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Sunday April 30th, 2017 with Dav Fot
Heavy Medicine Band!! Wooden Shjips!! Blivet!!

A few cool features tonight - a brand-spankin'-new LP from locals Heavy Medicine band, picked up the Wooden Shjips 2011 release 'West', and finishing up with a great release from a few years ago by Blivet, John Madof (Rashanim, Zion80)'s 'groove and improv band.
Start off with a set from the debut full-length LP from local 4-piece the Heavy Medicine band (on Record Centre Records!)!!
Asteroids (Goliath)
Heavy Medicine Band - Ersatz Era Canadian New
Teeth
Heavy Medicine Band - Ersatz Era Canadian New
Breath
Heavy Medicine Band - Ersatz Era Canadian New
River
Heavy Medicine Band - Ersatz Era Canadian New
House Down by the Lake
Heavy Medicine Band - Ersatz Era Canadian New
In the Ditch
Heavy Medicine Band - Ersatz Era Canadian New
Following this feature up with another - the Wooden Shjips' 3rd (2011) LP, on Thrill Jockey.
Lazy Bones
Wooden Shjips - West
Home
Wooden Shjips - West
Flight
Wooden Shjips - West
Looking Out
Wooden Shjips - West
Time for a lengthy jam, a collaboration with Damo Suzuki and, for his 'sound-carriers' on this excursion, Spanish stoner/psych band Cuzo. Expect to hear more from Cuzo on future Nightwatches - Just found out about them at Birdman Sound, and intend to fill what is now a glaring hole in my collection! :)
Pt 1
Damo Suzuki & Cuzo - Puedo Ver Tu Mente
Time to present this Nightwatchs' Merrie Mack (RIP Mary MacKinnon), this time, a handful from the 'A' section!
Decadence
Kevin Ayers - Bananamour
Prinssi Halonen
Avarus - Attilaisrotta
Accordion & Drums
Aki Peltonen - Radio Banana
La Novia Speed Guru (excerpt)
Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paradiso UFO - The Day Before the Sky Fell In
Time to blast out of the features section and into some miscellaneous cuts, rolling from Space-rock to prog, hitting the fusion touchstone, then some Afrobeat, and some mellower guitar-instrumental dealios!! A long and varied set!!
Smokin' to the Big 'M'
Hansen - Now Hear This
Ad Hoc
Sloche - Stadacone Canadian
Vuelta Abajo
Lifetime - In Retrospect
Esketa Dance
Mulatu Astatke/The Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information
Dovid Melech
Zion80 - s/t
Terumah
Rashanim - Masada Rock
We finish with a feature on an album from a band called 'Blivet' (definition: An impossible trident, also known as an impossible fork, a blivet, poiuyt, devil's tuning fork, etc., is a drawing of an impossible object, a kind of an optical illusion.), which is a project from Jon Madof (Rashanim, Zion80, see previous set - note: Zion80 has a fundraiser for their latest release going on at www.pledgemusic.comprojectszion80) - some great, great guitar-jam instrumentals, released a year or so ago...
Dime a Dozen
Blivet - S/T
Pre Roll
Blivet - S/T
Thar and Back
Blivet - S/T
Apparently
Blivet - S/T
Bad Paper
Blivet - S/T
The Next Eddie
Blivet - S/T
Here Comes Blivet
Blivet - S/T
Nuggets
Blivet - S/T
Friction
Blivet - S/T
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