Radio Free D’ni – Bringing Music to the Cavern

Welcome to Radio Free D’ni!

Welcome to the homepage of Radio Free D’ni. You will find here both our current announcements and our past playlists. Our links to the music stream are at the top, just above this post. And there’s a stream player right here when the stream is on.

Generally speaking, we present a new show every other week, at 1300 KI time, with remastered versions of our shows from five years ago in the intermediate weeks. We have pre-show music usually starting 30 minutes earlier (so getting on the stream at 12:30 KI time might be a good idea), and also a good bit of music after the show proper.

See you in the Cavern
Malaclypse

13:00 KI is 8 pm in the UK, 9 pm in CET. KI time is Mountain Time in the US, and it follows DST… I can only assume that when Victor Laxman got the KI’s working again he synch’d them to surface time in New Mexico…

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It’s unusually quiet…

This week’s show will show off some of the noisier artists in Rock, doing something they’re not normally known for: being quiet. Well, not as quiet as one would expect from, say, New Age stuff, but compared to their usual noise levels, it will be, comparatively, quiet.

See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse

310 Various Artists

A look at the Compilation Album, a form first popularised by K-Tel’s pop hits compilations, although labels had been making “Best of…” compilations of solo artist’s hits for a while at that point. We included label promotions, magazine “free with this issue” CD’s, back catalog collections and more. With a peak of 21 listener connections, it was a hit all over again.

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187R The Modern Jazz Quartet

The very essence of cool jazz, the vibraphone and piano – led MJQ drew up to 16 listener connections which was very pleasing, especially as we had a brief technical fault during the show. Thanks for staying with us, folks.

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Modern Jazz

Actually, this week’s topic is the Modern Jazz Quartet, which did not play what is called “modern Jazz” these days. Rather, they had their own vibes going. Literally. Starting out as the rhythm section of Dizzy Gillespie’s band, by the mid-1950s the MJQ had incorporated elements of Bebop, Blues and Baroque (and that’s just the bits starting with a B), and were instrumental (pun intended) in shifting Jazz away from being background noise in the night club to a standalone attraction.

See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse

309 Norma Winstone

Featuring the British Jazz singer Norma Winstone, someone who might be regarded as a little esoteric, not in the mainstream at all, but nevertheless attracted 20 listener connections, and some rapt attention from the audience in the cavern. We need reminders like this to keep us on our toes with providing something new every week. 🙂

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First She Sang. Then She Started Writing.

And she’s about to turn 85 years old a few days after this week’s show. It’s Jazz singer Norma Winstone, whose solo career began in the early 1970s, but really took off in the mid-1990s.

See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse

186R Robert Wyatt

A hop, skip and jump through some highlights of the career of Robert Wyatt, prog drummer and vocalist turned art rock and somewhat experimental musician. 21 listener connections, which is very encouraging for a Remastered show.

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The One Who Stopped

This week’s show has a look at a Mole. OK, a former Matching Mole. Also formerly of Soft Machine. Also formerly able to walk. He credits having broken his spine with saving his life. If that’s not weird enough for you, wait until you hear about the rest of Robert Wyatt’s career!

See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse

308 Merseybeat

A trip back in time to the Sixties and the place and style that founded the popular music genre for the next years, The Mersey Beat which took its name from a newspaper started in July 1961. Bill Harry derived the name from an allusion to a policeman’s beat. The city of Liverpool was already a melting pot of musical talent, with a cosmopolitan population including a large number from Ireland, and much musical influence coming direct off the transatlantic ships whose crews would bring in records from the US.

It was the era of three-minute (or less) singles, and so we had a lot of tracks in the show. Up to 20 listener connections, which was a good number for a decidedly niche show.

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Beg for Mersey!

Well, we’re not beating about the bush, eh? This week’s topic will be Merseybeat (a name that popularly gets shortened to just “beat”), a northern English take on American popular music as imported via Liverpool, which was popularised by bands such as Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Merseybeats, The Searchers, the Quarrymen… the latter sort of monopolised the name after two name changes and a stint playing clubs in Germany.

See you in the Cavern,
Malaclypse

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