Best show yet, though the assembly was monumentally bewildering as the first hour had been sequenced multiple times. The only survivors of the vicious edit before the Nick Cave and Warren Ellis spotlight were the Radiohead to Pylon set, though I spent a good deal of time finding a non-corrupt version of Four Minute Warning since my copy cut out three minutes in (which won't do when the warning must be four minutes long. Plus six seconds).
Things clicked together when I found score excerpts on Carter Burwell's page devoted to No Country for Old Men, which was referenced in a CBC article on diagetic soundtracks, diagetic referring to on-screen sound whereby there's no "imaginary" music that wouldn't be heard by the people in the scene or the movie. I briefly tried coming up with a diagetic set, but that wasn't going to be easy to prepare in a week.
The first bit became a tribute to the Academy Awards, featuring some of the score and songs I had played in an earlier show, Episode 3. From there, the show crystallized as I found the Guitaro track, which was beautifully gauzy for me to find more shiny/noisy music. Afterwards, closing with Siouxsie to Mark Wilkinson to Junior Boys allowed for a gentle, though sinister, denouement. I was hoping to wedge in the PSA about organ donations in there but the timing was starting to slip.
For those of you expecting technical flaws, the only one I ran into is when the next host unintentionally poured out the coffee I had left outside the studio. I sorta forgot I left it there since I only had a few sips before going on air, only to find it gone once I queued up the last song. Gavin said it looked bad and old, which stems from the cinnamon sprinkled atop my latte. It's just as well since for the past six months, I had cut caffeine from my diet almost completely, with the odd bit once a week.
Otherwise, 'twas a line drive home run. Yea me.
Playlist follows:
Carter Burwell: Blood Trail (excerpt) (No Country for Old Men OST, 2007) unreleased?
Dario Marianelli: The Half Killed (Atonement OST, 2007) Decca
Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova: Falling Slowly (Once OST, 2007) Columbia
Radiohead: 4 Minute Warning (In Rainbows [Bonus Disc], 2007) MapleMusic
Pylon: Driving School (Gyrate Plus, 2007) DFA
Roger & the Gypsies: Pass the Hatchet (Saturday Night Fish Fry: New Orleans Funk & Soul, 2001) Musicrama/Koch
William Bell: I Forgot to Be Your Lover (Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration, 2007) Stax
Midlake: Roscoe (The Trials of Van Occupanther, 2006) Bella Union
Nicole Atkins: The Way It Is (Neptune City, 2007) Columbia
Southpacific: Automata (Constance, 2000) Turnbuckle
Guitaro: Luna (Another Home Recording, 2002) unsigned
The Uncut: Understanding the New Violence (Those Who Were Hung Hang Here, 2004) Paper Bag
The Ting Tings: Great DJ (Great DJ, 2008) Columbia
Freeform Five: Electromagnetic (Strangest Things, 2004) Ultimate Dilemma
Coconut Records: Nighttiming (Nighttiming, 2007) Young Baby
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: The Money Train (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford OST, 2008) Mute
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: Carnival (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford OST, 2008) Mute
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: Sad Violin Thing (The Proposition OST, 2005) Mute
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: Down to the Valley (The Proposition OST, 2005) Mute
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: Happy Land (The Proposition OST, 2005) Mute
Siouxsie: Heaven and Alchemy (Mantaray, 2007) Universal
Marc Wilkinson: Fiend Discovered and End Titles (Blood on Satan's Claw OST, 2007) Trunk
Junior Boys: No Kinda Man (Body Language 6, 2008) Get Physical
The backing music to the concert listings was Dudley Simpson's theme to The Tomorrow People, a British scifi television series from the 1970s, like a (slightly) less bleak Dr. Who.
Next week's show will have a little profile of Vangelis' work for Blade Runner. And some other stuff I'll figure out shortly.
You can download Your inner cowboy wears black eyeliner as an MP3 [82.9 Mb, 90:35. File will remain on the server for approximately 30 days.]
