:Episode One Hundred Nine: 06.22.2018
| Artist | Title | Album |
|---|---|---|
| The Heads | Spliff Riff (Conga'd Out) | rkt! |
| International Harvester | I Mourn You | Sov Gott Rose-Marie |
| Jaye Jayle | As Soon As Night | No Trail and Other Unholy Paths |
| Brian Case | Undone | Plays Paradise Artificial |
| Lay Llamas | Chronicles From The Fourth Planet | Thuban |
| Culto Al Qondor | Martillo | Templos |
| Cusares | Cusares | Afro-Progresivo |
| Here Lies Man | Hell (Wooly Tail) | You Will Know Nothing |
| Francis Bebey | New Track | African Electronic Music (1975-1982) |
| Cosmic Ground | Greasy | Cosmic Ground IV |
| Arp | Folding Water | Zebra |
| Tangents | Immersion | New Bodies |
| Marcus Fischer & Simon Scott | Ferns | Shape Memory |
Description
This week's show begins with tracks from two reissue compilations, namely "rkt!", which includes all of the late-90s Rocket Recordings singles and EPs released by UK space rock legends The Heads, and "Remains," a five-LP box that contains the albums "Sov Gott Rose-Marie" by International Harvester, "Hemåt" by Harvester, and three LPs of unreleased material by... I would say "both" bands, but it's really a Jefferson Starship/Starship type thing, where it's essentially the same group with a slightly different moniker (the same musicians went on to form Träd, Gräs Och Stenar). Also in the first set is some Nick Cave-esque country gothic from Jaye Jayle, some minimalist weirdness from Brian Case, and a bit of Morricone-influenced folksy-rock from Italy's Lay Llamas.
In the middle set is the Andean-folk-tinged space-drone of Peru's Culto Al Qondor, some recently unearthed analog synth-heavy psych-funk by Argentina's Cusares, some fuzzed out Afrobeat by L.A.'s Here Lies Man, and a classic cut from African outsider music legend Francis Bebey.
I kick off the last set with a new song from my favorite neo-Kosmische artist, Cosmic Ground, taken from his recently released fourth album, the creatively titled "Cosmic Ground IV" (hey, if it worked for Led Zeppelin...). This is followed by the avant-garde instrumental stylings of Arp, the post-post-rock sounds of Australia's Tangents (recommended if you like fellow Aussies The Necks) and some minimal, jazz-adjacent weirdness from Slowdive's drummer, Simon Scott, from an album he recorded in Portland with Marcus Fischer during Slowdive's fall 2018 North American tour.