WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from May 19, 2022

Listener comments!
	6:48pm Flash Strap: Hello Explorers! Unbelievably sad to lose Vangelis – he passed 2 days ago, the news came out today I think – but very much looking forward to spending this evening in the expanse of his art
	7:00pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): oh, sad news! Hail the traveler!
	7:01pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Flash and all! Sad occasion but amazing range of samplings over there.
	7:02pm Scott67: G'day Evan & Exploratory! 🍻😎🤙🌏🦩🍍🌴
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hi Mx. Bee! Hi James! Hi Scott!
	7:03pm melinda: howdy all!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: one of my truly dearest favorites from Vangelis, this Freefall
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	7:03pm Scott67: WHAT!?? I didn't hear about Vangelis.😞
	🥁 7:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Well - a Creative Life well worth celebrating. What else can one say.
	7:05pm Flash Strap: Hate to bear bad news Scott
	7:05pm Scott67: Just popped my Blade Runner CD out of rack for a later play.
	🥁 7:06pm Mantarray: sup! looking forward to tonight's obituary.
	🥁 7:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Always prefer to be informed @ WFMU.
	7:06pm Flash Strap: Hi Rev! indeed
	7:06pm Flash Strap: Hi Mantarray
	7:08pm Scott67: He provided the soundtrack to my Halcyon years.
	7:09pm Scott67: I like your Owl!
	7:11pm doctorjazz: Hey Evan, Explorers!
	7:12pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc!
	🥁 7:12pm Aitch: Greetings explorers
	7:12pm Flash Strap: Hello there Aitch!
	7:12pm melinda: celestial tinklies
	7:15pm Flash Strap: this batshit insane tribute to the movies somehow stands as one of the great achievements of the Jon&Vangelis partnership, it probably shouldn't work but it just does imo
	🥁 7:17pm Aitch: Was a head scratcher at the time. But I liked Moroder/Sparks so not that far off
	7:17pm spodiodi: aloha, Flash and Explorerinos
	7:17pm Flash Strap: Hey Spodiodi!
	7:18pm Flash Strap: @aitch: by the time it arrives at the phrase "TOTAL MOVIE" the passion has overcome all my critical faculties
	7:28pm coelacanth∅: hi again Flash, Explorers
	🥁 7:29pm jaywbabcock: I hope there's a way to include Fais Que Ton Reve Soit Plus Long Que La Nuit tonight, if it makes sense!
	7:29pm Dean: One of the LPs I bought at my first visit to Moby Disc records in Van Nuys c.'76, was Heaven & Hell. I subsequently sold it, Albedo 0.39, and Spiral. I particularly wish I'd kept the latter.
	7:31pm Dean: Anderson appeared on Heaven & Hell, one of the attractions for me of the album.
	7:32pm HyperDose: Good evening most friendliest of friends!
	7:35pm Flash Strap: Hello again Coelacanth!
	7:36pm Flash Strap: Hi Jay! hey man you better believe it
	7:36pm Dean: We played China all the time at the record store.
	7:36pm Flash Strap: Hi Dean!
	7:36pm Flash Strap: Hi Hyperdose!
	7:38pm Flash Strap: China and Spiral are particularly great Dean
	7:39pm Doug Schulkind: Hello, beloveds!
	7:40pm Flash Strap: Hello Darling Doug!
	7:41pm Flash Strap: "Floating" written by a certain A. Loafer, a pseudonym of Vangelis'
	7:45pm Flash Strap: really crazy material emerged from this often-overlooked early 70s Paris period, i love to hear the unique sensibility at play in these freak-out happening records
	🥁 7:46pm Aitch: sounding sweaty
	7:47pm HyperDose: That was me, Aitch. Just fired up the humidifier
	7:47pm Flash Strap: this is the sweaty set, we'll cool off in the next set which will have us levitating over cool mountains
	7:48pm Flash Strap: this single is just astonishing i think
	7:55pm HyperDose: Dang! 🐊
	7:56pm Flash Strap: This record has a spotty reputation and quite rightly so but on purely musical terms I think it's pretty exceptional
	8:00pm Dean: Perhaps because of the connection to Yes via Jon Anderson I sometimes confuse Vangelis with Patrick Moraz. His first(?) solo album doesn't generate a vibe entirely unlike V's. Litotes? I mean, V was Greek.
	8:02pm Flash Strap: @dean: Story of I? I'm not sure i've heard it before, I should study up
	8:03pm Dean: Yes. I mean, correct.
	8:05pm Dean: But also Moraz's work on Relayer. The synth tones are sharp, sometimes brittle, a timbre I associate with some of V's late '70s records.
	8:05pm TDK60: Ho Flash, explorers.
	8:05pm headcleaner: Evening, fellow Vangelines
	8:06pm Flash Strap: Hey Ho TDK!
	8:06pm Flash Strap: Hello Headcleaner!
	8:07pm Quinn02: this sounds like a 2022 band
	8:07pm Quinn02: Hello! I am enjoying the show : )
	8:07pm Flash Strap: Hi Quinn02!
	8:10pm Flash Strap: The Beast is so insanely cool, a shocking groove and very weird
	8:10pm Dean: Bowie-esque
	8:15pm spodiodi: very much so, Dean. i thought the same
	8:15pm Flash Strap: yeah i agree as well, particularly in the multi-tracking of the vocals
	8:16pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): :::enjoying all of these sounds:::
	8:16pm Flash Strap: though only released in France and Greece, and scarcely known, this is Vangelis' first solo release
	🥁 8:17pm jaywbabcock: I love this piece. www.ravensingstheblues.com...
	🥁 8:17pm jaywbabcock: (Edwin White of the tremendous Florida rock band Tonstartssbandht on the album playing now)
	8:20pm Flash Strap: i believe i have you to thank for turning me onto that one, Jay
	8:22pm Spooty the Whale: Vangelis tribute very well done sir!!!!
	8:23pm Flash Strap: Earth is Vangelis' first widely released solo album, sort of a continuation of his ideas during the Aphrodite's Child period. It's super cool
	8:23pm Flash Strap: Hi Spooty, thanks pal
	🥁 8:34pm jaywbabcock: crazy if true, evan!
	🥁 8:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...shades of JoeMeek...
	8:42pm Flash Strap: I hear that Rev! weirdly enough... major exotica elements as well
	8:42pm melinda: cool sounds
	8:43pm Flash Strap: god i love this track! little hints of the The Breeze and I in the melody
	8:43pm Flash Strap: @melinda: i agree!
	8:47pm Flash Strap: definite shades of Chariots of Fire here
	8:56pm Dean: Despite having unloaded Vangelis LPs in the '80s, I did recently acquire a copy of La Fête Sauvage. Yep, there are those crisp digital staccato glissandos, if that's even possible.
	8:56pm Flash Strap: so crisp!
	8:57pm Flash Strap: La Fête Sauvage is a really cool record to have, imperfect as an album but a wonderful piece of marginal exotica and a very unusual sonic document
	8:58pm Dean: I was drawn to it not entirely because it was a Vangelis album, but because for a while back then it was ubiquitous.
	🥁 8:59pm Mantarray: enjoying going down this Spiral!
	8:59pm Flash Strap: @Dean: right, the way Mondo Cane was
	8:59pm Flash Strap: going right down with ya Mantarray
	9:01pm Dean: Soundtrack? Can't say I know it, but I'm not a movie person and therefore not much of a soundtrack person.
	9:02pm Dean: Here's another LP we'd spin in the record store.
	9:03pm Flash Strap: yeah, it was the first "Mondo" film, and its soundtrack had a surprise int'l hit so the OST LP became much more ubiquitous than the film or people who'd seen it, you can still find it in pretty much any record store for cheap
	9:04pm Dean: Random thoughts: I'm hearing a slight kinship with Tomita here, but more so with Nik Raicevic/Nik Pascal. You really ought to feature some of that guy's bizarre meanderings. DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS IF YOU ARE STONED.
	9:05pm Flash Strap: Beaubourg is very possibly Vangelis' most experimental/challenging album, i love it
	9:06pm Dean: Raicevic/Pascal was certainly challenging...
	9:06pm Flash Strap: @Dean: oh i've played Head a few times, and i don't mean to contradict you but i enjoy it very much stoned!
	9:07pm Flash Strap: Tomita kinship especially audible in the tones on Beaubourg i think, totally agree
	9:07pm Flash Strap: the squiggles and chirps, etc.
	9:09pm Dean: I love it, too, but I don't get stoned. I have this theory, but we don't need to go there.
	🥁 9:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Would seem he never lacked for either Artistic Vision nor Intent. That is - he seemed to have something to say - & great imagination as well as extraordinary ability to say it.
	9:11pm Dean: I wish I could connect the work of Vangelis to the more traditional Greek music I enjoy. A buddy of mine is married to a Greek woman. He bequeathed me a bunch of Greek music, from pop to classical to folk. I am part Greek, a heritage of which I'm proud for some nonsense reason. I love the music, and I'd love to hear how Vangelis is part of the heritage.
	9:13pm doctorjazz: Been enjoying the sounds, now gone to head home, thanks, Flash!
	🥁 9:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...both sonically & technically a Pioneer - & very Musical...
	9:13pm Flash Strap: Adios Doc!
	9:13pm Flash Strap: Very well said Rev, i totally agree
	🥁 9:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Flipside Doc !
	9:16pm Flash Strap: @dean: I know he was majorly influenced by traditional greek music, but it's hard to tell where that's appearing a lot of the time. he wasn't trained at a conservatory and his compositional approach is highly intuitive and synaesthetic, which makes it hard to identify formal affinities. But I have a track coming up that actually fits the bill to a perfect T
	9:16pm northguineahills: Vangelis!
	9:18pm Flash Strap: Hi NGH!
	🥁 9:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hullo ngh !
	9:19pm Dean: Therein lies another theme for a show: synaesthesia. Some composers and artists evidently had solid experience with the phenomenon. I myself do in a crude way. When I hear some Prokofiev I taste vinegar.
	9:19pm Flash Strap: very strange LP, See You Later
	9:19pm Robm: Hello fellow drummers
	9:19pm Flash Strap: Hi Robm!
	9:20pm Robm: Hello flashstrap
	9:22pm Flash Strap: @dean: this whole album is Vangelis arrangements of Greek traditional music, performed by the powerful voice of Irene Papas
	9:22pm chresti @sf: Hi flash and xplorers!
	9:23pm Robm: If there is anyone from Australia, what time will the ABC give the final results?
	9:24pm chresti @sf: Wow Irene Papas
	9:24pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti! have missed you this evening! impossible not to pine for Chresti when she's away
	9:26pm Flash Strap: Odes is just so massive, it's crazy. Reading the Iliad right now so it's really getting in my head
	9:28pm Flash Strap: possibly the apex of the Jon and Vangelis collaboration here. sublime, epic, vast, goopily earnest
	9:30pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): chrestikins!
	9:30pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): you in sf??!?!
	9:30pm Robm: Hey baba bee @ Chestri howdy
	9:31pm Julie: this is really nice I'd HEARD about jon & vangelis but not actually heard it before
	9:31pm Flash Strap: Hi Julie!
	9:32pm spodiodi: aloha, chresti \\//
	9:33pm Flash Strap: @Julie: yeah I really love it, they really have a special bond & sensibility that totally transcends (when it's clicking, which it does on at least half of Mr. Cairo and all of Private Collection, imo)
	9:35pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): hey there, Robm!
	9:35pm Robm: Hey julie see your on tonight
	9:35pm northguineahills: Hard to tell who's who when there are avatar changes (ie: Rev Rabbit). But, I have my eye surgeries set for June 15th and July 6th, so hopefully I can see normally then. (keep changing the avatars, it makes me investigate, but they all look like monets put in the dishwasher to my eyes right now anyways).
	9:36pm Flash Strap: That's right, everyone STAY TUNED for Julie & Dark Night of the Soul filling in for Cool Blue Flame, right after me
	9:36pm Robm: @NGH good luck with your eye surgery
	9:36pm Flash Strap: Oh NGH, wishing you and your eyes the best
	9:38pm HyperDose: Yay NGH! Glad to hear it's finally getting done.
	9:39pm Dean: I wouldn't complain if you play the sappy track from H&H w/ Anderson.
	9:40pm Flash Strap: this is probably the most sappy Anderson I can fit in before the show has to end, alas
	9:41pm northguineahills: thanks, it's the waiting for an official date and seeing if I can get outside funding (which I got, finally) that's been killing me. (I need a seeing-eye human to help me cross the street during the day, as I can't see the cars or the walk/don't walk signs (my eyesight is better in lower levers of light)).
	9:42pm chresti @sf: Max BBkins! Yes, just got here a couple hours ago! Here at my son’s place!
	9:42pm Flash Strap: oh man i'm so glad you got that funding
	9:43pm Flash Strap: the classic Vangelis afterburn, in full effect here
	9:44pm northguineahills: w/o insurance, it would have been prohibitively expensive. Now, I just need to see if they need to replace my lens or not.
	🥁 9:44pm Aitch: Lost cat came back so can use that avatar. He's had a stroke though and makes weird sounds, ululates.
	9:45pm Dean: NGH: Those aural signals at the lights don't work for you? "Walk sign is on...walk sign is on...etc."? My son hears, "Walk beside your dog."
	9:47pm Julie: I'll be over there wfmu.org... when we are done here
	🥁 9:47pm Aitch: Cool Dark Flame with Julie
	9:48pm northguineahills: @Dean: They only have those in the downtown and the touristy areas. Not along 8 laned streets.
	9:48pm Julie: You got it, aitch!
	9:49pm chresti @sf: *Mx
	9:49pm northguineahills: (here, when they exist, they say "walk, walk, walk" and "wait, wait wait."
	9:49pm Dean: Yesterday I listened to two performances of the Sibelius symphony number 5. Let me urge folks who enjoy the splashes of color in this J&V record to listen to Berglund conducting Bournemouth, symphony 5. I can almost guarantee that you will be blown away.
	9:50pm Julie: congratulations on putting together such an tremendous tribute on such short notice, Flash
	9:52pm Robm: @Julie love how the djs on the stream and the mothership can do stuff like this at the drop of a dime,.
	9:55pm spodiodi: thanks, Flash. great tribute
	9:55pm northguineahills: Thanks, Evan, it's been a Vangelis treat!
	🥁 9:57pm Aitch: Nice, thanks
	🥁 9:57pm Will the Sound Guy: Evan, I've been listening since the beginning.... thoroughly epic journey.... RIP Vangelis!
	9:57pm coelacanth∅: Thank you Evan, i needed that
	9:58pm Flash Strap: Thanks Julie, it was a mad rush that I hope I pulled off
	9:58pm Flash Strap: Hi Will!
	9:59pm Flash Strap: Thank you everyone for listening, it's been so nice to be here with you and play these sounds
	9:59pm headcleaner: Nice stuff, Flash
	10:00pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): thank you!
	🥁 10:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ FS ~

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from May 19, 2022

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May 19, 2022: Vangelis: Unveiled, Twinkling Space

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
Vangelis	Freefall "Freefall" by "Vangelis"	Albedo 0.39	RCA Victor	1976		0:01:23 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	Chung Kuo "Chung Kuo" by "Vangelis"	China	Polydor	1979		0:03:44 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	Unveiled Twinkling Space / Dr. Tyrell's Owl	Blade Runner (Blade Runner Trilogy – 25th Anniversary)	Universal Music TV	2007	orig. 1982	0:09:13 (Pop-up)
Jon and Vangelis	The Friends of Mr. Cairo	The Friends Of Mr. Cairo	Polydor	1981		0:13:55 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Haunted Planet / Psychedelic Mood "Haunted Planet / Psychedelic Mood"					0:25:42 (Pop-up)
The Forminx with Nick Mastorakis	Elephant Twist	Elephant Twist / Ah! Say Yeah 7"	Decca	1965		0:34:55 (Pop-up)
Aphrodite's Child	End Of The World	End Of The World	Mercury	1968		0:36:21 (Pop-up)
Inter-Groupie Psychotherapeutic Elastic Band	Floating	Floating 7"	BYG Records	1971		0:39:27 (Pop-up)
Alpha Beta	Astral Abuse / Who Killed?	Astral Abuse 7"	BYG Records	1971		0:41:57 (Pop-up)
Aphrodite's Child	The Wakening Beast	666	Vertigo	1972		0:52:01 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	The Dragon "The Dragon" by "Vangelis"	The Dragon	Charly Records	1978	rec. 1971 & later released w/out Vangelis' permission	0:53:13 (Pop-up)
Aphrodite's Child	The Beast "The Beast" by "Aphrodite's Child"	666	Vertigo	1972		1:08:08 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	Hypothesis Part II (excerpt)	Hypothesis	Charly Records	1978	rec. 1971 & later released w/out Vangelis' permission	1:10:38 (Pop-up)
Vangelis Papathanassiou	Nuit Verte Ou Rouge Ou Bleue Ou Noire	Fais Que Ton Rêve Soit Plus Long Que La Nuit	Reprise	1972	rel. only in France & Greece, based on the May '68 protests	1:14:42 (Pop-up)
Aphrodite's Child	The Capture of the Beast	666	Vertigo	1972		1:18:50 (Pop-up)
Vangelis O. Papathanassiou	We Are All Uprooted	Earth	Vertigo	1973		1:21:02 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Vangelis	Himalaya "Himalaya" by "Vangelis"	China				1:27:45 (Pop-up)
Odyssey	Sad Face "Sad Face" by "Odyssey"	Who 7"	WWA	1974	wr. Vangelis & rec. during the Earth LP sessions	1:38:07 (Pop-up)
Vangelis Papathanassiou	Sex Power 2	Sex Power (Bande Sonore Originale Du Film)	Philips	1970		1:40:42 (Pop-up)
Vangelis Papathanassiou	L'Ours Musicien	L'Apocalypse des Animaux	Polydor	1973	documentary soundtrack	1:43:51 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	Heaven and Hell (3rd Movement)	Heaven and Hell	RCA	1975		1:44:55 (Pop-up)
Vangelis Papathanassiou	La Fête Sauvage (Part 1) (excerpt)	La Fête Sauvage	Pathé	1976	documentary soundtrack	1:48:55 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	Spiral "Spiral" by "Vangelis"	Spiral	RCA Victor	1977	featuring the Yamaha CS-80 for the first time	1:54:59 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	Beaubourg, Part 1 "Beaubourg, Part 1" by "Vangelis"	Beaubourg	RCA Victor	1978		2:01:27 (Pop-up)
Vangelis Papathanassiou	Chromatique	Opera Sauvage	Polydor	1979	documentary soundtrack	2:12:06 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	I Can't Take it Anymore "I Can't Take it Anymore" by "Vangelis"	See You Later	Polydor	1980		2:15:29 (Pop-up)
Irene Papas	Les 40 Braves "Les 40 Braves" by "Irene Papas"	Odes	Polydor	1980	produced, arranged and instruments performed by Vangelis	2:21:00 (Pop-up)
Jon and Vangelis	Horizon "Horizon" by "Jon and Vangelis"	Private Collection	Polydor	1983		2:26:49 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Sex Power 4 "Sex Power 4"					2:48:52 (Pop-up)
Vangelis	Summit "Summit" by "Vangelis"	China				2:57:48 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:48pm Flash Strap: Hello Explorers! Unbelievably sad to lose Vangelis – he passed 2 days ago, the news came out today I think – but very much looking forward to spending this evening in the expanse of his art
	7:00pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): oh, sad news! Hail the traveler!
	7:01pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Flash and all! Sad occasion but amazing range of samplings over there.
	7:02pm Scott67: G'day Evan & Exploratory! 🍻😎🤙🌏🦩🍍🌴
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hi Mx. Bee! Hi James! Hi Scott!
	7:03pm melinda: howdy all!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: one of my truly dearest favorites from Vangelis, this Freefall
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	7:03pm Scott67: WHAT!?? I didn't hear about Vangelis.😞
	🥁 7:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Well - a Creative Life well worth celebrating. What else can one say.
	7:05pm Flash Strap: Hate to bear bad news Scott
	7:05pm Scott67: Just popped my Blade Runner CD out of rack for a later play.
	🥁 7:06pm Mantarray: sup! looking forward to tonight's obituary.
	🥁 7:06pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Always prefer to be informed @ WFMU.
	7:06pm Flash Strap: Hi Rev! indeed
	7:06pm Flash Strap: Hi Mantarray
	7:08pm Scott67: He provided the soundtrack to my Halcyon years.
	7:09pm Scott67: I like your Owl!
	7:11pm doctorjazz: Hey Evan, Explorers!
	7:12pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc!
	🥁 7:12pm Aitch: Greetings explorers
	7:12pm Flash Strap: Hello there Aitch!
	7:12pm melinda: celestial tinklies
	7:15pm Flash Strap: this batshit insane tribute to the movies somehow stands as one of the great achievements of the Jon&Vangelis partnership, it probably shouldn't work but it just does imo
	🥁 7:17pm Aitch: Was a head scratcher at the time. But I liked Moroder/Sparks so not that far off
	7:17pm spodiodi: aloha, Flash and Explorerinos
	7:17pm Flash Strap: Hey Spodiodi!
	7:18pm Flash Strap: @aitch: by the time it arrives at the phrase "TOTAL MOVIE" the passion has overcome all my critical faculties
	7:28pm coelacanth∅: hi again Flash, Explorers
	🥁 7:29pm jaywbabcock: I hope there's a way to include Fais Que Ton Reve Soit Plus Long Que La Nuit tonight, if it makes sense!
	7:29pm Dean: One of the LPs I bought at my first visit to Moby Disc records in Van Nuys c.'76, was Heaven & Hell. I subsequently sold it, Albedo 0.39, and Spiral. I particularly wish I'd kept the latter.
	7:31pm Dean: Anderson appeared on Heaven & Hell, one of the attractions for me of the album.
	7:32pm HyperDose: Good evening most friendliest of friends!
	7:35pm Flash Strap: Hello again Coelacanth!
	7:36pm Flash Strap: Hi Jay! hey man you better believe it
	7:36pm Dean: We played China all the time at the record store.
	7:36pm Flash Strap: Hi Dean!
	7:36pm Flash Strap: Hi Hyperdose!
	7:38pm Flash Strap: China and Spiral are particularly great Dean
	7:39pm Doug Schulkind: Hello, beloveds!
	7:40pm Flash Strap: Hello Darling Doug!
	7:41pm Flash Strap: "Floating" written by a certain A. Loafer, a pseudonym of Vangelis'
	7:45pm Flash Strap: really crazy material emerged from this often-overlooked early 70s Paris period, i love to hear the unique sensibility at play in these freak-out happening records
	🥁 7:46pm Aitch: sounding sweaty
	7:47pm HyperDose: That was me, Aitch. Just fired up the humidifier
	7:47pm Flash Strap: this is the sweaty set, we'll cool off in the next set which will have us levitating over cool mountains
	7:48pm Flash Strap: this single is just astonishing i think
	7:55pm HyperDose: Dang! 🐊
	7:56pm Flash Strap: This record has a spotty reputation and quite rightly so but on purely musical terms I think it's pretty exceptional
	8:00pm Dean: Perhaps because of the connection to Yes via Jon Anderson I sometimes confuse Vangelis with Patrick Moraz. His first(?) solo album doesn't generate a vibe entirely unlike V's. Litotes? I mean, V was Greek.
	8:02pm Flash Strap: @dean: Story of I? I'm not sure i've heard it before, I should study up
	8:03pm Dean: Yes. I mean, correct.
	8:05pm Dean: But also Moraz's work on Relayer. The synth tones are sharp, sometimes brittle, a timbre I associate with some of V's late '70s records.
	8:05pm TDK60: Ho Flash, explorers.
	8:05pm headcleaner: Evening, fellow Vangelines
	8:06pm Flash Strap: Hey Ho TDK!
	8:06pm Flash Strap: Hello Headcleaner!
	8:07pm Quinn02: this sounds like a 2022 band
	8:07pm Quinn02: Hello! I am enjoying the show : )
	8:07pm Flash Strap: Hi Quinn02!
	8:10pm Flash Strap: The Beast is so insanely cool, a shocking groove and very weird
	8:10pm Dean: Bowie-esque
	8:15pm spodiodi: very much so, Dean. i thought the same
	8:15pm Flash Strap: yeah i agree as well, particularly in the multi-tracking of the vocals
	8:16pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): :::enjoying all of these sounds:::
	8:16pm Flash Strap: though only released in France and Greece, and scarcely known, this is Vangelis' first solo release
	🥁 8:17pm jaywbabcock: I love this piece. www.ravensingstheblues.com...
	🥁 8:17pm jaywbabcock: (Edwin White of the tremendous Florida rock band Tonstartssbandht on the album playing now)
	8:20pm Flash Strap: i believe i have you to thank for turning me onto that one, Jay
	8:22pm Spooty the Whale: Vangelis tribute very well done sir!!!!
	8:23pm Flash Strap: Earth is Vangelis' first widely released solo album, sort of a continuation of his ideas during the Aphrodite's Child period. It's super cool
	8:23pm Flash Strap: Hi Spooty, thanks pal
	🥁 8:34pm jaywbabcock: crazy if true, evan!
	🥁 8:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...shades of JoeMeek...
	8:42pm Flash Strap: I hear that Rev! weirdly enough... major exotica elements as well
	8:42pm melinda: cool sounds
	8:43pm Flash Strap: god i love this track! little hints of the The Breeze and I in the melody
	8:43pm Flash Strap: @melinda: i agree!
	8:47pm Flash Strap: definite shades of Chariots of Fire here
	8:56pm Dean: Despite having unloaded Vangelis LPs in the '80s, I did recently acquire a copy of La Fête Sauvage. Yep, there are those crisp digital staccato glissandos, if that's even possible.
	8:56pm Flash Strap: so crisp!
	8:57pm Flash Strap: La Fête Sauvage is a really cool record to have, imperfect as an album but a wonderful piece of marginal exotica and a very unusual sonic document
	8:58pm Dean: I was drawn to it not entirely because it was a Vangelis album, but because for a while back then it was ubiquitous.
	🥁 8:59pm Mantarray: enjoying going down this Spiral!
	8:59pm Flash Strap: @Dean: right, the way Mondo Cane was
	8:59pm Flash Strap: going right down with ya Mantarray
	9:01pm Dean: Soundtrack? Can't say I know it, but I'm not a movie person and therefore not much of a soundtrack person.
	9:02pm Dean: Here's another LP we'd spin in the record store.
	9:03pm Flash Strap: yeah, it was the first "Mondo" film, and its soundtrack had a surprise int'l hit so the OST LP became much more ubiquitous than the film or people who'd seen it, you can still find it in pretty much any record store for cheap
	9:04pm Dean: Random thoughts: I'm hearing a slight kinship with Tomita here, but more so with Nik Raicevic/Nik Pascal. You really ought to feature some of that guy's bizarre meanderings. DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS IF YOU ARE STONED.
	9:05pm Flash Strap: Beaubourg is very possibly Vangelis' most experimental/challenging album, i love it
	9:06pm Dean: Raicevic/Pascal was certainly challenging...
	9:06pm Flash Strap: @Dean: oh i've played Head a few times, and i don't mean to contradict you but i enjoy it very much stoned!
	9:07pm Flash Strap: Tomita kinship especially audible in the tones on Beaubourg i think, totally agree
	9:07pm Flash Strap: the squiggles and chirps, etc.
	9:09pm Dean: I love it, too, but I don't get stoned. I have this theory, but we don't need to go there.
	🥁 9:11pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Would seem he never lacked for either Artistic Vision nor Intent. That is - he seemed to have something to say - & great imagination as well as extraordinary ability to say it.
	9:11pm Dean: I wish I could connect the work of Vangelis to the more traditional Greek music I enjoy. A buddy of mine is married to a Greek woman. He bequeathed me a bunch of Greek music, from pop to classical to folk. I am part Greek, a heritage of which I'm proud for some nonsense reason. I love the music, and I'd love to hear how Vangelis is part of the heritage.
	9:13pm doctorjazz: Been enjoying the sounds, now gone to head home, thanks, Flash!
	🥁 9:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...both sonically & technically a Pioneer - & very Musical...
	9:13pm Flash Strap: Adios Doc!
	9:13pm Flash Strap: Very well said Rev, i totally agree
	🥁 9:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Flipside Doc !
	9:16pm Flash Strap: @dean: I know he was majorly influenced by traditional greek music, but it's hard to tell where that's appearing a lot of the time. he wasn't trained at a conservatory and his compositional approach is highly intuitive and synaesthetic, which makes it hard to identify formal affinities. But I have a track coming up that actually fits the bill to a perfect T
	9:16pm northguineahills: Vangelis!
	9:18pm Flash Strap: Hi NGH!
	🥁 9:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hullo ngh !
	9:19pm Dean: Therein lies another theme for a show: synaesthesia. Some composers and artists evidently had solid experience with the phenomenon. I myself do in a crude way. When I hear some Prokofiev I taste vinegar.
	9:19pm Flash Strap: very strange LP, See You Later
	9:19pm Robm: Hello fellow drummers
	9:19pm Flash Strap: Hi Robm!
	9:20pm Robm: Hello flashstrap
	9:22pm Flash Strap: @dean: this whole album is Vangelis arrangements of Greek traditional music, performed by the powerful voice of Irene Papas
	9:22pm chresti @sf: Hi flash and xplorers!
	9:23pm Robm: If there is anyone from Australia, what time will the ABC give the final results?
	9:24pm chresti @sf: Wow Irene Papas
	9:24pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti! have missed you this evening! impossible not to pine for Chresti when she's away
	9:26pm Flash Strap: Odes is just so massive, it's crazy. Reading the Iliad right now so it's really getting in my head
	9:28pm Flash Strap: possibly the apex of the Jon and Vangelis collaboration here. sublime, epic, vast, goopily earnest
	9:30pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): chrestikins!
	9:30pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): you in sf??!?!
	9:30pm Robm: Hey baba bee @ Chestri howdy
	9:31pm Julie: this is really nice I'd HEARD about jon & vangelis but not actually heard it before
	9:31pm Flash Strap: Hi Julie!
	9:32pm spodiodi: aloha, chresti \\//
	9:33pm Flash Strap: @Julie: yeah I really love it, they really have a special bond & sensibility that totally transcends (when it's clicking, which it does on at least half of Mr. Cairo and all of Private Collection, imo)
	9:35pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): hey there, Robm!
	9:35pm Robm: Hey julie see your on tonight
	9:35pm northguineahills: Hard to tell who's who when there are avatar changes (ie: Rev Rabbit). But, I have my eye surgeries set for June 15th and July 6th, so hopefully I can see normally then. (keep changing the avatars, it makes me investigate, but they all look like monets put in the dishwasher to my eyes right now anyways).
	9:36pm Flash Strap: That's right, everyone STAY TUNED for Julie & Dark Night of the Soul filling in for Cool Blue Flame, right after me
	9:36pm Robm: @NGH good luck with your eye surgery
	9:36pm Flash Strap: Oh NGH, wishing you and your eyes the best
	9:38pm HyperDose: Yay NGH! Glad to hear it's finally getting done.
	9:39pm Dean: I wouldn't complain if you play the sappy track from H&H w/ Anderson.
	9:40pm Flash Strap: this is probably the most sappy Anderson I can fit in before the show has to end, alas
	9:41pm northguineahills: thanks, it's the waiting for an official date and seeing if I can get outside funding (which I got, finally) that's been killing me. (I need a seeing-eye human to help me cross the street during the day, as I can't see the cars or the walk/don't walk signs (my eyesight is better in lower levers of light)).
	9:42pm chresti @sf: Max BBkins! Yes, just got here a couple hours ago! Here at my son’s place!
	9:42pm Flash Strap: oh man i'm so glad you got that funding
	9:43pm Flash Strap: the classic Vangelis afterburn, in full effect here
	9:44pm northguineahills: w/o insurance, it would have been prohibitively expensive. Now, I just need to see if they need to replace my lens or not.
	🥁 9:44pm Aitch: Lost cat came back so can use that avatar. He's had a stroke though and makes weird sounds, ululates.
	9:45pm Dean: NGH: Those aural signals at the lights don't work for you? "Walk sign is on...walk sign is on...etc."? My son hears, "Walk beside your dog."
	9:47pm Julie: I'll be over there wfmu.org... when we are done here
	🥁 9:47pm Aitch: Cool Dark Flame with Julie
	9:48pm northguineahills: @Dean: They only have those in the downtown and the touristy areas. Not along 8 laned streets.
	9:48pm Julie: You got it, aitch!
	9:49pm chresti @sf: *Mx
	9:49pm northguineahills: (here, when they exist, they say "walk, walk, walk" and "wait, wait wait."
	9:49pm Dean: Yesterday I listened to two performances of the Sibelius symphony number 5. Let me urge folks who enjoy the splashes of color in this J&V record to listen to Berglund conducting Bournemouth, symphony 5. I can almost guarantee that you will be blown away.
	9:50pm Julie: congratulations on putting together such an tremendous tribute on such short notice, Flash
	9:52pm Robm: @Julie love how the djs on the stream and the mothership can do stuff like this at the drop of a dime,.
	9:55pm spodiodi: thanks, Flash. great tribute
	9:55pm northguineahills: Thanks, Evan, it's been a Vangelis treat!
	🥁 9:57pm Aitch: Nice, thanks
	🥁 9:57pm Will the Sound Guy: Evan, I've been listening since the beginning.... thoroughly epic journey.... RIP Vangelis!
	9:57pm coelacanth∅: Thank you Evan, i needed that
	9:58pm Flash Strap: Thanks Julie, it was a mad rush that I hope I pulled off
	9:58pm Flash Strap: Hi Will!
	9:59pm Flash Strap: Thank you everyone for listening, it's been so nice to be here with you and play these sounds
	9:59pm headcleaner: Nice stuff, Flash
	10:00pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): thank you!
	🥁 10:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJ FS ~

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from May 19, 2022

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