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Free Association

Dec 22, 2023 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM

NCP

With Brian C

Free Association is a free-form radio show spanning across genres with occasional special guests, hosted by songwriter and composer Brian Carpenter (The Confessions, Beat Circus, Ghost Train Orchestra.) Carpenter has also produced several radio documentaries, including programs on sound design and innovative artists and songwriters.

7:02 PM		David Lynch & Alan R. Splet In Heaven Eraserhead Sacred Bones Records 2012
7:02 PM		Vince Guaraldi Trio Christmas is Coming A Charlie Brown Christmas (Deluxe Edition) Craft Recordings 2023 Jazz
7:05 PM		Jackson 5 Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Christmas Album UNI/MOTOWN 1970
7:09 PM		Marvin Gaye Purple Snowflakes A Motown Christmas (Vol. 2) UNI/MOTOWN 1965
7:11 PM		Purple Mountains Snow is Falling in Manhattan Purple Mountains Purple Mountains Drag City Records 2019
7:17 PM		Chilly Gonzales O Tannenbaum A Very Chilly Christmas Gentle Threat LTD 2021 Pop
7:19 PM		Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow No More Shall We Part (2011 - Remaster) Mute, a BMG Company 2001 Rock
7:24 PM		John Cale Child's Christmas in Wales Paris 1919 Domino Recording Co 1973 Rock
7:28 PM		The Pogues Fairytale of New York Fairytale of New York - Single (feat. Kirsty MacColl) WM UK 1987
7:32 PM		Duke Ellington Sugar Rum Cherry Jingle Bell Swing Columbia/Legacy 1936 Pop
7:35 PM		Aimee Mann God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman One More Drifter in the Snow Super Ego Records 2006
7:37 PM		Everything But the Girl 25th December Amplified Heart Chrysalis Records 1994 Pop
7:41 PM		Winston Tong Twelve Days of Christmas Ghosts of Christmas Past Les Disques du Crepuscule 2016
7:48 PM		Roland Kirk Three for the Festival We Free Kings Verve Reissues 1962 Jazz
7:49 PM		The Penguins Jingle Jangle Earth Angel Universal Digital Enterprises 1954
7:52 PM		The Qualities It's Christmas Time Sun Ra Presents: The Qualities - Single Norton Records 1960
7:54 PM		Louis Armstrong Christmas Night in Harlem Ella & Louis Christmas Verve Reissues 1955
7:58 PM		Don Byron Siberian Sleighride Don Byron Bug Music Nonesuch 1996 Jazz
8:00 PM		The Fall Hark the Herald Angels Sing (Live, John Peel Session #18, 17/12/94) Cerebral Caustic Cherry Red Records 2016 Indie Rock
8:03 PM		Ramones Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight) [Single Version] Brain Drain Rhino/Warner Records 1989 Punk
8:05 PM		Big Star Jesus Christ Third Ardent Music 1978 Rock
8:07 PM		Pixies Winterlong Dig for Fire - EP 4AD 1990
8:12 PM		Metontic musicians, singers Metontic Christmas Modern Maya: The Indian Music of Chiapas, Mexico - Vol. 2 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Folkways Records 2004 Blues
8:14 PM		The Icelandic Singers Holy Night The Icelandic Singers Monitor Records 1991
8:19 PM		Hélène Baillargeon Ballade de Noël Hélène Baillargeon French Christmas Songs: Chants de Noël Folkways Records 1956 Rock
8:21 PM		Unspecified In The Farmer's Yard Ukranian Christmas Songs Folkways Records 1956
8:24 PM		Coro de Madrigalistas Humildes Peregrinos Cantos de las Posadas and Other Christmas Songs Folkways Records 1963 Latin
8:25 PM		Suni Paz Zamba Navideña – Christmas Zamba (Zamba) Suni Paz Bandera Mía: Songs of Argentina Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2004 Latin
8:28 PM		Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company Ang Pasko Ay Sumapit Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company Christmas In the Philippines Monitor Records / Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2013 World
8:29 PM		La Sardina de Naiguatá Potpourrí "Sabor a Navidad" La Sardina de Naiguatá iParranda! Venezuelan Carnival Music Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2012 Latin
8:36 PM		Ryuichi Sakamoto Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Masterworks 1983
8:39 PM		Chilly Gonzales Last Christmas A Very Chilly Christmas Gentle Threat LTD 2021 Pop
8:41 PM		Chilly Gonzales In the Bleak Midwinter (feat. Jarvis Cocker) Chilly Gonzales A Very Chilly Christmas Gentle Threat LTD 2021 Pop
8:44 PM		Joni Mitchell River Blue Rhino/Warner Records 1971 Pop
8:48 PM		John Fahey Silent Night, Holy Night John Fahey Christmas Guitar, Vol. 1 New Rounder 1982 Blues
8:52 PM		Nina Simone Children Go Where I Send You The Colpix Singles (Mono) [Remastered] Rhino 2018 Pop
8:54 PM		James Brown Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto A Soulful Christmas Polydor 1965
8:58 PM		Donny Hathaway This Christmas A Donny Hathaway Collection Atlantic Records 1970 R&B/Soul
9:01 PM		Tredici Bacci Emmanuelle (feat. JG Thirlwell) Tredici Bacci La Fine del Futuro NNA Tapes 2018 Indie Rock
9:06 PM		Carla Bley, Steve Swallow & The Partyka Brass Quintet Ring Christmas Bells Carla's Christmas Carols ECM Records 2009 Jazz
9:11 PM		Blaine L. Reininger Silent Blight Ghosts of Christmas Past Les Disques du Crepuscule 2016
9:14 PM		The Durutti Column One Christmas for Your Thoughts The Durutti Column At Twilight Les Disques du Crepuscule 2016 Rock
9:18 PM		Low Little Drummer Boy Christmas Kranky 2000
9:24 PM		Quilla Sacred Field Quilla You Got It Ritual Fire Records 2017 Dance
9:27 PM		Tuxedomoon Weihnachtsrap Ghosts of Christmas Past Les Disques du Crepuscule 2016 Rock
9:31 PM		Devo Merry Something To You Rock & Pop Christmas Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group 2023
9:32 PM		The Residents Santa Dog 78 Duck Stab / Buster & Glen: 2cd Preserved Edition CRYPTIC CORP 1978
9:34 PM		The Flaming Lips Silver Bells Imagene Peise - Atlas Eets Christmas Warner Records 2014
9:37 PM		Iggy Pop White Christmas (Guitar Stooge Version) Psych-Out Christmas Cleopatra Records 2013 Christmas
9:40 PM		The Swingle Singers Herz Und Mund Und Tat Und Leben BWV 147 Jazz Sebastian Bach, Volume 2 Universal Music Division Decca Records France 2000 Classical
9:42 PM		Sufjan Stevens Christmas In the Room Silver & Gold Asthmatic Kitty 2012
9:48 PM		Tracey Thorn Snow Tinsel and Lights Merge Records 2012
9:51 PM		Jeremiah Lockwood Ritual A Great Miracle: Jeremiah Lockwood's Guitar Soli Chanukah Record ReBoot 2021 Blues
9:56 PM		Margo Guryan I Don't Intend to Spend Christmas Without You Margo Guryan 27 Demos Numero Group 2023 Rock
9:58 PM		Judy Garland Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Meet Me In St. Louis - EP Geffen 1944

Chat is archived.

happy holiday Friday

Happy holidays Rick

Jackson 5! Whoa

Did not expect that

Haha yeah baby! Classic.

They played MJs version of "I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus" at Target recently

Oh no...

Jackson 5....it was also a Jackson 5 rendition, not solo MJ

Yeah Young MJ in Jackson Five is just a musical phenomenon

Didn't recognize Marvin Gaye...1965...he must've been very young

Started my workday hearing James play 2 holiday chestnuts by the Fall and ending it with the Jackson 5 and Marvin Gaye. Great day!

I think it was called "Pretty Little Baby" and then renamed

Nice Kyle! What were those 2 from the Fall?

One about James Key...I think...

I heard it too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Little_Baby

No Xmas for John Quays, that's it

Wow! Nice cut. I wouldn't have remembered that one. Will have to try to fit that one in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU4dLGwfsqY

Sun Ra did some Christmas music too

Yes he did! I will play some later

Speaking of MJ and Christmas music - Culturcide - Santa Claus Was My Lover. Its really weird, though...

Weird Texas band that did weird covers

Can't say I've heard it. Does sound weird.

Also - the Fall did "Hark the Angels Sing"

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-fall-christmas-cover-hark-the-herald-angels-sing/

Nice! Gotta play that later.

Was that on the Z? Kick out the James? Or on a playlist?

The Fall also did Jingle Bell Rock on one of their numerous Peel sessions

Hark the Herald Angels was on Kick out the James this morning.

Nice. Can always count on James to play The Fall.

Silber Records did some excellent drone/ambient Christmas comps

Interesting. Will check out.

https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/experimental-christmas-compilation-series-one-point-two

Wow this is great, thank you

Sure! Great label too - highly recommend going through their archives

They put out records by Alan Sparhawk (Low)

Yellow6, Nonconnah etc etc

Low is probably the most well-known artist on that label?

I believe so!

This is a great comp (Ghosts of Christmas Past)

Very quirky

Winston Tong from Tuxedomoon, et al

Noice

love it...

Reminds me of that Eyvind Kang cover of Bacharach in some way...equally quirky

Oh yeah I love that cover. I know the one you're speaking of but the title escapes me at the moment.

this is awesome!

There we go!

Here's that Sun Ra piece you were talking about...

Awesome

Truly out there harmonies

I don't think they're singing out of tune, I think he wrote it that densely

Also I like how the woodblock is 10 times louder than the whole band and the vocalists

and this can't be anyone but Satchmo

Hard to mistake him for anyone else

This song was written, strangely, by Raymond Scott, godfather of electronic music.

Oh wow...

I know Raymond Scott, just had no idea he was involved with Armstrong

I don't know the story behind that piece. If he wrote it for Louis Armostrong or what. Need to do more digging.

Yes seems really bizarre.

Discogs lists him as a writer

Indeed

https://www.discogs.com/release/9618165-Various-Raymond-Scott-The-First-100-Years-1908-2008

This is fantastic. Wow. Forgot about this one somehow...thank you!

I'm so gonna play this from the archive on Xmas Eve or day. Great!

You should!

Chiapas !! Mayan Christmas

Mexico -> Iceland -> France ...traveling east ....

Around the world!

last hour going to be experimental..ambient Christmas?

Nina Simone?

Good call

Awesome - another voice that's hard to mistake for anybody else

JB...heard him earlier today

Outside some restaurant

Also in stores...

Love the arrangement on this one

Donny Hathaway, another major talent...

rip/gone too soon

nice placement of this section of the show

Tragic story on Donny Hathaway. So awful.

What a voice, good lord...

Love the fade back in. I"m not doing that.

Refresh the page...I think I played everyone in the collage above except for 2 people

Bowie?

I think he wasn't played yet...

Ha well that's actually a nod to Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, a film he starred in with Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Oh yes - of course!

I think he also did Little Drummer Boy live

Oh that's right! He did a duet live

Was it with with Bing Crosby? Trying not to google.

My favorite version of Little Drummer is coming up....

yes...Bing Crosby

That's right!

Yes! Haha. Lucky guess.

nice low version

Sweet

That woman worked with Tiesto

https://quillamusic.com/about/

at least according to her bio

Oh wow. That was a great track, thank you!

This Ghosts of Christmas Past comp is kind of amazing. Third track tonight.

Keeping Christmas weird

as it should be

For sure

Oh...that's Devo. Didn't recognize them.

Residents, actually

Very cool

Talk about weird...haha

Love the horns

Current 93 have some Christmas music, but its spooky

https://hypnopazzu.bandcamp.com/track/christmas-with-the-channellers

Google gave me this

Nice

and this sounds so unlike Flaming Lips lol

Flaming Lips doing Ryuichi Sakamoto

basically

Oh yes...Iggy

Ever heard Iggy's radio show on BBC? Pretty great. Miss Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service too.

Yes that is an outlier for Flaming Lips

Happy holidays all. Thanks for tuning in.

thank you...it has been a pleasure

Cheers (coincidentally also thought of Tracey Thorn's songs)

good night Judy

Here's to 2024. God help us all...

we’ll have to muddle through somehow