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The ambient sound was recorded from 4:32:10 am one May morning and slightly edited from about
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Introducing my 2nd strange "LP!" I tried to fall in love this year. Who knows? It turns out to that
the Sharmila involved is a madwoman with a strange cruel-streak and an elaborate ruse. She makes a better "LP"
than a girlfriend, and this is not exactly the greatest LP. During the months she tortured me,
I vaguely "wrote" and recorded this odd tune. This is not dedicated to her. It is a tribute to the beauty
and power of creativity as an appropriate response to chaos and drama.
Some might say that my "LP's" are "A load of Pollocks." They are a bit. A bit like fag butts stuck in paint,
I suppose; in a collage-y way. the content here is essentially edited from two "Jam sessions:" The first, acoustic recorded during
my first night shift at Taylor Manor in March (with a grand total of one tenant to guard in the brand-new
housing program. The 2nd was electric recorded with my Epiphone in August, I think, whilst reeling from
the madness of the relationship. Both were edited in my linear fashion. i.e. just but cutting out bits
and hoping that what's left sticks together ok.
This woman was into Kundalini yoga, which does not impress me (although it is more female-empowering, which is great.)
But the recordings were edited into pieces of 3, 7 and 15 minutes, which are Kundalini numbers. On Side A, these are
merged with ambient sound into a 22-minute opus. 22 is also a Kundalini number (and more importantly, is the standard
length of Side A of a KIRPALANI-GRIFFIN LP. I don't value the Kundalini numbers personally,
but I value parameters like these with my creative endeavours, otherwise I might never finish them. It keeps me focussed,
although that may not immediately be obvious. :-)>
The ambient sound was recorded from 4:32:10 am one May morning and slightly edited from about
23 minutes to fit the standard 22 minute Side-A format and create the "Ambient Mega-mix," which
features bird song and the ambient sound of my neighbourhood one morning from 4-6am, which happens to also be
considered an important time in Kundalini (being susceptable to brainwashing at that time. Side B is the
"Naked Guitars" and runs at the traditional "21:00."
It's not an LP like most "LP's." It's a KIRPALANI-GRIFFIN LP. I hope you enjoy it.
I enjoyed playing it very loudly and getting into every detail. It might be best for you to kick back,
relax, expect nothing, drift a little... It sounds like hanging out at my house early in the morning. Listen:
Introducing the long-intended remastered edition of my creation from 2012, which was a dedication to my dear
friend and love, Diana Hoyle, who passed away in August of that year, the month from which the material
on the LP was recorded. The remastering has been done over 6 days of spending my spare time
listening and editing. The only additional material versus the New Year's Edition (2013-01-01)
is additional layers of the samematerial to boost the volumes and enhance the balance.
Turning the volume up to 11, as it were, or perhaps about a 7 in this case?
Play the mp3's below, relax and take the trip...
This one is an exception in being here, but it's for an old friend, John McAra, who could use a moment to relive his youthful joy!
It's apparently something that he and our mutual friend, Sean Waddell, liked - long, long ago...! :-)>
It's old-school thrash metal - 1984, I believe! - Vancouver style. Not original, but well played.
Copies are apparently hard to find outside of Eastern Europe, and the recording was further cursed by a $50 purchase price,
one smashed lp, dodgy recording equipment for the 2nd lp and finally a cassette copy, only then to have my cd burner fail.
But eventually, here it is:
I made this one from vinyl to CD for a dear old colleague, Geoff Thompson.
It speaks to one of the key origins of much of the punk and new wave music I liked in my youth,
though I did not know it at the time. Groovy. Please enjoy:
This one was for an old friend and colleague, Carl Howard. I wanted to get to 2 LPs onto a single disc (to avoid waste!)
and consequently spent many hours editing the digital recording to ultimately allow 2 seconds to spare, which it why I'm posting it here.
One intro and a bunch of banter between songs is missing, and it all flows very nicely like this. This band seriously knows how to rock and roll!
Enjoy! Then buy the original to show your appreciation! :-)>
You know who in their magnificence, recording live to acetate. Such is the greatness of The Melvins.
I recorded this for all of humanity, as one would copy a bible, for instance, or recite a Koran even.
Behold!:
This is ambient sound recorded from my back door (I think) on September 9th, 2013. Yes, it was during a thunder storm.
Due to the relatively high level of intensity of listening to 2 hours of a thunder storm, there's also a "7-inch single"
version that runs for 4 mins, 44.444 seconds. The single is extracted from the first 5 minutes of recording, from about 17:55 that day,
and the rest is uninterrupted from about 18:00 onward:
This is ambient sound recorded from the door of "the cabin" on Steve's property in the woods in Powell River.
I recommend that you skip the first hour ti you want to avoidsome dull chatter about toilet repairs and lighting
in the first 10 minutes, perhaps start at 1am ('til about 6am) for just ambient sounds - or 3am or 4am?
The night gets louder and more interesting as it goes. Ultimately nothing dramatic happens, though,
and this is be a great soundscape for a long relaxation or meditation, or just out of interest in nature sounds
of the (shallow) coastal rain forest sounds of British Columbia. Sheer bliss! :-)>
This is ambient sound recorded from my bedroom window early one morning in March, 2013. Edited on 2014-07-28 for presentation
here into a 3 hour and 21 minute extravaganza. It features my very own snoring for the obsessed! I anyone needs to know. Ahem. :-)>
Introducing the New Year's edition of my new LP! You know it must be even better than the
The August Kirpalani-Griffin 7 inch because it's over 4 times longer!
Like my "7" single", this isn't a collection of songs, like most LPs. It is a sound scape dedicated to my dearest friend, Diana Hoyle,
who passed away on her birthday this year, August 12th 2012. The content is edits of an ambient recording I made in August, by coincidence 1 week before
Diana's parting, and layered on top are a few edits from random recordings of guitar and bass playing also from early August.
None of it was intended as more than experiments in recording before having another go at properly recording and editing something into
something else. I had just learned that Diana was gravely ill and she was foremost in my thoughts, though I had no idea she'd leave us only a week later.
In her honour I decided to only use this material for the project, albeit scruffy, as it represents the sounds of my world during Diana's final days here.
It's an odd, melancholy, mostly mellow experience, so please relax and listen:
I "remastered" the LP in 2014. See above for more details. The content is the same, but the overall balance enhanced, so I recommend the new versions:
Personally, I think the ambient tracks alone are worth a listen:
ZZ Top are one of my favourite bands ever. Sadly, they don't get enough credit for continuing to
produce great tunes long after their 70's and 80's hey-day. These two volumes contain almost
all of their music released in the 1990's, but rearranged. I had to leave off about 3 tracks for lack of space,
but they were entertaining tunes, too!) It struck me that their later
albums took their highly processed sound into less accessible terrain for most people. But
by rearranging the material and softening the impact of each distinctive sound, here I clearly
demonstrate that this great band never recorded a bad song. This WILL be enjoyed
by ZZ Top fans new and old. Listen:
A compilation of classic metal ballads, all described to me as personal favourites of a client in social
services names Sonny. I like to make people feel special sometimes, and Sonny seemed to turn up at every
program I worked sooner or later. So I did something very special for him. I hate to say it, but there'd be
a good chance he is gone now. As a hard-core addict, he used to work in the sex trade in some of the worst
situations imaginable. His pain was very great, and this collection is sure to alleviate it at least in part.
Listen:
Simply some of the greatest music ever recorded. I had this on vinyl and really wanted to hear it in
my car. I have heard it in my car perhaps 100 times by now, and now you can hear it here (and wherever
you are.) Hear every great riff in rock and roll in the making of one truly exceptional musical mind. Listen:
A collection of gospel music (of the older, blues-based variety mostly) which I produced for a social services
client names Tim P. He was a musician and I was trying to inspire him. Feel free to be inspired instead! Listen:
You never thought it would happen!
In fact, you never thought about it at all.
But, by golly, it HAS happened! Yes, I have recorded, edited and made available for listening some of my own guitar playing. Subject yourself below
to about 23 minutes of the very roughly hewn sound.
I've played over and over and over again over the years, but never committed anything to "record." My playing is a bit odd, technique is dodgy,
I don't speak the language and I've never learned anyone else's songs. But, at last, I've spontaneously determined to produce something in short order.
So it's not my best. But even if it's only brilliant very occasionally, play it loud and it's better.
It's a straight recording, somewhat distorted via a simple ZOOM h4 hand-held digital recorder and my Canadian Seagull folk guitar played acoustically
half way across my kitchen between about 8:10-8:50 am, December 24th 2010. I spent most of the rest of that day deleting chunks that seemed redundant
and reducing the whole to the 23 minutes (which happens to be the length of a typical lp side, which happens to be a theme for World Heat radio here
for a later date) and cutting it into seven pieces. Listen to the whole piece
or track-by-track:
These were produced for my old colleague and friend, Carl Howard. I love Skynyrd and I have always loved
Skynyrd. In fact, Skynyrd was so good that they're still pretty good these days, even though
most of them are dead. Yes, this is one of the greatest classic rock bands ever, and here is
the first batch of vinyl recorded to CD. FYI Volume 3, One More For The Road,
was added to complete the set a couple of years later (see above.) Listen:
These are the product of an extensive labour of love for an old client in social services, now passed away,
named Terry Apps. He had a lot of 7" singles, mostly in rough shape, and asked me to check if they played
so he could sell them (presumably for drug money, as he was a struggling addict.) Well, they played (sometimes
roughly) and I digitally recorded them all and rearranged them into themes across 4 volumes. This is all
classic rock and pop and disco from the 1970' and 80's, and it stands the test of time very well
(even the test of spending decades rolling around in boxes.) As with all of my musical compliations,
I made an intensive creative effort to arrange all this material into coherent stories (-ish.) Listen:
I produced this for an old client in social services names Rois. It is simply a digital recording of both
of the Eagles best of LPs bar one sing from the 2nd one. The Eagles are definitely a great band. Listen:
A compilation of personal favourites from these Canadian heroes, the one band whose cassette (4 Wheel Drive) I did NOT record over with gems from the John Peel Show in my youth. From a 3xCD box set, I had to leave one off track to fit my faves on a singe disc, but only one. I originally made this for a tenant at an assisted housing program in Vancouver's "notorious DTES," who could only play cassettes. Listen to the tracks that made it here:
A compilation of historical moments from The First Lady Of Punk, featuring a bootleg of her first live appearance with electric guitar accompainement, her first 7"s single (Piss Factory) and her first LP ("Horses.") The LP, incidentally, was a gift to me as a teenager from my mum's first girlfriend, Sandra Brunger. The 7" I bought via eBay many years after the fact just for this project, though I knew Piss Factory from a punk rock compilation LP I had in my youth called "20 Of Another Kind." The live bootleg came many years later via eBay as well. It is NOT FOR THE FEINT OF HEART. Listen:
I made these for a client of the mental health/social services in Vancouver. I can't remember which one at this point. Since is it sitting around idle, I thought I'd share it for your entertainment. Listen here:
I went to a theatre performance of this with my old colleague and friend, Fred Levo, who also lent me
his cassette of the Tom Waits original music, which I recorded for posterity. Both are great. Listen:
The early Fleetwood Mac is one of my personal all-time favourites, once you take out a few of the
sillier pop songs, as I did here. I shared this with a few people at the time. I'd like
everyone to know about Peter Green and his mates and the great things they did, way back when. Please enjoy it here:
A compilation of classic train sounds for the classic train spotter, my favourite old boss, Al Mitchell. It's based on a digital recording of the LP and then a single disc was filled with various train sounds to create a long and intriguing audio journey for those who enjoy this sort of thing! It'll be surprisingly groovy, if you let it. Listen:
I made these for fun, of course, and interest and as an excuse to run through a load of scruffy 7"s I bought as a lot via eBay. Many of them were scruffy, but the compilation adds up as quite of lot of fun. Recommended for those in the mood for sunshine, "liming" on the beach and more! Listen here:
I am a major fan of Kyuss and John Garcia's voice, and the various offshots, such as Unida.
Also a vinyl collector, I could not resist this bootleg and recorded it to CD for my convenience,
and now for yours. Listen:
An absolutely classic compilation of stoner rock. I absolutely love this record (and the others) and needed easier access to it than via double vinyl, so I burned it to CD, and now you can enjoy it too. Do it, you luck devil!:
This is one of those most interesting and historical compilations of emerging music. An artifact of it's
time, purchased on reissued vinyl. I digitized it for easy access ad use on my radio shows, and burned
it to a single CD for convenient access. Chances are you were not in New York at the time, though you
will wish you were after you listen:
An alphabetized collection of 101 great English musicians and bands, which I put together as the sound
track for a great party. You also can use this material as a sound track for a great party! Can you
believe your incredible good fortune to find this here? Listen:
These three CDs were assembled to take with me on what would be a spectacular trip to Provence in 2006
with my dearly departed darling, Chantal Jolly. The music, though, was more for my dear old English friends
Ian Martin and Brian Williams. Oh what times we had. Given how marvellous that holiday was - I do believe
that humanity is evolved to live and love in such places as the edge of the Mediterranean - I doubt they
remember this musicl contribution. But now they can hear it all again, and so can you! Listen:
This one is a compliation of classic punk rock from two of the great bands of the time fronted by women.
I made the compliation for the amusement of my dear old colleague, Marcus Hueft. Now you can enjoy
it too, right here:
An interesting and collectible Vancouver punk rock rarity, which is defintiely worth the time. So far, I have not figured out the trask list. I recorded this for a colleague at the time, from her original vinyl copy, and I want you to enjoy it, too! Right here:
A very interesting, educational yet cheerful collection of music from Trinidadians in London, UK in the 1950's. Before I was born, but just ahead of when my father moved to London from Trindad. I bought this and recorded it for my dad and especially want to share it with my Trini-family. If I remember, I sent out a few copies, but no-one ever mentioned it again. So if you would be so kind as to listen instead:
Recorded from cassettes belonging to my old friend and colleague, Fred Levo, this is a fascinating and
historical collection of songs, stories and poems relating to the hard life of loggers in British Columbia
(then and now.) Intriguing and stimulating and a rare insight into a hard man's world! Listen:
A random purchase of a collection of contemporary funk music that had good reviews. I have a long-standing
wish to make funky collections of music and I felt sure this would offer some interesting material, so
I digitized it. I don't think you could regret hearing this collection of obscure funky artists at any
time of day or night. Listen:
I bought this double LP on vinyl just because Wino is a great master of doom and stoner rock and
because the album had great reviews. I love vinyl, but I also treat it as a collector and so sometimes
I simply record it to CD, as in this case. I am busy sharing as much material as I can
and striving to keep this page diverse and interesting. If yoo do not know Wino's endless capacity for
great riffs(or if you do) you can hear it right here:
There isn't much of a higher purpose here. This is a bootleg LP from the Japanese punk band The Ruins.
I wanted to use some of it for one of my shows and so digitall recorded the whole thing. Here it is for
tour pleasure. Japanese bands can be incredible (and not like the others.) Listen:
Material originally used for World Heat radio shows and then produced as two CDs as a gift
for my old colleague and friend, Fred Levo. I was branching into jazz on the show, or so I thought.
Fred said "It's good, but you don;t know much about jazz." He's an afficionado (and he still said it
was "good.") Listen:
An upbeat collection of electronica infused with Indian sounds. This one is more like contemporary bhangra
with soem heavy guitars here and there, and is not like ragas. It's definitely groovy stuff! Listen:
This is an extensive and diverse collection of heavy and raucous tunes, mostly metal, punk and garage rock.
These are the music only edits put onto 3 volumes, which I think I originally used across two World Heat
radio shows. For fans of more loud and aggressive music. Listen:
Here is one of my radio shows. Presenting a collection of cover versions with popular appeal used for World Heat.
Their way my way, as it were. Edited onto two CDs so I could get extra mileage out of it, and now here for the same
reasons. This one is fun, fun, fun for everyone! Have a listen (I would:)
I prepared this music for a World Heat broadcast on CiTR on Christmas Day 2005. I didn't speak much
to speak of as this was a full two hours of content. I was amused that I had precisely 2 phoe calls
that day: One stated "I am sick of this pro-Christan shit," and the other stated "I am sick of this
anti-Christian shit." This was interesting to me and gratifying in that I had set out to create
a balanced review. Half the material is actually edits from randomly recorded samples of Christian radio
at the time, and the other half is music from the Melvins that on some level relates to the commentary at hand.
Definitely one of my most creative efforts (albiet slightly rough around the edges.) The open-minded
Melvins fans amongst you simply must not miss these! Listen:
This compilation was used as my "standard issue" Christmas gift in 2005, and was orignally compiled for broadcasting as one of my
World Heat radio shows via CiTR 11.9fm, Vancouver.)
This was certainly one of my most challenging endeavours. I estimated spending about 100 hours to produce this. It is an attempt to edit and summarize
a CD recording of a speech given by the Dalai Lama in Vancouver in 2005. The focus here is on "The 4 Noble Truths," and each segment of speech
is followed by a related piece of Tibetan music. If you know anything about Tibetan music, you'll know that many people would find some of these
sounds fairly extreme (not "poppy" at all!) But if, like myself, you are willing to explore, and if you are interested in the adventures of
KIRPALANI-GRIFFIN, then you really must explore this as I believe it is one of my most accomplished creations:
This compilation is the musical content of one of my World Heat broadcasts. This is one of my more accessible compilations and features all Canadian rock bands of the day. I promise, this one is easy on the ear, and actually quite nice! Behold:
What can I say? I really love The Melvins' music. I have almost all of it in my collection, and many
pieces are on vinyl only, and I like them to be accessible, so I digitally recorded it. Now you too
can enjoy this convenience on me. Listen:
What can I say? I really love The Melvins' music. I have almost all of it in my collection, and many
pieces are on vinyl only, and I like them to be accessible, so I digitally recorded it. Now you too
can enjoy this convenience on me. Listen:
What can I say? I really love The Melvins' music. I have almost all of it in my collection, and many
pieces are on vinyl only, and I like them to be accessible, so I digitally recorded it. Now you too
can enjoy this convenience on me. Listen:
What can I say? I really love The Melvins' music. I have almost all of it in my collection, and many
pieces are on vinyl only, and I like them to be accessible, so I digitally recorded it. Now you too
can enjoy this convenience on me. Listen:
This one is very, very special, and really MUST be heard by anyone and everyone who takes rock music seriously.
As absolutely one of my most intensive efforts of all, to produce this I had to record the last 3 repeat broadcasts of John Peel'salvation
last 3 shows for the BBC World Service (in late 2004,) which were a tribute after the greatest DJ of all time tragically passed away far too young.
I then set about purchasing copies off all the content (I could not find 3 pieces of c. 25,) record each peice and then edit into the orignal
copy of the broadcast (the original was at 56kbs and very poor quality!) All of this was then broken down into tracks and condensed to a single CD,
which at the time was given away to anyone who cared! Now, here, it is available to anyone and everyone via KIRPALANI-GRIFFIN. Do not delay:
I made this as a Christmas gift for the mother, Elin Jolly, of my dearly beloved, now departed, Chantal Jolly.
The mum liked it. She stopped talking to me later. But Yma Sumac is incredible, and this collection recorded
from a 10", CD and mp3's is still very much worth a listen:
A fun and diverse collection of great blues tunes for one of my shows, edited to a CD to be enjoyed by any
and all listeners. Try it and see:
This one was made largely because I thought it might provide some amusing sound bytes for general use with my World Heat radio show at the time.
Because I am always compelled to provide myself some parameters for my creative projects, I decided to reduce the sountrack to a round 1 hour.
It is a hokey soundtrack indeed, but has it's moments, somewhat like listening to an old radio play. If you know the movie, you will know
you're not missing much in terms of visual effects, so please listen up:
A fun and diverse collection of great tunes for one of my shows, edited to a CD to be enjoyed by any
and all listeners. Try it and see:
I was attempting for a while to see if I could reassemble some classic LPs from mp3s rather than actually
buy them. I did have a radio show and used all the material for broadcasting and promotion of the bands,
so I didn't feel guilty about it. I made these two anyway, which feature three great records, and mostly
I stuck to digitally recording vinyl and cassettes after this. Included here for your pleasure and to
get better value for my time invested. Listen:
Oh, this year I was quite into just digitally recording stuff because it was getting so much easier in
general. Well, as a great fan of the Melvins I wanted to record my copy of the "Your Choice Live" series
LP, and because I dislike waste, I filled up the disc with some interesting mp3s I snagged at the time
via LimeWire, not least a cover of Ted Nugent's Stranglehold and featuring a drummer from the audience.
Listen:
This is one of the great books in history (I think) and I also like audio in general (see this page!) and I thought it could provide some engaging and insightful sound bytes for general use with my World Heat radio show. But let's face it, you need to know this. Listen right here:
I love the Cure and always did. This was a great collection of singles and B-Sides that was
only available on cassette (to me anyway) and I did not want to risk losing it, so I digitized it.
Now, you can enjoy it here amongst so many other great sounds. Listen:
A collection of diverse and somewhat melancholy sounds from around the world. Some of my personal favourites
are amongst this glorious set. Listen:
Two different mixes of material I used for a World Heat radio show. One is heavier than the other, so
choose your mood and go! This one includes a little bit of local talent - the drummer in two of the bands
is named Bina (I think it was) and was at college with me. I didn't like her so much as her contribution
to music. There is also much more quirky, hard-rocking music besides. Listen:
One of my all-time classics, this is an edit of a World Heat show that was remixed and re-broadcast and taped
and then edited into this beautiful Christmas gift for my friends. I handed out at least 100 copies of this,
and now - drum roll... - it is on the 'Net for everyone to enjoy. "Happy Valley" is what I call the
wonderful view from my deck. My old friend Evan Symons told me that after 15 listens in his car he was
still discovering pleasures in this mix. I took that as a great compiment. Listen:
A mind-boggling collection of lengthy pieces of music - i.e. "suites" from any and all origins
in Human time and space. Accessible and beautiful to all those with patience for songs that are morethan 3 minutes
long. Definitely NOT to be missed! Listen:
Dedicated to my dear friend, and oldest Canadian friend, Sean Waddell. This is all interesting or fun
(or both) cover versions that I expected him to enjoy. It's great fun! Listen:
This is the music only from volume 3 of a series of shows in honour of my dear friend, Sean Waddell. The material
was used for one of my World Heat radio shows to celebrate Sean's birthday on July 4th. This one is a compliation of
Sean's favourite heavy metal guitar solos (as he told me drunkenly sometime previously.)
I went to great lengths to collect these onto a CD so that each track was split into two and can be played
either from the beginning, or from the beginning of the solo.
I am afraid you don't get to enjoy that feature, but you can hear the whole thing right here, right now:
A charming collection of music from artists due to appear at the Vancouver Folk Festival this year, plus
some intriguin bits of radio news edited to suit. A glimpse into history as it was unfolding in
the typically diverse style of World Heat radio shows. Listen:
Tunes with all my love for my dearest mother.
A very diverse and generally accessible collection derived from the Guardian newspaper's list of
the Top 40 UK bands at the time. I wanted to make sure that our Great Nation was secure,
musically speaking. It very much was so (in 2004.) Listen:
A radio show on CiTR that became a CD with a cover themed to my school days. The material is all classic punk originally caught on tape from old John Peel radio shows during my teenage years, and from tape to tape to CD to mp3, and now it's here for you! For better or worse - I think better - these sounds are some of those most deeply and eternally embedded in my mind. Check the gallery for the front cover and listen to the whole thing here:
This one is a tribute to the world's greatest rock band, the Melvins. I'm not prone to worshipping a band, but I've all but worshipped the Melvins since their Houdini album. I have everything and like it all and have faith in the artistic itegrity and musical genius of the band, both King Buzzo and Dale Crover, of course, and others. Sometimes it can take a lot of attention to recognize what is great about a piece of music. I prepared this for a show on CiTR during my then on-going annual tribute, "The March Of The Melvins" and it's a loving tribute and odd merger of two very lengthy Melvins tracks into 4 pieces totalling 60:00 minutes, below:
A collection of Indian themed music more on the mellow side. I used to cover and Indian show on CiTR
on Sunday evenings and only had so mch of my own material to choose from. I went digging for more... Listen:
A collection of somewhat melancholy pop and rock music that should appeal to very many. Listen:
The 2nd Christmas compilation cd. An edit of one of my shows and a far reaching, strange and wonderul collection of all African and mostly hard-core field recordings. It's presented here in 4 pieces:
A radio show on CiTR that became a favourite due to it's all-time classic rock and punk content and hopefully noble cause of promoting the well-being of children as well as questioning the well-being of Gordon Campbell, BC Premier at the time (and for a long time 'til this year.) If that isn;t good enough, it was also only a week 'til Christmas! Listen to the pieces:
In Canada, we have broadcasting rules that require a minimum amount of Canadian content,
and we have David Francey, who I thought was great and likely to appear often, so I captured these tunes
from his first 3 CDs. Listen:
I really fell in love with David Francey's music and compiled 3 of his CDs onto 2 so I could make regular use of them on my show. To be
perfectly honest, they remind me sadly of my ex partner of the time, the brilliant and beautiful Chantal Jolly,
who passed away from breast cancer about 5 years after this. If you are curtious about great Canadian talent, this fellow is
an outstanding folk singer, as you can hear right here:
Listen here:
A World Heat radio show on CiTR featuring 60's garage rock and dedicated to my dear friend Ian Martin. Listen:
A collection of music from the very diverse artists at the Vancouver Folk Festival this year. I used to
get free tickets, and I always thought it was a lovely, peaceful place to be, so I liked to promote it. Listen:
On Canadian radio, I had to include a minimum amount of Canadian content, which I typically did in batches,
such as this one. Volume 1 features and "up" theme, and Volume 2 a "down" theme. This is an edit of the
original show burned to CD and now to the server of kirpalani-griffin.org. Listen:
A very extensive compliation of pleasant and goorvy tunes, designed for all the people at a party of a
former colleague, Christen Munro. She paid me to do this, you can have this great soundtrack at
your party for free! Listen:
The 1st collection that ever made it cd. There's a bit of a strange story attached to how it came to made, but skirting over
that, I'll tell you there's a fantasically diverse collection of music here, carefully trimmed to fit a CD from a tape of the original
90 minute radio show on CiTR. The cover for this one was a personal response to "September 11th" and is at least world famous.
So I'll say no more about it here.
I've added the whole version (2014-07-19) for the convenience of my soon to be ex-colleague, Ellen. The poor thing was in the vicinity
when my stream of consciousness revisited. Probably there's just time for her to escape! Good luck, Ellen!
A radio show on CiTR that became my Christmas gift. There's probably something Christmas-related in there because it s "always Christmas on World Heat." This one is full of strange and humourus vocals from near and far and a few sound bytes and me. Check the gallery for the front cover and listen to the pieces here:
This is for my dearest and oldest Canadian friend, Sean Waddell. He and his brother, Mike, and mates of the time used to jam in this band. To the best of my knowledge, this is the only document of the experience, which is mostly improvised and chaotic. Of particular interest as a Canadian rarity, and especially for the 4 men involved (or the 3 who remain at time of writing:)
A radio show on CiTR 101.9fm that became my Christmas gift that for 1999. I was covering a folk show and this one is not folky, but I was going for broader appeal! Listen to the pieces:
A Christmas compilation cassette and alternative, jazzy and humorous soundtrack for the classic film Casablanca. This was put together laboriously via a mixing board channelling tapes, cds and vinyl lps in my front room. Probably at least a week's work went into it. I've always thought there are moment of genius and been grateful to my dear friend Lawrence for encouraging me at the time! This one was dedicated to my dear friend Brian Williams. Listen:
This year's Christmas mix-tape is a great one, loaded with rocking rock and rocking electronica too!
Another ambitious one with track titles and lyrics spelling out some curious ideas...
The first of my compilations to feature the Melvins - and they are the stars - and to my delight,
I gave a copy of this one to the great Dale Crover (of The Melvins, silly!) in person after a Vancouver show,
and he told me he'd play it in his car on the drive home! He never did let me know... :-)>
This year's Christmas mix-tape is a mellow one, and the first to reflect some of my then new excursions into ethnic and meditative music. Lovely relaxation...
A Christmas gift for many friends, a classic mix tape with a theme of classic rock and blues with a theme of attempting to celebrate my miserable dad (and try to invigorate him somewhat.) I don't suppose he ever lisened to it. Nor that he will now. But if you do, you're sure to be glad!
A Christmas gift for many friends, a classic mix tape with a theme of global salvation expressed through a poetic arrangement of sog titles. Becoming ever more ambitious with my creations each year... and a great listen for rock and blues.
A Christmas gift for many friends, a classic mixture of classic blues and the start of the escalation of an already old habit into a "tradition" of giving "mix tapes" to friends, colleagues and aquaintances at Christmas, eventually into a radio show,and ultimately into this very website!
I made a copy of this recording back in October 1991 and used it for relaxation to help me sleep at night for years.
After suffering with insomnia for the last 5 years, it finally occured to me to record this to CD, and even better,
it is now available on my website! These are peaceful and natural ocean sounds, one side with an occasional haunting wail
from a warning horn in Point Pinos in California, and side B featuring whalse song. Relax and enjoy! :-)>
Where it all began. After my old school friend had made me aware of the John Peel show, I began to collect
whatever favourites I could capture on cassettes, all of which I think originally had other music on them.
Well, many years later, these were compiled onto blank cassettess, and many years after that, they were compiled onto
6 CDs. Listen here to the music that helped form KIRPALANI-GRIFFIN as you know him (i.e. me) today:
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