The Chill Room

The Chill Room, 21 January 2012, at 0100 PST ln killradio.org

128k, 108 minutes, experimentally danced pop

Using the delay between the live broadcast and the recording of the stream, this one is often completely off balance, folding back into itself and creating feedback loops. But this is a very thoughtful and expansive net of sounds, meant for the deeper part of you. Once you catch the flow, you will not be able to withdraw. The power is left up to you, but so is meaning.

Set list (overlapping and incomplete, layered): Davie Allen & The Arrows-Loser's Lament / Biff Rose-Spaced Out_I've Got You Covered (Children of Light) / Kris Kristofferson-That Silver Tongued Devil and I / Falling Off Balance / Robert Plant & Tori Amos-Down By The Seaside / DJ Spooky vs. Scanner-The Quick and the Dead / Neil Young-Like A Hurricane / Music for Sleeping-Music to Watch Girls Dream By / Amos & Sara-Go Home Soldier (12") / Those Beasleys-Special (Eye) / Nomadix-Chura Liya / Sun Ra-Ancient Spheres / Les Baxter-Sensual Hallucination / Lucas Santtana-Recado Para Rio Lobeto / The Chill Room and Spectacular Space / The Doors-Moonlight Drive (10 March 1967, Matrix Club, SF) / Wildman Fisher-The Circle (Wubmachine Mix) / Bird Snow-Field of Water / Foster the People-Pumped Up Kicks / Scientist-Easy Times / Can-Oh Yeah / Lemon Kittens-Funky 7 / Aphrodite's Child-All the Seats Were Occupied (to end of set) / Porest-Levantine Spirit / Tune-Yards-Real Live Flesh / Tuxedomoon-Night and Day (12") / Cellophane Spill-Ebruul Eztetzen / Aphrodite's Child / The Ink Spots-We'll Meet Again

With thanks to Stephen Wood, to my listeners who make this real for me, to killradio and radio4all.net. Comments requested, please.

The Chill Room, 31 December 2011, 0100 PST on killradio.org

128k, 2 hours, submersion and release

As we pass into a new year, we look ahead but that means we also reflect the past. Tonight's collage is of the movement from dark to light, displaying the violence of history, but streams as well with the minute particulars of art and how we read culture, and who we trust. This program takes its time but changes constantly, just like we all should.

Ingredients in the collage (incomplete and overlapping): Dead Boys Can't Fly soundtrack, 1992 film by Howard Winters, written by Anne Wolff, with David John, Brad Friedman, Jason Stein, and others (including your dj), played throughout first 90 minutes / Iannis Xenakis-S709 / Bernard Parmigiani-Violostries / Matmos-Supreme Balloon / Neil Young-Tell Me Why / Lainie Kazan-An Angel Died (Traktor Remix) / The Devils, a 1971 film by Ken Russell, with Oliver Reed and Georgina Hale / The Beatles-Norwegian Wood (chilled) / KicksnLicks-Florence and the Machine / Buster Keaton's Walk, a reading by Tom Zanarini, Beth Escott, and your dj, recorded 30 December 1982 in NYC / The Fireman-Rushes / Eyeless in Gaza-Three Kittens / Phil Ochs-Pretty Smart on My Part (for the record, the FBI took this song seriously as a threat against Nixon) / Can-Future Days / The Stooges-Dirt / Led Zeppelin-In the Light / Maelstrom Percussion Ensemble-Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (John Cage) / Burial Four Tet-Ego / The Doors-Maggie McGill (live in Philadelphia 5 May 1970) / Nils From-Old Thought / Kraftwerk-Stratovarius / The Devils cross cut scene with Oliver Reed, Christopher Logue and Graham Armitage / Those Beasleys-Double Dose / The Beatles-Everything at Once

With thanks to David Austin for reminding me of Dead Boyz, to Thomas Ferranti (and Wendy!) and to Those Beasleys (http://thosebeasleys.bandcamp.com/album/double-dose), to Jerrod of KicksnLicks (http://knldub.com/), to my old friends Tom Zanarini and Beth Escott Newcomer, to wfmu.org (my ultimate source), to my live listeners (who give me focus), to killradio.org and radio4all.net. Comments requested. Change is good.

Over 100 Chill Rooms available at http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/The+Chill+Room.

But sometime later when I feel a little straighter, I will come across a stranger who'll remind me of the danger, and then I'll run him over. Pretty smart on my part, find my way home in the dark.

The Chill Room, 17 December 2011, at 00:00PST on killradio.org

128k, 2 hours, milestones from the last year of Jim's life

Jim Morrison is still one of the most compelling figures who has ever been part of popular music. He never got old and therefore never seriously let us down, so the mysteries that remain still matter to many. I have gathered together most every existing recorded tape of The Doors and Jim Morrison from late August 1970 to Jim's death in Paris in July 1971 and combined them with a chronology of the events of Jim's Miami trial, his final shows with The Doors, the move to Paris, and the stories about his death. As a female voice in the crowd shouted after the isle of Wight performance: "Bring back Jim Morrison!'

There is a lot of contradictory information out there (hey, Ray Manzarek himself said he thought Jim was still alive for twenty years!), and so some, maybe a lot, of what is done here is based on speculation. The "Jomo & The Smoothies" tape I play here because most people think that this tape is what they say it is, but one of the most reliable historical authorities I have found, named Porsche, presents pretty solid evidence that the tape was actually recorded in L.A. at the time of the Rock Is Dead recordings, and I think Porsche is correct. I have found a very detailed account of "Jim Morrison's Quiet Days in Paris" from The Doors Quarterly (http://home.arcor.de/doorsquarterlyonline/quietday.htm), and it states that Jim left for Paris on 11 March 1971 (rather than the 15 April date I use). Based on many interviews with Jim's friends and Doors people, it gives us a puzzling and sometimes mixed up vision of that period. However, this account claims that the Jomo tape is authentic, which raises questions of the author's accuracy, and then dismisses the Rock'n'Roll Circus story AND Pam's own account as "junkie tales" and "rumors," so I don't know how much credit to give it.

The Doors: Jim Morrison, vocals; Ray Manzarek, keys; Robbie Krieger, guitar; John Densmore, percussion.

Set list, all musical performances by The Doors unless otherwise noted: Interview with Jim outside Miami courthouse (12 August 1970) / Isle of Wight Festival: Roadhouse Blues-The End (soundboard 30 August 1970) / Dallas State Fair Music Hall: Love Her Madly-The Changeling-L.A. Woman-When the Music's Over (lo-fi audience tape, 11 December 1970) / Getting To Know TV from Australia: Crawling King Snake (mid-December 1970, broadcast 1 March 1971) / The Doors Workshop: Riders on the Storm (January 1971, 40th Anniversary Mix) / Jim and Pam recorded by Ben Fong-Torres (early February 1971) / The "Jomo & The Smoothies" tape: Orange County Suite (this tape was found in Paris after Jim's death and is dated traditionally June 1971 in Paris but more likely is from March 1969 in L.A. -- I have also edited the tape) / Sunset Studios, L.A.: Moonlight Drive (recorded 1967, 40th Anniversary Mix)

This one took several weeks to put together, so I give thanks to my live listeners for their patience and support. This program is presented for educational purposes. Thanks to killradio.org and to radio4all.net. Comments are most welcome.

Well, I took a little downer 'bout an hour ago / Took a look around, see which way the wind blow / Where the little girls in their Hollywood bungalows?

The Chill Room, 26 November 2011, at 00:00 PST on killradio.org

128k, 100 minutes, spectacularly chill set to DRIVE YOU WILD

This set began as a vamp on repeated phrases, but it casts a very wide net, with extended tones into beats into samples into songs, blues songs, mashes, adagios, and more. I think of the Room itself as a field (that's why I use audio puns like crickets, the ocean, street sounds, even sexual sounds) and what feeds in and slides out as invasions. Avant garde is, after all, a military term. If you are reading this, it's for you. Be cautioned though, the Chill Room can be addictive.

Set list (overlapped and incomplete): The Caretaker-The Persistent Repetition of Phrases / Sun Ra-Shadows Dancing (Wm. Berger's Castle of Quiet Remix) / Circle-Kohlaton Sormi / Iannis Xenakis-Mycenae Alpa / Biosphere-Silene / Chop Shop live on wfmu.org 15 November 2011 / Merzbient / Amanda n Friends with Jimi Hendrix-Third Stone from Cookieland / Vanity 6-Drive Me Wild / Sleep Chamber-Victmmm / Sky Burial-Within and Without / Dame Darcy-Indigo / The Fleetwoods-Outside My Window (7") / Karlheinz Stockhausen-Studie 1 / Bernard Parmigiani-Violostries / Fast Forward-Machine Guns / Stockhausen-Gesang der Junglinge / Psychic TV-Good Vibrations (12") / Yoko Ono-Fly / Sonny Sharrock-27th Day / DJ Nat Roe-Bastard Disco / Led Zeppelin-When the Levee Breaks / Daniel Menche live on wfmu.org 5 November 2011 / ToTom-Make It in the Morning (Dylan v Queens of the Stone Age) / Rollercone-Reveille Riveria Traxx Dub / Fluke-Atom Bomb / Tom Waits-Satisfied (Bad As Me) / Brian Joseph Davis & unrehearsed acapella choir-Yesterduh / Nurse With Wound-Penis Fruit Loop / THU20 live cassette 1991 / DJ Nat Roe-Abba / Voicedude-Get Wasted Tonight (KC & the Sunshine Band v. The Who v. Busta Rhymes) / Sky Burial-Within and Without (again) / Tom Ze-Desafio / Charlotte Gainsbourg-Voyage

With special thanks to my listeners, to DJ Nat Roe and wfmu.org, to killradio and radio4all.net. Comments appreciated!

Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do no good.

The Chill Room, 11 November 2011 11pm PST

2 hours 15 minutes, antiwar show for pinkos and Zappafiles

On Veteran's Day the Chill Room brings in H.T. (Tom) Brown to read from and discuss his new memoir called Summer of Love, My Ass! Tom and I worked together in the 90s for Rhino and we share love of music, liberal politics and history. Tom's Vietnam-era adventures are both startling and funny. It is also informative of how young people are broken down to be reconstructed as soldiers - unless they are determined otherwise. And Tom was so determined!

The music we share is all selected by Tom to represent the era. As a longtime Zappa fiend, Tom also shares some of his favorite Frank music too. This is not a regular Chill Room collage but a friendly, evocative talk sorting out time and space. And to get some of you to buy the book.

Set list: Electric Flag--Killing Floor / Bob Dylan-Subterranean Homesick Blues / Mothers of Invention-Trouble Every Day (mono) / Country Joe and the Fish-Fish Cheer_I Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die / Arthur Barrow-Believe It / Frank Zappa-Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up / Mothers of Invention-It Can't Happen Here (from Mothermania) / Frank Zappa-Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance / The Fugs-Wide Wide River & Burial Waltz (It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest!) / Traffic-Feelin' Alright

http://www.summeroflovemyass.com/. http://spbpublishing.webs.com/. With thanks to my listeners, Thomas Ferranti, Reggie Collins, and to killradio and radio4all.net. Comments welcome. Thanks to Rae Lynn for the photo of Tom.

There will come a time when everybody who is lonely will be free to sing and dance and love.

Fall 2010 on killradio.org.

Hi, late this summer and fall I got together with Domenic Priore, author of the marvelous L.A. musical history "Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock'n'Roll's Last Stand in Hollywood," with the subtitle "The Byrds, The Doors, The Beach Boys, Love, Frank Zappa, Buffalo Springfield, The Mamas and the Papas, The Turtles, and More" to discuss, play the music and do a deep listen to the band The Byrds. This is a six-hour program in three parts, with the music programmed by Domenic as a kind of alternative box set.

This program is not available on podomatic, but you can access it, play it or download it on the killradio site. Here is the link:
http://www.killradio.org/podcast/index.php?cat=The%20Byrds%20Show

On this site you will download one Byrds song as a sample. Go to the whole show to hear it all.

The Chill Room, 20 May 2011, 10pm to 1am on killradio.org.

In celebration of Bob Dylan's 70th birthday and 50 years in show business, the Chill Room presents a two hour Dylan special.

In the first part, which covers D's first decade as an artist, 1961-1971, you will hear early performances including his very first concert, as well as other rarely heard magic. The second part concentrates on the last fifteen years of Mr. D's career and features some of his best later songs.

Due to space issues, this program is no longer available on podomatic. To hear the complete program, please go to http://www.killradio.org/podcast/index.php?tag=Dylan. I think you'll find it's worth a listen.

Remember that the Chill Room is one of your best resources for music history!

And thanks Mr.Bob.

The Chill Room, 20 March 2010 0200PST on killradio.org.

160k, 73 minutes, Sun Ra in a collage, music from 1946-1972.

Please note this program is no longer available on podomatic (because of bandwidth issues). However, the show is now available at http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/54253. Get it there!

This music really does have SPACE in it -- inner and outer, space for listening, space for thinking, space for dreaming, room for everyone to thrive and grow. This music also has both a sense of humor and of true beauty and is as mind boggling as it can be. And it will clear your head like nothing else. What I have done is collaged together about thirty of my favorite segments of Ra's music and it makes its own reality. Enjoy, learn and please leave a comment.

All material unless otherwise noted by Sun Ra and His Arkestra. Setlist: Space Is The Place / Introduction / Blues at Midnight / Wynonie Harris-Dig This Boogie (1946 Sonny wailing on piano) / Eugene Wright and His Dukes of Swing-Pork 'n' Beans (1948 Sonny wrote this) / The Cosmic Rays-Daddy Gonna Tell You No Lies (1954 Sonny produced and released this on a Saturn 45) / Street Named Hell / The Magic City / Door Squeak / Thither and Yon / Solar Drums / Rocket Number Nine Take Off for the Planet Venus / David Toop-Sun Ra's first London Show 1970 (from Ocean of Sound) / Cluster of Galaxies / Shadow World / Kosmos in Blue / Watusa / Walt Dickerson Quartet-Selina's Fantasy / Batman Theme / Satellites Are Spinning / Robin's Theme / Enlightenment (Helsinki 1971 live and 1959 studio) / Outer Spaceways Incorporated / Infinity of the Universe / Ancient Aiethiopia / Black Man / Love in Outer Space / Sun Ra and His Band from Outer Space / Concrete Poem of Arkestra Names / Space Loneliness / The Overseer / Calling Planet Earth / Space is The Place

Material is taken from the following albums: Jazz by Sun Ra (aka Sun song) 1956 / Jazz in Silhouette 1958 / Rocket Number Nine Take Off for the Planet Venus (aka Interstellar Low Ways) 1959 / Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow 1961 / Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy 1963 / The Magic City 1965 / Walt Dickerson Quartet-Impressions of a Patch of Blue 1965 / The Sensational Guitars of Dan and Dale-Batman and Robin 1966 / Nothing Is 1966 / Strange Strings 1966 / Helsinki 1971 The Complete Concert and Interview / Soundtrack to the Film Space Is The Place 1972. Dates are for when sessions were recorded.

Biographical information from John Szwed. Special thanks to wfmu.org, my listeners (who stayed with me even when the first attempt at this show glitched out and it had to be redone), and to Michael Sheppard www.transparency.us.com. The painting is Splash of Recovery by Alan and Cheryl. Salut, Sonny, you really were One of the Gods. May this program change the planet.