Transmusic Airwaves

Today's program represents my first in a series of earlier programs to air as I take a look back on nearly four years at SFCR. The show I've chosen is from my first free form radio program, VICOTIN POPSICLES (#15) which originally aired on August 3, 2012. It also marks the first time my show went to it's current three hour length. Below is the original description for this program and the show's playlist.

On today’s inaugural 3 hour edition you'll hear currently released music from Patti Smith, The Flaming Lips, Hector Vasquez, Robbie Robertson, and Garbage plus “vault” hits from The Tarrier’s, Uncle Wiggly, Hydravion, and Alternative TV. The themed set in the 2nd hour will be “Cars” and include artists Ry Cooder, Jimmy Johnson, Adrian Belew, Pere Ubu, Taj Mahal, and much more including movie dialogue from Talladega Nights, American Graffiti, Days of Thunder, and Back to the Future.


For A Detailed Playlist:
http://spinitron.com/radio/playlist.php?station=kusf&playlist=562#here

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http://savekusf.org/listen-to-kusf-in-exile

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http://savekusf.podomatic.com/

“The present day composer refuses to die” – Edgard Varese



Today on TRANSMUSIC AIRWAVES (#154) it’s time once again for my special in depth feature, a “Character Study,” where I look at an individual whose had a significant impact on contemporary music. On this program I’ve chosen the monumental task of looking at the life and music of Frank Zappa.

More than anyone I can think of Zappa has created a musical legacy of enormous breadth, combining elements of rock music with jazz, contemporary classical, and the avant garde all while utilizing his own outlandish humor, social parody, and spoken word into a cohesive mesh of his own unique vision.

I’ll devote nearly the entire program today to telling his life story intermixed with my own anecdotal Zappa experiences. It’s an exhausting labor of love that I look forward to sharing with you! Don’t miss it!


For A Detailed Playlist:
http://spinitron.com/radio/playlist.php?station=kusf&playlist=6857#here

For more information on FRANK ZAPPA:
http://www.zappa.com/

For live streaming of SFCR/KUSF-in-Exile or to DONATE to the cause:
http://savekusf.org/listen-to-kusf-in-exile

To hear podcast's from the San Francisco Community Podcast Network:
http://savekusf.podomatic.com/

Ornette Coleman is remembered today during a show that includes some songs about the beach and others about space. It’s another smorgasbord of free form radio packed with a tasty variety of musical selections on this week’s program.

Music from Kevin Ayers, Dilon Djindi, and Gorillaz add to the lively “beach” theme while XTC, The Doors, Thurston Moore, and Camper Van Beethoven bring the subject of “space” to life.

I’ll continue the countdown to Terry Riley’s 80th birthday celebration with a composition of his done by the Kronos Quartet, and add several pieces of music with an international flair from the “Rough Guide to the music's of” the Sahara, Central Asia, and Australia. I'll also play songs from a multitude of artists that include Joni Mitchell, The Golden Palominos, P.D.Q. Bach, Snakefinger, and the obscure psychedelic styling’s of The Plastic Cloud.

Keep the coffee hot because this is an all you can eat musical buffet today!

For A Detailed Playlist:
http://spinitron.com/radio/playlist.php?station=kusf&playlist=5038#here

For live streaming of SFCR/KUSF-in-Exile or to DONATE to the cause:
http://savekusf.org/listen-to-kusf-in-exile

To hear podcast's from the San Francisco Community Podcast Network:
http://savekusf.podomatic.com/

On today’s program it’s time once again for another special feature “Character Study.” A “Character Study” is a two hour in depth look at individuals and groups that have had a significant impact on contemporary music. I’ve chosen the bands HENRY COW, SLAPP HAPPY, the spin off band THE ART BEARS, and solo works from their individual members as the latest subject matter.

HENRY COW was formed by university students Fred Frith and Tim Hodgkinson in 1968 and began recording in the early 1970’s. SLAPP HAPPY originated in Germany in 1972 and was comprised of members Anthony Moore, Dagmar Krause, and Peter Blegvad. Both bands merged for a time and created some of the most compelling music for the then newly launched Virgin Records label.

This program will look at both bands individually and together, the spin off band The Art Bears, (which emerged after the break up of those bands) plus an extensive look at solo material from Fred Frith, John Greaves, Dagmar Krause, Anthony Moore, Peter Blegvad, and other members over the past four decades. Also featured will be several “live” recordings from both Henry Cow and The Art Bears.

During the lead up to this special in the first hour you’ll hear plenty of new releases and a few previously featured artists.

For A Detailed Playlist:
http://spinitron.com/radio/playlist.php?station=kusf&playlist=4837#here

For more information on:
HENRY COW, SLAPP HAPPY and related artists (including Rock in Opposition bands)
http://www.rermegacorp.com/
FRED FRITH:
http://www.fredfrith.com/

For live streaming of SFCR/KUSF-in-Exile or to DONATE to the cause:
http://savekusf.org/listen-to-kusf-in-exile

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http://savekusf.podomatic.com/

This week marks the 45th anniversary of what was one of the darkest days in modern American history as four students were killed and nine others wounded by Ohio National Guard troops at Kent State University while protesting the escalation of the Vietnam war into Cambodia on May 4, 1970.

On today’s TRANSMUSIC AIRWAVES (#115) I’ll play various Kent, Akron, and Cleveland bands who played locally and were influenced by those events. Music from Devo, The James Gang, Tiny Alice, and Chi-Pig will be mixed throughout the first hour of the show with songs of a political nature.

Also included will be the airing of Chris Butler’s (The Waitresses, Tin Huey, and currently Half Cleveland) autobiographical song, “Beggar’s Bullet’s.” Chris was a student attending Kent at the time and a close friend of slain student Jeffrey Miller.

During the rest of the program other Northern Ohio artists will be blended into today’s remaining sets. They include Kent, Ohio’s The Numbers Band, Akron’s Bizarros and Human Switchboard, and Ralph and Patrick Carney; and Cleveland’s Pere Ubu. The final set returns with a political theme and finishes with The Pretender’s “Revolution.”

This Podcast contains explicit language.

For A Detailed Playlist:
http://spinitron.com/radio/playlist.php?station=kusf&showid=976#here

For more information on CHRIS BUTLER:
http://www.futurefossilmusic.com/
https://chrisbutler1.bandcamp.com/album/easy-life
HALF CLEVELAND:
http://halfcleveland.bandcamp.com/releases

For live streaming of SFCR/KUSF-in-Exile or to DONATE to the cause:
http://savekusf.org/listen-to-kusf-in-exile

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DAEVID ALLEN – JANUARY 13, 1938 to MARCH 13, 2015


Please join me today on this special edition of TRANSMUSIC AIRWAVES (#109) over SFCR, San Francisco Community Radio, KUSF-in-Exile in celebrating the life of DAEVID ALLEN.

As founding member of the band GONG and the band The Soft Machine, Daevid remained at the forefront of the Psychedelic and Progressive Rock movements for over four decades, bringing his own brand of playful mysticism to thousands of loyal fans.

Today you’ll hear music from his work in GONG including an assortment of rare “live” recordings, plus selections from his solo work, and his collaborations with Gilli Smyth, Harry Williamson, Daevid Allen’s University of Errors, and New York Gong. There’s even a “tall tale” woven by Daevid based on a visit from his parents while living in Majorca.

The musical elements will be interwoven with excerpts from interviews conducted by myself and Jeff Wootton in 1979 and 1980 that covered topics from the creation of the Gong mythology and the development of his “glissando” guitar technique to his views on drugs and creativity, his various musical influences, and his thoughts on religion; all in his own words.

Join me in celebrating the life of this extraordinary being who brought so much joy to so many.

Today's playlist:

SET #1:
PLANET GONG (DAEVID ALLEN, GILLI SMYTH, & NEW YORK GONG) “Radio Gnome Invisible (Live)” from Live at the Kent State Creative Arts Festival - April 28, 1979

INTERVIEW- DAEVID ALLEN “History of Gong Part 1: The Birth of Gong” from Iinterview of Daevid Allen by Paul Ciminero and Jeff Wootton on 5/29/1979
GONG “Sold to the Highest Buddha” from Angel's Egg

INTERVIEW - DAEVID ALLEN “History of Gong Part 2: Tea Pot Explained” from Interview of Daevid Allen by Paul Ciminero and Jeff Wootton - 5/29/1979
DAEVID ALLEN “Tally & Orlando Meet the Cockpot Pixie” from Now Is the Happiest Time of Your Life
GONG “A P.H.P.'s Advice” from You

INTERVIEW- DAEVID ALLEN “History of Gong Part 3: Recording During a Full Moon” from Interview of Daevid Allen by Paul Ciminero and Jeff Wootton - 5/29/79
DAEVID ALLEN “Good Morning” from Good Morning

SET #2
DAEVID ALLEN & HARRY WILLIAMSON “Part 1: Twenty Two Meanings (excerpt)” from Twenty Two Meanings -The Art of the Glissando Guitar Part 1

INTERVIEW - Daevid Allen “History of Gong Part 4: The Creation of the Glissando Guitar” from Interview of Daevid Allen by Paul Ciminero and Jeff Wootton- 5/29/1979
DAEVID ALLEN “Oh Man You” from N'Existe Pas
GONG “Shapeshifter” from ShapeShifter

INTERVIEW - DAEVID ALLEN “History of Gong Part 5: The Canterbury Scene” from Interview of Daevid Allen by Paul Ciminero and Jeff Wootton - 5/29/1979
DAEVID ALLEN “Un Oeuf for You” from Je Ne Fum' Pas Des Bananas
DAEVID ALLEN'S UNIVERSITY OF ERRORS “Shooting at the Moon (aka Jet Propelled Photograph)” from Jet Propelled Photographs

SET #3:
GONG “Gliss U-Well” from The Mystery and the History of Planet Gong

INTERVIEW - DAEVID ALLEN “History of Gong Part 6: Various Gong Bands” from Interview of Daevid Allen by Paul Ciminero and Jeff Wootton - 5/29/1979
GONG “Olde Fooles Game” from Acid Motherhood
GONG “I See You” from I See You

INTERVIEW - DAEVID ALLEN “History of Gong Part 7: The Influence of Balinese Music on Gong” from Interview of Daevid Allen by Paul Ciminero and Jeff Wootton - 5/29/1979
GONG “IAO Chant & Master Builder (Live)” from Gong est Mort (Live at Hippodrome Paris 1977)

INTERVIEW - DAEVID ALLEN “Divided Alien Interview Part 1: Chasing Music of the Spheres” from Interview of Daevid Allen by Jeff Wootton - 7/8/1980
GONG “A Sprinkling of Clouds” from YOU

SET #4:
DAEVID ALLEN,GILLI SMYTH, & HARRY WILLIAMSON “Moonpeople Gliss (Part 1- excerpt)” from Stroking the Tail of the Bird

DAEVID ALLEN “Death of Rock (Live)” from Bananamoon Obscura No. 9: Divided Alien Playbax, Pt. 2 (Live at the Mistake in Cleveland)
GONG “Can't Kill Me Jam” from Gong Family Jewels
DAEVID ALLEN “Gaia” from Australia Aquaria

INTERVIEW - DAEVID ALLEN “History of Gong Part 8: Drugs & Creativity” from Intervew of Daevid Allen by Paul Ciminero and Jeff Wootton - 5/29/1979
PLANET GONG (DAEVID ALLEN, GILLI SMYTH & NEW YORK GONG) “I've Been Stoned Before” from Live at the Kent State Creative Arts Festival - May 28, 1979
NEW YORK GONG “Hours Gone” from About Time

INTERVIEW - DAEVID ALLEN “History of Gong Part 9: Punk Music” from Interview of Daevid Allen by Paul Ciminero and Jeff Wootton - 5/29/1979
PLANET GONG (DAEVID ALLEN, GILLI SMYTH, & NEW YORK GONG) “Poet For Sale” from Live at the Kent State Creative Arts Festival - May 28, 1979

SET #5:
Daevid Allen, Harry Williamson & Gilli Smyth “Moonpeople Gliss - Part 2 (Excerpt)” from Stroking the Tail of the Bird

DAEVID ALLEN (& GILLI SMYTH) “The Curious Story of What Happened to Mr. Camembert When He Visited His Son In a Doggerel” from Short Tales & Tall
GONG “Zero Where Are You? (Live)” from 25th Birthday Party (Live)
GONG “Be Who You Are My Friends (Live)” from 25th Birthday Party (Live)
GONG “Pot Head Pixies (Live)” from 25th Birthday Party - London, The Forum

INTERVIEW - DAEVID ALLEN “History of Gong Part 10: Working for Peanuts"” from Interview of Daevid Allen by Paul Ciminero and Jeff Wootton - 5/29/1979
DAEVID ALLEN'S UNIVERSITY OF ERRORS “Money Doesn't Make It” from Money Doesn't Make It

INTERVIEW - DAEVID ALLEN “Divided Alien Interview Part 2: Gong's Commercial Appeal” from Interview of Daevid Allen by Jeff Wootton- 7/8/1980
GONG “Escape Control Delete” from 2032

SET #6:
GONG “Magick Mother Invocation” from The Best of Gong, Vol. 2

INTERVIEW - DAEVID ALLEN “Divided Alien Interview Part 3: Daevid's jazz Influences” from Daevid Allen Interview by Jeff Wootton - 7/8/1980
DAEVID ALLEN “Gold Top” from Eat Me I'm a Jellybean

INTERVIEW - DAEVID ALLEN “History of Gong Part 11: Why Bananas?"” from Interview of Daevid Allen by Paul Ciminero and Jeff Wootton - 5/29/1979
DAEVID ALLEN & EUTERPE “Time of the Bananamoon” from Bananamoon Obscura No.1: Studio Rehearsal Tapes 1977

INTERVIEW - DAEVID ALLEN “History of Gong Part 12: Australia” from Interview of Daevid Allen by Paul Ciminero and Jeff Wootton - 5/29/1979
DAEVID ALLEN “Fred the Fish” from Banana Moon

INTERVIEW - DAEVID ALLEN “Divided Alien Interview Part 4: Religion and Mysticism (beginning)” from Interview of Daevid Allen by Jeff Wootton - 7/8/1980
DAEVID ALLEN & THE MAGICK BROTHERS “Children of the New World” from Live At The Witchwood 1991

INTERVIEW “Divided Alien Interview Part 5: Religion and Mysticism (conclusion)” from Interview of Daevid Allen by Jeff Wootton - 7/9/1980
DAEVID ALLEN “Garden Song” from Dreamin a Dream

INTERVIEW - DAEVID ALLEN “History of Gong Part 13: Plans” from Interview of Deavid Allen by Paul Ciminero and Jeff Wootton - 5/29/1979
DAEVID ALLEN “Dear Friends” from Dreamin' A Dream
PLANET GONG (DAEVID ALLEN, GILLI SMYTH, & NEW YORK GONG) “Final Song Segment” from Live at the Kent State Creative Arts Festival - May 28,1979


For more information on Daevid Allen and Gong and to obtain complete copies of those interviews used today:
http://www.planetgong.co.uk/

For information on GONG's Global Family and artists:
https://flamedogrecords.com/home/

For live streaming of SFCR/KUSF-in-Exile:
http://savekusf.org/listen-to-kusf-in-exile

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http://savekusf.podomatic.com/

Photo of DAEVID ALLEN taken at the Kent State Creative Arts Festival on May 28, 1979 courtesy of Chris Songer

It’s time once again for a special “Character Study” on today's edition of TRANSMUSIC AIRWAVES. A “Character Study” is a look at an artist or group that’s had a significant impact on contemporary music and today I’ve chosen to look at the life and career of ROBERT WYATT.

Wyatt was the co-founder of the legendary Canterbury band The Soft Machine and as an artist his prolific output and influence has encompassed the past half century.

Today I’ll look at his early beginning in bands The Wilde Flowers, Soft Machine, and Matching Mole; his numerous solo albums, and his work as an “in demand” sideman for many legendary musical projects.

There will be several rare, live, and in some cases surprising cuts played during this feature which airs in the final two hours of today’s program. During the first hour today I’ll look back at all the artists I’ve featured in past “Character Studies.”

For a detailed playlist of today's program:
http://spinitron.com/radio/playlist.php?station=kusf&playlist=4048#here

For more information on ROBERT WYATT:
http://www.strongcomet.com/wyatt/
https://myspace.com/robertwyatt

For live streaming of SFCR/KUSF-in-Exile or to DONATE to the cause:
http://savekusf.org/listen-to-kusf-in-exile

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“ENO IS GOD.“


“Those three words appeared everywhere. Bars. Telephone Booths. Subway Billboards.”*


* David Bowman (author) describing Brian Eno’s emerging influence on New York’s vibrant “new wave” scene in 1978 from his book “This Must Be The Place.”



On this week’s TRANSMUSIC AIRWAVES (#84), my special “Character Study” feature returns in the final two hours with an in depth look at the life and music of Brian Eno. The scope of Eno’s influence on music, art, and modern culture cannot be understated.

Today’s feature will span Brian Eno’s entire career covering his early days with Roxy Music, his extraordinary solo catalog (including his numerous collaborations), his pioneering work at the forefront of both “ambient” and “generative” music’s, and various accomplishments in modern rock music production.

The first hour of today’s episode will include the usual format for this program; new releases intermixed with selections from the “musical vault” and other surprises.

For more about today's program:
http://spinitron.com/radio/playlist.php?station=kusf&playlist=3411#here

For more information on Brian Eno or to purchase his music:
http://www.enoshop.co.uk/

“Warning, Warning...Danger Will Robinson” “Ohhh the pain...the Pain!” Those phrases have been engrained into every baby boomers psyche since the TV sci-fi series “Lost in Space” first aired in 1965.

On today’s edition of TRANSMUSIC AIRWAVES (#71) I’ll take bits of that show’s dialogue and surround it with the appropriate “space” songs from such artists as Hawkwind, Devo, Aimee Mann, Wooden Shjips, Captain Beyond, Ken Nordine, David Bowie, and several others in today’s final hour. Also heard during this segment will be several compositions from John Williams written specifically for the series including two DIFFERENT main title themes.

There’s plenty of other great music during the first hours of today’s program including new tracks from Joseph Arthur (from the “Lou” album), Habib Koite (from “Soo”), and the GOASTT (Sean Lennon & Charlotte Kemp Muhl’s “Midnight Sun”) plus “vault” melodies from the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Lothar and the Hand People, Ivor Cutler, and Van Der Graaf. There are also several songs dedicated to the “World Cup” in Brazil as well.

Extraterrestrial contact begins now! Have your transistor antenna’s and toy ray guns ready kids...

For more information about this show:
http://spinitron.com/radio/playlist.php?station=kusf&playlist=3105#here