Eurock on KUSF in Exile Weekly Radio Show
In October 2011 I was invited by KUSF in Exile in San Francisco to host a weekly program Friday nights 7PM to 8PM Pacific Time. KUSF in Exile features an incredible array of diverse cultural, musical programming and for years has been one of the top College stations in the USA. It now broadcasts online via Internet Streaming in conjunction with WFMU, NYC. My first show aired on OCT 28, 2011. The programs focus will be highly eclectic with music played ranging the spectrum of sound and styles. I began Eurock as an FM radio program in California in 1971. After 40 years I've come full circle to begin again a new musical adventure featuring an eclectic selection of musical styles, sounds and bands. Stream Friday's show live, or listen to the Archived Programs at your leisure.

 Select Archived Programs
 Program 2  German Transcendental Music w/ Embryo, Between, Peter Michael Hamel & Camera Obscura
 Program 5  Ethnic Exotica from Spain Suso Saiz & Luis Paniagua
 Program 7  UK Ambient-Wave Bands Cult With No Name & Sweet Billy Pilgrim
 Program 9  Christmas Eve Special The Music of Amazing Blondel
 Program 10 The Sacred Music of Florian Fricke & Popol Vuh
 Program 15 German "Motorik" featuring music by Neu, Michael Rother, Klaus Dinger
 Program 16 New Album Preview featuring Luis Perez' Sanctuary of the Butterflies
 Program 18 Music for Film & Dance from France featuring Rene Aubry & Henry Torgue
 Program 19 Euro Experimentalism by Samla Mammas Manna & Eskaton
 Program 21 Folk from the British Isles featuring Tom McRae & June Tabor
 Program 26 A Special Program on the Bee Gees including Robin Gibb's new album Titanic Requiem
 Program 28 Music as Metaphor & Sonic Assault The rare LP HOME COMFORT & music by This Heat
 Program 29 Pioneers of Canterbury School Rock Music by early Caravan & Soft Machine
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The Move LIVE At The Fillmore West 1969 (Dbl CD)
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The Move was perhaps the greatest UK band who never got their big break in the USA. If you listen to their music now however, all beautifully re-mastered and reissued, you can hear the genius and feel the power that came into play at their most creative moments.  In October 1969 they did their only tour of the US. The band rented a car and U-Haul trailer then took off on a 3-week road trip across the US on Route 66 to play several dates, including the Whisky in LA and Fillmore West is SF. Today, through some act of divine providence  a brand new Move DBL CD of the last concert on that tour, LIVE AT THE FILLMORE WEST 1969, has been released in the UK. Recorded direct from the monitor desk, Carl Wayne kept the original tapes in his personal archives in hopes they would someday see a release. Now, more than 40 years later, listening to the tapes cleaned up using the latest technology, you can flashback and relive the music of The Move, circa 1969, Raw & Alive!
 

Art Zoyd Eurock LIVE Podcast #22
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To usher in 2012 we bring you the 22^nd Eurock LIVE Podcast, a very special multi-media program for you this time featuring music and video by Art Zoyd from France. Art Zoyd formed in the mid 1970’s. Their style ushered in a new form of French fusion, which combined influences of Magma, mixed with Zappa. They sonically alchemized diverse elements into a stark, skeletal and frenetic structure to create a new hybrid of freewheeling “gypsy jazz” and neo-chamber music.
They were one of the 8 original bands in the “Rock in Opposition” music collective. The RIO philosophy was that rock was a form of art and culture, opposed to business as usual on all levels. Their ethos, “making music record companies didn’t want to hear". Later, the band began to evolve musically even more with the addition of Patricia Dallio on keyboards. The music became more structured and composed. They wrote scores for dance performances as well as multi-media installations. The bands focus has turned to making music that engages the intellect. Today Art Zoyd continues as a collective of diverse artists and musicians who continue doing numerous visual and stage presentations, as well as recording projects. Download this Podcast & Enjoy!
 

Iggy &The Stooges RAW POWER Live 2010
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May 15, 1970 I drove up to SF with a friend to see Iggy and The Stooges for the first time. Their performance of FUN HOUSE & THE STOOGES albums was primal performance art, jacked up to the max, full of latent menace and a touch of insanity. In 1973, I saw them perform RAW POWER in LA, It was like a high fashion freak show happening, with The Whisky teetering on the brink of chaos. Iggy, the band, and the audience, caught up in the heat of the moment. Now in 2010 the band is back  performing that seminal album again. The band is hyper-charged and Iggy still throwing himself with total abandon completely into each performance. Read the story of their long strange "death trip" as witnessed by yours truly back then and now on their band new DVD.
 

MIT Museum Electronica Synthetic Homage to CON
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A long time Eurock friend and supporter Joe Paradiso, professor at MIT and Director of the Media Lab's Responsive Environments Group, emailed me from ARS ELECTRONICA in Austria about his latest project. He constructed himself a big modular synth rig between 25 & 35 years ago - which is probably the world's largest homemade synth. It will be going into the MIT Museum in a month or two as a living exhibition and he will be changing the patch every month or so, hence it will generate a different sonic environment periodically, and will be continually streaming live audio online. As he described it: "I've got my rig streaming sound into a  virtual world populated with sensor data that we're running here in Austria now, it's linked back at MIT to my lab running an autonomous patch. Even though it is an old modular system, the rig is big enough that it generates enough sound to hold your interest for a while. I was thinking of Con while I was patching, as you might be able to detect. Check out what it is streaming now; the stream is linked at the bottom of the page." Also check out the "Virtual World".

Plastic People of the Universe
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When modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the state always change with them. Plato
The Plastic People of the Universe were a band who made music as an act of creation for a less material second culture, not centered on marketing and selling. In the process, the Czech government banned them and various members were thrown in jail. The government informed them they had to obtain a license to perform or quit playing. They then went underground and played secretly...

The Mythos of Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser
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"In 1970, there was no German record companies interested in German music. We showed the German people that they can trust their own music." R-U Kaiser - Then came the Euro rock revolution in Germany kicked off by Kaiser and his OHR Record label. Rumors and mysteries abound about what happened to him and his fashion designer partner Gille "Sternenmadchen" Lettmann. This new article attempts to shed light on what happened to them. Watch the above video from a German TV debate about the German music industry. Kaiser debates Nikel Pallat manager of Berlin agit-rock band TSS, and the plug gets pulled...

The Godfather of Deutsch Rock Interview
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Before there was Krautrock, there was "Schlager". Then along came the Beat Club" and the foundation was laid for a change in the mode of the music which would shake the walls of Berlin and ultimately all of Germany. Gerhard Augustin was one of the prime instigators of the new German scene. This in depth Interview with him makes for a fascinating read.

Giorgio Gomelsky Video Interview
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Giorgio Gomelsky is one of the true pioneers of  experimental rock music. In these excerpts from Joly MacFie's Punkcast he talks about his original Crawdaddy Club which was the first venue the Rolling Stones played. In addition to that he also produced the first recordings of the Yardbirds, Gong and Vangelis. He left the UK and went to France to produce Magma and they went on to create la scène souterrain musicale Français. Today Giorgio lives in NYC and still keeps attuned to exciting new musical and technological innovations.
 

Popol Vuh (Redux)
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Frank Fiedler was Florian Fricke's partner in Popol Vuh. Since December 29, 2001 when Florian Fricke died, Frank has continued making his own music, releasing a CD entitled INSTANT ENLIGHTENMENT. He and is also a filmmaker. Linked to above is a piece by Frank entitled "Supernatural" that he's done which recaptures some of the magic and the essence of PV. He's also just made a striking 2-part filmography about America that features some great music as well. Watch & Enjoy!
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