After a few weeks on my own it was a nice change this week to once again have guests featuring on the show, and hopefully the first of many! After a slight delay it was great to finally play an interview I recorded a couple of weeks ago with the wonderful band One Eyed God. They’re a six piece band based up in Merseyside and they have a great blend of influences, from dub, reggae, space rock and even include world music. On the recording I spoke to Dave the saxophone player, Buzz the drummer and Nick who is on keyboards. I discovered their origins, how they increased the number of members in the band and how they enjoy playing at festivals, including here in Essex on Mersey island. We heard four of their songs, including Consumerist Porn which led us onto a conversation about packaged pop music and the effects of mass media, especially when people get all of their information and entertainment through the television, which is where the band name originates. I’m looking forward to finding out when they’ll be playing next and when they will be releasing material. You can find out more about them here:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/One-Eyed-God/111104702319486?ref=ts&fref=ts
Their musical influences also influenced my musical selection during the show where I enjoyed playing some space rock by Spacemen 3 and Spiritualized through to reggae by the likes of Zion Train and Jimmy Cliff and dub by Ott. You can listen again here:
One Eyed God – Musical Meanderings 6th November 2012 by Graham Stannard on Mixcloud
Here’s the playlist for 6th November 2012 (Albums in brackets)
1. Monster Magnet – Face Down (Superjudge)
2. Herida – Evo (Ghost Of The Sun)
3. The Cortège – Homo Empathicus
4. Spacemen 3 – Take Me To The Other Side (The Perfect Prescription)
5. Spiritualized – The Slide Song (Pure Phase)
6. Jimmy Cliff – Wonderful World, Beautiful People (Jimmy Cliff)
7. One Eyed God – Infinite Season
8. One Eyed God – Fog
9. One Eyed God – Consumerist Porn
10. One Eyed God – Aven X Space
11. Zion Train – Flag (Love Revolutionaries)
12. Bob Marley & The Wailers – Iron Lion Zion (Songs Of Freedom)
13. Ott – Roflcopter (Skylon)
14. Shpongle – Dorset Perception (Tales Of The Inexpressible)
15. Ritmo – Disharmonic Silence (Time In Motion Remix) (Archive 9)
16. Hypnoise – Psycho Plasma (VA – Transition 2011)
17. Loud – Enlightenment (Free From Conceptual Thoughts)
