Kosmik Radiation Radio - November 15, 2023 Playlist

November 15, 2023 Playlist

CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Joni Mitchell "Don Juan's Reckless Daughter" 1977 (Canada)

Joni Mitchell turned 80 years old this month -- this week's classic album is a listener request from months ago that I was saving up for her birthday. I think a lot of Joni's fans are probably mostly into her early folky classics and her two most commercially successful "singer-songwriter" albums Court And Spark and the double live Miles Of Aisles (both released in 1974 and quite great). But my favorite Joni is her "jazz" period: I think the first "jazzy stuff" was maybe on For The Roses (1972), and it was very much present on those 1974 albums which include musicians who played on Steely Dan records. But from 1975 to 1980, she eschewed folk and pop to make records and tour pretty much exclusively with jazz musicians, including heavyweights like Hancock, Metheny, Pastorious, Shorter, and even the legendary Mingus. The Daughter album has it's share of hardcore jazziness, including a core trio of Joni on guitar and singing accompanied by the great Jaco on bass and John Guerin on drums (Joni's boyfriend for a few years who played drums on Hot Rats!) But also it's a double album with the 16-minute epic "Paprika Plains" which features JM on piano with an entire orchestra, and another track is an Afro/Latin percussion jam with chanting. She was near the end of her record contract, so was feeling like she could do "whatever" at this point. Though there may not be a lot of classic "songs" on this one, the performances and sound are emblematic of her boundless imagination. The album cover is also kind of a classic (and a relic of the freaky 70's): that Black dude on the left? It's Joni in drag (and um, blackface) as her alter-ego "Art Nouveu, the jazz man." (If you don't believe me, just compare "his" teeth to the Joni in the middle of the picture!)

(N) = New Release
(R) = Listener Request

Artist	Song	Album	Year	Country
Neil Young (with Crazy Horse)	Like A Hurricane (same as previously released version)	Chrome Dreams (N - unreleased album)	1977 (2023 Reprise)	Canada/USA
Slow Pulp	Broadview	Yard (N)	2023 (Anti-)	USA
Wilco	Evicted	Cousin (N)	2023 (dBpm)	USA
Holy Wave	Nothing Is Real	Five Of Cups (N)	2023 (Suicide Squeeze)	USA
Anton Barbeau	Greasy	Morgenmusik / Nachtschlager (N) ("Morning Music / Night Pop")	2023 (Think Like A Key)	USA
Woods	Day Moving On	Perennial (N)	2023 (Woodsist)	USA

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	Theia / The Silver Cord	The Silver Cord (N)	2023 (KGLW)	Australia
Poppy	1s + 0s	Zig (N)	2023 (Sumerian)	USA
Speedy Ortiz	You S02	Rabbit Rabbit (N)	2023 (Wax Nine)	USA
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets	Sierra Nevada	Fronzoli (N)	2023 (What Reality?)	Australia
Descartes A Kant	After Destruction	After Destruction (N)	2023 (Cleopatra)	Mexico

Joni Mitchell	Overture / Cotton Avenue	Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (R) CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1977	Canada
Joni Mitchell	Otis And Marlene	Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (R) CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1977	Canada
Joni Mitchell	Don Juan's Reckless Daughter	Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (R) CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1977	Canada
Joni Mitchell	Down To You	Court And Spark	1974	Canada
Neil Young with Crazy Horse	Quit	Toast	rec. 2000, rel. 2022	Canada

Perfume	Sumikko Disco	single (N)	2023 (Universal)	Japan
Wednesday Campanella	Prince Shoutoku	single (N)	2023 (Warner Japan)	Japan
Charisma.com	Socchi Mononoke ("Socchi Spirit")	Mobstrong EP (N)	2023 (Lastrum)	Japan
Reol	Final Call	Black Box (N)	2023 (Sony)	Japan
Atarashii Gakko! ("New School!")	Tokyo Calling	single (N)	2023 (88Rising)	Japan
Appare! ("Bravo!")	Nantoka Naa Re Fanfare ("Let's Do It Somehow Fanfare")	single (N)	2023 (Appare! Records)	Japan
Ano	Namida-kun, Kyou Mo Ohayou ("My Friend Tears, Good Morning Again")	Neko Neko To To (N - forthcoming album) ("Cat Cat Vomit Vomit")	2023 (Toy's Factory)	Japan
The I's (featuring Ano)	Akunokabin	Eienshoudou EP (N)	2023 (Nyang Nyang)	Japan
Green Milk From The Planet Orange	Phoenix	Third	2019	Japan

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	The Silver Cord (extended version)	The Silver Cord (N)	2023 (KGLW)	Australia
Matmos	Injection Basic Sound	Return To Archive (N)	2023 (Thrill Jockey)	USA
Animal Collective	Magicians From Baltimore	Isn't It Now? (N)	2023 (Domino)	USA
Swans	No More Of This	The Beggar (N)	2023 (Young God)	USA

Neil Young	Too Far Gone (previously unreleased acoustic version)	Chrome Dreams (N - unreleased album)	1977 (2023 Reprise)	Canada
Neil Young	Hold Back The Tears (previously unreleased acoustic version)	Chrome Dreams (N - unreleased album)	1977 (2023 Reprise)	Canada

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