WFMU: Circle Time with Mark R.: Playlist from May 15, 2017

Listener comments!
	3:08am slugluv1313: yes, Miles Again! but soooo absolutely stunningly PERFECT
	3:10am Mark R: Welcome, Slugluv--glad you're enjoying...
	♥ 3:28am David D: This is brilliant!
	♥ 4:01am pacific standard simon: I remember reading that Frank Zappa decided to break up the original Mothers Of Invention when he overheard Count Basie begging for an advance from a promoter.
	♥ 4:04am pacific standard simon: My high school library had 16 rpm records. They were all the equivalent of contemporary audio books.
	4:04am Mark R: Also because they couldn't play.
	4:05am Mark R: Yeah, I knew they were a real thing, I just never saw one--audio books makes sense because they were low audio quality, right?
	♥ 4:13am pacific standard simon: "Couldn't play" is context specific -- they played perfectly well for a rock band of the era. Zappa wanted a bunch of studio-level (Wrecking Crew guys) musicians who would play for subsistence money.
	4:16am Mark R: I think that's probably a fair assessment, Simon--they couldn't play his very intricate, complex music to his standard--I think Ian Underwood was the only pre-1969 guy who survived into the 70s band.
	♥ 4:18am pacific standard simon: Contempt for people who repeat the old canard that Big Brother and The Holding Company couldn't play up to Janis Joplin's standard (ha!).
	4:21am Mark R: I think it was more like, "If anyone's gonna be drunk off their ass on stage in this band, it's gonna be ME!" (With all due respect.)
	♥ 4:21am pacific standard simon: Don Preston also joined the later Mothers. Others did, but only in joke roles.
	♥ 4:24am pacific standard simon: If I believed in souls, I would probably sell mine to be at the Massey Hall Concert.
	4:25am Mark R: Might as well sell it then, since it's not real...
	♥ 4:28am pacific standard simon: Believe it or not, I made a 16 rpm thing of the "Eight Miles High" intro. It was underwater.
	♥ 4:30am pacific standard simon: It aint real, so no body is offering.
	4:41am Mark R: That sounds interesting--I'd love to hear that.
	♥ 4:44am Guido from Cologne: Hello good morning Mark!
	4:45am Mark R: Morning, Guido! Glad you could join us!
	♥ 4:58am pacific standard simon: Would like to share that, Mark, but can't find a way to do it.
	4:59am Mark R: What a ripoff!
	5:00am Mark R: What format is it in?
	♥ 5:04am pacific standard simon: mp3. The problem is, who do I send a link to?
	5:11am Mark R: Send it to me c/o the station. There's a link here somewhere. You can also use dropbox. Seriously, I'd love to hear it.
	♥ 5:11am Sem Chumbo: Thanks very much, Mark, a true treat. Boss, man.
	5:15am Howard F: good morning friends
	♥ 5:16am pacific standard simon: I think I figured out the code.
	5:16am Mark R: Got it, Simon--it's amazing!!!
	5:17am Mark R: Morning, Howard. Settle in for a long track. (I'm really digging it, I have to say...)
	5:18am Howard F: looks like a great playlist. I'm going to have to listen on the archive!
	♥ 5:25am pacific standard simon: All hail Brian Eno. I think he will turn out to be the Picasso of our generation
	5:28am Mark R: I agree, Simon--one of the truly great artists of the 20th/21st century, and he hasn't cheated us--a huge body of work, all of it very good, quite a bit of it essential.
	♥ 5:35am pacific standard simon: And a lot of it DIFFERENT.
	5:37am Mark R: Right--I remember when "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" with David Byrne came out--I had never heard audio samples like that--little pieces of TV interviews, preachers--I'm sure he didn't invent it, but it was my introduction to that sort of thing. Looping them, with a cool rhythm track, etc. Loved it.
	5:40am Vincent Nifigance: Eno is God, albeit a fallible one, 'Ali Click' was pretty terrible.
	5:44am Mark R: Howard, you'll notice I played a lot of ambient kind of stuff tonight. Didn't necessarily plan it that way, but it seemed to fit my mood. Hopefully yours, too.
	5:48am Howard F: @Mark R: I recently attended the ambient thing that Red Bull sponsored in Brooklyn. Got to see/hear some very cool artists. Have you checked out Malcolm Cecil?
	♥ 5:50am pacific standard simon: "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" was about the same time as Over The Edge, on KPFA, in Berkeley, CA. OTE is still going, I believe.
	5:50am Mark R: I'm familiar with him but I haven't really dived in too deeply yet. I'll make sure I do. (I get turned on to some of my favorite music by listeners like you!)
	5:51am Mark R: It came out around 1982 I believe, Simon. Coincidentally, I was taking a course in African literature at that time, and one of the books we read was "My Life in the Book of Ghosts."
	♥ 5:55am pacific standard simon: The Palm Wine Drinkard! My favorite!
	6:00am Vincent Nifigance: Thanks Mark, great show as always.

Circle Time with Mark R.: Playlist from May 15, 2017

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May 15, 2017: Miles Again?

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Miles Davis	Concierto de Aranjuez	Sketches of Spain	Columbia	1960	Jim Buffington (French horn) b. 5/15/22		0:00:00 (Pop-up)

So What	What You Do to Me "What You Do to Me" by "So What"	Hard Gum			At Montgomery Hall Friday night and on Todd-o-phonic Todd's Show Saturday afternoon	*	0:19:03 (Pop-up)
Deerhunter	All the Same "All the Same" by "Deerhunter"	Fading Frontier	4AD	2015	At Warsaw Sunday night; Bradford Cox (guitar and vocals) b. 5/15/82		0:21:00 (Pop-up)
Chipmunks on 16 Speed	Call Me "Call Me" by "Chipmunks on 16 Speed"	Sludgefest			It's all Gregg's fault		0:25:29 (Pop-up)
Calmus Ensemble	Monteverdi: O Teseo, Teseo mio	Madrigals of Madness	Carus	2013	Claudio Monteverdi b. 5/15/1567		0:31:58 (Pop-up)
Meredith Monk	Astronaut Anthem (Ryuichi Sakamoto Remix)	v/a Monk Mix: Remixes and Interpretations of Music by Meredith Monk		2012	Thanks to Air Ace Dan for turning me on to this one!		0:37:40 (Pop-up)
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue	Ellington at Newport	Columbia	1956	Paul Gonsalves (tenor saxophone) d. 5/15/74		0:43:13 (Pop-up)

Harry Filkin	One-Eyed Cat "One-Eyed Cat" by "Harry Filkin"	Harry Filkin			At the Wonder Bar in Asbury Park Saturday night	*	1:03:30 (Pop-up)
Ty Segall	Freedom "Freedom" by "Ty Segall"	Ty Segall	Drag City	2017	At Warsaw Wednesday and Thursday nights		1:08:19 (Pop-up)
Classic Ruins	He's Got It "He's Got It" by "Classic Ruins"	Lassie Eats Chickens	Throbbing Lobster	1986			1:10:27 (Pop-up)
Actress	Blue Window "Blue Window" by "Actress"	AZD	Ninja Tune			*	1:14:06 (Pop-up)
The Quintet	Wee "Wee" by "The Quintet"	Jazz at Massey Hall			Recorded 5/15/53		1:17:48 (Pop-up)
Bill Frisell	Turn, Turn, Turn "Turn, Turn, Turn" by "Bill Frisell"	Guitar in the Space Age!	Okeh	2014			1:24:39 (Pop-up)

Won't Stay Dead	Dead Lungs "Dead Lungs" by "Won't Stay Dead"	Dead Lungs (EP)	bandcamp			*	1:32:11 (Pop-up)
Pow!	Cyberattack #3 "Cyberattack #3" by "Pow!"	Crack an Egg	Castle Face			*	1:34:26 (Pop-up)
Woods	Spring Is in the Air "Spring Is in the Air" by "Woods"	Love Is Love	Woodsist			*	1:41:34 (Pop-up)
Holly Macve	Heartbreak Blues "Heartbreak Blues" by "Holly Macve"	Golden Eagle			On Todd-o-phonic Todd's Show Saturday	*	1:47:48 (Pop-up)
Gas	Narkopop 4 "Narkopop 4" by "Gas"	Narkopop	Kompakt			*	1:51:35 (Pop-up)
Moon Duo	New Dawn "New Dawn" by "Moon Duo"	Occult Architecture Vol. 2	Sacred Bones			*	1:56:53 (Pop-up)

Brian Eno	Reflections "Reflections" by "Brian Eno"	Reflections	Warp/Opal	2017			2:11:35 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:08am slugluv1313: yes, Miles Again! but soooo absolutely stunningly PERFECT
	3:10am Mark R: Welcome, Slugluv--glad you're enjoying...
	♥ 3:28am David D: This is brilliant!
	♥ 4:01am pacific standard simon: I remember reading that Frank Zappa decided to break up the original Mothers Of Invention when he overheard Count Basie begging for an advance from a promoter.
	♥ 4:04am pacific standard simon: My high school library had 16 rpm records. They were all the equivalent of contemporary audio books.
	4:04am Mark R: Also because they couldn't play.
	4:05am Mark R: Yeah, I knew they were a real thing, I just never saw one--audio books makes sense because they were low audio quality, right?
	♥ 4:13am pacific standard simon: "Couldn't play" is context specific -- they played perfectly well for a rock band of the era. Zappa wanted a bunch of studio-level (Wrecking Crew guys) musicians who would play for subsistence money.
	4:16am Mark R: I think that's probably a fair assessment, Simon--they couldn't play his very intricate, complex music to his standard--I think Ian Underwood was the only pre-1969 guy who survived into the 70s band.
	♥ 4:18am pacific standard simon: Contempt for people who repeat the old canard that Big Brother and The Holding Company couldn't play up to Janis Joplin's standard (ha!).
	4:21am Mark R: I think it was more like, "If anyone's gonna be drunk off their ass on stage in this band, it's gonna be ME!" (With all due respect.)
	♥ 4:21am pacific standard simon: Don Preston also joined the later Mothers. Others did, but only in joke roles.
	♥ 4:24am pacific standard simon: If I believed in souls, I would probably sell mine to be at the Massey Hall Concert.
	4:25am Mark R: Might as well sell it then, since it's not real...
	♥ 4:28am pacific standard simon: Believe it or not, I made a 16 rpm thing of the "Eight Miles High" intro. It was underwater.
	♥ 4:30am pacific standard simon: It aint real, so no body is offering.
	4:41am Mark R: That sounds interesting--I'd love to hear that.
	♥ 4:44am Guido from Cologne: Hello good morning Mark!
	4:45am Mark R: Morning, Guido! Glad you could join us!
	♥ 4:58am pacific standard simon: Would like to share that, Mark, but can't find a way to do it.
	4:59am Mark R: What a ripoff!
	5:00am Mark R: What format is it in?
	♥ 5:04am pacific standard simon: mp3. The problem is, who do I send a link to?
	5:11am Mark R: Send it to me c/o the station. There's a link here somewhere. You can also use dropbox. Seriously, I'd love to hear it.
	♥ 5:11am Sem Chumbo: Thanks very much, Mark, a true treat. Boss, man.
	5:15am Howard F: good morning friends
	♥ 5:16am pacific standard simon: I think I figured out the code.
	5:16am Mark R: Got it, Simon--it's amazing!!!
	5:17am Mark R: Morning, Howard. Settle in for a long track. (I'm really digging it, I have to say...)
	5:18am Howard F: looks like a great playlist. I'm going to have to listen on the archive!
	♥ 5:25am pacific standard simon: All hail Brian Eno. I think he will turn out to be the Picasso of our generation
	5:28am Mark R: I agree, Simon--one of the truly great artists of the 20th/21st century, and he hasn't cheated us--a huge body of work, all of it very good, quite a bit of it essential.
	♥ 5:35am pacific standard simon: And a lot of it DIFFERENT.
	5:37am Mark R: Right--I remember when "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" with David Byrne came out--I had never heard audio samples like that--little pieces of TV interviews, preachers--I'm sure he didn't invent it, but it was my introduction to that sort of thing. Looping them, with a cool rhythm track, etc. Loved it.
	5:40am Vincent Nifigance: Eno is God, albeit a fallible one, 'Ali Click' was pretty terrible.
	5:44am Mark R: Howard, you'll notice I played a lot of ambient kind of stuff tonight. Didn't necessarily plan it that way, but it seemed to fit my mood. Hopefully yours, too.
	5:48am Howard F: @Mark R: I recently attended the ambient thing that Red Bull sponsored in Brooklyn. Got to see/hear some very cool artists. Have you checked out Malcolm Cecil?
	♥ 5:50am pacific standard simon: "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" was about the same time as Over The Edge, on KPFA, in Berkeley, CA. OTE is still going, I believe.
	5:50am Mark R: I'm familiar with him but I haven't really dived in too deeply yet. I'll make sure I do. (I get turned on to some of my favorite music by listeners like you!)
	5:51am Mark R: It came out around 1982 I believe, Simon. Coincidentally, I was taking a course in African literature at that time, and one of the books we read was "My Life in the Book of Ghosts."
	♥ 5:55am pacific standard simon: The Palm Wine Drinkard! My favorite!
	6:00am Vincent Nifigance: Thanks Mark, great show as always.

Circle Time with Mark R.: Playlist from May 15, 2017

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