Aural Delights

As I was putting this weeks podcast together I heard of the passing of the great Ray Manzarek so I thought it would be fitting to include some Doors numbers in the show. As well as the usual selection of old and new I’m pleased to include a song by Julia Dowler who continues the Osborne family tradition of musical endeavour with her excellent songs and rather special vocal talents. This time around the song I am featuring  is also part of the soundtrack of the new film “Molly Crows” which looks pretty good indeed. .

I also have a couple of tracks from the new Limozine album which continues the rich tradition of voodoo blues started by Lux Interior and Poison Ivy, a track from the new album from Saltland, and further tracks from the debut EP from Sam Smith & Company.

Listen here

1. The Doors – Shaman’s Blues
2. Silver Sound Explosion – Your World
3. Limozine – Tokyo 1970
4. Sam Smith & Company – Some Facts
5. Saltland – Treehouse Schemes
6. Julia Dowler – Black Heart
7. Futur Primitif – Digital Space
8. Public Sector Broadcasting – Inform Educate Entertain
9. Tingle In The Netherlands – Girlie Disco One
10. Little Shoes – Humble
11. Government Death Epidemic – Shadow
12. Kill Pretty – Babes In The Wood
13. Welles – Green Power
14. The Nectarine No9 – Chocolate Swastika
15. Peter Hammill – Flight
16. Limozine – Sick Chromosomes
17. Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band – Nowadays A Woman’s Gotta Hit A Man
18. Monster Island – Zoom, Zoom, Zoom
19. Public Service Broadcasting – Late Night Final
20. Dirty Beaches – I Dream In Neon
21. Sam Smith & Company – The Pouring Rain Is Bliss
22. Whitehorse – Killing Time Is Murder
23. Van Der Graaf Generator – A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers/The Sleepwalkers Medley
24. The Doors – Riders On The Storm
25. The Doors – When The Music’s Over…

Information pertaining to the above:

1. From “The Soft Parade”
2. A demo track from Ben and Chris – who are looking for a drummer and an additional guitar player if anyone is available. Facebook.
3. From the new album “You’ve Been Limozined” (their third) which was released on May 13th on Beat Atlas Records. Facebook.
4. From the new EP From “Heathens to Devils”
5. I Thought It Was Us But It Was All Of Us, the debut album from Rebecca Foon’s Saltland project, is available now. “Treehouse Schemes” is one of the more deliberately structured songs on the record, a beautifully paced and melodically direct composition that rallies several of the album’s guest players. Little Scream’s Laurel Sprengelmeyer contributes cascading guitar chords, Mishka Stein holds down the walking bassline and Jess Robertson deploys bass flute tones that swirl around the mix courtesy of Mark Lawson’s signal processing and production tweaks. Laurel and Jess join Rebecca on vocals for the song’s choruses as well. Download the track here: https://soundcloud.com/constellation-records/treehouse-schemes
6. From the soundtrack of forthcoming horror film “Molly Crows” – an independent release put together on a shoe string budget but looks pretty damn good to me. The film is based on they true story of Molly Leigh the witch of Burslem, which is a township in Stoke On Trent, and whose grave is not far that of my grandfather Joseph Osborne in Burslem Cemetary.  For more of Julia’s music please visit https://soundcloud.com/jdowler#play.
7. Digital Space is the new single by Futur Primitif, the band featuring songwriter and singer Daniel Lefkowitz, former member of  The Low Anthem.  Daniel (voice/guitar) is joined in Futur Primitif by Jared Elmore on synths, drum machine.
8. Still on tour and still the finest purveyors of electronic rock at the moment…..
9. Becoming a regular feature on the show the work of Owen and Helen transcends the usual dance/electronic tropes to create a mesmerising sound.
10. Your weekly dose of Moff Skellington as part of Little Shoes and from the “Ambushed By A Vacuum” album.
11. From the eponymous EP – a nice slice of ska punk
12. From “In 80 Days” – a slightly tougher version than the initial demo
13. Mr Aikman of Flies On You pointed this lot out and rather good they are as well – the album is called  ”Radical Shit”
14. Classic Nectarines from the outstanding “Sea with 3 stars” album
15. I have my ticket for Van Der Graaf at the Royal Northern College of Music in June where the band will be playing a version of this Hammill classic from “A Black Box”. Collectively known as “Flight” but comprising a suite of seven songs – Flying Blind, The White Cave Fandango, Control, Cockpit, Silk Worm Wings, Nothing is Nothing and A Black Box.
16. as 3.
17. From the much released live recordings at My Father’s Place in December 1978…..
18. From the recent album “The Retaining Wall” – now a four piece apparently
19. as 8.
20. Alex Zhang Hungtai at his moody best from the “Drifters” album.
21. as 4.
22. Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland from the self-titled debut album by Whitehorse.
23. Back to the RNCM gig where VDGG will be recreating the memorable “A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers” – this live version of the classic album side from “Pawn Hearts” comes from the Vital album and also includes Sleepwalkers from “Godbluff”.
24. From “LA Woman”
25. From “Strange Days”

The central focus of this weeks lengthy extravaganza is the 30th studio album by The Fall which joins an obscenely large collection of their work which sits in a rack facing me here at Aural Delights Central…..I’m also pleased to provide you with a couple of tracks from the excellent new album from the Master Musicians of Bukkake who have just commenced a European Tour – unfortunately they are not gracing the shores of this island of ours with their presence - to make up there for this there are a couple of vid-chips from them at the bottom of this peroration…I have tracks from the new Public Service Broadcasting album which has been getting a serious amount of support…….the brand new single from Salford’s own Suzuki Method also gets a play – the band are now signed to A1M and we hope to see more of them soon……in between the usual local stuff combined the best new music from places far and wide and also a couple of classics from the archives…..as usual you can listen in here

1. The Fall – Sir William Wray
2. Suzuki Method – Country Cousins
3. Positronik – Know My Place
4. Crying Queerwolf – Less Camp Than Kirk
5. Kin – Chemistry Set (Frida Kahlo Mix)
6. Rick Redbeard – Clocks
7. Todd Parker and the Witches – Malacandra
8. Master Musicians Of Bukkake – White Mountain Return
9. The Fall – Kinder of Spine
10. Rival Schools – Indisposable Heroes
11. Lloyd James Fay – Among The Reeds
12. Moff Skellington and The Raildogs – I Stitch Together Tiny Birds
13. Savages – She Will
14. Peter Hammill – Invisible Ink
15. The Fall – Hittite Man
16. Kin – Reptile (Time Waites Mix)
17. Danny Short – End Of My Journey
18. Lloyd James Fay – Snowglobe
19. The Blimp – Snowglobe
20. The Fall – No Respects rev.
21. Public Service Broadcasting – ROYGBIV
22. Master Musicians of Bukkake – Arche
23. Tom Waits – San Diego Serenade
24. Doctor Tequila & The Mission D Mob – Highway 2000
25. Kin – Awkward House
26. The Fall – Victrola Time
27. Mr Heart – Lynchpin
28. Lloyd James Fay – Clouds Take Shape
29. Public Service Broadcasting – The Now Generation
30. The Cosmonauts – If You Wanna Leave
31. The Fall – Irish
32. The Trade -Amsterdam
33. Arcade Parade – Grace
34. Warm Widow – Back Of The Class
35. Action Beat – TCX06V_B2
36. The Fall – Jetplane
37. Coroner for the Police – Rubies and Diamonds
38. Public Service Broadcasting – Qomolanga
39. Exchange – Motion
40. Suzuki Method – Purple Aki
41. The Fall – Loadstones

Sources

1. From the new album “Re-Mit”
2. New Single
3. Remix by Jeff Black
4. New demo track from CQ
5. From the new EP Soon
6. From the “No Selfish Heart” album
7. From the new album “Martians”
8. From the new album “Far West” – released on Important Records on June 10th
9. as 1.
10. From the new album “Found”
11. From Lloyd’s debut album ‘The Black River Chronicles’. Release dates is June 10th 2013, on Platform Records.
12. From “The Main Road Threatening Invasion”
13. From “Silence Yourself”
14. From “In A Foreign Town”
15. as 1.
16. as 5.
17. From “Sunset Kicks In”
18. as 11.
19. From “4.3″
20. as 1.
21. From “Inform-Educate-Entertain”
22. as 8.
23. From “”Round Midnight”
24. From “Highway 2000″
25. As 5.
26. as 1.
27. From “The Unspeakable Mr Heart” – playing a free gig at the Bay Horse in Manchester’s Northern Quarter on Friday 17th along with Coroner for the Police.
28. as 11.
29. as 21.
30. Released on April 29th 2013. More info on Facebook.
31. as 1.
32. From the new album “”Fu- Go” which will be available for download from May 20th. Facebook.
33. From the new EP “Cave of Swimmers” which is released May 27th. Facebook.
34. From “Widower”
35. From “The Condition (Truth Cult)
36. as 1.
37. From “Swamp Box”
38. as 21.
39. from Systems
40. From the Suzuki\Method EP
41. as 1.

Further Material

No chat from me this time around due to other commitments so just a straight music mix – and it’s with great pleasure I feature new tunes from Kin, The Ascension, The Fall and Death to the Strange,  lots of other local music, some classic underground tunes and new album cuts – as usual you can listen here…..

1. Cable 35 – Rental Sunshine
2. The Fall – Sir William Wray
3. Kin – Glass Thing
4. Exchange – Sunday
5. Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside – Addicted
6. Death to the Strange – Openshaw Blues
7. The Ascension – In A Digital Arcade
8. Greg Stackhouse Prevost – Death Rides With The Morning Sun
9. The Green Pajamas – The Red Red Rose
10. Ummagma – Kiev
11. Dope Body – Out Of My Mind
12. Hell On Heels – Win Some Lose Some
13. Sacre Noir – She Can’t Take It
14. Mike Heron – Stranded in Iowa
15. Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention – Montana
16. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Owed T’Alex
17. Dr Tequila and the Mission D Mob – Papa’s 3rd Wife
18. Stellar OM Source – Copper Dream
19. Purson – Rockin’ Horse
20. Public Service Broadcasting -Spitfire
21. Master Musicians Of Bukkake – Perde Kaldirma
22. Little Shoes – In The Nightpond
23. Early Mojo – The Little Things
24. Art Gruppe – I will survive
25. Tingle In The Netherlands – I Lost My Heart to a Starship Cleaner
26. Toska Wilde – Hard As Nail Varnish
27. Blue Orchids – Out Of Sight
28. Mummy Short Arms – Where’s The Mortuary?
29. Harry Manx – Tijuana
30. Death to the Strange – Paper Nest
31. Kin – Sitting Here
32. The Girobabies -What Victor Said
33. Ummagma – Rotation
34. Tartufi – Furnace of Fortune
35. The Get – You Gotta Wear A Dress
36. The Ascension- Drowning In The Drought
37. Passage of Time – Big John Says No!
38. Mike Heron – Singing the Dolphin Through

Sources

1. From the Fungus EP – playing on Thursday 16th May – Manchester, The Retro Bar
2. New single – also on the new album “Re-Mit” which is out on May 13th
3. From the new EP “Soon” which is free to download from Bandcamp
4. New single out on June 2nd – new album “Seconds” is on the way on July 2nd
5. From the second album “Untamed Beast”
6. From the new EP – “Sign On” which is due out when they tell us it’s out
7. From the new single “Drowning In The Drought” available now on Bandcamp on pay what you want
8. From the new album “Mississippi Murderer”
9. From the new EP “The Red Red Rose (Song for Phoebe Prince)”
10. From the “Antigravity” album.
11. From “Natural History” – they are playing “The Bay Horse” Manchester on May 25th.
12. From “Dogs, Records and Wine”
13. From Dogs Got a Bone Compilation “”2012 – The Year of the Dog”
14. From the “Diamond of Dreams” album
15. From “Overnite Sensation”
16. From “Shiny Beast – Bat Chain Puller”
17. From the new album “Prescription for Fun”
18. From the “Ocean Woman” album
19. From the “Rocking Horse” album
20. From the War Room EP – playing on Tuesday 14th May – Manchester, Sound Control – just got hold of the album which I shall feature next week.
21. From the Totem Two Album – a new full-length entitled Far West  is due for release 10th June through Important Records.
22. From the “Ambushed By A Vacuum” album – and good news Moff is working on new tunes!
23. From the “Swimming In Circles” album – get their stuff from Facebook
24. From the compilation album “Any Love Is Good Love”
25. From “Why Can’t You Write Something Nice For A Change?”
26. as 24….
27. From “The Sleeper” …. I am advised recent gigs down south went very well…..lets hope we can tempt them to play in the North West sometime soon.
28. From “Old Jack’s Windowless Playhouse”
29. From the “Isle of Manx” album
30. as 6…
31. as 3…
32. as 13…
33. From the “Ummagma” album
34. From the “These Factory Days” album
35. as 24…
36. as 7…
37. From the new album “All Art=No Fun” available from Bandcamp
38. From “Mike Heron’s Reputation”