The Monthly Playlist: September ’22: No Age, The Beach Boys, Al-Qasar, King Kashmere, Sampa The Great, Yemrot….
September 30, 2022
PLAYLIST
TEAM EFFORT/CURATED BY DOMINIC VALVONA
After avoiding Covid for nearly two and a half years (with periods of shielding) I’ve finally succumbed to the dreaded virus this week. And it’s hit me hard. But because I’m such a martyr to the cause of music sharing I’ve managed to compile this eclectic bonanza of choice music from the last month.
The Monolith Cocktail Monthly features tracks from the team’s reviews and mentions, but also includes those tunes we’ve just not had the room to feature. That team includes me (Dominic Valvona), Matt Oliver, Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea, Andrew C. Kidd and Graham Domain.
We’ve supplemented the original audio playlist with a video version on our Youtube channel. This will feature a slightly different lineup (the electronic music collective Violet Nox’s ‘Senzor’ primer for one).
The full track list is as follows:
Dead Horses ‘Macabro’
Grave Goods ‘Source’
No Age ‘Compact Flashes’
Etceteral ‘Rome Burns’
Al-Qasar Ft. Jello Biafra ‘Ya Malak’
Clear Path Ensemble ‘Plazma Plaza’
Antonis Antoniou ‘Syntagi’
Ocelot ‘Vanha Hollywood’
The Beach Boys ‘You Need A Mess Of Help To Stand Alone – Live At Carnegie Hall’
Rezo ‘Soemtimes’
Blue Violet ‘Favorite Jeans’
Teo Russo ‘Novembre’
Keiron Phelan & The Peace Signs ‘Guessing Game’
Micah P. Hinson ‘Ignore The Days’
Sonnyjim/The Purist Ft. MF DOOM & Jay Electronica ‘Barz Simpson’
Salem Trials ‘Just Give Up’
The Bordellos ‘Nurse The Screens!’
Legless Trials ‘Ray’s Kid Brother Is The Bomb’
S. Kalibre ‘Hip Hop World’
King Kashmere/Leatherette ‘G-Cell’
Depf/Linefizzy ‘Rain’
Isomonstrosity/645AR/John Lenox Ft. Danny Brown ‘Careful What You Wish For’
Tess Tyler ‘Try Harder’
Qrauer Ft. Anne Muller ‘Rund’
Sampa The Great Ft. W.I.T.C.H. ‘Can I Live?’
Rob Cave/Small Professor ‘Eastern Migration’
Salem Trials ‘Jc Cells’
Wish Master/Axel Holy Ft. Wundrop ‘FLIGHT MODE’
Alexander Stordiau ‘Nothing’s Ever Acquired’
Simon McCorry/Andrew Heath ‘Mist’
Andrei Rikichi ‘At Home I Hammer Ceramic Golfing Dogs’
OdNu ‘My Own Island’
Floorbrothers ‘In Touch’
Conformist X H O R S E S ‘Heddiw’
Slim Wrist ‘Milk Teeth’
Forest Robots ‘Everything Changes Color With The Rainfall’
Noah ‘Odette’
Yara Asmar ‘there is a science to days like these (but I am a slow learner)’
Tess Tyler/Spindle Ensemble ‘Origami Dogs (Graphic Score Interpretation)’
Christina Vantzou/Michael Harrsion/John Also Bennett ‘Piano On Tape’
Yemrot ‘Big Tree’
The Monolith Cocktail Social Playlist #69: Ramsey Lewis, Spaceheads, dwi, Tresque, Blooms Corda…
September 23, 2022
PLAYLIST
DOMINIC VALVONA
An imaginary radio show or podcast with tracks chosen from my own personal collection and music I’ve accumulated over the last four decades, the Social is a cross-generational, cross-genre playlist. Within that list are also nods to those dear departed souls we’ve lost during the last month plus anniversary celebrating albums.
The September selection (or volume 69 as it were) has eulogies galore, with homages to swinging jazz/R&B pianist doyen Ramsey Lewis and cinematic auteur Jean-Luc Goddard (with the inclusion of scores from both Breathless and Alphaville). I also mark a reverent respect to Elizabeth II, feeling it a good opportunity to embrace the hymnal magnificence of both Henry Purcell and Malcolm Williamson whose music was used in the funeral service.
Added to that we have music from such diverse artists/bands as Spaceheads, dwi, Tresque, Chill Rob G, Anteloper, Poets of Elan, Help Yourself, Noah House Of Dread, Moderne, Moonkyte, Blooms Corda, Univeria Zekt, Mainhorse, Eroc and more.
Ramsey Lewis ‘Mother Nature’s Son’
Spaceheads ‘What Does The Money Machine Eat’
dwi ‘Reverse Engineering – Live From 604 Studios’
Hubble Bubble ‘New Promotion’
Retards ‘Action Woman’
Tony, Caro & John ‘Forever And Ever’
Dina Ögon ‘Ficktjuven’
Tresque ‘Hanyatlas’
Anquette ‘Let’s Rock & Roll Y’all’Antipop Consortium ‘Staph’
Chill Rob G. ‘Wild Pitch (KDAY Remix)’ Bebe Manga ‘Ami’
Anteloper ‘Delfin Rosado’
Maria Monti ‘L’armatura’
Horseface ‘Kuijen Kuijen’
Martial Solal ‘Poursuite’
Sun Hammer ‘Trim’
Taeko Onuki ‘Dobutsu Puzzle’
Poets Of Elan ‘Self-Efficacy’
Ramsey Lewis Trio ‘If You’ve Got It, Flaunt It (Part 1)’
Johnny Dyani ‘Appear’
Eroc ‘Zimperlein’
Loudest Whisper ‘Magic Carpet’
Fraction ‘Sons Come To Birth’
Paul Misraki ‘La Ville Inhumaine’
wubworld ‘Chachevella’
The Classical ‘Shovel & Bevel’
Malcolm Williamson ‘Fantasy on, “O Paradise”’
Heartless Bastards ‘When I Was Younger’
Sylvie ‘Stealing Time’
Kevin Ayers ‘Lay Lady Lay’
Help Yourself ‘I Must See Jesus For Myself’
Bavon Marie Marie ‘Beatrice’
Nocturnal Emissions ‘Verda’
Moderne ‘Judo-O-Dojo’
Noah House Of Dread ‘Wicked Kingdom’
Alogate Oho & His Sounds Of Joy ‘Allema Timba’
Biglietto Per L’inferno ‘Mente Solamente’ My Brother The Wind ‘Song Of Innocence Part 2’
Henry Purcell/Choir Of Clare College, Cambridge ‘Thou Knowest Lord’
Blooms Corda ‘Робінзон криза’
Don Antonio ‘Acceso’
Moonkyte ‘Search’
Univeria Zekt ‘Something’s Cast A Spell’
Mainhorse ‘Basia’
The Monolith Cocktail Monthly Playlist Revue: Future Kult, Your Old Droog, Baby Cool, Drug Couple, Brown Calvin…
August 31, 2022
PLAYLISTS SPECIAL
TEAM EFFORT/ CURATED BY DOMINIC VALVONA
All the choice tracks from the last month, selected by the entire Monolith Cocktail team: Dominic Valvona, Matt Oliver, Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea, Graham Domain and Andrew C. Kidd.
For the past couple of months we’ve been experimenting with both Spotify version and Youtube (track list will vary) versions of the playlist. Whatever your preference found both below:
TRACKLIST
Future Kult ‘We’
Grooto Terazza ‘Tropische Krankheiten’
Speech Debelle Ft. Baby Sol ‘Away From Home’
Joe Nora & Mick Jenkins ‘Early’
A.G. ‘Alpha Beta’
Your Old Droog & Madlib ‘The Return Of The Sasquatch’
Gabrielle Ornate ‘The Undying Sleep’
Yumi And The Weather ‘Can You Tell’
Baby Cool ‘Magic’
Claude ‘Turn’
Lunar Bird ‘Venilia’
Imaad Wasif ‘Fader’
Legless Trials ‘X-Tyrant’
Dearly Beloved ‘Walker Park’
Staraya Derevnya ‘Scythian Nest’
Short Fuze & Dr. Kill ‘Me And My Demons’
Group ‘The Feeling’ JJ Doom ‘Guv’nor’ (Chad Hugo Remix)
DJ Nappa ‘Homeboys Hit It’
DJ Premier Ft. Run The Jewels ‘Terrible 2’s’
Zero dB ‘Anything’s Possible’ (Daisuke Tanabe Remix)
Underground Canopy ‘Feelm’
Revelators Sound System ‘George The Revelator’
Montparnasse Musique Ft. Muambuyi & Mopero Mupemba ‘Bonjour’
The Movers ‘Ku-Ku-Chi’
Yanna Momina ‘Heya (Welcome)’
Vieux Farka Toure & Khruangbin ‘Savanne’
Barrio Lindo ‘Espuma De Mur’
Brown Calvin ‘Perspective3’
Nok Cultural Ensemble Ft. Angel Bat Dawid ‘Enlightenment’
Li Yilei ‘A Hush In The Dark
Celestial North ‘Yarrow’
Andres Alcover ‘White Heat’
Nick Frater ‘Aerodrome Motel’
Drug Couple ‘Lemon Trees’
Cari Cari ‘Last Days On Earth’
Ali Murray ‘Passing Through The Void’
Diamanda La Berge Dramm ‘Orangut The Orangutan’
Your Old Droog ‘The Unknown Comic’
Jesse The Tree ‘Sun Dance’
TrueMendous & MysDiggi ‘Talkk’
STS & RJD2 ‘I Excel’
Jester Jacobs & Jack Danz ‘HIT’
Oliver Birch ‘Docile Healthier’
GOON ‘Emily Says’
Lucy & The Drill Holes ‘It’s Not My War’
Apathy, Jadekiss & Stu Bangas ‘No Time To Waste’
Verbz & Mr Slipz ‘Music Banging Like’
Sly Moon ‘Back For More’
Guilty Simpson Ft. Jason Rose & DJ Ragz ‘Make It Count’
Hi, my name is Dominic Valvona and I’m the Founder of the music/culture blog monolithcocktail.com For the last ten years I’ve featured and supported music, musicians and labels we love across genres from around the world that we think you’ll want to know about. No content on the site is paid for or sponsored and we only feature artists we have genuine respect for /love. If you enjoy our reviews (and we often write long, thoughtful ones), found a new artist you admire or if we have featured you or artists you represent and would like to buy us a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/monolithcocktail to say cheers for spreading the word, then that would be much appreciated.
PLAYLIST SPECIAL
Dominic Valvona
An imaginary radio show if you like, a taste also of my DJ sets, the Monolith Cocktail Social is a playlist selection that spans genres and eras to create the most eclectic of soundtracks. Each month I compile a mixed bag of anniversary celebrating albums (this month being 50 years since the release of Amon Düül II’s seminal acid-rock communions with Yeti, Wolf City, Curtis Mayfield’s equally seminal soul triumph soundtrack Superfly, T-Rex’s big-hitter The Slider, and the more obscure self-titled album of brown-eyed soul and singer-songwriter woes from the mellow New York artists Alzo), newish tracks (this month that includes Wu-Lu, Horsegirl, Cities Aviv, Eerie Wanda, Basia Bulet and Robert Stillman) and music from the last six, seven decades (that includes The Wolfgang Press, Delaney Bramlett, Readykill, 5 Revolutions, Lew Lewis, Sergius Golowin and many more). Expect to anything and everything.
That track list in full—–
5 Revolutions ‘Greetings’
Deeper ‘Willing’
Horsegirl ‘Anti-Glory’
Free Loan Investments ‘BBC’
The Wolfgang Press ‘Shut The Door’
Bill Jerpe ‘Behind The Times’
Delaney Bramlett ‘What Am I Doin’ (In A Place Like This)’
Spontaneous Overthrow ‘All About Money’
Crimewave ‘Disposable’
Krack Free Media ‘Let The Band Play’
Cities Aviv ‘BLACK PLEASURE’
Wu-Lu ‘South’
Readykill ‘Watching The World Going Down’
Thirsty Moon ‘Speak For Yourself’
Curtis Mayfield ‘Little Child Runnin’ Wild’
Patrick Gauthier ‘The Good Book’
Wax Machine ‘Canto De Lemanjá’
Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab ‘Ramadan’
Amon Düül II ‘Sleepwalker’s Timeless Bridge’
Pugh Rogefeldt ‘Haru Sett Mej Va…’
Misha Panfilov Sound Combo ‘Way Higher’
Chris Corsano/Bill Orcutt ‘The Secret Engine Of History’
Idassane Wallet Mohamed ‘Aylana’
Susanna w/Delphine Dora ‘Le Possédé’
Basia Bulet ‘The Garden (The Garden Version)’
Azalia Snail ‘You Belong To Me’
Eerie Wanda ‘Sail To The Silver Sun’
T. Rex ‘Ballrooms Of Mars’
Grave Flowers Bongo Band ‘Squeaky Wheel Oil Can’
Lew Lewis ‘Wait’
Os Mundi ‘Gloria’
Daevid Allen & Kramer ‘Thinking Thoughts’
Shoes ‘Tomorrow Night’
Alzo ‘Without You Girl’
The Ladybug Transistor ‘Windy’
Ben Marc w/Joshua Idehen ‘Dark Clouds’
Robert Stillman ‘Cherry Ocean’
Sergius Golowin ‘Die weiβe Alm’
The Monthly Playlist Revue: May ’22: Junior Disprol, Misha Sultan, Vera Di Lecce, Celestial North…
May 30, 2022
THE PLAYLIST
Dominic Valvona/Matt Oliver/Brian Bordello Shea
All the choice tracks from the last month, plus a few missed ones we’ve corralled from last month, the Monolith Cocktail team’s playlist revue is both a catch-up and showcase of the blog’s eclectic and mind bending tastes. Sitting in on this month’s selection panel is Dominic Valvona, Matt Oliver and Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea.
TRACK LIST IN FULL IS:
Junior Disprol Ft. Krash Slaughta ‘Rotund Shogun’
Deca ‘Tuning’
Exterior ‘Orthodox Dreams’
FAST DE ‘Miss Trutti Finally Found Her Gem’
Pussy Riot Ft. Slayyter ‘HATEFUCK’
Masai Bey ‘Stanza X’
BITHAMMER! ‘Make You Mine’
Flat Worms ‘Into The Iris (Live)’
Salem Trials ‘Vegaville’
Walker Brigade ‘Disease’
Team Play ‘Sunrise’
James Howard ‘Baloo’ Adam Walton ‘Mary Sees U.F.O.S.’
Joviale ‘UW4GM’
Shabaka ‘Black Meditation’
Kritters ‘New York’
Ralph Of London ‘Lys’
Ethan Woods ‘Utopia Limited (Cuddly Tie-In)’
Staples Jr. Singers ‘I’m looking For A Man’
Ramson Badbonez ‘Rap Bio’
Mr. SOS & Maxamill ‘War Criminal’
The Difference Machine ‘Old Men’
Omega Sapien ‘Jenny’
Mr. SOS ‘Peace & Prosperity’
Jermiside & The Expert Ft. Tanya Morgan ‘Crime Rule The City’
Quelle Chris ‘DEATHFAME’
Wish Master & Billy Whizz ‘THOUGHTS OF THOUGHTS’
Guillotine Crowns ‘Killer’ Orryx ‘Eldritch’
Celestial North ‘When The Gods Dance’
Henna Emilia Hietamäki ‘Protesti’
Lucrecia Dalt ‘No One Around’
STANLAEY ‘Fluorescent Fossils’
Your Old Droog ‘Go To Sleep’
Tommaso Moretti Ft. Ben LaMar Gay ‘A Call For Awareness’
Black Mango Ft. Samba Touré ‘Are U Satisfied’
Avalanche Kaito ‘Flany Konare’
Tomo-Nakaguchi ‘Halation’
Private Agenda ‘Splendour’
Sebastian Reynolds ‘Four-Minute Mile’
Chouk Bwa & The Ångströmers ‘Agwetaroyo’
Misha Sultan ‘Nyepi’
The Master Musicians Of Jajouka ‘Khamsa Khamsin’
Gustavo Yashimura ‘Las Prendas del Corazon’
Stephanie Santiago ‘Activa Tu Cuerpo’
Gabrielle Ornate ‘Free Falling’
Black Monitor ‘Xexagon77’
Borban Dallas & His Filipino Cupids ‘Too Convenient’
Martha And The Muffins ‘Save It For Later’
Super Hit ‘Blink 182’
Reverend Baron ‘Let The Radio Play’
Alas The Sun ‘Distant Drone’
Jelly Crystal ‘I Tryyy’
LINN ‘Happiness Is Real’
Lenka Lichtenberg ‘That Monster, Custom’
Brigitte Beraha ‘Blink’
Vera Di Lecce ‘Altar Of Love’
Francesco Lurgo ‘I Am Already Far Away’
Hi, my name is Dominic Valvona and I’m the Founder of the music/culture blog monolithcocktail.com For the last ten years I’ve featured and supported music, musicians and labels we love across genres from around the world that we think you’ll want to know about. No content on the site is paid for or sponsored and we only feature artists we have genuine respect for /love. If you enjoy our reviews (and we often write long, thoughtful ones), found a new artist you admire or if we have featured you or artists you represent and would like to buy us a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/monolithcocktail to say cheers for spreading the word, then that would be much appreciated.
The Social #66: The Eclectic Cross-Generational Playlist: Funkadelic, Clap! Clap!, Klaus Schulze, Farhot…
May 16, 2022
PLAYLIST/Dominic Valvona
The Monolith Cocktail Social playlist flips back and forth across time and over borders to bring together music and sounds untethered by themes, trends or clique mindsets. Well, to a point. We do however celebrate the albums reaching particular milestones each month. The Social #66, which could be considered the blog’s radio show, includes 50th anniversary nods to The Beach Boys, moonlighting under the Carl And The Passions, much-undervalued ’72 classic So Tough, plus choice tracks, songs from jazz deity Ornette Coleman’s symphonic opus Skies Of America and the switched-on, riled and political-funk orgasmic Funkadelic’s America Eats Its Young. Fast forward a decade or two and Gang Starr’s era-defining Hip-Hop totem Daily Operations is thirty years old this month. Unbelievably so is Stereolab’s Peng, which also features in this month’s playlist.
We had to mark the loss of the kosmische progenitor, cosmic courier Klaus Schulze, this month, and so have a smattering of peregrinations, drifts and score’s from across the German innovator’s back catalogue to enjoy.
Bang up to date, there’s a multitude of tracks that we either missed or didn’t get room to feature on the monthly playlists, including Sinead O Brien, Clap! Clap!, PENDANT, Modern Studies, Nathan Francis, Farhot and Rancho Relaxo.
Expect to hear anything and everything curated in one aural journey of possibilities, open-mindedness and discovery.
THOSE TRACKS IN FULL ARE:::
Clap! Clap!, Domenico Candellori, TOROZEBU ‘Ox’
Dakh Daughters ‘I Want’
Jackson Heights ‘Mr. Screw’
Smokey Haangala ‘Amafuna Kanyama’
Front Page Review ‘PRISM FAWN’
Close Lobsters ‘Just Too Bloody Stupid’
Sliver Car Crash ‘Curse In The Pines’
Sinead O Brien ‘GIRLKIND’
PENDENT ‘Thom’
Camu Toe ‘Death’
Funkadelic ‘If You Don’t Like The Effects, Don’t Produce The Cause’
Ill Considered ‘First Light’
Klaus Schulze ‘Weird Caravan’
Stereolab ‘Mellotron’
Tess Parks ‘Happy Birthday Forever’
Sven Wunder ‘Mosaic’
Klaus Schulze ‘2. Satz: Gewitter (Energy Rise – Energy Collaps)’
Grindolog ‘Ship’
Nathan Francis ‘Premonition’
Larry Ridley ‘Go Down Moses’
Ornette Coleman & The London Symphonic Orchestra ‘The Artist In America’
Robbie Basho ‘Eagle Sails The Blue Diamond Waters’
Black Light White Light ‘Epilepsy’
The Beach Boys ‘Hold On, Dear Brother’
Guilherme Coutinho ‘Me Ver Em Vocé’
Alice Clark ‘Don’t Wonder Why’
Eugene Viscone ‘Love’s Hidden Island’
Baeshi Bang & Ip Koa Son ‘Kang Kang Sullae’
Gang Starr ‘Soliloquy Of Chaos’
Nine ‘Whutcha Want’
Farhot ‘Rap e Dari’
Laundromat ‘Combo’ Klaus Schulze ‘Rhythm Fugue’
Idrissa Soumaoro ‘M’ba Deri Ou’
caroline ‘Dark Blue’
Modern Studies ‘Wild Ocean’
Klaus Schulze ‘The Treasury Of Thy Lusty Days’
Sāo Paulo Underground ‘Perenquén’
Rancho Relaxo ‘Colour The Stars’
Crystal Syphon ‘Try Something Different’
The Monthly Playlist: April 2022: SAULT, Nduduzon Makhathini, Lyrics Born, Ed Scissor…
April 28, 2022
PLAYLIST SPECIAL
The sounds that have piqued the team’s interest, filled their hearts, fucked with their heads, or just sent sauntering towards escapism, the Monthly playlist gathers together all the music we’ve featured over the last month. We’ve also picked some of those tracks that managed to evade us and some we just didn’t get the time or room to exalt.
Our eclectic as usual mix starts in Tel Aviv with the Şatellites and moves across continents to take in Rwanda’s The Good Ones, Sao Tomé and Principe’s vintage África Negra, the Georgian choir Iberi, and one of Scandinavia’s principle jazz ensembles, OK:KO.
There’s plenty of more, with a freshly produced diaphanous, slow knocking beat gauzy treatment of the burgeoning pop enchantress and dystopian muse Circe’s ‘Mess With Your Head’ – now transformed into ‘It’s All Over’ under the Secret World Orchestra guise -, and a rafter of choice hip-hop cuts from Billy Woods, Dabbla, Lyrics Born and Lunar C with Jehst. Pop, jazz, electronic, dreamwave, psychedelic and post-punk are all represented. And there’s even a track from our very own Brian Shea and his cult dysfunctional family band The Bordellos.
The Monolith Cocktail team, corralled into action by me, Dominic Valvona, currently includes Matt Oliver, Brain ‘Bordello’ Shea, Graham Domain and Mikey MacDonald.
Those Tracks In Full Are:{
Şatellites ‘Zuhtu (Live)’
Melody’s Echo Chamber ‘Personal Message’
IKE (Ft. Sera Kalo) ‘What Then’
Dana Gavanski ‘Indigo Highway’ Crystal Eyes ‘Wishes’
Pete Rock ‘Brother On The Run’
Steve Monite ‘Only You’
África Negra ‘Vence Vitoria’
Samora Pinderhughes ‘Holding Cell’
Izzi Sleep & Rat Motel ‘Good Going Down’
Mercvrial ‘Look Inside’
The Bordellos ‘I Hate Pink Floyd Without Syd Barrett’
Peace De Résistance ‘Boston Dynamics’
The Legless Crabs ‘Boo Hoo Hoo’
Otoboke Beaver ‘YAKITORI’
Papercuts ‘Palm Sunday’
Kloot Per W ‘Le Pays’
Nicole Faux Naiv ‘Moon Really’
Liz Davinci ‘Daisy’
Julia Holter, Harper Simon & Meditations On Crime ‘Heloise’
Amine Mesnaoui & Labelle ‘Bleu Noir’ Billy Woods ‘Wharves’
Professor Elemental ‘Inn At The End Of Time (Remix)’
Dabbla ‘Alec Baldwin’
Nelson Dialect & Mr. Slipz ‘Association’
SAULT ‘June 55’
Nduduzo Makhathini ‘Amathongo’
Rob Cave & Small Professor ‘Respect Wildlife’
Lyrics Born (Ft. Rakaa Iriscience, Shing02, Bohan Phoenix, Cutso) ‘Anti (Remix)’
Kino & Sadistik ‘The Earth Was Empty’
Aethiopes (Ft. El-P, Breeze Brewin) ‘Heavy Winter’
Laddio Bolocko ‘Nurser’
Novelistme ‘Never’
Astrel K ‘Maybe It All Comes At Once’
David J ‘(I Don’t Want To Destroy) Our Beautiful Thing’
Jörg Thomasius ‘Okoschadel’
Ed Scissor ‘Dad’
Violet Nox ‘Eris’
Moscoman ‘Dalmar Is Back And It’s Final’
Grandamme, Claudia Kane & Bastien Keb ‘Nirvana’
FloFilz (Ft. Dal) ‘Levada’
Chairman Maf ‘Gammon Island’
Moon Mullins ‘Welcome To Tilden’
IBERI ‘Arkhalalo’
Papé Nziengui ‘Gho Boka Nzambé’
The Good Ones ‘Happiness Is When We Are Together’
OK:KO ‘Vanhatie’
Ubunye ‘Our Time’
Shrimpnose & BLOOD $MOKE BODY ‘Beyond The Villian’
Justo The MC & Remulak ‘Knockturnal’
Lunar C (Ft. Jehst) ‘Any Given Wednesday’
Qrauer ‘The Mess’ Circe/Secret World Orchestra ‘It’s All Over’
Brianwaltzera ‘tracing Rays [reality glo]’
Kota Motomura (Ft. Akichi) ‘Flower’
Monolith Cocktail Social Playlist #65: Karen Dalton, Dr. John, Taylor Hawkins, Mira Calix…
April 10, 2022
PLAYLIST/Dominic Valvona
The blog’s imaginary radio show, the Social is a rummage through Dominic Valvona’s record collection, and an accumulation of music he’s picked up other the decades, plus some newish tracks that didn’t make the Monolith Cocktail’s monthly playlist of brand new releases. With no themes, no lines drawn, choice music comes from across the generations, from across the world, and from any genre you can think of.
As with previous editions Dominic marks certain picky album anniversaries (Dr. John’s Gumbo, and Big Star’s #1 Record albums from ’72, and Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ Henry’s Dream from ’92) and deaths (really in this case, the all too soon loss of experimental electronic innovator Mira Calix, and Bonham incarnated, and here on this track, an incarnation of Dennis Wilson, Taylor Hawkins).
Smattered amongst that lot are 30 other eclectic tracks from Karen Dalton (a Beat Club of ‘One Night Of Love’, recently unearthed and released by Light In The Attic), Jamie Branch, Bruiser Wolf, Gil Trythall, July, Bill Nelson, Yukihiro Takahashi, Donny Hathaway and Clinic. See the full 38-track list after the link below:
IN FULL, THOSE TRACKS ARE::::
Joyce Street ‘That Man Of Mine’
Karen Dalton ‘One Night Of Love (Live at the Beat Club, 1971)’
Dr. John ‘Little Liza Jane’
Jaimie Branch ‘theme 001’
Caetano Veloso ‘Alfömega’
Eris Drew ‘Quivering In Time’
Bruiser Wolf & Danny Brown ‘I’m An Instrument’
Dead End & Secondson ‘Let The Music Talk’
Rodney P, DJ Die and Indigo Kid ‘Holes In The Building’
Chris McGregor’s Brotherhood Of Breath ‘MRA’
Saãda Bonaire ‘Woman’
Léa Sen ‘Hyasynth’
Mira Calix ‘I’m In Love With The End’
Gil Trythall ‘Last Date’
Marcello Gigante, Aristide Bascerano, Nora Orlandi ‘Gardenia’
Franco Battiato ‘Bandiera Bianca’
Krisma ‘C.Rock’
Stark Reality ‘Pretty Music’
July ‘Jolly Mary’
The Stroppies ‘No Joke’
Ed Dowie ‘Number Eight wire’
Body/Head ‘Actress’
Coágul ‘L’edat de bronze’
Paul Leary ‘What Are You Gonna Do’
Nick And The Bad Seeds ‘Brother, My Cup Is Empty’
Bill Nelson ‘Banal’
Big Star ‘The Ballad Of El Goodo’
Loose Fur ‘Laminated Cat’
Willie Dunn ‘I Pity The Country’
Taylor Hawkins ‘Holy Man’
Ghost Funk Orchestra & Golden Rules ‘Asphalt Homeland’
Dashiell Hedayet ‘Long Song For Zelda’
Yukihiro Takahashi ‘2021 – Youshinori Sunahara Remaster’
Von Südenfed ‘The Rhinohead’
Pacho Dávila, Daniel Correa, Hector Marín ‘Sombras de Siboney’
Donny Hathaway ‘I Love The Lord, He Heard My Cry (Pts. I & II)’
Clinic ‘I Can’t Stand The Rain’
The Brothers And Sisters ‘Just Like A Woman’
The Monolith Cocktail Social Playlist #64: The Fall, Your Old Droog, DakhaBrakha, The Jam…
March 4, 2022
PLAYLIST/Curated by Dominic Valvona
The Monolith Cocktail Social is one of two long-running playlist series on the blog. Running in tandem with the Monthly Revue, which represents all the new music both I and the MC team have been listening to and writing about during the month, the Social is a cross-generational, eclectic imaginary radio show, where anything goes: featuring tracks from the last 50 or more years.
Volume #64 features tracks from a number of anniversary celebrating albums. Kicking off proceedings, ‘Jawbone And the Air-Rifle’ is plucked from The Fall‘s 1982 Hex Education Hour, and from the same year, I’ve picked ‘Just Who Is The 5 O’Clock Hero’ from on The Jam‘s swansong The Gift, and the title track from Sparks‘ Angst In My Pants. There’s also the title cut from The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy‘s 92 special, Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury, a gospel inspired southern roller from The Rolling Stones 72 opus Exile On Main Street and the title track from Faust‘s incredible So Far album.
In solidarity with our Ukraine friends, going through hell-on-earth at the hands of a raving despot, intent on reconquering the collapsed Soviet Union empire and a bit of Peter The Great’s grandiose plan, plus building a corridor to the Balkans, I’ve chosen some venerable, traditional and more contemporary tracks from the country’s artists (and choirs). Step forward the National Choir Of The Ukraine, Your Old Droog, Oleska Suyhodolyak and DakhaBrakha. I could resist including the Bee Gees beautified ‘Odessa‘ too.
Mingling amongst that lot are eclectic tracks from Pugh Rogefeldt, Dennis The Fox, Wau Wau Collectif, OKI, Solid Space, Life Pass Filter, Jim Ford and many others…
THOSE TRACKS IN FULL ARE:::
The Fall ‘Jawbone And the Air-Rifle’
The Jam ‘Just Who Is The 5 O’Clock Hero’
Pugh Rogefeldt ‘Love, Love, Love’
Dennis The Fox ‘Piledriver’
Yesterday’s Children ‘Sad Born Loser’
Rarelyalways & Hanni El Khatib ‘Manic’
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy ‘Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury‘
National Choir Of The Ukraine ‘Sviatyj Boje’
Cold Specks ‘Winter Solstice’
The Rolling Stones ‘I Just Want To See Your Face’
Wau Wau Collectif ‘Yaral Sa Doom’
Sven Wunder ‘Magnolia’
Georgia Anne Muldrow ‘Ayun Vegas (Ft. Ayun Bassa)’
Your Old Droog ‘Odessa (Ft. Billy Woods)’
La La Lars ‘Haxa’
Heshoo Beshoo Group ‘Emakhaya’
Fabrizio De Andre ‘Primo Intermezzo’
Sparks ‘Angst In My Pants’
Oleska Suyhodolyak ‘Gutsul Kolomyika (Dance-Song)’
OKI ‘Yaykatekar Dub (Love Dub)’
John Lurie ‘AI AI AI AI’
Sourakata Koite ‘Kano’
Solid Space ‘Radio France’
The Primitives ‘The Ostrich’
DakhaBrakha ‘Vynnaya Ya’
Mike Cooper ‘Boogie Boards And Beach Rubbish’
Robert Wyatt ‘Heaps Of Sheep’
Lua ‘Pozzanghere e Sigarette’
Life Pass Filter ‘Queen Ghat’
Faust ‘So Far’
Lonnie Holley ‘Crystal Doorknob’
The Blue Angel Lounge ‘Bewitch My Senses’
palliatives for dirty consciences ‘breakthrough’
Brigid Dawson And The Mothers Network ‘Ballet Of Apes’
Jim Ford ‘Point Of No Return’
Bee Gees ‘Odessa (City On The Black Sea)’
The Monthly Playlist: February 2022: Animal Collective, Future Kult, Che Noir, Your Old Droog, Orlando Weeks…
February 28, 2022
PLAYLIST SPECIAL
An encapsulation of the last month, the Monolith Cocktail team (Dominic Valvona, Matt Oliver, Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea and Graham Domain) chose some of the choicest and favourite tracks from February. It may have been the shortest of months, yet we’ve probably put together our largest playlist in ages: all good signs that despite everything, from Covid to the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, artists, bands everywhere are continuing to create.
65 tracks, over 4 hours of music, February’s edition can be found below:
That exhaustive track list in full:::
Animal Collective ‘Walker’
Modern Nature ‘Performance’
Gabrielle Ornate ‘Spirit Of The Times’
The Conspiracy ‘Red Bird’
Cubbiebear/Seez Mics ‘All Friended Up’
Dubbledge/Chemo ‘Itchy Itchy’
Dirty Dike ‘Bucket Kicker’
Future Kult ‘Beasts With No Name’
Lunch Money Life ‘Jimmy J Sunset’
Ben Corrigan/Hannah Peel ‘Unbox’
Uncommon Nasa ‘Epiphany’
War Women Of Kosovo ‘War Is Very Hard’
Ben Corrigan/Douglas Dare ‘Ministry 101’
Sven Helbig ‘Repetition (Ft. Surachai)’
Ayver ‘Reconciliacion Con La Vida’
Lucidvox ‘Swarm’
Provincials ‘Planetary Stand-Off’
Wovenhand ‘Acacia’
Aesop Rock ‘Kodokushi (Blockhead Remix)’
Junglepussy ‘Critiqua’
Tanya Morgan/Brickbeats ‘No Tricks (Chris Crack) Remix’
Buckwild ‘Savage Mons (Ft. Daniel Son, Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon & Eto) Remix’
Che Noir ‘Praises’
Koma Saxo w/Sofia Jernberg ‘Croydon Koma’
Medicine Singers/Yontan Gat/Jamie Branch ‘Sanctuary’
Black Josh/Milkavelli/Lee Scott ‘Die To This’
Funky DL ‘I Can Never Tell (Ft. Stee Moglie)’
Mopes ‘Home Is Like A Tough Leather Jacket’
ANY Given TWOSDAY ‘Hot Sauce (Ft. Sum)’
Split Prophets/Res One/Bil Next/Upfront Mc/0079 ‘Bet Fred’
Nelson Dialect/Mr. Slipz/Vitamin G/Verbz ‘Oxford Scholars’
Immi Larusso/Morriarchi ‘Inland’
Homeboy Sandman ‘Keep That Same Energy’
Wax Tailor/Mick Jenkins ‘No More Magical’
Ilmiliekki Quartet ‘Sgr A*’
Your Old Droog/The God Fahim ‘War Of Millionz’
Ramson Badbonez/Jehst ‘Alpha’
Ghosts Of Torrez ‘The Wailing’
Pom Poko ‘Time’
Daisy Glaze ‘Statues Of Villians’
Orange Crate Art ‘Wendy Underway’
Seigo Aoyama ‘Overture/Loop’
Duncan Park ‘Rivers Are A Place Of Power’
Drug Couple ‘Linda’s Tripp’
Ebi Soda/Yazz Ahmed ‘Chandler’
Brian Bordello ‘Yes, I Am The New Nick Drake’
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets ‘Bubblegum Infinity’
Steve Gunn ‘Protection (Ft. Mdou Moctar)’
Jane Inc. ‘Contortionists’
Black Flower ‘Morning in The Jungle (Ft. Meskerem Mees)’
Jo Schornikow ‘Visions’
The Goa Express ‘Everybody In The UK’
Pintandwefall ‘Aihai’
Thomas Dollbaum ‘God’s Country’
Crystal Eyes ‘Don’t Turn Around’
Glue ‘Red Pants’
Super Hit ‘New Day’
Legless Trials ‘Junior Sales Club Of America’
Monoscopes ‘The Edge Of The Day’
Alabaster DePlume ‘Don’t Forget You’re Precious’
Orlando Weeks ‘High Kicking’
Carl Schilde ‘The Master Tape’
Bank Myna ‘Los Ojos de un Cielo sin Luz’
Park Jiha ‘Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans’
Simon McCorry ‘Interstices’
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