Episode 968 of weekly experimental new music show, by folks formerly behind Staalplaat. Click on title for playlist 968. tracklist for Vital Weekly 968: 0000 Tune 0014 Chihei Hatakeyama - A Silver Fence To Present The Entrance Of Horses 0316 Konstruktivits - Future Past Calling 0634 Matt Krefting 1018 Philippe Lauzier & Eric Normand 1327 Brent Fariss - Folk Song For 27 Oboes 1631 Otzir Godot 1934 Elisabeth Schimana 2242 Marcus M. Rubio - New Inquisitions 2550 P.O.T. - Ariel Alert 2854 Tune

On this episode #52 of the FFFoxy Podcast, we dug into a stack of incredible new tapes that arrived in the past few weeks and months. We’ve been giving these latest tapes from Excess, Ekin Fil, Hound Dog Taylor’s Hand, and Jackie McDowell some heavy boombox play around the FFF bunker, and the just-arrived works from Three Legged Race and Thomas DeAngelo are sure to occupy some prime deck time over the coming weeks, too. We’ve also been plunging into the two and half hours worth of primo heavy psych from Burnt Hills and their latest release Slip Through Time on Tape Drift. This is a great introduction for anyone interested in checking out what this long-running upstate NY group as been up to. We also plucked out a few older works from James Rushford & Joe Talia, Bob Drake, and Small Cruel Party that all still sound as fresh as ever to these ears. There’s plenty more, of course, but we’ll let you check ‘em out on your own. Hope you enjoy this episode (despite the overuse of “kind of” as brain dead, Sunday morning verbal filler). The Velveteens “Makin’ Signs” Sun’s Up LP (Old Blackberry Way) Constant Mongrel “New Shapes” DCM 7” (R.I. P. Society) James Rushford & Joe Talia “Battlement” Knife Culture/Buried Melbourne 2CD (Sabbatical) Excess (ft. Leighton Craig) “Pathology of a Walk” Escape From Brisbane CS (Virtual Cool) Jackie McDowell “Heralds” Language of the Birds CS (Hairy Spider Legs) Ekin Fil “Captain” Wind Is Near CS (Sacred Phrases) Gaapiiiii “Sign . . .” Sign/Stanza/Form/Scrap CS (Self-Help Tapes) (Talk break) Burnt Hills “Track 6/Disc 1” Slip Through Time 2CD-R (Tape Drift) Mountains And Rainbows “Untitled” Comp of Narf IV (Fag Tapes) Hound Dog Taylor’s Hand “Track 4” Live at the Comet Tavern CS (Eiderdown) Bob Drake “Some Accursed Things” The Skull Mailbox (and Other Horrors) CD (Crumbling Tome Archives) Time Heals Nothing “Getting What You Deserve” Time Heals Nothing CS (Always Human Tapes) Canned Fit “Fragile” Cucharas de Arena MP3 (Pan Y Rosas Discos) Beth-El “Burnt Offering” Exit Statements CS (Diskret) (Talk break) Stage Hands “The Populating of Empty Space” S/T LP (My Idea of Fun) Problems That Fix Themselves “Maximum Occupancy” Which Is Worse LP (Already Dead Tapes) Julien A. Lacroix “Elamites March” Uruk Romantic Tales #2 LP (Upside Down Recordings) Three Legged Race “Ex-Locksmith” Rope Commercial Vol. 2 (Vitrine) Russell Walker “Bud Zippo” The Thwartee CD-R (Savoury Days) T.D. “Out of Clouds” Violence As Sport CS (Crisis of Taste) Small Cruel Party “Side A/Untitled” (excerpt) Unroof the House of the Fishes LP (Harbinger Sound) (Talk break) Heather Leigh “Asenath Miragarl” Nightingale LP* (Golden Lab Records)

Extended, live version with local news, weather updates, public meeting listings, and national headlines from Public News Service. Plus, national headlines in spanish from "Democracy Now!" Also, a local interview.

Ham radio responds as a volcano erupts in Guatemala; a Super High Frequency band could face reallocation here in the United States; the K-one-N Nevassa Island DXpedition winds down; AMSAT-UK puts out first call for speakers for its 2015 Space Colloquium; the FCC renews the only United States 4 meter experimental beacon permit and a fascinating discovery about the new Raspberry Pi 2 pico computer.

Radia Show 515: "Savusauna" by Lasse-Marc Riek for Radio X (Frankfurt/Main, DE). As a substantial part of Finnish life and culture, sauna has a considerably long tradition in Finland. Savusauna, the smoke sauna, is the eldest technique of preparing a sauna bath. In contrast to more recent sauna baths, no chimney is needed. A big fire is prepared and kept over hours under constant temperature – not to low, but also not too hot, to produce smoke. The smoke is filling and thus heating the sauna room. When the room is hot enough, small windows are opened to let the smoke escape and the sauna bath can begin. Have you ever enjoyed a savusauna? You should. Lasse-Marc Rieks piece invites you to join a savusauna bath by listening. It’s really worth a try. While Lasse-Marc Riek, being a specialist for field recordings, would for sure have been able to provide extra material to capture the atmosphere around the savusauna as well, we did not ask for that. His piece is complete in its on rights, celebrating the Finnish sauna culture of the everyday. At the same time, when it comes to sauna bath: how can we translate this experience into sound? Obviously, for several reasons this seems to be an almost impossible task. Or, to be more precise: what we might consider as the most natural translation would be always the most artificial part. For we’d loose track of what we are missing, what can’t be captured with the means of recording, due to the fact that the core experience is fuelled by substances that can’t be kept: smoke, heat, steam, sweat. So we chose for our acoustic framework a good mixture of field recordings – some of which are so concrete that they might remind you of Foley sounds, the kind of sounds that are created for exactly this very kind of purpose: a substitute that may feel more real than the real one would. But is this really true? You’ll be able to find out anyway. But then we also have to be complete with our credits (see below), thus it is not really necessary to try. Yet, why not stop reading here. Listen by yourself first. And check the data later. It’s really worth a try… LASSE-MARC RIEK is an artist mainly working in the field of sound art, acoustic ecology and related interdisciplinary research, including cooperations with other artists as well as scientist. He is also the co-founder of GRUENREKORDER, an outstanding label for phonography, sound art and field recordings. Over the past years he has been travelling north more but once, often returning with field recordings from the frozen world. This winter he has spent some weeks in Finnland. And as it went to be quite cold outside he regularly enjoyed the savusauna.

These "newsicals" are produced by Paul Fischer, former News Director of WBAI, NY, and KPFA, Berkeley, and then a writer for Dan Rather for 24 years on the "CBS Evening News." This week: "An Illinois congressman's office decked out as Downton Abbey...wants Obamacare repealed..and keeps his job. A North Carolina US Senator opposes over-regulation...such as " restaurant employees must wash hands after using bathroom"...and keeps his job...But Brian Williams jumped or was pushed. Unbelievable. (Told Through Narration, Music and Soundbites.) Good Vibrations The Beach Boys single. Capitol 1966 03:35 TV Colleen Green I Want To Grow Up. Hardly Art Rec 2015 03:10 The Best Room ( Radio Edit) Modest Mouse Strangers To Ourselves. Epic 2015 04:27 8 Utopia Aphex Twin single. self released 2015 07:19 Open Wide Slutever Almost Famous. self released 2015 03:54 Full Bleed Caught On Tape single. Northern Spy 2015 03:24 Blue Diamonds Phantom Posse Home. self released 2015 03:43 Bunkerbop Lonelady Hinterland. Warp 2015 05:56 Less Travelled Johanna Warren Numon. Team Love Rec 2015 04:13 20/20 Gaz Coombes Matador. Hot Fruit Rec 2015 04:14 Friendship Pops Staples ft. Tweedy Don't Lose This. Anti 2015 04:16 Closure Lapalux ft. Szjerdene Lustmore. Brainfeeder 2015 04:13 So Slow Paperhaus Paperhaus. Paperhaus 2015 03:05 Dragon Mt. Eerie Sauna. PW Elverum and Sun 2015 03:15 Chinatown Girlpool single. Wichita Rec 2015 03:11 Additional Credits This program contains soundbites...including...excerpts/montage..Brian Wms apology...Lester Holt announces Wms statement to take himself off the air for several days ...6month suspension without pay ..Nightly News open with Holt "in for Brian".... Rep. Aaron Shock ( Downton Abbey office decor) excerpts R Ill....Q and A with hs students 2009.....on repealing Obamacare for violating religious freedom.... Sen. Thom Tillis R N.C....on needless regs like making restaurant employees wash hands after using bathroom... Hillary backtracks on coming under fire in Bosnia.... excerpts/ montage/mashup Joe Biden lifts speech from Neil Kinnock... Ukraine now is like Ukraine a year ago... excerpts/ montage Biden/McCain at European Security conf. in Munich conf.....Q and A Merkel/ Obama at White House...from C Span, ,media and political websites...for illustrative, analysis and commentary purposes.

Field recordings, found sounds, and acoustic ecology. This edition features works by Kodama (Hitoshi Kojo and Micheal Northam), Eric La Casa with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Jehanne Thibault, Yair Lopez, sounds from the Aporee Soundmaps by Carlo Patrao, Flavien Gilliē, OR Poeisis, and Henrik Schroeder, and a framework introduction recorded in India by Martin Clarke.

Radia Show 515: "Savusauna" by Lasse-Marc Riek for Radio X (Frankfurt/Main, DE). As a substantial part of Finnish life and culture, sauna has a considerably long tradition in Finland. Savusauna, the smoke sauna, is the eldest technique of preparing a sauna bath. In contrast to more recent sauna baths, no chimney is needed. A big fire is prepared and kept over hours under constant temperature – not to low, but also not too hot, to produce smoke. The smoke is filling and thus heating the sauna room. When the room is hot enough, small windows are opened to let the smoke escape and the sauna bath can begin. Have you ever enjoyed a savusauna? You should. Lasse-Marc Rieks piece invites you to join a savusauna bath by listening. It’s really worth a try. While Lasse-Marc Riek, being a specialist for field recordings, would for sure have been able to provide extra material to capture the atmosphere around the savusauna as well, we did not ask for that. His piece is complete in its on rights, celebrating the Finnish sauna culture of the everyday. At the same time, when it comes to sauna bath: how can we translate this experience into sound? Obviously, for several reasons this seems to be an almost impossible task. Or, to be more precise: what we might consider as the most natural translation would be always the most artificial part. For we’d loose track of what we are missing, what can’t be captured with the means of recording, due to the fact that the core experience is fuelled by substances that can’t be kept: smoke, heat, steam, sweat. So we chose for our acoustic framework a good mixture of field recordings – some of which are so concrete that they might remind you of Foley sounds, the kind of sounds that are created for exactly this very kind of purpose: a substitute that may feel more real than the real one would. But is this really true? You’ll be able to find out anyway. But then we also have to be complete with our credits (see below), thus it is not really necessary to try. Yet, why not stop reading here. Listen by yourself first. And check the data later. It’s really worth a try… LASSE-MARC RIEK is an artist mainly working in the field of sound art, acoustic ecology and related interdisciplinary research, including cooperations with other artists as well as scientist. He is also the co-founder of GRUENREKORDER, an outstanding label for phonography, sound art and field recordings. Over the past years he has been travelling north more but once, often returning with field recordings from the frozen world. This winter he has spent some weeks in Finnland. And as it went to be quite cold outside he regularly enjoyed the savusauna.