At Left: Let's face it, I could have put up a blank square, or a Kandinsky painting...or this chick's hot ass. Radio Anthrocide, though leaning towards obscurantist intellectual overkill, remains controlled by a man who still appreciates the, uhm, "curvature of the Earth". This Kraut fanny was just too good to pASS up, and it will with luck improve my Q-ratings with that all-important 18-to-34 male demographic.
With apologies for the delays due to a problem with the network's podcast system, here, at last, is last Saturday's show, which your host enjoyed both doing and listening to tremendously. There was more than a nod, of course, to Public Sensory Radio in the evening's festivities, as this kind of repetitive and Electronic Microtonal music is a specialty of DJ Micah, who has been really putting together some wonderful shows recently. This is by way of saying that if you enjoyed RA#21, then PSR should be your next stop in the podcasting universe.
Now to what was played. This was an evening of very long tracks, such that a four-and-half-hour program contained a total of twelve "songs", which is some kind of record for me, and very much appreciated from a typing standpoint after last week's 60 track avalanche in during the Blaxploitation Party. While there is a lot to say about both Gavin Bryars and Wolfgang Voigt (of GAS fame), these are relatively well-known artists. Not so with Sea Of Wires, sent my way a couple weeks ago by the aforementioned Tsar Of Minimalia, DJ Micah. Individually Screened is a profoundly off the wall collection, ranging from electro-disco to straight-up minimal synth. It is the track I chose to play- "An Endless Rainy Day"- which is the highlight, however. Out Schulzing-KS in imagination, repetition, warm loops of sound and endless serpentines of meandering aural investigation, I loved this track the moment I heard it and had it in the mix that very night. It served as a nice segue to Norway's Rolf Trostel, whom I admit straddles the line between Ambient and New Age, and may be a little too mellow for the normal RA listener. Regardless, I really enjoy "The Narrow Gates Of Life", and it makes a nice 45-minute trip to terra incognita that is sometimes referred to as your mind. It was nice to just kick play on this one and settle back for a while and just stare at the lava lamp.
Other highlights include Japanese avant-synthesizer gurus Kazutaka Sazaki and Motoaki Suzuka, performing as the Bach Revolution. Their three albums are wildly erratic, but on the track I played everything comes together from a distrait and vertiginous opening to a wildly cerebral close. One of my favorite things I've played in months, especially as their music is very rare and you're not likely to hear it anywhere other than RA. And speaking of rare, Gunnar Moller Pedersen's Stoned- An Electric Symphony exists in a grand total of twelve LP's; a student of Cornelius Cardrew of AMM fame, Pedersen played concerts at house parties in the early 70's and handed out these albums. They have to qualify as some of the rarest music in the world; and of course, thanks to the genius collaborative over at Mutant Sounds (my FAVORITE website in the entire world) you can hear this music yourself- without paying $5,000 for it, which is a going rate quoted at another website I checked in researching this brilliant work.
Anywhere, there's your notes, better late than never- and, as an appeal to friends of RA, if anybody has been saving these programs, please contact me. I had a bit of a mishap with my external hard drive this week, and I don't know if my files are still there or not. They're definitely misplaced, so if you have them and would let me know...I would, of course, be forever grateful. I'd like to keep the RA document ready for eventual inclusion in the civilizational capsule man creates when he finally succeeds in destroying the world; the inheritors of our rubble are going to need something good to listen to whilst they rebuild from our insensate folly. Cheers, - TKR
Setlist For RadioAnthrocide#21 The Minimal Show
1) Gavin Bryars- "White's S.S."
2) GAS- "Konigsforst 5"
3) The Sea Of Wires- "An Endless Rainy Day"
4) Rolf Trostel- "Narrow Gate To Life Pts. 1 - 5"
5) Richard Pinhas- "Paul Atreides"
6) Terry Riley- "The Descending Moonshine Dervishes"
7) Bach Revolution- "Narega Tama, Akumuyori Mezameyo"
8) Gunner Moller Pedersen- "Stoned: An Electric Symphony Part 2"
9) Gyorgy Ligeti- "Study No. 2 'Coulee', for organ"/"Volumina, for organ 1. Fassung"
10) Conrad Schnitzler- "ZUG"
11) Klaus Schulze- "Das Grosse Identifikationsspiel"
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