Favoriting Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from June 1, 2017 Favoriting

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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 June 1, 2017: Lewiston, Belew, Hybrid Dub, & Radical Jewish Culture

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments
  Intro          
Unknown  Sekehe Genggong: a) Pemungkah b) Frog Song c) Flute Solo   Favoriting Music From The Morning Of The World  Nonesuch Explorer  1967  recorded by David Lewiston ‎ 
Unknown  Oígame Juanita   Favoriting In Praise Of Oxalá And Other Gods / Black Music Of South America  Nonesuch Explorer  1970  recorded by David Lewiston ‎ 
Guapi  A Adorar A Antonio   Favoriting In Praise Of Oxalá And Other Gods / Black Music Of South America  Nonesuch Explorer  1970  recorded by David Lewiston ‎ 
Unknown  Arrullo San Antonio   Favoriting In Praise Of Oxalá And Other Gods / Black Music Of South America  Nonesuch Explorer  1970  recorded by David Lewiston ‎ 
I Mario  Bumblebee (Tumililingan)   Favoriting Golden Rain - Balinese Gamelan Music - Ketjak: The Ramayana Monkey Chant  Nonesuch Explorer  1969  recorded by David Lewiston ‎ 

Music behind DJ:
 

 

Golden Rain - Balinese Gamelan Music - Ketjak: The Ramayana Monkey Chant 

 

 

 
Talking Heads  Born Under Punches   Favoriting Rome Concert 1980    1980  with Bernie Worrell & Adrian Belew 
David Bowie  Stay   Favoriting Stage    1978  rec. live 1978 with Adrian Belew on lead guitar 
Laurie Anderson  Credit Racket   Favoriting Home of the Brave    1986  Adrian Belew on guitar, Bill Laswell on bass 
Jean-Michel Jarre  Diva   Favoriting Zoolook    1984  with vocals by Laurie Anderson and guitar&effects by Adrian Belew 
Laurie Anderson  Sharkey's Day   Favoriting Mister Heartbreak    1984  Adrian Belew on guitar 
David Bowie  Red Sails   Favoriting Lodger    1979  Adrian Belew on guitar 
Talking Heads  Listening Wind   Favoriting Remain in Light    1980  Adrian Belew on guitar 
Adrian Belew  Young Lions   Favoriting Young Lions    1990   
Adrian Belew  Hot Sun   Favoriting Lone Rhino    1982   

Music behind DJ:
Adrian Belew 

Naive Guitar   Favoriting

Lone Rhino 

 

 

 
Lee 'Scratch' Perry & Adrian Sherwood  Lucky Tarzan   Favoriting Dub Setter    2010   
Lee 'Scratch' Perry & Adrian Sherwood  Elixir of Life   Favoriting Dub Setter    2010   
African Head Charge  Language & Mentality   Favoriting Off the Beaten Track    1986  prod. Adrian Sherwood 
African Head Charge  Over the Sky   Favoriting Off the Beaten Track    1986  prod. Adrian Sherwood 
General Strike  Sea Hunt   Favoriting Danger in Paradise    1984  David Cunningham with Steve Beresford & David Toop 
General Strike  Guided Missiles   Favoriting Danger in Paradise    1984  David Cunningham with Steve Beresford & David Toop; Lol Coxhill on Sax 
General Strike  Danger In Paradise   Favoriting Danger in Paradise    1984  David Cunningham with Steve Beresford & David Toop 
Creation Rebel / New Age Steppers  Chemical Specialist   Favoriting Threat To Creation    1981  prod. Adrian Sherwood 
The Missing Brazilians  Quicksand Beach Party   Favoriting Warzone    1984  The Missing Brazilians = Adrian Sherwood 
Pecker  Pecker Power (Part Two)   Favoriting Pecker Power    1980  Pecker=Masahito Hashida; with Carlton and Aston Barrett, rec. at Tuff Gong studios 
Pecker  Pecker Power (Part One)   Favoriting Pecker Power    1980   
Brenda Ray  Swirlin Hearts   Favoriting Walatta    2006  feat. Sir Freddie Viadukt aka the Minister of Noise; prod. by Scientist 
Steven Bernstein  Dybbuk Dub   Favoriting Diaspora Soul  Tzadik - Radical Jewish Culture  1999   

Music behind DJ:
Steven Bernstein 

L'Chaim   Favoriting

Diaspora Soul 

 

 

 
Greg Wall  Among The Exile, By The River Kiver   Favoriting Later Prophets  Tzadik - Radical Jewish Culture  2004  Gary Lucas on guitar 
Frank London  Imanu Malkheteynu   Favoriting Scientist At Work  Tzadik - Radical Jewish Culture  2002  with John Zorn on sax 
Frank London  Golem Khosidl   Favoriting Scientist At Work  Tzadik - Radical Jewish Culture  2002   
Marc Ribot  Caravan   Favoriting Requiem For What's-His-Name    1992   
Gary Lucas  The Mensch in the Moon   Favoriting Busy Being Born  Tzadik - Radical Jewish Culture  1998   

Music behind DJ:
Muzsikás 

Lamenting Song (Keserves)   Favoriting

Máramaros - The Lost Jewish Music Of Transylvania 

 

1993 

 


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Listener comments!

Avatar 6:56pm
Flash Strap:

Evening, explorers!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
doctorjazz:

Hey, Flash!
  7:02pm
Dean:

Dang, was looking forward to Lewiston stuff, but gotta catch a bus!
Avatar 7:03pm
Flash Strap:

this first set is in tribute to a great explorer of sound who just this week marched into the hereafter. David Lewiston. www.nonesuch.com...
Avatar 7:03pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Dean, Hi Doc!

Sorry about the bus Dean
Avatar 7:03pm
hyde:

Lewiston? I hope that's not Lewiston Maine where as an ill advised teenager I went to see the Grateful Dead at the place where Sonny Liston once fought Muhammad Ali. (actually it was fun)
Avatar 7:04pm
Flash Strap:

haha this stuff is so wild
Avatar 7:05pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Hyde! Not that Lewiston, rest assured. Does sound fun though
Avatar 7:07pm
hyde:

ah, David Lewiston. Cool. It *was* fun, though luckily for me i jettisoned the Dead for hardcore punk rock soon after. (Apologies to Dead fans.)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
doctorjazz:

This is really bizarre sounding-if someone from the Chicago AACM/avant garde recorded it, you'd feel right at home.
Avatar 7:09pm
Flash Strap:

Totally get what you mean, Doc

oh, btw, helpful liner notes on this LP: Recorded in Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil.

Throughout South America, the descendants of the millions of slaves brought to the New World by the Spanish and Portuguese still pay homage to the pantheon of their African ancestors, often, albeit, under the identities of Christian saints.
Avatar 7:12pm
Flash Strap:

So we got two for St. Anthony tonight
Avatar 7:13pm
Flash Strap:

I, Mario!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
doctorjazz:

@Hyde-por que no los dos, as my daughter would say? I followed the dead in the early 70's, went for punk later in the decade, but was still listening to the Dead afterwards (though there was a long span I didn't listen much, 90's and 00's, listen some again now).
Avatar 7:19pm
Flash Strap:

I never really got into the Dead or hardcore, so i had neither. I do love the Rhythm Devils, though

But I guess if you never saw the Dead live or attended a hardcore show, which I have not, you just have no idea about either scene.
Avatar 7:20pm
hyde:

@doctorjazz hehe. i was seventeen, and listened to a lot of jazz and 60's music at that time. (i mean, i saw Sun Ra in 1980 too!) i just kind of soured on the whole Dead thing by 1981, and rejected it. some of it still sounds OK (i actually listened to the Lewiston show on the Internet Archive a couple months ago and it was fine. SOme of it was good.) but there's just a lot of noodling and baggage that goes along with that whole package that just isn't my thing anymore, that's all.
Avatar 7:20pm
jefff:

man this is cool
Avatar 7:23pm
hyde:

@Flash well, tomorrow night i'm going to see Jerry's Kids, who were one of the seminal Boston hardcore bands I used to go see circa 1983 or so. we'll see how that stands up!

i'm not slam dancing though, that's a young man's game
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
doctorjazz:

Sounds like fun
Went to see Phil Lesh a few months ago, that was fun (he had Stanley Jordan on guitar, interesting mix).
Saw Sun Ra many times in the 80's, he used to play all sorts of clubs in Manhattan; man, that was amazing!
  7:33pm
JtotheK:

Hi Flash, hi explorers!
Avatar 7:33pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Jeff!

Jerry's Kids is such a good name for a hardcore outfit.

Hi JtotheK! Wonderful to see you!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
doctorjazz:

This version of Talking Heads was pretty amazing. (saw the earlier version a few times)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
Listener Scott:

This is one of the best live shows ever. Most (all?) of it's available on Youtube too. They're all so relaxed, and Belew was having the time of his life.
Avatar 7:35pm
Flash Strap:

or should I say Hi Jefff!

@doc: it really is. this performance almost edges out all other versions for me, honestly, except that they're all too good
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
Listener Scott:

I just saw Belew at the Iridium, he's still incredible.
Avatar 7:35pm
hyde:

@doc jazz yeah, the guy we stay with in Boston is going to see some leftover Dead band bunch that is playing at Fenway this summer. i'm not sure what the band is, but i imagine it's that same bunch.

i only saw Sun Ra once, at Mass Art. it may have been 1979, not 1980.

i'm amused that as i'm reminiscing about all this that Flash is playing Talking Heads ca. 1980. i saw the Remain in Light tour too at the Orpheum in Boston, haha
Avatar 7:36pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Listener Scott! I was watching those videos and just dying, they're so good. And yeah, Belew always looks like he's in a state of grace. or rapture
Avatar 7:40pm
Flash Strap:

there's a video of this performance as well, Belew is on fire and Bowie is just cracking up watching him play.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
Listener Scott:

Born under punches and Crosseyed and Painless from that Rome show are the standouts on the video.
Avatar 7:41pm
Flash Strap:

totally agree, Scott
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
Listener Scott:

At the Belew show I sat near some guys who attend Belew's "camp" each year, I think in Woodstock. They had a lot of interesting stories, and had a great take on why Belew doesn't tour with Fripp. Basically, Fripp makes the entire touring group practice each day for two weeks, 6 hours a day, so they sound like they're in the studio when they play live. Belew far too loose for that sort of regimentation.
Avatar 7:44pm
hyde:

wait, what? i live in Woodstock! i have never heard of this, though i'm really not plugged in up here. dang.
Avatar 7:45pm
Flash Strap:

huh, that makes sense. I know Belew is a huge part of the King Crimson (v.2) sound, but it just does nothing for me, and I suspect that's why. On the other hand, the only time I really groove on Fripp is when Bowie or Eno have him totally off guard
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
Listener Scott:

Looked it up, it's in Big Indian NY, not Woodstock:
www.facebook.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
Little Danny:

just made it in! greetings Evan and flashers and strappers alike
Avatar 7:48pm
hyde:

@Flash fwiw i actually saw that King Crimson band play too maybe ca. 1986 in Amherst, and it was pretty great. but you could tell there was a total dichotomy between cool Fripp and hot Belew on stage, like Scott says
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
Little Danny:

Whoa I had no idea Jean-Michel Jarre sounded like THIS
Avatar 7:51pm
Flash Strap:

Hi LD!

@Hyde: I bet it was great, and seeing it live would probably be the best way to find your way into that kind of music. at least, it would be for me I think
Avatar 7:51pm
hyde:

@Scott ah, Big Indian. well, that's not too far from here. maybe 15 miles.
Avatar 7:52pm
Flash Strap:

@LD: I love pretty much all of Jarre's prime-years work, but this album is totally, astonishingly unique and special. You'd love it, man
Avatar 7:53pm
Flash Strap:

of course, Laurie being on this totally MAKES it
Avatar 7:56pm
hyde:

@Flash yeah, it was cool. and the more i think about it, it had to be earlier than '86. maybe late 81 early 82, because i think it was before Beat. i was never a huge King Crimson guy, but it was sort of when they had their second act
Avatar 7:59pm
Flash Strap:

jesus, basically no one gets me in the soul the way Laurie Anderson does
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
Listener Scott:

Belew photos I took at the Iridium show
www.flickr.com...
Avatar 8:00pm
Hams:

one of the best shows i've seen was laurie anderson at battery park in new york, right there on the river. for free. really something else.
Avatar 8:02pm
Flash Strap:

Hi there, Hams! Maybe the best show I ever saw in my life was seeing her this last winter with Phillip Glass for his 80th birthday. he was just okay, but she was totally brilliant beyond belief. I cried like a baby
Avatar 8:04pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Half a Century of Bowie Albums - Today.
Avatar 8:04pm
Hams:

ha. yeah, i wanted to cry too at the show, actually. funny.
Avatar 8:04pm
Flash Strap:

some notes on Belew's soloing here:

"The variable is Adrian Belew, who came to the Lodger sessions some time after recording had started. Taking a cue from Robert Fripp’s improvisational work on “Heroes,” Bowie, Tony Visconti and Eno used a similar tactic, not letting Belew hear any of the tracks before he soloed on them, not even giving him a key or chords as clues. So Belew, alone in the studio and being monitored by closed-circuit cameras, ripped out the solos for “DJ,” Boys Keep Swinging” and “Red Sails” in three takes each. He was cut off just as he was growing familiar with each song.

Belew’s various solos were then dissected, with Bowie and Visconti taking the shards they thought fit a particular section and dubbing them in. The result, like the tremolo-laden, joyous Belew patchworks in “Red Sails,” was somehow perfect—the solos sound as if they were crafted beforehand, but keep their sense of barely-controlled energy. It’s waves of thought being voiced on strings." bowiesongs.wordpress.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
Little Danny:

wow! (re: 50yrs of Bowie)
Avatar 8:05pm
Flash Strap:

Hi RevRab!

@Hams: She has that effect, it's like she cuts through everything to show you a truth beyond beauty or fear but full of both
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
Little Danny:

And thanks for the tip on that Jarre album, Flash!
Avatar 8:06pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Have enjoyed Belew's solo albums - to me, evoking 'AbbeyRoad'~'LetItBe', of all things...
Avatar 8:08pm
Flash Strap:

I really like some of his solo stuff - it's hit and miss for me, but the hits hit hard
Avatar 8:10pm
Flash Strap:

I love all the hard boiled third worldisms on this LP. It has that a bit in common with Lodger, though the approaches are pretty different
Avatar 8:38pm
Flash Strap:

that's Einstein, baby!
Avatar 8:38pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Love his voice.
Avatar 8:40pm
Flash Strap:

it's a perfect Einstein voice!
Avatar 8:46pm
Flash Strap:

this record is so interesting
Avatar 8:54pm
geezerette:

uncategorizeable :D
Avatar 8:54pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

PetSounds at Night.
Avatar 8:57pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Geezerette! How goes it?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
coelacanth∅:

olá Evan e Exploradores
Avatar 8:59pm
Flash Strap:

Coelacanth! Good evening!
Avatar 9:04pm
geezerette:

Hey Evan! Good,thanks!, you? :)
  9:04pm
bopapocalypse:

just gettin here, this song is fire
Avatar 9:06pm
hyde:

whoops, i'm awol from playlist comments reading my book about The Last Mughal. But I'm still absorbing the tunes, do not worry...
Avatar 9:07pm
geezerette:

Hiya Coel & RevRab. :) Hiya Hyde.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
northguineahills:

Pecker sounds like a precursor Yamasuka Eye, Nabakuza Takmura, and Aki Onda's Audio Sports....
Avatar 9:09pm
Flash Strap:

Hey Big Bopper! Hi NGH!
Avatar 9:12pm
hyde:

hellooooooo geezerette!
Avatar 9:14pm
geezerette:

:::::D !
  9:16pm
bopapocalypse:

yo flash! ya know i got to check in & get my mind expanded by this & assorted other things ;)
Avatar 9:17pm
Flash Strap:

Never better than when you're on the scene, Spooky One
  9:20pm
Dean:

Off the bus, out of the car, errands run, home, catching up with comments and playlist. Re: Hyde's comments, I brag incessantly, usually on Uncle Michael's show, that I attended every Grateful Dead concert. Didn't miss one. I was with hyde at that Maine show. More plausibly, I also spent time in punk, at the advent of the LA scene. Fond memories.

Not sure what prompted the Belew set, and I'm not a big fan, but he adds interesting spice to a track on a live Robert Palmer album.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:20pm
northguineahills:

David Gould's "Adonai in Dub"on Tzadik Recs is the most awesome mix of trad Jewish music w/ Perry-esque dub ot there
Avatar 9:29pm
Flash Strap:

@NGH: I gotta hear that!
Avatar 9:32pm
Flash Strap:

I love how trippy this is. I love this track
  9:32pm
bopapocalypse:

this is real nice. very lynchian.
Avatar 9:32pm
hyde:

@Dean ha!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:34pm
Doug Schulkind:

Home from my daughter's high school spring orchestra concert! Glad to now be attending my brother's spring sonic extravaganza!
Avatar 9:35pm
Flash Strap:

Welcome brother Doug!
  9:37pm
bopapocalypse:

hey doug ya tall drink of water. what a sight for sore eyes!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:38pm
doctorjazz:

Love Tzadik recordings, you could almost pull one out at random, chances are good I'll like it (especially the Radical Jewish Culture stuff).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:39pm
Doug Schulkind:

I like to think of myself as a tall drink of seltzer.
Avatar 9:41pm
hyde:

stream drop!
Avatar 9:41pm
hyde:

ok now though
Avatar 9:42pm
Flash Strap:

@Doc: I agree, I think the series contains easily some of the best music of the late 90s and early 2000s

@Hyde: I should be back now?
Avatar 9:42pm
hyde:

@Flash yeah, just a brief interlude. fine now.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:43pm
Doug Schulkind:

Gone for just a microblip, Sir Flash.
Avatar 9:43pm
Flash Strap:

hate when that happens. gnash my teeth, hiss
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:46pm
northguineahills:

The worst Tzadik Record I heard, my reaction was, "meh, that was pretty good, but I don't think I'll buy that today."
Avatar 9:47pm
Flash Strap:

so true, NGH
  9:47pm
Dean:

I hammer on this, too. Claw Hammer's "Caravan" is bananas. Worth hearing.
Avatar 9:48pm
hyde:

@Dean i love Claw Hammer
  9:49pm
Dean:

@hyde, me, too. Heard them a handful of times at, e.g., Al's Bar, Mr. T Bowl. Damn, I miss them.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
northguineahills:

David Gould was originally in the Boston ska/Reggae band, John Brown's Body". He first made "Adonai" as a regular Jewish reggae record. Zorn asked him to make a dub version. It took multiple versions as Zorn kept on asking for "more dub!". Finally, Zorn dubbed it out himself, and it sold better then Gould's original.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
Little Danny:

Thanks for another superb show, Flash! You make it sound so easy
  9:52pm
Dean:

That's great. "More dub!" Sounds like a SNL routine...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:53pm
Little Danny:

All! We plunge further and fearlessly into the night on the Cool Blue Flame: wfmu.org... Please come aboard!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:54pm
northguineahills:

I like how Zorn released the Marc Bolan and the Serge Gainesbourg tributes under the Radical Jewish Cultrue series
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:54pm
northguineahills:

Thanks Flash, see you next week!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:56pm
doctorjazz:

Thanks, Flash!
Avatar 9:57pm
hyde:

thanks Flash!
Avatar 9:58pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks all! See you in Danny's room or back here same time next week

Have wonderful days and splendid nights
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:10pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Evan!
  11:35am
Andrés Miranda Aqueveque:

Ludwig Z!!!!
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