Our own Dick Heath's ALT2 Radio show Returns

Putting the show together slowly this week. A lot of purchases arrived in the last few days, including 3 Umphrey's McGee albums, an Jan Hammer album recorded 1968 (in fact  a live recording now issued by Enja Records Japan, and not the MPS CD reissue, pre-Mahavishnu studio recording). Samples from the new album by one of the show favourites, Derek Trucks Band's .  Plus more blues flavoured recordings, only just spotted (very cheap) on Amazon.UK as part of the expanding "Complete Blue Horizon Sessions" series, here by Gordon Smith and Jellybread. I've only previously hear one tune by the relatively obscure Gordon Smith  - that tucked away of the Alexis Korner Memorial Concert CD set - but here is one LP and lots of outtakes, which indicates a Brit who usually stuck to the original 30's arrangements (hence you'll fiind a couple of Cream covers, but I guess in the manner done by the original artists). Jellybread were one of those largely  forgotten 2nd or 3rd ranking British blues bands, who's distinction (it seems from this compilation) was to sing blues rock with very English accents - which doesn't quite work more often than not.  I continue plundering Morglbl's Grotesk, as album of the month. And with my record/CD collection accessible once more some random raid on the obscurers parts of the archives.

Closing down here -  thanks for your company

night school, i see.

Always bike in, my wife has the car to teach at night school on Thursday nights

V quite tonight. 

Like London buses, nothing for ages, then two correspondents contact at the same time

Kimara Sajn wrote: John Martyn - ah... lovely!

|I'm guessing you are there

Evening - I;ve stopped trusting MP3 burns!!

I'll ease some John Martyn in

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Alternative Alternative Show

 

29th January 2009

 

Format      Track   Time     Band                                          Track Title                                         Album                                                    Genre                Label

U Tube                  6.24     The Brecker Brothers             Some Skunk Funk                          Live In Barcelona 1992                      Jazz Funk       

CD           5          4.40     Stratus                                       Hurricane                                          Iconoclast                                             Jazz Rock       Virtual

CD           ¼         2.34     Pascal Bournet                        Guardian Angel                               Mahavishnu Redefined                      Jazz Fusion     ESC

CD           2/3       5.26     Radio String Quartet, Vienna                                                            Meeting Of The Spirits                Mahavishnu Redefined                                  Jazz Fusion                                        ESC

CD           5          2.25     Shining Path                             It Was My Turn To Loss                  No Other Worlds                Thrash Metal  DEM

CD           4          4.07     Jonas Hellborg                        Deaf To Persuasion                        The Silent Life                                      Jazz Fusion     DEM

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

CD           1          5.05     David Baerwald                       The Waiter                                        Triage                                                    Avant Rock       A&M

CD           1/2       4.57     Morglbl Trio                               The Tale Of Thibault                       The Morglbl Trio (Toons Tunes…..) Heavy Fusion     Free Electric Sound

CD           7          3.21     Godley Crème                          Sandwiches Of You                         L                                                              Avant Rock       Polydor

CD           6          2.52     Scythian                                     Tuesday Morning                             Immigrant Road Show                       Anglo Celtic Folk          www.scythianmusic.com

CD           9          8.23     Spaced Out                               Polymorph                                        Evolution                                               Heavy Fusion     Unicorn

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

CD           2          4.35     Coryell, Coster, Smith            Plankton                                            Cause & Effect                                     Jazz Rock       Tone Center

CD           4          2.46     Bubblemath                              She’s No Vegetarian                       Such Fine Particles Of The Universe                Nu Prog           www.bubblemath.com

CD           1          4.08     The Nits                                     Woman Cactus                                Adieu Sweet Bahnhof                         Avant Rock       CBS

CD           1          4.33     Miroslav Vitous                         Bamboo Forest                                Universal Syncopations                     Jazz                ECM

CD           2/4       7.03     Dave Matthews Band              Two Steps                                         Live At Redrocks                                  Rock                BMG

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

CD           3          5.00     Steve Tibbetts                          Nyemma                                           The Fall Of Us All                                 Avant Rock       ECM

CD           2/3       3.59     Paul Butterfield Blues Band  Born In Chicago                              Monterey International Pop Festival 1967                Blues   Rhino

CD           7          3.01     Low Flying Aircraft                   Amnesia                                            Low Flying Aircraft                               Avant Rock       Red Hot

CD           4          5.27     Parallel Or 90º                          The Heavy Metal Guillotine Approaches                                                    More Exotic Ways To Die     Nu Prog                                       Cyclops

CD           1/13     7.57     Morglbl Trio                               Friends                                              The Morglbl Trio (Toons Tunes…..) Jazz Fusion     Free Electric Sound

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

CD           6          4.45     Eat                                              Skin                                                    Sell Me A God                                       Avant Rock       Polygram

CD           5          4.35     Bubblemath                              Doll Hammer                                   Such Fine Particles Of The Universe                Nu Prog           www.bubblemath.com

CD           1          3.09     Paintbox                                    Lighthouse                                        Bright Gold & Red                               Rock Folk         Wild Chase

CD           4          4.32     Jonas Hellborg/Tony Williams                                                         Two Rivers                                            The Word      Jazz Fusion    Axiom

CD           2          4.17     Stud                                            Turn Over the Pages                       Stud                                                        Rock Folk         Deram

CD           7          4.49     Shining Path                             Kill                                                      No Other Worlds                Thrash Metal  DEM

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

CD           3/11     4.10     Otis Redding                            I’ve Been Loving You Too Long   Monterey International Pop Festival 1967                Soul     Rhino

CD           ½         5.24     Porcupine Tree                        Dislocated Day                                The Sky Moves Side Ways                 Nu Prog        Delerium

CD           6          3.48     Paintbox                                    45 On                                                 Bright Gold & Red                               Rock Folk         Wild Chase

CD           2          13.34   Garaj Mahal (Zakar Hussein)                                                           Semus                                                   Live Volume 1           Jazz Jam                                                Home Grown