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Favoriting June 15, 2017: Fringe, Romance, Contraband, Lend Me Your Era! (An Evening with Robert Wyatt)

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Artist Track Album Year Comments Approx. start time
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Robert Wyatt  At Last I Am Free   Favoriting Nothing Can Stop Us  1982  Chic cover, original 7" released 1980  0:00:16 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road   Favoriting Rock Bottom  1974  with Ivor Cutler (voice)  0:04:30 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  Alifib   Favoriting Rock Bottom  1974    0:13:33 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  Alife   Favoriting Rock Bottom  1974  with Alfreda (Alfie) Benge  0:18:56 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  Born Again Cretin   Favoriting Nothing Can Stop Us  1982    0:25:08 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  To Mark Everywhere   Favoriting The End Of An Ear  1970    0:29:25 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Robert Wyatt 
To Saintly Bridget   Favoriting
The End Of An Ear 
 
 
0:30:27 (Pop-up)
Matching Mole  Gloria Gloom   Favoriting Matching Mole's Little Red Record  1972  Brian Eno on synth  0:42:02 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  Alliance   Favoriting Old Rottenhat  1985    0:47:52 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  The United States of Amnesia   Favoriting Old Rottenhat  1985    0:52:10 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  East Timor   Favoriting Old Rottenhat  1985    0:57:48 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  Stalin Wasn't Stallin'   Favoriting Stalin Wasn't Stallin' / Peter Blackman - Stalingrad 7"  1980  originally performed by The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet, 1943  1:00:28 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  Song For Che   Favoriting Ruth is Stranger than Richard  1975  wr. Charlie Haden  1:03:49 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  Pigs... (In There)   Favoriting Abuse - Artists For Animals  1986  Slip records compilation  1:07:48 (Pop-up)
Matching Mole  Starting In The Middle of the Day We Can Drink Our Politics Away   Favoriting Matching Mole's Little Red Record  1972    1:09:58 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  Left On Man   Favoriting Dondestan  1991    1:12:18 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  Shipbuilding   Favoriting Shipbuilding / Memories of You 7"  1982  wr. by Clive Langer & Elvis Costello  1:15:49 (Pop-up)
The Happy End  Turn Things Upside Down   Favoriting Turn Things Upside Down  1990    1:18:43 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Robert Wyatt 
Las Vegas Tango (Part 1)   Favoriting
The End Of An Ear 
 
 
1:24:02 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt & Peter Blackman  Stalingrad   Favoriting Stalin Wasn't Stallin' / Peter Blackman - Stalingrad 7"  1980    1:37:55 (Pop-up)
The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet  Stalin Wasn't Stallin'   Favoriting   1943    1:42:54 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  Free Will and Testament   Favoriting Shleep  1997    1:45:59 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  The Duchess   Favoriting Shleep  1997    1:50:12 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  Blues in Bob Minor   Favoriting Shleep  1997    1:54:28 (Pop-up)
The Wilde Flowers  Impotence   Favoriting Tales of Canterbury - The Wilde Flowers Story  196?    2:00:01 (Pop-up)
Matching Mole  Instant Pussy   Favoriting Matching Mole  1972    2:02:16 (Pop-up)
Soft Machine  A Certain Kind   Favoriting Soft Machine  1968  wr. Hugh Hopper  2:05:03 (Pop-up)
Nick Mason  I'm A Mineralist   Favoriting Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports  1981  This is really a Carla Bley LP, credited to Nick Mason (who does drum on it) by Columbia records for marketing purposes  2:09:05 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  Solar Flares   Favoriting Ruth is Stranger than Richard  1975    2:15:16 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  Muddy Mouse (b)   Favoriting Ruth is Stranger than Richard  1975    2:20:44 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  5 Black Notes And 1 White Note   Favoriting Ruth is Stranger than Richard  1975    2:21:31 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  Little Red Robin Hood Hit the Road   Favoriting Rock Bottom  1974  with Ivor Cutler (voice)  2:26:27 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  Arauco   Favoriting Nothing Can Stop Us  1982  wr. by Chilean folk singer/hero Violetta Parra  2:32:37 (Pop-up)
Wyatt/ Atzmon/ Stephen  At Last I Am Free   Favoriting ´..........For The Ghosts Within´  2010    2:36:45 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Wyatt/ Atzmon/ Stephen 
In A Sentimental Mood   Favoriting
´..........For The Ghosts Within´ 
 
 
2:39:31 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  Red Flag   Favoriting Nothing Can Stop Us  1982  wr. 1889 by Jim Connell, official anthem of the Labour party since its inception  2:53:31 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  To The Old World (Thank You For The Use Of Your Body, Goodbye)   Favoriting The End Of An Ear  1970    2:55:24 (Pop-up)
Robert Wyatt  Age of Self   Favoriting Old Rottenhat  1985    2:56:40 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 6:46pm
Flash Strap:

Evening explorers
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
doctorjazz:

Hey, Flash!
Looks like a good show coming up!
Avatar 6:57pm
Flash Strap:

Hey Doc! I think it should be good, but then again I adore Robert Wyatt
Avatar 7:03pm
Flash Strap:

By way of explanation:

Tonight in the Explorers Room, we celebrate the surprise success of Corbyn in the UK – and the broader, hopefully hopeful implications that result has for left politics going forward – by spending an evening with the music of Robert Wyatt. I probably would have done this show regardless of the electoral outcome; it's a necessary tonic in victory or defeat. In 1972, Wyatt asked, "how long can I pretend that music's more relevant than fighting for a socialist world?" The music resulting from that conundrum gives us an invaluable vision of socialist-informed art: not only steadfastly political, unflinchingly critical, and committed to the cause of human emancipation, but also absurdist, experimental, endlessly playful, romantic, and deeply personal. Tonight we'll hear from a variety of Wyatt's solo and collaborative projects, both political and poetic (as if the two weren't one). Tune in and hear He of the Great Voice.
Avatar 7:05pm
geezerette:

Cheers,Evan!
Avatar 7:05pm
quinn:

yay!
Avatar 7:06pm
Flash Strap:

This album, Rock Bottom, is really as good as an album can be. One of the great works of musical art of the 20th century! Long may it play
Avatar 7:07pm
Flash Strap:

Geezerette! Quinn! How grand to see you both! Welcome and how are yous?
Avatar 7:09pm
Flash Strap:

everytime i hear that part, where the song goes into reverse, i actually turn inside out, true story
Avatar 7:10pm
Flash Strap:

that there, that's Ivor Cutler
Avatar 7:10pm
geezerette:

Feeling fine and likewise heartened by Ms. May's rebuff.
Avatar 7:10pm
hyde:

hellllllloooooooo
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:11pm
Doug Schulkind:

Oh God am I glad to be here. Sanctuary.
Avatar 7:12pm
Flash Strap:

Hyde! Helloooooo!

Ah, and Doug! Happy to be here with you my friend
Avatar 7:12pm
hyde:

@Doug you mean like that J Geils tune? i don't think Flash is playing that tonite
Avatar 7:13pm
geezerette:

Hyyyyyyyyyyyyy-de!

Yessir Doug, shelter from the storm.
Avatar 7:13pm
hyde:

geeeeezzzzzzzeeeeeeeeeeeerreeeetttte
Avatar 7:14pm
quinn:

Amen
Avatar 7:15pm
geezerette:

:) !

Howdy Quinn!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
Doug Schulkind:

I have been dealing with a hospitalized father that past 10 days. Things were looking really crappy. On Sunday afternoon, I had the "It's time to start thinking about hospice" conversation with the doctor. By Monday evening, my father was awake with eyes open and talking from a chair. A fairly miraculous transformation. Just moved him to skilled nursing rehab today. A whirlwind.

That kind of sanctuary.
Avatar 7:16pm
Flash Strap:

Doug, that is good news.
Avatar 7:18pm
geezerette:

Glad for you and your family Doug. A very happy Fathers Day to all.
Avatar 7:18pm
hyde:

@Doug yow. glad to hear that.
Avatar 7:18pm
Flash Strap:

This here is some of the best work on the complex nature of love and partnership, and the inherent limitations of language to express the intensely personal, ever. The second part where Alfie (his wife) rejoinders is just, completely amazing and moving. even though it's in gibberish
Avatar 7:21pm
Flash Strap:

also: great sax, man! I never figured out who's playing it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:22pm
doctorjazz:

That is good news indeed, Doug. Happy Father's Day!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
Doug Schulkind:

I think it's Gary Windo on sax. Also, the great South African trumpeter Mongezi Feza plays on this record.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:24pm
Doug Schulkind:

Feza played on the "Little Red Riding Hood" tune.
Avatar 7:24pm
Flash Strap:

They were really close, Wyatt and Feza

I'm not real familiar with Windo, need to get to know
Avatar 7:25pm
geezerette:

I hear a little Moondog influence.
Avatar 7:27pm
Flash Strap:

I think so too! I know he's a big Yusef Lateef fan as well, and loves Max Roach
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
Doug Schulkind:

Listening to Wyatt makes me weepy. My friend Michael King was close to the man and wrote the book Wrong Movements: A Robert Wyatt History. King took his life two years ago, and I am still madsadmadsadmadsad.

Michael King: cuneiformrecord.blogspot.com...
Avatar 7:27pm
hyde:

apparently, Gary Windo also plays on the 1982 Joe Piscopo LP "New Jersey"! maybe don't start with that.
Avatar 7:30pm
Flash Strap:

What an awful loss, Doug, I'm so sorry. I'd like to read that. I've read some parts of his biography, "Different Every Time" and it's awfully interesting.
Avatar 7:43pm
Flash Strap:

I like Matching Mole at least as much as Soft Machine, if not more to be honest
Avatar 7:47pm
Flash Strap:

look at this beautiful man: media.digitalphotogallery.com...
Avatar 7:48pm
quinn:

i love him
Avatar 7:50pm
geezerette:

That face tells you everything.
Avatar 7:52pm
Flash Strap:

I love that someone as gentle and kind as he is is willing to offer such a sharp rebuke to centrist/conservatism. it means more coming from him
Avatar 7:52pm
northguineahills:

Matching Mole was the first Robert Wyatt that jumped out at me (and I dug Soft Machine), and I didn't discover MM until '99. After that, everything else he touched made sense.
Avatar 7:53pm
Flash Strap:

NGH! Hello fellow
Avatar 7:54pm
Flash Strap:

There are degrees of amnesia, ways to forget
Ways to remember all the good that you've done
And if you can't get a witness remind yourselves
Nobody's just perfectly good all the time
And if you killed all those redskins long, long ago
Well, they'd all be dead now anyway, anyway
Don't let that ghost disconcert you – the lord will provide
A nice little headstone for the brave Cherokee

So let's have no reservations, let's have a clean sweep
Clearing the way for the land of the free
Let's hear it for civilisation once more
Build your aryan empire in peace
Avatar 7:56pm
Flash Strap:

NGH, I think that moment came for me when I heard End of an Ear, oddly enough. though the first Wyatt lp i heard was Shleep, and I love that
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
melinda:

hi explorers!
Avatar 8:05pm
Flash Strap:

melinda! hi hi hi
Avatar 8:06pm
northguineahills:

My college roommate got Schleep, but it didn't work for me at the time. By the time I moved to NYC, it finally clicked.
Avatar 8:06pm
Flash Strap:

This record never gets its due, it's amazing
Avatar 8:07pm
Flash Strap:

@NGH: I hear that. I still haven't clicked with Comicopera or to a lesser extent, Dondestan, but I know I will one day
Avatar 8:09pm
Flash Strap:

"I suddenly thought what that building must be like from the inside"
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Everybody feels like RobertWyatt is their own friend.
Avatar 8:15pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Revrab! great to see you. He is everyone's own friend
Avatar 8:16pm
Flash Strap:

OF COURSE we're going to hear Shipbuilding. I'm not a man of stone
Avatar 8:18pm
Flash Strap:

jesus, this song
Avatar 8:29pm
northguineahills:

The 1975 Indonesian invasion of East Timor was rather horrific....
Avatar 8:40pm
Flash Strap:

Big time horrific. And of course we totally enabled the Indonesian regime when we supported Suharto's coup in the name of anti-communism
Avatar 8:41pm
Flash Strap:

"Carpenters who had built houses wanted only to build
More
Painters who painted pictures wanted only to
paint more
Men who sang life strong in laughter wanted only to
sing more
Men who planted wheat and cotton wanted only to
plant more"
Avatar 8:45pm
Flash Strap:

The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet : s3.amazonaws.com...
Avatar 8:52pm
Flash Strap:

Eno on this one
Avatar 9:02pm
Flash Strap:

I love how he sounds virtually the same, 30, 40 years apart
Avatar 9:08pm
Hams:

very cool show, flash. just tunin' in. ..just this past year i started delving into wyatt's old eps & all, where before i only knew ROCK BOTTOM, almost by heart, & RUTH...
Avatar 9:08pm
Flash Strap:

he lays down some gorgeous drums at the end of this
Avatar 9:08pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Hams!
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Hams:

evening!
Avatar 9:10pm
Flash Strap:

I love Ruth... in fact, I'm about to play some from it!
Avatar 9:11pm
Flash Strap:

Such an absurd conflation with minimalism: "Phillip Glass is mineralist to the extreme"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:14pm
Doug Schulkind:

Plotzing big time over here.
Avatar 9:16pm
Flash Strap:

good plotz or bad plotz? I understand there's one of each
Avatar 9:18pm
northguineahills:

I have a face-to-face interview for a senior GIS position at a hydrology & soil science environmental firm tomorrow morning. They want my school transcripts to see my classes I took. I haven't been in grad school in 15 years, and haven't taken a chemistry or calculus class in 20 years. Been cramming for the last two weeks, as I have no idea where this interview will go....
Avatar 9:20pm
Flash Strap:

wow! good luck brother NGH! I hate providing transcripts, I always feel like, if you wanna see em so bad, you get em

seriously. good fortune to you NGH. May it go exceedingly well
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:20pm
Doug Schulkind:

Joyplotz!
  9:21pm
Doctorjazz:

Once again, this show is really an education (for me...), cool stuff!
Avatar 9:23pm
northguineahills:

Now I need matching mole3 (or a mole units of the mammal mole in mole sauce).
Avatar 9:23pm
northguineahills:

Thanks. Its actually a job I want in a location I'd want to live in.
Avatar 9:24pm
Flash Strap:

Joyplotz for me too then!

So glad to hear it, Doc! I love love love playing this music, and I'm so glad that somebody can gain something from my doing so

That's crucial, NGH. I'll incant a spell on your behalf tonight at the shrine
Avatar 9:25pm
Flash Strap:

eno on this one too
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:25pm
Doug Schulkind:

Pretty sure Mongs is on Ruth Is Stranger, too. ♥.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:26pm
coelacanth∅ sneaking in like i've been here:

hello Evan and Explorers
Avatar 9:27pm
northguineahills:

I don't believe I've heard this album. This one really stands out.
Avatar 9:27pm
Flash Strap:

Oh, he is! for some reason I thought he passed away in '74
Avatar 9:29pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Sneaky Coelacanth!
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Flash Strap:

Mongezi Feza died right after that LP, in 1975. It really shook Wyatt up and contributed to a lull in solo output. His contributions to Rock Bottom and Ruth is Stranger than Richard are invaluable
Avatar 9:31pm
Flash Strap:

these lyrics, read by Cutler, are a reprise of those that appeared much quicker in Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road. It's really cool in the context of the album
Avatar 9:32pm
Flash Strap:

it's super essential in my book, NGH (Ruth is Stranger than Richard)
Avatar 9:34pm
Hams:

i've always like that laugh at the end of "red robin". ..can't think of a more conclusive laugh.
Avatar 9:35pm
quinn:

I had to leave for most of the show, but one of his lesser... acclaimed(?) songs that I can never get enough of is Worship from Dondestan. I listen to it on repeat.
Avatar 9:35pm
northguineahills:

I understand Robert's Spanish very easy (must be my gringoness). Always wanted to hear Violetta Parra. It took me forever to find recordings of Victor Jara.
Avatar 9:36pm
Flash Strap:

agreed, Hams! so good
Avatar 9:39pm
Flash Strap:

I wish I had your spanish, NGH. I translated it for myself, but it wasn't very intelligible

Quinn, I need to give that one a close relisten, then
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:40pm
Uncle Michael:

Just loving Wyatt Night.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:46pm
Uncle Michael:

Nick Mason can afford to pay all our hospital bills.
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Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
Uncle Michael:

Thanks, Evan.
Avatar 9:53pm
northguineahills:

Gotta jump, thanks!
Avatar 9:55pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Uncle!

Thanks to you, NGH! Best of luck tomorrow
Avatar 9:57pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks all, goodnight
Avatar 9:59pm
Flash Strap:

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Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Evan!
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