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13/03/2010

Gideon Coe sits in for Bob with a Californian born, Portland based band, named after a tourist attraction on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf - Musée Mécanique - in session.

Gideon Coe sits in for Bob with Musée Mécanique in session.

First conceived in a museum of antique arcade machines and later actualized in a small Victorian home on the banks of the Willamette River, Musée Mécanique's new album 'Hold This Ghost' began its journey in a high school literature class.

Sean Ogilvie and Micah Rabwin met, started their first band together, played their first shows, and wrote their first jointly-penned songs before either of them could legally drive a car.

Their early friendship fostered a creative partnership that has endured distance, estrangement and more than a decade of their lives.

While living in the Bay Area of California, the two songwriters developed an affinity for the collection of
vintage coin-operated games, player pianos and novelties housed at the Musée Mécanique (Mechanical Museum) located on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf.

Their Portland, Oregon home studio, itself a collection of interesting instruments and antiques,
is peppered in every corner with second-hand flotsam. Tack pianos, trumpets, musical saws and garage sale Casio keyboards mingle among forgotten amateur landscape paintings, broken 1930s-era radios and hand-cranked ice cream makers.

3 hours

Last on

Sat 13 Mar 2010 23:00

Music Played

  • Link Wray & His Raymen

    Rumble

    • Rock 'n' Roll Rumble.
    • Charly Records.
  • The Replacements

    I Will Dare

    • Let It Be.
    • RESTLESS.
  • The Soft Pack

    More Or Less

    • The Soft Pack.
    • Heavenely Recordings.
  • R.E.M.

    Sitting Still

    • Murmur.
    • IRS.
  • Bill Callahan - Jim Cain

  • Gil Scottâ€Heron

    I'm New Here

    • I'm New Here.
    • XL.
  • Stephen Stills

    Love The One You're With

    • Carry On.
    • ATLANTIC.
  • Hyde & Beast

    War On War

    • Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.
    • nonsuch.
  • Son Volt

    Back Into Your World

    • A Retrospective: 1995-2000.
    • WB/Rhino.
  • Midlake

    Fortune

    • Promo CD.
    • COOPERATIVE MUSIC.
  • Fairport Convention

    Who Knows Where The Time Goes?

    • Unhalfbricking.
    • ISLAND.
  • Thin Lizzy

    Jailbreak

    • Lizzy Killers.
    • VERTIGO.
  • Free - My Brother Jake

  • Andrew Morgan

    Turn Your Collar To The Cold

    • Please Kid, Remember.
    • Broken Horse.
  • Sly & the Family Stone

    I Want To Take You Higher

    • Greatest Hits.
    • EPIC.
  • Rush

    The Spirit Of Radio

    • Various Artists Young At Heart.
    • READER'S DIGEST.
  • Elbow

    Switching Off

    • Elbow: Cast of Thousands.
    • V2 Music Ltd.
  • The Besnard Lakes

    Chicago Train

    • The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night.
    • JagJaguwar.
  • Musée Mécanique

    Somehow Bound

  • Musée Mécanique

    The Things That I Know

  • The Zombies

    A Rose For Emily

    • Not given.
    • Promo.
  • Fleet Foxes

    Ragged Wood

    • Fleet Foxes.
    • Sub Pop.
  • Musée Mécanique

    Like Â鶹ԼÅÄ

    • Like Â鶹ԼÅÄ.
  • Led Zeppelin

    Trampled Under Foot

    • Physical Graffiti.
    • SWANSONG.
  • The Blue Nile

    Stay

    • A Walk Across The Rooftops.
    • Linn Records.
  • U2

    Two Hearts Beat As One

    • War.
    • ISLAND.
  • Neil Young

    Heart Of Gold

    • Greatest Hits.
    • Reprise.
  • Laura Veirs

    July Flame

    • July Flame.
    • NONESUCH.
  • The Coasters

    Yakety Yak

    • Atlantic Soul.
    • (Various Artists).
  • The Beatles

    Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey

    • Anthology.
    • EMI.
  • Van Morrison

    Saint Dominics Preview

    • Saint Dominics Preview.
    • POLYDOR.
  • Tamikrest

    Tamiditin

    • Adagh.
    • GLITTERHOUSE RECORDS.
  • Emit Bloch

    My Cabin

    • Dictaphones Vol 1.
    • One Little Indian.
  • Steve Earle

    Pancho & Lefty

    • Townes.
    • New West.
  • The Specials

    Doesn't Make It Alright

    • The Specials.
    • CHRYSALIS.
  • Toots & The Maytals

    Pressure Drop

    • Reggae Music The Golden Era 1960 1975.
    • TROJAN.
  • Jackie Oates

    The Isle Of France

    • Hyperboreans.
    • Unearthed/One Little Indian.
  • Tracey Thorn

    Oh, The Divorces

    • Love And Its Opposite.
    • Strange Feeling Records.
  • The Posies

    Solar Sister

    • Frosting On The Beater.
    • Geffen.
  • T. Rex

    Hot Love

    • The Essential Collection.
    • UNIVERSAL.

Broadcast

  • Sat 13 Mar 2010 23:00

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