Resonance FM 10/11/20

Kermit The Frog? David Lee Roth? James Brown? Nonsense? It can only mean one thing: The Bran Flakes. Three tunes by the iconic plunderphonics novelty-pop duo were followed by tracks from Japan, Poland, Nepal and Zimbabwe, with a bit of "comfy synth" thrown in for good measure.

Dig That Treasure (10/11/20)

The Bran Flakes - Good Times A Goo Goo

The Bran Flakes - Nonsense

The Bran Flakes - Van Pop

長谷川白紙 - 怖いところ

長谷川白紙 - あなただけ

M Grechuta - Childhood Portrait

Namdup Lepcha - Namko Kusa

The Shakespearean Frog - Oh My Darling

Comrade Chinx - Vanhu Vemu Africa

Resonance FM 3/11/20

From Chile to the Sahara to Poland, via Goldsmiths, Cambridge and a West Midlands send-up.

Dig That Treasure (3/11/20)

Los Jaivas - Piano Introducción

Księżyc - Mglista

Lizzy Laurance - Famous

Veyrouz Mint Seymali - Tendeynidane

Ted Chippington - Atmosphere

Ted Chippington - She Loves You

Henry Cow - Viva Pa Ubu

Resonance FM 27/10/20

This week's show was a tribute to Zach Phillips, the composer, multi-instrumentalist, lyricist, engineer, harmonist, label boss, philosopher, egalitarian, collaborator and king of the so-called "underground." I played ten tracks that featured Zach in some capacity, most of which are available from his label OSR Tapes - a not-for-profit label "trafficking mostly in sub rosa, arcane songwriterly music of culturally unintelligible & often uncertain representational politics." Over the years, Zach has floated in the same circles as Chris Cohen (whose project Cryptacize is responsible for the name Dig That Treasure), Adrian Knight and Ed Askew (both of whom featured on my 2016 compilation A Home and have made mixes for the blog; Adrian also did a session for this show back in 2014). His music is always surprisingly, always thoughtful and always tuneful. Dig into the world of ZP below (I've listed the vocalists that appear on each song in the tracklist)!

Dig That Treasure (27/10/20)

Blanche Blanche Blanche - That's Okay [Sarah Smith]

Grendel's Mother - Heart Made Of Rust [Jazz Adam]

Grendel's Mother - Too Much Going On [Jazz Adam]

Blanche Blanche Blanche - I Can Pay [Sarah Smith]

Blanche Blanche Blanche - Look's Don't Run [Sarah Smith]

Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Happy [Tori Kudo]

Zach Phillips - Case Closed [Zach Phillips]

Lilith Outcome - How Can It Taste So Good? [Zach Phillips]

Zach Phillips - Four Minutes To Play [Ani Ivry-Block]

Zach Phillips - Mistress Of The Junior Professed [Sophie Dickinson]

Resonance FM 20/10/20 (Canon)

 

I took a mid-season pause from discovering and playing new music. Instead, this episode is a canon-building exercise. I like the idea of having certain songs that represent Dig That Treasure, that sound like the show no matter how different they are to one another. Primarily, these songs are among my favourites that I've played previously on the show. They also provide a great short survey of what the show is. So, I played tunes from Ethiopia, Japan, Syria, Cambodia, France and the US. Lots of bases cover: experimental new-wave, toe-tapping dabke, comedic squiggly pop, coarse US folk, and so on. I close the show with the eponymous 'Dig That Treasure' by Cryptacize. Listen below and learn!

Dig That Treasure (20/10/20)

Bezunesh Bekele - Sintun Ayehu Bante

Susan - Ah Soka!

Mohamed Al Ali - Mili Alay

Prum Manh - Two Wives Are Twice The Trouble

Clement Gourand - Cap Horn

Old Harp Singers Of Eastern Tennessee - Ocean

Cryptacize - Dig That Treasure

Resonance FM 13/10/20

Times and places. Lots of them. Nigeria in the 80s? Yep. American session player for Elvis, Buddy and Frank with bongos to boot? Uh-huh. Drone from former Yugoslavia? Sure thing. Transcendent Soundcloud experiments from down under? Bengali folk from Bagula? Zappa-inspired Japanese prog of the 90s? Yes, yes and yes. It's all there and it's all great.

Dig That Treasure (13/10/20)

Dizzy K - No Dime

Al Caiola - Dance Of The Spanish Onion

Al Caiola - Steel Guitar Rag

SKK - Tema 8

Noah - Eliya

Gosto Gopal Das - Jivan Nadir Ghurnipake

Tipographica - Forest Tipographical II

Resonance FM 6/10/20

This week's show started with the playful percussion of Gianni Meccia's 'Io Lavoro' (performed with Ennio Morricone's orchestra). Folk followed: The Young Tradition, a British group active in the 60s, performed the Medieval folk tune 'Agincourt Carol', before two songs by the "Finnish Woody Guthrie," Hiski Salomaa. A change in direction saw us visit the cosmos with the mysterious Somali tune 'Naga Tag, Kac Hooyaa', before a proper synth pop banger from Taiwanese singer Louise Tsuei. I closed the show with London pianist and composer Eriksson Kaner's new track 'In Convalescence'.

Dig That Treasure (6/10/20)

Gianni Meccia - Io Lavoro

The Young Tradition - The Agincourt Carol

Hiski Salomaa - Vanhanpiian Polkka

Hiski Salomaa - Dahlmannin Paartit

Libaaxyada Maaweeliska Banaadir - Naga Tag, Kac Hooyaa

Louise Tsuei - I Am Ob The Way To You And You

Eriksson Kaner - In Convalescence (ft O The Ghost)

Resonance FM 29/9/20

 

Continued where I left off last week with another interpretation of the gospel track 'That's Alright', this time by Swedish musician Håkan Hellström who took Laura Rivers' performance and added to it a beautiful string arrangement. The tone changed significantly with a trio of upbeat rhythmic tracks - first from Germany, with Fix & Fertig, then Cheb Djalal of Algeria, then finally Somalia's Hibo Nuura. Brought the tone down again with two tracks from pianist Olga Wojciechowska's serene new EP out on A Strangely Isolated Place before closing the show with one of my favourite discoveries of the 'lockdown' period, Leti.

Dig That Treasure (29/9/20)

Håkan Hellström - Du gamla (That's Alright Since My Soul Got a Seat Up in the Kingdom)

Fix & Fertig - Cube Carrelage Blanc

Cheb Djalal - Rani Maghroum

Hibo Nuura - Heesta Qunbacasho

Olga Wojciechowska - Labyrinth Made Of Labyrinths

Olga Wojciechowska - Organised Delusions

Leti - Lady Rosa's Moonlight Theme

Resonance FM 22/9/20

Just four tracks this week, but one is 12 minutes so quit your moaning! Kicked off with the beautiful and eerie 'Susanna' by Japanese singer Yoko Ueno. Next was a callback to last week's show, in which I play the gospel tune 'That's Alright', as sung by Laura Rivers. This week it was evangelist Willie Mae Smith's turn, giving the song the full-band Baptist treatment. Following that, a little bite of Italian MOR, courtesy of Matia Bazar, before I closed the show with Horse Whisperer's 'Planctae'. Horse Whisperer is Max Syed-Tollan, a Scottish composer and multi-disciplinary artist whose 'Planctae/8 Fictions' is available via GLARC.

Dig That Treasure (22/9/20)

Yoko Ueno - Susanna

Willie Mae Smith - That's Alright

Matia Bazar - Solo Tu

Horse Whisperer - Planctae

 

Resonance FM 15/9/20

Episode two of the new series, series #71532. Lotsa gems here: the opener from Silvia Tarozzi's new record out on Unseen Worlds right now, as well as new stuff from Detente on the Slagwerk label, sandwiched either side of Turkish singer-songwriter Selda Bağcan's beautiful vocals. A double whammy of Bollywood soundtracking and Ethiopian wedding music followed, before I closed the show with the gospel tune 'That's Alright', as sung by Laura Rivers.

Dig That Treasure (15/9/20)

Silvia Tarozzi - Al Cancello

Selda Bağcan - Bülbül

Detente - I Pass By

Detente - In Dreams

Swarnalatha & Mano - Andhiyile Vaanam

Demere Legese - Serg

Laura Rivers - That's Alright (Since My Soul Has Got A Seat Up In The Kingdom)

Resonance FM 8/9/20

After over two months away Dig That Treasure returned to Resonance for yet another series - don't ask me how many there have been, I wouldn't know. Kicked off in style, though, with Veno Marioghae's awesome electro funk jam 'Nigeria Go Survive'. Span selections from Yemenite Jewish singer Tsvia Abarbanel, Can's Holger Czukay, Japanese ambient musician Zeze Wakamatsu and minimalist new waver Masumi Hara before closing with Carol Kay's (no "e") rare soul cut 'This Time You're Wrong'.

Dig That Treasure (8/9/20)

Veno Marioghae - Nigeria Go Survive

Tsvia Abarbanel - Mi Nishkani

Holger Czukay - Persian Love

Zeze Wakamatsu - Fog Diver

Masumi Hara - Blue Night

Carol Kay - This Time You're Wrong