oh messy life

Oh Messy Life – May 28, 2026 Show Notes

Track 1: Rent Romus, Heikki Koskinen, Otherworld Ensemble – Poleeni Encore

From the album Lament to Joy (The return of the blessed sons).

Track 2: Willem Kollektief Breuker – Song of Mandalay

One time many years ago, KZSU DJ Kremit the Horn and I talked about doing a
radio show where we would alternate tracks, me picking tracks from Willem Breuker and Kremit picking tracks from Raffi.

Track 3: Henrik Olsson – Homeshredder

From the upcoming album Antumbra Ensemble on Cuneiform Records.

Track 4: Jim Campilongo – MATE TIME

I’ve been a fan of Campilongo since his time with the 10 Gallon Cats.

Track 5: Gitkin – Git Git

Going back for another track from the album Where the South Winds Wail.

Track 6: MONEY CHICHA – CHINGADERAS CRUDAS

From the album ONDA ESOTÉRICA.

Track 7: Yeison Landero – Cumbia Sin Fronteras

I found this one via Bandcamp promo email.

Track 8: Mao Skaay, Ritmos Cholulteka – Cumbia Na Tuga (Susobrino Remix)

From the collection of remixes of the album Cumbias Transatlánticas.

Track 9: Tinariwen – Amidinin Wadar Nohar

From the KZSU A File.

Track 10: Avalanche Kaito – Talitakum

The title track from the album Talitakum, from this trio spanning Burkina Faso, Belgium, and France.

Track 11: Cocanha – Flame Folclòre

The title track of their album Flame Folclòre, by this duo out of Toulouse, France.

Track 12: Hannah Peel – Awaken The Insects

From the album The Endless Dance a collaboration between Peel and Chinese percussionist Beibei Wang.

Track 13: Charbel Haber – The unfortunate meeting of an accident and the goddess of time on a dissecting table

From the album May a soft sun bless your sky while you wait for the inevitable.

Track 14: OMINESS – Beneath An Elm

These Bay Area folks put on a very intense live show.

Track 15: Leila Abdul-Rauf – Stripped Before The Eye Of Death

Off of the album Andros Insidium.

Track 16: Ken Pomeroy – Look at Miss Ohio

I’m always happy to hear more from Ken Pomeroy.

Oh Messy Life – May 21, 2026 Show Notes

Track 1: Charbel Haber – Phosphorus resting by the entrance of a quantic maze

Another fun track title from the album May a soft sun bless your sky while you wait for the inevitable out on Beirut, Lebanon’s Ruptured Records.

Track 2: SUSS – Sunset I

The opening track off of the quite literal album title, Counting Sunsets.

Track 3: Future Museums – Fede Nella Magia

I found this one via Bandcamp promo email.

Track 4: Salamanda – allez, pousse!

Going back for one more track from the Basil album in the Music To Watch Seeds Grow By series.

Track 5: matt robidoux – dream window

Off of the m e s h s o n g s ep from a regular performer on KZSU’s annual Day Of Noise.

Track 6: Tinariwen – N’ak Tenere Iyat

Off of their album Hoggar.

Track 7: Cocanha – Remenanuèch

I heard this one over on Ben’s Some Songs Without Words show.

Track 8: Tropisphere – Despierta y Baila

More fun stuff off of “Los Demos” from this local synth trio.

Track 9: Moskito – Idolar

I found this via WFMU’s Heavily Played Records.

Track 10: Takeshi Inomata & Sound L.T.D. – Black Angel

From the Wamono compilation of Japanese psych rock, Far East New Rock Invention 1969-1975.

Track 11: dj pnutz – Dollar Bin Drum Breaks

I discovered dj pnutz via her collaborations with Jihad the Roughneck MC. This particular track off of the album Goodbye San Diego seemed to vibe with the previous track, and I dedicated it to KZSU DJ The Dead Kenny G’s of the show The Dollar Bin.

Track 12: π. Διονύσιος Ταμπάκης – Ἠλεκτρικαὶ Ὑμνωδίαι

According to the Bandcamp page Fr. Dionysios Tabakis is a priest of the Orthodox Church in Nafplion, Greece who records music at home.

Track 13: Street Eaters – Tempers

From last years Opaque. Congrats to Megan on the MFA degree!

Track 14: Bed Maker – Miss Dickens

Looking for something to vibe with the Street Eaters track, I went back to Washington D.C.’s Bed Maker.

Track 15: 8 Bark – Back To You

Ending the set off with one of my all time favorite bands, 8 Bark, out of Chicago back int he 90s.

Track 16: Whiskey Sunday – Jackie and The Beast

I did a mini tribute set on my show to San Jose punk Dover when I heard he had passed back in February. I saw they were doing a tribute show, so I closed the show with another Whiskey Sunday track. R.I.P.

Oh Messy Life – May 14, 2026 Show Notes

Track 1: Tinariwen – Imidiwan Takyadam

From the album Hoggar.

Track 2: Aldous Harding – One Stop

From the album Train on the Island.

Track 3: The Peanuts – Ara Wa 15 Wo Natsumatsuri

According to the Bandcamp liner notes, The Peanuts were twin sisters Emi Itō and Yumi Itō.

Track 4: Brycon – Poker Dogs

I might have accidentally attributed this to the wrong album on the air. It’s actually from Avenue. In my defense, Brycon dropped five albums in April 🙂 .

Track 5: Long Twins – Swimming Backwards

I found this one via Bandcamp promo email.

Track 6: Tropisphere – Beyond The Yard

From their debut release, “Los Demos”

Track 7: Wendy Reid – Twittering Machines

I saw Wendy Reid was playing a show via the Flyermire website.

Track 8: Harry Partch Ensemble, Danlee Mitchell – Scene 1. Background for the Transfiguration of American Undergrads in a Hong Kong

The Wend Reid track made my think of Harry Partch, so I found this track from a The Bewitched: A Ballet Satire. The Bandcamp liner notes say “this 1980 production on his original set of instruments, directed by Danlee Mitchell, was the first Partch work to be taken abroad.”

Track 9: Salamanda – the blue wine

From their release in the Music To Watch Seeds Grow By series (Basil).

Track 10: Charbel Haber – This show ends in the past

From the wonderfully titled album May a soft sun bless your sky while you wait for the inevitable from Ruptured Records out of Beirut, Lebanon.

Track 11: Jenny Scheinman – Miss Collins

I got an email from Bandcamp saying the Scheinman had recovered the rights to two old albums and they were now up on the Royal Potato Family Bandcamp.

Track 12: James Brandon Lewis & Lutosławski Quartet – Encore: Take Me To The Water

Sounds like it’s just Lewis solo on this encore at the end of the album These Are Soulful Days.

Track 13: neutrals – Stop The Bypass

Starting off a selection of Bay Area punk with a track from neutrals lovely 2024 album New Town Dream.

Track 14: Shellshag – Sweet Hoodie

Going for a nostalgic track from Shellshag talking about old shows and S.F. venues.

Track 15: Super Apes – Carry On

From last years album, Kill The Humans.

Track 16: Never Bored – Dolly is The Boss

I love the premise of this song, nominating Dolly Parton to dethrone Bruce as The Boss.

Track 17: Piss Profits – Can’t Not Do It

I caught a fun set from Piss Profits at an outdoor show in Hayward and it was top notch! I walked away from the show with the lyrics to this song stuck in my head.

Track 18: the Monorchid – Sink the West Coast

Going back to 1998 for a track from Washington D.C.’s the Monorchid.

Track 19: Electrosleep Int’l – These Purchases

From Anthology Volume 1 via Stickfigure Records.

Track 20: Reversal Of Man – Get The Kid With The Sideburns

Ending the punk set off with a track from another band re-uniting after 25 years. I caught their recent set at Gilman Street and it was quite intense.

Track 21: Fleur – Jour D’été

Ending the show with a track from Fleur out of Netherlands.

Oh Messy Life – May 7, 2026 Show Notes

Track 1: Wednesday – Elderberry Wine

Off of last year’s album, Bleeds, from Asheville, North Carolina’s Wednesday.

Track 2: Negro Leo – Cênico, Provável, Cosmético

QTV Selo sent an email for Bandcamp friday so I went back and grabbed another track from Negro Leo.

Track 3: Roody – Zire Miza

I found this track via the Bandcamp article: Cyrus Moussavi of Mississippi Records Spotlights Iranian Music He Loves

Track 4: Tropisphere – Vibrant Sea

Another track off of the brand new release “Los Demos” from this Oakland synth trio.

Track 5: Jihad the Roughneck MC – Underpinnings

Off of the new release with DJ Pnutz, Psychotic Breaks.

Track 6: Brycon – Jordan Walsh Defense

Off of (Avenue) B, one of five albums Brycon dropped in April.

Track 7: Tom Djll – sailfloss

Taking a turn for the experimental with a track off of a new release for Tom Djil, Souvenirs from the Nonsuch Exploder Series.

Track 8: Let Spin – Have a Go, Hero

I found this one on the Bandcamp Daily feature, The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, April 2026.

Track 9: VOCO – Sleeping The Big Sleep

Off of the wonderfully titled album Goat Haggle at the Black Market.

Track 10: Tim Bulkley, David Dvorin & Randy McKean – Twitchy

I noticed this trio via the Bay Improviser Calendar.

Track 11: Softcult – She Said, He Said

I found this one via the KDVS Weekly Charts.

Track 12: Shellac – This Is a Picture

Going back to a track from 1998’s Terraform.

Track 13: Dazzling Killmen – Blown (Face Down)

From the remastered version of their 1994 album, Face of Collapse. Dazzling Killmen just came through town and folks that attended have said the show was amazing.

Track 14: Cedric Brooks – Satta Masa Ganna

Ending the show off with some amazing dub from the 1978 album United Africa.

Oh Messy Life – April 30, 2026 Show Notes

Track 1: matt robidoux – side a (excerpt)

matt robidoux is a regular performer on KZSU’s annual Day Of Noise. I was delighted to find this piece centered around recordings of a young matt very excited to take a boat trip to see some seals.

Track 2: Isorhythmics – Unearthed

I found this one via an event listing from Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics.

Track 3: Yassine Nana – Fatma

Off of Modern Pop from Mauritania (1984-1989), via Les Disques Bongo Joe.

Track 4: Serokolo 7 – Bonkoko Bagana

The Bandcamp liner notes for the album Maramfa Musick Pro say that “Mapanta is a village-rooted electronic form emerging from Ga Skhukhune (formerly Ga Masha) in Limpopo, homeland of the Bapedi (Marota) people. […] Tracks are commonly built in FL Studio, using shared sound packs passed informally between producers in the village.”

Track 5: Tropisphere – Microtension

Off of the new release, “Los Demos” from this Oakland synth trio featuring members of Ritmos Tropicosmos.

Track 6: Mohammed El Akkad – Samai Farah Faza

From the Canary Records release El Salaam: an Egyptian Master Qanunist in the U.S. ca. early 1970s.

Track 7: Alvarius B. – Rock N’ Roll

Continuing some Egyptian vibes from Alan Bishop of the Sun City Girls.

Track 8: Damaged Bug – HOAK

Another project from John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees.

Track 9: LEENALCHI – Here Comes That Crow

The title track, Here Comes That Crow, from the upcoming album from South Korea’s Leenalchi.

Track 10: Brycon – fire way up north

From Lobster Toes II, one of five albums from Brycon released in April.

Track 11: Jihad the Roughneck MC – Restitution

Of of the new release with DJ PNutz, Psychotic Breaks.

Track 12: TOTAL CONTROL – Retiree

Starting the punk set off with a track off of the Iron Lung Records reissue of this Australian bands album, Henge Beat.

Track 13: Los Idiotas – La comunidad

Then over to Valladolid, Spain for some garage punk courtesy of Slovenly Recordings.

Track 14: Sick Thoughts – 19977

Then another reissue, also courtesy of Slovenly Recordings.

Track 15: These Bastards – Stretched Memories

Stoney Maloney recently hooked me up with a vinyl copy of the amazing self titled LP from These Bastards.

Track 16: Deseos Primitivos – Boba

Starting a mini set-within-a-set of bands that played a rad benefit show this weekend with Oakland’s Deseos Primitivos.

Track 17: Totalna Tama – Sve što vidim je tama

Continuing the mini-set of bands on the benefit show with another Oakland band, Totalna Tama.

Track 18: Piss Profits – Complete Thought

And finishing off the punk set with track from the long awaited debut recording, The Fountain, from new band Piss Profits, featuring members of Silent Era, Mutilated Tongue and a zillion other bands.

Track 19: Tony Molina – Dear Nellie Goodrich

Ending the show with a lovely new single from the West Bay’s Tony Molina.

Oh Messy Life – April 23, 2026 Show Notes

Track 1: Jim Jarmusch and Anika – Spooky

From the soundtrack to the film Father Mother Sister Brother.

Track 2: $hu$hot X Senz Beats – Pizza Froide

Over to Québec for the beginning of the eighteen minute continuous mix St-Sauveur Tech-Fleece.

Track 3: Davus – 940

Then over to Montevideo for some hip hop in Spanish.

Track 4: Tom Bickley – Budapest

This came in via Bandcamp promo email while I was putting together the show and I liked how it fit here.

Track 5: Duende, Mao Skaay, Ritmos Cholulteka – Cumbia Del Apagón (DUENDE Remix)

A remix of a duo I played on the show last month.

Track 6: Adeem the Artist – multi-ball my madness away

A fun ode to pinball from the release notes from inside.

Track 7: Alvarius B. – Rooftop Blue Cameo

Egyptian tinted blues from Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls.

Track 8: Ishaaq Aarkistra – De Forest

I had this track sitting around for a couple weeks waiting for a spot to fit it in.

Track 9: Julia Sabra – My love is like the sea

From the album Land 02: A compilation for the displaced in Lebanon

Track 10: Salamanda – hungry snail

Off of the basil release from a series entitled Music To Watch Seeds Grow.

Track 11: Los Nickelos – Guaracha Fredo

From Les Belgicains – Na Tango Ya Covadia 1964-70 volume 2.

Track 12: Candeleros – La Meseta (Caribombo Remix)

From the E.P. El Bululú.

Track 13: Trupa Trupa – Backwards Water

From the KZSU A File.

Track 14: Wau Y Los Arrrghs!!! – Delincuente

Working in another track from these Spanish garage rockers.

Track 15: The Okmoniks – Sorority Club Song

Then back to the bay for The Okmoniks.

Track 16: The Bananas – East of Arden

Then over to Sacramento for The Bananas.

Track 17: Choncy – Just Like Them

Starting the next set of with Cincinnati’s Choncy.

Track 18: DakhaBrakha – Yanki

Then over to Ukraine for a surprisingly jaunty track from DakhaBrakha.

Track 19: Gravedodger – Thousand Winds

And back to the bay for Gravedodger.

Track 20: Bill Orcutt & Mabe Fratti – Almost Waking

From their album Almost Waking.

Oh Messy Life – April 16, 2026 Show Notes

Track 1: HIMBA HYMN – Don’t Cry (Your Father & Grandfather Are Go

From the Sublime Frequencies release HIMBA HYMN: GHOSTS OF NAMIBIA’S SKELETON COAST.

Track 2: Janel Leppin – Zonk

I had this track sitting around for a few weeks waiting to find a spot to work it into the show.

Track 3: Yasmine Hamdan & Oussama Abdelfattah – Ams Ntahayna

From the album Land 02: A compilation for the displaced in Lebanon.

Track 4: Matmos – The Chrome Reflects Our Image

From the KZSU A File.

Track 5: Glass Beams – Orb

I heard about this group from a coworker.

Track 6: Charif Megarbane, Ali – Mata Api

Going back for another track off of the album Tirakat, a collaboration between Megarbane and Jakarta trio Ali.

Track 7: Calamity Flower – Beyond Our Wildest Dreams

More new heat from Brycon.

Track 8: Phil Swisher – Sanders

Another track from the CD only release Flowin’ Off The Intake.

Track 9: Khun Narin – Baisi Sukhwan

Trying to match a bit of the vibe of the previous two tracks.

Track 10: Torrey – Happy You Exist

A track from the KZSU A File.

Track 11: Young Fresh Fellows – Three Gasconading Saints

I saw they were coming through town and checked out their new album, Loft.

Track 12: They Might Be Giants – Twisting

Going all the way back to 1990 for the song with the lyric that first introduced me to the Young Fresh Fellows.

Track 13: Marié Abe & Kaethe Hostetter – How Will I Know

I saw Marié Abe play with Fred Frith a little while ago and then went and found this gem in her back catalog.

Track 14: Angine de Poitrine – Fabienk

Something about segueing into this after the Whitney Houston cover sounded extra sharp.

Track 15: Throwing Muses – Two Step

A fun live version from the album Live In Providence.

Oh Messy Life – April 9, 2026 Show Notes

Track 1: Michael Grigoni and Pan-American – Sun Morning Sun

From the KZSU A File.

Track 2: Gitkin – Golden Age (ft. Assaf Spector)

Going back two years for the title track from the album Golden Age.

Track 3: Real Cumbia Activa RCA – Trance Jaguar

The album art for the single features an amazing neon jaguar.

Track 4: Holy People – Araña

A track from the 2019 album Jester to Her Majesty The People.

Track 5: Calamity Flower – Present Time Awareness Intro

Another project from the extremely prolific Brycon.

Track 6: Phil Swisher – Mushrooms

Going back for another track from the CD only release Flowin’ Off The Intake.

Track 7: POPULATION II – Cha Cha les Mouillés

From the brand new release, Gimmicks.

Track 8: KINACT – Cercle de Tambour Kinact avec Manza et Ikembe

From the album Kinshasa in Action on Nyege Nyege Tapes.

Track 9: Demmers – Turn Away

I found this one via Bandcamp promo email.

Track 10: HotWax – Strange To Be Here

I found this one via WFMU’s Heavily Played Records.

Track 11: Die Spitz – Red40

Thanks again to Rob Coons for recommending Die Spitz.

Track 12: OVIID – Going nowhere

Going back for another track from the album Land 02: A compilation for the displaced in Lebanon.

Track 13: This House – There Will Come Soft Rains

I’m always stoked to come across a Ray Bradbury reference.

Track 14: OMINESS – Disquiet

Ending the set with some epic heaviness from their self titled release, Ominess, on Transylvanian Recordings.

Track 15: False Flag – False Flag

I did the way the track ends with the line “Ain’t nobody gonna break my stride”

Track 16: These Bastards – Powerviolence Lullabye

Twenty Two seconds of mayhem from their new album, These Bastards. And still time to work in shout-outs to some classic power violence record labels.

Track 17: Prevail – Carousel

I remember seeing Prevail play at a VFW hall in Columbia, South Carolina quite a number of years ago.

Track 18: Squirrel Bait – Kick the Cat

Going back even further for one of the classics.

Track 19: BarryRStock – Use This for the Truck Stop Shower Scene

Ending the show with an instrumental from a local guitarist.

Oh Messy Life – April 2, 2026 Show Notes

Track 1: lagartijeando – Majagual

The preview track from the upcoming album Wirikuta.

Track 2: Meridian Brothers – Dinamita

A Bandcamp promo email fooled me into thinking this was a new release.

Track 3: Khun Narin – Poet Wong Pt. 1

Over to Thailand for the preview track for the upcoming album III.

Track 4: Collagist – Šukaj

Then over to Belarus for a track that came in via Bandcamp promo email.

Track 5: LX Rudis – Xpander

Then over to the Bay for some local sounds.

Track 6: Captain Planet – Ghost Dance

Another Bandcamp promo email inspired track.

Track 7: KINACT – Cercle de Tambour Kinact avec Manza

Then over go Uganda for a track from the album, Kinshasa in Action.

Track 8: Brycon – Part One

From the album, Media / Mail, one of a slew of new releases from Brycon.

Track 8: Phil Swisher – Ain’t No

From the CD only release Flowin’ Off The Intake.

Track 9: Postcards – The Crow

From the Tunefork Studios release: Land 02: A compilation for the displaced in Lebanon.

Track 10: Qurious – Termina

From the Stickfigure Recordings release Void Vanishing.

Track 11: Don Caballero – You Drink a Lot of Coffee for a Teenager (Remastered)

From the deluxe edition re-release of their album American Don. I am forever a fan of instrumental math rock tracks with ridiculous song titles.

Track 12: Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble – Kelan (For Phil Cohran)

Another track from the album Let The Spirit Out, Live At “mu” London.

Track 13: Ratboys – Open Up

Ending the show off with one more track from the new Ratboys album Singin’ to an Empty Chair.

Oh Messy Life – March 26, 2026 Show Notes

Track 1: Max Blagg – Can I Get You Something?

I think it was the line “you wanna bury the needle on this land shark?” the won me over here.

Track 2: Hannah Lew – Sunday

From the eponymous album, Hannah Lew, from this Richmond, California artist.

Track 3: Isabel Pine – Hollow

I think I saw this album recommended over on Mastodon.

Track 4: Dead Can Dance – Our Day Will Come

According to Bandcamp 50% of the proceeds from this track, Our Day Will Come, will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians.

Track 5: Harlan Silverman – Stillness is Beautiful

Another track from the Mississippi Records release Music for Stillness.

Track 6: Tinariwen – Tad Adounya

From the new album, Hoggar.

Track 7: Charif Megarbane, Ali – Abaday

The Bandcamp liner notes describe this as a collaboration between “Jakarta-based trio Ali and Lebanese composer and multi-instrumentalist Charif Megarbane.”

Track 8: PALOMO – Los Cañaris – Por Las Calles De Cayambe (Deliciosa Mix)

Another Palomo cumbia remix.

Track 9: Golden Champagne Flavored Sweatshirt – 3.26__

Starting off a small tribute set to the artists of Ratskin Records in honor of the label’s 20th anniversary.

Track 10: Malocculsion – Ageless Terror Mirror

From a split lathe 7″ with Headboggle.

Track 11: MAYA SONGBIRD – Sweet N’ Nutty

Moving over to the dancier side of Ratskin records.

Track 12: Yama Uba – Isolation

Wrapping up the Ratskin Records tribute set with everyone’s favorite duo.

Track 13: Kaloja – Spectral Spring

The preview track from the upcoming album A Body of Water.

Track 14: Laura Agnusdei – Are We Dinos?

Some fun quirky sounds from the Maple Death Records label.

Track 15: Phil Swisher – Dutches

From the CD-only release Flowin’ Off The Intake.

Track 16: Mayya – Weird Waltz

I saw Mayya had a show coming up, and this track grabbed my ear.

Track 17: Charlie Parr – Little Sun

The title track off of the album Little Sun.