Jazz, Modern, World and Beyond…

The first wave of U.S. party primaries are over and incumbent candidates, Obamacrat and Republican alike, suffered the backlash of the American public. The media diluted the “Super Tuesday” brand to create buzz, but the hype was not needed to draw the attention of an irate and frustrated citizenry. “Uncle Sam”, the greatest superhero of all, prevailed yesterday.

I credit Peter Senge of MIT’s Sloan School of Management with coining the often appropriated maxim, “The harder you push, the harder the system pushes back.” The pendulum of American politics has certainly swung wildly in the past several years.

This edition of Deep Threes offers up a menagerie of Sun Travellers, Bottle Rockets and Flowerheads suitable for your next Mad Tea Party (such as Disneyland’s in the pic). Get ready to stir up the Beehive and Burn The Cat. We even have a soprano who can go all medieval on a moment’s notice…

Thanks for listening!

Photo Credits:
Uncle Sam: Brett Ryan CC BY 2.0
Mad Tea Party: Mastery of Maps CC BY NC 2.0

Pulling up the obscurities is all in a day’s work at Deep Threes Radio. For Show #5, we rooted out a track from the 1992 album Ka-Bloom! from pseudo-psychedelic rockers Flowerhead. Here’s a video for the single “Snagglepuss” that might leaf you wondering what was growing in the video editor’s garden…

This next video brings the images evoked by “kAbloom” into the present with the latest editing tools and an ambient chill reverberating through the air.

Flowerhead withered in 1995, going on a hiatus they have yet to return from. Their music, however, blooms anew in the communal imagination of a new generation of fans. Vlogger Dednyz explains how she turned on and tuned in.

If there are any square parents left out there, stop worrying about your kids experimenting with iMovie, then getting hooked on mainlining Final Cut. Remember the alternative, Katy Kaboom…

Ever “wonder” what Ideal Bread looks like? The Brooklyn-based jazz group who carry that moniker is adept at dodging the lenses of our usual suspects, but we’ll hear one of their Steve Lacy covers on Deep Threes Radio #5.

So as not to deny you a serving of video, here’s a quick and easy substitute. Raw Toast! - the fresh new bread alternative.

But can the Soft Machine survive on raw toast alone? That is a question left unanswered in this clip from a circa 1970 documentary on the pioneering prog-rock band who took their name from William S. Burroughs’ code for the human body.

Recordings from a 1973 Soft Machine session at the NDR Jazz Workshop have just been released. Gear up to take some of it in on Deep Threes Radio #5. To hold you over, here’s a live rework of “Esther’s Nose Job” from 1970.

With many university campuses in a whirlwind with final exams and graduation ceremonies, it seemed like a good time for a roundup of videos that represent the finest from inquisitive minds the world over.

Venerable krautrock and ambient virtuoso Dieter Mobius has provided a wealth of musical inspiration to his many fans. We’ll hear a rack from his new solo effort, Blotch, on Deep Threes Radio #4.

First up, Dutch artist and video producer Marlene Angeja uses the Cluster song “Rosa” as the music bed for an exploration of “nostalgia for the lost landscape.” Marlene includes archival films of a 1957 volcanic eruption on Faial Island in the Azores. The physical and economic aftermath sparked a mass migration off the island.

Next, a group of students from Sweden’s University of Skövde gives us this animated video set to Dieter’s 1983 lo-fi classic “Contramio”. He was chiptune when chiptune wasn’t cool…

Now that you’ve seen those rockin’ animated Mobius strips, you’re just dying to learn how it’s done, right? Kitefrog is happy to oblige. In ten minutes of your life you will never able to get back, he offers his own paradigm busting techniques for rolling your own from the depths of his (a) lab.

The heck with it! Summer vacation is here and the Jersey Shore beckons many in search of a “situation”. The only Arts and Letters we give a damn about are “Letters To The Devil Inside”. Garden State metal rockers One Brick Down oblige. A track from Tribalcore Leader guides our descent into darkness during Deep Threes Radio #4…

Vibes player Bobby Hutcherson pops out of the time machine with a track from 1965′s Components for Deep Threes Radio #4. We’ll hear one of drummer Joe Chamber’s avant-garde compositions that still has a lot of bite. Hutcherson’s contributions stood in stark contrast, with a more identifiable hard-bop feel. Here’s a 1989 performance of one of those tracks, “Little B’s Poem”.

We’ll also hear from Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers from “Three Blind Mice, Vol. 1″. Art and his revolving lineup of Messengers could be smooth before it became a buzzword. From 1958, this is a long version of “Whisper Not”.

Danish vlogger “DanishVlog” (how do you think I figured it out?) has earned herself a small but steady following by whispering her way through 170 videos. The writers of the Shakespeare in Love screenplay observed that a bit with a dog is the key to commercial success. So this video got the nod over a hushed reading of “The Wind In The Willows” - but not by much.