THE ISSUES W/ UPLOADING THE 2nd HOUR WERE RESOLVED!

After a one month absence in the wilderness your host Ricardo Wang returns to the Freeform Portland studio with a set ranging from blistering to meditative (often at the same time).

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PLAYLIST: Artist – “Song/Piece/Track” – Album

City of Prague Philhamonic – “Vertigo” – A History of Hitchcock: Dial M for Murder;

Mind Beams – “Trenchfoot” – Crone;

supersilent – “C-4.1” – Wiretapper 9;

Small Drone Orchestra – “Whipsnapper” – Feel the Frequency 2015 Norcal Noisefest Audio Compilation Document;

Marcus Price – “Live on Mixlr (edit)” Live on Mixlr;

Abdellah M. Hassak – “7 Heavens” – Sound Mapping Package;

Arthur Russell “You Have Did the Right Thing When You Put That Skylight In” – Elevator Music;

Crystal Cortez – “Unearthing” – YouTube;

The Silverman – “Always Is Now” – Time on Thin Ice;

Tarsier Eyes – Track 1 – May 2019;

Heldon – “In Wake of King Fripp” – Allez Teia;

Eno & Fripp – “Test Loop I” – Live In Paris 28.05.1975;

Hans Castrup – “Uncertain Memory” – Shadowplay;

Laurie Anderson – “From the Air” – Big Science;

Acre – “Second Attention” – oms-b023′;

CJ Boyd – “Sink or Swim” – Kin Ships;

The Library of Babel – “Branching” – blue nineteen;

Four Dimensional Nightmare – “Live with Ricardo Wang 2013 (edit)” – Oregon

Hear two hours of your host joined by longstanding WTC sub and Guitar Shop hostess DJ Victrola talking about the wonder that is Freeform Portland surrounded by the music that makes it so!

HEAR THE FIRST HOUR:

HEAR THE SECOND HOUR:

PLAYLIST:

• Ryan A. Ray “I Want Some Too” [Single]
• Hawkwind “Silver Machine (Live)” [Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin]
• Sepultura “Ratamahatta” [Roots]
• Rebecca Moore “Fantasy” [Home Wreckording 1997-1999]
• Chrome “Future Ghosts” [Third From The Sun]
• Ashtoreth “Elemental I” [Drone Islands Land Raising]
• Sonic Youth “I Love You Golden Blue” [Sonic Nurse]
• Opal “Soul Giver” [Happy Nightmare Baby]
• Lou Reed “How Do You Think It Feels” [Berlin]
• Sonologyst “Indostan” [Drone Islands – Land Rising]
• Shalloboi “Burning Star” [Blue-Eyed]
• Nadja “Quiuhtonatiuh” [Under the Jaguar Sun]
• Thurston Moore “European Son” [The End Of Music (As We Know It) ]
• Nice Nice “Yesss!” [Yesss!]
• Ryan A. Ray “I Want Some Too” [Single]

Hear the 1st Hour HERE!: 

Hear the 2nd Hour HERE!: 

PLAYLIST:

• Jandek “Alone on That Mountain” [I Woke Up]
• Urthquake “The Beast” [Discograph: 15 Years of Fury]
• Sun City Girls “Wingspan Eclipse the Moon” [Piasa… Devourer of Men]
• Elise Baldwin “Heliograph” [women take back the nosie 3]
• Paintings for Animals “The Staircase” [Taosian Cellar]
• Hertta Lusso Assa “Nosrun Sylan” [women take back the nosie 3]
• BCO Women’s Auxiliary “Big City Stomp” [women take back the nosie 3]
• Tres Gone “What’s This Called Live (edit)” [WTC Archive]
• Chrome “Heartbeat” [3rd From The Sun (Bonus Tracks)]
• Ornette Coleman “Focus on Sanity” [The Shape Of Jazz To Come]
• Santiago Latorre “Solo” [25]
• Tiptons Sax Quartet “Sheltering Storm” [Strange Flower]
• Congress-Woman Malinda Jackson Parker “Cousin Mosquito #1” [Songs in the Key of Z, Vol. 1: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music]
• Prince Charming “Spider Monkey Snuff Flicks Of Black Magic Projectionists” [Psychotropical Heatwave]
• Negativland “I Am God” [Free]
• Frank Comstock “Out of Space” [Music from Outer Space]
• Autechre “Doctrine” [Incunabula]
• Atilio Mingo “Welcome to Tomorrow” [Brain in a Box]
• D.J. Riko “Whistler’s Delight” [Whistledelia]
• Sonic Youth “Cotton Crown” [Sister]

Legendary Percussive-electronic-prepared guitar Portland duo Office Products and Salem OR’s secret plunderphonic atmospheric weapon Mini-Mutations each performed live in the Freeform Portland studio before their early evening performances for Record Store Day at Speck’s Records and Tapes in Kenton! Global experimental sounds and a long stretch from the Faust Tapes surround them,

HEAR the 1st Hour HERE:

HEAR the 2nd Hour HERE:

Playlist: 

• Owls Are Not “Broadcast from Nowhere” [Radio Tree]
• Faust “Tracks 1-5” [The Faust Tapes]
• Green Milk from the Planet Orange “Butterfly” [He’s Crying “Look”]
• Mini-Mutations “Live on What’s This Called?” [Freeform Portland]
• Nur “Mediterranean” [Sound Mapping Package]
• Tonga Boys “Buranda” [Vindodo]
• Harry Nilsson “Down” [Nilsson Schmilsson]
• Thomas (Tad) Andrew Doyle “Outside of Reality” [Experiments of the Specral Order Vol. 1]
• Office Products “Live on What’s This Called?” [Freeform Portland]
• Senyawa “Gerhana” [Acaraki]
• Lee Hazlewood “Won’t You Tell Your Dreams” [Requiem for an Almost Lady]
• Black Sabbath “Into the Void – Remastered Version” [Master of Reality (Remastered Edition)]
• The Entropics “Total Communication” [Spagga]

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]