October 27, 2007 - Monstah!
Boo! Hey I have to admit, the latest edition of the Free Kick show included way more Halloween-related music than I ever would have expected... Sorry if you were frightened, boys and girls. I found it kind of unnerving myself.

But wait: a quick look back at last Saturday's playlist reveals that we explored musical moods well beyond...... terror! Featured artistes include: Dimitri Tiompkin, Wu Tang Clan, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Junie, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Allen Toussaint, The Staples Singers, Brainstorm, The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Hombres, Patti Smith, Ron Pates' Debonaires, Jeffrey Lewis, The Mbuti Singers, Gong, Larry Ellis & Black Hammer, Serge Gainsbourg, The Black Lips, Magik Markers, Jay Reatard, Goblin, Black Sabbath, Bad Brains, The Cramps, Tom Waits, Alamaailman Vasarat, Harmonia Ensemble & Kocani Orkestar, Warsaw Village Band, Iva Bittová, and Pierre Henry & Michel Colombier!

To check it out, why not download an mp3 of the show? You can use the following links... (remember, the high quality 128 kbps is only available for a week after the show airs):

• 64 kbps (55 MB)

Or go to the CKUT archives page and stream the show for Sat. Oct 27 from 21:02 - 23:02.

Now for your well-earned treat: some scaaaaarrrrry videos for your halloween enjoyment!

• Black Sunday: trailer - clip
• Suspiria: trailer - clip
• Dracula AD 1972 - trailer - clip: a freaky rock n roll party with Stoneground
  

Please check back with us on the waves of CKUT 90.3 fm, Nov 10 from 9-11 pm eastern, for more auditory excitement all up in your ears. We'll be waiting for you!

ciao
Dave

October 13, 2007 - Radio Wave Kicker

Phew!

What a warm time we were in there but how keling is here the airabouts! We nowhere she lives but you mussna tell annaone for the lamp of Jig-a-Lanthern! It's a candlelittle houthse of a month and one windies. Downadown, High Downadown. And nummered quaintlymine. And such reasonable weather too ! The wagrant wind's awalt'zaround the piltdowns and on every blasted knollyrock (if you can spot fifty I spy four more) there's that gnarlybird ygathering, a runalittle, doalittle, preealittle, pouralittle, wipealittle, kicksalittle, severalittle, eatalittle, whinealittle, kenalittle, helfalittle, pelfalittle gnarlybird. A verytableland of bleakbardfields! Under his seven wrothschields lies one, Lumproar. His glav toside him. Skud ontorsed. Our pigeons pair are flewn for northcliffs. *

Reader, you may or may not have heard the Free Kick show of last Saturday night. Either way, you might be interested to know that we played artists such as: Boogie Down Productions, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Moussa Doumbia, Keletigui et ses Tambourinis, S.E. Rogie, Le Likembe Geant, Wagogo, Bala et ses Baladins, Pascal Comelade, Violent Femmes, Bokoor Band, Caetano Veloso, Dukes Of Stratosphear, Mr. Bungle, Rockabye Baby!, Robert Wyatt, Deerhoof, Holger Czukay, Terry Riley, Ennio Morricone, David Kristian, John Oswald, Petro Loa, Heldon, and Myryam's Quintette!

What's more, you can listen to the show again just as easy as you please! Either use one of the following links to download an mp3:

• 64 kbps (about 55 MB)

or go the CKUT archives and stream the show from Sat Oct. 13 from 21:02 to 23:01. Either way you're a winner.

Oh yes, what about some bonus semi-related videos?

• Uriti Arts Program, Tanzania (featuring some Wagogo music)
• Pascal Comelade - Russian Roulette
• Caetano Veloso - Trilhos urbanos
• Robert Wyatt performs Shipbuilding (written for him by E. Costello)
• Holger Czukay - Der Osten ist rot

and

• Negativland: My favourite things

Shawn and I look forward to launching our musical choices and less-than-musical voices into the ether once again on Saturday October 27 from 9-11 pm eastern on CKUT 90.3 fm in Montreal. So why not give us a listen? And, if this show at all contributes to improving your psycho-sonic environment, don't be afraid to let us know about it by telephone during the show (514 448 4013), email (freekickatfreekickdotca) , or by commenting on this blog - your feedback makes a difference to us!

bye now
Dave

September 29, 2007 - Way Down in Free Kick Land
Hello all you listeners and readers, both real and imaginary! We hope this finds you in fine fettle.... For our part, we have been laying low since last Saturday's Free Kick show, conserving energy to see us through the marathon of cool shows being offered by this year's Pop Montreal festival.

From Oct. 3-7, the Plateau and Mile End (and downtown too I suppose) will be overrun by legions of bands, fans, music industry & media types and everything in between. Check it out: not only Pere Ubu, Half Japanese and Patti Smith, but also Pagliaro (!), Gary Lucas, Fred Wesley (w/Socalled), Cody ChesnuTT, some of the "From Jamaica to Toronto" personalities, Jay Reatard, Aa, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, DJ/Rupture and so many more will be stopping by to delight us - so here's to good times, a few beers and great live music [clink]!

This Saturday's Free Kick featured music by some of the above, along with other totally untied-in musicians of note: Madlib, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, James Brown (w/Bobby Byrd - RIP), Lyn Collins, The Gaturs (feat. Willie Tee - RIP), Tunji Oleyana and the Benders, Cedric Im Brooks and the Light of Saba, The Hitch-Hikers feat. the Might Pope, Girl Talk, The Pinker Tones, Augustus Pablo. Linton Kwesi Johnson, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Gigi, Marie Osmond, The Tammys, The Pretty Things, Animal Collective, The Unireverse, Aids Wolf, Marilyn Lerner, Pere Ubu, Alamaailman Vasarat, Tom Waits, The Velvet Underground, Pixies, Fear, Violent Femmes, Patti Smith and Kraftwerk!

Wanna hear it again? No problem! you can use the following links to get the archived mp3 files:

• 64 kbps

or, go to the CKUT 90.3 fm archive page and stream the show of Sat. Sept. 29 from 21:03 - 23:03.

OK that's it! See you at the show!

Dave