The Earth Hotel

AHOY ALL EVERYONE
Last week we were treated to a rocking evening at the Soft Rock Bungalow starring Giant Sunbeam and the Noise and a beast of a band indeed: SEX CAMEL. This foursome of gentlemen make the sex desert passable and the sex dessert just within reach. Giant Sunbeam and the Noise Boys lent their bizarre twist to jazzy funk and laid down a killer middle set, and the Dizzy closed out with a mad powerhouse which was sadly not captured for posterity. We hope you enjoy this delicious bit of live hijinks with Sex Camel and GS&N. Stay tuned for more live footage and interviews with Birmingham artists, musicians, movers, shakers, and one ornery candlestick maker.

For three exclusive tracks by Giant Sunbeam and the Noise, email us at [email protected] and we'll make it happen for your earbits.

https://sexcamel1.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/giant-sunbeam-the-noise

0.00.00 - Welcome from Matchi and Intro //
0.06.14 - Welcome to the Soft Rock Bungalow! //
0.11.05 - Sex Camel! //
0.11.51 - "Cool Cool Cats" //
0.14.22 - "Calloway Gardens" //
0.17.35 - "Pretty Girls" //
0.21.50 - "Disjointed Photo Man" //
0.23.49 - "Pants Have Become" //
0.26.56 - "Slow Fish" //
0.31.20 - "Sex Desert" //
0.37.37 - A PSA from Born With Catheters //
0.39.19 - Giant Sunbeam and the Noise! //
0.40.27 - "Collusion" //
0.43.27 - "The Swamp" //
0.47.30 - "For Once, Pretend" //
0.54.47 - Outro, teaser //

We're beginning a concert series this week, because we have a distressing array of full, live sets from talented folks and we gotta do something with them. So this week you'll hear MEMS from Baltimore, who displayed an equally distressing array of instruments, vocal techniques, and time displacements in their performance at the Soft Rock Bungalow on April 12.

Next TOOSDEE you'll be treated to sound bathing and immense sound from the Firehouse, with sets by Daniel Farris and Amber Locke.

Thanks to Spice Radio Huntsville and the Soft Rock Bungalow for their continued support. Come see the Dizzy, Sex Camel, and Giant Sunbeam and the Noise on Saturday May 27th at the SRB, presented by the Earth Hotel Live! Show starts at 9. MEEECH THANKS

MEMS: https://soundcloud.com/memsbaltimore
MEMS are: Suzie Doogan, Ellen Paul, Miles Clark, and Michael Wasteneys Stephens.

Amid strange local weather and a tumultuous Springing yet, we return for a minisode to satiate you late nighters with us until we can bring the noise back in full on Friday. Chroma Cove, the art gallery run by our Andrea Dillingham, has burned like a phoenix, but in our interview she assures me that this is not its final form. I agree, and support her fully, and you can too! Donate to her Gofundme here and help rebuild a physical sanctuary to house her art dreams: https://www.gofundme.com/chroma-cove-fire-fund Last week I went to the Nick to see my friends in Cahaba, and Giant Sunbeam and the Noise. I was treated to a night of drama, funk, and sentimental crooning (all the good kind). The show closers were Particle Devotion from NEW ORLEANS, and they gave me a copy of their new album to sell in the upcoming Earth Hotel Traveling Library Merch-o-Case (title pending). Also coming to the EHTLMoC(tp) is a new album by Cahaba called Bad Astronaut. Find it here: https://cahaba.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/GSandTheNoise/ To open this minisode, I've included a live cut from Giant Sunbeam, and we'll close it with a gently tragic song from the Particle Devotion fellows called "They Are Back Again." To be fair, it made me cry, so we'll leave it for last so you can choose to cry too. https://particledevotion.bandcamp.com/releases Thanks for sticky wickets. Viva l'amore.

Over the next three weeks, the minisodes will feature music from a promotional Springfest 2017 CD bearing a spread of artists that played the one-day festival in Woodlawn. Our art prayers go to that facility for a prosperous future. This week is a diverse mix of garage sleazy bites, far-out beaty things, and intensely honest crafted rap.To open the show, we are pleased to present our good friend Joel Nelson in a shoutout from Oakland, CA. He was joined by Montevallo and Nina Rat! Nina Rat!'s Lauren Jones, and electronicist Dylan Burchett to form HORSEYSAUCE, and they perform a live rendition of "thickThighs". We love you Horseysauce! Check out the archive page for Montevallo Music podcasts featuring Joel, the Black Power...Ranger!, Nina Rat! Nina Rat!, and al-Qaeda the Gun! 00.00 - Intro \  02.46 - Horseysauce - "thickThighs" \  12.08 - Songs from Springfest. . . \  12.52 - The Dead Balloons - "Stand Up" \  16.42 - Brillo - "Cacao Jean" \   21.44 - Guy Akimoto - "My USB Heart" / 25.06- Snake Church - "Just Talk" \  27.17- Sage Williams - "The War on Drugs" \  SO many thanks to you for joining us. This is becoming a bottomless well of happiness in my life and I am deeply grateful to you for being here with me.

The show is back for the tail of March and Spring has funked everyone up. This episode features the Dizzy reading a scene from Night of the Living Dead at the very first Live Earth Hotel Podcast at Springfest 2017 in Woodlawn, AL. Live, glitched music by Kyle Weems from a doomed night at Eclipse and selections from two shows I attended finish the episode strong. MUCH MUSIC.

Medusa's Disco - (Lancaster, CT) -http://www.medusasdisco.com/music/

Curse (Baltimore) - https://cursebaltimore.bandcamp.com/

0.00.00 - (Part 1) Live Podcast @ Springfest with the Dizzy /
0.26.43 - Intro to Part 2: /
0.31.44 - Kyle Weems Live @ Eclipse - March 9 /
0.36.44 - Intro to Medusa’s Disco /
0.40.26 - Medusa's Disco (Played @ Syndicate Lounge - March 13 /
0.48.15 - Intro to Curse /
0.52.36 - Curse (Played @ Firehouse March 22) 

WE EXPERIENCE TURBULENCE AND DRIVE BACK IN AN AMBULANCE

Eclipse dun got rocked by two bands this Friday night (March 3) and they both happen to be friends of mine. Giant Sunbeam and the Noise (Episode 7) and Cahaba (Montevallo Music Podcast and EH Archive) returned to the podcast from the Eclipse stage to show you some chops that they like to use musically. Unfortunately, the Cahaba recordings were not as impactful as the live show, so I'll include a track from their brand-new album BAD ASTRONAUT, coming soon. The next night, Saturday March 4th, I played a wacky set at Birmingham's Soft Rock Bungalow with a singer from Nashville. His act was called Portsmouth, and his song from that performance is here. Track list: 4.39 - "The Swamp" / 8.45- "The Bee Song (When We Go, We're Taking You With Us)" / 12.39 - “For Once, Pretend” / 18.30 - Cahaba - "Keep Your Hands Off the Record, Machine!" / 21.34 - Portsmouth - "Bitter Pill" Thanks for joining us this Tuesday! Keep your sounds eared for Friday's full-length variety episode with Jordan Rickerson of the Dizzy!

Myself is joined by Neeta-Burger-self and Kevin-Peek-self in Neeta's apartment to talk a LOT about music, the local scene, emotional selves, and the ticking clock of life. Neeta shares her time and talent between her original act, Sister Sniffle, now a band, Spores, a local "magical" act, and a solo acoustic act showcased here, BORINGHAM. Kevin plays with a local rock group by the name of Hurl Yeah. Included in this show is a song cut from segments of sound provided by my previous guest, Will Mcdonald, and his circuit-bent Casio SK-5.

You can listen to that Episode here, for the circuit-bending demo from which all non-vocal sounds in the song originate.

DATES:
March 4 - Jacquie Cotillard @ Soft Rock Bungalow with Easy/Idle Threat/Portsmouth (8pm) //
March 8 - Sister Sniffle and Dead Balloons @ Firehouse (7pm) //
March 9 - Jacquie Cotillard/Whirlybird/Kyle Weems @ Eclipse (9pm) //
March 11 - Boringham with Wray/Operator Music Band/Tear Down the Walls (7pm) //

00.00.00 - We/co/l/me (Earth Hotel Sonata v135) /
00.02.10 - Hello and Dates /
00.04.57 - "Outside" - Boringham /
00.11.06 - Neeta Burger & Kevin Peek (pt 1) /
00.19.35 - "Good Childhood" - Boringham /
00.22.14 - Interview (pt 2) /
00.43.54 - "Nuance" JC with Neeta Burger /
00.47.08 - "Letter from Hell" - Short fiction /
00.56.03 - Farewell for Now! /
00.56.52 - "Found His Ohms" - Viewer Submission from Kyle Weems /
01.00.05 - “Leave Home” - Hare (from the Montevallo Music Podcast) /

Our second mini show features live music from CLASP, a Philadelphia band who played on a bill with me for a gas generator show under a bridge this weekend.

Songs by Clasp: "Sorry to catch you on your way out" / "M M K" / "Orange Juice"

Later that night, Saturday II 25, I joined Andrea Dillingham, Lindsey Shante, and numerous Birmingham visual artists to put some exhibitionism into the local art scene at Art Erotica presented by Chroma Cove Gallery. Andrea, the operator of the space, spoke with me about a series by a particular artist that holds a sad and beautiful story.

Chroma Cove: https://www.facebook.com/chromacove/
Clasp: https://www.facebook.com/claspnet/

Dates for this week:
March 1 - Sonder, Rollo, Jesus Vio @ Firehouse 8pm ///
Terror Pigeon, Curt Oren, Real Frogs @ Eclipse 8:30pm (free) ///
March 2 - Standing Rock Benefit Show @ Eclipse 8pm (free) ///
March 3 - Giant Sunbeam + Cahaba @ Eclipse 8pm (free) ///
March 4 - Jacquie Cotillard @ Soft Rock Bungalow (confirmed) ///
March 5 - That 1 Guy @ Syndicate Lounge 7pm ($15) ///

We're back to close out the month of February with adventures in circuit bending: (the practice of dismantling and corrupting keyboards or electronic instruments).
My friend and Montevallo ex-pat Will Mcdonald joins me in the studio to give me a demo of his bent Casio SK-5, and we end up talking about Dada and Word Magick.
This episode features a song by defunct Montevallo jazz group AL-QAEDA the GUN and a couple of selections from my more obscure word works.

Also, for the first time, a viewer Q & A segment! Send your comments, questions, and art/stories/pitchforks to [email protected].

iMyoUiNG (instrumental conceptual album) by Jacquie Cotillard: https://jacquiecotillard.bandcamp.com/

Russell-Einstein Manifesto: http://www.spokesmanbooks.com/Spokesman/PDF/85russein.pdf

0.00.00 - The Earth The Earth The Earth Hotel Theme
0.00.48 - Burroughs/Russell/Einstein Cut-Up Invocation
0.03.23 - Opening Monologue
0.07.48 - Circuit Bending demo
0.16.04 - Viewer Mail and Dates
0.25.43 - Interview with Will
0.55.59 - A Word for A Local Business
0.57.04 - “Kate’s Plea” from iMyoUiNG
1.59.57 - "Extended Cave" by al-Qaeda the Gun! with good-bye

No guest this week and I splain why that is! Nearly all music for this composite episode, with Montevallo's improvisational powerhouse Flusnoix closing out with a 45-minute set. Thanks for your continued listening and support! Check out below the timestamps for dates and links to the content. Next week's Friday show has a viewer mail segment, so send in questions and comments at [email protected] --

00.00.00 - Welcome to the Earth Hotel /
00.00.18 - "They See Us" from iMyoUiNG /
00.03.00 - Opening monologue & dates /
00.08.29 - "Hot Air" - Rareluth /
00.13.48 - About the Music /
00.15.27 - "traashs" from iMyoUiNG /
00.17.52 - "From a Collection" (JC) /
00.21.16 - Intro to Flusnoix /
00.23.22 - Flusnoix @ Eclipse Coffee and Books, II
4/72 AN /

/// Flusnoix is Walker Yancey and Jess Marie Walker, among many others. Find them here:https://soundcloud.com/flusnoix -- https://sweetwreath.bandcamp.com/album/flusnoix --https://www.facebook.com/flusnoix/

/// iMyoUiNG is a full-length musical album by myself, Jacquie Cotillard, released Feb. 1, 2017/72. You can find it here: https://jacquiecotillard.bandcamp.com/album/imyouing/// Hot Air is an EP by Rareluth, from Lafayette, LA. Find them here: https://www.facebook.com/rareluth/ & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jmg2jJ6vHI