Veritable Infusion

"Ontario Family Day International Black History Month" (Podcast Title)

Black History Month continues... With some background on the dance/ church/ social scene in Southwestern Ontario, as I have been checking out the book Breaking Loose, about historic Black communities of southwestern Ontario, at the end of the Underground Railroad.

For Family Day, that is today's legal holiday in Ontario, the rest of the music played will be from family relations, because, tonight, we are...

Keepin' it in the family...

Also, I put out some background on the Black Canadian Vinyl Rarity, Floyd Lawson and the Hearts of Stone - Comin Out, an extremely rare album I learned about after checking out the dodgy Canadian Racer comp... this is some Ottawa area funk via Philadelphia and Motown... I found a copy of the reissue, itself a rarity already with only 500 copies pressed, with Floyd's cooperation and consent on the Afrokat label.

Also, thought I'd mention Claudette Colvin's mostly forgotten role in the Civil Rights struggle...

And in more old civil rights cases in the news again, seven of nine men convicted of trespassing for sitting at a whites-only counter in Alabama 1961, they were exonerated a week or three ago...

TRAX -

Lettuce w. Nigel Hall- Do it Like You Do- playing T.O. This week-

Floyd Lawson and the Hearts of Stone- the second side of their second album,

Feat. Oil in the Ground, Love Won't Let me Wait, Rated X, Air That I Breathe, Only Takes A Minute

Billy Martin and his Orch. - Side two of his Round Midnight album, mostly background while I talked, until Comin' Home

Dianne Brooks- To Make You Happy, Memories- the latter I talked over-

The rest of tonight's show features acts which include blood relations - I.e. no married couples performing for the purpose of tonight's Family Day thang...

Staples Singers- Freedom Highway- live Fillmore West 68

Robert Randolph and the Family Band - BillieJean- live Phoenix '04

Sly and the Family Stone- Colour Me True- live Fillmore East 68

Sunday's Child- Feelin Good

Chambers Brothers- Bang Bang- live Fillmore 68

Isley Brothers - Love the One You're With - live Bitter End 73

Mandrill- Mandrill - feat. the Wilson brothers

Kool and the Gang- the Electric Frog with the Bell family, as are the Kay Gees next.

The Kay- Gees - Get Down

Brothers Johnson- Dancin and Prancin'

ADC Band - Long Stroke - feat. Members of Johnnie Mae Mathews' family

The Meters- Fiyo on the Bayou - live Metarie LA 1/77 - need anyone be reminded of the Nevilles?

Galactic w. Casa Samba- Magalenha- not a family jam, but a funky nod to Brazilian Carnival and Mardi Gras in one song!

Veritable Infusion: CIUT.FM Mondays 8-10pm, A party featuring rare cuts of funk, reggae, jazz, soul, blues, traditional & modern African music. Your donations pledged through paypal go 100% directly to CIUT.FM fund-drives and support community Radio. Original Broadcast: February 16, 2015.

"Stone's throw to Hamilton" (Podcast Title)

Some R.I.P.'s tonight, sad but true, resulting in us hearing a good size chunk of classic luck like Happy live, for bobby keys, and Stay w me live, for Ian mclagan...

Some Christmas soundz and

-a bunch of people from Hamilton... Seeing as I might have White Cowbell Oklahoma out as guests next week, I thought we'd "get to know some Hamiltonians" tonight...

Not much more to say tonight, brought up a tale or 2 from Hamilton's past...

TRAX :

Rail yard ghosts- plastic toys n black coal

*Rick Fines- Country Christmas Blues

The Faces- Stay with Me - Live1972- RIP Ian McLagan

The Rolling Stones- Live with Me, Happy - Live 1973- RIP Bobby Keys

Canned Heat- Broke Down HD Blues

*Teena Age Head-live l.p.- Picture my Face, let's go to Hawaii, more...

*Forgotten Rebels- In Love With The System

*Teenage Head- live -Kissin the Carpet

*King Biscuit Boy-29 Ways, Bald Headed Rhumba Boogie, Lord Pity Us All

*Crowbar- Live- Power to the People, Oh What a Feeling

*Lighthouse-live Fillmore 69- Whatever Forever

Chairmen of the Board- Chairmen of the Board, not a theme song mebbe but a descriptor... Hamilton's own Harrison Kennedy was in this classic Detroit funk and soul band,,best known for Give Me A Little More Time... Also played Saginaw County Line, Children of Today, and Everybody Party All Night

Latimore- Qualified Man

Electric Jungle- Funky Funky Christmas

Jackson Sisters- Rocksteady

Joe Higgs- Live 1981- Wonderful Love, Creation

Veritable Infusion: CIUT.FM Mondays 8-10pm, A party featuring rare cuts of funk, reggae, jazz, soul, blues, traditional & modern African music. Your donations pledged through paypal go 100% directly to CIUT.FM fund-drives and support community Radio. Original Broadcast: December 08, 2014.

"The Day After" (Podcast Title) November 10th 2014

Remembrance Day tomorrow...the 100th year of this occasion. Last year I think I went all-out and played a tonne of war n' army related tracks... Mixed in some people on tour at the moment...

TRAX -

L Cohen - Passing Through

Zachary Lucky- Introduction, Across the Ocean, Back In The Fall

Downchild- Must Have been the Devil

Alan Mills- Pork Beans and Hard Tack

O.J. Abbott - The Heights Of Alma

Roland Lebrun- lettre d'amour a sa fiancée, Pour Oublier Cette Vie

Dave Gunning- And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda

Everything has been Canadian until now...

Bob Segar System- 2+2=?

Chambers Brothers- Time - live @ St.John The Divine Church, NYC 1971

Curtis Mayfield- Back to the World

Nina Simone- My Sweet Lord- Today Is A Killer - live 1972

End of Remembrance Day set, some glitches, start delaying Nina S. live Poppies before cluing in, it's dried and processed poppies, not the Flanders Field ones.... So I explained myself and threw on the Nina track from the same album...

On to John Fogerty, paying this Saturday, his tunes interpreted by others...

Gene Harris- Green River

Ohio Players- Proud Mary

U Roy- Babylon Burning (Proud Mary-ish)

Honey boy Martin- Have you ever seen the Rain?

Jimmy Cliff- Viet Nam - live

Marcia Griffiths- Now You're Here - live

Irving "Al" Brown- Listen to the Music

Roger over and out...

Veritable Infusion: CIUT.FM Mondays 8-10pm, A party featuring rare cuts of funk, reggae, jazz, soul, blues, traditional & modern African music. Your donations pledged through paypal go 100% directly to CIUT.FM fund-drives and support community Radio. Original Broadcast: November 10, 2014.

Annabelle Chvostek, Canadian Country Music Award nominee, an excerpt from her interview: discusses her newly released album "Rise" and upcoming tours with Heather Fielding, host CIUT.fm Acoustic Workshop. Special Edition.

Track: The End of the Road.

Original broadcast October 7, 2013.

"Saskatchewan" (Podcast Title)

Podcast Description: DJ Erik T interviews Zachary Lucky on Veritable Infusion

“If you only have one thing to say about Saskatchewan’s Zachary Lucky; this guy is a very hard working folk singer. In the last two years Lucky has released close to half a dozen eps, and has crossed the country as many times. If you have one more thing to say about Zachary Lucky; this guy is a good song writer. The latest from Zachary Lucky, Come & Gone, is a good showcase of Lucky’s talent.” - The Kite

Tour Dates http://www.zacharylucky.com/

Friday February 22nd - Toronto, ON (Folk Alliance)

Wednesday February 27th - Regina, SK (The Club)

Friday March 1st - Saskatoon, SK (The Basement)

Playlist:

*Introduction

*Across the ocean

*Back in the fall

*Leaves are falling

*Saskatchewan

*Saskatchewan (Elenor's)

*Leaving pt 1

*Refrain

(* = Canadian)

Veritable Infusion: CIUT.FM Mondays 8-10pm, A party featuring rare cuts of funk, reggae, jazz, soul, blues, traditional & modern African music. Your donations pledged through paypal go 100% directly to CIUT.FM fund-drives and support community Radio. Special Edition.

Original Broadcast: February 18, 2013

One of the great things about the new TIFF Bell Lightbox is that it’s not just a movie theatre. Well, it is a movie theatre. But it’s not only that. You know? TIFF could have opted to just run limited engagements and special presentations out of their new digs, but instead, the folks at the creative helm of the Lightbox seem determined to expand the menu of cinema-related goings-on in the city.

In keeping with that mandate, September 2010 the Lightbox opens its hypermodern doors to venerable Toronto post-rockers Do Make Say Think, who will be performing a live, partially improvised soundtrack for Eric von Stroheim’s silent era classic Greed. With a curious and convoluted production history, von Stroheim’s film was kind of like the Dune of early Hollywood: an exorbitantly budgeted epic that was rumoured to once exist in a whopping ten hour cut.

Detailing the corrupting influence of money (it never sleeps, you know) after a woman (ZaSu Pitts) wins the lottery, Greed remains one of the more hugely ambitious productions Hollywood has ever churned out. And according to Lightbox artistic director Noah Cowan, the film was a perfect match for Do Make Say Think’s experimental rock music. “There’s something about its social consciousness and artistic inventiveness that we thought connected well with this group of Toronto musicians,” says Cowan of the pairing. “It works really well with musicians who improvise. There’s something sort of ephemeral to what constitutes story in a lot of silent era films. I think it allows for a greater reflection by artistic collaborators.”

Do Make Say Think are no strangers to coupling their music with a film screening. Indeed, it was their live score for the 1919 German horror film Tales of the Uncanny (performed at Yonge-Dundas Square as part of Luminato in 2009) that informed the Lightbox’s decision to organize this week’s Greed performance. “These guys have expressed a real enthusiasm for engaging in cross-media exploration,” says Cowan. “We want to support that in Toronto. Not just at TIFF Bell Lightbox, but as a larger part of the city’s cultural fabric. This seems like a great vehicle for these sorts of hybrid events.”

As Cowan suggests, the interstitial place a performance like this occupies also broadens aesthetic boundaries. Especially for a film like Greed, which has existed piecemeal in different cuts of different lengths over the years, it’s tricky to get a bead on precisely what constitutes the film. “The beginnings of cinema are starting to feel like today’s cinema, where you have all these director’s cuts and innumerable versions of films,” says Cowan. “This was the norm back in the day, where theatres would chop off bits of films. Different versions would be circulated by the studio for different marketplaces. Directors would tear their hair out, but it meant that an audience would have a general sense of what a film was, as opposed to an idea of it tied to a specific running time.”

So whereas playing over a classic Bernard Herrmann score to a film like Vertigo or Taxi Driver may seem like cinematic sacrilege, a sin on par with George Lucas and Steven Speilberg’s much-maligned fiddling with their classic films, Do Make Say Think’s live score for Greed functions to tie together a film whose production and screening history was far more amorphous. The accompanying concert provides not just a compliment to the event, but the event itself.

It’s something that transgresses time (setting a classic silent film to contemporary instrumental rock music) as well as the boundaries of media. And it’s precisely the kind of thing we’re happy to have the Lightbox around to host.

Do Make Say Think perform a live soundtrack to Eric von Stroheim’s Greed Sept 2010 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King Street West). Special Edition.

Recording Assistant: Zoe Cunningham, Michael Dal Maso

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