wReck thiS meSS ~ Radio Patapoe 88.3
Amsterdam ~ Ethno-Illogical Psycho-Radiographies
13 April 2009 // 17.00-19.00
Look here, springtime, I admit that I sure need you.
But can’t you feel my heart pounding so hard and free?
It works both ways now, you need me.
• Jonathan Richman
• photo: Paloma Plantenga
Le Sacre du Printemps [Stravinsky] > Pierre Boulez + Cleveland Symphony Orchestra [Rites of Spring / CBS vinyl]
Le Sacre du Printemps [Stravinsky] > Ernest Asermet + L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande [London vinyl]
It’s Spring On The Moon > Mathias Delplanque
Paasmorgen [Easter morning] > Europese Fono Club
How Perfect is the Order of the Air > Sal Salasin + Steve Bochan [Auto-produced, 1985]
A Moscou > Le Tone vs Judith
May I Come In? > Blossom Dearie [May I Come In? / Capitol vinyl]
Loon Call > Loon
Bettag > Christine Lauterburg
Albatross > Fleetwood Mac [Black Magic Woman / Epic vinyl]
Great Reed Warbler > Hans Traber
Sleepy song > Tindersticks [Nenette et Boni / Island ]
The Best is Yet to Come > Blossom Dearie [May I Come In? / Capitol vinyl]
Red Bird: Lis to Birdsong > Trevor Wishart
Tan Gentle > S-cut.db [From Tears: Beach Archive / Bip-Hop ]
Cape San de Lumiere > Olga
Looking at the Bible > Frank Rothkamm [Frank Genius is Star Stuck / Flux ]
Interlude for Soprano & Piano > Frank Rothkamm [Frank Genius is Star Stuck / Flux ]
Habanera: L’amour est un oiseau rebelle > Jules Migenes Johnson [Carmen: Georges Bizet / Erato]
La Vie > Frank Rothkamm [Frank Genius is Star Stuck / Flux ]
La Dans du Plaisir > Ghislain Poirier
Elvis > Frank Rothkamm [Frank Genius is Star Stuck / Flux ]
Planalp > Christine Lauterburg []
Springtime > Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers [Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers / Berserkley, 1976]
Bouncing Bubbles > Frank Rothkamm [Frank Genius is Star Stuck / Flux ]
Quiet Nights > Blossom Dearie [May I Come In? / Capitol vinyl]
L’Herbe Tendre > Serge Gainsbourg & Michel Simon [Cannabis / Universal]
Country Time > Beth Anderson
L’Herbe Tendre Instro > Serge Gainsbourg & Michel Colombier [Cannabis / Universal]
Unearthed > Micheline Roi
When its Springtime in the Rockies > Slim Whitman
Aan de Bosrand > Europese Fono Club
Little Bird, Little Bird > Mike & Peggy Seeger
Ode to a Meadowlark > Sourdough Slim [Vaudeville Cowboy / Roundup ]
Willow Warbler > Hans Traber
Mockingbird Yodel > Corinna Cordwell
In het Bos > Europese Fono Club
Lentestemming > Europese Fono Club
Every Bulb In The Place Blew > Music A.M.
How Perfect is the Order of the Air > Sal Salasin + Steve Bochan [Auto-produced, 1985]
This was a show dedicated to spring: the feeling was definitely in the air. When I ride my bike to the station through the Vondel Park it is fairly easy to gauge the spirit of the people in how many people are in the park doing springy things. It is an amazingly sappy almost cliched Hallmakr feeling and yet that spring feeling seems to easily transcend it with the way it wakes and melts the heart – almost no matter how doomsday you may have become.
Blossom Dearie died February 7, 2009 at age 82. She had one of those voices that runs totally contrary to today’s pumped up volume, and exploding decibels. And thus she became much more effective. Her tender voice flitted along jazzy shimmering dewy surfaces betraying the shallowness she seemed to inhabit. I am somehow reminded of Satie and Jonathan Richman of zen of some nursery rhymes, things and expressions that often appear incredibly surfacy are actually works and artists who defy the false profundity of depth, the pomposity of gravity and the somber… Her first LP appeared in 1964.
Albatross is ambient music before its time and is the offspring of Santos & Johnny’s Sleepwalk [1959]. It has a springy going to the sea for the first time in the year feel. It served as part of the soundtrack to Fassbinder’s film World on a Wire and is sampled in KLF classic ambient sample-othon masterpiece Chill Out.
How Perfect is the Order of the Air. This is only second mention on the entire Internet of this great long poem-CD. Sal Salasin [RIP, 2009]. “Look across the river / there is sky / there earth / this is a street / this a wet tenament roof / there is Eastern europe / here are the movies”
“Springtime, I’m out here in your morning breezes.
And I smell such nectar in your air.”
• Jonathan Richman
