Cheers to The Rhythm Doctor for letting us know about a great LP called David Rodigan’s Dubwise Shower on BBE bandcamp here. There’s some classic stuff on there including the above horns cut of Delroy Wilson‘s “Have some mercy” that we haven’t heard before.
Also a version of Gregory Isaacs’ “Walk right in” by Sylvan Morris & Andy’s All Stars.
And talking of said tune and thanks to Steve Barker playing it on On The Wire a while ago, here’s some Banjo Dub!
Cheers to Rich up in the Lake District for sending us some pics taken above his house when trying to capture the latest aurora activity up there. He may not have caught the northern lights but the milky way counts as some heavy stuff. Lovely pictures Rich!
He was telling us that last week was wet and windy in the week. I wonder if we’ll be getting some of that weather down here this week?
And a couple of skyward related tunes for you.
Thanks to Debby H from north London who has just come back from Fréjus in the south of France. Before she left she took a couple of photographs from there. The first (above) is the sky at dusk, looks wonderful Debby! Red sky at night and all that…) and a cork oak tree (below), as she said “There’s loads of them around Fréjus where we go. Apparently they were the original source of cork, at least for Europe.” We didn’t know that and Wikipedia reckons they are the source of the core of cricket balls too.
She went onto say “Since we returned, the zephyranthes bulbs have given us one last flower of the year” (below).
“We have brought indoors our ornithogalum plant as it’s now getting too cold for it to be outside at night. We only got one flower from it this year but last year we had loads.” (below).
Thanks to Mike & Julia (Wonderful pictures as always Julia) for sending some updated pictures from their garden near Coventry at the weekend. As Mike said “It’s actually sunny today. Not sure how long it will last though!” We are with you on that. Thanks to plantnet.org we’ve got some Michaelmas daisies and some dahlias. Lovely stuff!
Seen on our travels the other day around Clerkenwell, a bonkers-style bird nesting box made from an old builder’s boot. Wonder does the steel toecap keep in the heat at night? And do you reckon that there’s a camera in the heel part to document the future bird resident’s progress?
Big shout to our radio collaborator Jesse Yuen, for sending us last month’s and the month’s before Dubwise and Otherwise show this morning. Both shows are well worth listening to for some genuine Sunday morning chilled vibes.
The show is broadcast once a month on Radio Cazimi, an online community radio station based in Walyalup/Fremantle, Western Australia. (Walyalup is located at the mouth of the Swan River and of course Jesse’s other show was called North of The River Swan!)
We’re half-way through the Springtones show at the moment and it is cracking! We were scratching our head’s thinking “Where do we know the intro from?” and it’s The Aloof with Never get out of the boat, a tune we only had in our hands last night while rearranging our records.
We’ll check out the Soundcloud link in a couple of days for yesterday’s great show. Cheers Jesse!
A big thanks to whoever it was (it may have been Penny Golightly) who told us the best way (and the cheap as chips way) to grow those expensive culinary delights called pea shoots, is to get the seeds from those packs of dried peas that have the salt tablets in them. Discard the seed tablet and then sow away. Above are a few we sowed a couple of weeks ago, get those scissors out!
Also, we are confused as what is the best way of preserving chillies as we are having a glut of them (a nice glut to have by the way) here. As you recall we have tried the “hang them out to dry” method but we’ve been told about the freezing method, which we are trying. Any other good ideas for preserving chillies?
Big shout to Jesse Yuen and friends Lia T and Rok Riley who are on the air via the internet for the “Dubwise and Otherwise” show from 8-10am on this Saturday morning from the other side of this world of ours. If you want to chill out indoors in the warm to some downtempo bass heavy vibes tune into radiocazimi.com here.
We’ve just finished a shortwave International themed mix and chose this cracking version of Manzanita‘s Paga La Cuenta Sinverguenza in a Cumbia Rebajada style (slowed down).
Below is the track at the original turntable intended speed. What speed do you prefer? The track now sounds a bit “Pinky & Perky”.
A couple of weekends ago on Imaginary Stations a programme called CLSC was broadcast via the transmitters of the great Shortwave Gold. “Music we like to think is classic, or classical in nature” was the theme of the show and featured all sorts of loosely defined classic(al) tunes. Have a listen to below how the theme was translated by the Imaginary Stations crew.
Also at a couple of seconds in, is a mix from One Deck Pete called Classical Gas.
Tracklistings are:
Yussef Dayes – Magnolia Symphony
Classical Mechanics – Porphyry
Scientist Ft Alicia Previn – Scientist Spacewalk
The Salsoul Orchestra – You’re just the right size
The Poplar Bluff High School Bands – GRC – Classical Gas
There are more episodes of CLSC to come including CLSC2 which was broadcast last weekend and appears on the Imaginary Stations Mixcloud here.
