Freestailo #14 - 11/20/11

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Hedwig clearly wants you to listen to WCBN.

Hello Earthlings.

I've been thinking a lot about the decisions that affect taking requests as a DJ. Hopefully you know this, but at WCBN, we take requests all the time. Every time I get a request, my gut feeling is, "I have to make this happen no matter what." First I run around the station frantically trying to find a hard copy of it (CD/Vinyl), but if I can't find it, I then have four options, in this order:

1. My Personal Library
2. Umich Streaming Audio via the Music Library Website
3. Grooveshark
4. Google (I am so, so sorry)

If I can't find it after that, it simply doesn't exist. Here's my moral dilemma though: should I even be considering any of these options (or the last 3 options)? The ultimate goal of the radio station is to give listeners high quality music over the airwaves. Am I betraying them if I play a YouTube clip, even if it was a listener that requested this song? A major problem I come to is this: if a listener requests something, they REALLY want to hear it. They wouldn't tell me to play a song that they didn't absolutely love. I want to give them what they want, and I want to share it with them. When I've had to tell someone that I can't play a request, it's like I told them their dog died. And if I can't please my one listener at 4:30 in the morning, then who am I trying to please?

Tell me what you think about this: would you rather have only high quality recordings, or have requests but at the cost of using a low quality recording? Does it matter to you? Can you tell the difference?

[Artist: Song - Album]

1. Victims Family: New World Hors D'Oeuvre - The Germ
2. M.I.A.: Galang - Arular
3. Anne Hills: Cloudships - Bittersweet Street
4. Ladytron: Destroy Everything You Touch - Witching Hour
5. Bob and Danny Weller: Cranning Call - Tree of Thorns
6. The Dells: Oh, What A Night - The Best of Chess Vocal Groups
7. Yoko Kanno: Go Ri A Te - Macross Plus OST II
8. Coco Montoya: Do What You Want To Do - The Essential Coco Montoya
9. Astor Piazzolla: Tanguedia - Luna
10. Kanda Bongo Man: Liza - Soukous in Central Park
11. Black Taj: L.A. Shift - Beyonder
12. Soupy Sales: Somebody Else Knockin' At My Door - Still Soupy After All These Years
13. Labelle: Sunday's News - Moon Shadow
14. Genoa Keawe: Pupu A'o Niihau - Legends of Falsetto
15. Skinless: Deathwork - From Sacrifice to Survival
16. Maxwell St. Klezmer Band: Hopkele - You Should Be So Lucky!
17. Uriah Heep: Devil's Daughter - Return to Fantasy
18. Eroc: Feuerwolken - Eroc3
19. Carlo Curley Concert Curios: Camille Saint-Saens: Fantasie in E-flat Major - The Allen Digital Computer Organ
20. Evgeny Masloboev and Anastasia Masloboeva: Kvanshnya - Russian Folksongs in the Key of Rhythm
21. Fred Wesley: Herbal Turkey Breast - Amalgamation
22. Bon Iver: Perth - Sparks and Glowsticks
23. Recorded by Alain Weber: Hilal Gesture (in Harmont alBabur) - Music of the Nile Valley
24. (unknown): Steam and Diesel Locomotives - Railroad Sounds
25. Luke Temple: The Owl Song - snowbeast
26. Air: Il Secondo Giorno (Instrumental) - Marie Antoinette Soundtrack
27. Erich Kunzel and Cincinnati Pops Orchestra: Hedwig's Theme from Harry Potter - Epics
28. Quetzalcoatl: La Gallina (Mexico) - Quetzalcoatl
29. The Antlers: Bear - Hospice
30. Värttinä: Vihma - Vihma
31. Randy Grief: Octopus Robot - War of the World, an Emergency Broadcast
32. Louis Prima: Route 66 - YouTube
33. Brave Combo: J'ai Faim, Toujours - Kiss of Fire
34. Jurassic 5: Brown Girl - Feedback
35. Franz Ferdinand: I'm Your Villain - Remixes
36. Embryo: Dreaming Girls - Steig aus
37. Brad Adkins: Imitating Walking + Lying for a Living - Big Red
38. Curve: Zoo - Pubic Fruit
39. Supersprite: Ghost at the Fireworks Factory - Color Mixing
40. Bootsy: The Pinocchio Theory - Ahh...The Name's Bootsy, Baby!

I'm Your Hero

1. Trains!: Like I said on air, I love trains. I love riding them, I love the sound of them, I love the view, the people, the bumpy feeling of the tracks. I think the tracks I layered with the train sound effects were perfect, ESPECIALLY "Hedwig's Theme" from Harry Potter. It's like we're going to Hogwarts!
2. Luke Temple: This was a really nice surprise, because I literally grabbed this CD because the album name was "snowbeast" which reminds me of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for some reason. Also...more owls.
3. Hafiz and Rumi: Thanks to my good friend Katie, you got a beautiful Hafiz poem for your ears to process. This reminded me of Rumi's poetry, which is also lush and beautiful. Layered with the Nile Valley music, I think it came off well.

I'm Your Villain

1. Ladytron Interruption: Right on the inside of the cover there was a sign that said, "Track 2 stops in middle! Bad rip!" But silly me decided to play track 2 anyway. So of course it stopped.
2. Vielle Pause: I feel like I was not on top of the transitions today. Nothing in particular stood out to me, but I felt like it happened a few too many times for my comfort. I swear I will get better at that.
3. Too much rock?: I realized after I came back from the rock section that half my pile of music for the show was rock. I hope I was still able to balance it out, but it still felt a little weird. What do you think?

Tune in next time, and keep giving me feedback! I really appreciate it!

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. >_<

Make sure to leave comments! Feedback, please?

Subshow #5 - 10/13/11

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Hi sleepwalkers.

So I had the brilliant idea to sub for James/Corey on Wednesday night/Thursday morning at 3-6am in the middle of the week. In some ways, it was the worst idea possible because of the total lack of sleep that I've had this entire week. In some ways it was great, because it forced me to go to bed at a reasonable hour.

Orson Welles, y'all.

Anyway, this was a good show guys. I've been listening to it, and I can confirm this. I enjoyed my balance this show, despite using more of the rock section than I intended. That is all beside the point though, because what I really want to talk about is the 'War of the Worlds' broadcast by Orson Welles that I played. I've been wanting to play this for a long time. Ever since I listened to Radiolab's segment about the original broadcast, and about its effect on listeners, and how it has been repeated with success absolutely stunned me. It was the first time that I realized that radio could really have a profound effect on its listeners, and that I also had that power as a DJ. I'm definitely not saying that as a WCBN DJ I can play 'War of the Worlds' and actually make you believe that martians are coming to Ann Arbor--I  have more faith in you than that--but it made me realize that I have the power to make you feel things you might not have known you could feel. Hear things that you didn't know existed. Combine sounds to created complicated emotions. Maybe I'm getting a little gushy, but this is why I love radio.

Something that I tried to do intentionally this time around was to keep long tracks playing without layering them constantly. I definitely layered tracks, and those were very special moments, but I reigned in my musical-ADD to account for how the listener would perceive changes in a set. For me, 4 minutes may seem like a long time, and it may feel that I need to change songs sooner, or layer something so that the listener doesn't get bored...but really it's just ME who is trying not to get bored. I think I need to learn how to relax and let music do its own job.

Here's the list!

[Artist: Song - Album]

1. Adjust: Escape from Detroit - Adjust
2. Angel Villoldo: El Choclo - The Tango Project
3. Illogic featuring Blueprint: Intro+The Only Constant - Celestial Clockwork
4. Catalyst: Athene - The Complete Recordings vol. 2
5. Red Red Meat: Variations on Nadia's Theme - Bunny Gets Paid
6. Caroline: Winter - Caroline
7. Orson Welles: War of the Worlds (original broadcast)
8. Brizbomb: 070510AT05 - Radio Promo
9. Alban Berg Quartett: Mozart: String Quartet KV 516 in g minor - Mozart: String Quartets 3&4
10. Brizbomb: 070304BP01 - Radio Promo
11. Koji Kondo: Majora's Mask Theme - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask OST
12. Billie Holiday: Everything Happens to Me - The Voice of Jazz
13. Prof. Debu Chaudhuri (sitar), Shafaat Ahmed Khan (tabla): Raga Desh: Alap and Jor - Prof. Debu Chaudhuri
14. Animal Collective: The Purple Bottle - feels
15. Old Empire: Queen City - Queen City Quandaries
16. Edd Henry: Your Replacement Is Here - Eccentric Soul 009
17. Errol Garner: Mistry - Sachal Jazz
18. Slayer: Killing Fields - Divine Intervention
19. Ectomorph: Ritmos Siniestro - Dada/Ritmo Siniestro
20. Goethe: Erlkönig - YouTube
21. Pía Leiva: Francisco Guayabal - Soneros de Verdad Presents: Pía Leiva
22. Tokyo Police Club: Graves - Elephant Shell
23. Jørgen Tjønnstaul: Urjen - Dei fyrste åra på radio
24. Cat Power: The Greatest - The Greatest
25. BrandonFX: "Waltz of Pain" Sad Song - Newsgrounds Audio Portal
26. Kronos Quartet: Bach, Monks, and Shakespeare Meet in Water - Ghost Opera
27. Küz: ? - Moist Filth
28. Christopher Willits: milkweed - SMM vol. 2
29. Andrew Bird: 11:11 - Bowls of Fire/The Swimming Hour
30. Soviet Red Army Choir: Soviet National Anthem - Soviet/Chinese Propaganda
31. Asuka Sakai: Fugue #7777 - Katamari Damacy Soundtrack
32. Amanda Palmer: Creep (Hungover at Soundcheck in Berlin) - Amanda Palmer Performs The Popular Hits of Radiohead on Her Magical Ukulele

Sehr gut:

1. War of the Worlds: I used a Mozart quintet that my friend suggested, which was the perfect thing to layer with this. Classical music supplements spoken word so perfectly, and can add a huge depth of emotion, since classical music shifts so constantly, and is complicated emotionally itself.
2. Erlkönig/Ectomorph: This is definitely one of my favorite moments. I love this poem, and I love the Schubert art song, so this was a bit of a blast from the past. The reading went oddly well with the Ectomorph song, and interestingly enough--as if the Universe was sending its regards--the end of the Ectomorph LP started skipping in a pleasant enough place for the Goethe to keep playing out, which allowed me to fade out whenever I wanted. Thanks Universe!
3. Soviet National Anthem: GREAT FIND! I can't wait to play more of these. I love the sound of this, and I love that it's called "Soviet/Chinese Propaganda," because it reminds me that propaganda comes in all forms, not just visual as we are so used to.

Nicht so gut:

1. Choosing Amanda Palmer right before 6am: Yeaaaaaaah, so I'm not supposed to play swear words in songs after 6am. I didn't realize how close I cut it until I played the Amanda Palmer. That is her vocabulary. Not a huge deal, but something I need to be more conscious of when I play something from my personal library.
2. Majora's Theme: I can't decide whether this was good or bad, so I'm going with bad. This was a bit of a weak moment, because I wanted to fill in some space after the Mozart finished, but before I started the Billie Holiday. I thought this would go well with the theme of the broadcast, but I think it created a weak patch of thoughtlessness on my part.
3. Pauses: There were a few awkward pauses, but not a big deal. The beginning one was the longest because I forgot to pay attention to how long the legal ID was.

Partake and enjoy!

Freestailo #6 - 9/10/11

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Dearly loved listeners, welcome! This week was an interesting show for these reasons:

1. It was not my normal time! Instead of 3-6am, I got to DJ from 9pm-12am, which was a very nice change for both my creativity and for my sleep schedule.
2. I had a guest! Although she was silent, my sister's good friend Mariel came to check out the radio station and listen to my DJ, since she happens to work for NPR. It was great to have some insight from her about the kind of job that she does, and how me DJing at WCBN both applies directly and is very different from the kind of work that she does and that NPR does. I also got to pick her brain about the kinds of satisfaction she gets doing radio, and how I might be able to achieve that DJing at WCBN. Recently I've been thinking a lot about doing a radio internship, and she gave me some tips on how I can achieve that as well. It was absolutely enlightening, and I'm so thankful that Mariel was so honest and willing to help me. 
3. Everything seemed to go wrong! No joke, every possible thing that could happen to me did: I couldn't find the program that plays the promos/PSAs, my entrance was a little weird, I didn't prepare as much music as usual, phones going off while I read poetry, etc. The list goes on. 
4. I read a lot of Rainer Maria Rilke poems today, both in English and in German. This was especially exciting for me, because I love speaking in German, even though I'm not fluent. It's a beautiful language, and Rilke is a genius. I also read an Erika Meitner poem, whom I've gotten to like the more I read. 

The poems that I read:

• Rainer Maria Rilke (from Ahead of All Parting)
• The Magician (Der Magier)
• Sonnets to Orpheus XXIX
• Sonnets to Orpheus XXII
• Erika Meiner (from Ideal Citites)
• January

[Album: Song - Album]

  1. Pinetop Perkins: Got My Mojo Workin' - After Hours
  2. Original Chorus of the Cossacks of the Volga: Nights of Moscow - Cossacks of the Volga
  3. Ella Fitzgerald: How High The Moon - Ella In Berlin
  4. Tarantella: Mexican Wine - Esqueletos
  5. Celestial Navigations: Arrangar V - Chapter V The Connection
  6. Ane Brun: Armour - Changing of the Seasons
  7. Sexmob: Come Sunday - Din of Inequity
  8. Leonard Bernstein: Prokofiev: Symphony no. 5 - Symphony no. 5
  9. Igor Stravinsky: The Clock That Went Backwards - The Clock That Went Backwards
  10. Ticklah: Pain of Loving You - Polydemic
  11. The Papercuts: Summer Long - Can't Go Back
  12. Whales: Whale Sounds - Deep Voices
  13. Tony Bennet: Indian Summer - Perfectly Frank
  14. Kid Koala: Slew test 3B etc. - Your Mom's Favorite DJ
  15. JP Ghosh: MRIDANGAM - Rhythm on Indian Drums
  16. Ike and Tina Turner: It's All Gonna Work Out Fine - Ike and TIna Turner Revue
  17. Maxime Le Forestier: Frisson d'avril - Maxime Le Forestier
  18. Hiromi: Keytalk - Brain
  19. Shigeto: Brown Eyed Girl, French Kiss Power Up, Ann Arbor pt. 2, Children at Midnight - Full Circle
  20. Ella Fitzgerald: Sophisticated Lady - Duke Ellington Songbook
  21. Ken Nordine: The Whistler - Best of Word Jazz
  22. Glenn Gould: Best of Glenn Gould's Bach - Best of Glenn Gould's Bach
  23. Bubby Krane: Stompin' at the Savoy - Teen Age Dance Party
  24. Glen Gould: (more of above)
  25. Phon.O: The Weird Soap - Mokkastübchen EP
  26. Kickball: Polarbears - Everything is a miracle nothing is a miracle everything is
  27. Happy: Thoughts from the grey - Kiss. Bang
  28. Sathima Bea Benjamin: Winnie Mandela-Beloved Heroine - Lovelight
  29. John Legend and The Roots: Wholy Holy - Wake Up!
  30. New York Pro Musica and Noah Greenberg: The Play of Daniel - The Play of Daniel
  31. Myra Melford: Some Kind of Blues - Alive in the House of Saints
  32. Jan DeGaitani: Pierrot Lunaire op. 21 - Schönberg: Pierrot Lunaire op. 21
  33. Owusu and Hannibal: Lonnie's Secret - Living With...
  34. Fred Hersch Quintet: Cat's Paws - Point in Time
  35. Zeti Müren: asf

Thing I would like to repeat perhaps:

1. Whistling+Bach: This was probably the most appropriate and smoothly integrated layering that I have ever done. I did not know that the spoken track would reference Bach, and I had only by coincidence grabbed a Bach piano CD.
2. Phon.O: All of this album was really great for many reasons. It was great for layering, it was great to just listen to, it had interesting sounds...everything. This was a gem. 
3. Shigeto+German poetry: Mmmm, I just really love Shigeto, and I'm glad I had it to layer under the Rainer Maria Rilke poems I was reading. 

Things I would never want to repeat:

1. Losing the promos/PSAs: I have no idea why those weren't already opened, and I don't know why I couldn't open any of the files to view them normally, but I think I need to figure that out for future reference. 
2. Layering Two Classical Pieces: I really did not mean to layer Prokofiev and Stravinsky together...and just writing this I realized that I not only layed two classical pieces, but two RUSSIAN classical pieces. I need to be more careful.
3. Skipping LPs: There was probably a 3-5 minute period where the Phon.O album was skipping. Luckily, the music is such that it sounded normal for awhile, but it took waaaaay longer than it should have for me to realize what was happening. 

Keep listening guys, and feel free to leave comments/suggestions/criticisms/whatever for me. I would love some feedback. 

Freestailo #5 - 9/4/11 - The Lost Show

Greetings to all of you who have gathered here today.

Rooftop view of Perigueux, FR

I have some bad news guys. A lot of you might already know this, but this particular show will not be available for download because of extenuating circumstances. There was a storm the night of my show--a show which I had been planning for a few weeks in my mind--and the power went out at WCBN. Luckily, it came back on by the time that I came to DJ, and I performed one of my best sets yet...but unfortunately when I went back to download and edit the files, they were no where to be found on the archive server. A major chunk of time was missing from the database, which included this show.

Let me sum up this show's vision for you: this entire show was planned as a tribute to the friends and musicians that I met in France while I was living there for 1.5 months. There were a lot of inside jokes, a lot of French music, and a lot of the music that we had worked on ourselves there from 'La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein'. Another important point to make is that throughout almost the entire show I was layering field recordings that I had made while I was in France. I recorded almost 15 tracks, and I think used nearly 11 of them at some point or another. There were too many special moments during this set to count, and I thought my heart was going to burst.

[Artist: Song - Album]

1. Michel Legrand: 1ere Gymnopedie - Erik Satie
2. Ella Fitzgerald: April in Paris - Ella and Oscar
3. Dakha Brakha: Nad Dunaem - Na Mezhi
4. Dolly Parton: 9 to 5 - YouTube
5. Serge Gainsbourg: Aéroplanes - Love and the Beat 2
6. General Elektriks: La Carousel Cosmique - Cliquety Kliqk
7. Edith Piaf: La Vie en Rose - The Best of Edith Piaf
8. Dakha Brakha: Vals - Na Mezhi
9. Girl Talk: Bodies Hit the Floor - Unstoppable
10. Offenbach: Couplets du sabre - La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein
11. Ella Fitzgerald: Dream A Little Dream Of Me - Ella and Basie! On the Sunny Side of the Street
12. La Haine: Sacrifice du Poulets - La Haine
13. Yann Tiersen: Comptine d'un Autre Été: L'aprés midi - Amelie
14. The Budos Band: Monkey See, Monkey Do - The Budos Band
15. Wizard of Oz: Over the Rainbow - Wizard of Oz
16. Serge Gainsbourg: L'abominable strip-tease - Je t'aime moi non plus
17. Edith Piaf: Bravo pour le clown! - The Best of Edith Piaf
18. Yann Tiersen: La Valse des Monstres - Amelie
19. Marilyn Horne: O ma lyre immortelle - Gounod: Sapho
20. Animal Crossing: 3AM - Animal Crossing GC
21. Joyce di Donato: Faites-lui mes aveux - Gounod: Faust
22. Offenbach: Ah! Que j'aime militaires - La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein
23. Daft Punk: Revolution 909 - Homework
24. Offenbach: A cheval! - La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein
25. Choir of New College, Oxford: Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine - Agnus Dei
26. Feist: Tout Doucement - Let It Die
27. Karl Richter: Brandenberg Concerto No. 5 - Bach: 6 Brandenburgische Konzerte
28. Lost in the Trees: Time Taunts Me - Time Taunts Me
29. Erik Satie: 3eme Gymnopedie - Erik Satie
30. My Dear Disco/That1Guy: Mustaches Remix - The Remixes
31. Frederic Paris: various - Rue de l'oiseau
32. Moliere: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
33. Dakha Brakha: Oi Za Lisochkom - Na Mezhi
34. Amanda Palmer: Exit Music For a Film - Amanda Palmer and Her Magical Ukulele

I normally critique myself and cite the good and bad things that happened to me during the show, but I honestly can't remember a bad moment in the show, and I don't have a record of it to check anyway, so I'll let you listen to it without any criticism on my own behalf.

P.S. Oh, and my FAVA-mily? COTFA. Right here.

Freestailo #3 - June 19th

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Dear beautiful people,

I haven't slept much, and I've had a bit of a stressful week, but after my radio show I feel so much better. One moment in particular really kept me going.

During this show I got a call right after I read the Rainer Maria Rilke poetry, and he said that he just wanted to thank ME for reading such beautiful and romantic poetry. I though my heart was going to leap out of my chest. I've never felt so happy. To have a moment like that with a stranger doesn't happen often, and I feel so lucky. Not only that, but he called again later after I read the Adrienne Rich poetry, and thanked me for such a passionate performance. Once again, I thought my heart had stopped. So thank you, Mr. Caller, and thank you to everyone who listens to my show. You really have no idea how much it means to know that people I love and care about take the time to listen, as well as people I don't know at all. So thank you, listeners. Please keep listening, and give me feedback whenever possible, because that's what makes me the happiest, is knowing that you have something to say about what I play.

I read some poetry on the show today, so here's a playlist for the poetry:
Rainer Maria Rilke: For Hans Carossa, The Sonnets to Orpheus pt. 1 XI and pt. 2 I (from "Ahead of All Parting: Selected Poetry and Prose")
Adrienne Rich: Diving into the Wreck, For the Dead
Daphne Gottlieb: What mama bear said (from "Why Things Burn")

Anyway, I think the set list for today is pretty aweosme, and I actually had a WHOLE LOT more music I wanted to play, but realized that I ran out of time pretty quickly after playing a one-act opera.


[Artist: Song - Album]

  1. Cliff Edwards: Heigh-Ho - Disney's Happiest Songs
  2. Eels: Packing Blankets - Daisies of the Galaxy
  3. Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore: Dear Companion - Dear Companion
  4. Electric Masada: Yatzar - Electric Masada
  5. de Madagame Bolduc: Fetons le Mardi Gras - Les 100 ans
  6. Goldfrapp: Ooh La La - Tiefschwarz Remix - Ooh La La
  7. Cliff Edwards: When You Wish Upon A Star - Disney's Happiest Songs
  8. Joan Baez: Silver Dagger - Troubadours of the Folk Era
  9. Ming Principle: Movement - Dutch World 2005
  10. Die Toten Hosen: Liebesspieler (High-noon Mix) - Auf Dem Kreuzzuf Ins Glück
  11. Benny Goodman: Rocky Raccoon - Live at Carnegie Hall
  12. Saul Williams: Twice First Time - Eargasms
  13. Balkan Beat Box: Adir Adirim feat. Victoria Hanna - Balkan Beat Box
  14. Tatsu Aoki: Cape of Needles - Jarman
  15. Menotti: The Telephone - The Medium and the Telephone
  16. The Kyoto Nohgaku Kai: Hagoromo - Japanese Noh Music
  17. Hot Club of Cowtown: Tchavolo Swing - Dev'lish Mary
  18. Damned: Neverland - Grave Disorder
  19. Leonard Berstein, New York Philharmonic: Mars the Bringer of War - Holst: The Planets
  20. Ella Fitzgerald: Prelude to a Kiss - Duke Ellington Songbook
  21. Kid Koala: Slew Test 2/Mosquito vs. Water Buffalo/Slew Test 3 - Your Mom's Favorite DJ
  22. The Nels Cline Singers: Lucia - Instrumentals
  23. Ladytron: Destroy Everything You Touch - Witching Hour
  24. Baaba Mal: African Woman - African Woman
  25. Les Innocents: Cent Metres Au Paradis - Cent Metres Au Paradis
  26. The Reno Brothers: Time Changes Everything - Swing West
  27. Kitaro: Orochi - Selections from "Kojiki"
  28. Nat King Cole: Ramblin' Rose - Ramblin' Rose
  29. Canines: Canine Heart Sounds - Canine Heart Sounds
  30. Sick Bees: People are Nots of Wood - My Pleasure
  31. Don Tiki: Polyamoré - The Forbidden Sounds of Don Tiki
  32. Prurient: Apple Tree Victim - Pleasure Ground
  33. Birds: Birdsongs of Africa - Heartbeat of Africa
  34. Jackie Wilson: I Just Can't Help It - Jackie Wilson Story
  35. Jean-Michel Bernard: Golden the Pony Boy - The Science of Sleep Soundtrack
  36. Charlie Musselwhite: Pistol in Your Face - The Harmonica According to Charlie Musselwhite


Wow stuff: 

1.  The Planets and Ella Fitzgerald layering: I actually meant to read poetry over the Holst, but it was too intense, which worked out well. I don't think I could have planned a better juxtaposition of sounds and feelings than with these two pieces. Love and War mingling together. 
2. African Birdsongs: That was just a good idea to play that. Haha. It went VERY well with the Jackie Wilson track, even rhythmically and tempo wise.
3. Rocky Raccoon: I can't believe I found that track by Benny Goodman! That was a nice find.

Meh stuff:

1. Disney song miss-cue: Playing "Heigh-Ho" when I meant to play "When You Wish Upon A Star" right at the beginning.
2. Daphne Gottlieb poem: When I read the Daphne Gottlieb poem, I meant the transition into the songs more delicately, and I didn't know that there was going to be an announcer for the titles of the Canine heart sounds. It just felt a little sloppy.

Once again, let me know if you have ideas/suggestions/criticisms/hate mail for me!