Easter Sunday Sidney Grove

Another eclectic mix or gathering of auralisations. It's Oestrus Sunday so I didn't need any egging on to include one song that's got Jesus in the title and two songs with the word 'cross' similarly placed.
It's been a beautiful day here in Tyne Toon and I wouldn't be at all surprised if some of you were a little conflicted about staying in or going out. So here's a podcast version for those of you disloyal pooheads who couldn't correctly resolve the conflict:

Easter Sunday Sidney Grove

Sidney Grove Easter Sunday 24th April 2011 by Steve Dales on Mixcloud

I really enjoy putting these shows together and there's so much wonderful music to share. Unfortunately I spend a lot of time preparing - although I don't make notes - and then forget all the previously practised witticisms, insights and observations. So it's usually a bit stutterful and stammerific but eventually I seem to get my point (well 'a' point anyway) across. This week I said Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was 'a bit Indian' and neglected to say the title of a piece of music by Brian Setzer. Oh bugger!

The Vietnamese film music is from 'Cyclo' - imdb.com - very beautiful.

I'm grateful to Culture Lab Radio's 'Mannequin Licker' for reminding me of Alice Coltrane's music.

Finally poor old John Spencer has been in the wars and so I'm sitting in for him this coming Tuesday 26th April at 8pm.

Finally finally here's a picture of what I was involved with yesterday:

The Tenth of April

Not the title of a folk song - although it could be.
The Tenth of April was a beautiful day so I celebrated, in music, the emergence from winter into spring. Imagining a sleigh pulled by polar bears over a frozen snowy landscape under the aurora, next to the Trans Arctic motorway and beside ourselves with nitherdom.......then a glorious sunrise blinding and coruscating but energising and uplifting at the same time carrying us on a pulsating cloud of scintilla.

OK sorry about that. Have a listen anyway..

The Tenth of April show

Ratiocination

What?
We have to ask.
Well they are both (?) words (yes yes keep reading) which cropped up in a film that Jill and I watched the other evening. We've had the DVD sitting around for a several months. But the weirdness begins like this - I've never heard the term ratiocination spoken out loud before but it's in the title of a song that's been sitting  in my playlist for at least a week before I watched the film. Spooky eh?

What's even spookier is that nobody knows what it means or if it's even truly a word at all - although we could construct a methodical and rational argument to prove its existence, if we were clever enough.

So only a few days to go before the next show and I've got my music sorted and arranged in a temporal relationship - one piece to another - although it's possible that I may indulge in a little tergiversation (see, there's two of them) before Sunday.

The film's called 'Wit'.

Well that seems like a lot of words so here's a picture:

Life before Culture Lab Radio