August 19, 1991 – CBS Radio News – Special Report -Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 19, 1991 was a shocking and ominous day for just about everyone, particularly if you were living in Moscow. A coup was underway; orchestrated by hardliners and some Military leaders who saw the Glasnost
The Charlatans – Live at Glastonbury 1995 – June 25, 1995 – BBC Radio 1 – The Charlatans in concert at Glastonbury this morning. Recorded during one of the band’s high points, by the BBC on June 25, 1995. One of my perennial favorites and one of the bands I
– Jewish Refugees And Palestine – Cesar Saerchinger: Story Behind The Headlines – August 18, 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With World War 2 over for a year, the issues confronting the allies and the overwhelming job of reconstruction and rebuilding shattered cities and lives, the question of
– Devendra Banhart – live At Summer Sundae – August 13, 2005 – BBC6 Music – Devendra Banhart to start the week. The practitioner of Freak-Folk, Lo-Fi, Latin and by critical acclaim, the face of New Weird America, Devendra Banhart had been dividing his time between sonically dosing audiences with
Swiss composer Richard Flury this Weekend – his Violin Concerto Number 3 from 1944 – performed by George Kulenkampff, violin with the Berner Stadtorchester led by Kurt Rothenbühler in this Swiss Radio broadcast recording, made on February 6, 1946. The late-Romantic composer Richard Flury (1896-1967) was born in Biberist, a
If you’re lucky and you’re a packrat (archivist to some of you), sometimes it’s possible to go time traveling and land somewhere you haven’t been before. Or maybe you have but you forgot – or maybe you never left and missed it the first time around. It’s easy to pick
Phil Woods this Sunday – part of North German Radio’s NDR Workshop with an allstar cast featuring: Slide Hampton on trombone – Jimmy Owens on trumpet – Ack Van Rooyen on trumpet – Lee Konitz on alto sax – Gato Barbieri on Tenor Sax – Joachim Kuhn on piano –
You feel ancient – you ARE ancient. Never thought you’d lose your hair – never thought you’d gain 90 pounds – never thought you’d forget names. Never thought you’d stop smoking – never thought about your Liver – never thought you’d become a ghost – never thought the love of
Cranes this weekend – recorded in Lausanne by Swiss Radio on December 12, 1991. A band hard to pin down as to genre, the best description would be a “unique blend of art rock and ethereal dream pop”. But even at that, you can’t really describe who Cranes are and
A band that has been around a relatively short period of time (having weathered the Pandemic Lockdown and tragic loss of a founding member), Georgian are new to these ears and are a completely unique experience coupled with a mesmerizing sound from lead singer Georgia McKiernan. This is from a
