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ROGC: Under a Dim Crescent Moon – vol. 2

Posted on January 22nd, 2006 by s&S.
Categories: *Royal Oakland Gramophone Co., field recordings, live-mix, Xinjiang.

ROGC: “Under a Dim Crescent Moon” – part 2
live-mixed webcast of field recordings: January 22nd, 2006

this is # 2 of a 2-show series (part 1 is located HERE)

For most of 2003, I lived in the northwestern-most region of China…
officially known as:Xinjiang : Uyghur Autonomous Region
and sometimes referred to by some as China’s “other, lesser known Tibet” for situational parallels.
I’d recieved a generous grant to document the folk music (as opposed to the classical muqam music) of the Turkic muslim cultures traditionally native to the region… focusing mainly on the largest group: the Uyghurs , but also including examples of Kazakh and Kyrgyz songs.

For this show, I live-mixed many of those field recordings, which while mostly consist of music, also include ambiences, pop & traditional music on cassettes & cd’s I picked up…and recordings of shortwave radio.
The field recorded music you hear was, with only a few exceptions, strictly performed by common folk (farmers, carpenters, (incl. mystics and beggars)) demonstrating something that’s very much a cultural part of everyday life. With east China’s ever accellerating blitzkrieg development of it’s west though, these cultural traditions are going up in smoke fast.

The recordings were done with head-worn binaural microphones – in yurts, homes, under grape trellises, in mud brick courtyards, orchards and in the streets of oasis towns in areas surrounding the expansive Taklamakan desert

Several of these recordings – in purer, more carefully curated form – will be released later this year on the fantastic Sublime Frequencies label. (!!!)
**photos of these recordings and more can be found HERE. / ** more info on Uyghur music can be found HERE.

-Fausto Caceres (s of s&S)

PLAYLIST & INFO PAGE HERE!

running time: 2 hours

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ROGC: The Great Rain Drain

Posted on January 8th, 2006 by s&S.
Categories: *Royal Oakland Gramophone Co., collage, electronic, experimental, field recordings, live-mix, spoken.

ROGC: The Great Rain Drain
LIVE-mixed webcast: January 8th, 2006

PLAYLIST & INFO PAGE HERE!

So the sun has returned to us here in Oakistan… for now. But why let the waters just come and go without a ceremonial seasonal “sayonara”?

Unlike other stations that obsess on day to day weather forecasting, we here at s&S only need to do this once for the entire year.
So, I hope you tuned in to ride the weather front – down, out and away – with a LIVE-mixed wet sound journey with the Royal Oakland Gramophone Company.

PLAYLIST & INFO PAGE HERE!

running time: 2 hours

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s&S: It’s Melting!

Posted on December 25th, 2005 by s&S.
Categories: collage, found / thriftstore, holiday theme, live-mix, spoken, vintage s&S.

December 25th, 2005 0-0pm
NO LIVE SHOW – However…..

s&S (2002) : It’s Melting!
… a LIVE Holiday fiasco show from ’02…

sit down for a nice, hot cup of seasonal “whatthehellisgoingon?-nog” – a spicey beverage commonly shared during the classic era of LIVE s&S when the 2 voices of the period, “#1″ & “#2″, often and earnestly bickered with uncooperative machinery. ‘Tis Guaranteed to leave a smile and a slight ringing in the ears. Melting Holiday special is the same show linked to for Dec. 22, 2002 elsewhere in the archive.

running time: 1 hour

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NBC: The Celebrity Cavalcade of Spectacular Variety Show

Posted on December 18th, 2005 by s&S.
Categories: *Neighborhood Bass Coalition, collage, experimental, found / thriftstore, live-mix, old timey radio!, spoken.

December 18th, 2005 8-10pm
NBC:The Celebrity Cavalcade of Spectacular Variety Show

from the NBC press mill:
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The Neighborhood Bass Coalition and the National Bisquit Company Present
The Celebrity Cavalcade of Spectacular Variety Show!

Long thought lost, the N.B.C. has restored a complete broadcast of this famous science-fiction program. This exciting episode finds series star Babe Ruth and his Robot double fighting to prevent the Candy Pirates from depleting the world’s Mink fur supply, just in time for Xmas. But is the Big Fella’s pal the Robot REALLY seeing his wife on the side? Find out!
Featuring never-heard-before vintage music sequences.
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running time: 2 hours

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