A lot of freejazzfusionfunkrock in
this week's playlist including Boston area local Stanton Davis and his band Ghetto Mysticism. A little more research on Ghetto Mysticism revealed not only that they recorded at a studio in Jamaica Plain but they were also featured on the WGBH program
Say Brother (now known as Basic Black). As it turns out WGBH has many of the Say Brother program specs archived on web, quicktime clips and all! When searching by subject for musical performances and jazz there are some great names listed including vintage clips of
Howlin' Wolf and
Cannonball Aderly to name a few. Apparently Davis and Ghetto Mysticism perform Funky Fried Tofu but we're not lucky enough to catch a quicktime clip. The episodes themselves aren't cleared for any kind of distribution but you can view them for "research purposes," which I hope this show would fall under as I'd love to get to WGBH to take a look (given the tiiiime).
We also heard some new sounds from
Urdog who will be performing at this year's
Terrastock. Some great acts are booked for this weekend and it's only a trainride away! I'm especially psyched for Ghost, Jack Rose, Windy and Carl, Fursaxa (basically anything else Kranky) although my availability for that weekend is still in question. I've got a classic case of the day job blues, and when your night time positions don't pay, it's hard to break.
In the past events category, a big congrats to Northeastern University's newly launched Free Culture Society. I was lucky enough to sit in on the launch party today which featured talks from
Lawrence Lessig among other pro free culture fighters. If you've heard me reference websites like
Opsound and
The Internet Archive on the show before you may be down with my views on making music free on the internet for things like remix and radio (or both at the same time). With internet radio at the forefront of some of these fair use issues it was great to hear what these guys had to say concerning remix culture, music, software, and pretty much any form of information capable of free exchange over the internet.
With a post this long, it's gotta be bed time. Be sure to catch up next week with some possible guest DJ minutes with Jay Jonah Jameson from
WRBB . Hit up
WZBC.org in the meantime to check out our new website and full program schedule!
