On The Table

The final part of this week’s proGram left something to the imaginations.

Pins and Needles- Ray Gallon, Ron Carter & Lewis Nash
The Lonesome Road- The Dave Brubeck Quartet {Live from the Northwest, 1959}*
Five (Theme)- Bill Evans {Live in Copenhagen}*
No Blues- Wes Montgomery & Wynton Kelley {live}*
Impressions- Wes Montgomery & Wynton Kelley {live}*


Fantastic Vehicle-Ahmad Jamal {Live at the Penthouse 1966-1968}*
The Shadow Of Your Smile- Cal Tjader {Live at the Penthouse 1963-1967}*
Mambo Inn- Cal Tjader {Live at the Penthouse 1963-1967}*
Lush Life- Cal Tjader {Live at the Penthouse 1963-1967}*


Five G’s- A08
Nativo (original mix)- Leonor & Feller
Reflections (Bei Ru Remix)- Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Katalyst

*Record Store Day Exclusive

Backed Into That

The middle part of the proGram took the rise from the back first.

I’ll Take You There- Dub Stax Ft. Ammoye
Respect Yourself- Dub Stax Ft. Sema Mutlu
Top of my list- Soul Sugar Ft. Shniece McMenamin
Kingston Girl- Wheeler CM Sound System


Busted Chops- Fixed Error
Out We Go- Fixed Error


White Diamond- Twospeak
Free For All- DJ Shadow
Craig, Ingels, & Wrightson- DJ Shadow
Mitosis- Vince Clarke


Niiman- Simon Chenet & Salif Diarra
Dans la Folie des Nos Temps- Nadine Altounji & Nora Toutain
Waxed Kalimba- Samite, Sean Harkness, and Shem Guibbory
Rakhmones Nign- The Afro-Semitic Experience

When Seen Is Believed

The beGinnings of this week’s show had to be witnessed:

Mama Don’t Worry- Jonah Tolchin
She’s Dynamite- Foghat


Plugged In- Sabatta

Free- Joel Culpepper Ft. Tom Misch
Ticket- Alessandro Alessandroni
Climax- Alessandro Alessandroni
Racing- Alessandro Alessandroni
Bored- The Bamboos Ft. Reginald AK


Ah Yeah,That’s Right- Mocean Worker
Activate- Mocean Worker
Part of the Search- Mocean Worker
Do Your Dance (KC’s Remix)- Prince [2023 Remaster]
Violet the Organ Grinder- Prince (2023 Remaster)


Lies And Games- Orgōne
R U Ready?- Natasha Watts
I Mean Soul- TheEEs & Reggie Worthy

Roughbacking

The second half of the open schedule Friday fill-in proGram kept its toughness in check.

greenarrowradio promo- Laura Tate
Sin Eater- Lilli Lewis
Trickster (And the Mistletoe)- Jethro Tull
Ithavoll- Jethro Tull


Born Under a Bad Sign- Paul Rodgers, Bernie Marsden and Malcolm Bruce
What’s It Gonna Be?- B’ee
Blues Be Strong- Rare Union
Spit Shine- Randy Lee Riviere


Long Black Train- Red Red
Bag Me, Tag Me, Take Me Away- Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia (live)
Freedom Blues- Marcel Smith


Where Did You Go?- Lieder

Feel Right- Summer-Pearl Ft. Visaka
Summertime- Summer Pearl (live at Montreaux Jazz Fest)
Sunshine Today- All Good Funk Alliance Ft. Swamburger


Untouchable- Koncept
Jenn’s Terrific Vacation- Danny Brown Ft Kassa Overall
Happy- Joy Denalane Ft. Ghostface Killah
The Botanist- C’mon Tigre Ft. Seun Kuti
Perses- The Maenads, Kabanjak & Renegades of Jazz

Fur Ruffling Time

The 1st part of the Friday fill-in proGram had the hairs running upwards.

Black Days & Blue Nights- Foghat
Let Me Love You Baby- Foghat


High Like an Aeroplane- Miss Velvet
Blagunyo Denche- Kultur Shock (acoustic, live)
Nadjia- Kultur Shock (acoustic, live)
Oro- Opez
Venezia- Opez
Slow Lane- The Blips
Vegas Strip- The Tragically Hip


The Mayor of Ding Dong City- French TV
Hotoke no Tori- BUDDHADATTA
Today Good Grief- The Problem With Kids Today
Slobberknocker- The Problem With Kids Today


Turnt- SUSU
Rubber Hits the Road- SUSU
Pleasure Toy- The Veldt


Secret Second Moon- Leon Frear
Blues With a Feeling- Jonah Tolchin
Suffering Well- Jonah Tolchin Ft. Luther Dickinson
The Fighter- J. Wilms

La Banda Chuska At Lincoln Center

La Banda Chuska merges the sounds of vintage Peruvian cumbia and psychedelic chicha with 1960s Latin American and Middle Eastern surf rock. They then add a dose of the surreal intensity of New York City to amplify their diverse musical and cultural backgrounds: Peru, Argentina, Puerto Rico, and various corners of the U.S. The result is a fireball of post-punk energy and subversive playfulness, a sort of tropical funk meets The B-52s. La Banda Chuska’s self-titled EP is a darkly cinematic, musically expansive, and eminently danceable weirdo party on wax that’s whipped up the fanbase they attract at regular performances at Brooklyn’s Barbés and other NYC music mainstays. For their Lincoln Center debut, they’ll play songs from their first EP and introduce new cuts from their forthcoming LP.

Check

The final part of this week’s proGram seemed to know who to follow:

The Life- David D.R. Robbins, Thomas Pridgen & Frank Swart
The Call- Gary Bartz, Derrek Phillips & Frank Swart
On the Hook- Misha Panfilov


Seek & Destroy- Great Revivers
What Could I Do- Alpacas Collective
Boyoma- Alpacas Collective
Caicos Down- The Bamboos


Hold Me, Hold Me- Mike Reed Ft. Ben LaMar Gay, Bitchin Bajas & Marvin Tate
Miss X- Alessandro Alessandroni
Tahiti Joint- Alessandro Alessandroni
Sweet Temptation Woman- Mayer Hawthorne


Untersuchung – Vyšetřování- Kafka Band

Captured Waters

The middle parts of the proGram held the power within:

Sorbet for a Discerning Palate- ITOKEN/KLIMPEREI/FRANK PAHL
Elements- 5uu’s Ft. Mike Johnson, Bob Drake & Dave Kerman (Live at A.K.W. Würzburg, Germany 4/8/1995)
Roan- 5uu’s Ft. Mike Johnson, Bob Drake & Dave Kerman (Live at A.K.W. Würzburg, Germany April 8, 1995)
One Fried Egg- Curlew Ft. Tom Cora, Davey Williams, George Cartwright, Ann Rupel & Pippin Barnett (Live CBCGs, NYC 10/15/87)


Reveal- Mareike Wiening Ft. Dave Douglas, Rich Perry, Glenn Zaleski, Alex Goodman & Johannes Felscher
GO!- Allison Miller Ft. Jason Palmer
***pre-recorded conversation with Allison Miller***
Fierce- Allison Miller Ft. Jenny Scheinman & Ben Goldberg
For the Fish- Allison Miller
Big Weirdo- The Angelica Sanchez Nonet


¡Baila! Dance Like No One’s Watching- Donald Vega Ft. Lewis Nash, John Patitucci & Luisito Quintero
Kairos (Kefi)- Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Benjamin Fredrick Vukelić, DOMi & JD BECK & Burniss Earl Travis II

As It Winds And Grows

The first part of this week’s proGram made paths with its comings and goings:

Talking About Food- Benjamin Koppel
After Depths- Kevin Sun
Elliptical Blue- Kevin Sun


Cantos. III. Lukax- Susan Alcorn
Blue- Joey Alexander
Passing Time- Will Barnes Quartet
California Roll- Scott Emmerman
Mr. Tambourine Man- John Scofield, Vicente Archer & Bill Stewart
Budo- John Scofield, Vicente Archer & Bill Stewart


Grimsta- I.P.A.
Bach Is Back- Volapük
The Smell of the Sun, Pt. 1- ITOKEN/KLIMPEREI/FRANK PAHL

Allison Miller Reminds There’s Rivers In Our Veins

A lauded drummer who’s mastered a vast array of musical settings, from guesting on late night TV, keeping time for some of today’s most beloved singer-songwriters, and being a renowned bandleader/composer in her own right, Allison Miller is always at the heart of the music. Her latest album, Rivers In Our Veins ( out now on Royal Potato Family), is a 12-song cycle embracing the concept of flow and renewal, and dedicated to our nation’s crucial rivers, watersheds and the organizations devoted to reviving and protecting them. Commissioned by Mid Atlantic Arts Organization & Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Rivers In Our Veins is the studio manifestation of an ambitious live multimedia production with original music composed by Miller featuring a deeply telepathic cast of improvisers, as well as, amazing tap & contemporary dancers. Rivers In Our Veins spotlights Allison Miller alongside longtime collaborators, including violinist Jenny Scheinman, Ben Goldberg on contra-alto and Bb clarinets, pianist Carmen Staaf, trumpeter Jason Palmer, bassist Todd Sickafoose, and tap dancers Claudia Rahardjanoto, Michelle Dorrance, Elizabeth Burke, Byron Tittle, & Orlando Hernández. This new record draws inspiration from what acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit calls “human geography.” It’s a perspective that encompasses indigenous communities who depend on rivers and the vital role waterways play for survival throughout America’s often torrid history of forced migration for marginalized people, as well as the conservation movement dedicated to reclaiming historic rivers from pollution. Miller culls inspiration from the cultural histories of five East Coast rivers that have been polluted nearly beyond repair through industrialism and commercialism, she focuses on the James, Delaware, Potomac, Hudson, and Susquehanna.

I had the complete pleasure of chatting it up with Allison Miller about this new project. I had caught her set at the Detroit Jazz Festival back in September and had some questions from my eyes and ears on the live show. We also go seed to flower on how this project took over, the waterways she focused on and the dreams of clean waters globally is certainly something her and I have in common. The one things that stood, well it did not stand still…out was the addition of the tap dancers both in the live performance and on the album. We got into the meaning, the connection and the talent of those tapping their ways into my ears. Of course, after talking music, water and tap-dancing with Allison, it felt appropriate for her to build a setlist in real-time if I were to give her the studio. I look forward to the day, when Allison and I and all the rest of us can listen to the sounds of the clean, safe riverways, wherever we may place our shoes on the beachy sand.

Universal Burst

The final part of this week’s proGram had the kaboom to match:

Metta Prayer Invocation- Opium Moon Ft. Benjy Wertheimer
Metta Prayer- Opium Moon Ft. Benju Wertheimer
Serious Times- Berlin Boom Orchestra


High- Kiefer

Say It Seems- Jeff Coffin
Don’t Believe the Dancers- Tony Allen & Adrian Younge
The Crossing- Warren Wolf, Scott Amendola & Frank Swart
The Approach- Bill Evans, Scott Amendola & Frank Swart
TV Band- John Scofield, Vicente Archer & Bill Stewart
Mo Green- John Scofield, Vicente Archer & Bill Stewart


Sp68- Gard Nilssen’s Supersonic Orchestra
Boulanger’s Viriation- Chien Chien Lu
Just Listen- Chien Chien Lu
The Mad March Hare- Will Barnes Quartet

Calling The WebbinG

The middle part of the proGram turned on the light to your ear-holes.

Livin’ Out A Suitcase- Robert Finley
Waste Of Time- Robert Finley
Deuce and a Quarter- Mayer Hawthorne
Deeper Vibration- Mayer Hawthorne


Ragazza Di Campagna- Alessandro Alessandroni
Luci Rosa- Alessandro Alessandroni
Desert Disco Nights- New Visionaries
Sacred Love- Galathea Ft. Giulia La Rosa
Topesa Esengo Na Motema- London Afrobeat Collective


Horny Pony (Version 2)- Prince
Live 4 Love (2023 remaster)- Prince
Get Back Cadillac- Mocean Worker
Its About That Time- Mocean Worker


Seraglio- Una

Webbed Ways

The First Part of the proGram knew just how to stick to it.

Bottle On the Stove- Jared Dustin Griffin
Basement with the Blue Light- Davis Coen (Live)
So Small- Talia Schlanger


Girl With No Name- Steve Conte
Phoenix- Datura4
Evil People PT 2- Datura4
God Is Busy, May I help You- Kultur Shock (Acoustic, Live)
Duna- Kultur Shock- Kultur Shock (Acoustic, Live)


Allfather- Jethro Tull
Ginnungagap- Jethro Tull
Sunshine Of Your Love- Ginger Baker, Joe Bonamassa, Bernie Marsden & Malcolm Bruce
The Wind Cries Mary- The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Live At The Hollywood Bowl: August 18, 1967)

Ear Seeding

The final part of this week’s proGram had the extra air to push these out into the universe.

Modeling- Alessandro Alessandroni
Snake Disco- Alessandro Alessandroni
Tema di Susie Reloved- Fratelli Malibu Ft. Alessandro Alessandroni


Self Revolution- Gary Beals
Troppo Sexy- TTeo
Violet Hour- Smoove & Turrell


Boombox (For Glee)- Mocean Worker
***pre-recorded conversation with Mocean Worker***
Dimanche 6 (For Hal)- Mocean Worker
Shammy Davis Jr’s- Mocean Worker
Alice Through The Looking Glass- Prince & The New Power Generation


Gilgamesh- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Tantor- Danny Brown
Sparkle- CARRTOONS Ft. Bad Snacks
Aint Too Much Else- CARRTOONS Ft. Topaz Jones


Tungsten- Miles Spilsbury

Long Shadow Casts

The middle part of the proGram had some long-leggedness to stretch.

Cage Then Brick- Hidden Orchestra
Ripple- Hidden Orchestra
Head Trip- Kiefer Ft. Luke Titus


Wanderer- Dirtwire
**pre-recorded conversation with Evan & Mark of Dirtwire**
Karabai- Dirtwire Ft Robert Yuldashev


Höhensonne- Boozoo Bajou Ft. Fursattl
Pen Ar Bed- Boozoo Bajou


Distant Cloud- Federico Aubele
Suave y Pegao- Daymé Arocena Ft. Rafa Pabön
Lagô- Dobet Gnahoré Ft. Kajeem
Conscience is Heavy- Victor Axelrod Ft. The Inversions
How Long Do I Have to Wait for You?- Victor Axelrod Ft. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings


The Riff- Carlo Pes Con I Mark 4
Milano: il clan dei calabresi (M2)- Gianni Marchetti
Per Cantare- Giuliano Sorgini
Mordente- Giuliano Sorgini
Mi Gioco Tutto- Scerida

Cold Leaf Soup

The beGinning of this week’s show was happy to be under ice for a bit.

Bleed You Away- Jared Dustin Griffin
Fish Fry- Datura4


Dead- Sybris
Tutti Frutt- Kultur Shock (Acoustic at Seattle Town Hall
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Sitting On Top of the World- Bobby Rush, Maggie Bell, Bernie Marsden and Malcolm Bruce
I Chose Me- Soulnaturals Ft. Rosa Levv
Baby I Got Your Back- Soulnaturals Ft. Tony Cannam
Better Man- Ola Onabulé Ft. Nick Flade
Hawthorne Rides Again- Mayer Hawthorne
Without You- Mayer Hawthorn
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Garden- Puppets for Poets

Happy Hourrr- Butcher Brown
Bubble Bath- Butcher Brown
I Mean That- Kiefer

Carrying The Boombox With Mocean Worker

MOWO! INC presents ‘BOOMBOX’, the long awaited new album by Mocean Worker, dropped on out October 27th. An extremely funky, bass-driven mix of breakbeats, electroswing & jazz. Mocean Worker, a.k.a. Adam Dorn, has spent the last two decades galvanizing the sounds of electronic, jazz, soul, & funk to produce a singular and unmistakable style. Now, after an eight-year release hiatus, he returns with his tenth LP, ‘BOOMBOX’: a high-energy, deeply reverential, danceable, and genre-rejecting project that marks a fresh chapter in Mocean Worker’s acclaimed discography. Guided by the inspiration of Stevie Wonder, Wayne Shorter, The Gap Band, and Motown sensibilities, Dorn sees BOOMBOX as as stylistic arrival. Dorn’s bass playing is the heart and soul of the album. While his career originated with his virtuosic bass playing, he opted not to play on his own records for his first eight albums—he focused on hyper-detailed mini-sampling, digital production, & synthesizers. But now, bass hooks take center stage in this new record’s melodies, with a careful intention to avoid the overwrought cliche of the bass solo. After spending the last decade focused on composing for films & television, he reached a revelation about his own creative practice. The 12 tracks poured out of him in less than three weeks time, christening his new studio space in the woods of New York state. The boombox is equal parts metaphorical and material. Along with creating beats, a boombox allows blasting music for a party. Through recent years of societal upheaval, mass crises, and personal grief, Dorn offers a collection of upbeat tracks, but which never sacrifice substance. “BOOMBOX” is a metaphor for partying, community, and gathering. This is about people gathering and enjoying something” Many of the songs are tributes to Dorn’s personal friends, including the late Hal Willner and Gerald Lee, and his musical heroes like Wayne Shorter and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Above all, ‘BOOMBOX’ epitomizes the musical philosophy of Mocean Worker — it is at once an elegy to art and artists of a bygone era and an upbeat celebration of the sound of the present.

I had a great time hanGing out and talking this new music (and music in general) with Adam. I have been someone who has felt so much of what he been a part of over the years that it felt so right to be talking about this project. We go after the making of ‘BOOMBOX’ – with the passion that came with it. The image you see on the cover has a story, it includes his famous father and is something that as you hear it come out of Adam’s mouth, you can feel how special it is. The ability to apply some ‘back then’ into anything new where it actually fits in, is a gift that I dig, and anytime you hear a Mocean Worker piece, you’ll hear the expertise/knowledge getting dropped right where it needs to be. The bass – getting back to where it all started and having that bass anchor run the show most of the time, while honoring so many spirits that came before, this is another blending that enhances this new album deeply. We talk about album covers, as I noticed Adam has been reminiscing with some of his father’s collections cover art and I remembers swimming in the depth of many of those, and there’s a set list built. This is as close to two good buddies getting together at a record club discussing what’s what that I have been a part of – natural and fluid and I think that’s the reason why this new music feels me as much as I feel it. How often does Fonzie AND Mr. Jefferson get brought up in an interview???

Meeting At The Four Directions With Dirtwire

Dirtwire stands poised between ancient Mother Earth and modern technology, a blend of ethnomusicology and the psychedelic trance state, gut-bucket delta blues and what the band variously dubs “back-porch space cowboy blues, swamptronica, & electro-twang.” It’s a sound informed by Dirtwire’s travels & performances around the globe, where East meets West and North joins South. From the favelas in Brazil, Femi Kuti’s Shrine in Lagos, Tokyo’s bluegrass clubs, Ayahuasca ceremonies in Central America, Gamelan performances in Bali, desert festivals in the Australian Outback, and the 20th anniversary of Kazakhstan’s modernized new capital Astana, the band spreads its message by building bridges across musical cultures in their own unique way. Dirtwire plays an array of instruments both ancient and modern, including West African kamale ngonis, jaw harps, space fiddles, whamola basses, Rickenbacher electric 12 string guitars, bowed Banjos and mouth harps from around the globe, all interwoven into modern laptop beat creation. Hailing from the underground west coast electronic bass music scene Dirtwire finds itself at the forefront of experimental electronic music production mixing in their wide array of world instruments with sampled beats & 808’s. Dirtwire’s live shows are a communal psychedelic journey, ranging from down home boot stomping get downs, to bass & blues electronic mashups, to ethereal cinematic beat driven soundscapes. Woven into each is the exploration of where live instruments meet computer production, and where tradition meets experimentation. This is the spot within thin spaces we seek sometimes.

I had the pleasure to share some energy with Evan Fraser & Mark Reveley of Dirtwire ahead of the November 17trh event in Madison at the High Noon Saloon as part of their The Four Directions tour. We talk about what the soup of a live Dirtwire event will be like in 2023. They set some goals for their live events and we discuss what those look and sound like as well as where they stretch during a set while fitting in some of the new tunes and how they have been exploring the journey of a continuous show, while dynamically moving through spaces. Those spaces are enhanced with the assistances of the global instrumentation and Americana folk world “swamptroinca’ elements that are combined. The new EP “The Four Directions” will be out November 10th and we get into the new grooves, we get deeper into the new track “Wanderer”and talk about both the visual side (David Satori’s Mind) and the musical bits as well. These artists are combining the world of then and there with the future of technology and the redefining the limits of where we are going and how we can get there. The key is they are building a foundation of all us us being invited to do it toGether. They tease all of our senses with many a surprise – keep your eyes and minds open for some Dirtwire in your world.