W♥M038: Andrea Gerak and meet Sally!

 12/29/2008 10:37:02  ♥ written by vu ()

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We're back from Christmas hiatus. Considering the majority of my Sundays are taken up because of managing schedules, interviewing, and editing the show, so I am no longer actively requesting bands to come onto our show. It is part of our 2009 strategy which I'll address in January. Let's just say that the volume of music review in 2009 will not be as much as this/last year (as per my request).

However if you are serious about being on the radio program, please email me with the subject title "Podcast" and I will get back to you with an available schedule.

The audio recording is excellent, I'm using a new USB Logitech microphone, say goodbye to the analog mic! I'm also using a brand new Skype recorder called Call Graph - which seems to make its money off advertisements via their Call Graph Browser. It's free and worth checking out if you're into doing some Skype Recording.

I don't like how it records my audio on the left speaker, and my guest on the right (I ended up making the file as mono).

Andrea Gerak - Edes Gergelem Andrea Gerak & Barozda See Also Enya http://weheartmus... First off, I've edited together a few video sessions and we're going to call it a Holiday Buyer'...

PART ONE: ANDREA GERAK
andreagerak.com ♥ myspace.com
We recently mentioned Andrea Gerak and I'm happy to have her on the show to talk about her mostly-Hungarian traditional music.

She has three albums, Authentic Hungarian Village Music, Árva az a madár (Lonely Is The Bird), and Madárka, madárka (Little Birdie).

Download Andrea Gerak's Segment (19 mins)

We touch on:

• her background, from Hungary to Sweden
• "Rorogwela"
• All of her albums and the musicians that played on them
• She's looking forward to playing more live gigs and currently working on new music
• The story behind "Édes Gergelem" (My Sweet Gergelem).

PART TWO: SALLY!
schnitzelsafari.blogspot.com ♥ sally.weheartmusic.com
If you aren't familiar with Sally, she's one of W♥M's active writers, based in Australia.

So, join Sally and I, as we reminisce on days of yore, when music was hard to come by. When we were still trading mix cassettes, when we live and die by the next issue of Select Magazine.... Unfortunately all the lovey dovey Blur and Pulp trivia was toss out due to the audio software failing to capture Sally's microphone the first time around. What was left was a 50 minute of me talking to myself - which is way creepy.

So Sal was generous enough to re-do the recording, this time with her rock and roll Singstar microphone.

Download Sally's Segment (32 mins)

And we sang about:

• Sally's gift-to-herself ABBA Singstar game and microphone
• we struggle to remember the Tears For Fears cover song by Gary Jules ("Mad World")
• Kill the Cod fanzine
• Supergrassy Furry Animalsssss
• Choose 1995, Triple J, RAGE, and other musical things
• John Farnham and Jet
• Jarvis Cocker seduced Sally
• "Cities Bands" (I have an idea what that means, but it's not a term I'm aware of) "Shitty bands" (damn aussie accents), the Internet and the "Golden Age of Australian Bands"
• Schnitzels: the mysterious love of schnitzels
• Britpop Night, upcoming Primal Scream, expensive Razorlight concert ($60 AUD/$40 USD), Charlatans,
• Sally's unabashed love for Mental as Anything