Night Watch
Sunday May 18th, 2014 with Dāv Fot
In Memoriam: Nash The Slash! Dark's 'Round the Edges'!
This Nightwatch starts out in sad-mode (aside from Turntable 2 only broadcasating in the left channel - I fixed it... after about 45 mins of fighting with it...): Canadian Electronic/weirdo music pioneer Nash the Slash has left us - it's time for an all-too-short retrospective. Also in this program a look at a reissue of what was originally an obscure 1970 private-pressing by UK band 'Dark'.
| Time to Celebrate the life and work of Nash the Slash (real name: Jeff Plewman). Missing from this retrospective: something from FM (Black Noise was missing from the CKCU library), his first recording (a band called Breathless and a song, portentiously called 'Slasher' in 1970), and his Soundtrack work. |
| Blind Windows Nash The Slash - Bedside Companion - 1978 
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| 'Til Death Do Us Part Nash The Slash - Dreams and Nightmares - 1979
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| Life in Loch Ness Nash The Slash - Decomposing - 1981
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| Swing Shift (Soixante-Neuf) Nash The Slash - Children of the Night - 1981
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| Vincent's Crows Nash The Slash - And You Thought You Were Normal - 1982
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| Psychotic Reaction Nash The Slash - American Bandages - 1984
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| Theory Of The Black Hole Nash The Slash - Thrash - 1999
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| Follow the Leaders Nash The Slash - In-a-Gadda-da-Nash - 2008
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| I encourage anyone to look up Nash's work. To quote the man himself: "Creativity in all its facets should be inspirational, and as such should be absorbed, its subtleties appreciated, understood and then woven into the fabric of some other person's creative vision. I'm very pleased to have shared my creative endeavors with so many people around the world. I hope I've left a few breadcrumbs in the forest, to inspire others to find their own path." |
| Banging the Door Public Image Ltd. - Flowers of Roamnce |
| Opening Act Daquiri - Major Entertainer Mike H.
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| Blanc Etron Fou Leloublan - Face Aux Elements Deschaines |
| Sunday Club Singapore Sling - Life is Killing My Rock 'n' Roll |
| What Can I Do? My Dad Is Dead - The Taller You Are, The Shorter You Get |
| After a set of post-rock... an emergency crops up, and I have to run home. Thanks, Magma, for being great AND having 40-minute long tunes!! |
| Mekanik Destrukitiw Kommandoh Magma - Mekanik Destrukitiw Kommandoh |
| Now back in the studio, with imbroglio mitigated, we continue with a feature on a reissue of a band that only released ~50 privately-pressed copies of their only LP, an UK psych/hard-rock band simply called 'Dark' . |
| Darkside Dark - Round the Edges |
| Live For Today Dark - Round the Edges |
| Zero Time Dark - Round the Edges |
| The penultimate set of this Nightwatch is a long one... bcause I want to sit back and relax and listen to some tunes with you! |
| Servants Wooden Shjips - Back to Land |
| Toxicological Whisperings Amon Duul II - Dance of The Lemmings |
| Algebrique Sloche - J'un Oeil
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| Gut und Richtig Kraan - Wintrup |
| Since I wasn't able to play any FM-with-Nash-the-Slash, I will get to play some FM featuring the person Nash used to swap places with, a gent named Ben Mink. It's my favourite release from them, pre-Black Noise - a 'direct-to-disc' recording, live, no overdubs, 2 side-long fusion-y piece called 'Headroom'. |
| Border Crossing FM - Headroom
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Great first set and a fitting tribute to the late great Nash The Slash
12:58 AM, May 19th, 2014