On the air

[khaosworks]

A week or so ago, otherdeb said on #filkhaven that a friend of hers had heard my stuff on the radio. Bloody unlikely, I thought, but then today I was checking my web site statistics and came across this.

Turns out this guy did a program April 26 which featured, in part, filk, and evidently played some of my stuff. Now, I don't use RealPlayer, so I have no idea what he did play, but come on, at least let me know that he played my stuff, right? He even put a link to my page on his own page so it's not as if he didn't know how to get in touch.

Anyone want to listen to the program and let me know what he played/said?

Comments

[almeda.livejournal.com]

Listening.

Trying to listen

[kyttn.livejournal.com]

Not sure yet if I have time to listen to the whole 2 hours right now :(

[almeda.livejournal.com]

Ok ... (I hate Realplayer; 'fast-forward' is not an implemented technology, basically, even with my Bandwidth of the Gods at work)

• weird atonal jazz / intro; decent description of filk (plus, said 'some odd, but charmingly homemade material.' Faint damns, anyone?)
  
• Wilco's new CD, YHF: Radio Cure, something else WEIRD and ambient and ... something. Hard to tell when one track ends and another begins.
• Lame-o talking break identifying weird song as 'Reservations.' I get the idea he's not nearly as hip as he wants to be/thinks he is. :-> We're now about 1/4 through.
  
• Interview with the french guy who did an article about the guy who does the show, and the show itself; the french guy sends him French CDs now. Pompous commentary about 'music that crosses genres or supposed boundaries'.
  
• Kind of neat instrumental track from a French duo called 'Man'. Eclectic, strange, multiethnic, but I liked it.
  
• Ads. Halfway point. This is apparently public radio.
  
• French guy - new band, this one called 'Bed.' Yet more pompous over-commentary before actually playing it.
  
• Ambient-ish track, with weird moany lyrics, in English, by said French band. We're at about the 2/3 mark now.
  
• More ambient weird mumbled-lyrics stuff. Same band, perhaps.
  
• More talking about it. 'There's an excitement in the restraint.' Bed is apparently one guy, recording at home with a few guest musicians, who masters and engineers his own stuff.
  
• More ads.
  
• More French stuff - 'toy instruments'. More talking-to-death. 'La grow de brie' - phonetic, name of CD, translates 'the slang of noise' according to French Boy.
  
• 7-min track, 'influenced by traditional Catalan music.'
  
• The .rm file ends.
  

I think I need to upgrade my realplayer ... sigh. Coming back in a sec with more play-by-play.

[almeda.livejournal.com]

Nope, still only seeing an hour there. The first hour. The one without filk (like the World Without Shrimp, only not). Have you emailed this putz? If so, adding 'and where do I find other than the first hour of your show, please' would be a possibility.

At least the new version buffers faster. Sigh.

... *blink* That's weird. It hit the end, and loaded the next segment. Ok, guess it IS there. :->

[almeda.livejournal.com]

So, second hour:

• Ads.
  
• More chatter with French Boy. Intro'ing stuff from another French artist, Pierre Bastien (sp?), who builds machines, little mechanical instruments with erector sets. 'Mechanoid' is the album.
  
• Mechanoid track. Kind of odd, but not as atonal as the first thing in the show.
  
• Much more standard track, from a different artist (I think). Electronica/slow rock.
  
• More chatter. Says Filk is next.
  
• Ads.
• ... and I see you've heard it now, so I'll quit playlisting. :->