Favoriting Strength Through Failure with Fabio: Playlist from July 3, 2025 Favoriting

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The Failure of Noise
The Failure of Sound
The Failure of Rock
The Failure of the Avant Garde
The Failure of the Space Age
The Failure of Jazz
The Failure of Psychedelia
The Failure of Krautrock
The Failure of Electronic
The Failure of Pop
The Failure of Free-form
The Failure of the 21st Century

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Favoriting July 3, 2025

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James Last  Mr. Giant Man   Favoriting Voodoo Party    0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Pharoah Sanders  Upper Egypt & Lower Egypt   Favoriting Tauhid    0:11:18 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Rufus Harley  Gods and Goddesses   Favoriting Re-Creation Of The Gods    0:20:01 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Noah Howard  Domiabra   Favoriting Black Ark    0:21:05 (MP3 | Pop-up)
J.O. Mallander  Blues-a-version   Favoriting More Time - Hits & Variations 1968-1970    0:31:05 (MP3 | Pop-up)
N.A.D.M.A.  Energia   Favoriting Uno Zingaro di Atlante Con Un Fiore a New York    0:38:44 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Spontaneous Music Orchestra  Sustained Piece (instrumental)   Favoriting Search & Reflect    0:45:52 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Spontaneous Music Orchestra  Sustained Piece (Vocal)   Favoriting Search & Reflect    0:46:20 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Luigi Nono  Guai ai Gelidi Mostri, pt. 4 (Entwicklungsfremdheit)   Favoriting Luigi Nono 3    1:00:04 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Third Ear Band  Area Three   Favoriting Alchemy    1:06:57 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes  Ame Debout   Favoriting Ame Debout    1:19:54 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Holgar Czukay (w/ Rolf Dammers)  Boat-Woman-Song (edit)   Favoriting Canaxis 5    1:27:27 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Birchville Cat Motel  55,000 Flowers for the Hero   Favoriting Our Love will Destroy the World    1:59:22 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Total  Tapestry   Favoriting Eternity's Beautiful Frontispiece    2:08:30 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Anthony Reynolds  New York Ozone Memory   Favoriting A world of Colin Wilson    2:12:59 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Sewer Election  Utsattning   Favoriting Five Years of Failure (V/A)    2:17:59 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Hair & Treasure  Amateur Depravity   Favoriting Disc Rot    2:20:50 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Flower-Corsano Duo  The Main Ingredient   Favoriting The Four Aims    2:29:59 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Gordon Monahan  Piano Drilling   Favoriting This Piano Thing    2:39:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Paul Panhuysen and the Kanary Grand Band  KGB and the Automatic Ukulele Orchestra   Favoriting Singing the World into Existence    2:51:07 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Anne Gillis  Untitled   Favoriting Archives Box 1983-2005 (5-CD set)  Rementact album, 1989  2:56:02 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Zombies  Beechwood Park   Favoriting Odyssey & Oracle    2:57:46 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
captain beef fart:

It's almost the 4th. Let's hear some Springsteen please.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
Handy Haversack:

Fabio! Failsafes!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
Summer and Michael and Sylvia:

Is the website rendering oddly, like an old version, for anyone else? We've tried multiple browsers.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
bleubombersune:

Fabio and all pseudo failures good afternoon
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

No kings, only Mr. Giant Man!
Avatar 3:05pm
TDK60:

Hello radio presenter studio deejay and all around freeform sound flinger, Fabs.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:06pm
Bas NL:

Hello Fabio! Hi all!
  3:06pm
lazy pierogi:

The Failure of Website Backups
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ Summer and Michael and Sylvia @3:05
Something about tariffs, I'm guessing.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
joe mulligan:

↳ lazy pierogi @3:06
truth. I'm loving this Claude Lombard tho
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:08pm
chresti:

Hi Fabio and strong ones!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:08pm
joe mulligan:

↳ captain beef fart @3:04
only if it's frankie teardrop
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:10pm
listener james from westwood:

Afternoon, Fabio and all!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:10pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Summer and Michael and Sylvia @3:05
Ongoing issue all day. Work is being done.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:10pm
listener james from westwood:

↳ Summer and Michael and Sylvia @3:05
The modern homepage is having issues; they put an older version up while the fixes are being done.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:10pm
WoodsOfMaine:

↳ Song: "Upper Egypt & Lower Egypt" by "Pharoah Sanders"
Pharoah's screaming sax is a good simulation of my internal state at the moment.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:11pm
pot8o:

↳ Handy Haversack @3:10
i was having issues starting around 9:45pm last night (est)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:12pm
common:

fabio! everyone!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:12pm
Krull Sagan:

when at first we don't succeed, we fail and fail again!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
Summer and Michael and Sylvia:

↳ Handy Haversack @3:10
Ah ha. Thanks.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
Summer and Michael and Sylvia:

↳ listener james from westwood @3:10
Thanks, James!
Avatar 3:13pm
J in LA:

feets dont fail me now.....the hills are alive with the sound of music!
Avatar 🎸 3:15pm
MosDefMF:

Hello Fabio and fellow failures!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:17pm
Listener Jonny in MA/RI:

↳ Song: "Upper Egypt & Lower Egypt" by "Pharoah Sanders"
GAWDDAUYUMN!!!!!!!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:18pm
2/3 of the Perrin Family:

so good to be listening!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:20pm
fred:

↳ Handy Haversack @3:10
The strength of the Kenzo home page is revealed through the failure of the new one
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:20pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Remember to put on this archive if the Jazz Police knock on the door.
  3:22pm
nick:

New York’s alright… if you like saxophones!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:24pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

#jazzamaphone
  3:24pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ Song: "Domiabra" by "Noah Howard"
Seems to be running out of steam.
  3:29pm
rx "rexy" scabin:

Good afternoon, Fabio and Everyone.
  3:31pm
rx "rexy" scabin:

Very nice.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:31pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Song: "Blues-a-version" by "J.O. Mallander"
Is this a hit or a variation?
  3:35pm
rx "rexy" scabin:

Schroedinger's Blues-A Variation
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:36pm
WoodsOfMaine:

↳ Handy Haversack @3:31
Yes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:37pm
fred:

I was wearing Fabio's ouroboros T-shirt (well, my copy of it) last week and got a couple of compliments. That rarely if ever happens with Ken's
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:37pm
listener james from westwood:

↳ fred @3:20
Kenzo builds 'em tough!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:37pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ fred @3:37
I am thinking of getting a backup for when Goblin gets to mine.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:39pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ Handy Haversack @3:31
Reports vary.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:39pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ Handy Haversack @3:37
Get it while it's hot! www.wfmu.store...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:40pm
fred:

↳ Handy Haversack @3:37
Aren't you spending enough on cat food already?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:53pm
Adi From Sheffield:

Hello.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:56pm
dale:

hey now fabs...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:57pm
joe mulligan:

↳ joe mulligan @3:07
I meant Paroah Sanders
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:57pm
Handy Haversack:

Gotta go take the dog to the park. Thanks, Fabio!
  4:00pm
Thurston Howl:

Have the feds taken over FMU homepage? Archives won't play.
  4:06pm
rx "rexy" scabin:

Time to go. Thank you.
Avatar 🎸 4:13pm
Niall rhymes with dial:

↳ Song: "Area Three" by "Third Ear Band"
I have greatly enjoyed what little I have heard by this band.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:15pm
dale:

↳ Song: "Guai ai Gelidi Mostri, pt. 4 (Entwicklungsfremdhe...
have a third ear rekkid. haven't listened to it since the 70s - erp!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:18pm
Zoe Alice Minneapolis:

↳ Song: "Guai ai Gelidi Mostri, pt. 4 (Entwicklungsfremdhe...
Entwicklungsfremdheit is a created compound word that approximates to 'development of strangeness'
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:18pm
chris in the redwoods:

wooo! here in time for Ribeiro!
hi, Fabio and folks.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:20pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ Song: "Ame Debout" by "Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes"
Speaking of Scott Williams, this may be a good one for his Wake 'n' Bake segment The Hit List.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:21pm
bleubombersune:

Merci Fabio RIP Catherine (23 Juillet 2024)
Avatar 4:22pm
Avspuk:

↳ Song: "Ame Debout" by "Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes"
This is the track that made me a wfmu addict 11 months ago.

If mark e smith was french

& a woman

& could sing really well
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:22pm
fred:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @4:20
Probably too long for the pace of that show
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:23pm
dale:

↳ Song: "Ame Debout" by "Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes"
always a wild ride, this song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:24pm
bleubombersune:

↳ bleubombersune @4:21
Aout
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:25pm
chresti:

↳ Song: "Ame Debout" by "Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes"
Magnifique
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:26pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ fred @4:22
True.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:27pm
Bas NL:

↳ Song: "Boat-Woman-Song (edit)" by "Holgar Czukay (w/ Rol...
So beautiful. I miss Czukay.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:35pm
listener james from westwood:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @4:20
I can just hear Clay after that epic track winds down: "The glisteners can take it!"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:39pm
fred:

↳ Song: "Boat-Woman-Song (edit)" by "Holgar Czukay (w/ Rol...
Another classic right there
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:49pm
dale:

i hope some republicans who were rushing to get out of washington choke on their wieners.
  4:51pm
hoohoo:

bring your pet squid to old boy
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:54pm
tom tom the pipers son:

what in bob’s name is playing now… pretty great
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:58pm
Bob Tankenstein:

↳ listener james from westwood @4:35
Lol
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:59pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "55,000 Flowers for the Hero" by "Birchville Cat M...
ah… i remember…. fabio’s played this before...
Avatar 4:59pm
J in LA:

↳ Song: "55,000 Flowers for the Hero" by "Birchville Cat M...
pretty much sums up how i feel about selling my grandchildren into slavery
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:00pm
Bob Tankenstein:

↳ Song: "55,000 Flowers for the Hero" by "Birchville Cat M...
I keep hearing Tom from Tom and Jerry screaming
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:01pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ J in LA @4:59
i hear that… and i think the analogy is apt…. but i see it the opposite way
  5:05pm
Tom in St. Paul:

Ah, more great beach music – thanks Fabio!
Avatar 5:12pm
J in LA:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:01
noted.......bought
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:17pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ J in LA @5:12
coining a new word…plantationization
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:24pm
chresti:

↳ Song: "Amateur Depravity" by "Hair & Treasure"
Professional depravity
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:26pm
dale:

pretty powerful storm line moving in here in the orange county region. hopefully we don't lose power.
Avatar 5:27pm
J in LA:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:17
this word already exist...cultivation associated with leads to displacement of local populations and the introduction of new social hierarchies based on race and class......plus deforestation
  5:29pm
jnalv:

FCD triumphantly buoying me into the long weekend. perfecto
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:30pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ J in LA @5:27
ah i should have known, but i’m thinking more in terms of “culturization"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:32pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "The Main Ingredient" by "Flower-Corsano Duo"
very nice… there’s an oren ambarchi track… tokyo knots… it resembles
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:33pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ dale @5:26
Some microburst blew through here and knocked a limb onto a neighbor's fence. Not my tree or fence, fortunately.
  5:33pm
jt:

I love the wild raga guitar stuff so much
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:33pm
fred:

↳ Song: "The Main Ingredient" by "Flower-Corsano Duo"
Must be an older record, though Corsano retains his virtuosity, he has more range now (still instantly identifiable when he lets loose, which usually eventually happens)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:35pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ fred @5:33
nice heads up, fred… on corsano.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:36pm
dale:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @5:33
it was a lot of wind and pouring rain and some small hail for about ten minutes, and thankfully is already dying down. temp dropped about 15 degrees too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:37pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ fred @5:33
did you see david grubbs the other night? saw his instagram…pic from paris
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:39pm
fred:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:35
The only time I saw him go quiet was his first tour with Joe McPhee. So much so that McPhee (a great leader) pulled up a chair and stopped playing, looking at him. That fixed it; no such issue the next time I saw them together
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:40pm
listener james from westwood:

Dark up here in NE NJ. Very little rain but there's a town fire siren going off. Maybe a tree got downed on something vulnerable.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:40pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ fred @5:39
yes …this is a great story…i remember.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:40pm
chresti:

↳ Song: "Piano Drilling" by "Gordon Monahan"
Sunshine piano?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:41pm
dale:

this sounds like it's the beginning of an elo song. mister blue? should do a mashup fabs.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:43pm
fred:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:37
I didn't, for logistical reasons that make it impossible for me to get there in time (early show, 6pm on Sunday)
I wish I did, because it was the last show at my fave venue (in Montreuil) before the summer break (plus I have so many dance shows lined up in the fall I don't know when I'll go back)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:44pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ chresti @5:40
are you saying it sounds like fausts “sunshine girl”…cause i hear that...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:45pm
chresti:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:44
Xactly! Love it
  5:45pm
Listener Bryan (the Professor):

Thanks Fabio. This was exactly the show I needed today.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:46pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ fred @5:43
oh… the venue was mentioned in the instagram post
  5:47pm
Listener Bryan (the Professor):

@TTPS - Yes! I hear the Faust for sure. And a bit of Stravisky’s Rite!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:48pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @5:47
esp rite now..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:48pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:48
stravinsky
Avatar 🎸 5:50pm
MosDefMF:

↳ Song: "Piano Drilling" by "Gordon Monahan"
Drilling and Thrilling today, Fabio! Much appreciated.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:50pm
tom tom the pipers son:

chresti heard it first...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:51pm
fred:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:46
Instants Chavirés. Usually, if there's a show and I'm not there, it's because I'm somewhere else

Also, about Stravinsky, maybe more like The Wedding than Rites, the former has more of that percussive piano
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:52pm
chresti:

↳ Song: "KGB and the Automatic Ukulele Orchestra" by "Paul...
Love this too, reminds me of a railway crossing
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:53pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ fred @5:51
ah… wedding.. not familiar… i don’t think…. but rites has a marchiness to it in sections, right?
  5:54pm
Quizmo:

Damn! WMFU signal down. Almost made it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:55pm
tom tom the pipers son:

thanks fabio!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:56pm
dale:

great stuff fabio. thanks!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:56pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks for noting us today, Fabio!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:57pm
chresti:

Thanks Fabio!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:57pm
dale:

mt hope transmitter sounds like heavy hiss and static. unless that's the music.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:57pm
dale:

nope, it's the transmitter.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:58pm
coelacanth∅))):

Thank you Fabio!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:58pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ dale @5:57
ordinarily … this would be a logical safe bet
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:58pm
gauche knee:

Thanks for all the sounds, Fabio!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:59pm
Bas NL:

Thanks Fabio!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:59pm
bleubombersune:

Fabio Thanks All pseudo failures stray safe and be well 4 2morrow Keep your furry friends safe
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 6:00pm
dale:

oh - was listening to wkcr bleeding over. 90.1 is down.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:01pm
-жеи:

↳ dale @5:57
Yes, we just had a thunderstorm that knocked out power to both the 90.1 transmitter as well as the 91.9 transmitter in Rockland County. Sorry all
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