Freestailo #13 - 11/13/11

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Guys. I just realized that my 13th Freestailo happened on the 11/13. THIRTEENS! AND 11 and 13 are both prime numbers. How cool is that?!

See?! 11 and 13!

This show was pretty fun, mostly because I felt like there was a little less pressure to have a great show because I subbed Kirsten's show on the Thursday before. I did a lot less layering, and I played mostly straight tracks, but I thought a lot about how I wanted to order things. I picked a pretty big stack of CDs, and used almost all of it, while gradually adding LPs and more CDs throughout the night for variety. It was a good challenge for myself to keep the level of variety (and aesthetic) that I usually have for my show in that way. Verstehst du mich? Das its nicht so klar.

I often will read poetry on my show, but instead of taking up large chunks of time to read and maybe explain the poetry, I decided to just read it. How did you feel about that? Did you like that more than me talking about it more? I would really like to know. Also, here's a list of the poetry I read:

• "Sonnet: To Eva" by Sylvia Plath
• "Sonnet V: If I should learn" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• "Sonnet #5" by William Shakespeare

Auch, ich habe eine Frage für meine Deutsche Leute: wer ist dein Lieblingsdichter, oder dein Lieblingsgedicht? Ich möchte etwas gute Gedichte lesen kommende Woche.

[Artist: Song - Album]

1. Divine Styler: Grey Matter (Cosmos Mix) - Grey Mater
2. Hiromi: Music for 3-Piece Orchestra: Déjà vu - Spiral
3. Yamantaka: Reverse Crystal // Murder of a Spider - Sonic Titan
4. Dan Deacon: my own face is F word - Meetle Mice
5. Bio Ritmo: La hamaca - Bio Ritmo
6. Bootsy: Fat Cat - Ultra Wave
7. Sarasota: Tethered - Things Alive
8. Hill of Beans: Satan, Lend Me A Dollar - Hill of Beans
9. Boris Grebenshikov: Gertruda - Russian Songwriter
10. Field recorder August Schmidhofer: Revoro - Madagascar: Music in Tromba and Bilo Trance Rituals
11. Yoko Kanno: Fatal - Vision of Escaflowne OST 3
12. Celestial Navigations: Janitor III: The Vacation - Chapter V
13. xeno & oaklander: Blue Flower - Vigils
14. Groove and the Gang: Soul Conga - Mr. Boogaloo
15. All Out Water: Two Thousand Years - Condemned to Suffer
16. Deepspace5: Wingspan - Unique, Just LIke Everyone Else
17. Chirgilchin: Kara Drya (Black Crane) - The Wolf & The Kid
18. The Rembrandts: I'll Be There For You - Friend's Theme
19. Vector: Dreams and Realization - Synthonic
20. Sarasota: I Fled To The Midwest - I'm Not My Bad Habits
21. Sarasate: Habanera (Heifetz) - Sarasate
22. Al Mayadine Quartet: 1st Movement - Jadal (Oud Duo)
23. Sierra's Leone's Refugee All Stars: Soda Soap - Living Like A Refugee
24. Kraftwerk: Spacelab - The Man Machine
25. Urbie Green: Manteca - The Fox
26. Mashkoor Ali Khan: Raga Lalit: Vilambit bandish in jhumra tal - Mashkoor Ali Khan
27. The Christal Methodists: Backwards Masking/Dick Smarmey - New World Order
28. Zara: Anadolu - Avuntu
29. Luis Bonfá: Manhã de Carnaval - Solo in Rio 1959
30. IAM: Bouger La Tête - L'ecole du Micro D'argent
31. Prince Charles and the City Beat Band: Jungle Stomp (Extended Version) - Cash (Cash Money)
32. Menthols: Fire Fire Fire - Michigan Works
33. Mia Boyle: I Am A Diver - I Am A Diver
34. Paul Stookey: Get Together - One Night Stand
35. Lester Bowie's New York Organ Ensemble: Funky T - Funky T. Cool T.

Good T.

1. Transition of moods: The transition between Deepspace5 and Chirgilchin was oddly appropriate, since Deepspace5 had a small amount of Tuvan throat singing in the background. That was not planned, except for the face that I linked their covers for a visual transition for myself. The same thing happened with Hill of Beans to Boris Grebenshikov, and from that to the Madagascar recording.
2. I found the Urbie Green album!: I tried to find it for the show on Thursday but failed, because all I could remember was that it had the word "Fox" in the title, which gives me nothing essentially. If we had an online database maybe it would have been easier, but I think I really liked having to hunt for it. It's like winning an eBay auction. 
3. Escaflowne OSTs: Soooo apparently we have like 4 Vision of Escaflowne soundtracks in the soundtrack section. This means 4 CDs of mostly Yoko Kanno. I think I literally screamed when I found it. Also, the particular Yoko Kanno track I played was, like, ecstasy. It also reminded me of Kill Bill. Hahaha. 

Bad T.

1. Messing up Kim's requests: Yeah so my friend Kim requested Sarasate near the middle of the first hour, and I ended up playing Sarasota because I thought that's what he meant. Turns out, he really did mean Sarasate. Good rule to live by: just go with what your requester says and don't question, otherwise you'll look like an ass. 
2. Big pause in first hour: For some reason I couldn't get the promo to play right away, so there was a big pause. C'est la vie. 
3. Transition from Yoko Kanno to Celestial Navigations: I love these two tracks. I just don't love them together. The Yoko Kanno track was so beautiful, and I don't know what I was thinking picking a track like "Janitor III" to go after. It sounds fine, and I'm sure people will like it, but I wanted something more...subtle. Oddly enough though, the track reminds me of the 3 old guys in Cowboy Bebop, whose soundtrack was incidentally done by Yoko Kanno. So maybe this was actually perfect. >_<

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