Edinburgh Music Podcast

 

confushians official response to the goverments latest assault on logic featuring the famous fuzzbox blues harp and a trampoline for that extra bounce. Special mention to our first feedback from leslie, we had to look up the word bathos in the dictionary, heres my space www.myspace.com/fraserdrummond

a caribbean flavour this week, starting with an instrummental number, and ending with a live version of "Brother can you help me" featuring Djembe, and not forgeting groucho marx http://www.groucho-marx.com

well, at least its not all played on a gong, yes its avant garde, animal jazz. animal top 10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuFyqzerHS8

its slow, its dirgelike, its soporific, its spooky, its the late, late radio show. Ok, its some slow stuff. hu's leading china http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd01NHWVJI8 guide to megalithic europe http://www.stonepages.com cats dancing to music http://www.cs.tlu.ee/~meelis/catmusic/

Citizen confushian gets behind the camera to shoot a video for homies "Impossible songs", filmed in my house, and the best of scottish humour, enjoy. impossible songs http://impossiblesongs.blogspot.com/ the big man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jfzbGTvEl8 ricky fulton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbAikjaiiHY news for neds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0qjTdn9W9U

this week, its revolution in latin america, featuring the zapatistas of mexico, some real life footage which i think matches the song, ( a grateful dead inspired number) which i have called guatemala, as i once stayed their for a couple of months. the links include, Gil Scott Heron and "the revolution will not be televised", and Mercedes Sosa, singing "gracias a la vida" heron http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTCQSk2l8bc Mercedes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyOJ-A5iv5I

this weeks rock and roll video is the rocking blues number "strange how", complete with harmonica played through a fuzzbox ( im not buying a bullfrog mic for one song). Its also my only outing on heavy rock guitar. archery gone mad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLSXS4cRFFI domino theory http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1178684965

this weeks offering is a short video to go with my song "shoreline", filmed on the firth of forth, edinburgh, and features Granton harbour which is quite a feat of stonework. Links this week are a very emotional piece of animation called kiwi, it brought a tear to my eye so i thought i would include it. Also, a vid showing the talents of an urban pursuit known as freewalking. kiwi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h_ifrP1WaE freewalking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kdgfyX8PAI

As well as usual couple of tracks, we remember Douglas Adams of hitchiking fame, linkswise, an amazing site full of all sorts, including extensive archives of the grateful dead called desktop download, and footage of the original performance of the harry lime theme tune from the third man. desktop http://desktopdownload.org third man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFz79SBnuk8

a buddhist theme this week, so its thoughtful poetry and rythmn, a look at chanting, ranting etc, leonard cohen narrates tibetan book of the dead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9FxdTMJpIs amazing vietnamese dancing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTKJiP_bdbE more buddhism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCmIq4Ln3Ag

this weeks its pretty mellow, "Sun is on its way" is perhaps influenced by the Palm wine music of the carribean, "hooded man" is banjo and mandola in an old time number, with the latin "Absinthe" to finish. Links wise we got Tommy Emmanuel on guitar, and a couple of crackers, with some awesome editing, happy new year http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW-H0rq-FYM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFoyIcuhqos

this week, Confushian brings you a couple of tracks, and some cool links, including the great John cooper clark, the seminal Beazely Street, which influenced todays first track, and a duet with hannah o'reilly entitled roman holiday Beazely Street http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZymVWuMKVk Where the hell is Matt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkh5opBp6K4 Alien plants http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLk1qDPqx1g

Filmed at Ruigh Aitechecan Bothy in Glen Feshie Scotland. To find out more about bothys, www.mountainbothies.org.uk/

banjo and bouzouki come together in a summer, garden setting, and to the amusement of the locals

After the rapturous applause for the techno podcast, this weeks broadcast is strictly acoustic, and i manage to play some tracks by the local talent. First up, (after a track by me entitled "Rosa doloraosa") is Ross Galloway from Fru$hane, with what i consider one of his best, the excellent "Hearts in my home", and to finish, the epic "Alive" from Chris Brown. Please forgive the inaccurate punctuation.

this week, confushian gets hold of some software, and mashes up some wicked beats with fruity loops, before pressing the delete button and getting the ukelele out to show the kids what real music sounds like, all sounds by confushian, (even the loud banging ones). The photo is a reference to the white heat of technology, made famous by turntablist MC Harold Wilson who suprisingly moonlighted as British PM.

join confushians campaign to save the motorway, find out how we get on here. this weeks songs are, waterfall, merrygoround and African eve, all mellow jazz tinged numbers

this weeks podcast gives you another three tracks from confushian. "Have a drink" is played on mandola, "Assets" is a rocky number, and to finish , the tongue in cheek "butane". As always, a dose of irreverent humour thrown in.

 

an instrummental acoustic number, some great guitar and various ethnic stuff, udu, digeridoo, etc