DJ Fly Agaric 23 at Radio Free Amsterdam: all shows

http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/tag/fly-by-night/

XENZ CHU & BUSK: Dump Up the Volume

Xenz busk chu London E9 2009.
Uploaded by Xenz
Music: Sugar Bear-Don't Scandalize Mine

DJ Fly with Garaj Mahal, 2001. (2nd' from left)

Chris Zanardi, Steve Fly DJ, Scot Burg (tour), Kai Eckhardt (bass), Alen Hertz (drums), Fareed Haque (guitar), Eric Levy (Keys)

Search 'www.archive.org for 'Garaj Mahal DJ Fly' and take a listen. x

Just A Little While To Stay Here: John Sinclair Radio Show 521

Just A Little While To Stay Here: John Sinclair Radio Show 521

Posted in: John Sinclair, John Sinclair Radio Show, Radio Free Amsterdam

Episode 521 is emanating from my regular stand at the 420 Cafe in Amsterdam, but contrary to my plans I’ll be leaving here tomorrow to stay in London until (and after) our Cannabis Cup party at the Akhnaton November 24. I learned when I arrived in the Netherlands yesterday that I’ve overstayed my welcome in he European Zone for the current six-month period that started with my arrival for the summer on June 21, so right now I’ve got two days left of the 90 allowed and I’ll have to return in two weeks to enjoy them here. Meanwhile I’ll be holed up at housedem.com in London, home of The Fuck You Sound, thanks to Caleb Selah & Co. Tonight at the 420 I’m playing music by the ReBirth Brass Band, tunes from Detroit by the Planet D Nonet, the Flying Crowbars, the  Butler Twins, and Laith Al-Saadi; music from Holland by the Misha Mengelberg/Piet Noordijk Quartet; tunes I picked up in Portland ME by  Angelica Sanchez and Melanie De Biasio; three cuts from my forthcoming Ironman album called Mohawk with Steve The Fly; and a send-off by Glen Andrews & the Lazy Six.

The John Sinclair Foundation Presents

JUST A LITTLE WHILE TO STAY HERE

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 521

420 Café, Amsterdam, November 9, 2013 [20-1345]

[01] Opening Music: ReBirth Brass Band: Just a Little While to Stay Here
[02] John Sinclair Intro, ID & Opening Comments
[03] Planet D Nonet: Island in the Sun
[04] Flying Crowbars: Shake Me
[05] Butler Twins: The Butler Jump
[06] Laith Al-Saadi: What It Means
[07] John Sinclair Comments
[08] Misha Mengelberg/Piet Noordijk Quartet: Sugar ‘n Spice
[09] Angelica Sanchez: 514
[10] Melanie De Biasio: The Flow
[11] John Sinclair Comments
[12] John Sinclair: Bloomdido
[13] John Sinclair: Mohawk
[14] John Sinclair: Carolina Moon
[15] John Sinclair Closing Comments & Outro
[16] Closing Music: Glen Andrews & the Lazy Six Over In The GloryLand

A JOINT PRODUCTION
Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam
Produced, recorded, edited & assembled by John Sinclair
Executive Producer: Sidney Daniels
Sponsored by Hempshopper & Ceres Seeds, Amsterdam
Special thanks to Sidney Daniels, Steve The Fly, Caleb Selah, and Sensi Seeds

© 2013 The John Sinclair Foundation

http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/just-a-little-while-to-stay-here-john-sinclair-radio-show-521/

Blue Cotton: Fly By Night 16

http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/fly-by-night-16/

The John Sinclair Foundation Presents

BLUE COTTON

FLY BY NIGHT 16 WITH STEVE THE FLY

Fly Agaric 23 Studios, Amsterdam, May 13, 2013 [SFBN-0016]

[01] Lionel Batiste: My Blue Heaven
[02] Allen Toussaint: Blue Drag
[03] Sun Ra & His Arkestra: Hours After
[04] Otis Rush: Mean Old World
[05] Little Freddy King: Kinky Cotton Fields
[06] Earl Hooker: These Cotton Pickin’ Blues
[07] James Cotton: Cotton Crop Blues
[08] Sonny Boy Williamson: She Got Next To Me
[09] Lionel Batiste: The Prisoner Song
[10] Allen Toussaint/Fats Domino/Professor Longhair: Professor Longhair Blues
[11] Charles Mingus: Please Don’t Come Back From The Moon
[12] Miles Davis: I Could Write A Book
[13] Charles Olson: Mayan Letter no. 13
[14] Pharoah Sanders: Ocean Song

A JOINT PRODUCTION

Produced by Steve “Fly” Pratt for Radio Free Amsterdam
Edited & annotated by John Sinclair
Executive Producer: Sidney Daniels
Sponsored by Ceres Seeds & The Hempshopper, Amsterdam
- See more at: http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/fly-by-night-16/#sthash.Jazl6Vmw.dpuf

The John Sinclair Foundation Presents

BLUE COTTON

FLY BY NIGHT 16 WITH STEVE THE FLY

Fly Agaric 23 Studios, Amsterdam, May 13, 2013 [SFBN-0016]

[01] Lionel Batiste: My Blue Heaven
[02] Allen Toussaint: Blue Drag
[03] Sun Ra & His Arkestra: Hours After
[04] Otis Rush: Mean Old World
[05] Little Freddy King: Kinky Cotton Fields
[06] Earl Hooker: These Cotton Pickin’ Blues
[07] James Cotton: Cotton Crop Blues
[08] Sonny Boy Williamson: She Got Next To Me
[09] Lionel Batiste: The Prisoner Song
[10] Allen Toussaint/Fats Domino/Professor Longhair: Professor Longhair Blues
[11] Charles Mingus: Please Don’t Come Back From The Moon
[12] Miles Davis: I Could Write A Book
[13] Charles Olson: Mayan Letter no. 13
[14] Pharoah Sanders: Ocean Song

A JOINT PRODUCTION

Produced by Steve “Fly” Pratt for Radio Free Amsterdam
Edited & annotated by John Sinclair
Executive Producer: Sidney Daniels
Sponsored by Ceres Seeds & The Hempshopper, Amsterdam
- See more at: http://www.radiofreeamsterdam.com/fly-by-night-16/#sthash.Jazl6Vmw.dpuf

Off to the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam

John Sinclair and i are embarking on a tip to Rotterdam and the Jazz Festival. With luck we will make a few shows and have a ball, x fly

Mastering the new John Sinclair album near Birmingham (360 Panorama)

Framework Studio in England

Art ov the moment Albert Allstars (Steve Fly Ninja Jamm Mix)

Ninja Jamm

https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/sets/ninja-jamm

Credits

Ninja Jamm has been made by the people at Ninja Tune & Seeper.

Coldcut
Ed Kelly
Christian Curtis
Ariel Elkin
Aneek Thapar
Evan Grant
Andy Wallen
Chris Bradley
David Sweeney

http://ninjajamm.com/credits

4 and 20 beats

Kai 360

On April 1st 2013, I reconnected with my friend and mentor Kai Eckhardt and with the singer Sandhya Sanjana in Amsterdam to embark on a recording, tentatively titled 4 and 20 beat, due to its original 24 beat cycle sketched out by Kai.

The recording session was held at Quark studios in Amsterdam, where we gathered in the beautiful garden area of the studio and I explained my idea of creating a composition for a 360 panorama audio experiment. (Something along the lines of the website www.raw360.net that I have been developing alongside design scientist CHU).

Kai quickly understood my flow and sketched out an incredible 24 beat beat in his notebook. This syncopated poly-rhythmic loop acted as the frame upon which Sandhya and he applied matching vocal lines in the Indian spoken syllabic tradition.

In a bionic flurry of genius, Kai improvised a further nine overdubs, five on bass three on keyboards and one shaker loop. Each new overdub was a subdivision of the previous and some had a harmonic correspondence too resulting in a series of loops that are 24, 12, 8, 6, 4, 3, 2, and 1 beats long. Finally, Sandhya performed her soaring vocals and vitalized the twisting poly-rhythm with her long sustained focus.   

Two days later Quark and I arranged the loops and composed a song: 4 and 20 beat. Next I painstakingly cut a series of 72 bars tracks (3 x 24), including some new drum loops and turntable parts and narrative, so together with CHU we started experimenting with feed the loops into our 360 panorama platform. Once again CHU innovated the possibilities of 360 degree audio space.

Thanks for all the genius and innovative thinking that have made this idea come into being. However, this is only the beginning of an on-going series of musical experiments, i intend to apply the original 'tracks' made by Kai and Sandhya into a panorama.

Steve fly

www.raw360/4and20

www.raw360.net

My Panorama Photo of Kukulkan Pyramid, Mexico

Kukulkan Pyramid (El Castillo) and the press gang in Mexico x fly www.raw360.net

coming and going (for my grandma)

Coming and going
(Dedicated to my Grandma: Dec. 25^th, 1922 – Jan. 19^th, 2013).

Grandmothers are voices of the past
and role models of the present.—Unknown


and snow fallen
beauty-freeze at nine below
a chilling black & white portrait
of Amsterdam

to write to warm the heart
control the rhythm,
memories jig the lights
behind my eyelids

the canal framed by branches
my eyes open, I blink
life cogitates in the kernel
of death?
and beneath the ice

new seeds new soil and
things poised to bloom
& burst into
spring 

seasons cycle
trans-energies charge
release relax,
beings coming & going

icicles
on my eyelash
you in a new form of energy
snow drifts hug
the window silly of my eye,
oh nana
 
wind and fog of thought
now solid ice, the dark what ifs’
a hand quilted sunrise blanket
coming & going maybe sad

both/and joyous
like crying signifies death
& birth  
affixed to our inner walls
next

to the revolving doors
made whole in us all
 to honour life in death
spread good virtue

being & non-being both
equal & opposite
thru an old frosted looking glass
we search

for sense friendship wisdom
unconditional love
in your honour like you taught us

from my thought you’re never far
now in loving memory
here to my beautiful Irish
Grandma

by Steven ‘fly’ Pratt
Amsterdam
19-23^rd January, 2013