WFMU: Talk's Cheap with Jason Sigal: Playlist from September 21, 2010

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Flipper	Talk's Cheap	Gone Fishin'	Subterranean Records			0:00:00 (Pop‑up)
Damscray	Dancing Tiger	Your Rainbow Colour Changer	Human Workshop	Free Music Archive		0:01:56 (Pop‑up)
Preggy Peggy & The Lazy Babymakers	The Mysticism of my Fucking Sound	Gang Rape of a Short-Bus Rider	Chocolate Monk	this is actually cover of a section of a Mohammed Abdel Wahab song sung by Oum Kalthoum. It's called 'W'Daret El-Ayyam'! Free Music Archive		0:05:19 (Pop‑up)
Munirah Al-Mahdiyyah	Aldahre Kataa Awsali			Free Music Archive via Excavated Shellac		0:10:38 (Pop‑up)
Zikrayat	Taheya (live at Golden Festival 2009)			Free Music Archive Sami Abu Shumays of Zikrayat did a Film Music of Egypt special on Rob W's Transpacific Sound Paradise in 2008, check it out		0:13:05 (Pop‑up)
Marvelry Skimmer	Dunebuggy	Workbench Recordings B-Sides Series: Marvelry Skimmer	Workbench Recordings	Free Music Archive	*	0:18:59 (Pop‑up)
Ion	Education After Auschwitz	Schutzhaft*	Local Records (Romania)	Free Music Archive	*	0:23:41 (Pop‑up)
Damscray	Your Rainbow Colour Changer	Your Rainbow Colour Changer	Human Workshop			0:28:32 (Pop‑up)
Wayne & Wax	Big Khosara			"Timbaland vs. Hossam Ramzy" download / further reading/remixing		0:31:41 (Pop‑up)

Music behind DJ: Brooklyn Academy	Back in Effect (instr)					0:40:28 (Pop‑up)
						0:58:07 (Pop‑up)
	flute-drum-ensembles	Waza: Blue Nile — Sudan	Wergo			0:58:35 (Pop‑up)
Jil Jilala	Liyam Tnadi (The Days Are Calling)	Chaabi Music from Al-Mahgrib	Mississippi			1:00:10 (Pop‑up)
The Musicians of the Nile	Taksim with small arghul	Ocora - Egypte. Les Musiciens du Nil				1:04:51 (Pop‑up)
Cheb Zergui	Ana Dellali (I Cuddle Myself)	1970's Algerian Proto-Rai Underground	Sublime Frequencies	curated/compiled by Hicham Chadly		1:08:30 (Pop‑up)
unknown	Saharan Mosaic	Radio Algeria	Sublime Frequencies			1:12:45 (Pop‑up)
Ghédalia Tazartès	(excerpt)	Checkpoint Charlie				1:18:21 (Pop‑up)
Sahra Halgan	Ahaa, Ahaa, Ahaa			Somalia, download		1:22:51 (Pop‑up)

Singer: Jaweed Abu Al-Huul Composer/arranger: Saad El Maaliki	Hunac Allah		Bourini Records			1:35:35 (Pop‑up)
Abu Sarha (singer) w/ Saad El Maaliki (composer/arranger)	Traveled to Baraka “ila sáfir baraka”		Bourini Records			1:40:30 (Pop‑up)
Singer: Reem Kamaal / prod by Saad El Maaliki	after having despaired, they loved					1:45:31 (Pop‑up)
Wajinaat Al-Farid	y'ada el-bahour		Moriphon			1:49:37 (Pop‑up)
singer/arranger: Mohammed El-Kehelawi	"The Order of Things" Li Adjl Al-Nisbee (a side)		Sono Cairo			1:54:35 (Pop‑up)
arr/sung by Mohammed Fawzi, t'alif: Hossain Sebed	Mama Zahmenha Jeih					1:58:41 (Pop‑up)
	Tayyib Ya Sabr Tayyib "ok be patient"	from the film Mawlid Yadunya "creator of the world"				2:04:10 (Pop‑up)
Farid el-atrash	"The Domineeringness of the Head and the Eyes"		Soutelphan			2:08:53 (Pop‑up)

Basharah	wa da3oor الداعور بشاره			this is actually dabke from Syria		2:23:13 (Pop‑up)
				http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inNHTcBBlVg		2:28:42 (Pop‑up)
	daya mil yagid gita		Bourini			2:29:37 (Pop‑up)
singer: Hisham Abdel Aziz words: Samir eltaa'ir arr: Mohammed El Masiri	Dance of the Garden: Arokasa Hawehnim		Sout El Hob			2:34:04 (Pop‑up)
Ahmed Qaasim	khtwa khtwa (step by step)		Mahrus, Alexandria	words by lutafa aman		2:37:29 (Pop‑up)
mahmoud el houseini	Brown Cigarette					2:40:38 (Pop‑up)
				more syrian dabke!		2:47:12 (Pop‑up)
Joshua Abrams						2:52:13 (Pop‑up)
Trumpet Ensemble		Waza: Blue Nile — Sudan	Wergo			2:53:00 (Pop‑up)
Brooklyn Academy	Back In Effect (radio edit)	Bored Of Education (Clean)	!k7			2:54:03 (Pop‑up)

Listener comments!

9:03am postmanpaul:

Hi Jason! I'm looking forward to hearing the goodies from Cairo.
Where did you stay, the USA ex-pat safe haven in Maadi?! What did you eat, what did you get up to!!!
Wow, Cairo, the wild wild East.

9:08am annie:

morning jason. it's nice to see PMP has started a game of 20 questions! woohoo.

9:10am postmanpaul:

And hello City Slackers, 'fmu Officionados And annie, I demand 20 answers!

9:11am postmanpaul:

Umma whatsername!

9:11am Ne-guh-tor:

Got friends gonna spend a month in Cairo in Dec.! They are taking a boat trip up the Nile and train ride through Egypt.

9:13am postmanpaul:

@Ne-guh-tor, you lucky bastard.

9:15am jason:

mornin everyone! gonna be playing music from & inspired by my trip to cairo this morning, cant wait to tell you all about it!

9:15am annie:

1. the hypotenuse of the square.
2. right triangle
3. john steinbeck
4. 24

9:16am stingy d:

thats a nice picture there. awesome looking rig.

9:17am postmanpaul:

@Ne-guh-tor - these guys will put you straight on the trains in Egypt
http://www.seat61.com/Egypt.htm

9:17am RZA:

perpindicular to the square

9:17am Parq:

9:17am jason:

oh sweet the rza is back!

9:23am postmanpaul:

Very Sheesha-friendly set Jason!

9:23am annie:

7. x=700

9:24am still b/p:

8. Neither Jason nor Napoleon's troops shot the Great Sphinx's nose off.

9:27am annie:

9. heiroglyphics

9:28am RZA:

multiply myself ten times standing next to zero! and snap my fingers like the fonz!

9:28am Ne-guh-tor:

Oh, I'm not going the guitar player in my band is and postmanpaul I was checking this site out while I ate my breakfast this morning! Exactly, the guys they are using..

9:29am Ne-guh-tor:

I am rarely "lucky". Just blessed to be listening to WFMU! PRAISE, ALLAH!

9:32am postmanpaul:

Alhamdulillah.

9:39am annie:

10. a chair
11. big red rock eater

9:41am Ne-guh-tor:

Likmiahmadinejad!

9:42am postmanpaul:

Nothing wrong with those answers annie.

9:44am stingy d:

i know the one...

9:44am Ne-guh-tor:

Asalamalakumecca-heiny-ho!

9:44am stingy d:

timbaland has said he's never heard of techno music.

9:44am Bad Ronald:

mecca lecca hie mecca heinie ho. mecca lecca hie mecca chonny ho!

9:45am Parq:

12. Yes.

9:46am Parq:

@Bad Ron: Pretty fly.

9:47am Cheri Pi:

Hilarious! Unofficial boycott of Timbaland.-that's unforgivable.

9:47am stingy d:

rip pimp c!

9:47am jk:

and then there's this track from an upcoming Urdu film, "composed" by Anoop Rubens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZCbynawuAk

9:48am annie:

13. paul reubens

9:48am Bad Ronald:

14. HAMBURGER!

9:49am jk:

13. Anoop Rubens

9:50am stingy d:

@ cheri- if you are referring to me:
i forget the interview... but he was asked if he was influenced by techno, and he refused to acknowledge its existence, by way of having never heard of it.

9:53am Cheri Pi:

So he composes music in a vacuum, denying all outside influences-that's classy.

9:54am stingy d:

yea. kinda like how we can't even discuss hip-hop the way jason wants to engage us, because krs-one is the creator of all things, and he does not recognize us as his pupils, thus we do not exist.

9:55am postmanpaul:

I used to buy my tapes from The Friday Market, just down from Salaḥ ad-Din's Palace. They were sold beneath the fly-over, between the bird/snake market and fravelling story-tellers' children who would leap thru burning hoops all afternoon...

9:56am jk:

Preggy Peggy is playing this saturday in Boston if anyone else lives up here.

9:59am annie:

(those are the twenty answers, jason. i'm not done with the test yet. hope i pass.)

10:01am dc pat:

15. Tottenham 1, West Ham 0

10:03am postmanpaul:

That's not so much an answer but more a foregone conclusion dc pat. But you are not wrong, therefore I will accept it.

10:05am jk:

great show today Jason!

10:05am olgu:

amazing show Jason, thankssss!

10:06am annie:

16. to reach the other side

10:07am postmanpaul:

That would translate into Egyptian Arabic as; Zamelek 1 Ahly 0.

10:11am annie:

i've always wondered what contemporary cultures listen to for music.. this has been really great. i've got to get my short wave radio back

10:11am jason:

later on we'll hear some contemporary sha'abi music from Egypt and dabke from Syria

10:12am postmanpaul:

Jason, an Egyptian artist friend introduced me to this dj's work while I was over there. While not being Egyptian, his music reminds me of trips into the Sinai...
http://digitalbled.net/

10:13am seang:

memphis, egypt

10:15am J-Mar:

Digging the show, Jason, as I work diligently at my desk!

10:16am Bad Ronald:

17. Burning Bush

10:17am postmanpaul:

Love to hear the women scream/yoddeling like that Jason! I believe it's called Zaggerahya.

10:18am annie:

17. mesopotamia
18. hendrik willem van loon

10:19am postmanpaul:

Sorry Bad Ronald - the answer to no 17. should have been '40 Days and 40 Nights'.

10:20am Bad Ronald:

Dammit, I was gonna say that. Is there a consolation prize?

10:21am stingy d:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

10:21am annie:

20. 1001 Arabian nights

10:23am pierre:

"the one who don't have faith, is a liar, and turn around himself"

10:24am annie:

(i counted BR's as 19)

10:27am postmanpaul:

Will be back to mark your paper soon annie. I, aghhm, note that some of your cleverererer class mates may have lent a hand.

10:32am annie:

...... so, you noticed the notes being passed?? crap!

10:36am jason:

hope everybody's cool with the scratchiness of these records

10:36am dc pat:

more scratches!

10:38am Bad Ronald:

So I guess PostmanPaul is our Cairo Proctor... *ducks barrage of projectiles**

10:38am annie:

oh yeah scratch away!!!

10:40am Joe McG:

Bring the (surface) noise, Jason! This sounds amazing.

10:40am annie:

BR- that's not as bad as the brick joke, not at all..

10:41am Cecile:

Great stuff.
My take on reissuing stuff w/o permission is to try to find the person, and keep trying to find the person, even after the record is issued.

Barring that, keep it in a super-limited edition.

10:44am Cecile:

that's what the guys at a couple of labels around here do, and they've done OK by that.

10:46am Ne-guh-tor:

Cecile-Agreed. I think the artifact is more important than the artist and, in some cases, will outlive even the artists total existence! Shit. That 'What a Wonderful World' song that Louis A. hated he couldn't even remember. When he was told that it had hit No. 1 he couldn't remember what song it was. After he heard it he was quoted as saying, "Oh, that piece of shit!"

10:47am Cecile:

Yes, but there has to be due diligence. And that takes work. I know how hard these guys have worked to find people. It's a respect thing.

10:49am dc pat:

this is a KILLER show, thanks Jason

10:50am postmanpaul:

Mohammed, hail me a Faluka!
Exceptional sound-scape Jason.

10:51am Cecile:

what are record stores like in Cairo? I envision them draped with fabric, a beaded curtain separating the front from the back. Reality's probably a lot different, hunh?

10:56am jason:

well this place Mazzika was more of an antique shop, in a mall-ish building with open-air stairwells/hallways, upstairs, a few different rooms. more photos on the way to the playlist

10:57am postmanpaul:

As Jason is probably aware Cecile, they do not exist as we know them. If at all.

11:02am postmanpaul:

Was the mall Arcadia, op' Zamalek Jason?
We used to catch bands with 'traditional' swarthy young male crooners performing in the cafe upstairs in Maadi... You're excelling yourself Jason.

11:02am Rodney:

Ok, this Arabic baby song with the latin backbeat is killing me. Kind of amazing.

11:03am Cecile:

Nice, Jason. So, records are just sold with everything else? That sounds like a good way to go.

11:06am jk:

hot song!.
I think this is posted on radiodiffusion, no?

11:06am Rob W:

Comparing notes - there are certainly music shops and stalls in cities in Morocco but it's all bootleg cds and still some cassettes, and tend to be fairly similar from one to the next. Marrakech actually has a section with larger "distributor" shops. Not all that different from going into an Indian music shop in Jackson Heights or Jersey City, say. There must be similar in Cairo. One question would be whether it's all bootleg or some legit. Turkey on the other hand, at least Istanbul and Ankara, is totally different, more legit shops (not bootleg), shops are more diverse in character and orientation - much more like Europe or here.

11:10am umm hafi:

in my experience, egyptians are more of the we-listen-to-music-from-our-cell-phones types, not so much record-buying types (the former is much cheaper for most people), so the only place to find vinyl is in antique shops where people who care about old stuff work.

11:12am still b/p:

Loved those organ-ic selections. Have to go back later for tracks missed due to work interference. Nice, nice show.

11:12am Cecile:

thanks, that's giving me a much better picture.

This particular song's chorus could be lifted for a great hip=hop hook. Just putting it out there.

11:18am fanasonic:

One killer track after another. You would be a gold mine in the Sublime Frequencies catalogue. I am glad you photographed those beat up 45's because this is how they sell them. Beat up therefore overpriced but so worth it. Thank you for sharing.

11:19am postmanpaul:

Sony started making in-roads in Egypt a while back... I found some kiosks selling amazing Egyptian street/trad tapes in central Cairo, some market stalls and bootleg music tapes and gamecd's in the newer stores. Umm hafi is right about the listening culture, or culture of listening.
While I was there, internet accessed music kept me in touch with the contemporary outside-Egypt music world. They were pre-me-discovering-'fmu-days :(

11:20am stingy d:

new sound.... just because

11:20am QSP:

scratchy 45s!

11:21am gob bluth:

scratchy!

11:21am DJ KurtG:

more scratchy 45s!!

(hi jason)

11:21am Ne-guh-tor:

new

11:21am dc pat:

more scratchy!

11:21am annie:

scratchy!!!

11:21am Mark in cbus:

Me likes the old school stuff

11:22am gob bluth:

although this one playing now is pretty awesome

11:22am QSP:

and itchy too!

11:24am jason:

ok more scratchy on the way...!

11:25am still b/p:

We'd sell our souls to Old Scratch!

11:26am Johnny Gato:

I like the scratches scratching!

11:26am Rob W:

Jason, you must revisit a few of these scratchy singles for Singles Going Steady week if we do that again at record fair time (just a month away now) - ! And gee, maybe we can recruit Volunteer Olgu to play some more Turkish / Anatolian Rock 45s as she did on Joe McG's show a few weeks ago - !

11:27am jason:

Rob -- yes! that was a great Surface Noise w/ Olgu. my plan is to digitize these and post 'em on the blog

11:30am Cecile:

oh, that's great, Jason. Looking forward to it.

11:32am umm hafi:

yess, these scratchy libyan bedouin jams are my fave!

11:34am Rob W:

Jason, I second Cecile, you're a Mensch!

11:44am Panda:

Scratchy. :) -- I think the wiry eastern boys, from syria to armenia and angling down to india, are the absolute cutest in the whole world with their shaggy hair and various nose shapes and pretty lips. I'm a girl and I like those cute boys and I want everyone to know about it.

11:44am annie:

PMP!! i have the bonus question's answer:
ishkebibble!

11:46am postmanpaul:

Alhamdulillah annie! I am assuming you meant shishkebibble.

11:49am annie:

only on the barbie, PMP

11:51am Ike:

Hell of a show, Jason!

11:52am postmanpaul:

Jason, sounds like you avoided the Celine Dion/Sade experience there.

11:52am stingy d:

you should play some araabmuzick...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuIrGdGls68

11:56am olgu:

Looking forward to re-listening to this show from the archives as i'm constantly getting distracted at work. Great sounds Jason!

12:00pm stingy d:

i just pulled what appears to be a cat's claw out of my neck...

12:00pm north guinea hills:

Jason is correct about the United Arab Republic.
Good show Jason!

12:01pm postmanpaul:

Thanks Jason, enjoyed very very much.

1:37am john_tacoma:

SUPERB!

5:24pm abas:

gret man

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