Users/BrianAng

Brian is a musician, poet, KDVS DJ, and creative writing graduate student.

He has played on KDVS and at Delta of Venus, Picnic Day, and the Wiki Wacky Woo.

Poetry awards include first place in The Pamela Maus Contest in Creative Writing in 2008 and a UC Davis Undergraduate Fellowship from The Tomales Bay Workshops in 2007. He was a poetry editor for the 2007 edition of Produce.

He is the host of Farewell Transmission on KDVS. He was a judge with the KDVS panel for the 2007 Search Party contest.

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Freeform Radio 

KDVS 90.3 fm—13-19 April 2008

I think it’s long distance.  That could be.
Are they in Yolo or Solano?  I don’t recall.
Good evening, good night, good everything, hello.
How’s it going?  It’s going really well, really well.
Take it back a little bit.  Nice.  Let’s give it a listen.
Cigarette smoke releases harmful gases like carbon monoxide.
That’s the question that has to be asked this Sunday morning.
What would you do, what would happen if He came back?
We have special guests who offer solutions in an attempt
To solve problems of students in the community in light of scripture.
You just heard a big set of old Jamaican reggae and ska music.
And we’ll tell ya what ya heard.  The Jamaicans with “Baba Boom,”
Before that Eric Donaldson with “Cherry Oh Baby,” the original version.
Cedella Marley died last week, mother of Bob Marley.
Thank you Cedella for Bob. Alright up next, gonna play a little Bob.
I’ve been off the air for such a long time.  It’s nice to be back.
I’d like to thank Papa Wheelie very much for bringing such great sounds.
Brian Ang is out of town so I’m subbing for him today.
My name is Scott, I’ll be with you ‘til 7pm.
And we just heard from the compilation Psych and Prog Excursion.
We’re doing a live broadcast here from the Mondavi Center at UC Davis.
This is the UC Empyrean Ensemble, next up is “Piano Etudes.”
Track called “Rock and Roll Itch” which you can find on the collection
Problem Child.  One of the “Buffalo Bops,” fantastic reissue.

And I might as well do a setlist for y’all
Before playing some public service announcements.
You just heard Living Legends with the song
“Forces of Nature” on the album Almost Famous.
Alright, Yeah!  That was, I think everyone
Knows that song.  No, we can talk about it.
What you heard was a song called, lemme see, that was
Nightmares on Wax with a song called “Night’s Interlude.”
Before that was Alain Goraguer.  Disaster would follow if we leave.
Well I think it’s important to distinguish between people.  This is Mr. Glass.
The show is the Good Good.  10:30.  Last thing you heard
Was Miles Bonny with “You,” Erykah Badu before that with “Me.”
Solidarity from all of us.  It is the least we can do for Haiti.
This Saturday at Picnic Day, they’re going to do a special, extended
15-minute long version of that song.  Many thanks to Elisa Rocket
For the past hour and a half of excellent music.  Thanks so much to her
For preparing us for all the great events.  It’s an attack against the working class.
And what was the name of that bike story?  It was titled “Hang the Bicycle.”
You play a powerful stack of folk.  Aww.  As I’ve been calling him.
But he’s not all folk, he’s got plenty of heart in there too.
Do please mark your calendars for the KDVS Fundraiser.  It really helps us out a lot
And we can’t bring you great radio and events without your support.
This is KDVS News, 90.3 fm in Davis.  I’m beginning tonight,
The show with start now, with Coconut Coolouts, “Messed Up Man.”

Wonderful, fantasmical week, with extraordinariness.
But now I’m going to play you some music.
We were going to have a poll tonight.  Oh yeah.
So if you want to call in, and give us your opinion about this.
It’s pretty cool. But it might be not amusing at all, ridiculous,
Or that just might be a comment.  Avant-garde rock.
Also tried to include a few straight-forward rock songs.  Don’t know
If it’ll completely work out, but that’s the beauty of freeform radio,
Is that you can try out whatever you want.  Ten original songs that were inspired
In one way or another by science.  We are under the attack of the pollen monsters.
Ahh!  So if I start going like, [sniff] during the show, I shouldn’t
‘Cause I’m in a basement at the moment but I apologize for that.
The deserters included more than 100 officers, among them the commander.
In the background we have James Brown and the Famous Flames with a classic,
“Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag.”  We’re really excited, today’s going to be really fun.
Check, what do you have in store for the rest of the… I brought a bunch of different stuff,
I brought some sort of Ital-disco type stuff.  Skeptical about the Maoist landslide victory.
There’s great diversity from one community to the next.
We cannot actually give you a speaking role in what is actually a pre-recorded production.
The oldest school in that state will take on the Nevada Wolfpack.
New stuff by The Okmoniks with “Teenage Timebomb.”
That’s going to be some handy money for you to call in and pledge during this show,
Your favorite show on KDVS. Even if it’s not your favorite show, pledge it during this show.
This is The Flower Vato.  Another twenty eight minutes ‘til midnight.

Tune in next week for some fundraiser hilariousness.
Or excitingness-ness.  Whatever you want to take of it.  Shenanigans.
I’m making candy for anybody who calls in.  Actually the first fifty
People who call in, I’ll make you a special piece of candy.
So we just heard The Icicles, the song was “Sugar Sweet”
Off of their album A Hundred Patterns.  Cute little love song.
What we just heard was Mark Nicholas with the song “Maniac,”
Yes, that’s a cover of that old song that appeared in Flashdance.
Alert, alert!  And that’s off the album Perversions.  Welcome to Counterspin.
Planetary exploration is exciting.  What you just heard
Before that announcement was Celebration with “Hands Off My Gold,”
The Simian Mobile Disco Mix and it’s off a new 12” single.
We envisioned to make Nepal an evolved nation.
This is Miminokoto, a Japanese psych band.  I saw them in the dearly,
The sorely missed Tone Vendor Records.  Right now we are playing
A series of lullabies: “Darkil’ik,” “Lala'ik,” “Dodo'ik,” and “Roba'i.”
It’s Tajik music of Badakhshan.  Congress approves the debt cancellation.
She won an Oscar last year for her portrayal of the queen.
You just heard something brand new by Aja Rose and Gabriel Salomon
Called “Swan’s Key.”  A brand new CD-R, self-released.
We fight over quite a few albums in the 5 to 6 hour trying to decide
Who gets to play what.  I don’t think we’ll double up on anything this time.
I’m Dog Tones.  Be here with you until midnight.
Gonna kick it off here with this track by Sun Ra and his Arkestra.

Lemme quickly backtrack through what we just heard, the last 21 minutes or so.
Actually wait, first, I want to give a shout out to Dog Tones.
It’s your boy, M ja. K representing All Things Fresh here on KDVS 90.3.
Freeform radio, it’s your girl La La Fresh, and your boy Myk Blauuw.
So today we’re gonna listen to a lot of different things.  And we started out
With some Sergio Mendes with “Fanforra (Cabua-Le-Le).”
For the duration of the morning and the duration of the rest of my show.
So stay tuned for some UC Davis alumni and DJ Shadow coming up next.
Welcome back everybody.  A legal and political change is much easier to achieve
Than an economic one.  Old fashion is the way to go.  Old fashion is always mashin’.
Alright, so I have a bunch of 45s that I brought from home today.
You just heard a new release from a band called New Bloods, out of Portland.
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama hold their last debate.
She is not the only one who can talk like that.  I’m here to let you know
That cigarette smoke releases harmful gases.  As always, The Senescent Spectacle,
Truly a senescent spectacle.  Although I don’t know what senescent means
Exactly. The Bush Administration claims the reconstruction of Iraq is underway.
The police rent the house next door so it’s easier to respond to your domestic disturbances.
That was the Electro Group, something from their new CD, Good Technology.
The song was, what song did I play, the first song called “Trauma.”
That was something from a band called T-Boones and that track was called “At the Club.”
You can find that on a compilation called Searchin’ for Shakes.
And you just heard “Blaring Speeches” and “Ants,” both by the band Blank Dogs.
It’s kinda nice to be on the radio.  Pardon my voice, I’m getting over a little sickness.

You just heard “Et tournent les sons dans la garrigue (Réflexion sur l'écriture),”
Numero uno.  From Luc Ferrari, composer, and played by Ensemble Laborintus.
I provide resources and do presentations, sometimes advocacy.  I’m also a weekend
Shelter advocate with the Yolo County Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Center.
You’re listening to S & M Time with DJ May Yang, and this is DJ Sarah Ngywen.
We just heard “Language of Violence” by Hip Hoprisy.
It’s 6:30 a.m. and 39 seconds and you just heard a song by Qulfus.
The song was “Gold Bond.”  And before that you heard a song by Nautical Almanac.
And that’s from their album Cisum.  I’ve had a long day and just want to turn off my brain
And, you know, read about shooting things in space.  A song by Ash Reiter,
The name of the song is “Angie.”  Then we’re going to move on to some Brad Laner
And then to some Of the Curtain.  And so I hope everyone enjoys it.
Do you think Reverend Wright loves America as much as you do?
So what you just heard was Antibalas with their song “Che Che Colé Makossa.”
This is off of a compilation called Rough Guide to Latin Funk.  And the song you just heard
Was off a compilation called A Sound Experiment: Live Sessions from CJSW
90.9 fm.  Progressive Catholics protest outside the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.
Congratulations to all the Sodexo workers who are going to be UC employees.
Those boys have their big record release show over at the Palms on June 14th.  They’re sharing
The stage with their Big Book Records, fellow Big Book Records artist I See Hawks in LA.
And we have a special premium for you guys, I think we have a special premium, but we’re not
Going to tell you about it yet.  We’re not?  Not yet.  Ok guess not.  Maybe in 10 minutes.
A band called Tub Ring, doing “Get Help Now,” it’s off The Great Filter, right there
In the vein of anything that Mike Patton has done on this side of Faith No More.

I’m the Blasphemer.  Scarecrow.  And ‘til, yeah.  Yeah, interview, nice.
So of course, tomorrow, we’ll get back in a second, out at On the Y.
It’s pretty interesting, it’ll be the second track I’m gonna play tonight.  But first
Let’s get straight to, well of course, the first track I’m going to be playing tonight.
I have for you some 80’s alternative, some 90’s, but very, very few.
Ok, I’ll start right off with, with Incubus Succubus.
There’s one called “Pig Meat on a Line,” that was an instrumental track by Elvin Bishop,
As well as all the rest of the tracks to kick off the show this morning.
Yes, I realize that there is far more to UC Davis than the whole farm school image.
Let’s see, Bill Wagman and I are gonna be down here next Saturday,
Where we will beg, plead, ask, cajole, entreat, and try to get you to part
With some of your hard-earned money, maybe your tax refund you got.
We just heard a Genesis heavily influenced band called The Watch from Italy.
They have a unique sound as well but incorporate a lot of the Genesis sound.
Is that heading west against righty Brad McAtee?
Has a chance to end the inning with a conventional double play.
For UC Davis their record jumps up to 16 and 19, 4 and 7 in the Big West.
While UC Davis drops to 25 and 12, 6 and 2 in the Big West, only the second loss
In the Big West Conference with much bigger opponents to come.
Alright, that’s music from Mulatu Astatqe, and that was a track called
“From All the Time I Have Passed.”  That’s from the Ethiopiques collection of music, Vol. 4.
That is what you just heard on The Crimson Airwaves assuming that
You have been tuned in to The Crimson Airwaves, that is my show of course.
So many citizens go on about their business and pay no attention.

	Triumphs And Tragedies Released: December 4, 2006 1. Dead End Streets 2. Burning Alone 3. Twisted Confusion 4. Let Love In 5. Struggle Down The Road 6. Brand New Eyes 7. Beat Back The Darkness 8. Triumphs And Tragedies 9. One More Mile To Go 10. In The Darkest Night	Listen: download stream
	Approaching Clarity Released: November 3, 2005 1. Approaching Clarity 2. Back Alley Blues 3. Tomorrow And Today 4. Daydream Ramblin' 5. Weary Walking Blues 6. Good Times Never Had 7. Gypsy Dreamer 8. Hypnotized Heart 9. Siege Of Ignorance 10. Making Amends	Listen: download stream
	How Much More Death Released: February 24, 2005 1. How Much More Death 2. Moonlit Streets Along The Highway To Dawn 3. Valley Streets 4. The Ballad Of Fieldhand Jack 5. Tomorrow	Listen: download stream

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2005-11-14 10:44:21   I dig your music! —JackHaskel

2006-04-12 20:10:11   Nice music, the flyers around bus stops brought me to your tunes. —TusharRawat

2006-04-19 20:04:47   Great album... raw, direct music. —JabberWokky

2006-05-10 10:38:03   I'm glad Brian exists —AliceChoe

2007-01-29 11:35:31   Brian is possibly the most open, friendly, accessible person you'll ever meet. His phone number, email, as well as all his music is available on his website for free download. He gives away free (not $!) CDs at his shows, and he'll mail you one if you just email him. The world could use a lot more Brian Ang's. —SteveDavison

2007-03-15 01:25:03   Congratulations! —ElisaHough

2007-05-15 06:34:34   I have piles of albums by small bands and local musicians. Almost all I listen to a few times and never listen to again. Brian's work grows on me more each time I listen to it in the simple manner of folk music done well. Give it a listen. —JabberWokky

2007-08-09 11:20:40   Thanks for the correction on the transcription... I was typing out of my lap with the book in front of me. I'm terrible at typing in anything that way. —JabberWokky

2007-08-10 09:44:37   It was from a volume in my collection. I tend to read a poem or three every morning over coffee during my daily review. I also read a bit every day of some other work and journal my thoughts (and usually fill up the margins). I'm currently going through a randomized list of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations and the Everyman's Library volume of Love Poems. My wife got it for my birthday last week. —JabberWokky

2008-01-02 04:31:20   Very awesome Brian. —GraceVoong

2008-12-18 14:07:10   Mr. Young is awesome, good look on throwing the page up —StevenDaubert