They Say That Heaven is 200kHz Away
Big news in TerraSonic land, friends. This summer marks the end of the show's glorious run on Radio 1190. It's been a true pleasure bringing you this show every Saturday for the last four years, and I'm moved by the support you've given the show--with your ears, most of all, and, at those special times of year, your money. Thank you for allowing me to be part of your Saturday morning. I also want to thank everyone at Radio 1190 for allowing me to do my thing there.
But though I'm moving on from Radio 1190, TerraSonic is not going dark. We're moving over to the Front Range's other very excellent radio station, KGNU. I've been involved there for 16 years and feel like now's a good time to wrap all of my radio involvement into one location. The Big Idea for TerraSonic is to try to syndicate this show, and KGNU is better suited for that kind of thing.
TerraSonic premieres on KGNU's 1390 AM signal (hoping to be on the FM as well before too long) on Saturday, 2 September, from 1200-1300 MT. We're still sorting out the tech details of streaming the show, but I'll keep you posted on how that's going to work. Given that the streaming is up in the air, it's also unclear whether the podcasts will continue, but I'm planning to offer streaming/downloadable files for a limited time following each show.
But that's next month, and in the meantime we still have four episodes left on Radio 1190. I intend to make the most of it.
Saw Manu Chao's Colorado debut last night at the Fillmore. I'd seen him July 2001 in Central Park, my first encounter with his music, and I was utterly and completely blown away. I was curious how it would go in Denver five years later, and a week after a scheduled Os Mutantes show was 86'd due to poor sales. The Front Range is weird like that for world music sometimes.
All I can really say is: wow! It was pretty amazing. I've never been to the Fillmore for music. It's a big room, I think the cap is 3k, and they announced from the stage before the show that it was sold out. It felt full w/o being uncomfortable.
The crowd was into it and, though I got the impression that Manu seemed to be working pretty hard to get response, it wasn't long before his Radio Bemba Sound System and the crowd were absolutely feeding off each other.
About an hour in, he would conclude every song with "thank you, Denver!" as if that were the last one, but that went on for about another 1h15m or so for a 2h15m show length. It was pretty non-stop, high energy, tight and hot. The band could swing from hardcore thrash to dub to flamenco all in one song and one instant.
He played all his solo favorites, plus a lot of Mano Negra songs as well. It wasn't quite as hopping as a Euro (or even NYC) show would be, but that's really only because they know the lyrics and are more familiar with the music over there, but he definitely made some friends in Denver.
The last of his five or six encores was the Mano Negra version of the Arabic classic, "Sidi H'Bibi", from Puta's Fever. It's got a very twangy, rockabilly sound to it, with the Arabic scales keeping it true. Manu introduced it by describing it as a song that "was sung together by Arabs and Jews." Imagine.
Seeing Manu Chao this week reminded me of the first time I saw him five years ago. It was the first time I'd heard his music and, as you know if you've listened to the show, he left his mark on me that day. That summer July afternoon was also my first encounter with Gogol Bordello. Here's something I stumbled upon by them a while back, maybe from some other music blog (apologies if it's poor form to play something from another blog). It's a pretty good remix of one of the few Gipsy Kings songs I like. Maybe you'll like it too.
Thanks again for stopping by, and for tuning in to TerraSonic. I'll make it as good as I can for this last month at Radio 1190. I hope you'll stay with me when we make the leap to KGNU.
Mano Negra :: "Sidi H'Bibi"
Gipsy Kings :: "Aven Aven (Gogol Bordello Remix)"
But though I'm moving on from Radio 1190, TerraSonic is not going dark. We're moving over to the Front Range's other very excellent radio station, KGNU. I've been involved there for 16 years and feel like now's a good time to wrap all of my radio involvement into one location. The Big Idea for TerraSonic is to try to syndicate this show, and KGNU is better suited for that kind of thing.
TerraSonic premieres on KGNU's 1390 AM signal (hoping to be on the FM as well before too long) on Saturday, 2 September, from 1200-1300 MT. We're still sorting out the tech details of streaming the show, but I'll keep you posted on how that's going to work. Given that the streaming is up in the air, it's also unclear whether the podcasts will continue, but I'm planning to offer streaming/downloadable files for a limited time following each show.
But that's next month, and in the meantime we still have four episodes left on Radio 1190. I intend to make the most of it.
Saw Manu Chao's Colorado debut last night at the Fillmore. I'd seen him July 2001 in Central Park, my first encounter with his music, and I was utterly and completely blown away. I was curious how it would go in Denver five years later, and a week after a scheduled Os Mutantes show was 86'd due to poor sales. The Front Range is weird like that for world music sometimes.
All I can really say is: wow! It was pretty amazing. I've never been to the Fillmore for music. It's a big room, I think the cap is 3k, and they announced from the stage before the show that it was sold out. It felt full w/o being uncomfortable.
The crowd was into it and, though I got the impression that Manu seemed to be working pretty hard to get response, it wasn't long before his Radio Bemba Sound System and the crowd were absolutely feeding off each other.
About an hour in, he would conclude every song with "thank you, Denver!" as if that were the last one, but that went on for about another 1h15m or so for a 2h15m show length. It was pretty non-stop, high energy, tight and hot. The band could swing from hardcore thrash to dub to flamenco all in one song and one instant.
He played all his solo favorites, plus a lot of Mano Negra songs as well. It wasn't quite as hopping as a Euro (or even NYC) show would be, but that's really only because they know the lyrics and are more familiar with the music over there, but he definitely made some friends in Denver.
The last of his five or six encores was the Mano Negra version of the Arabic classic, "Sidi H'Bibi", from Puta's Fever. It's got a very twangy, rockabilly sound to it, with the Arabic scales keeping it true. Manu introduced it by describing it as a song that "was sung together by Arabs and Jews." Imagine.
Seeing Manu Chao this week reminded me of the first time I saw him five years ago. It was the first time I'd heard his music and, as you know if you've listened to the show, he left his mark on me that day. That summer July afternoon was also my first encounter with Gogol Bordello. Here's something I stumbled upon by them a while back, maybe from some other music blog (apologies if it's poor form to play something from another blog). It's a pretty good remix of one of the few Gipsy Kings songs I like. Maybe you'll like it too.
Thanks again for stopping by, and for tuning in to TerraSonic. I'll make it as good as I can for this last month at Radio 1190. I hope you'll stay with me when we make the leap to KGNU.
Mano Negra :: "Sidi H'Bibi"
Gipsy Kings :: "Aven Aven (Gogol Bordello Remix)"
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