. . .or click on the link here for Audio Player – Spoon – Live At London Calling-2 – November 1, 2014 – VPRO/3VOOR12 Flying into the Fall/Winter Festival season tonight with a set by American Indie meisters Spoon, recorded live at last week’s London Calling-2 Festival (the Fall/Winter edition)
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Weekend Roundup – November 13, 1999 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Fifteen years ago this week, the world continued its confusing and often frustrating spin in 1999. Weeks from the end of the century, 1999 wasn’t
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – The Zutons – Live at Glastonbury 2008 – BBC 6 Music Catching the odd festival recording here and there before we jump into the latest batch of Autumn/Winter festival offerings. Tonight it’s The Zutons, an Indie/blues/rock outfit
. . .or Click on the link here for Audio Player – Various News Reports on death of Yasser Arafat – November 11-12, 2004 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Ten years ago today (and yesterday), the world heard the news that PLO leader Yasser Arafat had died in a Paris
– Broadcast – The Black Session – May 4, 2000 – Studio 105, Paris – RFI – One of the more engaging and pioneering bands of the neo-psych/indie/electronica genre of the late 90s, Broadcast were a wonderful combination of dark-brooding melancholy and 60s experimental, via Trish Keenan, whose luxuriant voice
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Nightly News – November 11, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A November 11th in 1970 that passed into history with scant mention of what that day meant. Maybe because we were knee-deep in Vietnam and
. . . .or click on the link here for Audio Player – French National Orch., André Cluytens – Clara Haskil, piano – Chopin: Piano Concerto Number 2 – recorded April 1954 – ORTF, Paris. Something very familiar this weekend, but since I take requests and one of my readers
. . . or click the link here for Audio Player – Herbie Hancock – Live at Radio Bremen – November 6, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection 40 years ago? Hard to imagine. The legendary Herbie Hancock, during his Headhunters period; gathering together a wide spectrum of influences under
. . .or click on the link here for Audio Player – The Voyeurs – In Session for Marc Riley – BBC 6 Music – October 30, 2014 Ending up the week with a recent session by The Voyeurs, formerly known as Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs. Coinciding with the
. . .or Click on the link here for Audio Player: Sivert Høyem – In Session at Into The Great Wide Open 2014 – VPRO/3VOOR Staying in Europe this week with a session from Sivert Høyem, Norwegian singer-songwriter and former frontman for the band Madrugada until their breakup in 2007,
