On my show this month:
There are two shows from Sean this month.
It's July 2019 and the new releases keep rolling in. Ring of Fire's favourite new discovery this month is Chicago artist Jamila Woods and her album, LEGACY! LEGACY!. On the album she highlights legendary artists, spanning disciplines, genres and decades, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Frida Kahlo, Miles Davis. We feature Muddy (Waters) & Sun Ra. It's not her debut; she first released in 2016. Also wonderful Alice Coltrane inspired work that I can't get enough of at the moment.
Sydney's RMFC features again, saw them recently upstairs at a Newtown pub, fierce, sharp and utterly engaging. Also loving Replacement Bus by Hygiene, a more English song you couldn't imagine and made all the better by a monotone mid-atlantic vocal despair at discovering their weekend has just been slowed down yet again!
New releases from Ring of Fire favourites include a new one from Perth's Erasers who are currently touring Europe, some guitar heaven from London based Kumari, and a great new album from Lee Scratch Perry produced by Adrian Sherwood, the best thing from the dub creator(s) for ages.
We thank Keel Her for her new album and from one of her playlists she reminds us of Brighton personal faves, The Chefs. Eppu Normaali's Finnish version of Reckless Eric's "Whole Wide World" brought a huge smile as does Algerian artist Mazouni.
Also listen out for Sean's other show - a special covering the Sahel Sounds label.

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Biography:
Sean Hocking is the founder and owner of Metal Postcard Records and based in Hong Kong.

An avid Peel listener from the late 70’s onwards he discovered the true breadth of music available between 10:00pm and midnight for many years. Metal Postcard Records follows the Peel/Tony Wilson philosophy of play it, release it, and don’t worry about other people’s opinions too much; they all come round eventually.

"My first DJ experience aged 15 was being asked by older schoolboy Simon Raymonde (Cocteau Twins/Bella Union) to play a six form dance in the dim distant days of Dexy’s Midnight Runners and a three-piece Cure. Since then I have played Sydney warehouses, West Sussex fields, Brooklyn Bars, Cambodian restaurants, Vietnamese Riverbanks, Hong Kong rooftops and too many empty houses with dodgy fuse boxes to mention.”

“Mentioning favourite recordings would be pointless as they change from day to day but I can tell you that amongst my favourite gigs has been Black Flag at the lyceum in 1980 something, The Cramps on their Psychedelic Jungle tour, The Triffids final Sydney concert at the Paddington Town Hall, Julian Cope’s main stage sunset set Glastonbury in 1987, any Ed Kuepper performance over the last 30 years, Konono No.1 in New York a few years back and The Stone Roses at Spike Island was, without a doubt, a great day out. Oh and the three times I was lucky enough to catch Melbourne’s Morning After Girls who should all be considered for sainthood.”"

The launch party for the Cambodian Space Project’s debut single on Metal Postcard Records in Phnom Penh was a revelation as the band was joined on stage by various musical survivors of the Pol Pot genocide who sang and played their hearts out for hours on end. Couldn’t remember feeling such musical joy... Well not since Peel played The Dodgems’ ‘Lord Lucan Is Missing’ for the first time."

A listener (DJ lano) made my day with this comment on Mixcloud ... "When I was 16 John Peel was my 'go to' man for new music. Now aged almost 46, you - Sean - are the person I most look forward to listening to. Many thanks for another top selection!"

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