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Busy Doing Nothing : 9 July 2009

(Shakin' that thing: Reverend Gary Davis and friend)

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

9 July 2009 | The shakes

Download the show: BusyDoingNothing_090709

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Space Ghost - cold open
Mae West - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Great Balls of Fire (MGM)
The Miracles - Whole Lot of Shakin' in My Heart (Since I Met You) - 35th Anniversary Collection (Motown)
Sakarin Boonpit - Kotmorn Yoop Yap (All Shook Up) - Thai Beat a Go-Go (va) (Subliminal Sounds)
Earl Royce & The Olympics - Shake a Tail Feather - Ferry Cross the Mersey (soundtrack) (United Artists)
The Guess Who - Shakin' All Over - Shakin' All Over (Sundazed)
    behind DJ:

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Shaky Jake - Buhaina's Delight (Blue Note)
Big Daddy Kane - Set It Off - Long Live the Kane (Cold Chillin'/Warner Bros.)
Bingo Gazingo - Two Pack Shaker - Bingo Gazingo (WFMU)
Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra - The Sheik of Araby - The Ellington Era (Columbia)
Lolita No. 18 - Shakin' All Over - Japan Nite Sound Sampler (va) (Japan Nite Committee)
Borden's - Shake It - Product Music (va) (Honest-Abe Disc)
    behind DJ: Roger Roger - Sounds Industrial 15 - Sounds Industrial (Zippy)

KC & The Sunshine Band - (Shake Shake Shake) Shake Your Booty - 45 played at 33 (T.K. Records)
The Beastie Boys - Shake Your Rump - Paul's Boutique (Capitol)
Beatles - Nothin' Shakin' - Live at the BBC (Apple/Capitol)
Patty & The Emblems - Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl - 20 Original Winners of 1964 (Roulette)
Paper Bag Players - Earthquake - Paper Bag Players (private release)
    behind DJ: Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra ("The Harlem Footwarmers") - Old Man Blues - The Ellington Era (Columbia)

Memphis Jug Band - Memphis Shakedown - Best of (Yazoo)
The Lovin' Spoonful - Voodoo In My Basement - Hums of The Lovin' Spoonful(Kama Sutra)
Inflatable Boy Clams - Skeletons - 2 X 7" single (Subterranean) (download here)
Papa Charlie Jackson - Shake That Thing - The Blues vol 1 (Smithsonian)
The Who - Shakin' All Over - Live at Leeds (MCA)
Ruth Etting - Shaking the Blues Away - unreleased collection
    behind DJ: Lew Howard All-Stars - Hula Rock - The Super Sounds of Bosworth (va) (Trunk)

The Who - Mary-Anne with the Shaky Hand - The Who Sell Out (MCA)
Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Reasons to Be Cheerful (part 3) - Juke Box Dury (Stiff)
Roxanne Shante - Feelin' Kinda Horny - Bad Sista (Cold Chillin'/Warner Bros.)
Halcali - Hello, Hello Alone - Bacon (For Life)
Dave Clark 5 - Everybody Knows - Coast to Coast (Epic)
    behind DJ: Shudder to Think - pH Balanced - High Art (soundtrack) (Velvel)

Cyril Ritchard reading Chapter VI from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," by Lewis Carroll, with music by Alec Wilder (Riverside)
Kaada - Black California - Thank You for Giving Me Your Valuable Time (Ipecac)

Busy Doing Nothing : 2 July 2009

 

(picture from Encyclopedia Britannica)

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

2 July 2009 | Navidad en Japón en julio

Download the show: BDN_090702

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Tom Dissevelt - Intersection (aka "Twilight Ozone") - Popular Electronics: Early Dutch Electronic Music from Philips Research Laboratories 1956-63 (va) (Basta)
The Bran Flakes - The Music from Another Planet - Hey Won't Somebody Come and Play? (Happi Tyme)
Harry Revel/Les Baxter/Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman - Lunar Rhapsody - Music Out of the Moon (with Music for Peace of Mind, and Perfume Set to Music) (Request)
    behind DJ: Piero Piccioni - Sognando la tua voce - The Secuction of Piero Piccioni (El/Cherry Red)

The Beatles - 1967 Fan Club Christmas Record - The Beatles' Christmas Album (bootleg)
Was (Not Was) - Christmas Time in the Motor City - A Christmas Record (va) (Ze)
Derrik Roberts - There Won't Be Any Snow (Christmas in the Jungle) - 7" single (Roulette)
Steely Dan - Charlie Freak - Pretzel Logic (ABC)
The Sixths - Winter in July (Ayako Akashiba, voc) - Wasps' Nests (London)
The Young Adults - Christmas in Japan in July - Live in Providence, 21 March 1978 (WBRU broadcast)
    behind DJ: The Kustard Kings - Welcome Christmas - A Kustard Kristmas (Confidential)

Aimee Mann - Save Me - Magnolia (soundtrack) (Reprise)
Nina Simone - Save Me - Flying Funk: Flying Dutchman, Bluebird & RCA (va) (Bluebird)
Tempos - Save Me - Racubah! A Collection of Modern Afro Rhythms (va) (Comet)
Judee Sill - The Vigilante - Heart Food (Asylum; Water)
Camper Van Beethoven - The History of Utah - Camper Van Beethoven/Vampire Can Mating Oven (Rough Trade/Pitch-a-Tent)
    behind DJ: Vince Guaraldi - Christmas Time Is Here - A Charlie Brown Christmas (Fantasy)

The Clash - Straight to Hell - Combat Rock (CBS)
M.I.A. - Paper Planes - Kala (Interscope)
Mexican Institute of Sound - Hip Hop No Pares - Pinata (Nacional)
La Yegros (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Trocitos de Madera - forthcoming on Dutty Artz
Beto Villa - Southern Select - Father of Orquesta Tejana, Vol. 1 (Arhoolie)
Elakelaiset - Hotelli Helpotus (Hotel California)
    behind DJ: Friends of Dean Martinez - Summertime - A Place in the Sun (Knitting Factory)

The Zombies - Summertime - The Zombies (Parrot)
Halcali - Otsukare Summer - Bacon (For Life)
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - No Golden Throat - Press Color (Ze)
Talking Heads - Electric Guitar - Fear of Music (Sire)
Rosemary Clooney & Perez Prado - Corazon de Melon - A Touch of Tabasco (RCA)
Deerhoof - Rainbow Silhouette of the Milky Rain - Milk Man (Kill Rock Stars)
    behind DJ: Sounds Unlimited - Have Faith in Your Love - Cast Your Fate to the Wind (Parkway)

Shonen Knife - Music Square - Rock Animals (Virgin)
The Ronettes - Walking in the Rain - 7" single (Philles)
Strawbs - Lay Down - Bursting at the Seams (A&M)
    behind DJ: Billy Taylor - That's Where It Is - Warming Up! (Riverside)

Busy Doing Nothing : 25 June 2009

 

(cover photo from Takeshi Terauchi & The Bunnys: Let's Go Classics)

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

25 June 2009 | Busy killing classics

Download the show: BDN_090625

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Takeshi Terauchi & The Bunnys - For Elise - Let's Go Classics (get it here)
Oleg Kostrow - Sun Queen Dance - Aspirin & Serpantin (Solnze)
Peggy Lee - Pass Me By - A Touch of Class (Disky)
John Morris - Silent Movie March - Mel Brooks' Greatest Hits (Asylum)
    behind DJ (if the DJ hadn't made a technical error which prevented his voice from being recorded): Guy Boyer - Fantasie Impromptu - Chopin New Time: The Jazz Vibes of Guy Boyer (Epic)

Jean Jacques Perrey - Gossipo Perpetuo - Moog Indigo (Vanguard)
Spanky & Our Gang - Sunday Will Never Be the Same - Spanky & Our Gang (Mercury)
Leona Anderson - Habenera from Carmen - Music to Suffer By (Unique) (found here)
Mike Nichols & Elaine May - Bach to Bach - Improvisations to Music (Mercury)
Barry Gray - Three Refined Mice - Space Age Nursery Rhymes (downloaded here)
Ladytron - Playgirl - 604 (Emperor Norton)
    behind DJ: Sounds Orchestral - Like the Lonely - Cast Your Fate to the Wind (Parkway)

Waitresses - A Girl's Gotta Do - Bruiseology (Polydor)
Marlene Dietrich - The Laziest Gal in Town - Best of (Columbia)
Shel Silverstein - Julie's Working - unreleased demos
Arling & Cameron - Groovy - All-In (Emperor Norton)
1970s TV commercial - 120 Classical Music Masterpieces (watch it here) - featuring John Williams
Gershon Kingsley & Maureen Forrester - Hold My Hand, Giovanni - Mozart After Hours (Vanguard) (found here)
Fanfare van de Eeuwigdurende Bijstand - Swan Lake - unreleased recordings
    behind DJ: Vic Mizzy - Lurch's Theme; One, Little Two, Little Three Little Tombstones - The Addams Family (TV soundtrack) (RCA)

Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Tumour - Press Colour (ZE)
Tomek - I Gotta Fever - Love & Hate (ATL)
Robert Maxwell, His Harp & Orch - Song of the Nairobi Trio (Solfeggio) - The Ernie Kovacs Record Collection (Varese Sarabande)
Nashville Mandolin Ensemble - The Boston Ideal March (Samuel Siegel) - All the Rage: Mandolin Ensemble Music from 1897-1924 (New World)
    behind DJ: Nashville Mandolin Ensemble - My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice - (as above)

Marie Goyette - Short Cuts: Brahms - The ReR Quarterly (va) (Recommended/Cuneiform)
Dagmar Krause & Marie Goyette - Promise (Mahler Symphony No. 9) - A Scientific Dream and a French Kiss (Resurgence)
Peter & Lou Berryman - Squalor - No Relation (self-released)
Monty Python - A Fairy Tale - Monty Python's Previous Record (Charisma)
Tabby Andriello - Spring Song - Tabby 'n Things: The World's Greatest Mediocrity (found here)
    behind DJ: Tabby Andriello - Mozart's Flute Quartet - (as above)

Les Baxter Orchestra with Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman, theremin - Celestial Nocturne - The Ernie Kovacs Record Collection (Varese Sarabande)
People Like Us - Sugar & Spice - Thermos Explorer (Hot Air)
Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg - Jane B. - Je T'aime (Fontana)
Guy Boyer - Prelude (No. 4 in E minor) - Chopin New Time: The Jazz Vibes of Guy Boyer (Epic)
    behind DJ: Tony Mottola - Paganini's 24th Caper - and the Quad Guitars (Project 3)

Busy Doing Nothing : 18 June 2009

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

18 June 2009 | Flower

Download the show: BDN_090618_part1 ; BDN_090618_part2

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Mason Williams - Sunflower - The Mason Williams Phonograph Album (Warner Bros.)
Rod McKuen/Anita Kerr - The Mud Kids - The Earth (Warner Bros.)
The Cowsills - The Rain, the Park and Other Things - 7" single (MGM)
Sonic Youth - Cotton Crown - Sister (SST)
Jack Hylton & His Orchestra - By a Waterfall (vocal: Pat O'Malley) - Songs the Bonzo Dog Band Taught Us (va) (Lightning Tree)
    behind DJ: Sounds Orchestral - Something's Coming - Cast Your Fate to the Wind (Parkway)

The Move - Flowers in the Rain - Movements (West Side)
Petula Clark - Donne Moi des Fleurs - 65 (Vogue)
Live Human - OrangeBushMonkeyFlower - Monostereosis: The New Victrola Method (Fat Cat)
Sonny & Cher - Baby Don't Go - 7" single (Reprise)
The Animals - Bright Lights, Big City - On Tour (MGM)
    behind DJ: Lui Man-Sing - Admiration of Plum Flowers - Chinese Masterpieces for the Erh-hu (Lyrichord)

The Pogues - Dirty Old Town - Rum, Sodomy & The Lash (Stiff/MCA)
The Ventures - Wild Night - Bobby Vee Meets the Ventures (Liberty)
Blood, Sweat & Tears - House in the Country - Child Is Father to the Man (Columbia)
Laurie Styvers - Pigeons - Spilt Milk (Warner Bros.)
Taj Mahal - Going Up to the Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue - The Natch'l Blues (Columbia)
    behind DJ: Sounds Orchestral - Have Faith in Your Love - Cast Your Fate to the Wind (Parkway)

Meadow House - Lavender Picking - Tongue Under a Ton of Nine Volters (Alcohol)
John Otway - Beware of the Flowers ('Cos I'm Sure They're Gonna Get You, Yeh) - Deep Thought (Stiff)
Cat Stevens - Speak to the Flowers - Matthew and Son (Deram)
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Let Me Stand Next to Your Flower - Bravery, Repetition, and Noise (Bomp)
Dr. Octagon - Blue Flowers (Automator's Stop Confusing Me Remake) - Blue Flowers 12" single (Bulk)
Simon & Garfunkel - Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme (Columbia)
    behind DJ: Gil Trythall - Wildwood Flower - Country Moog (Switched on Nashville) (Athena)

Slapp Happy - Blue Flower - Sort Of (Polydor)
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs - Give Me Flowers While I'm Living - Songs of Glory; Foggy Mountain Gospel (Columbia)
Rod McKuen/Anita Kerr - The Flower People - The Earth (Warner Bros.)
The Breakers - Don't Send Me No Flowers (I Ain't Dead Yet) - History of Garage & Frat Bands in Memphis vol. 2 (va) (Shangri-La)
The Peanuts - Passion Flower - Global Pop Parade: Transpacific Sound Paradise WFMU Marathon Premium 2006 (va) (no label)
    behind DJ: Ramsey Lewis - Les Fleurs - Best of (Cadet)

Chad & Jeremy - Dirty Old Town - Yesterday's Gone (World Artists)
Pedestal - On the Subway - Waiting (7" single) (Twee Kitten)
Goddess in the Morning - Flower Crown - Ici Tokyo (va) (Bond Age)
Elf Power - Cotton Crown - Nothing's Going to Happen (Orange Twin)
The Six Teens - Send Me Flowers - 7" single (Flip)
    behind DJ: Harry Partch - And on the Seventh Day, Petals Fell on Petaluma (CRI)

Busy Doing Nothing : 11 June 2009

(Maximum Joy)

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

11 June 2009 | Finding a Feeling

(Sorry -- no mp3 files this week, due to operator malfunction...)

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Noonday Underground - Hello - Self-Assembly (m21)
Salsoul Orchestra - Standing and Waiting - Anthology (Salsoul/The Right Stuff)
Mohamed Rafi - Jan Pahechan Ho - Doob Doob O' Rama (va) (QDK Media)
Arling & Cameron - Here We Go - All-In (Emperor Norton)
Maximum Joy - Searching for a Feeling - Unlimited (1979-1983) (Crippled Dick Hot Wax)
    behind DJ: Young Holt Trio - Monday, Monday - Wack Wack (Brunswick)

The Yardbirds - Hot House of Omagararshid - The Yardbirds ("Roger the Engineer") (EMI)
Brian Eno-David Byrne - America Is Waiting - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (Sire)
Parliament - Getten' to Know You - The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein (Casablanca)
Meadow House - Will U B My Friend - Tongue Under a Ton of Nine Volters (Alcohol)
    behind DJ: Alan Hawkshaw - Bluebird - Sounds of the 60s and 70s vol 2 (KPM)

Gelbart - Tokomon Rip-Off X 3 - New Music Series vol.1: Porky Pig (va) (Standard Oil)
Claude Bolling & Jean-Pierre Rampal - Javanaise - Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano (Columbia)
Cibo Matto - Artichoke - Viva! La Woman (Warner Bros.)
Richard Hayman & Walter Sear - The Girl from Ipanema - Electronic Evolutions (Command)
    behind DJ: Gorillaz - Double Bass - Gorillaz (Virgin)

Crosby, Stills & Nash - Marrakesh Express - Crosby, Stills & Nash (Atlantic)
Hoahio - Happy Mail - Ohayo! Hoahio! (Tzadik)
Barbra Streisand - I Mean to Shine - Barbra Joan Streisand (Columbia)
Rene & Rene - Mornin' - 7" single (White Whale)
The Selecter - Out on the Streets - Too Much Pressure (Chrysalis)
    behind DJ: unknown - Sex World, from Green Door Fantasy - Sex-o-Rama: Music from Classic Adult Films (Oglio)

Carpenters - Sweet, Sweet Smile - Passage (A&M)
Robert Mitchum - Mama, Looka Boo Boo - Calypso Is Like So (Capitol)
Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez - Aria from "La Wally" (by Alfredo Catalani) - Diva (soudtrack) (DRG)
George Barnes & Art Ryerson - Sabor Espanol - unreleased (?) album
Matmos - Rainbow Flag - Supreme Balloon (Matador)
    behind DJ: Young Holt Trio - Sunny - Wack Wack (Brunswick)

Felix Kubin - Hello - Matki Wandalki (A-Musik) Lionel Richie
Ella Fitzgerald & Joe Pass - My Old Flame - Fitzgerald & Pass... Again (Pablo)
The Pearls - Pearly - A String of Pearls (Rev-Ola)
The Coctails - Walt's Waltz - Popcorn Box (Carrot Top)
    behind DJ: Billy Taylor - That's Where It Is - Warming Up! (Riverside)

Busy Doing Nothing : 4 June 2009

(streetlights photo by sixnineteenlove)

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

4 June 2009 | Last night

Download the show: BDN_090604_part1 ; BDN_090604_part2

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Deodato - Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001) - Prelude (CTI)
Paul Lynde, Ann-Margret, et al - Hymn for a Sunday Evening - Bye Bye Birdie (soundtrack) (RCA/BMG)
The Beatles - Besame Mucho - Anthology 1 (Apple)
Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance - Raw Like Sushi (Virgin)
Joe Jackson - Baby Stick Around - Look Sharp (A&M)
    behind DJ: Quartet San Francisco - Pick Up the Pieces - Whirled Chamber Music (ViolinJazz)

Matmos - Steam and Sequins for Larry Levan - The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast (Matador)
La Yegros - Carinio - (forthcoming on Dutty Artz)
Big Blood - Heart of Glass - Already Gone II (dontrustheruin) (found here)
Gudrun Gut - Last Night - I Put a Record On (Monika)
    behind DJ: Gorillaz - Double Bass - Gorillaz (Virgin)

Jean-Jacques Perrey & David Chazam - Bilbo K. - Eclektronics (Basenotic)
Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant - Stratosphere Boogie - Stratosphere Boogie: The Flaming Guitars of Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant (Razor & Tie)
Marshall Crenshaw - Something's Gonna Happen - 12" single (Shake)
Quixotic - Sitting in the Park - Mortal Mirror (Kill Rock Stars)
Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking
    behind DJ: Futique - Lionel Shuffle - Go Low (Shadow)

Tiny Creatures - De Ra Tu Get - Tiny Creatures (Birdsong)
Friends of Dean Martinez - Nothing At All - A Place in the Sun (Knitting Factory)
The Free Design - Light My Fire - One By One (Project 3; Light in the Attic)
Joni Mitchell - Barangrill - For the Roses (Asylum)
Liz Phair - Stratford-on-Guy - Exile in Guyville (Matador)
Camper Van Beethoven - We Saw Jerry's Daughter/Surprise Truck - Camper Van Beethoven (Pitch-a-Tent/Rough Trade)
    behind DJ: Hap Palmer - Haunted House - Movin' (Activity Records)

Victoire Scott - 4ème Dimension - 7" EP (Decca) (found here)
Syd Barrett - Late Night - The Madcap Laughs (Harvest)
The Teardrop Explodes - All I Am Is Loving You - Piano (Document)
    behind DJ: Philip Glass - Wichita Sutra Vortex - Solo Piano (CBS)

Herbie Hancock - Vein Melter - Headhunters (Columbia)
    behind DJ:  Futique - Finger Lick - Go Low (Shadow)

Busy Doing Nothing : 28 May 2009

 

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

28 May 2009 | Stairway to ________

Download the show: BDN_090528_part1 ; BDN_090528_part2

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Faust - It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl - So Far (Polydor; Recommended)
Expresion - La Luz del Fin Del Mundo - Andergraun Vibrations! Spanish Hard Psych & Beyond, 1970-1978 (va) (Hundergrum)
The Section Quartet - Heartbreaker - Fuzzbox (Decca)
    behind DJ: Deodato - Baubles, Bangles and Beads - Prelude (CTI)

Breeders - Overglazed - Mountain Battles (4AD)
The What's New - Up So High - Fuzz, Flaykes & Shakes vol. 4 (va) (Bacchus Archives)
Paul Whiteman & His Orch - I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise - Fascinatng Rhythm: The Broadway Gershwin 1919-1923 (BMG)
Neil Sedaka - Stairway to Heaven - The Very Best of (RCA)
The Beatnix - Stairway to Heaven - Stairways to Heaven (va) (Atlantic/WEA)
Wing - Top of the World - Sings the Carpenters (Wing Music)
    behind DJ: Deodato - Carly & Carole - Prelude (CTI)

Shocking Blue - Love Buzz - At Home (Pink Elephant; Repertoire)
Rasputina - Rock and Roll - The Lost and Found EP (Instinct)
Silver Apples - Oscillations - Silver Apples (Kapp/MCA) 68
Mark DeNardo - Grass - Lion, Tiger, Bear (8 bit peoples)
Gelbart - Tokomon - Tokomon EP  (Gelbart; Fact)
    behind DJ: Gelbart - Tokomon Rip-Off - Tokomon EP  (Gelbart; Fact)

The Orange Helicopter - It's Too High - Fair Is Fair (Sesame Street)
Stevie Wonder - Too High - Innervisions (Tamla)
Juliana Hatfield - Live It Up - Bed (Zoe)
Albert Kuvezin & Yat-Kha - When the Levee Breaks - Re-Covers (Yat-Kha)
Camper Van Beethoven - Stairway to Heavan (sic) - Camper Van Beethoven (Pitch-a-Tent/Rough Trade)
Karys Rhea - Kashmir - YouTube video
Janet McCracken - The People on the Ground - unreleased demo
    behind DJ: Paul Winter Consort - Icarus - Icarus (CBS/Living Music)

Tiny Tim with Brave Combo - Stairway to Heaven - Girl (Rounder)
Michael Mills - Led Zeppelin, from Hidden and Satanic Messages in Rock Music (1981 Radio Show)
Sandie Shaw - Your Time Is Gonna Come - Reviewing the Situation (RPM)
Talking Heads - Pulled Up - Talking Heads 77 (Sire)
    behind DJ: Tiny Creatures - De Ra Tu Get - Tiny Creatures (Birdsong)

Takeshi Terauchi & The Bunnys - Danube Wave Waltz - Let's Go Classics (Zippy)
Jorge Ben - Bebete Vaobora/Crioula/Cade Tereza - 10 Anos Depois (Phonogram)
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Stairway to Heaven - Rodrigo y Gabriela (Rubyworks/ATO)

Remixing the World

"When we open our eyes each morning, it is upon a world we have spent a lifetime learning to see.  We are not given the world: we make our world through incessant experience, categorization, memory, reconnection."[1]

I have been interested lately in the work of a number of artists whose work, for me, shares certain qualities, despite being created in different media.  This basic quality is that they recombine diverse materials in a personal way to create something new, or observe some single thing in a way that causes the viewer/listener to see it or hear it in a new way.  Some, but not all, of them are explicitly collage oriented, but all of them create new meaning by placing familiar materials in new contexts, or look at things from an unexpected viewpoint.  In future posts, I hope to examine some of these artists in detail.  For starters, I would like to look at collage in general. 

"The meaning of an image is changed according to what one sees immediately beside it or what comes immediately after it."[2]

Maybe by now collage is considered old news, as it has been a major, established art form for a century now (Donald Barthelme has gone so far as to assert that the principle of collage is the central principle of all art in the twentieth century), but, as new media are introduced, new artists are always coming along and using the content of these new media as the source materials for collage-based work.  Collage is always fresh and always necessary because, by recontextualizing materials, it has the power to shake things up in the eye/ear/mind of the beholder.  This is because our everyday existence is predicated on things -- words, objects, sounds, artworks -- all having a culturally determined meaning, significance, or order.  A piece of music is expected to progress in a certain fashion.  There are unspoken, agreed upon relationships between words and the concepts they signify.  These agreements are generally benign, and enable us to communicate, so that when I say "sky," you don't think that I mean "briefcase."  Still, it is worth shaking up the complacency that comes with our unconscious reliance on these norms of communication.

Busy Doing Nothing : 21 May 2009

(Spinning at the River Garden, 9 May 09. Picture by DJ Cam, heard Wednesdays, 11am-1pm on WVEW.)

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

21 May 2009 | If I were your DJ

Download the show: BDN_090521_part1 ; BDN_090521_part2

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Jon Brion - Monday - I Heart Huckabees (soundtrack) (Milan)
unknown singers - I'd Like to Be You for a Day, from Freaky Friday (d. Gary Nelson, Disney, 1976)
Squeeze - If I Didn't Love You - Argybargy (A&M)
Whatever It Takes - Just What I Needed - Whatever It Takes (Mogul Electro)
Maury Laws - You're Different, feat. Phyllis Diller - Mad Monster Party (soundtrack) (Percepto)
    behind DJ: Michael Andrews - Heaven in Five - Me and You and Everyone We Know (soundtrack) (IFC/Everloving)

Dot Allison - Close Your Eyes - Afterglow (Arista)
Binder & Krieglstein - Piraten - Alles verloren (Essay)
Esrevnoc - Bijin - Japan Not for Sale Vol. 3 (va) (Sony Music Japan)
P.M. Dawn - If I Wuz U - Of the Heart, Of the Soul and Of the Cross (Gee Street/Island)
Glenn Korman - I Would If I Loved You - unreleased demos
    behind DJ: Nicola Conte - Fuoco Fatuo - Bossa per Due (Eighteenth Street Lounge)

Gene Ammons - Son of a Preacher Man - Brother Jug! (Prestige)
Smoke City - They Can't Take That Away from Me - Red Hot & Rhapsody: The Gershwin Groove (va) (Antilles)
Gladys Knight & The Pips - If I Were Your Woman - Gold (Hip-O)
Jeanne Lee & Ran Blake - Laura - The Legendary Duets (RCA)
    behind DJ: Ennio Morricone - L'Assoluto Naturale - Eviva! Morricone (Avanz)

Gertrude Lawrence - Do Do Do - Flappers, Vamps & Sweet Young Things, 1924 to 1931 (va( (ASV Living Era)
Prince - If I Was Your Girlfriend - Sign 'o' The Times (Paisley Park/Warner Bros.)
Woody Allen - European Trip - Standup Comic (Rhino)
Tom Waits - intro, and Emotional Weather Report - Nighthawks at the Diner (Asylum)
The Fifth Dimension - Working on a Groovy Thing - The Age of Aquarius (Soul City)
    behind DJ: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Dead Dog in the Street - Buck Jump (Mammoth)

Breeders - Regalame Esta Noche - Mountain Battles (4AD)
Jackie Curtis - Who Are You? - Superstar in a Housedress (DVD soundtrack) (d. Craig Highberger)
Hedwig & The Angry Inch - Midnight Radio - Hedwig & The Angry Inch (soundtrack) (Hybrid)
Eltro - Lady of the Highway - Past and Present Futurists (Absolutely Kosher)
Incredible String Band - You Get Brighter - Wee Tam (Elektra)
David Byrne - The Burden of the Word - Big Love: Hymnal (Todo Mundo/HBO/Play Tone)
    behind DJ: David Byrne - The Burden of the Word - Big Love: Hymnal

Deanna Storey - I'm Just a Little Person - Synecdoche, New York (soundtrack) (d. Charlie Kaufman, 2008) (written by Charlie Kaufman & Jon Brion)

Busy Doing Nothing : 14 May 2009

 

empty room, window (photo by timsamoff)

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

14 May 2009 | The room nobody lives in

Download the show: BDN_090514_part1 ; BDN_090514_part2

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Yoko Ono - Walking on Thin Ice - Walking on Thin Ice (Ryko)
Richard Harris - MacArthur Park - 7" single (Dunhill)
Vincent Price & Gene Tierney - dialogue from Dragonwyck (1946, d. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 20th Century Fox)
Au Revoir Simone - Sad Song - The Bird of Music (Our Secret Recording Co)
    behind DJ: Nino Rota - L'Harem - Otto e Mezzo (Cam)

Propellerheads - History Repeating, featuring Shirley Bassey  - Decksanddrumsandrockandroll (Dreamworks)
Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky - Spirit in the Sky (Reprise)
Pugs - Divine - Bite the Red Knee (Casual Tonalities)
Cilla Black - Surround Yourself with Sorrow - Best of the EMI Years (EMI)
    behind DJ: Nino Rota - La Passarella di Addio - Otto e Mezzo (Cam)

Femm Nameless - Ibajekbe (What If) - The Rough Guide to Afrobeat Revival (va) (World Music Network)
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing - Dub Housing (Rough Trade)
Mama Cass (Elliot) - The Room Nobody Lives In - Dream a Little Dream (Dunhill)
The dB's - We Were Happy There - Repercussion (Albion)
They Might Be Giants - Mr. Me - Lincoln (Bar None)
    behind DJ: Nino Rota - Guido e Luisa: Nostalgico Swing - Otto e Mezzo (Cam)

The Wayfarers - Run Charlie, Run - World's Fare (Lolita)
Alternating Boxes - Dogtown - Every Man Has a Woman (va) (Polydor)
The Flowers - Criminal Waste - Earcom 1 (va) (Fast Product)
Yoko Ono - Kite Song - Approximately Infinite Universe; Walking on Thin Ice (Ryko)
Portsmouth Sinfonia - Leader of the Pack - 20 Classic Rock Classics (Philips)
    behind DJ: Nino Rota - Rosa Aurata - Giulietta Degli Spiriti (Cam)

The Poppy Family - Beyond the Clouds - A Good Thing Lost (March/What Are Records?)
Papas Fritas - Say Goodbye - Pop Has Freed Us (Minty Fresh) (Helioself)
The Move - Beautiful Daughter - Shazam (A&M)
Guess Who - Sour Suite - So Long, Bannatyne (RCA)
Pere Ubu - Don't Look Back - Worlds in Collision (Fontana)
    behind DJ: Nino Rota - Amore per Tutti - Giulietta Degli Spiriti (Cam)

Wayfarers - Day 4 Night - World's Fare (Lolita)
3rd Bass - Product of the Environment - The Cactus Album (Def Jam)
Nancy Wilson - Ode to Billy Joe - Welcome to My Love (Capitol)
My Favorite - The Happiest Days of My Life - The Happiest Days of Our Lives (Double Agent)
Imitation Electric Piano - Leave Her Johnny - Blow It Up Burn It Down Kick It 'Til It Bleeds (Drag City)
The Langley Schools Music Project - In My Room - Innocence and Despair (Basta/Bar None)
    behind DJ: Nino Rota - L'Harem - Otto e Mezzo (Cam)

Busy Doing Nothing : 7 May 2009

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

7 May 2009 | What the Who

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Puffy (AmiYumi) - Jet Keisatsu - Jet CD (Epic Japan)
DJ Z-Trip & DJ Radar - Won't Get Fooled Again - Live at the Future Primitive Soundsession vol. 2, San Francisco (Future Primitive)
Max Tundra - Will Get Fooled Again - Parallax Error Beheads You (Domino)
386 DX (Alexij Shulgin) - My Generation - The Best of (Staalplaat)
They Might Be Giants - I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die - They Might Be Giants (Bar None)
Les Calamites - The Kids Are Allright - Les Calamites (Posh Boy)
    behind DJ: Portsmouth Sinfonia - Apache - 20 Classic Rock Classics (Philips)

Rufus - I Got the Right Street (But the Wrong Direction) - Rags to Rufus (ABC)
Steve Reid - Lions of Juda - Nova (Universal Sound)
Arling & Cameron - Multiplication Blues - We Are A&C (Emperor Norton)
Vivian Sisters - You're No Good - Vivian Sisters (Avant)
Guess Who - We're Coming to Dinner - Wheatfield Soul (RCA)
    behind DJ: Charlie Antolini's Power Dozen - Jumping - Creative Musicians (Perfect Toy/Groove Attack)

Black Nasty - Party on 4th Street - Funky Funky Detroit (va) (Funky Delicacies)
Ten Wheel Drive - Pulse - Brief Replies (Polydor)
John Renbourn - Sweet Potatoe - Sampler (Transatlantic)
Bar-Kays - Knucklehead - 7" single (Volt)
    behind DJ: We - Caya's Kids - Square Root of Negative One (Asphodel/The Orchard)

The Clash - The Crooked Beat - Sandinista! (Epic)
Portsmouth Sinfonia - Uptown Top Ranking - 20 Classic Rock Classics (Philips)
Petra Haden - Armenia (City in the Sky) - Sings The Who Sell Out (Bar None)
The Who - Sunrise - The Who Sell Out (Decca)
Portsmouth Sinfonia - Pinball Wizard - 20 Classic Rock Classics (Philips)
The Who - Baba O'Riley (45 played at 33) - Who's Next (MCA)
    behind DJ: The Who - loop from Won't Get Fooled Again - Who's Next (MCA)

The Wonder Who - Don't Think Twice - 7" single (Philips)
So Cow - Moon Geun Young - Wackity Schmackity Doo (downloaded at the Free Music Archive)
Amy Allison - Baby, You're the One - No Frills Friend (Diesel Only)
George Jones & Tammy Wynette - We Go Together - Super Hits (Epic)
Giles, Giles & Fripp - She Is Loaded - The Cheerful Insanity of (Deram; Esoteric)

The Flying Machine - Maybe We've Been Loving Too Long - 7" single (Congress)
Lonette - Stop! (Don't Worry About It) - Creative Musicians (Perfect Toy/Groove Attack)
Nicole Lord - C'est le Go-Go (The In Crowd) - 7" single (Plaza) (found on Babette's Feast)
unknown - Cool Jerk - Rare Mexican Cuts From the 60s (VA) (Eva)
    behind DJ: The Wonder Who - Sassy - 7" single (Philips)

Busy Doing Nothing : 30 April 2009

 

(Gran fandango y francachela de todas las calaveras, by José Guadalupe Posada)

Busy Doing Nothing, on WVEW-LP, Thursdays 6-8 pm (eastern time)

30 April 2009 | Freeform dance party

artist - song title - album (va = various artists) (label)

Glomag - Transmission (Joy Division cover)
Q-Burns Abstract Message - You Can Dance - Upstairs at Larry's : LW Uncorked (va) (Vanguard/Ranwood)
Cesaria Evora - Besame Mucho (Senor Coconut's Chachacha Remix)
Glomag - Cherie Amour
Kay Starr - I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm (Stuhr Remix) - Christmas Remixed (va) (Six Degrees)
    behind DJ: Mr. Scruff - Blackpool Roll - Keep It Unreal (Ninja Tune)

Rolling Stones - 2120 South Michigan Avenue - 12 X 5 (London)
Chuito Velez - Descarga - Boogaloo Pow Wow: Dancefloor Rendez-Vous in Young Nuyorica (va) (Honest Jons)
Soul Brothers - Mantombazane - Kings & Queens of Township Jive (va) (Earthworks)
Little Walter - You Better Watch Yourself - Best of (MCA/Chess)
Y Pants - Off the Hook - Y Pants (Periodic Document)
    behind DJ: Steely Dan - East St. Louis Toodle-Oo - Pretzel Logic (ABC)

Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians - Dry Bones - The Singing Detective (TV series soundtrack) (Relativity)
Turtles - Let Me Be - Best of (Rhino)
Joseph Beuys - Sonne Statt Reagan - Fluxus Anthology (va) (Anthology, Italy)
Roberta Flack - Compared to What - First Take (Atlantic)
Freelance Hellraiser - It Ain't Hard to Tell (Nas vs. Doors) - Best Bootlegs in the World, vol. 2
    behind DJ: Assagai - Akasa - Assagai (Contour)

Allman Brothers Band - Revival - Idlewild South (Atco)
Clara Nunes - Vapor de Sao Francisco - Nacao (EMI Odeon)
Cortijo - Baiala Bien - Baile con Cortijo y Su Combo, con Ismael Rivera (Seeco)
Charles & Frida Sonko w. Orch. Melo Success - Nawuliranga - The Kampala Sound (va) (Original Music)
    behind DJ: H. Chappell - The Gonk - Dawn of the Dead (soundtrack) (Trunk)

Ned Sublette - Ghost Riders in the Sky - Cowboy Mambo (Palm Pictures)
Henry Mancini - Peter Gunn - The Music from Peter Gunn (TV series soundtrack) (Buddha)
Ennio Morricone - Guerra e pace, pollo e brace - Grazie Zia (soundtrack) (Cam)
Hoppy Kamiyama - Fantasm B - Juice and Tremolo (Sonore)
Mrs. Miller - The Shadow of Your Smile
Concert Band Series '73 - Outta Space (sample arrangement) - Which Way to Carnegie Hall (Cosmic Cowboy WFMU Marathon Premium)
    behind DJ: Concert Band Series '73 - Outta Space

Spinners - One, One, Two, Two, Boogie Woogie Avenue (Home of the Boogie, House of the Funk) - Dancin' and Lovin' (Atlantic)
Neil Mills - Seven Number Poems - Experiments in Disintegrating Language: Konkrete Canticle (va) (Art Council of Britain)
LeJuan Love - I Still Feel Good - I Still Feel Good (Luke Skywalker)
Lucky Peterson - Funky Alphabet - Our Future (Today)
Obed Ngobeni - Imuongori (Nurse) - My Wife Bought a Taxi (Shanachie)
    behind DJ: Lucky Peterson - I Want You Back - Our Future (Today)