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Observations of Deviance is a vinyl focused, free form program that harkens back to early days of underground FM radio. Your host, David Mittleman, hunts down the most exotic, unusual and off-the-beaten-track music from around the world in a number of genres: Spiritual Jazz, Free Improvisation, Experimental Electronics, Ethnographic Oddities and World-Wide Psychedelic Funk. You are guaranteed to hear sounds you’ve never heard before.
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Paal Nilssen-Love |
5th of March 2021 - track 3
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5th of March 2021 | PNL | 2025 | https://pnlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/5th-of-march-2021 | 0:01:56 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe |
Coltrane
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A Spirit Speaks | Strata-East / Mack Avenue | 2025 | https://mackavenue.com/products/the-descendants-of-mike-and-phoebe-a-spirit-speaks | 0:06:58 (Pop-up) | ||||
Majid Bekkas - Nguyên Lê - Hamid Drake |
Gore Blues
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Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XVII: Gnawa World Blues | ACT | 2025 | https://www.actmusic.com/en/ | 0:11:53 (Pop-up) | ||||
Sasha Berliner |
Khan Younis
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Fantôme | Outside In Music | 2025 | https://sashaberliner.bandcamp.com/album/fant-me | 0:19:55 (Pop-up) | ||||
Peter Brötzmann Octet |
Machine Gun
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Machine Gun | BRÖ | 1968 | 0:32:47 (Pop-up) | |||||
ØKSE |
Cellular Device
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Cellular Device | Backwoodz Studioz | 2025 | https://backwoodzstudioz.com/collections/okse | 0:49:53 (Pop-up) | ||||
Agustin Pereyra Lucena |
Casi-Numbe
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Puertos De Alternativa | Far Out Recordings | 2025 | https://apereyralucena.bandcamp.com/album/puertos-de-alternativa-2 | 0:54:57 (Pop-up) | ||||
Siraba |
Dâmba Kéle
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Dâmba Kéle / Kôngô | Real World X | 2025 | https://siraba.bandcamp.com/album/d-mba-k-le-k-ng | 1:03:29 (Pop-up) | ||||
DJ Haram |
Voyeur
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Beside Myself | Hyperdub | 2025 | https://djharam.bandcamp.com/album/beside-myself | 1:07:06 (Pop-up) | ||||
The New York Bass Violin Choir |
John Coltrane
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The New York Bass Violin Choir | Strata-East / Mack Avenue | 2025 | https://mackavenue.com/products/the-new-york-bass-violin-choir | 1:10:21 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Royal Revue Featuring The Fascinations |
Is it Because I'm Black
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Sock It To Me Part 1 / Is It Because I'm Black 7" | Numero Group | 2010 | 1:24:14 (Pop-up) | |||||
Fatboi Sharif & Driveby |
Battlestar Galactica
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Let Me Out | Deathbomb Arc | 2025 | https://deathbombarc.bandcamp.com/album/let-me-out | 1:28:22 (Pop-up) | ||||
Farhot |
Mars
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RAQS (105-118BPM) | Kabul Fire | 2025 | https://farhot.bandcamp.com/album/raqs-105-118bpm | 1:33:45 (Pop-up) | ||||
Brain Damage x Emiko Ota x Mad Professor |
Baku Dub
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Oide Oide | Jarring Effects | 2025 | https://braindamagedub.bandcamp.com/album/oide-oide | 1:37:38 (Pop-up) | ||||
Adrian Sherwood |
The Grand Designer
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The Grand Designer 10" | On-U Sound | 2025 | https://adriansherwood.bandcamp.com/album/the-grand-designer | 1:41:44 (Pop-up) | ||||
Vélo |
Lékol La
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Nostalgies Caraîbes | Célini / Aux Ondes | 2007 | 1:44:50 (Pop-up) | |||||
Debre Damo Dining Orchestra |
Mami Wata
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DDDO VOL. 4 | DDDO | 2025 | https://debredamodiningorchestra1.bandcamp.com/album/dddo-vol-4 | 1:55:40 (Pop-up) | ||||
Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness |
Prepare A Refuge
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Sextet | Reva | 2025 | https://tonyjonessax.bandcamp.com/album/sextet | 2:02:22 (Pop-up) | ||||
Clifford Jordan |
John Coltrane
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Glass Bead Games | Strata-East / Mack Avenue | 2025 | https://mackavenue.com/products/clifford-jordan-glass-bead-games | 2:10:27 (Pop-up) | ||||
Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra |
Machine Gum
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...And It's Yours Forever | Action Jazz | 2025 | https://tigernet.no/releases/993328-and-its-yours-forever | 2:17:12 (Pop-up) | ||||
Kio Nawab, Daniel Klimaz, Farhot |
NOWROZ 1404
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NOWROZ 1404 | Kabul Fire | 2025 | https://farhot.bandcamp.com/album/nowroz-1404 | 2:24:41 (Pop-up) | ||||
DJ Haram |
Rug Burn
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Hypervigilant / Never Nostalgic Beat Tape | DJ Haram | 2025 | https://djharam.bandcamp.com/merch/hypervigilant-never-nostalgic-beat-tape-cassette-pre-order | 2:28:16 (Pop-up) | ||||
Makeshift Spirituals feat. Daniel Carter, Ayumi Ishito, George Draguns, Ed Wilcox |
Aldous Anorexics Cartwright Part 2
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Volume 1 | 577 | 2025 | https://danielcarternyc.bandcamp.com/album/volume-1 | 2:34:09 (Pop-up) | ||||
Schweizer - Carl - Dyani - Bennink |
Freizeit
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Irène's Hot Four | Intakt | 2025 | https://ireneschweizer.bandcamp.com/album/ir-nes-hot-four | 2:45:32 (Pop-up) | ||||
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Like this track!
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bsky.app...
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(not a surprise)
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Tony Jones - tenor saxophone
Kenny Wollesen - drums and percussion
Marika Hughes - cello
Jessica Jones - tenor saxophone
Rashaan Carter - bass
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www.mixcloud.com...
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Rüdiger Carl: Saxophones, Clarinet, Accordion
Johnny Dyani: Bass, Vocal
Han Bennink: Drums, Percussion, Megaphone
All compositions by Irène Schweizer. Live recorded on November 8, 1981, at Internationales Jazzfestival Zürich by Radio SRF
WR:
I haven't been on the comments much tonight but enjoyed it all.
Thank you!
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