On My Playlist This Moment
I’m catching up on my listening. Studying isn’t conducive to music–I have to focus hard to make the neurons fire correctly, far more than I did for remembering how many barns a particular isotope might present to a certain neutron. So I have this backlog of things to listen to, including the new Quantic Soul Orchestra, a Syliphone comp (the kind of things Frank might like), a Gabor Szabo disc, and so forth. (The new Salah Ragab 45 is played often in the house, though–kid likes Egyptian Latino tracks, apparently.)
You may well want to fire up your RealPlayer to catch this week’s Gilles Peterson BBC Radio One broadcast.
Its that time again…. Gilles Peterson’s Winners 2007. This week its [sic] the countdown of the top 25 albums of this year, alongside the top 5 jazz albums. Yessir.
Here’s his BBC page, and here’s the direct radio link. It’ll be up for only a few days. What to expect: Some hip hop, a vocalese version of “Afro-Blue”, some nu-soul, some jazz, some Brazilian, some black turtleneck wearing fancy metro bar music. No bleeping, though, so expect a bad word occasionally if you’re not into that.
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December 26th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Dang, Chap…you always have the best links of anyone I read…not to mention the eclectic nature of your musical tastes. Thanks, particularly, for the Beeb link. Auntie has a LOT to answer to/for in their news department and general teevee programming, but NOT as far as their music (read that as: radio) goes. (“Things” may have changed, but I doubt it.)
BBC Radio (One, Two, and Four…at the time) became a staple for me early on during my three years in London in the early ’80s. I was particularly fortunate in catching the last year of Alexis Korner’s radio show, which taught me more about Da Blooze than any other single source…ever. Korner was VERY big on American music, and British Big Bands from the ’30s and ’40s, as well. I still have a few of his programs on tape. Think I’ll break one out now…
December 26th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
Thanks for the kind words! That really made my day.
The Beeb has lots of programs on line. I have my computer set to record that one show every week, in glorious lousy RealPlayer format. Well worth it.
Frank’s link above is pretty interesting. He’s a German DJ who moved to Guinea and goes crate digging for all sorts of obscuro African music. He puts out occasional MP3s of his finds–some never heard before or since.