// Melinda Bronstein: quality Turnip

 

Melinda is an inter-disciplinary artists exploring magic in the mundane. Constructing beautifully wonky atmospheres through improvised vocal drone loops, casiotone, noises and toyses, and found objects.

‘Quality Turnip’ is an hour of eclectic audio tumblings, whirring cassettes and voices wafting in wonky thoughts. There are snippets of conversations intertwined with broken tape player versions of songs and odd little
improvisations.

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Melinda Bronstein - Quality Turnip - 030 - 10.24

Melinda Bronstein - Quality Turnip - 029 - 08.24

Tracklist:

All improvised songs by Melinda Bronstein, the ones over piano were made this week on August 19th, and the rest were made over distorted vinyl by Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Vangelis, Nico and others


Melinda Bronstein - Quality Turnip - 028 - 07.24

Tracklist:

4-trk demos (2006) and improvisations (2024) by Melinda Bronstein


Melinda Bronstein - Quality Turnip - 027 - 06.24

Tracklist:

The Field Guide Radio - Bones & The Fire (Melinda Bronstein Remix)

Angelo Badalamenti - Night Life in Twin Peaks (Instrumental)

Voices: Lily Buchanan, Julie Freeman, Kasper and Lilly, Rebecca Strickson, Mish Harris, Grace Attlee, 

Improvisations: Melinda Bronstein, Simon Lord, Birdie Hamilton, Hannah Wood


Melinda Bronstein - Quality Turnip - 026 - 05.24

Tracklist:

American Kooter -Trans Am

7 Hpschd Seven -Cage / Hiller

Anything –Bronstein / Lord6 –Benedict Drew

Voices: Ben Driftwood, Grace Attlee, Graham Godfrey, Leo Lindsay, Simon Lord, Jem

Improvisations: Melinda Bronstein, Simon Lord, Birdie James Hamilton


Melinda Bronstein - Quality Turnip - 025 - 04.24

Tracklist:

Wonky Cassette versions in no order:

Vangelis – Abraham's Theme

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five – White Lines

Philip Glass – music in 12 parts (parts 1& 2) excerpt

Reading from: 'South of the Border, West of the Sun' by Haruki Murakami

Voices: Hannah Wood, Mish Harris, Emily Slime, Lily Buchanan, Lynda O’Neil, Maggie, Hannah Wells.

Improvisations: Melinda Bronstein, Simon Lord, Haruki Shimazono.


Melinda Bronstein - Quality Turnip - 024 - 03.24

Tracklist:

Wonky Cassette versions in no order:

Classic Rock Orchestral Version - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

First Love - Mary Youngblood

Vangelis - Chariots Of Fire

Maurice Jarre - theme from Doctor Zhivago

Vangelis - Five Circles

The Smiths – Asleep

Excerpt: 'New Forms In Film: Montreaux 1974' Ernie Gehr

Voices: Melinda Bronstein, Mish Harris, Simon Lord, Emily Slime, Billie M Vigne

Improvisations: Melinda Bronstein, Simon Lord


Melinda Bronstein - 023 - 06.23

Tracklist:

Melinda Bronstein - Poem ‘Solstice End’

Far Rainbow - The Blue Hugeness Parts I - IV (excerpt)

Godspeed You Black Emperor! - 09-15-00

Japan - Ghosts

Pere Ubu - Real World

Monkees - Zilch

Osibisa - Adwoa

Tom Ze - Jimmy Renda-Se

Neu! - Leiber Honig

Tortoise / Autechre - To Day Retrieval

Rings - Is He Handsome

Stina Nordenstam - Get On With Your Life

Laurie Anderson - Violin Walk (Live)

Scott Walker - Rosary

Wolfgang Knittel - If We Only Have Love


Melinda Bronstein - 022 - 05.23

Tracklist:

Klára Körmendi - Erik Satie: Gnossienne #2

Talk Talk - Chameleon Day

The Cure - A Reflection

Laurie Anderson - Kokoku

CAN - Moonshake

Kraftwerk - Die Mensch Machine

Super Furry Animals - Pan Ddaw’r Wawr

Yo La Tengo - Point And Shoot

Mighty Baby - Egyptian Tomb

Gal Costa - Tuareg

Josephine Foster - Where There Are Trees

Grouper - Tidal Wave

Jack Nitzsche - Act Of Love

Nico - Eulogy To Lenny Bruce

Euros Childs - Billy The Seagull

This Heat (feat Charles Hayward) - Another Flaming Tune

Hans Otte - Das Buch der Klänge (Part 6)

Sam Cooke - Soothe Me


Melinda Bronstein - 021 - 04.23

Tracklist:

Laurie Anderson - Neon Duet (For Violin and Neon Bowl)

Chicago Underground Trio - The Enormous Room

Ivor Cutler - An Old Oak Tree

David Grubbs - Stanwell Perpetual

Marvin Pontiac - Small Car

The Velvet Underground - Ocean

Talk Talk - Taphead

Animal Collective & Vashti Bunyan - It’s You

The Invisible Girls - Procession

Laurie Anderson - Born, Never Asked

Toumani Diabaté - Ali Farka Toure

Leonard Cohen - Dear Heather

The Walker Brothers - No Regrets


Melinda Bronstein - 020 - 11.22

Tracklist:

Wind Words - Stomu Yamash'ta

Laser Beam - Low

Excerpt #10 - John Cage

Damage - Yo LA Tengo

Theme From Cavafy - Vangelis

Eagle Clan - Mary Youngblood

Last Breath - Low

ways of seeing - anrimeal

You Belong To The Sky Now - El Perro Del Mar

Almost Always Is Nearly Enough - Tortoise

Sex Machine - Flying Lizards

Dancing For Money [Unfinished Outtake] - Talking Heads

Proven Lands - Jonny Greenwood

New Rules For Wendy - The Shining Soundtrack

Ave Genghis Khan - Os Mutantes

The Witch (Made to Measure) - Clinic

Le Song - Electrelane

What Part of Me - Low

Rotor - Cluster

Dr. Baker - The Beta Band


Melinda Bronstein - 019

Tracklist:

A Lover Loves-Scott Walker

Fearful Dream-Susumu Yokota

Logic (Parts 1 & 2)-Mice Parade

I’ve Seen That Face Before [Libertango]-Grace Jones

Unstoppable-Santogold

Aftermath-Tricky

Hold Back The Night-Sinéad O’Connor

When Doves Cry-Prince

Squiggly Lines-Daniel Johnston

Unchanging Window / Chord Simple-Broadcast

Fredag-Dungen

Passover-Joy Division

About You-ESG

Third Uncle-Bauhaus

Title Music From Clockwork Orange-Wendy Carlos


Melinda Bronstein - 018

Tracklist:

Sonderangebot - Neu!

Light Of The Sun - Susumu Yokota

Beautiful Red Dress - Laurie Anderson

Deliverance - Vangelis

It's Our Cathedral - Tiki Erie

The Virgo Supercluster Suite / Orion Nebula - United Women's Orchestra

On Your Own Again - Scott Walker

Dance Of Death - John Fahey

Rejoicing in the Hands - Devendra Banhart

Honk If You're Lonely - Silver Jews

What Should I Do? - The Shaggs

Want Not Want Not - The Roches

Breaking The Hex - Gnod

Nobody's Dancing - Roots Manuva

I Zimbra - Talking Heads

Iron Man - Stereolab

Shadows - Yo La Tengo

In Your Eyes - War


Melinda Bronstein - 017

Tracklist:

Spirits Drifting - Brian Eno

Zamsu - Sigur Rós / Mogwai

24 Track Loop - This Heat

The Piccolo Snare - Super Furry Animals

Shut Up - Monks

You Can’t Kill Me - Gong

Time - Ivor Cutler

Cartrouble - Adam & The Ants

Delirious - Prince

Angry Candy - Autolux

Modern Girl - Sleater-Kinney

Lila Engel (Lilac Angel) - Neu!

Cold Blooded - Rick James

A Beautiful Woman - Ivor Cutler

Old Tom Clark - The Red Krayola

Cover Me - Björk

Oh My Love - John Lennon


Melinda Bronstein - 016

Tracklist:

Anthrax - Gang Of Four

Runnin’ Away - Sly & The Family Stone

You’re No Good - Dee Dee Warwick

Whirly-Bird - Silver Apples

Snowball - Devo

Sunset Coming On - Damon Albarn

Let X=X - Laurie Anderson

I’m On Fire - Electrelane

Parisian Dream - Laura Viers

Les Fleurs - Tindersticks

I Don’t Blame You - Cat Power

A Stone In Water - The Leaf Library

The Gift - Mark Hollis

Hey, Who Really Cares? - Linda Perhacs

Be Dark Night - Phosphorescent

All Is Full Of Love - Björk

House Of Cards - Radiohead


Melinda Bronstein - 015

Tracklist:

Solo Guitar with Tin Foil - Brian Eno & David Byrne

G - Labradford

Wheat Futures - Camberwell Now

Diamond (April) - Emil Richards

(Get A ) Grip (On Yourself) - The Stranglers

Virginia Plain - Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music

I Eat Cannibals - Toto Coelo

Monkeys - Echo & The Bunnymen

Every Day I Have To Cry A Little - Dusty Springfield

Step - Low

Sex, Work, Robots - Super Furry Animals

Animal Magic - Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks

Rachmaninoff - Aerial M

Chinese Bakery - The Auteurs

Johnny Take A Ride - Madder Rose

Colours - Donovan

Been Here Before - Fever Ray

The Way - Bonnie “Prince” Billy


Melinda Bronstein - 014

Tracklist:

Rag For William S. Burroughs - Matmos

Heart Beat, Pig Meat - Pink Floyd

Chromatic - Faust

When The Wind Arises - The Rokes

Newtown - The Slits

Sister Europe - The Psychedelic Furs

She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby

Kestral Dawn - Chrome Hoof

#1 - Animal Collective

Dizzy Dizzy - CAN

Odi Et Amo - Jóhann Jóhannsson

Rerelease Hysteresis - Mouse On Mars

Solitons - The Nameless Book

You Set The Scene - Love

The Way I Feel Inside - The Zombies


Melinda Bronstein - Fresh Freckles - 013

Tracklist:

A Brief Conversation Ending In Divorce - David Sylvian

Restless Waters - Tortoise

Resplash - Camberwell Now

Lights Out - The Nameless Book

Foreign Board - Soeza

I Know What Boys Like - Waitresses

Experimental Music Love - The Magnetic Fields

So Stylistic - FannyPack

Pounds Of Soul - Betty Bibbs

Ghetto Funk - Ike & Tina Turner

Sabre Dance - Takeshi Terauchi & The Bunnys

Shrivel Up - Devo

Your Poison - Low

Chuncho - Yma Sumac

Chimacum Rain - Linda Perhacs

The Fall Of Saigon - This Heat

Hot Shit - Quasi


Melinda Bronstein - Fresh Freckles - 012

Tracklist:

Gate Song - Bis Bara

Traces Of Elements - Rothko And Caroline Ross

Satellite - Elliot Smith

Baby - Iggy Pop

The Tightrope - The Glove

Majhnavea's Music Box - Lisa Gerrard

Noteform - Benge

Desapareceré - Deerhoof

Caramel - Cluster

Taschenrechner (Edit) - Kraftwerk

Asleep - Merz

See Nothing / From Love - Melinda Bronstein / Mike Lindsay (remix)

Garden of Love - Clor

Jocko Homo - Devo

When I See Mommy I Feel Like Like A Mummy - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band

Dog On The Sidewalk - Deerhoof

Still Feels Like Tears - Broadcast

Christine - Siouxsie and the Banshees

Looking Glass Girl - The Glove

Sea Within A Sea - The Horrors

I Don't Remember - Peter Gabriel

5 Years - Björk

Contact - Brigitte Bardot

Good To Me As I Am To You - Aretha Franklin

Careless Love - Camera Obscura

Pass The Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind - Yo La Tengo

Mildred Pierce Reporting (Old Sarge) - William S. Burroughs & Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft - The Carpenters

Flying - The Beatles

Light Returned - Fire stations and The Leaf Library


Melinda Bronstein - Fresh Freckles - 011

Tracklist:

Þversögn - Sigur Rós

What I Saw - Broadcast & The Focus Group

God Only Knows - The Langley Schools Music Project

My Mother Said - Christopher Casson

Pulses - Steve Reich

Glass: Einstein On The Beach - Knee Play 5 - Michael Riesman; Philip Glass Ensemble

Neonlicht (Single Edit) - Kraftwerk

Pedestal - Portishead

No One's Little Girl - The Raincoats

Hlemmur 3 - Sigur Rós

Israel - Siouxsie and the Banshees

007 Model 7: Hellelujah - Karlheinz Stockhausen 

Strugglin' - Tricky

A Pillow Of Winds - Pink Floyd

Procession Of Cherry Blossom Spirits - Six Organs Of Admittance

Hlemmur 2 - Sigur Rós

Juno - Life Without Buildings

I've Got A Secret Miniature Camera - Peter Murphy

Chinese Radiation - Pere Ubu

Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Psychic TV

Automatic - Yuck

Why Oh Why - Laura Veirs

The Name Game 1965 - Shirley Ellis

Pass The Dutchie - Musical Youth

Hlemmur 1 - Sigur Rós

It's Not The Only Way To Feel Happy - Field Music

If You Go Away - Dusty Springfield

Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen

Angels Standing Guard 'round The Side Of Your Bed - A Silver Mt. Zion

Extract From Poppy Nogood "All Night Flight" - Terry Riley

The Village Crier is Crying All Over The Village - The Voices Of Bulgaria

Concerto for Two Pianists and Five Tape Recorders (extract) - Terry Riley


Melinda Bronstein - In/Reverse Indulgence - 010

Tracklist:

Charmaine - Jack Nitzsche

Wilderness Theme - The Pastels

Unnatural Habitat - The Greenhornes

You’re The Only One Joe - Ramses

Like Spinning Plates - Radiohead

Dream / Death - Melinda Bronstein

Hallo Excentrico ! - Neu!

The Sphinx - Nico

Streams - Gnod

Walking & Falling - Laurie Anderson

Choke Cherry Season - R. Carlos Nakai

Still / Time - Melinda Bronstein

Cassetto - Neu!

Leibe And Romanze (Slow Version) - The Slits

See / Nothing - Melinda Bronstein

Theme From Marie - The Berg Sans Nipple

Frosti - Bjork

Jardins - Brainticket

Feeeeling - Mathew Sawyer

From / Love - Melinda Bronstein

It’s Alright - ESG

Pets - Porno For Pyros

Dog - El Perro Del Mar

She Is Dancing - Brian Kelly

Maybe Not - Cat Power

Ghost Dance - Patti Smith

Sad Violin Thing - Nick Cave / Warren Ellis 

A Jewish Triptych: Lamenta - Bulgarian State Television Female Choir

In / Reverse - Melinda Bronstein

Ritual / Looking In - Broadcast & The Focus Group

7 Spoon - CAN

5 Here To There - Michael Nyman

Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road - Robert Wyatt

Taking / You - Melinda Bronstein

The Proposition #2 - Nick Cave / Warren Ellis


Melinda Bronstein - Glass Sea - 009

Tracklist:

Seagulls - PJ Harvey

Albatross- Judy Collins

Man Is Not A Bird - Broadcast

Bird - The Knife

Excellent Birds - Laurie Anderson

The Nightingale - Julee Cruise

Gus The Mynah Bird - Stereolab

Chicken Bones - Melinda Bronstein

Wounded Bird - Heather Woods Broderick

Like A Swallow - Stina Nordenstam

Cuckoo - Kristen Hersh

Pretty Bird - Jenny Lewis

Two Birds - Regina Spektor

Magpies - Joan As Police Woman

Nightingale - Laura Viers

BIrd Flu - M.I.A.


Melinda Bronstein - Glass Sea - 008

Tracklist:

Silken Tide - Sea Glass

Charlie Brown Theme - Henri Mancini

What If Birds Aren’t Singing They’re Screaming - Aldous Harding

Beautiful Way - Beck

Deeply, Deeply Me - Bee Gees

Amorino - Isobel Campbell

Push It Out - Beta Band

Tiny Girls - Iggy Pop

I Only Think Of You - The Horrors

Fell In Love With A Girl - Brakes

Pure Imagination - Gene Wilder

Velvet Days (String Version) - Kristin Hersh

Ghetto Funk - Ike Turner & The Kings of Rhythm

My Mama Said - ABBA

Colonel Hathi's March (the Elephant Song) - J. Pat O'Malley and the Disney Studio Chorus

Stay Up Late - Talking Heads

Cool Water - Laura Viers


Melinda Bronstein - Glass Sea - 007

Tracklist:

Satie: Menu Propos Enfantins - Ce Que Dit La Petite Princesse Des Tulipes. Tres Lent - Klára Körmendi

Don’t Give Up - Peter Gabriel

Poor Moon - Canned Heat

Radio-No-Youni (Comme A La Radio) - Asa-Chang & Junray

Tomorrow - Paul Williams

If It’s In You - Syd Barrett

"John Cage Excerpt #5" - John Cage

Ruby (July) - Emil Richards

Sorrow - Life Without Buildings

Yvette In English - Joni Mitchell

She Moved Through The Fair - Odetta

Question Mark - Melinda Bronstein

Shakin’ All Over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates

The Bargain Store - Dolly Parton

Golden Hair - Syd Barrett

Die Sonata in Urlauten - Kurt Schwitters

The Radio Gnome Invisible Trilogy, Pt. 2: Outer Temple - Gong

Don’t Go Near The Water - The Beach Boys

Aurora - Veruca Salt

R Mountain - Sarah Louise


Melinda Bronstein - Glass Sea - 006

Tracklist:

Blackened Anchor - Laura Viers

Pink Orange Red - Cocteau Twins

Wait - Daniel Ӧgren

I Love You - Ivor Cutler

The Park - Feist

Singing - Wesley Willis

The Witch - The Rattles

Nasty Gal - Betty Davis

John Cage Excerpt #2 - John Cage

The Jezebel Spirit - Brian Eno & David Byrne

Bluish - Animal Collective

I Worn My Elbows - Ivor Cutler

Organ Solo - Neil Young

John Cage Excerpt #6 - John Cage

Debora - Marc Bolan & T.Rex

Earth People - Rameses

Broken Harp - PJ HArvey

My Funny Valentine - Chet Baker

Lean - Ivor Cutler

Come On In - The Music Machine

Purple Rain - Stina Nordenstam

Two Balls - Ivor Cutler

Strangers in The Night - Robert Wyatt

Risveglio Di Una Citta - Various Artists - Musica Futurista


Melinda Bronstein - Glass Sea - 005

Tracklist:

The Call - Sheila Chandra

Melt Your Heart - Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins

He Cried - The Shangri-Las

Rocking Chair - Jane Birkin

Family Tree - TV On The Radio

Jimmy - M.I.A.

Witness (1 Hope) - Roots Manuva

First Time I Saw You - Euros Childs

Seagreen Serenade - Silver Apples

Complex - Gary Numan

Art Decade - David Bowie

Keep The Streets Empty For Me - Fever Ray

The First Time - Roberta Flack

Female Cop - Thurston Moore

Lynchstrumental - Wet Paint


Melinda Bronstein - Glass Sea - 004

Tracklist:

Spock Thoughts - Leonard Nimoy

When Under Ether - PJ Harvey

Safeway Cart - Neil Young

Exercise - with several hands on the piano - Faust

The Cornubia - BEAK>

Yummy Yummy Yummy - Julie London

Meeksville Telephone Answering Message - Joe Meek

Dirty Blue Gene - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band

Jynweythek Ylow - Aphex Twin

Smuckers - Lambchop

Emerald (May) - Emil Richards

Inner Island - El Perro Del Mar

Dream Wanderers Tune - Deerhoof

John Cage Excerpt #4 - John Cage

Subject to the Ladder - Broadcast

Shiva-Loka - ALice Coltrane

Still/Time - Melinda Bronstein

So Glad - David Lynch

The Provider - Angels of Light


Melinda Bronstein - Glass Sea - 003

Tracklist:

Miserere - Ennio Morricone

Into Dust - Mazzy Star

God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot - Buffy Sainte-Marie

Interlude 1 (Wrinkled Earlobes Are A Sign Of Impending Heart attacks) - William S. Burroughs & Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

Drugs - Talking Heads

Past, Present And Future - The Shangri-Las

Illuminine - Thurston Moore

Jennifer - Faust

Blank Like Snow (Movietone cover) - Sea Glass

XI - Richard Dawson and Rhodri Davies

Bown Bown Bown - Françoise Hardy

Hunting Bears - Radiohead

Langue d'Amour - Laurie Anderson

Van Gogh Boat - Michael Wincott

Guitar Solo 4 - Neil Young

Dance Dance Dance - Lykke Li

You Make Me Weak At The Knees - Electrelane

Raining In My Heart - Buddy Holly


Melinda Bronstein - Glass Sea - 002

Tracklist:

Palimpsest - Smog

We’re Gonna Rise - The Breeders

Bridge 1 - Tarentel

Tailors - the Young Knives

The Northern Lights Are Out - Rothko and Caroline Ross

Horses in My Dreams - PJ Harvey

When I Grow Up - Fever Ray

Time - Sly & The Family Stone

The Secret Society of Ants - Gnod

Harp For My Sweetheart - Archie Bronson Outfit

Lust - Low

A Life (1895 - 1915) - Mark Hollis

Tehellet - Jonny Greenwood

Le Pont Mirabeau (Poem) - Guillaume Apollinaire

Just For A While - Firestations

Birthday - Sugarcubes

Steal Away - Brian Eno


Melinda Bronstein - Glass Sea - 001

Tracklist:

Runners Dial Zero - Beck

Laser Beam - Low

Unravel - Bjork

Dream Letter - Tim Buckley

Sand River - Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man

Listening Wind - Talking Heads

Frozen Warnings - Nico

Night Tide - Sea Glass

900 - Breeders

Where is Love - Leonard Nimoy

Willow’s Song - Paul Giovanni

Back of Your Head - Cat Power

Boy Child - Scott Walker

Alifib - Robert Wyatt

Untitled - Andrew Bird