0:00:01) INS Greencard A-19 191 500 by The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy off of Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury
0:01:35) WanderLust King by Gogol Bordello off of Super Taranta!
0:05:30 (Rev. Wording 1 Background music: Tatarisher Longa by Veretski Pass off of The Rough Guide To Klezmer Revival)
Kon’nichiwa, Hola, namaste, hei, Hello, bonjour, zdravstvuyte, chomreabsuor, Chao, halla, sawubona, merhaba, and welcome to the last page of the calendar my Aurally Fixated family. It is I Rev. yet again. If you’re still hearing me that means you’ve traveled with me through some far-out musical choices. Thank you that says volumes about your open-mindedness, and sense of adventure. Good. You’ll need both those things for the journey through out next 80 or so minuets together. Because today, the 18th day of December, is International Migrants Day. Just 1 out of 365 as a little reminder of the courage it takes, and adversities that need to be overcame, whenever one leaves all they know behind, aspiring for a better life.
So, with this is mind, today we have for you a traveling tabernacle of tunes, and how could we’ve started it off with anything except that roving band of friends from all over the world Gogol Bordell. And what better song than WanderLust King off their stupendous Super Taranta!
Ok, lets get down to it. How about a little globe-trotting. Say… Japan to Mexico to Australia to Finland? All in just over a dozen minutes. Think you can handle that break-neck speed? I’ve got faith in you.
0:07:25) Sweet Ticket by Kanon Wakeshima off of Shinshoku Dolce
0:08:40) El Jefe by Mexican Institute Of Sound off of Politico
0:11:55) You Me Bullets Love by The Bombay Royale off of You Me Bullets Love
0:16:25) Spring Dance by Korpiklaani off of Tales Along This Road
0:19:30) (Rev. Interruption background music 2: Bible and Bird by Wovenhand off of Mosaic)
I was once told, “if you’re unsure how to pronounce something, say it loudly. There’s no sense in compounding ignorance with sheepishness.” That being said, I’d be lying if I let you believe that, when choosing songs the suspected pronounceability played no part. Or that the amount of confidence in the way I say a foreign word has anything to do with how sure I am that It’s correct. And to prove both those points, that tune was Spring Dance from the Finnish folk-metal band Korpiklaani from Tales Along This Road. Before that we heard from an 11-piece Bollywood band, from Melbourne Australia called The Bombay Royale. We heard the title-track off their absolutely perfect album You Me Bullets Love. Prior to that we had a song from the Mexican Institute Of Sound with El Jefe. And we started to whole melting-pot of musics off with a Sweet Ticket to Tokyo with Kanon Wakeshima, or Wakeshima Kanon?
This next artist has his roots in the industrial scene of the late 80s which then morphed into a world-punk kinda thing in the mid-90s. Which culminated in him taking his laptop on the road, traveling the world and just playing and making music with the artists he came across. And that’s how this album came to be. This is a song about how he got sick of the American politics and wars, and the president at the Time George W Bush. King George the second, the boy king. Here is Tod A. and FireWater, with a song off the 100% perfect album The Golden Hour. This is Borneo.
0:21:45) Borneo by FireWater off of The Golden Hour
0:25:15) Immigration by Doug Stanhope off of Deadbeat Hero
0:26:30) Baro (Feat. Bertrand Cantat) by Amadou & Mariam off of Folila
0:29:25) Hungarian Dance #5 by Red Elvises off of Surfing in Siberia
0:32:25 (Rev. Interruption background music 3: Valses Venezolanos No.3 by Rita Honti off of 66 Must-Have Spanish Guitar Masterpieces)
A lifetime or three ago I saw an unknown band preform. It was an electric night. First was a lad rapping, then a gal putting her interesting spin on folk, and some kids that sounded like generic radio rock. But then came on these three rough looking, middle-aged guys, each in a different color hideous pimp-suite, carrying instruments I couldn’t identify, and with such a loose grasp of the English language it kept slipping through their fingers. They were almost booed off the stage immediately. To make a long story short, by the end, both the too-cool-to-move hip-hop kids and rock folk were dancing together. Women were climbing over each other to get on stage and disrobe to a song called I Wanna See You BellyDance, and the only person in the whole place that wasn’t gyrating was me, transfixed, trying to figure out what magic-charisma those guys had. I never did figure it out, and haven’t had the chance to see them again. But I must. And so must you. I am of course talking about the Red Elvises the band we just got done hearing put a surf-rock spin on the Hungarian Dance #5. No they’re not Hungarian but Russian. Before Russia we were in the Western part of Africa, with “blind couple from Mali” Amadou & Mariam with their song Baro. Previously to that we had Doug Stanhope talking about Immigration from his hysterical Deadbeat Hero. And we started that slab of sound off with a song off the album everyone should own The Golden Hour by FireWater.
Now I guess it wouldn’t hurt to take a little jaunt back to territory us Americans are a little more used to, Ireland. A place everyone should visit – if your liver has been bad, and needs to be punished.
0:35:10) Rebels of the Sacred Heart by Flogging Molly off of Drunken Lullabies
0:40:15) Dance Twist by Cambodian Space Project off of Rough Guide To Psychedelic Cambodia
0:40:50) 20 KM Al Giorno by Mike Patton off of Mondo Cane
0:45:40) Mis Amigas Las Plantas by RoCola Bacalo off of The Electro Swing Revolution
0:47;50 (Rev. Interruption background music 4: Pythagorean Hyphy Proof by Mochipet off of Master P on Atari)
Welcome you back from Quito, Ecuador where that last song came from. Yes, they even have electro-swing on the equator. In fact they have it all over the world, and the compilation The Electro Swing Revolution proves it. That was the band RoCola Bacalo with the song Mis Amigas Las Plantas. Prior to that we had my personal lord and savior of music, Mike Patton singing 20 KM Al Giorno off his record of 50s and 60s Italian love songs, Mondo Cane. Then just before that we heard a newer psychedelic rock song called Dance Twist, from the band Cambodian Space Project. It’s good to hear a new generation of artists taking up the torch. When listening to the older stuff you just know your listening to ghosts. Between 1975-79 Pol Pot killed upwards of 3 million people, 25% of Cambodia’s population. And any musicians that sounded the least bit western found their way to those famous killing fields.
Anyway, we started that chunk of tunes in Dublin, with Flogging Molly and their anthem Rebels of the Sacred Heart. But now let’s change the tempo, language, and continent yet again with this pretty little ditty about mingling with other cultures. This is the title track off the Foreign Letters album by Ms. Chava Alberstein.
0:50:20) Foreign Letters by Chava Alberstein off of Foreign Letters
0:53:10) Tamacun by Rodrigo Y Gabriela off of Rodrigo Y Gabriela
0:56:35) Ode To Favouritism & Corruption by Merlin Shepherd Kapelye off of The Rough Guide To Klezmer Revival
0:58:20) Black Box Messiah by Diablo Swing Orchestra off of Pandora’s Pinata
1:01:10 (Rev. Interruption background music 5: Prelude by Bonobo off of Black Sands)
You may recognize that beauteous band from back at the end of September, from International Blasphemy Day. But let’s face it any day is the right holiday for Diablo Swing Orchestra. From their album Pandora’s Pinata (and from the country Sweden) that was a tune called Black Box Messiah. Before that we heard a klezmer tune called Ode To Favouritism & Corruption from the Welsh-Russian group Merlin Shepherd Kapelye. The impressive resonance immediately prior to that was the Mexican guitar duo Rodrigo Y Gabriela from their self-titled record, with Tamacun.
This is the point on our journey where we begin to think about it coming to an end. But there are a few more stops along the way. First to South Africa where Ladysmith Black Mambazo were kind enough to let Ms. Natalie Merchant accompany them on their harmonies of Rain Rain Beautiful Rain.
1:02:30) Rain Rain Beautiful Rain by Ladysmith Black Mambazo featuring Natalie Merchant off of Long Walk to Freedom.
1:05:30) Frigor Story by Figli di Madre Ignota off of Combat Disco Casbah
1:09:45 (Rev. Interruption background music 6: No Memory by Stone Temple Pilots off of Core)
That fun little slop mixture of; middle-eastern, eastern-europeans, balkan, polka, was obviously an Italian band. (You might’ve heard a little tarantella in there too). That was Figli di Madre Ignota with Frigor Story. Off the album that produced by the aforementioned Tod A. From Cop Shoot Cop and FireWater. It’s a good one from first note to last. It’s celled Combat Disco Casbah. And of course, as you know, we started it all off with those beautiful Zulus, Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
Well, that about does it for out little trip around the world. Now we’re headed for Brazil, for 2 songs. The first from 1976 by Jorge Ben Jor one celled Um ba barauma. Then we’ll ride off into the sun… listening to Soulfly.
So again thank you again for sharing this hour and 20 minuets, I hope it was as good for you as it was me. I’ve been Rev. This has been Aurally Fixated, And you’ve been perfect.
1:11:00) Ponta De Lanca Africano (Umbabarauma) by Jorge Ben off of Brazil Classics 1: Beleza Tropical
1:14:45) Umbabarauma by SoulFly off of SoulFly
