The Show
On tonight’s show: we finally got round to celebrating the life of recently departed giant of film soundtrack composition, Maurice Jarre, we played a couple of tracks from the recently released Switched-on Bob, more music from the forthcoming Emperor Machine album, Ethiopian space-jazz courtesy of Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics and lots more besides.
The Music
We opened the show with a couple of tracks supplied by our charity shop digger-on-chief Fuz:
1. Billy May – St Joe Mo
2. Duncan Lamont – Eruption
Following news of space pants (see below):
3. The Brass Menagerie – Hot Pants (Brass Menagerie 1973, 1973)
Then it was time for the first of two tracks from a great new collaboration between the master of Ethio-Jazz and vibraphonist, Mulatu Astatke, and London nonet The Heliocentrics:
4. Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics – Cha Cha (Inspiration Information 3, 2009)
5. Cal Tjader – Philadelphia Mambo (Black Orchid, 1956)
A new release from one of our followers on Twitter:
6. P.T. Walkley – The Lucky Ones (Mr. Macy Wakes Alone, 2009)
7. Mel Torme – Bonnie & Clyde (The Music Goes Round, 1968)
Following the story about Woody Harrelson -v- Zombies (see below) we took the opportunity to play the first of two tracks from a great new compilation of Mooginess:
8. Messer Chups – Zombie in Mini Skirt (Switched ON BOB A Tribute To Bob Moog, 2009)
Then it was time for the first of our tributes to the recently departed Maurice Jarre with a track from the second movie he scored back in 1959:
9. Maurice Jarre – Les yeux sans visage (Ma période française, 1959/2006)
10. Dick Hyman – The Shadow Of Your Smile (Happening!, 1966)
We are delighted to have a preview copy of the new Emperor Machine album and played:
11. The Emperor Machine – Silvercape (Space Beyond the Egg, 2009)
Time for more Maurice Jarre:
12. Jack Marshall and Shelly Manne – Lawrence of Arabia (Sounds!)
And another track from Switched-on Bob:
13. Grand David – Herpex Delux (Switched ON BOB A Tribute To Bob Moog, 2009)
Following the news about Strathclyde police officers going all Jedi (see below):
14. Mark Shakespeare – Star Wars
Second track from the new collaboration between Mulatu Astatke and The Heliocentrics:
15. Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics – Fire In the Zoo (Inspiration Information 3, 2009)
And we closed the show with our third and final piece of Maurice Jarre – on sitar!
16. Balsara and His Singing Sitars – Lara’s Theme (Golden Hits)
The News
- Pirate Bay guilty verdict
- Swedish Pirate Party membership surges after Pirate Bay verdict
- New NASA node name not Colbert and here
- Japanese scientists working on odour-free space pants
- Moral flap of the week: “Brain scientists” claim that Twitter is bad for your mental health – and morality!
- Lego launching range of electronic gadgets for kids
- Woody Harrelson mistakes photographer for zombie and attacks him
- Turn your mobile phone into a microscope with this unobtrusive add-on
- Opening of world’s first cloud viewing platform marred by good weather
- TV theme tunes are more popular at funerals than hymns
- Gorilla-viewing glasses prevent eye-contact
- Saudis ban “offensive” car number plates such as those containing “USA”
- Quietly sedate your kids with nitrous oxide while they play video games using the inconspicuous “PediSedate”
- Jedi Police: 8 Strathclyde police officers are Jedis and here
