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hey everyone,

hope you're all doing well. it's The Weekend, which means i'm here to tell you about some cool stuff happening on your favorite neighborhood radio station this upcoming week.  check it out!

 

Tune in to Hell or High Water this Sunday from 1-2pm to hear an hour's worth of recordings from the late Memphis guitarist/singer Sid Selvidge. Though he was a crucial cog in the Memphis rock scene for decades and routinely played with the likes of Alex Chilton, Jim Dickinson and Lightning Hopkins, very little of Selvidge's recordings saw the light of day. This Sunday we will attempt to remedy the situation by listening to ne from Selvidge's music recorded between 1969 and 1975 (including a great recent unearthing by Omnivore Recordings of his ultra obscure mid-70s album 'Cold of the Morning'). 

This week's Broken Music will feature 42-year-old previously unreleased recordings from the Sydney-based electroacoustic ensemble Teletopa. Led by multi-instrumentalist David Ahern (who studied under Karlheinz Stockhausen and was an occasional AMM member), the quartet entered the famous NHK studio in Tokyo in early 1972 after their only world tour and created a swell set of improvised recordings for contact-mic-amplified acoustic instruments. Lock in at 2pm as we listen to the sounds of one of the most criminally underrated avant-garde ensembles of the early 70s. 

Keeping it steady with the Freaky Finland releases here at WXYC with the Outside Track, Monday Nights at 9 PM.  This week catch the new release from Kemialliset Ystävät entitled Alas Rattoisaa Virtaa.  Kemialliset Ystävät is the project of Jan Anderzén of Tampere, Finalnd and further proof that Finland can be one wacky place.  Historically, this project is bunched in with the psych-folk, freak-folk crowd, but this release is straight up what the heck-crazy psychedelic, sample-filled electronic explorations.  Extremely colorful and dripping wet.  Honestly not far off the path of that Animal Collective has taken in recent years.  The production is super masterful too; it’s hard to believe it’s just one person controlling all of these sound.  Off-tempo rhythms somehow fit into one another as deeply treated quick vocal samples burst in and fade away for Candy-Land electronic noise.  Wild and crazy, psych electronics taken to the nth degree.  Enjoy this one!