Dreams
Stereolab – I Feel the Air (Demo) -Dots and Loops (Expanded)
Broadcast -Sixty Forty -Maida Vale Sessions
Jane Weaver -The Electric Mountain -The Silver Globe
Mark Jenkin – Enys Pt. 3 – Enys Men OST
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Beauty with Intensity…curated by Claude Mono. This little musical experiment is meant to be experienced as a headphone listening session across a four-sided double LP compilation that does not really exist. Of course like a good record you can drop the needle anywhere.
For some additional exploration and trivia check out the sleeve notes below (after the playlist)
Cosmoramic artwork credit: João Branco Kyron, psychedelic troubadour with Beautify Junkyards
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SIDE ONE
Jane Trimble – The Song of Wandering Aengus
Paul Giovanni – Sunset – The Wicker Man
Bobby Krlic – The Blessing – Midsommar OST
Demdike Stare – Past Is Past – Triptych
Jane Weaver with Demdike Stare – Europium Alluminate – The Watchbird Alluminate
Sneaker Pimps – How Do (Willows Song) – Becoming X (feat Britt Ekland)
Somerset Village Travelogue
Vic Mars – Butterflies, Bees And Other Insects – The Land and the Garden
Vic Mars – Inner Roads And Outer Paths – Inner Roads And Outer Paths
Gavino Morretti – Dawn of a New Generation – The Shildam Hall Tapes
February Montaine – Cosmicomics (excerpt) – as late as the light that hides it
Saint Etienne – The Reckoning – Fox Base Alpha (Deluxe)
Saint Etienne – Sky’s Dead – Fox Base Alpha (Deluxe)
Telling The Bees – Wood – Untie The Wind
SIDE TWO
Lubos Fisher – The Magic Yard – Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
The Valerie Project – Prelude – The Valerie Project
Lubos Fisher The Letter 2 – Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Broadcast – Make My Sleep His Song – Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age
Broadcast – Round and Round and Round – Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age
Broadcast – A Medium High – Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age
The Valerie Project – An End To Enchantment – The Valerie Project
Broadcast And The Focus Group – Let It Begin Oh Joy – Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age
Broadcast – Valerie – Ha Ha Sounds
Broadcast – Valerie (Live Melbourne HiFi Bar on 9 December 2010)
SIDE THREE
Petr Hapka – Opening Titles – Panna a Netvor (Beauty and the Beast) OST
Plinth – Message In The Village (excerpt) – Music For Smalls Lighthouse
Fern Knight – From Zero To Infinty – Castings
Pearls Before Swine – Images Of April – Lammas Night Laments (Remastered) – Balaklava (original LP – 1968)
Colleen – Babies – Everyone Alive Wants Answers
Paper Dollhouse – Music Box (Excerpt) – A Box Painted Black
Paper Dollhouse – Siren – Aeonflower
Voice of the Seven Woods – Return From Byzantium
Espers – Byss & Abyss – Espers
Movietone – Sun Drawing – Day and Night
SIDE FOUR
Cate Brooks – Agri Montana – Ascent (excerpt)
Saint Etienne – The Place at Dawn – Sound of Water
Saint Etienne – Blue Kite – Ive Been Trying Tell You
Saint Etienne – Like The Swallow – Foxbase Alpha
Saint Etienne – Hug My Soul (Live at Glastonbury 1994)
Saint Etienne – Hug My Soul Vibes and Strings – Tiger Bay Tapestry
WorriedAboutSatan – Blank Tape
Orchestra Pistapoci – I Feel Love (Live 2019)
Cate Brooks – Erna (Excerpt) – Agri Montana
Stockholm Monsters – Miss Moonlight
1983 – 12 inch Factory Benelux – Belgium
SLEEVE NOTES
Sneaker Pimps on The Wicker Man:
“The whole band is into a film called The Wicker Man, it’s an sort of obscure 70s English film, and the last track on our album, How Do, is a cover-version of a track from that film, which is originally a traditional folk tune. So, that music and filmwise is everybody’s sort of favorite film, and I think I would have liked to have written for that. In the future – well, I can’t speak for everyone else here, but something along those lines.”
In 2008 Kelli Ali, who was the singer with Sneaker Pimps at the time of Becoming X, released a pastoral, folk inflected album called Rocking Horse on One Little Indian, which was produced by Max Richter (the producer of once lost-lady-of-folk Vashti Bunyan’s 2005 Lookaftering album). More at the wonderful ‘A Year In The Country’ here and also here
Midsommar Art-Historical references decoded. Director Ari Aster talks about how he packed the film with references from art history – here
Read Jon Savage’s sleeve notes for the 2CD Deluxe Edition of Foxbase Alpha here
On the night before the last ever performance of Broadcast and Trish Keenan at the Meredith Music Festival the band played a gig at the Melbourne HiFi Bar on the 9th December 2010 – so glad someone taped this – listen to the full performance here
Telling The Bees and the track ‘Wood’ can be found as part of the incredible ‘Dark Britannica’ compilation series – more on the series via the FB here
More about what Telling the Bees and the above painting is actually about here
The secret music of the secret Bristol, Movietone’s catalogue is a perfect encapsulation of a place and time. Cinema verité, soft focus, jump cuts, handheld Super 8 – every auteur device is present in their music: Movietone, Day And Night, The Blossom Filled Streets and The Sand And The Stars form a perfect set of releases from perhaps the greatest undiscovered band. (Domino Records)
The Pistapòci orchestra is an experimental ensemble music project funded by the Emilia Romagna Region and born in 2016 from an idea by Francesco Sgorbani, conductor of the orchestra. It could be defined as a sort of “reinvention”, localized and updated, of the famous movement of South American orchestras created starting from the seventies of the last century by the Venezuelan José Antonio Abreu (“El Sistema”). The Pistapòci Orchestra is essentially a teaching activity of musical instruments and ensemble music, both choral and instrumental. The study of the instruments and the parallel work in the orchestra go hand in hand, allowing students to immediately exploit what they have learned individually and at the same time seek the construction of a collective sound. More here
The musical journey ends with an obscure classic that celebrates its 39th birthday in 2022 still sounding as fresh and exciting as you could ever wish for in a song.
‘Miss Moonlight’ by Stockholm Monsters was released in 1983 on the Factory Records offshoot Factory Benelux in Belgium. A neglected part of the Factory Records scene, the Stockholm Monsters are a key link between the bristly art-funk of A Certain Ratio and the good-foot indie dance vibe of Happy Mondays and the other Manchester bands of the late ’80s. Often seen merely as New Order proteges (Peter Hook produced all but one of their records) and victims of both record company indifference and unnecessary potshots by the cynical British music press, the Stockholm Monsters deserved better treatment than they usually got.
Following on from a European tour with New Order, the band recorded the EP which was released as FBN 19. Miss Moonlight, a Velvet-esque, organ-lead lament, might not have been an obvious single choice, but showed that the band were capable of stretching out.
“This three-song EP marks the Stockholm Monsters’ graduation to 12″ vinyl after a pair of 7” singles for the Factory label. The A-side, “Miss Moonlight,” is one of the very best songs the Manchester-based quintet ever released, an anxious slice of post-punk built on Shan Hira’s monomaniacal drumming and some droning one-note keyboard lines. Tony France’s vocals move from a sweetly androgynous croon to hoarse shouting by the end, as Lindsay Anderson’s floating trumpet passages provide much needed breaks in the steadily increasing tension. It’s a minor post-punk classic…” ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide
Read more and in great detail about Stockholm Monsters blog posts here and here
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Brought to you by Tristan and the letter W (for winter).
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Pneumatic Tubes – Mumbly-Peg
Deerhoof – Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, SX. 106
William Doyle – A Forgotten Film
Nala Sinephro – Space 4
The Witching Tale – Where the Sea Snakes Curl
Circuit des Yeux – Sculpting the Exodus
Cults Percussion Ensemble – Autun Carillon
Teresa Winter – Drowning by Numbers, Pt. 1
Damon & Naomi with Ghost – Tanka
Daniel Bachman – Year of the Rat
Pye Corner Audio – Symbiosis
Burial – Upstairs Flat
Grouper – Kelso (Blue Sky)
Trevor Duncan – The Girl – Theme
Gilded – Forging Iron Amongst the Trees
Deerhoof – Midnight, The Stars and You
Vanishing Twin – Wider Than Itself
Australian Bird Calls – Songs of Disappearance
Jane Weaver – All the Things You Do
Michael O’Shea – No Journey’s End (Excerpt)
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Music that is the eerie intersection between folk electronica and library and also has a secret theme?
Presented by Tristan and the Saroos
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Piero Umiliani – Marcia dei Roboti
Basil Kirchin – Child Vocal Tape
Faten Kanaan – Rêve-Rivière
Wendy Carlos – Orange Minuet
Shirley Collins – A Blacksmith Courted Me
David Munrow: Early Music Consort – Chanterai por mon Corage (Guiot)
Mica Levi – Love
Thirsty Moon – Big City
Françoise Hardy – Chanson d’O
Johnny Trunk – Zeus
Joe Meek and the Blue Men – Valley of the Saroos
Matt Berry – The Blue Elephant
Piero Umiliani – Consumismo
Simon Fisher Turner & Edmund de Waal – The Children Will Have to Stop
Koji Kondo – Dire Dire Docks
Janet Beat – Echoes from Bali
Wendy Carlos – Country Lane
Iwo Zaluski with the Park Lane Primary School – Lux Aeterna / Aurora Borealis
EXTRA: Iwo Zaluski says hello in the comments and talks about the record in this post
Josephine Foster – Guardian Angel
Tristram Cary – The Electron’s Tale
David Munrow: Early Music Consort – Condicio/O Nacio/Mane Prima
ToiToiToi – Vaganten
Faten Kanaan – Mist & Madrigal
COS – Oostend, Oostend
Cavern of Anti-Matter – The Dress Perspective
Colleen – Gazing at Taurus – Night Sky Rumba
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T H E G O L D E N A P P L E S OF T H E S U N
with Claude Mono
…hazy late-night ambience delivered on a Sunday afternoon – a slow build – a slow burn – music across thirty years that is as relaxed and euphoric as watching and listening to two hours of Bob Ross painting in AMSR audio…
Sleeve Notes below the playlist
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PLAYLIST
Junn Kato – Intro The Song of Wandering Aengus
Emile Mosseri – Love Theme – Kajillionaire OST
Emile Mosseri – Bubbles Beat – Kajillionaire OST
Emile Mosseri – Bubbles Inc – Kajillionaire OST
Cavern of Anti-Matter – Metric 36 (excerpt) – In Fabric OST
Johnny Jewel – Decay – Home OST
Colleen – Raven – The Weighing of the Heart
Johnny Jewel – Endless – Home OST
Casey MQ – Far Far Away – Firecrackers OST
Casey MQ – Sounds of An Empty Mall – Firecrackers OST
Sinoia Caves – Sundown in the New Arcades (Milky Way Echo) – Enchanted Persuader
Ichiko Aoba – Improvisation – Live at Ginza Sony Park (July 3, 2020)
Ichiko Aoba – Luminescent Creatures – Live at Ginza Sony Park (July 3, 2020)
Ichiko Aoba – Prologue – Windswept Adan
Bob Ross – The Joy of Bob Ross
Larkin – Two Souls Dance
Sonoda – So Near – Here We Are Now
Sonoda – Do You Want To Find Out – Clearing II
Charles Vaughan – Wasteland (excerpt) – Pylon Reveries
Kazuo Ishiguro – about Never Let Me Go
Rachel Portman – Souls at All – Never Let Me Go OST
Film School – CPPT – We Weren’t Here
Boards of Canada – website flash intro (Helios remix)
4T Thieves – 506627 (Feat. Pandacetamol) – Raven’s Cottage
Boards of Canada – Opening The Mouth – Geogaddi
The Future Sound Of London – Yage 2019
Primal Scream – Higher Than The Sun (Isle of Dogs Home Studio) – Demodelica
Primal Scream – Inner Flight (Henry Acapella Jam Studio) – Demodelica
Primal Scream – Screamadelica (Eden Studio Demo) – Demodelica
Vanishing Twin – Wider Than Itself – Ookii Gekkou
Vanishing Twin – Zuum – Ookii Gekkou
Mute Branches – The Sunset Over UFO Circle – The Detective Is Dead
Stereolab – Infinity Girl (Demo) – Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night (Expanded Edition)
Stereolab – Strobo Acceleration (Demo) Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night (Expanded Edition)
Immersion feat Laetitia Sadier – Riding The Wave
Dusk – Mary Hansen – Electro Brand
Stereolab – Silver Sands – Not Music
Mark Pritchard – Under The Sun Beautiful People (Album Instrumental)
SLEEVE NOTES
Kajillionaire streaming on Amazon Prime – a strange wonderful little film that ends just to soon – Emile Mosseri’s haunting musical score and its motifs are essential – it features a haunting cover of Bobby Vinton’s 1962 classic “Mr. Lonely” courtesy Angel Olsen (the original plays in the film’s finale).
group hike + performances in nature + the sweetest people at Griffith park this FRI 10/22! Over the moon to play another show with Mutual Benefit + Barry Johnson come meet at Griffith park’s Trails cafe 3:30-4pm for the 2.2mi hike starting at 4pm where we’ll stop along the way for the special minimal/acoustic sets Perfect partly cloudy weather too, high 77F Flyer by @miralunaxo
Windswept Adan is the 2020 album by Japanese folk singer and guitarist Ichiko Aoba. Aoba described the album as a “soundtrack to a fictional movie also check out Live at Ginza Sony Park (July 3, 2020) – released in 2021 improvisations nuanced beautiful differences
“The music climbs and descends with grace, feeling clean and clear throughout transcendental melodies that will haunt you if you let them.”
In celebration of the 30th anniversary this week of ‘Screamadelica’ I played three tracks from ‘Demodelica. But here also enjoy a 1990 VHS recording of a mimed performance of ‘Loaded’ – the whole band look like they would rather be at the pub and its all just terrible except for Bobby Gillespie’s ‘I’m so bored and also quite out of it’ dancing which is totally fantastic – plus here Andrew Weatherall’s 1991 Tour Diary (as scanned from and featured in THE FACE magazine.).
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G O L D E N A P P L E S O F T H E S U N
blue skies – flowers – birdsong
synths++
blissed out for days…
presented by Claude Mono
LISTEN
Restream the show here
Mixcloud HQ Mixtape here – just the music
SLEEVE NOTES
Imagine – a strangely wonderful track taken from the 1976 album ‘A Forest Is…’ produced for the United States Department of Agriculture – Forest Service. Featuring Ray Schmitt and the Free State String Band.
Beautiful gentle synth sounds plus birdsong from Masami Tsuchiya on the track ‘Never Mind’ from a double flexi-disc & art book released via CBS/Sony Japan, 1985 – for me a recent discovery on a mixtape from Julien Dechery one half, along with DJ Sundae of the curators of the legendary Sky Girl Compilation out of Efficient Space and much loved on the Golden Apples
Masami Tsuchiya also part of Japanese synthpop trio of the early 1980s Ippu-do – played – Nightgulls of Night Mirage
John Travolta – Rainbows – John Travolta LP – a gorgeous in looks and vocals young John Travolta – 1976
Two tracks from Antenna and the LP Quiet fx – Antenna is Sasha from Ukraine who is a friend of Kai Hugo who is also known as Palmbomen II and is a new project on Kai’s World of Paint label – check out his new LP on how to make a new age film
Bibio – Capel Celyn – Phantom Brickworks – by English producer Stephen Wilkinson, known by his stage name Bibio. Released on 3 November 2017, The album is a set of improvised compositions consisting of simple piano, synth, and guitar loops surrounded by tape hiss and field recordings. Making the songs based on the concept that “places can be haunted by meaning,”
The grainy crackle and otherworldy sounds of Black to Comm and the track Hotel Freund from the LP Alphabet 1968 released on Thrill Jockey. Black to Comm is producer and sound artist Marc Richter who armed with an array of smudged samples and found sounds collected by Richter from across the history of recorded music and altered into new shapes
“Capel Celyn was a rural community to the north west of Bala in Gwynedd, north Wales, in the Afon Tryweryn valley. The village and other parts of the valley were flooded to create a reservoir, Llyn Celyn, in order to supply Liverpool and Wirral with water for industry. The village contained, among other things, a chapel, as the name of the community suggests, capel being Welsh for chapel.” William Basinski – Disintegration Loop 1.1 consists of one static shot of Lower Manhattan billowing smoke during the last hour of daylight on September 11th, 2001, set to the decaying pastoral tape loop Basinski had recorded in August 2001. Shot from Basinski’s roof in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It is a tragically beautiful cinema verite elegy dedicated to those who perished in the atrocities of September 11th, 2001.
The Disintegration Loops, (Bandcamp) was created out of tape loops Basinski made back in the early 1980s. he just wanted to transfer the loops from analog reel-to-reel tape to digital hard disk. However, once he started the transfer, he discovered something: the tapes were old and were disintegrating as they played and he recorded them. As he notes in the liner notes, “The music was dying.” But he kept recording, documenting the death of these loops.
There is a great interview on Radio National’s Music Show (listen here) where William Basinski discusses in detail the whole process around the creation of the recordings and its forever associations with 9/11
PLAYLIST
Zalla aka Piero Umiliani – Risale (excerpt) – Paesaggi – 1971
Marden Hill – Oh Constance – Cadaquez
Hong Kong In The 60s – Now Boarding The Arrival – Places
Lo Five – A Pivotal Moment – When It’s Time to Let Go
The Bilinda Butchers – Lost In Translation – Away Demos
Ray Schmitt and Free State String Band – Imagine
Masami Tsuchiya – Never Mind – Alone
Ippu-do – Nightgulls – Night Mirage
John Travolta – Rainbows – John Travolta
Antenna – This Room – Quiet fx
Antenna – They Won’t Regret – Quiet fx
Black to Comm – Hotel Freund – Alphabet 1968
Bibio – Capel Celyn – Phantom Brickworks
William Basinski – The Disintegration Loops 1.1 – great interview about this here
Beyond the Black Rainbow OST – Welcome to Arboria
Kirk Degiorgio’s Offworld – Opus 3 – Two Worlds – 2002
Mick Chillage – Flashback – Sky Gazing
I-boat Captain – Slower (The Backwoods remix) – Is It Balearic
Hampshire and Foat – Coastal Drive – Nightshade – 2018
Pacific Coliseum – Ocean City – Ocean City Cassette – 2017
Gattaca OST – The Wind Caught It (dialogue)
Ciel – The Twirler (Central Remix) – Hundred Flows EP – 2018
Sound of Ceres – The Trance – The Twin
Symmetry – Jackies Eyes – Themes for an Imaginary Film
Johnny Jewel – Slow Dreams – Windswept
Johnny Jewel – Andromeda – Themes for Television
Ashley Slater – Private Sunshine (Big Lounge Album Mix) – Secret Love
Marden Hill – Bardot – Secret Love
Marden Hill – Curtain – Cadaquéz