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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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80s bands and projects developed by free improv and noise artists
from Arthur Russell and Arto Lindsay to Zeena Parkins and John Zorn.

Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
Wayne Horvitz/The President  This New Generation (1987 CBGB's)   Favoriting Live Forever, Vol. 1: The President: New York in the 80's  Other Room Music  2021  Bobby Previte, drums; Dave Hofstra, electric bass; Elliott Sharp, guitar; Wayne Horvitz, keys; Dave Tronzo, slide guitar; Doug Wieselman, sax.   
 
Arthur Russell  I Like You!   Favoriting Calling Out Of Context  Audika Records  2004  Created late 80s, from a collection featuring previously unreleased tracks of "Buddhist Bubblegum Disco Electro Pop".  0:06:57 (Pop-up)
Arnold Dreyblatt  Damping Influence   Favoriting The Sound of One String  Table Of The Elements  1998  Dirk Lebahn, double bass prepared with excited strings; Wolfgang Glum, percussion; Jan Schade, miniature princess pianoforte; Wolfgang Mettler, violin. Recorded 1986 in concert at Het Apollohuis, Netherlands, by David Weinstein.  0:11:51 (Pop-up)
Skeleton Crew  Onwards And Upwards   Favoriting Free Dirt (Live)  Klang Galerie  2023  From a compilation of early 80s tracks. Dave Newhouse, bass clarinet, sax, keys, percussion; Tom Cora, cello, bass, sampler, percussion, voice, accordion; Fred Frith, guitar, 6-string bass, violin, keys, percussion, voice; Zeena Parkins, harp, keys, accordion, percussion, voice.  0:17:21 (Pop-up)
Massacre  Killing Time   Favoriting Massacre  Celluloid  1983  Fred Frith, Burns Black Bison Guitar, voice, Casio, radio; Bill Laswell, basses, pocket trumpet; Fred Maher, drums, percussion. Recorded live in Paris and at OAO studio, Brooklyn, 1981.  0:23:05 (Pop-up)
Ambitious Lovers  Lust   Favoriting Lust  Elektra  1991  Melvin Gibbs, bass; Tony Lewis, drums; Marc Ribot, guitar; Peter Scherer, keyboards, sampler; Naná Vasconcelos, percussion; Arto Lindsay, vocals, guitar.  0:26:10 (Pop-up)
Julee Cruise/Angelo Badalamenti  Floating   Favoriting Floating Into The Night  Warner Bros. Records  1989  Composer Badalamenti, piano, synth; Eddie Dixon, Vinnie Bell, electric guitars; Kinny Landrum, synth; Al Regni, sax, clarinet; Julee Cruise, vocals. Lyrics by David Lynch.  0:30:51 (Pop-up)
 
Elliott Sharp/Carbon  Unks   Favoriting Datacide  Enemy Records  1990  Composer Sharp, guitars, sax, voice, Slab, sampler; David Linton, drums; Zeena Parkins, electric harp, keys, Slab; Samm Bennett, percussion, drums, sampler.  0:39:41 (Pop-up)
Samm Bennett/Chunk  Concert Recording   Favoriting Roulette Archive  Roulette Intermedium  1989  Bennett’s percussion song project with the composer on drums, percussion, electronic percussion, and vocals; Tim Spelios, drums, percussion, electronic percussion; and David Simons, electronic percussion, jaw harp, Hawaiian guitar, etc.  0:42:56 (Pop-up)
Anthony Coleman  Castle By Day, Disco By Night   Favoriting Roulette Archive  Roulette Intermedium  1990  Composer Coleman, keys; Jim Pugliese, drums; Guy Klucevsek, accordion; Don Byron, reeds.  0:50:42 (Pop-up)
Living Colour  Desperate People   Favoriting Vivid  Epic Records  1988  Muzz Skillings, bass, vocals; William Calhoun, drums, percussion, vocals; Vernon Reid, guitar, vocals; Corey Glover, lead vocals.  0:57:32 (Pop-up)
 
Meredith Monk  The Tale   Favoriting Dolmen Music  ECM Records  1981  Composer Monk, voice, piano; Collin Walcott, percussion, violin; Steve Lockwood, piano.  1:05:59 (Pop-up)
Ornette Coleman & Prime Time  Honeymooners   Favoriting Virgin Beauty  Portrait  1988  Ornette Coleman, sax, violin, trumpet; Al MacDowell, Chris Walker, bass; Calvin Weston, drums; Denardo Coleman, drums, keyboards, percussion; Bern Nix, Charlee Ellerbe, guitars.  1:08:39 (Pop-up)
No Safety  Take Me   Favoriting Live at the Knitting Factory  Cuneiform  2021  Ann Rupel, bass, vocals; Chris Cochrane, guitar, tape, tambourine, vocals; Zeena Parkins, harp, sampler, eggs, vocals; Doug Seidel, guitar; Tim Spelios, drums. Recorded live at the Knitting Factory, NYC July 1993.  1:14:22 (Pop-up)
Semantics  Trumped Up Charges   Favoriting Bone Of Contention  SST Records  1987  Elliott Sharp, bass, guitars, drums, percussion; Samm Bennett, electronic drums, voice, sampler; composer Ned Rothenberg, saxes, bass clarinet, flutes.  1:16:03 (Pop-up)
New Air  Don't Drink That Corner My Life Is In The Bush   Favoriting New Air Featuring Cassandra Wilson - Air Show No. 1  Black Saint  1989  Henry Threadgill, saxes, flute, eastern banjo; Fred Hopkins, bass; Pheeroan akLaff, percussion; Cassandra Wilson, vocals.  1:19:58 (Pop-up)
 
Wayne Horvitz/The President  I Went to See the Doctor (4-Track Demo)   Favoriting Live Forever, Vol. 1: The President: New York in the 80's  Other Room Music  2021  Composer Horvitz, keys; Dave Hofstra, bass; Doug Wieselman, sax.  1:32:40 (Pop-up)
The Ned Sublette Band  Leading A Double Life (1986)   Favoriting Degrees Of Freedom Found  Unseen Worlds  2021  From a "Blue" Gene Tyranny compilation album.  1:38:05 (Pop-up)
Tohban Djan  Kiss of Fire   Favoriting Roulette Archive  Roulette Intermedium  1989  Luli Shioi, vocals and bass; Ikue Mori, drums and percussion; Davey Williams, guitar; Hahn Rowe, violin; Zeena Parkins, accordion.  1:41:00 (Pop-up)
John Zorn/Naked City  The Sicilian Clan   Favoriting Naked City  Elektra Nonesuch  1990  An Ennio Morricone cover with Zorn, sax; Fred Frith, bass; Joey Baron, drums; Bill Frisell, guitar; Wayne Horvitz, keys.  1:46:25 (Pop-up)
 
Ambitious Lovers  Copy Me   Favoriting Greed  Virgin Records  1988  Vernon Reid, rhythm guitar; Arto Lindsay, vocals, guitar; Naná Vasconcelos, percussion; Peter Scherer, keys, synth, drum programming, sampler; D.K. Dyson, backing vocals.  1:53:44 (Pop-up)
 


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Listener comments!

  5:03pm
Hank:

Eclipiical Banana is Gonna Be the Very Next Craze !
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tom tom the pipers son:

hi david and people....y'know ...'mata hari' a good band name i've never seen used....
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Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜:

Hey, gotta late start today so you'll be my work soundtrack tonight! :)
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chresti:

Hi david and ruth and ridgewoodians!
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listener james from westwood:

Evening, Ridgewoodians and all!
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david w:

Lovely people! Hello Hank and tom tom and Threemoons, chresti, james. Welcome!
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tom tom the pipers son:

@david: weren't branca etc, sort of 1/2 generation before these experimental folk
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david w:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:09
Not really, all happening at the same time.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:09
oh
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tom tom the pipers son:

i think dreyblatt's harmonic were influenced by branca
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tom tom the pipers son:

overtones etc...
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david w:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:13
All the artists I'm playing today listened to each other.
  5:15pm
Hank:

DW, I thought Arnold Dreyblatt and fit your description for this show !
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david w:

↳ Hank @5:15
This evolved into his Orchestra of Excited Strings.
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WR:

Hello David W, Ruth and Ridgewoodians. Listening while working on migrating to a new laptop.
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david w:

↳ WR @5:17
WR! Perfect test for a new device!
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WR:

↳ Song: "Onwards And Upwards" by "Skeleton Crew"
So many great recordings out there.

klanggalerie.bandcamp.com...
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tom tom the pipers son:

i think some of motivation behind this 80's move in the experimental music world towards more 'populist' projects was the emergence of the 'go-go' 80's art market whether to capitalize on it or make some comment on it
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david w:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:23
Yeah, but with some exceptions you couldn't give this shit away.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:23
right...
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doctorjazz:

Hi all!
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david w:

Hi, Prof. Djazz!
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mackeral:

Hey folks! I was just thinking fondly of Skeleton Crew a couple days ago. Gonna have to get this Live Dirt
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david w:

mackeral! our minds have melded...
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tom tom the pipers son:

all this may have coexisted, but still i see branca, chatham, dna as sprouting from different cultural soil and from a different political climate, than what you've been playing so far
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Rich in Washington:

↳ Song: "Floating" by "Julee Cruise/Angelo Badalamenti"
Love this album so much.
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david w:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:32
Indeed, but the cross pollination is undeniable.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ david w @5:33
agree
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david w:

another agree
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david w:

↳ Rich in Washington @5:32
Rich! I meant to aim that second "agree" at you
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tom tom the pipers son:

there was just a massive flash of lightning and thunder from out of nowhere....
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "Castle By Day, Disco By Night" by "Anthony Coleman"
favorite so far reminding me slightly of astor piazolla for maybe obvious reasons
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Ike:

Hi! I was just thinking about Living Colour the other day and how they got the phrase "Cult of Personality" more into mainstream consciousness with that hit.
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david w:

↳ Ike @5:59
Hi, Ike. This is one of the projects that snuck into the mainstream.
  6:01pm
Frank Talk About Humans:

I got this tape along w Edie Brickell for Christmas in 1989. Or 88?
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david w:

↳ Frank Talk About Humans @6:01
Frank! What a mixture!
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "The Tale" by "Meredith Monk"
liked that m. monk... the words reminded me of barbara kruger who arrived sometime after in the 80's
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "Trumped Up Charges" by "Semantics"
whole new meanining to song title
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Rich in Washington:

↳ Song: "Honeymooners" by "Ornette Coleman & Prime Time"
Charlee Ellerbe. New to me. That's some spectacular string slingin'.
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Flint_Jack:

Great show David!
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david w:

↳ Flint_Jack @6:15
thank you, dear Jack.
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Rich in Washington:

It's amazing what a wonderfully diverse roster SST Records had before it sort of imploded.
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ranjit:

This is a fun show tonight! (And hey, I know Samm Bennett! I visited him in Tokyo years ago.)
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david w:

↳ Rich in Washington @6:17
SST gave hope to the scene for a while, many aspired to get there.
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david w:

↳ ranjit @6:18
Thanks, ranjit. Old Samm abandoned us for a life in Japan years ago
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WR:

My sorting of files has brought up one intersection of the NYC experimental folks and the pop world. A 1985 recording, released as a single in '86 personnel:

Bernard Fowler: back vocals
Bill Laswell: bass
Tony Williams: drums
L Shankar: electric violin
Steve Vai: guitar
Nicky Skopelitis: guitar

Words and singing John Lydon. That fun ditty, Rise.
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northguineahills:

hello ridgewoodians!
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david w:

↳ WR @6:26
Whoa. That marks the spot!
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david w:

ngh!
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WR:

↳ david w @6:20
Earlier I took a look on the 'net for Samm Bennett and saw a range of work and activities, and I am wondering if I heard a feature / interview with him on 'FMU about a year ago. Trying to remember the program on 'FMU or otherwise search for it.
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tom tom the pipers son:

↳ WR @6:28
krys o did a show devoted to samm bennett
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tom tom the pipers son:

hi ngh....
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WR:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:29
right, just found Krys O's show with Bennett:
www.wfmu.org...
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david w:

More here on Drummer stream today:
7-10pm (EDT): BODEGA POP with Gary Sullivan: Greek Vinyl Listening Party: Dimotiko, electronic, rebetiko, experimental, and laïkó on wax.
wfmu.org...
10pm-Midnite: IF YOU LOSE YOUR HORSE with Sam Segal
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WR:

↳ Song: "Leading A Double Life (1986)" by "The Ned Sublett...
Just heart that Ned has one of his cowboy songs being newly released by Willie Nelson (who did a version of it in 2006) and young country performer Orville Peck.
www.billboard.com...
"Today (April 1), Peck announced his first release on the label: a collaboration with Willie Nelson. The pair will duet on a cover of “Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other,” a song originally released in 1981 by Latin country artist Ned Sublette and covered by Nelson in 2006. Peck himself previously performed a rendition for SiriusXM and at his 2023 Hollywood Bowl show."
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tom tom the pipers son:

thanks david, interesting stuff and all within an historical frame
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doctorjazz:

Listening while cooking, thanks David!
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david w:

↳ doctorjazz @6:52
Of course you are!
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david w:

OK, wrapping up here. Thanks, everybody!
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WR:

A great survey, David. Many thanks. This episode is a good one to return to for repeat listening.
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listener james from westwood:

Delish spread on this windy night; many thanks!
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ranjit:

thanks, David!
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Rich in Washington:

Groovy show this evening, David! Thanks so much!
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tom tom the pipers son:

i was just tthinking virgil moorffield
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chresti:

Thanks david!
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