Testify! Episode #13

Testify Episode #13. Originally broadcast 08/09/2017

Stooges – Down On the Street (Elektra)
Television – See No Evil (Elektra)
Beastie Boys – Jimmy James (Grand Royal)
James Brown – Funky President (People It’s Bad) (Polydor)
Judy Clay – Get Together (Atlantic)

Caetano Veloso – Tropicalia (Philips)
Gilberto Gil – Bat Macumba (Philips)
Os Mutantes – Panis ou Circensis (Philips)
Gal Costa – Baby (Philips)
Bebel Gilberto – Samba Da Bencao (Ziriguiboom)
Grizzly Bear – Southern Point (Warp)

Barbara Lynn – I’m a Good Woman (Tribe)
Nolan Chance – Just Like the Weather (Constellation)
Andy Butler – Take Me (TRC)
The Shells – When I’m Blue (Conlo)
Ike and Tina Turner – You Must Believe Me (Loma)
Lavell Kamma and the Afro Soul Review – Soft Soul (Tupelo Sound)
Sunny and the Sunliners – My Dream (Teardrop)
Darondo – Didn’t I (Music City)

Neil Young – Emperor of Wyoming (Reprise)
Neil Young – The Loner (Reprise)
Brewer and Shipley – Pig’s Head (kama Sutra)
Brewer and Shipley – Truly Right (A&M)
Andy Bey – River Man (Evidence)
Bobby Darin – Darling Be Home Soon (Atlantic)
Mama Cass – Talking To Your Toothbrush (Dunhill)
Velvet Underground – THere She Comes Now (MGM)
Velvet Underground – Candy Says (MGM)
Velvet Underground – Jesus (MGM)
Bruce Springsteen – Spirit In the Night (Columbia)
Django Reinhardt – Nuages (RCA)

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Greetings all.

Dig – if you will – the latest episode of Testify! my weekly show for WFMU’s Give the Drummer Radio.

This is a very special, very groovy episode of the show that I think has a lot to offer for Iron Leggers.

I hope you dig it, subscribe to the show as a podcast, and drop something in the old Patreon bucket.

Peace

Larry
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Also…

It’s time for the 2017 Funky16Corners Pledge Drive.

Since Iron Leg, and the Iron Leg Radio Show podcast are dependent of the continued health of Funky16Corners, and continue under the banner of the Funky16Corners Radio Network, it behooves me to post these links here, too.

The pledging will also take a slightly different form this year, moving to Patreon (click here or on the logo below to go to the Funky16Corners page) , where you will be able to spread your contributions out over the entire year, which will help cover the ongoing server/broadcast/hardware expenses. This year has seen the upgrade of a couple of crucial pieces of equipment, and any help you fine people can provide will keep the machinery moving here at Funky16Corners central. So please dig deep so we can continue to do the same!

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So pull down the ones and zeros, dig it and I’ll see you next week.

Make sure you subscribe to the podcast in iTunes!

Peace

Larry

 

PS Head over to Funky16Corners

Iron Leg Meets Funky16Corners #4 – Gilberto Gil – Oma Lao

Gilberto Gil (In a Psychedelic Mood)

Listen – Gilberto Gil – Oma Lao – MP3

Greetings all.
The tune I bring you today is the flipside of the same 45 featured over at Funky16Corners.
I’ve beena big an of Tropicalia for a long time, and the music that Gilberto Gil recorded between 1967 and 1972 is one of the major cornerstones of that movement.
It’s rare that I get a 45 with one side that I’d consider Funky16Corners-worthy that also has an Iron Leg-gy flip, but when I finally scored a copy of the Gilberto Gil 45 that haunted my want list for so long, it fit the (double) bill.
The Iron Leg side of the 45 is the song I bring you today, ‘Oma Lao’*. Recorded during the sessions for Gil’s 1968, self-titled LP (like Peter Gabriel years later, Gil had a string of LPs that bore only his name), ‘Oma Lao’ is every bit as psychedelic and experimental as it’s a-side ‘Aquele Abraco’ is straightforward and joyous. The 1968 LP (also known as ‘Cerebro Eletronico’) is one of the most innovative and far out LPs of the Tropicalia years with all manner of trippy tape manipulations, experiments with musique concrete set side by side with pure pop.
‘Oma Lao’ has a recurring, echoed guitar riff and bass line, seasoned with minimal, improvised percussion, with Gil repeating the title over and over again. There are what sound like tape splices with bits of Hendrix-esque guitar. I have no idea what he’s singing about, but he is clearly speaking the international language of psychedelia. Whether the tune is about a ham sandwich, or more likely nothing at all, it’s still inescapably lysergic.
If you dig what you hear, make sure you grab Gilberto Gil’s first three LPs as well as material from the same era by Caetano Veloso, Os Mutantes, Gal Costa and others, and head over to Funky16Corners to check out the fantastic flipside of this 45 (one of my favorite songs).
Peace
Larry

*The 45, which I believe is a Chilean issue spells both songs differently than their listings on the ‘Gilberto Gil’ CD reissue, so I decided to defer to the LP spelling, thus the different title in the label scan above.

PS Head over to Funky16Corners for the flipside of this very 45.

PSS Check out Paperback Rider too…