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Stereo Sanctity lo-fi Radio Show

  
 
rizla mission
20:17 / 22.02.07
Apologies for the self-publicising post, I don’t normally do them, but thought I’d just create this thread to draw your attention to my presentation of the first ever…

STEREO SANCTITY LO-FI RADIO SHOW

I hate the word ‘podcast’, not least because I don’t own a ‘pod’ and am not ‘broadcasting’ in any real sense, and thus I don’t want to call this one.

Let’s call it a lo-fi radio show instead.

Here’s the deal:

Whenever I have a spare evening and/or feel the need, I will plug in the mic, crank up Garageband and record a radio show.

I will endeavour to put things together ‘live’, in roughly real time, just like a proper music radio show.

I will play what I consider to be a truly kick-ass selection of punk rock, blues, jazz, outsider pop, psychedelia, folk, classic rock, avant/drone, spoken word, field recordings, indefinable weirdness and whatever else takes my fancy. I will also talk in between, hopefully going some way toward fostering the same spirit of shared musical enjoyment and discovery found in high-quality DJ-based radio programming throughout the ages. I'm not exactly the most charisnatic or confident radio presenter, but hey, give me time.

I will try to make each show roughly 80 minutes long, so that people who don’t use mp3 players or listen to music on their computers can put it on a CD-R. (That said, this debut program comes in at about 82 minutes I’m afraid, because I goofed up the timing a little, but you can put it on two CDs if you like.)

I will split each show into two parts (or ‘sides’ if you will), for ease of recording and up/downloading. Each will be an .mp3 file which will be available to download from this site (via YouSendIt) for one week. If you miss the files, or don’t have the technology to easily download them, just drop me a line and I’ll be glad to get them to you via email or post.

This is a fairly crazy venture for me in some respects, so I’d really appreciate it if anyone wants to drop me some feedback, advice, comment etc., ESPECIALLY in the event that you encounter any tech/sound difficulties: thingonthedoorstep (at) yahoo.com

Amongst others, this first show features stuff from The Oblivians, Pentagram, Archie Shepp, Fursaxa, Blind Mamie Forehand, G.K. Chesterton, Herman Dune and no lesser personage than God. Enjoy!

Downloadable now from Stereo Sanctity.
 
 
grant
21:51 / 22.02.07
Huzzah!
 
 
rizla mission
22:06 / 22.02.07
Unfortunately, it has just been pointed out to me that for some baffling reason YouSendIt has decided these files can only be downloaded by people logged in as me...

Why?! It's never done that before! I didn't tell it to! Anyone know?

I have to go to bed now too I'm afraid, so I'll officially have to put this ON HOLD; I'll give it a bump when I've sorted things out.
 
 
Jack Fear
22:25 / 22.02.07
Not logged in as you, silly. Just logged in. You need a YouSendIt account to pull down big files, just like you do to upload them.

All anybody needs to get an account is a working e-mail address and a name.
 
 
rizla mission
22:30 / 22.02.07
Ah, so it's a 'big files' thing? That makes sense.

Still annoying though.
 
 
rizla mission
22:54 / 22.02.07
Oh, and thanks for your help Jack - appreciated.
 
 
Closed for Business Time
09:46 / 23.02.07
Listened to part 1 yesterday and was ridiculously charmed. The opening with The Oblivians was wicked. Also <3 that female singer/songwriter... Kathrine Dalton? Great voice. Everything was great - lots of stuff I hadn't heard before too. I'll defntly get part 2 after the w/e and have a go at that too. Thank ye thank ye thank ye.

Ps: Any chance of you going live? I'd so love for you to have a line in so we could prank-call you mid-session :P
 
 
rizla mission
10:36 / 23.02.07
Ah, thanks, really glad you enjoyed it!

The lady to whom you refer is Karen Dalton, whose two albums have been reissued recently to great hipster acclaim, making them about as topical as music recorded in 1969/71 gets I suppose.

The first one, "It's Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best" is my most played album of the past six months, but it's more sparsely arranged and too fragile and heartbroken to really adapt well to radio play (plus I don't want to bring everybody down), so the track is taken from her second album "In My Own Time", which has big, full-band arrangements and is slightly less special, although it sounds lovely and her delivery of the songs is still wonderful & chilling.

Oh, and to be needless pedantic, she wasn't a song-writer, or at least never recorded any original material. Tho she did play a mean banjo.

As to "live on the air" caller stuff, I'm not sure how I could work that, except by alerting people in advance that I'll be recording at such-and-such hours GMT and keeping my phone close at hand on speaker-phone setting. That would be admirably lo-fi I think!

I'm open to requests, messages and stuff though I guess.
 
 
Closed for Business Time
10:52 / 23.02.07
Ooo... I'll have to get my greasy paws on those reissues! Got a massive case of female vocalist flu going for the last year or so. And, if you have any - could you play us some Kath Bloom next session (I'm assuming she's not in pt 2)? I'd love me some K Bloom - only heard some of the songs she did with L Mazzacane-Connors, which is friggin ace. Talk about fragile voice...

Planned unplanned callers/SMSers for your next sesh would be swank.. if you can tolerate such an invasion of privacy that is.
 
 
rizla mission
11:37 / 23.02.07
If haven't actually heard any of Kath Bloom's stuff, but anyone who's alright with Loren Connors is alright with me. Would love to hear some.

I was recently trying to get hold of the triple CD Connors collection that came out last year, but couldn't find it for under - ouch!- £20. OK, three CDs of surely excellent music so not a bad price, but.. I'm poor at the moment.
 
 
Saveloy
12:00 / 23.02.07
Lovely lovely lovely stuff. My faves of Pt 1 were the Fursaxa track (one of those artists I've seen mentioned all over the place but always thought "Nah" without actually hearing anything by 'em - d'oh!), the first jazz thingy and the blues geezer.

Nice to hear a slight trembliness in your voice, Rizla. I imagine it's quite scary doing this sort of thing for the first time.
 
 
rizla mission
12:24 / 23.02.07
Yeah, it was harder than I expected actually - it's strange sitting there talking to yourself, trying to remember to fit in exactly what you need to say in a short space without resorting to "umm.. and, er, yeah, so... y'know,,er.." - maybe that's why so many DJs have comedy sidekicks and 'pals' to keep them on the ball.

Again though, glad you're enjoying it!
 
 
RichT's boring old name
12:25 / 23.02.07
I did my first my first internet broadcast on monday, for outofthevoid.co.uk which was an experience- I set it up so I could have some live music going and only managed to get the whole rig working 10mins before the start of the show.

..there also ended up being an 'incident' with the (only) cd player deciding it didn't like a particular cd, putting it on fast forward, then crashing.

ended up being pretty good fun fishing out cds and putting them on, and there's a chatroom attached to it so I got to talk to my one listener and get some feedback.

I've now found it's really hard to talk and cue up CDs at the same time...

oh well- it was fun

The stream should be saved as an mp3 afterwards, I'll listen back and see if it should be fit for public consumption.

I'll see about downloading your show, rizla and have a listen
 
 
nighthawk
12:34 / 23.02.07
That was ace, particularly part 1. I think the Archie Shepp tracks were my favourites, but I'm currently seeking out albums by both The Oblivians and Karen Dalton.

How does earlier stuff by Herman Dune differ from the track you played rizla?
 
 
rizla mission
12:58 / 23.02.07
In short: earlier Herman Dune has more guitars and more cool Velvets-esque "indie-rock" stuff, with less lavish production and no horns, backing singers or funky percussion. HD songs have always been unashamedly romantic and personal, but previously they've hidden it slightly with funny or fantastical lyrics, whereas a lot of the stuff on 'Giant' is straight-up emotional confessional, and there are some long, serious and quite ambitious Leonard Cohen-ish songs, rather than the short & snappy "what a great song!"-ness that dominates on previous records.

Gosh, I'm really pleased with the reaction so far - thanks again.
 
 
illmatic
17:16 / 24.02.07
Loving it Riz, it's the soundtrack to this Saturday night. Really liking that second track of the Australian comp.
 
 
rizla mission
20:04 / 01.03.07
Thanks Eggs! - didn't see that post previously.

Just updating this to say that I've done the sensible thing and sorted out a page with podbean.com, and uploaded the first radio show to it, so it's now available for both download and streaming-type online listening for the duration (or at least, until I have to replace it with the next edition).

So.. great!

Stereo Sanctity Podbean page.
 
 
The Timaximus, The!
01:23 / 02.03.07
I love Karen Dalton and The Oblivians. I must get this once I'm on the better computer. Have you heard that (Mary?) Weiss from The Shangri-Las is putting out a new record with The Reigning Sound (Greg Cartwright/Oblivian) as her backing band?
 
 
rizla mission
08:11 / 02.03.07
Wow, that's a pretty fantastic concept! Greg Cartwright seems to be one of those classic "church key" guys - not too well known in his own right, but everything he's involved in is profoundly GREAT.
 
 
The Timaximus, The!
01:26 / 11.03.07
That was really cool, thanks! You'll post here when you do another, right?

In the same eclectic vein is Henry Rollins's radio show, archived here. Whatever you think about The Rollins Band, the guy's got pretty great taste in music, and a way bigger record collection than I.

And, by the way, that Mary Weiss record is on eMusic already, and it's damned good.
 
 
rizla mission
18:38 / 18.03.07
Hey folks, just to let you know, I have just finished uploading my second shot at a radio show, and if I do say so myself, it's a blast.

So get over to the Podbean page and check out some stuff by the likes of The Kinks, Betty Harris, Arthur Russell, John Coltrane, the Paybacks, Billy Childish, Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers and the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.

And as ever, let me know what you think.
 
 
rizla mission
14:08 / 07.04.07
Well, I've uploaded the third show today, and I’m sure you know the score by now; 80 more minutes of great music and hesitant banter, available to listen/download.

And where else are you gonna hear Maureen Tucker, The Gories, Help! She Can’t Swim, The Edgar Broughton Band, Alice Coltrane, Bobbie Gentry, Lenny Bruce, The Gun Club, Richard & Linda Thompson and Tetuzi Akiyama all in one place?

(Except possibly your own record collection, if you’ve got a real good one.)

Enjoy!
 
 
rizla mission
08:16 / 27.07.07
SO!

Bumping this thread in order to blatantly publicise the fact that I have a new radio show up following a short break when Podbean got all surly re: uploading files of a reasonable size.

Download only, but it's an easy-peasy download straight from my weblog.

That link again:

http://www.stereosanctity.blogspot.com

It's a show I recorded back in June, so it's kinda summery. And also kinda rock-y. Tons o' fun! Let me know what you think.
 
 
rizla mission
11:02 / 16.08.07
So if I may push my self-promotion even further, I've got another new show up, available for the first time in bitesize, listenable chunks (so it's like a 9 track album rather than two huge files), with some appropriattely lo-fi cover art too.

I think it's the bestest one I've done so far.
 
  
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