Part one in the annual Heavy Friends series that pays respects to the departed.
Pictured: Mike Ratledge (1943-2025), was described as “tall, super-intelligent, forceful, self-possessed, and altogether daunting”. The Soft Machine founder and keyboard player was the longest lasting original member (after Daevid Allen, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Hugh Hopper). Soft Machine made a name for themselves on the Canterbury and London underground circuit playing an eclectic jazzy take on psychedelic prog-rock. Ratledge was arguably the band’s most recognizable figure, rocking a thick mustache, flowing mane, and darkened glasses.
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| Hour one
The first four tracks are by musicians whose deaths in 2024 were not known when last year's shows were produced |
| I Love You Dancer Voyage (Slim Pezin and Marc Chantereau sadly passed) - Voyage 3 - Atlas, Able - 1980 |
| Slim Pezin and Marc Chantereau recorded for the French music library label Tele Music, and were members in Arpadys and Spatial & Co
Chance meeting sur percussions modernes de cosmosynthetics et contrebasses https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/581/72354.html |
| U Mukama Rođena Igor Savin (sadly passed) Orkestar Stanka Selaka - YU Disco Expres - Jugoton - 1979 |
| Wake Up Your Mind Joni Haastrup (sadly passed) - Wake Up Your Mind - Afrodisia - 1978 |
| A set of music featuring Joni Haastrup (band leader, vocals, keyboards, guitar), “Soul Brother Number One”, a key player in the development of afro-beat and funk on This Island Earth
https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/32/44464.html |
| Horisont Thomas Almqvist (Erik Westin sadly passed) - Nyanser - Mistlur - 1979 |
| We begin in January 2025 and present chronologically |
| Ginevra Nora Orlandi (sadly passed) - Il Dolce Corpo Di Deborah (Colonna Sonora Originale) - CAM - 1968 |
| Crazy Horses The Osmonds (Wayne Osmond sadly passed) - Crazy Horses - MGM - 1972 |
| The Oogum Boogum Song Brenton Wood (sadly passed) - Oogum Boogum - Double Shot - 1967 |
| DD 69 The Suburbs (Blaine John Chaney aka Beej Chaney sadly passed) - In Combo - Twin/Tone - 1980 |
| Beej Chaney was the singer and guitar player for the band from the suburbs of Minneapolis. Chaney later owned Shangri-La recording studio in Malibu, California for 20 years. Originally a ranch, Bob Dylan and the Band leased it in the 70s and converted to a studio. It is now owned by Rick Rubin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangri-La_(recording_studio) |
| Never Ending Hate Unleashed (Fredrik Lindgren sadly passed) - Shadows In The Deep - Century Media - 1992 |
| BaBy Sèmèvo Orisha Oké (Hyppolite Aklamavo aka Semevo Orichaoke sadly passed) - - - 2015 |
| Puff, the Magic Dragon Peter, Paul & Mary (Peter Yarrow sadly passed) - (single) - Warner Bros. - 1963 |
| Soul Man Sam & Dave (Sam Moore sadly passed) - Soul Men - Stax - 1967 |
| A Perfect Wave The Sandals, narrated by Bruce Brown (Mike Hynson sadly passed) - Endless Summer - World Pacific - 1966 |
| Music For Gong Gong Osibisa (Teddy Osei sadly passed) - Osibisa - MCA - 1971 |
| Baden Gna Kora Jazz Band (Abdoulaye Diabaté sadly passed) - Back To Africa - Celluloid - 2015 |
| Distant Train Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch (sadly passed) - The Twin Peaks Archive - David Lynch Music Company - 2011 [film 1990] |
| Weather Report for October 18 David Lynch (sadly passed) - - - - |
| David Lynch has read his final weather report
Chance meeting on an industrial symphony of neo-noir and the surreal https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/581/59119.html |
| Un Jour, Un Jour (Stephane) Stéphane Venne (sadly passed) - (single) - Select - 1967 
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| Motherly Love The Mothers Of Invention (Elliot Ingber sadly passed) - Freak Out! - Verve - 1966 |
| "Simon" advertisement "Simon" (Howard J. Morrison sadly passed) - - - Milton Bradley - 1978 |
| Chest Fever The Band (Garth Hudson sadly passed) - Music From Big Pink - Capitol - 1968
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| Peter's Trip The Electric Flag (Barry Goldberg sadly passed) - The Trip (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Sidewalk - 1967 |
| Hour two |
| Branle / La Péronnelle Malicorne (Gabriel Yacoub sadly passed) - Malicorne II - Hexagone - 1975 |
| Heart Like a Wheel Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Jane McGarrigle sadly passed) - Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Warner Bros. - 1975
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| Remembering Jane McGarrigle (1941-2025) and Garth Hudson (1937-2025) on Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif
https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/68828.html |
| Broken English Marianne Faithfull (sadly passed) - Broken English - Island - 1979 |
| Six Guns Milk 'N' Cookies (Sal Maida sadly passes) - Milk 'N' Cookies - Island - 1975 |
| 10:30 Returns To The Bedroom Soft Machine (Mike Ratledge sadly passed) - Volume Two - Probe, Command - 1969 |
| House Hunting Tony Kinsey (sadly passed) - Construction In Jazz - KPM - 1971 |
| Human Tommy Hunt (sadly passed) - (single) - Scepter - 1961 |
| रवि मी. ना-मानापमान (Jhale Yuvati Mana) प्रभाकर कारेकर (Pandit Prabhakar Karekar sadly passed) - मराठी नाट्य संगीत (Marathi Natyasangeet) - His Master's Voice - 1971 |
| The Eton Rifles The Jam (Rick Buckler sadly passed) - Setting Sons - Polydor - 1979 |
| Flight Howard Riley (sadly passed) - Flight - Turtle - 1971 |
| Sorry The Easybeats (Snowy Fleet and Dick Diamonde sadly passed) - (single) - Parlophone - 1966 |
| For Your Precious Love The Impressions (Jerry Butler sadly passed) - (single) - Vee Jay, Abner, Falcon - 1958 |
| 90% Of Me Is You Gwen McCrae (sadly passed) - Gwen McCrae (Gwen Mc Crae) - Cat - 1974 |
| Trevor Walker played a bunch o' Gwen McCrae and Chris Jasper (Isley Brothers) on the Friday Drive
https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/120/69221.html |
| Dust Filled Room Bill Fay (sadly passed) - Time Of The Last Persecution - Deram - 1971 |
| Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part One King Crimson (Jamie Muir sadly passed) - - - 1972 |
| "Larks' Tongues In Aspic" was the only King Crimson record with percussionist and visual artist Jamie Muir. He previously played with Derek Bailey and Evan Parker in The Music Improvisation Company. He coined the phrase "Larks' Tongues In Aspic". Muir left King Crimson to move to a monastery then left music to focus on painting.
“His conversations with Jon Anderson at my 1973 wedding party, in Jon’s words, ‘changed my life’. Jamie also changed mine.” - Bill Bruford Live at the German Beat Club, November 1972 https://youtu.be/WhudDa3JAyc |
| Before & After Ken Parker (sadly passed) - (single) - Studio One - circa. 1967 |
| Under The Bodhi Tree David Parsons (sadly passed) - Maitreya - The Future Buddha - Celestial Harmonies - 2002 |
| That Lady, Pt. 1 The Isley Brothers (Chris Jasper sadly passed) - 3 + 3 - Epic, T-Neck - 1973 |
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