ABC-RN: Prisons mix

“Penal Music for a Prison Planet”

... some of this music comes out of the prisoner rights movement, and the riots in Attica (USA) and Bathurst (Australia). A great radio doco' on the Attica rebellion can be found here.

The Night Air, ABC Radio National

Sunday 23rd November, 9.05pm
rpt Sunday 1st December, 12.05am

Ivo Malec
Bizarra
(Malec)
Triola
INA Collection GRM LP AM 830.11

Nathaniel Mayer [RIP] with The Fortune Braves
I Want Love And Affection (Not The House Of Correction)
Movers 1
Vampisoul CD Vampi 077

(MGM Studio Orchestra)
Dungeon Elevator
(Geisel/Hollander)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
Studio reference acetate 78 (no #)

The Firesign Theatre
Le Trente-Huit Cunegonde
(Gary Usher, The Firesign Theatre)
Waiting For The Electrician Or Someone Like Him
Columbia LP CS-2718

10CC
Rubber Bullets
(Godley/Creme/Gouldman)
10CC
Decca 45 Y 10248

Leonard Rosenman
Target Practice
(Rosenman)
Beneath The Planet Of The Apes OST
Film Score Monthly CD FSM Vol. 3 No. 3

Lee Hazlewood
6 Feet of Chain
(Hazelwood)
Trouble Is A Lonesome Town
Smells Like Records CD SLR 037

Gil Trythall
Folsom Prison Blues
(Cash, arr. Trythall)
Country Moog
Omni Recording Corporation CD Omni-108

Group 180
Coming Together
(Rzewski)
Group 180
Hungaroton LP slpx 12545
Gavin Friday & The Crash Ensemble
Coming Together
(Rzewski)
live recording; Dublin, 10th Nov 2005 (unreleased)

Acezantez
Gimnastiki Zu Grupu/Group Gymnastics
(Detoni)
Dubravko Detoni
Jugoton LP LSY-66005

The Pop Group
Amnesty International Report On British Army Torture Of Irish Prisoners
(The Pop Group)
Rough Trade 45 RT023

Archie Shepp
Attica Blues
(Shepp/Harris)
Attica Blues
Impulse LP AS-9222

Joan Baez
The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti-Part 2
(Baez/Morricone)
Sacco & Vanzetti OST
RCA LP LSP-4612

Vic Simms
Get Back In The Shadows
(Simms)
RCA 45 CPKS-1411

The Selector
The Selector
(Davies/Bradbury)
Chrysalis 45 K 7610

Jerry Goldsmith
The Gaz Chamber/The Rape Of The Earth/How?/Hypnosis/Chimes
(Goldsmith)
Demon Seed OST
Film Score Monthly CD FSM Vol. 6 No. 8

Cassetteboy featuring DJ Rubbish
Fly Me To New York
(Cassetteboy/Rubbish)
The Parker Tapes
Spymania CD Spy 017

Alain Savouret
Dulcinea
(Savouret)
Computer Music Currents 1
Wergo CD Wer 2021-50

AC/DC
Jailbreak
(Young/Young/Scott)
Albert Productions 45 AP-11135

Ennio Morricone
Disordini
(Morricone)
L’Istruttoria E’ Chiusa: Dimentichi OST
Dagored LP Red 150-1

Acezantez
Document 75
(Detoni)
Acezantez
Paradigm CD PD 11

Peter Thomas
Escape From The Camp
(Thomas)
Sound Music Album 5
Golden Ring Records LP S 5051-23

Bernard Parmegiani
Generiques
(Parmegiani)
Electronic Panorama – Groupe De Recherches Musicales De L’O.R.T.F.
Phillips 4LP Box 6740 001/LP 6526 003

Joe Byrd & The Field Hippies
Leisure World
(Byrd)
The American Metaphysical Circus
Columbia LP MS 7317

Toru Takemitsu
Punishment Island 3
(Takemitsu)
Complete Takemitsu Edition 3 Music For Movies 1 Disc 8
Shogakukan CD STZ-31

Pier Paolo Pasolini
Tempo Di Colera (II)
(Panagulis/Morricone)
Vi Scrivo Da Un Carcere In Grecia
RCA LP PL 31238

Nick Cave, Mick Harvey & Blixa Bargeld
Outro: The Free World
(Bargeld/Harvey/Cave)
Ghosts... Of The Civil Dead OST
Mute LP IONIC 3

Rodolfo Caesar
Les deux saisons
(Caesar)
A Arte Des Sons
Rodolfo Caesar LP RC-8859

The Residents
Jailhouse Rock
(Leiber/Stoller, arr. The Residents)
Commercial Album
Torso Records CD 413

Cheeseburger featuring Doc
Comin’ Home (Superjail theme)
(Cheeseburger)
unreleased
Kemado Records

Gordon Jenkins
The Nightmare
(Jenkins)
Seven Dreams
Decca LP DL 79011

Steven Jesse Bernstein
The No, No Man, part 2
(Bernstein/Fisk)
Prison
Sub Pop CD SP 101B

Malvina Reynolds
Little Boxes
(Reynolds)
Sings The Truth
Omni Recording Corporation CD Omni-114

Crazy mixed-up whirled mix, ABC RN

Sunday night on ABC Radio National, as part of The Night Air 8.35pm AEST
(rpt broadcast: midnight, Saturday 1st March - or 12am Sunday 2nd March, if you prefer)

AFTER IMPERIAL MONO-CULTURE, beyond the limit of maps: vintage pop & soundtracks from Turkey, Greece, Serbia, Poland, Czech & Slovakia, Croatia, Egypt, Iran, India, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Mexico, Chile & points inbetween thereof...

Denizalti Ruzgarlan Okay Temiz
45: Yonca Plak YCAS-076

... super-fine Turkish moog funk from this percussionist, composer & instrument builder extraordinaire. Recorded in 1974; later re-issued on (Turkish expat) Ilhan Mimaroglu's Finnadar label.

Is there life on the earth? (Makavejev/Hadzijakis) Anne Lonnberg
Sweet Movie OST CD (Lyra 1152)

... recurring freak/libertarian musical motif, from this monsterpiece of '70s Euro art/porn cinema.

Podatij Mi Troche Slonca Bemibem
Bemowe frazy LP (Muza SXL 1013)

... the Polish jazz/funk/prog scene has been the subject of avid collector attentions for a while now. This one is amazing for the way the female wordless vocals meander in a heterophony around the horn lines. I first discovered this track thru the "East of Cosmic" mixes of DJ Slobodan, from Belgrade's youth/opposition radio station B92.

??? Unknown song (Bazant/Hala/Malasek) Jirina Bohdalova & chorus
Dama Na Kolejich OST (unreleased)

... an unreleased track from the score of this 1966 Iron Curtain feminist pop-musical. Contrary to Western propaganda & historical myopia, the Iron Curtain produced some of the world's most colourful & creative popular cinema. The lyric explores that abiding conflict of the socialist "new woman": how to be feminine, & attract a mate, after a hard day on the factory floor.

Phonomorphia III (Detoni) Acezantez
Jugoslav Avant-Garde Music LP (Philips 6521 028)

... still largely unknown in the West, the Croatian composer Dubravko Detoni was a champion of post-WW2 modernism in his native Yugoslavia; after stints in the experimental studios at Warsaw, Paris & Darmstadt, Detoni was closely involved with the Zagreb Biennale of contemporary music, and performing music with the live electroacoustic ensemble, Acezantez. He continues to perform & record to this day.

??? music (edit) Kurt Grieder?
Samac OST (unreleased)

... the work of Zagreb Film re-defined creative animation in the 1950s & '60s; Samac (Eng: Alone) is generally considered to be the film that launched the new Zagreb style internationally (after its screening at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival). Music credit goes to Kurt Grieder, but I suspect this early electronic pop has been "borrowed" from another source - Grieder's score for a 1962 animation by the same Director, Mala Kronika (Eng: Everyday Chronicle), is constructed from an elaborate remix of the Forbidden Planet soundtrack!

Title Music (edit) Zdenek Liska
Ovoce stromu rajskych jime OST (unreleased)

... more unreleased soundtrack music, again from Czech, this time by the long-standing collaborator of the animator, Jan Svankmajer. The chorus translates in English as "tell me the truth". Both this, and the previous film (Sedmikrasky, Eng: Daisies, see below) by Director Chytilova, represent a singular pinnacle of international cinema - recommended!


Abgad Hawaz (???) Laila Morad
Laila Morad, Volume 2 LP (Soutelphan GSTP 54)

... stomping Egyptian jazz. Lovin' that tap-dance breakdown! I always had this one figured as being from a soundtrack (see below: Ghazl il banat of 1949) - what is immediately apparent is just how restrained the image is, in comparison to the wild, up-tempo music.

Chee ro bavar konam (???) Googoosh
The Best of Googoosh Vol. 5: Kavir (Caltex Records CD 2047)

... Googoosh is the most prominent pop vocalist from Iran, with a career spanning from the 1960s into the present. She works across both traditional Persian & contemporary Western styles. I've also seen the title of this track transliterated to English as Chiro bavir konam.

Title Music Rahul Dev Burman
Teesri Manzil OST LP (EMI 3AEX-5109)

... RD 'Pancham' Burman is probably the defining composer of the archetypal "Bollywood" musical style - a 'masala' of different genres, instrumental voices, rhythms, melodies & time signatures - achieving a colourful accomodation of traditional Indian & contemporary Western pop music styles...

Baithen Hain Kya Uske Pas (S D Burman/Majrooh; arr. R D Burman) Asha Bhosle
Jewel Thief OST LP (EMI 3AEX-5146)

... his father, Sachin Dev Burman, remains for many listeners (native Hinds, especially) the most important composer of Subcontinental cinema's "Golden Age". Sometimes, tho', he enlisted his son to help him chart more modern styles.

I want your love (Hendricks; arr. Qi) Grace Chang
The Age of Shanghainese Pops 1930-1970 CD (EMI/Pathe 724353094324)

... fiery vocal athletics from the gorgeous 'Ge Lan' Chang, as accomplished an actress as she was a musician. Ge Lan was the first Canto-pop singer to achieve popular success in Western territories, recording an LP for Capitol in the late 1950s. This style of East Asian jazz has a long and ambiguous legacy, hailing back to the nationalist period between the world wars.

Unwilling Heart (???) Ros Sereysothea
Ros Sereysothea's Collection 02 CD (Khmer Rocks no no.)

... smouldering torch-jazz from Sereysothea, perhaps the most prominent female singer of '60s & '70s Khmer pop & jazz styles (& with quite a few soundtrack credits as well). I have a definite love for the tonal languages of SE Asia - killer!

Cabaret Tragico theme (Esquivel) Columba Dominguez
Cabaret Tragico OST LP (RCA Victor MKL 1088)

... early work from Juan Garcia Esquivel, for this Mexican nightclub noir. All the trademark Esquivel motifs are already in evidence - the wild dynamic flux (quieter vocal parts going into bombastic horn charts), wordless chorus, Alvino Rey's electric guitar twang. Somewhere, I have an RD Burman soundtrack where the choir is all over that 'zu-zu' wordless thing - an indication of just how widely the Esquivel style was admired & imitated.

El derecho de vivir en paz Victor Jara
El Derecho De Vivir En Paz CD (WEA CD 8573 87606-2)

... the great Chilean folk-singer Jara, with what is perhaps his signature: "they deserve to live in peace" - and a sentiment that informed this selection of music.