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[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 31: Early Choral Music Special II

This month for NTS Radio I put together a second volume of early Western vocal music (you can find the first volume, from last year, here). Technically some of this is toeing the line into the Baroque period. Completely  acapella and mostly sacred, though I think at least one of these songs are non-devotional love songs. I’ve listed the performers as the artist, and then the composers in parentheses after the song title. In full transparency, I’m neither an expert on this stuff nor am I at all religious–I just really love this music, and I think it makes an ideal winter hibernation soundtrack. I hope you like it too. You can download an mp3 version here. Stay warm!

Tracklist:
1. Sequentia – Quia Ergo Femina Mortem Instruxit (Hildegard von Bingen)
2. Sequentia – Virga Lesse Floruit (Anonymous)
3. Anonymous 4 – Sequence, Stillat In Stellam Radium (Unknown, 14th c. England)
4. The Gesualdo Six – Tenebrae Factae Sunt (Carlo Gesualdo)
5. Sequentia – Per Partum Virginis (Anonymous, 15th c. Aquitania)
6. Emma Kirkby & The Consort Of Musicke – Luci Serene E Chiare (Claudio Monteverdi)
7. Cantica Symphonia – Juvenis Qui Puellam (Guillaume Dufay)
8. The Tallis Scholars – Versa Est In Luctum (Alonso Lobo)
9. Ensemble Organum – Deo Gratias (Anonymous, 12th c. Aquitania)
10. The King’s Singers – Tibi Laus, Tibi Gloria (Orlande de Lassus)
11. Red Byrd & Cappella Amsterdam – Magnus Liber Organi: Alleluya. Pascha Nostrum Immolatus Est  (Léonin)
12. The Hilliard Ensemble – Ave Regina (Walter Frye)
13. The Cambridge Singers – In Manus Tuas (John Shepperd)
14. The Tallis Scholars – Responsorium: Libera Me, Domine (Tomás Luis de Victoria)

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 30

Here’s my newest episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio. This one is meant to be a peak autumnal soundtrack, with lots of warm folk, jazz, and psych. You can download an mp3 version of it here. Thanks for listening 💙

Tracklist:
1. Margo Guryan – Think Of Rain
2. Javier Somarriba – Contigo Llegaron Los Colores
3. Joni Mitchell – God Must Be A Boogie Man
4. Wendy & Bonnie – Children Laughing
5. Nadi Qamar – After Glow
6. Maki Asakawa – ふしあわせという名の猫
7. Once – Joanna
8. Affinity – I Wonder If I Care As Much
9. Linda Cohen – Arroyo
10. Mariangela – Memories of Friends
11. The Cyrkle – The Visit (She Was Here)
12. Judee Sill – The Archetypal Man
13. Quarteto Em Cy – Tudo Que Você Podia Ser
14. World Standard – Loving Spoonful
15. Robbie Basho – Orphan’s Lament
16. Psychic TV – White Nights
17. Colin Blunstone – Smoky Day
18. Mary Margaret O’Hara – You Will Be Loved Again
19. Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays & Nana Vasconcelos – Estupenda Graça

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 29: Halloween Special

Please enjoy this Halloween special of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio. Featuring overtones, appalachian folk, Tibetan chant, a Delia Derbyshire side project, baroque psych, Kwaïdan, Throbbing Gristle, and lots more. You can download an mp3 version here.

Just a note that there are some things in here that are startling and disturbing, or at least I think so, so if you don’t like listening to scary things I would suggest giving this one a pass.

Tracklist:
1. Buffy Sainte-Marie – Poppies
2. David Hykes & The Harmonic Choir – Gravity Waves
3. Dorothy Ashby – The Moving Finger (excerpt)
4. White Noise – Love Without Sound
5. Karen James – Ghost Lover
6. Throbbing Gristle – Hamburger Lady
7. Ghedalia Tazartès – Une Voix S’en Va
8. Syd Barrett – Golden Hair
9. Monks of the Monastery of Gyütö – Sangwa Düpa (excerpt)
10. Geinoh Yamashirogumi – Osorezan (excerpt)
11. Tōru Takemitsu – II. Yuki (The Woman of the Snow)
12. Anna Homler & Steve Moshier – Sirens (excerpt)
13. Lead Belly – In The Pines
14. The Caretaker – My Heart Will Stop In Joy
15. Dead Can Dance – Wilderness
16. Dorothy Carter – Along The River
17. Jean Ritchie – The Unquiet Grave

Guest Mix – A caballo, Tarumba

Guest mix by DBGO (Soundcloud / YouTube / Playmoss)

This is a selection of Argentinian sound experiences between 1976 and 1998. I hope you enjoy it. Thanks.

Tracklist:
1. Hebe Rosell – Lacandonia (1995)
2. Roberto Détrée – Sonne (1982)
3. Lito Vitale – Un Paseo En Chindirica (1991)
4. Comedia – Los Días Antes a Melina (1989)
5. Claudio Caldini – Celebración I (1989)
6. Litto Nebbia y Mirtha Defilpo – Los Motivos Del Azul (1979)
7. Pedro Aznar – Azul 20 Música Para Ballet (Obra En 10 Movimientos) (1987)
8. Fernando Kabusacki – Una de Estas Noches (1998)
9. César Franov – La Charola (1987)
10. Lito Vitale con Mono Fontana – Río Limay (1993)
11. Hebe Rosell – Viento II (1995)
12. Guillermo Cazenave – Aries (1988)
13. Nebbia, Baraj y González – Algo Muy Sano (1987)
14. Gabriela – Altas Planicies (1991)
15. Quique Sinesi y César Franov – Olía (1987)
16. Los Músicos Del Centro – Canción Para Dario (1982)
17. Jorge López Ruiz – El Viaje De Dumpty (1976)

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 28

Here’s my most recent episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio. As I’ve mentioned before, our current political trashcan fire has left me feeling pretty sapped, so while this mix isn’t particularly high-concept, I wanted it to be a collection of songs that make me really happy, that feel light (though they’re not necessarily light in terms of subject matter). Highlights include sunny, sparkling Pakistani pop from Nazia Hassan and a gorgeous, Enya-tinged figure skating ballad with very lol lyrics from Sally Oldfield. You can download an mp3 version of it here. Sending love to anyone who needs it.

Tracklist:
1. Aretha Franklin – Daydreaming
2. Ame Strong – Tout Est Bleu
3. Mr. Twin Sister – Power Of Two
4. Nazia Hassan – Dum Dum Dee Dee
5. V.O. Mashisa (Dub)
6. Kid Creole & The Coconuts – I’m A Wonderful Thing, Baby
7. Al McCall – Hard Times
8. Lynsey de Paul – Strange Changes
9. Kimiko Kasai – バイブレイション (Love Celebration)
10. Asha Bhosle – Raat Jo Tune Deep Bujhaye Mere The
11. George Benson – Gonna Love You More
12. The Heptones – Black On Black
13. 川辺ヒロシ – キミトナラ
14. Sally Oldfield – Giving All My Love

Guest Mix – Holidays By The Coast by Oscar Huerta Plaza

Guest mix by Oscar Huerta Plaza (Youtube / Radio Aporee), Barcelona

This is a mix of mostly Spanish, Brazilian, and American orchestral pop music, largely from the 60s–cinematic songs that you would want to listen to while driving along a sunny coastline. It also includes some recent field recordings that I did on the Maltese coast, sounds of the mountains in the outskirts of Barcelona, inside the Barcelona subway, the jungles in Puerto Rico, and the mangroves of southern Florida.

Tracklist:
1. Waves in Dwejra Bay at the collapsed Azure Window, Gozo Island, Malta. June sunset 2018

2. Antonio González “El Pescaílla” – Chica de Ipanema
3. Antón García Abril – Sor Citroën
4. Breakwater in l’Escala, Spain. July afternoon 2018
5. Los Stop – El Turista 1.999.999
6. Augusto Algueró – Será El Amor
7. Frogs and a fountain in the Abbey of Montserrat, Spain. July night 2018
8. Henry Mancini – Party Poop
9. Canoeing in the mangroves, outskirts of Hobe Sound, Florida. August evening 2018
10. Papa Topo – Milano
11. Evinha – Estorinha
12. Alfonso Santisteban – Brincadeira
13. Crickets in a night hike by Collserola mountains just before raining, outskirts of Barcelona. July night 2018
14. Elsa Baeza – Dubeque Dublin
15. Antón García Abril – El Turismo Es Un Gran Invento
16. Taking the subway to rehearsal, Barcelona. July evening 2018
17. Alfonso Santisteban – Manías de María
18. Flipper’s Guitar – Coffee-Milk Crazy
19. Wildlife in Toro Negro rainforest, Puerto Rico. August night 2018
20. Me singing a vocal harmony
21. Le Mans – H.E.L.L.O.
22. Cicadas in Devil’s Millhopper, Gainesville, Florida; and weather forecast in Spain. August evening 2018
23. Marcos Valle – Êle E Ela
24. Stereolab – Miss Modular
25. ユキとヒデ (Yuki & Hide) – 白い波 (White Waves)
26. Los Mismos – Puente A Mallorca

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 27: 60s Special

My most recent episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio is an all 60’s special, which means that in addition to making a good case for the comeback of short songs, I was able to fit a lot into an hour. Featuring: a teenage Dolly Parton, a spaced out Joe Meek oddity, brutal heartbreak soul, a take on “Bend Me, Shape Me” that weighs a thousand tons, Peruvian garage rock, Ronnie Spector spitting pure rage at an unnamed man, an absolutely deranged Brian Wilson-produced version of “In The Still of the Night,” a cameo from the queen of rockabilly, an Indonesian Beegees cover, and of course, plenty of girl groups.

I love how 60s vocals sound as if everything is being sung with the caps lock on and too many exclamation points–they really grab you by the throat. I love how a song about a woman being disinterested in having sex manages to be anything but prudish or coy, and instead sounds like a venomous, gravelly diatribe delivered from somebody’s dirty basement. I love the unabashed melodrama and the blown-out, gritty production. I love how markedly less prim the musical ethos was than what preceded it, how much more raw and punk. This is one of my favorite musical eras and a lot of these songs make me cry–perhaps least explicably, “Egyptian Shumba,” which is still one of my all-time favorites–so I hope you enjoy this music as much as I do! You can download an mp3 version here.

Tracklist:
1. Lou Christie & The Tammys – Outside The Gates Of Heaven
2. The Exciters – Get Him
3. Timi Yuro – What’s A Matter Baby (Is It Hurting You)
4. The Cookies – Softly In The Night
5. The Cats Meow – La La Lu
6. Little Frankie – I’m Not Gonna Do It
7. Claudine Clark – Party Lights
8. The Models – Bend Me, Shape Me
9. Screaming Lord Sutch – Don’t You Just Know It
10. Wanda Jackson – Fallin’
11. The Ronettes – He Did It
12. The Honeys – In The Still Of The Night
13. Joe Meek – Orbit Around The Moon
14. Rosie Lopez – I’ll Never Grow Tired
15. The Crystals – He’s A Rebel
16. Dream Team – There He Is
17. Los Saicos – Ana
18. The Ikettes – I’m Blue (The Gong-Gong Song)
19. The Tammys – Egyptian Shumba
20. Dara Puspita – To Love Somebody
21. Ben E. King – Don’t Play That Song (You Lied)
22. The Shannons – Little White Lies
23. Solomon Burke – If You Need Me
24. Dolly Parton – Gonna Hurry (As Slow As I Can)

Sanctuaries / Ways Forward Mix by Cheval Sombre

Guest mix by Cheval Sombre (recent / upcoming)

Tracklist:
1. Michael Tanner & Alison Cotton – Masts of Rown-Tree
2. Bongwater – The Drum
3. Kraftwerk – Tanzmusik
4. Paul O’Dette, Andrew Lawrence-King and David Douglass – The Glory of the Sun
5. Palace Music – West Palm Beach
6. Julianna Barwick – Adventurer of the Family
7. Zbigniew Preisner – L’enfance
8. Richard Youngs with Alasdair Roberts ft. Donald WG Lindsay – Kinning Park
9. Sonic Boom – Ecstasy in Slow Motion

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 26: Late Summer Ambient Special

My newest episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio is a two hour long late summer ambient special. Long, lazy instrumentals with river sounds, crickets, cicadas, and bees. Ideal for heavy, thick weather, and for mid-day napping in it. If anyone remembers the two hour mix I made for LYL Radio awhile back, this feels like the more summery counterpart to it. You can download an mp3 version here.

Tracklist:
1. Hiroshi Yoshimura – Time After Time
2. David Casper – Green Anthem
3. Masahiro Sugaya – Straight Line Floating In The Sky
4. Roedelius – Wenn Der Südwind Weht
5. Yutaka Hirose – In The Afternoon
6. Inoyama Land – Glass Chaim
7. Haruomi Hosono – Wakamurasaki
8. Gabriel Yared – Un Coucher De Soleil Acchroche Dans Les Arbres
9. Maurice Ravel – Miroirs: III. Une Barque Sur L’ocean (Paul Crossley)
10. CV & JAB – Hot Tub
11. Virginia Astley – Summer Of Their Dreams
12. Satoshi Ashikawa – Still Park Ensemble (excerpt)
13. Ernest Hood – August Haze
14. Harold Budd & Brian Eno – A Stream With Bright Fish
15. Alice Damon – Waterfall Winds
16. Jansen / Barbieri – The Way The Light Falls
17. Yoshio Ojima – Mensis
18. Toshifumi Hinata – End Of The Summer
19. Carl Stone – Banteay Srey
20. Gervay Briot – Science

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 25: Summer Disco Special I

My newest episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio is a mix of some of my favorite disco, funk, soul, boogie, and house. It’s meant for a day at the beach, a barbecue, or attempting to persuade your hydrophobic dog to swim in a creek with you. I hope you like it! You can download an mp3 version here.

Tracklist:
1. Soul II Soul – Back To Life (Acapella)
2. Taana Gardner – Heartbeat (Club Version)
3. Mtume – Love Lock
4. Brenda & The Big Dudes – Weekend Special
5. China Burton – You Don’t Care (About Our Love)
6. Greg Henderson – Dreamin’
7. Double Vision – Clock On The Wall
8. Guardian Angel – Last Funk
9. Band Of Gold – Never Gonna Let You Go
10. Wish & Fonda Rae – Touch Me (All Night Long)
11. Dusty Springfield – Baby Blue
12. Stevie Wonder – Love Light In Flight
13. Pastor T.L. Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir – Like A Ship (Without A Sail)