Bill Withers live for Musikladen/Beat Club (1972)
Bill Withers for German TV show Musikladen/Beat Club (1972).
The Band:
Melvin Dunlap on Bass
James Gadson on Drums
Benorce Blackmon on Guitar
Ray Jackson on Keyboard
Muddy Waters Copenhagen 1968
Muddy Waters live at Copenhagen Jazz festival (October 27,1968).
The Band:
Muddy Waters - guitar & vocals
'Pee Wee' Madison – guitar
Luther "Snakeboy" Johnson - guitar
Otis Spann – piano
Paul Oscher – harmônica
Sonny Wimberley – bass
S.P. Leary - drums
Setlist:
"Back At The Chicken Shack"
"Train Fare Home Blues"
"(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man"
"Long Distance Call"
"Nobody Knows My Trouble"
"Cold Cold Feeling"
"Got My Mojo Working"
"Tiger In Your Tank"
Bob Marley and the Wailers, Rockpalast (06/13/80)
One of the fun parts of doing this music blog has been revisiting concerts that I first came across through tape-trading. I don’t know if you were ever part of that culture, but I have a lot of good memories and was privy to a lot of great music through the U.S. postal system. I once had stacks of tapes of CDRs that I wish I had kept. But sometimes life leads you in other directions and you revisit those memories through the Internet.
Today we’re re-visiting Bob Marley and the Wailers live for Rockpalast (06/13/80). I gave this CDR away several years ago during one of our moves, but I have kept digital versions of the show. Until just the other day, I didn’t know that video of the show existed (I know, I know, you all knew this video existed a long time ago). But it does and it’s worth your time.
The Dealio:
Bob Marley & The Wailers at Westfalenhalle (06.13.80, Dortmund)
Filmed for the German live music television program Rockpalast.
Setlist:
Marley Chant
Natural Mystic
Positive Vibration
Revolution
I Shot the Sheriff
War
No More Trouble
Zimbabwe
Jamming
No Woman, No Cry
Zion Train
Exodus
Encore 01:
Redemption Song
Could You Be Loved
Work
Natty Dread
Is This Love
Get Up, Stand Up
Encore 02:
Coming in From the Cold
Lively Up Yourself
Stevie Wonder live for Musikladen/Beat Club (1974)
Get down with Stevie Wonder live on the German television program Musikladen/Beat Club in 1974.
The Youtube page provides the following information:
“Stevie Wonder 1974 concert on German TV show Musikladen/Beat Club.
I recorded from the European TV channel VH1 in 2003. I wish this would be released on DVD! If someone can help me identify the musicians, it would be great. One of the ladies, Afro and a polo shirt, singing backing vocals is Denice Williams. She was part of Wonder's female background singing group Wonderlove. I think this is the partial lineup, based on what Stevie says at 23.15: Reggie McBride plays bass. Michael "Mike" Sembello on guitar and keys, Ollie E. Brown on drums.”
Rainer Plays That Voodoo Music
Rainer Ptacek performing "Voodoo Music" in the kitchen of "The 818 Club" during a live cablecast of the local music show "Electric Window".
Hosted and Produced by Chris Wagganer
Cameras: Don Dalen, Chris Babbie, Ben Minot
Audio: David Slutes
Engineering: Roy Knappenberger, Chris Babbie
Cablecast Support: Mark Taylor
June 6, 1986
Zakir Hussain & Rakesh Chaurasia at ICE Kraków 08.07.2015
Thanks to my friend Alex for the tip on this 2015 live set featuring Zakir Hussain on tabla, percussion instruments and Rakesh Chaurasia playing bansouri.
The video’s page gives the following info:
“ZAKIR HUSSAIN is undoubtedly one of the greatest legends of world music, virtuoso of the tabla, and artist who tours and records with many other acclaimed musicians, including those form the world of jazz. His father was the famous musician Ustad Alla Rakha. Thanks to his father, Zakir learned to play musical instruments from his youngest days. He started performing as a teenager, and when he was 19 years old, he travelled to the US for the first time, appearing alongside Ravi Shankar. Audiences remember Hussain’s acclaimed albums, especially “Making Music” recorded for the famous ECM label. It is regarded as one of the finest musical fusions of the East and the West. Hussain was accompanied by John McLaughlin, Jan Garbarek and the legendary Hariprasad Chaurasia – uncle of Rakesh, who joins Hussain in Kraków. Hussain has worked with McLaughlin many times, for example when creating recordings with his groups Shakti and Remember Shakti. He also worked alongside Bill Laswell, leading the group Tabla Beat Science bringing together acclaimed tablists and percussionists. He has also co-created the outstanding projects Planete Drum and Global Drum, and worked with some of the greatest musicians of all time, from George Harrison and Van Morrison to Pharoah Sanders and Charles Lloyd. He is a living legend himself.
RAKESH CHAURASIA is more than just a nephew of Hariprasad Chaurasia – he is also one of his most talented pupils. He plays the bansouri, a traditional South Asian bamboo flute. He has worked with musicians including Talvin Singh, participated in recording dozens of albums, and he leads the RAF ensemble – Rakesh and Friends. Recorded at ICE Kraków 08.07.2015.”
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Grateful Dead: Playing In The Jam (A Holiday At The Sea Mix)
Ever wonder what “Playing In The Band” might sound like as an extended instrumental free-jazz-space-rock suite? Well, I did.
Inspired by Save Your Face and their various Grateful Dead mixes, I edited six different performances of “Playing In The Band” into an instrumental suite.
I’m not entirely happy with a couple of the transitions, but I dig how it turned out overall, seeing as how I am not a professional, I didn’t actually spend that much time on this, and I really only made this for myself to listen to either while I work or commuting. Enjoy.
Here are the deets for the six pieces making up the Suite:
00:00 - 11:39 :: 09.21.72 at the The Spectrum in Philadelphia, PA (released as Dicks’s Picks 36)
11:39-25:45 :: 03.24.73 at the The Spectrum in Philadelphia, PA
25:245 - 34:47 :: 11.10.73 at Winterland Arena in San Francisco, CA (released as part of Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings)
34:47 - 44:09 :: 05.17.77 at Memorial Coliseum, U of Alabama, MS (released as part of May 1977)
44:09: 52:31 :: 05.28.77 at at Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT (released as To Terrapin: Hartford '77)
52:31 - 56:27 :: 05.28.77 at at Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT (released as To Terrapin: Hartford '77)
I chose these performances for no real reason other than that this is the time-period of the Dead that I listen to most and these shows happened to be on my laptop when I decided to try out this idea.
And if all that weren’t enough goodness, here’s an instrumental edit of the mammoth “Playing In The Band” from the Pacific Northwest '73-'74: Believe it If You Need It (Live) set (Live at Hec Edmundson Pavillion, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 5/21/74).
Southern Jukebox Music Presents Bitchin Bajas (02.14.18)
Being a music fan is highly a subjective thing. We all have different preferences and that includes band names. I don’t care how good you tell me they are, I just can’t see myself listening to a whole of Diarrhea Planet. Or Radical Face while I’m thinking of it. But, then again, everything is subjective and subject to change, right?
Despite years of reading such enticing descriptions as “expansive, looping, shifting synths and rhythms” and even despite their ties to Holiday at the Sea favorite Natural Information Society, I resisted the music of Bithin Bajas because of their name.
But the good folks over at Southern Jukebox Music remind us of why sometimes it’s worth looking past the name. Bitchin Bajas “is a band operated as a side-project by Cooper Crain, who is also guitarist/organist of the band Cave. The other members are Dan Quinlivan and Rob Frye.” Southern Jukebox Music is the project of Matt Beachey who records live performances on a Realistic TR-3000 reel-to-reel. Yes, he lugs that thing to and from shows. Why? He says:
I choose to record shows this way because (a: I just dig the sound of almost anything on tape, and I still haven't found a satisfactory substitute, and (b: I find that sometimes setting up a weird, clunky process of recording invites unique performances out of people. Digital recording has done wonders in democratizing the art of on-the-fly live recording; still, I think there’s something worth keeping around about the way sound waves cling to the iron grains of magnetic tape, and then play back a little jumbled up—a slightly impressionistic version of whatever was recorded. And I guess maybe I feel a sort of kinship with bootleggers of yore who hauled their reels to Grateful Dead shows, putting in the extra effort to make a lasting record of the night, albeit a colored and faded one. Sometimes a grimy record of the past better suits your memory anyway.
Whatever the reasons, we’re glad he does it and happy to support on Bandcamp where any proceeds will go to the artist. We first featured a selection from Southern Jukebox Music in August 2019 with Chris Forsyth and the Broken Mirrors Motel Band’s 07.11.19 performance. Today we feature Bitchin Bajas “Live at the 7th Street Entry.”
The Deets:
Live at the 7th Street Entry. Any proceeds will go to the artist.
Released June 15, 2018.
Composed and performed by Bitchin Bajas, recorded and mixed by Matt Beachey
Kiran Ahluwalia and Souad Massi At KEXP
I first came across Kiran Ahluwalia while doing research for the Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow. I highlighted her track (featuring Tinariwen) “Mustt Mustt (Extended) on Episode 02 and have followed her ever since.
The other day I came across a 2018 live performance for KEXP along with Souad Massi, who was new to me.
From the video’s Youtube page:
http://KEXP.ORG presents Souad Massi and Kiran Ahluwalia performing live in the KEXP studio.
Recorded April 19, 2018.
Songs:
Kiran Alhuwalia - Khafa (Up In Arms)
Kiran Alhuwalia - Saat (Seven)
Souad Massi - Hayati
Souad Massi - Amessa
Souad Massi & Kiran Alhuwalia - Deb
Host: Darek Mazzone
Audio Engineer: Kevin Suggs
Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Scott Holpainen & Justin Wilmore
Editor: Justin Wilmore
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Sarathy Korwar and Friends For Boiler Room
The fantastic Boiler Room has been putting out some terrific content as part of their “Streaming From Isolation” series. Holiday at the Sea favorite Sarathy Korwar recently gathered two songs for a half-hour performance. From the Boiler Room page:
A very exclusive & exciting multi-way jam w/ Sarathy Korwar & friends from London & beyond.
From Sarathy Korwar’s Facebook page:
Tunes:
”Raga Malkauns” - Charanjit Singh (from 10 Ragas to a Disco Beat)
”In C” - Terry Riley
Players:
Bex Burch - Gyil/Bells/Water Drums
Tamar Osborn - Horns
Al MacSween - Synths, Harmonium
Dan Leavers - Synths
Sarathy Korwar - Drums/Tabla/Udu
Visit Sarathy Korwar's official website
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Listen to "Bismillah" by Sarathy Korwar on Episode 08 of The Global Elite Music Radio Podcast SupershowBrowse all Holiday at the Sea posts tagged Sarathy Korwar
Phil Cook and Oliver Wood Cover John Prine In Quarantine
The other day Phil Cook posted to his Instagram page:
“That’s The Way The World Goes Round by John Prine
I got a text from Oliver Wood over a year ago wanting to get together and spend a day with him in Nashville writing music. I was nervous and excited as Oliver was one of my favorite songwriters and singers around. We hit it off famously and have gotten together more since then. We were supposed to spend a week together in April but those plans got shut down by the pandemic. So we found something else to work on together. Today we lovingly and humbly dedicate our version of John Prine’s “That’s The Way The World Goes Round” to Fiona , Jody, Tommy and Jack. Long Live John Prine!”
Excited about collaborating with my musical soulmate Phil Cook He took my plain rendition of a John Prine classic and made it a party. Here’s to many more parties and collaborations Phil! And Much love to the Prine family.
Enjoy (and, sorry, I don’t know why that huge “comments” section is there).
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Listen to “Another Mother’s Son” by Phil Cook in the Musical Worldview Project (finding wisdom in lyrics).
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Akron/Family Live At Ekkko (2006)
I was digging through Ye Ole CDR spindle the other day and came across this 2006 live set from Akron/Family. If you’re not familiar with the band, think one of those geographically spread out bands that comes together to make blissed out space-folk for the existential campfire singalongs.
Anyway, I was going to upload it here and did a quick search only to find that the band themselves have already uploaded it at the amazing Live Music Archive.
Anathallo Live In Japan
Anathallo was a band from Michigan (though they later relocated to Chicago if I remember correctly?). The fluctuated in size and the arrangements grew in complexity and beauty. The early recordings are great but they don’t quite yet arrive at the sophistication of the later work. And isn’t that all of us? Hopefully as we grow older we also mature and grow more nuanced in our thinking, even learning to allow time for the quiet moments which are as much part of the story as the loud parts. Can you really feel a crescendo when it’s all loud to begin with? The hills and valleys of the journey. And I’m rambling.
So allow me to ramble a bit more.
I’m sure you know what I mean when I say that music often carries with it memories and feelings associated with particular time periods. Certain albums or artists or songs often carry with them very specific memories. And now I’m digressing. Let me get back to rambling.
I have always loved music. That’s just part of who I am. And in hindsight, I should have paid more attention to the red flags early on. I had just graduated seminary and was moving in to my first role as “Lead Pastor,” though this church used the title “Teaching Pastor.” My family had not yet moved from Kentucky to Texas yet but we had already accepted the position and I flew to Minneapolis to meet the staff and elders for a pastors conference.
I was wearing a Tortoise shirt that disappeared some time over the years. It was yellow and I wish I still had it. I was in the elevator with one of the staff members who made a comment about liking my shirt and being surprised that the new pastor knew who Tortoise is but that I might want to keep things like that to myself because the other leaders weren’t really into secular music. I’m paraphrasing of course, but you get the gist. And then we moved there.
I don’t know if you’ve ever visited a church that just didn’t feel like “home”? If you have, then you might be able to imagine pastoring a church where you felt like that all of the time. If you’ve never had that experience, just imagine that you are continually not allowed to be yourself because when you do, it just seems to cause trouble, so you create a version of yourself that pleases the other people and you have to live in it 24 hours a day. It’s something like that.
Anathallo was touring the amazing Floating World album and I took several of the college students in the church to go see them. The next day I got called in to my own office where I rebuked by the other elders of the church because I was a small group leader and had missed small group in order to attend the concert. Even though I arranged for someone to facilitate in my absence. And, even though I knew it already, it was then confirmed for me the rest of the leadership of that church and I shared very different visions and approaches. It was totally worth it.
We left Texas in 2008 and Anathallo went on “indefinite" hiatus in 2009 and I guess that’s my story.
Here is a full show from the band’s 2008 tour. Apparently this was released on a very limited (now out of print I think ) tour DVD which some fine person uploaded for the rest of us and I could pass it along to you and we could watch it together. Let’s:
From the video’s Youtube page:
Anathallo @ O-Nest Japan during their 2008 tour. I was searching for this for a long time and couldn't find it anywhere. Finally got a hold of the DVD from Japan. Absolutely fantastic band, lucky to have seen them live a few times.
Dokkoise House 00:00
John J. Audubon 07:05
Hanasakajijii (four: a great wind, more ash) 10:55
Hanasakajijii (one: an angry neighbor) 15:25
Hanasakajijii (two: floating world) 18:55
Italo 25:20
Northern lights 28:42
Holiday At The Sea 32:26
All the First Pages 39:15
Cuckoo Spring Blood (Encore) 45:40
Kasa no hone (Encore) 49:00
Starflyer 59 Reclines
Starflyer 59 is the long-running Southern California shimmery guitar pop project led by Jason Martin. The band has been filled out by a revolving cast of players over the years, but the sound has remained consistent.
It can be a powerful thing when an artist finds their voice. Martin has crafted a musical world in which, you know it’s a Starflyer 59 song, but somehow each one is unique. Martin has created a musical world made up of variations on surfgaze (a term I think I made up about Southern California bands drawing from the shimmer of Shoegaze) without sounding repetitive.
Last week Martin released his latest single, “This Recliner.”
Check it.
Lyrics:
I feel a hanging cloud over my head and I’m sore, and my insides hurt like never before so what if I get out just to get back in, it’s what I’m living through and living in so when I’m laid out on my back, everything is cold on this recliner It’s when I toss and turn the most, I just wanna go where I’m not tired There’s a stormy cloud over my head and what’s more, and my insides hurt down to the core so what if I get out just to get back in, it’s what I’m living through and living in so when I’m laid out on my back, everything is cold on this recliner It’s when I toss and turn the most, I just wanna go where I’m not tired
Misc. Notes:
The track was recorded at Le Shed Studio, mixed by JR McNeely, and mastered by TW Walsh. The players on this track are: J. Martin (vox, guitar), S. Dali (bass), and C. Martin (drums). Lyrically the song is ultra autobiographical. For undisclosed reasons, Martin spent a handful of nights in the hospital this February. The Recliner recounts his own worry, discomfort, and the yearning to feel safe and well.
Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians, RFK Stadium, 1990
If you spent any time “tape trading” after the advent of CDRs, you probably had at least one spindle of shows. At one point I had lots of such spindles. I thought that I had gotten rid of most of them over the years, but I came across one the other day and this was the show right on top so I figured why not share (especially when someone has already archived it at the Live Music Archive).
July 1990 saw Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians opening for the Grateful Dead at Washington D.C.’s RFK stadium (read some brief thoughts from Edie Brickell about her history with the band). I’m pretty sure this would have been right around the time Brickell’s second album, the often-overlooked gem Ghost of a Dog came out.
Edie Brickell and New Bohemians Live at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium on 1990-07-12
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
7/12/1990
Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, Washington, D.C.
Setlist:
1. She [05:52.41]
2. Nothing [05:02.74]
3. Woyaho [02:50.35]
4. Oh To Be [04:39.60]
5. Stwisted [04:18.29]
6. Carmelito [04:57.08]
7. 10,000 Angels [06:21.23]
8. Strings Of Love [04:35.09]
9. Forgiven [06:12.65]
10. Wait A While [04:47.67]
11. Love Like We Do [05:01.41]
Naan Violent Treefort
In case you missed it, I posted two tracks from Atlanta’s Naan Violence in September, 2019. I also posted one of their songs in The Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow, the global-music, Xenophobia-fighting weekly music podcast I did for a year.
From Episode 14 of The Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow:
“We first heard Naan Violence when this track was posted by our friends over at Aquarium Drunkard. The group's label, ZAP Cassettes describes them as: "a freak-in transcendental free-sitar underground super-group from Memphis, Tennessee, the home of Isaac Hayes. Lilypadinman.com says: "Fronted by sitar player Arjun Kulharya, Naan Violence creates dreamy, mirage-like sitar music that evokes the mystery of an endless expanse of desert sand. It’s traditional sitar music re-invented for a barroom audience." Aquarium Drunkard describes the music as: "Layered with analog synthesizers, acoustic guitars, flute and tabla, Naan Violence’s expansive palette of sound feels at once organic and untethered." However you'd like to describe the music, we dig it and we think you might too.”
Here is Naan Violence “on Radio Boise's Global Grooves as part of their Treefort 2018 in-studios.”
Aquarium Drunkard calls it “Transcendental free sitar music” and that seems just about right.
An Hour With Pink Floyd
From the official Pink Floyd Youtube page:
“‘An Hour with Pink Floyd: KQED’ sees the band filmed performing live in April 1970 by San Francisco cable TV station KQED. Taken from the version featured on 2016 ‘The Early Years 1965-1972’ box set, the film includes performances of Atom Heart Mother, Cymbaline, Grantchester Meadows, Green is the Colour and Careful with that Axe Eugene. Appearing as part of the @YouTube Film Festival until May 17th.
Oki Ainu Dub Band
Oki Kano (加納 沖, Kanō Oki) was born in Hokkaido, to a Japanese mother and an Ainu father (renowned wood sculptor Bikki Sunazawa) and grew up in Kanagawa Prefecture. After graduating in crafts at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, he moved to New York in 1987, where he worked as special effects artist on film productions. He returned to Japan in 1992, and was presented with his first tonkori - the traditional stringed instrument of the Karafuto Ainu.
Oki uses the tonkori, an Ainu stringed instrument, in his performances and mixes traditional Ainu music with reggae, dub and other styles of world music. He also plays guitar and traditional Ainu percussion instruments.
Dive in to the band’s music.
First up is “Suma Mukar”:
Next is the title track from the Sakhalin Rock album Sakhalin Rock.
And here is a live performance
“Filmed at the FMM Sines Festival in 2007, this is a traditional Ainu bow and arrow dance performed by Futoshi Ikabe, to a deep dub mix by the band with Naoyuki Uchida at the desk.”
"Egad Józsi, and (what about) the mask?" (A Holiday At The Sea Quarantine Playlist)
Here’s a Quarantine-inspired playlist. With a story arc of sorts. Sort of like a concept album, except it’s a mix.
Curious? Why don’t you give it a listen. I’d like to hear someone else try and describe the journey of discovery I was trying to capture here. What do you think? How would you tell this story?
Playlist:
“Cold Hard Times” by Lee Hazlewood
“Don’t Come Around Here No More” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
“We Will Become Silhouettes” by the Postal Service
“T.B. Sheets” by Van Morrison
“Sorry You’re Sick” by Ted Hawkins
“It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” by R.E.M.
“American Heartache” by the Wood Brothers
“Down With Disease” by Phish
“Down With Desperation” by Sammy Brue
“Sometimes It’s Hard” by Rainer
“Consider the Ravens” by Dustin Kensrue
“Love Is Everywhere (Beware)” by Wilco
“Shelter From The Storm” by Bob Dylan
“Love Knows (No Borders” by Howe Gelb
“I’ll Be Your Shelter” by the Housemartins
“Sisters and Brothers” by the Vespers
Browse other Holiday at the Sea playlists.
Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids
“Exploring the outer limits of jazz since the 1970s.”
Get your cosmic-soul-space-jazz-groove on with a couple of live performances by the Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids.
First up, a 15-minute journey called ‘Virgin’ live for Music City Sessions in 2019.
Next up is the title-track to the 2016 album “We Be All Africans” performed in 2015 for Unseen Recordings, followed by an interview segment about touring oversees, etc.:
Strut Records put out the band’s 2016 album and posted the following video. There is no song information, but Strut says: “here’s a taste of the original Pyramids experience from a 1975 KQED TV special.”