Half Of Your Sorrow Comes From The Sun: Transmission 165, 2014 November 11

We made it to the other side of the fundraiser, thank goodness. Also, winter is upon us. At least it is now. Was it a week ago? I don't remember. It might as well have been, how's that? At any rate, once you get past the first 7 minutes or so, this is a well-executed program. After I nearly play "Hot Dog" too early, the worst of it is listening to me struggling to pronounce things. It's good, in a way, that the show has some constants.

That Bhundu Boys record is one of those things I bought way back in the day and which inhabited a sort of trough of indifference in my world. Not good enough to be a chestnut, I thought, and not bad enough to jettison. I'll bet a couple of decades went by in which I didn't even play it once. I've only re-discovered it in the last few years, and it gets better with every listen. It's a sneakily good headphone record--it sounds like there's a flanger on some of the drum reverbs! Crazy production for an otherwise straightforward set of tunes.

BOMBAST playlist, 2014 November 11, 2100-2300:

1. "What You Used To Know" | CHLLNGR | Form Of Release | Time No Place
2. "Baba Munini Francis" | The Bhundu Boys | Shabini | Discafrique | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Hot Dog" | Buck Owens | The Other Side Of Bakersfield, Vol. 1 | Bear Family | "Listening Parlour"
4. "4PM" | Camera | Remember I Was Carbon Dioxide | Bureau B
5. "Up So High" | The Primitives | Spin-O-Rama 7" | Elefant
6. "Agnes Revenge" | Objekt | Flatland | PAN
7. "Wenhamo Haaneti" | The Bhundu Boys | Shabini | Discafrique | "Physical Evidence"
8. "Sandalyon - SaffronKeira ReInterpretation" | Dusty Kid | Omega X | Isolade
9. "My Cousin Kim" | The Gun Club | Mother Juno | Bang!
10. "Where's The Tambourine?" | The Sex Rays | Midnight Caller 7" | Pinata
11. "The Girl From Ipanema" | Big Star | Live In Memphis | Omnivore
12. "Pachedu" | The Bhundu Boys | Shabini | Discafrique | "Physical Evidence"
13. "Dif Juz" | The Mattson 2 | Agar | Um Yeah Arts
14. "Untrust Us" | Capital Children's Choir | The 'Untrust' EP | Vinyl Factory
15. "Keiler Aufgang" | Springintgut & F.S. Blumm | The Bird and White Noise | Pingipung
16. "Manhenga" | The Bhundu Boys | Shabini | Discafrique | "Physical Evidence"
17. "4blend" | (ghost) | A Vast And Decaying Appearance | n5MD
18. "Ten Steps Up" | C.A.R. | My Friend | Kill The DJ
19. "Fememorde" | Ides of Gemini | Old World New Wave | Sige
20. "Unordinary Realities" | Transllusion | The Opening Of The Cerebral Gate | Tresor
21. "Lights In My Brain" | Ultramarine | Every Man And Woman Is A Star | Rough Trade
22. "Big Man" | Bugs & Rats | Adidas | Feeding Tube
23. "Tudo que e solido" | Rakta | 7" | bandcamp self-release
24. "St. Christopher 1.3" | 50 Foot Wave | "Night Blooming" - Works In Progress | not on label
25. "Inreturn" | Tarwater | Adrift | Bureau B
26. "Wake The Nation" | U Roy | Wake The Nation 7" | Jamaican
27. "Dai Ndakaziva" | The Bhundu Boys | Shabini | Discafrique | "Physical Evidence"
28. "Quixotism Part 5" | Oren Ambarchi | Quixotism | Editions Mego
29. "Beach" | Ormonde | Cartographer / Explorer | Gizeh
30. "Der Lude" | Phon.o | Werkschau03 | Shitkatapult
31. "Grande Finale" | Munk | Chanson 3000 | Gomma

next time: drifting way out between suns. Enjoy the music! --kid catharsis