Ah, going on vacation to Europe for three weeks! I was in an awfully good mood today. :)

My new anthem is Allette Brooks' "Silicon Valley Rebel," below. The chorus goes, "Please don't leave us alone in this silicon hell." Actually the song's not bitter at all, it's "anti-folk" and quite uplifting ... Brooks' CD is available by e-mail.

Format (stolen from Cat):
ARTIST -- "SONG TITLE" -- ALBUM (LABEL, YEAR)

The Lounge Lizards - "Queen of All Ears" - Queen of All Ears (Strange and Beautiful, 1998)

* Tin Hat Trio - "Big Top" - Memory Is an Elephant (Angel, 1999)

Drew Gress - "Dolomite" - Heyday (Soul Note, 1998)

*! Mojo Nixon - "Disney Is the Enemy" - Sock Ray Blue (Shanachie, 1999)

* Andrea Parkins - "Capture" - Slippage (Knitting Factory, 1998)

* Gary Thomas - "Is Everything Relative?" - Pariah's Pariah (Winter & Winter, 1998)

Joe Henderson - "Jinriksha" - Page One (Blue Note, 196?)

* Joachim Gies - "Admission for the Unauthorized" - Different Distances (Leo, 1999)

* Julius Hemphill - "OK Rubberband" - Blue Boye (Screwgun, 1999; orig. rel. 1977)

* Hashisheen, with Percy Howard reciting - "The End of Law" - Hashisheen (Sub Rosa, 1998)

* Denman Maroney - "Artemisia" (excerpt) - Hyperpiano (Mon$ey Music, 1998)

* Judy Dunaway - "Blown Uncut" (excerpt) - Balloon Music (CRI, 1998)

Moe! Staiano - "Do You Deserve This Much Pleasure" - The Non-Study of First Impressions (Dephine Knormal, 1998)

* Jim Baker/Michael Zerang - "Clog Dancers of the Cook County Fjords" - The Earth Sessions (Boxmedia, 1998)

Joe Morris - "Found on the Ground" - No Vertigo (Leo, 1995)

Tim Berne's Bloodcount - "The Opener" (excerpt) - Discretion (Screwgun, 1997)

* Stefano Maltese - "Dentro Il Vetro" - Living Alive (Leo, 1999)

* Ivo Perelman - "The Boat" - Brazilian Watercolours (Leo, 1999)

* Susie Ibarra and Assif Tassar - "Arrival/Salutations" - Home Cookin' (Hopscotch, 1999)

* Derek Bailey/John Stevens/Trevor Watts - "Impromptu Dynamics 5" - Dynamics of the Impromptu (Entropy Stereo, 1998)

* Orange Then Blue - "Bloodcount" (excerpt) - Hold the Elevator (GM, 4998)

Henry Threadgill - "Little Pocket Sized Demons" - Too Much Sugar for a Dime (Axiom, 1992)

*! Allette Brooks - "Silicon Valley Rebel" - Silicon Valley Rebel (self-released, 1998)

* Gopalnath, Newton and Srinivasan - "Ragam Ganamurte" - Southern Brothers (Water Lily, 1999)

* The Fully Celebrated Orchestra - "Hall of Mirrors" - Right On (Bolide, 1998)

* = Item in KZSU rotation
! = Pop anomaly

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