June 27, 2010 - Free Kick Harissi
With a side of mac-voutie! Last weekend's sho-rootie brought you the sounds of:

The Kinks, Roland Kirk, Allen Toussaint, Gregory Isaacs, Baden Powell, Fred Anderson/Hamid Drake, Slim Gaillard, Al Green, Jimi Hendrix with Curtis Knight, The Soulful Strings, 801, Rita Lee, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Afrirampo, Omar Souleyman (pictured here in a shot by krakow81), Jonathan Kane, Robert Ashley, Ennio Morricone, The Robins, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Jeffrey Lewis, Poison Girls, The Dead Kennedys, DOA, Björk, and Geordie Haley!

We realize that some of you may have opted to watch the Germany-England match instead. Now's your chance to catch up by downloading an mp3 of the show:

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or just stream it without delay from the CKUT archives:



The good ship Free Kick sails again next Sunday at 11 am eastern on CKUT 90.3 fm. Won't you climb on board?

Dave

PLUS! VID-E-O !!!! in the Freekick Lounge:

• Allen Toussaint-Here Comes The Girls-Live At The 2009 New Orleans Jazzfest
• Fred Anderson Trio 6 / 6
• Al Green - Sha La La (1975)
• Afrirampo(あふりらんぽ) 2009-11-16 @UFO CLUB Part1

June 20, 2010 - Father's Playing Ground
This week's Freekick salutes fathers everywhere! Montreal is in full festival swing. Suoni Per Il Popolo continues; The Francofolies and The Montreal International Jazz Festival stretch back to back this year; all this while we try to follow the World Cup in South Africa. Who are you rooting for?

In order to get you ready for the summer ahead. a whack of good music reverberated through this week's show: Funkadelic (feat. Gary Shider - RIP - pictured here), U.S. Music with Funkadelic, Lee Dorsey, Tony Allen, Ekonda singers, Septeto Matamoros, Ras Michael & the Sons of Negus, Five Blind Boys of Alabama, The Tigers featuring Kenny Carr, Pascal Comelade, R.L. Burnside, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Kishore Kumar & Asha Bhosle, Sofia Vicoveanca, The Ex + Tom Cora, Iannis Xenakis/French National Radio Orchestra - dir. Maurice Le Roux, Rev. Robert Ballinger, Master Musicians Of Jajouka, Aphrodesia, The Fire, David Peel & The Lower East Side, CAN, and Maxime de la Rochefoucauld...

To listen again, just download the mp3 of the show:

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Or listen directly from the convenient player below.



Stop in next Sunday for another graceful edition of the Free Kick show, on CKUT 90.3 fm from 11 am to 1 pm.

Swan

What about the Free Kick Video Lounge?

• Parliament Funkadelic - "Cosmic Slop" - LIVE 1976
• RL Burnside - Shake'em On Down
• Quicksilver Messenger Service - Fresh Air
• Master Musicians of Jajouka - Kennedy Center Arabesque Festival 2009.02.25 "Ghaita"
• Xenakis - Kottos for solo cello

June 13, 2010 - Waving Our Arms On The Air
Hey, we're over here! Can you hear us? Dear listeners, we sure hope that this weekend's show stood out discernibly against the backdrop of your other Sunday morning goings-on. If you were tuned to the Free Kick, your ears may have picked up the sonic stirrings of:

Jorge Ben, Roland Kirk, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Abagqomi, Brotherhood of Breath, Matthew Shipp, Irma Thomas, The Mill Brothers with Sy Oliver & His Orchestra, Lightnin' Slim, Nina Simone, The Chimes of Freedom, Erkin Koray, Bo Kaspers Orkester, Höyry-kone, Syd Barrett, Googoosh, Midhat efendi, Steve Reich, The Fall, Tom Zé (pictured here), Walter Franco, Kal, Mahala Rai Banda, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Mardi Gras.BB, Hugo Fattoruso and LSC!

Reverberations continue in the archives, should you want to put us on repeat:

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Or step into the same stream twice by clicking on the player below:



Check CKUT 90.3 fm at the regular time next Sunday (11 am - 1 pm), when once again we'll be flailing away for your entertainment!

bye-a,
Dave

and now, multi-sensory stimulation courtesy of the
^.^ FREEKICK VIDEO LOUNGE ^.^

• گوگوش بمون تا بمونم Googoosh
• The Fall - Bury @ Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin, 12.02.10
• Evan Parker - improvisation #1 (excerpt) (1985/04/22)

June 6, 2010 - Please Pass the Biscuits
Hungry for some solid sounds? This weekend's brunch-time musical feast featured goodies from:

Duke Ellington, Roland Kirk, Benny Spellman, Rev. Louis Overstreet (picture here), Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Andre Williams, Mercury Dance Band, The Vandermark 5*, The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs, Silver Apples, Dr. Alimantado, Pretty Things, Roky Erickson with Okkervil River, Sir Richard Bishop, John Fahey, Elfin Saddle*, The Pink Noise*, Talibam!*, John Zorn & Yamataka Eye, Wild Man Fischer, Messer fur Frau Muller, The Smiths, Tonstartssbandht*, Shiina Ringo, Poison Girls, and Johnnie Osbourne!

Some of the fine musicians named above (*) are playing in Montreal this month as part of our favourite summer music festival, Suoni Per Il Popolo. Over the coming weeks we'll be featuring a lot more artists on the Suoni program, so be sure to tune in to hear what those obscure bands sound like, and maybe even win some tickets!

Feel like seconds? Dig in to the archives and enjoy repeatedly to your heart's content:

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Or simply click below to stream the show without delay...



Do drop in again to Free Kick on CKUT 90.3 fm at the regular time next Sunday (11 am - 1 pm) for further musical helpings. Ciao for now!

Dave

... the FREEKICK VIDEO LOUNGE ...

• "Working On The Building Praise"- Louis Overstreet
• Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings • Give It Back (live)
• Pretty Things - Midnight To Six
• Elfin Saddle - Running Sheep / THEY SHOOT MUSIC
• The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again/Vicar In A Tutu (live)
• Shiina Ringo - Identity