I hope everyone had a merry Easter (though the other one's next week for the Orthodox) or at the very least, a great start to spring.
I must've sounded exhausted on air, though that was no fault of the programming — my brother had flown in for the long weekend and we spent some time up in Whistler skiing and then touring around town. As well, it was my first day at a new job, so that evening's broadcast had me nearing the end of my day instead of the middle (or the odd start). Reading off a printout from the dying gasps of a printer toner didn't help me either.
Nevertheless, the songs were generally mellow, though I had to start off with Portishead now that the first single has entered our lives. That led to the Portishead members' work inbetween releases (Geoff Barrow producing Stephanie McKay's (mostly unheard of) debut and Beth Gibbon's partnership with Paul Webb, since aside of a cover for a Serge Gainsbourg tribute, there's been nil since 1998.
Otherwise, the rest of the show was as forecast earlier: relatively mellow, mostly female and a look at the soundtrack to Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited. A mild British folk thread appeared, which I'd like to explore in some detail in a future show once I sort out some disk space issues on my laptop, which houses the bulk of my audio collection with my physical copies still residing in storage in Brooklyn.
And as you can hear at the end of the show, Gavin did arrive, barely in time since he had been at a birthday party. There was some confusion about if he would arrive for other reasons, but it's all my own.
Playlist follows:
Portishead: Machine Gun (Third, 2008) Island
Stephanie McKay: Thinking of You (McKay, 2003) Go! Beat
Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man: Drake (Out of Season, 2002) Go! Beat
Bat for Lashes: Horse and I (Fur and Gold, 2006) Echo/Parlophone
White Hinterland: Dreaming of the Plum Trees (Phylactery Factory, 2008) Dead Oceans
Autour de Lucie: Sur Tes Pas (Immobile, 1998) Nettwerk
Charlotte Gainsbourg: The Songs That We Sing (5:55, 2006) Because
Ivy: Edge of the Ocean (Long Distance, 2001) Nettwerk
2raumwohnung: Melancholisch Schon (Melancholisch Schon, 2005) it.sounds
Emiliana Torrini: Sunny Road (Fisherman's Woman, 2005) Rough Trade
The Choir Practice: Red Fox (The Choir Practice, 2007) Mint
Basia Bulat: Snakes and Ladders (Oh My Darling, 2007) Hardwood
The Kinks: Dedicated Follower of Fashion (In the Name of the Father OST, 1966) Island
The Kinks: This Time Tomorrow (The Darjeeling Limited OST, 2007) Abcko
Satyajit Ray: Charu's Theme (The Darjeeling Limited OST, 2007) Abcko
Joe Dassin: Le petit pain du chocolat (Le Meilleur, 2000) Olivi
Joe Dassin: Les Champs-Élysées (The Darjeeling Limited OST, 2007) Abcko
April March: Sugar (Chrominance Decoder, 1999) Mammoth/PGD
The Thrills: Not For All the Love in the World [Sebastian Tellier remix] (Not For All the Love in the World single, 2004) EMI
Kaki King: Doing the Wrong Thing (Legs to Make Us Longer, 2004) Red Ink
Opium Flirt: Saint European King Days (Tehislend, 2007) CDBaby
The sassy backdrop to this week's bluster of concert listings was Crossfire by R. Tisley, found on the devilishly wicked Morphine Mambo Jazz Club compilation.
You can download Tous les lundis (since I'm on every Monday) as an MP3 [83.9Mb, 91:36]
