An eagle flew over Freeform as we entered the station, and we started with a tribute to Scott Walker. But then a Cyokha Grace song died in the player and later John Cage reading Finnegan’s Wake looped itself and stole the show.  We ended with more tribute to Scott.

Hear the 1st Hour HERE:

Hear the 2nd Hour HERE:

Playlist:

• Scott Walker “Fetish” [Soused]
• Varese Sarabande “The Dating Game Theme” [TV Game Show Themes]
• Sun Ra “Priest” [Somewhere Else]
• Cyoakha Grace O’Manion “And If I Fall” [Unknown Music from Dream Quest of Kadath]
• Zilmrah “0003” [Hippocampus Obscura]
• CloudWatchers “Piece 1” [CloudWatchers]
• John Cage “Writing for the Second Time Through Finnegans Wake, Pt. 4” [Cage: Roaratorio]
• Chester Hawkins “No Body” [apostasy suite]
• Two or The Dragon “Prelude for the Triumphant Man” [Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese Music]
• Ben LaMar Gay “Oh no…not again!” [Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun]
• Mecca Normal “Armchairs Fit Through Doorways – Live” [Brave New Waves Session]
• Paper Dollhouse “Glass Tower” [Empty Rave]
• Stress Distress “The Jetty” [Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese Music]
• Bastard Squid Implant “Burning House Collapsing” [District of Noise Vol. 3]
• Replikants “Centuries of Presecution Won’t Stop Us” [This Is Our Message]
• Dan West “Hear It (Creeping Down the Alley)” [d’Animal l’Ogic]
• Hans Castrup “Re-Finition of Formal Construction (feat. Carla Worgull)” [Heterogeneous Cell Information]
• Rev Magnetic “Sunny Windy Winter Morning (Rainbows Spanning the Valley)” [Versus Universe]
• Scott Walker “If You Go Away” [Scott 3]

Two entire separate two hour shows make up this week’s streaming and/or downloading offerings! First there’s the bi-weekly edition of What’s This Called? at Freeform Portland, and it’s an episode chock full of 90% brand new experimental musics! Then later that day Ricardo Wang returned to the Freeform studio to lay down What’s This Country? substituting for the High Steppers in Sin City program. Tune in and feel free to cry in your beer.

1st Hour of What’s This Called? HERE:

2nd Hour of What’s This Called? HERE: 

1st Hour of What’s This Country? HERE:

2nd Hour of What’s This Country?

PLAYLISTS:

• Tycho “Epoch” [Epoch]
• Thollem/Honda/Ortman/Lurie/Momin/Hohl “Sunshine Pipeline” [Optimistic Realism]
• Pas Musique “The Phoenix” [The Phoenix]
• Good Moon Deer “Aloner” [Untitled]
• Trigger Cut “Pony Pony” [BUSTER]
• Li Yilei “0:00” [0:00]
• David Torn “Spartan, Before It Hit” [Sun Of Goldfinger]
• Tonga Boys “Vindodo” [Vindodo]
• Owls Are Not “Radio Tree” [Radio Tree]
• Aidan Baker & N “230326 Wuppertal (Wiretapper edit)” [Wiretapper 49]
• Sílení “Malformed Creation” [Long-Forgotten Bowers (Eighth Tower Records)]
• Prefuse 73 “Choking You” [One Word Extinguisher]
• Kinski “A Nap is a Slice of the World” [Accustomed to Your Face]
• Karriss Adarriss Duo “Bulbous Offshoot” [Nothing Stays Buried (la la la la)]
• Malikat Dan Singa “Jathilan Madhu” [Honey and Poison]
• Mess Noir “Fdbck Trpsm #4” [Mess Noir]
• Thee Oh Sees “Ticklish Warrior” [A Weird Exits]
• Nostromo “Sundered” [Segment the Sky]

What’s This Country?:

• Sandman “Roll Out Cowboy” [Roll Out Cowboy]
• Dolly Parton “Coat of Many Colors” [Coat Of Many Colors]
• Neil Diamond “The Pot Smoker’s Song” [Velvet Gloves And Spit]
• Marty Robbins “The Hanging Tree” [Gunfighter Ballads And Trail Songs]
• Alex Chilton “Free Again – Version 1” [Bach’s Bottom]
• Burl Ives “Ghost Riders in the Sky” [Ghost Riders in the Sky]
• Violent Femmes “Country Death Song” [Hallowed Ground]
• Bobby Gentry “Ode to Billie Joe” [Ode to Billie Joe]
• Jandek “Land of God” [Chicago Wednesday]
• Johnny Cash “Sunday Morning Coming Down” [Folsom Prison Blues]
• Patsy Cline “The Wayward Wind” [Showcase]
• Kenny Rogers & The First Edition “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Is In)” [All Time Greatest Hits, Vol. 1]
• The Flying Burrito Brothers “Sin City” [The Gilded Palace Of Sin]
• Tanya Tucker “Delta Dawn” [Delta Dawn]
• Will Oldham “Ode #1” [Ode Music]
• Ernest Tubb “Drivin’ Nails In My Coffin” [20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Ernest Tubb]
• Willie Nelson “Moonlight In Vermont” [Stardust]
• Les Paul & Mary Ford “Live Medley” [The Colgate Comedy Hour]
• Hank Williams “Move It On Over” [The Complete Hank Williams]
• Roedelius/Bonerz/Way/Bickley/Marlyn/Capanni “American Steamboat” [American Steamboat]
• Sanford Clark “It’s Nothing to Me” [Vinyl Wastelands]
• Gram Pasons & the Fallen Angels “Drugstore Truck Driving Man” [The Gram Parsons Anthology]
• Eddie Noack “Psycho” [Psycho – The K-Ark and Allstar Recordings 1962-1969]
• Crystal Gayle “Talking in Your Sleep (Live)” [An Evening With Crystal Gayle (Live)]
• Harry Nilsson “Everybody’s Talkin’ – From “Midnight Cowboy”” [Everybody’s Talkin’: The Very Best of Harry Nilsson]
• Loretta Lynn “Coal Miner’s Daughter” [20 #1’s: Classic Country]
• Tex Ritter “Hillbilly Heaven” [High Noon]

Tock of Castles in the Air was ill and so What’s This Called? covered.

Hear the First Hour Here: 

Hear the Second Hour Here:

PLAYLIST:

• • Ute Lemper – Nick Cave’s “Little Water Song” [Punishing Kiss]
  • Sonic Youth “Antenna” [The Eternal]
  • The Beach Boys “Hang On To Your Ego” [Pet Sounds (Original Mono & Stereo Mix Versions)]
  • Spacemen 3 “An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music (edit)” [Dreamweapon (An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music)]
  • Amy Denio, Tutto Bene “Funeral Music” [Canzoni sulla Fisa]
  • Volcano the Bear “The Three Twins” [Amidst the Noise and Twigs]
  • Cocteau Twins “Sunburst and Snowblind” [Lullabies To Violaine]
  • The Byrds “Captain Soul” [Fifth Dimension]
  • Angus MacLise, Tony Conrad, John Cale “Two Speed Trance” [The Cloud Doctrine]
  • His Name Is Alive “Man On the Silver Mountain” [Always Stay Sweet]
  • Nadja “Sand Like Skin” [Belles Betes]
  • Midday Veil “Eyes All Around” [Eyes All Around]
  • Orbit Service “Dark Orange Sunset” [Twilight]
  • The Giant Worm “In the Mountains” [Murky Depths]
  • Ffej “The Disconnect” [Signal Gone Astray]
  • Long Hind Legs “I Am A Intellectual” [Feb 4th – 14th 1998]
  • Ramsey Lewis “Wade In The Water” [Wade In The Water]
  • EarthMonkey “Be That Charge Agin” [Be That Charge]
  • The Easybeats “Friday On My Mind” [Easy]

March 1, 2008 my oldest son Lennon was born. He first came to the sub-basement studio at KPSU as an infant and read his first legal ID on the air at 4 years old. Now, 7 years later, he got to celebrate his new tweeness at a new station and be this week’s lead dj for What’s This Called? He rocked it.

HEAR THE FIRST HOUR HERE:

HEAR THE SECOND HOUR HERE:

PLAYLIST: (Note due to traffic issues, Lennon got in to do the ID ahead of me! So the first song and a half are actually overtime from the excellent Music of Folk show).

• Cheap Trick “Heaven Tonight” [Heaven Tonight]
• David Bowie “I Can’t Give Everything Away” [Blackstar]
• Nirvana “Son Of A Gun – BBC John Peel Session 1990” [Incesticide]
• Joan Jett & The Blackhearts “Different” [Unvarnished (Expanded Edition)]
• Judas Priest “Riding on the Wind” [Screaming For Vengeance]
• Melvins “In Every Dream Home a Heartache” [Everybody Loves Sausages]
• Radiohead “Fake Plastic Trees” [The Bends]
• The Beatles “Doctor Robert – Remastered 2009” [Revolver (Remastered)]
• The Beatles “Nowhere Man – Remastered 2009” [Rubber Soul (Remastered)]
• SÍLENÍ “Malformed Creation” [Long Forgotten Bowers]
• M.I.A. “Bamboo Banga” [Kala]
• The Pink Fairies “Do It! (1970 Demo)” [Fuzz Freakout 1970-1971]
• Brian Eno “St Elmo’s Fire – 2004 Digital Remaster” [Another Green World]
• (J. Krishnamurti) “In_o” [Anthology of contemporary music from African continent]
• Gary Numan “Me, I Disconnect From You (Live)” [The Pleasure Principle]
• Cheap Trick “Auf Wiedersehen” [Heaven Tonight]
• Nirvana “School – Remastered” [Bleach: Deluxe Edition]
• Jimi Hendrix “Fire” [Are You Experienced]
• Echo & the Bunnymen “Villiers Terrace” [The Peel Session]
• Sonic Youth “Paper Cup Exit” [Sonic Nurse]
• Maryanne Amacher “Sound Characters” [The Throne Of Drones]
• Lou Reed “Lisa Says” [Lou Reed]
• David Bowie “”Heroes” – 2017 Remastered Version” [“Heroes” (2017 Remastered Version)]