Favoriting Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from September 3, 2015 Favoriting

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This is where all of culture and all of time are collapsed into one seductive portal and viewed through the panoramic lens of the exotic. Come and embark on an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of timeless darkness and beyond; embrace the numinous monolith of the exotic immensity. Let us find that place where hybridization meets its destiny as pure fantasy. Let us become observers observing those others who are ourselves. You wear your mask and I'll wear mine.

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Favoriting September 3, 2015: Le Sacre du Sauvage: Ritual and Exoticism in Fin de Siècle Classical

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments
  Intro          
Dvorak  Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 "From the New World": IV. Allegro con fuoco   Favoriting Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 "From the New World"  RCA Victor  1893/1947  Leopold Stokowski and his Symphony Orchestra 

Music behind DJ:
Electro Keyboard Orchestra 
Fire Dance   Favoriting
Electro Keyboard Orchestra 
 
1975 
 
Debussy  Nocturnes: III – Sirènes   Favoriting The Debussy Album  Columbia  1899/19??  Eugene Ormandy & The Philadelphia Orch. (with The Temple University Women's Choir) 

Music behind DJ:
Tomita 
 
 
 
 
 
Darius Milhaud  La Création du Monde   Favoriting La Création du Monde/L'Histoire du Soldat  Everest  1922-3/1958  John Carewe conducting The London Symphony Orchestra Chamber Group 

Music behind DJ:
 
Jungle  
 
 
 
 
John Antill  Corroboree   Favoriting Antill: Corroboree  Everest  1944/58?  Sir Eugene Goossens & the London Symphony Orch. (Parts 1-3, 7) 

Music behind DJ:
Tomita 
 
Grand Canyon 
 
 
 
Les Baxter  Borodin: Nocturne   Favoriting Moog Rock    1969   
Les Baxter  Borodin: Polovitzian Dances   Favoriting Moog Rock    1969   
Edmond de Luca  Polovetsian Dances (Borodin)   Favoriting Safari  Somerset / Stereo-Fidelity  1958  with the Trans World Symphony Orchestra (orig. 1890) 
Edmond de Luca  Ritual Fire Dance (de Falla)   Favoriting Safari      with the Trans World Symphony Orchestra (Orig. 1915) 

Music behind DJ:
Les Baxter 
 
Moog Rock 
 
 
 
Colin McPhee  Tabuh-Tabuhan   Favoriting Tabuh-Tabuhan/The Minotaur  Mercury  1936/1956  Howard Hanson & The Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra 

Music behind DJ:
Syntonic Research Series 
 
 
 
 
 


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Listener comments!

Avatar 6:58pm
ndbob:

evening Evan et al
Avatar 7:01pm
Flash Strap:

evenin' bob
Avatar 7:02pm
hyde:

hiya ndb, flash
Avatar 7:03pm
Carmichael:

Hola, Flash.
Avatar 7:04pm
Flash Strap:

Howdy Hyde and Carmichael. How are we this evening, gentlemen?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
Gary:

Here until 8:00 ... play the hits first! :)
Avatar 7:06pm
Flash Strap:

This is really an evening of hits if I ever saw one

great to see you Gary!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
Gary:

Dang, that top middle cover is powerfully othering, even by exotica standards
Avatar 7:09pm
hyde:

i'm good, kicking off a 5 day weekend
Avatar 7:10pm
Flash Strap:

I know! the best part, the most intense aspect, is that it's neither a painting or a photo, but some sort of weird, not quite proportionally sound, sculptural depiction of an aborigine. likely from an ethnological museum. Definitely encourages you to view the depicted as something other than human, right down to its texture. Not to mention the big lips and wide eyes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:11pm
melinda:

Good evening!
Avatar 7:12pm
Flash Strap:

Hello Melinda!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Hi, folks.
Avatar 7:24pm
ndbob:

I figured you would play this Evan:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
listener james from westwood:

In late but happy to be here for the next movement of this streaming symphonic spectacular!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
melinda:

I just noticed the devil violin on the left.
Avatar 7:29pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Hi Ken and Happy to Have You, James
Avatar 7:32pm
Flash Strap:

That violin is hysterical. Such a goonish note in a pretty lovely design. Reminds me of the Red Shoes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
melinda:

I was thinking of Satan is Real! by the Louvin bros. I'll have to look up the Red Shoes.
Avatar 7:35pm
Flash Strap:

Haha yes that too! Talk about an LP cover
Avatar 7:53pm
Flash Strap:

So jazzy, and yet, no swing at all.
Avatar 7:56pm
Flash Strap:

Something I really wanted to play, but don't have in any form, is Ravel's Chants de Madecasses. Has anyone heard it? it's such a crazy concept
Avatar 7:57pm
ndbob:

excellent show Evan! catch the rest on the archive as always!
Avatar 7:57pm
Flash Strap:

thanks bob have a great one buddy
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Gary:

I don't *think* I've heard the Ravel ...
Avatar 8:01pm
Flash Strap:

I've only read about it: Indian poems, set to lyrics, but for ballet (I think?), and set in Madagascar, but in a homogenized exotic manner. Sounds so weird, too good to be true
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
Gary:

*stunning* accuracy
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Beside the point, but: Didgeridoo is played nothing like a flute. I play flute all the time (poorly) - but have yet to comprehend or produce a noise from a didge.
Avatar 8:17pm
Flash Strap:

I believe it says played like a trumpet, rather than flute, but I don't really know if that's any more accurate
Avatar 8:17pm
Flash Strap:

also, Hello, RRN63!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:21pm
Gary:

This is rather classier than that cover would have us believe :)
Avatar 8:21pm
hyde:

this one's cool. i have not listened to much antheil. mostly all i know about him is that frequency hopping patent with hedy lamarr.
Avatar 8:23pm
hyde:

oh, heh. *john antill*! him i know nothing at all about. ;)
Avatar 8:23pm
Flash Strap:

Yeah, it's a lovely piece of music. I sort of wish it were more awful, more grotesque and lurid. Still, it's stunning accuracy re: depicting an actual ceremony in the manner of ethnography is debatable. Uh, to say the least
  8:23pm
michael:

hello everybody! i hear you from athens, greece! nice tunes, indeed!
Avatar 8:24pm
Flash Strap:

Oh man, Hyde I was sitting here about to look up Antill and Hedy Lamarr's connection
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
Gary:

I've never heard of John Antill either
Avatar 8:24pm
Flash Strap:

Hello Michael!
Avatar 8:25pm
Flash Strap:

I'm not sure I can name any other Australian classical composers besides him, and I only know him because I picked up this LP in some thrift store based on the cover alone
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
Gary:

Ha, he was thinking of George "Ballet Mechanique" Antheil, the guy who used to perform with a gun on his piano.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
Gary:

Okay, I gotta run to a friend's house now -- thanks for the thrills, as always, The Flash!
Avatar 8:26pm
hyde:

sorry Flash, I was reading and misheard you. Didn't meant to start false rumors about Australian composers and Hollywood starlets. The George Antheil/Hedy Lamarr thing is true though!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:27pm
Gary:

Awesome thrift store find, btw!
Avatar 8:27pm
Flash Strap:

Oh, right, the Futurist Terrible
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Flash Strap:

Hate to see you go Gary! Have fun out there in friendland
Avatar 8:28pm
Flash Strap:

I gotta learn more about Antheil, Hyde. I'm aware of him but that's about it
Avatar 8:29pm
Flash Strap:

this part is so accurate, btw
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...meant to be sensationalistic &/or descriptive - it's great fun imagining the period movie this could be a soundtrack for...it's surprisingly well-informed & symphonic stuff for 'exotica'...
  8:36pm
michael:

Procession Of Totems And Closing Fire Ceremony
  8:36pm
yellowbird:

This part sounds like cicadas in the background
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:36pm
coelacanth:

Hey You're back!
(i know you were probably back last week but i wasn't paying attention,stupidly)

Hi! and Hi All Explorers!
Avatar 8:36pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Coelacanth and Yellow B
Avatar 8:38pm
Flash Strap:

Yeah, whatever criticisms of this one might have – esp. considering Australia's treatment of its native people – it is really cool to hear this unique instrumentation
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

(i.e. - duh, I'm just getting the theme...)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
coelacanth:

this is Great!
- is it no coincidence it reminds me of Stravinsky?
Avatar 8:39pm
Flash Strap:

And oh yeah, I am totally back!
Avatar 8:39pm
Flash Strap:

I think Antill is cribbing Stravinsky pretty hard here too
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Stravinsky himself & other 'respectables' were referencing their regional Folk culture - so we have someone cribbing NeoClassical referencing another region's Folk to create caricature of yet another Folk culture ??
Avatar 8:49pm
northguineahills:

Ahhhhh!!! crap! *falls to the floor* I think I made it, albeit a little late, ouch.
Avatar 8:52pm
Flash Strap:

It's a tangled web of exotica, RR63, one that extends in every direction through both time and culture and overlaps in every way eventually, often immediately
Avatar 8:53pm
Flash Strap:

HELLO NGH: there's still some fun left to be had!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:53pm
Charlie:

well, here for the last ten minutes, anyway...
Avatar 8:55pm
Flash Strap:

Oh, I'll be going a tad long as usual Charlie. You haven't missed it all.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
Charlie:

oh good.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
coelacanth:

i first heard this on a tv ad for some multi-lp set when i was tiny. the guy pronounced it "polovetsian", but your way sounds more russian to me.
Avatar 8:58pm
hyde:

I like this whole Edmond De Luca record.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
Charlie:

Yes, (I was writing this as you posted, coelacanth): I can't hear this Polovitzian dance without thinking of that commercial from the seventies of musical masterpieces, with the actor John Williams. "You know this melody as Stranger in Paradise, but did you know that it was originally from the Polovitzian Dances by Borodin?..."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
coelacanth:

Right!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Zackly!
...so then we have 'Classical' becoming Popular - or 'Folk', if you will - becoming Commercial or even Kitsch...
Avatar 9:01pm
Flash Strap:

I have no earthly idea how to pronounce it correctly, and indeed every version i have in front of me spells it differently. There are two unique spellings on the de Luca alone
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
coelacanth:

i'm partial to the "polovtsian" spelling...then you don't have to worry about the i or the e!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
Charlie:

We'll have to find a real polovetsian and ask.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...reminds that LPs were 'Classical' @ 1st - for the long attention span...
Avatar 9:06pm
Flash Strap:

I agree, C, that the "vts" blend is the coolest. But Charlie has pointed out the only way forward: we must ask a Polovtsian.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
Charlie:

plvtsn
Avatar 9:08pm
Flash Strap:

Oh man this is rousing stuff
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:10pm
coelacanth:

i'll get on that next week.

...i first typed that as a joke! -but i do know a few russians in my town, and know well someone who's studied russian and many other languages extensively... maybe one of these people knows?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:10pm
Charlie:

Yes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:10pm
Charlie:

(yes, this is rousing stuff)
Avatar 9:11pm
Flash Strap:

That would actually be really cool. We could also probably google it, which I failed to do in all my preparations
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:14pm
Charlie:

big finish
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:18pm
Charlie:

I got new headphones recently that were so tight, I had to stretch 'em out, stretched overnight on a yoga block.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:21pm
coelacanth:

my googling turns up many sites that claim they'll tell how to pronounce this,but do not actually disclose much of anything.
...but anyway,it may vary between region and all 3 ways may be "correct"...though the way Borodin pronounced it is the way i'd like to.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:25pm
Charlie:

He probably "borod" the pronunciation anyway.
  9:27pm
michael:

Great show (as always).
Thanks a billion Flash, greetings from Greece!!!
Avatar 9:27pm
Flash Strap:

heh heh
Avatar 9:28pm
Flash Strap:

thank you michael!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:30pm
Uncle Michael:

I'm sorry I'm always so late due to domestic harmony time.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:31pm
coelacanth:

i like the album cover for this. -not only is the woman exquisite, but she's wearing lots of tiny tiny bananas on her head.
Avatar 9:31pm
Flash Strap:

Man I miss so many shows due to domestic harmony time. it's the correct way to manage time
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:33pm
Charlie:

@Uncle Michael --I find that domestic harmony time can really cut into radio listening time.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:35pm
Uncle Michael:

At my age I'm more interested in the tiny bananas than the exquisite woman.

And ain't it the truth, Charlie and Evan.
Avatar 9:36pm
Flash Strap:

It is one HELL of an album cover. At my age, I think I'm most interested in these juicy fonts
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:38pm
Uncle Michael:

As a recovering font collector, I can dig it.
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Flash Strap:

we need an actual show called Domestic Harmony Time so we can synch it all up
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:39pm
Uncle Michael:

It would be a great show to conceptualize.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:39pm
coelacanth:

that is a sexy font.
Avatar 9:40pm
hyde:

Domestic Harmony Time can just play selections from Richard and Linda Thompson's Shoot Out the Lights
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:41pm
Uncle Michael:

Just look at the counters on that baby.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:42pm
Charlie:

That was pretty cool. I hear the influences clearly.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:43pm
coelacanth:

but look at Antil's font! now,THAT'S the kind of font I want to come home to!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:44pm
Charlie:

Domestic Harmony Time would be a great name/concept for a show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:44pm
Uncle Michael:

the bananas are real!

c3.staticflickr.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:44pm
Charlie:

!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:45pm
coelacanth:

oh,my!
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hyde:

thanks for the show. see you next week!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:46pm
Uncle Michael:

thanks for the exotica symphonica, Flash
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:46pm
Uncle Michael:

Peter will be back the end of the month.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:46pm
Charlie:

Hey, Evan, thanks for the large-scale exotic serious stuff!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
coelacanth:

Thank you Flash!
till then,Explorers
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Flash Strap:

I have to say that I doubted those were real 'nanas!
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Flash Strap:

Thanks all for listening. See you next week
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:48pm
coelacanth:

i was joking when i called them bananas! i thought they were curled-up flower petals.
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Flash Strap:

me too, C
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:10pm
Doug Schulkind:

Damn damn damn damn! Missed the whole damn thing. It's like arriving two hours late for a date with a pretty [insert gender of choice here]. Looks like I've got a date with an archive.
Avatar 10:17pm
Flash Strap:

I'm dressing the archive for your make-up date now! Should be ready in the mornin'
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