Favoriting Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from January 27, 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 January 27, 2022: Lost Continents, Ancient Temples, Forbidden Islands

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Artist Track Album Label Year Approx. start time
  Intro          
Joël Vandroogenbroeck  Lemuria   Favoriting Lost Continents  Coloursound Library  1980  0:01:40 (Pop-up)
Francisco López  Lemuria   Favoriting Ha! Ha! Among The Trumpets  Sound of Pig  1986  0:04:28 (Pop-up)
Gail Laughton  Lemuria 16,000 B.C.   Favoriting Harps of the Ancient Temples  Rapture  1969  0:09:32 (Pop-up)
Paul Lloyd Warner & Steve Kindler  Lemurian Sunset / Cone of Shadows   Favoriting Lemurian Sunrise  Waterfall Music  1981  0:11:14 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck  Lemurian Scale / Lemurian Harmonics   Favoriting Lost Continents  Coloursound Library  1980  0:15:50 (Pop-up)
Sun City Girls  The Fine-Tuned Machines of Lemuria   Favoriting You're Never Alone With A Cigarette  Majora  1990  0:21:08 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra and His Astro Infinity Arkestra  Lemuria   Favoriting Atlantis  Saturn Research  1969  0:33:05 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck  Lost Continent   Favoriting Lost Continents  Coloursound Library  1980  0:38:05 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
King Kong Escapes  
 
 
 
0:40:27 (Pop-up)
Clyde Derby  Lost Island   Favoriting Derby's Second Touch  Ruby Records  1964  0:46:53 (Pop-up)
The Surfmen  Forbidden Island   Favoriting The Sounds of Exotic Island  Somerset Stereo-Fidelity  1960  0:49:36 (Pop-up)
The Islanders  Paradise Lost   Favoriting The Enchanted Sound of The Islanders  Mayflower  1960  0:51:46 (Pop-up)
Frank Hunter and His Orchestra  Lost Plateau   Favoriting White Goddess  Kapp  1959  0:54:19 (Pop-up)
Elisabeth Waldo  On the High Plateau   Favoriting Realm of the Incas  GNP  1962  0:56:12 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter  Gardens of the Moon   Favoriting The Sacred Idol: Strange and Exotic Music Keyed to the Mysterious Legends of the Feathered Serpent of the Aztecs  Capitol  1960  0:59:57 (Pop-up)
Tak Shindo  Moon Over a Ruined Castle   Favoriting The Yellow Unicorn  Imperial  1960  1:02:05 (Pop-up)
Dominic Frontiere and His Orchestra  Moon Goddess (Ixchel)   Favoriting Pagan Festival: An Exotic Love Ritual for Orchestra  Columbia  1959  1:04:29 (Pop-up)
Robert Drasnin  Chant of the Moon   Favoriting Voodoo: Exotic Music From Polynesia And The Far East  Tops  1959  1:07:09 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter  Lost City   Favoriting African Jazz  Capitol  1959  1:09:38 (Pop-up)
Elisabeth Waldo and Her Concert Orchestra  Ritual of the Human Sacrifice   Favoriting Rites of the Pagan - Mystic Realm of the Ancient Americas  GNP  1960  1:12:41 (Pop-up)
Yma Sumac  Sauma (Magic)   Favoriting Legend of the Jivaro  Capitol  1957  1:14:52 (Pop-up)
Russ Garcia And His Orchestra  Volcanoes of Mercury   Favoriting Fantastica - Music From Outer Space  London Records  1958  1:18:23 (Pop-up)
Martin Denny  Volcano   Favoriting My Tane (My Man) / Volcano 7"  Liberty  1960  1:22:27 (Pop-up)
Paul Page and his Paradise Music  Mele Of Forgotten Men (A Chanted Story)   Favoriting Pacific Paradise  Subliminal Sounds  2018  1:24:36 (Pop-up)
Elisabeth Waldo  Saycusca! (The Weary Stones)   Favoriting Realm of the Incas  GNP  1962  1:28:40 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter  Mountains of Mystery   Favoriting Barbarian  American International Records  1960  1:32:08 (Pop-up)
Frank Hunter and His Orchestra  Mist of Gorongoza   Favoriting White Goddess  Kapp  1959  1:37:06 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter, His Chorus and Orchestra  Wotuka   Favoriting Tamboo!  Capitol  1955  1:39:29 (Pop-up)
Werner Müller and His Orchestra  The Banquet   Favoriting East of India  Decca  1959  1:41:49 (Pop-up)
The Islanders  Forbidden Island   Favoriting Forbidden Island / City Under the Sea 7"  Mayflower  1960  1:44:08 (Pop-up)
John McFarland  Forbidden   Favoriting Provocatif: 9 Exotic Motifs  United Artists  1959  1:46:21 (Pop-up)
Martin Denny  Forbidden Island   Favoriting Forbidden Island  Liberty  1958  1:49:00 (Pop-up)
Stan Applebaum, His Orchestra and Chorus  Undiscovered Island   Favoriting A Touch of Green / Undiscovered Island 7"  Warner Bros  19??  1:51:47 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Mondo Island  
 
 
 
1:54:30 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck  Mu Ensemble   Favoriting Lost Continents  Coloursound Library  1980  2:08:27 (Pop-up)
Ranta / Lewis / Plank  Mu IV   Favoriting Mu  Metaphon  1970 / 2010  2:10:23 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra and His Astro Infinity Arkestra  Mu   Favoriting Atlantis  Saturn Research  1969  2:34:21 (Pop-up)
Don Cherry  Sun of the East / Terrestrial Beings   Favoriting "Mu" First Part  BYG  1969  2:38:41 (Pop-up)
Joël Vandroogenbroeck  Mu Migrations   Favoriting Lost Continents  Coloursound Library  1980  2:51:04 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Bells Of My Soul  
 
 
 
2:54:01 (Pop-up)


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Flash Strap:

Hello!
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jaywbabcock:

Great painting to contemplate in mid-winter.
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Flash Strap:

Hi Jay! it's an Ernst Haeckel watercolor
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Will the Sound Guy:

hello Evan and all!!
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Flash Strap:

Hi Will!
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Flash Strap:

god it's been so cold
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jaywbabcock:

Haeckel, very nice, thx Evan
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:05pm
listener james from westwood:

Evening, Flash and all! I couldn't bear to peep today's waking temperature but I'm fairly certain it was single digits!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:05pm
WR:

"Lost Continents, Ancient Temples, Forbidden Islands"

If this is a reality survival program, I am not a contestant no matter what the prize is. I'm always one of the first ones "out". My survival strategy is being in the audience.
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doctorjazz:

Hi Flash,
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Flash Strap:

Hi James! Hi Doc! Hi WR!
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Scott67:

G'day Evan & Explorers!
👍😎🔭🌏
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Flash Strap:

Hi Scott!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Good to be in thuh Rooom.
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Flash Strap:

Ah Rev! Splendid to count you among our number
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Flash Strap:

cool cover on this weirdo comp cassette: i.discogs.com...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Gustave Doré stylée - always a fave.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:12pm
Scott67:

Anyone else trying to spot the Predator in that Painting?
🌳🌴👾🌳🌱
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Flash Strap:

yeah, that's Doré's Last Judgment if i recall
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Flash Strap:

@scott: Predator has some matte paintings that are so out of control exotic and mythic, there's totally a shot that looks just like this painting
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:14pm
Scott67:

Cool Evan! 👍😎
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

So much about Dinosaurs in my fb these days ...& as well as for drug info, Wiki is good for reading paleontology rabbitholes...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

*fb feed...
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Flash Strap:

genuinely love predator
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:16pm
Scott67:

👍👾
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Flash Strap:

aggressively ambient intro to the show this evening – but much classic exotica awaits as well
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chresti:

Hi Flash and explorers!
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Flash Strap:

Hi Chresti!
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chresti:

Dig the ambience, was listening whist showering.
Avatar 7:22pm
Flash Strap:

seems like great shower music for deep shower thoughts
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:24pm
Aitch:

Very lush
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:24pm
Scott67:

Wow Evan, just went down a forest painting rabbit hole. Had to find my way back out, before I was lost. I will go back, but with a machete next time. Amazing stuff!
Avatar 7:25pm
Flash Strap:

listening to Sun City Girls always such a weird experience, perhaps no group has ever had such fucked up vibes. love 'em
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Flash Strap:

hi Aitch!
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Flash Strap:

@scott: lotsa holes to go down with just Haeckel alone
Avatar 7:27pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...yeah I'm crawlin' back into the tub to listen ...just wanting to spend this whole NewHampshuh Winter in there ...pretend I'm clicky☆ing every marvelous track...
Avatar 7:28pm
Flash Strap:

@rev: sometimes it's the only way to get truly warm
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:31pm
Aitch:

Down here feels more like the painting
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Constantly Choking:

Sweet sounds of exploration! Heyyy Flash/everyone!
Avatar 7:32pm
Flash Strap:

remind me where you are Aitch, I'm in north carolina and freezing my ass off
Avatar 7:32pm
Flash Strap:

Hi CC! great to see ya
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:32pm
Aitch:

Sydney
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Flash Strap:

aha that's right, i'll take a drop of that sydney weather please
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:35pm
Scott67:

79% Humidity here in Bendigo. So you must be swimming through the air Aitch!
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Flash Strap:

all the music in lemuria is vague, mystically meandering, mind-boggling... just what happens when you're the regional sound of a place that may or may not exist
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:36pm
Aitch:

Not sure if this will play,
www.surfline.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:38pm
Aitch:

Very moist Scott, very very moist
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:39pm
Scott67:

It plays alright Aitch!
Ya bastard!👍😉👣🍻🌊
Avatar ♥ 7:47pm
TDK60:

Hi Flash.
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Flash Strap:

Hi TDK!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:50pm
Scott67:

I feel like I'm in the Jungle Room!
🌴🌳🎶📻
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:51pm
Doug Schulkind:

Good evening, Explorers and schnorers!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:52pm
Scott67:

Little Danny bed music!
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Flash Strap:

Hi Doug!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:54pm
Scott67:

G'day Doug, did you hear me trying to turn your DJ to the Sheena's side?
👍😎🍻
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:54pm
zzz:

heeyyyyoo DJ FS!
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Flash Strap:

hey zzz!
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Flash Strap:

@scott: i can never be turned, drummer for life. respect to sheena though
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:58pm
Scott67:

Evan, I dig that mate. The Jungle is the only place filthy & sweaty enough for our TRASH CULT Show. When I get my shit together & air the fucken thing!
👍😎🍻📻🎶💀
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:59pm
Little Danny:

hi evan hi all! i have an elisabeth waldo track picked out for tonight too!
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Flash Strap:

this Waldo record is so great, a true classic
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:59pm
Doug Schulkind:

@Scott67
I must've missed that bit of subterfuge. You are free to try to turn anyone anywhere. (Good luck with that.)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:59pm
Little Danny:

and a surfmen track!
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Flash Strap:

Hi LD! great minds
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Little Danny:

indeed :)
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Flash Strap:

there's a couple Office Naps revelations to come in this set too LD, it's got your name all over it
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:03pm
Little Danny:

thank you evan ❤️️ already blushing
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Flash Strap:

hey thank you LD
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Flash Strap:

as far as exotica versions of this Japanese folk tune go, Arthur Lyman's takes the cake. But Tak Shindo's version here is very nice and subtle
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:05pm
Little Danny:

wow did not know there were some shindo tracks on that yellow unicorn lp!!! that was lovely
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Flash Strap:

yeah there's 4 - but there's also about as much Rod McKuen as I can have at a sitting
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:07pm
Aitch:

love a bit of harp flourish in my pagan love ritual
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Flash Strap:

absolutely yes
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:10pm
Little Danny:

these are some of the deepest exotica moods
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:11pm
zzz:

yeah was going to say love getting the classic exotica on explorers room
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Flash Strap:

perfect, this was my hope
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Flash Strap:

really cool, deep male chorus on this Yma track
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:17pm
Aitch:

very high highs as well. wow
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:19pm
chresti:

It almost sounded like she was saying swami
Avatar ♥ 8:19pm
HyperDose:

Magical show
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Flash Strap:

i heard that too - "nakashewami", or something like that
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Flash Strap:

Hi Hyperdose!
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chresti:

Thick chili bubbling
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Flash Strap:

makes you wonder how they got that bubbling sound - did they simply record a chili? or go the classic route of dry ice in a cauldron ?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:28pm
Scott67:

Ohhh chresti, I love you!
🍺😎🤙🌶🥘
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Doug Schulkind:

More Waldo! More Waldo!
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Flash Strap:

possibly her finest track here
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Flash Strap:

one i've played many times and will many times again
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:32pm
Will the Sound Guy:

I could taste the chili before, thick and scrumptious
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TDK60:

The plot is thickening. Or the chili.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:36pm
Will the Sound Guy:

if the chili gets any thicker, you could stand a knife up in it
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doctorjazz:

Hitting the road, early for Thursday nights, thanks Flash!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:38pm
Aitch:

I misread this as mist of gorgonzola, would be quite a smell
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Flash Strap:

my pleasure doc, safe travels and stay warm
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chresti:

The volcano chili is very thick.
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Flash Strap:

@aitch: indeed
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Flash Strap:

one of my very favorite Baxter tracks here, exquisite
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chresti:

Oh yeah Aitch. I read it that way too.

G'day Scott!🌶🌶🌶
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:45pm
Will the Sound Guy:

These tunes are calming Charlotte down... she has to sleep soon..
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Flash Strap:

happy to help Will
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Little Danny:

this track always cracks me up, those giggling beach bunnies!
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chresti:

How's she sleeping, Will?
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Flash Strap:

@LD: so good
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Little Danny:

evan do you find yourself playing more exotica in the colder months? i do
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:48pm
chresti:

My son was not an easy sleeper.
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Flash Strap:

there's a sweet spot that hits in the winter where that's true for sure, willing the fantasy to warm my bones – also early in the summer i get back into it in a big way, before it gets so hot that I turn to cooling sounds
Avatar ♥ 8:48pm
HyperDose:

Oh yeah, Charlotte isn't ready for The Cool Blue Flame lounge yet. Few more weeks and maybe she'll be old enough haha
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:50pm
Will the Sound Guy:

she does pretty good at night... she will sleep 3 or4 hours at a time 2 or 3 times till morning... She always wants to eat more than her little stomach can hold tho... like she's not getting the signal that she's full.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:50pm
chresti:

There aren't many exotic winter themed tracks, are there?
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Flash Strap:

i often think Moonlight in Vermont sorta gets there
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Flash Strap:

but yeah it'd be cool to hear Antarctic exotica
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Flash Strap:

This Applebaum and that last Islanders track only known to my ears thanks to Little Danny and the Exotica Project, salute to the cool blue maestro
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:54pm
chresti:

You're right, Flash, I don't think of it as exotica though.
I like blizzard sounds.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:01pm
Scott67:

I'm eating Lentil Nori Rolls, & Beer!
🍺😎🤙
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:02pm
Will the Sound Guy:

what's a nori roll?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:04pm
Scott67:

Seaweed Paper used to wrap roll Will. Like a Sushi Roll.
🤓🤙
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:06pm
Will the Sound Guy:

right on man, I like lentils 😎🍻👍
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Doug Schulkind:

A hail Little Danny!
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Little Danny:

thank you evan ❤️️
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:09pm
Scott67:

Mixed with Sriracha & Soy Sauce, before loading onto the Nori, & rolling. Healthy slack fuck bachelor food, for a change.
🍻😎🤙
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Flash Strap:

All hail him
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Flash Strap:

ah no thank you LD
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TDK60:

Nori Sheets was my third band, back in '89.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:14pm
Scott67:

😉🤘TDK!
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TDK60:

Hi Scott67.
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Flash Strap:

supremely weird session, very minimal
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Scott67:

Very quiet too.
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Flash Strap:

yes very quiet for long stretches, sort of reminds me of early Kluster, like an all-acoustic Kluster session
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:25pm
Scott67:

But this Kluster is far from fucked.
👍🤓
Avatar 9:29pm
Flash Strap:

often wonder where Conny is on this (besides the production-side), but that's definitely him on guitar
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...outta the tub but staying horizontal
- wonderful episode this...
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Flash Strap:

hope you had a nice hot bath Rev
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Flash Strap:

This is one of my favorite tracks on Atlantis
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Flash Strap:

These Don Cherry MU LPs basically duos between him and the great Ed Blackwell
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:42pm
WR:

Thank you for including Cherry & Blackwell's Mu, have not listened to it in a long time.
Avatar ♥ 9:43pm
TDK60:

I have a later -1980s duo LP of them. 'El Corazon' Similar.
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Flash Strap:

@TDK: el Corazon is so great
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:44pm
Doug Schulkind:

Ed Blackwell has about twelve limbs.
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Flash Strap:

Hey my pleasure WR!
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Flash Strap:

a duodectapus
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zzz:

they are a great pair. first time hearing mu
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Flash Strap:

as ever, great cover art from Moki Cherry: e.snmc.io...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:50pm
Doug Schulkind:

Gotta hit the hay. I've got an early date with a big-eared mob.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:50pm
Little Danny:

thank you evan, truly a gorgeous 'n' deep journey this evening
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Flash Strap:

that any of these Don Cherry albums w/ Moki Cherry covers were ever re-released with more generic photo cover designs absolutely boggles the mind
Avatar 9:51pm
Flash Strap:

Sleep tight Doug, your big-eared people need you rested
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Flash Strap:

my pleasure LD, see you next door very soon
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:52pm
zzz:

speaking of that duo just read this post from ken vandemark:
NOTES FROM THE FIELD/Autumn in Europe: Part 2b/Austria and Hungary

I'm not sure what was more exhilarating, getting the chance to play Cherry's compositions with Hamid at one of my favorite music festivals in the world, or meeting so many friends and colleagues after more than two years of not seeing any of them in person. It was an overwhelming weekend, in the best sense. The concert Hamid and I played at CvD was a remarkable experience: the setting, surrounded by Moki Cherry's artwork; Hamid's descriptions of meeting and working with Don Cherry that were shared with the audience; a chance to explore an overview of Don Cherry's compositional work, material he presented in the 60s (from "Complete Communion"), the 70s (from "Brown Rice," "Old And New Dreams"), and the 80s (from "Playing" and "El Corazón"). It was a circumstance that would be impossible to duplicate, how could we? But why would we? As always, the point was to go where the music suggested on the night itself, to discover where it would lead us and the audience. Though we utilized the same pool of compositions, I feel that's what we accomplished during our set on the opening night of the festival. The performance moved in completely different directions, revealing the strength of Don Cherry's compositions which, more and more, resemble the sensibility of Thelonious Monk's work to me. They seem to have always existed somehow- instantly memorable, timeless, perfect vehicles for inspired improvising. Though Hamid and I have been discussing collaborating on a project connected to Cherry's music since before the pandemic, and had been considering the idea of working with an expanded ensemble, playing this material as a duo now seems truly ideal. There is so much room for Hamid's melodic and rhythmic approach to the drums that, even though I've only been playing the tenor sax at these performances, it feels like we're already an orchestra. I am very, very happy both duo concerts were recorded because I'm sure that there will be a future release of this music.

very exciting that it likely to be released
Avatar ♥ 9:54pm
TDK60:

Thanks Flash, explorers.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:54pm
Little Danny:

i'm my own special guest and you are too at the cool blue flame: wfmu.org... hope to see y'all there!!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:55pm
WR:

Thanks zzz.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:55pm
StringOFperils:

Thank you, Evan.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:56pm
WR:

Thank you Evan! Transported and ever more present.

Onward.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:56pm
zzz:

thank you @FS for a wonderful show
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:56pm
Scott67:

Thanks Evan, Fanfuckentastic Show mate!
✌🤓🤙🍻🎶📻🌻
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:58pm
Aitch:

Always interesting, thanks Evan
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:00pm
chresti:

Thanks Flash!
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Flash Strap:

Thanks everyone for listening! see you next week, with love
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:01pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Evan just caught the last 20 minutes
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:02pm
Will the Sound Guy:

Thank you Evan!!!
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