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WMM Playlist from June 26, 2019
Posted on July 1, 2019 by Mark Manning
Bill Sundahl & Collaborations Live! at The Folly
+ The Volker Brothers + Dick Von Dyke +
Belle & The Vertigo Waves
1. "It's Showtime Folks"
from: Orig. Motion Picture Soundtrack All That Jazz / Casablanca / Dec 20, 1979
2. The Philistines – "Further"
from: Further – Single / The Philistines / March 15, 2019
[New music from The Philistines, that will be part of the upcoming album Dysnomia. Produced and engineered by paul Malinowski at Massive Sound Studios. The Philistines are a Kansas City based rock band with a psychedelic bent, made up of: Kimmie Queen on lead vocals; Cody Wyoming on lead guitar & vocals; Rod Peal on guitar; Josh Mobley on keyboard, Steve Gardels on drums, and Barry Kidd on bass.]
[The Philistines play recordBar, 1520 Grand, Fri, June 28, 9:30 PM w/ Inner Altar, & Godzillionaire]
Photo by Gordon Parks
3. Mavis Staples – "Change"
from: We Get By / Anti / May 10, 2019
[14th studio solo album from rhythm & blues and gospel singer, actress and civil rights activist, born in Chicago, Illinois on July 10, 1939. The album's cover features the photograph "Outside Looking In" by Gordon Parks from his 1956 photo essay The Restraints: Open and Hidden. The album was produced and written by Ben Harper. Staples & Harper had previously collaborated on "Love and Trust", a song from Staples' 2016 album, Livin' on a High Note. In a statement, Staples said, "These songs are delivering such a strong message. We truly need to make a change if we want this world to be better." Mavis Staples has recorded and performed with her family's band The Staple Singers. She began her career with her family group in 1950. Initially singing locally at churches, appearing on a weekly radio show, the Staples scored a hit in 1956 with "Uncloudy Day" for the Vee-Jay label. When Mavis graduated from what is now Paul Robeson High School in 1957, The Staple Singers took their music on the road. Led by family patriarch Roebuck "Pops" Staples on guitar and including the voices of Mavis and her siblings Cleotha, Yvonne, and Purvis, the Staples were called "God's Greatest Hitmakers." With Mavis' voice and Pops' songs, singing, and guitar playing, the Staples evolved from enormously popular gospel singers (with recordings on United and Riverside as well as Vee-Jay) to become the most spectacular and influential spirituality-based group in America. By the mid-1960s The Staple Singers, inspired by Pops' close friendship with Martin Luther King, Jr., became the spiritual and musical voices of the civil rights movement. They covered contemporary pop hits with positive messages, including Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" and a version of Stephen Stills' "For What It's Worth." Staples was briefly married to Spencer Leak in 1964; they divorced when Staples would not end her music career to stay home. She has no children. In the 2015 documentary Mavis! she reveals that Bob Dylan once proposed to her, and she turned him down.]
Raye Zaragoza
4. Raye Zaragoza – "Fight For You (Live)"
from: Raye Zaragoza Live at Rockwood Music Hall – EP / Raye Zaragoza / Jan. 25, 2019
[Raye Zaragoza was born and raised in Manhattan and moved to LA at the age of fourteen. Her mother is an immigrant from Japan and her father is of Mexican and Native American heritage. At age 6, Raye sang "You Can't Get A Man with a Gun" from Annie Get Your Gun on national television when her father was playing Chief Sitting Bull on Broadway. She became involved in school musicals, started playing guitar at age 12, and started writing songs in her late teens. Zaragoza released her debut EP Heroine in 2015. She started to gain national attention in 2016 with the song "In The River," protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. Raye and her brother made a video for "In The River" that included facts about Standing Rock and it received 100,000 views overnight. The song was awarded the Global Music Awards' 2017 Heretic Award for Protest/Activist Music and the Honesty Oscars' award for Best Song. In 2017, she independently released her debut album Fight For You. Multiple songs on Fight For You address the Dakota Access Pipeline. "Driving to Standing Rock" portrays the power of protest, specifically of the NoDAPL movement. The song "American Dream" was written in reaction to Donald Trump's election. The album also includes love songs and songs about NYC. She cites Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and Joan Baez, as influences.]
[Raye Zaragoza plays KC Folk Fest, Sun, June 30, 4:00 at Guadalupe Centers, 1015 Cesar E Chavez Ave, w/ a "Here's to the Roots" showcase at 4:00 feat. Regina del Carmen, Sisters Havilah & Kenese, & Danny Cox, at 5:00 Raye Zaragoza. at 6:00 Quique Escamilla, at 7:00 Violet and the Undercurrents. Produced by Folk Alliance International. For more info: kcfolkfest.org.]
Volker Brothers
5. Volker Brothers – "Turn It Up"
from: Wrecking Ball / Jason Buice / June 28, 2019
[2nd EP from Erik Voeks and David George, two rock and roll brothers who play guitar and harmonized on their own pop-folk-rock songs influenced by The Everly Brothers to Elvis Costello from XTC to the Finn Brothers. The new Volker Brothers EP was recorded at Weights and Measures Sound Lab with engineer Duane Trower, with Matt Richey on drums, Lin Buck on keys, and Rick Willoughby on bass.]
[Volker Brothers Play EP Release Show Thurs, June 27, 7:30 in The Gospel Lounge at Kunckleheads.]
10:17 – Interview with David George
Singer, songwriter, producer, rock and roller, musical theatre creator, David George has toured all over the place with John Fogerty, played on national television, had his music played when the Chiefs scored a touch down, has written a Christmas Musical about a Drag Queen, and has performed at The Missouri Rep. David George joins us to share music from the Volker Brothers new EP Wrecking Ball. Volker Brothers Play an EP Release Show Thursday, June 27, at 7:30 in The Gospel Lounge at Knuckleheads.
David George thanks for being with us again on WMM.
Volker Brothers EP Wrecking Ball, Release Show w/ Erin Eades is Thurs, June 27, 8 PM, in Carl Butler's Gospel Lounge at Knuckleheads Saloon 2715 Rochester, KCMO.
The new Volker Brothers was recorded at Weights and Measures Sound Lab with engineer Duane Trower, Matt Richey on drums, Lin Buck on keys, and Rick Willoughby on bass!
Sat, July 6, 7:00 David George & Christine Broxterman play Homer's Coffee House OPKS
Friday, July 19, at 7:00 PM, David George Band at Crossroads KC
Monday, August 5, at recordBar with DRUNKEN PRAYER
Sunday, Sept. 8, 6:00 PM at recorder w/ Corey Phillips and the Band of Light
Volker Brothers Biography: The word "Volker" comes from the Germanic word "Fulc" meaning people. It is also the name of a neighborhood in KCwhere Erik Voeks & David George met. Volker Brothers are an acoustic duo that share lead vocals & background harmonies influenced by the likes of The Everly Brothers, Simon & Garfunkel, The Eagles, Tom Petty, and Elvis Costello to Crowded House, XTC, and The Beatles.
Voeks and George first started playing together when one would fill in with the other's band. Whether it was Erik playing bass and singing backup in David George & A Crooked Mile or David playing guitar and singing backup in Erik Voeks & The Vague Lakes, the two realized they had a musicality in common. Stripping the band back to just the two of them on acoustic guitars enabled them to do a weeks worth of shows in Seattle. They began performing intimate shows around Kansas City, including house concerts and private events, and spreading the word on their melody driven, harmony enriched, acoustic based music. It's not pop and it's not folk, but a blend of the two.
Erik Voeks recently released full length album So The Wind Won't Blow It Away in 2017 on Hanky Panky Records, a label based in Bilbao, Spain. It is the highly anticipated follow up to his 1993 album, Sandbox (Rockville Records) "A pervasively melodic collection of power-pop – a lost masterpiece" (Fresh Air KCUR). This doesn't mean Voeks wasn't busy. He has been a very in demand bassist in the Midwest and tours in Europe.
David George also had a recent release — three EP's over a twelve month period. Here I Go Again, Won't Let Go, and Lesson Of Love, with each album adding to the previous (acoustic, band, horns). George gained national attention when the Kansas City Chiefs chose his song "Hey, Kansas City!" to be their touchdown anthem in 2015-16 season. He also toured with the legendary John Fogerty, performing sold out arenas and the "late night" circuit (David Letterman, Jay Leno).
Volker Brothers have just finished recording and are releasing their first studio recording, a 5 song EP entitled Wrecking Ball. It'll be available online digitally & physical copies at shows on June 28, 2019. The album was recorded w/ Duane Trower at Weights & Measures Soundlabs featuring a full band accompanying Volker Brother's signature sound.
http://www.volkerbrothers.com
6. Volker Brothers – "Wrecking Ball"
[Volker Brothers Play an EP Release Show Thur, June 27, 7:30 in The Gospel Lounge at Kunckleheads.]
7. Jessica Paige – "Night Train"
from: "Night Train" – Single / Jessica Paige / June 1, 2018
[29 year old Jessica Paige moved to Kansas City from Manhattan, Kansas, after caring for her ailing grandmother for several years. She told CJ Janovy of KCUR News. "After she passed away, I started doing music full time, recorded my album and started touring." Jessica self-produced my first album "Sweet Nothings" with Nashville-based artists and producers. The album is a reflection of the life-cycle of a relationship; the exciting and insecure beginnings to the lamenting demise of something that was once beautiful. The single released from the album, "Beautiful Life," is a soul-pop reflection of someone trying to reconcile the conflicting emotions of trying to rescue or walk away from a relationship, while still appreciating how beautiful it is to love, regardless of how things turnout. While working on "Sweet Nothings," Jessica settled in to Kansas City to start working with a full band and laying the groundwork for her next album.]
[Jessica Paige plays KKFI Collaborations Live!, Sat, July 29, 8:00 PM at The Folly Theatre, 300 West 12th St,. A fundraiser for KKFI 90.1FM Kansas City Community Radio. / http://www.follytheatre.org]
10:38 – Interview with Bill Sundahl
90.1 FM KKFI's Bill Sundahl joins us to talk about KKFI Collaborations Live!, Sat, June 29, at 8:00 PM at The Folly Theatre, 300 West 12th St. bringing together 13 never before seen performances on the historic Folly Stage. This event is a fundraiser for KKFI 90.1FM Kansas City Community Radio.
Bill Sundahl thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley.
Collaborations Live! includes: Quixotic Performers, Maria Cuevas (of Maria the Mexican), The Wires, Jessica Paige, Mark Lowrey, Rick Kloog, Kelly Hunt, Traditional Music Society, Fanny and Ryan Head, Ceili at the Crossroads, SugEasy, VJDN8, and Casey Key.
Show begins with 2 songs, then one artist exits, and a 2nd collaborator joins to perform 2 more songs, and then one exits and is joined by another for 2 more songs.
KKFI Collaborations Live! – 13 Unique Performances – Saturday, June 29th, 2019
6:00pm VIP Reception – Stakeholders Room at Folly w/ complimentary food & libations and a chance to mingle with Artists and KKFI Hosts.
7:15pm Artists Panel – Collaboration in the Digital Age
8:00pm – Musical relay of performances by the regions finest artists.
Collaborations Live! is bringing together 10 first time ever performances to the historic Folly Stage. The show will begin with two songs, then one of the artists will exit the stage and a second collaborator will join the remaining artist on stage. They will perform two songs, then one will leave and be joined by another artist for two more songs. This musical relay is not a race to the finish, but rather a coming together of community.
This event is a Fundraiser for KKFI 90.1FM Kansas City Community Radio.
Ticketing is handled by Folly Theater /// http://www.follytheater.org /// Info at http://www.kkfi.org
8. Kelly Hunt – "Sunshine Long Overdue"
from: Even The Sparrow / Rare Bird Records / May 17, 2019
[The daughter of an opera singer and a saxophonist, Kelly Hunt was raised in Memphis, TN, and grew up performing other people's works through piano lessons, singing in choirs, and performing theater. "It was a very creative, artistic household," says Hunt. During her teenage years, influenced by musical inspirations as diverse as Norah Jones, Rachmaninov, and John Denver, she began writing her own songs on the piano as a creative outlet. After being introduced to the banjo in college while studying French and visual arts, Hunt began to develop her own improvised style of playing, combining old-time picking styles with the percussive origins of the instrument. "I'm self-taught, I just started letting the songs dictate what needed to be there," she says. "I heard a rhythm in a song that I wanted to execute, so I figured out how to do it on the drum head while still being able to articulate certain notes in one motion." After college, Hunt followed a rambling path that took her through careers in acting, graphic design, traditional French bread making, and medicine, all the while making music as a private endeavor. "I wanted to get serious about a responsible career choice, but music kept bubbling up. I was writing a lot and playing a lot and started to not be satisfied just playing to my walls of my room." After moving to Kansas City and discovering her mysterious Depression-era tenor banjo, Hunt began recording Even The Sparrow in Kansas City alongside collaborator Stas' Heaney and engineer Kelly Werts. "It took almost two years to record," she says, "learning how to let the songs dictate the production." Having finally come to light, the album displays Hunt's penchant for masterful storytelling and intriguing arrangement, as researched and complex as they are memorable, punctuated by her articulate melodies and a well-enunciated and creative command of lyrical delivery infused with deft emotional communication. While reminiscent of modern traditionalists such as Gillian Welch–a number of her songs even borrow titles and phrasing from traditional American music ("Back to Dixie," "Gloryland")–Even The Sparrow reveals an ineffable quality that hovers beyond the constraints of genre, à la Anais Mitchell and Patty Griffin. In "The Men of Blue & Grey," what begins as a Reconstruction-era ballad about the repurposing of Civil War glass plate negatives in a greenhouse roof soon becomes a meditation on the hope that growth and life may one day be able to emerge from the ruins of suffering and haunting of violence. "Across The Great Divide" turns an otherwise traditional accounting of spurned love into a philosophical epic of the ethics of forgiveness and freedom, evoking the ideas of Søren Kierkegaard and Walt Whitman.]
[Kelly Hunt plays KKFI Collaborations Live!, Sat, July 29, 8:00 PM at The Folly Theatre, 300 West 12th St,. A fundraiser for KKFI 90.1FM Kansas City Community Radio. / http://www.follytheatre.org]
9. Earle Hagen – "The Dick Van Dyke Show"
from: All-Time Top 100 TV Themes / TVT Records / 2005
[Theme song for The Dick Van Dyke Show an American television sitcom that initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961, to June 1, 1966, with a total of 158 half-hour episodes spanning five seasons. The show's theme was by Earle Hagen, who also wrote many other TV series themes, including those for The Danny Thomas Show, The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle, USMC, I Spy, and The Mod Squad.]
Dick Von Dyke
11:01 – Interview with Dick Von Dyke
Dick Von Dyke first put on the 'stache in a galaxy far far away called Lawrence, Kansas, and quickly realized his passion for cross-dressing and debauchery. Moving to St. Louis opened up a whole new realm of opportunities including co-producing the weekly all-king revue, MANic Monday. Last May, Dick was crowned King of Pride St. Louis and later also placed 1st-alternate for Mister Oklahoma. Dick Von Dyke hosts and produces The Dick Von Dyke Show every Thursday at 10:00 PM, at Missie B's, 805 West 39th Street, KCMO. Dick Von Dyke presents Night of a Thousand Dicks,on Friday, June 28, at 8:00 PM at Missie B's.
Dick Von Dyke thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley.
Dick Von Dyke has been a male impersonator since 2014 starting in Lwrence, KS.
Named King of Pride St. Louis Pride in 2018.
The Dick Von Dyke Show every Thurs, 10:00 PM, at Missie B's, 805 West 39th St, KCMO.
Dick Von Dyke presents Night of a Thousand Dicks, Fri, June 28, 8:00 PM at Missie B's.
A few weeks ago, Dick Von Dyke performed at Des Moines Pride and when he got back to his hotel, his Jeep had been broken into. He admittedly left a lot in my car. But the perps stole *so much* of his stuff including drag accessories, his class ring, all his tips from the weekend, and his laptop. By stealing it he lost every mix he'd ever made for drag. And his ability to make new ones. Drag is his livelihood and to have all of those accessories and mixes stolen was a devastating blow to his career…but he keeps telling himself they must've needed it more than he did.
So to try and make the best of a bad situation, on June 28th he is having a benefit show entitled "Night of a Thousand Dicks." These lovely entertainers who don't typically perform as kings have volunteered to do so for one night in order to try and help him get back on my feet.
With one-night-only king performances by:
Annie Cherry
Heidi Banks
Lavender Skye
Lily Juju Beach
Monica Blowinsky
Sheila Tackü
Sylvia Wrath/Billie Eyelash
special appearance by Kody Von Du
Drag King Scene in KC
Dick Von Dyke and Helen Proctor on the June 26, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI.
Dick Von Dyke thanks for being with us on WMM.
10. Quixotic & Calvin Arsenia – "Experience"
from: Goddess – EP / Quixotic / May 17, 2019
[Quixotic is an innovative performance art collective that fuses imagination with technology, dance, projection #mapping and live music to create fully-immersive, #multi-sensory experiences. Quixotic harnesses light, rhythm and expressive emotion. Quixotic was given Silicon Valley's unofficial stamp of genius when they were invited to perform at the global TED Conference in 2012. A unique blend of performance art, technology and emotion. Quixotic fuses all these elements in to what the New York Times branded an "innovative circus performance," and Men's Journal declared "one of the best contemporary [cirque] acts." They have performed for audiences worldwide and have helped launch brand products for companies such as BVLGARI, Faena Hotels, Garmin, HP, Smithsonian and Toyota. Quixotic harnesses light, rhythm and expressive emotion.]
[Calvin Arsenia plays the Let's Upstage Cancer Benefit Gala for St. Jude's Friday, June 28 at 5:30 at The Abbott, 1901 Cherry St., Kansas City]
[Calvin Arsenia plays the Hotel Utah Saloon, 500 4th Street, San Francisco on Sunday, June 30, at 8:00 PM with Ember Valley, Dolphin Midwivesm and Saloli]
[Calvin Arsenia plays The Elephant Room, 314 Congress Ave, Austin Texas on Thursday, July 4, with VEERS, The Den Brothers, and Keith Sanchez]
[Calvin Arsenia plays the Oregon Country Fair (with Quixotic) July 12 – July in Veneta, Oregon]
[Calvin Arsenia plays Collide (w/ Quixotic), July 19 – 20, 8:00 PM at Quixotic, 1616 Broadway KCMO.]
[Calvin Arsenia plays Bad in Bed LIVE August 22 through August 24 at 8:00 PM at recordBar 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO]
[Calvin Arsenia plays The Sextet Album Release for Among Friends, Sunday, September 15, at 7:00 PM at recordBar, 1520 Grand, KCMO]
[Calvin Arsenia plays The LA Sessions EP Release, Sept 19, 8:PM at recordBar, 1520 Grand, KCMO]
Anothermaxwell
11. anothermaxwell – "Where I Stand"
from: Being – EP / anothermaxwell / June 30, 2019
[Written & Performed, Produced, Engineered, Mixed, and Cover art created by by anothermaxwell. anothermaxwell, is Shenita Hughley who studied music at Avila Collegei and graduated from Raytown South High School in 2012. anothermaxwell is a versatile singer-songwriter & producer, who reinvents new sounds by bending tR&B, Pop, Funk and Electronica, genres to form a unique sound not easily categorized.]
[Anothermaxwell & Stacy Busch play miniBar, 3810 Broadway, Thursday, June 27 at 9:00 PM]
12. Stacy Busch – "Through and Through"
from: Music from "Mass" / Stacy Busch / February 9, 2019
[29 year old Stacy Busch is Operations Manager for Owen/Cox Dance Group. Originally from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Stacy is a multimedia artist & performer. Her collaborative concert experiences are designed to be provocative and accessible to cultivate broader artistic interest and, reach under-served and/or misrepresented communities. Stacy is the founder and president of No Divide KC, an arts and social justice non-profit that creates artistic events for various social causes. Stacy's work has been performed nationally as well as in France and Iceland. She recently partnered with Gilda's Club KC, Owen/Cox Dance and Charlotte Street Foundation to compose and perform the music for "Collective: Our Stories of Cancer." In 2018, her service with No Divide KC will include partnerships with the Kansas City Ballet School and the Johnson County Library. Stacy's work has been performed at: the Kansas City Fringe Festival, Art in the Loop Kansas City, the experimental concert series ArtSounds, the Lyric Opera of Kansas City and UMKC Composer's Guild Concerts. She has partnered with the Kansas City Streetcar, the UMKC dance program, Charlotte Street Foundation and the electronic music non-profit KcEMA. In addition to Kansas City, Stacy's work has been featured at the University of Colorado-Boulder, the University of Michigan, Western Michigan University, Central Michigan University. It has also been performed by ensembles including: Bent Frequency, the Beo String Quartet and the Zodiac Trio. She is a two-time ArtSounds Grant recipient, a UMKC Women's Council Grant recipient and was a CITS Scholar at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Stacy received her Masters in Music in composition from the University of Missouri-KC and her Bachelors in Music in composition from Western Michigan University. Her teachers include Rome Prize winners Paul Rudy and James Mobberley as well as Pulitzer Prize winners Zhou Long and Chen Yi. Other influential teachers include Guggenheim Fellow Curtis Curtis-Smith, Christopher Biggs and Lisa Coons. Prior to studying music, Stacy studied print journalism at Boston University.] [This music was composed and original performed when Stacy Busch presented, Mass: Live Performance and Art Gallery, Saturday, February 9, at Musical Theater Heritage, in Crown Center, 1800 Central St, KCMO. Multimedia artist and performer Stacy Busch is collaborating with Australian experimental artist Jade Suine and choreographer/dancer Tianna Morton to create Mass, a new music concert and exhibition. The project is born out of Busch's month long journey at the Listhus Artist Residency in Northern Iceland, in which she experienced silence, isolation and extreme natural landscapes, which allowed Busch to uncover a more honest connection with her artistic voice and connect it to her spiritual practice. The full live performance is an evening length concert of new music largely conceived during her time in Iceland. Suine is providing a series of visual pieces and Morton brings all new choreography to the live performance. This concert event transports viewers to an environment that is unlike any other: the harsh yet breathtaking northern Icelandic landscape, which is meant to stir an ancient connection to the divine within each person and to transport the viewer someplace otherworldly.]
[Stacy Busch & Anothermaxwell play miniBar, 3810 Broadway, Thursday, June 27 at 9:00 PM]
13. Berwanger – "Friday Night"
from: Watching A Garden Die / Wiretap Records / June 28, 2019
[4th full length album from Berwanger the band fronted by rock & roll singer songwriter Josh Berwanger. Josh Berwanger was in The Anniversary, a Kansas band that released, 2000's Designing a Nervous Breakdown & 2002's Your Majesty and sold over 100,000 records before breaking up on tour in Japan. The band recently reunited for new shows and a tour this year. Berwanger was also in the band, The Only Children, and released, 2004's Change of Living & 2007's Keeper of Youth. When Keeper of Touth ended Josh Berwanger took a break and became a high school basketball coach. In the 2012 Josh formed the Josh Berwanger band. Berwanger released Strange Stains in April 2014, the EP Demonios November 11, 2016, Exorcism Rock in October 2017, and The Star Invaders October 2017. Josh Berwanger also plays in the band Radar State.]
[Berwanger plays a 'Watching A Garden Die' Album Release Show on Thursday, June 27, at 7:00 PM at The Rino, 314 Armour Rd, North Kansas City with Other Americans, and Belle & The Vertigo Waves]
14. Belle & The Vertigo Waves – "Fear or Faith"
from: Fear or Faith – Single / Drop Out Records / June 7, 2019
[New single from Belle & The Vertigo Waves, the sonic brainchild of Belle Loux. She resides in Kansas City, MO, and is slowly attempting world domination. Members include Belle Loux on lead vocals, Jeremiah Scott on bass, John Loux on guitar. The band's debut full length album"Aligned" was released on October 6, 2017.]
[Belle & The Vertigo Waves play the Berwanger 'Watching A Garden Die' Album Release Show on Thursday, June 27, at 7:00 PM at The Rino, 314 Armour Rd, North Kansas City with Other Americans]
[Belle & The Vertigo Waves play a Single Release Party, Saturday, July 13, at 10:00 PM with Emmaline Twist at Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, KS.]
11:35 – Interview with Belle & The Vertigo Waves
Belle & The Vertigo Waves join us to talk about their new single "Fear Or Faith." Members include Belle Loux on lead vocals, Jeremiah Scott on bass, John Loux on guitar. Belle & The Vertigo Waves play the Berwanger 'Watching A Garden Die' Album Release Show on Thursday, June 27, at 7:00 PM at The Rino, 314 Armour Rd, North Kansas City with Other Americans. Belle & The Vertigo Waves play The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St, Lawrence, KS on Saturday, June 29, at 8:00 PM opening for Second Hand King with Thames. Belle & The Vertigo Waves play a Single Release Party, Saturday, July 13, at 10:00 PM with Emmaline Twist at Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, KS. More information at: http://www.thevertigowaves.com
Belle Loux, Jeremiah Scott, John Loux, thanks for being on WMM.
Belle & The Vertigo Waves includes: Belle Loux on lead vocals, Jeremiah Scott on bass, and John Loux on guitar.
The band's debut full length album"Aligned" was released on October 6, 2017. The album was influenced by The Cure, The Smiths, Psychedelic Furs, Amy Mann
Belle & The Vertigo Waves played Middle of The Map Fest last year.
Belle & The Vertigo Waves played Boulevardia this year.
Belle told Michelle Bacon at The Bridge that, "Many of the tunes had been written around five years prior, when Loux was just 15 or 16 and had only played them as a solo artist — with occasional accompaniment from her dad, guitarist John Loux, and keyboardist Charlie Hibberd. In 2017, she hired the two musicians and a couple other friends to track "Aligned," dubbing the project Belle and the Vertigo Waves, in the hopes that she'd eventually assemble a live band. "Recording was a surreal and emotional experience. Playing the songs with a band was like seeing them come to life," she said. "I knew there was no way I could be a solo artist anymore, because I fell in love with the [full band] sound so much."
Belle & The Vertigo Waves play the Berwanger 'Watching A Garden Die' Album Release Show on Thursday, June 27, at 7:00 PM at The Rino, 314 Armour Rd, North Kansas City with Other Americans. Belle & The Vertigo Waves play The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St, Lawrence, KS on Saturday, June 29, at 8:00 PM opening for Second Hand King with Thames. Belle & The Vertigo Waves play Riot Room July 11. Belle & The Vertigo Waves play a Single Release Party, Saturday, July 13, at 10:00 PM with Emmaline Twist at Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, KS.
Jeremiah Scott, Belle Loux, and John Loux, of belle & The Vertigo Waves on the June 26, 2-19 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI.
More information at: http://www.thevertigowaves.com
15. Belle & The Vertigo Waves – "New York Letter"
from: Aligned / Drop Out Records / October 6, 2017
[Debut album from Belle & The Vertigo Waves is the sonic brainchild of Belle Loux. She resides in Kansas City, MO, and is slowly attempting world domination."Aligned" is available on iTunes and all streaming services.]
Next week on July 3 Jacklyn Bell joins us live in our 90.1 FM Studios. We talk with members of the new band Heavy Grams. Nathan Reusch returns with members of the band Nublvckcity, to share details about The Record Machne's big event What's Next KC, on Saturday, July 13 at Legacy Amphitheatre, 901 NE Blustem Drive, Lee's Summit, Missouri with Nublvckcity, The Moose and Blue False Indigo. And we're joined by members of the band Radial Red.
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Posted on June 18, 2019 by Mark Manning
Reverend Dwight Frizzell + Johnny Hamil
+ Instant Karma + Jesus Loves The Atom Bomb
1."It's Showtime Folks"
2. Calvin Arsenia – "Toxic"
from: Cantaloupe / Center Cut Records / September 15, 2018 (KC Release)
[Calvin Arsenia who came home to KC in 2014 after living in Edinburgh, Scotland, and has released the EPs, Moments, Prose, Cavia, and the full length debut, Catastrophe.Standing at 6 foot 6 inches, Arsenia's powerful vocals span a 3.5 octave range, playing piano, banjo, guitar & harp. Calvin has played Folk Alliance Int., KC Fringe Fest, Apocalypse Meow, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kauffman Center For The Performing Arts, Middle of the Map Fest., The Folly Theatre. Last year he undertook a three month US/European Outlyre Tour playing San Francisco,Vancouver, NYC, Boston, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland and Paris.]
[Calvin Arsenia plays Tristian Griffin's Palimpsest, Thur, June 13 at 7:00 PM & Fri, June 14 at 11:00 PM at Capsule, Charlotte Street Foundation's new multi-room installation event space, 1664 Broadway Blvd, KCMO. the collaborative multi-media interactive art performance, features award-winning poet Glenn North, and original music by Calvin Arsenia and Pheenix Leeor (Marleena Willingham)]
[Calvin Arsenia will be appearing with The Mike Dillon Band opening for Rickie Lee Jones, Sun, June 16, at Crossroads KC, 417 E. 18th St, KCMO, 8:00 PM. Mike Dillon co-produced R.L.J. new KICKS.]
[Calvin Arsenia plays INTER Relation>ship w/ Jade Osborne, Wed, June 19, 7:00 PM at Washington Square Park, 100 E. Pershing Rd, KCMO.]
[Calvin Arsenia plays Briarfest, Fri, June 21, 4:30 PM at Briar Cliff, 4100 N Mulberry Dr, KCMO.]
3. Ivory Blue – "Ready Get Set"
from: Ready Get Set – Single / Big Machine Records – John Varvatos Records / June 15, 2018
[Ivory Black was born in 1986 in Peoria Illinois, as Devin James Miclettet. Ivory's birth mother put them up for adoption at the age of four. Ivory speaks about how it was difficult to find trust in people offering their home to someone denied of it for so long, Ivory had lived with eight different families, before running away at 15, moving from Indiana to Oklahoma and eventually ending up in Seattle. In 2011, after a friend sent a plane ticket, Ivory landed in the Kansas City area, and became a part of new family where they were able to have solid ground and over the past several years has been performing in singer-songwriter showcases and in June 2015 Ivory released their debut EP, Ready Get Set.]
[Ivory Blue plays Boulevardia on The Proaganda 3 Stage Sat, June 15, 1:00 PM in KC's Stockyards District.]
[Ivory Blue plays Songwriter Night at Davey's Uptown 3402 Main St, KCMO, Wed, June 19, 7:00 PM]
4. Krystle Warren – "Sunbeams"
from: A Time to Keep Love Songs EP / Parlour Door Music / August 12, 2011
[Originally from KC, Krystle learned to play the guitar by listening to Rubber Soul & Revolver from The Beatles. Krystle graduated from Paseo Arts Academy in 2001 and began her musical career in collaborating with area jazz and pop musicians. After living in San Francisco and NYC, Krystle was signed to a French label, Because Music, and moved to Paris to release "Circles" in 2009. Krystle played French and British television programs, including Later with Jools Holland, garnering critical acclaim and traveling all over the world with Rufus Wainwright, Nick Cave, Norah Jones, and Joan As Police Woman. Krystle created, Parlour Door Music, to release "Love Songs: A Time You May Embrace" a recording from a 13-day session in Brooklyn, where she recorded 24 songs live with 28 musicians including her band, The Faculty, alongside choirs, horn and string sections.]
Dwight Frizzell
10:15 – Interview with Dwight Frizzell
Dwight Frizzell is a Professor at KCAI, and is an internationally recognized artist whose work combines video, performance, installation, music, audio art, and writing.. Frizzell's work about his boyhood neighbor, Harry S. Truman, was featured in the Peabody-awarded "Lost and Found Sound" series broadcast on National Public Radio. Frizzell has produced an opera based on the life of Charles Darwin. In addition to his B.F.A. degree from KCAI, he holds a terminal fine arts degree in Sound Design from the UMKC. Dwight Frizzell, is a founder of the "groovy polyphonic jazz/dance" band, Black Crack Revue, now in their 37th year. Dwight Frizzell is also a founding member of the newEar contemporary chamber ensemble, and is host & producer of "From Arc To Microchip" heard Wednesdays at 11:30 PM on 90.1 FM. Dwight Frizzell joins us to shares details about Heliophonie (Sun Sound) a midday Solstice concert, Friday, June 21, 11:00 AM to Noon at KC Art Institute's Vanderslice Reception Patio (behind historically restored Vanderslice Hall) at 4415 Warwick Blvd., KCMO.
Dwight Frizzell, Thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley.
"Hail Solarians, cobras rise!
Come in joy, come in peace
to the place of secret sound." — from the Sun Temple at Thebes
Heliophonie (Sun Sound) – A midday Solstice concert–Friday June 21, from 11am to noon at Kansas City Art Institute's Vanderslice Reception Patio (behind historically restored Vanderslice Hall), 4415 Warwick Blvd., KCMO.
Heliophonie (Sun Sound) will be performed in-sync to the sun's harmonic tones. The solar sphere oscillates like a bell ringing every 4 minutes 48 seconds (as heard on a large gong). Overtones pulse in quadra-pole rotation (realized by the instruments & electronics). Solar storms moving vigorously through the resonating convection-zone are performed by instrumental duets.
Myth-Science Ensemble featuring Thomas Aber, Patrick Conway, Hannah Kelly, Allan Winkler, Dwight Frizzell and guests will be resonating with the sun.
Open-to-the-public event at an accessible outdoor vantage point.
In case of rain, the event will be held in Vanderslice Reception Room.
This is an artist-sponsored event with additional support from the Kansas City Art Institute, a four year undergraduate college of art and design, where Dwight is Professor in Sound and Converging Media.
5. Myth-Science Ensemble – "Heliophonie (Solar Music): Cell 12"
from: Heliophonie (Solar Music)/ Dwight Frizzell / Not Released
[Thomas Aber, Patrick Conway, Hannah Kelly, Allan Winkler, Dwight Frizzell]
10:24 – More Interview with Dwight Frizzell
Dwight Frizzell and Leo Wetherill on the June 2, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM.
We are talking with Dwight Frizzell about Heliophonie (Sun Sound) – a midday Solstice concert–Friday June 21, from 11am to noon at Kansas City Art Institute's Vanderslice Reception Patio (behind historically restored Vanderslice Hall), 4415 Warwick Blvd., KC, MO.
Contacts: Dwight Frizzell, KCAI artist, dfrizzell@kcai.edu and Kathy StClair, KCAI Communications, kstclair@kcai.edu
Frizzell works as a professor at The KC Art Institute;
Dwight Frizzell is a founding member of the newEar contemporary chamber ensemble.
Dwight Frizzell is host & producer of "From Arc To Microchip" airing Wednesday 11:30 PM – 90.1 FM KKFI – Kansas City Community Radio.
Dwight Frizzell is an internationally recognized artist whose interdisciplinary work combines video, performance, installation, music, audio art and writing. He has been producing the "From Ark to Microchip" series with Jay Mandeville since 1984. Ark radio has been heard on KOPN, KCUR, KGNU, RESONANCE FM (London), RADIO NOVA (Paris), and WKCR (New York).
Dwight's boyhood neighbor in Independence, Missouri was Harry S. Truman, who appears in Dwight's work as a pianist, Atlantean King and time-traveler. Dwight released the "Beyond the Black Crack" LP in 1976, studied video art with Douglas Davis (1977), clarinet with Raymond Luedeke (1979) and metaphysics with Sun Ra (1980-1990). His work was exhibited at Biennale de Paris, World-Wide Video Festival (Amsterdam), and broadcast on NPR.
Dwight's collaborative third-mind creations with writer Jay Mandeville includes plays, essays, and Ark scripts. Their work was published in "Semiotext(e) Radiotext(e)" and "Experimental Sound and Radio" (MIT Press). They edited The Pitch newspaper in the early '80s.
Dwight's music is available on Paradigm discs (England). He plays Buffet clarinets and Yamaha saxophones and wind controllers. His collaborations with Michael Henry include "Sonic Force," where AFR A10 Warthog Attack Planes were used as musical instruments. Frizzell is a founding member of the Black Crack Revue, the newEar contemporary chamber ensemble, and the National Audio Theatre Festivals. He performed recently with David Ossman and Phil Proctor of the Firesign Theatre.
Heliophonie (Sun Sound) – A midday Solstice concert–Friday June 21, from 11am to noon at Kansas City Art Institute's Vanderslice Reception Patio (behind historically restored Vanderslice Hall), 4415 Warwick Blvd., KC, MO
6. Jesus Loves The Atom Bomb – "Party's Just Begun"
from: Dumb America / Party's Just Begun – (2-song) Single / JLtAB / Feb 14, 2019
[ALL 2019 proceeds from sales of this 2-song single go to support Midwest Music Foundation (https://midwestmusicfoundation.org), a kickass KC-based non-profit organization that supports a healthy and vibrant music community. Formed in July 2017 the band includes: Miles Bassett, Jay Bernard Beatty, Shmoo Bigus, Steve Eddy, Sean Lange, Brad Growcock, and Bill Rogers, with special guest: Tim Hoggard—tenor saxophone. Recorded & mixed December 2018 through January 2019 by David Moore, Merriam Shoals Studio. Produced by Brad Growcock.]
[Jesus Loves The Atom Bomb play the 2019 MIDFEST at Bluemont Hotel, 1212 Bluemont Ave, Manhattan, KS on June 15 at 2:15 PM].
Jay Bernard Beatty and Brad Growcock on the June 2, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM.
10:39 – Interview with Jay Bernard Beatty & Brad Growcock
"Party's Just Begun" is one half of a two song single – debut release from the Kansas City / Lawrence band, Jesus Loves The Atom Bomb, who were formed in July 2017 and started out as a four piece with guitar, bass, vocals, and drums and have expanded to a seven piece to include a horn section of trumpet, sax, and trombone. Earlier this year the band played The MidCoast Takeover in Austin, Texas sponsored by Midwest Music Foundation. The band returned the favor by donating all proceeds from their new release to the Midwest Music Foundation, a non-profit organization that Strengthen musicians' health through wellness services and health care grants. Jesus Loves The Atom Bomb play MIDFEST on June 15 at 2:15 PM, at the Bluemont Hotel, 1212 Bluemont Ave, Manhattan, KS .
With us in the studio are two of the founding members of Jesus Loves The Atom Bomb, Reverend Jay Bern aka Jay Bernard Beatty and B-Rad aka Brad Growcock.
B-rad and Reverend Jay thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley.
Jesus Loves The Atom Bomb was formed in July 2017.
The Band started out as a four piece with guitar, bass, vocals, and drums and have expanded to a seven piece to include a horn section of trumpet, sax, and trombone.
Their debut release, Merriam Shoals Sessions Vol. 1. was recorded & mixed from Dec. 2018 through Jan. 2019 by David Moore, Merriam Shoals Studio. The songs were produced by Brad Growcock. with special guest: Tim Hoggard—tenor saxophone.
Jesus Loves The Atom Bomb
The band is: Miles Bassett on sax, Jay Bernard Beatty on vocals, Shmoo Bigus on trombone, Steve Eddy on drums, Sean Lange on trumpet, Brad Growcock on lead guitar & backing vocals, and Bill Rogers on bass.
Brad Growcock, who writes most of the songs for the band, was also a member of the veteran band Mahoots
Steve Eddy was in The Micronotz, with Jay Hauptli, John Harper, and in later years Matt Kesler. Also known as the Mortal Micronotz, this American punk rock/alternative rock quartet was formed in 1980 in Lawrence, Kansas, and along with bands like The Embarrassment and Get Smart!, were prominent on the local music scene in Lawrence in the early 80s.
JLtAB creates its righteous, explosive horn blasting retro garage power pop punk from an undisclosed bunker in flyover LFK for the greater peoples of the world to rejoice in, gyrate & libate and generally have gobs of fun.
The band says: We're only here for a short time; Let the Party Begin.
Jesus Loves The Atom Bomb play MIDFEST on June 15 at 2:15 PM, at the Bluemont Hotel, 1212 Bluemont Ave, Manhattan, KS. More info at http://www.midfestmhk.com
7. Jesus Loves The Atom Bomb – "Dumb America"
[ALL 2019 proceeds from sales of this 2-song single go to support Midwest Music Foundation (https://midwestmusicfoundation.org), a kickass KC-based non-profit organization that supports a healthy and vibrant music community. Formed in July 2017 the band includes: Miles Bassett, Jay Bernard Beatty, Shmoo Bigus, Steve Eddy, Sean Lange, Brad Growcock, and Bill Rogers.]
[Jesus Loves The Atom Bomb play the 2019 MIDFEST at Bluemont Hotel, 1212 Bluemont Ave, Manhattan, KS on June 15 at 2:15 PM.]
8. Krystle Warren – "Station ID"
9. GAV7D – "For Those Who Breathe"
rom: Punk Funk Polka / GAV7D / July 19, 2019
[Johnny Hamil calls this "a choir of Accordions and theremins….Lots of punk, and polka with an amazing guitar solo from Chad Meise as well." Recorded by Chad Meise at Massive Sound Studios. Mastered by Colin Jordan at Boiler Room in Chicago. Written and arranged by Johnny Hamil. Johnny Hamil on bass, Clarke Wyatt on keyboards, Mikal Shapiro on guitar & vocals, Kyle Dahlquist on accordion & theremin & vocals, Charles "Critter" Sims on drums, Chad Meise on Hendrix inspired guitar.]
[The GAV7D – Punk Funk Polka Album Release Show on July 19, 2019 at The Brick.]
16 year old Johnny Hamil
11:04 – Interview with Johnny Hamil
Kansas City based musician, composer, and teacher Johnny Hamil joins us to share new music from his upcoming third GAV7D release, PunkFunkPolka. Johnny plays in the band Pamper The Madman, and his band Mr. Marco's V7 plays the first Thursday of the month at The Ship. Johnny Hamil also plays bass with Mikal Shapiro, and can be heard on the recordings o many Kansas City and Lawrence based artists including Stephonne Singleton. Johnny Hamil collaborates with jazz combos, theatre productions, and is also known for his works with The Malachy Papers. As a teacher of the bass, Johnny Hamil was recently featured in the latest season of Queer Eye on Netflix. Johnny Hamil's annual KC BASS Workshop is June 25 through June 29 at Shawnee Mission North High School in the music department (park in West parking lot). The KCBW Bass Orchestra concert is the final night June 29th at 7:00 PM and features workshop participants performing with faculty. More information at http://www.kcbassworkshop.com
Johnny Hamil, Thank you for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley.
Johnny is one of the founding members of the band Mr. Marco's V7, a band that has reinvented themselves with each new release, and changed and evolved with different line-ups. Known for their experimental, instrumental music, Johnny told us that for ALL of the music he has composed for the band came to him in his dreams.
In 2011, the classically trained bassist Johnny Hamil, who dreams his musical compositions in his sleep, noticed something revolutionary for his creative process when Johnny's dream compositions included lyrics for the first time, and this set him on a new path to create, the GAWD project, which is not Mr. Marco's V7 proper, but it is members of the Mr.Marco's V7 from throughout the long history of the the band. The concept was to collaborate a vocal version of a composition with musical friends and then have various lineups of the V7 family interpret the material in different ways: Cartoonnoirjazz, PunkFunkPolka, and Free Exotica Middle Eastern. Selections from the GAWD project premiered at the Folk Alliance International.
Chad Meise is a master of sound and the studio and stage producing and engineering records for Mr. Marco's V7, Hearts of Darkness, Expassionates, Rex Hobart, Mike Dillon, The Gaslights, Atlantic Fadeout, and The Country Duo, to name a few.
As a teacher of the bass Johnny Hamil was recently featured in the latest season of Queer Eye on Netflix.
Johnny plays in the band Pamper The Madman.
Mr. Marco's V7 plays the first Thursday of the month at The Ship.
The GAV7D project of recordings feature various members of Mr. Marco's V7 from their 20 year history. Davey's Uptown Rambler's Club, 3402 Main St, KCMO, was where the band first performed live in the early 90s. Marco Pascolini, Johnny Hamil, Chris Fugitt, and Clark Wyatt formed the original band.
Johnny Hamil playing live on the June 2, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM.
10. Johnny Hamil – "Lick The Belly (bass)" (Live)
To hear the full version: Punk Funk Polka / GAV7D / July 19, 2019
[Written and arranged by Johnny Hamil]
10:23 – More Interview with Johnny Hamil
We're talking with Johnny Hamil, about The GAV7D – Punk Funk Polka Album Release Show on July 19, 2019 at The Brick.
and the annual KC BASS Workshop is June 25 through June 29 at Shawnee Mission North High School in the music department (park in West parking lot).
Johnny's solo record is an homage to Tetris, Pac Man, Super Mario Brothers and is being recorded in Paris.
Johnny's Birthday was June 11.
"Lick The Belly" is a song inspired and in tribute to Ernie Locke and Sin City Disciples
The annual KC BASS Workshop is June 25 through June 29 at Shawnee Mission North High School in the music department (park in West parking lot). More information at http://www.kcbassworkshop.com
11. GAV7D – "Lick The Belly"
From: PunkFunkPolka / GAV7D / July 19, 2019
[Recorded by Chad Meise at Massive Sound Studios. Mastered by Colin Jordan at Boiler Room in Chicago. Written and arranged by Johnny Hamil. Johnny Hamil on bass, Clarke Wyatt on keyboards, Mikal Shapiro on guitar & vocals, Kyle Dahlquist on accordion & theremin & vocals, Charles "Critter" Sims on drums, Ernie Locke of Sin City Disciples plays harmonica on this track.]
Cody Calhoun, Johnny Hamil, and Cole Bales on the June 2, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM.
11:32 – Interview with Colby Bales & Cody Calhoun
Members of the band Instant Karma join us to share a new recording they've just completed. Instant Karma will play their last live show on Saturday, June 22, at 8:00 PM at recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO for SoundMachineKC with Pink Royal, and The Maytags. More info at: http://www.instantkarmakc.com
Colby Bales & Cody Calhoun, thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley
Instant Karma! is a 4-Piece rock band from Kansas City blending elements of psych, soul, funk. and hip hop.
Instant Karma
Members include: Cole Bales on vocals & guitar, Cody Calhoun on guitar, Branden Moser on bass, and Zach Harris on drums.
Instant Karma bass player Branden Moser has called the band, "a drug trip through the soul section of your local record store."
"Tell Me That You Love Me" was just finished up and mastered by Zach Harris
12. Instant Karma – "Tell Me That You Love Me"
from: Tell Me That You Love Me – Single / Instant Karma / June 22, 2019
[Instant Karma features Cole Bales on vocals & guitar, Cody Calhoun on guitar, Branden Moser on bass, Zach Harris on drums.]
[Instant Karma will play their last live show on Saturday, June 22, at 8:00 PM at recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO for SoundMachineKC with Pink Royal, and The Maytags. More info at: http://www.instantkarmakc.com]
Were talking with Cole Bales & Cody Calhoun of Instant Karma
Instant Karma Discography:
Make Me a Man – Single – released April 7, 2016
Three Little Flames – Single – Released May 22, 2016
Wait on Love – Single – Released May 22, 2016
Trying To Find My Mind EP – Released July 22, 2017
Give Me Freedom / Shine on – Single – Released May 11, 2018
(Sunflower Soul/Chris Hazleton
After their last show on Saturday, June 22, at 8:00 PM at recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO for SoundMachineKC with Pink Royal, and The Maytags, the band will no longer be called Instant Karma and kill off this name and persona and reinvent themselves with a new sound and direction.
Colby Bales – B. May 5, 1994 / Went to Holden High / Lives in Lees Summit, Missouri / GuitarPlayer/Singer/Songwriter at Instant Karma! / Founder/Talent Buyer/ Band Leader at Groove King Records and GuitarPlayer/Singer/Songwriter at Instant Karma!
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." – Hunter S. Thompson
Cody Calhoun – B. November 27, 1994 / Went to Holden High / Studied at UMKC / Lives in Kansas City, Missouri / Manager at Sarpino's Pizzeria – Lee's Summit, Mo
Branden Moser – B. May 1, 1989 / Went to Marquette Senior High School / From St. Louis / Studied at The University of Kansas / Lives in Kansas City, Missouri / Musician at Instant Karma / Co-founder at Groove King Records / Worked at Groove King Records
Zach Harris b. July 14, 1995 / Graduated from Liberty High / Studies Percussion at Missouri Western State University / Lives in Kansas City, Missouri / Drummer at Instant Karma / Works at C.M. Mose & Son Inc / Former Drummer at ITLS / Worked at Worlds of Fun
Cole Bales and Branden Moser also play with The Freedom Affair.
Last year's single 7" vinyl single release, "Give Me Freedom" was released on Sunflower Soul Records. The new music was recorded, mixed, and produced by Chris Hazelton, and mastered by Adam Boose. Instant Karma features Cole Bales on vocals & guitar, Cody Calhoun on guitar, Branden Moser on bass, Zach Harris on drums.
Colby Bales & Cody Calhoun, thanks for being with us on WMM
Instant Karma play Saturday, June 22, at 8:00 PM at recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO for SoundMachineKC with Pink Royal, and The Maytags.
More info at: http://www.instantkarmakc.com
13. Instant Karma – "Give Me Freedom"
from: Give Me Freedom – Single b/w "Shine On" / Sunflower Soul Records / May 11, 2018
[Recorded, mixed, and produced by Chris Hazelton, and mastered by Adam Boose. Instant Karma features Cole Bales on vocals & guitar, Cody Calhoun on guitar, Branden Moser on bass, Zach Harris on drums. With Caitlin Walker and Grace Sakoulas Griffin-Spain on Background Vocals.]
[Instant Karma plays Saturday, June 22, at 8:00 PM at recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO for SoundMachineKC with Pink Royal, and The Maytags.]
Thank you to everyone who donated last week during our Spring Fund Drive Show!
Next week on June 19 we present a special show with Rod Parks.
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Wednesday MidDay Medley with Dwight Frizzell + Johnny Hamil + Instant Karma + JLTAB
Mark plays more New & MidCoastal Releases from Ivory Blue, Calvin Arsenia, Krystle Warren and more.
At 10:15 Mark talks with Dwight Frizzell about his upcoming Helios performance on Wednesday, June 19, at 12:00 Noon, at Kansas City Art Institute. Dwight Frizzell is a Professor at KCAI, and is an internationally recognized artist whose work combines video, performance, installation, music, audio art, and writing. His projects emphasize research and a commonality between the fine and performing arts. Frizzell's work about his boyhood neighbor, Harry S. Truman, was featured in the Peabody-awarded "Lost and Found Sound" series broadcast on National Public Radio. Frizzell has produced an opera based on the life of Charles Darwin. In addition to his B.F.A. degree from KCAI, he holds a terminal fine arts degree in Sound Design from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
At 10:35, members of the band Jesus Loves The Atom Bomb join us in the 90.1 FM Studios to share music from their debut release, Merriam Shoals Sessions Vol. 1. Jesus Loves The Atom Bomb play the 2019 MIDFEST at the Bluemont Hotel, 1212 Bluemont Avenue, Manhattan, Kansas on June 15 at 2:15 PM, with multiple bands playing on three stages. More info at http://www.midfestmhk.com
At 11:00 Kansas City based musician, composer, and teacher Johnny Hamil joins us to share new music from his upcoming third GAV7D release, Punk Funk Polka. Johnny plays in the band Pamper The Madman, and his band Mr. Marco's V7 plays the first Thursday of the month at The Ship. Johnny Hamil is also a teacher of bass players and he was recently featured in the latest season of Queer Eye on Netflix. Johnny Hamil's annual KC BASS Workshop is June 25 through June 29 at Shawnee Mission North High School in the music department (park in West parking lot). The KCBW Bass Orchestra concert is the final night June 29th at 7:00 PM and features workshop participants performing with faculty. More information at http://www.kcbassworkshop.com
At 11:30 Cole Bales and Cody Calhoun of the Kansas City based band Instant Karma join us to share a new recording they've just completed. Members include: Cole Bales on vocals & guitar, Cody Calhoun on guitar, Branden Moser on bass, and Zach Harris on drums. Instant Karma will play their last live show on Saturday, June 22, at 8:00 PM at recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO for SoundMachineKC with Pink Royal, and The Maytags.
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WMM Playlist from May 8, 2019
Posted on May 12, 2019 by Mark Manning
Nick Carswell "Changing Shades" +
Laurel Morgan Parks & Sascha Groschang of The Wires
+ Molly McLaughlin & Turlach Boylan
from: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to All That Jazz / Casablanca / December 20, 1979
[WMM's theme song]
2. Marvin Gaye – "Where Are We Going? (Alternate Mix 2)"
from: You're the Man / Motown – Universal Music / March 29, 2019
[You're the Man is a posthumous studio album by American singer Marvin Gaye, originally intended to be released in 1972 as the follow-up to What's Going On. It was released on March 29, 2019 to celebrate what would have been Gaye's 80th birthday on April 2, 2019. The album includes the single of the same name, as well as the intended original album in full and other songs Gaye recorded at the time. Salaam Remi's remix of "My Last Chance" was released in promotion of the album on February 8, 2019.You're the Man was intended as another socially conscious record like What's Going On (1971), but following the release of its lead single, the title track "You're the Man", Gaye cancelled its release. This was in part due to the reception of the song, as well as the fact that Gaye's political views were different from those of Motown founder Berry Gordy. For these reasons, You're the Man was long considered a "lost" album. 15 of the 17 songs have not previously been released on vinyl, but most were made available on CD compilations over the years. The album includes a longer take of "I Want to Come Home for Christmas", which was first made available in 1990 after being recorded in 1972. The physical release of the album includes liner notes written by David Ritz. "Where Are We Going?" was written by Larry Mizell and Larry Gordon.]
3. Mattiel – "Keep The Change"
from: Satis Factory / ATO Records / June 14, 2019
[Bringing a whole new meaning to the term one-(wo)man band, Atlanta-based Mattiel Brown writes her own music, directs her own visuals and even designs her own sets. Oh, and when she's not busy with her music career you can find her at her side-hustling as a set designer, illustrator and designer. Having grown up in quiet rurality in Georgia working on her mother's farm, these creative sensibilities offered a young Mattiel endless escapist opportunities. Dreaming of far away lands and wild worlds, it was upon stumbling across her mum's record collection (the likes of Donovan, Peter Paul and Mary, and The Monkees) that things really began to click and she discovered the transportive power of music.]
4. The Sextet – "Colors of the Wind (feat. Calvin Arsenia)"
from: Blob Castle / The Sextet / October 7, 2017
[After the release of The Sextet's debut album, In a Natural State from July 2016, bassist and bandleader Robert Castillo moved from the Pacific Northwest back home to Kansas City. Castillo reconnected with high school friends and other musicians to reform the group and continue performing his compositions and arrangements. Blob Castle showcases not only the talent of musicians bred in a jazz city, but also the diversity and growth of Castillo's writing. From the Latin groove tune "La Mona," written for Robert's mother to the somber ballad "Maggie" written in memory of a friend, this album goes beyond genre barriers to explore the paths of improvisational music. The former album was funded through a Kickstarter campaign in which a reward for donating was a Castillo original composition. On this album you'll hear these commissioned pieces which include "TC," "be," and "#notmypresident." The album flows from one mood/emotion to the next, taking the audience through a journey through Robert's imagination. Facilitating the flow are band members Teddy Krulewich on trumpet, Max Levy on tenor sax, Trevor Turla on trombone, Peter Marten on guitar, and Fritz Hutchison on drums. Mixed and mastered by Duane Trower at Weights & Measures in KCMO. The current line up includes: Joe Tesoro on soprano sax, Max Levy on tenor sax, Aryana Nemati on baritone sax, Pete Marten on guitar, Nik Douglas on drums, and Robert Castillo on bass, and composer. The Sextet is getting set to release their third album "Among Friends" in the Fall of 2019]
[The Sextet play Jazz Night at The Ship, 1217 Union Ave, West Bottoms, on Sat, May 11, at 10:00 PM]
5. Danielle Nicole – "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore"
from: Cry No More / Concord Records / February 23, 2018
[Nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album. Danielle Nicole lends her incredible voice to this Prince classic in honor of his recent passing. Danielle Nicole wrote or co-wrote 9 of the songs on this album. She sings and plays bass on all tracks, with special guest musicians like Sonny Landreth on slide guitar, Walter Trout on guitar, Kenny Wayne Shepherd on guitar, Johnny Lee Schell on guitar, Monster Mike Welsh on guitar, Brandon Miller on guitar, Luther Dickinson on guitar. Danielle Nicole was born Danielle Nicole Schnebelen. Her self-titled solo debut EP was released March 10, 2015 on Concord Records. The self-titled EP features Grammy Award-winning producer-guitarist Anders Osborne, Galactic's co-founding drummer Stanton Moore and keyboardist Mike Sedovic. On February 25, 2015, American Blues Scene premiered the track "Didn't Do You No Good" off the new EP. Danielle Nicole was previously in the band Trampled Under Foot with her brothers Kris and Nick Schnebelen. At the 2014 Blues Music Awards, Trampled Under Foot's album, Badlands, won the 'Contemporary Blues Album of the Year' category. At the same ceremony, Danielle Nicole, under the name of Danielle Schnebelen, triumphed in the 'Best Instrumentalist – Bass' category. The band was also nominated in the 'Band of the Year' category. In September 2015, her debut album, Wolf Den, was released on Concord Records. It reached number 2 in the Billboard Top Blues Albums chart in October that year. Danielle Nicole's second solo album, Cry No More, peaked at # 1 in the Billboard Top Blues Albums chart. Bill Withers wrote one of the teacks on the new album.]
[Danielle Nicole Band with special guests The MGDs play Knuckleheads Saloon at 2715 Rochester St, KCMO, Saturday, May 11 at 8:30 PM]
6. Pamper the Madman – "Spinning"
from: Spinning – Single (unmastered) mixes from unreleased new recordings (May 1, 2018)
[Current members of the reformed Kansas City band Pamper The Madman include: Johnny Hamil, Theresa Scott, Chris Fugitt & Chris Tady. Theresa Scott is formerly known Theresa Schloegel. She is one of the original members of Pamper the Madman. Tim Finn in the KC Star wrote: "Clever songs made Pamper the Madman one of the area's biggest bands 20 years ago." The band released their self titled debut on Stress Records in 1995. The band stopped playing in 1998 but after a handful of reunion shows between 2014-2016, the band decided to get back together and is recording new material. Theresa Schloegel was born in Kansas City on November 07, 1970. A while back with her husband and family she left town on a boat going south on the river. She also lives in Santa Cruz. Theresa Scott's family has owned and operated Woodyard BBQue for generations. Members of Pamper the Madman have included Theresa Scott, Chris Fugitt, Robbie Wagner, Marshall Strong, Johnny Hamil and Chris Tady.]
[Pamper the Madman & The Bad Ideas play The Brick 1727 McGee St, KCMO, Saturday, May 18, at 9:00 PM]
7. Stereolab – "International Colouring Contest"
from: Mars Audiac Quintet / Elektra / August 8, 1994
[Expanded Edition Reissued May 3, 2019]
[One of several new reissues remastered from original tapes, with a bonus disk of unreleased demos, outtakes and alternate mixes. Co-released by band's own label Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp Records. In February 2019, the group announced a tour of Europe and North America to coincide with expanded, remastered reissues of several of the albums. Stereolab were an English-French avant-pop band formed in London in 1990. Led by the songwriting team of Tim Gane and Lætitia Sadier, the group's music combined influences from krautrock, lounge and 1960s pop music, often incorporating a repetitive motorik beat with heavy use of vintage electronic keyboards and female vocals sung in English and French. On stage, they played in a more feedback-driven and guitar-oriented style. The band also drew from funk, jazz and Brazilian music, and were one of the first artists to be dubbed "post-rock". They are regarded among the most innovative and influential groups of the 1990s. Mars Audiac Quintet is the third studio album by English-French rock band Stereolab. It was released on August 8, 1994 in the United Kingdom by Duophonic Records and in the United States by Elektra Records. During the recording of the album, guitarist Sean O'Hagan left as a full-time member to tour with the High Llamas, while keyboardist Katharine Gifford was added.The song "International Colouring Contest" is a tribute to Lucia Pamela, and samples her voice in the intro. Stereolab: Lætitia Sadier on vocals & guitar, Mint's organs, & tambourine; Tim Gane on guitar, bass, Vox, Farfisa organs, & Moog synthesiser; Duncan Brown on bass; Katharine Gifford on Vox, Farfisa organs, & Moog synthesiser; Mary Hansen on vocals, guitar, tambourine, & egg shaker; Sean O'Hagan on slide guitar, marimba, & brass arrangements; and Andy Ramsay on drums, percussion.] [The last Stereolab release we remember was 2010's Not Music on Drag City Records. It was their 12th album, released during the band's self – imposed hiatus from recording and touring. The tracks were recorded in early 2007. Half of the recordings were released in 2008 on their release "Chemical Chords." It was reported that the recordings began when band member Tim Gane started messing with 'a series of about seventy tiny drum loops' on top of improvised chord sequences using piano and vibraphone. "building them up from there – later slowing the tracks down or speeding them up – it was a totally new way of doing songs for us". The band createdm all the tracks in their studio, Instant Zero, in Bordeaux, France.]
8. Carswell & Hope – "The Other Side"
from: Exit Plan EP / Silly Goose Records / May 22, 2018
[Music by Carswell & Hope. Lyrics by Nick Carswell. Produced & mixed by Jason Slote & Nick Carswell. Mastered by Michael Fossenkemper @ TurtleTone Studio NYC. Lawrence KS based 5-piece band formed June 25, 2012. The band is: Nick Carswell, Jason Slote, Austin Quick, Chris Handley, and Jordan Tucker. Songwriter Nick Carswell is originally from Ireland and has found a new home on the plains of Kansas.]
10:35 – Interview with Nick Carswell
Songwriter Nick Carswell is originally from Limerick, Ireland, Nick Carswell has been living in Lawrence, KS since 2011. He formed Carswell & Hope in late 2012. The band released their debut album in 2014, coinciding with a two week Irish tour. Nick also plays bass in the electro-pop band Pink Royal and is the force behind Silly Goose Records and the annual MixMaster music conference, now part of the Crossroads Music Festival. Nick Carswell joins us to share details about Changing Shades – Stories of Migration, Confusion & Belonging told in Image & Song in a solo performance of 10 songs, accompanied by lighting, projection and stage design, Friday, May 10, at 7:00 PM, at The Irish Center of KC, 19 West Linwood Blvd. AND Saturday, May 11, at 7:00 at Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St., Lawrence, KS.
Nick Carswell thanks for being with us on WMM.
Limerick, Ireland, Nick Carswell has been living in Lawrence, KS since 2011.
Changing Shades – Stories of Migration, Confusion & Belonging told in Image & Song from Nick Carswell in a solo performance of 10 songs, accompanied by lighting, projection and stage design, creating a unique visual canvas to the music.
Friday, May 10, at 7:00 PM, at The Irish Center of KC, 19 West Linwood Blvd. AND
Saturday, May 11, at 7:00 at Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St., Lawrence, KS.
Each night features guest performances by Amado Espinoza (in KC) and María Elena Cuevas (in Lawrence).
The project was supported by an ArtsKC Inspiration Grant.
More info at: http://www.changingshadesproject.com
9. Nick Carswell – "The Wave (A Reckoning) "
from: The Wave (A Reckoning) – Single / Silly Goose / May 7, 2019
[The featured single from "Changing Shades", a solo project by Nick Carswell.
All music & lyrics by Nick Carswell. Produced by Nick Carswell. Additional mixing by Jason Slote. More info at http://www.changingshades.com.]
[Changing Shades – Stories of Migration, Confusion & Belonging told in Image & Song from Nick Carswell in a solo performance Friday, May 10, at 7:00 PM, at The Irish Center of KC, 19 West Linwood Blvd. with guest performance by Amado Espinoza.]
[Changing Shades – Stories of Migration, Confusion & Belonging told in Image & Song from Nick Carswell in a solo performance on Sat, May 11, at 7:00 at Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St., Lawrence with guest performance by María Elena Cuevas.]
10:48 – More Interview with Nick Carswell
Laurel Morgan Parks and Sascha Groschang with Nick Carswell on the May 8, 2019 Edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI
We are talking with Nick Carswell about Changing Shades – Stories of Migration, Confusion & Belonging a solo performance of 10 songs,, Friday, May 10, at 7:00 PM, at The Irish Center of KC, AND Saturday, May 11, at 7:00 at Lawrence Arts Center,.
The Wave (A Reckoning) written by Nick Carswell
Where to start? Where do I begin?
I've played my part for all the good it's been
And the stars grow dim
High above me
We all laughed, what a joke it's been
I've sold my lot, all but given in
But still the din
Is rising
above me
It overcomes me
But here I am at the end
I see a friend
I watch the pendulum swing
My body's bruised
The air is thin
On my back
I've been carrying
the greed and sin
of those before me
But now a reckoning
A wave is forming
So here I am at the end
I feel the weight
I watch the world caving in
Here am I, All I've lost is what I've given in
I feel the end
I'm ready to begin
PRESS RELEASE: Lawrence-based Musician Launches New Multimedia Performance Inspired by his Immigrant Experience. "Changing Shades" is a new electro-acoustic project from Irish immigrant and musician Nick Carswell
LAWRENCE, KS MARCH 20, 2019:
Lawrence-based musician Nick Carswell will debut a new multimedia work inspired by his experience as an immigrant in the United States, with concerts at the Kansas City Irish Center (May 10th) and the Lawrence Arts Center (May 11th). The new project is a departure from the usual genres Carswell has previously released work in and combines his recent experience with multimedia public art and a new body of electro-acoustic music. The Lawrence and Kansas City concerts will be accompanied by guests Maria Cuevas (formerly Maria The Mexican) and Bolivian multi-instrumentalist, Amado Espinoza, respectively. Tickets for both concerts are $10 and performances begin at 7pm.
Changing Shades: An Immigrant's Story of Confusion & Belonging will consist of 10 songs, each accompanied by lighting, projection and stage design, creating a unique visual canvas to accompany the music. The projected was supported by an ArtsKC Inspiration Grant which funded the purchase of electronic music and lighting equipment to expand the music performance into an immersive multimedia presentation.
"This is definitely new ground for me," Carswell explains. "The project combines some new tools I've been quietly working with over the last several years, with themes that have been kind of weighing heavy recently. This combination called for a different kind of presentation."
The new works focus on the theme of "belonging" and draw upon Carswell's experience living as an Irish immigrant for 8 years in the U.S. Songs deal with his own sense of shifting cultural life.
Contact: Nick Carswell Phone: (785) 424-5236|Email: nickcarswellmusic@gmail.com
Changing Shades – Stories of Migration, Confusion & Belonging told in Image & Song from Nick Carswell in a solo performance Friday, May 10, at 7:00 PM, at The Irish Center of KC, 19 West Linwood Blvd. with guest performance by Amado Espinoza.
Changing Shades – Stories of Migration, Confusion & Belonging told in Image & Song from Nick Carswell in a solo performance on Sat, May 11, at 7:00 at Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St., Lawrence, with guest performance by María Elena Cuevas. More info at: http://www.changingshadesproject.com
10. MorMor – "Some Place Else"
from: Some Place Else – EP / Don't Guess – AWAL Records / May 3, 2019
[Artist, Singer-Producer, multi-instrumentalist, born and raised in Toronto. MorMor writes, records, produces most of his own work. He tells pigeons and planes, "A lot of my inspiration stems from wanting to share a perspective of Toronto that I feel hasn't been represented," he says. "I'm glad Toronto is getting a lot of attention right now, but my experience of the city that has shaped me isn't really part of the story yet." he goes on to say, "I always felt different from the other kids at school. I went through a really hard time because I was the kid who always hung out with a wide variety of people. I kept searching for kids like me, but it never happened. In the end it gave me some good perspective. I was a pretty rebellious person when I was young. I had a problem with authority. I was reluctant to take orders if I didn't believe in the cause. I might be the only kid who got suspended in the first grade. Music was something that I could escape through.]
13. The Wires – "Wilder"
from: Wilder / The Wires / May 11, 2019
[2nd album from KC bsed duo, The Wires who compose and perform original music for violin and cello. Inspired by a myriad of genres and eclectic sounds, The Wires are not your typical strings group. The project encompasses a blend of wide-ranging styles, from tango to gypsy, jazz to rock and infused with the precision of classical form. Created, composed & performed by Laurel Morgan (violin) and Sascha Groschang (cello).]
[The Wires play an Album Release show for their second album, "Wilder" Saturday, May 18, at 7:00 PM at recordBar, 1520 Grand BLVD. KCMO.]
11:04 – Interview with Laurel Morgan & Sascha Groschang of The Wires
Sascha Groschang and Laurel Morgan Parks of The Wires, on the May 8, 2019 Edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI
Laurel Morgan grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. A classically trained musician, she has been playing the violin for 30 years. Laurel graduated from the UMKC Conservatory of Music in 2005. She has also performed with the Des Moines Symphony, Quixotic Fusion, Musical Theatre Heritage at the Off-Center Theatre, the folk-rock band, 'In the Pines" that won several Pitch Music Awards. And with her husband artist Ben Parks she is ia founder of the band Of Tree As a composer, arranger, and musician Laurel Morgan has traveled to Germany, Austria, and throughout the United States, but is based here in Kansas City.
Sascha Groschang graduated from Paseo Academy of Performing Arts in 2000, UMKC Conservatory of Music in 2004, and Mannes College – The New School For Music in 2008. She had her solo recital debut at Carnegie Hall's recital hall, Weill Hall in February 2009. Sascha has recorded or performed with Peter Gabriel, Joanna Newsom, Ashanti, Adina Menzel, Clay Walker, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. She has also worked for NBC, Rhino Records, Juniper String Ensemble, Saint Joesph Symphony, and is part of the faculty at Missouri Western State University. She also teaches out of her Midtown KC home studio. You can learn more at: cellolady.com
Together, Laurel Morgan & Sascha Groschang are The Wires, who compose and perform original music and will play an Album Release show for their second album, "Wilder" Saturday, May 18, at 7:00 PM at recordBar, 1520 Grand BLVD. KCMO.
Laurel Morgan & Sascha Groschang, thanks for being with us on WMM.
More info at: http://www.thewires.info
The Wires debut CD titled: "The Wires Alternative Strings" was originally released through i-tunes, Sept. 25, 2012
Sascha moved back to Kansas City in 2010, after living in NYC for 3 years. She and her husband were married in Brooklyn. They now have wo children age 3 and 1.
Laurel worked in the acclaimed band, In The Pines.
12. The Wires – "Uncaged"
cond album, "Wilder" Saturday, May 18, at 7:00 PM at recordBar, 1520 Grand BLVD. KCMO.]
We're talking with Laurel Morgan & Sascha Groschang are The Wires, who compose and perform original music and will play an Album Release show for their second album, "Wilder" Saturday, May 18, at 7:00 PM at recordBar, 1520 Grand BLVD. KCMO.
Laurel was most recently on Wednesday MidDay Medley sharing music from her band Of Tree
Of Tree's release, How Does It Feel (October 12, 2018) was one of WMM's 118 Best Recordings of 2018
Of Tree is Benjamin Parks on guitar & vocals, Laurel Morgan Parks on violin & fiddle & vocals and John Bersuch on bass. The band explains "we like to build layers, loop strings, bow guitars and mix sampled beats with real ones as a backdrop for melodies on voice and traditional instruments. Emotional and expressive, our music draws inspiration from loss and triumph, failure and hope."
The Wires play an Album Release show for their second album, "Wilder" Saturday, May 18, at 7:00 PM at recordBar, 1520 Grand BLVD. KCMO.
Molly McLaughlin, Sascha Groschang & Laurel Morgan of The Wires on the May 8, 2019 Edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI.
13. Jean Claude and the Eclairs – "Glasgow."
from: Glasgow. – Single / Jean Claude and the Eclairs / April 4, 2019
[Alternative Pop/Rock trio based in Lawrence, KS formed by Cooper Scott, Garrison Krotz and Quinn Maetzold in June of 2016.]
[Jean Claude and the Eclairs play The Bottleneck, 737 New hampshire St. Lawrence, KS. Thursday, May 9, at 8:00 PM in an all ages show with Shoebox Money, Cavves, and The Arsonist .]
11:31 – Interview with Molly McLaughlin & Turlach Boylan
Turlach Boylan and Molly McLaughlin on the May 8, 2019 Edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI.
Turlach Boylan learned to play Irish music as a teenager, studying with John Kennedy in Culleybackey, County Antrim. In 1986, he won an Irish national contest for flute slow airs. Turlach comes from a musical family, he has four sisters and one brother that also play music. Since emigrating to America, he has continued to perform, playing in over 30 states with the band Glen Road and, more recently, in a duet with guitarist Davey Mathias. He has produced three recordings, available on CD. In addition to flute and tin whistle, he also plays banjo and mandolin
Molly McLaughlin studied music at the California Institute of the Arts and the Hartt School, specializing in contemporary, Classical, and traditional Irish flute. Molly has toured with Jethro Tull, recorded at Capitol Records, and performed at the Folk Alliance International Conference. Molly is a core member of Kansas City's Ensemble Ibérica and performs regularly with her Irish band, Into The Sun. She released her first album in 2017. In August, she's moving to Ireland to study Traditional Irish Flute for the next several years.
Molly McLaughlin and Turlach Boylan will play live in our 90.1 FM Studios sharing music that they will perform in concert on Saturday, May 18, at 4:00 pm at Diastole Scholars' Center, 2501 Holmes, KCMO. This is the culmination of their work together though the Missouri Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program, a grant they received last year.
Molly McLaughlin & Turlach Boylan, thanks for being with us on WMM.
Molly McLaughlin & Turlach Boylan and I have been working together for the past six months through the Missouri Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program and we have our final concert coming up on May 18.
14. Molly McLaughlin & Turlach Boylan – Jigs: "Whistler at the Wake / Battering Ram"
Turlach Boylan & Molly McLaughlin with Sascha Groschang & Laurel Morgan of The Wires on the May 8, 2019 Edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI.
We're talking with Molly McLaughlin and Turlach Boylan who are playing live in our 90.1 FM Studios sharing music that they will perform in concert on Saturday, May 18, at 4:00 pm at Diastole Scholars' Center, 2501 Holmes, KCMO. This is the culmination of their work together though the Missouri Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program, a grant they received last year.
Molly McLaughlin & Turlach Boylan and I have been working together for the past six months through the Missouri Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program
The Missouri Folk Arts Program identifies, documents, and promotes the folk and traditional arts in our state. Missouri hosts one of the oldest, continuous statewide folk arts apprenticeship programs in the United States, established in 1984. The Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program funds master artist and apprentice teams who are committed to sustaining their artistic traditions and cultural heritage over an eight month period. This year, Irish flutists Turlach Boylan and Molly McLaughlin were selected to work together.
Harmony Project KC is an intensive, arts-based, youth intervention and mentoring program for under-served children in KC's urban core. Their mission is to promote the healthy growth and development of children through the study, practice and performance of music; to build healthier communities by investing in the positive development of children through music; to develop children as musical ambassadors of peace, hope and understanding among people of diverse cultures, background and beliefs.
15. Molly McLaughlin & Turlach Boylan – Reels: "Humours of Ballymac / Devanny's Goat"
Molly McLaughlin and Turlach Boylan perform in concert on Saturday, May 18, at 4:00 pm at Diastole Scholars' Center, 2501 Holmes, KCMO. This is the culmination of their work together though the Missouri Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program, a grant they received last year.
16. Le Grand – "Button Mashing"
from: Plastic Jazz / Le Grand / May 10, 2019
[Kansas City based instrumental rock band with Josh Snow on guitar, Sam Sartorius on drums, Sterling Dorrell on guitar, and Chelby Hanks on bass]
[Le Grand play and EP Release at The Rino, 314 Armour Rd, North Kansas City, MO., Friday at 7:00 PM, with Via Luna, Oxford Remedy, and Aage Birch.]
Next week on May 15, Wednesday MidDay Medley Celebrates our 15th Anniversary with 15 Special Guests: Iris DeMent, Krystle Warren, Calvin Arsenia, Betse Ellis, Kasey Rausch, Mikal Shapiro, Jake Wells, Marion Merritt, Maria Vasquez Boyd, Necia Gamby, Jen Harris, Nico Gray, Fran Stanton, Barry Lee, and Brenton Cook.
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Wednesday MidDay Medley presents Nick Carswell + The Wires + Molly McLaughlin & Turlach Boylan
Posted on May 6, 2019 by Mark Manning
Mark spins New & MidCoastal Releases from: Le Grand, The Wires, Pamper The Madman, Jean Claude and the Eclairs, Danielle Nicole, Nick Carswell, Carswell & Hope, The Sextet with Calvin Arsenia, Marvin Gaye, Stereolab, MorMor, and Mattiel.
At 10:30 Nick Carswell shares details about Changing Shades – Stories of Migration, Confusion & Belonging told in Image & Song from Nick Carswell in a solo performance of 10 songs, accompanied by lighting, projection and stage design, creating a unique visual canvas to the music, Friday, May 10, at 7:00 PM, at The Irish Center of KC, 19 West Linwood Blvd. AND Saturday, May 11, at 7:00 at Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St., Lawrence, KS. Each night features guest performances by Amado Espinoza (in KC) and María Elena Cuevas (in Lawrence). The project was supported by an ArtsKC Inspiration Grant. More info at: http://www.changingshadesproject.com
At 11:00 Mark talks with The Wires Alternative String Duo – Laurel Morgan Parks on violin, and Sascha Groschang on cello. The Wires compose and perform original music inspired by a myriad of genres and eclectic sounds, and blend wide-ranging styles, from tango to gypsy, jazz to rock, infused with the precision of classical form. Laurel Morgan Parks and Sascha Groschang will share details about The Wires 2nd Album Release – Wilder, Saturday, May 18, at 7:00 PM at recordBar, 1520 Grand BLVD. More info at: http://www.thewires.info
At 11:30 Molly McLaughlin and Turlach Boylan play live in our 90.1 FM Studios. Together they will share music that they have been working together for the past six months. Molly McLaughlin and Turlach Boylan will be in concert on Saturday, May 18, at 4:00 pm at Diastole Scholars' Center, 2501 Holmes, Kansas City Missouri. This is the culmination of their work together though the MO Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program, a grant they received last year. Suggested donation is $10 half of all proceeds will benefit Harmony Project KC.
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Spinning Records With Marion Merritt
+ Nathan Reusch of The Record Machine
Marion Merritt
Mark welcomes Marion Merritt as our special "Guest Producer." For 15 years now Marion has been sharing her musical discoveries and information from her encyclopedic brain on Wednesday MidDay Medley. Marion is the creator of Records With Merritt, a small, independent, minority owned business, at 1614 Westport Rd. in Kansas City, Missouri.
from: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to All That Jazz / 1980
2. Dimitri From Paris – "Prologue"
from: Sacrebleu / Atlantic / 2001
3. Fela Kuti – "2000 Blacks Got to be Free (feat. Roy Ayers)"
from: Music of Many Colors (feat. Roy Ayers) / Knitting Factory Records / 2019
[Originally released January 1, 1980, reissued on CD 1996 on M.I.L. Multimedia. Fela Anikulapo Kuti was born October 15, 1938 and died August 2, 1997 He was also professionally known as Fela Kuti, or Fela. He was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre and human rights activist. At the height of his popularity, he was referred to as one of Africa's most "challenging and charismatic music performers. Fela Kuti was a political giant in Africa from the 1970s until his death. Kuti criticized the corruption of Nigerian government officials and the mistreatment of Nigerian citizens. He spoke of colonialism as the root of the socio-economic and political problems that plagued the African people. Corruption was one of the worst, if not the worst, political problem facing Africa in the 70s and Nigeria was among the most corrupt countries of the time. The Nigerian government was responsible for election rigging and coups that ultimately worsened poverty, economic inequality, unemployment, and political instability, which further promoted corruption and thuggery. Fela's protest songs covered themes inspired by the realities of corruption and socio-economic inequality in Africa. Fela Kuti's political statements could be heard throughout Africa. Kuti's open vocalization of the violent & oppressive regime controlling Nigeria did not come without consequence. He was arrested on over 200 different occasions and spent time in jail, including his longest stint of 20 months after his arrest in 1984. On top of the jail time, the corrupt government would send soldiers to beat Kuti, his family and friends, and destroy wherever he lived and whatever instruments or recordings he had. In the 1970s, Kuti began to run outspoken political columns in the advertising space of daily and weekly newspapers such as The Daily Times and The Punch, bypassing editorial censorship in Nigeria's predominantly state controlled media. Published throughout the 1970s and early 1980s under the title "Chief Priest Say", these columns were extensions of Kuti's famous Yabi Sessions—consciousness-raising word-sound rituals, with himself as chief priest, conducted at his Lagos nightclub. Organized around a militantly Afrocentric rendering of history and the essence of black beauty, "Chief Priest Say" focused on the role of cultural hegemony in the continuing subjugation of Africans. Kuti addressed a number of topics, from explosive denunciations of the Nigerian Government's criminal behavior; Islam & Christianity's exploitative nature, and evil multinational corporations; to deconstructions of Western medicine, Black Muslims, sex, pollution, and poverty. "Chief Priest Say" was cancelled, first by Daily Times then by Punch. Many have speculated that the papers' editors were increasingly pressured to stop publication, including by violence.]
4. Kevin Morby – "Seven Devils"
from: Oh My God / Dead Oceans / April 29, 2019
[5th release from Kevin Robert Morby born April 2, 1988. follow up to his 2017 release City Music. Kevin learned to play guitar when he was 10. In his teens he formed the band Creepy Aliens. 17-year-old Morby dropped out of Blue Valley Northwest High School, got his GED, and moved from his native Kansas City to Brooklyn in the mid-2000s, supporting himself by working bike delivery and café jobs. He later joined the noise-folk group Woods on bass. While living in Brooklyn, he became close friends and roommates with Cassie Ramone of the punk trio Vivian Girls, and the two formed a side project together called The Babies, who released albums in 2011 and 2012. He began a solo career in 2013 releasing his debut album Harlem River. His 2nd album Still Life was released in 2014. His album Singing Saw was in WMM's The 116 Best Recordings of 2016. His album City Music was in WMM's The 118 Best Recordings of 2018]
5. Kevin Morby – "Ballad of Faye"
6. Lucy Rose – "The Confines of This World"
from: No Words Left / Arts & Crafts / March 22, 2019
[Lucy Rose was born June 20, 1989, She is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Her debut album, Like I Used To was released in 2012. Rose released her second album, Work It Out, in 2015 on Columbia Records. Her third album, Something's Changing, was released in 2017 on Communion Records. Born in Camberley, Surrey, England. Rose's musical origins began with her playing drums in her school orchestra; her songwriting started with her writing tunes on her family home's piano. She is the youngest of three sisters. She later bought a guitar from a shop she passed on the way to school, taught herself and began writing material at around the age of sixteen. Rose never played her material for anyone until she left home after completing her A-levels. At eighteen, she moved to London; instead of taking her place at University College London to study geography, she began experimenting and performing with other musicians. It was at this time when she met Jack Steadman, the frontman of Bombay Bicycle Club. After becoming friends, Steadman asked if she would like to perform vocals on a song he had written and was recording. The acoustic album Flaws came out with Steadman on lead vocals, and Rose performing backing vocals, most notably on the title track "Flaws", as well as others on the album. She also performs some backing vocal duties on Bombay Bicycle Club's third album, A Different Kind of Fix, and features in their fourth, So Long, See You Tomorrow. Rose also performs some backing vocal duties on the track This Sullen Welsh Heart by the Manic Street Preachers on their album Rewind the Film. A fan of tea, Rose began selling her own blend named 'Builder Grey' (two part English Breakfast and one part Earl Grey) at her shows as a substitute for merchandise or CDs..]
7. Lucy Rose – "Pt. 2"
8. Weyes Blood – "Mirror Forever"
from: Titanic Rising / Sub Pop Records / April 5, 2019
[Weyes Blood is Natalie Mering, born June 11, 1988, in Santa Monica, CA and grew up in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. She has released 4 albums and an EP. Both her siblings and parents are musicians and music played an important part in her upbringing. Her older brother, Zak Mering, is also a noteworthy recording artist, producer and songwriter under the "Raw Thrills" alias. At the age of 15 Mering began using the moniker Wise Blood to write songs. She changed to Weyes Bluhd on several self released records before changing the spelling to Weyes Blood. She took the name from the Flannery O'Connor novel Wise Blood. At the same time, while working on her own material, she toured the underground music scene with bands Jackie-O Motherfucker and Nautical Almanac. In 2011 she released the album The Outside Room as Weyes Blood And The Dark Juices on Not Not Fun Records. Uncut magazine described the album as "the vibe is devotional and ethereal, but with an edge", while Beatbots found it "an impressive and ambitious album". Natalie released her second record in October 2014 called The Innocents, which was released through Mexican Summer. In 2016 she released the album Front Row Seat to Earth on Mexican Summer to great acclaim throughout the music industry, and has spent the past few years touring throughout Europe and the states.]
9. The Brian Jonestown Massacre – "Tombes Oubliées"
from: The Brian Jonestown Massacre / A Records / March 15, 2019
[The Brian Jonestown Massacre is the self-titled eighteenth studio album by American band The Brian Jonestown Massacre. The Brian Jonestown Massacre is an American musical project and band led by Anton Newcombe. It was formed in San Francisco in 1990. The group was the subject of the 2004 documentary film Dig!, and have gained media notoriety for their tumultuous working relationships as well as the erratic behavior of Newcombe. The collective has released seventeen albums, five compilation albums, five live albums, thirteen EPs, sixteen singles as well as two various-artist compilation albums to date. The band name is a portmanteau of deceased Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones and the 1978 Jonestown Massacre.]
10. The Brian Jonestown Massacre – "We Never Had A Chance (Edited)"
11. Eddie Russ – "The Lope Song"
from: Soul Jazz Records Presents Eddie Russ: Fresh Out / Soul Jazz Records / Mar 15, 2019
[Eddie Russ's Fresh Out was independently released in Detroit in 1974 and has remained a collector's item ever since. Russ was an important figure to emerge from the vibrant underground jazz scene that thrived in Detroit in the early 1970s, existing in the cultural and economic desolation of the city after the departure of Motown in the late 1960s. This scene included the musical collective Tribe (including members Wendell Harrison, Marcus Belgrave, Phil Ranelin, Harold McKinney and Doug Hammond) and Kenny Cox's Strata Records. Eddie Russ's Fresh Out was first released in 1974 on the independent Jazz Masters record label. As well as including the classic jazz dance cut The Lope Song, Eddie Russ's Fresh Out featured the debut of the group The Mixed Bag who subsequently recorded for both Tribe and Strata Records. Eddie Russ released two further classic jazz funk albums in the late 1970s, See the Light and Take a Look at Yourself.]
12. Throbbing Gristle – "20 Jazz Funk Greats (Remastered)"
from: 20 Jazz Funk Greats (Remastered) / Mute Records / 2019 [Reissued on vinyl]
[3rd studio album by British industrial music group Throbbing Gristle, released in December 1, 1979 by the band's label Industrial Records. It is known for its tongue-in-cheek title and artwork, and has been hailed as the band's best work, with UK magazine Fact naming it the best album of the 1970s. 20 Jazz Funk Greats is the band's first full studio album, as prior albums contained both live and studio recordings. The production is credited to "Sinclair/Brooks". The album was recorded on a 16-track borrowed from Paul McCartney after Peter Christopherson had worked on artwork for McCartney. The album was produced using electronic musical instruments and effects units, primarily from Roland and Boss. Throbbing Gristle were an English music and visual arts group, officially formed in September 1975 in Kingston upon Hull by members Genesis P-Orridge (born Neil Megson), Cosey Fanni Tutti (born Christine Newby), Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson and Chris Carter. They are widely regarded as pioneers of industrial music. Evolving from the experimental performance art group COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle made their public debut in October 1976 on COUM exhibition Prostitution, and, the following year, released their debut single, "United / Zyklon B Zombie", Throbbing Gristle dissolved in 1981 due to interpersonal differences; the individual members went on to participate in other projects, such as Psychic TV, Coil and Chris & Cosey. The band was reformed in 2004, and released three more studio albums—TG Now (2004), Part Two, and The Third Mind Movements (2009)—before disbanding again after P-Orridge's departure and Christopherson's death in Autumn 2010; the band's last studio project—a cover version of the 1970 Nico album Desertshore—was released in 2012 under the moniker X-TG.followed by an album, The Second Annual Report (1977).]
13. Ibibio Sound Machine – "I Need You to Be Sweet Like Sugar (Nnge Nte Suka)"
from: Doko Mien / Merge Records / March 22, 2019
[Ibibio Sound Machine is an English electronic afro-funk band from London. Formed in 2013, the band currently consists of vocalist Eno Williams, guitarist Alfred Kari Bannerman, percussionist Anselmo Netto, drummer Jose Joyette, bassist John McKenzie, trombonist/keyboardist Tony Hayden, trumpeter/keyboardist Scott Baylis and saxophonist/keyboardist Max Grunhard. The band was formed in London 2010 by producers Max Grunhard, Leon Brichard, and Benji Bouton. The trio were interested in producing music fusing elements from 1980s afrobeat and 90s drum-and-bass. They approached singer Eno Williams to create vocals for the project. After the first sessions had been successfully finished, live musicians were added to create a full band. These included the Ghanaian guitarist Alfred Bannerman from the band KonKoma and Afro-rock band Osibisa, Brazilian percussionist Anselmo Netto, and multi-instrumentalists Tony Hayden and Scott Baylis. The band released their first single in January 2014 on Soundway, entitled Let's Dance. Their self-titled debut album followed in March the same year. In 2016, the band signed to Merge Records to create their follow-up record. Their second album, Uyai, was released in 2017. Ibibio Sound Machine is a clash of African and electronic elements. The band claims their sound is inspired in equal measure by the golden era of West African funk and disco, modern post-punk, and electro. The name of the band itself finds influence from Eno Williams' mother, whose native tongue was Ibibio. While Williams was born in London, she spent most of her childhood in Nigeria with the rest of her family. Her mother often recounted numerous folk and children's stories from her own heritage and passed them on to her daughter. Williams took this inspiration and crafted lyrics from these sources and married them to modern themes.]
14. Ibibio Sound Machine – "Wanna Come Down"
15. Coby and the Prisoners – "One Thru Ten"
from: One Thru Ten – Single / The Record Machine / May 10, 2019
[Coby Hartzler, Matt Garver, Nate Sustar, Joey Weaver, William Stansifer. Coby and the Prisoners began in 2012 during some downtime between projects for songwriter and founder Coby Hartzler. A collection of solo songs and ideas were recorded over a long weekend at a studio in Indianapolis. It was released quietly online in conjunction with a few shows around Ohio, but the project soon fizzled out and was left at that. // The next phase of the band began to slowly form sometime in 2015. A few new players came into the picture, adding their own flavors and styles. The sound started to take shape creating what could be considered the band's second album, "Candy Queen". The album hones in on Hartzler's knack for pop hooks layered with sounds that can feel somewhat classic yet modern at the same time. Guitar licks and melodies that pay homage to classic rock or the Nashville country of old, yet never retreading over already worn down or recycled territories. // Having grown up in a fairly conservative, small town with religion starkly at the focus, Hartzler began to question what he was being fed. Similarly, small town America rejects the idea that a grown man can continue to pursue the art of music as something more than a teenage hobby. For Hartzler, music is a way of clawing back at some of these things. With this album, he begins to address these issues head on, as if you can see the layers slowly being peeled away. "Candy Queen" hovers somewhere around playful off the cuff lyrics and thoughts that can suddenly dip into deeper and darker territories without warning. Like a simple sunny drive on an early summer's evening that can feel almost too perfect. When a moment is so good that you can't help but be reminded of the fleetingness of it all. That it will end. All of these themes swirl throughout the center of his songs but come wrapped up in a colorful candy wrapper.]
11:38 – Interview with Nathan Reusch
Nathan Reusch
Nathan Reusch is founder of The Record Machine, a homegrown record label started in 2003. Originally created to promote music from Kansas City & Lawrence, TRM has grown to turnout records from bands all across the country. Nathan is also co-founder & curator of the Middle of The Map Fest.
Nathan Reusch joins us to talk about upcoming events sponsored by The Record Machine including multiple SoundMachineKC events, new singings to the label, The What's Next Concert on July 13 in collaboration with Mid-Continent Public Libraries, and Middle of The Map Fest.
Nathan Reusch thank you for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley
SoundMachineKC Shows:
Thursday, May 2, at 9:00 PM – SoundMachineKC presents Jorge Arana Trio, Lung, Jametatone at Minibar 3810 Broadway Rd, KCMO.
Saturday, May 4, at 8:00 PM – SoundMachineKC presents The Freedom Affair, Soultru, Duncan Burnett at recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO.
Wednesday, May 15 at 9:00 PM – SoundMachineKC presents Big Bend, Pala Zolo, Myry at Minibar 3810 Broadway Rd, KCMO.
The Record Machine Recent Signings
– Pala Zolo
– Coby and the Prisoners
– Soultru
– Spooky Wilson
16. Soultru– "Can You Keep A Secret"
from: Soultru & Progeny / Fake Four Inc. / December 25, 2018
[Singer, songwriter, poet and emcee Terrance A Banks aka Soultru is a native of Davenport, Iowa and is currently based out of the Quad Cities area of NW Illinois/NE Iowa. Combining his poetic and lyrical talents with a soulful voice, Soultru has forged his own unique sound. Soultru credits a wide range of influences, including Gavin Degraw, John Legend, Yelawolf and Son Little..]
[Soultru plays SoundMachineKC on Saturday, May 4, at 8:00 PM, with The Freedom Affair, and Duncan Burnett.]
SoundMachine Shows:
http://www.therecordmachine.co
17. Pala Zolo – "Up Nothern"
from Up Northern – Single / The Record Machine / May 15, 2019
[Pala Zolo is the instrumental electronic project of Lawrence, KS musician Eric Davis. In Pala Zolo, Davis blends synthesizers and drum machines with live instruments to create his blend of cinematic pop music. He chose the name to pay homage to his Sicilian heritage by naming the project after a small Sicilian village he spent time in while studying abroad in Italy. Pala Zolo allows Davis the full freedom to experiment in ways that are a departure from his main gig as the keyboard player in buzzy up-and-coming rock band Hembree (Thirty Tigers, Oread Records). // The inspiration for Pala Zolo came from a chance meeting with fellow electronic musician, Tycho's Scott Hansen. One day while working at The Granada Theater in Lawrence, Davis was given the job of being Hansen's driver. For years Davis had been writing and recording his own demos and was completely unsure of what to do with them. After spending the entire day with Hansen and seeing him perform, Davis realized he could bring his incomplete ideas to life in his own unique way. Seeing an instrumental band perform such an emotionally charged set inspired Davis to finish his songs without traditional vocals and to begin creating his own sound in that genre. // Soon after, Davis set forth to finalize the recordings with his good friend and producer Joel Martin (Y god Y). The two of them spent countless hours experimenting with synthetic and acoustic textures to create perfect soundscapes to compliment Davis' intricately arranged compositions. In 2018, Davis self-released singles House Plant & 40K, and continued to take Pala Zolo to another level by performing live with drummer Gerardo Rojas. The duo brings the songs to life with live synths, guitars and drums and has been resonating with audiences. // In the summer of 2019, Pala Zolo is releasing their debut EP on Kansas City label The Record Machine and looks to take Pala Zolo to new heights.]
[orig. 1957] [WMM's closing theme]
Next week on May 8 The Wires Alternative String Duo with Laurel Morgan on violin, and Sascha Groschang, on cello join us to share details about The Wires 2nd Album Release – Wilder, Saturday, May 18, at 7 PM at recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, Kansas.
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Wednesday MidDay Medley is Spinning Records With Merritt + Nathan Reusch
Posted on April 28, 2019 by Mark Manning
Mark welcomes Marion Merritt, of Records With Merritt, who joins us as "Guest Producer" to share sonic discoveries and information from her musically-encyclopedic-brain. Records With Merritt is located at 1614 Westport Road, KCMO. More info at: http://www.recordswithmerritt.com.
Marion will play tracks from: Fela Kuti and Roy Ayers, Lucy Rose, Kevin Morby, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Darondo, Weyes Blood, Throbbing Gristle, Lee Fields & The Expressions, Death In Vegas, Eddie Russ, Eddie Bo, and more.
At 11:30 Mark talks with Nathan Reusch of The Record Machine, a homegrown record label started in 2003. Originally created to promote music from Kansas City & Lawrence, TRM has grown to turnout records from bands all across the country. Nathan is also co-founder & curator of the Middle of The Map Fest. Nathan Reusch talkss about two events sponsored by TRM: Thurs, May 2, at 9:00 PM – SoundMachineKC presents Jorge Arana Trio, Lung, Jametatone at Minibar 3810 Broadway Rd, KCMO. And, Sat., May 4, at 8:00 PM – SoundMachineKC presents The Freedom Affair, Soultru, Duncan Burnett at recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO.
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WMM Playlist from April 24, 2019
Betse Ellis + Mike McCoy + Amy Farrand + Garrett Nordstrom
HuDost + Allaudin Ottinger + Shaun Crowley + Patrick Keizer
2. Cayucas – "Jessica WJ"
from: Real Life / Park The Van Records / April 19, 2019
[Cayucas is Zach Yudin and his twin brother Ben Yudin on bass. Cayucas: Pronounced "ky-yook-us", is the monikered homage to a sleepy little seaside town in San Luis Obispo County, California. That town, Cayucos, has hardly changed in the last 50 years, a far cry from the gentrified tourist traps parading showily down the nearby coastline. In the early 1960s, the surfing craze hit. There was one bar around which local kids congregated back then, the site of helpless crushes and fights and games of pool, a place whose jukebox soundtracked innumerable teenage years as breezy summers rolled into mild winters and back around again. The bar has since disappeared, but as Zach Yudin, the man behind the name, will tell you, the place still holds on tight to its propensity for dreamy, lazy, bonfire-lit nights worth getting moony-eyed about.]
[Cayucas play recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO, Monday, April 29, at 7:00 PM for SoundMachineKC w. Cape Francis, and Belle & The Vertigo Waves.]
3. Morrissey – "Wedding Bell Blues"
from: California Son / BMG / May 24, 2019
[Morrissey's new covers album, his 18th solo studio album has him "putting his own spin on classics by Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Jobriath, and Laura Nyro. The golden state has become Morrissey's adopted home and he's made some great California friends to join him on the new record. For the 12-track effort, Morrissey enlisted contributions from a handful of special guests, including Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, and Broken Social Scene member Ariel Engle. Additionally, Petra Haden, Sameer Gadhia of Young the Giant, and LP appear. Roy Orbison, Jr has already given the cover of his dad's song the seal of approval "We love Morrissey! Morrissey's hair, and melancholy and poetic lyrics always reminded me of my Dad. His version of "It's Over" is great." The album was produced by Joe Chiccarelli. Steven Patrick Morrissey was born May 22, 1959, and is professionally known as Morrissey, is an English singer, songwriter and author. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the indie rock band the Smiths, which was active from 1982 to 1987. Since then, Morrissey has had a solo career, making the top ten of the UK Singles Chart on ten occasions. Born in Davyhulme, Lancashire, to a working-class Irish family, Morrissey grew up in Manchester. As a child he developed a love of literature, kitchen sink realism and popular music. Involved in Manchester's punk rock scene during the late 1970s, he fronted the Nosebleeds, with little success. Beginning a career in music journalism, he authored a number of books on music and film in the early 1980s. With Johnny Marr he established the Smiths in 1982, soon attracting national recognition for their self-titled debut album. As the band's frontman, Morrissey attracted attention both for his witty and sardonic lyrics and his idiosyncratic appearance; deliberately avoiding rock machismo, he cultivated the aesthetic of a social outsider who eschewed drugs and embraced celibacy. He was also noted for his unusual baritone vocal style (though he sometimes uses falsetto). The Smiths released 5 further albums – including the critically acclaimed Meat is Murder and The Queen is Dead – and a string of hit singles. Personal differences between Morrissey and Marr resulted in the Smiths' separation in 1987. Since The Smiths disbanded in 1987.]
4. Middle Kids – "Real Thing"
from: New Songs For Old Problems – EP / Domino Recording Co / May 24, 2019
[Middle Kids are an alternative indie rock band from Sydney, Australia led by lead singer/guitarist Hannah Joy and her husband, Tim Fitz. Drummer Harry Day fills out the trio. They have released one self-titled EP and an album entitled 'Lost Friends', released in Australia on EMI, and Domino Records in the US. They have performed as openers for Ryan Adams, Bloc Party, Cold War Kids and their 2017 tour stops at LouFest, Austin City Limits Fest among others.]
5. Amyl and The Sniffers – "Got You"
from: Amyl and The Sniffers / ATO Records / May 24, 2019
[Debut album from Melbourne, Australia based, 4-piece punk band fronted by singer Amy Taylor who explains of the song, "'Got You' is about that feeling you get when you first start seeing someone and you're excited to see them, no matter what shit they got. You just see them at the pub and it feels like the most exciting thing in the world, like you're so lucky they're even there. It's definitely one of the "sweetest" songs on the album, and less punky. It was kind of inspired by Split Enz."]
Short Round Stringband
6. Short Round Stringband – "Rocky Road Blues"
from: Ain't No Part of Nuthin' / Short Round Stringband / March 19, 2019
[From the debut album from the pan-Missouri band with a refreshing approach to old time music: Short Round Stringband is the coming together of two musical couples and a bassist with Kansas roots. The band members are Kelly Wells and Ryan Spearman (The Aching Hearts, St. Louis), Betse Ellis and Clarke Wyatt (Betse & Clarke, Kansas City), and Chris DeVictor (Konza Swamp and more). With deep connections to old-time, country and Ozark tunes and songs, Short Round Stringband takes you on a moving journey through the sounds and stories of the American experience. Their hard driving fiddle tunes will get you out of your seat. Their vocal duets will bring a tear to your eye, and their original songs and inventive new compositions showcase a passion for the depth of tradition and a look to new creative paths. And in between all of that, you'll laugh at their madcap humor.]
[Betse & Clarke play an Old Time Party, TONIGHT, April 24, 7:00 PM, at The Ship, 1217 Union Ave, KCMO with Brett Hodges]
10:20 – Interview with Betse Ellis
Betse Ellis is originally from Fayetteville, Arkansas. She received her Bachelors of Arts in Music and a Bachelors of Arts in English, from the University of Missouri – Kansas City. She has been playing the Violin for over 40 years, with over 20 years playing fiddle and also working as a teacher of music. Betse was one of the founding members of the critically acclaimed and internationally known band, The Wilders. Betse has released two solo records, and for the last several years is recording and performing with her partner, multi-instrumentalist Clarke Wyatt, as Betse & Clarke.
Clarke Wyatt is a finger-style banjo player, drawing inspiration from great traditional and inventive banjoists of earlier decades such as Mike Seeger & John Hartford. His melodies match the fiddle, and also build rhythmic interest to embrace the music's character. He also plays finger-style guitar, when it suits the musical style & texture.
Betse Ellis joins us to share details about a new project she is involved with as part of the Short Round Stringband! The 5-piece band is in the process of releasing a new 14-track Tribute To Bill Monroe record. They're also releasing a new video of the song we just heard, "Rocky Road Blues" TODAY! And, Betse & Clarke play an Old Time Party, TONIGHT, Wednesday, April 24, at 7:00 PM, at The Ship, 1217 Union Ave, KCMO with Brett Hodges.
Betse Ellis thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley.
Short Round Stringband is Kelly Wells and Ryan Spearman (The Aching Hearts, St. Louis), Betse Ellis and Clarke Wyatt (Betse & Clarke, Kansas City), and Chris DeVictor (Konza Swamp and more).
For more info on the band's Bill Monroe Tribute album you can visit: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shortroundstringband/aint-no-part-of-nothin
From the band's Kickstarter page:
Inspiration – Short Round Stringband is a band born of friendship, inspiration, and passion for our musical heroes. Our very first concert together was a tribute to the great John Hartford, an artist who inspired each of us in our musical journeys. When we get together, we listen to music, we examine music, we debate music, and we participate in musical evolution as we pay homage to our heroes and add our own dose of Short Round Stringband to the music they created and perpetuated.
In all this milieu of musical traditions, we didn't count Bill Monroe as a direct hero for our band. We appreciated his musical contributions to bluegrass, early country, and hillbilly music. We knew the music he played evolved from the musical traditions he experienced from the people around him. We knew he had a knack for innovation and we knew that perhaps his greatest contribution was leading a new generation of musicians to innovate for themselves.
As an old-time band, we don't think of ourselves as playing bluegrass music (even though those lines are often so blurry). So, as we sat in the campground at Bill Monroe's Music Park in Bean Blossom, IN in the spring of 2017, we laughed and laughed when Clarke "Wildcard" Wyatt said, "You know what we should do? We should record a Bill Monroe tribute album." As this idea took root, we started to realize how much Monroe's innovation had trickled down to our individual styles and even band approach.
We headed into the project thinking what we would produce would be so different from Bill Monroe's own music: an old-time band covering the father of bluegrass. And it was different. And then it wasn't. In the end, we did just what we think Bill Monroe would have wanted us to do: we followed his lead and then we made it our own. We hope that somewhere out there, Bill's just shaking his head, smiling knowingly and saying, "That ain't no part of nothin'."
Intention – As artists, we often feel compelled to produce music, not so much because we NEED to, but because we HAVE to. We have these songs, these stories, that we are driven to tell, to perpetuate, to share. For the sharing of these stories and songs to be meaningful, we rely on the people that want to hear them, the people that are willing to enter into a musical partnership with us. This partnership is as old as time. This partnership makes art happen. It makes art significant and relevant.
Tribute to Bill Monroe, "Ain't No Part of Nothin' – Earlier this year, the band recorded 14 tracks of their favorite Bill Monroe songs and tunes complete with banjos, fiddles, guitars, mandolin, upright bass, two-part harmonies, three-part harmonies, four-part harmonies, sad songs, happy tunes, and a gospel number or two.
With support, the band will be able to finish the mixing and mastering of the album tracks, hire a graphic designer to design the packaging, pay licensing fees so the estate of Bill Monroe gets its due, and pay to have the album manufactured. Also, as a companion to this album, we'll have our very first Short Round Stringband comic zine.
Album's budget:
MIXING AND MASTERING: $1,800
ALBUM ART, PHOTOS, GRAPHIC DESIGN: $1,500
LICENSING: $700
MAILING COSTS AND KICKSTARTER FEES: $1000
FIRST RUN ALBUM MANUFACTURING: $1,500
Extra funding would pay for album promotion.
Betse & Clarke play an Old Time Party, TONIGHT, at 7:PM, at The Ship, 1217 Union with Brett Hodges.
An Old Time Session: Betse & Clarke – with "Ampersand" Brett Hodges – have a nearly limitless catalogue of old time, bluegrass, and early country music, which they perform with an easy sense of being in the moment. These three have developed an intuitive approach to presenting music they love, and this will be their first time to share their music at The Ship.
Betse & Clarke take an audience on a musical field trip. Betse Ellis plays powerful and beautiful old time fiddle tunes, sings traditional Ozark songs, and shares her own songs with themes relating to human experience. Expect her to tell some stories along the way, featuring personal moments with her fiddle mentor Violet Hensley. Long known for her energetic style in her former band The Wilders, Betse's earned a level of maturity while maintaining her contagious enthusiasm. Clarke Wyatt is an engaging finger-style banjo player, drawing inspiration from great traditional and inventive banjoists of earlier decades such as Mike Seeger and John Hartford. His melodies match the fiddle, and also build rhythmic interest to embrace the music's character. He also plays finger-style guitar, when it suits the musical style and texture.
For more info on the band's Bill Monroe Tribute album you can visit: http://www.shortroundstringband.com or https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shortroundstringband/aint-no-part-of-nothin
Allaudin Ottinger and Betse Ellis on the April 24, 2019 edition of Wednesday Midday Medley on KKFI.
7. HuDost – "Rise Together"
from: of Water + Mercy / HuDost / April 5, 2019
[8th studio album from Husband-wife-fronted retro-pop art-rock group HUDOST recently partnered with STEREO EMBERS to premiere "Rise Together," the lead single from their forthcoming full-length album OF WATER + MERCY (due April 05, 2019). The song features an anthemic chorus and finds HUDOST's Moksha Sommer and Jemal Wade co-writing with Jars of Clay lead vocalist Dan Haseltine. Additionally, all the Jars of Clay band members were involved on the single—which was recorded at Grey Matters Studio in Nashville, TN, and mixed by Vance Powell (Jack White/White Stripes, Pearl Jam, Brandi Carlile).]
HuDost
10:38 – Interview with Jemal Wade Hines & Moksha Sommer & Allaudin Ottinger
Jemal Wade Hines & Moksha Sommer are the husband-wife founding members of the international, retro-pop art-rock band, HuDost, based in Montreal & Kentucky. HuDost play an Album Release Show at Prospero's Books, at 1800 W 39th St, KCMO tomorrow night, Thursday, April 23, at 7:00 PM, with Allaudin Ottinger who also joins us in the 90.1 FM Studios to share music from his new release, "Vision Bewilderment & Love.
With us on the phone is Jemal Wade Hines & Moksha Sommer, welcome to WMM.
With us in the studio is Allaudin Ottinger, welcome bank to Wednesday MidDay Medley.
HuDost returns to KC to celebrate the release of their new album 'of Water + Mercy' with special guest Allaudin Ottinger for an evening of song & Sufi Kirtan at Prospero's Books.
HuDost will be doing songs from their new record as well as even newer interactive world material, selections from their 'Sufi Kirtan' album & a couple of numbers from Allaudin's 'Vision, Bewilderment & Love' album at Prospero's Books, 1800 W 39th St KCMO, 7:00-9:30
From HuDost's promotional materials:
The music of HuDost weaves a seamless tapestry of Folk, World, and Rock that renders tears and laughter in listeners, cultivating the nameless longing that abides somewhere in all our hearts and invoking total celebration. HuDost's core musicians are Moksha Sommer, from Montréal, and Jemal Wade Hines from Kentucky. Having toured the U.S., Canada, and Europe constantly since April 2006, HuDost has grown and expanded, travelled rocky and glorious terrain and marveled at all they can learn and explore. Moksha and Jemal Wade in this time have grown as artists, as seekers, as a couple and as a family. Since 2015 they have also been highly engaged activists, doing advocacy work as KY Congressional District Representatives for ONE (a non-profit organization working to end extreme poverty and, specifically, the sexism of poverty).
"When I wrote the beginning lyric to 'Rise Together,' I was exploring the ways we all share a common human value and a common thread of life, loss and rebirth, says Dan Haseltine of Jars of Clay. "In the face of an ever-divided life, and in light of so many messages pitting us against our neighbors, it seemed like a worthwhile exercise to strip all the market trappings away and get back to the core of what connects us."
"We met Dan Haseltine of Jars of Clay not through music but through our shared work in political advocacy acting on behalf of people living in extreme poverty," says Moksha Sommer. "Through music and advocacy we have witnessed incredible and real change and know the astonishing power of collective voices on behalf of those who do not have the ability, and sometimes even the rights, to be heard. Songwriting with Dan was a wonderful process of the three of us contributing all that we could and being attached to nothing. I think the result is quite remarkable and reflects the very thing the song is about; rising together through shared vision and action."
Throughout the eight tracks on OF WATER + MERCY–the eighth full-length studio album from HUDOST–there's a rich, eclectic blending of pop and rock with a sound that crosses all borders and barriers, taking the listener on a journey.
From Montreal and Kentucky, HuDost weaves a seamless tapestry of sound from the core musicians of Moksha Sommer & Jemal Wade Hines. Having toured the U.S., Canada, and Europe consistently since April 2006, HUDOST's highlight performances include Bonnaroo, Resident band at FloydFest, BhaktiFest, World Café Live, Blissfest, Music City Roots, The Montreal Folk Festival and more. HUDOST have grown and expanded, travelled rocky & glorious terrain and marveled at all they can learn and explore. Moksha and Jemal Wade in this time have grown as artists, as seekers, as a couple and as a family.
OF WATER + MERCY follows 2015's full-length The World Is… a collaborative record with Steve Kilbey of The Church with special guest Jon Anderson of YES–and a World Chant album, Sufi Kirtan. The prolific group have also worked with Grammy Award-winner Malcolm Burn (Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Peter Gabriel) and Grammy Award-winner Oz Fritz (Tom Waits, Bill Laswell, Primus). Produced by HuDost. Co-Production- Dan Haseltine. Mixed by Vance Powell with HuDost & Oz Fritz. Mastered by Pete Lyman
Yogis, kirtan lovers, ecstatic dance fans, and even people who don't normally listen to sacred music are all raving about Sufi Kirtan by HuDost. In track after track, the neo-folk world rock duo brings heartfelt presence and innovative musical stylings to ancient Sufi mantras of love and healing. And it's not surprising why. HuDost's lead composer and singer, Moksha Sommer, has studied 12 different vocal styles from around the world. On Sufi Kirtan, her vocals simultaneously soothe and soar. Her partner in love and music, Jemal Wade Hines, lends a rock sensibility and sonically rich layers of vocals, guitar and synths. It's official: Sufi Kirtan positions HuDost as a force to be reckoned with in modern mantra music. – Soul Traveler
HuDost return to KC on Thursday to play an album release show at Prospero's Books w Allaudin + guests then it's off to Eureka Springs, AK, to play the Earth Fest at the Heart of Many Ways Friday. Saturday will see then in Tulsa at the Woody Guthrie Center's WGC 6th Anniversary Concerts at Guthrie Green – April 27 with Ramy Essam & many more.
Allaudin Ottinger also joins us in the 90.1 FM Studios to share music from his new release, "Vision Bewilderment & Love."
Jemal Wade Hines & Moksha Sommer play on Allaudin's album.
Recorded at Markosa Studios in Kansas City, Kansas with Mark Thies
"…to the Sufi the whole of life is interesting, a constant vision of bewilderment. He cannot explain this to the world because there are no words to explain it." – Hazrat Inayat Khan
Murshid Allaudin Ottinger originates from Kansas City, Missouri. He is an internationally renowned leader of the Dances of Universal Peace and has facilitated camps, seminars and retreats around the world since 1979. As a senior Dance mentor and teacher in the Sufi Ruhaniat International, "His exceptional musicianship, creativity and spontaneity are the seeds of ecstatic experiences of the transformational, healing power of the sacred arts." As well as being a consummate drummer, Allaudin has brought through many wonderful Dances and brings with him a great quality of heart.
Jemal Wade Hines, Moksha Sommer, Allaudin Ottinger, thanks for being with on WMM.
8. Allaudin Ottinger – "Every Single Being Is Of Noble Birth (Peace On Earth)"
from: Vision, Bewilderment And Love / Allaudin Ottinger / August 1, 2018
[Allaudin Ottinger was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Murshid Allaudin Ottinger originates from Kansas City, Missouri. He is an internationally renowned leader of the Dances of Universal Peace and has facilitated camps, seminars and retreats around the world since 1979. As a senior Dance mentor and teacher in the Sufi Ruhaniat International, "His exceptional musicianship, creativity and spontaneity are the seeds of ecstatic experiences of the transformational, healing power of the sacred arts." As well as being a consummate drummer, Allaudin has brought through many wonderful Dances and brings with him a great quality of heart.]
[HuDost play an Album Release Show at Prospero's Books, at 1800 W 39th St, KCMO tomorrow night, Thursday, April 23, at 7:00 PM, with Allaudin Ottinger.]
Garrett Nordstrom, Shaun Crowley, Patrick Keizer, Allaudin Ottinger and Amy Farrand on the April 24, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI.
Mike McCoy
9. Cher UK – "Little Blue Soldier"
from: Little Blue Soldier / Independent / October 20, 2012
[Founded in 1990 by Mike McCoy who grew up in Hutchinson, Kansas. Cher U.K. filled venues in Kansas City playing punk rock music. Mike McCoy, now lives in Austin Texas and fronts his band Mike McCoy's Trompe-l'œil. Mike is the founder of The North vs. South Music Festival. Cher UK reunited to play the Middle of the Map Festival in April 2012. While in KC Mike McCoy gathered up several musicians to record a new Cher UK EP. Mike McCoy Guitar & Vox, Mark Reynolds – Bass, Bernie Dugan – Drums. Mike McCoy, Mark Reynolds, Bernie Dugan, Lyle Wells of Cher UK & Matt Kesler of The Pedaljets joined us live on Wednesday MidDay Medley on October 17 2012 to talk about their CD Release show at Davey's Oct 20.]
[Cher UK play The Fundraiser for Brianne Grimmer, supporting her medical expense fund, on Friday, April 26, at 6:00 PM, at recordBar, 1520 Grand BLVD. KCMO, with Amy Farrand & The Like, Pamper The Madman, Drop A Grand, Knife Crime, Godzillionaire, KC Bear Fighters, and Mahoots.]
Garrett Nordstrom and Amy Farrand on the April 24, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI.
11:04 – Interview with Mike McCoy, Amy Farrand, & Garrett Nordstrom
Mike McCoy grew up in Hutchinson, Kansas. In the early 1990s his band Cher U.K. filled venues in Kansas City with their their music playing with popular themes in punk rock music. Mike McCoy, now lives in Austin Texas and plays in his band Mike McCoy's Trompe-l'œil. Mike has also played in the bands The Service Industry and The American People.
Mike McCoy thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley.
Amy Farrand plays over a dozen instruments, bass, drums, lap steel, guitar, she has hosted variety shows, and radio shows, and has been a a member of the bands: American Catastrophe, Experimental Instrument Orchestra, Shotgun Idols, Sister Mary Rotten Crotch, Atlantic Fadeout, The Silver Maggies. One reviewer wrote of her, "Amy Farrand is a tough-as-nails vocalist making her an invaluable asset to any live act." Last year Amy's band Amy Farrand & The Like released their 11-song debut album in April and were nominated for a Pitch "Best of Kansas City" Award.
Garrett Nordstrom is one of the founding members of the critically acclaimed band Maria The Mexican, where he plays guitar. Garrett grew up in Saint Joseph, Missouri and studied political science at Missouri Western University. Garrett serves on the Board of Directors for Midwest Music Foundation, where he is treasurer of the board.
Amy Farrand & Garrett Nordstrom thanks for being with us on WMM.
Mike McCoy, Amy Farrand, and Garrett Nordstrom join us to share information about The Fundraiser for Brianne Grimmer, supporting her medical expense fund, on Friday, April 26, at 6:00 PM, at recordBar, 1520 Grand BLVD. KCMO, with Amy Farrand & The Like, Pamper The Madman, Cher UK, Drop A Grand, Knife Crime, Godzillionaire, KC Bear Fighters, and Mahoots.
Mike McCoy called in from Austin Texas, where he was boarding a flight to come to KC.
Mikes new band is called: Mike McCoy's Trompe-l'œil
Mike talked about how impressed he was with Brianne's bravery in light of her health issues, and how musicians help each other in times of need. He also talked about his love for the KC Music community.
Mike told us that there would be 5 different drummers playing with Cher UK and the only way audiences could know who'll be playing in Cher UK is to support this fundraiser.
The last time Cher UK played in Kansas City the band consisted of: Mike McCoy Guitar & Vox, Mark Reynolds – Bass, Bernie Dugan – Drums
The band was originally called Cher. You released many of your first recordings on cassette, the band went through several line-up changes and the band's name changed to Cher UK and got a record deal with Red Decible Records from Minneapolis.
In 2004 Mike founded the North vs. South Music Festival, as a bi-annual, bi-polar music festival designed to showcase independent rock along the I-35 corridor.
The last time Amy Farrand was with us in the radio was the day you opened for Melissa Etheridge at Crossroads KC.
Amy Farrand and The Like includes: Amy Farrand on lead vocals & guitar, Steve Tubbert on bass, Felix Dukes on drums, Kyle Dahlquist on keyboards & backing vocals, Stephan Jean-Francois on trumpet, and Katie Gilchrist on backing vocals.
One was recorded with Duane Trower at Weights and Measures Soundlab.
Amy Farrand is a true veteran of the KC music communities, playing in band since the 1980s early 1990s.
Amy listed some of the bands that Brianne has been a part of including: Never Ready, Main Street Saints, No Man's Band, Fifteen Minutes Fast, and Sugar Britches.
10. Lushbox– "La Salsa De Partos"
from: Despues De La Operacion Sere Una Niña / Lushbox / 1999
[Lushbox was: Brad Huhmann, Brianne Grimmer, Heather Grimmer, & Wil Plunkett. The 5-song EP was recorded & mixed by Robert Rebeck in December 1998 at Mercy Recording Studio in Lawrence, Kansas. It was mastered in February 1999 at Bridget Sound in San Francisco by Kris Ziakas & Mike McGinn.]
The Fundraiser for Brianne Grimmer, supporting her medical expense fund, on Friday, April 26, at 6:00 PM, at recordBar, 1520 Grand BLVD. KCMO
6:00 PM – DOORS
6:30 PM – MAHOOTS
7:15 PM – KC BEAR FIGHTERS
8:00 PM – GODZILLIONAIRE
8:45 PM – KNIFE CRIME
9:30 PM – DROP A GRAND
10:15 PM – CHER UK
11:00 PM – PAMPER THE MADMAN
12:00 AM. – AMY FARRAND & THE LIKE
Amy Farrand
11. Amy Farrand & The Like – "Sweet Thing"
from: One / Amy Farrand / April 28, 2018
[Amy Farrand & The Like are Amy Farrand on lead vocals & guitar, Steve Tubbert on bass, Felix Dukes on drums, Kyle Dahlquist on keyboards & backing vocals, Stephan Jean-Francois on trumpet, and Katie Gilchrist on backing vocals. 11-song debut album was recorded w/ Duane Trower at Weights & Measures Soundlab.]
[Amy Farrand and The Like play The Fundraiser for Brianne Grimmer, supporting her medical expense fund, on Friday, April 26, at 6:00 PM, at recordBar, 1520 Grand BLVD. KCMO, with Amy Farrand & The Like, Pamper The Madman, Cher UK, Drop A Grand, Knife Crime, Godzillionaire, KC Bear Fighters, and Mahoots.]
12. Mild Cats – "Keep The Cat Out If The Fire"
from: Keep The Cat Out Of The Fire / Conversation – Single / Mild Cats / February 14, 2019
[Two-track single/demo/EP/ Recorded at Parrot Ice Studios, The Tinsel Room, and a secret attic no one can ever know about. Patrick Keizer on guitar & vocals & keyboards, Christina Silvius on viola, Wade Conyers on bass, Quinn Hernandez on drums, Davy Langerak on percussion, and Josiah Hunter on guitar.]
[Mild Cats play Manor Records Speaks Up – Sat, April 27 at 9:00 pm, at miniBar, 3810 Broadway, with The Golden Fleece, Mouton, Momma's Boy, and The Rubs.]
13. Momma's Boy – "Love That Way (Demo)"
from: "Love That Way (Demo)" – Single / Manor Records / June 26, 2018
[Momma's Boy, is an Indie Surf Pop 4-piece band from KCMO, formed December 2015, and made up of former members of Rev Gusto: Peter Beatty on guitar & vocals, Shaun Crowley on guitar & vocals, Quinn Hernandez on drums, and Jared Bajkowski on bass & vocals. Their debut EP Liquid Courage was released February 25, 2017. Self-recorded in the Momma's Boy band practice attic. Mixed by Jared Bajkowski, and mastered by Ross Brown. This track was released as part of a series of singles the band has put out over the year. including "Want Me Back" released January 19, 2018 (part of Dead Summer Single Series), and "Asleep On The Floor" on October 12, 2018 (part of Demo Singles Series).]
[Momma's Boy play Manor Records Speaks Up – Sat, April 27 at 9:00 pm, at miniBar, 3810 Broadway, with Mild Cats, The Golden Fleece, Mouton, and The Rubs.]
Shaun Crowley and Patrick Keizer on the April 24, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI.
11:35 – Interview with Shaun Crowley & Patrick Keizer
Shaun Crowley is a classically trained guitarist, and has studied at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory. Shaun is part of the band Momma's Boy and is a co-founder of Manor Records, a music label that grew out of Manor Fest, the first festival sized "house show" Shaun and friends produced in their basement featuring 12 bands. Shaun is also organizing the live music at Voltaire, 1617 Genessee, in the West Bottoms.
Patrick Keizer is from Lawrence, Kansas. He graduated from Blue Valley North High School and studied Special Education at University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. He joined us on Wednesday MidDay Medley Josiah Hunter, Davy Langerak, and Bennett Jones on August 23, 2017 when his band at that time, Shortsweather was on the eve of playing Crossroads Music Fest. Shortsweather ended and Patrick is now in the band Mild Cats on guitar & vocals & keyboards, with Christina Silvius on viola, Wade Conyers on bass, Quinn Hernandez on drums, and Josiah Hunter on guitar.
Shaun Crowley & Patrick Keizer joins us to share details about Manor Records Speaks Up – Sat, April 27 at 9:00 pm, at miniBar, 3810 Broadway, with Mild Cats, The Golden Fleece, Mouton, Momma's Boy, and The Rubs. Manor Records will also release "The Bennett Tapes" in honor & memory of a good friend Bennett Jones featuring a live un-released track from his old band Shortsweather. The bands & musicians are uniting for a purpose with all door proceeds going to the KC chapter of SPEAK UP, raising awareness about suicide & depression and to help end the stigma associated with suicide. Speak Up stands for Suicide Prevention Education Awareness for Kids United as Partners. More info at http://www.speakup.us
Shaun Crowley & Patrick Keizer thanks for being with us on WMM.
Bennett Jones left this world on October 2, 2018. Patrick and friends wanted to remember him with the release of "The Bennett Tapes" featuring a live un-released track from Shortsweather to be released on Manor Records.
Davy Langerak, Josiah Hunter, Patrick Keizer, and Bennett Jones of Shortsweather on Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM (8/23/17)
14. Shortsweather – "Fit Dads"
from: Fit Dads – Single / Parrot Ice Studio / January 13, 2017
[1st single from upcoming record Patio Naps, from the KC based alternative indie dreampop surf punk band formed by Patrick Keizer, Davy Langerak, Bennett Jones, Josiah Hunter. Engineered / Produced / Mixed / Mastered / Loved By Jordan Richardson. Written by Shortsweather with Alie Warman.]
We are talking with Shaun Crowley about Manor Records Speaks Up – Sat, April 27 at 9:00 pm, at miniBar, 3810 Broadway, with Mild Cats, The Golden Fleece, Mouton, Momma's Boy, and The Rubs.
Manor Records will also release "The Bennett Tapes" in honor & memory of a good friend Bennett Jones featuring a live un-released track from his old band Shortsweather.
The bands & musicians are uniting for a purpose with all door proceeds going to the KC chapter of SPEAK UP, raising awareness about suicide & depression and to help end the stigma associated with suicide.
Speak Up stands for Suicide Prevention Education Awareness for Kids United as Partners.
More info at http://www.speakup.us
15. Alice Merton – "Funny Business"
from: Mint / Paper Plane Records / January 18, 2019
[Born on September 13, 1993 in Frankfurt, Germany to a German mother and a British father. Merton's family moved frequently due to her father's job as a mining consultant. When she was three months old, Merton moved to Connecticut. Shortly thereafter, they relocated to Oakville, Ontario, Canada where she was raised until the age of thirteen, learning classical piano and singing. Her family then relocated to Munich. Merton's return to Germany prompted her to learn German which enabled her to speak with her German grandmother whom she had only seen once annually growing up. While in Germany, Merton wrote her first song and attended a German-language high school before graduating and moving to England. Merton moved frequently in her early life, living in Oakville, Ontario, Connecticut, New York, Munich, Bournemouth, London, and Berlin, among other cities. Through her upbringing, Merton has stated she has felt connected to Canada, England, Germany, and France where her mother lived. In 2013, she started her studies at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg in Mannheim, where she earned a bachelor's degree in composition and song writing, and met the members of her future band.]
[Alice Merton plays recordBar, 1520 Grand, BLVD. TONIGHT, April 24, at 7:00 with Parker Bossleys.]
Next week on May 1, Marion Merritt of Records With Merritt returns with musical discoveries and information from her musically encyclopedic brain. Plus, we'll talk with Nathan Reusch of The Record Machine
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Wednesday MidDay Medley presents Betse Ellis + Mike McCoy + Amy Farrand + HuDost + Allaudin Ottinger + Shaun Crowley
Betse Ellis + Mike McCoy + Amy Farrand
HuDost + Allaudin Ottinger + Shaun Crowley
Mark spins New & MidCoastal Releases from: Mildcats, Short Round Stringband, Momma's Boy, Cher UK, Amy Farrand & The Like, Shortsweather, HuDost, Allaudin Ottinger, Cayucas, Amyl and The Sniffers, Middle Kids, and Morrissey.
At 10:15 Betse Ellis joins us to share details about the Short Round Stringband's new album in the making, an 18 track tribute to Bill Monroe! Short Round Stringband is Betse Ellis, Clarke Wyatt, Kelly Wells, and Ryan Spearman. Kelly & Ryan perform as the The Aching Hearts, based in St. Louis, and like Betse & Clarke they play "old time" music. The 4-piece band is in the final weeks of their crowdfunding campaign to produce the new record. For more information or to donate you can visit: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shortroundstringband/
At 10:35 we talk with Jemal Wade Hines & Moksha Sommer of HuDost, the husband-wife-fronted retro-pop art-rock group based in Montreal & Kentucky. Their new album, of water + Mercy. HuDost play an Album Release Show at Prospero's Books, Thursday, April 23, at 7:00 PM, at 1800 W 39th St, KCMO with Allaudin Ottinger who also joins us in the 90.1 FM Studios to share music from his new release, "Vision Bewilderment & Love."
At 11:00 Mark talks with musician and rock and roll legend, Mike McCoy and musician, singer songwriter, bandleader, Amy Farrand who share information about BRIANNE-I-FIT, The Fundraiser for Brianne Grimmer, supporting her medical expense fund, on Friday, April 26, at 6:00 PM, at recordBar, 1520 Grand BLVD. KCMO, with Amy Farrand & The Like, Pamper The Madman, Cher UK, Drop A Grand, Knife Crime, Godzillionaire, KC Bear Fighters, and Mahoots.
Shaun Crowley
At 11:30 Shaun Crowley of Momma's Boy and Manor Records shares details about Manor Records Speaks Up – Sat, April 27 at 9:00 pm, at miniBar, 3810 Broadway, with Mild Cats, The Golden Fleece, Mouton, Momma's Boy, The Rub's, and Drugs & Attics, Manor Records will also release "The Bennett Tapes" in honor & memory of a good friend Bennett Jones featuring a live un-released track from his old band Shortsweather. The bands & musicians are uniting for a purpose with all door proceeds going to the KC chapter of SPEAK UP, raising awareness about suicide & depression and to help end the stigma associated with suicide. Speak Up stands for Suicide Prevention Education Awareness for Kids United as Partners. More info at http://www.speakup.us
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Rita Chiarelli & Mikal Shapiro & Topeka Freedom Singers
+ Sean Mawhirter & Mundo Nouvo + Emmaline Twist
[WMM's opening theme]
2. The Get Up Kids – "The Problem Is Me"
from: Problems / Polyvinyl Record Co / May 10, 2019
[KC / Lawrence KS based band with Matt Pryor on vocals & guitars, Jim Suptic on guitar, Rob Pope on bass, James Dewees on keyboards, Ryan Pope on drums. Formed in 1995, the band was a major player in the mid-1990s emo scene, otherwise known as the "second wave" of emo music. As they gained prominence, they began touring with bands such as Green Day and Weezer before becoming headliners themselves, eventually embarking on international tours of Japan and Europe. The Get Up Kids Members Rob Pope is also in the band Spoon; Jim Suptic is in the bands: Blackpool Lights, and Radar State; James Dewees is in the band Reggie and the Full Effect; and Matt Pryor performs often as a solo artists, and in the bands: Radar State, and The New Amsterdams. On their new album Problems—their first full-length in eight years—The Get Up Kids examine everything from life-changing loss to loneliness to the inevitable anxiety of existing in 2019. But by sustaining the essence of their sound—anthemic choruses with sing-along-ready melodies—the band highlights those troubles as a shared experience, giving way to an unbreakable solidarity. And at the heart of Problems is an invaluable element the band's embodied since their 1997 debut Four Minute Mile: a penetrating lyricism that's both acutely introspective and indelibly resonant. // The follow-up to 2018's Kicker EP, Problems came to life in Bridgeport, Connecticut, with the band holing up together for a three-week span. Working with Grammy Award-winning producer Peter Katis (Kurt Vile, Japandroids, The National), The Get Up Kids took a characteristically riff-driven yet decidedly pop-minded approach to song structure, while also allowing themselves a new sense of creative freedom. "At one point with this band, if we came up with something that felt too much like when we first started out, we would've said, 'No, we can't do that anymore,'" says Pryor. "These days we've learned how to write without roadblocking the ideas that come naturally to us." // Kicking off with lead single "Satellite," Problems opens on a stark arrangement of acoustic guitar and stripped-bare vocals, then bursts into brightly crashing rhythms and lyrics revealing the time-bending quality of The Get Up Kids' songwriting. "I started writing 'Satellite' about my son who's 14 and a total introvert—not antisocial, he just genuinely likes to keep to himself," says Pryor. "But then somewhere down the line I started singing about myself—about how even when you're playing a show to a room full of people, I can still feel anxious and isolated." // Throughout Problems, The Get Up Kids again prove themselves attuned to the nuance of highly specific emotions, and ultimately validate the messiest and most nebulous of feelings. On the joyfully swinging, piano-heavy "The Problem Is Me," for instance, the band explores the notion of embracing your own romantic dysfunction, while "Salina" captures a small moment of melancholy with sweeping intensity and sprawling guitar work. Later, on "Your Ghost Is Gone," The Get Up Kids deliver a gently devastating piano ballad sparked from an instrumental piece Dewees wrote soon after his mother's death. // Through the years, The Get Up Kids have purposely pushed themselves toward previously unexplored songwriting material. "I'm 41 now, I could never write a song like when I was 19—all those 'I miss my girlfriend' kind of songs," Suptic says. "It's always important to us to write about wherever we are right now." As shown on Problems, the resulting output both preserves the beloved spirit of The Get Up Kids and creates an entirely new context for their music. "A big part of the reason why we started writing new songs in the first place is that we have things we want to say about this moment in time," says Pryor. "We're still so connected to our past and where this all came from—it's definitely a celebration of the fact that we still get to do this." ]
3. Weyes Blood – "Andromedia"
4. Lambchop – "Everything for You"
from: This (Is What I Wanted to Tell You) / Merge Records / March 22, 2019
[Lambchop, originally from Nashville, was ever a band with a "core" lineup, Lambchop has consisted of a large and fluid collective of musicians focused around its creative centre, frontman Kurt Wagner. AllMusic referred to tLambchop as "arguably the most consistently brilliant and unique American group to emerge during the 1990s". Initially indebted to traditional country, the music has subsequently moved through a range of influences including post-rock, soul and lounge music. Whatever the style, the characteristic mood of Lambchop's music is evoked by Wagner's distinctive songwriting: lyrically subtle and ambiguous, the vocals melodic but understated. Not so long ago, Lambchop had a famously sprawling line-up, toting a dozen or so members around the world and into the studio to document elliptical country-soul mutations. But in recent years, the band has become a more personal vehicle for Kurt Wagner. Anchored by him and framed by bassist Matt Swanson and Wagner's incorrigibly grinning foil, the pianist Tony Crow, the Lambchop of this decade has become more pliant and adaptable, opening itself to unexpected collaborators that give Wagner's thoughts and feelings the shape they need for each new album.]
5. Shy Boys – "Dim The Light"
from: Dim The Light / Brick By Brick – Single / Polyvinyl Record Co. / February 15, 2019
[New single release and follow up to the band's second album and Polyvinyl debut, Bell House. Shy Boys line-up consists of brothers Collin Rausch and Kyle Rausch, Konnor Ervin, Kyle Little and Ross Brown. The group formed shortly after the trio became roommates in 2012. Kyle Rausch and Konnor Ervin were already band mates in the indie-pop band The ACBs and Collin had been playing for years in the Kansas City area in various bands. The three shared a love for 1960s era pop rock and soon started writing their own music. In 2014 they released the self-titled Shy Boys on High Dive Records. The album received generally positive reviews and the single "Bully Fight" was featured on Spin.com. In June 2014 the band recorded and released two more singles and one of them, "Life Is Peachy," was featured on Stereogum. On April 4th, 2018, it was announced that the band had signed to Polyvinyl Record Co.]
[Shy Boys play VooDoo Lounge 1 Riverboat Dr, KCMO, with Berwanger And Kid Computer on Saturday, April 20 at 7:30 PM]
6. LK Ultra – "Two Spirit"
from: Demos For Bengal / LK Ultra / March 19, 2019
[Lawrence, Kansas based 4-piece indigenous-fronted, queer music, straight from the birthplace of emo. Formed by Lily Pryor, Inez Robinson, Aoife Conway, and August Hyde. The EP release was mixed and recorded by Mitchell Hewlett in The Coop.]
[LK Ultra play an All Ages Show, at Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St, Lawrence on Friday, April 19, with an early show at 6:00 pm and a late show at 10:00 pm for Tune In! A Girls Rock Lawrence Fundraiser and Rebrand Announcement with a new name that represents the range of identities we serve and a new mission statement that better reflects our goal: to amplify the voices and ideas of local youth through social justice and musical expression.]
7. Rita Chiarelli – "These Four Walls"
from: Music from the Big House Soundtrack / Mad Iris Music / April 5, 2011
[Rita Chiarelli was called "the goddess of Canadian blues" by CBC Radio One. Born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Chiarelli began performing in Ronnie Hawkins' band in the early 1980s. She spent several years in Italy. When she returned to Canada, she attracted the attention of film director Bruce McDonald, who included her "Have You Seen My Shoes?" on the soundtrack to his 1989 film Roadkill. Chiarelli and Colin Linden recorded a cover of Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" for McDonald's 1991 film Highway 61. Chiarelli released her debut album the following year. She has released 9 solo albums. Just Getting Started and Breakfast at Midnight were both nominated for the Juno Award for Best Blues Album. For her last release, Music From The Big House Soundtrack, Rita again collaborates with Director Bruce McDonald in a film that chronicles Rita's pilgrimage to the birthplace of the blues, Louisiana State Maximum Security Penitentiary a.k.a Angola Prison, where Rita plays music with inmates serving life sentences.]
Rita Chiarelli & Mikal Shapiro on the April 17, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley.
10:30 – Interview with Rita Chiarelli & Mikal Shapiro
Rita Chiarelli was called "the goddess of Canadian blues" by CBC Radio One. Born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Chiarelli began performing in Ronnie Hawkins' band in the early 1980s. She spent several years in Italy. When she returned to Canada, she quickly attracted the attention of film director Bruce McDonald, who included her "Have You Seen My Shoes?" on the soundtrack to his 1989 film Roadkill. Chiarelli and Colin Linden recorded a cover of Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" for McDonald's 1991 film Highway 61, and Chiarelli released her debut album the following year on Stony Plain Records. She has released nine solo albums, two of which, Just Getting Started and Breakfast at Midnight were nominated for the Juno Award for Best Blues Album. For her last release, Music From The Big House Soundtrack, Rita again collaborates with Director Bruce McDonald in a film the chronicles her pilgrimage to the birthplace of the blues, the Louisiana State Maximum Security Penitentiary a.k.a Angola Prison, where Rita plays music with inmates serving life sentences. Rita is now in Kansas City working on a new documentary project that began at Folk Alliance International with Mikal Shapiro.
Mikal Shapiro
Mikal Shapiro is a singer, songwriter, artist, filmmaker, puppeteer, ring-leader. Mikal Shapiro is the founder of State City Films – a new media house based in KCMO that she founded to create content that amplifies independent voices and tells stories that ache to be told through documentary and experimental filmmaking practices. Mikal Shapiro has worked on commercial, non-profit and independent productions since 2008. She was Director of Photography for the regional Emmy award-winning film "Tipping Point." She studied Film History, Film, & Writing at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. She received her MFA in Film/Video/New Media/Animation from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012. She has been involved in music and the arts for over two decades. Mikal's full length solo releases "The Crow The Lark And The Loon" from 2008, and "For Good" from 2010 and "The Musical" from 2017 and "The Musical II" from 2018 have been acclaimed by local music writers.
Rita Chiarelli and Mikal Shapiro join us to talk about their work to facilitate a music program inside the Topeka Correctional Facility for Women. This project culminates with a concert on May 4 that will be presented to their fellow inmates, families, victims, and the community. Authorities from the Department of Corrections will be invited to attend including the Kansas Governor Laura Kelly. Rita & Mikal are currently in the midst of 10 days of filming, with an all-female crew, inside the facility.
Rita Chiarelli & Mikal Shapiro thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley.
Rita Chiarelli
Text from their Kickstarter Campaign:
We just heard "These Four Walls" from the Music From The Big House Soundtrack. Rita I heard you explaining in an interview that you "'cold called" the Louisiana State Maximum Security Penitentary to begin the process of bringing a film crew into the prison.
Rita collaborated with Director Bruce McDonald in a film the chronicle her pilgrimage to the birthplace of the blues, Louisiana State Maximum Security Penitentiary a.k.a Angola Prison, where Rita plays music with inmates serving life sentences.
How It Began… Two years ago, through Folk Alliance International, acclaimed Canadian musician and film maker Rita Chiarelli and cinematographer Mikal Shapiro of State City Films were invited into 'The Topeka Correctional Facility for Women' in Kansas. For two days, the mission was to bring, perform and share some music with its inmates.
What They Found…It was quickly discovered that unlike penitentiaries that house male inmates, where there are instruments available and some forms of music programs, the women's facilities more often than not have none, such was the case in Topeka.
So…Rita Chiarelli began to work with the women, teaching them to sing some traditional tunes, and encouraging them to bring into the mix their own writings.
What happened next…midst the bonding that came through working together on the music, stories of unbelievable abuse that the women have suffered in their lives started to emerge. They shared stories of beatings and frankly abuse too difficult to imagine. As Rita and the inmates worked together, the women's voices began to 'rise', begging to be heard.
This story needs to be told…Why? – A phenomenon is happening. While abuse against women is on the rise… more women are being incarcerated than ever before. Sometimes the abuser is the system itself…poverty, social injustice…this story will reveal what some women in society are going through and what leads to their incarceration. Their stories reveal that they too are victims of the detrimental effects of poverty, addiction, physical and sexual abuse and assault.
Now What? A Film…Rita and Mikal plan to go back in. Rita will bring the healing power of music to this maximum security facility .Through the compassionate eye of Mikal's lens; she will follow Rita as she works with a group of talented inmates and adds music to their compelling writing.
This work will culminate in a concert… a concert that will be presented to their fellow inmates, families, victims and the greater community. Authorities from the Department of Corrections will be invited to attend including the Kansas Governor Laura Kelly.
This concert is an opportunity for the inmates to express their thoughts and emotions as well as reveal a side of themselves that will showcase their humanity. Their expressions set to music and sung out in what will be a cathartic culmination of a difficult yet liberating soul search for the women involved. And through the power of music, these women will ask us all for a little more understanding, forgiveness and maybe another chance.
What we leave behind…Rita has been in touch with an organization that brings instruments and music programs to prisons that have none. They are now in contact to possibly facilitate a music program in Topeka Correctional Facility for Women. The impact this project could have on the wider public is also considerable. What goes on behind the gates of a prison–from the lives of the state employees and guards, to those imprisoned inside the cells–often goes unseen and unheard. This lack of transparency contributes to a lack of accountability on our justice system as well as stigma and stereotypes of lives behind the wall. Creative work that connects people on "both sides of the fence" contributes to a healthier dialogue around crime, crime prevention, justice, rehabilitation, and redemption and an unsustainable system for controlling crime. Bringing artists and musicians into the dialogue can help highlight our collective humanity and work to facilitate criminal justice reform.
Rita and Mikal have planned 10 days of filming with an all-female crew, and a budget of $32,500 to cover this project's initial costs of filming this documentary.
Rita Chiarelli – Director/Producer
Mikal Shapiro – Producer/Director of Photography
Khitam Jabr – 1st Assistant Camera/Camera Operator
Alexandra Lambdin – Audio Engineer/Boom Operator
Courtney Williams – Production Assistant
This project has been two years in the planning.
8. "T" – "T's Rap"
from: T's Rap / Mikal Shapiro footage / April, 2019
[Recorded on camera inside the Topeka Correctional Facility for Women]
We're talking with Rita Chiarelli & Mikal Shapiro about their work to facilitate a music program inside the Topeka Correctional Facility for Women. This project culminates with a concert on May 4 that will be presented to their fellow inmates, families, victims, and the community. Authorities from the Department of Corrections will be invited to attend including the Kansas Governor Laura Kelly. Rita & Mikal have planned 10 days of filming with an all-female crew inside the facility.
9. Autumn – "Autumn's clip for radio"
from: Topeka Freedom Singers / Mikal Shapiro footage / April, 2019
Rita Chiarelli & Mikal Shapiro working to facilitate a music program inside the Topeka Correctional Facility for Women. #documentary #film #topekafreedomsingers #powerofmusic #musicinprison #artsinprison #maximumsecurity #topeka #kansas #womensprison #ritachiarelli #blues #gospel #music
10. Vegas – "Vegas's Verse clip for radio"
We're talking with Rita Chiarelli & Mikal Shapiro heir work to facilitate a music program inside the Topeka Correctional Facility for Women. This project culminates with a concert on May 4 that will be presented to their fellow inmates, families, victims, and community. Rita & Mikal have planned 10 days of filming with an all-female crew inside the facility.
11. Rita Chiarelli – "I Can Change For You"
from: Breakfast At Midnight / Mad Iris Music / May 8, 2001
[Rita Chiarelli may very well be the most powerful singer in Canada! Bringing her brand of rock & blues to an ever-increasing loyal audience since she was 15 years old, Rita finished high school in Hamilton Ontario and formed the band Battleaxe, a nine piece R&B band which toured Canada and the US. She then joined the Ronnie Hawkins school of rock and roll for a year and in 1981 left Canada on a trip to Italy, staying six years, touring and working in studios. // Back in Canada in the late 1980s she released a succession of independent singles and had one of her most powerful songs, "Have You Seen My Shoes?", used on the soundtrack of Bruce McDonald's Canadian-made movie Roadkill, now a cult favorite. // The success of the first Stony Plain album Road Rockets helped cement Chiarelli's solid reputation on the club circuit as an exciting, powerhouse performer with a stunning 3 octave range and a no-holds-barred delivery that rocked audiences across North America and Europe. Her 2nd album was co-produced with John Switzer, best known for his work with Jane Siberry, and featured guest appearances by Juno Award-winning guitarist & songwriter Colin Linden and members of country rock band Prairie Oyster. All songs with the exception of the Elvis Presley hit "Love Me" were written by Rita, who's developed her songwriting skills to the point that other artists are paying attention; Long John Baldry recorded Rita's song "Midnight in Berlin" on his Right To Sing The Blues. – Parsifal.com]
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12. Heidi Lynne Gluck – "Sadness Is Psychedelic"
from: Pony Show / Lotuspool Records / August 26, 2016
[Lawrence, Kansas based Heidi Lynne Gluck is a songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist originally from the middle of Canada. After transplanting herself from the plains of Manitoba to the midwestern United States, Heidi quickly became an in-demand player, performing on stage and in the studio both as a solo artist and with renowned musicians including Juliana Hatfield & Some Girls, Margot & The Nuclear So and Sos, Lily & Madeleine, The Pieces, The Only Children, and others. Heidi Lynne Gluck released the single "Party Line" on Too Much Rock on August 3, 2018.]
Sean Mawhirter on the April 17, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley.
11:00 – Interview with Sean Mawhirter
Sean Mawhirter, is originally from Wichita, Kansas. He is a guitarist and educator. During his over 20 years in the Kansas City metro music community, he has performed in a variety of settings and styles. Sean is a member of the Kansas City Guitar Society and Fractured Atlas. Sean Mawhirter is also the Artistic Director of Mundo Nouvo, KC's salsa orchestra whee he also plays guitar in the band, Mundo Nouvo has been honing its style for three years and are ready to release their first full-length album, "Mejor Tarde Que Nunca." This group play an Album Release Concert, Friday, April 19, at 8:00 PM, at The 10 Spot, 1000 Broadway, Blvd., KCMO.
Sean Mawhirter thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley.
Combining both Spanish and Haitian-Creole language, Mundo Nouvo ['mun.do-nu.vo] means "New World". This ensemble looks to source its material from the roots of Afro-Caribbean music with special emphasis on Cuban and Haitian traditions.
At its fullest, Mundo Nouvo operates as an 11-piece Salsa Orchestra that plays the dance halls for crowds that love the timeless groove of guaracha, merengue, mambo, etc.
This band also adapts to smaller formations (3-8 instruments) to play its repertoire in jazz clubs, restaurants, as well as concert programming.
Mundo Nouvo, KC's salsa orchestra celebrating it's first full-length album, "Mejor Tarde Que Nunca."
Mundo Nouvo
Led by veteran Cuban singer Ramon Terrada.
Mundo Nouvo also includes Jose Miguel Ramos on congas & coro vocals, Felipe "Tato" Ramos on timbales & coro vocals, Tony Ramos on bongos, Will Crain on piano, Daniel Nonweiler on bass, Sean Mawhirter on guitar, Guy Montes on flute & coro vocals, Janne Silfverberg on trombone, Lawrence Jackson on trumpet, David Cunningham on trumpet and frequent contributors: Paul Roberts on piano, Armando Gutierrez on trumpet, and Pat Conway on Congas/Bongos & Drumset.
This group has been honing its style for three years and are ready to share an Album Release Concert, Fri, April 19, at 8:00 PM, at The 10 Spot, 1000 Broadway, Blvd., KCMO.
More information at: http://www.mundonouvo.org
Having assembled some of the best talent in Kansas City, this is not only an active band but a fiscally sponsored Arts Organization that has partnered with the Global Birthing Home Foundation (GBHF) to support their efforts with Maison de Naissance (translates to 'Birth House') in Torbeck, Haiti.
Maison de Naissance, a modern, culturally appropriate maternal center, was established in 2004 in Torbeck, Haiti, and is sponsored by GBHF, a 501(c)3 non-profit public charity based in Leawood, KS. Since its establishment, Maison de Naissance has delivered over 4,700 healthy babies, and conducted more than 132,000 consultations.
While all of the revenue raised through the fiscal sponsorship will be attributed to the overhead of maintaining the musical ensemble, the ticket sale proceeds will be donated to the Global Birthing Home Foundation (GBHF).
13. Mundo Nouvo – "La Esencia del Guaguanco"
from: Live at Kansas Public Radio / Mundo Nouvo – KPR / February 22, 2018
We are talking with Sean Mawhirter, Artistic Director of Mundo Nouvo, Kansas City's salsa orchestra celebrating it's first full-length album, "Mejor Tarde Que Nunca" with an Album Release Concert, Friday, April 19, at 8:00 PM, at The 10 Spot, 1000 Broadway, Blvd., KCMO.
Sean Mawhirter thanks for being with us on WMM.
Johnsoncountylifestyle.com reported on Sean Mawhirter travels abroad in both Haiti and Cuba for monthlong research trips in an effort to conduct further study into the musical roots of these two countries that are the guiding inspiration for Mundo Nouvo. This involved formal courses taken at two music academies and private studies with some of the nations' finest instrumentalists.
For Mawhirter, was quoted as saying, "There are so many wonderful ways educate yourself in music nowadays, but there is no substitute for being in the context of the art. After all, how can you say that you know someone without sitting at their table?"
"I'm really excited about what is down the road for us", Mawhirter says. "Aside from the academic aspect, there'll be instruments coming back with me for our educational outreach with K-12 schools. Also, we're looking to get some of these master musicians up here to perform with us in future concert events for Kansas City audiences."
Mundo Nouvo has been honing its style for three years and are ready to share an Album Release Concert, Fri, April 19, at 8:00 PM, at The 10 Spot, 1000 Broadway, Blvd., KCMO.
Mundo Nouvo, KC's salsa orchestra is celebrating it's first full-length album, "Mejor Tarde Que Nunca" with an Album Release Concert, Friday, April 19, at 8:00 PM, at The 10 Spot, 1000 Broadway, Blvd., KCMO. More information at: http://www.mundonouvo.org
14. The Phantastics – "Heartbreaker"
from: Life of the Party – EP / Kemet Creative / August 24, 2018
[Eight member band from Kansas City formed in December 0f 2010 made up of: Kemet the Phantom -lead vocals; Kim "Phirst Lady" Newsome on lead vocals; JJ Cantrell on lead guitar & vocals; Danny Florez on electric bass; Ashley Thompson on drums, Ernest Melton on saxophone; Ryan Davis on Trombone and rap vocals; Austin Quick on keyboards. The Phantastics specialize in genre-blending dance floor activators. In 2015, the music group was crowned "Kansas City's best party band" by the Kansas City Star. Musicianship and diversity are at the core of their success. Rock, Rap, Dance, Funk, Jazz and Soul are all incorporated into their music. "The band that can do it all", according to I Heart Local Music, has shared the stage with some of music's most legendary acts including George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic.]
[The Phantastics play The Jazzhaus of Lawrence, 926 Massachusetts St, with Tyler Sanford and the Coalition, Saturday, April 20, at 10:30 PM.]
15. Son Volt – "While Rome Burns"
from: Union / Thirty Tigers / March 29, 2019
[9th studio album from St. Louis, Missouri based band formed in 1994 after the break up of Uncle Tupelo. Jay Farrar on vocals & guitar & harmonica, Andrew Duplantis on bass & backing vocal, Mark Patterson on drums, Chris Frame on guitar, and Mark Spencer on keyboards & steel guitar.]
[Son Volt plays Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester St. KCMO, on Tuesday, April 23, at 8:00 PM.]
16. Hi-Lux – "Dance With My Baby"
from: Hi-Lux – EP / Hi-Lux / February 1, 2018
[Originally released as a single on August 15, 2017. Now included in this 6 song EP. HI-LÜX is Julia Haile on vocals, Nick Howell on keyboards & organ, Kian Byrne on drums and vocals, Pete Leibert on bass, Tim Braun on guitar. Hi-Lux is based in KC. The band brings together elements of soul, reggae and funk for a unique and dance inspiring sound. More info at: http://www.hi-lux.bandcamp.com]
[Julia Haile Trio with Tim Braun on guitar and Brendan Culp on drums play The Phoenix, 302 W. 8th, KCMO, Saturday, April 20, at 9:30 PM]
17. Priests – "The Seduction of Kansas"
from: The Seduction of Kansas / Sister Polygon / April 5, 2019
[Priests are a post-punk band from Washington D.C. Formed in 2012, they are composed of Katie Alice Greer on vocals, Daniele Daniele on drums, Taylor Mulitz on bass, and G.L. Jaguar on guitar. Strong proponents of DIY ethic, Priests have autonomously released three EPs through their independently run label Sister Polygon Records, as well as tapes and singles from acts such as Downtown Boys, Snail Mail, Shady Hawkins, and other local D.C. bands. In an interview with the Diamondback, guitarist G.L. expressed their commitment to "do it yourself" approaches in creating exposure for corporately marginalized music, "It's important to try and make safe and supportive art spaces in communities that are very much community oriented." In 2017, Priests released their full-length debut LP Nothing Feels Natural which found itself on several best albums of 2017 lists including Billboard, NPR, the Atlantic, Will's Band of the Week, and Pitchfork. On inauguration day, just days before the release of the album, the band played an event which they helped organize called NO: A Night of Anti-Fascist Sound Resistance in the Capital of the USA at the Black Cat. Rolling Stone described the band as "forging jagged incantations that challenge norms ranging from the driving forces of capitalism to punk's own chest-beating macho traditions.]
[Priests play recordBar, 1520 Grand BLVD. KCMO, on Tuesday, July 9, at 9:00 PM.]
15. Drugs & Attics – "So Tuff"
from: Clean Their Room / High Dive Records / April 19, 2019
[High Dive Records debut from Kansas City based 3-piece premiere party drug rock band.]
[Drugs & Attics play Minibar, 3810 Broadway Rd, KCMO with Dreamgirl and The Whiffs, Thursday April 18, at 9:00 PM celebrating the release of Drugs & Attics new record.]
[Drugs & Attics play Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, w/ High WestHus, JC& The Nuns, and The Whiffs on Sat, April 20, at 10:00 PM celebrating the release of Drugs & Attics new record.]
16. Emmaline Twist – "Oblivion"
from: Dissimulation / Black Site / August 24, 2018
[Debut LP from Emmaline Twist, Kansas City's Darkwave / Post-Punk / Shoegaze project. In 2017 the band released "Dissimulation 1," four songs in digital format, their first since 2016's single release of "Vega" b/w "Moon Eyes." The band is Meredith McGrade on vocals & guitar, Kristin Conkright on bass, Jonathan Knecht on drums, and Krysztof Nemeth on baritone guitar. Recorded, Mixed, and Produced at Massive Sound by Paul Malinowski, and Mastered by Mike Nolte at Eureka Mastering. Matched with compelling cover-art created by Amy Abshier. Alex Alexander joined the band on synthesizers & guitar.]
Kristin Conkright & Krysztof Nemeth on the April 17, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley.
11:40 – Interview with Kristin Conkright & Krysztof Nemeth of Emmaline Twist
Emmaline Twist released their debut album "Dissimulation" on August 24, 2018 on Black Site Records. The record was in the Top 10 of WMM's 118 Best Recordings of 2018. members of Emmaline Twist join us in our 90.1 FM Studios. Emmaline Twist play recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO, Friday, April 19, at 8:00 PM with The Foreign Resort, Nite, and Monta At Odds. More information at http://www.emmalinetwist.com
Kristin Conkright and Krysztof Nemeth, Thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley
Emmaline Twist is: Meredith McGrade on vocals & guitar, Kristin Conkright on bass, Jonathan Knecht on drums, Krysztof Nemeth on baritone guitar, and Alex Alexander on keyboarders & guitar.
From the band's website:
These veteran musicians first came together in early 2016 and immediately found an audience eager for their moody, darkwave sound. They produced their first video single, "Vega" (dir. Steve Gardels), later that same year. In the Fall of 2017, they self-released the digital EP, Dissimulation I, as well as their second video — "Desperate Measures" (dir. Matt Lepley). In August of 2018 Emmaline Twist released its debut vinyl LP, Dissimulation, on the Kansas City record label cooperative, Black Site. The album contains four brand new tunes plus completely remastered versions of the four tracks from the 2017 EP. Also in the Summer of 2018, the band released a 45 rpm single of "Vega" (b/w "Moon Eyes") on Kansas City's eat.hear.records.
Starting with the solid foundational rhythm section of Jonathan Knecht on drums and Kristin Conkright on bass, keyboardist Alex Alexander, baritone guitarist Krysztof Nemeth, and singer/guitarist Meredith McGrade add layer upon layer of structure and minimalist detail to reveal clean, tightly-crafted songs that are not so much autobiographical documents as they are universal pronouncements ─ sonic explorations of a dark-yet-hopeful aesthetic that is truly a reflection of these anxious times.
Emmaline Twist doesn't "write songs". This band constructs vast soundscapes that evoke the urgent, anxious energy of bustling cities enveloped by a sonic atmosphere as wide as the prairie sky. With the workmanlike spirit that is the hallmark of Midwestern rock music, Emmaline Twist combines the angular rhythms of post-punk with the dreamy ambience of shoegaze to create a sound unique to this Paris on the Plains.
This Friday Night will also be the last Emmaline Twist show for quite awhile as they are starting pre-production on their next record and will be recording during the summer.
Emmaline Twist
Emmaline Twist play recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO, Friday, April 19, at 8:00 PM with The Foreign Resort, Nite, and Monta At Odds. More information at http://www.emmalinetwist.com
20. Emmaline Twist – "Starcrossed"
[Debut LP from Emmaline Twist, Kansas City's Darkwave / Post-Punk / Shoegaze project. In 2017 the band released "Dissimulation 1," four songs in digital format, their first since 2016's single release of "Vega" b/w "Moon Eyes." The band is Meredith McGrade on vocals & guitar, Kristin Conkright on bass, Jonathan Knecht on drums, and Krysztof Nemeth on baritone guitar. Recorded, Mixed, and Produced at Massive Sound by Paul Malinowski, and Mastered by Mike Nolte at Eureka Mastering. Matched with compelling cover-art created by Amy Abshier. Alex Alexander recently joined the band on synthesizers & guitar.]
Next week on April 24 Allaudin Ottinger joins us to share music from his new release "Vision Bewilderment & Love" and he brings along special guests HuDost.
Also next week we talk with Mike McCoy and Amy Farrand who share information about their fundraiser for Brianne Grimmer, supporting her medical expense fund, on Friday, April 26, at 6:00 PM, at recordBar, 1520 Grand BLVD. KCMO, with Amy Farrand & The Like, Pamper The Madman, Cher UK, Drop A Grand, Knife Crime, Godzillionaire, KC Bear Fighters, and Mahoots.
And, Shaun Crowley of Momma's Boy and Manor Records shares details about Manor Records Speaks Up – Sat, April 27 at 9:00 pm, at miniBar, 3810 Broadway, with Mild Cats, The Golden Fleece, Mouton, Momma's Boy, The Rub's, and Drugs & Attics, Manor Records will also release "The Bennett Tapes" in honor & memory of a good friend Bennett Jones featuring a live un-released track from his old band Shortsweather. The bands & musicians are uniting for a purpose with all door proceeds going to the KC chapter of SPEAK UP, raising awareness about suicide & depression and to help end the stigma associated with suicide. Speak Up stands for Suicide Prevention Education Awareness for Kids United as Partners. More info at http://www.speakup.us
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