August 29, 2010 - Here Comes the Kick with the Jive
To rouse you from your Sunday morning slumbers, this week's Free Kick show brought you nothing but the highest grade sonic stimulation. Here's a list of the artists who helped supply your brunchtime lift:

Stuff Smith & his Onyx Club Boys,Roland Kirk, Zuzu Bolin, Freddie & the Stone Souls, Alèmayèhu Eshèté (pictured), Dub Specialist, James Blood Ulmer, Missionary Marie Sample, Rita Abadzi, People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz, Ken Nordine, Malouma, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Asha Bhosle, Amos & Sara, Uli Trepte, Les Rallizes Denudes, Twink, Música Dispersa, Nico, Nouvelle Vague, Godz, and Geordie Haley!

To imbibe once more, download an mp3 of the show:

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Or, avoid delaying your gratification - jump right in with a single click on the player below:


There's more where that came from, folks... check us out again on the Free Kick next Sunday at the usual time (from 11 am to 1 pm) on CKUT 90.3 fm and we'll set you up nicely.

ciao
Dave

& now, flickering lights and murky sounds fill the cavernous FREEKICK VIDEO LOUNGE!

• Stuff Smith - Bugle call blues (1965)
• Old School Ethiopian Music
• Mera Naam Hai Shabnam - Rajesh Khanna, Asha Parekh & Bindu - Kati Patang
• Les Rallizes Denudes Open Air 1976

August 22, 2010 - Very Yes
Positivity is in the air! Sunday's Freekick brimmed with good vibrations. I'm literally speechless. My breath was taken away. The veritable rarefied atmosphere of brilliance echoed on every track that we played for you. It's true!

Just look... these are the ultra-talented artists we played: Roland Kirk, Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln (RIP), Horace Tapscott, Budos Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Phelps Catfish Collins (RIP), Mohammed Rafi, Arrigo Barnabé, Jean-Luc Ponty, Guy Pederson & Son Grand Orchestre, Dukes Of Stratosphear, Lenny Bruce, Mickey Katz, Rangda, Liliput, Dan, Rattles, The Youjsh, Socalled, Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra, They Might Be Giants (pictured here), Inflatable Boy Clams, Nicole Lizee, and Johnnie Osbourne.

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

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Come on back next week!
swan

Ah, but what would this blog be like without visiting the
FREEKICK VIDEO LOUNGE!!!

• max roach 5 tet - baden baden feat abbey lincoln 1
• James Brown in Paris (featuring Phelps Catfish Collins)
• Kleenex (later known as Liliput)
• Rattles - The Witch
• They Might Be Giants on Screen Savers Part Two

August 15, 2010 - Freekick Guidebook on Fire
Cut loose from customary moorings, I wandered lonely as a cloud through the CKUT control room during last Sunday's Freekick show. The rules were burned as I took off on a meandering musical journey to who-knows-where. Along the way we heard contributions from:

Roland Kirk, Bismillah Khan (pictured), The Nels Cline Singers, Cicada, Sly Stone, Little Sister, Graham Central Station, R. Stevie Moore, Boredoms, Blk Jks, Sugar Mary, Land of Kush's Egyptian Light Orchestra (vocals: Katie Moore), Mauricio Kagel/Arditti Quartet, John Cale, The Fall, A.E. Bizottság, A_Dontigny, Emeralds, J. Dilla and LSC!

Were you along for the ride? Never mind, you can wander down that path again - simply download an mp3 of the show for your very own:

• 64 kbps (55 MB)
  

Or, click on the player below to hear it again this very instant:



Join us on the Free Kick next week at the usual time (Sunday from 11 am to 1 pm) on CKUT 90.3 FM. Swan will be back, rested & raring to go I'm sure!

Dave

and now...
[Curtains draw back. Fanfare.]

the FREEKICK VIDEO LOUNGE
announces its latest program of delights for the eye & ear:

• Ustad Bismillah Khan- Raga Gunkali
• SLY STONE - IF YOU WANT ME To STAY
• BLK JKS "Summertime" at SXSW Music 2009
• The Fall - Wings
• A.E. Bizottság - Milarepaverzió (a Jégkrémbalett c. filmből)

August 8, 2010 - Natural Kick
What kind of show are we? One that does not joke around by staying in bed on a Sunday morning when we should be purveying unexpected musical mixes to friends and neighbours... On this weekend's Free Kick show, after opening my eyes, taking a deep breath & striding purposefully into the control room, I did my best to deliver the required goods in the glaring absence of Swan. I hope the results met with your approval, dear listeners! I broke out sounds from the following artists for your enjoyment:

Duke Ellington (pictured) and his Orchestra featuring Mahalia Jackson, Roland Kirk, Sun Ra & his Arkestra, J. B. Lenoir, Alex Chilton, Robert Wyatt, The Thermometers, Rangda, Group Doueh, Blue Ōyster Cult, The Buzzcocks, Pierre Henry et Michel Columbier, Barnyard Drama, Gilberto Gil, Jackson do Pandeiro, Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho, Bunny Wailer, Marcia Griffiths, Channel One, The Tamlins, Galaxis and Maxime de la Rochefoucauld!

Did you sleep through it? Want to examine a particular bass line in detail? No problemo, just download an mp3 copy of the show and then listen repeatedly to your heart's content:

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Ciao for now, friendos! The Free Kick returns at the usual time (Sunday from 11 am to 1 pm) next week on CKUT 90.3 FM.

Dave

and now, prepare your comfy chair & start lounging with the best in show-related audio-visual whatnot:

• Mahalia Jackson @ Newport Jazz Festival 1958
• J.B.Lenoir in Chicago - 1964 - original 16mm color
• Group Doueh Sublime Frequencies Tour 2009
• JACKSON DO PANDEIRO - CHICLETE COM BANANA
• Bunny Wailer 87 "Cool Runnings"
• Can - I Want More (1976)

August 1, 2010 - One of Those Days on Freekick

Ever felt like a potato head? I, for one, was certainly in a classic Sunday morning vegetative state during last weekend's show. Yet somehow I managed (mostly) to push the right buttons with my leafy appendages, while Swan as usual sailed through complicated mixes with the greatest of ease.

The mainly non-vegetable artists that we played included: Roland Kirk, Roy Harper, Los Curramberos de Guayabal, Südwestfunk Orchestra, György Ligeti, Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota, Goran Bregović, Johnny Mandel, The Boswell Sisters, Fame Original Motion Picture Cast, Ralph McDonald, Devo, Shonen Knife, A. Papadzis, Land of Kush's Egyptian Light Orchestra, Narayan Gopal & Gyana Rana, Storsveit Nix Noltes, Rotfront, The Dhol Foundation, Mantronix, and Jackie Mittoo!

To listen again and again and again, get an mp3 copy of the show:

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That's it for now! I'll be back again next Sunday to cultivate the Free Kick musical garden further on CKUT 90.3 FM, from 11 am to 1 pm.

Dave

And now, in stop-motion animation, the
Freeekick Vidiot Lounge:

• Roy Harper One Of Those Days In England
• Amarcord Trailer (Federico Fellini, 1973)
• Hot Lunch Jam- Fame
• Shonen Knife - Twist Barbie (Live)
• Sam Shalabi & Josh Stevenson
• Mantronix - Bassline