WFMU: Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein: Playlist from September 28, 2022

Listener comments!
	🥁 5:00pm listener james from westwood: Tonight's Mission Impossible: The Balafon Affair.
	🥁 5:01pm david w: Yes, james! That's it!
	5:02pm doctorjazz: Hi David, Ruth, Ridgewoodnics!
	🥁 5:02pm david w: The good doctor, hello!
	🥁 5:05pm WR: Marimba!
	5:06pm Webhamster Henry: Balafons, and gyils, and gambangs in case you leave Africa.
	🥁 5:10pm david w: Hello, WR and Henry (who knows his mallet history).
	5:11pm Webhamster Henry: That balafon buzz is from spider egg sacs:" A small hole in each gourd is covered with a membrane traditionally of thin spider's-egg sac filaments (nowadays more usually of cigarette paper or thin plastic film) to produce the characteristic nasal-buzz timbre of the instrument" - WikiP
	5:11pm ruth: I've been looking forward to this show!
	🥁 5:12pm WR: careful, your mentioning of ngoni may confuse some (like me) that ngoni is also a mallet played instrument.
	🥁 5:13pm david w: Thanks, Henry. I love that buzz. I'd put it into everything if I could.
	5:13pm ruth: Spider egg sacs! Wowz!!
	5:14pm chresti: Hi David and Ruth and ridgewoodians !
	🥁 5:15pm WR: Thank you for playing his intro comments.
	🥁 5:15pm david w: Hi, chresti!
	5:16pm Franco Twinkie: Hi David. We have a marimba, but it's under a huge pile of clothes!
	🥁 5:21pm david w: Hi, Franco. Maybe the clothes will have a similar effect as the spider sacs?
	5:22pm Hank: hello Ridge Radionans! Digging this !
	🥁 5:23pm david w: Thanks, Hank. Enjoy!
	🥁 5:26pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: Just got back from a frustrating hour at the USPS. Typically, they didn't have Priority Stickers at the self serve area to go with the Priority Envelopes, so I committed the cardinal sin of using an Express address label on a Priority envelope--had to open and re-do. This is after getting stuck behind 2 people occupying both windows. Neither of them seem to have ever been to a post office in their life, and the two tellers really couldn't give two fcks. So, working until at least 7 tonight. I mean, this one girl came in with this whole f*ing stack of wooden postcards to "save the date" for her wedding, and instead of doing her homework and seeing if they could actually be mailed as postcards she just brought the whole freaking box in. Turns out that no, no matter how many stamps she put on em, they were to heavy to go as postcards and each. one. had. to. go. into. its. own. little. envelope. which they tried to explain to this dimwit...and then of course they didn't have enough padded envelopes on hand at the PO even though these weren't the free ones; they were ones you had to pay for. I WANTED to yell "GURL, BRING ALL OF THAT SHIT TO STAPLES AND LET THEM FIGURE IT OUT." Then there was the poor woman who foolishly thought that the PO would have packing tape to closer her return box with. Gah. I need a drink.
	🥁 5:27pm david w: @WR: Mamadou wanted it to be clear that he is playing ngoni (not the larger kora), both string instruments with gourd resonators.
	🥁 5:29pm david w: Threemoons, aaargh. This kind of thing happens to me EVERY TIME I go to the post office!
	5:32pm ruth: You can print your own stamps now w/USPS app
	🥁 5:33pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: @David W I feel blessed that I can usually walk there, get my shit out of my PO box, and get done and HOME in 30 minutes or under -- once I did a speed walk and got it all done in 25 minutes. Today was a disaster. The only person more annoyed than me in there today was the poor guy in front of me -- double parked; I held his spot as he ran out TWICE to chase off traffic cops. He had a prepaid label; all he needed was to get a send receipt from the scan from the desk.
	5:46pm doctorjazz: Lovely sounds!!! (sorry about your day,, Threemoons-haven't had that bad a time at the Post Office, but Motor Vehicles...
	5:51pm ruth: I bet this was a super fun show! Sorry I missed it.
	🥁 5:58pm WR: Wonderful to hear the long Diabaté concert selection! Thank you!
	6:08pm doctorjazz: This is sounding a bit more Ridgewoodian (but I enjoyed the early part as well)!
	6:13pm Ike: Excellent!
	🥁 6:15pm david w: Thanks, Ike, djazz, WR. More classic balafon to follow...
	6:16pm catverde: Hey David. Hey Ruth!
	🥁 6:16pm david w: Hey, cat!
	6:17pm doctorjazz: There's the spider egg sac sound!
	🥁 6:30pm WR: These recordings from Sandiya album are so beautiful!
	6:32pm doctorjazz: What WR said (at least this one, don't know the rest of the album).
	🥁 6:33pm david w: Indeed, WR. Did you know this album already?
	🥁 6:33pm david w: Rarely hear a flute so ferocious.
	🥁 6:34pm WR: No, just added to my bandcamp wish list keletiguidiabate.bandcamp.com...
	🥁 6:36pm david w: And... after us, this: 7-10pm (ET) BODEGA POP with Gary Sullivan: The Fall (English post-punk group, since 1979 they’ve released thirty-two studio albums) wfmu.org... 10pm-Midnight IF YOU LOSE YOUR HORSE with Sam Segal
	6:41pm βrian: This is the elder Diabaté? Lovely.
	🥁 6:44pm david w: Yes, βrian. Good point. Mamadou is only about 40 years old. Kélétigui dead 10 years. But I don't know the relation. Many of the musicians on these tracks have the name Diabaté.
	🥁 6:46pm WR: According to Wikipedia he is not related to the brothers, Mamadou and Toumani, though he performed with Toumani.
	🥁 6:46pm david w: I'm sorry I didn't sort all this out, but the Discogs entry for Sandiya makes an effort. www.discogs.com...
	6:52pm βrian: Well, the Diabatés are way better than the Smiths, in any case.
	🥁 6:53pm ranjit: Thanks for the music, David!
	🥁 6:53pm WR: My only major reservation about digital music is that there is usually even less details about the creation and context of the recordings and performers than on pop music LP jackets of the past.
	🥁 6:53pm david w: ranjit! My pleasure, really.
	🥁 6:54pm david w: Thanks all, time for me to scoot...
	6:55pm Hank: Great show !
	🥁 6:55pm WR: sweet version of Summertime. Thank you! David! Ruth! Ridgewoodians!
	6:57pm doctorjazz: Loved the show, thanks David and Ruth!
	6:58pm ruth: Thank you for a totally surprising version of RR David. BYE!!!
	🥁 6:58pm chresti: Thanks David!

Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein: Playlist from September 28, 2022

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Ridgewood Radio features concert recordings by adventurous bands and experimental musicians and restored archival tapes from private and institutional collections captured at venues large and small across the five boroughs of New York. It is produced by David Weinstein and Outpost Artists Resources operating out of the Ridgewood section of Queens, NY, where you'll find more yellow bricks than on the road to Oz and the cemetery of your choice is never more than a few blocks from home.

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September 28, 2022: Balafon Affair

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Masters and manipulators of the West African "marimba"
from Mamadou Diabaté, Jerome Cooper, Kélétigui Diabaté, and more...

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Amir Yaghmai	Go Bozo "Go Bozo" by "Amir Yaghmai"	Go Bozo	Colorfield Records	2022	Ambient/trip hop guitar master (The Voidz, Daedelus, Devendra Banhart) solo effort with Benny Bock and Mike Andrews, synths.

Mamadou Diabaté	Percussion Mania (concert recording)	Roulette Archive	Robert Browning Associates	8 April 2022	From the band's live show with the balafon (West African "xylophone") master from the Sambla people in Burkina Faso, now operating out of Vienna. With electric bass, drum set, djembe, a taste of ngoni, and vocals.	0:08:12 (Pop-up)

Jerome Cooper	Currents of Sound (concert recording)	Roulette Archive	Roulette Intermedium	28 March 1998	The legendary "Multi-Dimensional Drummer" (Revolutionary Ensemble) in his signature solo set. Trapset, synth, drum machine, chirimia, balafon. Excerpt.	0:58:16 (Pop-up)

Kélétigui Diabaté	Selected Tracks	Sandiya	Contre-Jour	2004	From an album of wide ranging collaborations by the Malian balaphone legend (1931-2012), with guests on kora, flute, percussion, chorus...	1:25:43 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🥁 5:00pm listener james from westwood: Tonight's Mission Impossible: The Balafon Affair.
	🥁 5:01pm david w: Yes, james! That's it!
	5:02pm doctorjazz: Hi David, Ruth, Ridgewoodnics!
	🥁 5:02pm david w: The good doctor, hello!
	🥁 5:05pm WR: Marimba!
	5:06pm Webhamster Henry: Balafons, and gyils, and gambangs in case you leave Africa.
	🥁 5:10pm david w: Hello, WR and Henry (who knows his mallet history).
	5:11pm Webhamster Henry: That balafon buzz is from spider egg sacs:" A small hole in each gourd is covered with a membrane traditionally of thin spider's-egg sac filaments (nowadays more usually of cigarette paper or thin plastic film) to produce the characteristic nasal-buzz timbre of the instrument" - WikiP
	5:11pm ruth: I've been looking forward to this show!
	🥁 5:12pm WR: careful, your mentioning of ngoni may confuse some (like me) that ngoni is also a mallet played instrument.
	🥁 5:13pm david w: Thanks, Henry. I love that buzz. I'd put it into everything if I could.
	5:13pm ruth: Spider egg sacs! Wowz!!
	5:14pm chresti: Hi David and Ruth and ridgewoodians !
	🥁 5:15pm WR: Thank you for playing his intro comments.
	🥁 5:15pm david w: Hi, chresti!
	5:16pm Franco Twinkie: Hi David. We have a marimba, but it's under a huge pile of clothes!
	🥁 5:21pm david w: Hi, Franco. Maybe the clothes will have a similar effect as the spider sacs?
	5:22pm Hank: hello Ridge Radionans! Digging this !
	🥁 5:23pm david w: Thanks, Hank. Enjoy!
	🥁 5:26pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: Just got back from a frustrating hour at the USPS. Typically, they didn't have Priority Stickers at the self serve area to go with the Priority Envelopes, so I committed the cardinal sin of using an Express address label on a Priority envelope--had to open and re-do. This is after getting stuck behind 2 people occupying both windows. Neither of them seem to have ever been to a post office in their life, and the two tellers really couldn't give two fcks. So, working until at least 7 tonight. I mean, this one girl came in with this whole f*ing stack of wooden postcards to "save the date" for her wedding, and instead of doing her homework and seeing if they could actually be mailed as postcards she just brought the whole freaking box in. Turns out that no, no matter how many stamps she put on em, they were to heavy to go as postcards and each. one. had. to. go. into. its. own. little. envelope. which they tried to explain to this dimwit...and then of course they didn't have enough padded envelopes on hand at the PO even though these weren't the free ones; they were ones you had to pay for. I WANTED to yell "GURL, BRING ALL OF THAT SHIT TO STAPLES AND LET THEM FIGURE IT OUT." Then there was the poor woman who foolishly thought that the PO would have packing tape to closer her return box with. Gah. I need a drink.
	🥁 5:27pm david w: @WR: Mamadou wanted it to be clear that he is playing ngoni (not the larger kora), both string instruments with gourd resonators.
	🥁 5:29pm david w: Threemoons, aaargh. This kind of thing happens to me EVERY TIME I go to the post office!
	5:32pm ruth: You can print your own stamps now w/USPS app
	🥁 5:33pm Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: @David W I feel blessed that I can usually walk there, get my shit out of my PO box, and get done and HOME in 30 minutes or under -- once I did a speed walk and got it all done in 25 minutes. Today was a disaster. The only person more annoyed than me in there today was the poor guy in front of me -- double parked; I held his spot as he ran out TWICE to chase off traffic cops. He had a prepaid label; all he needed was to get a send receipt from the scan from the desk.
	5:46pm doctorjazz: Lovely sounds!!! (sorry about your day,, Threemoons-haven't had that bad a time at the Post Office, but Motor Vehicles...
	5:51pm ruth: I bet this was a super fun show! Sorry I missed it.
	🥁 5:58pm WR: Wonderful to hear the long Diabaté concert selection! Thank you!
	6:08pm doctorjazz: This is sounding a bit more Ridgewoodian (but I enjoyed the early part as well)!
	6:13pm Ike: Excellent!
	🥁 6:15pm david w: Thanks, Ike, djazz, WR. More classic balafon to follow...
	6:16pm catverde: Hey David. Hey Ruth!
	🥁 6:16pm david w: Hey, cat!
	6:17pm doctorjazz: There's the spider egg sac sound!
	🥁 6:30pm WR: These recordings from Sandiya album are so beautiful!
	6:32pm doctorjazz: What WR said (at least this one, don't know the rest of the album).
	🥁 6:33pm david w: Indeed, WR. Did you know this album already?
	🥁 6:33pm david w: Rarely hear a flute so ferocious.
	🥁 6:34pm WR: No, just added to my bandcamp wish list keletiguidiabate.bandcamp.com...
	🥁 6:36pm david w: And... after us, this: 7-10pm (ET) BODEGA POP with Gary Sullivan: The Fall (English post-punk group, since 1979 they’ve released thirty-two studio albums) wfmu.org... 10pm-Midnight IF YOU LOSE YOUR HORSE with Sam Segal
	6:41pm βrian: This is the elder Diabaté? Lovely.
	🥁 6:44pm david w: Yes, βrian. Good point. Mamadou is only about 40 years old. Kélétigui dead 10 years. But I don't know the relation. Many of the musicians on these tracks have the name Diabaté.
	🥁 6:46pm WR: According to Wikipedia he is not related to the brothers, Mamadou and Toumani, though he performed with Toumani.
	🥁 6:46pm david w: I'm sorry I didn't sort all this out, but the Discogs entry for Sandiya makes an effort. www.discogs.com...
	6:52pm βrian: Well, the Diabatés are way better than the Smiths, in any case.
	🥁 6:53pm ranjit: Thanks for the music, David!
	🥁 6:53pm WR: My only major reservation about digital music is that there is usually even less details about the creation and context of the recordings and performers than on pop music LP jackets of the past.
	🥁 6:53pm david w: ranjit! My pleasure, really.
	🥁 6:54pm david w: Thanks all, time for me to scoot...
	6:55pm Hank: Great show !
	🥁 6:55pm WR: sweet version of Summertime. Thank you! David! Ruth! Ridgewoodians!
	6:57pm doctorjazz: Loved the show, thanks David and Ruth!
	6:58pm ruth: Thank you for a totally surprising version of RR David. BYE!!!
	🥁 6:58pm chresti: Thanks David!

Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein: Playlist from September 28, 2022

Listener comments!

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