oh messy life

Oh Messy Life – September 21, 2023 Show Notes

Track 1 – Dasom Baek – Tightrope

The preview track of an upcoming release from Korean composer Dasom Baek.

Track 2: Isabel del Bosco – Mayo

Found this Argentinan musician via Bandcamp promo email.

Track 3: AMMRA – Blue Check Autocrat (Go Die)

Many years ago I saw Antonio playing drums for Shotwell at the old Balazo Gallery. After their short set everyone was yelling for more songs and Antonio said “I can’t. I’m on break right now from my job at the pizza place.”

Track 4: Dorotheo – Humano

Found this band from Guadalajara, Mexico also vai Bandcamp promo email.

Track 5: Tinariwen – Ezlan

Going back for another track from their album, Amatssou.

Track 6: Fikret Kızılok – Ay Battı

Someone on Mastodon recommended this collection of early 1970s singles from this Turkish musician.

Track 7: Ndox Electrique – Wali Namalé

The Les Disques Bongo Joe record label still has my number, digging so many of their releases.

Track 8: WITCH – Stop The Rot

I’m seriously feeling this album, Zango, from these reunited Zamrock legends.

Track 9: Ibrahim Hesnawi – Watany Al Kabir

From a compilation titled Solidarity with Libya, put out by Habibi Funk with procedes benefiting victims of the recent flooding in Libya.

Track 10: Jah Shaka – Selassie I Dub

Going back from another track from the mighty Jah Shaka.

Track 11: DANK GOBLINS – Devil 6

The debut album from these West Bay legends, Fruity Cigars, is now available on Iron Lung Records.

Track 12: Wireheads – Persistent Resistance

Not quite sure where I stumbled across this one, but I dig it.

Track 13: AninoKo – Buraot

From their album Ugat, AninoKo have been playing out all over the bay lately.

Track 14: Hazrdz – ExZxLxN

Hazrdz played a rockin Wednesday Night Live a few weeks ago.

Track 15: Deathgrave – Tony’s Deli

Another track from their album It’s Only Midnight.

Track 16: CONSENSUS MADNESS – Way Out

Another new release from Iron Lung Records, I am seriously impressed at how much good music they put out.

Oh Messy Life – September 14, 2023 Show Notes

Track 1: No-No Boy – The Onion Kings of Ontario!

Another track from the upcoming album, Empire Electric.

Track 2: Yungchen Lhamo – Sound Healing

I found this on via Bandcamp promo email.

Track 3: Dengue Fever – Silver Fish

Another track from their recent album, Ting Mong.

Track 4: Gina Birch – I Play My Bass Loud

Off of the album by the same name from this founding member of the Raincoats.

Track 5: Annaglyph – Watersnake

There’s also a fun stop-motion video from this track from local thermin player Annaglyph.

Track 6: Glasser – Easy

The most recent track released from the upcoming album, crux.

Track 7: Deena Abdelwahed – Each Day

From the album, Jbal Rrsas.

Track 8: Lalalar – Avucunu Yalıyor

Checking out some more funky stuff from these Turkish musicians via Les Disques Bongo Joe!.

Track 9: Forever Pavot – L’idiophone du Moyen Age

Going back for another track from their album, L’Idiophone.

Track 10: Lisa Marné – I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City

Found via Bandcamp promo, apparently from a previously unreleased recording.

Track 11: Keturah – Nchiwewe (Ode to Wille Nelson)

Found via the KZSU A-File.

Track 12: Warren Byrom – Answer the Foam

Found this one a couple weeks ago and finally managed to work it into the show.

Track 13: Whitney K – Song For A Friend

I liked the line “This town is pedantic, the mountains can have it.”

Track 14: SPRINTS – Up and Comer

Another new track from this Irish band.

Oh Messy Life – September 7, 2023 Show Notes

Track 1: Greg Keller – Halcyon

From the upcoming Stickfigure Records release, Halcyon.

Track 2: Dengue Fever – Touch Me Not

Glad to see Dengue Fever still going strong!

Track 3: Orchestra Gold – Bobofoli

Oakland based group inspired in part by the music of Mali.

Track 4: WITCH – Waile

One of the legendary Zamrock bands, out with their first new album in 39 years!

Track 5: Hassan Ideddir – Atfalouna (Instrumental)

I found this Moroccan musician via WFMU’s Heavily Played Records page.

Track 6: El Kontessa – Ghaltet Meen

From the album, Nos Habet Caramel.

Track 7: Chaba Fadila – Ki Kount

From a very fun compilation of mostly 1980s Raï music from Algeria.

Track 8: L’Eclair – Sisi La Fami

Found this one via BandCamp promotional email.

Track 9: Forever Pavot – Au bal des traitres

Another find from WFMU’s Heavily Played Records page.

Track 10: Euglossine – Mycelium Corona

From the Bug Planet Is the Current Timeline album.

Track 11: Wombo – Ida Mae

Going back for a slightly older track from this Louisville, Kentucky trio.

Track 12: Street Eaters – To The Ice

From their 2017 album, The Envoy, which was inspired by the works of Ursula K. Le Guin.

Track 13: Flash – Unidos

Found via a BandCamp promo email.

Track 14: Lame – Matanza

Found this one via the same promo email as Flash, from the label LA VIDA ES UN MUS DISCOS.

Track 15: RETIREMENT – Broke

Iron Lung Records continues to be an unstoppable force.

Track 16: Tony Molina – She Divines Water

Another track from the recently re-released album, Embarrassing Times.

Oh Messy Life – August 31, 2023 Show Notes

Track 1: Techung – Snow Lion of Peace

A co-worker recommended this one to me.

Track 2: jaimie branch – baba louie

Another track from the posthumous release Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die (​(​world war​)​).

Track 3: Zuckell & Roughneck Jihad – Low Centigrade

I think it was just two weeks ago that I was saying Jihad had a lotta collabs out right now?

Track 4: Khalab – Tunnel Of Jealousy feat. Lady Blue Eyes

Off of Khalab’s new album, Layers.

Track 5: Key 13 – Heretic

This is from a compilation entitled Not What I Call Bonk Wave – Volume 001. I believe a bunch of folks on Mastodon put this together, perhaps poking a bit of fun at folks who take genre boundaries too seriously? (Memories of many of late night college debate coming to mind…)

Track 6: AUTORHYTHM – Clairvoyance

I found this one via the WFMU Heavily Played Records page.

Track 7: Dur-Dur Band. Int. – Hereya

BandCamp did a little promotional write up on the Dur-Dur Band

Track 8: The Surfrajettes – El Condor Pasa

Checking back in on the Surfrajettes for this lovely cover.

Track 9: Roselit Bone – Crying In The USA

Another track from their newly release album, Ofrenda.

Track 10: Tony Molina – Here We Go Again

The BandCamp liner notes have a lovely story about the origins of this newly re-issued album from 2008, from the bay area’s favorite Redwood City Grind Core fan.

Track 11: HOLY CARAVAN – Secret Rites

Found this one via BandCamp promo email.

Track 12: Lipstick – Nightmare In The Making

Saw these folks play Thrillhouse records a little while ago and they tore it up.

Track 13: A/WAY – Siento El Odio

One more BandCamp promo find.

Track 14: Tony Jay – Perfect Worlds

From the upcoming album with the same name out mid September on Slumberland Records.

Oh Messy Life – August 24, 2023 Show Notes

Track 1: William Parker Quartet – Dust From A Mountain

From the 2008 album, Petit Oiseau. On this track the quartet is William Parker on cedar flute, Hamid Drake on balafon & frame drum, Rob Brown on B-flat clarinet, and Lewis Barnes on trumpet.

Track 2: merma suelo – aún sin mojarme estoy alli

Found this one via Bandcamp promo email from the También label out of Ecuador.

Track 3: Saloli – Full Moon

I saw this one mentioned on Mastodon, from the album Canyon, each track represents a different time in the day of a bear.

Track 4: Fletcher Pratt – Weedy Dub

Checking out this local experimental artist.

Track 5: Bonfire Madigan – Lady Dubs the Dragon (Dub I.D. Mix)

Going back to the Lady Saves release, this time for the dub remix.

Track 6: Amadou & Mariam – Sabali

Found this one via a Bandcamp article on the artists.

Track 7: Water From Your Eyes – Barley

Found this one on the KALX charts.

Track 8: Nerd Rope – Sup Rogue

Going back for another track from this collaboration between Spam & certone, out on spareorgan records.

Track 9: Arnold Dreyblatt – Flight Path

Found this one via Bandcamp promo email.

Track 10: Charlie Parr – Walking Back From Willmar

From the KSZU A-File.

Track 11: Braid – Elephant

A friend asked me to throw some more Braid into my show so I dug up this track and did a mini set of early/mid 90s Chicago area bands.

Track 12: Friction – Box Turtle

One of Bob Nanna’s bands before Braid.

Track 13: Gauge – Soothe

A band that was around roughly the same time as Friction.

Track 14: 8 Bark – Professor of Cartoon Physics

From their album Structurally Sound.

Track 15: Cap’n Jazz – In the Clear

Wny not throw in one of the hits from my last favorite band.

Track 16: David Dondero – Sand Sculpture Tombstone

I’m always very happy to check out anything new from David Dondero.

Oh Messy Life – August 17, 2023 Show Notes

Track 1: Tom Bickley – Repose for solo alto recorder in g

If you are listening in stereo you should hear some stereo effects on this track.

Track 2: Ensemble Diglossia – elegy: Thomas Edison and Emile Berliner

Going back to 2000 for a release I missed at the time, elegy: Thomas Edison and Emile Berliner. The ensemble put together for this CD blows my mind, so many of my favorite bay area creative musicians: “Steve Adams, Beth Custer, Ben Goldberg, Dan Plonsey; Tom Yoder, Carla Kihlstedt, Jenny Scheinman, Tara Flandreau, Matthew Brubeck, Trevor Dunn, Scott Amendola, Gino Robair, Karen Stackpole, Rob Burger, Myles Boisen, John Schott”

Track 3: Band Nada Kentjana – Djaleuleudja

I misspoke on the air, this is actually from Soundways Records, a release of theirs entitled, Padang Moonrise: The Birth of the Modern Indonesian Recording Industry (1955​-​69).

Track 4: TEKE::TEKE – Doppelganger

Another track from their recent release, Hagata.

Track 5: The Invisible Hands – Tarako

The Invisible Hands are a newer project from Alan Bishop of the Sun City Girls.

Track 6: Jiro Inagaki & His Soul Media

Found this one via Bandcamp promo email.

Track 7: The Bombay Royale – The Raan Of Kutch

Going back to check out another track from The Bombay Royale.

Track 8: Homeboy Sandman – Then We Broke Up

The little bit at the end about how an active relationship was still worth it even if the relationship eventually ended spoke to me.

Track 9: MC ROUGHNECK JIHAD AND DJ AWKWARD – Shazbot

Jihad continues to release collaborations non-stop, this track is from the
RAWK 2 release.

Track 10: DANK GOBLINS – West Bay Requiem (Destruction)

Another mind-blowing track from this West Bay super group, I can’t wait till the full album, Fruity Cigars, releases next month.

Track 11: GIDIA – Gidia to Kyma feat.Vougioukli Sisters

Another find via Bandcamp promotional email.

Track 12: ZOMES – A Branch on the Limb

I found this one via WMFU’s Heavily Played Records page.

Track 13: Cindy – Playboy

Off of the Why Not Now? release from this San Francisco band.

Track 14: neutrals – Pressures Of Life

Going back from one more track from their Bus Stop Nights E​.​P.

Oh Messy Life – August 10, 2023 Show Notes

Track 1: Jack Mayesh – Onde que Tope Una que es Plaziente

From the Canary Records release, You Carry My Hope: Judeo​-​Spanish Songs in Los Angeles, Sept. 1942 – Feb. 1943. The liner notes say that Jack Mayesh sang in Ladino, a version of Old Spanish spoken in the Sephardic community.

Track 2: Vahid Delahang – Rag Sohni

From the compilation album Afghan Music In Exile: Mashhad, featuring musicians from Afghanistan who are now living in exile.

Track 3: Mdou Moctar – Chismiten

While Mdou Moctar were on tour in the United States a Coup d’état occurred in their home country of Niger and they are not unable to return home. A fundraising campaign has been setup to assist the band members while they are stuck here in the United States.

Track 4: African Head Charge – Accra Electronica

From their new album, A Trip To Bolgatanga.

Track 5: Dank Goblins – 1 4 Stinko (A Thousand Executioners)

Dank Goblins are a collaboration between Luke Sick, Frank Marchi, Andres Wade, and DJ Eons. This track is from their upcoming album, Fruity Cigars, out September 15, 2023 on Iron Lung Records. Rest in peace Stinkweed!

Track 6: Kat7 – Silence Version

Kat7 went back and updated their album Motherboard with dub versions of each track.

Track 7: C. Reider – amber monitor

I saw C. Reider mention their new album, The Mending Battle, over on Mastodon.

Track 8: Luca Yupanqui – V3.2 (Peaking Lights remix)

According to the liner notes, this is a remix of a track from an album that was created by “connecting biosonic MIDI technology” to the artists pregnant body to record her child’s movements in the womb.

Track 9: Filter Dread – Digital Voodoo

From the PRESSURE (PART II) compilation, digital sales of which go to Crisis UK.

Track 10: Glasser – All Lovers

Another track from former bay area resident Glasser’s upcoming album crux.

Track 11: Wet Fruit – Danelions at the Gate

Found this one via Bandcamp promo email.

Track 12: Big Blood – 1000 Times*

From their album First Aid Kit, with the artists 13 year old child on vocals.

Track 13: Kepi Ghoulie – 7-11

From the KZSU A-file.

Oh Messy Life – August 3, 2023 Show Notes

Track 1: Sinead O’connor – I Am Stretched on Your Grave

Starting off the show with a track in tribute to the late Sinead O’connor, rest in peace.

Track 2: Amps for Christ – Janitor of Lunacy

This cover of the Nico song is one of my all time favorites.

Track 3: Charming Hostess – Iron Man

Honestly, I can’t remember how I found this one, though I have been a fan of Charming Hostess for quite a while. I think I was clicking around in Bandcamp somewhere? It’s off of an album of Black Sabbath covers by various artists.

Track 4: Susan Allen – In a Landscape

I found this one from former KZSU DJ Murray’s Bandcamp purchases page.

Track 5: Foyer Red – Etc

Found via WFMU’s Heavily Played Records page.

Track 6: SACRED//PAWS – Almost It

A while back, former KZSU DJ Hannah Mae was telling me about other bands that Ray Aggs from Shopping played in, and I finally got around to checking them out.

Track 7: Olivia Jean – Orinoco Flow

Can’t remember where I found this one either, but I do very much love a cover that takes the original song in a different direction like this.

Track 8: Talulah Gosh – Steaming Train

Seemed like it fit into the vibe of the show, going out to Phil the Talulah Gosh super fan.

Track 9: Catfight! – Majority Rules

I think I found heard someone mention this band on Mastodon so I thought I’d check them out.

Track 10: Warp – Planet of Skunks

Going back for another track from their new album, Automatic Gratuity.

Track 11: Sprints – Little Fix

Going back for another track from Sprints at they also seemed to fit the direction the show seemed to be going in.

Track 12: Bully – All This Noise

Another find from WFMU’s Heavily Played Records List. The other tracks on the album were a bit quieter, but this week I was feeling the loudness.

Track 13: SILENT ERA – Groundswell

Checking out another track from this bay area band from a little while ago that I missed when they were around.

Track 14: Street Eaters – Love Like Anthrax w/Marissa Paternoster

I ended up with a lot of covers this episode. This one is from Street Eaters’
Simple Distractions EP.

Track 15: Baus – Big Black Cloak

Another fun track from the upcoming Zum compilation: Zum Audio Vol 5, with 26 different bands on it, available on August 18th.

Track 16: Sinead O’connor – Mandinka

Ending things off with one more song from Sinead, perhaps my favorite of hers. Listening to her voice here, I feel like you can hear her influence on so many many singers that came afterwards.

Oh Messy Life – July 27, 2023 Show Notes

Track 1: Benjamin Rogers and the Harmony Isles Group – Lei Mokihana / Lepe Ula Ula

Found this one via a recommendation over on Mastodon. Apparently Canary records is a label that puts out compilations of audio restorations of 78 RPM records.

Track 2: No-No Boy – Mekong Baby

The pre-release track from an upcoming album, Empire Electric, out in September.

Track 3: Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway – Goodbye Mary

First heard Molly Tuttle from the KZSU A-file and went back to check out her new release, City of Gold.

Track 4: Deafkids – Tentáculos

Found this via Bandcamp promotional email.

Track 5: Herron – Reducer

From the Pressure (Part I) benefit compilation out on MAL recordings.

Track 6: Lucien Balconi – Rideau Perle

Found this via the KZSU A-File.

Track 7: P:ano – Hollow Stars

One of the pre-release tracks from the upcoming compilation from Zum Audio, Zum Audio Vol 5. From the liner notes, this is “P:ano’s first music in 18 years paying tribute to original Zum artist Beans”

Track 8: Body Double – Boil Down To Love

Oakland band that appeared on the previous Zum Audio compilation, this track is from their new release Voice 2 Skull.

Track 9: Morning Hands – Moving Through Water

First heard about them from the Post-Consumer Hot New Records page.

Track 10: Jack Curtis Dubowsky – Log Off Now

Bay Area composer with a variety of styles, doing something a bit synth-pop here.

Track 11: Laika – Badtimes

I missed this when it came out, a co-worked played it for me recently.

Track 12: The Movers – Give Five Or More

Off of a compilation of 1970s tracks from the Movers put out by Analog Africa.

Track 13: Southern Culture on the Skids – Come As You Are/Lucifer Sam

Been a fan of Southern Culture on the Skids since my early radio days back in Ohio.

Track 14: Enzyme – Abuse of Power

A raging bit of of hardcore that caught my ear.

Track 15: Landowner – Nineties

From their album, Escape the Compound.

Track 16: Emma Swift – I Contain Multitudes

From a compilation of Dylan covers, Blonde on the Tracks, going out to my dad who has kept up with the more recent Dylan releases.

Oh Messy Life – July 20, 2023 Show Notes

Track 1: Bex Burch – Dawn blessings

The pre-release track from the upcoming album, There is only love and fear, on International Anthem.

Track 2: Fédia Laguerre – Divizion

A 1981 track from Haitan musician Fédia Laguerre, rereleased with remixes by Atangana Records.

Track 3: Oumou Sangaré – Kêlê Magni

Going back for another track from Oumou Sangaré’s 2022 album, Timbuktu.

Track 4: Bonfire Madigan – Lady Saves the Dragon from the Evil Prince

Many many years ago Bonfire Madigan played an early morning radio show on KZSU and I’ve been a fan ever since.

Track 5: Charif Megarbane – Souk el Ahad

From the album, Marzipan, out on Habibi Funk Records.

Track 6: Altin Gün – Kalk Gidelim (remix)

From a pair of remixes the done by band members.

Track 7: Cosmica Bandida – Pájaro Del Desierto (Volta Cab’s Dub Mix)

A find via BandCamp promo email,

Track 8: The Conspiracy Tapes – Beauty In The State Of Panic

From the self titled album, out on spareorgan records.

Track 9: MC Roughneck Jihad & DJ Awkward – Binary

Jihad rhymes Bernie Sanders and Carol Danvers here. nuff said

Track 10: Fantastic Palace – And Now, This

The Bandcamp page for this album includes a fun anecdote from WFMU’s TomDash about the discovery of some of the tracks.

Track 10: Horsegirl – World of Pots and Pans

I found this one via KALX’s April top 100 albums chart.

Track 11: the Mr. T Experience – Up and Down

Someone on Mastodon posted about this album recently, reminding of my first radio show back in Ohio. Many many many years ago I was playing a tape recording of my radio show for my mom, and when this track came on she said “Oh you used to love this song when you were little.” At the time I was confused, as I had no idea it was a cover of a Sesame Street song 🙂

Track 12: Les Lullies – Dernier Soir

Found via WFMU’s Heavily Played Records list.

Track 13: Braid – Never Will Come for Us (Remastered 2023)

A throw back track to my late 90s era radio show, apparently Braid remastered this album and are on tour playing it.

Track 14: Rachel Baiman – Self Made Man

From the KZSU A-File.