This weekend signals the beginning of Passover and the conclusion of Easter festivities so during today’s TRANSMUSIC AIRWAVES (Episode #462), you’ll hear relatable music throughout the program all loosely tied together by a different track during each set from everybody’s favorite psychedelic surf/John Zorn Masada songbook inspired band, the GOLEMS OF THE RED PLANET, including the international debut of their latest piece, ‘Mehalalel’ during the shows fourth set.

The Golems previous offering, ‘Paschar Tzofeh,’ is their first piece played and it’s surrounded by other tracks from BRIAN ENO & DAVID BYRNE, Mali’s TINARIWEN, DEVOTCHKA, LUMINESCENT ORCHESTRII, and newly unearthed pieces from FRANK ZAPPA’S 200 Motels (50th anniversary box set) during the opening set. 

The second half hour has the Golems’ composition ‘Hadrial’ immersed with WIRE, SALVATION, BECK, HECTOR ZAZOU & SANDY DILLON, and more new material from PARQUET COURTS, ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, DUMMY, and the EELS.

Additional new pieces are heard today from FREQ OUT, ROBERT PLANT & ALLISON KRAUSE, NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE, SHUGGSJA, and BEIRUT, ‘vault’ tracks are played from DUKE ELLINGTON, THE CARAVELLES, STOMU YAMASH’TA, TOM WAITS, and OREGON, with other music from PATTI SMITH, JOSEPH ARTHUR, and THEE OH SEES all included as part of this program.

Today's Set List:

SET #1 
CHLOPCY KONTRA BASIA Mam Ja Meza (I Have A Husband)  OJ Tak! 3:46 
TINARIWEN Tenere, Taqqim, Tossam  Tassilli 4:14 
GOLEMS OF THE RED PLANET Paschar/Tzofeh  www.golemsoftheredplanet.bandcamp.com 2:47 
BRIAN ENO & DAVID BYRNE Mea Culpa  My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (Remaster) 4:57 
FRANK ZAPPA Scene 94 – He’s Always Watching Me/ Does This Kind Of Life Look Interesting To You? (Mix Outtake)/ Dental Hygiene Dilemma (Part II – Basic Tracks)  200 Motels  50th Anniversary Edition** 5:10 
BEIRUT In The Mausoleum  Flying Club Cup** 3:10 
SID BECKERMAN & HOWIE LEESS Ot Azoy  The Rough Guide To Klezmer Revival 3:57 
DEVOTCHKA Lunnaya Pogonka  How It Ends 5:18 
LUMINESCENT ORCHESTRII Moldavian  Neptune’s Daughter 3:50 

SET#2 
DUMMY Tapestry Distortion  Mandatory Enjoyment** 3:39 
WIRE Brio  Silver/Lead 3:37 
PARQUET COURTS Marathon Of Anger  Sympathy For Life** 4:34 
GOLEMS OF THE RED PLANET Hadrial  www.golemsoftheredplanet.bandcamp.com 4:01 
HECTOR ZAZOU & SANDY DILLON Sombre (Le Submarine)  12 – Las Vegas Is Cursed 4:23 
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE We Go Back  Time Skiffs** 3:23 
SALVATION Handles Of Care  Gypsy Carnival Caravan 5:49 
BECK Sissyneck  Odelay 3:52 
EELS Grandfather Clock Strikes Twelve  Extreme Witchcraft** 3:22 

SET #3 
SPONGE Go Speed Racer Go  Saturday Morning Cartoon’s Greatest Hits 3:07 
RESONNANCE (Pierre Bachelet/Mat Camison) OK Chicago  Shake Sauvage: French Soundtracks 1968-1973 2:32 
STOMU YAMASH’TA Superstar (exerpt)  One By One (OST) 4:33 
GOLEMS OF THE RED PLANET Ziphim  www.golemsoftheredplanet.bandcamp.com 3:22 
PINK FLOYD Crumbling Land  Zabriskie Point (OST) 4:16 
ROBERT PLANT & ALLISON KRAUSE Last Kind Words Blues  Raise The Roof** 4:06 
KLO PELGAG Les Ferrofluides-Fluers  L’Etoile Thoracique** 2:43 
PATTI SMITH Mosaic  Banga 4:17 

SET #4 
GOLEMS OF THE RED PLANET Mehalalel**  www.golemsoftheredplanet.bandcamp.com 3:10 
THE CARAVELLES Don’t Blow Your Cool  Don’t Blow Your Cool More 60’s Girls From U.K. 2:10 
HOLGAR CZUKAY Rhonrad  Rome Remains Rome/Der Osten Ist Rot 1:38 
JETHRO TULL Mine Is The Mountain  The Zealot Gene** 5:39 
SKUGGSJA (Ivar Bjornson/ Einar Selvik) Skuggsja  Skuggsja: A Piece For Mind & Mirror** 6:36 
NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE Tumblin’ Thru The Years  Barn** 3:19 
JOSEPH ARTHUR The Ballad Of The Boogie Christ  The Ballad Of The Boogie Christ 4:13 

SET #5 
KLEZROYM Fel Shara  Putumayo Presents: A Jewish Odyssey 2:51 
DUKE ELLINGTON Caravan  The Essential Duke Ellington 2:41 
SANTANA Tales Of Kilimanjaro  Zebop! 3:26 
GOLEMS OF THE RED PLANET Hazor  www.golemsoftheredplanet.bandcamp.com 3:10 
KRONOS QUARTET Nihavent Sirto  Floodplain 3:16 
JAH WOBBLE & TEMPLE OF SOUND Mountains Of The Moon  Shout At The Devil 5:43 
TIMBA MM Respiro  Outstanding!** 4:39 
OREGON Elevator  Moon And Mind 3:54 

SET #6 
FREQ OUT (Carl Palmer) Only HZ When I Laugh  Freq Out 3 Circuit Breaker 2022** 2:00 
DAVID THOMAS & TWO PALE BOYS Golden Surf  18 Monkeys On A Dead Man’s Chest 4:34 
THEE OH SEES Lupine Ossuary  Mutilator Defeated At Last 4:17 
GOLEMS OF THE RED PLANET Hutriel  www.golemsoftheredplanet.bandcamp.com 4:36 

** = New or recent acquisition 
OST = Original Soundtrack 

Inspiration can come from many sources and for those of you who know how I operate, it, at it’s core, is what drives this weekly program. 

One source who’s always inspired my creative juices is multimedia artist, composer, and innovator LAURIE ANDERSON, who just last week was profiled on 60 Minutes so I thought I’d get my latest TRANSMUSIC AIRWAVES (Episode #461) going by incorporating three lesser known pieces from her ‘Big Science’ album into the programs first set. Surrounding those melodies are songs from ROBERT WYATT, SKY CRIES MARY, NICK DRAKE, CARAVAN, and a brand new offering from the band BEIRUT. 

There’s a ‘mountain’ of new material, ‘vault’ gems, and delicious musical soundscapes assembled throughout the shows remaining sets today. New releases abound from numerous artists including FREQ OUT, ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, ROBERT PLANT & ALLISON KRAUSE, New York’s PARQUET COURTS, Houston’s KHRUANGBIN (with LEON BRIDGES), NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE, DUMMY, and more from PUNCH BROTHERS, KLO PELGAG, EELS, and ALT-J.

The ‘vault’ is anchored with THE CRAMPS, ULTIMATE SPINACH, SNAKEFINGER, and vintage PINK FLOYD while just about every musical style is covered from English folk (MARTIN CARTHY & DAVID SWARBRICK), classical/electronic (WENDY CARLOS), jazz (DELTA SAXOPHONE QUARTET), and international (Norway’s SKUGGSJA) and there’s even a classic comedy song from MONTY PYTHON. 

SET #1 
LAURIE ANDERSON Sweaters  Big Science (25th Anniversary Edition) 2:23 
BEIRUT A Call To Arms/Nantes  Flying Club Cup** 4:08 
LAURIE ANDERSON Walking & Falling  Big Science (25th Anniversary Edition) 2:13 
ROBERT WYATT Master Of The Field  Winged Migration (OST) 3:22 
SKY CRIES MARY Ocean Which Humanity Is  A Return To The Inner Experience 5:21 
CARAVAN He Who Smelt It/ Memory Lain, Hugh  For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night 4:41 
NICK DRAKE Man In A Shed  Bryter Layter 3:56 
LAURIE ANDERSON Born, Never Asked  Big Science (25th Anniversary Edition) 4:58 

SET#2 
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Dragon Slayer  Time Skiffs** 3:56 
FREQ OUT (Carl Palmer) Wild Nights  Freq Out 3 Circuit Breaker 2022** 3:07 
CATE LE BON Miami  Reward 5:17 
DELTA SAXOPHONE QUARTET Epilogue  Dedicated To You...But You Weren’t Listening 2:56 
OINGO BOINGO Insanity (Medium Version)  Anthology 4:56 
SKUGGSJA (Ivar Bjornson/ Einar Selvik) Introi Ull Kjem  Skuggsja: A Piece For Mind & Mirror** 2:17 
DUMMY Final Weapon  Mandatory Enjoyment** 3:03 
ROBERT PLANT & ALLISON KRAUSE You Led Me To The Wrong  Raise The Roof** 4:17 
ALPHA REV Lonely Man  Bloom 4:22 

SET #3 
KHRUANGBIN & LEON BRIDGES Doris  Texas Moon (EP)** 3:49 
PARQUET COURTS Application/Apparatus  Sympathy For Life** 4:36 
TOM HERMAN Slim  Wait For It 3:58 
ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER Cars In Space  Sideways To New Italy** 4:58 
NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE Human Race  Barn** 4:12 
EELS The Magic  Extreme Witchcraft** 3:12 
PEDRO THE LION Keep Swinging  Achilles Heel 2:53 
ALT-J Hard Drive Gold  The Dream** 2:38 

SET #4 
KLO PELGAG Samedi Soir A La Violence  L’Etoile Thoracique** 4:07 
JETHRO TULL Where Did Saturday Go?  The Zealot Gene** 3:52 
MARTIN CARTHY & DAVID SWARBRICK Perfumes Of Arabia  Skin + Bone 3:10 
PUNCH BROTHERS Last Thing On My Mind  Hell On Church Street** 4:25 
JAKE SHIMABUKURO A Day In The Life (w/ Jon Anderson)  Jake & Friends** 4:26 
PINK FLOYD The Narrow Way (Pt, 1 & 2)  Ummagumma 6:30 
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO Futique  Beauty 4:08 

SET #5 
CHRIS RECCARDI Ren & Stimpy Show Theme  Toon Tunes: Funny Bone Favorites 2:22 
SNAKEFINGER Trashing All The Loves Of History  Greener Postures 3:11 
THE CRAMPS Goo Goo Muck  Psychedelic Jungle 3:06 
MONKS OF DOOM Door to Success  Meridian 4:11 
ULTIMATE SPINACH Mind Flowers  Behold & See 8:30 
ROBIN TROWER United States Of Mind  United States Of Mind** 3:37 
SHAWN PHILLIPS Landscape  Faces 4:19 
HAL WILLNER We Travel The Subways  Whoops! I’m An Indian 2:25 

SET #6 
DANIEL LANOIS Out Of Sight  Heavy Sun** 3:45 
MAPS & DIAGRAMS Maykasaharaspointofview  Split 3:15 
BRIAN ENO Disturbed Being  Nerve Net 6:12 
CORNELIUS 2010  Fantasma 2:03 
WENDY CARLOS Bach: Two-Part Invention In D Minor  Switched On Bach 0:53 
MONTY PYTHON Decomposing Composers  Monty Python Sings 2:44 
CLASSICAL REVOLUTION Waves Of Mutilation  Pixies Doolittle Tribute 2:51 
THE STRING QUARTET The Immigrant Song  The String Quartet Tribute To Led Zeppelin 2:36 

** = New or recent acquisition 
OST = Original Soundtrack

Information for Laurie Anderson Exhibition At The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden:
 https://hirshhorn.si.edu/exhibitions/laurie-anderson-the-weather/

This week’s TRANSMUSIC AIRWAVES (Episode #460) signifies the start of another new month (as I put my hand up to my nose and wiggle it, saying good riddance to March) and with it, the second week of my new noon program premiere slot. So how did that work out last week? I was still ten minutes late getting the show released. This week I actually thought I’d have to grab another show from the archive because of that most dreaded element that anyone even vaguely creative stumbles upon; writers block (or in my case music indecision). 

By Monday I had a wonderful first set assembled with music from FRED FRITH, KLO PELGAG, JESCA HOOP, HANNE HUKKELBERG, RALPH CARNEY, THE MARCH FOURTH MARCHING BAND, CALIFONE, MAPS & ATLASES, and the PENGUIN CAFE ORCHESTRA all lined up and then...48 hours of frustration followed. I spent the remainder of Monday and most of Tuesday trying in vain to forcefully surround the artist I picked to start the second set with other selections until I finally replaced him with the DAVID PIKE SET covering ‘Mother People’ and voila, the music flowed effortlessly once again. 

The Dave Pike Set anchors that set followed by songs from PRIMUS, SPARKS, GONG, THE KINKS, and several others before concluding with a track from David Bromberg and Vassar Clements’ HILLBILLY JAZZ collaboration. 

Other noteworthy items on this weeks program include ‘vault’ ditties from CLUSTER, KEN NORDINE, YUSEEF LATEEF, LOUNGE LIZARDS, and SOFT MACHINE (a request), worldly cuts from ETRON FOU LELOUBLAN, VIEUX FARKA TOURE, OS MUTANTES, and RADIO TARIFA, and more new pieces from ALT-J, JOHN ZORN & BILL LASWELL, and the PUNCH BROTHERS. There’s even a ‘cover’ of a David Bowie song and an obscure melody from the DARK SHADOWS television soundtrack. Tune in!

SET #1 
FRED FRITH The Greeting  Cheap At Half The Price 2:28 
KLO PELGAG L’Instants D’e’quilibre  L’Etoile Thoracique** 3:09 
JESCA HOOP Havoc In Heaven  Kismet 4:09 
HANNE HUKKELBERG Displaced  Little Things 2:05 
RALPH CARNEY I Like You I Like You (A Lot) 3:43 
MARCH FOURTH MARCHING BAND Yiddish Blues March Fourth Marching Band (EP) 4:06 
CALIFONE Bandicoot  Echo Mine 2:55 
MAPS & ATLASES Remote & Dark Years  Beware And Be Grateful 2:49 
PENGUIN CAFE ORCHESTRA In the Back Of a Taxi  Broadcasting From Home 3:22 

SET#2 
DAVID PIKE SET Mother People  Noisy Silence Gentle Noise 4:23 
PRIMUS I Want It Now  Primus & The Chocolate Factory With The Fungi Ensemble 4:09 
SPARKS Goofing Off  Introducing Sparks 4:25 
GONG White Doves  Shapeshifter 5:24 
BILL FRISELL Lift Off  Guitar In The Space Age 2:14 
EELS Strawberries And Popcorn  Extreme Witchcraft** 3:42 
THE KINKS Tired Of Waiting For You  Ultimate Collection (Sanctuary) 2:34 
HOT TUNA 99 Year Blues Burgers 3:59 
HILLBILLY JAZZ (David Bromberg/Vassar Clements) Vassar’s Boogie  Hillbilly Jazz 4:09 

SET #3 
VIEUX FARKA TOURE Ma Hine Concore  Vieux Farka Toure 4:00 
HUKWE ZAWOSE & MICHAEL BROOK Awuno Mgagna Ndeje  Assembly 4:20 
BRUFORD LEVIN UPPER EXTREMITIES Cobalt Canyons  Bruford Levin Upper Extremities 4:30 
JOHN ZORN/BILL LASWELL Austin Osman Spare (excerpt)  The Cleansing** 2:30 
ETRON FOU LELOUBLAN Pas’ L’Sou  Les Poumons Gonfles 3:14 
OS MUTANTES Trem Fantasma  Os Mutantes 3:15 
ROBERT COBERT The Ghost Of Damion Edwards  Dark Shadows Vol. 2 1:49 
THE FIERY FURNACES Leaky Tunnel  Gallowsbird’s Bark 3:33 

SET #4 
WALTER MARTIN Breaking Glass  Let All The Children Boogie: A Tribute To David Bowie 2:57 
MEDESKI, MARTIN, & WOOD House Mop  Friday Afternoon In The Universe 3:46 
PUNCH BROTHERS Streets Of London  Hell On Church Street** 4:22 
XTC Boarded Up  Wasp Star – Apple Venus Vol. 2 3:23 
KEN NORDINE Silly Ideas I Used To Have  You’re Getting Better – The Word Jazz Dot Masters 4:48  
GODLEY & CREME Random Brainwave  L & Freeze Frame 2:40 
LOOM (Poland) Prywatny Raj Tkanina 4:31 
ALT-J The Actor  The Dream** 4:00 

SET #5 
OSIBISA African Jive  Osibirock 4:02 
RADIO TARIFA Patas Negras  Cruzando El Rio 4:14 
KRONOS QUARTET Washishijay (W/ Obo Addy)  Pieces Of Africa 4:56 
DANIEL LANOIS Power  Heavy Sun** 3:18 
LOUNGE LIZARDS Tango #3 Determination For Rosa Parks  No Pain For Cakes 4:13 
SOFT MACHINE Out Of Seasons  Softs 5:32 
CLUSTER Breitengrad 20  Grosses Wasser 4:00 

SET #6 
THE GOASTT (The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger) Dark Matter White Noise  Acoustic Sessions 5:17
WHITE NOISE My Game Of Loving  An Electric Storm 4:10 
YUSEEF LATEEF Strange Lullaby  Part Of The Search 4:34 
WILDMAN FISCHER Outside The Hospital  The Fischer King 3:37 
PETER HAMMILL Handicap And Equality  Ph7 3:56 

** = New or recent acquisition 
OST = Original Soundtrack 

After nearly a decade I’ve finally decided that it’s time to give myself more time to produce my weekly freeform radio program so beginning with today’s latest TRANSMUSIC AIRWAVES (Episode #459), each show, from now on, will be released at NOON every Friday. This came about more from necessity than anything else as lately I’ve been unable to get everything completed in post-production without literally killing myself and as my routines changed, these extra hours will allow the process to become a little less STRESSFUL.

During today’s first set I’ve got new music from the EELS, JOHN ZORN & BILL LASWELL, and KLO PELGAG to start and then I’ll turn to GEOFFREY ORYEMA’S haunting ‘Bombs Are Falling,’ PETER GABRIEL’S ‘Rhythm of The Heat’ (where I’ve blended his English and German versions of that song into one song), JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROS ‘Burnin’ Streets,’ and the WEST COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND’S ‘Suppose They Gave A War And No One Comes’ into a musical statement that needs no explanation.

Moving forward there’s music from locals 15-60-75 (THE NUMBERS BAND), GLASS HARP, and GLENN LAZEAR, ‘vault’ treasures from THE CHAMBERS BROTHERS (‘Time Has Come Today’ – the rejected single), BATDORF & RODNEY, JEAN LUC PONTY, CAN, and TOMITA; more new pieces from ALT-J, DRY CLEANING, and TIMBA MM; African rhythm’s from TOURE TOURE and MANU DIBANGO, and even a ‘cover’ of ‘These Boots Are Made For Walkin’ from PARQUET COURTS.

Set your clock ahead to noon on Friday’s and enjoy what’s coming from now on. It’s definitely worth the extra wait!

SET #1 
EELS Better Living Through Desperation  Extreme Witchcraft** 2:30 
GLENN KOTCHE Anomaly Mvt. II  Adventureland 2:31 
JOHN ZORN/BILL LASWELL The Cleansing  The Cleansing** 3:40 
KLO PELGAG Au Bonheur d’Edelweiss  L’Etoile Thoracique** 2:59 
GEOFFREY ORYEMA Bombs Are Falling  From The Heart 5:10 
PETER GABRIEL The Rhythm Of The Heat (English)/  Security 
(combined with) Der Rhythmus Der Hitze (German)/  Deutsches Album 5:18 
JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROS Burnin’ Streets  Streetcore 4:32 
WEST COAST POP ART  EXPERIMENTAL BAND Suppose They Gave A War  And No One Comes  Part One & Vol. 2 3:47 

SET#2 
JAN HAMMER Darkness/Earth In Search Of A Sun  The First Seven Days 4:31 
PUNCH BROTHERS Pride Of Man  Hell On Church Street** 3:53 
ALT-J Losing My Mind  The Dream** 4:41 
SLEEP DAY  (SHANE CURRY) Kiss Me Like A Little Yellow Bird Then Top Me  Kiss Me Like A Little Yellow Bird 3:52 
DRY CLEANING Scratchcard Lanyard  New Long Leg** 4:07 
GLASS HARP Children’s Fantasy  Glass Harp (Remastered) 4:11 
BIG RED MACHINE Hoping That  How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?** 3:57 

SET #3 
TOURE TOURE African Woman  Ladde 3:28 
MANU DIBANGO Soul Makossa  Wakafrika 5:40 
BRIAN ENO & DAVID BYRNE Poor Boy  Everything That Happens Will Happen Today 4:16 
CHAMBERS BROTHERS Time Has Come Today (Single Version #1 – Rejected One)  Greatest Hits 2:41
CAN The Empress & The Ukraine King  Unlimited Edition 4:41 
CAMPER VAN  BEETHOVEN Opie Rides Again /Club Med Sucks  Popular Songs Of Great Enduring Strength & Beauty 3:53 
JOHN CALE Fear Is Man’s Best Friend  Fear/The Island Years 3:52 
PALBERTA Surfing With Berry  Roach Goin’ Down 1:17 

SET #4 
15-60-75  (THE NUMBERS BAND  It’s In Imagination   Pere Ubu: Datapanik In The Year Zero, Disc 4 Cleveland Rarities – Terminal Drive 4:45 
DEERHOOF L’Amour Stories  Apple O 2:42 
URBAN VERBS Promise  Early Damage 5:28 
SUFJAN STEVENS The Vivian Girls Are Visited In The Night By Saint Dargarious And His Squadron Of Benevolent Butterflies  The Avalanche 1:49 
TALL DWARFS Lurlene Bayless  Fork Songs (plus Dogma) 3:53 
SPROINGG Homunculous Funkulous  Sproingg 4:32 
ROBERT FRIPP Ny3  Exposure 2:18 
PARQUET COURTS These Boots Are Made For Walkin’  Contact Nausea 3:51 

SET #5 
TOMITA Debussy: Snowflakes Are Dancing (Children’s Corner, No. 4)  Snowflakes Are Dancing 2:15 
JEAN LUC PONTY Wandering On The Milky Way  Imaginary Voyage 1:51 
DAVID BOWIE Girl Loves Me Blackstar 4:51 
THE POLYPHONIC SPREE Hold Yourself Up  Yes It’s True 4:22 
THE FLAMING LIPS The Slow Motion  The Soft Bulletin 4:01 
BATDORF & RODNEY Home Again  Batdorf & Rodney (Remastered) 6:29 
GLENN LAZEAR Only One  Glenn Lazear 4:04 
JOE WALSH Pavane  So What 1:56 
TIMBA MM Fiesta En La Playa  Outstanding** 4:50 

SET #6 
TIM BUCKLEY Happy Time  Merry-Go-Round At The Carousel Live June 1968 3:11 
FIONA APPLE Waltz (Better Than Fine)  Extraordinary Machine 3:45 
RANDY NEWMAN Dayton, Ohio 1903  Sail Away (Expanded Edition) 1:51 
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (JOE BYRD) Stranded In Time  The United States Of America 1:49
POKEY LAFARGE Hard Times Come And Go  Riverboat Soul 3:45 
BELA FLECK Cheeseballs In Cowtown  Tales From The Acoustic Planet 4:53 
LITTLE FEAT Roll Um Easy  Dixie Chicken 2:34 

** = New or recent acquisition 
OST = Original Soundtrack 

Each week I try to keep your listening experience unique by adding new releases, interesting sets with a specific theme, surprises out of the musical ‘vault,’ or songs that somehow reflect reflect current events and today, on this edition of TRANSMUSIC AIRWAVES (Episode #458) you can add taking you on an international journey of Eastern Europe, the Far East, and parts of the Middle East during the final hour. 

I’ll get everything started with SPARKS (who opened their U.S. tour recently), AT-J and DANIEL LANOIS (who both have new releases), RY COODER (who turned 75 this week), and THE LAST POETS (who invented rap as a jazz based idiom). Then I’ll celebrate March 18th (‘Bubble Wrap Day’) with a song from CHRIS BUTLER & RALPH CARNEY, and surround it with songs from THE VIVIANS, THE BREAKERS, MODEST MOUSE, and WIRE.

I’ll celebrate the musical genius of CHARLES MINGUS and encompass that with more new tracks from TIMBA MM, KLO PELGAG, and CAT POWER as well as cuts from ESQUIVEL, STEREOLAB, and CURVED AIR. All of these selections should serve to prepare you for the musical journey that I’ve saved for you during the final hour.

During today’s final sets you’ll hear music from SITI NURHALIZA (Malaysia), ULYTAU (folk/metal from Kazakhstan), CHLOPCY KONTRA BASIA (quirky Polish avant-garde jazz), BUSTAN ABRAHAM (Israeli folkus pocus), ALLA PUGACHEVA (Traditional Russian Pop), along with SEVARA NAZARKHAN (Uzbekistan Prog), ALTIN GUN (Turkish styling’s from the Netherlands), HUUN-HUUR-TU (Tuvan throat singing), and several others. Plus you get to hear how not to pronounce any of the artists and their songs names. (That alone should be very entertaining!).

A detailed playlist is provided.

SET #1 
SPARKS All That  A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip 4:44 
ALT-J U&ME  The Dream** 3:18 
WUSSY Acetylene  Attica 3:53 
DANIEL LANOIS Way Down  Heavy Sun** 3:45 
THE COMET IS COMING Unity  Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery 4:13 
RY COODER The UFO Has Landed In The Ghetto  The Slide Area 5:05 
THE LAST POETS Mean Machine Chant/Mean Machine  This Is Madness 5:24 

SET#2 
SKYGREEN LEOPARDS Johnny’s Theme  Gorgeous Johnny 2:11 
THE BREAKERS Hour Of Darkness  Voodoo Treatment 2:14 
RALPH CARNEY & CHRIS BUTLER Bubble Wrap Day (March 18)  Songs For Unsung Holidays 2:57 
MODEST MOUSE Gravity Rides Everything  The Moon & Antarctica 4:22 
IF THESE TREES COULD TALK Berlin  Songs For A Dying World 4:44 
WIRE Doubles & Trebles  Change Becomes Us 3:50 
VIVIANS One Eye  CLE Magazine 3X: Big Wave Compilation 3:47 

SET #3 
TIMBA MM El Son  Outstanding** 3:26 
ESQUIVEL Anna (El Negro Zumbon)  Space Age Bachelor Pad Music 2:42 
CHARLES MINGUS Cumbia & Jazz Fusion Pt. 1 (Excerpt)  Cumbia & Jazz Fusion 6:42 
STEREOLAB Ping Pong  Ping Pong 3:02 
KLO PELGAG Le Sexe Des L’Etoile  L’Etoile Thoracique** 5:48 
CURVED AIR Armin  Air Cut 3:50 
CAT POWER Unhate  Covers** 2:44 

SET #4 
BOB DYLAN Dark Eyes (Empire Burlesque  Alternative Take)  Springtime In New York: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 16 (1980-1985)4:57 
ALEXANDRE DESPLAT Police Cooking  The French Dispatch (OST)** 1:48 
FSK Unter Dem Doppladler/Under The Double Eagle  The Sound Of Music 3:42 
BRAVE COMBO Mystery Spot Polka  Polkas For A Gloomy World 2:53 
INCREDIBLE STRING BAND Water Song  The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter 2:50 
HOT TUNA Water Song  Burgers 5:20 
DENT Questa Sunset  Verstarker 3:24 
KING CRIMSON Waiting Man  Beat 4:25 

SET #5 
SITI NURHALIZA Sindai  The Rough Guide To The Music Of Malaysia 4:56 
ULYTAU Adai  The Rough Guide To The Music Of Central Asia 3:10 
JAKE BLUES Dialogue  The Blues Brothers (OST) 0:16 
CHLOPCY KONTRA BASIA Jerzey  Oj Tak! 4:13 
ALLA PUGACHEVA Muzykant  The Rough Guide To The Music Of Russia 2:52 
BUSTAN ABRAHAM Abadai  The Rough Guide To The Music Of Israel 3:26 
VERETSKI PASS Tatarisher Longa  Veretski Pass 1:59 
MARI KALKHUN Linda, Linda  Illmamotsan 3:41 
FULGERICA & THE MAHALA GYPSIES Bate Vintul Frunzele  The Rough Guide To The Music Of Romanian Gypsies 4:20 
RISA ZVEJNIEKI Vira Mate (Mother-In-Law)  Best Of Folk Music From Latvia 3:38 

SET #6 
SEVARA NAZARKHAN Yor Yor  Yol Bolsin 4:15 
HUUN-HUUR-TU Sarala  Where The Green Grass Grows 3:40 
SINKIANG UIGHER AUTONOMOUS REGION SONG & DANCE ENSEMBLE Tink Bostan  The Rough Guide To The Music Of China 1:50 
HADAG NAHASH Kanti  Lazuz 3:53 
MICHEL SAJRAWY Tojann  The Rough Guide To The Music Of Palestine 5:16 

** = New or recent acquisition 
OST = Original Soundtrack 

Over the last decade, I’ve celebrated various milestones on this program and today’s show, TRANSMUSIC AIRWAVES (Episode #457) represents a very significant one. Today marks my 500th radio episode since returning to radio in 2012 after a couple of decades away from the medium. 

In the mid-1970’s my career began at WKSU-FM, the Kent State University public radio outlet, doing a freeform/progressive format called Fresh Air. as well as jazz and folk programming. I departed Ohio in 1981 and worked in an entirely different field and by the end of the 80’s began volunteering at WGTD-FM in Kenosha, Wisconsin. My old friend and WKSU alumni Chuck Ruby was the General Manager there and he lured me back to do a half hour program specializing in soundtracks on a part time basis that lasted about a year.

In 2012 I was approached by another WKSU alumni, Bryan Chandler, about doing a show for an internet based radio station he worked at, San Francisco’s SFCR/KUSF In Exile. After five years there (and three program name changes) I began doing the current show independently. So here we are!

Today I’ll play many of my favorite artists and albums including BRIAN ENO, THE BEATLES, DEVO, HARRY PARTCH, AUDIENCE, ROBERT WYATT, and LAURIE ANDERSON to name a few. I’ve got film soundtracks from BERNARD HERMANN and THOMAS NEWMAN (WALL-E), international tracks from D’GARY and JUANA MOLINA, and even comedy bits from NATIONAL LAMPOON an FIRESIGN THEATRE. I’ll start off by saluting the Ukrainian people with GONG’S ‘You Can’t Kill Me,’ plus 10CC, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE, and PINK FLOYD, with other music from CORNELIUS, BRYAN SCARY, and SKY CRIES MARY. 

That’s just a sampling of the radio magic I’ve got in store. Detail Below!

SET #1 
GONG Radio Gnome/You Can’t Kill Me  Camembert Electrique 6:48 
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE War Movie  Bark 4:41 
10CC I Wanna Rule The World  Sheet Music 3:53 
BRYAN SCARY Universal Crane  Birds 4:59 
PINK FLOYD Corporal Clegg  A Saucerful Of Secrets 4:11 
CORNELIUS Thank You For The Music  Fantasma 4:53 
SKY CRIES MARY 2000 Light Years From Home  A Return To The Inner Experience 4:43 

SET #2 
OMAR SOSA Elrababa  An East African Journey 4:19 
BRIAN ENO The Fat Lady Of Limborg  Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) 5:05 
LAURIE ANDERSON Example #22  Big Science (30th Anniversary Edition) 2:59 
HOLGAR CZUKAY Hit Hit Flop Flop  Rome Remain Rome/Der Osten Ist Rot 3:36 
ALLEN RAVENSTINE Doff Downie  Rue Du Poisson Noir** 3:30 
KRAFTWERK Numbers  Computer World 3:21 
DEERHOOF Love Lore Pt. 4 (Tenny/Silver Apples/The Police/Kraftwerk)  Love Lore 3:15 
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (JOE BYRD) Coming Down  The United States Of America 2:37 
ALT-J Chicago  The Dream** 3:55 

SET #3 
JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROS Sandpaper Blues  Rock Art & The X-Ray Style 4:27 
DANIEL LANOIS Every Nation  Heavy Sun** 4:00 
ROBBIE ROBERTSON The Shadow  Sinematic 4:26 
STANLEY SILVERMAN You’re On The Radio  Elephant Steps 3:26 
JOHN HARTFORD Station Break  Aereo-Plain 0:15 
BERNARD HERMANN Prelude – The Nightmare  Vertigo (OST) 5:00 
FIRESIGN THEATRE Echo Poem  Dear Friends 2:00 
NATIONAL LAMPOON Humpback Whale  That’s Not Funny That’s Sick 1:23 
THE BEATLES All Together Now  Yellow Submarine (OST) 2:13 
SUPERSISTER Gi, Ga, Go (Gollumble Jefers)  Spiral Staircase 4:01 
KEVIN AYERS Caribbean Moon  Odd Ditties 3:13 

SET #4 
WEEN So Many People In The Neighborhood  Quebec 3:30 
THE RESIDENTS Bach Is Dead  Duck Stab 1:12 
DEVO Goin’ Under  E-Z Listening Disc 3:09 
ANGELO BADALAMENTI Packards’ Vibration  Twin Peaks: Season Two, Music & More 2:39 
TOM WAITS Little Drop Of Poison  Orphans, Brawlers, & Bastards 3:09 
PERE UBU Who Stole The Signpost  The Long Goodbye 3:28 
HARRY PARTCH The Street (Select Songs From 11 Intrusions)  The Harry Partch Collection 2:46 
FRANK ZAPPA This Ain’t CNN  Civilization Phase III 1:52 
JJ BURNELL Deutschland Nicht Uber Alles  Euroman Cometh 4:40 
SLAPP HAPPY/HENRY COW Europa  Desperate Straights (Remaster) 2:48 

SET #5 
JUANA MOLINA Bicho Auto  Wed 21 4:34 
ROBERT WYATT Jelly Babies (w/Epic Soundtracks)  Different Every Time 3:01 
JEFF TWEEDY Warm (When The Sun Has Died)  Warm 2:18 
AUDIENCE I Had A Dream  House On The Hill 4:18 
KING CRIMSON Book Of Saturday  Larks’ Tongue In Aspic 2:55 
TIMBA MM Amor A Tu Manera  Outstanding** 4:52 
D’GARY & JIHE Miady Mafy  Horombe 4:35 

SET #6 
AMYTHYST KIAH Black Myself  Wary + Strange** 3:21 
TRANQUILITY BASS 5 Miles High  Let The Freak Flag Fly 7:16 
THE FLAMING LIPS Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1  Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots 4:45 
DARCY JAMES ARGUE’S SECRET SOCIETY The Tallest Building In The World  Brooklyn Babylon 3:44
JOHN MARTYN One World  One World 4:12 

** = New or recent acquisition 
OST = Original Soundtrack 

This weeks TRANSMUSIC AIRWAVES (Episode #456), begins with PETER GABRIEL to open the show, followed by BATTLES, ELECTRIC WURMS doing ‘Heart Of The Sunrise,’ JOHN CALE’S updated version of ‘Thoughtless Kind,’ and turns towards the spiritual with DANIEL LANOIS, BEN HARPER & BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA, and PRIMAL SCREAM’S ‘Movin’ On Up’ inspired by Villanelle’s opening church scene from the premiere of ‘Killing Eve’s’ final season.

Next up there’s electronica from Congo’s KOKOKO!, THE VENTURES (doing the ‘Twilight Zone Theme’), TIMBA MM, THE B-52’S (‘Private Idaho’), THE MOTHER OF INVENTION (‘Hungry Freaks Daddy’), TALKING HEADS, TIN HUEY (‘Jazz Tune’), and San Francisco psychedelica from SALVATION. Now I’ve done it! I’ve given away the entire first hour (in order no less) and it’s just getting started.

You’ll get CRACKER & LEFTOVER SALMON, MILES DAVIS, STEELY DAN, THE MEKONS, and KEN NORDINE during set three, and I’ve got brand new ALT-J, surrounded by STEELEYE SPAN, CURVED AIR, MICHAEL URBANIAK, PETER HAMMILL, and X-RAY SPEX in the fourth set. 

If you’re totally intrigued by now, great! I’ve been on a pretty good roll with this one so don’t miss out!

Program Playlist:

SET #1 
PETER GABRIEL Kiss That Frog  Us 5:19 
BATTLES Leyendecker  Mirrored 2:48 
ELECTRIC WURMS Heart Of The Sunrise  Musik, Die Schwer Zu Twerk 3:52 
JOHN CALE Thoughtless Kind  Music For A New Society/M-Fans 5:23 
DANIEL LANOIS (Under The) Heavy Sun  Heavy Sun** 4:20 
BEN HARPER & THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA Take My Hand  There Will Be A Light 3:54 
PRIMAL SCREAM Movin’ On Up  Screamadelica 3:51 

SET#2 
KOKOKO! Zala Mayele  Fongola 4:59 
THE VENTURES The Twilight Zone  The Ventures In Space 2:36 
TIMBA MM Kongo Kurbato  Outstanding** 4:48 
THE B-52’S Private Idaho  Wild Planet 3:36 
THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION Hungry Freaks Daddy  Freak Out (2012 Remaster) 3:30 
TALKING HEADS With Our Love  More Songs About Buildings And Food 3:31 
TIN HUEY Jazz Tune  Before Obscurity: Bushflow Tapes 3:10 
SALVATION What’ll I Do #42  Salvation & Gypsy Carnival Caravan 3:58 

SET #3 
MILES DAVIS Jailbait  Merci Miles! Live At Vienne** 5:45 
AMYTHYST KIAH Fancy Drones (Fracture Me)  Wary + Strange** 3:37 
KEN NORDINE The Bullfighter  A Transparent Mask 1:46 
STEELY DAN With A Gun  Pretzel Logic 2:18 
ENNIO MORRICONE Fantasmi Grotteschi (from Stark System)  Morricone Segreto 1:47 
CRACKER & LEFTOVER SALMON Waiting On You Girl  Oh Cracker, Were Art Thou? 5:32 
THE MEKONS White Stone Door  Natural 3:58 
RICKIE LEE JONES Rodeo Girl  Flying Cowboys 4:54 

SET #4 
ALT-J Bane  The Dream** 5:09 
STEELEYE SPAN Elf Call  Commoners Crown 3:54 
CURVED AIR Elfin Boy  Air Cut 4:10 
MICHAEL URBANIAK Rosemary’s Baby (w/Urszula Dudziak)  I Remember Komeda 3:28 
DANNY ELFMAN Shadows (Reprise)  Dark Shadows (OST) 1:07 
X-RAY SPEX The Day The World Turned Day-Glo  No Thanks! The 70’s Punk Rebellion 2:51 
PETER HAMMILL Nadir’s Big Chance  Nadir’s Big Chance 3:33 
THE DEAD WEATHER Three Dollar Hat  Dodge And Burn 3:23 
HAWKWIND The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon  Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music 3:37 

SET #5 
BUTTHOLE SURFERS Hurdy Gurdy Man  Pioughd 3:59 
TOM RAPP The Swimmer (For Kurt Cobain)  A Journal Of The Plague Year 3:49 
NEIL YOUNG Roll Another Number (For The Road)  Tonight’s The Night 3:04 
BILL FRISELL Once Upon a Time In The West (Theme)  When You Wish Upon A Star 4:09
HER SPACE HOLIDAY The Ringing In My Ears  Manic Expressive 5:00 
LUMP Curse Of The Contemporary  Mojo Presents: The Mojo Machine Turns You On 2018 4:38 
CHRISSIE HYNDE & THE VALVE BONE WOE ENSEMBLE Carolina No  Valve Bone Woe 4:53 

SET #6 
LOUIS PRIMA Jump, Jive, An’ Wail  Jump, Jive, An’ Wail: The Essential Louis Prima 3:29 
SPACCANAPOLI Aneme Perze  Lost Souls 4:26 
RHIANNON GIDDENS Pizzica Di San Vito (w/Francesco Turrisi)  There Is No Other 2:07 
PFM (Premiata Forneria Marconi) Viene Il Santo  Passpartu 4:36 
BANQUET OF THE SPIRITS Matafiel  Caym: The Book Of Angels Vol. 17 5:21 
ROXY MUSIC Strictly Confidential  For Your Pleasure 3:48

 ** = New or recent acquisition 
OST = Original Soundtrack 

Thank god the final days of February are coming to a close. It seems every bizarre weather phenomena, temperature extreme, and catastrophic disaster from flooding to ice storms have occurred this month so on this weeks TRANSMUSIC AIRWAVES (Episode #455) let’s celebrate the impending arrival of a new month with three hours of great music, arranged to get us all through February’s final days.

Highlighting this week’s show is another brand new track by GOLEMS OF THE RED PLANET, taking psychedelic and surf to a whole new level. Additionally, there’s other recently released gems from SANTANA (accompanied by the late CHICK COREA), WET LEG, DANIEL LANOIS, TIMBA MM, and JAMES. 

I’ve dug deep into the ‘vault’ for early GENESIS (from ‘Trespass’) and ALICE COOPER (from ‘Easy Action’), classic 10CC (from ‘How Dare You’), the legendary DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET (from ‘Take Five’), and a haunting melody by NICK DRAKE (from ‘Pink Moon’). 

There’s international sounds from HUUN-HUUR-TU, BAHIA BLACK, and MICKEY HART’S PLANET DRUM, quirky melodies from TUNE-YARDS, MICACHU & THE SHAPES, THE RAINCOATS, and PERE UBU, and songs by MCDONALD & GILES (in honor of the late Ian McDonald) and WILCO (celebrating Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’s 20th anniversary).

So settle in and enjoy this three hour musical feast, it’ll distract you from the ever changing elements outside and is a lot more fun than banging your head against the wall while waiting for March to arrive.

Today's Selections:

SET #1 
DANIEL LANOIS Tree Of Tule  Heavy Sun** 4:20 
MCDONALD & GILES Tomorrow’s People – The Children Of  Today McDonald & Giles 5:50 
BRIAN ENO & RICK HOLLAND Cloud 4  Drums Between The Bells 1:41 
LAURIE ANDERSON One Beautiful Evening  Life On A String 5:05 
JOSEPH ARTHUR Devil’s Broom  Our Shadows Will Remain 4:46 
BRUCE COCKBURN Ancestors  Small Source Of Comfort 3:59 
NICK DRAKE Parasite  Pink Moon 3:36 

SET#2 
WET LEG Oh No  Wet Leg (EP)** 2:30 
TY SEGALL The Magazine  Emotional Mugger 3:56 
WILCO Poor Places  Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 5:18 
10CC Art For Art’s Sake  How Dare You 6:00 
BURNING OF ROME Little Piranhas  With Us 4:56 
JAMES Wherever It Takes Us  All The Colours Of You** 5:05 
PHILLIP GLASS What Time Is Grey  1000 Airplanes On The Roof 2:16 
DAVID BOWIE I’d Rather Be High  The Next Day 3:44 

SET #3 
JAGWAR MA Exercise  Howlin’ 4:04 
LAS TOALLITAS Dry Heat  Mayhem Among The Desert Thieves 1:34 
MO MAGIC Feelings  Drums & Tribe Cyber Jam Vol 1-Asian Breakbeats 4:29 
WU FEI &  ABIGAIL WASHBURN Who Says Women Aren’t  As Good As Men  Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn 1:21 
HUUN-HUUR-TU Kaldak Khamar  The Orphan’s Lament 2:36 
3 LEG TORSO Csardas  Animals & Cannibals 4:28 
DEVOTCHKA All The Sand In All The Sea  100 Lovers 4:49 
DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET Blue Rondo A La Turk  Take Five 6:46 

SET #4 
XTC Merely A Man  Oranges & Lemons 3:27 
DRY CLEANING A.I.C.  New Long Leg** 3:09 
ALICE COOPER Below Your Means (excerpt)  Easy Action 3:30 
MONKS OF DOOM 23rd Century Hard Bop  The Bronte Pin 3:42 
THE NEUTRONS L’Hippie Nationale  Black Hole Star & Tales From The Blue Cocoons 3:31 
MCKENDREE SPRING Growing  Spring Suite 3:52 
SAMANDTHEPLANTS Intro  The Eft 1:51 
GENESIS Dusk  Trespass 4:14 
DAMON ALBARN O Spirit, Animate Us  Dr. Dee 3:48 
SANTANA Angel Choir/All Together (w/Chick Corea)  Blessings & Miracles** 3:17 

SET #5 
GOLEMS OF THE RED PLANET Paschar/Tzofeh**   www.golemsoftheredplanet.bandcamp.com 2:47 
THE RAINCOATS Only Loved At Night  Odyshape 3:33 
TUNE-YARDS Look Around  Nikki Nack 4:25 
MICACHU & THE SHAPES Eat Your Heart  Jewellery 2:21 
THE BEEP Dead  Pixies Doolittle Tribute 4:20 
TIMBA MM The Viking Rhythm  Outstanding** 4:48 
MICKEY HART & PLANET DRUM Damawoo  Supralingua 3:05 
BAHIA BLACK Capitao Do Asphalto  Ritual Beating System 5:32 

SET #6 
TONY DYNAMITE & THE  SHOOTING BEAVERS Mothers Little Helper  Surfin Jack Flash: (The Surf Instrumental Bands Of The  World Perform The Music Of The Stones) 2:37 
PERE UBU George Had A Hat  The Tenement Year 4:02 
NICK MASON’S FICTITIOUS SPORTS Boo To You Too  Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports 3:26 
THE JAMES GANG Funk #48  Yer Album 2:46 
LOS STRAITJACKETS Icky Thump  Rockin’ Legends Pay Tribute To Jack White 3:31 

** = New or recent acquisition 
OST = Original Soundtrack 

This week on TRANSMUSIC AIRWAVES I’ve decided to take a short break from producing a new program and instead will play another excerpt from the groundbreaking freeform college radio program, FRESH AIR, recorded on tape by a listener on January 17, 1980. 

I was a host on the Thursday night/Friday morning edition of WKSU-FM's "Fresh Air," the late night, freeform/progressive radio show during one of the most prolific periods in Northeastern Ohio musical history. The area had gained a national and international reputation for it’s groundbreaking work in exposing enthusiastic audiences to an array musical acts in the 1970's and 80's. Today's tape, restored and remastered, comes from an archive of over 400 hours of listener (and programmer) recordings from 1975 to 1981.

The show open’s with elements of spoken word, song, and comedy featuring PORTSMOUTH SINFONIA, LORD BUCKLEY, BONZO DOG BAND, FIRESIGN THEATRE, and JONATHAN RICHMAN & THE MODERN LOVERS in honor of one of the show’s former hosts. Later on there are segments where I use a track from TANGERINE DREAM and mix it in with Marlon Brando’s dialogue from ‘Apocalypse Now’ and FRIPP & ENO’S ‘Evening Star’ gets combined with LOUISE HUBNER’S ‘Seduction Through Witchcraft’ album, creating atmospheric landscapes of late night audio bliss. Other music heard tonight includes cuts from ALICE COLTRANE, CAN, LE ORME, LED ZEPPELIN, SHAWN PHILLIPS, PINK FLOYD, and THE RESIDENTS.

Get comfortable and take a trip back in this radio time machine.

The playlist for Fresh Air on January 17, 1980:

SET #1 
PORTSMOUTH SINFONIA The Blue Danube Waltz Op. 314  Plays The Popular Classics 4:36 
LORD BUCKLEY Willie The Shake  Lord Buckley In Concert 2:42 
THE BONZO DOG BAND Tubas In The Moonlight  The Beast Of The Bonzos 2:18 
THE FIRESIGN THEATRE Police Street (excerpt)  In The Next World You’re On Your Own 9:05 
JONATHAN RICHMAN & THE MODERN LOVERS Rockin’ Shopping Center   Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers 3:33 
THE BEATLES If I Needed Someone  Rubber Soul 2:16 
GENTLE GIANT So Sincere  The Power And The Glory 3:46 
LOL COXHILL First Movement: Prelude To Familiarity  The Joy Of Paranoia 2:10 
PINK FLOYD Apples And Oranges  Masters Of Rock (Import) 2:58 
THE RESIDENTS Satisfaction  7” Vinyl Single 4:30 

SET #2 
TANGERINE DREAM  Movements Of A Visionary Phaedra 6:21 
MARLON BRANDO Dialogue – The Horror  Apocalypse Now (OST) 3:21 
AMON DUUL II Apocalyptic Bore  Viva La Trance 6:32 
AUTOMATIC MAN I.T.D. (Interstellar Tracking Device)  Automatic Man 5:03 
SHAWN PHILLIPS Starbright  Furthermore 3:49 
CAN Vernal Equinox  Landed 8:07 
LE ORME Vedi Amsterdam  Verita Nascoste 4:36 

SET #3 
PETER HAMMILL Rock And Role  Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night 6:05 
ALICE COLTRANE Blue Nile  Ptah, The El Daoud 6:52 
LED ZEPPELIN Black Mountain Side  Led Zeppelin I 2:06 
POPOL VUH Ja, Diene Liebe Ist suSer Als Wein  Das Hohelied Salomos 3:20 
FRIPP & ENO Evening Star (excerpt Pt. 1)  Evening Star 4:20 
LOUISE HUBNER The Emotional Bondage Spell  Seduction Through Witchcraft 1:43 
FRIPP & ENO Evening Star (excerpt Pt. 2)  Evening Star 1:22 
PROCOL HARUM Song For A Dreamer  Broken Barricades 5:24 
FLASH AND THE PAN The Man Who Knew The Answer  Flash And The Pan 4:15 

SET #4 
ELOY Castle In The Air  Floating 7:14 
PAUL KANTNER AND GRACE SLICK When I Was A Boy I Watched The Wolves  Sunfighter 4:55 
BO HANSSON Wandering Song  Magician’s Hat 3:15 
IF Waterfall  If 4 5:23 
GONG Cat In Clark’s Shoes  Shamal 7:38 
GLASS HARP Dawn Of A New Day  Synergy 2:47 

SET#5 
KEVIN AYERS Champagne Cowboy Blues  Whatevershebringswesing 3:50 
ALICE COLTRANE Galaxy Around Olodumare  World Galaxy 4:05 
STEVE HARLEY & COCKNEY REBEL The Best Years Of Our Lives  The Best Years Of Our Lives 5:39 

OST = Original Soundtrack 

This week has extra special significance for the lovers of football, music, and the ones you cherish most as Valentine’s Day, the Superbowl and the 52nd anniversary of rock’s greatest ‘live’ album (The Who ‘Live At Leeds’) all occur so on the latest episode of TRANSMUSIC AIRWAVES (Episode #454), I’ll cover all those subjects and then some. 

The Cincinnati Bengals are in the big game so I’ll get things started with SAM SPENCE and one of his classic NFL film themes followed by ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’ interpreted by Cincinnati’s indie rockers the ASS PONIES, before moving into interesting territory where WIRE, another new piece from WET LEG, and vintage tracks from VAN DER GRAAF, PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE, and finally FAUST (who actually utilized power tools that really cemented their reputation as founders of rock’s industrial music fringe) all converge.

The three sets that follow all establish their own sonic landscapes by combining elements of international (TIMBA MM, TOM ZE, WASIS DIOP, MARI KALKUN) jazz (GARY BARTZ, ARTURO O’FARRILL, JONI MITCHELL (from ‘Mingus’)), vault (JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROS, GONG, JOHN RENBOURN GROUP), and the latest releases (JAMES, JAPANESE BREAKFAST, AMYTHYST KIAH).

The final hour honors the legacy of THE WHO ‘Live At Leeds’ which was recorded on February 14, 1970 at the height of the bands unparalleled reputation for muscular, transcending live performances. I’ll approach this segment with interesting background notes about the recording before taking their well known ‘Pinball Wizard’ and deconstructing it with numerous unusual versions of the song from CAMEL, ROGER RUSKIN SPEAR, and THE HILLBENDERS, as well as other relatable tracks from STEREOLAB, HARVEY GOLD, and YELLO before finishing with a song from another ‘Live At Leeds’ recording by JOHN MARTYN recorded exactly five years later.

Don’t miss a minute of this show!

Playlist below:

SET #1 
SAM SPENCE Up She Rises  The Power & The Glory: Music And Voices Of NFL Films 2:31 
ASS PONIES All Tomorrow’s Parties  The Okra Years 7:51 
WIRE This Time  Silver/Lead 4:16 
WET LEG Too Late Now  Wet Leg (EP)** 3:49 
VAN DER GRAAF Chemical World  The Quiet Zone, The Pleasure Dome 6:12 
PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE Spatna Vec  Hoveza Porazka 4:37 
FAUST Untitled #14/Stretch Out Time (Do So, Stretch Out) The Faust Tapes 2:42 

SET#2 
TIMBA MM Interlude Changuisero  Outstanding** 2:57 
TOM ZE Defect 13: Burrice  Com Defeito De Fabricacao 2:35 
PHIL MANZANERA Complicada (w/ Chrissie Hynde)  Corroncho 2:43 
DAVID BYRNE & ST. VINCENT The Forest Awakes  Love This Giant 4:52 
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & THE MAGIC BAND Ice Rose  Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) 3:39 
DRY CLEANING New Long Leg  New Long Leg** 4:12 
ARTURO O’FARRILL & THE AFRO-LATIN JAZZ ORCHESTRA Gulab Jamon  Virtual Birdland** 7:11 
JONI MITCHELL The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines  Mingus 3:22 

SET #3 
JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROS Mega Bottle Ride  Global A Go-Go 3:32 
GARY BARTZ NTU TROOP The Drinking Song  Freedom Rhythm & Sound: Revolutionary Jazz & The Civil Rights Movement 1963-82 5:16 
GONG I Never Glid Before  Angel’s Egg (Radio Gnome Invisible Pt..II) 5:37 
JAPANESE BREAKFAST Sit  Jubilee** 3:07 
JAMES Recover  All The Colours Of You** 4:23 
FRENCH/FRITH/KAISER/THOMPSON Begging Bowl  Invisible Means 3:22 
BEAUTIFY JUNKYARDS Cosmorama  Cosmorama 3:00 

SET #4 
MARI KALKUN Motsavele Mang  Ilmamotsan 4:24 
WU FEI & ABIGAIL WASHBURN The Roving Cowboy/Avarguli  Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn 5:57 
JOHN RENBOURN GROUP A Maid In Bedlam  A Maid In Bedlam 3:57 
JETHRO TULL Serenade To A Cuckoo  This Was (50th Anniversary Edition) Disc 2 – Further Associated Recordings 3:37 
AMYTHYST KIAH Sleeping Queen  Wary + Strange** 3:50 
WASIS DIOP Samba Le Berger  Toxu 4:11 
OSAMU KITAJIMA Yesterday And Karma (w/ Minnie Riperton)  Osamu 4:58 

SET #5 
THE WHO Young Man Blues  Live At Leeds (30th Anniversary Deluxe Ed.) 5:29 
THE WHO Shakin’ All Over  Live At Leeds (30th Anniversary Deluxe Ed.) 4:34 
THE WHO Eyesight To The Blind  Live At Leeds (30th Anniversary Deluxe Ed.) 1:58 

PINBALL WIZARD DECONSTRUCTED & COVERED 
THE WHO Pinball Wizard  Live At Leeds (30th Anniversary Deluxe Ed.) 2:52 
STEREOLAB Heavenly Van Halen (Pinball)  ABC Music The BBC Radio 1 Sessions 3:09 
THE HILLBENDERS Pinball Wizard  Tommy: A Bluegrass Opry 3:43 
JACK TOOMBS Pinball Fever  A Shot In The Dark: Tennessee Jive 1945-1955 2:47 
ROGER RUSKIN SPEAR Pinball Wizard  Unusual 3:26 
YELLO Pinball Cha Cha  Claro Que Si 3:40 
CAMEL Pinball Wizard  Underage 3:56 
HARVEY GOLD Silly Idea  It’s Messy: Vol 1 3:33 
THE BUDOS BAND Peak Of Eternal Light  V 3:21 
SANDY NELSON Pinball Wizard  MOJO Presents: The Who Covered - 15 Track Mojo Tribute 1:27 
THE WHO I’m Free  Live At Leeds (30th Anniversary Deluxe Ed.) 2:38 
THE NEW SEEKERS Pinball Wizard/See Me Feel Me  Then! Totally Oldies 70’s Vol. 6 3:19 

SET #6 
JOHN MARTYN I’d Rather Be The Devil  Live At Leeds 8:54 

** = New or recent acquisition 
OST = Original Soundtrack