FMN017: Pastoral Pleasures

Free Music Now! Vol. 17: Pastoral Pleasure

March 24, 2010 (Wed)

10.30pm-12mn (+8 GMT)

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Tune in "live" by downloading either of the following:

http://unpopularradio.b2netsolutions.com:8000/listen.pls

http://unpopularradio.unionpost.org:8000/listen.pls

Then open the listen.pls file in your iTunes, Winamp or

VLC media player during the broadcast time.

Live playlist:

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1. aspidistrafly - Moonlight Shadow (7:39)

2. The Whites - Keep on the Sunny Side (3:34)

3. Zai Kuning & Koichi Shimizu - Seed the Time (6:25)

4. Almeda Riddle - My Little Rooster (1:53)

5. Animal Collective feat. Vashti Bunyan - Prospect Hummer (4:40)

6. Leslie Low - The Years of a Silent Sea (6:08)

7. Vashti Bunyan - Come Wind Come Rain (2:07)

8. Nick Drake - One of These Things First (4:51)

9. Sublime Frequencies - Unknown Artist - Elephant Mahout Leaf Improvisation, Cambodia (3:48)

10. Ukuleles of Halifax - Country Roads (John Denver cover) (2:33)

11. Azmyl Yunor - Let it Come (3:13)

12. Daniel Johnston - Walking the Cow (3:34)

13. Sublime Frequencies - Unknown Artist - Song in Lao Chai Village (3:34)

14. The Cosmic Mambo Jamboree - Shazjam3 (6:30)

15. Songs of Green Pheasant - I am Daylights (3:05)

16. Grouper - Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping (2:53)

17. Big Star - Thirteen (2:34)

Notes:

* The soundtrack in which Zai Kuning appears with George Chua is for the short film collection, Stories About Love, produced by Zhao Wei/Cyberflics. One of the directors, Nizam, was the singer/drummer of legendary underground band, the NoNames.

* Find out more about the Ukuleles of Halifax and download their John Denver cover here!

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FMN001: Observing the Observatory

Picture acknowledgement: The Pond

Free Music Now! Vol. 1: Observing the Observatory
Original broadcast: September 23, 2009 (Wed), 2230-0000h (GMT +8)

Presented by Mark Wong

Broadcast "live" from a cluttered bedroom on Balestier Road, Singapore, FMN! is an internet radio programme hosted on unpopular.radio. We pay special focus to music developments in Singapore and Southeast Asia.

"Free music" refers as much to the ideas of information flow and cultural dissemination as it does to musical forms which refuse to be shackled to genre orthodoxy. Inevitably, "Free Music NOW!" becomes clarion call for open ears and unfettered minds.

Vol. 1 features the music of The Observatory, a much lauded band from Singapore which has forged new musical pathways with every one of their releases - not to mention band members' solo works and side projects. Besides showcasing the diverse musical footholds they tread, references will also be made to their diverse influences from prog-rock, pastoral folk, electro-acoustic improvisation, experimental electronica and jazz. FMN! pays tribute to a band that has been absolutely instrumental in widening sonic palettes in Singapore.

To tune in "live" to the show, please download any one of the following:
Link 1 | Link 2| Link 3
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Live playlist:
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1. The Observatory - Ephemeron
2. Red House Painters - Grace Cathedral Park
3. Leslie Low - All Things New
4. Vashti Bunyan - Diamond Day
5. The Observatory - Blood Rising
6. Carla Bozulich - Prince of the World
7. Can - Future Days
8. Throb - Paraphunkernalia
9. Tortoise - Ten-day Interval (live)
10. The Observatory - Omicron
11. The Observatory - Deadheat
12. This Heat - Horizontal Hold
13. Shining - In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster
14. Burning Witch - Sacred Predictions
15. The Observatory - Decarn
16. The Observatory - The Last Grand Fallible Plan
17. Leslie Low - Prodigal Son (live)

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