Experiencing a Significant Gravitas Shortfall Podcast

All day I had the words "this world over" floating in my head, and only after doing this show did I remember that's a song title on my least favorite XTC record.^* So it was left out of this impromptu apocalyptical set.

A few months ago while reading about Kaoru Abe, I learned about his exploitative biopic. At the time, I joked that I should try to get the movie and play it on the air. And then I found the movie, and the Grouse stands by his word. It's a "Sid & Nancy for the free jazz set." The Lady Katie, listening from Shaw, asked if the movie was just sex and crying; and indeed it is. But also a few dust-ups, an amputated toe (for love's sake), and some blistering improv. As far as I can tell, the real Keiji Haino and Fushitsusha play themselves, on and off stage. My knowledge of the Japanese free jazz scene is extremely limited; with the exception of the lead actor, they all looked like real players giving semi-real performances.

The entire movie audio was broadcast on 97.5 FM on 12.20.12. The entire audio is again presented here... because, what the hell. The full video is out there if you're really interested. Good luck finding subtitles! While on the air, I did my best to live tweet some visuals, and I've collected them at the bottom of this post.

While typing these notes, I learned that the director of "Endless Waltz," Koji Wakamatsu, died in October. Let's just pretend, ex post facto, that this whole thing was a belated tribute to a director I'd never heard of. For podcasting purposes, I cannot link to anything above my audio link below. But click on his name in the playlist for the New York Times obituary. Rest in peace, Koji.

The original plan for today was 1:44 to "Endless Waltz," 4 minutes to a late tribute to Ravi Shankar (the appropriate "I Am Missing You"), and 4 minutes for Bird's rendition of White Christmas. I hadn't planned to give in to the zeitgeist and do an end of the world set. But then the Lady Katie requested the Ted Leo track that we open with. I also showed up early for the first time in a great while, so bonus world-ending radio for all!

^*It would have made a good segue piece in this set too; from XTC to Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her (the band, named after the XTC song on "The Big Express"), to Kaoru Abe.

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• Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - "Last Days" (from The Brutalist Bricks)
• Talulah Gosh - "My World's Ending" (from Backwash)
• Jenks "Tex" Carman - "End of the World" (from Chippeha! (1947-57))
• Ohm-A-Revelator - "World's End" (from Windswept Trees & Houses)
• Silmaril - "Song of the Apocalypse" (from The Voyage of Icarus)
• Grouse introduces this ridiculous episode. And proceeds to screw everything up.
  • Sun Ra - "Mayan Temple" (from The Singles)
  • Charlie Parker - "White Christmas" (from Charlie Parker - Archive of Folk & Jazz Music)
• "Endless Waltz" (Koji Wakamatsu, 1995)
• Ravi Shankar - "I Am Missing You" (from Shankar Family & Friends)

Heading to the @radiocpr underground bunker now. Here's a little preview of tonight's show. #endlesswaltz twitter.com/KingGrouse/sta...

I believe we're starting in the future, and this is Kaoru and Izumi's daughter. #endlesswaltz twitter.com/KingGrouse/sta...

Izumi is having sex in the bunkbed below her. #endlesswaltz twitter.com/KingGrouse/sta...

But not with Kaoru, who is apparently watching. #endlesswaltz twitter.com/KingGrous...

I feel like we haven't done a show this... stable?... in more than 6 months. Planning is caring, for my own sanity and for the ears of the discerning radio listener. The seed of this show was leftovers from the previous week (the dreaded 5th to 1st Thursday no-gap!). But toss in the unfortunate death of Dave Brubeck and some choice new material, and we get a program far superior--far more structurally sound--than the previous week. And then for the next show, December 20, we're returning to anti-radio!

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• The Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Blue Rondo a la Turk" (from Time Out)
• The Nice - "Rondo" (from The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack)
• Le Orme - "Blue Rondo a la Turk" (from L'Aurora Delle Orme)
• James Cotton - "Midnight Creeper" (from Midnight Creeper (Live in Montreal 1967))
• Grouse discusses the Blue Rondo Formula of prog rock songwriting
  • The Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Strange Meadow Lark" (from Time Out)
• The Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Unsquare Dance" (from Time Further Out)
• Van Shipley - "Jan Pahechan Ho" (from Bollywood Steel Guitar)
• M. Geddes Gengras - "Air Solo" (from Beyond the Curtain)
• Daphni - "Cos-Ber-Zam Ne Noya (Daphni Mix)" (from Jiaolong)
• Karthala 72 - "Delores" (from Dans Le Coeur Du Feu)
• Kaoru Abe - "1972.1.21 Alto 1" (from Another Day's Dream)
• The Pyramids - "Ancient Funk!" (from Otherworldly)
• Kalaimamani Kadri Gopalnath - "Kangalidyatako" (from Gem Tones)
• Mulatu Astatke - "Gubèlyé (My Gubel) " (from Ethiopiques 4 - Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale 1969-1974)
• Dr. John - "You Lie" (from Locked Down)
• DJ Kentaro - "Big Timer (f/ MC Zulu)" (from Contrast)
• Bunji Garlin (f/ Nigel Rojas)- "Differentology" (new single)
• Las Malas Amistades - "Lamento" (from Maleza)
• Le Marchand du Soleil - "Laila Je T'Aime" (from Laila Je T'Aime)
• I'm running out of snarky things to write about Grouse; he's actually sounding somewhat professional now that he has a real radio audience. No fun!
  • Ike Bennet & the Crystalites - "Illya Kuryakin" (from Trojan Rocksteady Box Set)
• Mr. Confuse - "Lookout Weekend" (from Feel the Fire)

Radio CPR is broadcasting beyond its own backyard for the first time in the life of Experiencing a Significant Gravitas Shortfall, and the Grouse, as you might expect, crumbles under the pressure. Late start because of a DJ training session before the show.

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• Stalling tape
• Jeffrey Stolet - "Lariat Rituals" (from YouTube)
• Daniel Bachman - "Sita Ram (Who is God)" (from Oh Be Joyful)
• The Fear that is knowing potentially thousands of people could be listening; the disappointment in knowing it won't stop Grouse from rambling on anyway.
  • The Meters - "Darling Darling Darling" (from Funkify Your LIfe: The Meters Anthology)
  • Stereolab - "Three Women" (from Chemical Chords)
• Frederic Rzewski performed by Marc-André Hamelin - "NORTH AMERICAN BALLADS (exc) (3) Down by the Riverside" (from The People United Will Never Be Defeated! - 36 Variations On ¡El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido!)
• Bent Leg Fatima - "Greetings and Farewells / Cup and Saucer" (from Bent Leg Fatima)
• Grouse played some Rush because he thought they were Thrush.
  • Noble Watts - "Teen-Scene" (from Cats Got These Cats' Tongues - 26 Rarities From Mr. Fine Wine's Vaults)
• Silo Halo - "Wonderful Gift" (from Night and the City)
• Unrest - "June" (from BPM 1991-1994)
• Cotton Candy - "Strudel Zum Toast It / Compulsory & Auditory / Water Country" (from America Hearts / Cotton Candy split EP)
• Teething Veils - "You Write on My Face" (Live on Radio CPR)
• Six Organs of Admittance - "Blues for Jack Parsons" (from Parson' Blues)
• America Hearts - "White Socks" (from America Hearts / Cotton Candy split EP)
• Grouse gave up on this episode a while ago. Onward and upward!
  • The Mar-Keys - "Sack-O-Woe" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
• Talibam! - "Squeeze My Nuts In the Barnyard" (from Discover AtlantASS)
• The Pyramids - "Absolution" (from Otherworldly)
• Funkadelic - "Groovallegiance" (from One Nation Under a Groove)
• The Congos - "Congoman" (from Heart of the Congos)

Nearly every Thursday that I do this show, I bring a copy of something by Daniel Bachman to the studio in my bag of records, tapes, CDs and other tricks. Yet somehow, I've only played him once in the 29 previous shows (Sacred Harp, way back in Program 4). And it wasn't even an official broadcast; it was something I tacked on after the fact. Well I'm making up for that in this program by plugging the hell out of DB's show in DC this Friday night. See the previous posts or listen to this podcast to find out the whens and wherefores.

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• Frederic Rzewski performed by Marc-André Hamelin - "THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED - Thema- With determination" (from The People United Will Never Be Defeated! - 36 Variations On ¡El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido!)
• Roxy Music - "Pyjamarama" (from The Thrill of It All)
• Plastic Bertrand - "Ca Plane Pour Moi" (from An 1)
• Illaiyaraaja - "Naanthaan Ungappanda feat. S.P. Balasubrahmanyam" (from Solla Solla: Maestro Ilaiyaraaja And The Electronic Pop Sound Of Kollywood 1977-1983 Vol. 2)
• The wonders of an on-time Grouse
  • Professor Longhair - "Big Chief" (from New Orleans Funk)
• Brighter Side of Darkness - "Love Jones" (from Love Jones)
• Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - "Black Boy" (from Bulletproof Brass EP)
• White/Light - "Can You Get to That / Hit it and Quit It" (from White/Light plays Maggot Brain)
• Günter Schickert - "Puls" (from Überfällig)
• Ryley Walker and Daniel Bachman - "Devil In The Old Dominion" (from Of Deathly Premonitions)
• The Grouse has a love jones for you.
  • Brighter Side of Darkness - "Love Jones (instrumental)" (from Love Jones)
• Daniel Bachman - "Sun Over Old Rag" (from Seven Pines)
• Daniel Bachman - "Grey (Take Two)" (from Grey-Black-Green)
• Daniel Bachman - "Rove Ryley Rove/ Wild Bill Jones/ Darling Cory" (from Oh Be Joyful)
• Mark Fosson - "Gorilla Mountain" (from Digging in the Dust : Home Recordings 1976)
• Angel Olsen/Marissa Nadler - "My Dreams Have Withered and Died" (Soundcloud)
• Charalambides - "My Little Bessie (cassette only)" (from Historic 6th Ward CS)
• Sacred Harp - "Brother Green" (from Apparitions at the Kenmore Plantation)
• Allison's Sacred Harp Singers - "The Old Ship of Zion" (from Heaven's My Home, 1927-1928)
• The Watersons - "Autumn - Souling Song" (from Frost and Fire: A Calendar of Ritual and Magical Songs)
• Donald Swann - "Namárië" (from The Road Goes Ever On)
• Synanthesia - "Just As The Curtain Finally Falls" (from Synanthesia)
• Daniel Bachman & Ian McColm - "WRGOA / MLIAOI / BABD" (from Taman Shud)

For some reason I was unhappy with this program and never assembled it into a podcast. Probably because it's a disorganized, unplanned mess. Enjoy!

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• Ras Kommanda - "What is the Price?"
• Grouse sounds like he's throwing in the towel.
  • The Mar-Keys - "Bush Bash" (from The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968)
• Shadow - "Tabanca" (from This is Soca [CS])
• Natural Dreamers - "Sir G" (JNR108)
• "Ashre" (from Chasidic Dances)
• Birds of America - "Nitewalker" (from The Slow Wish [CS])
• A naked Grouse back announce.
• My Bloody Valentine - "Wonder 2" (from MBV)
• Yes - "Nous Sommes Du Soleil" (from Tales from Topographic Oceans)
• Another naked Grouse back announce.
• Daniel Bachman - "Mount Olive Cohoke" (Live in Germany)
• Chico Buarque & Maria Bethânia - Ao Vivo [side 1]
• "Kol Rinoh" (from Chasidic Dances)
• Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin - "Reverse Shark Attack" (from Reverse Shark Attack)
• Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin - "Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk" (from Reverse Shark Attack)
• Hedzoleh - "Yei Baa Gbe Wo" (from Hedzoleh)
• Koudede - "Hat-iman-in (She Is In My Heart)" b/w "Nelil-igorasan (Life In The Bush)" (SF076: Guitars from Agadez Vol 6)
• 3 Man Band - "Owsley (In Theory & Practice)" (GH6)
• Apache Dropout - "Do The Splendid Clown" (AD#1)