Attic Beats 012 - Recorded October 13, 2005
This week we take a listen to the music of Vietnam. A number of traditional folk tunes are featured as well as some fusion and pop tunes. I also share a field recording I made of a Cao Dai service I attended in Tay Ninh in [...]
Attic Beats 011 - Recorded October 5, 2005
If you were to bring up musicial obsessions, I have about a dozen names I’ll rattle off to you. Some of those artists I’ve already featured on Attic Beats. But when it comes to jazz, there’s no one that I obsess over more than saxophonist Archie [...]
Attic Beats 010 - Recorded September 29, 2005
It’s the MONUMENTAL TENTH EPISODE!
OK, so maybe it’s not really monumental, but hey, I haven’t missed a week yet. That’s something, right?
This week we return to a theme from one of the more popular episodes early on, instrumental hip-hop. There’s some nice beats for your head [...]
Attic Beats 009 - Recorded September 21, 2005
This week’s theme is Italian horror movie soundtracks from the 1970s and 1980s.
I’ve had a special place in my heart for Italian horror from the moment I saw the eye-splinter scene in Lucio Fulci’s Zombie (aka Zombi 2… I explain that confusing bit in the show). I [...]
Attic Beats 008 - Recorded September 13, 2005
This week we take a listen to the wonderful world of Tuvan throat singing. Though throat singing can be heard in Tibet, Kazakhstan, and even Canada, Tuvan throat singing is perhaps the most pure and amazing. Essentially, these are singers with the ability to produce multiple [...]
Attic Beats 007 - Recorded September 8, 2005
First thing’s first: if you’re easily offended, you’ll want to breeze right by this episode. Normally I don’t worry about the goofy “warnings” about naughty words, but since the show has been relatively clean to this point, it’s worth mentioning here. Not only does this show [...]
Attic Beats 006 - Recorded August 31, 2005
This week we return stateside with the most American of music: the blues.
Included in this episode are tracks from the almost unknown Juke Boy Bonner, performing at a Texas music festival just ten days before he died. We also hear the incredibly soulful acapella version of “John [...]
Attic Beats 005 - Recorded August 24, 2005
This week we check out the music of Poland, polka-free.
A few years ago I stumbled upon a cheap copy of an Eastern European music compilation. One of the tracks, “Sonda Jungle”, was by a group named Robotobibok representing Poland. The song grabbed my ear and I [...]
Attic Beats 004 - Recorded August 17-18, 2005
For this episode, I serve up strictly beats… instrumental hip-hop covering the last 15 years. Let this be your background music for weekend activities. Dig dig dig.
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Attic Beats 003 - Recorded August 9, 2005
This week’s show is a short one, but was a surprisingly tricky one to produce. After all, how do you segue from French funk to a marching band? What theme would pull together those two disparate musical selections, you ask? “Stuff I Bought At the [...]