WFMU: Irene Trudel: Playlist from January 20, 2025

Listener comments!
	10:39am TDK60: Hola deejay Irene! I'll miss ya live today. Going out in the bitter cold to celebrate MLK, and un-celebrate something else. Will give an ear later!
	10:46am Irene Trudel: Sounds good, TDK60! I'll have an appropriate soundtrack waiting for you in the archives. Stay Warm!
	🥁 11:45am TonyR: Irene for preznint. (Because it's never too late. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
	🥁 11:56am Sean in Bristol UK: Good afternoon Irene, hello one and all. Happy MLK day, a fascinating juxtaposition concerning what is happening in DC. The BBC/ITV and Channel 4 have full live coverage which I I am ignoring. I think most of the UK public will be doing the same!
	11:58am Peter K.: Hello, Irene and Friends. This is going to be a spectacular show.
	12:00pm luka: hello!
	12:01pm listener james from westwood: Afternoon, Irene and all, and kind MLK remembrances to all.
	12:01pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi there, Irene, and all other listeners!
	12:02pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Sean in Bristol UK @11:56 Afternoon, Sean!
	12:02pm katharsis: Hellos all. Taking you along on my first ski in years. Is it like riding a bicycle?
	12:02pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ TDK60 @10:39 Hi there, TDK60!
	12:03pm doctorjazz: Hello Irene, Streamers!
	12:03pm doctorjazz: Hi Andrew in Toronto!
	🥁 12:03pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:02 Hey Andrew, hoping you won't be the 51st State!!
	12:03pm Irene Trudel: Welcome TonyR, Sean, Peter, luka, james, Andrew, katharsis, doctorjazz and all listening in today! Coming up--some tributes in song to Dr. King, and musical commentary on another event happening in America today.
	🥁 12:04pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ doctorjazz @12:03 Hey doc
	12:04pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @12:03 Hiya, doc!
	🥁 12:04pm βrian: I shouldn't be working today, but …
	🥁 12:05pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ katharsis @12:02 Salutations katharsis
	12:05pm doctorjazz: ↳ Sean in Bristol UK @12:04 Hey Sean!
	12:06pm Irene Trudel: ↳ βrian @12:04 Aww, that makes me sad, βrian. I guess some people still gotta do it.
	🥁 12:07pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "I Have a Dream" by "Herbie Hancock" Let us not forget our dreams, even on such a strange and mournful afternoon as this. Hi, Irene and fellow WFMU listeners.
	12:07pm DJ Peter: ↳ Irene Trudel @12:03 Thanks for this balm/kick in the pants.
	🥁 12:08pm βrian: ↳ Irene Trudel @12:06 In my case, it's just a vague worry that some things were left hanging. I'm not under duress, in any case.
	12:13pm katharsis: Hellos Sean.
	12:15pm Irene Trudel: Greetings Dan S and DJ Peter. (Nice Lester Young tribute last night, BTW!)
	12:16pm Hunterian: Happy King Day, everybody!
	12:17pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Sean in Bristol UK @12:03 Very.
	12:20pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Hunterian @12:16 Yes indeed, Hunterian!
	12:20pm redkayak: Happy MLK Day....
	12:22pm Dean: Happy Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior, Day. Now I'm exhausted.
	12:24pm Irene Trudel: ↳ redkayak @12:20 Yes, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King is truly deserving of celebration today!
	12:25pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Dean @12:22 Same to you, Dean!
	12:26pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Irene and all
	12:26pm redkayak: ↳ Irene Trudel @12:24 Indeed so.....something good has to come out this particular day....
	🥁 12:28pm David (in London): Afternoon Irene and assembled Trudelians.
	12:29pm redkayak: ↳ Sean in Bristol UK @11:56 Sean, my wife and I have gotten pretty good at changing the channel. Will need to revisit that skill....
	12:30pm coelacanth∅: 'evening, David (iL)
	12:31pm ?: ↳ David (in London) @12:28 Greetings David
	🥁 12:31pm Michael 98145: Hellos, Friends. Tho today feels like a wake.
	🥁 12:32pm Sean in Bristol UK: I got signed out, greetings David in London
	12:32pm redkayak: ↳ Michael 98145 @12:31 Yep....you nailed it....
	12:33pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ David (in London) @12:28 Afternoon, David!
	12:34pm redkayak: ↳ David (in London) @12:28 Salutations, David
	12:34pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ coelacanth∅ @12:30 Mahalo, coel!
	🥁 12:34pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ Michael 98145 @12:31 The TV is turned off from 4 pm UK time until at least much later this evening
	12:36pm StringOFperils: I had a dream. But it was mostly about the nightmare of being awake. So I woke up and read some news and listened to WFMU for a while. And then I went back to sleep. Such is the moebius strip of my living dream.
	🥁 12:37pm Michael 98145: ↳ Sean in Bristol UK @12:34 I may watch the Weather Channel. Nothing else.
	🥁 12:38pm Michael 98145: ↳ Michael 98145 @12:37 Where's that burning yule log channel?
	🥁 12:38pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ Michael 98145 @12:37 And for me, MLB.TV!
	12:39pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Michael 98145 @12:31 Greetings Michael. be strong. i normally ignore certain public figures and the sad circus created for them.
	12:39pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:34 Aloha Andrew!
	🥁 12:41pm Michael 98145: Thank goodness for this show & station
	12:43pm Irene Trudel: Here's that link I mentioned for the Puppy and Kitten Inauguration: www.youtube.com...
	12:43pm StringOFperils: Beautiful music. Pure and good.
	12:44pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Search for Peace" by "McCoy Tyner" Lovely tune!
	12:44pm northguineahills: post-noontide, irene and friends!
	12:45pm northguineahills: ↳ katharsis @12:02 i emailed you again via the gfm thingey. my email is just northguineahills[at]gmail
	12:45pm Irene Trudel: There's always music to celebrate as well, redkayak! Salutations also to you, coelacanth∅, David, Michael, String OFperils and n.g.h.!
	12:46pm doctorjazz: ↳ Irene Trudel @12:43 That's a riot!
	🥁 12:47pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: Good morning-ish, Irene!
	12:47pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Alabama" by "John Coltrane" Ahhhhhh!!!!
	12:48pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Song: "Alabama" by "John Coltrane" sobering beauty, coming right up.
	🥁 12:49pm Michael 98145: ↳ Irene Trudel @12:43 💙
	12:51pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Michael 98145 @12:41 ❤️
	12:53pm bigplanetnoise: Hi Irene - loving the show!
	12:58pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Bob!
	12:59pm bigplanetnoise: Hi Coel!
	🥁 12:59pm Malcontent: Irene, your show is the perfect antidote for the lesser actions of the day. Sending love to all like-minded WFMU listeners today!
	1:03pm rw: ↳ Song: "The Drum Major Instinct" by "John Hollenbeck" Nice choice for today.
	1:05pm Dean: The combination of music and uttered narrative, even or especially when the narrative is an instance of great literature or sermonizing, is no easy feat. MLK's intonation here is just right. It reminds me of two recordings of Tobias Picker's The Encantadas, a marvelous symphonic poem featuring recitations from Melville's eponymous "story." The first recording features Sir John Gielgud as narrator. The second recording features the composer himself, an American. If it wasn't already obvious, a comparison of the two reveals how inapt Gielgud's contribution was. How can anybody but an American intone Melville? Picker was born in NYC, and he suffers from Tourette's syndrome. My question is rhetorical, but in fact I believe there are ways a non-American, non-Tourette's narrator could do perfectly well. But Gielgud ain't that narrator.
	1:08pm Irene Trudel: ↳ bigplanetnoise @12:53 Thanks BPN, Malcontent, rw and Dean!
	🥁 1:10pm smit: Hey Irene and all...snowed in, gotta shovel, and the Gal has covid...Good grief.
	1:10pm Kat in the chat: This is incredible
	1:10pm Irene Trudel: Happy to be an antidote to the events of this day!
	1:11pm Irene Trudel: ↳ smit @1:10 Aw, please give Kath my love and healing thoughts. And don't overexert yourself shoveling!
	1:12pm Stork: ↳ Song: "The Drum Major Instinct" by "John Hollenbeck" this is stunning.
	1:14pm tom tom the pipers son: i've never heard a full mlk sermon...it's making me think/ feel all sorts of things
	1:14pm Stork: Best to your wife, smit.
	1:15pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Kat in the chat @1:10 John and his ensemble performed this live on my show back in 2000. Absolutely incredible! wfmu.org...
	1:16pm tom tom the pipers son: talk about perversion of drum major instinct....bullseye washington dc
	1:16pm Irene Trudel: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:14 That's the idea, tom tom.
	🥁 1:16pm βrian: Temps here (WI) have been well below zero, but no snow at all. The windows are freezing over from the inside.
	1:17pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Irene Trudel @1:16 got it...
	1:17pm Kat in the chat: Wow Irene, I will check out that performance tonight
	🥁 1:21pm smit: ↳ Irene Trudel @1:11 Thanks Irene, I will...We've isolated for a week. She's better now, faint red line, but i gotta dig out and get more tests. BTW, John Hollenbeck is awesome, as he's a great friend of a friend, and inspired me to put Monkeyworks back together some 30 years ago by watching one of his performances. He's such a great player and nice guy!
	1:26pm Dean: I'd forgotten how much work Hollenbeck has done with Theo Bleckmann.
	1:26pm rw: By the other thing we're not talking about Joe B's show are we?
	1:26pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Spangled Banner Minor and Other Patriotic Songs" ... Great!!!
	1:27pm Stork: ↳ doctorjazz @1:26 Almost has a slow klezmer thing going on.
	1:28pm doctorjazz: ↳ Stork @1:27 All those minor modes...
	1:29pm Stork: ↳ doctorjazz @1:28 Them mournful modes!
	1:29pm StringOFperils: Such a funny person. Miss her gallows humour. Usually, she couldn't utter a sentence without making me laugh.
	1:30pm Dean: This reminds me of Allen Lowe's Louis Armstrong records.
	1:31pm rw: Strange, the change from major to minor. Oh crap. Glitching.
	1:32pm doctorjazz: ↳ smit @1:21 You don't have to keep retesting for a negative, if you've completed isolation, and improving, you shouldn't be contagious (an odd thing of rapid tests-they pick up viral protein, not necessarily "live" virus. People can test positive for weeks and months because some viral proteins (from killed virus) can still be present.
	1:33pm Stork: ↳ Song: "Spangled Banner Minor and Other Patriotic Songs" ... Nice recovery, Irene! Great piece - worth recovering!
	1:33pm Irene Trudel: ↳ rw @1:31 Sorry! A well-loved CD that maybe we need to replace.
	1:34pm rw: As Stork said, nice recovery. Beautiful.
	1:37pm doctorjazz: Waiting on doctor appointment for MsJazz, bad knee...
	1:39pm Irene Trudel: ↳ doctorjazz @1:37 Ouch! I'm sending a few healing thoughts to MsJazz too.
	1:40pm doctorjazz: ↳ Irene Trudel @1:39 Thanks Irene- listening while waiting...
	1:44pm Doug Schulkind: Thank you for pulling my attention away from the horror, Irene. Can you please keep the show going for another four years. Without stopping I mean.
	1:44pm StringOFperils: Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. This arrangement is just so damned great. Wow.
	1:46pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Doug Schulkind @1:44 Hi Doug! Is there something else interfering with the music?
	1:47pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "The Triumph of Democracy" by "Joel Forrester and ... Always great to hear Forrester!
	1:48pm doctorjazz: ↳ Irene Trudel @1:46 Damn ceremony is on TV in the waiting room, show is helping me avoid the screen...
	1:50pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "The Triumph of Democracy" by "Joel Forrester and ... (I want to find the jukebox that has this single...)
	1:50pm Irene Trudel: ↳ doctorjazz @1:48 Turn up those earbuds before it's too late, doctorjazz!
	🥁 1:50pm smit: ↳ doctorjazz @1:32 Thanks Doc. I have to test in order to go back to pulmonary rehab, or they won't let me back. I had covid a year ago, even though I'm super careful, as it messed me up big time. I have this rare genetic liver/lung disease, Alpha 1 Antitrypsin, which makes me very susceptible to anything lung related. Also makes it difficult to carry heavy gear, as I get winded, so shoveling is gonna be ...awesome ;-) Hope Ms.Jazz is ok! Gotta see the orthopedist and heart doctors on Friday. This getting old is not happening...Ironically, I'm not nearly as bad as many!
	1:51pm Irene Trudel: ↳ doctorjazz @1:50 It's a one-off I recorded for Joel. I'd be happy to share it with you.
	1:52pm Doug Schulkind: ↳ Irene Trudel @1:46 Real life is trying to intrude, Irene. But I'm choosing to live in the alternate radioverse.
	1:52pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Doug Schulkind @1:52 Good man. Me too!
	🥁 1:55pm Michael 98145: ↳ Doug Schulkind @1:44 Excellent idea
	1:56pm doctorjazz: ↳ Irene Trudel @1:51 Sure, I'd love that (searched Google, the only other mention of that single was for your show last September 2nd.)
	1:57pm Irene Trudel: ↳ doctorjazz @1:56 I don't know if he has plans to releas it, so I'm happy to send it. He's back here late February for a Claire Daly memorial and I can ask him then.
	1:58pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Spiritual" by "Charlie Haden And The Liberation M... Fabulous sets, Irene (lucky to have seen Haden with the orchestra. He played behind a fiberglass screen to protect his ears, he had tinnitus)
	1:59pm northguineahills: been needing all of this.....
	1:59pm doctorjazz: ↳ Irene Trudel @1:57 If he has any gigs, post or mention them, would love to see him again!
	2:01pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Spiritual" by "Charlie Haden And The Liberation M... Maaaaaannnnnn.....
	🥁 2:05pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ Summer and Michael and Sylvia @12:47 Hey S, M & S
	🥁 2:06pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ smit @1:10 Hey smit
	🥁 2:06pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ Stork @1:12 Hey my brother
	🥁 2:07pm smit: ↳ Sean in Bristol UK @2:06 Hey Sean!
	2:07pm Dean: Those first two strums by Metheny prepare me for John Williams' performance of Stanley Myer's "Cavatina," a.k.a., the theme from The Deer Hunter. Coincidentally, I'm reading Marx's Capital, which has more than a little to say about deer hunters and beaver trappers.
	2:08pm doctorjazz: ↳ smit @1:50 Feel good smit (both my daughters are at my house for the weekend, put them to work shoveling...) ;-)
	2:09pm headcleaner: Thanks for the lovely program today, Irene. As always your show is my home, my refuge
	2:11pm Dean: I love that there is a band named Strobe Talbot. Not too many weekends ago I heard a live performance by a band named Terry Gross, another hoot of a moniker. They were shockingly good.
	2:12pm Dean: Terry Gross' latest(?) album is titled Soft Opening. That is cleverness with a cherry on top.
	🥁 2:16pm smit: ↳ doctorjazz @2:08 I'm just trying to get psyched to dig!
	🥁 2:17pm βrian: ↳ Dean @2:12 Damnit, Dean! I don't get it, and I'm ashamed.
	2:18pm Dean: The meme has outpaced the literal, I guess.
	2:19pm Irene Trudel: ↳ headcleaner @2:09 Thanks headcleaner!
	🥁 2:19pm βrian: Not something anatomical, I pray.
	2:20pm StringOFperils: ↳ βrian @2:19 A second Prius?
	2:25pm doctorjazz: @Dean-Allrn Lowe did anyone Substack talking about Louis Armstrong.... open.substack.com...
	2:26pm Irene Trudel: BTW, here's a link to that Anti-Inauguration Event at St. Mark's Church. It's on now through 5:30pm. www.brooklynvegan.com...
	2:27pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Another Day in America" by "Laurie Anderson" i knew this was laurie anderson (i wasn't near the computer), and i hadn't even heard this piece before...
	2:27pm doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @2:25 And composition, post modernism, as Lowe is wont to do...
	2:28pm Dean: Thanks for that, doctorjazz.
	2:30pm katharsis: weee!
	2:30pm doctorjazz: ↳ Dean @2:28 Sorry about all those typos, you get the idea
	2:33pm doctorjazz: "First thing you learn is that you always gotta wait"... should be seen soon...
	2:34pm coelacanth∅: ↳ katharsis @2:30 be just careful enough katharsis! ...wish i could be maneuvering a hill right now
	2:34pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Dancing in the Aisles of the Icicle Repair Shop" ... Love Guy!
	2:35pm katharsis: i am safely returned! yes hills on nordics are daunting. safety third!
	2:36pm Irene Trudel: ↳ katharsis @2:35 Hooray!
	2:37pm doctorjazz: ↳ katharsis @2:35 Reminds me of a video my daughter sent us of her bungee jumping in Thailand, the caption, Safety Tenth!
	2:39pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Dancing in the Aisles of the Icicle Repair Shop" ... I was playing music from flying vegetables of the apocalypse this morning.
	2:39pm coelacanth∅: ↳ katharsis @2:35 nice! -so if safety is 3rd, and presumably having fun is 1st; what is 2nd?!
	2:40pm coelacanth∅: (staying hydrated?)
	2:43pm StringOFperils: ↳ coelacanth∅ @2:39 Fiddle
	2:44pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Webhamster Henry @2:39 Very cool, WHenry!
	2:45pm Peter K.: The Lady in the Radiator was played by someone named Laurel Near, although I don't know if she did her own singing. "Eraserhead" is her only movie credit.
	2:45pm coelacanth∅: ↳ StringOFperils @2:43 i refuse to play that! (well...)
	2:46pm katharsis: yes either beverages or snacks. oh dear bungee jumping children.
	2:46pm Irene Trudel: Here's a link to David Lynch's daily weather reports during the pandemic. I found them oddly comforting. youtube.com...
	🥁 2:48pm smit: ↳ Song: "Bagadaji Sirifoula" by "Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki ... Loved this from the first note!
	🥁 2:50pm smit: One can never have enough Kora!
	2:50pm Peter K.: Can we all agree that this has been one the best Irene Trudel shows of all time? I know that's a bold statement, but I stand by it.
	2:55pm doctorjazz: Thanks Irene, great show!
	🥁 2:55pm smit: Thanks, Irene...now I'm psyched!
	2:56pm Irene Trudel: Thanks for all the comments, info, praise you're given during this show. Time for me to make way for Wendy del Formaggio and Wreck Your Own Adventure. Catch you all in two weeks! wfmu.org...
	2:56pm coelacanth∅: i hear protests through my window.
	2:57pm Doug Schulkind: ↳ Peter K. @2:50 Irene, you may have missed it in your email (due to the fact that you are doing a live radio show), but David Dichelle has just lovingly agreed to fill in for you next week!
	2:57pm StringOFperils: ↳ coelacanth∅ @2:56 Get back to us when there's no window.
	2:58pm Irene Trudel: Oh, Wonderful! You all will be in good hands.
	2:59pm coelacanth∅: ↳ StringOFperils @2:57 if i jump through it does it become a door? -or is that just my perception...
	3:00pm StringOFperils: Thanks, Irene!
	3:00pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Irene! enjoy your week away
	3:09pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Peter K. @2:50 Peter, my biggest fan! ❤️

Irene Trudel: Playlist from January 20, 2025

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January 20, 2025: Keeping hope alive.

MLK25: A Burning House-WNYC remote-Apollo Theater 2025-01-19

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
Herbie Hancock	I Have a Dream "I Have a Dream" by "Herbie Hancock"	The Prisoner	Blue Note
Shabaka	Insecurities (ft. Moses Sumney)	Perceive its Beauty, Acknowledge its Grace	Impulse!	0:11:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Larry Young	Of Love and Peace "Of Love and Peace" by "Larry Young"	Of Love and Peace	Blue Note Records	0:15:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk	Blacknuss "Blacknuss" by "Rahsaan Roland Kirk"	Does Your House Have Lions: The Rahsaan Roland Kirk Anthology	Atlantic	0:22:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Charles Mingus	Prayer for Passive Resistance	Pre Bird	Mercury	0:27:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny	Message to a Friend / First Song	Beyond the Missouri Sky	Verve Records	0:31:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
McCoy Tyner	Search for Peace "Search for Peace" by "McCoy Tyner"	The Real McCoy	Blue Note	0:40:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
John Coltrane	Alabama "Alabama" by "John Coltrane"	A John Coltrane Retrospective: The Impulse! Years	Impulse!	0:46:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
John Hollenbeck	The Drum Major Instinct	No Images	Blueshift/CRI	0:52:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny	First Song / The Moon Song	Beyond the Missouri Sky	Verve Records	1:17:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Carla Bley Band	Spangled Banner Minor and Other Patriotic Songs	European Tour 1977	WATT/ECM	1:26:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Joel Forrester and Friends	The Triumph of Democracy	(single)	Joel Forrester	1:46:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Charlie Haden And The Liberation Music Orchestra	Spiritual	Dream Keeper		1:55:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ray Charles	America the Beautiful	Anthology	Rhino	2:02:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny	First Song / The Moon Song	Beyond the Missouri Sky	Verve Records	2:05:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Laurie Anderson	Another Day in America	Homeland	Nonesuch Elektra	2:12:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
David Lynch	Strange and Unproductive Thinking	Crazy Clown Time	Pias America / Sunday Best	2:24:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Peter Ivers & David Lynch	In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)	Eraserhead Original Soundtrack	IRS Records	2:31:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Guy Klucevsek & Volker Goetze	Dancing in the Aisles of the Icicle Repair Shop	Little Big Top	Motema Music	2:33:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny	First Song / The Moon Song	Beyond the Missouri Sky	Verve Records	2:37:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jerron Paxton	What's Gonna Become Of Me	Things Done Changed	Smithsonian Folkways	2:43:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté	Bagadaji Sirifoula	Toumani & Sidiki	World Circuit	2:46:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Meshell Ndegeocello	The Price of the Ticket	No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin	Blue Note	2:52:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Derek Gripper	Kaira (Peace) "Kaira (Peace)" by "Derek Gripper"	One Night On Earth: Music from the Strings of Mali
Irene speaks!	"Irene speaks!"			2:58:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	10:39am TDK60: Hola deejay Irene! I'll miss ya live today. Going out in the bitter cold to celebrate MLK, and un-celebrate something else. Will give an ear later!
	10:46am Irene Trudel: Sounds good, TDK60! I'll have an appropriate soundtrack waiting for you in the archives. Stay Warm!
	🥁 11:45am TonyR: Irene for preznint. (Because it's never too late. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
	🥁 11:56am Sean in Bristol UK: Good afternoon Irene, hello one and all. Happy MLK day, a fascinating juxtaposition concerning what is happening in DC. The BBC/ITV and Channel 4 have full live coverage which I I am ignoring. I think most of the UK public will be doing the same!
	11:58am Peter K.: Hello, Irene and Friends. This is going to be a spectacular show.
	12:00pm luka: hello!
	12:01pm listener james from westwood: Afternoon, Irene and all, and kind MLK remembrances to all.
	12:01pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi there, Irene, and all other listeners!
	12:02pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Sean in Bristol UK @11:56 Afternoon, Sean!
	12:02pm katharsis: Hellos all. Taking you along on my first ski in years. Is it like riding a bicycle?
	12:02pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ TDK60 @10:39 Hi there, TDK60!
	12:03pm doctorjazz: Hello Irene, Streamers!
	12:03pm doctorjazz: Hi Andrew in Toronto!
	🥁 12:03pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:02 Hey Andrew, hoping you won't be the 51st State!!
	12:03pm Irene Trudel: Welcome TonyR, Sean, Peter, luka, james, Andrew, katharsis, doctorjazz and all listening in today! Coming up--some tributes in song to Dr. King, and musical commentary on another event happening in America today.
	🥁 12:04pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ doctorjazz @12:03 Hey doc
	12:04pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @12:03 Hiya, doc!
	🥁 12:04pm βrian: I shouldn't be working today, but …
	🥁 12:05pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ katharsis @12:02 Salutations katharsis
	12:05pm doctorjazz: ↳ Sean in Bristol UK @12:04 Hey Sean!
	12:06pm Irene Trudel: ↳ βrian @12:04 Aww, that makes me sad, βrian. I guess some people still gotta do it.
	🥁 12:07pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "I Have a Dream" by "Herbie Hancock" Let us not forget our dreams, even on such a strange and mournful afternoon as this. Hi, Irene and fellow WFMU listeners.
	12:07pm DJ Peter: ↳ Irene Trudel @12:03 Thanks for this balm/kick in the pants.
	🥁 12:08pm βrian: ↳ Irene Trudel @12:06 In my case, it's just a vague worry that some things were left hanging. I'm not under duress, in any case.
	12:13pm katharsis: Hellos Sean.
	12:15pm Irene Trudel: Greetings Dan S and DJ Peter. (Nice Lester Young tribute last night, BTW!)
	12:16pm Hunterian: Happy King Day, everybody!
	12:17pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Sean in Bristol UK @12:03 Very.
	12:20pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Hunterian @12:16 Yes indeed, Hunterian!
	12:20pm redkayak: Happy MLK Day....
	12:22pm Dean: Happy Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior, Day. Now I'm exhausted.
	12:24pm Irene Trudel: ↳ redkayak @12:20 Yes, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King is truly deserving of celebration today!
	12:25pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Dean @12:22 Same to you, Dean!
	12:26pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Irene and all
	12:26pm redkayak: ↳ Irene Trudel @12:24 Indeed so.....something good has to come out this particular day....
	🥁 12:28pm David (in London): Afternoon Irene and assembled Trudelians.
	12:29pm redkayak: ↳ Sean in Bristol UK @11:56 Sean, my wife and I have gotten pretty good at changing the channel. Will need to revisit that skill....
	12:30pm coelacanth∅: 'evening, David (iL)
	12:31pm ?: ↳ David (in London) @12:28 Greetings David
	🥁 12:31pm Michael 98145: Hellos, Friends. Tho today feels like a wake.
	🥁 12:32pm Sean in Bristol UK: I got signed out, greetings David in London
	12:32pm redkayak: ↳ Michael 98145 @12:31 Yep....you nailed it....
	12:33pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ David (in London) @12:28 Afternoon, David!
	12:34pm redkayak: ↳ David (in London) @12:28 Salutations, David
	12:34pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ coelacanth∅ @12:30 Mahalo, coel!
	🥁 12:34pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ Michael 98145 @12:31 The TV is turned off from 4 pm UK time until at least much later this evening
	12:36pm StringOFperils: I had a dream. But it was mostly about the nightmare of being awake. So I woke up and read some news and listened to WFMU for a while. And then I went back to sleep. Such is the moebius strip of my living dream.
	🥁 12:37pm Michael 98145: ↳ Sean in Bristol UK @12:34 I may watch the Weather Channel. Nothing else.
	🥁 12:38pm Michael 98145: ↳ Michael 98145 @12:37 Where's that burning yule log channel?
	🥁 12:38pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ Michael 98145 @12:37 And for me, MLB.TV!
	12:39pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Michael 98145 @12:31 Greetings Michael. be strong. i normally ignore certain public figures and the sad circus created for them.
	12:39pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @12:34 Aloha Andrew!
	🥁 12:41pm Michael 98145: Thank goodness for this show & station
	12:43pm Irene Trudel: Here's that link I mentioned for the Puppy and Kitten Inauguration: www.youtube.com...
	12:43pm StringOFperils: Beautiful music. Pure and good.
	12:44pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Search for Peace" by "McCoy Tyner" Lovely tune!
	12:44pm northguineahills: post-noontide, irene and friends!
	12:45pm northguineahills: ↳ katharsis @12:02 i emailed you again via the gfm thingey. my email is just northguineahills[at]gmail
	12:45pm Irene Trudel: There's always music to celebrate as well, redkayak! Salutations also to you, coelacanth∅, David, Michael, String OFperils and n.g.h.!
	12:46pm doctorjazz: ↳ Irene Trudel @12:43 That's a riot!
	🥁 12:47pm Summer and Michael and Sylvia: Good morning-ish, Irene!
	12:47pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Alabama" by "John Coltrane" Ahhhhhh!!!!
	12:48pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Song: "Alabama" by "John Coltrane" sobering beauty, coming right up.
	🥁 12:49pm Michael 98145: ↳ Irene Trudel @12:43 💙
	12:51pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Michael 98145 @12:41 ❤️
	12:53pm bigplanetnoise: Hi Irene - loving the show!
	12:58pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Bob!
	12:59pm bigplanetnoise: Hi Coel!
	🥁 12:59pm Malcontent: Irene, your show is the perfect antidote for the lesser actions of the day. Sending love to all like-minded WFMU listeners today!
	1:03pm rw: ↳ Song: "The Drum Major Instinct" by "John Hollenbeck" Nice choice for today.
	1:05pm Dean: The combination of music and uttered narrative, even or especially when the narrative is an instance of great literature or sermonizing, is no easy feat. MLK's intonation here is just right. It reminds me of two recordings of Tobias Picker's The Encantadas, a marvelous symphonic poem featuring recitations from Melville's eponymous "story." The first recording features Sir John Gielgud as narrator. The second recording features the composer himself, an American. If it wasn't already obvious, a comparison of the two reveals how inapt Gielgud's contribution was. How can anybody but an American intone Melville? Picker was born in NYC, and he suffers from Tourette's syndrome. My question is rhetorical, but in fact I believe there are ways a non-American, non-Tourette's narrator could do perfectly well. But Gielgud ain't that narrator.
	1:08pm Irene Trudel: ↳ bigplanetnoise @12:53 Thanks BPN, Malcontent, rw and Dean!
	🥁 1:10pm smit: Hey Irene and all...snowed in, gotta shovel, and the Gal has covid...Good grief.
	1:10pm Kat in the chat: This is incredible
	1:10pm Irene Trudel: Happy to be an antidote to the events of this day!
	1:11pm Irene Trudel: ↳ smit @1:10 Aw, please give Kath my love and healing thoughts. And don't overexert yourself shoveling!
	1:12pm Stork: ↳ Song: "The Drum Major Instinct" by "John Hollenbeck" this is stunning.
	1:14pm tom tom the pipers son: i've never heard a full mlk sermon...it's making me think/ feel all sorts of things
	1:14pm Stork: Best to your wife, smit.
	1:15pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Kat in the chat @1:10 John and his ensemble performed this live on my show back in 2000. Absolutely incredible! wfmu.org...
	1:16pm tom tom the pipers son: talk about perversion of drum major instinct....bullseye washington dc
	1:16pm Irene Trudel: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:14 That's the idea, tom tom.
	🥁 1:16pm βrian: Temps here (WI) have been well below zero, but no snow at all. The windows are freezing over from the inside.
	1:17pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Irene Trudel @1:16 got it...
	1:17pm Kat in the chat: Wow Irene, I will check out that performance tonight
	🥁 1:21pm smit: ↳ Irene Trudel @1:11 Thanks Irene, I will...We've isolated for a week. She's better now, faint red line, but i gotta dig out and get more tests. BTW, John Hollenbeck is awesome, as he's a great friend of a friend, and inspired me to put Monkeyworks back together some 30 years ago by watching one of his performances. He's such a great player and nice guy!
	1:26pm Dean: I'd forgotten how much work Hollenbeck has done with Theo Bleckmann.
	1:26pm rw: By the other thing we're not talking about Joe B's show are we?
	1:26pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Spangled Banner Minor and Other Patriotic Songs" ... Great!!!
	1:27pm Stork: ↳ doctorjazz @1:26 Almost has a slow klezmer thing going on.
	1:28pm doctorjazz: ↳ Stork @1:27 All those minor modes...
	1:29pm Stork: ↳ doctorjazz @1:28 Them mournful modes!
	1:29pm StringOFperils: Such a funny person. Miss her gallows humour. Usually, she couldn't utter a sentence without making me laugh.
	1:30pm Dean: This reminds me of Allen Lowe's Louis Armstrong records.
	1:31pm rw: Strange, the change from major to minor. Oh crap. Glitching.
	1:32pm doctorjazz: ↳ smit @1:21 You don't have to keep retesting for a negative, if you've completed isolation, and improving, you shouldn't be contagious (an odd thing of rapid tests-they pick up viral protein, not necessarily "live" virus. People can test positive for weeks and months because some viral proteins (from killed virus) can still be present.
	1:33pm Stork: ↳ Song: "Spangled Banner Minor and Other Patriotic Songs" ... Nice recovery, Irene! Great piece - worth recovering!
	1:33pm Irene Trudel: ↳ rw @1:31 Sorry! A well-loved CD that maybe we need to replace.
	1:34pm rw: As Stork said, nice recovery. Beautiful.
	1:37pm doctorjazz: Waiting on doctor appointment for MsJazz, bad knee...
	1:39pm Irene Trudel: ↳ doctorjazz @1:37 Ouch! I'm sending a few healing thoughts to MsJazz too.
	1:40pm doctorjazz: ↳ Irene Trudel @1:39 Thanks Irene- listening while waiting...
	1:44pm Doug Schulkind: Thank you for pulling my attention away from the horror, Irene. Can you please keep the show going for another four years. Without stopping I mean.
	1:44pm StringOFperils: Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition. This arrangement is just so damned great. Wow.
	1:46pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Doug Schulkind @1:44 Hi Doug! Is there something else interfering with the music?
	1:47pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "The Triumph of Democracy" by "Joel Forrester and ... Always great to hear Forrester!
	1:48pm doctorjazz: ↳ Irene Trudel @1:46 Damn ceremony is on TV in the waiting room, show is helping me avoid the screen...
	1:50pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "The Triumph of Democracy" by "Joel Forrester and ... (I want to find the jukebox that has this single...)
	1:50pm Irene Trudel: ↳ doctorjazz @1:48 Turn up those earbuds before it's too late, doctorjazz!
	🥁 1:50pm smit: ↳ doctorjazz @1:32 Thanks Doc. I have to test in order to go back to pulmonary rehab, or they won't let me back. I had covid a year ago, even though I'm super careful, as it messed me up big time. I have this rare genetic liver/lung disease, Alpha 1 Antitrypsin, which makes me very susceptible to anything lung related. Also makes it difficult to carry heavy gear, as I get winded, so shoveling is gonna be ...awesome ;-) Hope Ms.Jazz is ok! Gotta see the orthopedist and heart doctors on Friday. This getting old is not happening...Ironically, I'm not nearly as bad as many!
	1:51pm Irene Trudel: ↳ doctorjazz @1:50 It's a one-off I recorded for Joel. I'd be happy to share it with you.
	1:52pm Doug Schulkind: ↳ Irene Trudel @1:46 Real life is trying to intrude, Irene. But I'm choosing to live in the alternate radioverse.
	1:52pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Doug Schulkind @1:52 Good man. Me too!
	🥁 1:55pm Michael 98145: ↳ Doug Schulkind @1:44 Excellent idea
	1:56pm doctorjazz: ↳ Irene Trudel @1:51 Sure, I'd love that (searched Google, the only other mention of that single was for your show last September 2nd.)
	1:57pm Irene Trudel: ↳ doctorjazz @1:56 I don't know if he has plans to releas it, so I'm happy to send it. He's back here late February for a Claire Daly memorial and I can ask him then.
	1:58pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Spiritual" by "Charlie Haden And The Liberation M... Fabulous sets, Irene (lucky to have seen Haden with the orchestra. He played behind a fiberglass screen to protect his ears, he had tinnitus)
	1:59pm northguineahills: been needing all of this.....
	1:59pm doctorjazz: ↳ Irene Trudel @1:57 If he has any gigs, post or mention them, would love to see him again!
	2:01pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Spiritual" by "Charlie Haden And The Liberation M... Maaaaaannnnnn.....
	🥁 2:05pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ Summer and Michael and Sylvia @12:47 Hey S, M & S
	🥁 2:06pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ smit @1:10 Hey smit
	🥁 2:06pm Sean in Bristol UK: ↳ Stork @1:12 Hey my brother
	🥁 2:07pm smit: ↳ Sean in Bristol UK @2:06 Hey Sean!
	2:07pm Dean: Those first two strums by Metheny prepare me for John Williams' performance of Stanley Myer's "Cavatina," a.k.a., the theme from The Deer Hunter. Coincidentally, I'm reading Marx's Capital, which has more than a little to say about deer hunters and beaver trappers.
	2:08pm doctorjazz: ↳ smit @1:50 Feel good smit (both my daughters are at my house for the weekend, put them to work shoveling...) ;-)
	2:09pm headcleaner: Thanks for the lovely program today, Irene. As always your show is my home, my refuge
	2:11pm Dean: I love that there is a band named Strobe Talbot. Not too many weekends ago I heard a live performance by a band named Terry Gross, another hoot of a moniker. They were shockingly good.
	2:12pm Dean: Terry Gross' latest(?) album is titled Soft Opening. That is cleverness with a cherry on top.
	🥁 2:16pm smit: ↳ doctorjazz @2:08 I'm just trying to get psyched to dig!
	🥁 2:17pm βrian: ↳ Dean @2:12 Damnit, Dean! I don't get it, and I'm ashamed.
	2:18pm Dean: The meme has outpaced the literal, I guess.
	2:19pm Irene Trudel: ↳ headcleaner @2:09 Thanks headcleaner!
	🥁 2:19pm βrian: Not something anatomical, I pray.
	2:20pm StringOFperils: ↳ βrian @2:19 A second Prius?
	2:25pm doctorjazz: @Dean-Allrn Lowe did anyone Substack talking about Louis Armstrong.... open.substack.com...
	2:26pm Irene Trudel: BTW, here's a link to that Anti-Inauguration Event at St. Mark's Church. It's on now through 5:30pm. www.brooklynvegan.com...
	2:27pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Another Day in America" by "Laurie Anderson" i knew this was laurie anderson (i wasn't near the computer), and i hadn't even heard this piece before...
	2:27pm doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @2:25 And composition, post modernism, as Lowe is wont to do...
	2:28pm Dean: Thanks for that, doctorjazz.
	2:30pm katharsis: weee!
	2:30pm doctorjazz: ↳ Dean @2:28 Sorry about all those typos, you get the idea
	2:33pm doctorjazz: "First thing you learn is that you always gotta wait"... should be seen soon...
	2:34pm coelacanth∅: ↳ katharsis @2:30 be just careful enough katharsis! ...wish i could be maneuvering a hill right now
	2:34pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Dancing in the Aisles of the Icicle Repair Shop" ... Love Guy!
	2:35pm katharsis: i am safely returned! yes hills on nordics are daunting. safety third!
	2:36pm Irene Trudel: ↳ katharsis @2:35 Hooray!
	2:37pm doctorjazz: ↳ katharsis @2:35 Reminds me of a video my daughter sent us of her bungee jumping in Thailand, the caption, Safety Tenth!
	2:39pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Dancing in the Aisles of the Icicle Repair Shop" ... I was playing music from flying vegetables of the apocalypse this morning.
	2:39pm coelacanth∅: ↳ katharsis @2:35 nice! -so if safety is 3rd, and presumably having fun is 1st; what is 2nd?!
	2:40pm coelacanth∅: (staying hydrated?)
	2:43pm StringOFperils: ↳ coelacanth∅ @2:39 Fiddle
	2:44pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Webhamster Henry @2:39 Very cool, WHenry!
	2:45pm Peter K.: The Lady in the Radiator was played by someone named Laurel Near, although I don't know if she did her own singing. "Eraserhead" is her only movie credit.
	2:45pm coelacanth∅: ↳ StringOFperils @2:43 i refuse to play that! (well...)
	2:46pm katharsis: yes either beverages or snacks. oh dear bungee jumping children.
	2:46pm Irene Trudel: Here's a link to David Lynch's daily weather reports during the pandemic. I found them oddly comforting. youtube.com...
	🥁 2:48pm smit: ↳ Song: "Bagadaji Sirifoula" by "Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki ... Loved this from the first note!
	🥁 2:50pm smit: One can never have enough Kora!
	2:50pm Peter K.: Can we all agree that this has been one the best Irene Trudel shows of all time? I know that's a bold statement, but I stand by it.
	2:55pm doctorjazz: Thanks Irene, great show!
	🥁 2:55pm smit: Thanks, Irene...now I'm psyched!
	2:56pm Irene Trudel: Thanks for all the comments, info, praise you're given during this show. Time for me to make way for Wendy del Formaggio and Wreck Your Own Adventure. Catch you all in two weeks! wfmu.org...
	2:56pm coelacanth∅: i hear protests through my window.
	2:57pm Doug Schulkind: ↳ Peter K. @2:50 Irene, you may have missed it in your email (due to the fact that you are doing a live radio show), but David Dichelle has just lovingly agreed to fill in for you next week!
	2:57pm StringOFperils: ↳ coelacanth∅ @2:56 Get back to us when there's no window.
	2:58pm Irene Trudel: Oh, Wonderful! You all will be in good hands.
	2:59pm coelacanth∅: ↳ StringOFperils @2:57 if i jump through it does it become a door? -or is that just my perception...
	3:00pm StringOFperils: Thanks, Irene!
	3:00pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Irene! enjoy your week away
	3:09pm Irene Trudel: ↳ Peter K. @2:50 Peter, my biggest fan! ❤️

Irene Trudel: Playlist from January 20, 2025

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