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The Soundtrack you hear in your head as you hand the toll collector your last dollar and drive tentatively into the lonely tunnel toward the arms of Morpheus. But like, who's playing that crazy organ?
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August 15, 2002: Like A Slow Hot Wind
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| Prokofiev | Les Ridicules | The Bob Rixon Theme Music | ||||||
| Monica Mancini | Like A Slow Hot Wind (Listen: Real) | Monica Mancini | CD | Henry's daughter. A lovely collection of his songs with the feel of an elegy, although overproduced. | ||||
| Ravel, Maurice | Une barque sur l'ocean (Listen: Real) | Frederic Chiu, Reflections | CD | |||||
| Milhaud, Darius | Le Boeuf sur le toit (The Bull On the Roof) (Listen: Real) | Ronald Cork, New London Orchestra | CD | Great period piece from 1920's. My fav performance is Milhaud conducting a French theater orchestra on Nonesuch vinyl. | ||||
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Lahore (Maurice Delage) (Listen: Real) | The Girl With the Orange Lips | Nonesuch | CD | And now, the only WFMU DJ to have actually nuked a gay whale, Bob Rixon! | 1991 | ||
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Checkout Time (Listen: Real) | Love Call | Vinyl | With Dewey Redman, Jones & Garrison from Coltrane's band. | ||||
| Don Cherry | Orient (Listen: Real) | Some strange double Japanese LP of a live concert, from the WFMU new bin. Excellent stuff. | Vinyl | |||||
| Cyrkle | I'm Not Sure What I Wanna Do (Listen: Real) | Neon | ||||||
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| Benjamin Britten | Sinfonia da Requiem (Listen: Real) | Myer Fredman, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra | Naxos | CD | Commissioned in 1939 for the Japanese Emperor, rejected as inappropriate because of Christian form. But as Japan was then raping China & Britten was a pacifist, the whole deal was weird. | 1994 | ||
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Voices of Faith (Listen: Real) | Green Angel | CD | greenangelmusic.com | ||||
| Sarah Aderholdt (b. 1955) | String Quartet (Listen: Real) | The Crescent Quartet: "Vive La Difference, String Quartets by Women" | Leonarda | CD | ||||
| Burning Spear | Tradition (Listen: Real) | Marcus Garvey + Garvey's Ghost | CD | Visionary music of the highest order. | ||||
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| Mermen | Ocean Beach (Listen: Real) | Beyond the Beach (compilation) | CD | theme music if I did a free form show in Southern California. (or Wildwood NJ) | ||||
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Nothin' But A Dame (Listen: Real) | South Pacific | LP | I'd intended to play "Amusement Park USA" by the Beach Boys, but some DJ had drooled on the CD & it skipped. | ||||
| Southern Culture on the Skids | Mexi-Melt (Listen: Real) | Beyond the Beach (compilation) | CD | |||||
| Tommy Tallarico | Confrontation (Listen: Real) | Tomorrow Never Dies | CD | Music for a James Bond video game. | ||||
| Foibles | Novacaine Wurlitzer (Listen: Real) | Two Penny Nails | Cool Beans | 7" | ||||
| Danny Marks Band | Fun Fun Fun (Listen: Real) | Surfin' Safari | CD | |||||
| Beach Boys | Palisades Park (Listen: Real) | 15 Big Ones | CD | Pretend it's Freddy Cannon. | ||||
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| Benny Latimore | Let's Do It In Slow Motion (Listen: Real) | It Ain't Where You Been | Glades | Vinyl | Whew, don't introduce your girlfriend to this dude. | 1976 | ||
| Brides Of Funkenstein | Smoke Signals (Listen: Real) | Never Buy Texas from a Cowboy | Vinyl | Produced by George & Bootsy with a touch of polytonality. | 1979 | |||
| Slave | Sizzlin' Hot (Listen: Real) | Stone Jam | Vinyl | 1980 | ||||
| e.e. cummings | true lovers in each happening of their hearts (Listen: Real) | e.e. cummings reads e.e.cummings | Vinyl | |||||
| Booker T and the MG's | Tie Stick (Listen: Real) | Universal Language | Vinyl | post-Al Jackson, but worthwhile. | 1976 | |||
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Lazy Afternoon (Listen: Real) | Gone for the Day | Vinyl | arr. by Pete Rugolo. Feel the sweat. | ||||
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| Alfgren | Swedish Rhapsody | Until that time, just close your eyes & pretend to be asleep, | ||||||
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