Continuum | July 2009

Continuum with Rob McDowall | July 2009

Arve Henriksen – Leaf & Rock (Rune Grammofon)
Hauschka – Morgenrot (FatCat Records)
Peter Broderick – Floating / Sinking (Type Records)
Thee Stranded Horse – Le Sel (Blank Tapes)
Erik Enocksson – The State the Sea Left Me In (Kning Disk)
Our Sleepless Forest – Doors In Limbo (Resonant)
Simon Fisher Turner & Philippe Petit – Untitled (BiP_HOp)
Sun City Girls – Steppe Spiritual (Drag City)
Andy Garbi – Stratospheres (Adventures In Sound)
Hauschka - Eltern (FatCat Records)

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The Astonished I (Excerpt)

I’ve uploaded a recording of Dick McBride reading the first chapter of The Astonished I to myspace.com/dickmcbride

The author recalls a conversation that he had with Jack Kerouac, who had phoned City Lights to talk to Lawrence Ferlinghetti about publishing Visions of Cody.

A slightly different version of the first chapter was originally published in Transit and then The Beat Journals, both published by Kevin Ring’s Beat Scene Press.

The Astonished I (Memories & Wet Dreams) was published by McBride’s Books in 1995, and is a recollection of the authors time in San Francisco. It is dedicated to his friend, Tim Prael and contains an introduction by Charles Plymel.

Recorded by L.Dow & J.Redman at St Ann’s Well Cafe, Great Malvern (Sept 10th 2004).

Best of 2008

Alexander Tucker – Custom Made (ATP)
Alexander Tucker – Portal (ATP)
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (4AD)
Bowerbirds – Hymns For A Dark Horse (Dead Oceans)
Dick McBride – Upbeat & Groovy: Poems 1960-2008 (CD-R)
Digitonal - Save Your Light for Darker Days (Just Music)
Emeralds - Solar Bridge (Hanson)
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (Bella Union)
Fourtet – Ringer (Domino)
Greg Weeks - The Hive (Wichita)
Hauschka – Ferndorf (Fatcat)
Helena Espvall & Masaki Batoh (Drag City)
James Blackshaw – Litany Of Echoes (Tompkins Square)
Josephine Foster – This Coming Gladness (Bo’Weavil)
J. Spaceman / Sun City Girls – Mister Lonely (Drag City)
Juana Molina – Un Dia (Domino)
Larkin Grimm - Parplar (Young God)
Lau Nau – Nukku (Locust)
Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez – Why Is Bear Billowing? (Car Park Records)
Mary Hampton – My Mothers Children (Navigator)
Max Richter – 24 Postcards (Fatcat)
Murcof – The Versailles Sessions (Leaf)
Nico Muhly – Mothertongue (Bedroom Community)
Olafur Arnalds – Variations Of Static (Erased Tapes)
Our Sleepless Forest – Our Sleepless Forest (Resonant)
Peter Broderick – Float (Type)
Peter Broderick – Home (Bella Union)
Rio En Medio – Frontiers (Manimal Vinyl)
Samamidon – All is Well (Bedroom Community)
Tape - Luminarium (Hapna)
The Accidental – There Were Wolves (Full Time Hobby)
White Magic – New Egypt (Southern)
William S Burroughs – Real English Tea Made Here (Audio Research Editions)
Vetiver - Thing Of The Past (Gnomonsong)

Continuum with Raagnagrok All Stars (Live)

Continuum presents the transcendental sounds of the Raagnagrok All-Stars recorded live at Day of The Dead 2008

Featuring Allison Brice (electric dulcimer), Zali Krishna (guitar/effects), Paul May (drums) and Mark Pilkington (synth and electronics).

I am grateful to Mark Pilkington (Strange Attractor/Raagnagrok) for recording the performance and allowing me to share it with you via Samurai.FM

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More info:

www.raagnagrok.co.uk
www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further
http://dreamflesh.com/
http://liminalnation.org/

Green Man Festival ’08 Playlist

Cath & Phil Tyler – Farewell My Friends (No-Fi)
Nancy Elizabeth – I Used To Try (The Leaf Label)
9 Bach – Pa Bryd y Deui Eto? (Gwymon)
Adem – Ringing In My Ears (Domino)
Alexander Tucker – Phantom Rings (Slight Return) (ATP)
Starless & Bible Black – Bitter Cup (Locust Music)
Tunng – Soup (Full Time Hobby)
Jana Hunter – Vultures (Gnomonsong)
Six Organs of Admittance – Black Wall (Drag City)
White Magic – New Egypt (Drag City)
Voice of the Seven Woods - Satai Nova (Twisted Nerve)
Fridge – Oram (Text Records)
Fourtet – Swimmer (Domino)

Green Man Festival 2008

I’ll be DJ’ing at the Green Man Festival on Saturday the 16th August.

The festival takes place on the 15th/16th/17th of August at the Glanusk Estate in the Brecon Beacons.

More info: www.thegreenmanfestival.co.uk

Continuum | June 2008

Continuum with Rob McDowall | June 2008

Stars Of The Lid – Articulate Silences Part 1 (Kranky)
Andy Garbi - She (Adventures In Sound)
Colleen - Sea Of Tranquillity (The Leaf Label)
Thee Stranded Horse – Swaying Eel (Blank Tapes)
Bonnie “Prince” Billy – More Brother Rides (Domino)
Jonquil - Lions (Try Harder)
Efterklang - Mirador (The Leaf Label)
The Books - Take Time (Tomlab)
Fridge – Comets (Text Records)
Mum – Marmalade Fires (Fatcat)
Nancy Elizabeth – How Can I Stop? (The Leaf Label)
Stars Of The Lid – The Daughters Of Quiet Minds (Kranky)

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