Favoriting Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein: Playlist from September 28, 2022 Favoriting

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Ridgewood Radio features concert recordings by adventurous bands and experimental musicians and restored archival tapes from private and institutional collections captured at venues large and small across the five boroughs of New York. It is produced by David Weinstein and Outpost Artists Resources operating out of the Ridgewood section of Queens, NY, where you'll find more yellow bricks than on the road to Oz and the cemetery of your choice is never more than a few blocks from home.

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Favoriting September 28, 2022: Balafon Affair

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Masters and manipulators of the West African "marimba"
from Mamadou Diabaté, Jerome Cooper, Kélétigui Diabaté, and more...

Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
Amir Yaghmai  Go Bozo   Favoriting Go Bozo  Colorfield Records  2022  Ambient/trip hop guitar master (The Voidz, Daedelus, Devendra Banhart) solo effort with Benny Bock and Mike Andrews, synths.   
 
Mamadou Diabaté  Percussion Mania (concert recording)   Favoriting Roulette Archive  Robert Browning Associates  8 April 2022  From the band's live show with the balafon (West African "xylophone") master from the Sambla people in Burkina Faso, now operating out of Vienna. With electric bass, drum set, djembe, a taste of ngoni, and vocals.  0:08:12 (Pop-up)
 
Jerome Cooper  Currents of Sound (concert recording)   Favoriting Roulette Archive  Roulette Intermedium  28 March 1998  The legendary "Multi-Dimensional Drummer" (Revolutionary Ensemble) in his signature solo set. Trapset, synth, drum machine, chirimia, balafon. Excerpt.  0:58:16 (Pop-up)
 
Kélétigui Diabaté  Selected Tracks   Favoriting Sandiya  Contre-Jour  2004  From an album of wide ranging collaborations by the Malian balaphone legend (1931-2012), with guests on kora, flute, percussion, chorus...  1:25:43 (Pop-up)
 


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Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:00pm
listener james from westwood:

Tonight's Mission Impossible: The Balafon Affair.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:01pm
david w:

Yes, james! That's it!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:02pm
doctorjazz:

Hi David, Ruth, Ridgewoodnics!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:02pm
david w:

The good doctor, hello!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:05pm
WR:

Marimba!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:06pm
Webhamster Henry:

Balafons, and gyils, and gambangs in case you leave Africa.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:10pm
david w:

Hello, WR and Henry (who knows his mallet history).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:11pm
Webhamster Henry:

That balafon buzz is from spider egg sacs:" A small hole in each gourd is covered with a membrane traditionally of thin spider's-egg sac filaments (nowadays more usually of cigarette paper or thin plastic film) to produce the characteristic nasal-buzz timbre of the instrument" - WikiP
  5:11pm
ruth:

I've been looking forward to this show!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:12pm
WR:

careful, your mentioning of ngoni may confuse some (like me) that ngoni is also a mallet played instrument.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:13pm
david w:

Thanks, Henry. I love that buzz. I'd put it into everything if I could.
  5:13pm
ruth:

Spider egg sacs! Wowz!!
  5:14pm
chresti:

Hi David and Ruth and ridgewoodians !
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:15pm
WR:

Thank you for playing his intro comments.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:15pm
david w:

Hi, chresti!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:16pm
Franco Twinkie:

Hi David. We have a marimba, but it's under a huge pile of clothes!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:21pm
david w:

Hi, Franco. Maybe the clothes will have a similar effect as the spider sacs?
  5:22pm
Hank:

hello Ridge Radionans!
Digging this !
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:23pm
david w:

Thanks, Hank. Enjoy!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:26pm
Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜:

Just got back from a frustrating hour at the USPS. Typically, they didn't have Priority Stickers at the self serve area to go with the Priority Envelopes, so I committed the cardinal sin of using an Express address label on a Priority envelope--had to open and re-do. This is after getting stuck behind 2 people occupying both windows. Neither of them seem to have ever been to a post office in their life, and the two tellers really couldn't give two f**cks. So, working until at least 7 tonight. I mean, this one girl came in with this whole f***ing stack of wooden postcards to "save the date" for her wedding, and instead of doing her homework and seeing if they could actually be mailed as postcards she just brought the whole freaking box in. Turns out that no, no matter how many stamps she put on em, they were to heavy to go as postcards and each. one. had. to. go. into. its. own. little. envelope. which they tried to explain to this dimwit...and then of course they didn't have enough padded envelopes on hand at the PO even though these weren't the free ones; they were ones you had to pay for. I WANTED to yell "GURL, BRING ALL OF THAT SHIT TO STAPLES AND LET THEM FIGURE IT OUT." Then there was the poor woman who foolishly thought that the PO would have packing tape to closer her return box with. Gah. I need a drink.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:27pm
david w:

@WR: Mamadou wanted it to be clear that he is playing ngoni (not the larger kora), both string instruments with gourd resonators.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:29pm
david w:

Threemoons, aaargh. This kind of thing happens to me EVERY TIME I go to the post office!
  5:32pm
ruth:

You can print your own stamps now w/USPS app
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:33pm
Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜:

@David W I feel blessed that I can usually walk there, get my shit out of my PO box, and get done and HOME in 30 minutes or under -- once I did a speed walk and got it all done in 25 minutes. Today was a disaster. The only person more annoyed than me in there today was the poor guy in front of me -- double parked; I held his spot as he ran out TWICE to chase off traffic cops. He had a prepaid label; all he needed was to get a send receipt from the scan from the desk.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:46pm
doctorjazz:

Lovely sounds!!!
(sorry about your day,, Threemoons-haven't had that bad a time at the Post Office, but Motor Vehicles...
  5:51pm
ruth:

I bet this was a super fun show! Sorry I missed it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:58pm
WR:

Wonderful to hear the long Diabaté concert selection! Thank you!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:08pm
doctorjazz:

This is sounding a bit more Ridgewoodian (but I enjoyed the early part as well)!
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Ike:

Excellent!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:15pm
david w:

Thanks, Ike, djazz, WR. More classic balafon to follow...
  6:16pm
catverde:

Hey David. Hey Ruth!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:16pm
david w:

Hey, cat!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:17pm
doctorjazz:

There's the spider egg sac sound!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:30pm
WR:

These recordings from Sandiya album are so beautiful!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:32pm
doctorjazz:

What WR said (at least this one, don't know the rest of the album).
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:33pm
david w:

Indeed, WR. Did you know this album already?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:33pm
david w:

Rarely hear a flute so ferocious.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:34pm
WR:

No, just added to my bandcamp wish list
keletiguidiabate.bandcamp.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:36pm
david w:

And... after us, this:
7-10pm (ET) BODEGA POP with Gary Sullivan: The Fall (English post-punk group, since 1979 they’ve released thirty-two studio albums)
wfmu.org...
10pm-Midnight IF YOU LOSE YOUR HORSE with Sam Segal
Avatar ♥ 6:41pm
βrian:

This is the elder Diabaté? Lovely.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:44pm
david w:

Yes, βrian. Good point. Mamadou is only about 40 years old. Kélétigui dead 10 years. But I don't know the relation. Many of the musicians on these tracks have the name Diabaté.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:46pm
WR:

According to Wikipedia he is not related to the brothers, Mamadou and Toumani, though he performed with Toumani.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:46pm
david w:

I'm sorry I didn't sort all this out, but the Discogs entry for Sandiya makes an effort. www.discogs.com...
Avatar ♥ 6:52pm
βrian:

Well, the Diabatés are *way* better than the Smiths, in any case.
Avatar 🥁 ♥ 6:53pm
ranjit:

Thanks for the music, David!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:53pm
WR:

My only major reservation about digital music is that there is usually even less details about the creation and context of the recordings and performers than on pop music LP jackets of the past.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:53pm
david w:

ranjit! My pleasure, really.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:54pm
david w:

Thanks all, time for me to scoot...
  6:55pm
Hank:

Great show !
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:55pm
WR:

sweet version of Summertime.

Thank you! David! Ruth! Ridgewoodians!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:57pm
doctorjazz:

Loved the show, thanks David and Ruth!
  6:58pm
ruth:

Thank you for a totally surprising version of RR David. BYE!!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:58pm
chresti:

Thanks David!
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