Where The Pyramid Meets The Eye

New boss same as the old boss

Leif Halvorson — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:52:45 +0000

Hello humble followers, my show has moved to a better time slot Tuesday nights at midnight, or Wednesday at midnight whichever one makes more sense I guess.

So I am thrilled at the location, much better time for my brand of magic. I have finally received my Sir Lord Baltimore CD’s in the mail, they only made 2 albums so it came as a condensed 2-LP one CD combo, very nice. Check them out.

Also, some new artists I will be featuring:

-Sonic Assassins (Hawkwind splinter group)

-Leaf Hound

-Gandalf

-Andwella’s Dream

-John’s Children

Thanks for listening so far, I try to not fail for all of us. Keep listening.

New time, new artists, thoughts

Leif Halvorson — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:48:50 +0000

It’s been a good semester here at KRUI, despite the weird time slot and the fact that playing this kind of music is not a natural thing to hear at 8 am on a Sunday but still I had some listeners, friends mostly but a few people have been quite responsive. A man in Chicago actually was streaming the show and talked at me for awhile about random artists, a few of which I checked out.

While I am forced to stifle tears for I am but a sensitive man I must put forth awesome list of new artists I have had the fortune of being able to play.

-Sir Lord Baltimore

-Grupa 220

-Mountain

-Kak

-Crazy Elephant

-Klaatu

-All India Radio

-Soft Canyon

-Incredible Hog

So tons of new music that I didn’t know before this show has opened me up to and in turn some of the people I have listened to and all that. Catch me next semester at a hopefully better time slot.

Interesting Finds and Pandora

Leif Halvorson — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:48:35 +0000

An old friend of mine just recently moved back into Iowa City, a fan of Elvis Costello, David Bowie, Gary Numan, all kinds of other stuff, he also had two things I bought off of him that totally made my day and subsequent morning doung my show last weekend. A copy of Led Zeppelin 1 and Fripp and Eno’s album No Pussyfooting. The latter of which is a 2 track vinyl that consists of ambient music and frippertronics (sound looping using a two reel player) which is hard to find a place for but good for talking during the show.

So on top of that I have my Pandora account which I have fine tuned like a knife towards my show because frankly most of the stuff I want to play is either hard to find or expensive so F that, use the expansive power of genome music selection to please my audience and teach me more about the genre I operate in, I certainly do not know everything so the gues what?

The more You Know…

Vinyl erection & lab time

Leif Halvorson — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:30:44 +0000

So before I accidentally deleted it I made this really good argument for how our parents tend not to understand the recent surge in vinyl buying. I put it to them like this:

In the 60′s and 70′s we they of course did not have the convenience of either buying in-line or just going down to a Virgin mega store to purchase whatever album they wanted. They had to go to the effort of driving sometimes across counties to get what they wanted and since you can’t just copy over a vinyl to another one in the comfort of your own home you kept it close to the vest because it had value in many ways not just monetary. We as a generation can just download, torrent, use iTunes shop, or rip it from a friend who currently has it.

So the value of music declines sharply, and the interest in album art goes along with it since most of the time people don’t have CD’s. Let us not forgot the all important hisses and pops that are indicative of the vinyl ecperience. This morning on the show I played my Led Zeppelin 2 vinyl (THe Lemon Song) and although my file on my iPod is probably better sounding, it is never the same.

Also dear friends, I am using the lab at the studio to play over the interwebs, check it out sometime for the Hell of it, it’s or way of moving with the internet age and it streams beautifully so my credit to the staff for making it work.

New time slot, new show, more artists

Leif Halvorson — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:04:42 +0000

Things have changed down here at KRUI, due to some rearranging of blocks my gig has now moved from Sunday morning at 4 am to a more reasonable and less oppressive time at 8 am to 10 am, and since we had an hour left to kill afterwards I was able to convince the powers that be (and good people they, seriously) to let me do an hour long NFL preview. Football, aside from stoner music, encompasses the bulk of my current passions.

As it stands I am now hopefully pulling more than one listener a week and if not that is ok, have to get the word out. And to finalize this blog here is some new music I have been throwing out lately, some of it really worth listening to.

-The Strawbs

-Black Moth Super Rainbow

-Genesis

-Captain Beyond

-Genesis

-Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

-Gong (King Crimson but w/better pop sensibilities)

-UFO

-Roxy Music

Sampling of Artists

Leif Halvorson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:57:42 +0000

So here is a short list of the bands I will feature on my show, not all of them but all could think of at this random moment in time. Currently I am backing up CD’s for the project we are undertaking here at KRUI to backup all of our CD’s onto a digital medium. When I applied to do this I knew what I was getting into, a lot of music though…

-King Crimson

-Rush

-Hawkwind

-Procul Harum

-Brian Eno

-Robert Calvert

-Roky Erickson

-13th Floor Elevators

More to come in due time, many I forgot.

Hurry on Sundown

Leif Halvorson — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:49:46 +0000

To those of you who find yourself on this page you either got coerced by myself to visit or your curiosity was piqued enough to check out my business. Business is good.

It is my goal on my show to explore lesser known music from the proggressive and psychedelic rock era predominantly in the 60′s and 70′s but I don’t stop myself from exploring other finds be it old or new, the canon for this type of music is all over the map and searching (and with help from Pandora) you can find a wealth of F’d up music to listen to however you may choose to do so.

Since I have only done 2 shows my depth of explored musci is so far not great so I am constantly trying to find what might be my next favorite band to cycle on the show, I have had many interesting finds so far and will continue to do so even in the event that not many people probably listen to the show because the timing of it is bizarre.