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Listen Live: Sonoma County, CA - Saturday 7th June 2025 @ 19:00 PDT / UTC -7 on KOWS 92.5 FM Worldwide - Sunday 8th June @ 03:00 BST / UTC +1 on http://www.kowsfm.com Listen After Broadcast: The show will be uploaded to https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/kowsradiosummit Running Time: 58:00
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Apologies for the lack of shows for April and May, but with my 94 year old adoptive mother in and out of hospital for the last three months (in again currently), it's been really hard to keep up to date with anything. So I'm afraid I had no choice other than to ask our upgraded ship super-computer, Hal 90, to pop the crew into suspended animation for a while. This month, he has kindly put a show together for you as well. I'm going to be optimistic and say see you all in July, thanks for your patience...
Finally, the beginnings of the thus far ill-fated 'Project M', our planned collaboration with Greek electro-experimentalists, Melophobia, aka Olympus Cosmos, the man behind the Default Standard label. We received the Melophobia contribution a little over three years ago, then it's just been one damned thing after another that has held us back from producing ours. We actually recorded this opening theme two years ago, but then it just had to sit and wait until now for the sessions to really take shape. By way of a preview (and visible commitment from us to get the job done), this mix has just been released on "Exquisite Tones For Oozing Ears - Vol. II" (Corn On The Cob Music). The project continues. No, REALLY! https://melophobia.bandcamp.com
To the disturbing sounds of the Czech sound artist known on social media as Syfil SemeNoise, whose track titles so conveniently sound like Captain's Log stardates, just before they burn holes in your ears! This particular track comes courtesy of musique concrète maestro Shaun Robert's 'Sounds In Space' compilation (Institute For Alien Research), but there's a whole world of RDKPL beyond for those that like finding blood on their headphones. Love it... https://ifarmusiqueconcretecompilation.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-in-space
A historic project from electro-ambient artist Christian Wittman next, who you'll undoubtedly remember from a couple of recent shows (and more to come, but you can't remember them in advance of them happening, I guess, human limitations and all that), Lightwave being a band he was involved with as long as four decades ago. Some very mellow sounds with something of a prog influence to be had here, this track being taken from the album 'Tycho Brahe'... https://lightwave-musique.bandcamp.com https://christianwittman.bandcamp.com
Wolfgang Reffert's Dark Star was a bit of a favourite on Music & Elsewhere, but Edward Ka-Spel is a bit of a mystery to me, not someone I've ever had direct contact with, though a name I certainly remember hearing many good things about back in the golden age of cassette culture. I have at least found a Bandcamp for him, so can finally put that right and say hi. This is a second track taken from the excellent 'Artefacts' collection, mostly recorded in the mid 90's, but sounding fresh as a daisy. The one-eyed giant of Greek mythology becomes one giant of a track for the show. Think I could use everything on this album, it's just SO good... https://darkstar4.bandcamp.com https://edwardka-spel.bandcamp.com
I don't play nearly enough trip hop on the show, I know, but I should include a little more coz I'm a bit of a fan of the genre, especially Portishead (where one of my brothers lives, coincidentally) and Morcheeba (no relatives there though). Takis Kood's Muff Dada have been on the show before, but their partners in crime for this album, 'Stereo Junkies', are spaceship virgins. According to the blurb, these guys all met back in 2015 and toasted loads of sandwiches together. I must admit, I find toast rather inspirational as well, so I get that. I'm now getting the urge to down tools and go make a cheese toastie, thanks for that! Album comes courtesy of Seven Beats Music of Montenegro. Didn't he do the music for 'The Good, The Bad And The Ugly'... https://sevenbeatsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/stereo-junkies
Yeah, I know, as soon as you see the 4:33 running time, you just know it's come from one of Shaun Robert's IFAR compilations, and I absolutely promise it will be the very last track I play from 'Oeuvres Pour l'Orchestre Toujours Présent', coz I don't think there are many left that I haven't played! You'll no doubt remember the name of El Z from some of his avant garde jazz collaborations with Andrés Figueroa what have been on the show (they played live in Nine Backward too, honest!), maybe even his collaboration with yours truly? He's clearly not Argentina's finest on astronomical knowledge (it's the other way round, all the stars in Orion are in our galaxy, but then I'm the kind of Trekkie nerd that knows shit like that), but he's definitely the most creative experimental musician we've heard from there. El Zombie Espacial esta en Argentina, ve a visitarlo... https://elzombieespacial.bandcamp.com https://ifarmusiqueconcretecompilation.bandcamp.com/album/oeuvres-pour-lorchestre-toujours-pr-sent
A second track from the Transylvanian electromeister's (yes, I do make words up) 'The Ray Bradbury Chronicles' album. As ever, accomplished musicianship and much craft in putting it all together, and we lurve the sci fi theme, of course. Levente is another of the old Music & Elsewhere repertoire, though only just, the very last artist to have an album released on the label, way back in 2003, not that we'd have forgotten him either way, of course. This album is inspired by 10 of Bradbury's works, very cinematic in style, particular sounds assigned to characters et al. You'll find plenty about Levente's thoughts on the album on his blog, pus the album and other works on his Bandcamp, enjoy... https://www.talesoffrozentime.com/music#theraybradburychronicles
08. Schroedinger's Cat - Polaris (13:29 - edited)
https://schroedingerscat.bandcamp.com
And finally (you're expecting a story about a surfing dog now, aren't you), another Music & Elsewhere artist from back in the day. Makes you feel so old when you find yourself keep saying that, groan. But I digress, which is most unlike me. Ahem. Tis the work of the Italian duo of Bruno De Angelis and Giuseppe Verticchio, the former of whom was the M&E man, both under his own name and the excellent Mana ERG. I think probably dark ambient would be the fairest description for the album this track is taken from, 'Tertium Quid'. Lyrics translated from Russian; "Can't they see what is happening? Can't they see it!? They are all asleep, it really looks like they're all asleep...", which could almost be an elegy to the general assembly of the United Nations. Quick burn there. Wake up, do your fucking job. Back to the music, meanwhile; quality stuff, as we've come to expect from Bruno across the years. Found a solo album of his on The Sol Records Bandcamp, plus one of the tape albums Mana ERG had on M&E is now available digitally on Alternate Media, links for both will be included at the end. Which is here... https://sol-label.bandcamp.com/album/clouds-thick-location-unknown https://penga.bandcamp.com/album/patchwork
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Didn't
quite have space for the whole 14:39 on the show, which is a shame, coz it's
one epic track from Lord Iain Hawk and crew, a crew that coincidentally
includes Barry Mart who often used to play our stuff on his Earth Calling
radioshow! There's karma for you. Now this is a far more prog rock take on
the space theme (in spite of him being another Hawkwind fan), coming from
the five disc set, 'World Of Lovecraft' (2017-18). The featured track is the
opener on album 4, 'The Nameless City'. The band are still recording and
releasing, though I don't have any of the newer material. I've actually had
this one for quite some years, I think he sent it to me in the summer of
2021, but I've just recently rediscovered it in a search for spacey track
titles. Oh yes, us presenters do our research, you know. Anyway, there's
more than 20 new releases after the Lovecraft one, many of them multi-disc,
so you could probably get lost on their Bandcamp for months. Don't forget to
pop out on the first Saturday of each one though, thanks...
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See
you back here on Saturday 5th July with more otherworldly sounds and a
chance to really meet the crew when our Dr. Patel picks up her clipboard for
a quick psych-evaluation on them...