Eternity Oclock past five

Not recorded but played see here for show

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Track 1 Keith Jarret Koln concert part 1 recorded in ’75  it came into my life in ’78 or so and then has come and gone several times  in several forms since. Now in the digital sounds as good as ever and timeless too. Saw him once at Drury Lane theatre and he had a squeaky piano stool.

Track 2 & 3 Third Ear Band’s Stone Circle and Fire . Saw them at the Harvest launch at the Roundhouse and later when they’d gone electric  in Southampton. Disappeared from my purview for years but now readily available. Lovely.

Track 4 Blue Aura by Infinity Project  nineties techno including Ram Jam of Quintessence fame.

Track 5 & 6 Some Loop Guru  ‘Single Orphan First Year Camel’ and ‘Under Influence’. I will always love you.

Track 7 Where are you tonight(journey thru dark heat) by Bob Dylan from Street Legal and then a couple from Cahoots by the Band before switching to the studio to broadcast with vocal interjection, splutterring, umming and kind ofing. I think i meant to play Changing of the Guard another time perhaps.   8 Where do we go from here and 9 Smoke Signal in which there is a reference to In Cahoots giving the album its name presumably.

Track 10 Box of Rain by Grateful Dead    Feel your way feel your way like the day before.

And we are in the studio now and straight into

Track 11 Valentyn Suite by Colosseum with glorious sax from the late Dick Heckstall-Smith.

Track 12 A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers by Van de Graaf Generator. Don’t often play them but sometimes you have to say why not.

Track 13 Halycon On On by Orbital

and so a couple of hours passes away pleasantly enough with minimal blathering and drilling from the rooms upstairs.

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Added torment

Eternity Oclock from 22 april 2011

Here is the promised blog. Hear the selection here  http://www.archive.org/details/EternityOclockwithaddedtorment
Track 1 The Final movement of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ 3rd Symphony (The Pastoral)

Track 2 Privilege from the LP Easter by Patti Smith. Kind of apt seeing as it’s Good Friday.

Track 3 Help on the way/Slipknot from Blues for Allah  by Grateful Dead of course. I am     being a bit coy  here but people are quite dismissive of this band. Maybe they had a ‘bad experience’ once or maybe they think their opinion counts for something. Anyway from
an internet radio point of view they were the first band to put on an eternal loop of their
music on the net and now i think there is more than one. And they’re still going.

Track 4 & 5 Standing on the Moon and The Victim or the Crime by the above from Built to Last their final studio album. You just have to have a look lyrics for these songs. There’s no point in me explaining when they speak for themselves.

Track 6 The torture never stops by Frank Zappa from Zoot Alures. I’ll never understand the appeal of  a deity glorified in a state of agony and degradation; it doesn’t alleviate the torment of daily life in any way for me. This piece of music however brings some peace.

Track 7 Freedom by Jimi Hendrix from Cry of Love. Means a bit more than just doing what you like.

Track 8 I sat through The Golden Compass (well all right i quite enjoyed it for the CGI) and then when the credits rolled Lyra by Kate Bush played especially for the film so that’s why you can’t find it on an album or at least i don’t think so.

Track 9 The Alan Parsons Project  with Time . Goodbye my love. Followed an instrumental by him…

Track 10 Lucifer

Track 11 A live version of Loving the Alien by David Bowie. I called the human race a bunch of aliens (nowt queer as folk) but even so i have to love the alien(s) don’t I?

Looks like this show isn’t findable on the BHCR archive so i’ll have to do an upload. Let you know. See above for upload.

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another show

10 am 15th friday april 2011 or thereabouts

Access the audio here http://archive.bhcr.org.uk/2011/april/week2/Alan%20Cannon%20-%20EternityOClock%20Friday%2015%20April%2020110.mp3

Track 1   ‘In a silent way’ a version by Joe Zawinul who would have been in on the original Miles Davis recording. A beautiful LP and one which sustained me of a night during the dark days of the eighties when i was perpetually poor and depressed and had a mere 50 or so cassettes.

Apologies for the iffy sound quality on the listen again. What can you do? Listen to it live next time is what; for good quality.

Track 2 ‘I am a tree’ by Mother Gong. More lovely mellow sax. A Daevid Allen solo LP ‘The Owl and the Tree’.

Track 3 ‘Astronomy Domine’  version by Rita Marcotuli. Track one Side one to my musical life. Often thought it would make a great symphonic reworking. This comes close. Used to think the line was ‘Stars that brighten’ not ‘..frighten’. No matter how much i look at the stars they don’t do that. It humans that scare me. You’re all a bunch of aliens to me.

Cannonballllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!

Track 4   ‘Laika’ H foundation.   No.11 in the John Peel Festive 50 for 1994 AD. I heard him play it twice at least that year  whence i taped it. As i said now readily available on you tube. I am the only other person i have heard that has played it again so far. I’d like to work it into a film. It’s shame their other stuff doesn’t quite go with this.

I am a creep.

Track5 ‘Scary monsters’ by David Bowie . One of the overlooked DB masterpieces. Goes with what i was saying  about aliens. Up the hill backwards it’ll be alright. As with all the tracks on this LP the lyrics bear analysis. ( If i had a band i’d call it the Bears Analysis)

Track 6 ‘Teenage Wildlife’ The word is that the hunted one is out there on his own.

Track 7 ‘Because you’re young’   You’ll meet a stranger some night.  Aliens all like  i said.

Track 8 ‘After All’ (from the Man who sold the World) oh by jingo! Live till your rebirth and do what you will.

Track 9 Change of gear on the ‘Road to Hell’ from Defender by Rory Gallagher. Lest we not forget.

Track 10 ‘The Good Thing’ from More Songs about Buildings and Food by Talking Heads. More interesting lyrics. If nothing else this exercise is personally edifying.

Track 11 ‘Marquee Moon’ off the eponymous LP by Television. This and the previous track of course part of the New Wave that ran parallel to the punk thing but nobody mentions the term any more. Of course this track a complete anathema to the punks being way over the 3 minute mark. You and your fear of the long track; i spit on you.

Track 12 . . .and i was doing quite well.  Some throwaway track in attempt to merge into the next show live radio bah

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Show for April 8th 2011 rundown

Starting with a Rutles medley. I am glad to recall the Rutles; i do think they are funny. There’s something refreshing about quasi-Beatles songs that aren’t covers. Check out you-tube for the videos including George Harrison himself enjoying the joke. The absurdist in me considers the alternate world where the Beatles copied the Rutles.

Introduction from Lol Coxhill from Ear of the Beholder a double LP issued on the legendary Dandelion record label and a version of I am a Walrus from that LP.  Trying to track down Rasa Moods from it.

Then Shooting at the Moon from eponymous LP by Kevin Ayers and the Whole World . Lol Coxhill was more than just ‘part of the scene’. The scene i think i am referring to is at the end of the 1960’s into the 70’s somewhere in London presumably. I gleaned what scant knowledge i have from the NME and the International Times. Still the spattering of gigs and Festivals i managed to get up still provide treasured memories.

A track Lol did with the Welfare State and the infamous ‘Silence is requested in the Ultimate Abyss’ track by the Welfare State in collaboration with White Noise from that LP BBC Radio presents John Peel presents Top Gear.

Going back to Lol a track from Geography(2006)  entitled 116degrees40 E 77degrees515 (elevation 15km) . All the tracks have Long/Lat designations mysteriously with this one having an elevation. What does it all mean?

Change of mood with Dudu Pukwana ‘Diamond Express’. I only saw him a few times but i remember them being great nights out.  Checking him out i note he died as long ago as 1990. Explains why i haven’t heard much of him in years. Thanks memory for working.

Straight into ‘Like it is’ by Yusef Lateef. This man is a genius though the earlier stuff sometimes falls into standard jazz formats one is regularly surprised by truly innovative excursions. Note to self keep on looking him up.

Dolphin by Gabrielle Roth and the Mirrors from Bones. Don’t know how her CDs Luna and Bones appeared in the collection box but have them kept aside for falling asleep music. But i think they deserve to be considered as aids to meditation. Another huge discography to delve into.

Suns of Arqa. Managed to catch the troupe live in the Dance tent a few Glastonburies ago at lunchtime to a couple of hundred people at most. Underrated and the CD’s keep disappearing but something triggered me to knock up  a compilation which i used virtually unannounced the other day. See listen again/archive on the bhcr.org.uk website March Week5 2011.

Graham Bond Baroque          Only love can break your heart CSNY live version
Diamonds (hear previous show for commentary 01 April)
Bike
Prettiest Star  David Bowie conclude programme.

 

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a show

http://www.archive.org/details/moonbeam_680 This is the archive for an  old show which starts and finishes with Sphongle includes some JS Bach, a version of I am a walrus by Frank Zappa which has speeded for apparent reason and some other stuff.

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crosswords

Cruciverbalism is daily occupation of mine; it somehow keeps me sane, engages my brain in way nothing else does, deletes bad thoughts, gives me a way of judging the state of my mental powers and pushes my word knowledge along. You could say i indulge in epeolatry.       It is claimed or was, if it has finally been corrected, on this page http://www.bhcr.org.uk/crew/ (get that crazy spelling) that i can do a cryptic crossword in 5 minutes. This is erroneous; look to Peter Biddlecombe, Mark Goodcliff and Helen Ougham for those kinds of times. I managed a Daily Telegraph once in 8 minutes  but the measure of all things is The Times and my personal best is no less than ten minutes. In truth i expect to achieve satisfaction in the space of half an hour that is completing, bar new obscurities, in relaxed manner allowing for tangental daydreams and meditations.

I have been entering the Times Crossword Championship, see  http://www.biddlecombe.demon.co.uk/timescmp.html , in recent years (not 2010) without  any real hope of getting into the top fifty but it did sharpen up my abilities first off back 1996 though now i fear i am hitting an asymptote. Such is life.

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studio manager

I am also a studio manager at Brighton and Hove Community Radio (bhcr.org.uk) sporadically especially on  Tuesdays so doing a show myself helps me to understand the psychology and the problems that presenters experience.

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Eternity O’clock

I do a radio show at 10am UK time on Brighton and Hove community radio (bhcr.org.uk available in listen again or archive) with the above title in which i attempt to play ‘timeless’ music with the proviso of choosing tracks that have been overlooked in the everyday playlists. Naturally each piece of music is rooted in a specific era but some don’t seem to become dated especially that which has been barely heard by the general public.

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Eternity O’clock

The universe.

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