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Dub Collision Mix: Simi Lindele (Homecoming)

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:25:48 +0000

Are you digging the drone of the vuvuzela as it sounds constantly during the FIFA World Cup in South Africa? I am. The long plastic horn sounds like whale songs do.

I’ve a 20+ year, and intimate relationship with the music of South Africa. (A bit of story,) but, the main thing recently is that the deep and beautiful musical culture at the bottom of Africa also is, going back (say) 25,000-100,000 years is at the bottom of music. The deep old sounds are the center of my investigation and tool-making concerned with what I’ve come to term, imaginal musicology. See Rhythm River for the skinny.

Think about the progression going back in time: modern to ancient to archaic to primitive to proto music. Proto music would be the music sounded in the settlements of earliest mankind, and in this period, not known as music per say. It’s struck me what a heavy concept it is to regard something fundamental as originating in an even more basic form and formulation stretched back to the necessary point where it was not known in any ’second order’ terms. So, the sound world, the intentional sonic projection, the directed voice or rhythm, is not at such time–way back then!-known as music. It came before music; it is the song of before music.

Appropriate to this, my mix offered here starts with the music of the Khoi of the Kalahari, and then wanders with considerable intention through the diverse garden of South African music, and through a fairly thick slice of musical history too. There’s a streaming sampling of a Khoi woman singing to dance to.

1 Tribesmen – Kalahari 15 1:06
2 Durban High Stars – Lapha eSandlwana 02:43
3 Philip Nchipi Tabane – Lalavuka 2:36
4 Simphiwe Dana – Vukani (mix – modjadji) 5:06
5 The Dark City SDisters – Sihamba Kancane 2:15
6 Letta Mbulle – Noma Themba 3:19
7 Thekwane & the Sound Brothers – Sakubona 3:28
8 Reggie Msomi – Midnight Ska 2:25
9 Aaron Mbambo – Selishonile Ilanga 3:02
10 Eric Nomvete’s Big Five – Pondo Blues 4:13
11 Mahlathini & The Queens – Umkhovu 3:26
12 Hugh Masekela – Ha Lese Le Di Khanna 3:07
13 Amompondo – Salawena (Smith & Mighty dub remix) 5:49
14 Nganeziyamifisa No Khambalomvaleliso – Sini Lindile 3:15
15 West Nkosi – Inyoni Yami 2:17
16 Holy Spirits Vhoir – Baba Wethu Baxolele 3:10
17 Abdullah Ibrahim – Hamba Kahle 2:38
18 Robbie Jansen – Bokaap Kwela 03:58
19 Brenda Fassi – Ngiyakusaba 5:14
20 Zim Ngqawana – Anthem 9:14

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Khoi song.

Dub Collision mix: Nothing Over

admin — Sun, 09 May 2010 23:52:02 +0000

1 JAMES PLOTKIN & BRANT GUTZEIT Sand Scroll 9:26
2 CHRIS & COSEY Over Abyss 4:35
3 LIGHTS IN A FAT CITY Aluna 10:31
4 IONE & PAULINE OLIVEROS Dear Thunder 6:05
5 NADJA-AIDAN-LEAH Hypostasis 10:19
6 BRANNAN LANE Unfamiliar Territory 8:39
7 PHILIP GELB & JOELLE LEANDRE Omissam 15:36

For May, a mix, drawn from relatable but not directly related sources. By which I mean there are sonic relations, yet this mix is basically a genre mash-up. Nothing Over is making a point about genres, in intended effect. …can’t call this dark ambient or experimental or jazz or noise, and wouldn’t wish to. Enjoy. let me know what you feel.

(Hat tip to Leonardo Solaas, who unknowingly helps me conjure and appropriate cover art for this mix. For the graphics I employed his Force Knots.)

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Dub Collision mix: Life Is A Carnival

admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:36:44 +0000

Daniel and the Sacred Harp – The Band – 5:02
All I Need – Anne Mccue – 3:35
Blue Bayou – Mavericks – 4:28
Deep Red Bells – Neko Case – 4:12
Poem of the River – The Del Lords – 6:09
For What Its Worth – Cher – 2:22
A Flower Opens Gently By – Rick Nelson & Stone Canyon Band = 3:13
Just In Case Both Are Wrong - Bonnie Raitt – 4:07
100 Years From Now – Wilco – 4:29
This Wheel’s On Fire – The Byrds – 7:14
Little Bombs – Aimee Mann – 3:52
Life Is A Carnival – Professor Louie & Crowmatix – 3:55
After The Gold Rush – Valerie Carter – 4:36
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere – Uncle Tupelo – 2:56

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outtake from The Band

notes-So, my two most venerable muso budsand me were hanging out, and Dooz is reminding us to listen to his Bobby Charles tribute radio show. It had already been broadcast to its audience on the California-Nevada border. No, Dooz had supplied us with burned dubs. I got to thinking about another round of roots from ‘on the porch’ with some helpings of the late, great swamp popper and songwriter Charles stirred in. I conjured my new mix. But, then, the spankin’ new posthumous Charles record came into my hands, and I thought it deserved a feature.

Yup, Life is a carnival. Enjoy. Feel free to comment. -DC

Dub Collision mix – Girl In Winter

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:33:37 +0000

1 Stone Roses – One Love 5:03
2 Quantic – Blackstone Rock 4:09
3 Eleventh Dream Day – Dream of a Sleeping Sheep 3:15
4 Radiohead – These Are My Twisted Words 5:31
5 Double Naught Spy Car – Someone’s Creeping In My Yard 5:20
6 Kings of Leon – Spiral Staircase 2:55
7 Ben Watt & Robert Wyatt – A Girl in Winter 03:43
8 Rain Parade – This Can’t Be Today 04:00
9 Grateful Dead – Cosmic Charlie 03:01
10 Henry Kaiser – Cold Rain And Snow 04:50
11 Kaleidescope – Taxim 11:23
12 Anton Fier – Bait And Switch 05:34

Mallard – Rockpalast 1974
13. Back On The Pavement 3:36
14. One Day Once 3:23
15. Reign Of Pain 4:39
16. A Piece Of Me 4:07
17. Mama Squeeze 4:08

There I was trying to figure out how to flesh out a CD started out with a 19 minute set from Captain Beefheart exiles Mallard. It was rendered 25 years ago and Mallard’s weird psych/pop isn’t much like anything around these days.

Eventually I started plucking post-rock and other stuff and ended up with the present comp. It hangs together as a 40 year longitudinal slice of post-rock and psych. (40 years given the presence of Kaleidescope and the Grateful Dead, circa 1968.)

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Christmas Mix – I Wish it Could Be Christmas Everyday

admin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:52:07 +0000

1 Reverend Horton Heat – Jingle Bells 2:19
2 The Crystals – Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer 2:33
3 Byron Lee and The Dragonaires – Winter Wonderland 2:32
4 Lolas – Little Drummer Boy 3:17
5 Davie Allan & the Arrows – Frosty The Snowman 2:23
6 Smithereens – Christmas (I Remember) 3:35
7 NRBQ – Christmas Wish 2:49
8 Huey “Piano” Smith – All I Want For Christmas
(Is A Little Bit Of Music) 3:03
9 Redd Kross – Mary Christmas 3:32
10 The Chevelles – Come All Ye Faithful Surfer Girls 2:21
11 Beach Boys – The Man with All the Toys 1:30
12 George Jones & Tammy Wynette – Mr. & Mrs. Santa Claus 2:21
13 Fountains of Wayne – The Man In The Santa Suit 2:39
14 Loretta Lynn – To Heck With Ole Santa Claus 2:02
15 Lynyrd Skynyrd – Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin’ 3:37
16 The Ravens – Blue Christmas 1:57
17 Syd Straw – (I’m Always Touched By Your) Presents, Dear 3:49
18 Imperial Drag – Please Leave Me Home For Xmas 3:27
19 Bruce Springsteen – Merry Xmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight) 4:29
20 Devil Dogs – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday 3:39″ />

I Wish it Could Be Christmas Everyday – 2009 Holiday Mix by Dub Collision

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Enjoy…have a great and musical holiday and new year!

xx

Dub Collision mix – Cheap Blues

admin — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:58:35 +0000

All over the place blues, so cheap for you.
1 Jay McShann – Some Kinda Crazy 2:41
2 Bob Brozman & Djeli Mousa Diawara – Maloyan Devil 5:59
3 Kelly Joe Phelps – Little Family 3:57
4 Imperial Kings – Love Blues 4:20
5 Geoff Muldaur & The Texas Queens – Hard Time Killin’ Floor 4:19
6 Papa Mojo – Bunkie Boogie 3:01
7 Jim Dickinson & Chuck Prophet – Down In Mississippi 4:07
8 John Campbell – Lockdown 3:51
9 Tab Benoit – What I Have to Do 5:00
10 Joe Barry – Rollin’ Bones 2:15
11 Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood – Driftin’ 5:41
12 Better Days – New Walkin’ Blues 6:17
13-14 Robert Randolph – You Got to Move-Goin’ In the Right Direction 12:48
15 The White Stripes – Death Letter -> Motherless Children -> Death Letter 8:01
16 The Black Keys – When The Lights Go Out 3:13

<- a taste

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Dub Collision Mix – Sax Gladness

admin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:59:35 +0000

Years ago a fellow jazz fanatic asked me what my favorite instrument was ‘in jazz.’ I blurted out “saxophone.” He told me I had to narrow it down. I thought for a minute, and gave him the correct answer, “Piano!” What had I been thinking initially?

Still, I can’t narrow it, the saxophone, down. You wish for me to weigh preferences between Coltrane and Parker and Lacy? Nocando. . . .between David Murray, Jackie McLean, and Hamiett Bluiett? Idontthinkso.

SAX GLADNESS unissued live recordings

1 The Heath Brothers f. Jimmy Heath – Prince Albert 14:23 (Dec. 1, 1983, Tokyo)
2 Benny Golson – Whisper Not 9:34 (1988, Kyoto)
3 Lucky Thompson – On Green Dolphin Street 6:35 (Nov, 22, 1968, Rotterdam)
4 Dexter Gordon – Society Red 16:17 (Sept. 13, 1988, Tokyo)
5 Booker Ervin – You Don’t Know What Love Is 8:13 (Feb. 18, 1966, Hilversum)
6 Sonny Rollins – Night & Day 11:31 (1965, Stockholm)

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Taste: Lucky Thompson – On Green Dolphin Street

Dub Collision mix -Magnolia

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:08:54 +0000

First new mix in 2 months. Reflecting on a departed friend and the anniversary of his passing, this musical meditation on mortality was slowly evoked.

1 OWEN TEMPLE – I Don’t Want to Do What I Do 03:14
2 JACKDAWG – Wild Night 04:01
3 JAMIE OLDAKER – Magnolia 03:56
4 THE BYRDS – My Back Pages 03:14
5 THE JAYHAWKS – Desperate Serenade 03:42
6 DONNIE FRITTS – Adios Amigos 02:52
7 NEKO CASE – Poor Ellen Smith 02:07
8 ELVIS COSTELLO – Heart Shaped Bruise 04:07
9 DOWNHILLS HOMES – Pluto’s Blues 04:11
10 DAN PENN – Rest of My Life 03:47
11 TOMMY TALTON BAND – On Your Way Down 11:00
12 MARKOWSKI – Magnolia 04:38
13 BERNIE LEADON – God Ain’t Done With Me Yet 04:59
14 GOSDIN BROTHERS – One Hundred Years From Now 02:48
15 DIANE IZZO – Oh Death 04:54
16 JORMA KAUKONEN – A Walk With Friends 04:30
17 THE EVERLY BROTHERS – Not Fade Away 01:58
18 THE BYRDS – Willin’ 03:24

Country and folk rock–mixing up old and mostly new, and, with a handful of musical survivors too. For example, Tommy Talton has been at it for 40+ years, since his days with associate Scott Boyer in Cowboy, one of the early 70’s most distinctive and little heard bands. In the main, it’s about continuity of sweet heart soulfulness.

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Jamie Cohen (1953-2008) and Mark H.

For all my old friends! You know who you are…

Dub Collison mix – Family Blessing

admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:58:24 +0000

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1 04:15 Marcen Oles – Law Years
2 11:20 Billy Harper – Insights
3 12:02 Amina Claudine Myers – Blessings
4 16:03 Arthur Blythe – Miss Nancy
5 09:55 Harry Miller – Family Affair
6 11:11 Art Ensemble of Chicago – Ancestral Voices / Old
7 02:09 Sun Ra – You’d Better Mind What You’re Saying
8 10:33 Joe McPhee & Po Music – Pithecanthropus Erectus

Jazz. Old friends except for opener. Mostly live sources; mostly unreleased. There’s a genre called ’spiritual jazz.’ This seems to be a term coined to deal retrospectively with certain styles of aspirational, overtly mystical jazz. Since I predate that turn, all I can say is that this mix captures something of what this would mean for me, except that the daring implicit in composing in the instant moment trumps a narrow term. Yup, all jazz is spiritual jazz to me.

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(Sun Ra-Joe McPhee)

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DUB COLLISION MIX: Lookout Cleveland 1 – On the Porch

admin — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:14:31 +0000

One of my closest musical confidants was surprised to be asked if he had the Booker T. & Priscilla record from the early seventies. He didn’t anticipate the appeal the record might hold for me. I told him ‘it’s in the genre of down home rhythm and blues I can’t get enough of for 30+ years.’

“You know, like Bobby Charles.”

A brief discussion ensued through which my friend once again was reminded that I want to hear every last note of some artists, Charles being one of many, and this may end up–to my friend–inexplicable in specific cases.

Back in the period between 1969-1974, after the big and medium size labels had snapped up every rock band and singer-songwriter they deemed worthy, the attention of some of labels turned to side-persons and to a handful of musical communities, such as those in L.A. and New York and Woodstock, NY. Soon enough those players began recording, and so for a very brief spell of time, records came out that were as much about the music making process as they were about self-contained bands.

The prototypical examples were the spin-offs from Joe Cocker’s Mad Dogs and Englishmen. Soon enough, there came Leon Russell. From different directions, there came Delaney & Bonnie; Geoff & Maria Muldaur.

My friend doesn’t understand it at all, but among my favorite records in this genre of down home white soul gettin’ down ’cause we love to play music were the first two records of Taj Mahal’s lead guitarist, Jesse Ed Davis. Search ‘em out.

It’s easy for me to clump this activity into a genre of music: the music tends to be communal, joyous and soulful, unpretentious, and rootsy. In a word: modest. In my terms, this genre reached its highest height with The Band. Yet, The Band couldn’t actualize the kinds of bonds and generosity that sustain the wandering music-makers exemplified today by Mahal, Russell, Charles, and Maria Muldaur, David Lindley, many more, and, heck, The Fleet Foxes, as much as one era and genre they throwback to is the very one I’m considering!

For pure feel, I’d point you, dear listener, to Motel Shot by Delaney & Bonnie, and, yup, the dazzling eponymous Bearsville one-and-only from gulf coast singer -songwriter Bobby Charles. I could go on and on. I just like hearing that feel, every last note!

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tracklist:

ON THE BACK PORCH VOLUME 1 – LOOKOUT CLEVELAND

1 JACKIE DESHANNONI Won’t Try to Put Chains on Your Soul 3:04
2 LEVON HELM Don’t Ya Tell Henry 4:02
3 LONNIE MACK Plain Jane (In A Mustang) 3:49
4 DAVID LINDLEY & HANI NASR Her Mind Is Gone 4:02
5 DANNY GATTON Sun Medley: Mystery Train/
My Baby Left Me/That’s All Right 5:05
6 BOBBY WHITLOCK Rocky Mountain Blues 2:52
7 ANDERS OSBORNE Oh Katrina 4:27
8 JACKIE GREEN Look Out Cleveland 3:12
9 AMOS GARRETT & GEOFF MULDAUR Small Town Talk 6:31
10 MARCY LEVY Lay Down Sally 3:41
11 BOOKER T. & PRISCILLA She 4:02
12 DAN PENN & SPOONER OLDHAM Do Right Woman, Do Right Man 4:48
13 ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO People (We’re Only Gonna Live So Long) 3:23
14 GENE PARSONS & MERIDIAN GREEN I Must Be A Tree 3:22
15 BEN HARPER & THE 5 BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA Well, Well, Well 3:15
16 J.J. CALE & LEON RUSSELL Lies 3:21
17 BONNIE BRAMLETT Can’t Find My Way Home 3:47
18 LOU ANN BARTON Brand New Lover 2:27
19 JESSE ED DAVIS Washita Love Child 3:47
20 DELANEY & BONNIE Comin’ Home 3:14