Got a lot of Atlantic recording artists on Backbeat this week. We'll hear big Atlantic hit makers from the early 50s and recordings future Atlantic stars made before they were on the label. Well also hear one little-heard Atlantic release recorded at the Chess studio in Chicago with Chess session players setting the groove. Besides that we've got Swamp Pop, small group jazz and and jazz guitarist who wore cowboy boots and a Stetson hat.
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This week’s archive radio show replays the very first nomination for the official Thunderbolt Most Evil Persons in History Award, from all the way back in 2014. But don’t worry: Evil is multi-generational. This is all still very relevant.
– Birmingham Council goes bust. Birmingham Council bad IT. Capitalism and IT. IT used to control masses. Tory Government cutting money to local Councils. Ukraine history.
– The finishing off of nation states: Planning ‘debt trap’ bankruptcy of European Nation States and how it might be managed legally within the Brussels European Union and European Cpurt. Volker Reusing at 2016 Bilderberg
– At least 26 English councils ‘at risk of bankruptcy in next two years’ Research from body representing 47 authorities says many could follow Slough, Croydon, Thurrock and Woking into collapse
– Local councils to see central funding fall 77% by 2020 – Local Government Association estimates a £5.8bn funding gap – LONDON, ENGLAND – AUGUST 28:2017 – Councils in England are calling for the end of austerity,
– Jonathan Slater: ‘Sunak cut DfE school repair budget by 88% in 2019, reducing number of schools where RAAC could be replaced from 400 to 50. RAAC concrete fiasco in schools
– Economic sabotage? IT going down – trains. David Halpin on the Mole Valley Farmers shops IT system failing, and possible bankruptcy. IT failure leaves Mole Valley Farmers paralysed
– STOP STARMER CAMPAIGN LAUNCH – Politics shouldn’t be about personalities. It should be about principles on how we can build a better society. But every so often in history, an individual emerges who is a danger
– Inaugural meeting of Stop Starmer campaign Conway Hall in London – Kier Starmer. ‘Stop Starmer’ initiative launches at London’s Conway Hall. A campaign to inform the public about the dangers of a red Tory ‘Labour’ govt.
– Dr David Halpin on Lyme’s Disease being a bioweapon – Global Research paper. Anthrax tested on St. Kilda. Covid a biological weapon. Now, Lyme just so happens to be right across from Plum Island, New York.
– Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons (2019) by Kris Newby A riveting thriller, this true story dives into the mystery surrounding the most misdiagnosed conditions of our time:
– Fox News – California biolab with links to China – ‘Disturbing’ California biolab shrouded in mystery as China links emerge A Fox News review of court records, health reports and interviews
– Dr John Campbell – natural immunity to Covid better than a vaccine – Israel study. Dr. Stanley Laham says the same. Natural immunity 27 times better –
– Danial Hannan – lockdowns worse than useless – The numbers are in, and we can say it with certainty: Lockdowns were worse than useless by Dan Hannan, It was all for nothing. Really, for nothing.
– Marianna Spring, BBC’s counterfeit disinformation correspondent, lied on her CV unlike the genuine article, Sy Hersh. BBC’s disinformation correspondent and chief fact-checker Marianna Spring is accused of lying
– Death of Princess Diana’s father-in-law to be (before she and his son Dodi were assassinated) Mohamed Al Fayed. ‘Unlawful Killing’ film about Diana. Unlawful Killing: The Murder of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed –
– Sound Of Freedom Film just released about child trafficking, a rare decent feature film in local cinemas now. What is Sound Of Freedom about? The controversial anti-sex trafficking film is storming the US box office
– Roman Polanski has a new film out The Palace, starring Micky Rourke and John Cleese, about rich people at a 2000 Millenium Bug new years party – gets terrible reviews so probably good
– UK Channel 4 TV Reveal Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa government colluded with US sponsored ISIS terrorists to kill 270 Innocent People in 2019 Easter Church Bombings
– Sri Lankan false flag bombings 2019. C4 News account of bombings. ISIS and intelligence services in Sri Lanka involved in bombings to fuel insecurity and change government.
– State terrorism to effect elections. Jeremy Corbyn called a terrorist before election. Terrorist escapes prison under a van. Julian Assange still in prison. Daniel Khalife:not
– Australian MPs lobbying US to send Assange to Australia – Australian MPs to travel to US to fight pursuit, extradition of Julian Assange A group of six Australian politicians will travel to the United States
– Anti-war.com – Two US militias at war against each other in Syria. US Ambassador to Niger told to leave. Scott Ritter on African coups Scott Ritter on Niger and Gabon coups and BRICS.
– August’s Maui ‘Wild Fires’, Its All A Huge Series of Huge Coincidences – Hawaii – on TikTok with Morgan Marshall – itsmorganfr –
– NOT The BCfm Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling
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Sonic Café, Let the good times roll from the Cars, I’m Scott Clark and this is episode 355. This time the Sonic Café has fun with America’s love for our cars. The technology may be shifting to electric, but whether you drive a giant SUV or a friendly little Leaf we’re all part of one giant car culture. Comedian Jose Sarduy steps up to the mic, to share his experience of driving a car that makes people angry, a Toyota Prius, and his audience wholeheartedly agrees. Our car-centric mix is pulled from 40 years. Listen for Cake, The Cure, blues man Joe Bonamassa, REO Speedwagon, Tom Waits talking about his Pontiac, the Plain White T’s and more. Then a big Sonic Café welcome to our newest sponsor, listen for Honest Ed’s Used Cars, where every car is backed by an iron clad guarantee so comprehensive they don’t feel the need to put it writing. Ahem. And finally a pop culture clip pulled from Seinfeld as we present, the washer fluid is NOT fine. All that and more as the Sonic Café celebrates America’s crazy car culture, from our little radio café way out here in the Pacific Northwest, here’s the Arctic Monkey’s with One For The Road, and we’re the Sonic Café.
Sonic Café, that’s The Smoke Gift, Beef Terminal music from 2014. So hey welcome to our little coastal radio café, this time the Sonic Café takes yet another stroll down Ambient Ave., featuring songs from another dimension, as we present a curetted mix of ambient, electronic and down tempo tracks selected from 44 years. Kick back and listen for Deep Forest, Bill Nelson, Luomo, Jean Michel Jarre, Carbon Based Lifeforms, the Alpha Wave Movement and many more. We’ll also sprinkle in the poetry of Lana Del Rey, plucked from her 2020 spoken word album Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass, which peaked at number 19 on Billboard’s US top album chart and number 3 on the US vinyl album chart. Since her musical beginnings, Del Rey has been inspired by the poetry of Walt Whitman and Allen Ginsberg, and her art fits nicely into this mix. So plug in your ear buds and take another trip down Ambient Ave. from the Sonic Café, located way out here in the Pacific Northwest at the corner of Ambient Ave. and Beatnik Blvd. Here’s music from Blue States and we’re the Sonic Café.
Originally Broadcast: April 18, 2006
The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain
Do people over a certain age necessarily loose mental acuity? According to Dr. Gene Cohen, the answer is “no.” Dr. Cohen, a psychiatrist and gerontologist has determined that certain genes are activated by experience as we age, allowing our personalities to grow and change. The brain has reserves of strength and agility that compensate for the effects of aging on its other parts. Dr. Cohen has found that the information processing in the 60 to 80 year old brain achieves it’s greatest density and reach. He explains these and other developing concepts in brain research in his book, “The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain.” I spoke with Dr. Cohen in March 2006 from his office on Aging, Health & Humanities, in Washington D.C., where he is the Director. We began our conversation with his description of the importance of the role of creativity.
Gene Cohen recommends, “Tuesdays with Morrie: A Young Man, An Old Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson,” by Mitch Albom.
Another Round from The Scratch, Spirit Of The West revisited and new Celtic from Hamilton and Brampton band Eclectic Revival. Join Patricia Fraser for an hour of the best in contemporary Celtic from Celt In A Twist 20 years and counting.
We tease a spin from the forthcoming album 'Sahel' by Niger's Grammy-nominated guitarist, Bombino. German duo EsRAP torch a Benz, The Surfrajettes turn Britney's Toxic into a twang-driven instrumental and Anoushka Shankar & Karsh Kale turn in a snakey track of sitar and tabla virtuosity. It's all in the mix at World Beat Canada Radio!
This week on the Global Research News Hour, we are focused on the infamous actions against the first socialist to be elected president in a liberal democracy in Latin America and mechanisms intended to come to the aid of the people of that country.
In our first half hour, we speak to former military Chilean Francisco Valenzuela, a supporter of President Allende on what he witnessed at the time of that historic moment 50 years ago, and to fellow Chilean-Canadian Bernardo Jorquera about an upcoming Coup Commemoration in the city of Winnipeg. In our second half hour, we speak with Professor of Politics Llisa North on the book she edited which explored Canada Chile solidarity from 1973 to 1990 and the acts of unspoken leadership performed by many of the Churches and Unions along the way.
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Radio Deutsche-Welle, France 24, and Radio Havana Cuba.
From 4-10-2022. We begin this morning with a CNN interview with Palestinian attorney and Rutgers University Professor Noura Erakat. It is a couple of months old, but we play it to offer an example of the American media’s prejudicial approach to discussing the Palestinian struggle. The questions thrown at Noura imply that this is a symmetrical struggle between equals rather than a military occupation of a colonized people. But Noura brilliantly turns the interview into a projection of the Palestinian narrative.
In the face of a brutal military occupation, the media focuses on Hamas rockets, a major talking point of the Israeli Lobby; Noura turns it into a teaching lesson on the international right to resist an occupation.
Then, our feature presentation is by Edward Ahmed Mitchell, an attorney and former journalist who serves as the deputy director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States. Here he is speaking at the Washington Press Club. Mitchell recounts the Zionists' ridiculously high-paid spying on and infiltration of CAIR.
"All Things Cage" is a weekly program featuring conversations between Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust, and Cage experts and enthusiasts from around the world. If youd like to propose a guest or a topic for a future program, write directly to Laura at lkuhn@johncage.org.Laura Kuhn presents the first recording of John Cages Europera 5, preceded by her reading Recollections of the Premiere Performance by Yvar Mikhashoff. This recording of Europera 5 was produced by Brian Brandt and released on the Mode Records label as Mode 36 in 1995, with performers Yvar Mikhashoff, Martha Herr, Gary Burgess, Jan Williams, and Don Metz. Europera 5 is the last and most diminutive of Cages operas " preceded by Europeras 1 & 2 (1984-1987) and Europeras 3 & 4 (1991) " and was instigated by pianist Yvar Mikashoffs desire for a small, more practical and portable, and more easily performed work in the series, which had its premiere in Buffalo at the North American New Musical Festival on April 12, 1991.
Welcome to "The Radio Art Hour," a show where art is not just on the radio, but is the radio. "The Radio Art Hour" draws from the Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive, an online resource that aims to identify, coalesce, and celebrate historical and contemporary international radio artworks made by artists around the world, created specifically for terrestrial AM/FM broadcast, whether it be via commercial, public, community, or independent transmission. Come on a journey with us as radio artists explore broadcast radio space through poetic resuscitations and playful celebrations/subversions of the complex relationship between senders and receivers in this hour of radio about radio as an art form. "The Radio Art Hour" features introductions from Philip Grant and Tom Roe, and from Wave Farm Radio Art Fellows Karen Werner, Andy Stuhl, Jess Speer, and Jos Alejandro Rivera. The Conet Project's recordings of numbers radio stations serve as interstitial sounds. Go to wavefarm.org for more information about "The Radio Art Hour" and Wave Farm's Radio Art Archive.
"Turn On The News" is the weekly newscast from the fictional Radio Network, with parody radio coverage of the radio and its headlines. Now with computerized news readers, and fewer meddling reporters, plus aggregated reporting, and automated music. Tune in "Turn On The News" each week for the latest news, radio art, and more from our robot reporters, making sure you hear both sides -- good and evil -- every time you "Turn On The News." It is often a mash-up of the week's news, and sometimes a radio news fantasy with song parodies and covers similar to "Dr. Demento" and comedy skits and more. The show airs at 3 p.m. Thursdays on WGXC, and also most weeks on WGRN, WRWK, KFUG, KACR, KRFP-LP, KMSW, and many other stations. Produced by Tom Roe at Wave Farm and WGXC. For more information go to: https://wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/schedule/93bbe3
Host Stuart Richardson speaks to Jeffrey about his debut book A Century of Promises which was longlisted for the 2022 Historical Fiction Company annual book awards.
He speaks about how the physical environment shaped the historical development of El Salvador and its people. How foreign ownership and poverty divided families creating conflicts until recent times.
We also speak about the resilience of the people and hope for the future.