Favoriting Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman: Playlist from May 24, 2025 Favoriting

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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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Favoriting May 24, 2025: Cosmic Ear: Christer Bothén Interview

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
 
Cosmic Ear  Right Here Right Now   Favoriting TRACES  We Jazz  2025  feat. Christer Bothén ; https://matsgustafsson.bandcamp.com/album/traces  0:02:18 (Pop-up)
Don Cherry  Relativity Suite Part 1   Favoriting Organic Music Society  Caprice  1973  feat. Christer Bothén  0:13:09 (Pop-up)
Oren Ambarchi ／ Johan Berthling ／ Andreas Werliin  I (feat. Christer Bothén)   Favoriting Ghosted  Drag City  2022    0:18:07 (Pop-up)
 
Christer Bothén  Interview Part 1   Favoriting Interview, March 28, 2025  N/A  2025    0:28:37 (Pop-up)
Spjärnsvallet  Mali Donso N`Goni   Favoriting Again & Again  Country & Eastern  2014  feat. Christer Bothén  0:56:06 (Pop-up)
 
Christer Bothén 3  L'INVISIBLE, Partie 1   Favoriting L'INVISIBLE  Thanatosis  2025  https://cbothen.bandcamp.com/album/linvisible  1:02:11 (Pop-up)
Cosmic Ear  Father and Son   Favoriting TRACES  We Jazz  2025  feat. Christer Bothén ; https://matsgustafsson.bandcamp.com/album/traces  1:19:12 (Pop-up)
 
Christer Bothén  IT   Favoriting AMBROSIA  Thanatosis  2020    1:28:19 (Pop-up)
Christer Bothén Featuring Bolon Bata  Trance Dance / Mimouna   Favoriting Trancedance (40th anniversary edition)  Black Truffle  2024    1:35:50 (Pop-up)
 
Christer Bothén  Interview Part 2   Favoriting Interview, March 28, 2025  N/A  2025    1:57:55 (Pop-up)
Cosmic Ear  TRACES of Brown Rice   Favoriting TRACES  We Jazz  2025  feat. Christer Bothén ; https://matsgustafsson.bandcamp.com/album/traces  2:26:59 (Pop-up)
 
Don Cherry  Moving Pictures For The Ear   Favoriting Eternal Now  Sonet  1974  feat. Christer Bothén  2:33:40 (Pop-up)
Cosmic Ear  Love Train   Favoriting TRACES  We Jazz  2025  feat. Christer Bothén ; https://matsgustafsson.bandcamp.com/album/traces  2:36:19 (Pop-up)
Don Cherry's New Researches Featuring Naná Vasconcelos  Elixir + Relativity Suite, Part 1 + Elixir Reprise / Ganesh + Elixir Reprise   Favoriting Organic Music Theatre (Festival De Jazz De Chateauvallon 1972)  Blank Forms  2021  feat. Christer Bothén  2:45:35 (Pop-up)
 


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Observations:

going live in 3 minutes!
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WR:

Hello David and folks.
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now live!
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doctorjazz:

Hi David, Saturday Streamers!
Avatar 7:04pm
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↳ Song: "Right Here Right Now" by "Cosmic Ear"
Christer Bothén; donso n’goni, bass clarinet, contra bass clarinet, piano

Mats Gustafsson; tenor sax, flute, slide flute, Ab clarinet, live electronics, organ, harmonica

Goran Kajfeš; trumpet, pocket trumpet, synth, electronics, percussion

Juan Romero; congas, berimbau and percussion

Kansan Zetterberg; bass, donso n’goni
Avatar 7:05pm
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Greetings everyone!
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doctorjazz:

Will be in Sweden this summer, hopefully catch some interesting jazz...
Avatar 7:08pm
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🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪
  7:09pm
feltron:

ordered my copy of Traces yesterday. Very excited about tonight's show
Avatar 7:19pm
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↳ feltron @7:09
Nice! I still need to pick up a physical copy, I just have the digital for now. One of my favorites of 2025.
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zzz:

↳ feltron @7:09
likewise!
i listened to it today, so good.
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zzz:

↳ Song: "I (feat. Christer Bothén)" by "Oren Ambarchi ／ Jo...
this was an instant classic. never realized Bothen was playing on here
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:32pm
WR:

Dodds and Bechet. Love them.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:34pm
doctorjazz:

and Giuffre!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:36pm
doctorjazz:

Will go to Gothenborg this summer (my family is from there, I was born not far from there, in Boras...
Avatar 7:37pm
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I love his laugh!!! lol
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↳ Song: "Interview Part 1" by "Christer Bothén"
Photos of the Donso N'goni

bsky.app...
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WR:

Great chat with Bothén. You got him to open up (though he seems enthusiastic to talk).
Avatar 8:02pm
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↳ Song: "L'INVISIBLE, Partie 1" by "Christer Bothén 3"
Christer Bothén: bass clarinet, inside piano.
Kansan Zetterberg: bass
Kjell Nordeson: vibraphone, drums.
Avatar 8:08pm
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↳ Song: "L'INVISIBLE, Partie 1" by "Christer Bothén 3"
I won't have time for it tonight, but CB is also on this (also from Thanatosis):

Jorden vi ärvde
by Vilhelm Bromander Unfolding Orchestra

vilhelmbromander.bandcamp.com...

I played it on my show a couple weeks ago:
wfmu.org...
Avatar 8:30pm
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↳ Song: "IT" by "Christer Bothén"
"Don Cherry collaborator and Bolon Bata founder Christer Bothén (b. 1941) delivers three CDs devoted to his highly personal expression on the bass clarinet and contrabass clarinet. To quote the artist himself: ”Those empty pipes have possibilities enough to cover several lives”. Sounds and silences are delicately carved out in different acoustic spaces, from a rainy soundscape in Spain to a peculiarly resonating church in Sweden. The album also includes a composition inspired by Tarkovskij’s masterpiece Stalker: focusing on the big clarinets, ”ZON” is composed for and performed by a large ensemble, featuring vocalist Sofia Jernberg, pianist Kristine Scholz and reedists Hans Koch and Per Texas Johansson, among others. It was recorded and mixed at the Stockholm studio Atlantis Grammofon, by legendary sound engineer Janne Hansson."

cbothen.bandcamp.com...
Avatar 8:36pm
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↳ Song: "Trance Dance / Mimouna" by "Christer Bothén Featu...
"Black Truffle is pleased to announce the first vinyl reissue of Trancedance, a wild slice of Swedish Afro-fusion from Christer Bothén, originally released in 1984. A major figure in Swedish jazz and improvised music since the 1970s, often heard on bass clarinet and tenor sax, Bothen studied doso n’koni (the large six-stringed ‘hunter’s harp’ of the Wasulu) in Mali in 1971-2 before turning to the guinbri (the three-stringed lute of the Gnawa/Gnauoua) in Marakesh later in the decade. In between, he performed extensively with Don Cherry during his Organic Music Society period and taught Cherry the doso n’koni. In the later 70s and 80s he worked with the most important figures in the distinctive Swedish jazz-rock-world fusion scene, joining Archimedes Badkar for their African-influenced Tre and participating in Bengt Berger’s legendary Bitter Funeral Beer Band."

blacktruffle.bandcamp.com...
  9:08pm
pp:

these interview subjects, Christer today and David Murray seem so humble and gracious. enjoyed hearing them
Avatar 9:14pm
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↳ pp @9:08
🙏✌️😎 it’s an honor and privilege, I always learn so much from these masters
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WR:

Interesting side note, I think William Parker picked up doso n’koni from Don Cherry. Don't know if he had any other teacher on the doso n’koni.
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WR:

↳ WR @9:33
More I think about it, that may be speculation on my part. Need to look it up.
Avatar 9:35pm
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↳ WR @9:33
Parker also plays the kora, a smilier instrument. That he said he got from Marshall Allen
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↳ WR @9:34
I know Cherry & Parker played together circa 1975, so it's highly likely
Avatar 9:47pm
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↳ Song: "Elixir + Relativity Suite, Part 1 + Elixir Repris...
I edited together some of my favorite tracks on this album to make my own long suite.
Avatar 9:48pm
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↳ Song: "Elixir + Relativity Suite, Part 1 + Elixir Repris...
Don Cherry (piano, harmonium, tanpura, vocals)
Naná Vasconcelos (berimbau, percussion)
Christer Bothén (donso ngoni, piano, light percussion)
Doudou Gouirand (soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, light percussion)
Moki Cherry (tanpura, vocals)

blankformseditions.bandcamp.com...
  9:53pm
feltron:

Excellent show David thank you.
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↳ feltron @9:53
Thanks for the kind words, much appreciated
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks David
Avatar 10:02pm
Observations:

Thanks everyone! I'll be back next week, same time, same place
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WR:

Thank you! David!
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