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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 September 24, 2020: Sabu Part Two: A Groovy Man in Sweden

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro            
Sabu Martinez  Martin Cohen Loves Latin Percussion   Favoriting Afro Temple  Grammofonverket  1973    0:01:57 (Pop-up)
Sabu Martinez  Afro Temple   Favoriting Afro Temple  Grammofonverket  1973    0:04:43 (Pop-up)
Sabu Martinez & Sahib Shihab  Nus   Favoriting Winds & Skins  Mellotronen  2008  Swedish Radio recordings 1978  0:11:21 (Pop-up)
Sabu Martinez & Sahib Shihab  A Memo to Art Blakey   Favoriting Winds & Skins  Mellotronen  2008  Swedish Radio recordings 1978  0:14:27 (Pop-up)
Art Blakey Percussion Ensemble  The Sacrifice   Favoriting Drum Suite  Columbia  1957    0:17:34 (Pop-up)
George Russell  Cubano Be, Cubano Bop   Favoriting New York Big Band  Soul Note  1982  rec. live 1977 in Sweden  0:25:06 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Safari  
 
 
 
 
0:35:40 (Pop-up)
Sabu Martinez  The Beat Goes On   Favoriting Groovin' With Sabu Martinez  Metronome  1968    0:45:43 (Pop-up)
Sabu Martinez  Bwana Simba   Favoriting Groovin' With Sabu Martinez  Metronome  1968    0:48:41 (Pop-up)
Sabu Martinez  Söndagsbladet Dålig   Favoriting Winds & Skins  Mellotronen  2008  Swedish Radio recording 1967  0:50:24 (Pop-up)
Cornelis Vreeswijk  Papillas Samba   Favoriting Tio Vackra Visor Och Personliga Person  Metronome  1968    0:54:11 (Pop-up)
Cornelis Vreeswijk  I Rio De Janeiro   Favoriting Tio Vackra Visor Och Personliga Person  Metronome  1968    0:56:00 (Pop-up)
Sabu Martinez och Björbobandet  Jewel One   Favoriting Aurora Borealis  Coop  1971    0:59:23 (Pop-up)
Sabu Martinez och Björbobandet  The Sacrifice   Favoriting Aurora Borealis  Coop  1971    0:59:50 (Pop-up)
Sabu Martinez och Björbobandet  Worldfull of Grey   Favoriting Aurora Borealis  Coop  1971  wr. Oscar Brown Jr.  1:04:45 (Pop-up)
The Kenny Clarke – Francy Boland Big Band  Fiebre Cuban   Favoriting Latin Kaleidoscope  MPS  1969    1:09:24 (Pop-up)
Bengt-Arne Wallin  The Song About A Hole, Somewhere   Favoriting Varmluft  Sonet  1972    1:11:31 (Pop-up)
Merit Hemmingson  Brudmarsch Efter Florsen I Brus   Favoriting Trollskog (Mer Svensk Folkmusik På Beat)  Columbia  1972    1:17:11 (Pop-up)
Merit Hemmingson  Oxdansen   Favoriting Trollskog (Mer Svensk Folkmusik På Beat)  Columbia  1972    1:19:15 (Pop-up)
Rhythm Combination & Brass, Peter Herbolzheimer  Frog Dance   Favoriting Wide Open  MPS  1973    1:21:06 (Pop-up)
Eero Koivistoinen Music Society  Wahoo!   Favoriting Wahoo!  RCA Victor  1973    1:26:07 (Pop-up)
Arja Saijonmaa  Bogota, Bogota   Favoriting Koko Yön Minun Poikani Valvoi  Love Records  1973    1:30:22 (Pop-up)
Cornelis Vreeswijk  Till Hans Excellens Statsminister Olof Palme   Favoriting I Stället För Vykort  YTF  1973    1:31:51 (Pop-up)
Tony Scott  Manteca   Favoriting Manteca  Sonet  1973  wr. Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Fuller  1:34:47 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Sabu Martinez 
Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay   Favoriting
Groovin' With Sabu Martinez 
 
 
 
1:43:36 (Pop-up)
Sabu Martinez  Para Ti, Tito Rodriguez   Favoriting Afro Temple  Grammofonverket  1973    1:55:19 (Pop-up)
Sabu Martinez  My Christina   Favoriting Afro Temple  Grammofonverket  1973    1:59:11 (Pop-up)
Sabu Martinez  Wounded Knee   Favoriting Afro Temple  Grammofonverket  1973    2:04:06 (Pop-up)
Sabu Martinez  Education   Favoriting Burned Sugar  Mellotronen  2008  rec. 1974, Polyvox Sessions  2:06:06 (Pop-up)
Sabu Martinez  The Polyvox Jam Part 1   Favoriting Burned Sugar  Mellotronen  2008  rec. 1974, Polyvox Sessions  2:07:40 (Pop-up)
Time Travellers / The Galactic Light Orchestra  Dance   Favoriting Galaxis  Polydor  1974  Borodin's "Polovtsian Dances"  2:12:57 (Pop-up)
Ed Thigpen's Action Re Action  Action-Re-Action   Favoriting Ed Thigpen's Action Re Action  Sonet  1974    2:18:52 (Pop-up)
George Russell  Event IV   Favoriting Vertical Form VI  Soul Note  1981  rec. live 1977 w/ The Swedish Radio Jazz Orch.  2:23:09 (Pop-up)
Sabu Martinez  Burned Sugar   Favoriting Burned Sugar  Mellotronen  2008  Swedish Radio recordings 1973, w/ the Afro Temple lineup  2:32:25 (Pop-up)
Sabu Martinez & Sahib Shihab  The Distorted Sioux Indian   Favoriting Winds & Skins  Mellotronen  2008  Swedish Radio recordings 1978  2:49:12 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Tropical Forest – Number Six Chops Down the Tree  
 
 
 
 
2:54:30 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:41pm
chresti:

Hi Flash and explorers, I'll be back...soonest!
Avatar 6:49pm
Flash Strap:

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

Looking forward to further discoveries.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:01pm
WR:

Sooner or later. Ears open here.
Avatar 7:01pm
Flash Strap:

hi Aitch! me too pal
Avatar 7:03pm
Flash Strap:

this album is so amazing
Avatar 7:07pm
Flash Strap:

this album featuring Johnny Martinez, Sabu's son
Sabu's pupils from his conga school
Swedish horn players Bernt Rosengren & Christer Boustedt
and American bassist Red Mitchell
Avatar 7:08pm
Flash Strap:

Hi WR!
Avatar 7:13pm
Flash Strap:

Winds & Skins recorded just one month before Sabu would die in 1979, truly tragic but an incredible, beautiful final recording
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:14pm
StringOFperils:

Enjoying these sounds. I know nothing of this artist, which is okay. The transient auditory swim is enough to wash whatever this is off of me for a while. Let it rain.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:14pm
chresti:

Great intro!
Avatar 7:16pm
Flash Strap:

hello SoP! I'll explain a little bit but if you want to really find out about The Goods you should check out last week's show
Avatar 7:17pm
Flash Strap:

one last track from the pre-Swedish past to start us off
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:18pm
StringOFperils:

Thank you for the tip, Flash. I think I will. :)
Avatar 7:19pm
Flash Strap:

I can guarantee you won't regret it but in the meantime let's jam my friend
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:20pm
StringOFperils:

Count me in !
Avatar 7:23pm
Flash Strap:

actually SoP, for a little backstory on Sabu, the honorable George Russell is about to lay a little bit down for you on the next track
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:25pm
WR:

Interesting tovhear Russell speaking.
Avatar 7:26pm
Flash Strap:

I was very excited to discover that track while researching this show WR - for that very reason!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:26pm
StringOFperils:

...with Diz. That's heavy. Underscores the shallowness of my knowledge.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:27pm
StringOFperils:

This is why I leave it to the professionals....like you folks!
Avatar 7:27pm
Flash Strap:

don't knock your knowledge, it's growing deeper all the time
Avatar 7:31pm
Flash Strap:

really cool section here where Sabu totally takes the lead, I love it
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:33pm
StringOFperils:

Yeah. This is gigantic. Talent off the charts.
Avatar 7:34pm
Flash Strap:

this track was recorded live in Sweden during the same sessions that make up the Vertical Form VI LP, also feat. Sabu, which we'll hear later
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:36pm
doctorjazz:

Hi, Flash, great stuff!
  7:40pm
Little Danny:

Heya Evan, hey all
Avatar 7:45pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Doc! Hi LD!
Avatar 7:46pm
Flash Strap:

likely my favorite cover of Beat Goes On here
Avatar 7:49pm
Flash Strap:

Söndagsbladet Dålig = Sabu's very 1st recording in Sweden
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:50pm
StringOFperils:

Hey Danny! Hi everybody else too (pardon my manners)
  7:51pm
Little Danny:

SOP hey hey
Avatar 7:51pm
Flash Strap:

Christer Boustedt on sax again here
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:53pm
chresti:

Hi Stringo! Hi doc! Hi Lil' Danny!
Avatar 7:54pm
Flash Strap:

this whole Vreeswijk album is so lovely
Avatar 7:54pm
Flash Strap:

Tio Vackra Visor Och Personliga Person = "Ten Beautiful Poems and a Personal Person"
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:56pm
JtotheK:

aloha Flash, hi everyone. enjoying this programme, enjoyed the Sabu show last week, too!
Avatar 7:57pm
Flash Strap:

Hi JtotheK! very glad to hear it!
Avatar 7:59pm
Flash Strap:

ah, now The Sacrifice makes its second appearance
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:02pm
Aitch:

Wild stuff. Woo hoo.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:02pm
melinda:

hi friends!
Avatar 8:03pm
Flash Strap:

hello Melinda! welcome friend
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:06pm
StringOFperils:

Hi melinda!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:06pm
doctorjazz:

Signal coming and going.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:07pm
Aitch:

Auto Sabu remix?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:07pm
chresti:

Hi melinda, Aitch, JtotheK..
Avatar 8:08pm
Flash Strap:

yikes sorry folks hopefully we'll clear up now
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:09pm
chresti:

I thought it was me.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:13pm
doctorjazz:

Happened again.
Avatar 8:15pm
Flash Strap:

fingers crossed that was the last time, dammit i hate that
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:18pm
melinda:

Nice vibe
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:18pm
chresti:

The blips coincided with the time of day I get blips on my connection.
Avatar 8:19pm
Flash Strap:

this Trollskog album is pretty special
Avatar 8:21pm
Flash Strap:

he did at least one other LP with Merit Hemmingson, I know Larry Grogan is quite fond of it, called Merit Hemmingson Plays
Avatar 8:28pm
Flash Strap:

this record is a hoot. mutant sounds
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:29pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Evan and Explorers
Avatar 8:30pm
Flash Strap:

Koko Yön Minun Poikani Valvoi = "All night my son supervised"
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:31pm
chresti:

Hi coel
Avatar 8:32pm
Flash Strap:

hello hello Coelacanth!
Avatar 8:32pm
Flash Strap:

I Stället För Vykort = "Instead of postcards"
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:34pm
coelacanth∅:

hey chresti!
Avatar 8:37pm
Flash Strap:

the great Ed Thigpen on drums here - he'd relocated to Denmark around this time
Avatar 8:39pm
Flash Strap:

Kjell Öhman on organ - see him at work on the cover of a solo LP: img.discogs.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:43pm
chresti:

From allaboutjazz.com:
"Like many jazzmen in the late 1950s, Sabu struggled with heroin addiction, which took its toll on him as on all of jazz. He took odd jobs and even left music for a time, at one point running a strip joint on Baltimore's famous “Block.” But with the help of friends he landed new gigs. In 1960 he joined Louie Ramirez briefly to record one of the masterpieces of Latin jazz, “Jazz Espagnole.”
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:44pm
Little Danny:

Thanks Chresti, amazing.

Jazz Espagnole is legendary.
Avatar 8:55pm
Flash Strap:

@LD: I played Delilah from Jazz Espagnole in yr honor last week
Avatar 8:56pm
Flash Strap:

this album's atmosphere is cavernous, exotic, really a gorgeous achievement
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:05pm
chresti:

Wowza.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:07pm
Aitch:

Getting snazzy now.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:08pm
StringOFperils:

Very 1974
Avatar 9:09pm
Flash Strap:

Wlodek Gulgowski on the keys here
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:09pm
Little Danny:

Full co-sign on the enthusiasm here. '70s Sabu is all new to me.
Avatar 9:10pm
Flash Strap:

lotta this is new to me, outside the solo albums! I did a lot of digging for this show
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:13pm
chresti:

This Polyvox jam reminded me of Sesame Street music, or Electric Company.
Avatar 9:13pm
Flash Strap:

100%, Chresti I thought the same thing
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:13pm
StringOFperils:

Reminded me of HH's (contemporary) Headhunters a little.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:14pm
chresti:

Ah yeah, StrinGo.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:14pm
StringOFperils:

The keyboards I guess
Avatar 9:15pm
Flash Strap:

This Galaxis is another Herbolzheimer joint, pretty corny but I can dig it somehow
Avatar 9:17pm
Flash Strap:

there is still ANOTHER Mellotronen release of long-lost Sabu radio recordings, called Maldito Primitivo. It's good but we won't hear it tonight, so I wanted to mention it's existence
Avatar 9:17pm
Flash Strap:

*its
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:18pm
Aitch:

I'd like to find a copy of Sorcery! from last week
Avatar 9:19pm
Flash Strap:

I was very happy when I copped mine, Aitch! it has been reissued btw
Avatar 9:21pm
Flash Strap:

i'm still hunting for that very special copy of Safari With Sabu though
Avatar 9:24pm
Flash Strap:

btw Sabu also plays on Russell's legendary Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:24pm
Aitch:

That one too. Afro Temple and Burned Sugar from this week.
Avatar 9:27pm
Flash Strap:

good picks
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:29pm
coelacanth∅:

this reminds me of a Robert Wyatt track (i don't remember the name of)
Avatar 9:29pm
Flash Strap:

on the tip of my tongue, C
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:29pm
StringOFperils:

@coel > I can hear that
Avatar 9:30pm
Flash Strap:

something from Ruth is Stranger than Richard, maybe?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:30pm
coelacanth∅:

yes!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:30pm
StringOFperils:

Or Rockbottom
Avatar ♥ 9:33pm
northguineahills:

going out got take out in a bit, listneing!
Avatar 9:33pm
Flash Strap:

Burned or "Bernt" - these 73 sessions again heavily feature Bernt Rosengren
Avatar 9:34pm
Flash Strap:

hi NGH!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:34pm
coelacanth∅:

"little red ... hood hit the road"?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:34pm
coelacanth∅:

(StringO)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:35pm
StringOFperils:

My memory is too full of holes for me to commit. I need to pull out Ruth Is... tomorrow to listen to it I think.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:37pm
coelacanth∅:

-anyway this Sabu is hitting the spot.
...of course
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:38pm
StringOFperils:

I know it's great when I'm so into it that I kind of zone out for a while and then come back and wonder where I went.
Avatar ♥ 9:38pm
northguineahills:

am i insane, but I swear I heard Sabu Martinez on another program on wfmu (former more likely then the latter).
Avatar 9:38pm
Flash Strap:

boy this show sure has been a big hot bowl of funky noodles man. these guys are jammin'
Avatar 9:40pm
Flash Strap:

@NGH: it'd be insane if you hadn't bud! LD definitely lays down Sabu regularly but I know he's not alone; someone said Irwin had done a Sabu special but I can't confirm
Avatar 9:41pm
Flash Strap:

considering his releases on Blue Note or with Art Blakey Sabu could have appeared on any respectable jazz show many times over. Any show that gives the drummer some, you might say
Avatar ♥ 9:44pm
northguineahills:

damn, missed George Russull!
Avatar 9:44pm
Flash Strap:

twice
  9:47pm
Shaw:

Hi Flash! Long time FMU listener but I just discovered your show a few weeks ago. Love it! Was not familiar with Sabu at all but this has been amazing! Thank you!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:50pm
StringOFperils:

I have to say FS that although you're not beating the skins yourself you put a lot of work into arranging this show. Pretty compelling. Thanks a lot !
Avatar 9:50pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Shaw, thanks for saying hello! & of course it is my own incredible pleasure to share a little of Sabu with you (definitely check out last week's show, focusing on Sabu in the 50s, with Art Blakey etc.)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:50pm
Little Danny:

Best damn show.
Avatar 9:51pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks SoP I work on these shows till my head spins sometimes
Avatar 9:51pm
Flash Strap:

aw shucks LD
Avatar ♥ 9:52pm
northguineahills:

The electronics bleed into the congas effortlessly, I love it!. I got get some grub. Will listen in the car, Even, gracias!
Avatar 9:52pm
Flash Strap:

i die for this track, Shihab's electric sax is insane, esp. juxtaposed w/ the title / subject
Avatar ♥ 9:54pm
northguineahills:

LD isn't wrong! te escuchare, LD mas tarde!
  9:55pm
Shaw:

I did hear last weeks show! It was killer! I feel like I had heard a fair bit of Blakey, but not that stuff. Thoroughly enjoyed it!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:55pm
Little Danny:

VISUALIZE YOUR COOL BLUE FLAME: wfmu.org...

Hope to see y'all [t]here!
Avatar ♥ 9:58pm
northguineahills:

@Shaw: Flash's shows are amazing, music you won't find anywhere else. Check out the archives (and he puts out the album covers for each episode!)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:59pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Evan!
  9:59pm
Shaw:

NGH: Thanks! That's what I am discovering. New worlds every week. Gonna definitely hit up archives!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:59pm
chresti:

Thanks Flash!
Avatar 10:00pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks NGH, Shaw! My Pleasure Chresti! Goodnight friends!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:00pm
WR:

Thank you so much Evan! Great music. Great presentation. Thank you.
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