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Tomorrow is an Octopus

Jan 28, 2025 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Music

With Dan Ruccia

Cephalopod dance parties for the apocalypse

The sidewalk cracks to free the dead at last

10:00 AM		Tony Scott & the Indonesian All Stars Gambang Suling Djanger Bali Saba 1967
10:08 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Background for talksets: The Soft Machine - 3
10:11 AM		Robert Ashley The Captain of the Football Team (Donnie) Music Word Fire and I Would Do It Again (Coo Coo) Lovely Music/Vital Records 1981
10:18 AM		Lucrecia Dalt Cosa Rara (feat. David Sylvain) N Cosa Rara - single 2025
10:22 AM		Mope Grooves Pieces Of God N Box Of Dark Roses Night School 2024
10:27 AM		Michael Mizrahi Heartbreaker Currents New Amsterdam 2016 Composed by Missy Mazzoli
10:31 AM		Bonnie "Prince" Billy Building a Fire I Made a Place Drag City Records 2019 Theme song
10:35 AM		Mary Timony Untame the Tiger Untame the Tiger Merge Records 2024
10:40 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:45 AM		Robert Wyatt At Last I Am Free Different Every Time Domino Recording Co 2014 Happy 80th, Robert! Chic cover
10:49 AM		Robert Wyatt Heaps of Sheeps Shleep Domino Recording Co 1997
10:54 AM		Soft Machine Hibou Anemone and Bear The Soft Machine, Vol. 2 ABC 1969
11:00 AM		Rose Royce Love Don't Live Here Anymore Rose Royce III: Strikes Again! Rhino/Warner Records 1978 One of Wyatt's selections from this 1982 NME piece: https://bsky.app/profile/birmingham81.bsky.social/post/3lgs3dfznsc23
11:04 AM		Mary Halvorson's Code Girl Bigger Flames Artlessly Falling Firehouse 12 Records 2020 feat. Robert Wyatt
11:09 AM		Robert Wyatt Del Mondo Comicopera Domino Recording Co 2007
11:13 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:17 AM		Straw Man Army Extinction Burst N Earthworks La Vida Es Un Mus Discos 2024
11:21 AM		Winged Wheel Clean Blue Shelf Big Hotel 12XU 2024
11:25 AM		Melt-Banana Hex 3+5 A-ZAP Records 2024
11:28 AM		AC/DC Problem Child Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Columbia 1976
11:33 AM		Unexpect In Velvet Coffins We Slept We, Invaders - EP Galy Records - Earhertz 2003
11:42 AM		Joanna Newsom You Will Not Take My Heart Alive Divers Drag City 2015
11:46 AM		Mabe Fratti Oidos (Ears) Sentir que No Sabes Tin Angel 2024
11:49 AM		Pigeon Pit josephine county blues N crazy arms Ernest Jennings 2025
11:51 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:54 AM		Various Artists / Explorer Series Gamelan Gong Kebjar: Hudjan Mas (Golden Rain) EXPLORER SERIES: INDONESIA - Bali: Golden Rain Nonesuch 2005

Chat is archived.

Greetings and Salutations! And happy Robert Wyatt's 80th birthday day!

🥁 nice. can't get enough Soft Machine

Hey Mok!

Here's a great Jeremy Denk article about this Missy Mazzoli piece: https://jeremydenk.substack.com/p/in-search-of-missy-mazzoli?r=1ogx4&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

@ Dan Ruccia (host) great start ... loved Tony Scott and the Indonesians! Lots of good jazz and especially jazz-rock coming out of that island nation.

....it is all revealed....

that is hook is like Dire Straits meets the Grateful Dead

Great lp from Mary. Read that she started out as a young guitar prodigy. Went to school for music etc

pssst... it's David Silvian (sil vee an). I before the A

Bed music?

Ahhh. I've always misread that. Thanks, Brian

@Guelo: Soft Machine's album "3"

Thank you kindly

The Chic original of this is also some mind blowing ultra-slow disco

rhythm gtr player with the 2 same names from New York Dolls however.... he was Sylvain Sylvain RIP

Here's that NME thing I mentioned in the talkset: https://bsky.app/profile/birmingham81.bsky.social/post/3lgs3dfznsc23

I gotta find time to finally listen to that Mope Grooves collection.

Same. I saw someone call it the weird version of that Cindy Lee album

Apparently the main person behind the band tragically died before the album came out?

Correct. They basically were Mope Grooves is my understanding. A few Names I Trust said it was their favorite release of 2024.

One of whom wrote this...

https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/stevie-pohlman-mope-grooves-album-guide

Filing that away to read after the show

Wyatt was one of the giants of the Canterbury scene, all while denying that it was even a thing

@Dave you're totally the one who should be doing his 80th birthday celebration!

bed music is so good

Love this Straw Man Army track. Great band/record.

There's something about the way they sing/yell that is damn near perfect

Like a perfect distillation of what makes punk great

Unrelated membership drive fulfillment update: Women's XL shirt/hoodie orders presently being packed. Men's XL/hoodie combos are next on deck. We're nearly there!

we're getting close to something and im hoping it happens

Problem Child!

Ohi Dan!

Howdy TAndy!

DDDDC was re-released in the US round about 1981 so it seemed like the "new" album at the time. Good timing after Back in Black w/the new singer. Heard it and loved it and thought hmm the singer sounds a bit different but still great. Then learned more about them. 6th and 7th grade memories early 80s.... JR High school dances were made better by ACDC ha

A very Hipgnosis lp cover shot

TEASE

love that false end recap

I really wish they had actually made it a locked groove at the end of the LP side

Yes!

Malcolm's pickups, guitar and amp settings are holy grail studies for time capsule discoveries in centuries to come. I heard he used relatively small amps with just the "dirt" or drive/distortion/pre gain whatever on the amp itself. Kept it basic

Hi @ Dan, loved that Robert Wyatt set earlier. Love Joanna Newsom, she reminds me of Daniel Johnston..

Thanks, Gautham. I keep hoping Newsom will put out new music soon. It's been a decade since Divers...

Pigeon Pit - very nice.

What better for a slightly overcast Tuesday morning in the greater Princeton area than some blazing country-bluegrass-punk rock, with Pigeon Pit. Off to Josephine County!

Thanks for the show dude!

Great show Dan! Gamelan and out....

Looking forward to digging into the Pigeon Pit more when I'm not bound by FCC rules...

Thanks for listening, y'all!

And Indonesian play bookends! Terima kasih! :-D

I missed that name of the artists for the background music at 11:15 break.... good mellow minimalist synth or keys??? Can you please type into chat? Thank you.

@Brian: It's all from Soft Machine 3!

(Maybe it's technically called "Third"?)

thanks Dan!