This episode was a two-hour special showcasing songs about grief, loss, death and the afterlife. Sounds bleak but with acts like The Staple Singers it’s not, not really.
Not a lot of new stuff this week, although some excellent tracks from Bhajan Bhoy, Nathan Salsburgh and Old Saw – but lots of great soul, folk, a Parisian section, all the usual. And some tributes to Croz.
Nathan Salsburg – XIII
Byrds – I Come And Stand At Every Door
Michael Hurley & Pals – Light Green Fellow
Deru – We’re Not Needed
Cornell Campbell – Bunny Lee & King Tubbys Dubplate Special
Keith Hudson – Turn The Heater On
Black Market Brass – Omega
Bhajan Bhoy – Oh Seeker
Hallelujah Chicken Run Band – Shumba Inobva Mu Gomo
Lou Harrison – Homage To Pacifica, In Honor Of Mr. Mark Twain
Duke Edwards And The Young Ones – Is It Too Late?
Garnett Mimms – There Is Something On Your Mind
Lisa O’Neill – Pothole In The Sky
Thin White Rope – Film Theme
Francoise Hardy – Le Temps De L’Amour
Brigitte Fontaine & Areski – Il Pleut Sur La Gare
Martial Solal – New York Herald Tribune
Sidney Bechet – Love For Sale
Dinah Washington – Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Loretta Lynn – For The Good Times
Vaughn Monroe – Riders In The Sky
Julia Jacklin – When the Family Flies In
The Cinematic Orchestra – Breathe (Susumu Yokota Remix)
After last week’s issues, here’s the first Lazy Sunday With Stagger Lee of ’23.
New tracks from @loulayorke, Gareth Hardwick, @HCMcEntire, @lisaoneillmusic and @cherbert / Chris Summerlin, plus lots more folk, jazz, dub, avant garde, African…
Gareth Hardwick – Derby 5th November 2022
Loula Yorke – Ice
Mable John – Your Good Thing (Is About To End)
Chip Wickham – The Hit
Horace Tapscott With The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra – Desert Fairy Princess
Jason Moran – Clef Club March featuring Chris Bates
Birdlegs & Pauline – Teardrops
Joan Shelley – Home
H.C. McEntire – Gospel Of A Certain Kind
Lisa O’Neill – Old Note
Jake Xerxes Fussell – Washington
Hannah Peel – Goodbye Earth
Juliette Gréco – Bonjour Tristesse
Lill Lindfors – Du Är Den Ende
Orriel Smith – Tiffany Glass
Ernest Hood – Into The Groves
Herbert / Summerlin – Myr
Impact All Stars – Extraordinary Version
Errol Brown & The Revolutionaries – Peaceful Woman Version
Upsetters – Womans Gotta Have Dub
Vieux Farka Touré & Luka Productions – Black Crowned Crane
A new laptop is a wonderful thing but it does mean lots of resetting and adjustments so apologies to anyone who tuned in to last Sunday’s show to hear some even weirder shit than normal.
Anyway, here’s the show as it should have sounded. Something of a farewell to last year – the first third of the show a tribute to some of the greats we lost, the rest selections from some of my albums of the year (you can read the whole list here)
Manuel Göttsching – Quiet Nervousness
Ashra – Deep Distance
Hawkwind – Children Of The Sun
Pharoah Sanders – Love Is Everywhere
Terry Hall & Mushtaq – A Tale of Woe
Delfonics – La-La Means I Love You
Jimmy Scott – Sycamore Trees
Low – Point of Disgust
Grandmaster Gareth – Dr Dre Buys A Pint Of Milk
Burd Ellen – The Lovers
Ye Vagabonds – Máire Bhán
Phil Tyler & Sarah Hill – Sunny Side
Alison Cotton – That Tunnel Underground Seemed Neverending
Freakons – Never Thought I’d See the Day
Delines – Little Earl
Caitlin Rose – Carried Away
Morton Valence – Like a Face That’s Been Starved of a Kiss
Horace Andy – Sleepy s Night Cap
Alabaster DePlume – Be Nice to People (Rozi Plain Remix)
Hurray For The Riff Raff – Precious Cargo
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Buzby’s Lullaby
It’s that time again. I think that this year more than any other, I felt swamped by new releases. I think I bought / downloaded or was sent something like 300 new albums in 2022. Some I know I’d like and haven’t even listened to. Some I haven’t listened to enough. I guess there are worse situations to be in.
Anyway, this year it’s the absolute definite top 10. Then a ‘would have been top 10 in a less bountiful year’ and a ‘these were also great’. I’ll have missed loads. I’m sorry,
The Top Ten Albums Of 2022
01. Caroline – Caroline (Rough Trade Music) 02. Richard Dawson – The Ruby Cord (Weird World) 03. Caitlin Rose – Cazimi (Names) 04. Haress – Ghosts (Wrong Speed) 05. The Bobby Lees – Bellevue (Ipecac) 06. Shovel Dance Collective – The Water is the Shovel of the Shore (Memorials of Distinction) 07. The Delines – The Sea Drift (Bella Union) 08. The Unthanks – Sorrows Away (Rabble Rouser) 09. Morton Valence – Morton Valence (Cow Pie) 10. SCUDFM – INNIT (Dash The Henge)
The Next Twenty
Alabaster DePlume – Gold (International Anthem) Alison Cotton – The Portrait You Painted Of Me (Rocket) Black Ox Orkestar – Everything Returns (Constellation) Burd Ellen – A Tarot Of The Green Wood (Mavis) Chat Pile – God’s Country (Flenser) Freakons – Freakons (Fluff & Gravy) Harlem Gospel Travellers – Look Up! (Colemine) Horace Andy – Midnight Scorchers (On-U Sound) Hurray For The Riff Raff – Life On Earth (Nonesuch) Lykke Li – EYEYE (PIAS) Oren Ambarchi – Shebang! (Drag City) Orville Peck – Bronco (Columbia) Phil Tyler & Sarah Hill – What We Thought Was A Lake Was A Field Of Flax (Ferric Mordant Reigns – Tollinghurst (Wrong Speed) Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra – The Party Is Over (Tea Pad Recordings) Širom – The Liquified Throne of Simplicity (Glitterbeat) Taylor Swift – Midnights (Republic) The Bug – Absent Riddim (Pressure) The Sound Of Science – The Sound Of Science (Castles In Space) Ye Vagabonds – Nine Waves (River Lea)
The Rest Of The Top Fifty
Bhajan Bhoy – Shanti Shanti Shanti / Doomed Bird of Providence – A Flight Across Arnhem Land / Enablers – Some Gift / Field Works – Stations / Gnod – Hexen Valley / Group Listening – Clarinet & Piano Selected Works, Vol.2 / Hammered Hulls – Careening / James Johnston & Steve Gullick – Everybody’s Sunset / Marisa Anderson – Still Here / Martha – Please Don’t Take Me Back / Nora Brown – Long Time To Be Gone / Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin – Ghosted / Romance & Dean Hurley – In Every Dream Home A Heartache / Sarah Davachi – Two Sisters / Special Interest – Endure / The Comet Is Coming – Hyperdimensional Expansion Beam / The Soft Pink Truth – Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This / Thee Sacred Souls – Thee Sacred Souls / Viagra Boys – Cave World / Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Districts, Roads, Open Space
Reissues, Soundtracks & Live Albums
Broadcast – Mother Is The Milky Way / Microtronics – Volumes 1 & 2 / Maida Vale Sessions (Warp) Charles Mingus – The Lost Album From Ronnie Scott’s (Resonance) Craven Faults – Live Works (Leaf) Sidney Sager & Ambrosia Singers – Children of the Stones OST (Trunk) Prolapse – Pointless Walks To Dismal Places (Optic Nerve) Staples Jr. Singers – When Do We Get Paid (Brenda) Stick in the Wheel – Present Perspectives On Tradition (From Here) The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari – Grounation (Soul Jazz) Various – A Guide To The Birdsong Of Western Africa (Shika Shika Various – Music For The Stars (Celestial Music 1960-1979) (Two Piers)
This month’s genre deep dive (while I was out doing a live Lazy Sunday at The Cumberland Arms) was a soundtrack special – mostly film music, a little TV.
Cat’s Eyes – Requiem For The Duke Of Burgundy (The Duke Of Burgundy)
Anna Meredith – The Coolest Girl in The World (8th Grade)
Riz Ortolani -Main Theme (Cannibal Holocaust)
Ennio Morricone – Addio a Cheyenne (Once Upon A Time In The West)
Blake Leyh – The Fall (The Wire)
Afghan Whigs – If I Only Had A Heart (Wizard Of Oz)
Maggie Gyllenhaal – Lighthouse Keeper (Frank)
John Lurie – Tuesday Night In Memphis (Mystery Train)
Alexandre Desplat – The Heroic Weather-Conditions of the Universe, Part 3: The Salt Air (Moonrise Kingdom)
Clint Mansell – Winter: Lux aeterna (Requiem For A Dream)
Hans Zimmer – You’re So Cool (True Romance)
Choir of All Saints – Jisas Yu Holem Hand Blong Mi (The Thin Red Line)
Marco Beltrami – Goodbye (The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada)
Broadcast whilst in the grip of Covid, I somehow still enjoyed this show. Especially because I closed with the last third of the uncontestably greatest track of the year.
As I said last week, the passing of Mimi Parker hit hard. This show felt inevitable. Two hours of her work with Low and a few collaborations. It was genuinely tough to do.
Adios Mimi x
Here’s what was played:
Low – Tonight Acapella
Low – Medicine Magazines
Low – Two-Step
Low – Fly
Low – Words
Low – (That’s How You Sing) Amazing Grace
Swans – Lunacy
Low – Over The Ocean
Low – David & Jude
Shudder to Think – Just Really Wanna See You [feat. Mimi Parker & Alan Sparhawk]