Sunday, January 26, 2014

La Casa Encantada - Show # 13 - Jan. 24 2014 - Of Cabbages and Kings


The Haunted House (La Casa Encantada) is a music show on KUSF.org radio in San Francisco (Fridays at 3:00 PM PST on kusf.org or on itunes>radio>college>kusf).
This is the 13th show, aired Jan. 24th 2014, and we celebrated the works of Lewis Carroll with a hodge podge and a hotchpotch of a show. A verituous gallimaufry in which we had everything from Doo-wop to Italo-Disco made in France and all you can think of in between (that's THREE prepositions ending ONE sentence).
Frumious Mambo, Uffish Folk, manxome Afrobeat, plus elephants and monkees, cabbages and kings, pawns and roots, rooks, Reggae... From a Flamenco singer born in 1878, such as Manuel Torre, to Italo-Disco from the 1980s: more than a century of songs covered in one hour!  
Donovan, the Incredible String Band, Dylan, Captain Beefheart, T Rex, Pérez Prado, Mohamed Rafi and Asha Bhosle, Smiley Lewis, Magazine 60 and Fela Kuti are some of the artists that we had in this show, with music about going through the looking-glass, the Jabberwocky, the Mad Hatter, and all the pieces of chess from the Pawn to the Queen, and two different endings!

Monday, January 6, 2014

Your Ghost Host Goes West - La Casa Encantada - Show # 12 - Jan. 3 2014

The Haunted House @ KUSF - Show 12 - "A Spaghetti Western" Jan 3 2014 by Casaencantada on Mixcloud

The Haunted House (La Casa Encantada) is a music show on KUSF.org radio in San Francisco. This is the 12th show, aired Jan. 3 2014. We celebrated the New Year paying homage to Spaghetti and Zapata Western film director Sergio Leone (b. Jan. 3 1929), following his filmography from "For a Fistfull of Dollars", "For a Few Dollars More" or "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" to later films like "Once Upon a Time in the West", "Duck, You Sucker!" or "Once Upon a Time in America", and playing music related to these films: from Irish fiddling to Cowboy ballads and everything in between: surf, corridos from the Mexican revolution, Western-inspired reggae, French and Italian Pop and more, including two amazing Spanish renditions of Morricone's famous soundtrack themes to these Spaghetti Westerns.
Join us and learn about the history of songs like La Cucaracha or Adelita!
With Serge Gainsbourg, Rita Pavone, Jim Morrison (Sligo fiddler, not "the other" Morrison), Upsetters, Los Amaya, Esquivel, Lydia Mendoza...