Happy Valentines Day!! This weeks show Amour Tragique has been prepared by Yun Mei. “I don’t want to work. I don’t want to lunch. I only want to forget and so I smoke” sing Pink Martini in the opening song Sympathique. So tragic but so true. A big thank you to French label Baskaru for sending us some fantastic music including Etre’s - A Post-Fordist Parade and a new release from Lawrence English - For Varying Degrees Of Winter. We also hear from the extraordinary Holger Czukay, plus an excerpt from I Am Sylvia (1973, Institute of Sonology) by Simeon ten Holt and to conclude the show the wonderful Tom Waits with When You Ain’t Got Nobody. For all the lonely hearts out there this show is for you…with love.

1. Pink Martini - Sympathique [Sympathique / Naïve]
2. Etre - The Hypnosis Of The Stone [A Post-Fordist Parade / Baskaru]
3. Flanger - Lata [Templates / Ntone]
4. Tom Waits with Jerry Garcia & Ken Nordine - Thousand Big Bangs (by Jack Kerouac) [Devout Catalyst / Grateful Dead]
5. Dilo - Spe2K [Post Office-Special Argentina Madness / Telegraph]
6. Holger Czukay - Sudetenland [Rome Remains Rome and excerpts from Der Osten Ist Rot / Virgin Records UK]
7. Elliott Sharp - Farm & Field [Figure Ground / Tzadik]
8. The Books - An Animated Description Of Mr. Maps [Lost And Safe / Tomlab]
9. Elliott Sharp - Playground [Figure Ground / Tzadik]
10. Bird Show - Seeds [Lightning Ghost / Kranky]
11. Skeleton Crew - Jelly Roll Stomp [Hallelujah, Anyway - Remembering Tom Cora (Disc 2) / Warner Music (Japan)]
12. Buckethead - Frankenseuss Laboratories [Kaleidoscalp / Tzadik]
13. Yoko Solo - Untamable Cockle [www.myspace.com/yokosolo]
14. Cappablack - Suikinkutsu 09.12.2003 [Facades & Skeletons / ~Scape]
15. Lawrence English - Unsettled Sleep [For Varying Degrees Of Winter / Baskaru]*
16. Simeon ten Holt - I Am Sylvia (1973, Institute of Sonology) [Anthology of Dutch Electronic Tape Music: Vol. 2 (1966-1977) / Composers Voice]
17. Triosk - Goodnight [Moment Returns / Leaf]*
18. Tom Waits - When You Ain’t Got Nobody [The Early Years Volume One / Bizarre-Straight]

* Denotes Australian Made

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(Photo by Carolyn Teo)