Favoriting Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman: Playlist from March 29, 2025 Favoriting

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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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Favoriting March 29, 2025

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
 
Johnny Mandel And His Orchestra  Main Title   Favoriting Johnny Mandel's Great Jazz Score I Want To Live!  United Artists  1958    0:01:51 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Dennis Egberth  Bogey   Favoriting The Dennis Egberth Dynasty  577  2025  https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/the-dennis-egberth-dynasty  0:03:12 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Reem Kamal  Baed Al Yas Yjini بعد اليأس يجيني (After Hopelessness, He Comes to Me)   Favoriting Born in the City of Tanta - Lower Egyptian Urban Folklore and Bedouin Shaabi from Libya's Bourini Records 1968-75  Sublime Frequencies  2025  https://sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/album/born-in-the-city-of-tanta-lower-egyptian-urban-folklore-and-bedouin-shaabi-from-libyas-bourini-records-1968-75  0:08:29 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Cosmic Ear  Father and Son   Favoriting TRACES  We Jazz  2025  https://wejazzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/traces  0:12:42 (MP3 | Pop-up)
John Coltrane  Equinox [OoD SAX SOLO EDIT]   Favoriting Coltrane's Sound  Atlantic  1964    0:19:18 (MP3 | Pop-up)
David Murray Quartet  Birdly Serenade (feat. Ekep Nkwelle)   Favoriting Birdly Serenade  Impulse!  2025  https://store.ververecords.com/collections/david-murray-quartet/products/david-murray-quartet-birdly-serenade-2lp  0:23:54 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
彼得·布勒茨曼三重奏 Peter Brötzmann Trio  飓风三号 Hurricane NO.3   Favoriting 飓风 Hurricane  Old Heaven Books  2025  https://oldheavenbooks.bandcamp.com/album/hurricane  0:34:48 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Paal Nilssen-Love Circus with The Ex Guitars  Calls: Let They be Free!   Favoriting Turn Thy Loose  PNL  2025  https://pnlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/paal-nilssen-love-circus-with-the-ex-guitars-turn-thy-loose  0:42:25 (MP3 | Pop-up)
El León Pardo  Cumbia Espacial Feat N.Hardem   Favoriting Viaje Sideral  AYA  2025  https://ayarecords.bandcamp.com/album/viaje-sideral  0:50:42 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas  Clock no Clock   Favoriting Totality  Drag City  2025  https://naturalinformationsocietyandbitchinbajas.bandcamp.com/album/totality  0:54:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Chris Cochrane / Collapsible Shoulder Big Band  Ideal Situation   Favoriting Live 2019 : A Map Of Books  Cuneiform  2025  https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-2019-a-map-of-books  1:05:39 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Drick  Sinjake Panambola ("Dance of the rich")   Favoriting Tsapiky! Modern Music From Southwest Madagascar  Sublime Frequencies  2025  https://sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/album/tsapiky-modern-music-from-southwest-madagascar  1:10:04 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Heliocentrics  The Opener   Favoriting Live From Berlin @ Gaswerk Music Days, 14.07.2024  N/A  2024    1:16:26 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Daniel O'Sullivan  Lyre Lyre   Favoriting Eros  Be With  2025  https://www.bewithrecords.com/products/daniel-o-sullivan-eros-lp  1:23:54 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Gerry Mulligan  Theme From "I Want To Live!"   Favoriting Live & Rare Sessions  Master Classics  2011    1:25:21 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Ingrid Laubrock  Koan 3 (Sara Serpa & Matt Mitchell)   Favoriting Purposing The Air  Pyroclastic  2025  https://ingrid-laubrock.bandcamp.com/album/purposing-the-air  1:35:26 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Johnny Mandel And His Orchestra  Stakeout   Favoriting Johnny Mandel's Great Jazz Score I Want To Live!  United Artists  1958    1:38:07 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Snakeoil  Incidentals contact   Favoriting SNAKEOIL OK  Screwgun  2025  https://screwgunrecords.bandcamp.com/album/snakeoil-ok  1:41:20 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Mike Guagenti  Salsa Con Charanga   Favoriting Salsa Con Charanga  VampiSoul  2025  https://vampisoul.bandcamp.com/album/salsa-con-charanga  1:54:09 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Meiko Kaji  Hagure Bushi   Favoriting Yadokari + Shura no Hana 7" Single  WeWantSounds  2025  https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/meiko-kaji-yadokari-deluxe-gatefold-lp-with-2p-insert-and-obi-bonus-7-single-ep-shura-no-hana-black-vinyl  1:58:24 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Raúl Monsalve y los Forajidos  Machete No Hace Piquito   Favoriting SOL  Olindo  2025  https://monsalveylosforajidos.bandcamp.com/album/sol  2:05:09 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Unionen  6983   Favoriting Live at Filmhaus Köln, Jazzweek 2024  N/A  2024    2:11:54 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Volada 5  Oh Condor   Favoriting Cumbia Cumbia Cumbia Vol. 3  VampiSoul  2025  https://vampisoul.bandcamp.com/album/cumbia-cumbia-cumbia-vol-3  2:19:55 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Jonathan Bäckström Quartet  Street Dog   Favoriting Jonathan Bäckström Quartet  We Jazz  2024    2:23:32 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Gerry Mulligan  Theme From "I Want To Live!"   Favoriting The Jazz Combo From "I Want To Live!"  United Artists  1958    2:32:27 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra Led by Horace Tapscott  Equinox   Favoriting Live at Widney High December 26th, 1971  The Village  2025  https://panafrikanpeoplesarkestra.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-widney-high-december-26th-1971  2:39:25 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 


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Avatar 6:50pm
Observations:

Going live in just 10 minutes!
Avatar 7:00pm
Observations:

now live!
Avatar 7:09pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "Baed Al Yas Yjini بعد اليأس يجيني (After Hopeless...
Compiled by Hisham Mayet and Gary Sullivan of WFMU's BODEGA POP
Avatar 7:13pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "Father and Son" by "Cosmic Ear"
Christer Bothén; donso n’goni, bass clarinet, contra bass clarinet, piano

Mats Gustafsson; tenor sax, flute, slide flute, Ab clarinet, live electronics, organ, harmonica

Goran Kajfeš; trumpet, pocket trumpet, synth, electronics, percussion

Juan Romero; congas, berimbau and percussion

Kansan Zetterberg; bass, donso n’goni
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Father and Son" by "Cosmic Ear"
This is cool!
Hi David!
Avatar 7:17pm
Observations:

Greetings everyone 🙏✌️😎
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:22pm
wimpy:

Diggin the vibes so far
  7:24pm
Dave in Vermont on the phone:

What does OoD mean?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:24pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Equinox [OoD SAX SOLO EDIT]" by "John Coltrane"
👍 👍👍
Avatar 7:25pm
Observations:

↳ Dave in Vermont on the phone @7:24
short for Observations of Deviance
  7:25pm
Dave in Vermont on the phone:

Observations of Deviance?
You tweaked the mix?
Avatar 7:25pm
Observations:

↳ Dave in Vermont on the phone @7:25
yup, I made it
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Birdly Serenade (feat. Ekep Nkwelle)" by "David M...
Saw David Murray not too long ago at the Village Vanguard (no vocalist), still has the punch and energy he had back in the 80s/90s!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Equinox [OoD SAX SOLO EDIT]" by "John Coltrane"
What some call "Beatles Stereo", much pop and jazz was recorded with unnatural separation (the classical engineers had a better idea of recording to get a sound like music being played in a real space).
Avatar 7:35pm
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↳ Song: "飓风三号 Hurricane NO.3" by "彼得·布勒茨曼三重奏 Peter Brötzma...
Peter Brötzmann - 中音萨克斯 Alto Saxophone / 次中音萨克斯 Tenor Saxophone / 降 B 调单簧管 Bb-Clarinet / Tárogató 丰住芳三郎

Sabu Toyozumi - 鼓 Drums

Jason Adasiewicz - 颤音琴 Vibraphone
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
WR:

Good evening David and observers.
Avatar 7:59pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "Clock no Clock" by "Natural Information Society &...
except when I do my show, I almost never listen to music w/ headphones, but this track sounds amazing on headphones
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Ideal Situation" by "Chris Cochrane / Collapsible...
a bit frustrating, the album has long list of musicians but I don't see it saying who plays on each track
Avatar 8:26pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "Main Title" by "Johnny Mandel And His Orchestra"
archive.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
wimpy:

↳ Song: "Theme From "I Want To Live!"" by "Gerry Mulligan"
Always fun to hear the originals of songs i only know from naked city
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:29pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Theme From "I Want To Live!"" by "Gerry Mulligan"
Pretty late Mulligan, nice track!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
doctorjazz:

↳ doctorjazz @8:29
Actually, date must be for a collection of older tracks, silly me...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Theme From "I Want To Live!"" by "Gerry Mulligan"
Really like Mulligan...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:36pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Theme From "I Want To Live!"" by "Gerry Mulligan"
Google doesn't shed much light on this track.
Avatar 8:38pm
northguineahills:

david! observationists!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
doctorjazz:

↳ Song: "Koan 3 (Sara Serpa & Matt Mitchell)" by "Ingrid L...
Seen Laubrock not too long ago with Nels Cline's Consentric Quartet (they have some gigs coming up in the near future in the NY area)
Avatar 8:39pm
northguineahills:

my sportsball team just won. so, i can talk to my frattty biological bros....
Avatar 8:40pm
northguineahills:

↳ northguineahills @8:39
(they get rather sullen if their sportsball team loses)
Avatar 8:41pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "Incidentals contact" by "Snakeoil"
Tim Berne Alto,Composer
Oscar Noriega Clarinets
Ches Smith All Percussion
Matt Mitchell Piano

Mastered by David Torn
Recorded live in 2013 by people of interest
Avatar 8:45pm
northguineahills:

↳ Observations @8:41
seen tim berne (mostly bloocouny) multiple times, ches smith once...
Avatar 8:46pm
northguineahills:

↳ northguineahills @8:45
errrr. bloodcount...
Avatar 8:50pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "Incidentals contact" by "Snakeoil"
I saw this band play in Phoenix circa 2015 and it was great. Tim signed a couple of my vinyl LPs. Oscar Noriega is originally from right here in Tucson.
Avatar 9:12pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "6983" by "Unionen"
Per "Texas" Johansson; tenor saxophone

Ståle Storløkken; grand piano, fender rhodes & synths

Petter Eldh; double bass, electric bass & mpc

Gard Nilssen; drums & percussion
Avatar 9:24pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "Street Dog" by "Jonathan Bäckström Quartet"
Adele Sauros, tenor saxophone
Marcus Wärnheim, alto saxophone & various flutes
Jonathan Bäckström, double bass
Benjamin Nylund, drums

based in Helsinki with members from Finland and Sweden
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:28pm
A Bump in Burbank:

Wow! The star of this show is Nylund on the drums. Excellent!
Avatar 9:33pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "Theme From "I Want To Live!"" by "Gerry Mulligan"
Gerry Mulligan - baritone saxophone
Art Farmer - trumpet
Frank Rosolino - trombone
Bud Shank - alto saxophone, flute
Pete Jolly - piano
Red Mitchell - bass
Shelly Manne - drums
Avatar 9:40pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "Equinox" by "Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra Led by ...
Al Collins - Tenor Sax
Lawrence Douglas (Butch) Morris - Trumpet
Walter Graham - Trumpet
Lorenzo Gardman - Trombone
Lester Robertson - Trombone
Richard Herrera - Bass
David Bryant - Bass
Ernest Cojoe - Congas
Everett Brown Jr - Drums
Kamau Daáood - Word Musician
Linda Hill - Vocals
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:41pm
wimpy:

↳ Song: "Equinox" by "Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra Led by ...
Been meaning to listen to these guys for months after seeing dean make a comment about them, I think on this show. Hard to go wrong with a group with a name like this
Avatar 9:51pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "Equinox" by "Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra Led by ...
the bass solo has been trimmed a bit for time
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:00pm
wimpy:

Thanks David!
Avatar 10:03pm
Observations:

Thanks everyone!
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