Friday Morning Cartunes...December 30th, 2011

Hebden /Reid/Gustafsson - The Sun Never Sets ((SMJZ) LP
Circle - Pelkka Meno/Lautstarha (Svart) LP
Annapurna Illusion - Black Drop (Group Tightener) LP
Burnt Hills - Herb Saint Part A (Flipped Out) LP
Sungrazer - Behind (Elektrohasch) LP
Arbouretum - Empty Shell/Song Of The Nile (Thrill Jockey) LP
Sky Picnic - Universal Mind (Nasoni) LP
My Brother The Wind - Electric Universe (Transubstans) LP
Rspt - The Demands Of Levitating Heavy Stones (Dronehenge) LP
Elder - The End (Headspin) LP


Bang - Death Of A Country (Ries Above Relics) LP
Six Organs Of Admittance - Maryam (Pavilion) LP
BILL - The Thrower (Klangbad) LP
Expo 70 - Moon Odyssey (Sonic Meditations) LP
Koolaid (Global Tyranny) - Intercity Firm (Agitated) LP
Acid Mothers Temple - Chinese Flying Saucer (Riot Season) LP
Master Musicians Of Bukkake - Neo Necro Patriarch (Important) LP
Wight - Cosmic Rhythm #1 (Kozmik) LP
White Hills - Paradise (Thrill Jockey) LP

Friday Morning Cartunes...December 16th, 2011

Elektrodiesel - ?? (Sinesthetic) LP
Mugstar - Distant Sun II remix (Agitated) 12"
You - Slow Go (Bureau B) LP
Electric Orange - Columb (Catweezle) LP
Hebden/Reid/Gustafsson - People Be Happy (Smalltown Superjazzz) LP
Jooklo Quartet - Crossing (Troglosound) LP
Acid Mothers Temple - Back Door Man Of Ghost Raills Inn (Riot Season) LP
Hedvig Mollestad Trio - The Dead One/Sidetracked (Rune Grammofon) LP


Cornucopia - Spots On You, Kids (Brain) LP
GAA - Welt Im Dunkel (Garden Of Delights) LP
Annapurna Illusion - Blood Dive (Group Tightener) LP

Will's 78 Quarterly....guest DJ Will Desjardins

Seven Gallon Jug Band - Wipe 'Em Off (Parlophone) 78 rpm
Washboard Rhythm Kings - Call of The Freaks (Victor)78 rpm
Benny Goodman's Boys - Shirt Tail Stomp (Brunswick) 78 rpm
Annette Hanshaw - My Sin (Velvet Tone) 78 rpm
G.B. Grayson - Ommie Wise (Victor) 78 rpm
Blind Joe Taggert(and Emma) - I Wish My Mother Was On That Train (Vocallion) 78 rpm
Peg Leg Howell - Papa Stobb Blues (Columbia) 78 rpm
Washington Phillips - Demonition Blues (Columbia) 78 rpm
Kalama's Quartet - Lei E (Okeh)78 rpm
The Ticklers - Glamour Gal (MRS)78 rpm
Ya Gazayal - Nights Of Happiness Al Chark) 78 rpm
Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet - Jonah (Bluebird)78 rpm

Tis The Season...

Tis the season…! I wish I could say that Birdman Sound’s 20th year was it’s finest hour, but I cannot! 22 weeks of road construction took the piss out of the situation in every respect. I want to thank those of you that walk the plank every single week in the quest for the very best that music has to offer and we can deliver! I look to your continued support to finish 2011 in some form of dignified fashion. Birdman is stocked to the hilt as usual and GIFT CERTIFICATES are always available and big at this time of the year. I hope you keep us in mind over the next few days avoiding the usual trappings and ridiculousness of big box stores and shopping malls. I would be remiss to say that shopping independent is going the way of the dinosaur and as trenches go ours is still just deep enough to continue the “good fight”.

Seasons best to everyone, however you deal with it...John

Friday Morning Cartunes...December 9th, 2011

The Keith Tippet Group - I Wish There Was A Nowhere (Akarma) LP
Jack Bruce - HCKHH Blues (Polydor) LP
Chico Hamilton - Volvo's (Flying Dutchman) LP
Carlos Santana & John McLaughlin - The Life Divine (CBS) LP
Owl Xounds - Inner (Blackest Rainbow) LP
Seven That Spells - Bolero Love Grind (Beta-Lactam Ring) LP
Daturana - Secrets Of Purple Sky (Nasoni) LP
Heldon - Ouais Marchais, Mieux Qu'en 68 (Wah Wah) LP
Colour Haze - Sun (Elektrohach) LP


On Trial - Kolos/Kosmonaut (Freakophonic) LP
Far East Family Band - Transmigration (Phoenix) LP
A Bolha - 18.30 Part 1... (Groovie) LP
El Gusano - Road To Nirvana (Heavy Light) LP
Hedvig Mollestad Trio - For The Air (Rune Grammofon) LP
Fire w/Jim O'Rourke - ...please, I Am Released (Rune Grammofon) LP
Les Rallizes Denudes - Blind Baby Has It's Mother's Eyes (Phoenix) LP
Boris W/ Merzbow - Jane (Daymare) LP
Stonebride - Mute Heart Rivers (Setalight) LP
Elder - Gemini (Headspin) LP
Graviators - Planet Gone (Headspin) LP

Save The Internet

Go to this link and sign the petition.....crazy what governments think they should do.....

http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet/?cFeHSbb

Friday Morning Cartunes...December 2nd, 2011

Expo 70 - Amplifying Umbras (Beta-lactam Ring) LP
Eloy - Age Of Insanity (Artist Station) LP
Jussi Lehtisalo - Ei Siin Mitaa (Full Contact) LP
Langsyne - Medina (Garden Of Delights) LP
MV & EE - You Matter (3 Lobed) LP
Cave - This Is The Best (Drag City) LP
Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Wicked Passenger (Ecstatic Yod) LP
Sun Araw - Impluvium (Sun Ark) LP
Hawkwind - Stonehenge Decoded (Flicknife) LP
Graviators - Druid's Ritual (Transubstans) LP
Grandloom - The Holy Letter (Rockzilla) LP


Wo Fat - Company Man (Nasoni) LP
Dataschock - Der Frobelturm (Dekorder) LP
Cranium Pie - Mechanisms (Regal Crabomophone) LP
GA'AN - Living Tribunal (Captcha) LP
Oneida - Shahin's Bong (Rocket) LP
GAA - Uranus (Garden Of Delights) LP
Brainticket - Intro/Egyptian Kings (Cleopatra) LP
the band whose name is a symbol - Talk Back Fatherland (Birdman Sound) LP
Diza Star & Pink Lady Blues - Viva Utopia (Fractal) LP
My Brother The Wind - Karmagrinder (Transubstans) LP

A Few Favourites from 2011.......

Since I was a kid there has never been a year that a mind boggling amount of stellar albums have not been released. Every genre from around the globe, year in and year out and to date has never stopped. Anyone out there, (and I'm sure we all know someone)who constantly utters the line; "there hasn't been a good album released since______", is clearly a fucking moron who lives with their head firmly up their ass! By and large as I've said before, there is actually an overwhelming amount of mind blowing releases 24-7 and it's virtually impossible to keep up with any of it. My list to the left here is barely touching some of my stellar and repeated listening adventures of the past year. My "tops" lists are always based on records released in the year in question and usually also based on the repeat factor or "go to" categorization. It ain't scientific, it's always from the heart. In all honesty, the vast majority of my listening time this and every year for that matter (which I know is far more than most) has been spent listening to a large variety of music recorded and released prior to 1975. I am not stuck there by any stretch but I will say that although I like a lot of newer artists (look at what I play on the radio) I will say that my criteria for "great" new shit is that it must exhibit for me a reverence and understanding of it's own existence in history and part and parcel, it’s very presentation. Sound strange? Maybe, but always remember, that a person’s tastes in music is nothing but their very own business. There's lots to discover out there, old and new and it seems to never end.....bring it on I say!

Friday Morning Cartunes...November 25th, 2011

Second Family Band - Good Blood (alt.vinyl) LP
Annapurna Illusion - Devil's Eyes (Rocket) LP
Sean Smith - Huge Fluid Freedom (SAAH) LP
Ivy Garden Of The Desert - I (Nasoni) LP
Expo 70 - Hypnotic Brain Cloud Float (Aguirre) LP
Helios Creed - Galactic Center (Transparency) LP
Edgar Wappenhalter - Hence I Surmise The Sordid Lights (Morctapes) LP
Umberto - In The Name Of Zuel (Permanent) LP
Dead Meadow - The White Worm (Tolotta) LP
Slussenanalys - Tomma Skallar (Ektro) LP
Circle - Hermes/Styx (Keno) LP


Mugstar - Sunburnt Impedance Machine (Agitated) LP
My Brother The Wind - Death & Beyond (Transubstans) LP
Magic Lantern - Friendship (Not Not Fun) LP
Wayne Rogers - Fire (Twisted Village) LP
King Blood - Sinful Woman (Permanent) LP
Oresund Space Collective - Reintroduce The Snakes To Ireland (SRP) LP
Bong - Onward To Perdondaris (Roadburn) LP

Friday Morning Cartunes...November 18th, 2011

Be Bop Deluxe - Axe Victim (Harvest) LP
Dragonwyck - Ideas Within You/Fire Climbs (World In Sound) LP
Status Quo - Someone's Learning (Pye) LP
Electric Moon - Brain Eaters (Nasoni) LP
Hawkwind - Gimme Shelter (Essential) LP
Cloudland Canyon - Silver Tongued Sisyphus (Holy Mountain) LP
Embryo - Es Ist, Wie's Ist (Schneeball) LP
Orange Sunshine - Demon's Eyes (Motorwolf) LP
Deep Purple - Pictures Of Home (Warner) LP
UFO - Doctor Doctor (Chrysalis) LP
Burning Saviours - Silent Prayer (Svart) LP

Guru Guru - Baby Cake Walk (Brain) LP
Hardal - Bir Yagmur Masali (Shadoks) LP
Erkin Koray - Krallar (Sublime Frequencies) LP
Thin Lizzy - Diddy Levine (Decca) LP
Three Man Army - See What I Took (Pegasus) LP
Nazareth - Empty Arms, Empty Heart (Pegasus) LP
Graveyard - Rss (Stranded) LP
Cosmic Jokers - Galactic Joke (Klimt) LP
Frank Zappa/Beefheart & The Mothers - Advance Romance/
Man With The Woman Head/Muffin Man (Discreet) LP
Captain Beyond - Dancing Madly Backwards (Capricorn) LP
Arenna - Receiving The Liquid Writings (Nasoni) LP
Acid Maso Temple - Drug Death Driver (White Noise) LP
Paul Chain Violet Theatre - Voyage To Hell (High Roller) LP
Arabs In Aspic - Megalodon (Panorama) LP

LIVE GIG - "the band whose name is a symbol"

the band whose name is a symbol will perform at Irene's Pub, 885 Bank Street on Saturday December 10th, 2011. The Boogiemen are also on the bill. Tickets are $20.00 advance and it's a Benefit for Prostate Cancer.

On that night in honor of Frank Zappa, TBWNIS will render their 20 minute interpretation of "Willie The Pimp" (to date their only cover). Hope too see you there! Tickets are available at Irene's Pub.