Favoriting Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from February 17, 2022 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 February 17, 2022: Bird of Paradise

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro            
The Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop  Haitian Fight Song   Favoriting The Clown  Atlantic  1957    0:01:26 (Pop-up)
Charles Mingus  Hog Callin' Blues   Favoriting Oh Yeah  Atlantic  1962    0:13:25 (Pop-up)
Charles Mingus  II B.S.   Favoriting Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus  Impulse!  1964    0:20:49 (Pop-up)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Charles Mingus, Archie Shepp, Roy Haynes, etc.  Haitian Fight Song   Favoriting Live on Ed Sullivan 1971    1971  Part of a Jazz and People's Movement protest effort  0:25:41 (Pop-up)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk  Seasons (a. One Mind Winter / Summer, b. Ninth Ghost)   Favoriting Prepare Thyself to Deal with a Miracle  Atlantic  1973    0:30:26 (Pop-up)
Archie Shepp  Moon Bees   Favoriting Attica Blues Big Band, Live at the Palais des Glaces  Blue Marge  1979    0:40:48 (Pop-up)
Roy Haynes, Phineas Newborn, Paul Chambers  Reflection   Favoriting We Three  New Jazz  1959    0:46:49 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Tropical Forest – Number Six Chops Down the Tree  
 
 
 
 
0:51:02 (Pop-up)
Terry Riley  Bird of Paradise (Parts 1-5)   Favoriting Music For The Gift  Elision Fields  2007  rec. 1965  1:00:21 (Pop-up)
L'Infonie  In C (Mantra)   Favoriting Reed Streams / In C (Mantra)  Cortical Foundation  1998  orig. rel. on L'Infonie's 2nd LP, Vol 33 - Mantra (Polydor) 1970  1:26:21 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Terry Riley 
In C   Favoriting
In C 
Columbia Masterworks 
1968 
 
1:55:28 (Pop-up)
L'Inphonie  This Ain't No Cinerama Baby   Favoriting Cantate / This Ain't No Cinerama Baby 7"  Cinak  1969    2:03:06 (Pop-up)
André Perry Présente L'Infonie, Direction: Walter Boudreau  Ode A L'Affaire – Ouverture / L'Affaire / J’ai Perdu 15 Cents Dans Le Nez Froid D’un Ange Bronzé   Favoriting L'Infonie  Polydor  1969    2:05:19 (Pop-up)
André Perry Présente L'Infonie, Direction: Walter Boudreau  Viens Danser Le "OK Là!" / Toutes Les Affaires S’en Vont Sur Toutes Les Côtés En Même Temps, Toul’Temps   Favoriting L'Infonie  Polydor  1969    2:12:33 (Pop-up)
L'Infonie  Paix – Prélude   Favoriting Vol. 333  Kot'Ai  1972    2:16:37 (Pop-up)
L'Infonie  Paix – Sections 18-23   Favoriting Vol. 333  Kot'Ai  1972    2:19:34 (Pop-up)
L'Infonie  Paix – Sections 33-50   Favoriting Vol. 333  Kot'Ai  1972    2:29:23 (Pop-up)
Eddy De Fanti  Djembé   Favoriting In C / Djembé  Materiali Sonori  1995    2:38:30 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Bells Of My Soul  
 
 
 
 
2:53:03 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 6:26pm
Flash Strap:

Hello Explorers!
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Aitch:

aural plumage?
Avatar 6:59pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Aitch!
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HyperDose:

Evan! d^_^b
Avatar 7:00pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Hyperdose!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:01pm
Aitch:

and off we go, hey Evan and all
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:02pm
chresti:

Hi Flash and explorers!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:03pm
doctorjazz:

There's a Mingus among us!
Love this tune!!!!!
Hi Flash and Flashers!
Avatar 7:03pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Chresti! Hi Doc!
Avatar 7:04pm
Flash Strap:

It's so incredible, a top Mingus Masterpiece
Avatar 7:05pm
Flash Strap:

from the liner notes to The Clown: "Haitian Fight Song, to begin with, could just as well be called Afro-American Fight Song. It has a folk spirit, the kind of folk music I've always heard anyway. It has some of the old Church feeling too. I was raised a Methodist but there was a Holiness church on the corner, and some of the feeling of their music, which was wilder, got into our music.

"There's a moaning feeling too in those church modes. Try a song like Dizzy's Woodyn' You, for example, and make some changes. Fit a church minor mode into the chord structure, and you'll hear what I mean.

"I'd say this song has a contemporary folk feeling. My solo in it is a deeply concentrated one. I can't play it right unless I'm thinking about prejudice and hate and persecution, and how unfair it is. There's sadness and cries in it, but also determination. And it usually ends with my feeling: 'I told them! I hope somebody heard me.’
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:05pm
Will the Sound Guy:

hi Evan and all!!!
Avatar 7:05pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Will!
Avatar 7:06pm
Flash Strap:

The Clown also has an incredibly arresting LP cover: i.discogs.com...
Avatar 7:08pm
Flash Strap:

legendary bass solo
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:08pm
Scott67:

G'day Evan & Explorers
🍻😎🤙👣🎶📻🌻
Avatar 7:09pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Scott!
Avatar 7:13pm
Flash Strap:

ecstatic moment
Avatar 7:15pm
Flash Strap:

Rahsaan Roland Kirk on sax for Hog Callin' Blues
Avatar ♥ 7:16pm
HyperDose:

Oh this is WILD I tell you!
Avatar 7:16pm
Flash Strap:

oh yeah
Avatar 7:17pm
Flash Strap:

love when Roland goes wild on that horn(s)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:17pm
Will the Sound Guy:

there's a Mingus around us!!!
Avatar 7:22pm
Flash Strap:

Eric Dolphy on II B.S.
  7:22pm
asheville jon:

Helluva show so far!
Avatar 7:23pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I'm innocent !
...innocent I tell ya !!...
Avatar 7:24pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Jon! thanks pal
Avatar 7:24pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Rev!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:26pm
doctorjazz:

That's a fabulous Mingus band (Mingus, Mingus, Mingus... Recently was given the audiophile vinyl reissue treatment, great sound, at great expense).
Kirk!!!
Avatar ♥ 7:26pm
HyperDose:

Damn, them drums 😍
Avatar 7:28pm
Flash Strap:

Roland is such a king for pulling this off ... after multiple disruptive protests by Jazz and People's Movement in the audience of Dick Cavett, Merv Griffin, the Tonight Show – in a show of placation,Roland Kirk was invited to play My Cherie Amour on Ed Sullivan. Instead he assembled this killer lineup and blasted Haitian Fight Song
Avatar ♥ 7:28pm
TDK60:

Hi Evan, explorers.
Avatar 7:28pm
Flash Strap:

Hi TDK!
  7:29pm
Akiva:

Bringing me back to dancing around in my first NYC apartment to Mingus and Kirk! Loving it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:29pm
doctorjazz:

Amazing document! (Jealous...)
Avatar 7:29pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Akiva! excellent
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:31pm
doctorjazz:

Nice to hear Ed at the end.
Avatar ♥ 7:31pm
TDK60:

Ed Sullivan said "wonderful!"?
Avatar 7:31pm
Flash Strap:

Highly recommended to check it out on youtube
Avatar 7:32pm
Flash Strap:

The whole situation was very fraught, Ed was probably just glad it was over
Avatar 7:32pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I'ma soak my head in the tub while these divine messengers struggle with these particular metaphysical dilemmas. Make like I'm clicky☆ing every glorious track & I be tuned in...
Avatar 7:33pm
Flash Strap:

Soak well and soar psychically my friend
Avatar 7:33pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...probly pop in again & say Thx before you're done but if not, Thx !...
Avatar 7:35pm
Flash Strap:

always my pleasure Rev
Avatar 7:36pm
abbazabba:

Hi Flash Strap! I’m feeling this tonight. Thank you
Avatar 7:37pm
Flash Strap:

Man there's just one Rahsaan Roland Kirk, what a gloriously strange and brilliant man
Avatar 7:37pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Abbazabba! Love to hear it, welcome aboard
Avatar 7:38pm
abbazabba:

Maybe the best song title ever right here
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:39pm
Little Danny:

this bass part is gorgeous
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:39pm
Little Danny:

hi flash hi all!
Avatar 7:40pm
Flash Strap:

Hi LD! the wonderful Henry Pearson, who also plays on Black Rhythm Happening
Avatar 7:40pm
Flash Strap:

and yeah it's just so deeply, cosmically gorgeous
Avatar 7:44pm
Flash Strap:

Clyde Crimer's synth really takes this Shepp track to eerie heights
Avatar ♥ 7:44pm
HyperDose:

Mister gorgeous cat pawpaw himself, LD!
Avatar 7:44pm
Flash Strap:

Brandon Ross from New Life Trio on guitar here as well
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:44pm
doctorjazz:

I'm with you, Flash, only one Rahsaan!
(Saw a good documentary on him a while back)
Avatar 7:45pm
Flash Strap:

oh I need to see that Doc! I heard it was good!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:45pm
Little Danny:

hyperdose <3 <3
Avatar 7:45pm
Flash Strap:

someone needs to do a major doc on Shepp
Avatar ♥ 7:46pm
HyperDose:

Moon Bees is such a cool name for a track
Avatar 7:47pm
Flash Strap:

so cool
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:48pm
doctorjazz:

It was really good; suffered from the usual documentary problem (to me: cutting into the music too often), but had enough to make it worth while.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:49pm
doctorjazz:

(then again, of you never cut in, you wind up with the 9 hour Beatles doc...)
Avatar 7:50pm
Flash Strap:

yeah i really don't "enjoy" most music docs, i often just watch them to get the worthwhile stuff out of them. which means that I don't get to them as often as I should... Imagine the Sound is very good though, I liked that a lot, no talking heads per se
Avatar 7:51pm
Flash Strap:

lots of exceptions to that of course, just not enough to keep me from being always leery
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:05pm
Aitch:

bird needs oiling
Avatar 8:08pm
Flash Strap:

god this is just so sublime, this early Riley stuff just overwhelms, reveals whole apocalyptic worlds within the remixed source
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:08pm
WR:

Hi Evan and drummer streamers. Checking in. Have been listening since the start but busy. Now reading what I can learn for all y'all.
Avatar 8:08pm
Flash Strap:

Hi WR!
  8:12pm
Anon:

Hi all.
Avatar 8:12pm
Flash Strap:

hi Anon!
Avatar 8:16pm
Flash Strap:

anybody able to nail down the sampled song by ear?
Avatar ♥ 8:18pm
TDK60:

Never heard this Riley before. Wild.
Avatar 8:20pm
Flash Strap:

such a radical intersection of pop and avant-garde for '65
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:23pm
Little Danny:

wow!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:24pm
Little Danny:

yeah totally new to me too
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:30pm
doctorjazz:

Time to head home, thanks, Evan!
Avatar 8:30pm
Flash Strap:

I've heard this version of In C on several occasions but never really listened until just the other day, when it blew me away completely – curiosity about this magnificent ensemble will drive a lot of the next set
Avatar 8:30pm
Flash Strap:

Adios and fond adieu Doc
Avatar ♥ 8:31pm
TDK60:

Flash, lots of crossings between genres in 1965, folk, rock, avant, jazz. '65 was a nova-like.
Avatar 8:32pm
Flash Strap:

gorgeous art on the original release: i2.wp.com...
Avatar 8:32pm
Flash Strap:

@TDK: truly a thrilling time
Avatar 8:33pm
abbazabba:

This is incredible!
Avatar 8:34pm
Flash Strap:

@abbazabba: i agree, i'm in awe of it
Avatar ♥ 8:36pm
TDK60:

I've heard several "In C"s, like them all.
Avatar 8:38pm
Flash Strap:

It's hard to miss! I've heard a bunch & I believe like them all (though some are more striking or original than others). haven't listened to Acid Mothers Temple's version yet, meant to do that this morning actually
Avatar 8:39pm
abbazabba:

This part sound almost Steve reich ish
Avatar 8:41pm
Flash Strap:

Reich actually suggested one of the key elements of the In C composition, "the Pulse", or the note C in repeated eighth notes
Avatar 8:48pm
Flash Strap:

you know what i'm not sure if i've heard Bang on a Can's version either
Avatar ♥ 8:49pm
northguineahills:

Sounds a lot like Reich's "In C"
Avatar 8:50pm
abbazabba:

Oh wow. Interesting
Avatar 8:50pm
Flash Strap:

Hi NGH! it is (Terry Riley's) In C!
Avatar ♥ 8:51pm
TDK60:

There's a version by The Styrenes. 2002.
Avatar 8:52pm
Flash Strap:

oh yes there is! another i've not heard in fact
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Flash Strap:

Riley's own 1990 version is over an hour long, very nice
  9:04pm
abbazabba:

I really need to start listening to more Terry Riley. I didn’t really even know who he was until I started listening to FMU a few years ago
Avatar 9:05pm
Flash Strap:

he has so much wonderful music out there abba, you'll really enjoy your explorations
  9:07pm
Doug Schulkind:

Hello, Explorers!
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Flash Strap:

Hi Doug!
  9:08pm
headcleaner:

evening fellow explorers
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Flash Strap:

hi headcleaner!
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Flash Strap:

really cool album cover on this one: img.discogs.com...
Avatar 9:10pm
Flash Strap:

no idea what they're saying sadly. locked out of french discourse forever
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Flash Strap:

this piece really really sounds like a certain Pierre Henry release
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:13pm
Little Danny:

yeah totally flash @9:11
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Flash Strap:

glad you hear it too LD
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:19pm
Little Danny:

oh man that cosmic organ chord
Avatar 9:20pm
Flash Strap:

blows me away
Avatar 9:22pm
Flash Strap:

i mentioned before, but their 4th album is another rendition of this same piece (Paix) – it has somewhat better sound and is more consistent but somehow it sounds more like a "standard" experimental jazz fusion outing.

This is a double LP, LP1 is Paix and LP2 is a mix of odd classical renditions and freak psych stuff, very weird
Avatar 9:25pm
Flash Strap:

section 18 very poltergeist-y
Avatar 9:26pm
Constantly Choking:

late to the party but I was digging all that dissonance Flash!
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Flash Strap:

Hi CC!
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coelacanth∅:

good evening Flash & Explorers
Avatar 9:30pm
Flash Strap:

helloo Coelacanth!
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Flash Strap:

i don't mean to dissuade anyone from checking out 3333 however which is very cool. but we won't be hearing it this particular evening
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Flash Strap:

Ah yes a very dear thing to the Explorers Room: double-music
Avatar ♥ 9:36pm
TDK60:

Well, this certainly is a trip.
Avatar 9:38pm
Flash Strap:

truly
Avatar 9:42pm
Flash Strap:

came across this Djembe piece while looking into earlier renditions of In C (the rest of this release is De Fanti with Ensemble Percussione Ricerca performing In C, possibly in 1983), and was just enchanted by it
Avatar 9:43pm
Flash Strap:

but Djembe, written by De Fanti, seems to have been recorded by De Fanti solo
Avatar 9:46pm
Constantly Choking:

great tracks these
Avatar 9:48pm
Flash Strap:

i'm glad you're diggin, CC
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:53pm
Scott67:

Thanks Evan, always an adventure!
✌😎🤙🍻🎶📻☀️🌏
Avatar ♥ 9:56pm
northguineahills:

Thanks, Evan!
Avatar ♥ 9:57pm
TDK60:

Merci, DJ Flash.
Avatar 9:58pm
Constantly Choking:

Sick show, thanks!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:58pm
Little Danny:

thank you so much evan wonderful worlds as always here!
Avatar 9:58pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks Scott, CC, NGH, TDK, & LD!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:59pm
Little Danny:

slither ashore at the cool blue flame wfmu.org... see you there!!!
Avatar ♥ 9:59pm
HyperDose:

Thanks Evan <3
Avatar 9:59pm
Flash Strap:

ah my pleasure Hyper
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:59pm
chresti:

Thanks Flash!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:00pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Evan
Avatar 10:00pm
Flash Strap:

My great pleasure Chresti! Coelacanth! night to you all!
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