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Civilization Phaze IV - Tuesday 9/30/2014 at 2:00pm

Mon, 09/29/2014 - 9:24pm | Eunah

This week on Civilization Phaze IV:

Your host Eunah will have a guest musician in the studio - classical bass player Miles Tsue - who will share a couple of his favorite jams, some of his own mad bass-playing skills (hopefully his GIANT bass can fit in our darling little KDRT studio), as well as his thoughts on his future prospects as a young classical musician with big dreams.  

Here's Miles at his Junior Recital last year at CSU Sacramento where he is currently pursuing a BM in Bass Performance - the piece is a Bass transcription of "Arpeggione" by Franz Schubert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsV4G_JDut4

Here's Miles (and fellow bassist Vincent Antolini) performing a NEW music composition by Sacramento-area composer Cole Cuchna - the piece is for mixed media + 2 basses, entitled "a place 4 higher beings":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QecNjEM62sQ

Album of the Week - Thursday 10/2/14 at 6:00PM - "TOLERANCE" by Incan Abraham

Mon, 09/29/2014 - 12:14pm | Pieter Pastoor

This week's Album of the Week is "Tolerance" by Incan Abraham. "If one were to use an album as a guidebook to a proper indie-pop album in 2014, "Tolerance" would be an ideal selection. Sometimes dreamy, other times a direct hit of driving pop...it’s the kind of music that could fill stadiums due to its swells of melody and strong song craft...

Listening Lyrics Sept 26, 2014, ABBEY ROAD

Fri, 09/26/2014 - 4:38am | Pieter Pastoor

On this day in 1969 the BEATLES released the album ABBEY ROAD. So in commeration of that lets play some covers of those songs that are all ingrained in our collective music memory bank. Some fun facts and stories will be told as well since after all, it was ABBEY ROAD, that saw the BEATLES for the last time together in the studio.

TAPS 09/26: Caleb Nichols

Thu, 09/25/2014 - 11:34pm | Danny

I was about to write something that conveyed how much I look forward to this episode while providing some background on our guest, but he did a much better job than I could have at explaining things in an email sent to fans this past July. Good news! You can catch his live set a few hours later at Witch Room in Sacramento in support of Two Sheds. -Danny

Watch/Listen on http://calebnichols.co

 

In 2006, 07 and 08 I played bass and sang in Oakland indie-folk band Port O'Brien.  You might remember our song "I Woke Up Today"; it was a crazy and fun sing-along and during our shows we invited the audience to shout with us and bang on a bunch of pots and pans we'd drag on stage in a wooden box. Here I am in the video for the song; I'd like to note that I broke my toe during the shoot (at least it was for a good cause). 

Album of the Week, 9/25: Orchestra Baobab ~ Pirates Choice

Tue, 09/23/2014 - 11:33am | Danny
orchestra baobab - pirates choice For people who know their Senegalese music, Orchestra Baobab's Pirates Choice is the Holy Grail. By the time this music was recorded to four-track in 1982, the immensely popular band had been playing nightly for years at a Dakar club called Baobab. But legendary status in Senegal didn't help the musicians get wider attention - the album wasn't released in Europe until 1987, and it only now comes to the U.S. for the first time (2001).
 
Latin music was popular in Dakar, a port city, and the band mixed various strains of Latin music with different African music styles to create uniformly stunning results not all that different from Afro-Cuban music. The French vocals are lovely, and the powerful mix of African and Latin percussion is undeniable--but keep a particular ear out for guitarist Barthelemy Attisso, whose tasteful leads float over the top.
 

Album of the Week Sept 18, 2014, 6PM - BRAND NEW "Deja Entendu"

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 2:41pm | Pieter Pastoor

JUSTIN COX is your host for this week. Brand New is an alternative rock band from Long Island, New York. Formed in 2000, the band currently consists of vocalist/guitarist/lyricist Jesse Lacey, guitarist/vocalist/lyricist Vincent Accardi, bassist Garrett Tierney, and drummer Brian Lane.

In the late 1990s, Jesse Lacey, Garrett Tierney, and Brian Lane were all members of the band The Rookie Lot. They eventually split off from the other members of the group, and in 2000 formed Brand New in Merrick, New York.The band signed to Triple Crown Records and in 2001 released their debut studio album, Your Favorite Weapon. Their second album, Deja Entendu, was released in 2003 and marked a stylistic change for the band. The album's first two singles, "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows" and "Sic Transit Gloria... Glory Fades", both received airplay on MTV2 and Fuse TV, entering the top 40 on the United Kingdom Singles Chart. Deja Entendu was eventually certified gold in the United States.