Raz Mesinai and Shahzad Ismaily Live
Today we feature a live duo performance from Raz Mesinai and Shahzad Ismaily.
The Deets:
Raz Mesinai - frame drum, effects
Shahzad Ismaily - bass
Bob Marley and the Wailers :: Live at the Santa Barbara County Bowl :: 11/25/79
Bob Marley and the Wailers, live at the Santa Barbara County Bowl, 11/25/79.
Setlist:
Positive Vibration
Wake Up And Live
I Shot The Sheriff
Ambush In The Night
Concrete Jungle
Running Away
Crazy Baldhead
Them Belly Full
Heathen
Ride Natty Ride
Africa Unite
One Drop
Exodus
So Much Things To Say
Zimbabwe
Jamming
Is This Love
Kinky Reggae
Stir It Up
Get Up Stand Up
Talking Heads :: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (1982)
Saw this come across my Twitter feed. Sorry, I can’t remember who posted it if it was you, THANK YOU!
From the show’s Youtube page:
“This is full footage of Talking Heads performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, July 9th 1982. Originally broadcasted on Swiss TV and radio, but this footage is from an archive of the master tapes (except the last song)”
Setlist:
Psycho Killer
Cities
Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open)
Once in a Lifetime
Mind
My Big Hands (Fall Through the Cracks)
Big Business
I Zimbra
Swamp
Slink
Houses in Motion
What a Day That Was
Life During Wartime
Take Me To The River
Goat :: Live at Le Guess Who? (2022)
We recently highlighted Goat’s fabulous 2023 album “Medicine” as one that we heard too late to make our favorites list. I still can’t believe we missed it. Goat has been a long-time favorite around the Holiday at the Sea Fake Offices.
In penance, I offer you this short but terrific live set from 2022.
From the Youtube page: “Swedish psych outfit Goat perform live at Le Guess Who? 2022 following the release of their latest album 'Oh Death' via Rocket Recordings.”
Setlist:
Under No Nation
Gathering of Ancient Tribes
Do The Dance
Disco Fever
Goatman
Deets and Credits:
Captured at TivoliVredenburg’s Ronda on Saturday, 12 November during Le Guess Who? 2022.
Direction: Dammes Kieft
Camera: Anaïs Saebu, Jonathan Sipkema, Nicky Pajkić, Rikash Gobardhan, Yuma Eekman, Dammes Kieft
Production: Claudia Rison, Studio Dammes
Coordination: Barry Spooren Montage: Nicky Pajkić S
ound recording: Marc Broer
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard :: Live at Lowlands 2023
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard :: Live at Lowlands 2023.
Setlist:
Gila Monster
Converge
Witchcraft
Self-Immolate
This Thing
The Garden Goblin
Hypertension
Magma
Oki Dub Ainu Band Live For KeenStream
From the Youtube page:
“Festival TV on KEENSTREAM, a YouTube program that started in April 2020, hoping that the day will come when we can enjoy the music and outdoor activities that we love. We welcome over 100 artists in total and liven up the program with MC George Williams.”
Harry Belafonte Live in Germany (1988)
Harry Belafonte live in Ravensburg, Germany, Nov 1988.
Setlist:
Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)
Kwela (Listen to the Man)
Skin to Skin (with Sharon Brooks)
Matilda, Martin Luther King
Island in the Sun
Try to Remember (with Ty Stephens)
Jamaica Farewell
Paradise in Gazankulu
Purchase Harry Belafonte’s music at Amazon
Meet Some Of My Friends (the Velvet Underground Edition) :: A Holiday At The Sea Playlist
Welcome to the first installment of what I hope will be an ongoing playlist series throughout 2023 where I introduce you to some of my favorite music. I often make playlists for my car and I thought I might as well share them here.
We kick off the series with the Velvet Underground. I tried to keep it to cuts from the studio albums, but I really like “I’m Beginning To See the Light” from 1969: The Velvet Underground Live. Whether you know them or not, I hope you enjoy this playlist.
Setlist:
Who Loves The Sun
Some Kinda Love
Sweet Jane
Sister Ray
I'm Waiting For The Man
Rock & Roll
Beginning To See The Light
Here She Comes Now
I'm Set Free
White Light/White Heat
Run Run Run
Oh! Sweet Nuthin'
What Goes On
There She Goes Again
New Age
jaimie "breezy" branch forever :: Roulette, Brooklyn :: XXIII Vision Festival :: 05.28.18
As the recent Aquarium Drunkard e-mail says: jaimie "breezy" branch forever!
We are all deeply saddened by branch’s passing. Let’s visit some live breezy.
So far we’ve visited a solo set, a trio set and a two-part live show. Let’s round out the week with this quartet setup, live from 2018. This one includes a bit more information, including the players, which include branch on Trumpet, Anton Hatwich on Bass ,Lester St. Louis on Cello, Chad Taylor on Drums.
This was at: Roulette Intermedium, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn May 28th 2018
jaimie "breezy" branch forever :: First St. Green : Arts For Art :: Paris :: 09/29/19
As the recent Aquarium Drunkard e-mail says: jaimie "breezy" branch forever!
We are all deeply saddened by branch’s passing. Let’s visit some live breezy.
So far, we/ve visited a solo set and examined two of her songs with lyrics and another one Yesterday we covered a band set, and today is branch in a trio format. As with the other sets, not a lot of information or tracklisting here, but ti’s great nonetheless. This set features Branch on trumpet, Luke Stewart on bass, Mike Pride on drums.
OH, and apparently this was “on Roy Campbell & Steve Dalachinsky's birthday.”
jaimie "breezy" branch forever :: New Morning :: Paris :: 07/12/21
As the recent Aquarium Drunkard e-mail says: jaimie "breezy" branch forever!
We are all deeply saddened by branch’s passing. Let’s visit some live breezy.
Yesterday, we visited a solo set and examined one of her songs with lyrics and another one today. Here is branch with branch on trumpet, Lester St. Louis on cello, Jason Ajemian on bass, and Chad Taylor on drums.
As with the other one, not much information to go by here other than “Jaimie Branch - First Set (New Morning - Paris - July 12th 2021).” No setlist or anything, but you can figure it out if you really want to. I’m just grooving.
Set One:
Set Two:
jaimie "breezy" branch forever :: Solo Set (2022)
As the recent Aquarium Drunkard e-mail says: jaimie "breezy" branch forever!
We are all deeply saddened by branch’s passing. Let’s visit some live breezy.
First up is a solo set from “Record Shop - July 2 2022.”
Not much else information about this one, but it’s well worth your time.
Sons of Kemet :: Live From The Basement
Many thanks to Harvey G. Cohen for pointing out this fantastic live set on Twitter. Harvey says:
“Earlier this year, Sons of Kemet, quite possibly the best band in jazz today, announced they are disbanding by the end of the year. Terrible news. But here is a newly filmed concert of theirs, live in London. Awesome. And not just because they have a tuba:”
Setlist:
Pick Up Your Burning Cross
Think Of Home
In Remembrance Of Those Fallen
Throughout The Madness, Stay Strong
Goose :: OK, They're Good! (Plus Trey Anastasio!)
I’ll be honest: I’ve tried to dig Goose several times. I’ve watched several live sets and lots of people I respect dig them. I don’t know why, but I just didn’t connect with them. I think it may have something to do with the moustaches and my own biases. You see, my Dad had a mustache, and any time I try to grow one, I just see my Dad in the mirror, and I love my Dad, but that’s not what you want to see when you look in the mirror.
Anyhoo: (as always), I’m on a big Kurt Vonnegut kick, and I just watched the 2021 documentary which included the quote from Cat’s Cradle: “As Bokonon says: 'peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god.” That’s when Pitchfork decided to review the bands newest album Dripfield and I decided to give them another try.
Brady Gerber’s review includes this short section:
Watching their viral set at Peach Fest 2019—which, like many Goose sets, you can stream in full on YouTube—I thought wow, these guys can play. But it wasn’t just their virtuosic performances: Between the sprawling solos, they had actual songs that I walked away humming.
So, like any good Bokononist would, I went and watched that “viral'“ 2019 Peach Fest set. And I ended up digging it. A Lot. I sent it to my brother and a friend with the caption: “I think I might have been won over.” You see, they too had tried Goose before and found it not to their taste. But this set won them both over just like it did me. Maybe it will do the same for you. Maybe not. Either way, I hope you enjoy and occasionally stop along to remember that “I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
The Deets:
Goose plays Peach Fest 2019 in Scranton, PA.
Setlist:
Madhuvan
Time to Flee
All I Need
Wysteria Lane
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
Arcadia
The Way It Is
Hot Tea
Trey Anastasio of that band from VT sat in the other night with Goose in NYC and thanks to the wonders of the technology, you can watch it right here right now:
The Deets:
Goose - Hungersite → Arcadia (feat. Trey Anastasio) - 6/25/22 Radio City Music Hall, New York, NY
Here is the band’s official video for Hungersite:
Jake Xerxes Fussell: Live For Tiny Desk's Home Concerts
It’s only February, but I can already tell you that Jake Xerxes Fussell’s newest album Good and Green Again will be on my year-end favorites list.
Drawing from folk, American and even bits of Appalachian music, Fussell has created a beautiful, challenging and yet hopeful album. His incorporation of strings and horns (sometimes reminding me of Gregory Alan Isakov flourishes) brings a lushness to the music that’s comfortable in all the right ways.
Earlier this year, Fussell recorded his (at home) NPR Tiny Desk Concert. According to NPR: “Fussell recorded at a friend's home in Pittsboro, N.C., with Casey Toll on upright bass and Libby Rodenbough on violin, harmonium and backup vocals. The mantle behind them is adorned with a tiny desk surrounded by various vegetable-shaped candles.”
You’re not going to find much better things to do with 18 minutes. Give it a try:
Setlist:
“The River St. Johns"
"Have You Ever Seen Peaches Growing on a Sweet Potato Vine?"
"Breast of Glass"
Players:
Jake Xerxes Fussell: guitar, vocals
Libby Rodenbough: violin, harmonium, backing vocals
Casey Toll: upright bass
New Music Monday: In the Running :: Solilians
Their label describes them as “Jewish mystics/drone/space pop explorers” and that gives you a pretty good starting point.
Solilans is the project of keyboardist Benjamin Malkin and began when Malkin wrote a 7” soundtrack for Ian Densford’s Binah Comics, a “super-powers tale sans violence”
Now a quartet featuring two vocalists, Neptune Sweet (Electric Djinn) and Sharon Malkin.
In the Running 2 is the second in I Heart Noise’s ongoing In the Running series and the second featuring Solilans. The first was a split EP with Boston’s Skyjelly. But this release find the attention placed on Solilans. As far as I can tell, “Klezmische” is a clever play on the group’s fusion of Kosmische with Klezmer music. If that’s difficult to imagine, you’re on the right track.
Fusing psychedelic, ambient, drone, and folk and even Indian instrumentation, the group creates sonic soundscapes that wash over you and wrap around your soul. With hypnotic, trance-like vocals, you might think of something along the lines of Sky Cries Mary (anyone remember them?). But this is truly original and creative music. There’s a balance throughout the release that weaves in and out itself. The disparate elements create a tension that keeps you engaged while the swooning vocals and repeating loops provide counteract that tension with mesmerizing effect. This balance between tension and release/relaxation is a wonderful musical theme throughout. I can’t wait to hear more from Solilans.
Highly recommended.
Preview:
The fine and fabulous folks over at Foxy Digitalis premiered the video for “Old Schmeckled Hen” earlier this year. Check it:
Steve Gunn, Shahzad Ismaily, and Ryan Sawyer :: Live Improv Set at Union Pool, Brooklyn, NY 9/4/21
Thanks so much to the amazing Bryon Whitley for posting this amazing set.
Steve Gunn, Shahzad Ismaily, and Ryan Sawyer performing a live improv set at Union Pool, Brooklyn, NY 9/4/21.
“A set of wonderful improvisational music created by three sensational musicians.”