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Patrons get perks – join up and find out: Become a Patron! News for this September 27th in 1938 was grim. The crisis in Munich was rapidly coming to a boil and it seemed at the time inevitable that war would break out. British Prime Minister Chamberlain, exhausted from the...
Christian Garros et son Orchestre – Jazz-Danse Nr. 1 – French Columbia Records – EP ESDF – 1218 – EMI/Columbia – France – Subscribers get the proverbial backstage pass: Become a Patron! Pulling records off the shelf tonight, running into sounds of French Big Band from the 1950s. Lest you...
Mazzy Star – in Session for Bernard Lenoir – The Black Sessions – October 26, 1993 – RFI – Subscribers get an exclusive: Become a Patron! Mazzy Star tonight. Recorded in Paris for Bernard Lenoir and his legendary Black Sessions for Radio France International on October 26, 1993. One of...
David Fray With Daniele Gatti and Orchestre National de France – Concert of May 21, 2010 – Radio France Musique – Become a Patron! Music of Wagner, Schoenberg and Debussy this week, featuring pianistic dynamo David Fray in a performance of the Schoenberg Piano Concerto. Daniele Gatti leads the orchestra...
August 29, 1939 – Watching the skies and with last minute and last ditch efforts to avoid war, tensions between the Axis powers and the Allies grew more strained by the hour. British Envoy Sir Neville Henderson, stretching shuttle diplomacy to new vistas, was arriving in Berlin to receive a...
Hilhary Hahn, violin – Philharmonic of Radio France, Mikko Franck, cond. Live from Salle Pleyel, Paris – September 16, 2011 – Radio France Musique – Become a Patron! Three time Grammy winner Hilary Hahn this week, with the Philharmonic of Radio France, conducted by Mikko Franck in music by Edgar...
Babylon Circus Live at Lowlands Festival 2012 – Recorded by VPRO, Netherlands – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! Babylon Circus to kick off the week. A band that, even though their bio calls them ska and reggae, miss the major mashup of a whole pile of genres,...
Georges Aperghis – Luna Park – World Premier performance – June 8, 2011 – Radio France Musique – Live Broadcast – Become a Patron! Since the entire purpose of Past Daily is to be reminded and to discover the new and the unfamiliar, I thought I would take the Mid-Week...
The Leisure Society – Live At FIP – FIP Studios, Paris – March 28, 2013 – Radio France FIP – The Leisure Society, in a studio concert for Radio France and their then-Rock/Jazz/Eclectica outlet FIP in Paris, broadcast live on March 28, 2013. Digging through old files earlier today, I...
Mat Bastard – live at Trianon, Paris – May 2019 – RTL2 – Mat Bastard, recorded live at Trianon in Paris around May of this year. If the name Mat Bastard doesn’t ring any bells, perhaps Skip The Use will. That was the band Mat Bastard was in which went...
