This week’s show has an experimental and alternative focus. Some of the tracks are from albums released on small labels including Folklore Tapes and Reverb Worship. In greater focus, it includes a small showcase of some releases from Belgian label Okraina Records (https://okrainarecords.bandcamp.com) which was founded by Philippe Delvosalle who has sent me some beautiful musical gems over the past year or so. His vinyl releases which are in a 10″ format are works of art and a joy to own and play. One the most popular recent releases from the label is An Idea of Everything (featured in a previous mix) which features David Greenberger, Chris Corsano and Glenn Jones, we reviewed it here.
Lost in Transmission No 35 playlist
Éloise Decazes + Eric Chenaux – La Complainte du Roi Renaud
Self-titled Release. Okraina Records 2012. Bandcamp.
Allysen Callery – First Amongst the Flowers
Originally released on Reverb Worship in 2017. Bandcamp.
Appendix Out – Window Over The Bay
From a CD Alasdair Roberts sent me many years ago – A Warm and Yeasty Corner. Shingle Street (2001).
Brian Harnetty – Merrywise
From Rawhead and Bloody Bones. Dust to Digital (2015).
Laura Cannell – Horselore
From Simultaneous Flight Movement. Brawl Records (2014). Bandcamp.
Adam Leonard – The Eighth Tower, Pt. 2
From North Western Recordings – part of Folk Police Recordings (a label I really miss). 2012. Read our interview with Adam here.
The Left Outsides – The Creeping Fog
The first of a double helping from The Left Outsides new album There is a Place which we reviewed here. Cardinal Fuzz (2017). Bandcamp.
Marry Waterson & David A. Jaycock – The Vain Jackdaw
One of my favourite albums of the year: Death Had Quicker Wings Than Love (One Little Indian, 2017). Reviewed here. Read Marry Waterson’s track-by-track here.
Crooked Weather – Hares On The Mountain
A brilliant young band from the depths of East Yorkshire. From Paper Roads. Check them out on Bandcamp.
Offa Rex – Willie O’ Winsbury
Another 2017 favourite – the joyous musical union of The Decemberists and Olivia Chaney. From The Queen of Hearts (Nonesuch, 2017). Reviewed here.
Elle Osborne – Toast (The Ballad of Michael ‘Mini’ Cooper)
From It’s Not Your Gold Shall Me Entice is Out (9th House Recordings, 2015). Reviewed here.
Trembling Bells / Alex Rex – Trembling Bells – The Auld Triangle
From a Record Store Day 10″ vinyl release on Tin Angel (2017). The Bells are joined here by a gaggle of their famous friends including guest vocalists Alasdair Roberts, Ricky Ross, Dan Haywood, Mike Heron, Scott Fagan and Amy Cutler. It’s like Band-Aid but without the bonhomie. Or career-cementing charity scams. Bandcamp.
David Chatton Barker – Elder (Sambucus nigra)
From another of my favourite labels – unlike any other. Taken from The Folklore of Plants Vol 1 which features 31 tracks from the likes of David here, David Jaycock (Marry Waterson &Big Eyes Family Players), James Green (Big Eyes Family Players), Modern Studies and many more. (Folklore Tapes, 2017).
The Left Outsides – The House of the Stone Bell
The second of a double helping from The Left Outsides new album There is a Place which we reviewed here. Cardinal Fuzz (2017). Bandcamp.
Alison O’Donnell – In the Snowmelt
From Alison’s album Climb Sheer the Fields of Peace (Mega Dodo 2017). Bandcamp.
Alison O’Donnell and Firefay are to play at Servant Jazz Quarters, London – 18th January 2018, from 7:30pm. Ticket Link.
Ed Askew & Joshua Burkett – Little Eyes
From Rose – Ed Askew performing with Joshua Burkett and Steve Gunn (Two duos ~ Two radio sessions ~ Two ten inch records). Released on Okraina Records (2014). Bandcamp.
Éloise Decazes + Eric Chenaux – La Glu
A second helping from their self-titled Release. Okraina Records 2012. Bandcamp.
Larkin Grimm – They Were Wrong + Be My Host (live)
From La Ballade du beau regard. Okraina Records 2013. Musicians include Larkin Grimm, Paul LaBrecque, Cam Deas, Paul Metzger, Micah Blue Smaldone and others. Bandcamp.
Léonore Boulanger & Maam-Li Merati – Dastgah-e Nava (Tasnif-e Meikhane)
From La Maison d’amour. Okraina Records 2016 – Léonore Boulanger and Maam-Li Merati met each other in Paris in 2011 at a concert of Azerbaijani Master-Musician Alim Qasimov and his daughter Ferghana Qasimova. Maam-Li Merati is an Iranian musician that was born in Kermanshah, near the Iraqi border. In addition to having a Doctor in Musicology, he has worked with artists such as Iranian singer Shahram Nazeri and French novelist and Luis Bunuel’s screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière (for a project devoted to 13th century Persian poet and Sufi mystic Rumi). Shortly after their meeting, Maam-Li Merati started to teach the art of Persian classical music to Léonore Boulanger, a young French musician that released three albums on the multi-faceted label Le Saule.
During the spring of 2015, they recorded some first lyrical odes, some dastgāhs for two voices and traditional string instruments that would later become the sides A and C of the La Maison d’amour double ten inch on Okraïna. Later, Matthieu Ferrandez, church organist and researcher in electronic music, joined them for sides B and D weaving a cosmic lace, with the sighs of harmonium and acoustic organs. Bandcamp.
Dan Blakeslee – Commerce in the Night
Released earlier this year to celebrate the 50th release from Burst and Bloom. Another brilliant label who gave us two incredible tribute albums: Through the Static and the Distance: The Songs of Jason Molina, reviewed here and A Light I Can Feel: A Tribute to Brown Bird, reviewed here. Go find them on Bandcamp.
Ed Askew & Steve Gunn – When I Arrive
From Rose – Ed Askew performing with Joshua Burkett and Steve Gunn (Two duos ~ Two radio sessions ~ Two ten inch records). Released on Okraina Records (2014). Bandcamp.
Photo by Alex Gallacher