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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 November 3, 2016: Atmospheres and Organisms

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Artist Track Album Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro          
Gheorghe Zamfir et Marcel Cellier  Doina : "Sus Pe Culmea Dealului" (Au Sommet De La Colline) - Banat   Favoriting Improvisations Pour Flûte De Pan Et Orgue Vol. 2  1972    0:03:03 (Pop-up)
Gheorghe Zamfir et Marcel Cellier  Joc Din Oas (Danse Archaique D'Oas - Maramures)   Favoriting Improvisations Pour Flûte De Pan Et Orgue Vol. 2  1972    0:07:59 (Pop-up)
Gheorghe Zamfir et Marcel Cellier  Joc De Doi Din Banat : Loana, Loana...   Favoriting Improvisations Pour Flûte De Pan Et Orgue Vol. 2  1972    0:11:55 (Pop-up)
Joe and Ardith de la Peña featuring the Cordovox  Let My People Go   Favoriting He's Everything to Me  196?  US-Phillipine missionary music  0:15:11 (Pop-up)
Bruno Hoffman  Schulz: Largo In C Minor For Glass Harmonica Solo   Favoriting Music for Glass Harmonica      0:18:27 (Pop-up)
Mark Laub  Stardust   Favoriting Mark Laub on the Lowery Organ      0:22:53 (Pop-up)
Mark Laub  Indian Love Call   Favoriting Mark Laub on the Lowery Organ      0:25:56 (Pop-up)
Joe and Ardith de la Peña featuring the Cordovox  Tinikling (Philippine Folksong)   Favoriting He's Everything to Me  196?    0:29:11 (Pop-up)
Mark Laub  Brazil   Favoriting Mark Laub on the Lowery Organ      0:30:53 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Mark Laub 
 
 
 
 
0:32:49 (Pop-up)
Satyajit Ray  Charu Theme   Favoriting Charulata  1964    0:42:14 (Pop-up)
Satyajit Ray  Charu Recalls Her Childhood   Favoriting Charulata      0:42:43 (Pop-up)
Satyajit Ray  Bhupati's Grief   Favoriting Charulata      0:44:16 (Pop-up)
Satyajit Ray  Amal Leaves   Favoriting Charulata      0:45:24 (Pop-up)
Satyajit Ray  Bhupati and Amal   Favoriting Charulata      0:47:01 (Pop-up)
Dr. L. Subramaniam with Palghat T.S. Mani Iyer  Ragamanlika Ragas   Favoriting South Indian Strings  197?  a. Neelambari b. Malatamarutam c. Hamsanandi  0:49:09 (Pop-up)
Tonto's Expanding Head Band  Riversong   Favoriting Zero Time  1971    1:07:24 (Pop-up)
Ashra  Ocean of Tenderness   Favoriting New Age of Earth  1977    1:15:17 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
David Naegele 
Temple in the Forest   Favoriting
 
 
 
1:25:38 (Pop-up)
Sound Creator Kitaro  By the Seaside   Favoriting Ten Kai  1978    1:35:54 (Pop-up)
Sound Creator Kitaro  Soul of the Sea   Favoriting Ten Kai      1:42:04 (Pop-up)
Sound Creator Kitaro  Micro Cosmos   Favoriting Ten Kai      1:43:40 (Pop-up)
Sound Creator Kitaro  Beat   Favoriting Ten Kai      1:48:41 (Pop-up)
Sound Creator Kitaro  Fire   Favoriting Ten Kai      1:53:48 (Pop-up)
John Klemmer  Prelude 1   Favoriting Waterfalls  1972    1:55:16 (Pop-up)
Tony Williams Lifetime  Clap City   Favoriting Ego  1971    1:58:35 (Pop-up)
Tony Williams Lifetime  There Comes A Time   Favoriting Ego  1971    1:59:16 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
David Naegele 
Eternal Sanctuary   Favoriting
 
 
 
2:05:08 (Pop-up)
Tony Williams Lifetime  To Whom It May Concern - Them   Favoriting Turn It Over  1970    2:11:20 (Pop-up)
Tony Williams Lifetime  To Whom It May Concern - Us   Favoriting Turn It Over      2:14:40 (Pop-up)
Freddie Hubbard  The Return of the Prodigal Son   Favoriting Backlash  1967    2:17:17 (Pop-up)
Gary Burton Quartet  Dreams   Favoriting Gary Burton Quartet In Concert  1968    2:23:03 (Pop-up)
Gary Burton Quartet  I Want You   Favoriting Gary Burton Quartet In Concert  1968    2:28:37 (Pop-up)
Valentin Clastrier  Rituel I   Favoriting Grands Maitres De La Vielle A Roue = Great Masters Of The Hurdy-Gurdy: Valentin Clastrier, France  1987    2:31:33 (Pop-up)
Valentin Clastrier  Migration 1   Favoriting Grands Maitres De La Vielle A Roue = Great Masters Of The Hurdy-Gurdy: Valentin Clastrier, France  1987    2:34:52 (Pop-up)
Lamine Konté  Sidi Yela   Favoriting A Minstrel of Senegal  1986    2:37:40 (Pop-up)
Shankar Jaikishan with Usha Iyer  Good Times & Bad Times   Favoriting Bombay Talkie (OST)  1970    2:46:34 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Robbie Basho 
Oriental Love Song   Favoriting
 
 
 
2:48:11 (Pop-up)
Shankar Jaikishan with Usha Iyer  Hari Om Sat Tat   Favoriting Bombay Talkie (OST)  1970    2:54:19 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 6:47pm
Flash Strap:

Evening all! Let's listen to some records
Avatar 6:59pm
ndbob:

evening Evan and everyone!
Avatar 7:00pm
Flash Strap:

hey bob! how ya doin pal?
Avatar 7:03pm
ndbob:

nice to hear something mellow during this stressful week
Avatar 7:03pm
Flash Strap:

I'm obsessed with this record at the moment
Avatar 7:04pm
Flash Strap:

how I feel as well, bob
  7:04pm
Ed:

Evening Bob and Flash!
Avatar 7:04pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Ed! Welcome
Avatar 7:05pm
ndbob:

Heya Ed!
Avatar 7:07pm
Flash Strap:

I think I'm just gonna leave this one spinning for a few more tracks. It sounds so good right now
Avatar 7:10pm
ndbob:

sounds great Evan!
Avatar 7:11pm
hyde:

ah, Zamfir. i remember the tv ads for this guy from when i was a kid.
Avatar 7:13pm
Flash Strap:

Hyde! Hello friend
Avatar 7:13pm
Scraps:

h'lo h'lo
Avatar 7:13pm
Flash Strap:

Welcome Scraps and happy to have you with us
Avatar 7:16pm
Scraps:

when i worked at a record store in the 80s (Peaches in Seattle), I learned about Zamfir, one of those artists that lots of people came in asking for but not necessarily knowing his name.
Avatar 7:17pm
Scraps:

thanks Flash Strap
Avatar 7:19pm
Flash Strap:

I might never have gotten into him if I hadn't gotten so into Picnic at Hanging Rock, but that film just locks the music into such an evocative place of the mind
Avatar 7:25pm
Flash Strap:

in a minute I think I'm gonna play another cut from that Phillipino missionary LP with the wacky cordovox

so, uh, GET READY TO GO NUTS
Avatar 7:25pm
Scraps:

apparently, though a generation knows zamfir through tv ads, he's a world-class master of the pan flute, with lots of classical credits to his name
Avatar 7:26pm
Scraps:

like boxcar willie
Avatar 7:28pm
Flash Strap:

yeah, he's the real deal.
Avatar 7:29pm
hyde:

yeah, i totally don't get how zamfir ended up in the 70's tv commercial scene with Roger Whittaker et al
Avatar 7:32pm
Scraps:

Very fast Brazil!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
Little Danny:

Hi Flash and all!
Avatar 7:42pm
hyde:

Ray's films are great. I like The Chess Players and Distant Thunder a lot.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
Little Danny:

Based on the tracks you're spotlighting, this Charulata soundtrack is indeed gorgeous
Avatar 7:43pm
Flash Strap:

Hi LD!
Avatar 7:43pm
hyde:

hey, Little Danny. that Halloweenish 45's show last week was amazing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:45pm
Little Danny:

Ah, many thanks Hyde, glad you caught it. I love Halloween and Halloween music so much
Avatar 7:45pm
Flash Strap:

it was amazing, LD
Avatar 7:46pm
Flash Strap:

I need to see more Ray films. Music Room is one of the ultimate music films, though
Avatar 7:48pm
hyde:

yeah, I like The Music Room a lot. Caught that one on Turner Classic some time ago.

I'm in my first week of a Turner Classic-less existence after my move, and i'm not taking it well at all.
Avatar 7:50pm
Flash Strap:

oh that's rough. sorry to hear it man
Avatar 7:50pm
northguineahills:

*Finally checks the playlist*, huh, it was that Zamfir, very different from the soothing New Age sounds I remember being pedaled late at night in comp cds a good 25 years ago. The stuff you played was actually really good!
Avatar 7:50pm
Flash Strap:

wish I had a date on this record
Avatar 7:52pm
Flash Strap:

Hi NGH! yeah that record is tops, really really solid music. I can't speak for any of his others, but that one is the real deal, especially the opening track which is all-time Important
Avatar 7:59pm
ndbob:

excellent first hour Evan - catch the rest later!
Avatar 8:03pm
Flash Strap:

bye bob!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...so - this Subramaniam fellow - he can play a bit is the idea? :) ...
Avatar 8:04pm
Flash Strap:

he's a bit of a wiz on the old instrument, is the impression I get
Avatar 8:04pm
Flash Strap:

And: hi Rabbit! great to see you
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
melinda:

hi folks!
Avatar 8:07pm
Flash Strap:

Melinda! hello!
Avatar 8:15pm
quinn:

Oh yes I love this ocean
Avatar 8:15pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Quinn! Just in time for the tenderness
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:18pm
Ike:

Hey!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:18pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...everything old is new age again!...
Avatar 8:18pm
Flash Strap:

Ike! Ahoy-hoy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
melinda:

That last number was very soothing.
Avatar 8:27pm
hyde:

i can't think of too many other great directors who soundtrack their own films, except John Carpenter
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
Ike:

Thanks for playing calming sounds. It's helping me not panic (as much) as we approach the possible end to our long electoral nightmare on Tuesday. I've been a live wire all week.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
melinda:

@Ike: me too.
Avatar 8:31pm
Scraps:

i too
Avatar 8:33pm
Scraps:

william ackerman
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:34pm
melinda:

hi Scraps, long time no see on comment boards!
Avatar 8:35pm
Scraps:

do you know Jane Siberry was on Windham Hill (The Speckless Sky)
Avatar 8:35pm
Scraps:

Hi Melinda!
Avatar 8:36pm
Flash Strap:

re: the soothing sounds - My pleasure folks

Some good Emil Richards work on Windham Hill as well
Avatar 8:37pm
Flash Strap:

this record has some truly crazy sounds on it. so underrated
Avatar 8:38pm
Scraps:

the second French, Frith, Kaiser & Thompson album was on Windham Hill. Weird.
Avatar 8:39pm
Flash Strap:

huh, I should listen to that
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:39pm
melinda:

@Flash: I missed the first hour, who did the music for Picnic at Hanging Rock?
Avatar 8:39pm
hyde:

@scraps huh, that is odd.
Avatar 8:41pm
Flash Strap:

i don't know about all the music in that movie, but the main theme is the first Gheorghe Zamfir track I played tonight
Avatar 8:42pm
Flash Strap:

haha those sleigh bells
Avatar 8:42pm
Scraps:

and a late, very good Janis Ian album, God & the FBI, was on Windham Hill.

I'll stop now.
Avatar 8:44pm
Flash Strap:

man I guess I should explore Windham Hill a bit more thoroughly before I cast aspersions, it plainly contains multitudes
Avatar 8:45pm
Scraps:

no, no, not really!
Avatar 8:45pm
hyde:

fun fact: Zamfir also plays pan flute on The Karate Kid soundtrack
Avatar 8:46pm
Flash Strap:

yeah he totally does! that is a very fun fact!
Avatar 8:47pm
Scraps:

it's mostly new age, when you pronounce it to rhyme with sewage.
Avatar 8:47pm
Flash Strap:

oh this part is really cool
Avatar 8:47pm
Scraps:

Windham Hill, that is
Avatar 8:49pm
Flash Strap:

it really is mostly the kind of new age that leans more on acoustic guitars and celtic harps than synths, and aims to dumbly soothe rather than transport. I do not like most of it at all
Avatar 8:51pm
Scraps:

again in Seattle in the record store in the 80s, Windham Hill was big among a crowd that you could spot walking in. Lots and lots of George Winston moving.
Avatar 8:51pm
Flash Strap:

it's the perfect music to play if your goal is to make me picture an idyllic english forest in autumn, but you need me to hate doing it. Windham hill that is
Avatar 8:52pm
Scraps:

William Ackerman founded it, and while he was good, he was fond of many lesser guitarists
Avatar 8:52pm
Flash Strap:

I mean, Shadowfax has merit, esp. with emil Richards onboard, but I don't really like it
Avatar 8:55pm
Scraps:

My roommate liked Shadowfax, but he said the later, Windham Hill stuff wasn't that good. I haven't listened to it
Avatar 9:00pm
Flash Strap:

I just scored this one yesterday. Haven't listened to it too closely, YET, but it's pretty great I'm pretty sure
Avatar 9:01pm
Mayuko:

Late but here! Good evening!
Avatar 9:01pm
Flash Strap:

Mayuko! How are you comrade? Great to see you
Avatar 9:03pm
Mayuko:

I'm good! Cool playlist pictures, what are they from?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
coelacanth:

greetings Evan and Explorers
...'sorry i'm late.
Avatar 9:04pm
hyde:

i don't know this Tony Williams Lifetime LP. Band is killer.
Avatar 9:05pm
hyde:

Ted Dunbar is the guitarist...
Avatar 9:06pm
hyde:

@Mayuko the pics are from Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock
Avatar 9:11pm
Mayuko:

oh thank you hyde! just googled that title and saw some other images - intriguing.
Avatar 9:11pm
Flash Strap:

Hello Coelacanth! No sorries accepted. happy to see you
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:12pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I'm always reading about Lifetime & stuff - since it's such a nexus of Rawk & Jazz persons - but getting to actually hear is great !
Avatar 9:12pm
Flash Strap:

@Mayuko: major masterpiece, highly recommended viewing. right up your alley, too, unless i miss my guess
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:13pm
Santos L. Halper:

Them guys are smokin'
Avatar 9:13pm
Flash Strap:

Dr. L. Helper! wonderful to see you waggin your tail in this area
Avatar 9:14pm
Flash Strap:

Halper, I should say
Avatar 9:15pm
Flash Strap:

@Rabbit: Before now, I'd only heard Emergency!, which never really connected with me. I should try it again now, cause I love this stuff here
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:17pm
Santos L. Halper:

Just don't call me late for dinner.
Will def have to delve into more Lifetime than the little i have...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:17pm
Little Danny:

ooo, nice segue into this Hubbard track. I love this album
Avatar 9:19pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks LD. My first time hearing it, ever!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:21pm
Little Danny:

Haha, what a way to first experience it
Avatar 9:22pm
Flash Strap:

I don't do that often, but it's always a hoot
Avatar 9:23pm
Scraps:

love gary burton
Avatar 9:26pm
Flash Strap:

love vibraphone
Avatar 9:29pm
Flash Strap:

what an undertaking, this basswork
Avatar 9:31pm
Scraps:

love vibraphone too, in fact I love any of jazz vibraphone players
Avatar 9:32pm
Flash Strap:

right with ya
Avatar 9:42pm
Flash Strap:

this guy's so good
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:43pm
coelacanth:

this is Lovely.
...a bit of a kora fan here.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:43pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Yeah amazing. I wonder exactly what's being communicated...
Avatar 9:45pm
Flash Strap:

me too. i wish i knew. so much do i wish
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
Little Danny:

Whoa, this Bombay Talkie track is great. Can't say I've ever heard any other Bollywood stuff that sounds like it
Avatar 9:49pm
Scraps:

robbie basho did some work on windham hill. :-)
  9:49pm
slawooy:

Sidi yela was striking thank you
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:49pm
Little Danny:

Wait for "Little Sunflower" on that Hubbard LP, Flash. A huge fave of mine...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:53pm
Little Danny:

Hope to see everybody in the beyond! wfmu.org...
Avatar 9:54pm
Flash Strap:

LD: that whole LP is out of this world. there's a great typewriter song on it. I think in the film they dance on the keys of a giant typewriter
Avatar 9:55pm
Flash Strap:

my pleasure slawooy!
Avatar 9:55pm
Flash Strap:

THANK YOU somebody! Sorry I don't actually know who, but THANK YOU
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:55pm
coelacanth:

Thanks Evan!
Avatar 9:55pm
Scraps:

everybody!!
Avatar 9:56pm
Flash Strap:

she's so funny
Avatar 9:56pm
Scraps:

yes! yes!
Avatar 9:56pm
Hams:

hari om sat tat!
Avatar 9:57pm
hyde:

this is great. thanks for the show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:57pm
coelacanth:

haha yeah she is!
Avatar 9:57pm
Flash Strap:

Hami Om Sat Tat! Hello!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:58pm
coelacanth:

hey Scraps! good to see you here again.
Avatar 9:58pm
Scraps:

i thought she said "ask yourself has he been fed"
Avatar 9:59pm
Scraps:

hey coelacanth!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:00pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

She reminds me of Eartha Kitt. (?) - or Peggy Lee doing 'Is That All There Is?'...
Avatar 10:00pm
Flash Strap:

me too Scraps
Avatar 10:00pm
Flash Strap:

totally, RR!
Avatar 10:01pm
Flash Strap:

ok goodnight dear explorers! See you next week or in the next room as the case may be
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:22pm
Gary:

Terrific show; love the Tony Williams Lifetime stuff
  3:43pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks Gary!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:09pm
Gary:

Just FYI Bombay Talkie is a James Ivory satire about Bollywood, and not Bollywood itself, although Bollywood does have a long history of pretty clear-eyed / satirical self-referentiality. But I think everyone involved, including composers Shankar & Jaikishan, were winking at a different audience than usual ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:15pm
Gary:

^And apologies for the totally unasked for mainsplain-fest there, but Little Danny's comment got me thinking about *why* the music is so different from Bollywood generally!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:16pm
Gary:

*mansplain .... going back into my hole now ... seriously, thanks for the wonderful show, Evan!
  4:40pm
Flash Strap:

I'd call that just a regular, very welcome friendsplain! Thanks for filling me in a little bit, I've always been curious about it but I'm hopelessly unschooled on Indian cinema so I don't even know where to start with analyzing a soundtrack. Though a basic google search probably would have helped me sound like I knew at least a little bit what I'm talking about....

HAVE to see Bombay Talkie now, though.
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