Umbralogical Parallax Tracing & the Odd Groove with Hardbound Ed

07/03/2024

☞ 25 June 2024 - Complete PlayList (The ROCK Playlist Archive sometimes misses tracks): ... Should be available for listening until 09 July 2024 . . . in the archives at: www.centralcoastradio.org

06/18/2024

Playlist for 11 June, 2024 . . . Available in the Archives at www.97.3/107.9 The Rock until 25 June, 2024. I'm not sure what's happening on my page here. FB seems to have screwed it up. anyway . . .

06/13/2024

Ce beau duo figure sur l'album 'Clair obscur' de Françoise Hardy (2000).Abonnez-vous à la chaîne 100% Chanson Française :https://lnk.to/100chansonfrancaiseLY...

04/24/2024

My wild child daughter's firmly on the rise. Atlantic Records, her label, is funding a major US tour this summer which I can't divulge details on, but will be a big big deal.

She kept her musical talents a secret growing up, never singing around me. I tried to keep her supplied with instruments of all shape and form but seldom saw/heard her playing any of them.

I was at a yard sale the other day and crossed paths with my old band mate Peter Alvanos, who plays in Elf Power now. He was WIllow's instructor at a music camp that I enrolled Willow in each summer, and he conveyed a story about asking the camp kids which songs they wanted to cover. Willow apparently raised her hand and asked if they could do an original. When Peter asked to see the material she showed him her phone, on which she had written pages and pages and pages of lyrics. Dozens of full songs hundreds of fragments. I never knew. She kept it a secret.

When she was 16 I bought her a pricey Nord keyboard. I seldom heard her playing it, and one day noticed it was missing so I asked about it and she casually said, "Oh, I took it to a show in town for a friend to play and I'm not sure what happened to it after that. I'll call the club and see if they have it."

Arg!!! That's a $1000 keyboard! Thankfully the club still had it.

A few years later she sent me a photo from her apartment in LA, where she moved at age 17. To pay her bills she'd rent her apartment out by the day to film shoots. The photo was situated in her living room and featured one Stevie Wonder sitting at that selfsame Nord that I'd given her. There he was, banging out a tune with Tito Jackson in the background singing.

You just never know where these damn kids will carry you. High places, low places, dark places, brights places. It appears she's arrived at the high and bright end of that spectrum. Whew.

02/04/2024

☞ 23 January 2024 - Complete PlayList (The ROCK Playlist Archive sometimes misses tracks): ... Should be available for listening until 06 February 2024 . . . in the archives at: www.centralcoastradio.org

01/25/2024

https://bigearsfestival.org/

Big Ears collaborates with artists, audiences, and communities to create joyful, meaningful, and transcendent cultural experiences.

12/01/2023

https://japansociety.org/gallery/out-of-bounds-japanese-women-artists-in-fluxus/

This exhibition will be the first to fully explore the essential role of Japanese women in Fluxus, a movement instigated in the 1960s that helped contemporary artists define new modes of artistic expression. Near the 60th anniversary of the movement’s founding, this exhibition highlights the contr...

11/02/2023

☞ 24 October 2023 - Complete PlayList (The ROCK Playlist Archive sometimes misses tracks): ... Should be available for listening until 07 November 2023 . . . in the archives at: www.centralcoastradio.org

10/17/2023

https://www.facebook.com/reel/752064540059104/?mibextid=Nif5oz

09/01/2023

☞ 22 August 2023 - Complete PlayList (The ROCK Playlist Archive sometimes misses tracks): ... Should be available for listening until 05 September 2023 . . . in the archives at: www.centralcoastradio.org

08/15/2023

☞ 08 August 2023 - Complete PlayList (The ROCK Playlist Archive sometimes misses tracks): ... Should be available for listening until 22 August 2023 . . . in the archives at: www.centralcoastradio.org

08/02/2023

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1325280968373724?s=yWDuG2&fs=e&mibextid=Nif5oz

05/16/2023

☞ 09 MAY 2023 - Complete PlayList (The ROCK Playlist Archive sometimes misses tracks): ... Should be available for listening until 23 MAY 2023 . . . in the archives at: www.centralcoastradio.org

05/16/2023

☞ 25 APR 2023 - Complete PlayList (The ROCK Playlist Archive sometimes misses tracks): www.centralcoastradio.org

04/17/2023

☞ 11 APR 2023 - Complete PlayList (The ROCK Playlist Archive sometimes misses tracks): ... Should be available for listening until 25 APR 2023 . . . in the archives at: www.centralcoastradio.org

04/17/2023

☞ 28 MAR 2023 - Complete PlayList.

04/17/2023

☞ 14 MARCH 2023 - Complete PlayList

03/05/2023

☞ 28 FEB 2023 - Complete PlayList (The ROCK Playlist Archive sometimes misses tracks): ... Should be available for listening until 14 MAR 2023 . . . in the archives at: www.centralcoastradio.org

02/21/2023

Jerry Garcia 1963

02/18/2023

☞ 14 FEB 2023 - Complete PlayList (The ROCK Playlist Archive sometimes misses tracks): ... Should be available for listening until 28 FEB 2023 . . . in the archives at: www.centralcoastradio.org

02/18/2023

☞ 24 JAN 2023 - Complete PlayList (The ROCK Playlist Archive sometimes misses tracks): ... Should be available for listening until 07 FEB 2023 . . . in the archives at: www.centralcoastradio.org

12/15/2022

☞ 13 DEC 2022 - Complete PlayList (The ROCK Playlist Archive sometimes misses tracks): ... Should be available for listening until 27 December 2022 . . . in the archives at: www.centralcoastradio.org

12/04/2022

'Since about 1975 the hat seen on the cover of Trout Mask Replica has been in the possession of my father Jeffrey Hammond, who played bass in Jethro Tull and who was a good friend of Don. The hat sat on top of the cold water tank in our attic for about 25 years but the last time I saw it, it was still in pretty good condition!' - Ed Hammond, commenting in 2019. http://www.beefheart.com/if-the-hat-fits-bid-for-it/

12/04/2022

RIP Tom Phillips, English visual artist with interesting connections to the art rock music scene in England.
Phillips became a teacher at Ipswich School of Art, where he met student Brian Eno. That started a lasting friendship that also included various collaborations over the years. In the mid 1960s Phillips turned Eno's attention to the potential of tape recorders and the works of La Monte Young, Terry Riley and Steve Reich.
Eno said of his early impression of Tom Phillips: "He was very authoritative, whereas a lot of teachers in the ’60s had an 'anything goes' attitude. And he had a rigorous approach to being an artist. I remember working on a painting for some time, and he looked at it in his skeptical way and said: 'It’s rather slight, isn’t it?' That discomfited me, but it didn’t annoy me. His coolness was intriguing."
Phillips on his early impression of Eno: "This strange blond boy in the corner . . . When I first met him, Brian dressed conservatively, like a normal Ipswich boy. But he was also pretty weird-looking, very strange and fey – an oddity. He wasn’t Leonardo da Vinci or anything but he obviously had an inventive mind, as everybody now knows."

Read more about how the two met: https://www.tomphillips.co.uk/publications/item/5325-how-we-met-by-brian-eno-and-tom-phillips

Phillips recalled an episode in the very early days of Roxy music, when Brian Eno brought the band for a music lesson with Phillips' wife, a secondary school music teacher: "My ex-wife was instructing them in the rudiments of music as formally written down – which wasn’t their strength. I don’t think they got very far."

In 1978 Brian Eno produced a recording of Irma, an opera composed by Tom Phillips, for Obscure Records directed by Gavin Bryars.

Phillips created a number of album covers over the years. Two of his best known works in this area are Brian Eno's Another Green World and King Crimson's Starless And Bible Black. Other covers include The Who - Face Dances and Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon.

Photo: Tom Phillips with his wife Jill and their children Ruth and Leo, 1976

In his memory here are a couple of favorite tunes from these albums:

King Crimson - Night Watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwFYy_Th7BA

Brian Eno - St. Elmo's Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKch8dZ61w

Brian Eno BRIAN ENO/ DARK SHARK

12/04/2022