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Postwar atmospherica. High bop modernism and Afro-Latin sounds, twilight exotica and soundtrack moods, soul stompers and weepers, hypnotic R&B and blues, mystical '60s pop, lonely country, lonelier rock 'n' roll, instrumental weirdness, electronic creaking. Bringing worlds beyond into the worlds at hand.

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Options January 25, 2018

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Artist Track Album Comments Approx. start time
Les Baxter Orchestra & Chorus   Somewhere in the Hills (Favela)   Options Brazil Now!     
Chocolate Snow  A Day in the Life   Options 7" 45    0:03:48 (Pop‑up)
Mulatu Astatke  Nètsanèt   Options Ethiopiques vol. 04 - Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale 1969-1974    0:08:00 (Pop‑up)
Rahul Dev Burman  Tum Kitne Din Baad Mile   Options The Great Gambler    0:13:29 (Pop‑up)
Soulful Strings  Inner Light   Options Another Exposure    0:18:01 (Pop‑up)
Popol Vuh  Der Winter Ist Vorbei   Options Das Hohelied Salomos    0:21:48 (Pop‑up)
Estelle Levitt  All I Dream   Options 7" 45    0:25:28 (Pop‑up)
The Hobbits  Jolly Good Fellow   Options 7" 45    0:28:32 (Pop‑up)
 
Music behind DJ:
  		welcome to the club       0:31:19 (Pop‑up)
Ela Orleans  Reading Stones   Options Lost    0:39:33 (Pop‑up)
Andrzej Dobrowolski  Passacalia   Options 40 Years of Polish Experimental Radio Studio Warsaw    0:43:12 (Pop‑up)
Marty Manning and His Orchestra  Forbidden Planet   Options The Twilight Zone: A Sound Adventure in Space    0:46:56 (Pop‑up)
Harold Vick  Haitian Ritual   Options The Caribbean Suite    0:49:10 (Pop‑up)
The Grassella Oliphant Quartette  Haitian Lady   Options The Grass Roots    0:52:20 (Pop‑up)
Dave Pike and his orchestra  La Playa   Options Manhattan Latin: The Sensuous Rhythms of Spanish Harlem    0:56:37 (Pop‑up)
Randy Carlos and His Orch.  Whistling Mambo   Options 7" 45    0:59:25 (Pop‑up)
Ray Jay & The Eastsiders  Afro-Boogaloo   Options 7" 45  Cruddy MP3, sorry  1:02:17 (Pop‑up)
 
Music behind DJ:
  		the wide open       1:06:31 (Pop‑up)
Buckie Shirakata and Aloha Hawaiians Green Island Orch.  Side 1 Track 4   Options Oriental Melodies    1:14:58 (Pop‑up)
Jerry Byrd  Theme From Adventures in Paradise   Options Byrd of Paradise: Jerry Byrd Plays Exotic Steel Guitar    1:18:50 (Pop‑up)
The O'Jays  Lonely Drifter   Options 7" 45    1:20:51 (Pop‑up)
Hal Davis  Sweet and Lovely   Options 7" 45    1:23:41 (Pop‑up)
The Ordells  Sippin' a Cup of Coffee   Options 7" 45    1:25:57 (Pop‑up)
Gloria Taylor  How Can You Say It   Options 7" 45    1:29:04 (Pop‑up)
Food  Forever Is a Dream   Options Forever Is a Dream    1:31:41 (Pop‑up)
David Axelrod  Song of Innocence   Options Song of Innocence    1:38:45 (Pop‑up)
 
Music behind DJ:
  		a dark den       1:43:13 (Pop‑up)
Tito Puente and His Rhythm Quartette  Autumn Leaves   Options 7" 45    1:50:37 (Pop‑up)
The New Dimensions  Cat on a Hot Foam Board   Options Surf'n Bongos: The Great Surfing Rhythms of the New Dimensions    1:52:31 (Pop‑up)
Back-Wash Rhythm Band  What Turns You On (Instrumental)   Options The Golden Breed    1:54:37 (Pop‑up)
 
Music behind DJ:
  		isle of somewhere       1:57:22 (Pop‑up)

Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 10:00pm melinda:

hi Danny
Avatar 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 10:01pm geezerette:

Let's take off to Peru...
Avatar 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 10:03pm Little Danny:

Cool Blue Faves: melinda and geez. Hello!
Avatar Thu. 1/25/18 10:03pm Kris Holmes:

We’re all tuned in here
Avatar 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 10:04pm Little Danny:

Duuuuuuddde. Nice to see ya here!
Avatar Swag For Life Member Thu. 1/25/18 10:05pm coelacanth∅:

hey Danny and chilly blues
Avatar Swag For Life Member Thu. 1/25/18 10:07pm coelacanth∅:

...with perfect precision missed whomever filled in for Evan this week. long strange trip home.
  Thu. 1/25/18 10:08pm zonk ludlow:

Hiya Danny & all other flamers. Very heavy headed on this day. Long session mourning the monumental losses of Mark E Smith & Hugh Masekela last night. They will both be missed in my orbit. I'll be sitting quietly up the back.
Avatar 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 10:09pm Little Danny:

Coela Coela Coelacanth you gorgeous ancient fish
Avatar 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 10:10pm Little Danny:

Hi Zonk! These things seem to come in waves, no? So glad to have you, even if you're at the back of the class
Avatar 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 10:11pm geezerette:

Beautiful segue,Danny. :)

Glad you're home safe from your trip, Coel.
Avatar 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 10:12pm Little Danny:

Thanks geez! I'm so stoked any time the segues come through
  Thu. 1/25/18 10:13pm zonk ludlow:

Cheers Danny, had this drunken vision not so many hours ago of Joe Frank & MES arguing over the cab fare at the pearly gates, much to my buddies amusement. Those two would indulge in great conversation I'm sure.
Avatar 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 10:16pm Little Danny:

That's an amazing vision, zonk. My drunken visions (back when I really drank) mostly involved a lot of bad ideas
  Thu. 1/25/18 10:21pm zonk ludlow:

Twas a very strange evening.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 10:25pm doctorjazz:

This Popol Vuh track is lovely.
Hi all!
Avatar 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 10:26pm Little Danny:

Doctor! I agree. I know like 5% of Popul Vuh's catalog
  Thu. 1/25/18 10:28pm zonk ludlow:

You've obviously tapped into a gorgeous 5%.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 10:29pm doctorjazz:

That's 5% more than I do...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 10:34pm melinda:

I like Association-style songs.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 10:36pm JtotheK:

hi danny, everyone.
Avatar 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 10:42pm Little Danny:

Heya Jason! Lovely to have ya here!
Avatar 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 10:42pm Little Danny:

@melinda: I want a whole 45 box full of Association-style songs
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 10:54pm doctorjazz:

Odd, but cool set!
Avatar 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 10:58pm Little Danny:

Haha, I think I have an oddness factor often working. Thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:02pm doctorjazz:

Reminds me, Eddie Palmieri is playing in Jersey, think I have to pick me up some tickets.
Avatar 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:03pm Little Danny:

I would love to see Palmieri. Go see him while he's still kicking!
Avatar Swag For Life Member Thu. 1/25/18 11:03pm coelacanth∅:

g Thanks for the well wishes (10.11) i've just got the unusually heavy sofa off my car roof and into the house. it took 2 people 50 minutes and
...it doesn't fit!
-i think i'll have a drink.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:04pm JtotheK:

That 'Manhattan Latin' lp is one I've seen people discuss, never heard anything off of it before tonight. Pretty cool.
Avatar 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:05pm hyde:

a brief hello. have that drink, coel.
  Thu. 1/25/18 11:05pm Dean:

Heard Palmieri at Yoshi's in Oakland, and yeah, he was cooking. Probably thirteen years ago or so.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:08pm JtotheK:

you can call him ray, or you can call him jay ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:09pm doctorjazz:

Yeah, seems a no brainer, line up some folks to catch him (doesn't say what context he's playing in, solo, small band, guessing not a big band or it would say. Never have seen him...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:11pm doctorjazz:

This Saturday night, will see Roscoe Mitchell with the Matthew Shipp trio, should be fun!
Gotta crash, work is rediculously busy, need my beauty sleep, bye all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member Thu. 1/25/18 11:11pm coelacanth∅:

...i don't know much of popol vuh either; maybe 15-20%? i really don't know...but i really like the album "in den gärten pharaos/aguirre", which is 2 albums now available as one release, is a favorite of mine. the 2 albums are each short and they work together...if anyone's interested.
Avatar Swag For Life Member Thu. 1/25/18 11:12pm coelacanth∅:

hey hyde!
  Thu. 1/25/18 11:14pm Dean:

RM & MS will be a killer show. Wish I could go.
Avatar 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:17pm Little Danny:

Dean! Hyde! All my best customers are arriving
Avatar Swag For Life Member Thu. 1/25/18 11:18pm coelacanth∅:

Cheers {clink}
Avatar 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:19pm Little Danny:

@coel: I think I know that album/s at least digitally, gotta check
  Thu. 1/25/18 11:22pm Dean:

A 1990 Chicago Tribune article refers to Byrd as "the Satchmo of the steel guitar."
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-08-27/features/9003120110_1_hawaiian-music-pawn-steel-bar
Avatar Swag For Life Member Thu. 1/25/18 11:27pm coelacanth∅:

it's so obvious the influence for the Hal Davis track... beyond "just influence"; but it's still worth it! very good.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:28pm JtotheK:

great ordells track.
Avatar 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:29pm Little Danny:

Anything influenced by the Flamingos' "I Only Have Eyes..." is gonna merit some interest around here
Avatar 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:30pm Little Danny:

Do you know anything about the Ordells, Jason? I'm coming up empty-handed
Avatar Swag For Life Member Thu. 1/25/18 11:32pm coelacanth∅:

...and i was looking to see what album that o'jays track might've appeared on, and i confess i had no idea they had 29 studio albums. i have 4 and i thought i had a respectable representation haha!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:32pm JtotheK:

i know the flip of sippin' is a groovy instrumental track...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:33pm JtotheK:

. . . and my (admittedly brief) internet research just now finds that Give The Drummer's own Funky 16 Corners has a blog entry for "sippin' a cup of coffee".
Avatar 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:33pm Little Danny:

@coel: oh man they recorded so much. Talk about knowing about 5% of a discography
Avatar Swag For Life Member Thu. 1/25/18 11:34pm coelacanth∅:

i liked the ordells song too. never heard of them before.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:34pm JtotheK:

From F16C blog: "The Ordells 45 was released in 1967 and as far as I can tell they never recorded another note. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to discover that they had nothing at all to do with the instrumental, which leaves us with one, absolutely incredible performance, committed to vinyl and then largely forgotten.

I have seen several references that indicate that ‘Sippin’ a Cup of Coffee’ has similarly affected many others, and that it may have something of a lowrider following, but aside from that, it remains the property of soul collectors."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:36pm JtotheK:

*blog entry from Aug 29 2013.
Avatar 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:38pm Little Danny:

Thanks for the research Jason!
  Thu. 1/25/18 11:39pm Dean:

I'm finding references in, e.g., Billboard, to Richard Rome, the arranger. In 1968 he formed Allert Prods. with Al Martino's personal manager.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:39pm JtotheK:

we owe larry (permanent, ongoing) thanks for his fantastic blog!
Avatar Swag For Life Member Thu. 1/25/18 11:39pm coelacanth∅:

it always makes me sad. somebody lied; record company had no faith; no capital; somebody didn't come through; had to get on with life....who knows what might've been.
Avatar 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:41pm Little Danny:

@dean: Yeah Rome was a pretty steady Philly-area arranger/composer type. I think he was Philly area
  Thu. 1/25/18 11:41pm Dean:

Curiously, also in '68, he set up a prod'n co., Producers, Inc., with a fellow named Brooks Odell...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:41pm JtotheK:

this axelrod album is one that i don't tire of.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:42pm JtotheK:

@dean - brooks odell sounded familiar ... and it's because i have a 45 of his, 'watch your step' on gold records.
  Thu. 1/25/18 11:43pm Dean:

Yes, evidently Odell was quite prolific. Coincidence, I assume. Rome must have been Philly area.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:45pm JtotheK:

@dean -- off topic, but i did enjoy the nixon book you suggested. i chuckled picturing him on a profane tirade while listening to 'victory at sea'.
  Thu. 1/25/18 11:47pm Dean:

Good to hear, @JtotheK! Lotsa chuckle (or weep) moments in that one.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:48pm JtotheK:

yeah, i was hoping the author would have made up a story about Nixon putting Quaker Oats on his enemy list because they refused to admit he was the model for the 'Quaker Oats' guy on the container.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:51pm JtotheK:

back to the Ordells ... scrolling down on the F16C blog finds this comment: "The song was co-written by Lee Andrews and sang by The Ordells. The lead was superbly delivered by the late Henry (need Ronald) Eleby, backed by Moses (nee Thomas) Eleby, Thomas Matthews, Archie and Clifford (last names not known). As you correctly stated, they didn’t record
another song, although they were at least as good as the more well known Philadelphia groups and more polished than most. Sadly, through bad management, it all fell apart not long after the release of the song. Ronald was briefly recruited by Motown to replace the late great Eddie Kendricks before they finally went with Damon Harris (again management). I am proud to say that I am the youngest brother of Ronnie and Tommy Eleby."
Avatar Swag For Life Member Thu. 1/25/18 11:54pm coelacanth∅:

i like a surprise ending!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Thu. 1/25/18 11:57pm JtotheK:

thanks for the tunes, danny. good evening everyone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member Thu. 1/25/18 11:58pm coelacanth∅:

Thanks Danny! have a good night everyone
  Thu. 1/25/18 11:59pm zonk ludlow:

Thanks Danny for a blissful two hours which soothed my aching brow. Until next week etc.
Avatar 🎃 Fri. 1/26/18 12:03am Little Danny:

Thanks y'all! (And glad it helped you, Zonk.) See you around. Luv to everyone
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