Radio Crystal Blue 6/16/13 news

 

the DAILY (auto-generated online newspaper with selected keywords and mentions from social media, updated each evening):
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PROGRAMMING:
NEXT SHOW will be published on or about June 19 and will be available for about 1 year. I usually publish on Wednesdays or as soon as possible thereafter. You will hear music in several segments of top indie/DIY/underground songwriters and bands.

RCB Novus Ordo is a separate podcast with 8 songs, one each from a brand new recording. I spin the music and give you some backstory of each.

 

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RCB Novus Ordo: HuDost returns to my airwaves with a more acoustic-folk affair this time around, and just one original song on the album at that. The song I spun included cameos from 2 songwriters who wrote the original. Mugga, a prog-psych (psych-prog?) band from Madrid is debuted. Cold Satellite releases their second album; this is the latest effort from songwriter Jeffrey Foucault along with Lisa Olstein. James Durst exemplifies world music; I included a 500+-year-old Viatnamese song in the mix.

RCB proper: More summer songs to start the show include longtime RCB staples by Tangerine Dream and Martha & The Muffins. The Bollywood tune at the beginning remains among my favorite compositions of the genre; I believe it’s actually a wedding song. 808 State’s ex:el album was an touchstone for my early adulthood; the album’s got cameos from Bernard Sumner and Bjork. The piece “Lift” easily fits between the sounds of South India and good ‘ol German engineering. Segment 2: Spun music of a few artists performing at Make Music Harvard Square on 6/22. Segment 3: Debuted the new album from Karyn Oliver, giving the album (and my segment) something of a longing, summer feel. Segment 4 generally rocked out, tho I began with the debut of a new album from songwriter Alan Semerdjian. Segment 5: Cary Cooper and Talia Segal are finalists in the upcoming Telluride Troubador Competition. And we hear another song from Cary’s new album. The YaYa’s share billing across their calendar with Sharon Goldman and Allison Scola(6/21 in lovely downtown Metuchen NJ..I know..I’ve been there), and are touring with Honor Finnegan (6/15, 6/25, 7/5). Final segment: Lynn Hollyfield shared billing on 6/12 with Carey Creed (and spun a track from Carey’s with Lynn as a contributing backing vocalist).