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Organ OTHER ROCK SHOW on Resonance 104.4FM, 9.00PM Sunday 8th March 2009 - this week it was Marina's turn with her OTHER ROCK SHOW and the exploration of rock music beyond the conventions of mere 4/4 - www.resonancefm.com for all you people outside of London


Intro: PHANTOMSMASHER - Bishop Hopping (Ipecac)
1: CHEER ACCIDENT - Sun Dies (Cuneiform)
2: VLADIMIR BOZAR N ZE SHERAF ORKESTAR – Cartus (Imago)
3: CAPILLARY ACTION -Bloody Nose (Pangaea)
4: INSTRUMENTS - Won't Like Me When I Don't Take My Vitamins (demo)
5: BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC - Terry Riley's House (Cuneiform)
6: UNLEARN - Whiteout (NoiseOrder)
7: UNIVERS ZERO - L'etrange Mixture Du Docteur Schwartz (Cuneiform)
8: CHEER ACCIDENT - Blue Cheadle (Cuneiform)
9: GENTLE GIANT - Experience (BBC Session) (Band Of Joy)
10: GUTBUCKET - Lucy Ferment? (Cuneiform)
11: THE LAKE SITUATION - The Great Snow Parade (And Then)
12: CAPILLARY ACTION - Pocket Protection Is Essential (Pangaea)
13: BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC - The Tyger (Cuneiform)

THE DETAILS AND LINKS....

Chicago underground legends, pranksters and all round undefinables CHEER ACCIDENT have just released this new and entirely breathtaking album 'Fear Draws Misfortune' - possibly a career peak after over 20 years of brilliance in obscurity (they do everything differently). www.cheer-accident.com or www.cuneiformrecords.com

Cracking debut album from these French dada-Zappa-Bunglists VLADIMIR BOZAR 'N' ZE SHERAF ORKESTAR - the album is called 'Universal Sprache' - great cover/packaging, rather exciting band www.myspace.com/vladimirbozar

Seattle/New York complex, mega-tight avant jazz/punk/prog/everything band CAPILLARY ACTION are on a massive European tour, including loads in the UK - see the Organ Gig Guide for London dates (18th March, Old Blue Last, 19th Cross kings etc) - hell of an effort for an small independant US underground band so don't miss. These tracks are all from their 2008ish album 'So Embarrassing' available via www.pangaearecordings.com or www.myspace.com/capillaryaction

London mathists INSTRUMENTS are playing a FREE GIG at RoTa, the regular Saturday afternoon free event at Notting Hill Arts Club - its on the main road close to Notting Hill tube, doors open 4pm until around 7pm – www.myspace.com/instrumentsmakemusic

BIRDSONGS OF THE MESOZOIC are a unique quartet (three keyboards, one guitar usually) hailing from Boston, involving people from Mission Of Burma; these tracks are from a great double album retrospective out late last year on Cuneiform (yep, I know... again, but if they keep sending us albums of this quality then we can't not play it, can we?) called 'Dawn Of The Cycads' - its all their early releases from 1983 - 1987. www.birdsongsofthemesozoic.com or www.cuneiformrecords.com

UNLEARN are from Seattle, this is from their finely crafted instrumental album 'Places' just out on NoiseOrder - www.noiseorder.com

UNIVERS ZERO are a seminal avant rock band, been going since the 70s and still gigging and gaining new respect; this track was recorded live in Hanover, March 1984. Its from the recently released nicely presented re-issue album 'Relaps: Archives 1984-1986' full of rare live stuff - www.cuneiformrecords.com

From 'Out Of The Woods' an essential compilation of their BBC Sessions, GENTLE GIANT are also a seminal 70s rock band, but unlike Univers Zero they split long ago, lost contact with the real world and think that nobody listens to this stuff any more (one of them is an A&R head of a major label). www.progressiveears.com is a good place to demand they reform, let off steam etc.

GUTBUCKET are a weirdass jazz/avant squonk quartet from New York with a great live reputation and a new album 'A Modest Proposal' out now on Cuneiform, from whence this track came. - www.cuneiformrecords.com

London band THE LAKE SITUATION rather quietly released this excellent self-titled album last year, they're a long-evolving project from Tim Ineson, main man of ahead-of-their-time London band Nub; this is on And Then Records (dist Cargo) www.andthenrecords.com
Next Sunday at 9.00pm Sean O on air with a whole bag load of the adventurous outsider music we talk of on the pages of Organ...
Lots more of all this over on the Organ pages at www.organart.com