Sitting With Gianluca

Sitting With Gianluca is Phil Buehler who’s book Wardy Forty uncovers Woody Guthrie’s last years with Huntington’s disease at Greystone Park State Hospital in New Jersey. Expect lots of unheard stories and plenty of Woody Guthrie music. 

Sitting with Gianluca is performance artist, "psychiatrist" and Radio Free Brooklyn host Dr. Lisa of Lisa Gives a Shit. Expect funny talk and songs about shrinks and nervous breakdowns.

In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day Gianluca pays tribute to First Nations musicians that formed the basis for rock and roll. Expect to be surprised who comes up. 

Gianluca replays an interview with Chris smither who plays a couple of songs, explains the art of songwriting and talks about the Cambridge Massachusetts folk scene of the sixties.

Sitting with Gianluca is top music photographer Guy Eppel who began his career shooting some of the best & brightest U.K bands of the early oughts for the illustrious New Musical Express. During his early days for the magazine, he made important connections with artists such as The Libertines, The Cribs, Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party, among many others. Expect a vibrant conversation of the art of rock photography and lots of great music from Guy’s subjects.

Sitting with me today on Sitting With Gianluca is Liz Thompson who is organizing The Village Trip - celebration go the Greenwich Village folks scene. That runs from September 26th - 29th and will be capped with a free concert by Steve Earle. Expect to hear songs from festival performers and some of the legendary characters who made scene possible as well as the history of the village beyond music and including politics and literature along with the roots of the NAACP. 

Sitting With Gianluca today will be Demus Whisper is a veteran on the house music ad electronica scene. Digital Memory Music label boss Demus Whisper Started as a promoter in the early 90's in NYC to such clubs as Palladium, USA, Tunnel, Limelight, Roxy... Got into Djing in 1995 playing Progressive House leading into Hard Trance, Hard Techno and UK Hard House & Nu Nrg.. Took a break for a few years and got back into djing in 2005. Some places he has played in NYC are Tunnel, Limelight / Avalon, Sound Factory, Katra, The Green Room, Chelsea Brewing Company, The Grand, Leopard Lounge, The East Side Company Bar, Azza, Bar 13, Le Souk, China 1, Karma, Aji Lounge, National Underground, T heater Bar, Luca Lounge, Studio B just to name a few.He has also played all over the US and overseas in London twice. Demus released his first single with a collaboration with GRon for a heavy techno workout called "Breaking My Concentration" in January 2013. Expect more singles and remixes from Demus in 2013 on Digital Memory Music and Keoki Records.Join our conversation on RadioFreeBrooklyn.com Wednesday 6PM

The fact that Art Neville was also known as "Poppa Funk" shows how he was a father figure to a whole generation of musicians. By 17 he had already had a hit with "Mardi Gras Mambo" with The Hawkettes. He also founded the Legendary Meters and later, the Neville 

Brothers. I saw him play a ridiculous amount of times and interviewed him a couple of times for various magazines. I'll be paying tribute to him on this week's Sitting With Gianluca this Wednesday 6PM EST on RadioFreeBrooklyn.com with recollections from bass legend George Porter jr. who played with Art for 48 years in the Meters and beyond.

Miami - New York based IFE has made a name for herself as  a DJ playing drum and bass, AfroBeat and deep house and has been on stages on international festivals. She sits with Gianluca to explain what she does and turn him on to the joys of electronica.