Month: July 2020
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Interesting Chords: The Girl From Ipanema
My dad – who was a jazz guitarist in his spare time – has a phrase ‘interesting chords’, like ‘some of those chords are interesting‘ i.e. unusual. He also has a love of Bossa Nova, and introduced me to the phrase ‘plink plink/cling cling jazz’ – I suspect he must’ve heard the Stan Freberg spoof…
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Chicken Attack OooHoOohHOh
I knew about Japanese yodeller Takeo Ischi but I didn’t know about his work with The Gregory Brothers…love the Spaghetti Western meets Japan via Austria, so many layers. Go Chicken Go! And there is a sequel, Chicken Pig Attack!
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RC 329: One Nation Under A Roof
It’s Really Interesting Arse-kicking Audio, kids! Cease and desist what you’re doing and listen! A Universal middle finger nation response for those with a Big Life on an Island Sanctuary: the corporate Dream that Works is actually complete nightmare. Things have changed in lockdown, power has shifted, artists are showing they can work happily without…
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RIP Peter Green
I actually have this lined up for the next podcast but one, it was supposed to be in 329 but ran out of time. The next but one podcast is called ‘Lost Stars’ and is partly memorialising Ian Curtis, but add Peter to that too. Amazing guitarist without whom Fleetwood Mac would not exist. A…
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The Limiñanas x Foulques de Boixo
I know nothing of the dancing man in this video, Foulques de Boixo but like others I am mesmerised. New tune from French psych band The Limiñanas, Calentitas which my Google Fu tells me is the female form of ‘nice and warm’. But have to admit, all eyes are on him, surreal, hypnotic, he appeared…
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RIAA Shenanigans – Radio Clash Podcast gets it’s first takedown
So yesterday I woke up to this email: July 20, 2020 Radioclash.comBradler & Krantz GmbH & Co. KG X20-440681595272916 Dear Sir or Madam: I am contacting you on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America,Inc. (RIAA) and its member record companies. The RIAA is a trade association whosemember companies create, manufacture and distribute approximately…