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This is where all of culture and all of time are collapsed into one seductive portal and viewed through the panoramic lens of the exotic. Come and embark on an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of timeless darkness and beyond; embrace the numinous monolith of the exotic immensity. Let us find that place where hybridization meets its destiny as pure fantasy. Let us become observers observing those others who are ourselves. You wear your mask and I'll wear mine.

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Favoriting September 15, 2016: Black Land of the Nile: Egypt in Jazz

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Artist Track Album Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro          
Lonnie Liston Smith & the Cosmic Echoes  Sais (Egypt)   Favoriting Cosmic Funk  1974  wr. Mtume  0:00:47 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra and His Blue Universe Arkestra  Blackman   Favoriting Universe in Blue  1972    0:08:35 (Pop-up)
MaseQua Myers and Jami Ayinde  Black Land of the Nile   Favoriting Black Fairy  1975  elsewhere credited as "LaMonte Zeno Theater"–this mix taken from Spiritual Jazz 6: Vocals  0:16:19 (Pop-up)
Kelan Phil Cohran and Legacy  White Nile   Favoriting African Skies  1993  rec. at Adler Planetarium in Chicago  0:19:04 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The Pyramids 
Queen of the Spirits / Black Man of the Nite   Favoriting
 
 
 
0:29:05 (Pop-up)
Salah Ragab & the Cairo Jazz Band  Egyptian March   Favoriting Egyptian Jazz  1968-73    0:38:19 (Pop-up)
Sidney Bechet  Egyptian Fantasy   Favoriting Rumba Jazz: A History of Latin Jazz and Dance Music 1919-1945  1941    0:41:07 (Pop-up)
Duke Ellington  Pyramid   Favoriting Masterpieces 1926-1949 ("Ko-Ko")  1938    0:44:03 (Pop-up)
The Sun Ra Arkestra  Tiny Pyramids   Favoriting Angels and Demons at Play  1967  rec. 1960  0:47:00 (Pop-up)
Michael White  The Tenth Pyramid   Favoriting Spirit Dance  1972    0:50:30 (Pop-up)
Mtume  Sais   Favoriting Rebirth Cycle  1977    0:53:12 (Pop-up)
Unknown  Egyptian Moon   Favoriting The Music of Cleopatra on the Nile  1962    1:15:41 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
 
The Music of Cleopatra on the Nile 
 
 
1:19:15 (Pop-up)
Salah Ragab & the Cairo Jazz Band  Kleopatra   Favoriting Egyptian Jazz  1968-73    1:28:55 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra  The Nile   Favoriting When Sun Comes Out  1963    1:32:06 (Pop-up)
Alice Coltrane Featuring Pharoah Sanders and Joe Henderson  Blue Nile   Favoriting Ptah, The El Daoud  1970    1:36:42 (Pop-up)
Kelan Phil Cohran and Legacy  Blue Nile   Favoriting African Skies  1993    1:44:47 (Pop-up)
Eddie Harris  The River Nile   Favoriting For Bird and Bags  1964    1:54:38 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra Arkestra  Sunset On The Night On The River Nile   Favoriting Mayan Temples  1990  rec. live in MIlan  1:59:36 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Sun Ra and His Astro-Galactic-Infinity Arkestra 
Nidhamu   Favoriting
Nidhamu (Live in Egypt Vol. II) 
1972 
 
2:02:55 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra and His Astro-Galactic-Infinity Arkestra  Discipline No. 15   Favoriting Nidhamu (Live in Egypt Vol. II)  1972  Recorded at Ballon Theater, Cairo, Egypt December 17, 1971  2:08:46 (Pop-up)
Alice Coltrane Featuring Pharoah Sanders  Isis and Osiris   Favoriting Journey in Satchidananda  1971    2:11:21 (Pop-up)
Pharoah Sanders  Upper Egypt & Lower Egypt   Favoriting Tauhid  1967    2:21:40 (Pop-up)
Salah Ragab & the Cairo Jazz Band  The Kings Valley – Upper Egypt   Favoriting Egyptian Jazz  1968-73    2:37:57 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Oum Kalthoum 
 
 
 
 
2:43:28 (Pop-up)
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers  The Egyptian   Favoriting Indestructible  1966    2:49:01 (Pop-up)
  Wind         2:58:00 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 6:43pm
Flash Strap:

Get your barges ready, we're headed for the Nile
  6:57pm
Ed:

I'm ready Flash! Good evening
Avatar 6:58pm
Flash Strap:

Evening, Ed!
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ndbob:

evening Evan, Ed, everyone!
Avatar 6:59pm
Flash Strap:

Bob!
Avatar 7:04pm
Flash Strap:

echoes on this track are outstanding
Avatar 7:05pm
Flash Strap:

Can this track really have been composed by the same guy who wrote "Juicyfruit"?
Avatar 7:07pm
hyde:

explorers!
Avatar 7:07pm
Flash Strap:

Explorer Hyde! Warm welcome!
Avatar 7:09pm
ndbob:

Hello Hyde!
Avatar 7:11pm
hyde:

this musical theme seems appropriate to me, as this week i discovered that there was an (undoubtedly true) internet conspiracy theory that President Obama is a clone of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten!

(hiya, ndbob!)
Avatar 7:13pm
hyde:

in fact, i am now starting to suspect that this radio show may also be involved in this conspiracy
Avatar 7:13pm
Flash Strap:

Well if that don't beat all! There's a conspiracy theory I can see Sun Ra getting down with, albeit from a totally opposite perspective
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
Little Danny:

Hi all! So stoked to be listening from the very start this week
Avatar 7:14pm
geezerette:

Evening Evan!
Ed!
ndbob!
melinda!
hyde!
I've packed Deet & mint tea! Just don't make cocktails from them.
Avatar 7:14pm
Flash Strap:

Obama would look really really smooth in a Afro-futurist Egyptomaniacal headdress and matching robe. The president i voted for but didn't get
Avatar 7:15pm
geezerette:

Hi Danny!
Avatar 7:15pm
Flash Strap:

Danny and Geezerette! Hello and welcome friends, explorers, comrades
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
Little Danny:

I am already in love with this show concept
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
Little Danny:

Hey Geez!
Avatar 7:16pm
hyde:

@Flash if you image search "obama is akhenaten" you'll see just what you're missing!
Avatar 7:17pm
hyde:

@geezerette rats. there goes my twist on the manhattan using diethyltoluamide instead of vermouth
Avatar 7:18pm
Flash Strap:

hahaha that is a fun google search
Avatar 7:20pm
Flash Strap:

this here is one of my very favorite recordings, ever, ever
Avatar 7:21pm
hyde:

you say that about all the recordings
Avatar 7:21pm
geezerette:

Sorry hyde.. :)

Tonight we are all brand Nubians!
Avatar 7:21pm
hyde:

(which is not to say it isn't amazing! i don't know this Cohran at all)
Avatar 7:22pm
Flash Strap:

this recording is special i swear
Avatar 7:22pm
Flash Strap:

i never meant it with all those other recordings
Avatar 7:23pm
Flash Strap:

seriously this was recorded live in 1993 at the chicago planetarium in memoriam for Sun Ra, who had just died, and it is probably my favorite Cohran album
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
Little Danny:

Oh yes, African Skies is special. *All* of Cohran's recordings over the decades hold up
Avatar 7:27pm
hyde:

the harp part is fantastic
Avatar 7:29pm
geezerette:

"New" artist to me too and this is beautiful.
Avatar 7:37pm
hyde:

from the For Future Reference Dept: cool video of Josèfe Marie Verna, the harpist on that Cohran track doing a solo version of what sounds on a brief listen to me like what she is playing on White Nile, though here it's called "Variations Pastorales sur un Vieu Noël (Thème Improvisations)" www.youtube.com...
Avatar 7:39pm
Flash Strap:

i will check that out Hyde, sounds amazing
Avatar 7:40pm
Flash Strap:

I should have mentioned that Ragab is the drummer, and also that these recordings were done in Heliopolis
Avatar 7:42pm
hyde:

there was always little doubt there would be at least some Salah Raghab tonite! love that guy's records.
Avatar 7:43pm
Flash Strap:

he's so damn good it's crazy
Avatar 7:45pm
geezerette:

Whoa, klezmer finish by Bechet!
Avatar 7:46pm
Flash Strap:

I know, with a real New Orleans twist! What an exotic cocktail
Avatar 7:46pm
Flash Strap:

this is really one of Ellington's more wonderful, strange earlier recordings
Avatar 7:48pm
geezerette:

Cross pollination is a great thing.
Avatar 7:49pm
geezerette:

Imaginations want / need to travel!
Avatar 7:57pm
Flash Strap:

This one is pretty different from LL Smith's take... certainly less succinct.
Avatar 7:57pm
ndbob:

excellent first hour Evan - bye for now everyone!
Avatar 7:58pm
Flash Strap:

Bye Bob, thanks for being with us
Avatar 8:00pm
hyde:

if anyone is interested in that Michael White "Spirit Dance" LP, there's a live link in 320 or flac here (alsp has his Pneuma Lp). password is vibes. flabbergasted-vibes.org...
Avatar 8:01pm
geezerette:

bye ndbob!
Avatar 8:01pm
Flash Strap:

I've had this around for a little while, not too long really, and to be honest this is the first time I've given it a real listen. So we're in this thing together, explorers.
Avatar 8:01pm
hyde:

g'night, ndb!
Avatar 8:02pm
Flash Strap:

VERY wise tip from Hyde. Flabbergasted Vibes is 100% gold, btw
Avatar 8:06pm
Flash Strap:

holy moly this is wild
Avatar 8:07pm
geezerette:

Hyde and Evan, thanks for tips!
Avatar 8:08pm
Flash Strap:

speaking of tips, here's this one: surfingtheodyssey.blogspot.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
coelacanth:

greetings Evan and Explorers
Avatar 8:14pm
Flash Strap:

Hi C! Great to have you with us
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
Little Danny:

Hey Coel!
And thx for that link, flash
Avatar 8:15pm
hyde:

yay, it's coelacanth!
Avatar 8:16pm
geezerette:

Howdy coel!
Avatar 8:16pm
Flash Strap:

My pleasure, LD
Avatar 8:19pm
geezerette:

Klezmer Bellydancing Dervishes! Wild party.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
coelacanth:

howdy all! i feel like i just got home!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
Little Danny:

YES! Les Baxter is on that continuum
Avatar 8:25pm
geezerette:

coel, are you all moved in?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
coelacanth:

g...well, i'm all moved out!
Avatar 8:29pm
hyde:

going back a bit, but holy crap. the musicians on that Mtume LP! whoa.
Avatar 8:31pm
Flash Strap:

I know, what a lineup!
Avatar 8:34pm
Flash Strap:

what continuum was that LD? I'm blanking on what I may have said. Musicians with which Ra felt a great affinity?
Avatar 8:37pm
geezerette:

coel, halfway there then! :)
Avatar 8:37pm
geezerette:

I love this album!
Avatar 8:39pm
Flash Strap:

ME TOO, G! Alice is second to none in my book

this whole set is very Nile themed
Avatar 8:42pm
hyde:

i think that Alice Coltrane really does not get nearly enough credit for the late 60's/early 70's run of Huntington Ashram Monastery /Ptah, the El Daoud/Journey in Satchidananda /Universal Consciousness LP's on Impulse. that is a serious 4 LP stretch of greatness.
Avatar 8:44pm
Flash Strap:

Journey in Satchidananda is a top ten LP for me.

And that run of greatness hardly ends there! although it does shift gears a bit
Avatar 8:44pm
Flash Strap:

I totally agree, is my point, Hyde
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
Little Danny:

@flash: oh shit, I think I might have been mistaking your Duke Ellington comparison to Les Baxter rather than Sun Ra.
Avatar 8:50pm
hyde:

heh. and i agree the Alice Coltrane greatness doesn't end there! but to me, those particular 4 albums in a run is like a contemporaneous jazz/world music version of the Beggar's Banquet-Let It Bleed-Sticky Fingers-Exile on Main Street Stones run. I just wish she got as much recognition for it.
Avatar 8:52pm
Flash Strap:

I wonder if I misspoke! I am a little out of it... Anyway, Ra loved Les, Les loved Duke, and Duke's exoticism was VERY comparable to the aims of Afrocentrism, in that it sought to forge new kinds of black identity... so there's a very tempting subject, triangulating those three
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:53pm
coelacanth:

g@8:37 -Thanks for asking. the fact is, i'm all moved in; but i'm suspending unpacking and getting internet service... if the landlord hasn't bought 5 storm windows by october, i'm moving again!
(which is a little worse than any nightmares i'm likely to have)
Avatar 8:54pm
Flash Strap:

I stand with you on that Hyde. It really is a stunning run, and she's still (tho improvements have been made of late) mostly discussed in terms relative to her husband or her collaborators
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
coelacanth:

that track was sublime
Avatar 8:56pm
Flash Strap:

That sounds like Hassle City, Coelacanth! Hope it settles right for you
Avatar 8:58pm
Flash Strap:

Glad I could work some Eddie Harris into this one
Avatar 8:59pm
geezerette:

Evan & Hyde,yes,I love Journey in Satchidananda too. I listened to Alice Coltrane a lot at one point.
The Coltranes were deeply spiritual, it's all in the music. I feel so at peace and energized when I play those records.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
coelacanth:

Thanks Flash. i really like this new apartment, but it's more drafty than a tent. it'll end up costing 3-4 hundred dollars/mo for heat the way it is.
-i'm a damn fool for not realizing this right away.
Avatar 9:02pm
northguineahills:

imagined geographies, the Nile in Meso-America....
Avatar 9:02pm
geezerette:

Gorgeous set. :)
Avatar 9:10pm
geezerette:

coel, definitely storm windows! Maybe you should get a space heater
for yourself,even a small one. Makes total sense not to unpack.
Avatar 9:12pm
Flash Strap:

That sucks, C. I feel your pain

NGH, welcome brother

Thanks, G!
Avatar 9:17pm
Flash Strap:

Charlie Haden on bass, so good
Avatar 9:18pm
geezerette:

& Love for Pharoah Sanders, Yusef Lateef...on and on.
Avatar 9:18pm
Flash Strap:

Vishnu Wood, of Randy Weston's projects, on Oud, so good
Avatar 9:19pm
Flash Strap:

More Pharoah comin' up, Geezerette! Somehow, no Yusef or Don Cherry tonight
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:19pm
coelacanth:

g - i don't relay this to be bellyaching, but because i think it's kind of funny...in my bedroom there was a window open that i assumed had a screen down and a few nights ago when it got cooler i went to put the window down and noticed there is no screen. it's one of the ones that does have a storm, and it was down!
- it leaks that much that i thought it was open!
...but that i don't mind fixing myself. it just needs some putty & maybe glue.
Avatar 9:22pm
hyde:

@c oof. good to get on that before winter!
Avatar 9:24pm
Hams:

pharoah & i share the same birthday. i got to see him a few years ago at the bluenote. yes.
Avatar 9:24pm
geezerette:

coel, what hyde said!
It is funny story though, kind of Buster Keatonish. :D
Avatar 9:25pm
Flash Strap:

Sonny Sharrock on guitar! OOOOOOOOH MY GOOOOOOOD
Avatar 9:25pm
Flash Strap:

Damn Hams. Damn
Avatar 9:25pm
Hams:

sharrock! was just thinking that! holy cow.
Avatar 9:26pm
Flash Strap:

also, hello Hams
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:27pm
coelacanth:

ha! i could use a Buster Keaton movie about now!
Avatar 9:27pm
Hams:

hellos! just tuning in.
Avatar 9:30pm
Flash Strap:

Roger Blank, on drums here, is an Arkestra member! SUN RA IS ALL AND EVERYWHERE
Avatar 9:30pm
hyde:

@c there was some good keaton on tcm last week i have One Week on the DVR to watch. (hello to geezerette, silent film fan)
Avatar 9:33pm
Flash Strap:

Post-silent (just), but I watched a Garbo Speaks! picture the other day. Mata Hari. It was ok, not amazing. I expected to like it more
Avatar 9:34pm
Flash Strap:

I almost didn't play this tonight, as I've heard it a million times and sort of thought you all would have too, but I am now remembering just how incredible it is
Avatar 9:34pm
northguineahills:

I was just going through a history of philosophy podcasts, and finally got to the Islamist traditions, where Tauhid in a philosophical context was discussed, and I automatically had the Pharoah album playing in my head (didn't even have to turn on any music!) I love this album!
Avatar 9:34pm
hyde:

@Flash hmm, never have seen that one...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:38pm
coelacanth:

(taking notes!) -i'm not sure i even know a Buster Keaton movie by name, or have seen one in its entirety...but i know some scenes and the basic vibe, i think.

and yes, Flash, but incredible enough for many listenings!
Avatar 9:38pm
hyde:

Tauhid by Pharoah Sanders is great, tho i admit the record of his that i am most wedded to is Karma. that's the one i found when i was in high school.
Avatar 9:39pm
Flash Strap:

Karma is amazing as well
Avatar 9:40pm
Flash Strap:

GOD that transition is fiercely regal!
Avatar 9:42pm
Flash Strap:

this track is out of control
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:43pm
coelacanth:

this PROGRAM is out of control, sir!
Avatar 9:49pm
Flash Strap:

this LP has one of my favorite Blue Note covers ever: img.discogs.com...
Avatar 9:49pm
geezerette:

(hiya hyde)
Evan, see Flesh and the Devil, A Woman of Affairs, Queen Christina, and then Ninotchka. Garbo and John Gilbert first three, Melvyn Douglas the last one. Those films are magic.

Fabulous show Evan!!!
Avatar 9:50pm
northguineahills:

If I don't get back to the comments board, thanks Flash, and have a great night everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:50pm
coelacanth:

that cover's pretty badass.
Avatar 9:50pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks for the tip, G. I'd love to get a better sense for the much-rhapsodized glory of Garbo
Avatar 9:50pm
geezerette:

Love that album cover!
Avatar 9:51pm
Flash Strap:

SO badass, but then, so is Art Blakey

You have a great night too NGH
Avatar 9:52pm
Flash Strap:

IN THE NEXT VERY EXOTIC ROOM: wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
coelacanth:

'night ngh
Avatar 9:54pm
hyde:

sayonara, ngh
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:55pm
Alex In Illinois:

THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE RA! Feel free to make fun of that movie if you want.
Avatar 9:56pm
Flash Strap:

Alex, Hello!
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Flash Strap:

I never saw it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:57pm
Alex In Illinois:

Who is on piano on this cut?
Avatar 9:57pm
geezerette:

Night NGH & all!
Avatar 9:57pm
hyde:

@Flash whoa, you GOTTA see it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:57pm
Alex In Illinois:

The movie that I was referring to was "Star Gate".
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:58pm
coelacanth:

Cedar Walton
Avatar 9:58pm
Flash Strap:

I know!
Avatar 9:59pm
Hams:

goodnight, wind.
Avatar 9:59pm
hyde:

thanks Flash!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:59pm
Alex In Illinois:

That Art Blakey number was a perfect closer.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:00pm
Little Danny:

Evan: THANK YOU
Avatar 10:00pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks all! See you in the next room or the next week! Ra bless
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:01pm
coelacanth:

Thanks Evan! Brilliant program!
good night g; hyde; all who aren't staying up a tad longer.
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