WFMU: Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman: Playlist from December 16, 2023

Listener comments!
	6:50pm Observations: going live in 10 minutes!
	7:00pm Observations: we are LIVE!
	7:02pm Listener Gregory: I am not live, but I hope to get there before the end of the show.
	7:11pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Morning at Eiheiji Temple" by "The Monks Of The E... "Eiheiji, "The Temple of Eternal Peace", is one of the two head temples of Soto Zen. It is located deep in the mountains, near the northwest coast of Japan, not far from Fukui City. This temple was founded by Zen Master Dōgen in 1244. He was offered land and other help for this by Yoshishige Hatano, a samurai who was one of his most devoted lay followers. Dōgen thus founded Eiheiji, where he devoted himself to training his followers in the perfection of Zen practice in every action of daily life. Dōgen Zenji's authentic Zen has been scrupulously observed and passed down by his successors. Still today, at Eiheiji over one hundred monks devote themselves wholeheartedly to his practice of shikantaza （"single-minded sitting"）." daihonzan-eiheiji.com...
	🥁 7:14pm WR: Hi David and folks. At restaurant so sorta listening along with Thai pop tunes and table talk here.
	7:17pm Observations: 👋👋👋👋👋🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😎
	7:18pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Morning at Eiheiji Temple" by "The Monks Of The E... I wonder if the monks at the Eiheiji temple might wake up more easily if the temple played a morning shock-jock at high volume.
	7:21pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Jua Song" by "Sadao Watanabe" Later in his career Sadao moved to more slick, mainstream Jazz, but this early Lp SMOKES! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
	7:25pm bobobobob plasticland milw: Hey David!!!!!! Wassssssssup
	7:27pm bobobobob: yeah ...I had an album by this guy and took it back ...I guess they sold it to a Kenny G fan????
	7:31pm Observations: Yo 👋 hello everyone
	7:32pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Shamisen Yosare (old version)" by "Takahashi Chik... "The shamisen is a three-stringed traditional Japanese musical instrument derived from the Chinese instrument sanxian. It is played with a plectrum called a bachi."
	🥁 7:33pm WR: Not until I heard the shamisen did I look to note that this is all Japanese episode.
	7:35pm Observations: 🇯🇵🏯👹👺🍜🍱🈲🎏🇯🇵🏯💴🇯🇵
	7:36pm doctorjazz: Hi observers!
	🥁 7:36pm WR: Are most of the vinyls pressed in Japan or a mix?
	7:37pm Observations: ↳ WR @7:36 all Japanese music/sounds. Two of the records are from US labels, the rest are on Japanese labels.
	7:38pm Observations: ↳ Observations @7:37 actually 3 or 4 I think, we'll see how much I can squeeze in
	7:39pm Listener Gregory: ↳ doctorjazz @7:36 I'm not observing tonight, just deviating.
	7:40pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Fourth Expression" by "Masahiko Togashi" This sounds a bit like the group heard a Miles Davis LP and then jumped into the studio.
	7:53pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Night Flight" by "Masayuki Takayanagi Quintet" 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
	7:55pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Night Flight" by "Masayuki Takayanagi Quintet" Drums – Motohiko Hino
	7:57pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Night Flight" by "Masayuki Takayanagi Quintet" These guys are playing well.
	7:57pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Night Flight" by "Masayuki Takayanagi Quintet" Nice 60's jazz sound (as LG said)!
	8:03pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Freedom Jazz Dance" by "Modern Jazz All Stars" Talk about coming out of US jazz-cool edge to the sound, though.
	8:03pm doctorjazz: Short stay, gotta run, thanks David!
	🥁 8:03pm WR: ↳ Song: "Freedom Jazz Dance" by "Modern Jazz All Stars" Liceky version of Eddie Harris stab at Ornette Cokeman style. Interesting.
	🥁 8:05pm WR: ↳ WR @8:03 Hmmmmm.? Not sure what typo'd into "Liceky"....
	🥁 8:06pm WR: ↳ WR @8:05 Oh meant to write "lively".
	8:09pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Freedom Jazz Dance" by "Modern Jazz All Stars" www.discogs.com...
	8:11pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Freedom Jazz Dance" by "Modern Jazz All Stars" "Poo"
	8:12pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Freedom Jazz Dance" by "Modern Jazz All Stars" Yeah, the Miles sound is very evident here too, with the tenor capturing Wayne Shorter's tone (but impossible to replicate his soloing style).
	8:13pm Listener Gregory: ↳ WR @8:05 WR, better stick to more standard words, like "covfefe."
	8:15pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Phase 13" by "Masahiko Satoh's Garandoh" What's a "Garandoh?" I have no idea.
	8:15pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Phase 13" by "Masahiko Satoh's Garandoh" www.discogs.com...
	8:31pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Nasu No Hana" by "Itaru Oki - Michel Pilz - Ralf ... destination-out.bandcamp.com...
	8:33pm Observations: In terms of what counts as "rare" - it's relative. Here in the US, especially in Tucson, you'll rarely see these original records. But in Japan, some may not be all that rare. in the end, it's all about the music and not the rarity.
	🥁 8:35pm WR: ↳ Song: "Phase 13" by "Masahiko Satoh's Garandoh" Garandoh, on discogs it lists: がらん堂どう could mean temple.
	8:38pm Listener Gregory: A garandoh is a bitter melon used in soups in northern Japan. I made that up, but I think it’s probably true.
	🥁 8:44pm WR: ↳ Song: "Dear Mr. Isozaki, Vice President of Japan Nationa... Gary Snyder but who were the Japanese poets who wrote the original text?
	8:44pm Observations: 🍈🍉
	8:45pm Observations: ↳ WR @8:44 Here it was Yuzuru Katagiri, who is listed as the Artist
	8:46pm Observations: ↳ Observations @8:45 the other two are Ryuichi Tamura & Shuntaro Tanikawa www.discogs.com...
	8:52pm Listener Gregory: I would consider chanting for half an hour each morning if I didn’t have to leave the house to do it.
	🥁 8:55pm WR: ↳ Song: "Urami Bushi" by "Meiko Kaji" new to me, thank you.
	9:02pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "One-Upmanship" by "Yosuke Yamashita Trio" Pretty obscure song, no?
	9:03pm Observations: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:02 It's on this LP w Steve Lacy www.discogs.com...
	9:05pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Observations @9:03 Mmmm. I don't think it reached the top-10 on the charts.
	9:06pm Observations: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:05 depends on the chart, lol, but you are right, not his best known tune
	9:33pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Nozoki Karakuri" by "Osawa Shoichi" "In Japan, a peep-show device called “nozoki karakuri” that street performers operated became popular from the late Edo Period (1603-1867). Viewers looked at pictures, drawn with perspective, through a convex lens." www.asahi.com...
	9:35pm Listener Gregory: Dammit! My internet radio only has a convex lens. I know I should have sprung for the full set.
	9:44pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Nagi" by "Kifu Mitsuhashi, Kazuhisa Ōtake, Nanae ... Koto [13-string], Koto [Bass] – 大嶽和久 Koto [20-strings] – 吉村七重 Koto [20-strings], Koto [13-strings], Koto [Bass], Shamisen – 福永千恵子 Shakuhachi, Shinobue – 三橋貴風
	9:47pm Listener Gregory: I like the pieces that draw on traditional Japanese music.
	9:50pm Observations: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:47 ditto
	9:51pm Observations: looks like we'll be going 5 or so minutes longer this week
	9:59pm Listener Gregory: Domo arigato gozaimasu, David! Very enjoyable show.
	10:01pm Observations: 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
	🥁 10:07pm WR: Thank you! David!

Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman: Playlist from December 16, 2023

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Observations of Deviance is a vinyl focused, free form program that harkens back to early days of underground FM radio. Your host, David Mittleman, hunts down the most exotic, unusual and off-the-beaten-track music from around the world in a number of genres: Spiritual Jazz, Free Improvisation, Experimental Electronics, Ethnographic Oddities and World-Wide Psychedelic Funk. You are guaranteed to hear sounds you’ve never heard before.

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December 16, 2023: Rare Japanese Vinyl

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time

The Monks Of The Eiheiji	Morning at Eiheiji Temple	Zen Shikantaza	Philips	1971	November - December 1970 Recording in Fukui Prefecture of Sotoshu Daihonzan Eiheiji	0:02:15 (Pop-up)
Sadao Watanabe	Jua Song "Jua Song" by "Sadao Watanabe"	Open Road	CBS/Sony	1973	recorded in May 2, 1973 at Hibiya Kohkaido, Tokyo	0:15:25 (Pop-up)

Takahashi Chikuzan	Shamisen Yosare (old version)	Tsugaru Shamisen	CBS/Sony	1974	recorded December 11-12, 1973 at Jean-Jean, Shibuya, Tokyo	0:30:21 (Pop-up)
Masahiko Togashi	Fourth Expression	Guild For Human Music	Denon Jazz	1976	feat. Masahiko Satoh ; recorded May 23, 24, 26, & 27, 1976 at Nippon Columbia's 1st studio, Tokyo	0:35:37 (Pop-up)
Ike Reiko	When The Rain Stops "When The Rain Stops" by "Ike Reiko"	World Of Ecstasy	Bamboo	2012	reissue of a 1971 album	0:42:12 (Pop-up)
Motohiko Hino	Overhang Blues "Overhang Blues" by "Motohiko Hino"	Toko Flash	Trio	1977	composed by & featuring Masahiko Satoh	0:45:12 (Pop-up)
Masayuki Takayanagi Quintet	Night Flight	Flower Girl	Craftman	2019	reissue of a 1969 album	0:52:24 (Pop-up)

Modern Jazz All Stars	Freedom Jazz Dance	All Japan Jazz Festival '71	Philips	1971	Terumasa Hino (tp), Takeru Muraoka (ts), Poo Masabumi Kikuchi (ep), Sadao Watanabe (as), Kousuke Mine (ss), Yoshiaki Masuo (g), Kunimitsu Inaba (b), Motohiko Hino (ds)	1:00:54 (Pop-up)
Masahiko Satoh's Garandoh	Phase 13	Inspiration & Power 14 Free Jazz Festival 1	Trio	1973	recorded June 30-July 12, 1973 at Shinjuku Art Theater, Tokyo	1:14:17 (Pop-up)

Itaru Oki - Michel Pilz - Ralf R. Hübner	Nasu No Hana	One Year - Afternoon & Evening	FMP	1980	recorded in Berlin on October 13th, 1978	1:30:55 (Pop-up)
Yuzuru Katagiri	Dear Mr. Isozaki, Vice President of Japan National Railway	3 Japanese Poets Recorded Live At The Guggenheim Museum, N.Y.C. March 16, 1971	None	1971	translated & read by Gary Snyder	1:38:01 (Pop-up)
Yamabushi of the Shuken Sect at Shogoin Palace	Chanting Of Morning Services	Buddhist Chant - A Recorded Survey Of Actual Temple Rituals	Lyrichord	1963	recordings were made by Kat-sumasa Takasago, assisted by Kojiro Kishi and Norimichi Kimura, during actual services at Japanese Buddhist shrines	1:42:17 (Pop-up)
Meiko Kaji	Urami Bushi "Urami Bushi" by "Meiko Kaji"	Hajiki Uta	WeWantSounds	2023	reissue of a 1973 album ; https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/meiko-kaji-hajiki-uta-deluxe-gatefold-lp-edition-with-2p-insert-and-obi-black-vinyl	1:53:49 (Pop-up)

Yosuke Yamashita Trio	One-Upmanship	A Tribute To Mal Waldron	Enja	1980	recorded 17 &18 June 1980	2:01:15 (Pop-up)
Takeo Moriyama	Ta-Ke "Ta-Ke" by "Takeo Moriyama"	Green River	Enja	1985	recorded July 6th, 1984	2:13:21 (Pop-up)
Motoharu Yoshizawa	Fragment 1 "Fragment 1" by "Motoharu Yoshizawa"	Inland Fish	Trio	1974	recorded live at Yasuda Seimei Hall, Shinjuku, Tokyo, September 13, 1974	2:20:24 (Pop-up)
Chisato Yamada	Tsugaru Sankudari "Tsugaru Sankudari" by "Chisato Yamada"	Chisato Yamada's Tsugaru Shamisen: Tsugaru Love Song	Columbia	1975		2:24:09 (Pop-up)

Osawa Shoichi	Nozoki Karakuri "Nozoki Karakuri" by "Osawa Shoichi"	Mata Nihon No Horogei	Victor	1973		2:32:40 (Pop-up)
Kifu Mitsuhashi, Kazuhisa Ōtake, Nanae Yoshimura, Chieko Fukunaga	Nagi	Gaku - Individuality Of Four Musicians	ALM	1981	recorded on Nov. 3, 4, 1981	2:38:44 (Pop-up)
John Mitchell, The Monks Of The Eiheiji	Morning Ceremony	The Way Of Eiheiji - Zen Buddhist Ceremony	Folkways	1959	recorded in Fukui Prefecture, Japan	2:50:15 (Pop-up)
Itaru Oki	You Don't Know What Love Is - October Revolution	Shirasagi	Nadja	1974	recorded live on 7 June 1974 at Akasaka Sogetsu Hall	2:58:21 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:50pm Observations: going live in 10 minutes!
	7:00pm Observations: we are LIVE!
	7:02pm Listener Gregory: I am not live, but I hope to get there before the end of the show.
	7:11pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Morning at Eiheiji Temple" by "The Monks Of The E... "Eiheiji, "The Temple of Eternal Peace", is one of the two head temples of Soto Zen. It is located deep in the mountains, near the northwest coast of Japan, not far from Fukui City. This temple was founded by Zen Master Dōgen in 1244. He was offered land and other help for this by Yoshishige Hatano, a samurai who was one of his most devoted lay followers. Dōgen thus founded Eiheiji, where he devoted himself to training his followers in the perfection of Zen practice in every action of daily life. Dōgen Zenji's authentic Zen has been scrupulously observed and passed down by his successors. Still today, at Eiheiji over one hundred monks devote themselves wholeheartedly to his practice of shikantaza （"single-minded sitting"）." daihonzan-eiheiji.com...
	🥁 7:14pm WR: Hi David and folks. At restaurant so sorta listening along with Thai pop tunes and table talk here.
	7:17pm Observations: 👋👋👋👋👋🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😎
	7:18pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Morning at Eiheiji Temple" by "The Monks Of The E... I wonder if the monks at the Eiheiji temple might wake up more easily if the temple played a morning shock-jock at high volume.
	7:21pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Jua Song" by "Sadao Watanabe" Later in his career Sadao moved to more slick, mainstream Jazz, but this early Lp SMOKES! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
	7:25pm bobobobob plasticland milw: Hey David!!!!!! Wassssssssup
	7:27pm bobobobob: yeah ...I had an album by this guy and took it back ...I guess they sold it to a Kenny G fan????
	7:31pm Observations: Yo 👋 hello everyone
	7:32pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Shamisen Yosare (old version)" by "Takahashi Chik... "The shamisen is a three-stringed traditional Japanese musical instrument derived from the Chinese instrument sanxian. It is played with a plectrum called a bachi."
	🥁 7:33pm WR: Not until I heard the shamisen did I look to note that this is all Japanese episode.
	7:35pm Observations: 🇯🇵🏯👹👺🍜🍱🈲🎏🇯🇵🏯💴🇯🇵
	7:36pm doctorjazz: Hi observers!
	🥁 7:36pm WR: Are most of the vinyls pressed in Japan or a mix?
	7:37pm Observations: ↳ WR @7:36 all Japanese music/sounds. Two of the records are from US labels, the rest are on Japanese labels.
	7:38pm Observations: ↳ Observations @7:37 actually 3 or 4 I think, we'll see how much I can squeeze in
	7:39pm Listener Gregory: ↳ doctorjazz @7:36 I'm not observing tonight, just deviating.
	7:40pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Fourth Expression" by "Masahiko Togashi" This sounds a bit like the group heard a Miles Davis LP and then jumped into the studio.
	7:53pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Night Flight" by "Masayuki Takayanagi Quintet" 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
	7:55pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Night Flight" by "Masayuki Takayanagi Quintet" Drums – Motohiko Hino
	7:57pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Night Flight" by "Masayuki Takayanagi Quintet" These guys are playing well.
	7:57pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Night Flight" by "Masayuki Takayanagi Quintet" Nice 60's jazz sound (as LG said)!
	8:03pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Freedom Jazz Dance" by "Modern Jazz All Stars" Talk about coming out of US jazz-cool edge to the sound, though.
	8:03pm doctorjazz: Short stay, gotta run, thanks David!
	🥁 8:03pm WR: ↳ Song: "Freedom Jazz Dance" by "Modern Jazz All Stars" Liceky version of Eddie Harris stab at Ornette Cokeman style. Interesting.
	🥁 8:05pm WR: ↳ WR @8:03 Hmmmmm.? Not sure what typo'd into "Liceky"....
	🥁 8:06pm WR: ↳ WR @8:05 Oh meant to write "lively".
	8:09pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Freedom Jazz Dance" by "Modern Jazz All Stars" www.discogs.com...
	8:11pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Freedom Jazz Dance" by "Modern Jazz All Stars" "Poo"
	8:12pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Freedom Jazz Dance" by "Modern Jazz All Stars" Yeah, the Miles sound is very evident here too, with the tenor capturing Wayne Shorter's tone (but impossible to replicate his soloing style).
	8:13pm Listener Gregory: ↳ WR @8:05 WR, better stick to more standard words, like "covfefe."
	8:15pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Phase 13" by "Masahiko Satoh's Garandoh" What's a "Garandoh?" I have no idea.
	8:15pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Phase 13" by "Masahiko Satoh's Garandoh" www.discogs.com...
	8:31pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Nasu No Hana" by "Itaru Oki - Michel Pilz - Ralf ... destination-out.bandcamp.com...
	8:33pm Observations: In terms of what counts as "rare" - it's relative. Here in the US, especially in Tucson, you'll rarely see these original records. But in Japan, some may not be all that rare. in the end, it's all about the music and not the rarity.
	🥁 8:35pm WR: ↳ Song: "Phase 13" by "Masahiko Satoh's Garandoh" Garandoh, on discogs it lists: がらん堂どう could mean temple.
	8:38pm Listener Gregory: A garandoh is a bitter melon used in soups in northern Japan. I made that up, but I think it’s probably true.
	🥁 8:44pm WR: ↳ Song: "Dear Mr. Isozaki, Vice President of Japan Nationa... Gary Snyder but who were the Japanese poets who wrote the original text?
	8:44pm Observations: 🍈🍉
	8:45pm Observations: ↳ WR @8:44 Here it was Yuzuru Katagiri, who is listed as the Artist
	8:46pm Observations: ↳ Observations @8:45 the other two are Ryuichi Tamura & Shuntaro Tanikawa www.discogs.com...
	8:52pm Listener Gregory: I would consider chanting for half an hour each morning if I didn’t have to leave the house to do it.
	🥁 8:55pm WR: ↳ Song: "Urami Bushi" by "Meiko Kaji" new to me, thank you.
	9:02pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "One-Upmanship" by "Yosuke Yamashita Trio" Pretty obscure song, no?
	9:03pm Observations: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:02 It's on this LP w Steve Lacy www.discogs.com...
	9:05pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Observations @9:03 Mmmm. I don't think it reached the top-10 on the charts.
	9:06pm Observations: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:05 depends on the chart, lol, but you are right, not his best known tune
	9:33pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Nozoki Karakuri" by "Osawa Shoichi" "In Japan, a peep-show device called “nozoki karakuri” that street performers operated became popular from the late Edo Period (1603-1867). Viewers looked at pictures, drawn with perspective, through a convex lens." www.asahi.com...
	9:35pm Listener Gregory: Dammit! My internet radio only has a convex lens. I know I should have sprung for the full set.
	9:44pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Nagi" by "Kifu Mitsuhashi, Kazuhisa Ōtake, Nanae ... Koto [13-string], Koto [Bass] – 大嶽和久 Koto [20-strings] – 吉村七重 Koto [20-strings], Koto [13-strings], Koto [Bass], Shamisen – 福永千恵子 Shakuhachi, Shinobue – 三橋貴風
	9:47pm Listener Gregory: I like the pieces that draw on traditional Japanese music.
	9:50pm Observations: ↳ Listener Gregory @9:47 ditto
	9:51pm Observations: looks like we'll be going 5 or so minutes longer this week
	9:59pm Listener Gregory: Domo arigato gozaimasu, David! Very enjoyable show.
	10:01pm Observations: 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
	🥁 10:07pm WR: Thank you! David!

Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman: Playlist from December 16, 2023

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