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2020/11/22 / tocovava

air pOwer sat november 21, 2020

2020/11/11 / tocovava

air pOwer wednesday november 11, 2020

 
   Gone is the old covid-restricted air pOwer way of doing things LIVE. Recording talk-back sets and oftentimes choosing the music in the fifteen, twenty minutes before airing. For years, radio harbor country utilized a third-party** website to load shows from remote locations  into station’s computer on a desk in Three Oaks. The website recently erected a paywall. (One wall that actually got built, and in a stable manner.) As with most walls it just takes money to get around it, especially when named a paywall.
   That was the wind-up and HERE’S the pitch:  it doesn’t matter if you self-identify as a  pOwer ranger or an airhead, If twenty of hugh of the air pOwer listener become members NOW the station will have enough money to materialize through that paywall, much like a audio file appearing on the in-studio computer screen. I wrote twenty but I mean YOU, specifically.*** YOU HERE NOW!!!!  
     And it is not just for the purposes of air pOwer there are other shows standing on the wrong side of the paywall. Restoring our remote loading capabilities is great for the environment, too. None of our volunteers will need to fire up the car engine emitting carbon monoxide into our beautiful country air on the drive to and from the  station in order to do on-site show loading.  Also, remote loading means less time show hosts ask of the VOLUNTEER show loaders.  An important also in this stressful year. 
   Become a member here:  radioharborcountry.org/membership-support  
 
**air pOwer supports the necessity of third parties in the US political spectrum. 
***if this ask makes you think, why should I become a member of a radio station in the middle of nowhere? we have no argument. Here’s a cause more worthy—call the library in Benton Harbor, Michigan and ask what they need:  269-926-6139. They are barely functioning, and mostly as a food bank.  And neither of facts are covid-related.
 
2020/08/26 / tocovava

air pOwer august 26, 2020

PLAYLIST

RICHARD PRYOR – niggers vs. police

MEGAN MING FRANCIS – on equality

LATOSHA BROWN – on equality

JOHN LEWIS – on equality

KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR – on equality

MARTIN LUTHER KING – on equality

ANTHONY ITON – on equality

RICHARD ROTHSTEIN – on equality

RICHARD GREEN – on equality

ARADHYA SOOD – on equality

KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR – on equality

LEAH PENNIMAN – on equality

DARRICK HAMILTON – on equality

LATINIQUE COOPER – on equality

ERIN KELLY – on equality

THERESA WALLACE – on equality

KENNY ALEXANDER – on equality

MALCOLM X – on equality

ELLA BAKER – on equality

ANGELA DAVIS – on equality

KEENGA-YAMHTTA TAYLOR – on equality

RICHARD PRYOR AND DICK CAVETT – on equality

JAMILA LYISCOTT – on equality

CORNEL WEST – on equality

JAMES BALDWIN – on equality

ANGELA DAVIS – on equality

KIMBERLY JONES – on equality

FANNIE LOU HAMER – on equality

PEDRO BELL – pray my soul

YO LA TENGO – wasn’t born to follow

YO LA TENGO – georgia considers the two blue ones (thursday)

SHARHABLI AHMED – argos farfish

TIJUANA HERCULES – going to st. petersberg

SALLY ANNE MORGAN – annachie gordon

CUCINA POVERA = varjokuratanssi

PERFUME GENIUS – whole life

GIANFRANCO REVERBI AND ROMOLO FORLAI = rivelazioni di uno psichiatra sul mondo perverso del sesso

MAKAYA MCCRAVEN – butterss fly

LAURA SMALLEY – interviewed by john henry faulk

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2020/06/07 / tocovava

air pOwer june 7, 2020

back after 10 days away. call it weather related. then define weather however you want.

first part has a lot of new music.

second part and third part get back into the coronus diary, all rain and apologies.

 

PLAYLIST

my compost bin is tilted

THE JACOBITES – the big store

ANGEL BAT DAWID – transition east

CHOUK BWA & THE ÅNGSTROMERS – rårå

KRAFTWERK – vitamin

SWAMP DOGG FEATURING JOHN PRINE – memories

THE FIVE STAIRSTEPS – ohh child

ISAAC HAYES – the look of love

KIKAGAKU  MOYO – ouchi time

SERENGETI AND KENNY SEGAL – don’t wear that suit ajai

THEE HEADCOATEES – meet jacqueline

JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA – door with no sign

ARMAND HAMMER FEATURING QUELLE CHRIS & FIELDED – frida

THE CURE – lovesong

BENNY MARDONES – into the night

SPEAKER MUSIC – an expression of hi-tech soul

DEERHOOF – new orphan asylum for spirited deerchildren

DEEP SPACE DUO – black knight satellite

KENNY SEGAL – then everyone went home

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2020/05/23 / tocovava

air pOwer may 23, 2020

65-minute edition.

The first 35 minutes has the coronus diary update…listen for sounds of the rake (not Eugene Chadbourne’s rake), the gas can (apologies to David Van Teighem) and the garden hose (supply your own mid ’80s reference).

Last 30 minutes is a tribute to Jane Pellouchoud.  (Live on air  tonight we programmed Jane’s last Ol’ Vinyl Show to run for the second and third hours.)

Jane was a friend. She died on Wednesday. Her death was not unexpected, the only comfort from her death is knowing she died without panic or pain. For those of us who knew her, our spirits benefited from her presence.  Thank you Jane.

Jane’s show on Radio Harbor Country aired on Wednesdays from 12 – 2pm.  She would be ending The Ol’ Vinyl Show as I was readying air pOwer.  The studio is small, there is no easy way to switch shows.  Hand-off from one show to another is rare at our station.  It usually involves dead air.  The dead air was always after 2PM–during my show! Instead of hustling Jane out of the studio so my precious show wouldn’t have a silent beginning, I started to talk to her on air as she was packing up.  The first few times she said she didn’t know we were on the air.  I’m pretty sure she did know.  She did know.  She kept away from the main microphone making it difficult to pick up her part of the conversation. I started opening every mic in the studio hoping to capture her on one of them.  Sometimes she embraced the conversations, stepping to a microphone.  Other times she froze me out, head down and out the door. I loved her style.

 

PLAYLIST

JANE PELLOUCHOUD – i’ll fly away
JANE PELLOUCHOUD – forever youg
JANE PELLOUCHOUD – i shall be released

 

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JANE AND PAT

 

2020/05/21 / tocovava

air pOwer may 20,2020

PLAYLIST

WINDY & CARL – crossing over

DISAPPEARS + STEVE SHELLEY + WHITE/LIGHT – anagram

SPECTRE FOLK – gypsy grammar

THURSTON MOORE BAND – may daze

SLUT PILL – catcall

MOOR MOTHER – geology of ruin

SITI MUHARAM – alaminadura

IRWANSYAH HARAHAP – playing gambus

BILL NACE – part 8

THE STAPLE SINGERS – sit down servant

PATTY LARKIN – it could be worse

SAM MOSS – i drew my ship

THE DRAMATICS – in the rain

MIKE POLIZZE – revelation

ANIMAL HOSPITAL – conditions

DUMP – i saw it in the mirror

YO LA TENGO – i’ll be around

AKI TSUYUKO – moriji

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2020/05/16 / tocovava

air pOwer may 16, 2020

PLAYLIST

JJ CALE/LEON RUSSELL – same old blues

POTWROY I LUDZIE – wakacje

LEWSBERG – at lunch

IGGY POP – family affair

LAS NUBES – i go wild

EMILY’S SASSY LIME – sneaking into yer house

SCANNER – when I need you

SCANNER – you never told me

PERFUME GENIUS – one more try

PERFUME GENIUS – jason

INFINITY KNIVES FT ALLISON CLENDANIEL – sway me, sway me into the arms of the lord

TOBY HAY/DAVID IAN ROBERTS – part ll

DOUG TUTTLE – darkness under blight

OKKYUNG LEE – star dust (for kang kyung ok)

FUJI|||||||||||TA – close contact

GIRLPOOL – minute in your mind

CUCINA POVERA – jolkottelureitti

DON LAKA – need to love

THE THREE SUNS – you and you alone

THE NASHVILLE ANSWER –  fred

BJ THOMAS – raindrops keep falling on my head

SNIFF ‘N’ THE TEARS – driver’s seat

HENRY KAISER/ALAN LICHT – rendezvous in space

MEARA O’REILLY – lll

THE CARETAKER – and bliss, everywhere bliss

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2020/05/13 / tocovava

air pOwer may 13, 2020

 

PLAYLIST

rove after the lain

NILSSON – toyboat

POWERS/ROLIN DUO – black coffee

SOFT PINK TRUTH – shall

JAMES ELKINGTON – sleeping me awake

CHEO – jugar conmigo

GRASSES – vision

HAZY SOUR CHERRY – i need your heart

ADULT MOM FT SCOTT MCCAUGHEY – twistin’

SIR DOUGLAS QUINTET –

TOKEY TONES – the beach

UMBRELLA PINE – shadow stalk

STEPHEN MALKMUS – shadowbanned

SAY SUE ME – good for some reason (winter ver.)

YTAMO – the start is everything

YTAMO – mantis

LITTLE RICHARD – let’s play in the yard

NILSSON – go dodger blue

THE BASEBALL PROJECT – pete rose way

LOUVIS HUR & NAHYER GAHN – love is here, now your gone

THE MOVE – message from the country

FUJI|||||||||||TA – close contact

ZAGAR & EVANS – fred

ISASA – cuesa ramon

MAGIC TUBER STRINGBAND – lightning bug’s lament

TOBY HAY/DAVID IAN ROBERTS – part ll

TIM EDEY – the green mountain/foxhunters

JASON SUNDERLIN – bird flute, battle hymn

SUMMER FLAKE – i can’t go on

CUCINA POVERA – jolkottelureitti

DON LAKA – need to love

YOKO ONO – toy boat

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2020/05/09 / tocovava

air pOwer may 9, 2020

 

PLAYLIST

crazy ‘n’ safe

LITTLE RICHARD – i’m quitting show business part 1

ADULT MOM FT. SCOTT MCCAUGHEY – twisting

YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS – low beat

HAZY SOUR CHERRY – i need your heart

THE HIGHMARTS – run, run, run

NICK LOWE – lay it on me

THE DBS – ph factor

FUJI||||||||||||TA – sukima

SENDELICA – can we ever really predict the past

MEREDITH MONK/BANG ON A CAN ALLSTARS – spaceship

VIJAY IYER/MIKE LADD – the color of my circumference

BEAK> – can we go

EDDIE HARRIS – why must we part

EDDIE HARRIS – bee bump

GRRRL GANG – bathroom

GEORGE MCRAE – look at you

KALI MALONE – sacrificial code

MEARA O’REILLY – lll

ODELL HARRIS – laughing to keep from crying

NEIL YOUNG – helpless

DERYA YILDIRIM & GRUP ŞIMŞEK – kürk

ROBERT HAIGH – painted serpent

LUMEN DRONES – droneslag

SAY SUE ME – good for some reason (winter ver)

CHEO – jugar conmigo

CHUCK JOHNSON – sampling the grey

LITTLE RICHARD – lonesome and blue

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2020/05/06 / tocovava

air pOwer may 6, 2020

PLAYLIST

failing groove

ALEX CHILTON – it isn’t always that easy

JIM WHITE & MARISA ANDERSON – november

DONI FUNKHOUSER – i can’t tell you why

AIOFE NESSA FRANCES – geranium

OUTRAGEOUS CHERRY – misty mountains

MODERN NATURE – flourish

NATHAN SALSBURG – landwerk 03

DEBEN BHATTACHARYA – raga kafi

JONNY NASH & SUZANNE KRAFT – the pearl

ALKIBAR JR. – worbe mali

DEBORAH WASHINGTON (THE BASS PLAYER) AND THE ASTROS – shortest ladt

MAMMAN SANI – zaybanakoy

ANNA BURCH – every feeling

WUT – out of touch

THE FROGS – uncle sam loves you

THE BEACH BOYS – be here in the morning

HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUE NOTES FEATURING TEDDY PENDERGRASS – bad luck

FUNKADELIC – be my beach

SLY STONE – so good to me

TALKING HEADS – with our love

KELLEY STOLTZ – 84 tigers

TOMMY ROE – jam up and jelly tight

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE – everybody’s got pain

JARLATH HENDERSON – first

FIONA HUNTER – aye wauken o

RAB NOAKES/GERRY RAFFERTY – restless

GERRY RAFFERTY – baker street (demo)

PILOT – magic

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