MUSIC FOR SEPTEMBER 14TH

Today we began with some AL TUCK and a couple off his beautiful new album FOOD FOR THE MOON. In my opinion, its the strongest release of its kind all year. ("of its kind": Dylan/Cohenesque canadian singer/songwriter.)

We heard:

Tuck My Blues Away
Dunk River Deceit Blues

The Andrew Scott Quartet-Nostalgia
Quasimodo

Roy Ayers
Virgo Vibes

Off of the Album DAVID ROSE and his ORCHESTRA play THE STRIPPER and other fun songs for the family

we heard

The Stripper
Night Train

followed by some of the Honeyed horn of Al Hirt

Cotton Candy
Walkin'

followed my Chuck Mangione

Song Of the New Moon

Off the Meters album struttin

Chicken Strut
Liver Splash

off of Curtis Mayfield's ROOTS

Get Down

KING SUNNY ADE and his African Beats
Synchro Feelings-Hako

Taj Mahal
Leaving Trunk

Ervin Rucker- Done done the slop

Classie Ballou- Classie's Whip

Marvulus Mickey- Do the Robot

Bowlegs- hunky Twist

Cjam Mp3 Archive

http://137.207.3.132/cjam-090914-0900-t1252915200.mp3

enjoy!

NEW MUSIC FOR SEPTEMBER 7TH 2009

Welcome back for another season of Mind Ecology on Windsor/Detroits alternative radio CJAM91.5fm.

The first set began withTorontonian Jah Youssouf off the new disc THE WOODCHOPPERS ASSOCIATION et JAH YOUSSOUF

we heard

Amadou
Doni Doni
Laissez Nous

Moving on, the rest of the show is all on Vinyl.
Two tracks off of STANLEY TURRENTINE's 1973 album DON'T MESS WITH MISTER T

we heard

Too blue
Two for T

that album includes heavy hitters such as Idris Muhammad on drums, Ron Carter on Bass, Pepper Adams (bari), Randy Brecker (trumpet).

Beginning our second set. Three tracks off of Arthur Lymans Cotton Fields

Jungle Drums
Brazil
Hawaiian War Chant

The Group In 1963 included Arthur Lyman, Alan Soares, John Kramer and Harold Chang, all switching instruments thruout. Arthur Lyman was a huge figure touching on many different styles, check it out.

Followed by The HARMONITES INTERNATIONAL STEEL ORCHESTRA

An album I found that is pressed in Jamaica. Not much relevant information could be found online. we heard

Men in Harmonites-Fitzroy (champ) Martin
Frenzy- Mighty Lion

last couple

The Salsoul Orchestra- Salsoul Hustle (Salsoul Orchestra. The studio band for artists on the Salsoul label. This was recorded in 1975)
Archie Bell & the drells- Glad you could make it ( off of 1977's Hard not to like it)

The Pointer Sisters- Grinding in your face. Written by Son House originally. Off of "Thats a Plenty" released in 1974

Stevie Wonder- Have a talk with God. Off of Songs in the key of life. 1976. One of Stevie's Funkiest tracks!

Then two taking us to 10.15 am

Serge Gainsbourg's soundtrack for Cannabis (1970)

Cannabis
Chanvre indien

Taking us home

Billy Preston- Free funk (off Organ Transplant

Curtis Mayfield (off back to the World 1973)

Keep on Trippin'
Back to the world

MP3 ARCHIVE on CJAM.CA
http://137.207.3.132/cjam-090907-0900-t1252310401.mp3

Hope you enjoyed fresh Wax!

Mind Ecology. Every Monday 9 till 1030am on Cjam.ca

Music for June 22nd

We began with

If I were a bell- Miles Davis

off of his great live box set LIVE AT THE PLUGGED NICKLE. December 22, 1965, in Chicago with the second great Quintet. After the CD rudely skipped, Hank was there to the rescue

Hank Mobley- Workout

Starting us off in the next set, Toronto's Peter Elkas, with some tracks off his older album Party of one. We heard

Party of One and Everybody Works

Check him out online www.PeterElkas.com

The amazing DAVE VAN RONK had the next four tracks. Like before, I highly reccomend DAVE VAN RONK.

Samson & delilah
Cocaine blues
Chicken is nice
Stackerlee

finishing with Joel Plaskett's amazing Light of the moon

After that a couple of vinyl cuts. of the hilariously titled "music to watch girls by"

George Mann Orchestra-Dark eyes/ Cuddle up a little closer

off J.J. Johnsons soundtrack for Willie Dynamite, featuring Martha Reeves: Keep on Movin On. and before 10:15 we finished with

Mel Brown-Shanty

taking us to 10:30

Deodato- Funk yourself
Gow Dow Experience- Compared to what
and finally
Curtis Mayfield- Can't Say Nothin'

Tune in every monday 9 till 1030am. Windsor/Detroit 91.5FM or tune in online CJAM.CA

Music for June 15th

Ola

Started things off with some more off the new SunParlour Players album "Wave North"

Battle of 77
Joy in what you lack

Switched gears to featuring Grant Greens live album ALIVE!. Recorded August 15th, 1970 at the CLICHE LOUNGE in Newark, New Jersey. we heard

Let the music take your mind- kool & the gang
time to remember
Sookie,Sookie
Down Here on the Ground-Lalo Schifrin
Hey Western Union Man-Gamble/Huff

This Is Grant Green at his funkiest!

After that, taking us to 10 30 it was all Muddy Waters 1968 release, ELECTRIC MUD

1.	"I Just Want to Make Love to You"	Willie Dixon	4:19
2.	"I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man"	Dixon	4:53
3.	"Let's Spend the Night Together"	Mick Jagger and Keith Richards	3:12
4.	"She's Alright"	Morganfield, Waters	6:36
5.	"Mannish Boy"	Morganfield, Waters	3:50
6.	"Herbert Harper's Free Press News"	Barnes, Thurston	4:40
7.	"Tom Cat"	Williams	3:42
8.	"The Same Thing"	Dixon	5:42

Read up on this in wikipedia. Some interesting inspirations as well as circumstances have come out of its release and gone into the making of it. And if you see the inside of the album, Muddy Waters is the only man to successfully make his hair stand up at least 5 vertical inches without lyle lovett syndrome of geekiness

JUNE 8th ALL VINYL SHOW

Howdy, Been a while,
Broke my laptops screenlight, so less internet is good and bad.

Started off rough. Had to learn how to use the turntables as 9 came and passed. poop. So I started with:

Sunparlour players: North and Make a sound, the first two tracks of off of the brand new album. It sounds so nice, and the songwriting is only getting better.
When the turntables finally worked for me:

Ned Landry: St. ann's reel/Road to the isles
Mississippi John Hurt: Since I layed my burdens down

and the amazing Dave Van Ronk

Statesborough blues
'bout a spoonfull

Dave Van Ronk is an amazing singer songwriter. If Bob Dylan was on the Communist "red" list in the fifties. DVR. More of him to come.

Switched Gears at 9:30

Oscar Peterson/ Stephane Grapelli- blues for Musidisc
Joe Pass/ Ray Brown/ Milt Jackson- The pink Panther
Eddie "lockJaw" Davis- Bye Bye Blackbird
Arthur Lyman- Cotton Fields
Herb Alpert & tijuana Brass- More and More amour/ Mae
Shakti w. John Mclaughlin- Mind Ecology

10:00
The wonderfully cheezy
idris Muhammad- Disco Man
Billy preston/Sly Stone- In the midnight hour/ Free Funk
Leroy Sibbles- I've never found me a girl

Finishing up
Kwame- Family affair
and
Curtis Mayfield- Back to the world

i bought a tylus so look for more vinyl goodness in the weeks to come!

Monday May 11th- THE BEST OF MIND ECOLOGY

 So far at least,

  It's been a year since I took over the show, and I am tirelessly thankful for this wonderful opportunity to be apart of such a diverse group of programmers and loyal listeners. Putting a show together, you dig, digest, compile and finally broadcast a choice playlist. Looking back over the shows from this past year, these are all the "priceless gems"that have stuck in my ear long enough to get them onto this weeks playlist.

The first set we stay in Africa, Ali Farka Toure, one of the greatest guitar players of all time, and, born in Mali, is the only one not from Nigeria in this set. I can't say enough about Fela Kuti, as I've mentioned him before in previous posts/shows, but I'l sum his musical contributions up with the fact that he INVENTED AFROBEAT!

Tony Tete Harbor and his Star Heaters of Nigeria- Tete Muo bu Muo  

Fela Kuti- Water Get No Enemy

Chief Checker- Africa Irie

Ali Farka Toure- Soya

From 930 till 1000, predominantly Canadian, partially local, 

The Banjo Consorsium- Burning Feet

Johnny West- Water to Town

Johnny West/Anna Atkinson- Wait All Morning

Serge Gainsbourg- Bonnie and Clyde (feat. Brigitte Bardot)

Exuma- The Obeah Man

Timber Timbre- Demon Host

Everything aside from Serge and Exuma was released within the last year. Timber Timbre's self titled album is so dark and sincere, and one of the years best for Canadian alt-folk. As for music made in Windsor, Johnny West's Chicken Angel Woman with a Triangle released last year, and from a few months back, An Absence of Sway,  show his musical growth, and prove his knack for making wonderful musical moments with captivating lyrics hide in his dozens of odd song titles. They are both available at PHOG LOUNGE and your friendly neighborhood DR. DISC, and they're free as smiles.

EXUMA is worth  searching in Wikipedia and scouring the internet for sounds.  This music is posessed, like the creepy face on the album cover. Look for a future show featuring the music of EXUMA.

Serge Gainsbourg, like Exuma is a hard artist to sum up with one song.  To get the true brunt of Serge Gainsbourg, head to youtube to watch the music video that goes along with Bonnie and Clyde ( the one with subtitles) and make sure you see the clip of Whitney Houston and Serge appearing on a French talk show.  ONE OF THE MOST AWKWARDLY AMAZING MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF TELEVISION I sheet you knot.

Flying Lotus- 1983

Scotty- Draw your Breaks

Claudius Linton- Crying time

Dorothy Ashby- Action Line

Flying Lotus is John Coltrane's nephew, Scotty ( or David Scott- musician and DJ) covered Keith & Tex- "Stop That Train" as "Draw Your Breaks" for the soundtrack for the film "The Harder They Come", Claudius Linton is deceiving. Check him out on Myspace, this is new music. And I didn't get a chance to play Dorothy Ashby's song Action line last week in my feature on this Detroit Native, so here it is.

and Finally,

Jorge Ben- Cinco Minutos

Raphael Saadiq- Keep Marchin'

The jackson sisters- I Believe in Miracles (remix)

Shuggie Otis- Inspiration Information

From Raphael Saadiq's 2008 album "The Way I See It". Go Motown revival. Big step up from Tony Toni Tone! 

Shuggie Otis, son of Johnny Otis ( johnny Otis wrote "Harlem Nocturne" a la big band era, and wrote "Every Beat of my Heart" for the Royals, bit it was a huge hit for Gladys Knight)

Shuggie is another one that I can't even begin to discuss without a feature, so for now, check out his wiki page to get the gist.

  These are the Gems from last year that make up the first annual BEST OF.  as per usual if you missed the show its in CJAM's archives

          http://web2.uwindsor.ca/cjam/nvd_mp3.php 

enjoy

BEST OF MIND ECOLOGY MONDAY MAY 11TH

Next week, Monday May 11th will be my one year anniversary of me taking over the show!

 Tune in for the best tunes i came across all year!

We started the first set off live in Addis Ethiopia with the international collective known as the Either Orchestra, Canada's SoulJazz Orchestra and finally, possibly one of the shortest Fela Kuti songs tracking a little over 7 minutes.  Dig into the inter-web of tubes and see what things you can find about FELA KUTI. The inventor of AFROBEAT and a pivotal musical and political figure in the History of Nigeria.

Either Orchestra-  Amlak Abet Abet

The SoulJazz Orchestra-  Sankofa

Fela Kuti-  Victim of life

Brand new music from Windsor's own JOHNNY WEST. His second release from 2009, IF I HAD A QUARTER FOR EVERY TIME SOMEONE STUCK A GUN IN MY FACE I'D AT LEAST HAVE ENOUGH CHANGE TO BUY A FEW CHOCOLATE BARS. 

       Check into JOHNNYWESTMUSIC.WORDPRESS.COM for a wealth of knowledge about Windsor's beautiful bearded bard.

DENGUE FEVER and MEAS SAMOUN, both appearing on the soundtrack SLEEPWALKING THROUGH THE MEKONG. A film based on DENGUE FEVER traveling through Cambodia, finding their roots, as well as the tradition of rock music in Cambodia's history. Great soundtrack and great film to see. ch'ch'checkitout

Johnny West-  Ghosts of Dragonflies

Johnny West- Cinders

The Tallest Man on Earth- Where Do My Bluebirds Fly

Dengue Fever-  Seeing Hands

Dengue Fever-  One Thousand Tears of a Tarantula

Meas Samoun- Dondung Goan Gay

The Wailers- Good Good Rudie

Starting at Ten O'Clock

Dennis Alcapone-  Fever teaser

Alton Ellis-  the well run dry

Big Maybelle-  Ocean of Tears

Lee Fields- I’m a Millionaire

And taking us to the end I featured DOROTHY ASHBY and some tracks off of her 1968 album AFRO-HARPING. An album featuring Dorothy on the Harp, classical strings and funk-jazz rhythms. Fantastic and funky. Dorothy is from DETROIT, attended Cass Tech (along with TONS of other Jazz figureheads) Wayne State, and was a music educator, radio DJ and in demand jazz harpist through out the 60's.  I ran out of time in my show so I will play some more tracks next week, to fill my heart up with satisfaction...

we heard:

 Life has its trails, Afro-Harping and Soul Vibrations.

   If you care to check out the show:

    

   http://web2.uwindsor.ca/cjam/nvd_mp3.php   in the CJAM archives,  starting at 9am   ENJOY!

  

 

Music for Monday April 27th

We start the first set off with the 18 minute live recording that came with the 2002 re-issue of Freddie Hubbard's RED CLAY.  followed by Lou Donaldson's Gravy Train. It was recorded in 1961 on this day.  

Taking us to Ten O' Clock, 

Trees Leave Shadows In The Park Megan Hamilton 

                                The Valley Town  Elliott Brood

               Sunlight  Tara Watts 

  Megan Hamilton is at the PHOG LOUNGE Saturday May 2nd along with THE ERIC WELTON BAND and KENNETH MACLEOD and the WINDSOR SALT BAND

 Elliott Brood will be at the BLIND DOG, downtown Windsor April 30th,

and you can see Tara at PHOG every Monday of course, 

Bringing us to the Top of the Hour, from Ennio Morricone's soundtrack  for the 1971 film "Una Lucertola Con La Pelle Di Donna" or "Lizard in a Woman's Skin", Dark and Nervous Sounds!  We   A Lucio Fulci and La Lucertola. 

      From 10:00   New Chicago Blues Jimmy Reed

Pepperheaded Woman Sonny Terry

          

And Bessie Smith with "Me and My Gin",  recorded in the summer of 1928, with a Trombone and a Piano. The lyrics are hilarious, and quite crude. "I don't want no clothes, and I don't need no bed".

          For our final stretch  some tracks

Summer Dream Diesler

Now That School Is Through Cindy & The Playmates

Rocking Machine Prince Francis

I'm The Ruler Anthony "Rocky" Ellis

I'm Hungry Johnny Morisette

         For reference download from the CJAM archives

http://web2.uwindsor.ca/cjam/nvd_mp3.php               

    Hope you Enjoy!!

   

                

  Una Lucertola Con La Pelle Di Donna Soundtrack

WELCOME!

 

   This is the blog headquarters for MIND ECOLOGY, airing every Monday 9 till 1030am on CJAM91.5FM Windsor and Detroit's own community radio.  MIND ECOLOGY is a free-form block of music with a wide variety, ranging from alt-folk,blues,jazz,rare funk and soul,electronic,film and library sounds,world music and beyond.  Playlists are updated weekly.