Playlist #117

JOHN LURIE Backwards Flute (Fishing with John, Strange & Beautiful Music 1998)
JOHN LURIE Flutter (Fishing with John, Strange & Beautiful Music 1998)
23 SKIDOO Urban Gamelan Part One (Urban Gamelan, Ronin 1984)
Aa Best of Seven (gAame, Gigantic 2007)

Sun Araw interview

SUN ARAW Horse Steppin (Beach Head, Not Not Fun 2008)
SUN ARAW Lute and Lyre (Ancient Romans, Sun Ark 2011)
SUN RA Sun-Earth Rock (The Night of the Purple Moon, Saturn Research 1970)
SUN ARAW Harken Sawshine (The Phynx, Not Not Fun 2008)
J.D. EMMANUEL Part II: Prayer (Wizards, North Star 1982)
SPACEMEN 3 Come Down Softly to My Soul (Playing with Fire, Fire 1988)
SUN ARAW, M. GEDDES GENGRAS AND THE CONGOS Happy Song (Icon Give Thank, RVNG Intl. 2012)
THE CONGOS Children Crying (Heart of the Congos, Black Art 1977)

SAM RIVERS Cyclic Episode (Fuchsia Swing Song, Blue Note 1965)
BOBBY HUTCHERSON Ghetto Lights (Dialogue, Blue Note 1965)
MILES DAVIS So What (Miles in Tokyo, Columbia 1964)

Playlist #116 (Christmas Special)

THE FLAMING LIPS It’s Christmas Time Again
LUNCHBOX Christmas Time Is Here
VINCE GUARALDI TRIO O Tannenbaum
CARLA BLEY God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Part 1

JOHN ZORN Santa’s Workshop
BURL IVES Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
THE QUALITIES It’s Christmas Time
COTTON TOP MOUNTAIN SANCTIFIED SINGERS Christ Was Born on Christmas Morn
CHARLES BROWN Please Come Home for Christmas

THE BLACK LIPS Christmas in Baghdad
PRIVATE CHARLES BOWENS Christmas in Vietnam
MARVIN GAYE I Want to Come Home for Christmas

THE STAPLE SINGERS The Savior Is Born
JOSHUA STAMPER To Us a Child of Hope Is Born
SUFJAN STEVENS O Come O Come Emmanuel
PATTI SMITH We Three Kings

BELLES WILL RING Stirring the Christmas Spirit
PAUL McCARTNEY Wonderful Christmastime
MBARAKA MWINSHEHE Happy Christmas

PEE PEE DYNAMITE A Groovy and a Happy New Year
J.D. McDONALD Boogaloo Santa Claus
PASTOR T.L. BARRETT AND THE YOUTH FOR CHRIST CHOIR Jingle Bells Pt. 1

WOODSMAN Little Drummer Boy
MARK KOZELEK White Christmas
SHE & HIM The Christmas Waltz
ANDY WILLIAMS Some Children See Him

FRANK SINATRA Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

A festive edition of The Drift this Christmas Eve!

As The Drift has returned to the airwaves, so too returns The Drift Christmas Special! This Christmas Eve, pull on your slippers, pour some eggnog and gather ye ’round the wireless for a program that will bring you the weird and wonderful world of Christmas – a season that has inspired musical contributions from the likes of Sun Ra, Carla Bley, The Flaming Lips, Patti Smith and Bob Dylan. 4-6PM on Triple R.

Playlist #115 (Sounds of 2011)

KING KRULE The Noose of Jah City (King Krule, True Panther 2011)
DESTROYER Chinatown (Kaputt, Merge 2011)
NAT BALDWIN Weights (People Changes, Western Vinyl 2011)
BRUNO CHEVILLON/TIM BERNE L’état d’Incertitude (Old and Unwise, Clean Feed 2011)

TROUBLE BOOKS & MARK McGUIRE Floating Through Summer (Trouble Books & Mark McGuire, Bark and Hiss 2011)
ATLAS SOUND Te Amo (Parallax, 4AD 2011)
NICK HUGGINS Hoddle Street (Five Lights, Two Bright Lakes 2011)

A HAWK AND A HACKSAW Cervantine (Cervantine, LM Dupli-Cation 2011)
ANANKE And Here Is the Mind (Ananke, self-released 2011)
TINARIWEN Ya Messinagh (Tassili, Anti- 2011)
DENIS COLIN ET LA SOCIÉTÉ DES ARPENTEURS Chicago Blues for Malachi (Subject to Live, Le Chant Du Monde 2011)
ORIGAMI An Ordinary Prayer (The Blues of Joy, Listen/Hear Collective 2011)

THUNDERCAT Hooooooo (The Golden Age of Apocalypse, Brainfeeder 2011)
THUNDERCAT Daylight (The Golden Age of Apocalypse, Brainfeeder 2011)
FRANK OCEAN Songs 4 Women (Nostalgia, ULTRA., self-released 2011)
ODDISEE Skipping Rocks (Rock Creek Park, Mello 2011)

SHABAZZ PALACES Endeavors for Never (The Last Time We Spoke You Said You Were Not Here. I Saw You Though.) (Black Up, Sub Pop 2011)
OSCAR + MARTIN Recognise (For You, Two Bright Lakes 2011)
JAMES BLAKE Measurements (James Blake, A&M 2011)
COLIN STETSON From No Part of Me Could I Summon a Voice (New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges, Constellation 2011)
THE FLAMING LIPS In Our Bodies, Out of Our Heads (Gummy Song Skull, self-released 2011)
SUN ARAW Lute and Lyre (Ancient Romans, Sun Ark 2011)

Playlist #114

LAMBCHOP If Not I’ll Just Die (Mr. M, Merge 2012)
FRANK SINATRA Some Traveling Music (A Man Alone, Reprise 1969)
JACK KEROUAC The Moon Her Majesty (Poetry for the Beat Generation, Hanover 1959)
PIERRE MICHELOT Elephant Green (Round About a Bass, Mercury 1963)
JANE BIRKIN & SERGE GAINSBOURG 69 Année Érotique (Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg, Fontana 1969)

KEITH JARRETT Part IX (Rio, ECM 2011)

Ananke interview

ANANKE And the Woman Was Arrayed in Purple and Scarlet (Ananke, self-released 2011)
ANANKE And When I Saw Her (Ananke, self-released 2011)

TINDERSTICKS Opening (from White Material) (Claire Denis Film Scores 1996-2009, Constellation 2011)
TINDERSTICKS Attack on the Pharmacy (Claire Denis Film Scores 1996-2009, Constellation 2011)

KATE BUSH Misty (50 Words for Snow, Fish People 2011)

POLLEN TRIO Erupt OFF (Roll Slow, hellosQuare 2011)
PEON Big Potatoes (Real Time, self-released 2010)
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER Andro (Replica, Mexican Summer 2011)

JULIAN LYNCH Terra (Terra, Underwater Peoples 2011)
HIRASAKANA OYOGU Ant (Hirasakana Oyogu, Brothersister 2009)
BATAGRAF Calmly (Say and Play, ECM 2011)
SAM AMIDON Saro (All Is Well, Bedroom Community 2007)

Playlist #113

HIRASAKANA OYOGU Harapa Lan Lan Lan (Hirasakana Oyogu, Brothersister 2009) [YouTube]
TETSUHIRO DAIKU Koinaa Yunta (The Rough Guide to the Music of Okinawa, World Music Network 2001) [YouTube]
CHRIS POTTER QUARTET Okinawa (Lift: Live at the Village Vanguard, Sunnyside 2004)

Tribute to Paul Motian [YouTube]

PAUL MOTIAN TRIO 2000 + TWO If You Could See Me Now (Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 2, Winter & Winter 2006)
BILL FRISELL, RON CARTER, PAUL MOTIAN Raise Four (Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian, Nonesuch 2006)
PAUL MOTIAN I Wish I Knew (On Broadway, Vol. 3, Winter & Winter 1991)
PAUL MOTIAN Cambodia (Time and Time Again, ECM 2007)

BRAD MEHLDAU Paranoid Android (Live in Tokyo, Nonesuch 2004)
DAVID CHESWORTH ENSEMBLE Floating World (Music to See Through, Wax Sound Media 2005)

ANANKE And Here Is the Mind (Ananke, independent 2011)
A HAWK AND A HACKSAW The Loser (Xeftilis) (Cervantine, LM Dupli-Cation 2011)

SUN ARAW Crown Shell (Ancient Romans, Sun Ark 2011)

NICK HAYWOOD QUARTET Detention River (1234, Jazzhead 2011)
MARK HOLLIS The Daily Planet (Mark Hollis, Polydor 1998)
KING KRULE Portrait in Black and Blue (King Krule, True Panther 2011) [YouTube]

Playlist #112

BRIAN BENNETT Solstice (Voyage: A Journey Into Discoid Funk, DJM 1978)
ERYKAH BADU Soldier (New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War, Motown 2008)
KING KRULE The Noose of Jah City (self-titled, True Panther 2011) [YouTube]
NICHOLAS JAAR Don’t Break My Love (Don’t Break My Love, Clown & Sunset 2011)

THE STEPKIDS La La (self-titled, Stones Throw 2011)
THE WALLIAS BAND Muziqawi Silt (Éthiopiques 13: Ethiopian Groove, The Golden Seventies, Buda Musique 1977)
MAHMOUD AHMED Aynotché Tèrabu (Éthiopiques 1: The Golden Years of Modern Ethiopian Music, Buda Musique 1975)

Ronny Ferella interview

BIG FELA Why (Can’t We Live in a Peaceful World) (CD-R, independent 2010)
PETER KING African Dialects (African Dialects, Shanu Olu 1977)
MULATU ASTATKE Green Africa (Mulatu Steps Ahead, Strut 2010)

AARON CHOULAI Korema (Korema, Newmarket 2005)

LAMBCHOP A Hold of You (OH (Ohio), City Slang 2008)
SAM AMIDON Relief (I See the Sign, Bedroom Community 2010)

FENNESZ + SAKAMOTO 0318 (Flumina, Touch 2011)
LUKE HOWARD AND JANOS BRUNEEL Fourth Floor (Open Road, Which Way Music 2011)
JOHN ZORN A Ride on Cottonfair (The Dreamers, Tzadik 2008)

Playlist #111

MULATU ASTATKE Radcliffe (Mulatu Steps Ahead, Strut 2010)
TÈSFA-MARYAM KIDANÉ Heywèté (Éthiopiques 10: Tezeta, Ethiopian Blues & Ballads, Buda Musique 1970)
CHARLIE MUNRO QUARTET Malahari Raga (Eastern Horizons, Votary 1967)

Rob Burke interview

ROBERT BURKE/TONY GOULD/NICK HAYWOOD/TONY FLOYD Charukeshi (Live at Bennetts Lane, Jazzhead 2011)
ROBERT BURKE/TONY GOULD/NICK HAYWOOD/TONY FLOYD All of You (Live at Bennetts Lane, Jazzhead 2011)

BROUS Oh My Brother (self-titled, independent 2011)
PATRICIA BARBER The Beat Goes On (Companion, Blue Note 1999)

MAX ROACH Christina (It’s Christmas Again, Soul Note 1984)

ERYKAH BADU Didn’t Cha Know (Mama’s Gun, Motown 2000)

Playlist #110

ECILA Water Music (Jazzaziz: Volume 6, JazzWA 2011)
TALK TALK The Rainbow (Spirit of Eden, EMI 1988)
MONTERO Mumbai (7″, Mistletone 2011)

THE FLAMING LIPS Powerless (Embryonic, Warner Bros. 2009)
DAVID LYNCH The Night Bell with Lightning (Crazy Clown Time, Sunday Best 2011)
TOM WAITS Kiss Me (Bad as Me, Anti- 2011)
M. WARD Outro (I’m a Fool to Want You) (Hold Time, Spunk 2009)

RICHARD HAWLEY Soldier On (Truelove’s Gutter, Mute 2009)
FRANK SINATRA Rain in My Heart (Cycles, Reprise 1968)
CANNONBALL ADDERLEY QUINTET Tensity (The Cannonball Adderley Quintet & Orchestra, Capitol 1970)

JOHN COLTRANE Spiritual (Live) (The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings, Impulse! 1961)
JOHN COLTRANE Naima (Live) (The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings, Impulse! 1961)

YO LA TENGO Let’s Be Still (Summer Sun, Matador 2003)
SADDLEBACK Singing Scribbles (Night Maps, Preservation 2007)

Playlist #109

BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY New Tibet (Wolfroy Goes to Town, Spunk 2011)
BILL CALLAHAN Riding for the Feeling (Apocalypse, Spunk 2011)
NICK HUGGINS Hail (Five Lights, Two Bright Lakes 2011)

BORIS with MICHIO KURIHARA Rainbow (Rainbow, Drag City 2007)
DICK DIVER Future Self II (New Start Again, Chapter 2011)
THE SEA AND CAKE Inn Keeping (The Moonlight Butterfly, Thrill Jockey 2011)

DIRTY PROJECTORS + BJÖRK Sharing Orb (Mount Wittenberg Orca, self-released 2010)
VASHTI BUNYAN Iris’s Song for Us (Just Another Diamond Day, Philips 1970)
MAX RICHTER Harmonium (Songs from Before, Fat Cat 2006)

TALK TALK After the Flood (Laughing Stock, Verve 1991)
MARK HOLLIS Inside Looking Out (self-titled, Polydor 1998)
PETER KNIGHT Unknowness 2 (Fish Boast of Fishing, Listen/Hear Collective 2011)

MILES DAVIS QUINTET Footprints (Live) (Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1, Columbia 1967)
GATO BARBIERI Last Tango in Paris (Ballad) (Ultimo Tango A Parigi, Liberty 1972)
ERYKAH BADU Out My Mind, Just in Time (New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh, Motown 2010) [YouTube]
MULATU ASTATKE / THE HELIOCENTRICS Mulatu (Inspiration Information 3, Strut 2009)