The exit of Waxy Maxy

[teamsaint]

Work gets pretty busy towards the end of the school term, but with them on holiday (and us non-teachers not), it's pleasantly quiet and I caught up with the paperwork, and more importantly with a couple of Max LJs. Really enjoyed Tuesday's show last week, in particular the Warsaw Village Band and a bit of Zappa among plenty others. Hopefully a quiet uninterrupted week of paperwork lies ahead with not too many complaints from colleagues.

I was trying ( not very hard) to think of a suitable tune for your paperwork week JC.

This one sprung to mind. Actually not bad for a B side.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7KtOWjdUyQ8

Turn the volume up if your colleagues get troublesome....

[johncorrigan]

I was trying ( not very hard) to think of a suitable tune for your paperwork week JC.

This one sprung to mind. Actually not bad for a B side.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7KtOWjdUyQ8

Turn the volume up if your colleagues get troublesome....

Thanks ts...I did love 'Is Vic there?' and that was grand. But actually I find paperwork like doing dishes. Can't be bothered with a couple of dishes...but love to have a big load, get into the zone, stare out the window and get stuck in. So a big pile of paperwork is like that...can't be arsed with piddly amounts...actually I'd rather have none, but I find Max soothes you through a couple of month's worth in his amiable fashion.

And since you mentioned Colombia last week, sainty, Max played this topper by Tóto La Momposina to finish the show last Tuesday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr6HhSgY9Es

[johncorrigan]

Max was back last night and what delight it was, I thought, including a warning of very strong language...i-player even complimented me by asking my age.

Especially enjoyed Seamus Fogarty and Watkins Family Hour and this one from Alif.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uil6wbp-PTQ

...and you can't go wrong in my book with 17 minutes of Fela's 'No Agreement'.

[Lat-Literal]

Thanks ts...I did love 'Is Vic there?' and that was grand. But actually I find paperwork like doing dishes. Can't be bothered with a couple of dishes...but love to have a big load, get into the zone, stare out the window and get stuck in. So a big pile of paperwork is like that...can't be arsed with piddly amounts...actually I'd rather have none, but I find Max soothes you through a couple of month's worth in his amiable fashion.

And since you mentioned Colombia last week, sainty, Max played this topper by Tóto La Momposina to finish the show last Tuesday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr6HhSgY9Es

A delayed response but the Tóto La Momposina link is excellent. The recordings in the early 1990s were produced by Phil Ramone.

She is now 75. There is a re-working of some of the old material on CD. Tambolero, 29th June 2015 (???), on Real World Records:

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/6671292/toto-la-momposina-tambolero-interview

https://realworldrecords.com/news/article/2896/toto-la-momposina-tambolero-out-29-june/

[johncorrigan]

A delayed response but the Tóto La Momposina link is excellent. The recordings in the early 1990s were produced by Phil Ramone.

She is now 75. There is a re-working of some of the old material on CD. Tambolero, 29th June 2015 (???), on Real World Records:

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/6671292/toto-la-momposina-tambolero-interview

https://realworldrecords.com/news/ar...o-out-29-june/

Toto's fab session from a couple of weeks back is still up there on the Wo3 pages, Lat.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b064y5z8

[Lat-Literal]

Toto's fab session from a couple of weeks back is still up there on the Wo3 pages, Lat.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b064y5z8

Many thanks John.

I have a great couple of hours of yer actual radio to enjoy now what with the Sun Ra and Newport too.

Have now listened to the Sun Ra and Newport Folk Festival programmes. Not too bad at all. 1965 was not only the year of the Dylan controversy at Newport but "The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra", latterly ".....Volume One", which made a break with "previous notions of melody or harmony". If that is a parallel of sorts, there are also some interesting contradictions and juxtapositions. The archangel may have been from Saturn and with his mind set free in space but he operated his own jail for band members. "Maggie's Farm" is Dylan kinda protesting against the traditional protest movement in, yes, a protest song. A song that still manages to have a dig at the National Guard standing at the farm door.

In middle age, in 2015, all of it can seem a little other worldy. Ra could easily be reduced to a grander, talented, adult version of where many of us were as kids before the internet usurped imagination. The fury of Lomax and Seeger at Yarrow - always fascinating to hear again - might be seen to be merely a hissy sort of affair for all of its musical significance at that time. Certainly the politics in it can be overstated. With marijuana or not, the era of aggressive protest was arguably later rather than earlier and it was just as idealistic in its way. I think both individuality and comradeship transcended the apparent divisions between the late 1950s and the early 1970s although only the outlook from the mid 1960s onwards could have ultimately ushered in the new unequal economics. Counter-intuitive - but only to a certain extent - with some of the spirit in and of those times.

I would never take sides on it. I have an immense and unfashionable respect for Seeger, would almost provocatively champion Peter Paul and Mary and have never understood why Odetta hasn't a more significant place in music history. Opinions there would be welcomed. But I do not consider that progress has set us back years, not at least in that music as it pertains to the 1960s. For with the benefit of hindsight, all of the key dividing lines turned out to be the wrong ones. The main distinction and hence the main significance is that there was a colour and an innovation and a spirit to it all which can rarely be found in the culture today. The latter is too imprisoned in its own heavy organisation of corporate packaging, gearing and promotion. I'm not saying there was never business savvy or contrivance beyond that which we are permitted to be told but it is the only meaningful way now and consequently there can at times be barely any meaning. Having little scope for heavenly things, bricking over windows and especially outer nothingness is not any place.

Written after a visit to the dentist, more in wistfulness than in misery. The guy is a wonderful dentist.

Sun Ra Arkestra in Berlin - Shadow World - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtHmqbnuZQs

Peter Paul and Mary - The Marvellous Toy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxeIHcvPmtA

[johncorrigan]

Lat, that PP&M was very good - never heard them do it - used to Tom Paxton version but they do better sound effects. Anyway at the end my computer did something daft but in a really nice way and delivered the wonderful Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill on video. Couldn't resist posting these wonderful musicians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5hg3iuoJoM

[Lat-Literal]

Lat, that PP&M was very good - never heard them do it - used to Tom Paxton version but they do better sound effects. Anyway at the end my computer did something daft but in a really nice way and delivered the wonderful Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill on video. Couldn't resist posting these wonderful musicians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5hg3iuoJoM

Well, they are just magnificent. Extraordinary musicianship. I very much like their character. And I am keen on O'Carolan although the stand out was the first being so brisk and bright. NPR again - so the quality is not surprising. I haven't had the radio on, John, but will listen this weekend to tonight's Wo3 which is coming live on the BBC from Edinburgh.

[johncorrigan]

Well, they are just magnificent. Extraordinary musicianship. I very much like their character. And I am keen on O'Carolan although the stand out was the first being so brisk and bright. NPR again - so the quality is not surprising. I haven't had the radio on, John, but will listen this weekend to tonight's Wo3 which is coming live on the BBC from Edinburgh.

Wonder if we'll get another 'The Gloaming' from them any time soon...or ever, Lat.

Max was moonlighting on Wo3 on Friday for an absent MAK. The playlist isn't up yet but I heard a brilliant version of 'The Blacksmith' after the first live guests - don't know who it was yet. I've loved that song since I first heard Maddy and Steeleye perform it on their still wonderful 'Hark! the Village Wait'. Friday night's version made it sound new.

[Globaltruth]

Max not MAK's

Max was moonlighting on Wo3 on Friday for an absent MAK. The playlist isn't up yet but I heard a brilliant version of 'The Blacksmith' after the first live guests - don't know who it was yet. I've loved that song since I first heard Maddy and Steeleye perform it on their still wonderful 'Hark! the Village Wait'. Friday night's version made it sound new.

Hmm, may have to go back and listen then - those first live guests were dreadful (sound balance abysmal and some bum notes in there too) so I switched off...well, in fact, switched to bandcamp in a modern sort of way.

Playlist still not there

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0670dxn

And here is the current list of dates for The Gloaming

http://thegloaming.net/SHOWS

Can we make it to Cork for Sept 17?? SOLD OUT

[johncorrigan]

Hmm, may have to go back and listen then - those first live guests were dreadful (sound balance abysmal and some bum notes in there too) so I switched off...well, in fact, switched to bandcamp in a modern sort of way.

Playlist still not there

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0670dxn

And here is the current list of dates for The Gloaming

http://thegloaming.net/SHOWS

Can we make it to Cork for Sept 17?? SOLD OUT

Agree about first guests...I was surprised I got as far as I did though I was enjoying the Chinese guests until I had to head for the bed. Playlists are lacking all over...playlist person must be at Carnival instead.

[johncorrigan]

After his brief moonlight on World on 3, Max is back on the LJ wheels of steel tonight. Particularly looking forward to hearing sound artist Fari Bradley's interpretation of traditional Arabic weaving patterns.

[Globaltruth]

Particularly looking forward to hearing sound artist Fari Bradley's interpretation of traditional Arabic weaving patterns.

Hey through the wonders of the internet you don't have to wait to hear Mr B....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkV-VTi9RJ4

Industrial, with a bemused audience, and young folks having fun - what more could you wish for?

[johncorrigan]

Industrial, with a bemused audience, and young folks having fun - what more could you wish for?

You could feel the tension - certainly brought the Kirkaldy Testing Museum to life, G. I liked the idea of the piano crushing that came next on YT but it didn't quite get to the crescendo I expected...there you go.

Had me thinking of this one...as Chris in the Morning said, 'it ain't what you fling, it's the way that you fling it!'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6zmMWfzv38

[johncorrigan]

Hard to beat Burning Spear's 'Slavery Days', but Tiken Jah Fakoly has done a grand Malian inspired job of it. Max played it in his excellent show on Tuesday with a nice reggae inspired show to celebrate the Booker Winner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYq6cCb2zNw