Brokedown Radio #5
With J.M. Hart
Brokedown Radio Episode 5 Track List
| Bed Music | E.A. Quelle – Crime Title |
|---|---|
| SET ONE | |
| Artist | Title |
| Grateful Dead | Viola Lee Blues (Live) |
| Dunza | Samhain Street Team |
| PG Six | January |
| Pelt | Keyhole II (side 4 @45rpm) |
| M. Geddes Gengras | The Weather |
| Jeffery Alexander & The Heavy Lidders | Critical Masses |
| Peter Howe | I’m Alive |
| SET TWO | |
| The Byrds | Eight Miles High (Live) |
| Six Organs of Admittance | LSHA |
| Jim McGuinn | Banjo Cantata |
| David Lindley | Clinch Mountain Backstep |
| Marisa Anderson | Zar |
| The Band | The Caves of Jericho |
| Wilco | Box Full of Records |
| Spiritualized | Medication (Live) |
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Broadcaster and musician J.M. Hart welcomes you to his monthly show, Brokedown Radio, here on NQRA. Bringing you missives from the cosmic folk and rock underground, jam bands, and other musical delights of the less spotlighted, but more affecting variety.
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Brokedown Radio episode 5 is na beauty. J.M. Hart shows us the clear connectivity between New Weird America, jam music, and progressive rock, before fully diving into a zoned-out “second set” of wonders from across the decades.
From the super-charged frequencies of early Grateful Dead through the rural spaciousness of Marissa Anderson to the singular genius of M. Geddes Gengras, this is an episode you won’t wanna miss.
Here are this month’s highlights for you:
Episode Highlights
Dunza – “Samhain Street Team“
James Toth (see NQRA’s The Dub Zone) has a new record out on the great Was Ist Das label (see NQRA’s Rabbit Holes). It’s a soupy, dirgy mud-swim of a dubby techno record that has as many shades of Hair & Skin Trading Company about it as it does shades of Eat Static jamming with The Dead C. Samhain Street Team is one of the album’s highlight’s in NQRA’s opinion.
M. Geddes Gengras – “The Weather”
Not a bazillion miles away from the Dunza LP, Ged’s new joint is a trance-inducing splurge of ambient experimentation that reminds NQRA of the great Doc Wor Mirran, if it reminds us of anything in its strange singularity. “The Weather” features a somnabulent diatribe from Louis Johnstone and wordless vocals from Charalambides’ Christina Carter.
The Byrds – “Eight Miles High (Live)“
That late iteration of The Byrds, with McGuinn backed by deep bluegrass hippies who also loved to jazz-rock, really showed us the full potential of that Rickenbacker twang when they let this one fly. Multi-instrumentalist Gene Parsons’ drums along with bass player Skip Battin’s bass guitar propel us through a veritable onslaught of crescendo from the moment the song begins, with the chorus only kicking-in way deep into the jam. True greatness.
Marissa Anderson – “Zar”
From her latest opus, The Anthology of Un-American Folk Music, Marissa Anderson treats us to a slab of rustic traditionalism that elevates us out of the mire of contemporary reality and drops us right into a zone of repetitive, cyclical acoustic arpeggios that give way to heartbreaking fiddle before doing it all over again. It’s a dance number!