Aaah Yes...Stav Sneaks in Some 1991 Autotune

One more from MK to round out the month & year. Hoping you'll all be back for '23.

Big Spaceship - Dream On (extended edition), Martin Kennedy self released, 2005

Chantal
The Dream    
R&B in Space    
Do Do    
Planet Dream On    
Find a Place to Land    
Where You are Now (featuring Glenn Richards)
Blip Blip    
Aaah Yes    
All Aborg    
Norwegian Holiday    
Taking Tea on the Sunny Side of Saturn    
One Step Behind    
Sometime    

previously unreleased
1991 (Stav mix)    
Dark Pop Song
1980
Rain
Retirement Home 2050

Enjoy & have a happy new,
NØ

Connect the Dots

In the 1990s there was a mighty rock unit called Pray TV in that land down under. By 1997, however, Pray TV was starting to wane. Then the band's driving force & principal songwriter, guitarist Martin Kennedy declared he wanted to move on from Pray TV.

As we know, Martin Kennedy embarked on his All India Radio project.  Pray TV singer Aidan Halloran concedes music was never an obsession in his life, & after Pray TV broke he steered clear of any new musical projects.  

In 2014 a Pray TV reunion benefit gig was organised for a friend of the band to raise money for cardiac treatment.  Sadly, the friend passed away & the gig never happened. But the flame was rekindled. Pray TV reformed for a one-off gig at the Yarra Hotel in January 2015.  Kennedy then surprised Halloran by saying he had some songs that would fit on a new Pray TV album.

And so Pray TV recorded Horizontal Life, the band's first album in nearly 20 years. 

 

Pray TV - Horizontal Life, Pray TV self released PRAYTV001, 2016.

Couch Surfing
Shifting Sands
Great Plans
Punchdrunk
Breathing Lessons
River Sold
Night After Night
Fade Out
Promises Promises
Connect the Dots
Where Do We Sleep

Enjoy,
NØ

All India Church

As if AIR's catalogue is not deep enough, there's 20+ releases from Martin Kennedy teamed up with  fellow Aussie singer-songwriter & bassist Steve Kilbey (The Church). Here's one of their earliest. 

 

Steve Kilbey & Martin Kennedy - White Magic, Second Motion Records SMR-033, 2011.

The Demo
Close
Intense
Inner Country
Unfocused
Mountain
Hope
Dreamstate
Sumer
Messiah Around
The Broken Sea

Ejoy,
NØ

The Expanding Universe???

The New Kennedy Space Project. 

After announcing the end of All India Radio.

The Expanding Universe - One, Martin Kennedy self released CD35543, 2022.

The Long Silence
Ancient Obelisk
Infinite Machine
Percipience
Underground Cities
Dune

Enjoy,
NØ

All Ha’ a Festive Yule

Lest we too quickly forget the chaos of the pandemic. Lest we forget the polarization of society caused by fear. How from some came an outpouring of empathy for the entire world. How from some came the selfish hatred of anyone different. How compassion shared the stage with racism & bigotry. Martin wrote these two tracks from the miasma of Covid fever. How we act in times of crisis spotlights our true souls.

Burn another X-ule log for Mother Earth & love thy neighbor. 

 

All India Radio - Inside the Covidium, 2022

Covidium I
Covidium II

Enjoy,
NØ

On the Twelfth Day

The Beating of the Final Drum

But it appears this space flight may have come to its end. With the release of On Pink Floyd, Kennedy announced that this would be the final AIR release except for "the occasional reissue or collection". 

 

Say it isn't so.

 

For the 12 Days of Yule, NØ brought to you:

 

The Beating of the Final Drum 

Time to Pay the Piper

Oh, Lordy

Folies Bergère

Milk Made

SibilanceS & Alliterations

Your Goose is Cooked

V Indole Rings

Deaf Dodo Birds

Trois Poules Françaises

Twin Doves of Peace

& a Cuckoo Singing in the Tree of Life

Enjoy,

NØ

On the Eleventh Day

Time to Pay the Piper

On the Tenth Day

Oh, Lordy

On the Ninth Day

Folies Bergère

On the Eighth Day

Milk Made

On the Seventh Day

SibilanceS & Alliterations

On the Sixth Day

Your Goose is Cooked

On the Fifth Day

V Indole Rings

On the Fourth Day

Deaf Dodo Birds

On the Third Day

Trois Poules Françaises

On the Second Day

Twin Doves of Peace

On the First Day

 Coming Up for AIR

 

The release of All India Radio - On Pink Floyd EP prompted the twelve upcoming posts. 

 

I always felt that Martin Kennedy, the Australian sound-artist of All India Radio, wore his appreciation of Pink Floyd on his sleeve. AIR's earliest efforts served up elecrtroambient sounds with a decidedly American tilt which started on 2001s Inevitable with tracks like : "Losing Houston" & "Wake in

Waco". 

 

2006s Echo Other cemented the downtempo Americana from first glance at the lonely desert Southwest Drive-In cover artwork through songs like "Mexicola" & "Endless Highway". 

 

 

With the release of 2009s Fall, things had become much Spacier.  Kennedy's enjoyment of Pink Floyd had set the controls for the heart of the sun. The Floyd sound was always in AIR's music, but by 2017 it had come to the forefront.

2017s album, Space used the actual rejected artwork for Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon for its own cover. Settle into your seat. We're about to blast off.

 

Cuckoo Singing in the Tree of Life

The Night's Blessing is "Vives Annos"

Starting tomorrow & for the twelve days leading up to Yule (Liah Natas), I will be taking us on a journey through SPACE.

Drop by every day because I'm not sure how long these twelve phases will last. I have set a download ceiling for each file out there in the cloud. When the number is reached, that's all folks for that day's offering. Don't complain that I didn't warn ya.

(& I dropped enough hints). 

I swear it will be well worth your while.

Satori in Dub

This may not be what juanjuanjuan was looking for, but while I was searching for Satori releases, of course I came across this Dub session first. 

 

Steven Jess Borth II created Satori in 2005, as a side project from Rx Bandits. Satori debut LP, Savor Every Moment, was released on Asian Man Records. It is a great showcase for what Borth had in his musickal mind.

Borth hooked up with Justin DeHart, a.k.a. Dr. Echo, as a live sound engineer to help create the growing dub direction of Satori. This would eventually evolve into the more experimental project, CHLLNGR, which is a collaborative effort between Borth & DeHart. The previous post showcased their union.

However, in the time between shifting focus from Satori to CHLLNGR, Borth, DeHart, along with a cast of very talented musicians recorded a batch of songs that were lost in time. These tracks were salvaged for the album Dub Defender Sessions. 

 

Satori vs. Dr. Echo - Dub Defender Sessions, Anicca Records 2020.
decryption code in comments

Little Do They Know Dub
Mountain Meditation Dub
Change is Great
Nowhere
Decision
It Dubbed Me
Intimate Dubolution
I Dub to Follow Through   
Dub is Change
Dub to Nowhere   
Dub Decision

Enjoy,
NØ

Satori in Denmark

New follower juanjuanjuan left a couple comments recently (about his quest for 17 Pygmies). On the Drowning Pool post he queried:
     "What about Satori?"

I'm searching through my mess now, but came across this EP from Satori head man Steve Borth. Always glad for new prompts. 

 

CHLLNGR - Datter EP, Time No Place TNP002, 2012.

Datter
Desire (featuring Cherry B.)
Well, Good
Change (reprise)

Enjoy,
NØ