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[Mar. 8th, 2008|01:00 pm] |
Today I’m announcing that the Jukebox Heart podcast/blog/website has been newly redesigned. In addition to the readability issues I had with the lovely layout, I’ve added some additional funtionality that is sure to make you want to linger on the site for a while.
First is the inclusion of what I’m calling raveclips. These are linked-image boxes on the JukeboxHeart.com website that may each be clicked to launch a special window overlay that enables you to watch a video. At any given time, there will be four raveclips to choose from. I’m launching this feature with videos from the familiar Wire, Sigur Ros and Sonic Youth and one lesser known video by the band Cubsimo Grafico. These items are not podcast, and can only be accessed on the Jukebox Heart site.
The next feature is “The Pulse”, an on line mp3 playlist of content only available at Jukebox Heart. You can launch the player anytime you are on line and then visit another window and do other stuff while you have it playing in the background. Currently playing on The Pulse is an archival radio program of mine from WZBc, from April of 2003. WZBC has a feature program called “Test Pattern” where WZBC DJ’s guest hosted a program featuring in-depth programming of a single artist. This show highlights the work of obscure UK band “Five or Six”, some of whose members went on to form the well known Spring Heel Jack. As with the raveclips feature, this material is not podcast and only accessible directly from the Jukebox Heart website.
Watch for these features to be updated regularly, and for more fetaures to be added in the future. And, of course, more downloadable podcasts.
Enjoy! |
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[Mar. 8th, 2008|12:59 pm] |
Today I’m announcing that the Jukebox Heart podcast/blog/website has been newly redesigned. In addition to the readability issues I had with the lovely layout, I’ve added some additional funtionality that is sure to make you want to linger on the site for a while.
First is the inclusion of what I’m calling raveclips. These are linked-image boxes on the JukeboxHeart.com website that may each be clicked to launch a special window overlay that enables you to watch a video. At any given time, there will be four raveclips to choose from. I’m launching this feature with videos from the familiar Wire, Sigur Ros and Sonic Youth and one lesser known video by the band Cubsimo Grafico. These items are not podcast, and can only be accessed on the Jukebox Heart site.
The next feature is “The Pulse”, an on line mp3 playlist of content only available at Jukebox Heart. You can launch the player anytime you are on line and then visit another window and do other stuff while you have it playing in the background. Currently playing on The Pulse is an archival radio program of mine from WZBc, from April of 2003. WZBC has a feature program called “Test Pattern” where WZBC DJ’s guest hosted a program featuring in-depth programming of a single artist. This show highlights the work of obscure UK band “Five or Six”, some of whose members went on to form the well known Spring Heel Jack. As with the raveclips feature, this material is not podcast and only accessible directly from the Jukebox Heart website.
Watch for these features to be updated regularly, and for more fetaures to be added in the future. And, of course, more downloadable podcasts.
Enjoy! |
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[Feb. 23rd, 2008|01:40 pm] |
Jukebox Heart 008
Grief and Knowing
73 MB | 80 Minutes
It's been awhile since I've had a podcast to post. This podcast, Grief and Knowing, is dedicated to my father, who passed away on January 19, 2008. The photo below is of my parents, taken before they were married, in 1943, while my father was still in the service.
It's an admittedly ecclectic playlist, which in itself is not unusual here at Jukebox Heart. But the songs are a lot more mainstream, and I will describe just why I picked each track in the essay below. The old songs were mastered for this podcast from original 78 RPM recrods, and in some cases, 45s, that my parents owned when they were younger. While these songs are common enough to obtain pristine copies in mp3 format on line, I felt it was important to use these original sources. The surface noise and other imperfections provide a history that is so much more important than the songs themselves. Those imperfections are a patina on the surfaces, formed after years of living with these records and using them and enjoying them. The distortions they bring remind us that all we have left are memories. As wonderful as they are, they are distorted by our own individual noise, and they degrade throughout the remainder of our lives.
Playlist:
Artie Shaw – Begin the Beguine
(Bluebird, original 78 RPM, 1938)
Talking with Dad about his friend Nick
Low - When I Go Deaf
(The Great Destroyer, Sub Pop CD, 2005)
The Mills Brothers - Till Then
(Decca, Original 78 RPM, 1948)
Jimmy Dorsey - Deep Purple
(Decca, Original 78 RPM, 1939)
Talking with Dad about Guido
The Durutti Column - The Beggar
(Another Setting LP, Factory Records, 1983)
Ulrich Schnauss - Knuddelmaus
(Far Away Trains Passing By LP, City Center Offices, 2001)
Domenico Modugno - Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu
(Original Decca 45, 1958)
Martin Bottcher
(original Beat Up 45. No info available)
Doc Severinson - I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)
(Torch Songs for Trumpet, Command, 1963)
Cousteau - The Last Good Day of the Year
(Cousteau CD, Palm Pictures, 2000)
The Harptones - The Masquerade is Over
(Rama Records, Original 45, 1956)
King Cole Trio – I Miss You So
(Capitol, Original 78, 1947)
Patti Page - Old Cape Cod
(Mercury, Original 45, 1957)
Jo Stafford - You Belong To Me
(Jo Stafford's Greatest Hits, Columbia, 1951)
Andrews Sisters - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
(MCA reissue 45, rec. 1941)
Kay Starr - All Of Me
(Lamplighter, 1945)
The Manhattan Transfer - Java Jive
(The Manhattan Transfer LP, Atlantic, 1975)
Flare - Homily
(Bottom CD, Tamper Evident 1998)
OMD - Souvenir
(Architecture and Morality, Dindisc, 1982)
Arco - Into Blue
(Coming To Terms, Dreamy CD, 2000)
Low - Silver Rider
(The Great Destroyer, Sub Pop 2005)
Harry James - Trumpet Rhapsody Part 2
(Columbia, original 78, 1941)
So let the dance begin. My Dad was legendary for his dancing skills, and Begin The Beguine was a favorite song of his. He was a World Was II veteran, and his generation came of age with the music of the big bands. He called the bands he loved "The Big Three": Artie Shaw, Harry James and the Dorsey Brothers, Jimmy and Tommy. But he loved so much more music. Music was one of the ways in which we communicated. We agreed, we disagreed, we fought and argued and we listened some more. When he discovereed that the cable company provided endless hours of music on the cable channels, his house was never without it. In my teens, as I made the abrupt transition from the required Disco of the Brooklyn streets to the jarring sound of punk rock, and he would come into my room, obviously confused by the complete anarchy and cacophony of the music, and tell me I was going to go deaf listening to this stuff so loud and what kind of crazy crap is this anyhow? And I would joke with him that he seemed to be doing just fine being deaf. He'd say "What?" and get angry when I'd laugh. I'd tell him to listen, just listen, that it was fun and brilliant at the same time. I think he worried about me for a long time over that music. So, when one of my favorite bands, Low, released their fabulous album "The Great Destroyer" in 2005, it was in constant rotation in my truck and often played while I was taking Dad back and forth to various appointments. We both got a good laugh out of this song, When I Go Deaf, espcially when I reminded him about how he used to yell at me about my music.
The Mills Brothers were another favorite of both of ours. He remembered the song when it was fresh, but for me it was a prototypical study in group harmony, which I had become a student of when I was a kid. The song was influential in the doo wop music on which I cut my teeth and developed an very guarded love. I brought this record home from my first job at the record store, back in 1974, and played it for my parents. They began to waltz around the kitchen. I am very fortunate to have been able to preserve some of these very old records. Jimmy Dorsey's Deep Purple could make my father tear up in the right circumstances, and this 70 year old disc is in pristine shape.
He appreciated the lighter side of the alternative rock music I had become so fanatical about. The music of The Durutti Column was one of the artists he enjoyed. One evening in Brooklyn, I was playing a tape of this on the boombox I kept in my room there, and when he came into the room asking, "What's this?", my defenses immediately sparng up and I said, "Why?" "It's good. I like it. Music should flow. This is good." And the piece by Ulrich Schnauss, a young German musician who was the darling of the radio station where I worked for many years, WZBC, had a similar effect on him. And no tribute to my Dad would be complete without Domenico Modugno. Even at Draper Place, when this song would come over the ubiquitous PA,he would pretend to dance with his walker - while he was still able, at least. This song embodies true Italian romance, and he knew that very well.
In the sixties, my Dad definitely had the Swingin Bachelor Pad thing going on, at least in his head. He collected the swingin'est, coolest, grooviest records - records that have become kown as the "lounge" genre and which are extremely popular once again. Martin Bottcher, famous mostly for his German soundtrack music, Doc Severinson, presented here in his glorious 1963 album, and other artists such as Enoch Light, Martin Denny and Les Baxter were part of the soundtrack to my youth. My Dad and I actually argued over the Cousteau song, because it sounds so authentically 1966-Burt Bacharach that he swore to me that it was an old song. It wasn't.
The Harptones are by far my favorite 50's black vocal group. My Dad used to drive around Brooklyn with a tape of their songs in his car's cassette deck, and he'd fire it up and tell his girlfriend that it was what all the young people did. OK, so maybe not with the Harptones, but he was on the right track...
More of the old songs he loved: The King Cole Trio record is cracked, and so fragile I had to nurse the thing to keep it together for this recording; this is one of his most beautiful songs. Dad definitely enjoyed the voices of the ladies, and I think that of Pattie Page, Kay Starr, the Andrews Sisters, and Jo Stafford, Jo Stafford was his favorite. I liked Kay Starr better myself. And the Manhattan Transfer deliver a great version of the Ink Spots' classic. God knows he *loved* his coffee.
I had many experiences that never would have happened had I not spent so much time in NY taking care of my Dad. Meeting the members of the band Flare was one of them. After I got to know those guys, and hearing them play instruments and what have you in various groups, I challenged them to collaborate, form the band, give me two good songs and I would produce a 45 for them. They came back to me six weeks later with a package of ten songs, and I ended up doing a CD release. From this, an entire social circle and a handful of professional contacts arose. The OMD tune is a classic and the Arco is just a sad farewell, also songs he'd question me about when driving in my truck with me.
Finally, we close with Harry James' stunning interpretation of Trumpet Rhapsody, one of my mother's favorite records.
Not subscribed to Jukebox Heart yet? You should! But until you're ready, you can download this podcast here. |
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| Jukebox Heart 007: The Late Night Obsessions of Jukebox Heart |
[Nov. 21st, 2007|10:15 am] |
Jukebox Heart 007
The Late Night Obsessions of Jukebox Heart
64.7 MB | 69 Minutes
The new Jukebox Heart podcast is out now to provide you with 69 minutes of a continuous mix of music for your travels. Get it into your iPod quick before you leave to make your journey that much more palatable. Have a safe holiday, and stay up late with me and my late night obsessions...
Playlist:
F. S. Blumm - Badvanilla Further
(Fork Ends - Audio Dregs 2004)
Thought Universe - DX35NHI
(Red Zero Seven - Struktur Records 2003)
Five Way Mirror - Sleeping to Technology 2
(Transcendence - Burnt Hair 1999)
Flying Saucer Attack - In The Light of Time
(Chorus - Drag City Records 1995)
Honeymoon Killers - Decollage
(Les Tueurs De La Lune De Miel - Crammed Discs 1981)
Death in June - To Drown A Rose
(Brown Book - New European Recordings 1987)
Ida - Late Blues
(Heart Like A River - Polyvinyl Records 2005)
Small Sails - Somnambulist
(Similar Anniversaries - Other Electricities 2006)
Priscilla Bowman - Another Night
(B Side - Vee Jay 78RPM 1955)
Broadcast - Poem of Dead Song
(The Future Crayon - Warp 2006)
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love
(Singles Going Steady - IRS Records 1979)
New Order - Ceremony
(A Side - Factory 7-inch single version 1981)
Sonna - Smile
(Smile and the World Smiles With You - Temporary Residence 2003)
Oren Ambarchi - Inamorata
(In The Pendulum's Embrace - Touch Records 2007)
Frank longs to make music. "Longing is a big impulse of making music for me: Trying to reach someone, something or someplace...through music. Trying to say something you cannot say with words. That's why some of the best songs are Love-Songs, no?" That last question opens a lot of discourse, but certainly the music of F. S. Blumm may be thought of as romantic. This track is culled from an Audio Dregs compilation, Fork Ends, and was originally destined for somewhere else...The promise of sequence or series, of many releases to complete a theme, will always attract me. Red Zero Seven, the first in a series which set out to compile the rainbow with a set of seven, was the promising beginning, but the label only delivered 2 in the end. My latest obsession is the Burnt Hair label, run by everyone's friends, Windy and Carl. The dreamy trippy sounds of Five Way Mirror, a collaborative effort between Windy and Carl and Violet Glass Oracle, the latest CD I've found. And it's just too hard to believe that Flying Saucer Attack's amazing Chorus album dates back to 1995, but there it is. That's one of my favorite tracks of theirs. And this is the Belgian Honeymoon Killers, delivering a fantastic post-no-wave track from their album that was out of print for over 20 years before it came out on CD. This is the original vinyl mix. From the Brown Book LP comes one of Death In June's most familiar songs, with Rose McDowall on female vox. I kinda had to tweak it around to fit it in the mix, but it's a personal favorite. Ida's track here is just breathtaking, from the not-so-old album, with the unfortunate title of Heart Like A River. Oh well. On a hunch, I purchased the Small Sails CD. The cover art looked wrong enough, and the label seemed small enough. Ultimately it was the typeface design that sold me. And I'm glad it did. It sits among my Languis records as a distant cousin. And it's hard to go wrong with anything you come across on the old Vee Jay imprint. In the 50s, before the Beatles, The Four Seasons and The Duke Of Earl flung the label into incomprehensible financial success, the label was predominantly blues, R&B doo wop and gospel. Released in 1955, the A Side quickly found national airplay, but it was the B-Side that established Priscilla Bowman as the new diva in town. And hoNEY! She rocked. Broadcast give a track from the B-Side collection CD, The Future Crayon. I'm more fond of their early work, such as the early singles collection CD; Work and Non-Work, but this collection is rather engaging. The Buzzcocks and New Order deliver two very fond favorites that need no further discussion, and Sonna weave around the outflow of the New Order single to give a good transition to the final piece offered by guitarist Oren Ambarchi from his latest release on Touch.
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| Jukebox Heart 004: Magnificent Seven Inches |
[Oct. 9th, 2007|01:13 pm] |
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Jukebox Heart 004: Magnificent Seven Inches
63.1 MB | 69 Minutes
It’s been awhile since I posted a new Jukebox Heart, and a highly conceptual noise construction has been in the works. Personal stuff has a way of interupting the best-intentioned projects, so that will be delayed. Instead, I had the pleasure of “vinyl therapy” and selected a short stack of 7″ records to include here, spanning at least 30 years; 69 minutes of aural pleasure for your Jukebox Heart. Listen responsibly. Right Click on any image below for a larger version.
This is a continuous, real-time, two-turntable mix, with no blah blah blah from DJ Mad Girl.
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Thomas Leer - All About You (Cherry Red)
Savage Republic - Film Noir (Independent Project Records)
Primitive Romance - The Spirit’s Still There (Ashamed Records)
Tunnel Vision - Morbid Fear (Factory Records)
Contrabanda - Bird, Plane, Ray (Live, Munich July 1994) (Hausmusik records)
The Element Of Crime - Delinquntsquint (Soul Static Sound)
Crawling Chaos - Sex Machine (Factory Records)
Wire - Ex-Lion Tamer (Harvest Records)
Data Bank A - Isolation (1986) (K. O. City Studio records)
E*Vax - Glacier (Audio-Dregs Records)
Eg. Oblique Graph - Black Cloth Behind de Gaulle’s Wax Head (Recloose Organisation)
Tristeza - Macrame (Rocket Racer Records)
Labradford - Julius (Merge Records)
Rothko - Winter in the Oceans (Narwhal recordings)
The Product - I Like The Angles (xXx Records)
Ludus - My Cherry Is In Sherry (New Hormones)
Mag and the Suspects - Erection (London records)
Club Tango - FTN (Dining Out Records)
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Rare | Fragile | Listen... [cross-posted from Jukebox Heart] |
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| Archive: Moonlight Radio June 2005 |
[Sep. 14th, 2007|01:46 am] |
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Moonlight Radio June 2005 | 1:06 | 60.7 MB
This is part of the archival series, and the tracks here are culled from the June 2005 edition of Moonlight Radio. This mix was originally potsed in June, 2005.
Tracklist:
The Golden Palominos - The Ambitions Are
(Dead Inside, Restless Records)
Brooklyn Funk Essentials - The Revolution Was Postponed Because Of Rain
(Dorado Sampler, Planet Earth)
Mark Hollis - Watershed
(self-titled, Polydor UK)
Low - Shame
(Long Division, Vernon Yard)
Soundsmith - Send Out Lights
(History In Our Heads, Enraptured Records)
Somewhere In Europe - Beauty and Blood
(Gestures, NER)
Languis - Countryside
(Unithematic, Simball Sound Recordings)
Werschel Garland - Gift
(Liberation von History, Karaoke Kalk)
Hermeto Paschoal - Gaio Da Roseira
(A Musica Livre De Hermeto Paschoal, Verv)
Lefthand - Accelerator
(On Discovering Fire, Rayman)
Liliput - You
(self-titled, Kill Rock Stars)
That Dog - To Keep Me/Lip Gloss
(Totally Crushed Out, DGC)
If you are not subscribing to Jukebox Heart yet, you should! Until then, you may download this podcast here.
Rare | Fragile | Listen... [cross-posted from Jukebox Heart] |
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| Jukebox Heart 003: Punx Not Dead, Volume 1 |
[Sep. 7th, 2007|03:41 am] |
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Jukebox Heart 003 | 1:01 | 56.8 MB
“Punx Not Dead, Volume 1″
From the classic “angular” guitar driven sound to the introduction of electronics, from the glam and gary-glitteresque to the snarky attitudes and artful pranks to the serious artsy post-punk for post-moderns, Punx Not Dead unearths the best punk rock tracks ever. 2007 marks 30 years of the post-77 style - a boundless creativity for which punk rock cleared the way and which still influences alternative music today.
Playlist:
Elton Motello - Jet Boy Jet Girl
Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
Native Tongue - Speaking in Captions
Scars - Adultery
November Group - The Popular Front
CCCP-TV - Fear That Mindless
The Eleventh Episode - Excuses
John Dowie - Acne/Idiot/Hitler’s Liver
The Monochrome Set - He’s Frank
The Undertones - There Goes Norman
The Atlantics - Lonely Hearts
The Homosexuals - Soft South Africans
Mission of Burma - Trem Two
Tuxedomoon- What Use
The Young Snakes - Don’t Change Your Mind
Wire - Outdoor Miner
If you are not subscribing to Jukebox Heart yet, you should! Until then, you may download this podcast here.
Rare | Fragile | Listen... [cross-posted from Jukebox Heart] |
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| Jukebox Heart 002: Themes, Volume 1 (re) |
[Aug. 30th, 2007|12:45 am] |
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Let’s try this again. Sorry for the broken link yesterday. It is fixed now…
Jukebox Heart 002: Themes, Volume 1
43.6 MB | 47:40
This week’s Jukebox Heart podcast compiles all of the themes I’ve used on the PaulCollegio.net website from the launch date through the present. The themes have always been of a downtempo ambient nature, so the podcast has a swating, kind of subtl groove going on. The track list is below.
1. Project5 - Demo Remix
2, Tyco - Dream as Memory (Hear You Soon)
3. Akufen - Skidoos (My Way)
4. Duet Emmo - Heart of Hearts (Or So It Seems)
5. Sybarite - Invisible Magnetic Missive (7″)
6. Languis - Countryside (Unithematic)
7. Technicolor - Labor (2088)
8. Tournesol - Henka (Kokotsu)
If you are not subscribing to Jukebox Heart yet, you should! Until then, you may download this podcast here.
Rare | Fragile | Listen... [cross-posted from Jukebox Heart] |
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| Archive: Moonlight Radio July 2005 |
[Aug. 25th, 2007|07:52 am] |
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This podcast was origianlly made available with the July 2005 edition of Moonlight Radio.
7% Solution - Revolver (All About Satellites and Spaceships)
Steward - Can’t Force The Hand (Goodbye To Everything You Love)
A. C. Marias - It Seems (Time Was)
Drowning Pool - Uncork The Mind (Satori)
Arco - Into Blue / Flight (Coming to Terms)
All Natural Lemon and Lime Flavors - Your Imagination (Turning Into Small)
Yellow6 - Finally 2 (Music For Pleasure)
Zone - Born of Fire (Born of Fire)
Various Artists: Phoenicia - Scapegoat (Deadpan Escapement: Reconstruction)
Voices of Kwahn - The Enclosure (Peninsular Enclosures)
Bourbonese Qualk - Dragging Us Down (On Uncertainty)
Wisdom of Harry - Woke Up Buzzing (The House Of Binary)
If you are not subscribing to Jukebox Heart yet, you should! Until then, you may download this podcast here.
Originally published at Jukebox Heart. You can comment here or there. |
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