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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 January 26, 2017: Funk, Jazz & Calypso (With and Without Social Significance)

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro            
Sathima Bea Benjamin  Africa   Favoriting African Songbird  The Sun  1976  With Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim)  0:02:05 (Pop-up)
Various South African Musicians  Sizonqoba (Victory is Certain)   Favoriting Liberation Southafrica - Freedom Songs  Safco (South Africa Freedom Committee  197?  With, among many others, Sathima Bea Benjamin & Dollar Brand/Abdullah Ibrahim  0:23:03 (Pop-up)
Various South African Musicians  Nsikane's Bell Song   Favoriting Liberation Southafrica - Freedom Songs  Safco (South Africa Freedom Committee  197?  With, among many others, Sathima Bea Benjamin & Dollar Brand/Abdullah Ibrahim  0:27:30 (Pop-up)
Chalkdust  Theme for African Liberation Day   Favoriting Teacher, Commoner & King  Straker's Records  1977    0:32:58 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Duke Lumumba 
 
Jungle Funk 
 
 
 
0:37:08 (Pop-up)
Sir Lancelot  The Century of the Common Man   Favoriting Calypso 10"  Keynote  1942?    0:47:32 (Pop-up)
Chalkdust  Why We Attack   Favoriting Teacher, Commoner & King  Straker's Records  1977    0:50:51 (Pop-up)
Chalkdust  Immigration Problems   Favoriting Teacher, Commoner & King  Straker's Records  1977    0:55:39 (Pop-up)
Lord Nelson  Send Them Back   Favoriting Ah, Ha  Richie's Music  1977    1:01:03 (Pop-up)
Shadow  Columbus Lied   Favoriting Pressure Point  Straker's Records  1989    1:04:17 (Pop-up)
Lord Melody  Rap   Favoriting I Man  Charlie's Records  1979  Written by Melody to highlight the vocal talents of Patsy Holder and Philbert Alexander  1:09:57 (Pop-up)
Lord Melody  The Whiteman & Money   Favoriting I Man  Charlie's Records  1979    1:13:15 (Pop-up)
Mighty Sparrow  Solomon   Favoriting Trinidad Heat Wave  Mace  1965  Released on Hilary as Congo Man  1:17:25 (Pop-up)
Mighty Sparrow  Pussy Laughing At Me   Favoriting Calypso Time  RA  1970    1:21:54 (Pop-up)
Mighty Sparrow  Marijuana   Favoriting Calypso Time  RA  1970    1:24:12 (Pop-up)
Mighty Sparrow  Get To Hell Out   Favoriting Trinidad Heat Wave  Mace  1965    1:28:10 (Pop-up)
Lord Kitchener  When a Man is Poor   Favoriting Sings Calypsos (With and Without Social Significance)  Sounds Of The Caribbean ‎  1975    1:33:14 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Duke Lumumba 
 
Jungle Funk 
 
 
 
1:35:04 (Pop-up)
Bohannon  Run It On Down Mister DJ   Favoriting Stop & Go  Dakar  1973    1:48:52 (Pop-up)
Bohannon  South African Man   Favoriting Keep on Dancin'  Dakar  1974    1:55:10 (Pop-up)
Bohannon  The Bohannon Walk   Favoriting Bohannon  Dakar  1975    2:01:00 (Pop-up)
Bohannon  Can You Feel It   Favoriting Bohannon  Dakar  1975    2:05:37 (Pop-up)
Bohannon  Foot Stompin Music   Favoriting Insides Out  Dakar  1975    2:14:15 (Pop-up)
Bohannon  South Africa 76   Favoriting Gittin' Off  Dakar  1975    2:21:26 (Pop-up)
Bohannon  Zulu   Favoriting Dance Your Ass Off  Dakar  1976    2:27:12 (Pop-up)
Bohannon  Moving Fast   Favoriting Phase II  Mercury  1977    2:32:16 (Pop-up)
Bohannon  Song For My Mother   Favoriting Stop & Go  Dakar  1973    2:35:42 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit 
 
 
 
 
 
2:42:03 (Pop-up)
Gil Scott-Heron  Alien (Hold On To Your Dreams)   Favoriting Nothing New    2014    2:47:26 (Pop-up)
Various South African Musicians  Anthem for the New Nation   Favoriting Liberation Southafrica - Freedom Songs    197?  written by Dollar Brand  2:49:56 (Pop-up)
Karega Mandela  Never Surrender   Favoriting ?    198?    2:55:20 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 6:24pm
Flash Strap:

Let's jam, explorers
  7:04pm
Ehd:

Indeed! Let's Jam!
Avatar 7:04pm
hyde:

hi, doin' stuff. might take me a bit to hang out. never fear, you're my soundtrack.
  7:05pm
MrFab:

Wotta pic! Looks like the French Quarter during Mardi Gras. Except the ladies are overdressed.
Avatar 7:06pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Ehd! Hi Hyde! Your soundtrack is all I need to be, the rest is gravy when I can get it.

Hi Mr. Fab! It's 19th century Trinidad at Carnival, so very similar indeed
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
listener james from westwood:

Evening, Evan and all!
Avatar 7:11pm
Flash Strap:

Evening, Listener James!
Avatar 7:15pm
Flash Strap:

jesus, this track is so epic in scope. the drums are heaven! rolling like little thunder
  7:20pm
MrFab:

was just listening to a (non-Can) Jaki Leibezeit album before tuning into this show, so i already had drumming on my mind. Pound them skins, ma brutha!
Avatar 7:21pm
Flash Strap:

tune in next week, I'll do a whole Liebezeit show! was already pretty deep into planning this week's when the news dropped
Avatar 7:22pm
Flash Strap:

it'll mostly be stuff that I didn't play in my previous 3 Can shows
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:22pm
Little Danny:

Hi Flash and fellow explorers!
Avatar 7:25pm
Flash Strap:

LD! Hello hello Cool One
Avatar 7:26pm
Scraps:

h'lllllllooooooooo......
h'llllllllllooooooooo....
h'lllloooo?
Avatar 7:27pm
Flash Strap:

Scraps! H'lo oo o oo o o
Avatar 7:28pm
Scraps:

h'lo lo o!
Avatar 7:35pm
Flash Strap:

Chalkie is THE MAN, by the way. My advice is to hang on his word, a pretty good guideline for Calypso in general
  7:36pm
B:

:)
Avatar 7:36pm
Flash Strap:

'ey B
  7:37pm
B:

Hello Mr Flash
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
Little Danny:

Huh. So Chalkdust was exiled from his academic post because calypso was political? Rather than "mere" entertainment as I would have assumed?
Avatar 7:51pm
Flash Strap:

Indeed, LD! I know that Calypso has this huge aspect of dissidence, but that still surprises me. I mean, it was the 70s
Avatar 7:53pm
Flash Strap:

It may also have been viewed as base, undignified entertainment; or on the other hand, too "black" or "folk" of an expression for academia. I'm not really sure, but it's interesting stuff to mull over
Avatar 7:55pm
Flash Strap:

Chalkie calls it out, man.

"We must have strong public opinion to keep our democracy"
Avatar 7:56pm
Flash Strap:

This song is perfect fire
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
melinda:

howdies
Avatar 8:02pm
Flash Strap:

Hi, Melinda!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Evan and Explorers
Avatar 8:05pm
Flash Strap:

Hie Thee Coelacanth-eø
Avatar 8:07pm
Flash Strap:

This whole stanza is amazing "His passport was violence"
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Holy freakin' hell - I'm afraid Columbus did more than lie: Slavery & Manifest Destiny began immediately, I'm sorry to say. Yeah - fantastic lie. Wow.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:09pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- li*Ne. Hah.
Avatar 8:13pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Revrab!

and yeah. Shit man, in a few instances, Columbus' sailors ATE natives, and sold their meat at butcheries for dog food of all things. Columbus lied! SO BAD!
Avatar 8:13pm
Flash Strap:

odd Lord Melody track, that Rap was
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:16pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

But a beautiful thing about Music is - you can close your eyes, but not your ears. The legacies & contributions of different races can't be hidden or excluded here.
Avatar 8:18pm
Flash Strap:

also released under a different title, with WAY better art: img.discogs.com...
Avatar 8:19pm
Flash Strap:

This song inspired by a politician who pulled strings to have his stepson released from jail. After outcry, he was forced to resign.
Avatar 8:21pm
Flash Strap:

but later, much to Sparrow's frustration (as he had long supported the PNM), Eric Williams reinstated Solomon in an undemocratic fashion. He wrote a song about that too, which we'll hear a little later
Avatar 8:21pm
northguineahills:

I must be a coconut, as I just got dropped off here...
Avatar 8:23pm
Flash Strap:

NGH! Welcome to our shores, my round and hairy friend
Avatar 8:27pm
Flash Strap:

ok next up, we get the aforementioned song of protest against Solomon's reinstatement, and William (aka the Conqueror)'s dismissive response to critics about the move. It's funny, it's pissed, it's relevant to its moment, everything that's good about Calypso
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
coelacanth∅:

the idea of someone named Mary Wanna makes me wonder if the band Can had a tour bus they called the "Can-i-bus".
Avatar 8:28pm
hyde:

wow, i know nothing about calypso
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:29pm
Little Danny:

Wow "Get to Hell Out"! Great!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Yikes. Close to bone now. Here. HolyCrow.
Avatar 8:31pm
Flash Strap:

One of the top Sparrow tracks of all time! And it's about issues surrounding a minister of external affairs, of all things! I love it, I love it. The specific becomes the universal
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:33pm
coelacanth∅:

one of the 5 albums that our family used to sit and sing along to on weekend nights was a calypso album. i knew all the words to Harry Belafonte's "calypso" album by the age of 5.
...very commercial calypso, maybe, but what a Great man Mr. Belafonte is.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:36pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- & there - Wealth Inequality spelled out as succinctly as could ever be.
  8:36pm
MrFab:

Fond memories of Irwin's old calypso show...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:37pm
coelacanth∅:

Yes! Muriel's treasure.
Avatar 8:54pm
Flash Strap:

Bohannon is so groove oriented, there is nothing else, basically
Avatar 8:55pm
Scraps:

But he's a Groove Master.
Avatar 8:56pm
Flash Strap:

Exactly!
Avatar 8:57pm
Flash Strap:

If you've never laid eyes on him, here's our man: img.discogs.com...
Avatar 8:59pm
Flash Strap:

Back on the South Africa theme from earlier. Bohannon did a few tracks with that theme. And we will hear them, of course
Avatar 9:05pm
Flash Strap:

never seems to take a solo. Hardlly even a fill. Bohannon is a living foundation. Solid.
Avatar 9:05pm
Scraps:

Excellent!
Avatar 9:11pm
Scraps:

He seems like he's got a Golden Knack, like James Brown. It sounds so simple....
Avatar 9:11pm
Flash Strap:

god DAMN Bohannon

I can feel it
Avatar 9:12pm
Flash Strap:

@Scraps: sorta like the Meters, too
Avatar 9:12pm
hyde:

ah, i'm finally here for good. (or evil).
Avatar 9:13pm
Flash Strap:

do some evil, if you feel it, Hyde
  9:14pm
MrFab:

When i was a mad fiend funk record seeker in the 90s - even driving down to Watts a few times - i didn't buy any Bohannon. i dismissed anything after 1973 as being too "disco." Well, THAT was dumb.
Avatar 9:14pm
Scraps:

You're not going to believe this, Flash Strap, but I was just going to type, "or the Meters."
Avatar 9:14pm
hyde:

i feel like maybe there's enough evil going around, these days. i'll try to be good.
Avatar 9:16pm
Flash Strap:

Some of his "disco" stuff is even legit funky, Fab! I know that feeling though... boy do I ever.
Avatar 9:17pm
Flash Strap:

Great minds, Scraps
Avatar 9:18pm
Flash Strap:

Love the keys on all these records, this track is a highlight in that regard
Avatar 9:21pm
Flash Strap:

SPELLIN HIS N A M E
Avatar 9:23pm
Scraps:

Later Tom Tom Club spelled his name twice as fast. They were excited.
Avatar 9:25pm
Scraps:

(Well, not spelled exactly. You know what I mean.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:25pm
Doug Schulkind:

Any truth to the rumor that the Broadway musical Hamilton is really about this fine gentleman?
Avatar 9:27pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Doug! Can confirm.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:29pm
Doug Schulkind:

Speaking of Can, Jesse Kaminsky did a monstrous Jaki Liebezeit special on Tuesday.
Avatar 9:31pm
Flash Strap:

I'm about to do the same next week! I missed Jesse's but the playlist was lookin like fire
Avatar 9:33pm
Flash Strap:

ah, we've finally entered Phase II
Avatar 9:34pm
Flash Strap:

dedicated to his son, Hamilton Frederick Bohannon II, seen here: img.discogs.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:35pm
Doug Schulkind:

One can never have enough Can. Unless you're a toucan.
Avatar 9:36pm
hyde:

rough week for drummers. Jaki Liebezeit, John Boudreaux, Butch Trucks. I was worried about Roy Haynes.
Avatar 9:40pm
Scraps:

Doug, have you heard Can's reunion album, Rite Time? If not, it will put Never Have Enough Can sorely to the test....
Avatar 9:41pm
Flash Strap:

haha, yeah that one ain't the best in the can-on
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:43pm
VERMONT FARMER JOKE:

Think the rain will hurt the rhubarb?

Not if it's in a can.

What, the rain?

No, the rhubarb.
Avatar 9:44pm
Scraps:

Ack, I just remembered that album have a track called "Give the Drummer Some"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:46pm
Doug Schulkind:

There are NO coincidences, Scraps.
Avatar 9:47pm
Scraps:

Gulp
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:49pm
Little Danny:

Great show tonight as always Flash. As I went through my weekly ritual scramble I had the Bohannon playing. Epic & hypnotic!
Avatar 9:49pm
Flash Strap:

LOVE this performance of this, even more than the original
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
Dave in Vermont:

Hi. I just got home from a creening of the incredible James Baldwin fil, 'I Am Not Your Negro'
I first turn on the show ehre and it's Gil Scott Heron. Next month the same film group is showing 'Black Wax'
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:53pm
Dave in Vermont:

wow- typing. sorry
Avatar 9:54pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Dave! I want to see that

Thanks LD, can't wait to take a load off and go to your room
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:55pm
Little Danny:

This sweet dream persists next at the Cool Blue Flame: wfmu.org... Hope everyone will join everyone!
Avatar 9:57pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks for listening, all. Hope you enjoyed, see you next week
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:58pm
Doug Schulkind:

Flash Strap tosses off epic radio like someone shucking peanut shells.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:58pm
Doug Schulkind:

Epic peanut shells.
Avatar 9:58pm
Scraps:

Thank you!
Avatar 9:59pm
hyde:

night all. thanks, Flash!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:02pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Evan
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:00pm
Stanley:

Amazing Bohannon set. I had no idea he was so down right goddamn funky. A real treat.
Keep up the good work, Captain.
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