It's Partially Parstic Podcast # 2

As promised, here is the second side of the mix tape/podcast made by Shrimp Cracker. It furthers the mission of its parstic quite nicely, and you will agree with me.

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Track Listing:
1. James Jackson Toth - Nothing Hides
2. Allen Toussaint - Last Train
3. Howlin Rain - Goodbye Rudy
4. Black Mountain - Last Train
5. Pink Floyd - Jugband Blues
6. Mogwai - Honey (Spacemen 3 cover)
7. Vic Chesnutt - Glossolalia
8. Matthew Loiacono - Vaults + Crowns
9. The Felice Brothers - Ballad of Lou The Welterweight
10. Pepi Ginsberg - The Waterline
11. Marah - Round Eye Blues
12. Bruce Springsteen & The Sessions Band - Blinded By The Light

its parstic podcast # 7

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Track Listing:
1. Eyvind Kang - The Story of Iceland: Circle of Fair Karma part 1
2. Elizabeth Cotten - Hallelujah, It Is Done
3. Lloyd Miller - Gol-E-Gandom
4. i'm an ant - Jimmy Stewart
5. Wovoka - Whispering Creek Raga of French Mountain
6. Rev. Utah Smith - Two Wings
7. Horace Silver - Sanctimonious Sam
8. Entrance - Silence Of A Crowded Train
9. Jozef Van Wissem - Propempticon

its parstic podcast # 6

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Track Listing:
1. J. Spaceman - Blues 1
2. Mark Fosson - Another Fine Day
3. Shirley Ann Lee - How Can I Lose
4. A Man From the Harak Ethnic Group (SF) - Khen
5. Chieko Mori - Spiral Wave
6. Ed Askew - Real Train
7. Archie Shepp - Blues For Brother George Jackson
8. Beyene Habte - Tefqereni Zeneberet
9. Roosevelt Gravies & Brother - I'll Be Rested
10. Kronos Quartet - String Quartet # 3 "Mishima" - Closing (Glass)

imanant

our good friend, and former master of the college radio airwaves, imanant has recently completed another album. It's all over the place in all of the best ways. Here is his link where you can hear mp3s. Magic man indeed.

It's Partially Parstic Podcast # 1

Ok folks, you're in for a treat. Here we have the first of 2 installments of the Partially Parstic Podcasts courtesy of Its Parstic friend Shrimp Cracker. This one is side A of the mixtape, side B will follow. Parstic indeed. Hopefully we'll hear more from SC in the future.

It's Partially Parstic Podcast # 1 Side A

Track Listing:
1. James & The Quiet - The Pushers
2. The Black Angels - You On The Run
3. Danava - Where Beauty & Terror Dance
4. Tinariwen - Zin Es Gourmeden
5. Awesome Color - Already Down
6. Dead Meadow - Between Me And The Ground
7. DJ Miller aka Ike Snopes - Settling On The Future
8. Dr Dog - The Girl
9. Los Dug Dug's - Lost In My World
10. Grateful Dead - The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)

Running Time: 35 min.

its parstic podcast # 5

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Track Listing:
1. Cul De Sac - Mirror 1
2. Brethren Of The Free Spirit - In Him Is No Sin
3. The Warlocks - Stickman Blues
4. Vetiver - Maureen
5. Erik Friedlander - Block Ice & Propane
6. RL Burnside - Mellow Peaches
7. Glenn Jones - Linded Avenue Stomp
8. Marah - Jesus In The Temple
9. Eric Carbonara - Naked Jade
10. Bojan Gorisek (Satie) - Les Pantins Dansent

Sir Richard Bishop

Another one of the bigger names amongst instrumental guitarists these days is Sir Richard Bishop of the Sun City Girls. He has several solo albums to his credit, and all of them are mesmerizing. He brings more of an Eastern influence to his music than some of the other "primitive" guitarists. While some of the Sun City Girls recordings are pretty out there, and at times far from melodic, the same cannot be said of his solo work. Here is an example from his Improvika album:

Skull of Sidon

its parstic podcast # 4

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Track Listing:
1. Cian Nugent - I Will Take the Top of a Tall Cedar and Break off a Tender Sprout
2. King Khan & The Shrines - Le Fils De Jacques Dutronc
3. Othar Turner & The Afrossippi AllStars - Shimmy She Wobble
4. Roy Orbison - You're My Baby
5. Tinariwen - Tamatant Tilay
6. Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter From The Ash
7. Robbie Basho - Sansara in Sweetness After Sandstorm
8. Giant Sand - Loving Cup
9. Sun Ra - El Viktor
10. Thee Mighty Caesars - Cowboys Are Square
11. Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 17 in D Minor

its parstic podcast # 3

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Track Listing:
1. Eluvium - Area 41
2. Darker My Love - Summer Is Here
3. Evelyn Freeman - Didn't It Rain
4. The Dirtbombs - Fire In The Western World
5. Mulatu Astatqe - Yegelle Tezeta
6. The Figgs - Breaking Through These Gates
7. Moondog - lament i
8. Leadbelly - New Black Snake Moan
9. Howlin Rain - Lord Have Mercy
10. The Staple Singers - You Don't Knock
11. Conjunto Iberico - The Secret Agent (Glass)