Take this as a formal welcome to the new bilingual edition of Bagatellen, now expanding to accomodate readers of Choatespeak. I heard some Choatespeak in an analog ear version some ten years ago at the WNUR jazz show (Seth said "did anybody ever notice that Andrew sounds like George Bush sometimes when he's getting into it on the air"—not an exact quote, but pretty close) and there's been a dent in my brain ever since, a space quickly filled in with some gorgeous weeds that tangle all over each other. So imagine my pleasure to be getting a waft of prime digital Choatespeak after all these linguistically impoverished years. Before pointing your browsers over to Andrew's Nickelsdorf nail-pounding, be sure to load your joy surge protecter plug-ins first.
By way of useful information blogging, you now know that Choatespeak is veritably squirted all over the analog plane of sound wavery on a radio program called Unwrinkled Ear easily heard online on Thursdays 9:00-10:30pm EST, or archivally (go here and search under "unwrinkled"). I've just slipped into the unwrinkling myself in recent days, happy to find several recent shows in the archive specifically tailored as a downright swank soundtrack and sing-a-long to the names and notes of this Nickelsdorfian snorkel convention this July.
To give a flavor of the outcome of Andrew's manipulation of playback and broadcasting devices in the city that gave us Arthur Lee, Bobby Bradford, Eric Dolphy, and Frank Zappa, I've pasted here a randomly selected playlist (or sketch thereof as it may be) from the archives.
voice crack
kenny rankin
sun city girls
jimmy roselli
sidhran jadhav
pat boone
walter ruttman
london improvisers orchestra (conducted by pat thomas)
bootsy collins
control machete
english accents
francois bayle
sammy davis jr.
duke ellington
achim kaufman
charles dodge
cobra killer
lytton/ wishart/ dunmall
grydeland/ tanaka
rowe/ tilbury
queen
people like us
That concludes my ceremonial formalities of intra-Bags back-patting I'm generally averse to but couldn't resist upon recognizing the wheel of wh-question duties had spun to a rest at my name this time.
~Michael Anton Parker
Who's da bitch, dawg?
Posted by: Dan Warburton at October 14, 2005 10:22 PMEr, just noticed an error: 9:00-10:30 EST should be 9:00-10:30 PST... Must be my habit as an "E" person... Andrew is a "P" person...
Posted by: Michael Anton Parker at October 15, 2005 4:52 PMI sure hope that unwrinkler gets to sprinkle!
Posted by: Crispy Trousers at October 18, 2005 5:07 PMMost important thing is that all unwrinkled radio action since match 2005 is available at www.radio4all.net as long as you do a basic search. and the second most importnat thing is that we have tetsu saitoh's "stone out" record in our mind as bass sound ground zero
Posted by: The unwrinkler at October 19, 2005 11:14 PMThat's my dog - "CAKE"!
Posted by: Andrew at October 19, 2005 11:17 PMWoof woof!
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