DJ Handi's Archive Picks Of The Week: Handi's Gotta Have It

Early this month, I wrote about discovering my unplayed music through WFMU. This week the shows were exceptional, and my budget busted.

Brian Turner played Mama Bea Tekielski, comparing it to Patti Smith and Catherine Ribeiro. Tekielski's throat driven thorny mania, for me, invokes Diamanda Galas--whose catalogue I was searching until Brian announced "Priau" was Mama Bea. I don't even know what language Tekielski sings in,  and that's adventitious--experience her singing like a free jazz saxophone: pure sound.

You figure this out!  Terre T, on Cherry Blossom Clinic, played "Privelige" by Smith, Scott Williams played Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes , and Hot Rod "The Desert" by Galas. I can't decide, thinking of the exorbitant coin I dropped on the Tekielski album. 

ooioo sound like none of the above, but their new album is  Armonico Heva. Scott played "Uda Huh," then making the familiar fresh, segued into The Chrystal's "And 'Then He Kissed Me"

Nice start to the week,  which ended as well when Billy Jam  played "Salloque"  from My Main Shitstain by Paris Suit Yourself on Put The Needle On The Record. I put the mouse on the pricetag and clicked. I wonder if Serge Gainsbourg, if alive, would do material like "Siloque." Listen to Hatch in 2009 playing "Melody," from Gainsbourg's 1971  Historire De Melody Nelson. The connection is undeniable.

Am I over-imagining in French, or does Paris Suit Yourself reference a second source. Listen to the growl of the narrator in Jean Luc-Godard's 1965 film, Alphaville. 

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Enough film. More about the expensive but heavenly bottomless music pit:. Singer Andy Pratt put out  Records Are Like Life.in 1969. Get a Real Player to hear how John Allen played Pratt's title track in 2008 next to Duncan Browne. Pratt sings "Goin' out, and I buy more records."  DJ Shadow sampled this line in 2006 on Funky Skunk, and Shadow has 60,000 records.

John says Records Are Like Life  is Pratt's best. I agree: while most singer-songwriters--if you like genre label trash--were inspired by Tin Pan Alley, Pratt had lightening cadences akin to John Coltrane's Giant Steps, played by Charley Lewis, also in Real Audio .

Collectors covet, glancing over each others shoulders. Comment: What did you pick up this week?

Comments

[Andy Pratt]

Mr Handi

thanks for the plug. What's this about DJ Shadow sampling my track? First I've heard about it...what was the record? get in touch with me, let me know please...

bless everybody please check out my new stuff here
http://www.andyprattnow.com

and my catalog 1971-2009, including Records Are Like Life
http://www.itsaboutmusic.com/andypratt.htm

I wrote a memoir...
https://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=36742

my last 'offical' release is here:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/andy-pratt-loves-you/id390777958

and I've got a bunch of videos on YouTube

Happy Days...

Andy Pratt

[DJ Handi]

shadow sampled you on the funky skunk mix about a half hour in. some guy says he has 20,000 records, and then says "i know that's not messing with shadow's collection, i hear he is up to 60,000, and then he kicks into "i'm going out and i buy more records