Sunday, February 24, 2008

uncharted terrain

on the menu tonight:
curtis mayfield
jack johnson
lenny kravitz
andre 3000 & rosario dawson
curtis mayfield & mixmaster mike

so i'm feelin it...
are you?

just trust me on this one, it's billie jean on violin...

Check out this video: Kansas

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Every Smith Ever - Kansas
gotta rep my boys in the North East

and for something related to the podcast
outkast - the whole world (one of my top favs)

stay green.
v.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

you are the change you've been waiting for

thank Obama for that one.

on the menu tonight:
johnny cash
the orient express
mos def
lou rawls
the holmes brothers

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i when i originally set out to do this podcsat i had no real idea why i was doing it, other than ebcause i just love music. but after reveling in victory for my preferred candidate i realized i play the music publically because i want to see a change in the way music is treated in this country. there is no music in most public schools anymore, there are very few independant radio stations, and that which is on the air is heavily regulated, and now they even want to make you pay for internet radio; the last domain of freedom of artistic expression. there is no other way other than sheer curiosity that will expose us, or our children, to the rich history and liberating power of music. so what initially started as a project to help build everyone's musical library, has built itself into the fight for our right to regain access to the worlds greatest musicians. so that's why i'm here. fighting the establishment and playing what i want, royalty free, and always standing up for the little guy.
ok i'm off my soapbox.
i really do it cuz i love the music.
stay green.
v.

have you heard about the war on scientology?
hackers have found a cause

Obama has my official endorsement

oh yeah and some music...

close the door - the holmes brothers (live)

stay green.
vote.
v.

Sunday, January 27, 2008

we'll be out, we're in the ladies room

on the menu tonight:
eilen jewel
CéU
bitter:sweet
peaches
dengue fever

another sunday night ladies night

the mating game

dengue fever - cambodia by way of los angeles

and HELL YEAH we won in SC.
Yes we can.
Yes we will.
gObama

stay green.
v.

Sunday, January 20, 2008

All about the story

On the menu tonight
Andrew Bird
Tom Waits
Fela Kuti
Francisco Cespedes & Bola de Nieve

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It's all about the story tonight. These mucisians are great story tellers and I found them based on the premise of an awesome story.Hope you enjoy. Stay green for this one.

*Please note that the Fela track cuts short. I apologize for that, but it had to be cut because I didn't have enough room in the session, and that's how it appears on this album.

v.

Going Out West - Tom Waits

Imitosis - Andrew Bird

Teacher Don't Teach Me No Nonsense - Fela Kuti

stay green.
play what you love.
v.

Sunday, January 13, 2008

sunday night jam sessions .gov

on the menu tonight:
Grayskull
Can-U feat Tayo
Datarock
RJD2
The Four Tops

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So tonight thank the North West for sending me a care package that I was in desperate need of. I got 3 data cd's full of music and I'm still trying to sort through it. Here's the top 5 of what I've come up with so far. And if you want, thank The Gov.

on to other news...
this is fuckin hilarious

for those that hate tucker carlson...

Sesame Streets...

play what you love.
stay green.
v.

Sunday, January 06, 2008

entering ==>08

On the menu tonight:
The White Stripes
Tami Lynn
Janis Joplin
Stephen Marley and Ben Harper
Bobby McFerrin

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The craziness of this jam session just shows the craziness entering into a new year. We've had a typhoon in the Bay, everybody got strep and overall it seems a gigantic weight has been lifted off everybody's shoulders as we get a fresh new start. I suspect it's been like that all over the world. So happy new year from V to You. Let's get it started

***

So I had to rack my brain feverish to come up with a top 10 list for 07, and well, I couldn't. There were so many dope albums of so many different types that I figured I'd put down my list of favorite albums from 07. They are in order of favorite so I suppose there is a top 10 and everyone else is an honorable mention, but i think i love them equally for different reasons. Overall it was a great year for rock and alternative, not so hot for hip hop. What would be awsome is if you could post your top 10 of 07, and we can compare notes. You know there's no rules to the jam session, just play what you love.

Albums of 2007:

Mos Def: True Magic (hey it came out Dec. 29 2006, it's counts as 07 airplay)
The Noisettes: What's The Time Mr. Wolf?
Amy Winehouse: Back to Black (2006 release)
The White Stripes: Icky Thump
Stephen Marley: Mind Control
Pharoah Monch: Desire
Dan The Automator Presents 2K7 (2006 release)
Betty Davis: re-release
Mark Ronson: Version (strait sleeper)
Ben Harper: Lifeline
Ali Farka Toure: Savane (2006 release)
RJD2: The Third Hand
Prince: Planet Earth
Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I am, That's What I'm Not
Lily Allen: Alright Still (2006 release)
Babel Gilberto: Momento
J-Dilla: Ruff Draft
Saul Williams: The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust!
Feist: The Reminder
Death Proof Soundtrack

play what you love.
stay green.
v.

Sunday, December 30, 2007

happy new year

from the chemist's shadow.

on the menu tonight:
cut chemist & dj shadow
brainfreeze a side (can you tell i've been feelin this lately?)

12.30.07

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Too congested to talk for longer than 30 seconds. So Happy New Year!!!! Hope this will help you party. approx 30 minute mix.

stay green into the new year.
v.

DJ Shadow - High Noon

Dj Shadow - This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way)

Nili Shoka's Gallery opening SF- My Israel

Sunday, December 16, 2007

homme

on the menu tonight:
dj drez feat rocky dawuni
saul williams
sade
ky-mani marley
wax poetic

chill out before the hectic week ahead.

LOVE IT! it's adam and joe's version of crank that soulja boy

kymani marley - warriors

saul williams - not in our name (the pledge of resistance)

this was cool

finding halloween

stay green.
v.

Sunday, December 09, 2007

down unda

on the menu tonight:
xavier rudd
men at work
unknown =(
paris combo
missy higgins
dominic the donkey

“You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.”
Barry Gibb

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songs are courtesy of rene the aussie. (a special glimpse into the world down under)

video's are courtesy of batman the dark night.

VaDrum - Mario Brothers
possibly the dopest drummer ever

animusic pipe dream

devil went down to jamaica

VaDrum doing the Simpsons theme song {love this guy}

the muppets - danny boy {love it}

stay green.
v.

Sunday, December 02, 2007

constant surprises

On the menu tonight:
tina turner
the roots
the dynamics
little dragon
olu dara & the natchezippi band

the dynamics - seven nation army
(they do hella covers look them up on youtube)

marc ecko tags air force one

stay green.
v.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

chick habit

on the menu tonight:
redline dmx sean paul
no doubt
yeah yeah yeahs
april march
damian marley

april march

gwen

damian and stephen marley (all night) ;)

stay green.
v.

Saturday, November 24, 2007

saturday night pairing

So i love these two groups. TV On The Radio and The Noisettes. I don't think it can get better. The voices that appear tonight are awsome. I figured I would pair two songs with beautiful lyrics against two songs that that were beautiful without lyrics {last week}
enjoy.

stay green.
v.

Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire

stay green.
v.

Sunday, November 18, 2007

trust your struggle

So creative Commons (my uploader) is having a service outage. Quite common they tell me. So I'll have to upload tomorrow. I do apologize for the delay, one day I'll have to learn how to stick it to the man and host my own data. but alas...

"In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party. Both represent some range of business interests. In fact, they can change their positions 180 degrees, and nobody even notices. In the 1984 election, for example, there was actually an issue, which often there isn't. The issue was Keynesian growth versus fiscal conservatism. The Republicans were the party of Keynesian growth: big spending, deficits, and so on. The Democrats were the party of fiscal conservatism: watch the money supply, worry about the deficits, et cetera. Now, I didn't see a single comment pointing out that the two parties had completely reversed their traditional positions. Traditionally, the Democrats are the party of Keynesian growth, and the Republicans the party of fiscal conservatism. So doesn't it strike you that something must have happened? Well, actually, it makes sense. Both parties are essentially the same party. The only question is how coalitions of investors have shifted around on tactical issues now and then. As they do, the parties shift to opposite positions, within a narrow spectrum."
Noam Chomsky

[When asked if music has a meaning]Definitely, and it's getting more spiritual. Pretty soon I believe people will have to rely on music to get some kind of peace of mind, or satisfaction, or direction, actually. More so than politics, the big ego scene. You know it's an art of words... Meaning nothing. Therefore you will have to get an earthier substance, like music or the arts.
Jimi Hendrix
{Interview with Dick Cavett}

stay green.
v.

i just wanna tell this guy thank you.
-trust your struggle-

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

apassionado

So i just wanted to drop these two tracks on you tonight. They're as different as China and Japan. Yo Yo Ma and DJ Krush, these two tracks were too long to post in any jam session but I still wanted to share them. I think they're fitting for a hot November night.
enjoy.

vs.

stay green.
v.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

a child with the blues

on the menu tonight:
wyclef jean
crown city rockers & zion i
betty davis
erykah badu & terence blanchard
lovage

ghots of cite soleil (full movie - scroll down)

Wyclef - 24 heures a vivre (with Muzion)

the welfare poets - sak pase

and just because it was so weird...

curious alice

love it.
stay green.
v.

Sunday, November 04, 2007

i'm missing talib for this

{but alas talib means student and this is like music school}

on the menu tonight:
chuck d
metaphysics
dada
pharoahe monch
stephen marley & ___ ___ ;)

pharoahe monch - body baby

stephen marley - mind control (live)

beyond beats and rhymes (hip hop doc)

COINTELPRO

The Patriot Act

stay green.
v.

Sunday, October 28, 2007

nuthin like old vinyl

on the menu tonight:
tex williams
the beatles
johnny cash
toots & the maytals
the coasters

nothing tastes like old vinyl.

tex williams - every night

johnny cash - folsom prison blues (OG gangster music)

toots & the maytals - 54-46 was my number

tarantino - death proof (down in mexico)

also stay up on your conspiracy videos
zeigeist (2007): http://movies.nabolister.com/links_page.php?movie=2291
Cheney's Law: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/cheney/#postcard

until next week.
cheers.
stay green.
v.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

get yourself high

on the menu tonight:
bill withers
ben harper & the innocent criminals
2mex
the chemical brothers & k-os
immortal technique

trying to bring truth to the night.

bill withers & fatboy slim

ben harper - excuse me mr

the chemical brothers & k-os - get yourself high {i've played it before but LOVE it}

stay green.
v.

Sunday, October 14, 2007

the mastermind... doin my thing

on the menu tonight
del the funky homosapien
mandeep sethi
jern eye
pharcyde
zion i

del {naw but for real man... SKIP}

a random mandeep sighting

jern {he misses oakland}

(1/2) a bizzare ride in the pharcyde lastnight during the distortion 2 static interview

stay green.
peace.
-=v*

Sunday, October 07, 2007

pluck that!

on the menu tonight:
oud
lute
sanxian
classical
electric

YES it's random but i had to do it. it's ALL about the guitar.A bit of a history lesson on the greatest instrument ever.

According to Farabi, the oud was invented by Lamech, the sixth grandson of Adam. The legend tells that the grieving Lamech hung the body of his dead son from a tree. The first oud was inspired by the shape of his son's bleached skeleton.
The words "lute" and "oud" are both derived from Arabic العود (al-ʿūd, literally "the wood").[citation needed] Gianfranco Lotti suggests that the "wood" appellation originally carried derogatory connotations, because of proscriptions of all instrumental music in early Islam.[citation needed]

The prefix al- (meaning "the") in al-ʿūd was discarded by the Turks who then transformed the word ʿūd (consisting of the Arabic letters ʿayn-wāw-dāl) into ud because the sound represented by the Arabic letter ʿayn is not present in the Turkish language.

The oud was most likely introduced to Western Europe by the Arabs who established the Umayyad Caliphate of Al-Andalus on the Iberian Peninsula beginning in the year 711 AD. Oud-like instruments such as the Ancient Greek Pandoura and the Roman Pandura likely made their way to the Iberian Peninsula much earlier than the oud. However, it was the royal houses of Al-Andalus that cultivated the environment which raised the level of oud playing to greater heights and boosted the popularity of the instrument. The most famous oud player of Al-Andalus was Zyriab. He established the first music conservatory in Spain, enhanced playing technique and added a fifth course to the instrument. The European version of this instrument came to be known as the lute - luth in French, laute in German, liuto in Italian, luit in Dutch, (all beginning with the letter "L") and alaud in Spanish. The word "luthier" meaning stringed instrument maker is also derived from the French luth. Unlike the oud the Europen lute utilized frets (usually tied gut).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oud

Lute

Lutes are made almost entirely of wood. The soundboard is a teardrop-shaped thin flat plate of resonant wood (usually spruce). In all lutes the soundboard has a single (sometimes triple) decorated soundhole under the strings, called the rose. The soundhole is not open, but rather covered with a grille in the form of an intertwining vine or a decorative knot, carved directly out of the wood of the soundboard.
Various types of necked chordophones were in use in ancient Egyptian (where they were introduced from Asia in the Middle Kingdom), Hittite, Greek, Roman, Bulgar, Turkic, Chinese, Armenian/Cilician cultures. The Lute developed its familiar forms in Arabia, Persia, Armenia, and Byzantium beginning in the early 7th century. These instruments often had bodies covered with animal skin, as do the modern American banjo, Persian tar, Indian sarod, West African xalam, or Chinese sanxian.

As early as the 6th century the Bulgars brought the short-necked variety of the instrument called Kobuz to the Balkans, and in the 9th century Moors brought Oud to Spain. The long-necked Pandora/Quitra had been common Mediterranean lute previously. The Quitra didn't become extinct however, but continued its evolution, its descendants being Chitarra Italiana, Chitarrone and Colascione, aside from the still surviving Kuitra of Algiers and Morocco.

In about the year 1500 many Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese lutenists adopted vihuela de mano, a viol-shaped instrument tuned like the lute, but both instruments continued in coexistence. This instrument also found its way to parts of Italy that were under Spanish domination (especially Sicily and the papal states under the Borgia pope Alexander VI who brought many Catalan musicians to Italy), where it was known as the viola da mano.

Another important point of transfer of the lute from Muslim to Christian European culture might have been in Sicily, where it was brought either by Byzantine or later by Saracen musicians. There were singer-lutenists at the court in Palermo following the Christian Norman conquest of the island, and the lute is depicted extensively in the ceiling paintings in the Palermo’s royal Cappella Palatina, dedicated by the Norman King Roger II in 1140. By the 14th century, lutes had disseminated throughout Italy. Probably due to the cultural influence of the Hohenstaufen kings and emperor, based in Palermo, the lute had also made significant inroads into the German-speaking lands by the 14th century.

Medieval lutes were 4- or 5-course instruments, plucked using a quill for a plectrum. There were several sizes, and by the end of the Renaissance, seven different sizes (up to the great octave bass) are documented. Song accompaniment was probably the lute's primary function in the Middle Ages, but very little music securely attributable to the lute survives from the era before 1500. Medieval and early-Renaissance song accompaniments were probably mostly improvised, hence the lack of written records.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lute

Sanxian

The sanxian (literally "three strings") is a Chinese lute — a three-stringed fretless plucked musical instrument. It has a long fingerboard, and the body is traditionally made from snakeskin stretched over a rounded rectangular resonator. It is made in several sizes for different purposes and in the late 20th century a four-stringed version was also developed. The Northern sanxian is generally larger, at about 122 centimetres in length, while Southern versions of the instrument are usually about 95 centimetres in length.
Traditionally the instrument is plucked with a thin, hard plectrum made from animal horn but today most players use a plastic plectrum (similar to a guitar pick) or, alternately, their fingernails. This use of fingers to pluck the instrument often shares technique with that of the pipa and is most commonly used in performance of sanxian arrangements of works traditionally written for the pipa. This allows for pipa techniques such as tremolo to be used. Other techniques for sanxian include the use of harmonics and hitting the skin of the instrument with the plectra or fingernail (comparable to the technique of tsugaru-jamisen).

A closely related musical instrument is the Japanese shamisen, which is derived from the sanxian but which generally uses cat or dog skin rather than snakeskin to cover its resonator. Even more closely related is the Okinawan sanshin, which is also covered in snakeskin. Additionally, the sanshin and sanxian share a structurally similar body part consisting of a round-edged square of wood. In the Japanese shamisen, the body (sao) is made of four pieces of wood instead of one. The Vietnamese đàn tam is also very similar to the sanxian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanxian

Classical Guitar

Before the development of the electric guitar and the use of synthetic materials, a guitar was defined as being an instrument having "a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often with incurved sides".[1] Instruments similar to the guitar have been popular for at least 5,000 years. The guitar appears to be derived from earlier instruments known in ancient India and Central Asia as the Sitara. The oldest known iconographic representation of an instrument displaying all the essential features of a guitar being played is a 3300 year old stone carving of a Hittite bard.[2] The modern word, guitar, was adopted into English from Spanish guitarra, derived from the Latin word cithara, which in turn was derived from the earlier Greek word kithara, which perhaps derives from Persian sihtar[3]. Sihtar itself is related to the Indian instrument, the sitar.
Illustration from a Carolingian Psalter from the 9th century, showing a Guitar-like plucked instrument.
Illustration from a Carolingian Psalter from the 9th century, showing a Guitar-like plucked instrument.

The modern guitar is descended from the Roman cithara brought by the Romans to Hispania around 40 AD, and further adapted and developed with the arrival of the four-string oud, brought by the Moors after their invasion of the Iberian peninsula during the 8th century AD.[4] Elsewhere in Europe, the indigenous six-string Scandinavian lut (lute), had gained in popularity in areas of Viking incursions across the continent. Often depicted in carvings c.800 AD, the Norse hero Gunther (also known as Gunnar), played a lute with his toes as he lay dying in a snake-pit, in the legend of Siegfried.[5] By 1200 AD, the four string "guitar" had evolved into two types: the guitarra morisca (Moorish guitar) which had a rounded back, wide fingerboard and several soundholes, and the guitarra latina (Latin guitar) which resembled the modern guitar with one soundhole and a narrower neck.[6]
The guitar player (c. 1672), by Johannes Vermeer
The guitar player (c. 1672), by Johannes Vermeer

The Spanish vihuela or "viola da mano", a guitar-like instrument of the 16th century, appears to be an aberration in the transition from the renaissance instrument to the modern guitar. It had lute-style tuning and a guitar-like body. Its construction had as much in common with the modern guitar as with its contemporary four-course renaissance guitar. The vihuela enjoyed only a short period of popularity; the last surviving publication of music for the instrument appeared in 1576. It is not clear whether it represented a transitional form or was simply a design that combined features of the Arabic oud and the European lute. In favor of the latter view, the reshaping of the vihuela into a guitar-like form can be seen as a strategy of differentiating the European lute visually from the Moorish oud.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar

Electric Guitar

An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickups to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into electrical current, which is then amplified. The signal that comes from the guitar is often electrically altered to achieve various tonal effects prior to being fed into an amplifier, which produces the final sound which can be either an electrical sound or an acoustic sound. Devices commonly used by guitarists are meant to add distortion, wah, equalization, tremolo, and phase shift, amongst others, in some cases radically changing the sound that is emitted from the amplifier.

Despite its traditional association with rock music, the electric guitar has long been used in many popular styles of music, including almost all genres of rock and roll, country music, jazz, blues, ambient (or "new-age"), and even contemporary classical music. The instrument's distinctive sound and intimate connection with many legendary internationally-famous musicians has made it the signature instrument of late twentieth-century music. Specialized steel guitars are also in use, although they are to be considered a different instrument. This distinction has important consequences on claims of priority in the history of the electric guitar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_guitar

hope you love it like i do.
stay green.
-=v*

Sunday, September 30, 2007

baduisms

on the menu tonight:
lucy pearl
prima j
mia
tigarah
erykah badu

sigh****** ladies night

Monday, September 24, 2007

simpletons

yeah its late. not even my fault this time

on the menu tonight:
jimi hendrix
ziggy marley
jack johnson
ella fitzgerald
ben harper & the blind boys of alabama

hot.

stay green.
-=v*

Sunday, September 16, 2007

so international

on themenu tonight:
rob kelly
dj krush & dante smith
mc sweet
kameko
ahmed soultan

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so tonight it's all artists from around the world...

Rob Kelly - Ireland

http://www.myspace.com/robkelly

DJ Krush - Japan

http://www.mmjp.or.jp/sus/krush/

MC Sweet - Brazil

http://www.myspace.com/mcsweet

Kameko - Japan, France, UK, NY

http://www.myspace.com/kamekoworld

Ahmed Soultan - Morocco

http://www.myspace.com/ahmedsoultan

love it.
stay green.
-=v*

Sunday, September 09, 2007

...not like I love my guitar

on the menu tonight:
muddy waters
the cure
maroon 5
depeche mode
prince

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oh man she's feelin it tonight! So trust me you'll love this muddy waters track. Instant classic.

muddy waters - hoochie coochie man (yo rap didn't start it ok)

the cure - lullaby

depeche mode - dream on

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prince - black sweat

still enlisting in my green army. recruits welcome. no asvab required.
v.

Sunday, September 02, 2007

icing on the cake

on the menu tonight:
RJD2
FNDMNTL Feat. Mr Lif
Gorillaz
Feist
Anthony Hamilton

enjoy!
sorry about last week I was watching Stevie Wonder!!!! Now THAT was an awesome sunday night jam session

RJD2 - The Horror

FNDMTL myspace http://www.myspace.com/sorceoffndmntl

Feist - My Moon My Man

Anthony Hamilton - Comn From Where I'm From

peace
blessings
stay green. it saves lives.
v

Monday, August 20, 2007

the girls say

On the menu tonight:
Michael Jackson & Biggie Smalls
Tricky
Tiggers & ODB
Fatboy Slim
Groove Armada

enjoy ;)

Ooh Wee - Mark Ronson feat Ghostface, Trife & Nate Dogg

preise you - fatboy slim

groove armada - superstylin

stay green
-=v*

Sunday, August 12, 2007

back in the day, yo i wish i was a kid again

On the menu tonight:
Skee-Lo
Sly & the Family Stone
The Fugees
Xibit
D'Angelo

Gotta love the olden days. This playlist is from 10th grade.

the fugees - ready or not

xibit - paparazzi

d'angelo - cruisin

stay green.
v.

Thursday, August 02, 2007

bored in class... that makes it ladies night

yup. no words from me. just 6 other random ladies.

on the menu tonight:
amy winehouse
yeah yeah yeahs
lily allen
unknown
eva cassidy
ella fitzgerald

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sorry for sunday folks. making it up today. ladies night!

omg. i can't repeat this enough.
sen. eleanor prentiss shaw = sen. hillary rodham clinton
TRUST me on this one.