Another rarity from the Swiss Radio archives this weekend. The music of Adolf Brunner – his Partita for Piano and Orchestra from 1939 in this performance by Walter Frey, piano and the Radio Beromümster Orchestra led by Walter Kägi, recorded by Swiss Radio on October 23, 1955. Adolf Brunner; b.
Jan Garbarek this weekend along with his partners in crime, Rainer Brueninghaus on piano, Eberhard Weber on bass, Jan Vasconcelos on percussion and voice and Manu Katché on drums – recorded at La Cigale in Paris on October 27, 1989 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of ECM Records
A dose of Swedish electronica by way of Covenant – recorded live at SAMA in Göteborg on April 1, 2000 for Sveriges Radio P3. A little background on Covenant by way of Sharon Maher’s excellent biography of the band. Here’s an excerpt: Covenant. It’s a name that implies extraordinary commitment,
Ever since grade school you had this thing about exploring – especially the neighborhood and particularly on your bike. You and your trusty Sting-Ray – you’ll have it til you’re 30. Tooling down alleys, looking for cool stuff. Always the dumpsters – always behind stores on Pico. Lots of rotten
The Move this weekend. Recorded in Stockholm for Sveriges Radio on December 15, 1967 Why The Move were not household names on this side of the Atlantic in the 60s is something of a mystery. Their debut U.S. lp, Shazam had all the earmarks of something that would get massive
Ending the week with a visit to Spain for a set by Elena Garcia, recorded live in the studios of RNE3 on July 8, 2025. Elena García is an electropop power trio with flamenco twists. They combine lo-fi sounds and live beats with guitars and synthesizers where the interplay between
– July 11, 1951 – CBS Radio: Edward R. Murrow News with Don Hollenbeck – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another mixed-signals day, this July 11, 1951. With truce talks going on in Korea, fighting was still going on – with a reported additional 164 American troops killed in action
– News for Week of July 11, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Busy week, this particular one in July 1974. Surprise results from elections in Canada, uneasy ceasefire staying along Israeli borders and that thing called Watergate that kept the country and much of the world
Highspire is a band I was a huge fan of even before I knew who they were. Back in the deep-dark past, when there was this somewhat mythical website known as MySpace, it was a collection of this vast world of creatives who, for once, had a common meeting place
– NBC Nightly News With Chet Huntley and David Brinkley – July 10, 1970 – Had there not been so much drama, deceit and upheaval associated with the decade of the 70s, it might have been called “The Goofy Decade”, there was no shortage of strange occurrences taking place during
