For Immediate Release
October 28, 2004
The John Sinclair Radio Show
Makes Internet Premiere November 22
Legendary Program Host To Broadcast “Live” from Amsterdam
at www.johnsinclairradio.com
on the World Wide Web
(Amsterdam, October 28, 2004)— Legendary American poet/activist and award-winning broadcaster John Sinclair will host a new Internet radio program for weekly broadcast from Amsterdam beginning Monday, November 22.
The John Sinclair Radio Show will feature Sinclair’s signature mixture of music, poetry, interviews, cultural news, political commentary and “live” on-air performances by local and visiting artists.
The John Sinclair Radio Show will emanate from a kaleidoscopic series of intimate sites at cannabis
coffee shops and community arts venues in Amsterdam’s world-famous Green Light District. The show will take place before a “live” audience in real time each Monday evening from 6:00 to 8:00 pm
The John Sinclair Radio Show will be broadcast Monday nights at 10:00 pm at
www.johnsinclairradio.com
Starting November 22, a new one-hour program will be posted each week on the website and then archived at the site for continuous access.
John Sinclair began spinning records at high school record hops in the late 1950s as “Frantic John–Flint’s Youngest Disc Jockey.” He first broadcast by carrier current on the campus of Albion College in 1959 and has since produced and hosted popular radio program series for WNRZ-FM and WCBN-FM (Ann Arbor), WDET-FM (Detroit) and WWOZ-FM (New Orleans), where Sinclair was voted New Orleans’ Best Radio Personality by the readers of OffBeat magazine for five years running (1999-2003) before he left to relocate in Amsterdam.
The John Sinclair Radio Show is programmed and hosted by John Sinclair. Clay Windham of the International Roots Music Collective is musical director. The program is produced and engineered by Henk Botwinik, and Larry Hayden is executive producer. The John Sinclair Radio Show is a Big Chief / CreativeResources / Just Ask Production.
For more information on The John Sinclair Radio Show contact
Larry Hayden
© 2004 John Sinclair. All Rights Reserved.
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For Immediate Release
October 28, 2004
IT’S ALL GOOD BY JOHN SINCLAIR
CD RELEASE SET FOR CANNABIS CUP 2004
(Amsterdam, October 28, 2004)—Legendary American poet/activist John Sinclair, presently based in Amsterdam, is set to release his 11th CD, IT’S ALL GOOD, to coincide with the 2004 Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam November 21-25.
One-half of IT’S ALL GOOD features Sinclair’s verse accompanied by the popular Dutch hip-hop duo Lange Frans & Baas B from a session recorded in Amsterdam in late 2002. The other half of the CD comes from a “live” radio broadcast by John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars featuring MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer and a Detroit horn section recorded by KXLU-FM in Los Angeles in August 1997.
“For some reason these two quite disparate sessions seemed to go together pretty well both musically and textually,” Sinclair muses, “so I combined them to make this album. The selections were issued previously on three different albums now out of print, and I wanted to keep them alive for a while longer because they’re some of my favorite works.”
The title track, a paean to the joys of marijuana use and the trials and tribulations of the victims of the American War on Drugs, was composed in honor of Sinclair’s appointment as High Priest of the 1998 Cannabis Cup. The poet is backed up by Amsterdam rappers Lange Frans & Baas B, who provided the music track and the backing vocals on the chorus, rapped in Dutch and produced the session with Sinclair.
The Blues Scholars session includes the poet’s arrangement and passionate delivery of a Charles Neville text titled “History 101” to music by Wayne Kramer and trumpeter Charles Moore, who also contributed the improvised setting for Sinclair’s four-part “Homage to John Coltrane” suite. Saxophonists Buzzy Jones and Craig Stuart are in the forefront throughout, while bassist Paul Ill and drummer Michael Voelker provide faultless rhythmic support.
IT’S ALL GOOD was produced by John Sinclair for Big Chief Records. The cover design is an original construction by poet/ collagist Mark Fisher of INIUSA.
A CD Release Party for IT’S ALL GOOD will be hosted by John Sinclair at the 420 Café in Amsterdam on Sunday, November 21, from 6:00–8:00 pm. For more information, contact
JustAsk@johnsinclairradio.com
COVEROHN SINCLAIR
IT’S ALL GOOD
Big Chief CD-0002
with Lange Frans & Baas B
John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars featuring Wayne Kramer
Street Date: November 22, 2004
CD Release Party: 420 Café, Amsterdam
November 21, 204, 6:00–8:00 pm
CD PROGRAM:
[1] “It’s All Good” (420 Mix) (5:37)
[2] “History 101” (11:07)
[3] “ask me now” (6:53)
[4] Homage to John Coltrane: “Spiritual” (5:29)
[5] “Consequences”/”Blues to You” (8:21)
[6] “I Talk with the Spirits” (4:20)
[7] “Send In the Vipers” (3:32)
[8] “It’s All Good” (complete) (13:04)
Produced by John Sinclair for Big Chief Productions
[1,3,7,8] John Sinclair, voice;
Dutch text & rap by Lange Frans; music arranged by Baas B.
Recorded & mixed in Diemen, Nederland, November-December 2002
Produced by Lange Frans, Baas B & John Sinclair
Executive Producer: Michael Veling
[2,4,5,6] John Sinclair, voice; Wayne Kramer, guitar;
Paul Ill, bass; Michael Voelker, drums; Charles Moore, trumpet;
Ralph “Buzzy” Jones & Craig Stuart, alto & tenor saxophones
“Live” broadcast recording by KXLU-FM, Los Angeles, August 1997
Special thanks to Michael Simmons, David Kunian, Andy Soloviev & Henry Petras
Produced by John Sinclair for Big Chief Productions
Very special thanks to Don Wirtshafter, Larry Hayden, Mark Fisher & Adam Brook
©(P) 2004 John Sinclair
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