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Friday, Nov 21, 2008

sounds + pressure = work to do

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work it good little dawgies - jolly ol' sir lord is nicin' up the dance this fine fall morning! yessiree, as much as we like to keep our musical meanderings telescopic in expansion and evolution, one mustn't forget one's roots. while we'll institutionalize those efforts soon enough to semi-regularly celebrate that old time sumptin', what we have here is some of that classic JA rocksteady ska sound straight outta yard. from nimble newbies dave hillyard, the aggrolites, the kingpins and one night band right back to the classic hitsounds of hopeton lewis, the ethiopians, dave barker and even, straight outta funky belize, the web, dis one a scorcha!

hillyard street - dave hillyard & the rocksteady 7
leave me - the slackers
jack ruby - the kingpins
code of silence - jfk & the conspirators
sounds & pressure - hopeton lewis
exit the dragon - the upsetters
you don't need me - the melodians
so you look on it - the ethiopians
rated g - the web
sammy - the one night band
work to do - the aggrolites
do your thing - dave barker & the upsetters
right track - jackie mittoo
apanga - tommy mccook
father & son - dave hillyard & the rocksteady 7

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Friday, Nov 21, 2008

port city burning

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gotta love those internet upload hiccups, eh hepcats? on that note then, here be ye aulde nuthsell: what you got yerself right here are largely brand-spankin' new slices & slabs of jazz, dub, deconstruction, dancehall and ratcheted-up roots rhythms from mali, brazil and the U.S. of A., from rudresh mahanthappa to brightblack morning light, plus, wrapping up proceedings is none other than local yokel, mr. adam mowery, with our mutual title track, 'port city burning' from his latest release of the same. excelsior!

longing - rudresh mahanthappa feat. kadri gopaluath & the dakshina ensemble
the beep - the iguanas
filaw - issa bagayogo
carimbaeo - nacao zumbia
hologram buffalo - brightblack morning light
555 dub st. - augustus pablo
soul dread dub - dubmatix
exit music (for a film) - easy star allstars feat. sugar minott
streetlife - terry lynn
the altar boy & the priest - random touch
port city burning - adam mowery

[ps... should the wizards of the webosphere smile upon us, y'all would be seeing a bleak pic from our very own saint john fire up yonder. at the rate this episode went up though, we are relatively blessed just to have gotten the MP3 of the show online. i blame the youth. yes, that's correct, all of them.]

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Thursday, Nov 06, 2008

when i was a young girl

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sweet snappin' transvestites from transylvania, is there more than meets the eye for ol' sir lord bobby? no, the titular young girl in question is none other than the smooth and sultry miss feist, who plays harbour station here in craggy old SJ this very eve. as such, we check out a smattering of tunes, and move on through the show with sounds in a similar vein from jane birkin, francoise hardy, the free design and more, wrapping things up with a nod of thanks to the USA, who have potentially set in motion a great catalyst for change by electing barack obama to the presidency. i hope that a pressure valve has begun to be released on the many bubbling toils and troubles for those marginalized by the yankee melting pot (sadly, even as homosexuals in california have their newly minted rights snatched back from them). if you need any reminder of the history of prejudice on which that nation, like many before and since, has built its institutional foundation, look no further than this tricky remix of billie holiday's 'strange fruit' which punctuates today's mix.

when i was a young girl – feist
lonely lonely (frisbee’d mix) – feist
sea lion – feist
the simple story – jane birkin & feist
hunter – portishead
i’ll be seeing you – francoise hardy & iggy pop
i found love – styrofoam & sarah shannon vs. the free design
you can know her – nobody feat. mia doi todd
winter – patricia barber
strange fruit (tricky mix) – billie holiday

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Tuesday, Nov 04, 2008

uncle sam's country

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everywhere you go! everywhere you go! talk of the town! why, oh why uncle sam's country? yer tellin' me, mr walks - how is it that things have come to this, on such a day of reckoning, where a single country's news is, literally, the world's? and regardless of republican or democrat, who really wants to see a president voted in who has campaigned shamlessley on a platform of thinly veiled racism, implicit religous persecution and economic threat, and has encouraged such unfounded assertions to well up in the yankee population? when terms like 'race war' are thrown around with a straight face during an election campaign and outright suspicion of the validity of a 'black' or 'liberal' candidate are allowed to float from public lips unchallenged...?

as such, in the midst of bringing you a swath of new music on today's episode, we also weigh in with voices of reason between rhythms. while the new brightblack morning light percolates with its reclamatory folk-soul-drone, we move on to the motor city-meets-jamdown sound as sly & robbie back amp fiddler in painting the whitehouse black. we dig south african soul with lorraine klaasen, finding light in the autumn dusk, and bear a cross of communion by the rivers of babylon with terry lynne and tricky. dennis walks takes us out with vintage vexation towards the sleeping giant to the south...

another reclamation - brightblack morning light
casanova 70 - air
blackhouse (paint the whitehouse black) - sly & robbie w/amp fiddler
spring in every season - lorraine klaasen
river niger - sly dunbar
rivers of babylon - terry lynne
cross to bear - tricky
voodoo dub version - benaissa & the sharp axe band
uncle sam's country - dennis walks

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Sir Lord Bobby holds court dread a the controls during the wee small hours on CFMH 107.3fm in Saint John, NB, as he wakes and bakes ya Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 8-9am. With the inclusion of this righteous Podcast, Sir Lord ushers in a new futurhythmic age for these heavy heavy monster sounds across the time and space-bending world wide web. The transglobal rhythmsound spans dub, reggae, soul, jazz, ska, afro, caribbean, and more outernational soundsciences...
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