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A proper Jodycast episode, with loads of fun banter and a shoutout to my choral-geek leanings. And it runs slightly long, which means I was extra-inspired this week.

Joann Gilmartin – Afton Water 
Anne Briggs – Reynardine 
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians – Bells of Rhymney 
Jim Helms – Careless Love 
Dave Van Ronk – All My Trials 
Robin Crutchfield – Conjuring 
Master Musicians of Bukkake – Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times/Patriarch of the Iron Age
Residents – Birth 
Diggy Tal & The Numbers – If It’s Love That You Want (Instrumental) 
Max’n Sandy – Keep the Joint 
Shango – Shango Message 
Arthur Baker – Do It Like This!!! (feat. DJ Plus One) 
Kraftwerk – Techno Pop

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Going back to the halcyon “avant/new-music/electronic” days of the first few Jodycasts. I kinda pulled this week’s episode out of thin air, since I didn’t have much time to listen to new things — and that’s a shame, because the great Important Records just sent me a massive box of back-catalog promos for podcast use. I did throw in a Christina Kubisch piece from one of that box’s CDs, and in future episodes you may hear tracks from Eliane Radigue, My Cat Is An Alien, Duane Pitre, the Robbie Basho tribute album, or any number of other things. You’ll also notice that I don’t do much talking on this episode — inspired partially by the Quartz City podcast where Chris specifically doesn’t break up the songs with chat, but also inspired by the fact that I have a big effing test coming up and I need to concentrate on that.

Iannis Xenakis – N’Shima for 2 female voices, 2 horns, 2 trombones and cello
California E.A.R. Unit, Joan La Barbara, Gene Youngblood, Morton Subotnick – All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis: I. All my hummingbirds have alibis
John Luther Adams – …and bells remembered…
Christina Kubisch – Ocigam Trazom
Tod Dockstader – Soft Aurora
Zoltán Pongrácz – Concertino for cimbalom & electronics

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Sorry I never got around to posting my show notes for Episode #11 last week. This was a pretty noise-centric show, or at least it contained some difficult listening, and of course, a two-song tribute to the very polarizing Yoko Ono, who just celebrated her eightieth birthday. As a bonus, I threw in a couple of French punk singles at the end.

Fall – Spectre Vs Rector (Live)
Diamanda Galas – This Is The Law Of The Plague
Yoko Ono – She Gets Down On Her Knees
Child Molesters – Don’t Worry Kyoko, Mummy’s Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow
Les Rallizes Denudes – The Night Collectors
Kikuri (Keiji Haino and Masami Akita) – Give Me Back That Colour You Stole From My Guts
Judy Nylon – The Dice
Edith Nylon – Tank
Guilty Razors – I Don’t Wanna Be A Rich

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Choral choons, Reagan/Thatcher/Falklands punk, and Acid Mothers Temple’s “In C.” I’m sick with a cold this week so you get to hear me at peak congestion.

A word about the choral pieces: my group is doing the Janacek tune this season, and I did the Brahms one with my college choir. I don’t have any personal connection with “Eighteen Shining Buttons” but the Choir of the 21st Century Matyas Seiber tribute was one of my favorite albums of 2012.

Cappella Amsterdam and Daniel Reuss – Janacek: The Wild Duck (Kacena Divoka) 
London Sinfonietta Chorus & Terry Edwards – Messiaen: O Sacrum Convivium! 
Anthony Halstead, Christian Rutherford, Delyth Wynne, John Eliot Gardiner & Montiverdi Choir – Brahms: 4 Gesange, Op. 17: 4. Gesang Aus Fingal (Ossian) 
Choir of the 21st Century & Howard Williams – Seiber: Yugoslav Folk Songs: IIa. Eighteen Shining Buttons 
Pissed Jeans – Bathroom Laughter 
Dayglo Abortions – Ronald McRaygun 
M.D.C. – Bye Bye Ronnie 
Notsensibles – I’m In Love With Margaret Thatcher 
Larks – Maggie Maggie Maggie (Out Out Out) 
Crass – Sheep Farming in the Falklands 
Ruins – Infect 
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. – In C

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Public domain vaudeville, African funk, girl groups. This Jodycast was thrown together in a few hours — honestly, I’m supposed to be reading from my “On Cooking” and “Garde Manger” books instead of putzing around in Audacity — but I still like the way it turned out. As always, I apologize for my mangled pronunciations. I’d like to think I’m fairly worldly, but I haven’t studied any languages except for English, German, and Italian, and two of those are shaky at best.

Ora Alexander – You’ve Got to Save That Thing 
Tampa Red’s Hokum Jug Band – I Wonder Where My Easy Rider’s Gone 
Jimmy Davis – She’s a Hum Dum Dinger 
Frances Alda – By the Waters of Minnetonka 
Akathistos Russian Choir – Chestneyshuyou Heruvim: More Honorable Than The Cherubim 
Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo de Cotonou – Gbeti Madjro 
Tirogo – Let’s Feed the Nation 
Marijata – No Condition is Permanent 
James Brown – Turn On the Heat and Build Some Fire 
Marva Whitney – I’m Tired I’m Tired I’m Tired (Things Better Change Before It’s Too Late) 
Jaynetts – Sally Go Round the Roses 
Reparata & The Delrons – Loneliest Girl In Town 
Twinkle – Bowden House 
This Heat – Twilight Furniture 
Patrick Cowley and Jorge Socarras – You Laugh At My Face (Original Mix)

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Show notes: I’m returning to culinary school on Monday, so my head has been filled with fear of chef-instructors rather than excitement about music. If this set feels a few years out of date from a “what archival things hipsters are listening to” standpoint, it’s because I did indeed go back into my collection for inspiration this time. The episode is also more rock-oriented than other installments have been; such is the world of freeform podcasting. I promise, this is not the end of the weird choral composers or avant-improv sax guys.

Pink Anderson – Weeping Willow Blues 
Bukka White – District Attorney Blues 
Henry Flynt – Guitar Rebop 
Sydney Stripling – Standin’ On the Corner Smokin’ a Cheap Cigar 
Neil Hagerty – Fallen Off the Rocks 
Hasil Adkins – Punchy Wunchy Wickey Wackey Woo 
Giant Sand feat. PJ Harvey – Johnny Hit and Run Pauline 
Simply Saucer – Electro Rock 
Armand Schaubroeck – Ratfucker 
Lou Reed – Street Hassle (live) 
Confounded – Little Dog

All-covers edition! I did, in fact, sneak Peter Stampfel’s “Goldfinger” on there. However, I had a lengthy debate with myself over whether to include the 17-minute Led Zeppelin disco medley “Stairway To Love” — ultimately I opted not to, and it gave me the freedom to add in plenty more song that time wouldn’t otherwise allow.

I enjoyed putting together this set, even if I don’t sound like a bundle of energy. That’s just my low-key personality, coupled with concern over a boyfriend who’s sick with a bad cold.

Andrea True Connection – Sally Can’t Dance (Lou Reed) 
Adult Net – Incense and Peppermints (Strawberry Alarm Clock) 
Galaxies – Orange Skies (Love) 
Claudine Longet – Golden Slumbers (Beatles) 
Coil – Tainted Love (Gloria Jones, Soft Cell) 
Leather Nun – Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight) (ABBA) 
Rosebud – Arnold Layne (Pink Floyd) 
Toni Basil – Be Stiff (Devo) 
James Chance & The Contortions – Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough (Michael Jackson) 
Mariah Carey – Bringin’ On the Heartbreak (Def Leppard) 
Peter Stampfel – Goldfinger (Shirley Bassey) 
Motels – He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss) (Crystals) 
Tina Yothers – Girlie Girlie (Sophia George) 
Frank Sidebottom – Radio Ga Ga (Queen) 
Ism – I Think I Love You (Partridge Family) 
Adult. – 122 Hours of Fear (Screamers)

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Show notes:

Some trivia — Gary Lucas and Holy Modal Rounder Peter Stampfel are occasional bandmates in the Du-Tels! Maybe someday Stampfel’s raucous “Goldfinger” ukulele cover will make it onto the podcast, although generally I give the stinkeye to novelty ukulele covers. I’m still figuring out how I feel about novelty gamelan covers — my boyfriend liked Charming Hostess’s “Iron Man” better than I did, but I absolutely love OOIOO’s gamelan treatment of their own “Be Sure to Loop.”

Hoyt “Floyd” Ming and His Pep-Steppers – Indian War Whoop 
Holy Modal Rounders – Indian War Whoop 
Gary Lucas – Indian War Whoop 
A. Leroy – Arcade 
Arleen Schloss – How She Sees It – By Her 3:00 AM June 6 1981 
Charles Dodge – Speech Songs: No. 2. He Destroyed Her Image 
Jim Staley feat. Samm Bennett and Shelley Hirsch – Genuine Risk 
Sussan Deyhim and Richard Horowitz – Ishtar 
Thinking Plague – How to Clean Squid 
Vetza & Airway – Racing In the Streets 
Art Bears – The Winter Wheel 
Pere Ubu – Lampshade Man 
Jorge Liderman feat. Carla Kihlstedt – Many Moons 
Annelie Gahl and Klaus Lang – Six Melodies – Melody 4