From O-town soul to guitar-noise, hitting some mellowness, a feature on Quebecois funk/bar/prog band Ville Emard Blues Band, and fusion on our way to a jazz finale..
| Starting out in a blues/soul vein for a change - Saw the Split doing an in-store performance at the opening of The Record Centre's new location, and it drove home how engaging and entertaining a well-drilled rock'n'soul band could be.... |
| Doo Wop The Split - Can't Get Enough 
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| I Take It Simply Saucer - Baby Nova
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| Wall of Fire Vee Dee - Public Mental Health System |
| Grand Unifying Theory Kim Salmon and The Surrealists - Grand Unifying Theory |
| Making our way into the psych via the guitar histrionics of Kim Salmon, we continue, getting a bit more mellow as we go... |
| Mountain of Fire and Miracles Sundial - Mind Control |
| Blue Hills and The Fallen Mark Alexander Mackintyre - Grapes
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| My Dark Ages Pere Ubu - Terminal Tower (Collection) |
| Little Red Robin Hood Hit The Road Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom |
| Perhaps a bad idea: I'd like to keep my listenership, but it is 12:05, and this is a set that looks like it could be labelled 'Nightwatch Lullabyes.'.. |
| Corruption Midlake - Antiphon |
| Walking On Air King Crimson - Thrak |
| The Garden Hides the Jewel Angels of Light - New Mother |
| The Soft Weed Factor Soft Machine - 6 |
| Now, to the one-and-only feature of the Nightwatch: a few tracks from the sole 1975 studio LP by Ville Emard Blues Band. I learned about them from CKCU's Infinite Ceiling (who played some tracks from the Live LP ca. 1974), and just happened across the Studio LP... so, here 'tis... |
| La Poutine a ma Tante Anna Ville Emard Blues Band - Ville Emard
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| Affaire C.S.R. vs. Marlyle Killer and Stobert Ranley Ville Emard Blues Band - Ville Emard
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| Walter's Van Ville Emard Blues Band - Ville Emard
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| La Machine Infernale Ville Emard Blues Band - Ville Emard
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| Guess Who's Coming to Jam Ville Emard Blues Band - Ville Emard
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| Now we charge towards jazz... but first some more Qrazy Quebecois, a band called Concept and the title track from their 1980 release, 'Supra Surge'.... |
| Supra Surge Concept - Supra Surge (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC7XMoXpg2o)
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| Wrap it up! Buddy Miles - Live |
| Caught from The Air Tassavallen Presidentti - Milky Way Moses |
| OK, we've finally hit the jazz, as promised! |
| Call to Higher Consciousness Larry Coryell - Barefoot Boy |
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