Chris Abrahams - Receiver

Experimental Australian composer and member of The Necks Chris Abrahams returns with an album of typically abstract and otherworldly compositions as intriguing and unpredictable as titles like Clung Eloquent, Trumpets of Bindweed and As Tranquil as an Apple suggest. Receiver offers an unsettling mangled blend of strings and electronics that build up an intricate soundscape with hints of soft melody.

Fluid To The Influence is out on Room40 records on April 8

The Prisoner of Mars - A Night Out In The Wrong Shoes

Earlier this year Cambridge musician came on the show to talk about his latest crowd-funded album. The album has been recorded and copies sent to supporters. Everyone else can pre-order it via Bandcamp and listen to the selection of tracks. It's a delicious blend of disco, funk and weird synth gubbins. As Prison of Mars himself puts it: "I pull sounds from here, from there - chuck them together and vomit them into the ether. Many duck for cover, others are willingly hit in the face."

Show: 10.6.14 Night Watch

New music and spoken word including some of the artists who will be keeping me awake at Night Watch at the Junction this Saturday.

Colouring Lesson - Mea Culpa Blues (It's My Fault)

Horse Party - In-between

Japp Blonk - Cadenza

Crookram - Balboa

Ergo Phizmiz - Consequences

The Breaches - Jesus Wept

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - We No Who U R

Euros Childs - Give The Girl A Hand

Kate Tempest - A Hammer

Mouth - Blood Beat

Gaze is Ghost - In Love of Post Apocalyptic Watch Towers

Hollow Mountain - Untitled

Meta-Ex - Spiked With Recursive Dreams [Live Coded Session}

Girl Band - The Cha Cha Cha (Peaks remix)

10.6.14 Night Watch by Headstand on Mixcloud

Show: 29.4.14

29.4.14 by Headstand on Mixcloud

A show with some of the many great tunes I've received recently including a beautiful new single from ex-Brazilian Girls singer Sabina and a couple of tracks from artists on Erased Tapes.

The Fall - Mother Sister (Peel Session)
Ezra Furman - Anything can happen
Edith Sitwell - A Man From A Far Countree [From Façade]
Motor Tapes - Sunshine Moment
David Youngs - Follow My Footsteps
Mincemeat or Tenspeed - Circle Crazy
Melt-banana - Lefty Dog (run, caper, run)
Sabina - I won’t let you Break Me
Fay Roberts with Wooden Arms - Turning Point
Russell J Turner with Wooden Arms - The Dead Start Fires
Elbow - Fly Boy Blue / Lunette
Richard Dawson - The Ghost of a Tree
Malportado Kids - Soy La Pocha
Luka Lesson - 5th Season
Tom Adams - The End
Douglas Dare - Swim
Rival Consoles - Odyssey

Show: 24.2.14 with Tim Clare

This show features the high energy, super funny performance poet Tim Clare recorded at Hammer & Tongue last year. There is also new music from Tom Adams, Shield Patterns and Wooden Arms and old music from Nick Mulvey and De La Soul.

24.2.14 with Tim Clare by Headstand on Mixcloud

Show: 9.2.14

This edition features Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip who recently played the Cambridge Junction and several bands who are playing the city in the coming weeks and months including Melt-Banana who play The Portland in May and Wooden Arms and Heart of a Dog who play Shindig next Friday (14th February)

9.2.14 by Headstand on Mixcloud

Show: 12.1.14

Join me from my private Cambridge studio for another hour of music and spoken word including Wooden Arms and Hollie Mcnish who are both performing at a special music and spoken word event with many more poets including me. Get full details from: https://www.facebook.com/events/237739173052572/?fref=ts.

12.1.14 by Headstand on Mixcloud

Headsound: Jet Jaguar - Five Production Mistakes Even Professionals Keep Making (They're Not What You Think)

Five Production Mistakes is the final EP in a series of 6 released in the last year by the very productive New Zealand musician/producer Jet Jaguar. Featuring spaced-out disco, warped easy listening and glitchy beats gently dissolve and reform in five multi-flavoured compositions.
Jet Jaguar aka Michael Upton is half of another Headstand favourite Malty Media.

Looking forward to more like this in 2014.

Headsound: Cloneliness - Sights

Osaka based Canadian-French artist and musician Charles-Eric Billard has regularly featured on Headstand since the beginning in various guises. His improvisations on found and homemade instruments intrigue with skewed sounds and mesmerising rhythms.

His latest pieces released under solo monika Cloneliness are smoother and more melodic. Acoustic and electronic elements blend into finely crafted performances though still with a refreshing touch of spontaneity. Enjoy the concise 'Sights' then delve deeper into his recordings on Soundcloud.

Show: 11.08.13 with Ian Patterson

This show features poetry from Cambridge poet Ian Patterson reading at CB1 cafe as part of Romsey Art Festival and a varied selection of songs and spoken word old and new.
Don't miss Shindig this Saturday where you can hear Gaze Is Ghost featured on this show along with other artists and musicians.

Doves - Sea Songs
The Love Language - Kids
The Handsome Family - Lizard
Aphrodita Nikolova - A pack of Cigarettes
Gaze is Ghost - Magnus
Ian Patterson - At Romsey Poets
Rue Royale - Crater
Rebecca Clamp - Ghostly Tram Song
Golden Suits - Swimming in ’99
Ivor Cutler - Alone
Six by Seven - More
Walter De La Mare - Nod
Nick Mulvey - House of Saint Give Me
Montano - Undertones (Tim Koch’s Blundertones mix)

11.08.13 with Ian Patterson by Headstand on Mixcloud