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Favoriting October 2, 2019: In a Brooklyn cafe, baristas talking about iProducts: "Yeah, I was a little too young for iPods."

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<br>untitled painting found at Hoffman's Antique Barn, Red Hook NY

untitled painting found at Hoffman's Antique Barn, Red Hook NY
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untitled painting found at Hoffman's Antique Barn, Red Hook NY

Artist Track Album Approx. start time
Chip Wickham  Soho Strut   Favoriting Shamal Wind   
Anemone  She's the One   Favoriting Beat My Distance  0:03:48 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  Kitty Can (alternate)   Favoriting Idea  0:07:01 (Pop-up)
New Pornographers  Need Some Giants   Favoriting In the Morse Code of Brake Lights  0:09:14 (Pop-up)
Lyman Woodard Organization  Funky Lyman   Favoriting Lost & Found: The 1971 Unreleased Recordings  0:13:06 (Pop-up)
Mountain Goats  Get High and Listen to the Cure   Favoriting Welcome to Passaic  0:15:19 (Pop-up)
 
Broken Bells  The High Road   Favoriting Broken Bells  0:21:25 (Pop-up)
Mildlife  How Long Does It Take?   Favoriting How Long Does It Take?  0:24:54 (Pop-up)
Lizzy Mercier Descloux  Bayadere   Favoriting Best Off: Recordings 1980–81  0:31:33 (Pop-up)
Rez Abbassi ft. Silent Ensemble  Wedding Preparation   Favoriting A Throw of Dice  0:35:26 (Pop-up)
Crepes  Hidden Star   Favoriting Hidden Star  0:41:39 (Pop-up)
 
Nicole Yun  Supernatural Babe   Favoriting Paper Suit  0:48:27 (Pop-up)
Joan Armatrading  Call Me Names (I Love It When You)   Favoriting The Key  0:51:24 (Pop-up)
Amendola vs. Blades  Hi-Lo   Favoriting Everybody Wins  0:55:16 (Pop-up)
Danielson Familie  Body English / Runnin' to Brother   Favoriting Tri-Danielson!!!  1:01:40 (Pop-up)
Beach House  Alien   Favoriting Alien  1:06:23 (Pop-up)
 
Harold Land  One Second, Please   Favoriting The Fox  1:16:57 (Pop-up)
Vijay Iyer  Composites   Favoriting Reimagining  1:22:09 (Pop-up)
James Emery ft. Leroy Jenkins  Ashiata   Favoriting Artlife  1:28:09 (Pop-up)
Jimi Hendrix Experience  Rainy Day, Dream Away / Still Rainin', Still Dreamin'   Favoriting Electric Ladyland  1:33:55 (Pop-up)
Temples  Monuments   Favoriting Hot Motion  1:41:25 (Pop-up)
 
The Passions  Oh No It's You   Favoriting Michael & Miranda  1:49:41 (Pop-up)
Illiterate Light  Better Than I Used To   Favoriting Illiterate Light  1:54:02 (Pop-up)
John Bach on Tonga Strings  7 Popular Airs and Other Selections   Favoriting John Bach on Tonga Strings [see note at bottom of comments]  1:58:16 (Pop-up)
Tot Taylor & Mick Bass  Sidewalk Symphony   Favoriting Music for the Left-Handed  2:29:42 (Pop-up)
Imperial Teen  Yoo-Hoo   Favoriting Live at Maxwell's 10/30/2002  2:33:12 (Pop-up)
 
Dry Cleaning  New Job   Favoriting Sweet Princess EP  2:42:14 (Pop-up)
The Joy Formidable  Forest Serenade   Favoriting Wolf's Law  2:44:58 (Pop-up)
Soft Machine  Joy of a Toy   Favoriting The Soft Machine  2:48:42 (Pop-up)
Laika  Marimba Song (Boo Boo's Gone Mambo)   Favoriting Antenna EP  2:51:39 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 🎸 ♥ 3:00pm
βrian:

I'm looking for the Music Barn. Have I found the right place?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:00pm
Phillippe Bastille:

Now THAT is a painting!
Avatar ♥ 3:07pm
Roberto:

My kitties always please me.
  3:16pm
Laura L:

I see it's a quiet day on the comments board--is everybody snoozing on a giant green leaf draped over a tree branch near a rock?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:16pm
Irwin:

I think the intermets here is fuck*d up.
Avatar 3:17pm
Listening Out There:

'ello. I'm out there...somewheres...
Avatar 🎸 ♥ 3:18pm
βrian:

Not surprising, given the weather NYC is having. Oy.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:18pm
AnAnonymousParty:

Just as well, the internets is no fun anymore anyway.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:18pm
blee:

that is a very nice painting.
Avatar ♥ 3:20pm
Jeff Moore:

I was wondering who'd play that Mountain Goats single first.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:21pm
AnAnonymousParty:

Maybe, but why does the guy in the painting appear to be giving the finger?
Avatar 🎸 ♥ 3:21pm
βrian:

Halloween costume idea: Avery large earwig.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:21pm
AnAnonymousParty:

Hey Irwin, don't you mean interrrrrrnet?
  3:22pm
queems:

i remember 2 years ago when wfuv used to play this song on repeat non stop
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:22pm
Phillippe Bastille:

There's a program you can download to fix an internet connection, but you need the internet to download it. Gotta love Verizon
Avatar 3:24pm
VincentNifigance:

Nice show so far Earwin.
Avatar 3:27pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Earwig & the Angry Internets
Avatar 3:32pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Good to be listening to this Program
...that's not ironic or witty or anything...
Avatar ♥ 3:34pm
Carmichael:

Very excited to go see Huun Huur Tu on Friday night!
Avatar ♥ 3:35pm
Carmichael:

Apropos of nothing, naturally ...
Avatar 3:38pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Carmichael - that would instead be appropriate for a station for Music & Culture
...that is ironic & stuff...
  3:42pm
Listener Robert:

Took me a while to realize the guy in the painting's unzipped. Probably wearing pants too small. V-neck's too small too, look how it just barely reaches the waist. When you live in a tree, you don't buy clothes often.
Avatar ♥ 3:45pm
Carmichael:

This Crepes is a coll litlle proggy number.
Avatar ♥ 3:46pm
Carmichael:

*cool
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:47pm
AnAnonymousParty:

Opinions are the new facts.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:49pm
Irwin:

Some major manspreading there in the art.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:51pm
Alison Porchnik:

Earwin are you manplaining manspreading? I ride the subway every day, I already know all about it.
Avatar ♥ 3:51pm
Roberto:

If a man spreads and no one is around to be inconvenienced by it, is it still manspreading?
Avatar ♥ 3:54pm
Blues Mandinga:

Ea!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:54pm
Alison Porchnik:

Absolutely.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:54pm
Irwin:

There's a bunch of other works by this unknown artist on previous playlists (mostly from 2017, IIRC).
Avatar ♥ 3:58pm
Carmichael:

I didn't realize Joan Armatrading sounded like that (good). And that Nicole Yun was superior.
Avatar 4:01pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Funk the ProgCops. ReFusioniks.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

DRUMMER
  4:03pm
Daniell:

thank you Irwin, for playing my fav Danielson at the right moment. Tri-Danielson!!!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:13pm
AnAnonymousParty:

I thought being a WFMU DJ meant never having to say you were not a professional broadcaster.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:16pm
AnAnonymousParty:

Cold pizza without toppings is just a slice of bread.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:17pm
Irwin:

AAP: Then what we offer this month was well-described.
Avatar 4:27pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I appreciate the Jazzes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:32pm
WillCrete:

Wow- This violin/ guitar duet is moving beautifully: like wind over water.
Avatar 4:35pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Like Steph & Django gone angular.
...oh I like this guy too...
  4:37pm
Chi Bill:

sO i HADN'T HEARD cALL mE nAMES IN DECADES, ALWAYS LIKED IT AND NOW IT'S rAINY dAY!?!?! rAINING HERE IN cHI TOWN BUT i HAVE CHILLS FROM THE MUSIC. tHAKS iRWIN. aW FUCK, CAPS LOCK, SHIT
Avatar 4:38pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...easy guy - using more than one gittartone in a Pop song incurs heavy fines...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:39pm
Irwin:

Mike Finnigan on organ.
Avatar 4:41pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...'you be Jimmy Smith & I'll be Wes'...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Jack Cassady, Dave Mason, Buddy Miles on that one I think...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:56pm
Mike Sin:

Nice to hear the Passions!
  4:57pm
Mike tp:

bright white light
Avatar ♥ 5:00pm
Carmichael:

I need to eat some funnel cake and watch a lit up thing swirl around.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:00pm
Irwin:

Thanks to Pea Hicks (of Optiganally Yours) for finding and passing along this John Bach curiosity. No add'l info about the artist.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:04pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hi Irwin - this is indeed special.
  5:05pm
geejee:

A masterpiece we have here....
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:07pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hoffman's Barn is pretty big! There are lots of clawfoot bathtubs in the front yard too, if that's what floats your boat. Or your rubber duck.
Avatar 5:08pm
Liam in Denmark:

Just tuned in and loving today's show.
Thank you Irwin!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:12pm
Alison Porchnik:

I love this!
Avatar 5:14pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Explorer's Room territory on the Mainstream.
Righteous.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:18pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Hey there, Irwin and listening audience.
Avatar ♥ 5:19pm
Carmichael:

Can't find a trace of this artist or album out in the ether ...
Avatar 5:20pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

wfmu.org...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:20pm
Webhamster Henry:

Mr. Hicks needs a show here or at least a podcast.It would be like MAC's show, but with demo records of devices like this.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:21pm
Irwin:

Pea found it at a yard sale. It's a private pressing, probably one-of-a-kind produced in a walk-in studio direct-to-disc.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:25pm
Irwin:

We're hearing the entire record, all 32 minutes.
  5:25pm
Robert Tables:

This is great, thanks for sharing!
Avatar 5:27pm
Liam in Denmark:

It's so great
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:27pm
chris:

this is great. thanks, Irwin!
  5:29pm
Tom in St. Paul:

This is driving me crazy. But I can’t. Stop. Listening.
Avatar 5:29pm
Listening Out There:

FYI, with the longer Bach side, the online player how shows the message "Sorry... no playlist updates in over 15 minutes, waiting for the DJ to update what they've been playing."
  5:30pm
queems:

i feel like i’m in a haunted jack in the box SO COOL
  5:30pm
Laura L:

That was a swell 32 minutes.
Avatar 5:30pm
Listening Out There:

...so get busy, Buster...
  5:33pm
Mandy:

it's music they'd play in the waiting room of the NeitherWorld in Beetlejuice
  5:35pm
Mandy:

@Tom, me too. I couldn't stop. it was mesmerizing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:35pm
Michael 98145:

Woo hoo
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:36pm
Irwin:

If you appreciated it, why not pledge to WFMU during our October quasi-silent fundraiser?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:38pm
chris:

ok
Avatar ♥ 5:39pm
Carmichael:

What year is that Bach from?
Avatar 5:41pm
Listening Out There:

And now, Bach to our regularly-scheduled programming...
  5:47pm
Dave In St Albans UK:

Always appreciate and enjoy your show Irwin. Thanks. It's been another good one!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:53pm
Michael 98145:

So. Thanks again, Irwin.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:55pm
Hoboken Jack:

What's this about a haunted Jack in the box?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:56pm
Hoboken Jack:

Joy Formidable. Joy of a Toy. Still no Joy Cleaner.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:57pm
Hoboken Jack:

Your joy is askew.
  5:59pm
Listener Robert:

Yay!
Avatar 4:57pm
EBrown:

Thanks for sharing the Danielson Familie. Up until now only The Psalters came up for me in this genre.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:10am
Irwin:

Pea Hicks writes: A long comment was posted by Charles Brotemarkle under my YouTube posting of this record:

"Tonga Strings" was an invention by my Uncle Jack (John) Bach, conceived to completion over the course of several years, loosely based on Theremin technology. The instrument itself resembled a very skinny bass, about 5 ft tall resting on the floor and played in a seated position.

In the 1950's, Uncle Jack, a Los Angeles resident, transported his Tonga Strings rig for several years to various SoCal based venues, where he set up his own booth decorated with a tropical flair, and performed these and other tunes. As a small boy, whenever my adoptive parents visited Aunt Ruth & Uncle Jack, I would usually wind up in my favorite place, his dedicated back yard workshop where I'd watch him tinker with the innards of his Tonga Strings instruments and associated amplifiers.

I last saw him in the mid 1950's at L.A.'s old Pan Pacific Auditorium Home Show, where he performed for the small groups of curious listeners attracted to this weird sound. Sad to say, I don't believe his efforts ever caught on to any great degree. I don't know who pressed the vinyl for this 33-1/3 LP, but the "Polygraph Records" label you see in the photo was produced in Aunt Ruth's & Uncle Jack's Polygraph Sign Co. manufacturing plant in L.A. My guess is Uncle Jack had a few dozen demo records cut locally, then transported and labeled at the Bach's sign shop.

Hope this helps to demystify your "Tonga Strings" find, as I doubt many others survived to this day!
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