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Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Top Play Charts, August 18-24, 201

August 27, 2019 by DJ Airon

Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Jazz, World, Experimental, Top 30 Play Charts, August 18-24, 2019

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JAZZ top ten

1. Jim Jarmusch/Lee Ranaldo/Marc Urcelli/Balazs Pandi – Self Titled (TROST)
2. Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones – From Untruth (NORTHERN SPY)
3. Human Feel – Gold (INTAKT)
4. Dave Rempis/Jim Baker/Joshua Abrams/Avreeayl Ra – Apsis (AEROPHONIC)
5. Aaron Novik – The Fallow Curves of the Planospheres (AVANT LAGUARDIA)

6. Ensemble 5 – The Collective Mind (LEO)
7. William Parker/In Order To Survive – Live/Shapeshifter (AUM FIDELITY)
8. Richard Valitutto/Dave Wilson – Slant (pfMENTUM)
9. Le String’Blo – March For Nature (VETO)
10. Otherworld Ensemble – Northern Fire (EDGETONE)

(compiled by Jazz director Jonathan Price)

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World Music top ten

Conjunto Miramar _ Cumbias Con El Miramar (VAMPISOUL)
Os Seis Em Ponto _ Os Seis Em Ponto (VAMPISOUL)
Miriam Makeba _ Pata Pata (STRUT)
Chelique Sarabia _ Revolución Electrónica en Música Venezolana (GUERSSEN)
Hope Masike _ Exorcism of a Spinster (WORLD MUSIC NETWORK)

V/A – Rough Guide to Mali Blues (WORLD MUSIC NETWORK)
Sister Mantos _ Songs in the Key of Destroy Capitalism (SELF-RELEASED)
Perú Negro _ Perú Negro (VAMPISOUL)
V/A – Jambú (É os Míticos Sons da Amazônia) (ANALOG AFRICA)
Isaac Birituro & The Rail Abandon _ Kalba (WAH WAH 45s)

(compiled by World Music director Marissa)

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Experimental Music top ten

1. Issac Schankler – Because Patterns (AEROCADE)
2. Jim Jarmusch, Lee Ranaldo, Marc Urselli & Balazs Pandi – s/t (TROST)
3. Elder Ones – From Untruth (NORTHERN SPY)
4. Lungbutter – Honey (CONSTELLATION)
5. Ilpo Väisänen -Tietoisen siirtymän oletettu toiseus (EROTOTOX)

6. Kim Gordon – No Home Record (MATADOR)
7. Fox Millions Duo – Biting Through (THRILL JOCKEY)
8. Sir Richard Bishop/W. David Oliphant – Carte Blanche (UNROCK)
9. V/A – Wound (CARBON)
10. Black to Comm – Before After (THRILL JOCKEY)

(compiled by Experimental Music director Dogeye)

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Top 30 Play Chart, week of August 18-24, 2019; WSFM-LP, 103.3 FM, Asheville FM, North Carolina

1.) 7) The Bird and the Bee _ Interpreting the Masters, Volume 2: (A Tribute to Van Halen) (No Expectations / Release Me)

2.) 5) Peter Laughner _ Peter Laughner box set (Smog Veil)
3.) Oh Sees _ Face Stabber (Castle Face)
4.) The Flaming Lips _ King’s Mouth: Music and Songs (Warner Bros)
5.) Femi _ From Indiana With Love (33 1/3 World)

6.) XX) 3) Isaac Schankler _ Because Patterns (Aerocade Music)
7.) Conjunto Miramar _ Cumbias Con el Miramar (Vampisoul)
8.) X) 11) 4) Jim Jarmusch, Lee Ranaldo, Marc Urselli & Balazs Pandi _ Lee Ranaldo, Jim Jarmusch, Marc Urselli, Balázs Pándi (Trost)
9.) Car Seat Headrest _ Commit Yourself Completely (Live) (Matador)
10.) Violent Femmes _ Hotel Last Resort (PIAS)

11.) Grateful Dead _ Aoxomoxoa (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (Grateful Dead / Rhino)
12.) Snail Mail _ Habit (Matador)
13.) Os Seis Em Ponto _ Os Seis Em Ponto (Vampisoul)
14.) 27) 17) 18) 12) Pip Blom _ Boat (PIAS America)
15.) 14) 12) 5) B Boys _ Dudu (Captured Tracks)

16.) 16) METZ _ Negative Space (Sub Pop)
17.) 12) 20) 22) 9) 5) Jeanines _ Jeanines (Slumberland)
18.) Miriam Makeba _ Pata Pata (STRUT)
19.) 20) slaughter beach, dog _ Safe and Also No Fear (Lame-O) … played August 20 @ The Mothlight w/Cave People
20.) The Aggrolites _ Reggae Now! (Pirates Press)

21.) 13) 16) 23) Cherubs _ Immaculada High (Relapse)
22.) 21) Particle Kid _ Window Rock (OAR)
23.) Chelique Sarabia _ Revolución Electrónica en Música Venezolana (GUERSSEN)
24.) Elder Ones/Amirtha Kadambi _ From Untruth (Northern Spy)
25.) 4) 10) X) 5) X) 22) 5) The Raconteurs _ Help Us Stranger (Third Man)

26.) Generationals _ Reader as Detective (Polyvinyl)
27.) Hollerado _ Retaliation Vacation (Royal Mountain)
28.) X) 28) 29) 26) X) 20) 13) 3) Palehound _ Black Friday (polyvinyl)
29.) Gary Clark Jr. _ This Land (Warner Records)
30.) Television Personalities _ Some Kind of Happening: Singles 1978 – 1989 (Fire)

weekly rank.) previous) rank) * X) = did not chart that week

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During the past months of summer 2019, Asheville FM has played music by local artists including Adi the Monk, Ahleuchatistas, Andrew J. Fletcher, Alex Travers, Angel Olsen, Axxa / Abraxas, Balloon Man, The Band Moves, Bask, Big Nasty Jazz Band, Black Sea Beat Society, Bless Your Heart, Buddy Davis, Carpal Tuller, C.Shreve the Professor, Chalwa, Clair Brockway, Clifton Hicks and Jake Book, Cloudgayzer, Crooked Ghost, Dixie Dave Allen, Firecracker Jazz Band, Floating Action, Forest Bailey, George Trouble, The Get Right Band, Heather Taylor, Holiday Childress, House and Land, Indigo De Souza, Jackson Harem, Jason Decristofaro, Jerry Jones, Jerry Read Smith and Tom Fellenbaum, Jody Carroll, Jordan Okrend, Julia Sanders, Kate Rhudy, Kare Strong & Josh Goforth, Kima Moore, Kimathi Moore, Kitty Tsunami, Konvoi, Larkin, Leeda Lyric Jones, Living Dog & Mike Johnson, Lush Agave, Lyric, Mad Tea Party, Man Man, Matt Heckler, Midnight Snack, Mike L!ve, MJ Lenderman, Mombi Yuleman, The Moon and You, Mountain Bitters, Nest Egg, Nomadic War Machine, Ouroboros Boys, Polly Panic, The Power, Prettyprettyr, P.T.P, Queen Bee and the Honeylovers, Rapsody, Reigning Sound, The Resonant Rogues, Reversals, Rich Nelson Band, River Whyless, Road Gang, Roaring Lions, Santos Soul, Sarah Louise, Secret Shame, Siyah, Slugly, Small Country, Space Heater, Spaceman Jones & The Motherships, Southern Pine, Sparrow and Her Wingmen, Styrofoam Turtles, Sun Sing Star, Tar and Rosin, Tashi Dorji & Tyler Damon, Tatsuya Nakatani & Shane Perlowin, T-Hood, Trees Eating Humans, Uncle Kurtis, Vaden Landers and The Do Rights, Young Pine, The Zealots
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(compiled by Associate Music Director DJ Airon)

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Asheville FM WSFM-LP
864 Haywood Rd.
Asheville, NC 28806

ashevillefm.org

Filed Under: Station News, Top Charts

Queer Art Exhibit – A Catalyst And Force For Change In The South

August 22, 2019 by KP Whaley

Southern Equality Studios (SES) is a special project of the Campaign for Southern Equality (CSE), an Asheville-based non-profit that promotes full LGBTQ equality across the South. The mission of SES is to explore how the arts can help achieve that equality. 

“Artists have always been a catalyst and force for change in all kinds of social movements across the South, across the county,” said Al Murray, the Director of Engagement and Organizational Development for CSE. “[But] it’s still true that LGBTQ artists in the South are largely invisible on a world stage.”

After several successful “pop-up residencies” last year, CSE decided to expand the project to a full summer residency for two artists while also engaging other queer artists from the area. The hope is that the project increases the visibility of LGBTQ artists in the South. “Even in organizing this we found that we didn’t know each other very well,” said Murray, who is also one of the artists in residence this year.

Murray and fellow artist-in-residence, Liz Williams, spent four months interviewing other artists and hosting a panel discussion to discuss topics of identity, politics, creativity and healing trauma.

The result is their collaborative multimedia project “Up/Rooted,” an exhibition on display at REVOLVE in Asheville from August 23 to September 3. Murray’s kinetic sculptures contain items that express the queer, Southern and artistic roots of artists and people from the panel. Williams created photographs of the artists she interviewed, placing them surreally suspended in mid-air.

Come to the opening reception on August 23 from 7-9 pm at REVOLVE Gallery, 821 Riverside Drive, Suite 179 in Asheville.

Listen to the full interview here:

https://ashevillefm.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Studios-Uprooted.mp3
Photos courtesy: Campaign for Southern Equality.

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Filed Under: Community News, Newsletter features, Station News

Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Top Play Charts, August 11-17, 2019

August 20, 2019 by DJ Airon

Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Jazz, World, Hip Hop, HEAVY, Experimental, Top 30 Play Charts, August 11-17, 2019

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World Music top ten

Miriam Makeba _ Pata Pata (STRUT)
Hope Masike _ Exorcism of a Spinster (WORLD MUSIC NETWORK)
V/A – Rough Guide to Mali Blues
Perú Negro _ Perú Negro (VAMPISOUL)
Romano Drom _ Give Me Wine (WORLD MUSIC NETWORK)

V/A – Alefa Madagascar: Salegy, Soukous & Soul from the Red Island 1974-1984 (STRUT)
Sister Mantos _ Songs in the Key of Destroy Capitalism (SELF-RELEASED)
Star Band de Dakar _ Psicodelia Afro-Cubano de Senegal (OSTINATO RECORDS)
The Mauskovic Dance Band _ The Mauskovic Dance Band (SOUNDWAY)
Mdou Moctar _ Ilana (The Creator) (SAHEL SOUNDS)

(compiled by World Music director Marissa)

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Experimental Music top ten

1. Living Dog & Mike Johnson – CRO$$ (Constellation/Tatsu)
2. Fox Millions Duo – Biting Through (THRILL JOCKEY)
3. Kiki Hitomi – V/A Seitō: In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun (AKUPHONE)
4. Jim Jarmusch, Lee Ranaldo, Marc Urselli & Balazs Pandi – s/t (TROST)
5. Marissa Nadler & Stephen Brodsky – Droneflower (SACRED BONES)

6. Nivhek – After its Own Death / Walking in a Spiral Towards the House (YELLOW ELECTRIC)
7. Israel Martinez – Pausa (AAGOO)
8. Gel-Sol – Horse Head Bookends (VERSES)
9. Siria – V/A Antologia De Música Atípica Portuguesa Vol.2: Regiões (DISCREPANT)
10. Schneider & Jochen Arbeit – RA (EROTOTOX DECODINGS)

(compiled by Experimental Music director Dogeye)

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Top 30 Play Chart, week of August 11-17, 2019; WSFM-LP, 103.3 FM, Asheville FM, North Carolina

1.) 1) 2) 13) 1) 13) Purple Mountains _ Purple Mountains (Drag City) … rest in peace, David Berman (1967-2019)

2.) 2) Miriam Makeba _ Pata Pata (definitive remastered edition) (Strut)
3.) XX) 27) 23) 23) 2) 1) 15) Bill Callahan _ Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest (Drag City)
4.) 10) X) 5) X) 22) 5) The Raconteurs _ Help Us Stranger (Third Man)
5.) Peter Laughner _ Peter Laughner box set (Smog Veil)

6.) 15) 13) 17) Florist _ Emily Alone (Double Double Whammy)
7.) The Bird and the Bee _ Interpreting the Masters, Volume 2: (A Tribute to Van Halen) (No Expectations / Release Me)
8.) 9) 10) Thom Yorke _ ANIMA (XL Recordings)
9.) X) 7) Hope Masike _ The Exorcism of a Spinster (Riverboat)
10.) Living Dog & Mike Johnson _ CRO$$ (Constellation/Tatsu)

11.) 7) Perú Negro _ Perú Negro (Vampisoul)
12.) 20) 22) 9) 5) Jeanines _ Jeanines (Slumberland)
13.) 16) 23) Cherubs _ Immaculada High (Relapse)
14.) 12) 5) B Boys _ Dudu (Captured Tracks)
15.) Kazyak _ Odyssey (s/r)

16.) METZ _ Negative Space (Sub Pop)
17.) Kate Tempest _ The Book Of Traps And Lessons (American Recordings)
18.) Vanishing Twin _ The Age of Immunology (Fire)
19.) 13) 12) Ada Lea _ what we say in private (Saddle Creek)

20.) slaughter beach, dog _ Safe and Also No Fear (Lame-O) … Slaughter Beach, Dog plays August 20 (Tuesday) @ The Mothlight w/Cave People

21.) Particle Kid _ Window Rock (OAR)
22.) Russian Circles _ Blood Year (Sargent House)
23.) 22) 26) 18) Imperial Teen _ Now We Are Timeless (Merge)
24.) 3) X) 7) 18) 24) 20) X) 14) 3) French Vanilla _ How Am I Not Myself? (Danger Collective)
25.) 26) 14) 15) 9) Gauche _ A People’s History of Gauche (Merge)

26.) 19) 15) 14) 8) Mal Blum _ Pity Boy (Don Giovanni)
27.) 17) 18) 12) Pip Blom _ Boat (PIAS America)
28.) 25) 11) Sam Cohen _ The Future’s Still Ringing In My Ears (30th Century)
29.) 8) Fruit Bats _ Gold Past Life (Merge)

30.) 21) 25) XX) 27) 21) Mannequin Pussy _ Patience (EPITAPH) … Mannequin Pussy (from Philadelphia) played August 19 @ The Mothlight w/ Empath (Philly), T-Rextasy (NYC)

weekly rank.) previous) rank) * X) = did not chart that week

(compiled by Associate Music Director DJ Airon)

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Asheville FM WSFM-LP
864 Haywood Rd.
Asheville, NC 28806

ashevillefm.org

Filed Under: Station News, Top Charts

Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Top Play Charts, August 4-10, 2019

August 14, 2019 by DJ Airon

Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Jazz, World, Hip Hop, HEAVY, Experimental, Top 30 Play Charts, August 4-10, 2019

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JAZZ top ten

1. Jim Jarmusch/Lee Ranaldo/Marc Urcelli/Balazs Pandi – Self Titled (TROST)
2. Simon Nabatov – Readings: Red Cavalry (LEO)
3. Le String’Blo – March For Nature (VETO)
4. Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones – From Untruth (NORTHERN SPY)
5. Otherworld Ensemble – Northern Fire (EDGETONE)

6. Teodross Avery – After The Rain: A Night For Coltrane (TOMPKINS SQUARE)
7. Dave Rempis/Brandon Lopez/Ryan Packard – The Early Bird Gets (AEROPHONIC)
8. Nate Wooley – Columbia Icefield (NORTHERN SPY)
9. Glen Whitehead Trio – The Living Daylights (pfMENTUM)
10. Exodos – Heuristics (LEO)

(compiled by Jazz director Jonathan Price)

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World Music top ten

Miriam Makeba_ Pata Pata (STRUT)
Conjunto Miramar _ Cumbias Con El Miramar (VAMPISOUL)
Os Seis Em Ponto _ Os Seis Em Ponto (VAMPISOUL)
V/A – Rough Guide to Mali Blues
Perú Negro _ Perú Negro (VAMPISOUL)

V/A – Alefa Madagascar: Salegy, Soukous & Soul from the Red Island 1974-1984 (STRUT)
Los Shains _ El Ritmo De Los Shains (MUNSTER)
Oumar Konate _ I Love You Inna (CLERMONT)
Tinariwen _ Amadjar (ANTI/EPITAPH)
V/A – Jambú (É os Míticos Sons da Amazônia) (ANALOG AFRICA)

(compiled by World Music director Marissa)

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ten top Hip Hop

1. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib Bandana (MADLIB INVAZION)
2. Rapsody Ibtihaj (feat. D’Angelo & GZA) [single] (JAMLA)
3. Yugen Blakrok Anima Mysterium (IOT)
4. Wiley My One (feat Tory Lanez, Kranium & Dappy) [single] (RELENTLESS)
5. Yuna Rouge (VERVE)

6. Chance the Rapper The Big Day (S/R)
7. Rick Ross Gold Roses (feat Drake) [single] (EPIC)
8. Jamila Woods Legacy! Legacy! (JAGJAGUWAR)
9. Flying Lotus Flamagra (WARP)
10. DJ Escrow Pattern (feat Dean Blunt) [single] (WORLD MUSIC)

(compiled by Hip Hop director Donovan Quixote)

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HEAVY top 10

1. Lee Ranaldo / Jim Jarmusch / Marc Urselli / Balázs Pándi _ Ranaldo Jarmusch Urselli Pándi (TROST)

2. Mannequin Pussy _ Patience (EPITAPH) …  Mannequin Pussy (from Philadelphia) plays August 19 (Monday) @ The Mothlight w/ Empath (Philly), T-Rextasy (NYC)

3. Cherubs _ Immaculada High (RELAPSE)
4. Empath _ Active Listening: Night on Earth (GET BETTER)
5. Victims _ The Horse and Sparrow Theory (RELAPSE)

6. Nots _ 3 (GONER)
7. Snapped Ankles _ Stunning Luxury (THE LEAF)

8. Baroness _ Gold & Grey (ABRAXAN HYMNS) … plays August 14 (Wednesday) @ The Orange Peel w/War On Women

9. X Under the Big Black Sun (FAT POSSUM)
10. Merzbow & Vanity Productions Coastal Erosion (iDEAL)

(compiled by HEAVY music director Dr. No)

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Experimental Music top ten

1. Franck Vigroux – Barricades (EROTOTOX)
2. Jim Jarmusch/Lee Randaldo/Marc Uselli/Balázs Pándi – s/t (TROST)
3. V/A-Sir Richard Bishop & W. David Oliphant/Karkhana With Nadah El Shazly – Carte Blanche (UNROCK)
4. Bill Orcutt – Odds Against Tomorrow (PA.LI.LA.A)
5. Isaac Schankler – Because Patterns (AEROCADE)

6. Black to Comm – Before After (THRILL JOCKEY)
7. Fox Millions Duo – Biting Through (THRILL JOCKEY)
8. Israel Martinez – Pause (AAGOO)
9. V/A-Headlights – Headlights (s/p)
10. Gel-Sol – Horse Head Bookends (VERSES)

(compiled by Experimental Music director Dogeye)

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Top 30 Play Chart, week of August 4-10, 2019; WSFM-LP, 103.3 FM, Asheville FM, North Carolina

1.) 2) 13) 1) 13) Purple Mountains _ Purple Mountains (Drag City) … rest in peace, David Berman (1967-2019)

2.) Miriam Makeba _ Pata Pata (definitive remastered edition) (Strut)
3.) X) 7) 18) 24) 20) X) 14) 3) French Vanilla _ How Am I Not Myself? (Danger Collective)
4.) Conjunto Miramar _ Cumbias Con El Miramar (Vampisoul)
5.) Franck Vigroux _ Barricades (Erototox)

6.) Os Seis Em Ponto _ Os Seis Em Ponto (Vampisoul)
7.) Perú Negro _ Perú Negro (Vampisoul)
8.) Fruit Bats _ Gold Past Life (Merge)
9.) 10) Thom Yorke _ ANIMA (XL Recordings)
10.) X) 5) X) 22) 5) The Raconteurs _ Help Us Stranger (Third Man)

11.) 4) Jim Jarmusch, Lee Ranaldo, Marc Urselli & Balazs Pandi _ Lee Ranaldo, Jim Jarmusch, Marc Urselli, Balázs Pándi (Trost)
12.) 5) B Boys _ Dudu (Captured Tracks)
13.) 12) Ada Lea _ what we say in private (Saddle Creek)
14.) XX) 4) The Black Keys _ Let’s Rock (Nonesuch)
15.) 13) 17) Florist _ Emily Alone (Double Double Whammy)

16.) 23) Cherubs _ Immaculada High (Relapse)
17.) 18) 12) Pip Blom _ Boat (PIAS America)
18.) Los Shains _ El Ritmo De Los Shains (Munster)
19.) 15) 14) 8) Mal Blum _ Pity Boy (Don Giovanni)
20.) 22) 9) 5) Jeanines _ Jeanines (Slumberland)

21.) 25) XX) 27) 21) Mannequin Pussy _ Patience (Epitaph) … Mannequin Pussy (from Philadelphia) plays August 19 (Monday) @ The Mothlight w/ Empath (Philly), T-Rextasy (NYC)

22.) 26) 18) Imperial Teen _ Now We Are Timeless (Merge)
23.) Tinariwen _ Amadjar (ANTI/Epitaph)
24.) X) 11) X) 26) 10) Prince _ Originals (Rhino/Warner Records)
25.) 11) Sam Cohen _ The Future’s Still Ringing In My Ears (30th Century)

26.) 14) 15) 9) Gauche _ A People’s History of Gauche (Merge)
27.) 1) Hot Chip _ A Bath Full of Ecstasy (Domino Recording Co)
28.) 17) L’Épée _ Diabolique (a recordings)
28.) 29) 26) X) 20) 13) 3) Palehound _ Black Friday (polyvinyl)

30.) 16) 6) 25) 29) Titus Andronicus _ An Obelisk (Merge) … Titus Andronicus plays Nov. 18 @ The Mothlight w/Partner

weekly rank.) previous) rank) * X) = did not chart that week

(compiled by Associate Music Director DJ Airon)

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Asheville FM WSFM-LP
864 Haywood Rd.
Asheville, NC 28806

ashevillefm.org

Filed Under: Station News, Top Charts

REVOLVE SOUND: Shane Parish, Isabel Castellvi, and Wes Tirey on 8.7.2019

August 8, 2019 by KP Whaley

Asheville FM and The Media Arts Project partnered together to bring the most recent REVOLVE Sound installment on August 7th, with a live show featuring Shane Parish, Isabel Castellvi and Wes Tirey at REVOLVE.

Shane Parish is the guitarist for the celebrated avant-rock band Ahleuchatistas (Tzadik / International Anthem / Cuneiform). His electric guitar works are intense environments, exposed to the elements, and populated by assorted creatures. As an acoustic soloist, he creatively interprets and deconstructs folk music and jazz tunes, plays original cutting-edge poly-rhythmic and contrapuntal works, and transforms the instrument, via preparations and detuning, into a mini-percussion ensemble, banging out pulsating rhythmic trances reminiscent of John Cage’s prepared solo piano works. Parish’s 2016 collection of folk interpretations Undertaker Please Drive Slow (Tzadik Records) was described by composer John Zorn as “reminiscent of John Fahey and Robbie Basho, at times of John Cage and Morton Feldman, Shane uses these beautiful songs as launching pads for his creative flights of fancy, at times boiling them down to their very essence. A spiritual project that will keep you riveted from first note to last.” His latest releases are Child Asleep in the Rain (Nullzone Tapes), December (self-released), Autodidact (Humanhood Recordings), and a duo album with guitarist Wendy Eisenberg called Nervous Systems (Verses Records).

Isabel Castellvi is a cellist, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, songwriter, and composer.  As a versatile musician you can find her collaborating with musicians from around the globe. These collaborations span many genres, including world music inspired projects, indie rock bands, her own solo projects, free improvisation, performance art, western classical music, and music for dance and film.  Isabel is grateful to share music all over the world through performances, recordings and teaching.  Her musical travels have taken her throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Central and South America and the Middle East. These experiences continue to be a great source of inspiration, deepening her understanding of music’s powerful ability to connect people and communities.  She received a Bachelor’s in music performance at DePaul University and a Master’s in the Contemporary Performance Program at Manhattan School of Music. Isabel has studied North Indian Classical Music with renowned vocalist Rajyasree Ghosh in Kolkata, India and Falu Shah in New York City.  She currently lives, teaches and performs between Asheville, NC and Brooklyn, NY.

The canon of cosmic American songsters has long been marked by a wandering authenticity. Wes Tirey, a song and son from Ohio now in North Carolina, comes as true as the wind cutting down a city street on No Winners in the Blues. His wrought iron baritone vocal delivery, maybe a few too many grits, but this is no husky tumbleweed, it is a humid and sly tender night on the town. His impressionistic lyrics are glistening and dusty visions of a vivid past life lost in beer room jukebox stories; to say, “Wes is just a singer and these are just folk songs,” is to deny Wes a place around the campfire with the likes of other cosmic Americans like Ed Dorn, Fred Neil, Tom Robbins, Bill Callahan… not too afraid to be a little silly but totally wise and rascally like sparks cracklin’ or a flickering neon sign. Telling stories, maybe true, but ultimately belonging to this complicated American nightlife folklore. Tirey’s wonderful and curling acoustic guitar and narrative story song shavings remain the ground to stand on, lost among the atmospheric dusky accompaniment of ghostly electric guitar work from Shane Parish. A shuddering and sweet denim blue pocket full of stories and songs, a fingered pick worn sharp, a pen vivid and a voice low, boot the cobblestones and roll tired but trying in the alleys. A candid blues vision.

Shane and Isabel’s Performance

https://ashevillefm.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Revolve-performance-Shane.mp3

Wes’s Performance

https://ashevillefm.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Revolve-performance-Wes.mp3

Filed Under: Community News, Newsletter features, Simulcast

Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Top Play Charts, July 28-August 3, 2019

August 7, 2019 by DJ Airon

Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Jazz, World, Hip Hop, HEAVY, Experimental, Top 30 Play Charts, July 28-August 3, 2019

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JAZZ top ten

1. Glen Whitehead Trio – The Living Daylights (pfMENTUM)
2. Teodross Avery – After The Rain: A Night For Coltrane (TOMPKINS SQUARE)
3. Dave Rempis / Brandon Lopez / Ryan Packard – The Early Bird Gets (AEROPONIC)
4. Simon Nabatov – Readings: Red Cavalry (LEO)
5. John Coltrane – Coltrane ’58 The Prestige Recordings (CRAFT)

6. Nate Wooley – Columbia Icefield (NORTHERN SPY)
7. Exodos – Heuristics (LEO)
8. Otherworld Ensemble – Northern Fire (EDGETONE)
9. Maurice Louca – Elephantine (NORTHERN SPY)
10. Le String’Blo – March For Nature (VETO)

(compiled by Jazz director Jonathan Price)

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World Music top ten

Hope Masike_Exorcism of a Spinster (WORLD MUSIC NETWORK)
V/A – Rough Guide to Mali Blues
Perú Negro_Perú Negro (VAMPISOUL)
V/A – Alefa Madagascar: Salegy, Soukous & Soul from the Red Island 1974-1984 (STRUT)
Ahmedou Ahmed Lowla_Terrouzi (SAHEL SOUNDS)

Sister Mantos_Songs in the Key of Destroy Capitalism (SELF-RELEASED)
Combo Chimbita_Ahomale (ANTI RECORDS)
Isaac Birituro & The Rail Abandon_Kalba (WAH WAH 45s)
Luka Productions_Falaw (SAHEL SOUNDS)
Romano Drom_Give Me Wine (WORLD MUSIC NETWORK)

(compiled by World Music director Marissa)

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ten top Hip Hop

1. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib Bandana Madlib Invazion
2. YBN Cordae The Lost Boy Art@War/Atlantic
3. Rapsody Ibtihaj (feat. D’Angelo, GZA) [single] Roc Nation
4. Flying Lotus Flamagra Warp
5. Chance the Rapper The Big Day self-released

6. BURNS Energy [single] RCA
7. Lupe Fiasco Drogas Wave 1st & 15
8. Big Sean Single Again [single] Def Jam
9. Ghostface Killah Conditioning [single] self-released
10. Lil Nas X 7 Columbia

(compiled by Hip Hop director Donovan Quixote)

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HEAVY top 10

1. Lee Ranaldo / Jim Jarmusch / Marc Urselli / Balázs Pándi _ Ranaldo Jarmusch Urselli Pándi Trost

2. Mannequin Pussy _ Patience Epitaph … Mannequin Pussy (from Philadelphia) plays August 19 (a Monday) @ The Mothlight w/ Empath (Philly), T-Rextasy (NYC)

3. Aseethe _ Throes Thrill Jockey
4. Cherubs _ Immaculata High Relapse
5. Empath _ Active Listening: Night on Earth Get Better

6. Torche _ Admission Relapse
7. Victims _ The Horse and Sparrow Theory Relapse
8. Batz _ Wizard [single] Independent
9. Harry Pussy _ Ride a Dove Palilalia
10. Sunn O))) _ Life Metal Southern Lord

(compiled by HEAVY music director Dr. No)

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Experimental Music top ten

1. Isaac Schankler – Because Patterns (AEROCADE)
2. V/A – Sir Richard Bishop & W. David Oliphant-Karkhana with Nadah el Shazly-Carte Blanch (UNROCK)
3. Jim Jarmusch, Lee Ranaldo, Marc Urselli & Balazs Pandi – Jim Jarmusch, Lee Ranaldo, Marc Urselli & Balazs Pandi (TROST)
4. Black to Comm – Before After (THRILL JOCKEY)
5. Connect_icut – No Darkness (AAGOO)

6. Nivhek – After its own Death/Walking in a Spiral towards the House (YELLOWELECTRIC)
7. Simon Nabatov – Readings/Red Cavalry (LEO)
8. Frank Vigroux – Barricades (EROTOTOX)
9. V/A – The Sacred Entertainment (SOUK)
10. Joni Void – Mise En Abyme (CONSTELLATION)

(compiled by Experimental Music director Dogeye)

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Top 30 Play Chart, week of July 28-August 3, 2019; WSFM-LP, 103.3 FM, Asheville FM, North Carolina

Top 30 Play Chart, week of Month date-Month date, 2019; WSFM-LP, 103.3 FM, Asheville FM, North Carolina

1.) Hot Chip _ A Bath Full of Ecstasy (Domino Recording Co)
2.) 13) 1) 13) Purple Mountains _ Purple Mountains (Drag City)
3.) Isaac Schankler _ Because Patterns (Aerocade Music)
4.) Jim Jarmusch, Lee Ranaldo, Marc Urselli & Balazs Pandi _ Lee Ranaldo, Jim Jarmusch, Marc Urselli, Balázs Pándi (Trost)
5.) B Boys _ Dudu (Captured Tracks)

6.) 24) 2) Elephant9 _ Psychedelic Backfire I (Rune Grammofon)
7.) Hope Masike _ The Exorcism of a Spinster (Riverboat)
8.) Karkhana with Nadah El Shazly _ Carte Blanche (Unrock)
9.) Caterina Barbieri _ Ecstatic Computation (Editions Mego)
10.) Thom Yorke _ ANIMA (XL Recordings)

11.) Sam Cohen _ The Future’s Still Ringing In My Ears (30th Century)
12.) Ada Lea _ what we say in private (Saddle Creek)
13.) 17) Florist _ Emily Alone (Double Double Whammy)
14.) 15) 9) Gauche _ A People’s History of Gauche (Merge)
15.) 14) 8) Mal Blum _ Pity Boy (Don Giovanni)

16.) 6) 25) 29) Titus Andronicus _ An Obelisk (Merge) … Titus Andronicus plays Nov. 18 @ The Mothlight w/Partner

17.) L’Épée _ Diabolique (a recordings)
18.) 12) Pip Blom _ Boat (PIAS America)
19.) 19) 7) Prettiest Eyes _ Volume 3 (Castle Face)
20.) 29) Aseethe _ Throes (Thrill Jockey)

21.) 25) 12) Oceans of the moon _ s/t (Castle Face)
22.) 9) 5) Jeanines _ Jeanines (Slumberland)
23.) Cherubs _ Immaculada High (Relapse)
24.) 8) 13) Black to Comm _ Before After (Thrill Jockey)
25.) XX) 27) 21) Mannequin Pussy _ Patience (Epitaph) … Mannequin Pussy (from Philadelphia) plays August 19 (a Monday) @ The Mothlight w/ Empath (Philly), T-Rextasy (NYC)

26.) 18) Imperial Teen _ Now We Are Timeless (Merge)
27.) 22) 10) Torche _ Admission (Relapse)
28.) 2) 14) 3) Necking _ Cut Your Teeth (Mint)
29.) 26) X) 20) 13) 3) Palehound _ Black Friday (polyvinyl)
30.) 16) X) 8) Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears _ The Difference Between Me & You (s/r) … Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears play August 10 (a Saturday) @ The Mothlight w/ Annabelle Chairlegs

weekly rank.) previous) rank) * X) = did not chart that week

(compiled by Associate Music Director DJ Airon)

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864 Haywood Rd.
Asheville, NC 28806

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