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Ridgewood Radio features concert recordings by adventurous bands and experimental musicians and restored archival tapes from private and institutional collections captured at venues large and small across the five boroughs of New York. It is produced by David Weinstein and Outpost Artists Resources operating out of the Ridgewood section of Queens, NY, where you'll find more yellow bricks than on the road to Oz and the cemetery of your choice is never more than a few blocks from home.

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Favoriting October 13, 2021: Robert Ashley Backstage

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Principals of a new staging of composer Ashley’s otherworldly opera,
eL/Aficionado (singer Kayleigh Butcher and music director Tom Hamilton), live in studio
with a preview of the new album, historical bits, and other Ashley-esque tall tales.

Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
Robert Ashley  The Argument (Prelude)   Favoriting Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)  Lovely Music  2019  The introductory segment of from one of a quartet of operas that revolutionized the form. Composed 1985.   
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Robert Ashley  The Backyard   Favoriting Private Parts  Lovely Music  1978  Composer Ashley, voice; "Blue" Gene Tyranny, keyboards, synth; Krishna Bhatt, tabla. An episode that became part of Ashley's first "new narrative" opera-for-TV, "Perfect Lives". Excerpt.  0:04:24 (Pop-up)
Robert Ashley  The Immortality Songs (concert recording)   Favoriting Roulette Archive  Roulette Intermedium  12 March 1993  One section (Your Money My Life Good-bye) from a collection of works for voice and tape.  0:10:47 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
“Blue” Gene Tyranny 

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Live in studio interview. 

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Robert Ashley  Personal   Favoriting eL/Aficionado  Lovely Music  2021  From a new studio recording featuring the cast of the 2021 production from the composer’s opera on corporate mysticism, with mezzo soprano Kayleigh Butcher, and her interrogators Brian McCorkle, Bonnie Lander, Paul Pinto. Orchestration by Ashley and Tom Hamilton.  0:30:07 (Pop-up)
Robert Ashley  A Simple Border Crossing   Favoriting eL/Aficionado  Lovely Music  2021  See above.  0:33:57 (Pop-up)
Robert Ashley  My Brother Called (c)   Favoriting eL/Aficionado  Lovely Music  2021  See above.  0:50:59 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
“Blue” Gene Tyranny 

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Live in studio interview. 

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Robert Ashley  The Coyote   Favoriting Foreign Experiences  Lovely Music  2020  One part of the composer’s 1993 opera tackling Pentecostal Evangelism, with Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Marghreta Cordero, Tom Hamilton, Jacqueline Humbert, Joan La Barbara, and Amy X Neuburg. This recording was made at the Hebbel Theater, Berlin on May 12, 1995 and restored by Tom Hamilton.  1:16:44 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
“Blue” Gene Tyranny 

X Marks the Spot (Daydream)   Favoriting

 

 

 

Live in studio interview. 

1:24:55 (Pop-up)
Robert Ashley  The Airline Ticket Counter   Favoriting Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)  Lovely Music  2019  Selections from the 1985 opera composed as an allegory of events and ideas in Jewish history, recorded at The Kitchen in NYC, with Gelsey Bell, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinto, Aliza Simons, Dave Ruder, Amirtha Kidambi, Robert Ashley (recorded).  1:36:54 (Pop-up)
Robert Ashley  The Big City   Favoriting Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)  Lovely Music  2019  See above.  1:41:39 (Pop-up)
Robert Ashley  Happiness, Prosperity And Forgetfulness   Favoriting Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)  Lovely Music  2019  See above.  1:41:58 (Pop-up)
Robert Ashley  West (Atlantis)   Favoriting Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)  Lovely Music  2019  See above.  1:50:43 (Pop-up)
Tom Hamilton & Al Margolis  Concert Recording   Favoriting Live at The Sump (H0L0)  Outpost Artists Resources  12 April 2017  Composers Hamilton (synth) and Margolis (amplified objects) in an improvisation. Excerpt.  1:55:09 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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listener james from westwood:

Evening, Ridgewoodians and all!
  5:02pm
ruth:

Hi James!
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Webhamster Henry:

I'm ready to Ashley!
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Webhamster Henry:

Hi Tom!
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WR:

Robert Ashley is a voice from the future.
  5:04pm
hank:

Hello Ridgewoodians !
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:06pm
david w:

james, henry, WR, and hank. Welcome!
Avatar 5:06pm
gailvachon:

Greetings.
Such a soothing voice.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:08pm
david w:

Greetings, gail.
  5:09pm
ruth:

Greetings Wham, WR and of course the lovely Gail!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:18pm
WR:

I have been late to works of Ashley. Only vaguely aware of him and his work until the Spanish-language version was premiered at Irondale at the end of 2011.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:19pm
WR:

of Perfect Lives, I neglected to write...
Avatar 🥁 5:33pm
ranjit:

I'm also pretty new to Ashley; I think I started learning more after watching (on the internet) Object Collection's version of Automatic Writing.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:35pm
david w:

ranjit! Lots of button wrangling today so a bit quiet...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:39pm
Webhamster Henry:

Nice work, Tom & Kayleigh!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:45pm
david w:

Tom and Kayleigh thank you.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:57pm
Webhamster Henry:

This might be a good time to mention the October Hellraiser.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:01pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings david and all
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
david w:

greetings coelacanth∅!
  6:08pm
hank:

fantastic show DW !
  6:11pm
ruth:

Hey coel & Ranjit! Also anybody who feels moved to raise a little hell and move that gas guage to the right for Hellraiser go right ahead!!
Avatar 🥁 6:13pm
ranjit:

Thanks for the reminder, ruth! I have moved it!
  6:14pm
ruth:

Yass!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:45pm
david w:

And yet there's more:
Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan 7-10pm EDT: Psychedelic Man: Is Psychedelic Man performing a genre? A period-style? A sensibility or feeling? Or does he simply represent a state of being?
wfmu.org...
If You Lose Your Horse with Sam Segal 10-midnite
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
WR:

Thank you honored guests, Kayleigh Butcher and Tom Hamilton!!
Thank you David W and Ruth!
Thank you Robert Ashley!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
david w:

Thanks everybody, gotta run!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
Webhamster Henry:

Thanks for the Ashley survey and the new recording sounds great!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
listener james from westwood:

Yes indeed; many thanks!
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