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…

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,…

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.…

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 –…

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:…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…