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With the rainy season upon us in Korea, we decided to play some of our rainy night specials in the funk and soul category for our Sampled first hour, then it's Dan Lloyd with a special presentation for part 4 going over some of the best performances from Glastonbury.
"The Drop with Danno" on GFN 광주영어방송 98.7FM in Gwangju & 93.7FM in Yeosu, Korea. An eclectic radio curation of all things musical spanning the spectrum every week. Broadcasting 8-10pm KST nightly.
June 30, 2022
The Drop with Danno
Don Raye – Standing In The Rain
John Carroll Kirby - Rainmaker
Tom Misch feat Loyle Carner – Water Baby
Vagabon – Water Me Down
Eddie Kendricks – Date With The Rain (12” vers)
Kevin Mark Trail – Rainbow Girl
Zero 7 – Salt Water Sound
Paul & The Tall Trees – Over The Echoes
Jazzanova feat Rachel Sermanni – Rain Makes The River
Recloose feat Joe Dukie – Deeper Waters
Fela Kuti – Water No Get Enemy
I.
It is 20 hours past midnight as the rainy season is officially upon us, so hoping that your phones and GPS gadgets are taking you to where it’s cool and dry tonight. However, unlike most people who frown at the rain we do indeed embrace it this Thursday, scribbled onto the scrolls as June 30, 2022. This is Danno just so ya know warming the towels from studio 2 GFN HQ in downtown Gwangju, how do you do? Tonight with it being Thursday our Sampled & AMPED funk punk soul rock thing is in full effect, and with a slow week in music and the rain doing its on-off changma cheol thing here as June ends, I thought in our first hour we’d play some rain dance favorites in the first half. Dan Lloyd of course busts in the door with this week’s AMPED rock feature, and we’ve got a great highlight of some key rock performances from this past weekend’s Glastonbury festival, with Fontaines DC, Turnstiles, Jack White, and of course, Paul McCartney being key highlights. But that’s all for later and for right now it’s time for Don Ray to make it rain here in the studio & THIS is The Drop.
Don Raye – Standing In The Rain
Quarter one of The Drop on your Sampled and AMPED Thursday has lit up the rained upon audio big top for this evening. (Korean) What’s up Drop Gangsters, Danno here doing the rain dance in studio 2 for the first hour tonight and for the opener that cut was by Don Ray from 1978 called Standing In The Rain, part of The Garden of Love LP.
True name Ray Donnez, this was his only solo album, but the French disco & dance music producer is more famous as being Cerrone’s keyboardist and also working studio sessions for Santa Esmeralda during his prime years around this time.
Standing in the Rain was also featured on Zero 7’s Another Late Night DJ Mix from the early 2000’s, which gave the tune previously forgotten outside of Europe & disco afficionado circles newfound fame. Another Late Night is the old moniker of the Late Night Tales mix series, still going very strong with some of the biggest names in music making a DJ mix along with one original song for their contribution to the compilation.
Unfortunately, Don Ray passed in March 2019, may he rest in power. Gotta have the back room and studio guys to truly make the magic happen.
Just a quick reminder…#9870 (50/100)…stream
So, as noted previously we’ll be worshipping the water gods for our first hour this evening, and up next we have cuts from John Carroll Kirby, Tom Misch, and Vagabon to keep the water flowing, and naturally we’ll let you know the accumulative measurements after the precipitation. THIS is The Drop with Danno on your Sampled funk & soaked Thursday.
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Back on The Drop what is snappin and/or tappin tonight, Drop Gangsters (Korean)? Danno here on the mic in GFN HQ studio 2. Rainy season officially upon us and we’re embracing it with some of our waterlogged favorites for the first hour this evening. Dan Lloyd of course joins us once again for our AMPED rock weekly after 9pm, and we have a Glastonbury spotlight to finish the show in part 4 so stay tuned for that. To recap, we just heard from…
John Carroll Kirby – Rainmaker (…a tune put out right in the midst of last year’s rainy season in late June. This was one of the lead singles to the artist’s album Septet, and like Don Ray before, John Carroll Kirby is a guy with not a huge profile as far as leading man hype goes, but is one of the most respected players in music having worked with Solange Knowles, Frank Ocean, and Norah Jones just to name a handful.)
Tom Misch feat Loyle Carner – Water Baby (…leave it to Tom Misch to always find some of the undercover bubbling up cats before the bubbles even started doing their thing. This tune from Misch’s 2018 album Geography features rapper Loyle Carner, whose 2019 album Not Waving, But Drowning really put the understated MC on the map.)
Vagabon – Water Me Down (…another 2019 cut to end the block here, taken from Vagabon’s self-titled sophomore album. True name Laetitia Tamko, the artist is based in Cameroon and Tamko was responsible for the entirety of the album’s production and artistic output.)
Quick …#9870, social media.
Taking it to the end of the first quarter now we’re gonna keep up the rain dance with one of our favorites from Eddie Kendrick’s greatest album My People Hold On, but this is the extended 12” disco release of Date With The Rain, and we’ll let that one go for a swim to end off the first quarter tonight. THIS is The Drop under water but still breathing on our Sampled funk & soul Thursday night.
Eddie Kendricks – Date With The Rain (12” vers)
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The Drop commences quarter 2 of our nightly game of audio mirrors on this rainy season Thursday special. Danno here all hail the rain gods from studio 2 GFN HQ, making sure the audio towels are hung & heated tonight. Dan Lloyd joins us starting in part 3 for our AMPED rock hour. Also a bit of a slow one in new music for this week, so it’s a Glastonbury rock special to end the gig tonight. However, many rivers to cross until then, so let’s recap...
Kevin Mark Trail – Rainbow Girl (…this is a teaser single from the famed Streets vocalist’s solo album from last year called Heart String. The entirety of the album is dedicated to his daughter who is separated from him due to geography, so he often misses her dearly. Big up to Kevin, one of our favorites here on the show.)
Zero 7 – Salt Water Sound (…if there’s any song that literally sounds like water, it’s this one from Zero 7’s debut from 2001 called simple things. Of course, if there’s any group of people that knows the sound of that, it’s the people of the UK, where it’s pretty much rainy season forever, all the time.)
Moving to the next block, the rain dance continues with another trio of favorites and some nice long cuts to sink into fully. First up is our man Paul Schalda and his Tall Trees then we have Jazzanova and Recloose doing their thing to complete the triangle, and we’ll talk about all three while sitting next to the rushing river when it’s time. THIS is The Drop on your Sampled funk & soul Thursday.
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The Drop and pretty much everything else moves to the beat of the rain & toward 9pm inexorably this evening, our Sampled funk & soul rain dance continues here in part 1 & 2. Dan Lloyd takes over momentarily with some new rock in part 3 then some Glastonbury highlights to finish the show in part 4. Now, to the recap we just had a few long players right there, so let’s denote what we did...
Paul & The Tall Trees – Over The Echoes (…as far as songs from Paul Schalda’s debut album, our personal favorite. The album is called So Long and was dropped in 2019 courtesy of Big Crown Records. Really great long player if you haven’t checked in full. Big up to Paul.)
Jazzanova feat Rachel Sermanni – Rain Makes The River (…a rainy favorite here at Drop Central, whether you’re talking about the tune itself, the album, or the band. Jazzanova of course the stalwarts out of Berlin who run Sonar Kollektiv. This appeared on their 2018 album The Pool. Rachel Sermanni is a Scottish singer-songwriter who released her own debut album in 2012 and continues to collaborate with a slew of worthy artists, this just being one example.)
Recloose feat Joe Dukie – Deeper Waters (…this one dropped on the Detroit-born artist’s 2008 album Perfect Timing. Recloose true name Matthew Chicoine got signed to Carl Craig’s Planet E back in 1997 as a result of him putting a mixtape into Carl’s takeout sandwich, with the artist having recognized the famed Detroit DJ & producer when Craig entered the Russel Street Deli where Chicoine worked. He now resides in Auckland, NZ and I wonder if it’s raining in either place tonight.)
Moving along to 9pm and Dan Lloyd turning it up to 11 in just a sec, we got one more tune to let flow and complete the worship of the water gods tonight with what’s pretty much our favorite in the subgenre. You might complain about it, you might hate it, and water might kill your loved ones or even save them, but as Fela and Afrika 70 sagely point out on this one, water no get enemy. That’s gonna be it for our first 57 and Dan Lloyd arrives shortly, but for now THIS is The Drop fully drenched at halftime.
Fela Kuti – Water No Get Enemy
III & IV Critical Mass
Megadeth - We’ll Be Back
Ozzy Osbourne – Patient Number 9
Willow - it’s my fault
Brutus - Dust
Osees - Perm Act
Sam Fender – Seventeen Going Under (Glastonbury 2022)
Paul McCartney - I've Got a Feeling (feat. John Lennon) (Glastonbury 2022)
Fontaines DC – I Love You (Glastonbury 2022)
Turnstile – Blackout (Glastonbury 2022)
Jack White – Seven Nation Army (Glastonbury 2022)
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Half the World Away (Glastonbury 2022)
Megadeth - We’ll Be Back
Megadeth have formerly announced their highly anticipated new album The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead!, arriving September 2nd. The thrash legends also shared the video for lead single “We’ll Be Back.”
Dave Mustaine and company bust out of the gates with an absolute ripper. Lightning fast riffs are bolstered by machine-gun drumming — appropriate given the song’s war-themed lyrical content. The hyper-realistic music video depicts those words quite literally, featuring close-quarter military gun battles (viewer discretion advised).
The release date announcement and new song come after months of hype and speculation. We’ve known the album title for some time now and heard snippets of audio, but fans can finally relish a full track. Bass on the single and album was played by Steve DiGiorgio following the ousting of David Ellefson (whose parts were subsequently removed); however, Megadeth-alum James LoMenzo has since stepped in as the band’s full-time bassist.
“For the first time in a long time, everything that we needed on this record is right in its place,” Mustaine said via a press release. “I can’t wait for the public to get hold of this!”
The album’s core tracklist features 12 songs, plus two additional bonus tracks on the digital version. As revealed in the press release, the lead title track is a “personal” one — possibly inspired by Mustaine’s battle with throat cancer. Other notable takeaways include an Ice-T feature on the song “Night Stalkers” and a guest appearance from Sammy Hagar on the final bonus track “This Planet’s on Fire (Burn In Hell).”
Ozzy Osbourne – Patient Number 9
Ozzy Osbourne has announced his new album, titled Patient Number 9. In advance of its September 9th release date, the Prince of Darkness has unveiled the title track, featuring guitar work by fellow rock legend Jeff Beck.
Along with Beck, the epic seven-minute song boasts an all-star cast of musicians that includes Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith on drums, Metallica’s Robert Trujillo on bass, Zakk Wylde on guitars and keyboards, and producer Andrew Watt on backing vocals, guitars, and keyboards.
Regarding the single, Ozzy stated, “The song is about a mental institution. Having someone like Jeff Beck play on my album is just incredible, a total honor. There’s no other guitar player that plays like him and his solo on ‘Patient Number 9’ is just jaw-dropping.”
In addition to the above musicians, the album Patient Number 9 includes guest lead guitarists Eric Clapton, Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, and Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready, as well as session work from Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan, Jane’s Addiction’s Chris Chaney, and late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.
Willow - it’s my fault
WILLOW dropped her confessional new single “ it’s my fault” on Friday, June 24th via MSFTSMusic/Roc Nation along with a performance video of the track.
In the visual, the Hollywood progeny finds herself staring out the window into the pouring rain before picking up her electric guitar and singing, “Met her at a party, I said, ‘She seems nice’/ Every time I thought about it I got butterflies/ And when it turned out we agree that she’s all right/ Never thought I’d be trippin’/ Off all the lost time/ That I said it was fine.”
“It’s all too often in tender emotional states we try to blame our hurts on other people,” the singer said in a statement. “Even though none of us are perfect, in some capacity it’s us who allow ourselves to get into situations that don’t serve our highest purpose. ‘it’s my fault’ explores what it’s like to hold ourselves equally accountable for the emotional pain we feel while also allowing ourselves to be human and fully process ALL of our feelings without shame.”
The single serves as the lead preview of WILLOW’s forthcoming follow-up to 2021’s lately I feel EVERYTHING, which is due out sometime later this summer.
Brutus - Dust
Belgium trio Brutus have returned with “Dust,” their first new song in two years.
The track hails from the band’s recording sessions for its forthcoming third studio album. Frenetic guitar playing entangles dissonance and melody as singer Stefanie Mannaerts delivers impassioned vocals. The abundance of lyrical content forces her to race through each verse, with the exasperation adding to the song’s manic effect.
“‘Dust’ was born out of the frustration of having friends with demands and expectations that were way too high,” the band remarked in a press release. “It’s a song about being at breaking point; pissed off about everything and everyone. ‘Dust’ is honest, direct and unfiltered. It’s a very special and personal song for us, which is why we wanted this to be the first new song for people to hear.”
Brutus composed the track at their rehearsal space in Ghent, where they’ve spent the last 18 months working on their new album off and on. The press release states that the “timeline was fractured” due to lockdown and “the band’s focus on simply enjoying the otherwise ordinary moments of their friendship.”
Osees - Perm Act
Last month, the ever-prolific John Dwyer announced a brand-new Osees album, A Foul Form, due out on August 12 via Castle Face Records. Along with the news came a lead single, “Funeral Solution.” Now, there’s a follow-up track, “Perm Act,” and it comes with a video directed and animated by John Harlow.
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Clattering and urgent, “Perm Act” is decidedly anti-cop. As Dwyer tells it:
Who likes a cop?
Other cops.
After years of having unpleasant to violent encounters with police, I had the thought that wouldn’t it be fun if they loved each other so much they ate each other…a sort of dark comedy contemporary and executive branch based “a modest proposal.”
Problem solved?
The violence would hit such a high pitch that they just frenzied like sharks with chum.
I saw with my own eyes two of the biggest knuckleheads i grew up with go on to have careers in law enforcement emulating the beatings they regularly took when they would mouth off to a cop.
These guys were most definitely not fit for gun ownership, let alone policing others.
Good luck out there.
Sam Fender – Seventeen Going Under (Glastonbury 2022)
Paul McCartney - I've Got a Feeling (feat. John Lennon) (Glastonbury 2022)
Paul McCartney and his late band mate John Lennon were reunited at Glastonbury Festival, singing the Beatles hit I've Got A Feeling, thanks to the magic of technology.
Sir Paul, who become the oldest solo act to headline at Glastonbury Festival, took to the Pyramid stage 18 years after his last appearance at the Worthy Farm five-day extravaganza.
The former Beatle celebrated his 80th birthday exactly a week ago.
Wearing a Mandarin collar navy jacket - a nod to the band's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band era - he stripped down to a waistcoat part way into the set.
Seemingly unshaven and with his hair looking neat, but long in the back, the Liverpool-born singer cut a relaxed figure and was at ease with the crowd throughout the lively performance.
In a set full of surprises, Sir Paul saved the best until last, telling the heaving crowd he would "play live with John on tour", thanking The Lord Of The Rings director Peter Jackson who he said had made it technically possible.
Calling it "so special", he went on: "I know it's virtual, but there I am singing with John again. We're back together."
Fontaines DC – I Love You (Glastonbury 2022)
Turnstile – Blackout (Glastonbury 2022)
The rumours were in place well before Glastonbury had even opened its gates. Alongside expected ‘surprise’ sets from Hertfordshire singer-songwriter George Ezra and White Stripes icon Jack White (they both happened), one bit of gossip being spread across the festival refused to die: Green Day were going to rock up to the tiny BBC Introducing Stage on Sunday evening.
Ultimately, it didn’t happen - the slot ends up belonging to a Yungblud DJ set - but those looking for a fix of punk rock in 2022 would have been far better served walking up the road to the John Peel tent, where hardcore’s most vital modern band Turnstile are busy tearing Glasto a new one.
Over a dizzying, propulsive, hour-long set that comes immediately after Amyl And The Sniffers kicked off the afternoon’s punk rock proceedings, the Baltimore five-piece turn a busy, thousands-strong tent into a swarming, moshing, jumping, crowdsurfing sea of bodies. Singer Brendan Yates remains as magnetic a presence as you’ll find in rock music today, strutting around the stage and jolting, bopping and jumping less like a man fronting a band and more like a human instrument plugged directly into the PA. He’s already in the crowd by the time fourth song Blackout is dropped, somehow emerging with a random acoustic guitar in his hand that he merrily strums before throwing it back to wherever the hell it came from.
Jack White – Seven Nation Army (Glastonbury 2022)
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Half the World Away (Glastonbury 2022)
Four songs into an underpowered Pyramid set, Noel Gallagher comes clean. “I’m going to play a few more tunes that you don’t give a shit about. They’re for me. But if you stick around, after that there’s going to be a lot of very happy people in bucket hats.”
The relief is audible. Earlier, some particularly hopeful festivalgoers had been overheard speculating about whether this set was in fact a smokescreen for Glastonbury’s white whale, a Pyramid stage Oasis reunion. That was never a going concern, of course – indeed, if anything, the positioning of this set felt like Noel sticking two fingers up to his brother, after Liam’s own massive shows earlier this summer. “You’re going to headline Knebworth, are you? Well how about I play the Pyramid stage directly before our mutual musical hero Paul McCartney instead? Beat that.”
So hopes of an Oasis reunion dashed, the fear was that Noel, always the more obstinate Gallagher, would add insult to injury by glowering through a set of half-known High Flying Birds tracks, and everyone else would have to entertain themselves before the real crowd-pleaser arrived later that evening. Those early signs weren’t promising; the lone highlight among a succession of dour mid-tempo tracks was Noel’s beloved backing singer Charlotte Marionneau playing the scissors.
But Noel also has a pretty decent understanding of how the Pyramid works. “The main stage isn’t your crowd, it’s a Glastonbury crowd,” he said in an interview ahead of this set. And a Glastonbury crowd at 7.30pm on a Saturday wants a massive pre-Macca singalong. So Noel obliges in the second half of his set with what is essentially an Oasis starter kit. Supported by his High Flying Birds regulars Gem Archer, Mike Rowe and Chris Sharrock, as well as some soulful backing singers and a smattering of horns, he launches into his top-tier material.