Rare Frequency Podcast

  Rare Frequency Podcast 40: Light 1 Hans-Joachim Roedelius, "Rue Fortune" Jardin Au Fou (Bureau B) CD 2009 2 Mordant Music, "Hummdrumm" Picking O’er the Bones (Mordant Music) CD 2009 3 Caboladies, "Crowded" Crowded Out Memory (Gneiss Things) CDr 2009 4 Oneohtrix Point Never, "Zones Without People" Zones Without People (Arbor) LP 2009 5 Tim Hecker, "Where Shadows Make Shadows" An Imaginary Country (Kranky) CD 2009 6 Brendan Murray, "From the Melted Past" s/t (Students of Decay) CD 2009 7 Haruki, "Don’t Moan Unless Asked" To Humble a Nest (The Land Of) CD 2009 8 Sublamp, "Monophoneme" Breathletters (Dragon’s Eye) CD 2009 9 Heribert Friedl, "Phase 1" Recherche_00 (Non-Visual Objects) CD 2009 10 Asmus Tietchens, "FmF 1" Flachen mit Figuren (Non-Visual Objects) CD 2009 11 Philip Samartzis / Michael Vorfeld, "Schaube" Scheckenrock (Non-Visual Objects) CD 2009 12 Pink Floyd, "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" A Saucerful of Secrets (Columbia) CD

This podcast features a marvelous twin analogue synthesizer set by Brendan Murray and Benjamin Nelson on the July 09, 2009 edition of Rare Frequency. This was Brendan and Benny’s first performance as a duo. Podcast Special Edition 35: Brendan Murray and Benjamin Nelson Live on Rare Frequency

  Rare Frequency Podcast 39: Ten Fifty-Four 1 Cluster, "Breitengrad 20" Grosses Wasser (Bureau B) 2 Meerkat, "Two" Kapnos (Sub Rosa) CD 2009 3 Jeff Gburek, "Zbasyn-Poznan" Remote Provinces (Aural Terrains) CD 2009 4 Night Shift, "Ongum3" s/t (267 Lattajjaa) CD 2009 5 TU’M, "Monochrome#3" Monochromes (Line) CD 2009 6 Stephan Mathieu & Taylor Deupree, "Andante" Transcriptions (Spekk) CD 2009 7 Spunk, "Tremble" Kantarell (Rune Grammofon) CD 2009 8 Gnawlege, "Bohemia Al-Andalus" Granada Boaba (Gnawledge) CD 2009 9 El Rego et Ses Commandos, "Feeling You Got" Legends of Benin (Analog Africa) CD 2009

  Rare Frequency Podcast 38: The Late Edition 1 Stock, Hausen and Walkman, "Wunderbar" Organ Transplants, Vol. 1 (Hot Air) CD 2 Pom Pom, "Untitled 13" 32 (Pom Pom) CD 2009 3 Monoton, "Numerique" Eight Lost Tracks (Oral) CD 2009 4 Claudio Rocchi, "Ritmi" Suoni di Frontiera (Die Schachtel) CD 2009 5 The Dirty Spoons, "One of these Days" Playtime (Track 0) mp3 2009 6 Erdem Helvacioglu, "Dance of Fire" Wounded Breath (Aucourant) CD 2009 7 Hecker, "ASA 3" Acid in the Style of David Tudor (Editions Mego) CD 2009 8 Demons, "Empty Being" Invisible Darkness (AA Records) CD 2007 9 Mudboy, "The Last Song" Hungry Ghosts! These Songs Are Doors (Digitalis) CD 2007 10 Teta Lando, "Muato Wa N’Ginjila" Cazumbi: Africa Sixties Garage Rock Vol. 1 (No Smoke) CD 2009 11 Gershon Kingsley, "Pop Corn" Music to Moog By (Audio Fidelity) LP 1969

  Rare Frequency Podcast 37: Later, Not Quite Yet 1 John Baker, "Farm Management" The John Baker Tapes vol.1: BBC Radiophonics 1963-74 (Trunk) 2 Ibimeni, "Lidan Misineba" Ibimeni: Garifuna Traditional Music from Guatemala (Sub Rosa) CD 2009 3 Filastine, "Desordenador" Dirty Bomb (Soot) CD 2009 4 F.X. Randomiz, "Ranidam (Compilation Version)" A-Musik Compilation (A-Musik) CD 2008 5 Atom TM, "Mittlere Composition No. II" Liedgut (Raster-Noton) CD 2009 6 The Truth About Frank, "4 (Version 11)" 14 Versions of the same EP (Version 11) (Long Division with Remainders) CD 2009 7 Astral Social Club, "Pilgrim Sunburst" Octuplex (VHF) CD 2009 8 Stephan Mathieu, "[untitled]" Wurmloch Variationen (Ritornell) CD 2000 9 Bernard Parmegiani, "Et Apres" L’Oeuvre Musicale (INA-GRM) 12CD 2008 10 Karel Appel, "Untitled 02" Musique Barbare (Creel Pone) CDr 2009 11 Franco Godi, "Linea Cinque Bossa" La Linea - La Musica (Original Soundtrack) (Crippled Dick Hard Wax) CD 2004 12 Forsaken, "Boat Noodles" Boat Noodles / Erstwhile Rhythm (Punch Drunk) 12” 2008

  A Valentine’s Day podcast with a bit of a romantic sheen to it. At least I think so. And, no, there is nothing remotely Valentine-y about the photo associated with this podcast. Rare Frequency Podcast 36: A Rare Valentine 1 John Baker, "Radio Nottingham" BBC Radiophonic Music (BBC Worldwide) 2 Ikeda & Noto, "Cyclo Cycle" New Forms (Raster-Noton) 2CD 2000 3 Fennesz, "Glide" Black Sea (Touch) CD 2008 4 Colin Andrew Sheffield, "Surrender" Signatures (Invisible Birds) CD 2008 5 Les Maledictus Sound, "Kriminal Theme" Attention (Mucho) CD 2002 6 Bernard Parmegiani, "Musico Picassa" L’OEuvre Musicale (INA-GRM) 12CD 2008 7 Emeralds, "Disappearing Ink" What Happened (No Fun Productions) CD 2009 8 Alva Noto, "Teion Acat" Xerrox Vol. 2 (Raster-Noton) CD 2009 9 Belbury Poly, "Widdershins" From an Ancient Star () CD 2009 10 The Focus Group, "String Sine Romance" Hey Let Loose Your Love (Ghost Box) CD 2007 11 Die Welttraumforscher, "Sweet Bird" 21 Welttraum-standards (Staubgold) CD 2007

  Rare Frequency Podcast 35: The New Number Two 1 Albert Elms, "Speadlearn Broadcast" Prisoner File #2 (Silva America) CD 2003 2 Felix Kubin & Wechsel Garland, "Binaural Headphone Music" Axolotl Lullabies (Oral) CD 2008 3 John Baker, "Milky Way" The Radiophonic Workshop (The Grey Area of Mute) CD 2008 4 The Focus Group, "Jout Sections" Sketches and Spells (Ghost Box) CD 2002 5 Cecil Leuter, "Pop Electronique No. 2" Pop Electronique (Pulp) CD 2001 6 COH, "Grain:Loop" New Forms: Compilation (Raster-Noton) 2CD 2000 7 Lithops, "Sebquenz" Ye Viols! () CD 2009 8 Wendt, "003 Tag" Montage (Privatelektron) mp3 2007 9 Monolake, "Macau" Hong Kong Remastered (Imbalance Computer) CD 2008 10 Martyn, "Suburbia" All I Have is Memories (Apple Pips) 12” 2008 11 Lawrence English, "Unsettled Sleep" For Varying Degrees of Winter (Baskaru) CD 2008 12 Colin Andrew Sheffield, "Awake" Signatures Invisible Birds) CD 2008 13 Washington Phillips, "Train Your Child" The Key to the Kingdom (Yazoo) CD 2007 13 Machinefabriek, "Fonograaf" Dauw (Dekorder) CD 2007 13 Cliff Edwards, "I Ain’t Got Nobody" Sprigs of Time (Honest Jon’s) CD 2008 13 DJ Scud & Nomex, "Total Destruction" Total Destruction (Machinenbau) 12” 1998

This is the second New Years Day live set from Japan’s Nerve Net Noise and Boston’s Jessica Rylan. This time around Hiroshi and Jessica switch instruments and each plays the other’s highly idiosyncratic, self-designed synthesizer for the first time! Podcast Special Edition 33: Nerve Net Noise & Jessica Rylan Live on Rare Frequency Part II

Japan’s Nerve Net Noise (aka Hiroshi Kumakiri) and Jessica Rylan played an extended set (their debut collaboration!) on the first Rare Frequency of 2009. The set starts with NNN playing solo, with Jessica joining him about twenty minutes in. An extra-special analog synth treat with more to come…. Podcast Special Edition 32: Nerve Net Noise & Jessica Rylan Live on Rare Frequency For more photos, see the show flickr page

On November 20, 2008, Jonathan Coleclough, who was in town to play the Brainwaves Festival, played a wonderful live set using a laptop, fishing twine and an oud. Podcast Special Edition 31: Jonathan Coleclough Live on Rare Frequency

Providence musician, Erik Carlson, (aka Area C) played an oneiric, extended set on Rare Frequency on November 13, 2008. To see more photos, check the RF Flickr site. Podcast Special Edition 30: Area C Live on Rare Frequency

  Rare Frequency Podcast 34: Falling Forward (opening music: Robert Rietty, “Transmission Begins,” Albert Elms, “Breakfast,” The Prisoner [File #2] (Silva Screen) CD) 1 Ryoji Ikeda, "Test Pattern #1111" Test Pattern (Raster Noton) CD 2008 2 Headhunter, "Baseflow" Nomad (Tempa) CD 2008 3 Lawrence English, "Figure’s Lone Static" Kiri No Oto (Touch) CD 2008 4 Brian Grainger, "Night Smoke Memory" Nine Billion Names (Milieu) CDr 2008 5 Conrad Schnitzler & Wolf Sequenza, "Copacabana" Consequenz (Captain Trip) CD 2008 6 Lithops, "Mound Magnet Part II" Caribbean Circuits (Killer Pimp) CD 2008 7 Anthony Pateras, "76755 III" Chromatophore (Tzadik) CD 2008 8 Robbie Avenaim, "Bodyrocking" Rhythmic Movement Disorder (Room 40) CD 2008 9 James Devane, "32-39" s/t (Bremsstrahlung) CD 2008 (album currently available for download on label website!) 10 Calvin “Bubbles” Cameron, "Moses" Wareika Hill Sounds (Honest Jon’s) CD 2007

Legendary experimental and industrial artist Illusion of Safety made his Boston live debut on RF last week with an epic two-plus-hour set. Here’s the whole kit and caboodle. There are more photos from the set on the RF Flickr page. Podcast Special Edition 29: Illusion of Safety Live on Rare Frequency

Dutch lutenist, Jozef Van Wissem, performed two sets on RF on October 09: the first consisted of solo lute pieces, the second featured lute and field recordings. This was Van Wissem’s first performance in Boston. He announces the titles of the pieces at the end of each set. Podcast Special Edition 28: Jozef Van Wissem Live on Rare Frequency

On September 25, 2008 Jason Kahn and Asher Thal-nir performed an extended live set on Rare Frequency. Jason and Asher have just released their first collaborative album, Vista on and/OAR. Podcast Special Edition 27: Jason Kahn and Asher on Rare Frequency