Cellos and violins and jaw harps, oh my!

[pheloniusfriar]

Here's the playlist for my third show (Jan. 3rd, 2011). As a reminder, it's broadcast every second Monday from 2PM to 3PM (Eastern Time) on 93.1FM in Ottawa or streaming audio on http://www.ckcufm.com/. You can always go here to find out when the next show will be (or read my playlists). Of this show, I wrote:

Not too much of a specific theme, but a preponderance of all woman bands and atypical instrumentation in a bunch of the tracks. Also tried to wander all over the musical map (bluegrass, trip hop jazz, electronica, rock, art-punk, and transcendent kitch).

Opened with one of my favourite bands of all time. Only one album, and very much a shame... Splendora is an all-female post-grunge/alternative rock band, most notable for performing the theme to MTV's hit cartoon show Daria, "You're Standing on My Neck". The lineup consisted of Janet Wygal (vocals, guitar), Tricia Wygal (vocals, bass), Delissa Santos (drums), Cindy Brolsma (cello) and Jennifer Richardson (violin). All female vocals and cellos... I'm in love!!! I jammed a couple of times with a woman from the US who played the cello, amongst other instruments... gulp, let's just say that my reaction was strong and positive (and shocked the heck out of me... who knew)!

And here's the actual playlist:

Splendora, In The Grass, "Pollyanna"
Cygnus X, Hypermetrical, "Hypermetrical"
Another Engine, Astromagnetic, "Chemagrin"
That Dog, Buy-Product (Compilation), "Silently"
Zen Frisbee, Good Enough! 35,000,000BC, "Truckstop Girl"
Shampoo, We Are Shampoo, "Game Boy"
Zen Frisbee, I'm As Mad As Faust, "Moss"
Magnapop, Rubbing Doesn't Help, "Open The Door"
Rest Area, Café Méllies (Vol. 1), "Rolling"
Pitchblende, Au Jus, "X's For Is"
The Ambush, Harthouse: Dark Hearts (Compilation), "Casablanca"

But wait... where's the host for the 3PM show? Ummm... ummm... the show must go on... keep playing music! Argh!!! But at least I didn't have to play by the "Dollar Bin" rules and could play anything I wanted :).

Cygnus X, Hypermetrical, "Synchronism"
Spicelab, Harthouse: Dark Hearts (Compilation), "Quicksand"
Khameleon808, N/A, "The Apple Tree - A Tribute To The Glitch Mob"
Dirty Vegas, Dirty Vegas, "I Should Know"
Dirty Vegas, Dirty Vegas, "Ghosts"

During the Khameleon808 track, I had to find the station manager and tell him I had to go to a meeting at 3:30PM and needed to leave. He took over at that point and that was the end of my "extended show"...

And there ya have it. I leave you with some splendid Splendora: