Escape From Noise

Is there any escape from boys? Not this week, as Greg and George come back to hit the books. We read & chat about a couple short stories, and all fall in love with Helen.

This month on Escape From Noise we dip our toes for the first time into the world of song, with the idiosyncratic, enigmatic, erratic, enthusiastic, geriatric bard of Nuremberg, Dan Reeder. We try to consider how pop songs can internalize and express the contradictions of the real world, and whether that just might provide us with...an escape?

Greg and George come back on the program to discuss the life and work of David Graeber, who recently passed away. 

You can find much of David's work on the Anarchist Library Website, and many good talks on Youtube.

Graeber on Government Debt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxJW7hl8oqM&list=LLPdrJfARLr6-9TpGgPTXwuA&index=69

Essays on Flying Cars, and Dead Zones of the Imagination: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-the-utopia-of-rules

Bullshit Jobs: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullshit-jobs

Graeber on a Future Economy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YynqVvgZYI

A funny, looser talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn78MhPmbCc

One small phone call for a man, one giant leap for man's radio show: continuing our meteoric rise to legitimacy, we are joined by Magdalena of the band Caroline (find them at caroline.bandcamp.com, and caroline.band)

Join us for a tour of the London & Vienna underground music scenes, and...much more

This month we discuss Pharaoh Sanders, a man who's spent the last 60 years playing free jazz, spiritual jazz, and collaborating with musicians from around the world. We also get sidetracked talking about the history of jazz being used as cultural propaganda during the Cold War, and how the author Ishmael Reed teaches us that the roots of all our problems lie in a disagreement between Moses and the Egyptian court.

George and Greg (the Boys) come over to share their favorite beats, and we talk about what's so special about them.

Paul's microphone is much louder throughout, this isn't a sign of inflated self-importance--in fact exactly the opposite--just one of many technical problems demonstrating his incompetence.

Sound quality is bad--deal with it! We're going back to the golden days of AM radio, and we're taking you with us

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Escape From Noise - Negativland

Jack Treese - Le Petit Bois

Wheels Within Wheels - Penguin Cafe

Phillip and Steve's Furniture Removal Company - The Divine Company

Bach & Born a Worm - Dan Reeder

Joe By The Book - Buck Meek

Yolanda - Robert Wyatt

Intrasport - King Gizzard

Eye Nyam Nam A Mensuro (Henry Schwarz Blend) - Ebo Taylor Pat Thomas

Apricots - Bicep

All My Happiness is Gone - Purple Mountains

Landscape for Future Earth - Keith Jarrett

It's Gonna Rain - Reverend Milton Brunson

Pink Footpath() [Back to Instrumental Mix] - Loui$

Black Woman - Sonny Sharrock

Transcendental Access Point - Eris Drew

The Pink Chiffon Tricycle Queen - William Ackerman

Avant-garde composer, Communist (Marxist-Leninist), graphic designer, "the moral centre of the British avant-garde", polemic music critic, free improviser, possible victim of a political assassination, and possibly the worst songwriter of all time.

In what should have been the first episode, we take a step back and lay down the rules of the game we're going to play. What noise, why is it bad, and what would an escape even look like?

In our first episode, we take a look at the life and work of Pauline Oliveros. Can her programs of Sonic Meditation and Deep Listening give us an Escape From Noise?