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The Groove
Saturday September 12th, 2015 with ELORIOUS CAIN
{ghosts}

The ghosts I have seen have left me cold and defensive. Why do they appear? So many people have been terrified by other ghosts. Millions see no ghosts at all; disputing their very existance. -------------------------------------------------------------- I begin the show with GILES CONRAD WATSON and his stunning performance of his song "The Ghostly Witness". Check it out on youtube as he sings it in an old cemetary!
THE GHOSTLY WITNESS:

Annie Walker and her cousin
Shared the self-same bed,
She bore a child within her womb
But he would not be wed.
So William Walker took a pick
And cleaved her pretty head,
And in a mineshaft dank and cold
He let her grisly body mould
And swore that she was dead.

A Miller worked, a-grinding corn,
An honest man but poor,
When all at once dead Annie Walker
Stepped in through his door.
Her head was fairly cleaved in twain
And dripped with brains and gore.
Her hair was wet and hanging down
And blood-bespattered was her gown,
A-dripping on the floor.

Her blue lips parted and she spoke,
Her tongue was black with grime,
"Oh Walker did away with me,
Murdered in my prime!
His boots, besmeared with clotted blood
He left outside the mine.
He dragged me down into the hole,
My corpse decays amid the coal,
My bones leach into lime!"

The Miller quaked with mortal fear,
"Why hast thou come to me?"
His feet were frozen to the floor
Though he was wont to flee.
The corpse said, "Justice I require,
And leave it up to thee!
I'll haunt thee, Miller, taunt thee nightly
Until they bind up Walker tightly
And hang him from a tree!"

He knelt to wash away the clots
Congealing on the floor,
But as he scrubbed, the dead girl's blood
Returned in gouts of cruor,
And fast the Miller ran away
Across the misty moor.
She followed hard upon his trail
And clutched him with her fingers pale
And harrassed him the more.

He went unto the magistrate
And made the matter plain;
He told how Walker used his pick
And left poor Annie slain.
They found the body in the mine
The skull pierced to the brain,
Limbs akimbo, neck awry,
And Walker's boots were stashed nearby
Besmirched with bloody stains.

There is a gibbet on a tree,
And Walker's hanging there.
His eyes are fixed on Annie's grave
With dull and sightless stare;
The ravens watch his twitching corpse
And pluck his lanky hair.
In tufts they pull it from the roots,
And all because he left his boots
Beside his cousin fair.

(Words by Giles Watson, Music by Kathryn Wheeler. Legend, with some basis in fact, associated with the coal mining communities of Framwellgate Moor and Chester-le-Street, County Durham. J.W. Dickenson's Further Tales of Old Durham, 1988.)
THE GHOSTLY WITNESS
GILESCONRADWATSON - youtube
NEXT
SKYLAB - SKYLAB #1 (2LP) - L'ATTITUDE
AUTOMATA
SCORN - EVANESCENCE (2LP) - EARACHE
GESTURE, SIGNAL, THREAT
SOVIET FRANCE - MISFITS, LOONY TUNES AND SQUALID CRIMINALS (LP) - RED RHINO
IN ABANDONED PLACES
RAISON D'ETRE - youtube
SEMASEN
SOVIET FRANCE - MISFITS, LOONY TUNES AND SQUALID CRIMINALS (LP) - RED RHINO
OUT
QUIET PERSONAL ELECTRONICS - BOOLEAN LOGIC EP 2 - THEAGRICULTURE
DREAMSPACE
SCORN - EVANESCENCE (2LP) - EARACHE
HIDERS
BURIAL - THE RIVAL DEALER (EP) - HYPERDUB
GHOST DANCE
SKYLAB - SKYLAB #1 (2LP) - L'ATTITUDE
TOW TRUCK (DEPTH CHARGE MIX)
THE SABRES OF PARADISE - 12" - WARP
MILLION TOWN
STRANGE CARGO - HINTERLAND (2LP) - N-GRAM RECORDINGS
BU - SEKI
DJ KRUSH & TOSHINORI KONDO - KI - OKU (2LP) - APOLLO
CREATIONS PART 1
HIATUS KAIYOTE - CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON (2LP) - FLYING BUDDAH New
CREATIONS PART 2
HIATUS KAIYOTE - CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON (2LP) - FLYING BUDDAH New
ACCESS SERAPHIM FLIGHT LOG
SINGLE CELL ORCHESTRA - DEAD VENT 7 (2LP) - REFLECTIVE
TAKE ME HIGHER
VIRGO FOUR - DO YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE? (EP) - TRAX
DEEPNESS
BLACK JAZZ CONSORTIUM - RE:ACTIONS OF LIGHT (CD) - SOUL PEOPLE MUSIC
ONDO
ELLEN ALLIEN - SOOL (2LP) - BPITCHCONTROL
THERE IS STILL HOPE
BLACK JAZZ CONSORTIUM - RE:ACTIONS OF LIGHT (CD) - SOUL PEOPLE MUSIC
SUR LES TRACES
{SIE} - J'EN AI REVE (EP) - DISAPPEAR HERE
BIG FEELINGS
SHLOHMO - youtube
TOWARDS DESOLATION
RAISON D'ETRE - youtube
DOREMIFA GIRL (ANANDA PROJECT EXPERIENCE)
SNOOZE - 12" - NITE GROOVES
POSSIBILITY (A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE AT DECIBEL, STOCKHOLM 9 MARCH 2010)
LYKKE LI - youtube
TEARDROP (SCREAM TEAM REMIX)
MASSIVE ATTACK featuring ELIZABETH FRASER - youtube
GHOSTS VIP
BISWEED - TSAR BOMBA (EP) - PARADISE LOST
WITCHCRAFT
SUB DUB - DAWA ZANGPO (EP) - THEAGRICULTURE
CATACOMBS
BISWEED - TSAR BOMBA (EP) - PARADISE LOST
THE HOST OF SERAPHIM (ENIGMA DUBZ MIX)
DEAD CAN DANCE - youtube
SOUNDCHECK
.SUB DUB - DAWA ZANGPO (EP) - THEAGRICULTURE
Interactive CKCU
Jaz
yikes!!

1:07 PM, September 12th, 2015
Mary and Tom
Bloody blast from the past! Creeepy.

1:33 PM, September 12th, 2015
Elorious Cain (host)
Thank you for the comments. Busy mixing.

1:38 PM, September 12th, 2015
Kuba Maye
Tuned in E.

2:21 PM, September 12th, 2015
Alison t.
Pleasant vibes. Really enjoying. :)

2:23 PM, September 12th, 2015
Elorious Cain (host)
Very happy to hear from both of you!!

2:35 PM, September 12th, 2015
Y.d
pls play more sub dub ...

2:45 PM, September 12th, 2015
Y.d
pls play more sub dub ...

2:45 PM, September 12th, 2015
Kuba Maye
really enjoyed it Elorious. Much love . you creepy freak lol .

2:51 PM, September 12th, 2015
Kuba Maye
not an insult, comment on the theme of the show . :)

2:52 PM, September 12th, 2015
Elorious Cain (host)
THANK YOU ALL!!

2:55 PM, September 12th, 2015
James
Annie got her justice! Good for her.

10:30 PM, September 12th, 2015
Professor Mike
Awesome broadcast as always

11:20 PM, September 12th, 2015
Henri
Dreamy music for the subject,

3:03 AM, September 13th, 2015
Dora Hines
Lord have mercy! Why did you do such an unworldly show! Did a ghost visit you?

4:08 PM, September 14th, 2015
Eric H.
Terrifying show Mr. Cain. Never know what to expect from you. Compliments for finding time to fit in Soviet France. They were one of my favourites in the 80's.

3:21 PM, September 15th, 2015
Pacho
Skylab AND Scorn in the same show - priceless CKCUism!!

5:53 AM, September 3rd, 2020