"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
A little love goes a long way: Become a Patron! – CBS Radio – The World This Week- ending February 1, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Somehow, it always winds up being about the Economy. This first day of…
– Elsa Barraine – Symphony Nr. 2 – Paris Conservatory Orch. -Cluytens – circa 1953 – ORTF-Paris Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – Elsa Barraine is a name not heard very much lately. But in the 1930s, all the…
Les Lignes Droites (The Straight Lines) – Live at FIMU Festival 2018 – Belfort, France – April 19, 2018 – France Bleu Radio – Starting off the week with something unconventional and not in English. Les Lignes Droites (The Straight…
Jacques Higelin – in concert from Antibes – 1980 – Radio France International – In a year already overloaded with passings, news that the death earlier today of French legend – poet, singer-songwriter, actor, activist Jacques Higelin, offered one more…
Ben L’Oncle With The Monophonics – Live At Hotel de Ville de Paris – July 20, 2014 – FNAC Live – RFI FIP – Ben L’Oncle With The Monophonics tonight. It occurred to me that I haven’t been paying a…
Jean Rivier – Violin Concerto – Henri Merckel, violin – ORTF Symphony – Pierre-Michel Le Conte – ORTF Studio recording, circa 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The legendary Belgian violinist Henri Merckel accompanied by Pierre-Michel LeConte and the…
November 6, 1951 – Edward R. Murrow And The News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 6, 1951 – General Eisenhower raised more than a few eyebrows when he arrived in Washington and then quickly left, heading back to…
– Temples – Live At Oüi-FM Festival, Paris – June 23, 2015 – Oüi-FM – Earlier during this festival season, I posted a Temples gig at the Best Kept Secret Festival in Holland from June 20. Here is another performance…
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Palace – in session for London Calling 2015 – May 17, 2015 – VPRO-3VOOR12 Continuing with the latest batch of sessions from the recently concluded London…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Secret Affair – Live at Rock Goes To College – 1978 – BBC Radio 1/ BBC6 Music Jumping into the Ska/Mod Revival from the late 70s with Secret Affair, recorded by…