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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 14, 2017: Relaxing with Cugat, Jazz Toccata & Fugue, Stormy Weather

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Artist Track Album Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro          
Xavier Cugat  Play, Fiddle, Play   Favoriting Quiet Music, Volume 6: Relaxing With Cugat  1952    0:00:53 (Pop-up)
Xavier Cugat  Spanish Dance   Favoriting Quiet Music, Volume 6: Relaxing With Cugat  1952    0:03:51 (Pop-up)
Xavier Cugat  Cuban Love Song   Favoriting 78  19??    0:07:10 (Pop-up)
Xavier Cugat  Cielito Lindo   Favoriting Magic of the Rumba  1954    0:11:20 (Pop-up)
Xavier Cugat  Nightingale   Favoriting Viva Cugat!  1961    0:13:35 (Pop-up)
Xavier Cugat  Perfidia   Favoriting Viva Cugat!  1961    0:16:06 (Pop-up)
Xavier Cugat  China Boy Mambo   Favoriting Mambo!  1957    0:19:00 (Pop-up)
Xavier Cugat  On An Island With You   Favoriting Quiet Music, Volume 6: Relaxing With Cugat  1952    0:21:23 (Pop-up)
Xavier Cugat  Danse Arabe   Favoriting Quiet Music, Volume 6: Relaxing With Cugat  1952    0:24:15 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Bud Tutmarc 
In Love With the Lover of My Soul   Favoriting
Sacred Hawaiian Melodies 
 
 
0:27:11 (Pop-up)
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra ‎  Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy)   Favoriting The Nutcracker Suite  1960  arr. Billy Strayhorn  0:36:30 (Pop-up)
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra ‎  Chinoiserie (Chinese Dance)   Favoriting The Nutcracker Suite  1960  arr. Billy Strayhorn  0:39:04 (Pop-up)
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra ‎  Arabesque Cookie (Arabian Dance)   Favoriting The Nutcracker Suite  1960  arr. Billy Strayhorn  0:42:09 (Pop-up)
Herbie Mann Nonet  A Ritual   Favoriting Flute, Brass, Vibes and Percussion  1961  arr. A.K. Salim  0:47:26 (Pop-up)
Piero Umiliani  Toccata E Samba   Favoriting Angeli Bianchi… Angeli Neri  1969    0:54:46 (Pop-up)
Pete Rugolo  Fugue for Rhythm Section   Favoriting Percussion at Work  1958    0:57:19 (Pop-up)
François Rabbath  Basse En Fugue Nº 2   Favoriting Nº 2  1965    1:01:46 (Pop-up)
Ray Haney, The Symphony de Paris  Jazz Toccata   Favoriting Jazz Toccata and Fugue  1961    1:04:13 (Pop-up)
Ray Haney, The Symphony de Paris  Fugue in Jazz   Favoriting Jazz Toccata and Fugue  1961    1:07:38 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Martin Denny 
Song of the Bayou   Favoriting
 
 
 
1:17:07 (Pop-up)
Ray Haney, The Symphony de Paris  Night Song of the Everglades   Favoriting Jazz Toccata and Fugue  1961    1:25:59 (Pop-up)
Dale Hawkins  Everglades   Favoriting House of Broken Hearts, Pt.2  195?    1:29:44 (Pop-up)
Eddie Dale  Okefenokee   Favoriting Ed Camp & Associates  195?    1:32:12 (Pop-up)
Chaino  Swamp Girl   Favoriting Chaino Africana  1959    1:34:46 (Pop-up)
Nervous Norvus  The Evil Hurricane   Favoriting Stone Age Woo: The Zorch Sounds of Nervous Norvus  19??    1:37:59 (Pop-up)
Gene Summers  Taboo   Favoriting Mister Rock and Roll  1977    1:40:20 (Pop-up)
The Savage Beat of Augie Colon  Tabu   Favoriting Sophisticated Savage  1959    1:42:33 (Pop-up)
Dorothy Ashby & Frank Wess  Taboo   Favoriting In A Minor Groove  1958    1:44:32 (Pop-up)
Corky Hale  There's an Island in the West Indies   Favoriting Modern Harp  1956    1:50:52 (Pop-up)
Bianchi and The Jungle Sex-Tet  Flute Hurricane   Favoriting Music To Play In The Dark  1956    1:53:53 (Pop-up)
Korla Pandit  Stormy Weather   Favoriting The Universal Language of Music Vol. 1  1954    1:56:40 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Before the Storm / The Storm / After the Storm   Favoriting Pastoral Suite/Surf Session  1953    1:59:17 (Pop-up)
John McFarland  Summer Storm   Favoriting Provocatif - 9 Exotic Motifs  1959    2:04:03 (Pop-up)
Johnny Spencer and the Kona Koasters  Monsoon   Favoriting s'Pacifica  1959    2:06:56 (Pop-up)
Ray Haney, The Symphony de Paris  The Seafarers   Favoriting Jazz Toccata and Fugue  1961    2:09:08 (Pop-up)
Wilmoth Houdini & His Hummingbirds  Trinidad Hurricane   Favoriting Roosevelt in Trinidad: Calypsos of Events, Places and Personalities, 1933-1939      2:14:53 (Pop-up)
Ross Deluxe Syncopaters  Florida Rhythm   Favoriting 78  1927    2:18:00 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Caribbean Lagoon  
 
 
 
2:20:37 (Pop-up)
François Rabbath  Walpurgis   Favoriting Sound of a Bass  1963    2:31:12 (Pop-up)
Julee Cruise  Rockin' Back Inside My Heart   Favoriting Floating Into The Night  1989    2:33:27 (Pop-up)
Maki Asakawa  ボロと古鉄   Maki VI  1974    2:39:06 (Pop-up)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk  Ain't No Sunshine   Favoriting Blacknuss  1972    2:47:43 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The Mystic Moods Orchestra 
One Stormy Night, Side 2   Favoriting
One Stormy Night 
1966 
 
2:50:17 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 6:29pm
Flash Strap:

Let's kick it old school with some tasty rumbas, big band jazz, and exotica tonight. pour yourself a drink, pack your pipe if you like, crack open a dusty old book of maps
Avatar 6:41pm
Walking Daydream:

Reader's Digest Great World Atlas at-last!
Avatar 6:47pm
hyde:

just looking for my monocle, brb
Avatar 6:55pm
Flash Strap:

Hi WD, Hi Hyde!
Avatar 6:57pm
Walking Daydream:

Hello
Avatar 6:57pm
hyde:

digging this Alan Shorter lead in on the stream... don't really know this record
Avatar 6:58pm
hyde:

killer band, tho--Shorter, Gato Barbieri, Charlie Haden, Rashied Ali
Avatar 6:59pm
Flash Strap:

oh man, hope I didn't cut it off too horribly just now
Avatar 6:59pm
hyde:

haha, no it faded nicely into the rain
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
listener james from westwood:

Evening, all!
Avatar 7:01pm
hyde:

ljfw!
Avatar 7:01pm
Flash Strap:

Listener James! Hello!
  7:03pm
Ehd:

Hey Flash!
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Flash Strap:

Hey Ehd!
Avatar 7:04pm
geezerette:

Evening,Evan and esteemed members!
Avatar 7:05pm
Flash Strap:

this whole first set we're just gonna lay back with our man X here

Hi Geezerette!
Avatar 7:06pm
Flash Strap:

this record in particular has such a great sound
Avatar 7:11pm
Flash Strap:

the Quiet Music series had two runs, with different covers. one run (for some reason) had really gritty, noirish imagery, super sexually charged with notes of violence. this is the Cugat LP's alternate cover: img.discogs.com...
Avatar 7:12pm
Flash Strap:

here's another one: img.discogs.com...
Avatar 7:13pm
geezerette:

OMG, that doesn't look relaxing at all!
Avatar 7:13pm
Flash Strap:

i mean, it's just so weird: img.discogs.com...
Avatar 7:14pm
geezerette:

EEEEK!
Avatar 7:16pm
Flash Strap:

they look like stills from Asphalt Jungle, not muzak covers
Avatar 7:18pm
Flash Strap:

love this arrangement, so dreamy and saccharine but the percussion keeps it alive
Avatar 7:18pm
hyde:

geeeeeeezerette!
Avatar 7:22pm
geezerette:

s.libertaddigital.com... Cugie & Carmen.

Hi, Hyde!
Avatar 7:23pm
hyde:

geez, i finally looked at the covers linked above. i think Cugat's drawings are more appropriate fare. those LP covers look like a mash up of Weegee and von Sternberg's Macao
Avatar 7:24pm
Flash Strap:

@G: that's such a good photograph, everyone and the dog looks so beautiful
Avatar 7:26pm
Flash Strap:

LOVE this arrangement
Avatar 7:26pm
geezerette:

Totally agree! 1.bp.blogspot.com...
Avatar 7:31pm
geezerette:

Cugat, by Cugat.
ring.cdandlp.com...
Avatar 7:38pm
Flash Strap:

i love his drawings! that second one is incredible. this is one of my favorites: cps-static.rovicorp.com...
Avatar 7:38pm
geezerette:

mediad.publicbroadcasting.net...
Duke & Strayhorn
Avatar 7:38pm
hyde:

i like this Ellington version, but for me this song is wedded to the celeste
Avatar 7:39pm
geezerette:

Hyde, same. It sparkles.
Avatar 7:42pm
Flash Strap:

It's that difference or wrongness that gives it its jazzy frisson!
Avatar 7:43pm
hyde:

@g and the cceleste gets so little chance to shine. tho i should confess i was once in a bad circus music band that took on the Nutcrcker one year for Xmas. We didn't have a celeste.
Avatar 7:44pm
Flash Strap:

that sounds pretty hilarious Hyde, love to imagine what that was like
Avatar 7:45pm
Flash Strap:

drums are so good on this record, btw
Avatar 7:48pm
geezerette:

Evan, great album cover! You can see the Ben-Day dots.

We play both Nutcrackers every year, along with Mark Morrises Waltz of the Snowflakes. (On youtube, the Snowflakes)
Avatar 7:49pm
hyde:

@Flash i have it all digitized into .wav files from our (Jumbo was the name of the band) but it's all packed in storage, unfortunately. Should probably upload that stuff to Youtube someday.
Avatar 7:50pm
Flash Strap:

you're both in bands that play The Nutcracker? what a world
Avatar 7:51pm
geezerette:

Have to work but still listening!
Haha, we play the recordings.
Avatar 7:52pm
Flash Strap:

oh, oh right of course, that makes sense haha
Avatar 7:54pm
geezerette:

Should've said,"listen".
Avatar 7:55pm
geezerette:

Will check in later. :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
Little Danny:

Hi Flash, hi all
Avatar 7:56pm
Flash Strap:

imprecise language always welcome

Hi LD!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
Little Danny:

This Rugolo is way hipper than I remember
Avatar 8:01pm
Flash Strap:

I know! there's a pretty bangin track on here called Funky Drums. good LP all round
Avatar 8:03pm
Flash Strap:

Rabbath is just astounding every time
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
melinda:

hi all!
Avatar 8:03pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Melinda!
Avatar 8:03pm
geezerette:

NOIR! :D

Hey, Danny!
Howdy, Melinda!
Avatar 8:05pm
Flash Strap:

I am just obsessed with this record right now
Avatar 8:07pm
hyde:

yay, melinda!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:09pm
Little Danny:

Heya geez! Nice to run into ya here
Avatar 8:11pm
Flash Strap:

@LD: this record has a pretty dynamite all-out exotica number on side 2, I think you'll dig it a lot. I'll open up the next set with it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
Little Danny:

I love the florid specificity of the liner notes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
Little Danny:

The Haney is new to me and awesome!
Avatar 8:28pm
Flash Strap:

yeah me too

love this swampy interlude too
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
Little Danny:

Yes! Dale Hawkins. I love when rockabillies did their exotica thing
Avatar 8:32pm
Flash Strap:

you and me both buster!

this one courtesy of Doug, who sent it my way years ago
Avatar 8:33pm
hyde:

this is great swamp rock. i feel like i'm listening to Rex on the flagship.
Avatar 8:35pm
Flash Strap:

that's a good feeling!
Avatar 8:37pm
Flash Strap:

when putting this set together, i realized that this is one of my favorite Chaino tracks. guitar is so cool
Avatar 8:37pm
hyde:

yep. though this Chaino is a little creepy!
Avatar 8:40pm
Flash Strap:

this track is so zorch
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:41pm
Little Danny:

whoa that Nervous Norvus!
Avatar 8:42pm
northguineahills:

Just got my permanent tag. Still waiting on news if I got power.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
Little Danny:

You are killing it in this set, Flash! I need to send you a ZIP of rockabilly-country-meets-exotica MP3s
Avatar 8:42pm
Flash Strap:

you know much Norvus, LD? he's got some stunners. sorta new to me actually
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:43pm
Little Danny:

I know "Transfusion" but that's it
Avatar 8:44pm
Flash Strap:

oh PLEASE do! nobody knows that stuff like you do
Avatar 8:45pm
Flash Strap:

Pterodactyl by Norvus is also a must-hear!
Avatar 8:47pm
Flash Strap:

oh and hello hello, warmest hellos to NGH! what's going on?
Avatar 8:48pm
Flash Strap:

Norvus on FEZ: freeeasyzipped.blogspot.com...
Avatar 8:55pm
hyde:

this set is dynamite
Avatar 8:56pm
Flash Strap:

ah thanks Hyde, music to my eyes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Flash and Explorers
Avatar 9:01pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Coelacanth!
Avatar 9:02pm
northguineahills:

I finally have power, I can go home!
Avatar 9:03pm
Flash Strap:

now that's good news
Avatar 9:04pm
northguineahills:

Only 108 hours w/o power.
Avatar 9:05pm
Flash Strap:

yikes man
Avatar 9:06pm
hyde:

@ngh glad you have power. i went 4 days w/o in Mass in August a few years ago, and it was rough
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:06pm
Little Danny:

Damn NGH. Glad you can get home tho
Avatar 9:07pm
hyde:

the worst thing was the people RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET had power the whole time
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:08pm
coelacanth∅:

yay good news ngh!
Avatar 9:08pm
Flash Strap:

after Katrina I think we went 12 days without, it was crazy
Avatar 9:10pm
hyde:

@Flash wow, that's rough
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hyde:

@Flash rough-er
Avatar 9:11pm
Flash Strap:

we were way back in the woods, a lot of trees came down. it was cool, the creek flooded so we bathed in that
Avatar 9:13pm
Flash Strap:

this time - hardly even a single day of rain. very glad NGH is going home
Avatar 9:14pm
northguineahills:

Yeah, Floridian humidity w/o fans can be interesting. Only lost power for 18 hours where I hunkered down (we're on the same grid as the hospital).
Avatar 9:16pm
northguineahills:

loving the theme, Evan!
Avatar 9:16pm
Flash Strap:

next one's for you, NGH

nothing like that humidity right now i bet, yowza
Avatar 9:17pm
northguineahills:

1 km from here there is still no power. This will take weeks.
Avatar 9:27pm
geezerette:

NGH, Are you going to get a generator?
Glad everyone's o.k.!
Avatar 9:30pm
geezerette:

Fun show, lots of artists we haven't heard, plus old favorites.
Avatar 9:32pm
Flash Strap:

thanks G, glad to hear it
Avatar 9:35pm
hyde:

oh, i have always loved this Julee Cruise
Avatar 9:35pm
Flash Strap:

can't stop playing this album now that Twin Peaks is over, trying to hold onto that magic
Avatar 9:38pm
hyde:

would love to see the new Twin Peaks. beyond my reach for now, i sometimes hate the current balkanized state of tv.
Avatar 9:41pm
Flash Strap:

oh i know, it's ridiculous. nationalize television, liberate the airwaves, unite the viewing public! the masses need twin peaks
Avatar 9:42pm
Flash Strap:

i heard this on local college radio the other day and spent like 5 minutes trying to figure out what made it so familiar before i finally realized, it's Rags and Old Iron
Avatar 9:43pm
Flash Strap:

she's a legend of course, but also the band on this is KILLER
  9:44pm
Jeff g.:

Sweet and heavy sounds!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:45pm
coelacanth∅:

this is sooo gorgeous
Avatar 9:46pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Jeff G!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
coelacanth∅:

-actually the last few have been a lovely cooking soundtrack; probably made my food turn out better.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:54pm
Little Danny:

Thanks, Evan, and thanks for the beautiful show
Avatar 9:54pm
Flash Strap:

happy to be the secret ingredient, C!
Avatar 9:54pm
Flash Strap:

ah well, thank you Danny! see you in that next room over
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:54pm
Little Danny:

I beseech thee: wfmu.org... Join us!
Avatar 9:55pm
geezerette:

What LD said!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:56pm
Doug Schulkind:

Finally home from class. Five classy minutes left of Flash Strap!
Avatar 9:56pm
geezerette:

@9:54
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Flash Strap:

Oh hello Doug! earlier I finally took a moment to play that Okenfenokee track you hipped me to a ways back!

thanks G!
Avatar 9:58pm
hyde:

thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:58pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Evan!
Avatar 9:59pm
Flash Strap:

thank you both as well
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:00pm
melinda:

Thanks Ev!
Avatar 10:00pm
Flash Strap:

thank you melinda! good night all! see you in two weeks
  2:53am
William:

Thnks for the music, from Mexico
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