On this weeks show five brand new albums from 577 Records, one each from Greenleaf,  Tao Forms, International Anthem and ECM. There's also plus a dip in the archive for some classic tracks

Featuring :

Arve Henriksen, Bennie Maupin, Bill Smith Ensemble, Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble, Dave Tucker, E. Jason Gibbs, George Russell, Jakob Bro, James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Joe McPhee, Jorge Rossy, Keith Tippett, Mark Sanders, Matthew Putman, Michael Sarian, Nat Baldwin, Pat Thomas, Paul Dunmall, Pete Fairclough, Phillip Gibbs, Sound Prints, Thurston Moore, Treesearch

More details at Different Noises Blog

Featuring music from 

Blokeacola, Cathal Coughlan, Dave Graney,'n' The Coral Snakes  Husker Du, Lizard Brain, Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys, Moff Skellington, Odd Circus, Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus, The Fall, and Tomahawk

Originally broadcast as part of the Overflow Sunday Service on River Gibbs FM

On this show I feature new albums from Lizard Brain, Tomahawk, Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys, and, Cathal Coughlan.....as well as other new releases from Odd Circus and Arepo. There's my usual dip into the archive including Dave Graney, Ras Michael, Husker Du, and Tim Berne.

Lizard Brain "Black Hole Love" from Confection (2021)

Tomahawk "Valentine Shine" from Tonic Immobility (2021)

Husker Du "Eiffel Tower High" from Candy Apply Grey (2008)

Dave Graney 'n' The Coral Snakes "Dandies Are Never Unbuttoned" from The Soft 'N' Sexy Sound (1995)

Odd Circus "Venadek" from Mantha EP (2021)

Cathal Coughlan "St Wellbeing Axe" from Song of Co Aklan (2021)

Moff Skellington "Skegness" from Skegness (2013)

Ras Michael & The Song Of Negus "Roll River Jordan Roll" from Freedom Sounds (1974)

Lizard Brain "Just Relax" from Confection (2021)

Husker Du "Sorry Somehow" from Candy Apply Grey (2008)

Dave Graney 'n' The Coral Snakes  "Brass Buttons" from Music For Colourful Racing Identities (1995)

Cathal Coughlan "Crow Mother" from Song of Co Aklan (2021)

Odd Circus "Djinn" from Mantha EP (2021)

Moff Skellington "The Seaside at Christmas" from Skegness (2013)

Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys "A Strangers Chest" from Transit Tapes (2021)

Lizard Brain "Checking My Brake Cables Every Day" from Confection (2021)

Tomahawk "Fatback" from Tonic Immobility (2021)

Husker Du "I Don't Know For Sure" from Candy Apply Grey (2008)

Dave Graney 'n' The Coral Snakes  "World Full of Daughters" from Music For Colourful Racing Identities (1995)

Cathal Coughlan "My Child Is Alive" from Song of Co Aklan (2021)

Odd Circus "Amarok" from Mantha EP (2021)

Moff Skellington "A Dream of Agriculture" from Skegness (2013)

Tomahawk "Dog Eat Dog" from Tonic Immobility (2021)

Arepo "Smoke From Unseen Fires" from Arepo (2021)

Tim Berne's Snakeoil "Rose Colored Assive" from The Fantastic Mrs. 10 (2019)

Tim Berne's Snakeoil "Hora Feliz" from Incidentals (2017)

In the second in a series of podcasts Moff explores the impact of larger people on the world - Demis Roussos is featured as is David Thomas of Pere Ubu, amongst others. Typically surreal and otherworldly Moff takes you on a magical trip.

Chris and Phil Lukes aka The Wonders of Undo introduce their new album "Ctrl Z".

Having shared parents, clothes, records and flats, Chris and Phil Lukes have always been close. For a short time, they were in a band together, Phil on bass and Chris on drums before he left, in a George Best moment, disenchanted with teammates. Phil continued in various bands, ending up as bass player, vocalist and songwriter in Dislocation Dance.

Chris and Phil have been collaborating on and off for over 16 years, initially to explore ideas around simply learning how to record and produce music using the computer. These experiments grew into The Wonders of Undo; harnessing found sounds and loops, making a fair few noises of their own and honing their ideas into (so far) a catalogue of three completed projects.

In 2021, the Lukes boys are closer than ever, despite being separated by 13,000 kilometres. “Much of our music,” says Chris, “starts out based upon whimsy or bad puns; things that make us laugh, but often turns out to be quite deep and meaningful. Still, we haven’t let that stop us!”

https://thewondersofundo.bandcamp.com/

A Slapstick Life is Moff Skellington’s 45th release and is a collection of tunes based around an early recording of his called “Remembering a Slapstick Life”.

The music on the release is rooted in old jazz and ragtime recordings, described by Moff as a Hal Roach fever dream.

The track entitled ” Remembering a Slapstick Life ” is a montage of recordings from the original project from 1985-90. Moff took the Picasso/ Matisse path and used only what was irreducible, so it could be termed “Atomic”.

The recordings are full of jazz ghosts and narration is delivered by Babe Handy i.e. W C Handy meets Oliver ‘ Babe ‘ Hardy, thereby consummating the marriage between jazz and slapstick. Handy’s voice might be perceived as belonging to an overweight and seedy northern comic from the early seventies.

The listener is transported to Weimar Republic Berlin where Brecht and Weill might be constructing an entertainment for the theatre. And there’s a piece of synchronicity in that Chaplin’s “The Gold Rush” had a significant impact on Brecht. Slapstick is omnipresent.

Moff has captured the music of the slapstick era wonderfully although it is heard through the prism of Eddodi – if indeed you can hear things through a prism.

This podcast introduces the album which can be acquired from German Shepherd Records on Bandcamp