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Top Releases week ending 1.23.2006

Weekly Report from Boulder

One of my favorite parts of this job is interviewing interesting people or people whose work I particularly admire. Last week was a good one for that.

We started out on Monday evening having Diane French and her band on our Kabaret show. Sheís very talented with a unique voice and great style. Sheís a touch dark, which I like. She came across as someone I wouldnít necessarily expect to be local, perhaps an influence found from her days touring with Jim White. Sheís releasing her new CD next week and has information at DianeFrench.net. After the show I continued to hear comments for a few days, always a nice sign.

Friday night saw Dave Wakeling playing the music of the English Beat at the Bluebird Theater. I had the opportunity to interview him on Wednesday, a fun opportunity for an old ska fan like me. We rounded up our old dancing group that used to see our local group, the Skatterbrains. What a treat to get out dancing again.

For Colorado sports fans it was a heck of a weekend. We saw record snowfall last week prompting all my friends that skied on Friday to make me utterly jealous with emails and calls raving about the best conditions in years. Saturday saw the first face-off of the season of the Red Wings v. Avalanche. The Avs were too flat footed, not controlling the puck like Detroit and not taking enough opportunity of the power plays. David Aebischer had some spectacular saves but could not stay ahead of Detroitís presence at the net and onslaught of shots. I canít give you anything like that kind of review of the football game. I can only thank the Broncos for playing a day game that many people found more important than spending the day on the ski slopes. It gave me the opportunity to have one of my best ski days in an age. I flailed my first time down Derailer at Mary Jane, but as the day went on I found myself having more rhythm through the bumps. With no lift lines to speak of, we got in a lot of vertical in a relatively short time.

Elaine C. Erb. KGNU Music Director. <º))))><
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KGNU Top 30, Week Ending 1.23.06
1. Either/Orchestra Live In Addis Buda Musique
2. Wilco Kicking Television Nonesuch Records
3. Various Artists Da-Nang: Surplus Indo-Chine Quango
4. Beck Guerolito Interscope
5. Emmanuel Jal & Abdel Gadir Salim Ceasefire Riverboat Records
6. Various Artists Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked Impulse!
7. Bettye Lavette I've Got My Own Hell To Raise Anti/Epitaph
8. Patti Smith Horses/Horses Legacy
9. Michael Stanwood Portal Self Produced
10. Adam Beyer Fabric 22 Fabric London
11. Bob Dylan No Direction Home: Bootleg Volume 7 Columbia Records
12. Afro Celt Sound System Anatomic Realworld Records
13. Various Artists Another World Is Possible Koch
14. Scavenger Quartet We Who Live On Land Acidsoxx
15. Various Artists Le Pop 3: Les Chansons De La Nouvelle Scene France Le Pop Musik
16. Skeleton Crew CD RER
17. Various Artists Progressions: 100 Years Of Jazz Guitar Legacy
18. Various Artists Bar Brasilia Globesonic
19. Various Artists Sound Of The World Wrasse
20. Various Artists Asian Lounge Putumayo
21. 10 Foot Ganja Plant Bass Chalice Roir Records
22. Texas Tornadoes Live From Austin, Tx New West
23. Tarentella Esqueletos Alternative Tentacles
24. Les Yeux Noir Tchorba World Village
25. Vinicius Cantuaria Silva Hannibal/Rykodisc
26. Kate Bush Aerial Columbia Records
27. Nina Simone The Soul Of Nina Simone Legacy
28. The Tiptons Drive Zipa Music
29. Porest Mood Noose Self Produced
30. BR549 Dog Days Dualtone
Adds: Matthew Shipp One Thirsty Ear
Adds: The Subdudes Behind The Levee Back Porch
Adds: Michelle Shocked Mexican Standoff Mighty Sound
Adds: Sixteen Horsepower Hoarse Alternative Tentacles
Adds: Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey The Sameness Of Difference Hyena
New World Charts For Week Ending 1.23.2006
1. Various Artists Da-Nang: Surplus Indo-Chine Quango
2. Emmanuel Jal & Abdel Gadir Salim Ceasefire Riverboat Records
3. Afro Celt Sound System Anatomic Realworld Records
4. Various Artists Another World Is Possible Koch
5. Various Artists Sound Of The World Wrasse
6. Various Artists Asian Lounge Putumayo
7. 10 Foot Ganja Plant Bass Chalice Roir Records
8. Les Yeux Noir Tchorba World Village
9. Vinicius Cantuaria Silva Hannibal/Rykodisc
10. Conjunto Colores Conjunto Colores Con Colores Se Goza Self Produced Sic
Jazz Charts For Week Ending 1.23.2006
1. Either/Orchestra Live In Addis Buda Musique
2. Various Artists Progressions: 100 Years Of Jazz Guitar Legacy
3. Nina Simone The Soul Of Nina Simone Legacy
4. The Tiptons Drive Zipa Music
5. Jenny Scheinman 12 Songs Cryptogramophone
6. Flora Purim Flora's Song Narada Jazz
7. Roswell Rudd & The Mongolian Buryat Band Blue Mongol Sunnyside
8. Thelonious Monk W/ John Coltrane At Carnegie Hall Blue Note Records
9. Ndio Airback Cuneiform Records
10. Scott Anderson - Nia Quintet End Of Time Blujazz
Beatbox Charts For Week Ending 1.23.06 (Based On Eclipse Show Reporting)
1 Canbius It's No Other Than Babygrande Records
2 Fatlip First Heat Delicious Vinyl
3 Seel Fresh Feat Thirstin Howl III And Rack-Lo Gifted Rapstar
4 Third Kind Everybody Knows Sweatbox Recordings
5 Cesar Comanche Miss You Remix Abb Records
6 Mathematics Real Nillaz Nature Sounds
7 Milano Hope You're Listening Beatdown Recordings
8 Smif - N - Wessun F/ Heltah Skeltah Timbz Do Work Duck Down
9 Supastition Hate My Face Soulspazm
10 Big Tone Come My Way Abb Records
Rpm Charts For Week Ending 1.23.06
1. Various Artists Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked Impulse!
2. Michael Stanwood Portal Self Produced
3. Adam Beyer Fabric 22 Fabric London
4. Scavenger Quartet We Who Live On Land Acidsoxx
5. Skeleton Crew CD RER
6. Various Artists Bar Brasilia Globesonic
7. Porest Mood Noose Self Produced
8. Various Artists Subharmonic In Dub Collision
9. Daedalus Exquisite Corpse Mush Records
10. Alarm Will Sound Acoustica Cantaloupe Music
Americana Charts For Week Ending 1.23.06
1. Texas Tornadoes Live From Austin, Tx New West
2. Angela Strehli Blue Highway Mc Records
3. Jackson Browne Solo Acoustic Vol. 1 Inside Recordings
4. Merle Haggard Chicago Wind Emi
5. Papa Joe Grappa Goo White To Sing The Blues Self Produced
6. Various Artists Our New Orleans Nonesuch Records
7. Various Artists A Celebration Of New Orleans Music Rounder
8. Johnny Adams The Great Johnny Adams Blues Album Rounder
9. Lost Bayou Ramblers Bayou Perdu Swallow Records
10. Dan Treanor & African Wind Mercy Self Produced
— - Alternative Charts For Week Ending 1.23.06
1. Nortec Collective The Tijuana Sessions Vol. 3 Nacional Records
2. Vinicius Cantuaria Silva Hannibal/Rykodisc
3. Seu Jorge Cru Wrasse
4. Flora Purim Flora's Song Narada Jazz
5. Curumin Achados E Perdidos Quannum Projects
6. Conjunto Colores Conjunto Colores Con Colores Se Goza Self Produced
7. Las Malas Amistades Jardin Interior Self Produced
8. Chicos Del Ritmo Cd Self Produced
9. Various Artists The Rough Guide To Latin Music For Children World Music Network
10. Karamelo Santo Hacienda Bulla Delanuca
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