Balearic Breakfast | Episode 117 | Wintry & Groovy Flashbacks...
- by The Lioncub
- Dec 20, 2022
- 14 min read
Updated: Jan 7
Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy broadcast the 117th episode of Balearic Breakfast on her Mixcloud and Twitch TV socials on December, 20th 2022.
About this episode. – After the poignant show dedicated to Ukraine, Colleen decided to end the year on a more balearic note, asking us, on december, 17th 2022 to chose songs we discovered through the show: "It’s the last Balearic Breakfast of the year this coming Tuesday from 10am to high noon GMT on my Mixcloud Live & Twitch TV. This show is a recap of our favourite tunes of 2022 so please nominate a song you discovered through or requested for the show. I can’t wait to see your suggestions!
And I want to give a very big thank you to the Balearic Breakfast family. Your support throughout the year, especially after Worldwide FM hit the pause button, and your musical curiosity and passion is a lifeline to me. I can’t even express in words how much it means to me. Thank you 🙏"
With a more relaxed soul, and a slightly longer running time, the first part of today's show has a wandering soul (still allowing Colleen to keep a beautiful musical unity, listen for instance how much Yu Su's Little Birds, Moonbath is close to Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra's San Diego 😉) while the second part is much more upfront and solid, with an incredible Soulful groove (notably containing 3 (yes 3!!) beautiful mini mixes that will make you dance without the shadow of a doubt) ! If you ask me, this episode is in my top ten 😍
On december 20th, 2022, a few hours after the show took place, Colleen posted on her socials the following message: "The last Balearic Breakfast of the year is now up on my Mixcloud. For this show I asked you to contribute your favourite songs from Balearic Breakfast in 2022 and some are songs released this year by artists like Ron Trent, Khruangbin, Rheinzand, Sam Redmore, Mountain of One and Nightlands and others are older tunes that you discovered on the show over the last 12 months by artists like Shuya Okino, Pilooski, Phil Mison, Ashley Beedle, Yu Su, The Reflex, Marxist Love Disco Ensemble, Mark E Quark and more. There are also a couple of previews of songs featured on the forthcoming Balearic Breakfast 2 compilation which will come out on Heavenly Recordings in Spring 2023. And of course a tribute to the late Terry Hall may he rest in peace.
It has been quite a year for Balearic Breakfast. A big thank you to Jeff, Danny and Daisy at Heavenly Recordings and to all of you who bought the first compilation - I really appreciate your support. I also want to thank Gilles Peterson, Simon Goffe and the entire Worldwide FM team for their support of the show and I hope one day Worldwide FM will release the pause button. But until that time, I’m happy hosting the show on my Mixcloud Live and thank you for following me - the number of people joining in on the live video chat has been inspirational.
I also want to thank my dedicated husband Adam for getting up early every Tuesday morning to set up the cameras, the lights and the stream. You may have noticed there were no cameras today but that’s because he got back home in the middle of the night after playing in Thailand over the weekend so I give him extra credit for getting up early to set up the stream.
And the biggest thank you goes to the Balearic Breakfast Family. I have been hosting radio shows for four decades and this show is one of my favourites to host. Maybe because it was launched during the pandemic, it has deep emotional connection and I appreciate the contributions of each and every one of you. Your support means the world to me.
I’ll be back hosting Balearic Breakfast on my Mixcloud Live on Tuesday, the 10th January. Until then, I wish you all a wonderful holiday."
Listen back to the 117th episode of Balearic Breakfast:
PLAYLIST
(1978) Pharoah Sanders – As You Are
(2022) Nightlands – Down here
(1972) Labi Siffre – Cannock Chase
(2019) Yu Su – Little Birds, Moonbath
(1985) Godley & Creme – Wet Rubber Soup Recycled
(2008) Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra – San Diego
(2022) A mountain of One – Custards Last Stand
(2022) Khruangbin & Leon Bridges – B Side
(2019) HF International – I can't go for that (No Can Do)
(feat. KASHIF) Kaoru Inoue Extended Disco Dub Remix
(1983) The The – Giant
(2021) Ennio Morricone – Amore Come Dolore (Needs Remix)
(2022) Sam Redmore (feat. Lumi HD) – Just Can't Wait
(2008) Dolle Jolle – Balearic Incarnation (Todd Terje's Extra Doll Mix)
(2022) Rheinzand – Facciamo L'amore (Scorpio Twins Remix)
(2020) Mark E. Quark – Doin it Right (Slo Mo Edit)
(2021) Shuya Okino (feat. Navasha Daya) – Still in Love
(The Reflex Extended Remix)
(2022) Marxist Love Disco Ensemble – Brumaire
(2022) Ron Trent (feat. Khruangbin) – Flos Potentia
(2020) Lady Blackbird – Beware The Strangers
(Ashley Beedle's 'North Street West' Remix)
(1981) The Specials – Ghost Town (Extended Version)
COLLEEN'S PRESENTATION
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Two titans of music, Phyllis Hyman and Pharoah Sanders with the song As You Are, featured on the late saxophonist's 1978 LP, Love Will Find a Way, which not only features a late singer, Phyllis Hyman, but also Norman Connors, amongst others. And I believe that was initially a request by Bert Francois, who is a diehard Phyllis Hyman fan for good reason. It was requested for this show by Rob That Primitive Sound.
Good morning, Belaricans, and welcome to the last Belaric Breakfast of the year. I'm Colleen Cosmo Murphy, taking you until a bit after high noon, as I can't fit all of your requests in two hours today. And as I'm hosting on my own Mixcloud Live and Twitch TV rather than a radio station, I have more freedom and can go over the time limit.
So I hope you can hang out a bit longer than usual today. Now, this past year, we have lost many musicians, including Pharoah Sanders, Christine McVie, Klaus Schulz, Irene Cara, Julie Cruz, Vangelis, and recently, Manuel Gottsching. And I know we didn't do a tribute to him, as I already had a Ukrainian end and end of year special planned.
But if you have time over the holidays, you can check out my interview with him about his masterpiece, E2E4, as a podcast on the Classic Album Sundays website. And sadly, yesterday, we lost another great, Terry Hall of Fun Boy 3, The Color Field, and The Specials. And we'll pay tribute to him later in the show, too.
But the cosmic sphere of music keeps on revolving, making way for new artists, new albums, and new songs. And for today's show, I asked you for your favorite songs that you discovered on Bolero Breakfast. And initially, I was intending for it to be a recap of 2022's best releases. But you had other ideas and suggested tracks that you discovered on the show in the past year. And I thought that was rather nice and roll with it. So it really doesn't matter when something came out. If it's a new discovery, it feels fresh. And I had quite a few eureka moments this year, thanks to your requests. Now, one of my personal discoveries from the show is a new album that evokes the spirit of two bands that I adore, Tame Impala and The War on Drugs.
And when it was suggested this summer, I went out and bought the album and was not disappointed. Nightlounds is Dave Hartley, a native of Philadelphia, who relocated to Asheville, an artsy cultural small city nestled in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, where the pace of life is a bit slower. And you can hear this on Hartley's sophomore release, Moonshine, released in July this year. It's a beautiful album, and you can find out more on the Nightlands Bandcamp. And it includes this little treasure down here.
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La Vie Sifre with Mechanic Chase, which is a beautiful park in the Midlands. And that was requested by Kieran McCann, who said it was his most listened to track this year. How did I not know this before? And I agree with you, Kieran, as I admittedly didn't know his work before either, probably because he doesn't have the same kind of profile in America. At least that's my excuse. And I actually discovered him via our daughter, Ariana. And then I went down a rabbit hole, which is one of the things I love about this show, as it's a portal for sonic exploration. Anyways, that song was from the British singer-songwriter-guitarist's classic 1972 LP, Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
And it has a new box set reissue on the horizon coming out early 2023, and I'll be snapping that up. The album also features his song, It Must Be Love, which became a major hit for Madness in the following decade. And if you have access to BBC iPlayer, here is some holiday viewing for you. A one-hour documentary called Imagine. Labisifre, this is my song. So I think I'm going to watch that one again.
Okay. This next artist is one I found through Balearic Breakfast when I played her remix of transient or transient version of Plant Life by Parke Courts. And then somebody requested one of her own songs for our International Women's Day special last March. Siobhan Murphy of Detox Kitchen still listens back to that show for inspiration, and she wanted a bit of girl power this morning. So I have chosen this one for her. The artist is Yusu, an electronic music producer and DJ who was born in China and moved to Vancouver about a decade ago. She released her debut album, Yellow River Blue, on her own label, BA, last year. And I believe a new one is on the horizon. So I look forward to that with great anticipation. Here is Yusu with Helen McKenzie with Little Bird's Moon Bath.
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A bit of California dreaming from the prolific composer, producer, Sean Lee, who is best known for his work on the Rockstar Games video game Bully, and who has collaborated with all sorts of artists like Young Gun, Silver Fox. I mean, you got to check out his discography when you have a minute. It's extensive. And it's another rabbit hole. You can you can go tumbling down into like Alice free falling.
And that was a release from his ping pong orchestra, the song San Diego, remixed by our Balearic Breakfast buddy, Phil Meissen, and requested by Settle 15, who first heard it on the show and calls it an absolute beauty of a tune. And it sure is. Ahead of that, we had the former Ten Seas Seers, Godly and Cream with their 1985 hit, Cry, co-produced by the duo with Trevor Horn. And we heard the extended version, remixed by Trevor Horn collaborator, and SARM Studios and Art of Noise programmer, J. J. Jeksalik, which was requested by James Scott. And he said the show, the song sounds so much better stretched out like that. Some things should be luxuriated in. And I completely agree.
Now, on today's show, we're featuring some of the favorite tunes featured on Balearic Breakfast over the past year. And family member Steve A. Clark says there's far too many to choose from. The beauty of the show is not only the sequencing, which he says I make sounds so effortless. Thank you very much. But the narration and education that's provided, which brings him so much joy. So he's saying Merry Christmas to the Balearic Breakfast family. And he will be listening as he finishes distilling for the year. That sounds like a lot of fun. I just decanted my slows, my slow gin and started filling up the flasks for my prezzies and just had a little bit of a taste, of course. It was a really good year for slows. I think it was all the heat this summer.
Now, another one of my favorite albums of the year is by Mountain of One, who, after a 13-year hiatus of releasing albums, put out their sophomore effort, Stars, Planet, Dust Me. And we had the band's Mo Morris up on the show earlier this year to tell us the story behind a Mountain of One and their latest release. John Bocum agrees this was one of the finest Balearic offerings of 2022 and requested any song from the album. And I have chosen Custard's Last Stand.
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Now, for many in the U.K., the highlight of the festival season is Glastonbury. And each year I plant myself on my sofa and watch in the comfort of my own home and on the cliff shores, of course. And this year there were some great highlights. Paul McCartney, Roisin Murphy and the mighty Kuangbin, the Houston, Texas trio. And they just get better and better. And it was fascinating to witness their impeccable musicianship. So cool to watch them. And they often collaborate with fellow Texan soul singer-songwriter Leon Bridges. And we just heard one of the fruits of their alliances, Texas Moon B-side, which was suggested by Rob Calcutt. Now, one of my personal highlights of 2022 was the release of my first Balearic Breakfast compilation on Heavenly Recordings. And I want to shout out to Jeff, Danny and Daisy, who really are a heavenly bunch and have been so supportive.
And I'm excited to announce that the follow-up, Balearic Breakfast Vol. 2, will be released in spring 2023 and will be another double album filled with goodies that either never came out on vinyl or are difficult to find or are pricey, like this one, which goes for eye-watering sums on Discogs. Peter Caria requested it. It's a cover by Japanese act HF Frequency, featuring Kashif of I Can't Go For That. And I'm giving the test pressing of the second compilation a spin right now.
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A request from Craig Bradshaw for the Poluski edit of Giant, originally from the 1983 LP Soul Mining by The The. And frontman Matt Johnson recalled hallucinating about giant spiders when writing that song. And in fact, he wrote most of those songs on that LP when he was a teenager. And he said he took songwriting inspiration from John Lennon, who was quoted as saying, tell the truth and make it rhyme. Wise, wise words there.
Now, this next one is from a 2003 compilation on Compost, featuring remixes of the late and great Italian film score composer Ennio Morricone. And it was requested by Giancarlo from Our Last Note Parties in Italy.
And just a little note, the next time I'm DJing, in fact, my first party of 2023, will be at Last Note in Perugia, Italy on Saturday, the 4th of February. And if you want to join us for some great food, music, dance in a stunning setting and a great sound system, you can find out more on the Last Note Loft Party Facebook page. This is Ennio Morricone with Amore Come Dolore, the Needs remix, going out to Giancarlo and the Last Note team.
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Kenneth Baier's label Music for Dreams, a balleric breakfast favorite, and so is their signing Belgian group Rhinesand, who released their second LP, Atlantis Atlantis, as a follow-up to their impressive 2020 self-titled debut. The album's great, and this is my favorite song on the album, Faciamo l'amore. And to be honest, I really wanted to remix that song, but Scorpio Twins did. And I have to be honest, they were so, so good. I mean, gosh, I just love that remix. I don't think I could have done it that kind of justice.
But instead, I'm helping out with another remix. I'm heading into the studio in early 2023 to remix another one of my favorite Music for Dream artists, Danish guitarist Jakob Gurevic. So really looking forward to that.
Ahead of that, we had Dolly Yolly, the balleric incarnation, Todd Terrier's extra doll mix. I know I'm mispronouncing that. It's one of those weird Norwegian vowels. They have so many vowels. That was requested by Bert Francois, and that was a 2008 dance remake of Jean-Luc Ponty's Computer Incantations for World Peace. And that, the one I just played, the balleric incarnation, is also coming out on the next Balleric Breakfast compilation.
Ahead of that, a 2022 release from the soulful record label Jalapeño Records, based in Brighton. And the song was by Sam Redmore, who released a great album called Universal Vibrations, which featured that single, I Just Can't Wait. And that was requested by Arter in Paris. And Jalapeño Records is also the home of singer-songwriter-musician Iso Fitzroy. She had a great release called I Want Magic, which was remixed by Dimitri from Paris a couple of years ago. And I'm excited to say she has a new album coming out in 2023.
And once again, yours truly has been asked to do a remix. So I'm excited to get back in the studio for that one as well. All right, keeping it going here on Balleric Breakfast, on my MixCloud Live and my Twitch TV.
And this is a request from Paul Broughton. He says it's a favorite from the past year, purely based on how many times he repeated it on a car journey at full blast. And he wishes us all a great Christmas. I have to say this is also a great musical discovery for me. It's by Southern California DJ producer Mark E. Cork, doing it right, the slo-mo edit on Balleric Breakfast.
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The best band name of the year, Italy's Marxist Love Disco Ensemble, with their distinctive post-disco 80s pop sound, almost city pop, on that song Brumaire, requested by Andrew Greenman.
And you can listen to more on the Marxist Love Disco Ensemble Bandcamp. I highly suggest you head over there. Ahead of that, we had the Kyoto Jazz Massive frontman Shuya Okino, with Gil Scott Heron's cousin Navasha Daya, with a cover of Rolls-Royce's Still in Love, which originally came out over a decade ago, and last year was given the revision treatment by The Reflex, and that was requested by Carmen Estrada.
So over the summer, we had quite a few pre-records on Balleric Breakfast. Usually I like to host the show live, as I am today, as you can tell with skips and all. But I had Ron Trent up, and this is Ron Trent's latest album, What Do the Stars Say to You, and it's a great LP. And this was requested by Uncool Jag and Alley 12 Alex. Katie Stringer also requested a song by Ron Trent, but I'm just not going to be able to fit it on, even though I'm going over time. This again features the mighty Kerrangbin. It's called Flos Potentia Sugar Cotton Tobacco, here on Balleric Breakfast.
VIII
I love that song so much. It was actually my tune of 2021, Lady Blackbird, Beware the Stranger, the Ashley Beadle remix, which came out on vinyl for the first time on my Balleric Breakfast compilation, Volume 1, and that was requested by Vinyl Del.
Thank you so much for requesting. And another highlight of mine from 2022 is getting to remix her for Lost in Looking. I did the Cosmodelic remix, but no one requested it.
That's absolutely fine. This is the last Balleric Breakfast meal of 2022, and I'll return hosting the show live on Tuesday, the 10th of January, when we will also have our Balleric Breakfast family member, Prince Paul Ajamal, opening up the show with a mantra mix to welcome in the new dawn of 2023, a new era. In the meantime, feel free to check out the Balleric Breakfast playlist on my Mixcloud, all the shows on one playlist.
And some of you have also asked about my set from our love dance intent at We Out Here this past August, and I'll be publishing it on my Mixcloud over the next couple of days as a little prezzy, something you can dance to when you're socializing and entertaining over the holidays. And I'm looking forward to a short winter's nap, so I'll be back on the 10th of January and leaving you with a song to pay tribute to the late Terry Hall, who was in Fun Boy 3, The Color Box, and best known in the specials. He also collaborated with The Lightning Seeds, Bananarama, and more.
He had a very interesting and difficult life. There's loads of obituaries. You can read the one on The Guardian. You know, challenging, challenging life, but what a great songwriter and performer. And his biggest song is arguably, arguably my next song, and our last Balleric Breakfast song of 2022. I remember hearing it driving in the middle of the night through the desert in Baja, Mexico just over 30 years ago.
It was coming in all eerie over the AM radio. And it's a song that reflects the social woes of early 1980s Britain, the urban decay, the unemployment and violence of the formal industrial cities. You know, when the factories closed, that's what happened. And it was a really difficult time here in the UK. And I think Terry Hall captured it beautifully. Here is the specials with Ghost Town. Rest in peace, Terry Hall. Thank you all for joining me, my Balleric Breakfast family. It's been so wonderful to have your support throughout the year.
Have a wonderful holiday and just be Balearic.
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