March 28, 2010 - Free Kick Gets Over
Free Kick never needs a reason to prog out, and that's just what we did on this weekend before the Blue Moon. Celestial delights awaited at every turn. Stellar performances abounded. Cosmic connections were made and undone, all in the space of two hours.

Last Sunday's Freekick Radio Show featured The Staple Singers, Roland Kirk, Betty Lavette, Elder Beck, Tunji Oyelana and the Benders, Horoya Band, Mulatu Astake, Far Corner, Acid Mother's Temple and the Melting Paraiso U.F.O., Son of Earth, Joe Meek & The Blue Men, Julian Cope, Omega, István Pál et al, Trabant, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, Zia, Hawkwind, Pink Floyd (Nick Mason pictured above), Elvis Bossa Nova, and Shalabi Effect.

Why read about when you can listen in to all the excitement?

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You can even listen right from this here flash player thingy!

Please join us again next Sunday April 4 from 11 am - 1 pm on CKUT 90.3 fm!

You wouldn't happen to be looking for the world famous Free Kick Video Lounge? Well, here it is!!!

• The Staple Singers - "When Will We Be Paid", 1971
• Trabant - Ragaszthatatlan szív
• Julian Cope - Reynard The Fox (Live)
• Zia Atabay - Kofriom
• Elvis Bossa Nova CD Release
• Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Yekermo Sew
• Son of Earth - 2.27.10 Ecstatic Yod Florence, MA

March 21, 2010 - Thank You Alex Chilton
Free Kick salutes Alex Chilton by dedicating a set (more or less) to his memory. A prolific unsung hero, Alex Chilton will be sorely missed and fondly remembered both for his solo work and his work with the Box Tops and Big Star. In addition Freekick hosted a completely unrelated Bollywood Blowout! Check it out!

Sunday's Freekick includes such luminaries as Alex Chilton, Big Star, Roland Kirk, The Box Tops, Glenn Lee, Lydia Mendoza, Lata Mangeshkar, Manna Dey & Chorus, Shankar Jaikishan, Mohd. Rafi, Balbir & Chorus, Madan Mohan, Kishore Kumar, S. D. Burman, Jean-Claude Brialy & Serge Gainsbourg, Su'ad Hashim, Tasa, Lukas Ligeti, Som Imaginario, The Action, The Galactic Symposium, Ennio Morricone, Tonstartssbandht, Le Rossignol et Lafrance, Zia, and Geordie Haley.

We know you're just expiring to relive the experience, so click away to hear it all again!

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Listen to the show from right here!

Please join us again next Sunday Mar 28 from 11 am - 1 pm on CKUT 90.3 fm!

What??? You miss the Free Kick Video Lounge! Well, here it is!!!

• Big Star - Thank You Friends
• Alex Chilton on 120 Minutes (1985)
• Serge Gainsbourg, Jean-Claude Brialy - Un poison violent, c'est ça l'amour ("Anna")
• Mohd. Rafi, Balbir & Chorus (Madan Mohan) - Hanste Zakhm - Yeh mana meri jaan
• Kishore Kumar (S. D. Burman) - Aradhana - Mere Sapnon Ki Rani
• Una Lucertola Con La Pelle Di Donna (Trailer)

March 14, 2010 - Rainy Day, Kick Away
Just as the clocks move forward to rob us of a treasured hour of sleep, a grey soggy day intrudes in the midst of Montreal's early spring idyll... offering a perfect occasion to stay in bed and doze to the sounds of the Free Kick.

Last Sunday, while you yawned and turned over, we were working hard to bring you the likes of: The Kinks, Roland Kirk, Sonny Rollins, Lord Kitchener, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Istanbul Erkek Lisesi, Googoosh (pictured here), Gilberto Gil & Jorge Ben, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Talking Heads, Magik Markers, Oorjak Hunashtaar-ool, Bugis Kacapi Ensemble, Vŭlkana Stoyanova, Can, Optopo (Easy Kabaka Brown), Galliano, The Plastic People Of The Universe, Violent Femmes, The Pogues, and Maxime de la Rochefoucauld!

If you did indeed drop off, missing out on the above, you can reach out and grab the show again as an mp3:

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NEW!!! Just to be nice, we are now making life that much easier for you by giving you the power to stream the show straight from this here blog! Check it out! (many thanks to Sasha for the suggestion and the code):



Please join us again next Sunday Mar 21 from 11 am - 1 pm on CKUT 90.3 fm!

Dave

aaaaaaaaand here is your video feast for the week, lovingly catered by the Free Kick Video Lounge!

• The Bridge/ Sonny Rollins & Jim Hall
• Tuvan Throat Singers
• Kecapi Bugis Modern Bag.4
• Talking Heads - The Book I Read (1978-05-10)
• Violent Femmes - Machine
• Jorge Ben Jor - Taj Mahal
• The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - War
• The Pogues - Dirty Old Town - 1986
• The Pogues w/ Joe Strummer - Canadian TV Interview with Terry David Mulligan 12/87

March 7, 2010 - Freekick Marches On
Last Sunday's show was a standardized experiment in freeform radio programming, as usual. Freekick let the animals loose in the studio, where they showed us a few things about making music. Who says animals don't have an artistic bone in their bodies.

Just check out this list of animals that we featured: Elder Samuel Patterson & the Christian Crusaders, Roland Kirk, Sly & the Family Stone, Fubura Sekibo, Sugar Minott, Prince Jammy, The Chris McGregor Trio, Mos Def, Fun Lovin' Criminals, King Crimson, Thai Elephant Orchestra, Giri Kedaton, John Williams, The Kropotkins, Wire, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Ennio Morricone, Asha Bhosle, Mihály Vig, Arthur Lipsett, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, Peg Leg Sam, Turlu Tursu, Au Pairs, and Jackie Mittoo.

Place your paws on the mouse and click on one of these choices to relive the experience:

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Or stream the show from the CKUT archives page... ask for 11:00 to 13:00 on Sunday March 7.

Join us again for another adventure into the wonders of musicology, next Sunday March 14 from 11 am to 1 pm on CKUT 90.3 fm!

-swan

Wait! You can't leave without a taste of the FREEKICK VIDEO LOUNGE!!!!

• Thai Elephant Orchestra
• 1973 Anamika - Aaj Ki Raat Koi Aane Ko Hai Re Baba
• King Crimson - Lark's Tongues In Aspic
• Arthur Lipsett - Very Nice, Very Nice
• Kropotkins play Truckstop Girls
• Il gatto a nove code trailer (1971)
• A Silver Mt. Zion - I Built Myself a Metal Bird [Official Video]
• Satantango - Opening Sequence