75 Dollar Bill and Natural Information Society, Together At Last (2019)!

I actually don’t know if 75 Dollar Bill and Natural Information have played together before or not, it just seemed like a fun headline.

Back in July, Jesse Jarnow posted a link to this live set from the Roulette Concert Archive at Soundcloud and I just now had a chance to put it on and listen, and, OH MAN!!!!!

Aside from being two of my favorite bands (see posts tagged 75 Dollar Bill here or Natural Information posts here), the sound on this recording is phenomenal.

Sit back and let it unwind.

Roulette_Concert_Archive · 75 Dollar Bill 01 July 2019

The Roulette Concert Archive says:

“75 Dollar Bill return to Roulette to celebrate the release of their new double album I Was Real (Thin Wrist Recordings / Black Editions). With guests Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society.

Having emerged as a vibrant musical force with their previous effort WOOD/METAL/PLASTIC/PATTERN/RHYTHM/ROCK (Thin Wrist 2016), 75 Dollar Bill have spent the last few years bringing their music to new people and places, delivering what NYC locals have had the chance to hear for years, and experimenting with the ever-deepening set of musical ideas for which they are known. The fruits of this work can be heard on their expansive new double LP I Was Real. Recorded over a four year period, in four different studios, with a range of ensemble configurations featuring the band’s closest friends and collaborators, I Was Real is the band’s most ambitious album yet. The music that unfolds on the album’s four sides doubles down on the group’s penchant for sprawling, unusual grooves and blown out microtonal guitars, while at the same time introducing textures and tonalities that point in completely new directions. For this event, the group will present a set of new and reimagined material from the album, with a special soon-to-be-announced group of guest musicians. 75 Dollar Bill is pleased to be joined this evening by Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society, whose own double LP, Mandatory Reality, was released by Eremite Records in April.”

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Ani DiFranco: Sessions at West 54th

Another gem from the Sessions at West 54th vaults. Listings say that Tricky was also on this episode but I can’t find video of that. This was Season one with Host Chris Douridas and aired 12/13/97.

Sorry, no setlist. Maybe you know it?

Enjoy.

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Liz Phair Live at Sessions At West 54th

Here’s Liz Phair live for Sessions at West 54th. Sorry, I don’t have a setlist for this one, do you? It was with host David Byrne which means that it was Season 02. This one originally aired 10/11/98. The video intro says that the Lounge Lizards also appeared on this episode but I couldn’t find that video. Please let me know if you come across it.

Oh, and Ronald Vaughan really wants us all to know who uploaded the video. We should thank him.

Enjoy.

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Daniel Lanois :: WFUV and Tiny Desk

I am fascinated by these two short live sets from Daniel Lanois. Both feature the same trio of Lanios, Jim Wilson and Brian Blade. The two videos appeared less than a month apart but represent two very different live sets. The WFUV set says it was posted 12/29/14 (recorded on 11/11/14) and the NPR Tiny Desk show says it was posted 01/14/15 (not sure of the recorded date). So, like 16 or 17 days apart, these two videos both appeared representing the same trio with wildly different results and I can’t get enough.

In the WFUV set, Lanois focuses on pedal steel guitar and bassist Jim Wilson plays what appear to be the foot pedals of an organ? Anyone more knowledgeable than me as to what he is doing over there? The NPR Tiny Desk set features Blade on drums, Wilson on bass and Lanois on knobs. Seriously, I understand that things like modular synthesizers exist, it’s just beyond me how someone can get those sounds to come out of a switchboard.

Notes/Setlist:

• "Aquatic/Sonho Dourado/JJ Leaves L.A." live in Studio A. Recorded November 11th, 2014.

Important People:

• Host: Darren Devivo

• Cameras: Caroline Inzucchi & Deirdre Hynes Editor:

• Caroline Inzucchi & Deirdre Hynes

And, the Tiny Desk Concert is one of my favorite things ever. I even downloaded the audio from the NPR site and cut it into individual tracks and I listen to it all the time.

The Tiny Desk Concert Youtube page says that Lanois “led an all-instrumental, somewhat improvisational trio based on the sort of studio processing for which he's become famous. In essence, he brought the studio out of the studio — with the aid of two great players, drummer Brian Blade and bassist Jim Wilson — and directly to my desk. The title of Lanois' new album, Flesh And Machine, describes the music well. He never says a word, but he sculpts some serious, hypnotic sounds.”

Setlist:

• "Sci Fi"

• "Elevator"

• "Apres Calypso"

Important People:

• Producers: Bob Boilen, Maggie Starbard;

• Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait;

• Videographers: Colin Marshall, Maggie Starbard;

• Assistant Producer: Susan Hale Thomas;

• photo by Susan Hale Thomas/NPR

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PJ Harvey at Sessions At West 54th

PJ Harvey live for Sessions at West 54th with host David Byrne. 11/10/98.

Setlist:

• Catherine

• Civil War Correspondent

• Taut My Beautiful Leah

• I Think I'm a Mother

• Is This Desire?

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Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba Live at KEXP (2015)

I first came across Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba when doing the Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow and featured their track “Miri” in February, 2019 on Episode 37.

Bassekou Kouyate started playing the Ngoni at age 12. The Ngoni is a traditional Malian guitar. The body of the instrument is made of wood or calabash with dried animal skin head stretched over. This traditional instrument is believed by many to be the precursor to the banjo.

In 2015, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba played a live set for KEXP and today seems like as good a time as any to revisit that wonderful set.

Setlist:

• Musow Fanga

• Jama ko

• Abe Sumaya

• Siran Fen

Important People:

• Host: Rhythma

• Audio Engineer: Kevin Suggs

• Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Scott Holpainen & Justin Wilmore

• Editor: Scott Holpainen

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Meshell Ndegeocello: Sessions at West 54th

Today we return to the Sessions at West 54th archives. Meshell Ndegeocello live for Sessions at West 54th. Season 01 with host Chris Douridas (09/13/97).

Setlist:

1. Step in to the Projects

2. The Way

3. Ecclesiastes - Free my Heart

4. God Shiva

Players:

• Meshell Ndegeocello - bass/keys/vocals,

• Gene Lake - drums,

• David Dyson - bass,

• Federico Gonzalez Pena - Keys,

• Allen Cato - guitar/vocals,

• Byron Jackson - vocals,

• Alfredo Mojica - percussion

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Miles Davis Live at Fillmore West, San Francisco (04/09/70)

This one’s audio only but well worth your time.

April 9, 1970 Fillmore West, San Francisco, California opening for The Grateful Dead.

Personnel:

• Miles Davis: Miles Davis (tpt);

• Steve Grossman (ss);

• Chick Corea (el-p);

• Dave Holland (b, el-b);

• Jack De Johnette (d);

• Airto Moreira (perc)

Setlist:

• “Directions” (J. Zawinul)

• “Miles Runs the Voodoo Down” (M. Davis)

• “This” (C. Corea)

• “It's About That Time” (M. Davis)

• “I Fall in Love Too Easily” (S. Cahn-J. Styne)

• “Sanctuary” (W. Shorter-M. Davis)

• “Spanish Key” (M. Davis)

• “Bitches Brew” (M. Davis)

• “The Theme” (M. Davis)

Concert recording, soundboard source

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Lee Scratch Perry's Visions of Paradise

I have this personal website compartmentalized because I realize that not every one of my friends is interested in exactly the same set of things that I am. And that’s not only “OK”, it’s beautiful.

However, I think everyone should love Lee “Scratch” Perry. If you’re not familiar with this brilliant artist, I suggest you get familiar with Google.

And I also suggest starting with this off-beat documentary: Lee Scratch Perry's Vision of Paradise | True Godfather of Reggae.

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Fiona Apple at Sessions at West 54th

Fiona Apple for Sessions at West 54th, 1997. Season one with host Chris Douridas.

Setlist:

1. Sleep To Dream

2. Shadowboxer

3. Criminal

4. Never Is A Promise

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Fulu Miziki Kinshasa Music Warriors

This is one of the best things I’ve seen in a long time. Someone on Twitter posted a link to the live video for the song“Quarantine time with Warrior music” (which I have included below) and I was hooked.

Back when I was doing the Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow, this definitely would have been featured prominently. Enjoy these three videos and do some digging on your own. Lots to discover.

The group’s Youtube says:

“Fulu Miziki is a collective of artists who comes straight from a future where humans have reconciled with mother earth and with themselves. This multidisciplinary collective of artists is based in the heart of the Congolese capital city Kinshasa and was founded by Pisko Crane. For several years now, it’s founder Pisko has spent an amount of time conceptualizing an orchestra made from objects found in the trash, constantly changing instruments, always in search of new sounds.

Couples of years ago, Pisko Crane joined efforts with performing artist Aicha Mena Kanieba who, with Le Meilleur, DeBoul, La Roche, Padou, Sekelembele, and Tche Tche formed the Eco-Afro-Futuristic punk ensemble Fulu Miziki. Making our own performance costumes, masks and instruments is essential to their approach of Fulu Miziki’s musical ideology. Their unique sound supports a pan-African message of artistic liberation, peace and a severe look at the ecological situation of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the whole world. For Fulu everything can be recovered and re-enchanted.”

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Sinéad O'Connor Sessions at West 54th (1997)

Sinéad O'Connor Sessions at West 54th (1997). Season one with host Chris Douridas.

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Gillian Welch & David Rawlings on Sessions At West 54th Street (1997)

Time to revisit the Sessions at West 54th Street archives with this gem from Season 01 with host Chris Douridas.

Tracklisting:

• ‘Tear My Stillhouse Down’

• ‘Acony Bell’

• ‘Caleb Meyer’

• ‘Paper Wings’

• ‘Orphan Girl’

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더튠 The Tune (Live)

I made a lot of great musical discoveries from all over the world while doing the Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow. One of my favorites was 더튠 The Tune.

Here is 더튠 The Tune live at “Club Positive ZERO, Seoul, 26 Sep. ‘Youth Song / Cancion Juvenil'.”

Here is 더튠 The Tune live at “Club Positive ZERO, Seoul, 26 Sep. ‘Play with God / Juega con dios”

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The Sex Pistols Live At Winterland (01/14/78)

“The Sex Pistols - Full Concert

Recorded Live: 1/14/1978 - Winterland (San Francisco, CA)”

Setlist:

1. 0:00:00 - God Save The Queen

2. 0:04:13 - I Wanna Be Me

3. 0:08:19 - I'm A Lazy Sod

4. 0:10:42 - New York

5. 0:14:25 - EMI

6. 0:18:09 - Belsen Was A Gas

7. 0:20:22 - Bodies

8. 0:25:15 - Holidays In The Sun

9. 0:29:19 - Liar

10. 0:34:15 - No Feelings

11. 0:37:18 - Problems

12. 0:41:56 - Pretty Vacant

13. 0:45:14 - Anarchy In The UK

14. 0:49:00 - No Fun

The Players:

• Johnny Rotten - lead vocals

• Sid Vicious - bass, vocals

• Steve Jones - guitar, vocals

• Paul Cook - drums

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Miles Davis :: Night Music With David Sanborn

“October 18, 1989

Chelsea Studios, New York City, New York

Miles Davis (tpt); Kenny Garrett (fl -1, as -2, 3); David Sanborn (as -1, 3); Joe "Foley" McCreary (g -1, 3); Adam Holzman (synth); Marcus Miller (el-b -1, 3, fretless el-b -2); Ricky Wellman (d); Don Alias (perc -1, 3)

Sellist:

• Tutu

• Mr. Pastorius

• Hannibal

TV broadcast by NBC-TV: Night Music with David Sanborn”

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Mike Oldfield 'Tubular Bells' Live at the BBC 1973

“Tubular Bells Live Performance on BBC TV

"BBC TV 2nd House Performance": live-in-the-studio performance for the BBC, filmed on 30 November 1973, originally broadcast on BBC2 on 1 December, with a cast including Oldfield, his brother Terry (flute), Fred Frith (and other members of Henry Cow), Steve Hillage, Pierre Moerlen, Tom Newman, Mike Ratledge, Mick Taylor, Karl Jenkins and others. It includes a new part for oboe.

This has been released on the Elements DVD and is on the 2009 reissue of Tubular Bells
Music copyright Mike Oldfield. Video copyright BBC.”

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Mathias Eick Live at JazzBaltica 2015

From the Youtube page:

“Jazz trumpeter Mathias Eick offers a different, modern view of jazz: wide, expansive pieces inspired by dreamy melodies, to which the violinist Erlend Viken contributes his own voice. Viken is one of the most distinguished folk musicians in Norway and will expand the colorful range of expression of the band by adding an individual facet.”

Cast:

Mathias Eick tp | Andreas Ulvo p | Erlend Viken vl | Audun Erlien b | Torstein Lofthus dr

www.jazzbaltica.de

Setlist:

1. Midwest // 00:00

2. Band Introductions // 06:06

3. Hem // 07:35

4. March // 13:20

5. At Sea // 19:55

6. Dakota // 27:04

7. Violin Solo // 36:03

8. Lost // 38:18

9. November // 45:00

10. Oslo (Encore) // 51:31

Thanks to my friend Michael Moore for the tip.

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Huun‐Huur‐Tu Live at KEXP

Oh man, this is so good.

From Episode 19 of the Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow:

“Huun-Huur-Tu are a music group from Tuva, a republic of Russia located right on the border of Mongolia and Russia. Huun-Huur-Tu is internationally known for their throat-singing, also known as “over-tone” singing. The singer produces “both the note (drone) and the drone's overtone(s), thus producing two or three notes simultaneously.”

“KEXP presents Huun‐Huur‐Tu performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded August 15, 2017.”

Setlist:

1. Chyraa-Khoor (Yellow Pacer)

2. Konguroi (Sixty Horses in My Herd)

3. Odugen Taiga

4. Aa-Shuu Dekei-oo

Other Details:

• Host: DJ Rhythma

• Audio Engineer: Kevin Suggs

• Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Alaia D'Alessandro & Justin Wilmore

• Editor: Justin Wilmore

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Cowboy Junkies Sessions at West 54th

That’s right. We’re back on the Sessions at West 54th train. This time with Cowboy Junkies.

The group was paired with Kronos Quartet and the episode originally aired 09/06/98)

Sorry, not sure of the setlist on this one.

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