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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 February 8, 2018: Savage and Sensuous Exotica and Jazz

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Artist Track Album Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro          
Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians  Brazil   Favoriting Rumba Jazz: A History of Latin Jazz and Dance Music 1919-1945      0:00:32 (Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Morning   Favoriting Yusef Lateef  1958/1971  1971 stereo reissue of 1958 live album, "Lateef at Cranbrook"  0:03:24 (Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Brazil   Favoriting Yusef Lateef  1958/1971    0:17:40 (Pop-up)
Ferrante & Teicher  Brazil   Favoriting Soundblast - The Sound Of Tomorrow Today!  1956    0:20:56 (Pop-up)
Chico O'Farrill & His Latin Orchestra  Taboo   Favoriting Music From South America  1956    0:24:34 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Chico O'Farrill & His Latin Orchestra 
 
Music From South America 
 
 
0:27:13 (Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Taboo   Favoriting Other Sounds  1959  Flugelhorn – Wilbur Harden  0:34:14 (Pop-up)
Wilbur Harden  Tanganyika Strut   Favoriting Tanganyika Strut  1958  Tenor Saxophone – John Coltrane; Wr. Curtis Fuller (Trombone)  0:42:16 (Pop-up)
The Buddy Collette – Chico Hamilton Sextet  Green Dream   Favoriting Tanganyika  1956    0:52:17 (Pop-up)
The Buddy Collette – Chico Hamilton Sextet  A Walk On The Veldt   Favoriting Tanganyika  1956    0:56:37 (Pop-up)
Buddy Collette  Jungle Pipe   Favoriting Man Of Many Parts  1956    1:00:26 (Pop-up)
Louis Bellson, His Drums & Orch.  African Dance   Favoriting Around the World in Percussion  1961  with Buddy Collette  1:04:16 (Pop-up)
Buddy Collette & The Four Swinging Shepherds  Improvisation (With Conga)   Favoriting Buddy Collette's Swinging Shepherds  1958    1:06:58 (Pop-up)
Don Ralke  Ritmo Marteo   Favoriting Bongo Madness  1957  with Buddy Collette; "An African lament which allows Buddy Collete complete freedom to explore the mystries of the Belgium Congo." (sic sic sic)  1:09:28 (Pop-up)
Don Ralke  Belleza Y Diablo   Favoriting Bongo Madness  1957  with Buddy Collette  1:13:08 (Pop-up)
Don Ralke Orchestra  The Mystery of Yambuya   Favoriting The Savage and the Sensuous Bongos  1960    1:17:26 (Pop-up)
Don Ralke Orchestra  Face Beside the Fire   Favoriting The Savage and the Sensuous Bongos  1960    1:20:25 (Pop-up)
The Chico Hamilton Quintet  Far East   Favoriting Gongs East!  1959  with Eric Dolphy  1:23:05 (Pop-up)
The Chico Hamilton Quintet  Bali Ha'i   Favoriting South Pacific in Hi-Fi  1958  with Paul Horn  1:27:21 (Pop-up)
Buddy Collette Septet  Gauguin   Favoriting Polynesia  195?  vocal by Marni Nixon  1:31:48 (Pop-up)
The Buddy Collette – Chico Hamilton Sextet  Jungle Pogo Stick   Favoriting Tanganyika  1956    1:35:10 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The Chico Hamilton Quintet 
Passion Flower   Favoriting
Gongs East! 
 
 
1:37:42 (Pop-up)
Don Randi Trio / Curtis Amy / The Exotic Strings  Tropical Safari   Favoriting Jungle Adventure in Music and Sound  1966  produced by Camarata  1:52:23 (Pop-up)
Don Randi Trio / Curtis Amy / The Exotic Strings  Similau   Favoriting Jungle Adventure in Music and Sound  1966  produced by Camarata  1:53:23 (Pop-up)
Don Randi Trio / Curtis Amy / The Exotic Strings  Passion Flower   Favoriting Jungle Adventure in Music and Sound  1966  produced by Camarata  1:56:05 (Pop-up)
Don Randi Trio / Curtis Amy / The Exotic Strings  Baby Elephant Walk   Favoriting Jungle Adventure in Music and Sound  1966  produced by Camarata  1:58:56 (Pop-up)
Sterling Holloway and Camarata  How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin   Favoriting Walt Disney Presents Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, Vol. 2  1965    2:01:35 (Pop-up)
Curtis Amy & Dupree Bolton  Native Land   Favoriting Katanga!  1963    2:06:39 (Pop-up)
Don Randi Trio  Tahitian Lullaby   Favoriting Last Night / With The Don Randi Trio  1962    2:16:54 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra  The Breeze and I (From Suite, "Andalucia")   Favoriting 78  1940?  Vocal: Bob Eberly; Arr. by Camarata  2:20:33 (Pop-up)
Don Randi Trio / Curtis Amy / The Exotic Strings  Jungle Adventure   Favoriting Jungle Adventure in Music and Sound  1966  produced by Camarata  2:23:41 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Jungle  
 
 
 
2:38:19 (Pop-up)
Louis Bellson, His Drums & Orch.  Brazil   Favoriting Around the World in Percussion  1961  with Buddy Collette  2:39:01 (Pop-up)
Les Paul & Mary Ford  Brazil   Favoriting Brazil (The Wild Guitars Of Les Paul & Mary Ford)  1967    2:40:43 (Pop-up)
Buddy Collette  Perfidia   Favoriting Calm, Cool & Collette  1957    2:43:14 (Pop-up)
Chico O'Farrill & His Latin Orchestra  Malaguena   Favoriting Music From South America  1956    2:46:11 (Pop-up)
Gil Evans  Where Flamingos Fly   Favoriting Out Of The Cool  1961    2:49:29 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Thurston Knudson 
 
Primitive Percussion - African Jungle Drums 
 
 
2:54:00 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 6:57pm
Flash Strap:

Evening, explorers. Come on in, make yourselves comfortable. I have a good one for you tonight, if I may dare to say. Let's get started here in just a moment
Avatar ♥ 7:00pm
hyde:

hello! i remembered to come early this week
Avatar 7:02pm
Flash Strap:

Ah, hello Hyde!
Avatar 7:05pm
Flash Strap:

Just picked this Yusef Lateef up, loving it just to death
Avatar ♥ 7:06pm
hyde:

yeah, sounds great.
  7:06pm
zonk ludlow:

Hiya Flash, Hyde. Yusef - a giant, nice way to get things rolling.
Avatar 7:07pm
Flash Strap:

can't go wrong with Yusef. Hi there Zonk! great to see ya
Avatar ♥ 7:09pm
hyde:

hiya zonk.
Avatar 7:10pm
Flash Strap:

listen to that man play sax, good god
Avatar 7:15pm
Flash Strap:

Frank Gant on drums
Avatar 7:17pm
Flash Strap:

quiet in here tonight, that's cool, let's be mellow for a while
Avatar 7:19pm
Flash Strap:

this is one of the craziest versions of this type of ubiquitous exotica/latin standard that I've heard
Avatar 7:19pm
Flash Strap:

I adore Yusef for doing this type of thing
  7:20pm
zonk ludlow:

No objections from me if the next 3 hours just embodied Yusef. Maybe a show dedicated to him down the track?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:21pm
doctorjazz:

Hi, great program ahead (for the likes of me...)
  7:24pm
slawooy:

Yusef and endless Brazil love it. Cuckoo show
Avatar 7:24pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Doc Jazz!

Just a wee bit more Yusef planned tonight, but lots more for some night soon, Zonk
Avatar 7:25pm
Flash Strap:

Ah, Slawooy! How grand to have you here in my cuckoo clock
Avatar 7:27pm
geezerette:

Is that a Gauguin woodcut?
Howdy, Evan and explorers!
Avatar ♥ 7:29pm
northguineahills:

Loved the Lateef, been trying to get a project done before Monday and have been at work this week from 9:30pm or 10:30pm. Gotta pick up the missus up at the Orlando airport tomorrow, and I don't want to have to come back into the office.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:32pm
doctorjazz:

Cool Jazz!
Avatar 7:33pm
geezerette:

Congrats,NGH!
Avatar 7:36pm
geezerette:

This is incredible! :D What goofy swingin'.
Avatar 7:37pm
Flash Strap:

Geezerette! welcome, welcome! Gauguin indeed. Carving at bottom is his as well

Hi NGH! Best of luck and lots of fun
Avatar 7:37pm
Flash Strap:

G: I actually almost opened with the version of Brazil from Three Caballeros
Avatar 7:38pm
geezerette:

Haha!
Avatar 7:40pm
just julia:

these sounds are perfect on this evening, just what i ordered, though i didn't see it on the menu or even think to ask for it - just right, thank you.
Avatar 7:41pm
Flash Strap:

My great pleasure Just Julia! I hope all subsequent courses I have planned suit your evening's palate
Avatar ♥ 7:42pm
northguineahills:

Thanks, alls!
Avatar ♥ 7:44pm
hyde:

poor wilbur harden.
Avatar 7:45pm
Flash Strap:

pretty tragic story for poor Wilbur
Avatar ♥ 7:47pm
hyde:

yep. though here's a cool discussion about Wilbur Harden and his Kuhlohorn www.trumpetmaster.com...
Avatar 7:48pm
Flash Strap:

that's super interesting, I've never heard of the Kuhlohorn until now
Avatar ♥ 7:49pm
hyde:

me either!
Avatar 7:50pm
Flash Strap:

fair warning – this set is probably going to run long, I have a ton of stuff I want to squeeze into it. This is all just prologue
Avatar 7:54pm
Flash Strap:

I love this track to death, it's really a strange composition, very Buddy Collette
Avatar 7:54pm
geezerette:

www.nytimes.com...
Review of last summer's Gauguin show at Chicago Art Institute. Talks about carvings and ceramics; great photos...
Avatar 7:56pm
Flash Strap:

wish I'd seen that show!
Avatar 7:58pm
Flash Strap:

I adore Gauguin, and so did Buddy Collette
Avatar ♥ 7:58pm
hyde:

@geezerette that show looks great!
Avatar 8:00pm
geezerette:

me too!
Collette, sauve..
Avatar 8:01pm
geezerette:

Hey Hyde! Yeah, I didn't even know about that show!
Avatar 8:02pm
geezerette:

I've got a battered copy of Noa Noa.
Avatar 8:03pm
Flash Strap:

me either, I would have probably traveled to see it if I had
Avatar 8:03pm
Flash Strap:

first heard this on the Cool Blue Flame, actually
Avatar 8:04pm
geezerette:

same here!
Avatar 8:04pm
geezerette:

It's wonderful.
Avatar 8:06pm
geezerette:

Also, seamless segues! The last half hour could've almost been one long piece.
Avatar 8:09pm
Flash Strap:

thank you! that's especially nice to hear because I'm switching back and forth to vinyl a lot this evening
Avatar 8:09pm
Flash Strap:

also, man this is a great track
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:09pm
melinda:

hi everyone
Avatar 8:10pm
still b/p:

Is this where shepherds swing? Oh, good. It's the right flock.
Avatar 8:11pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Melinda! B/P! so good to see you both!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:11pm
Little Danny:

Hi Flash, all! OMG this playlist
Avatar 8:12pm
Flash Strap:

LD! we were just talkin' bout ya pal
Avatar 8:17pm
Flash Strap:

Every time I read about Bongo Madness, people are complaining it's not super madness-y. it is oddly restrained, but entirely lovely. and the cover is amazing: img.discogs.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:17pm
melinda:

Nice vibe. My dad recently got an official dementia diagnosis and it's making me sad. Good tunes help.
Avatar 8:19pm
Flash Strap:

tremendously sorry to hear that, Melinda. Glad I can bring the tunes as long as they help
Avatar 8:22pm
Flash Strap:

this whole record is masterful
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:23pm
melinda:

Thanks Evan.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:25pm
Little Danny:

"Face Beside the Fire" is soooo deep
Avatar 8:26pm
Flash Strap:

agreed, LD. one of the best on the record
Avatar ♥ 8:26pm
northguineahills:

Fuuuu.... melinda, i saw it happen to my grandmother. My father is 10-15 years away, as I see the early signs. Heck, I'm not as sharp as I used to be (see my spelling and grammar on the playlist).

melinda, abrazos por tu!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:26pm
Little Danny:

@melinda: Hi! And sorry! But glad you're a part of this community. FMU has kept me going through some times
Avatar 8:27pm
geezerette:

Sorry to hear that Melinda. Sending an imaginary hug.
  8:29pm
zonk ludlow:

Melinda, happy that Evan is providing a release for you. Stay strong.
Avatar 8:29pm
still b/p:

Sorry, and best thoughts, Melinda. So hard to be unable to fix or reverse it. My folks, 91 and 89, have their frailties, but they and the family haven't confronted what you and yours are asked to bear.
Avatar 8:33pm
Flash Strap:

love this album so much... if i ever see it in the wild i might actually keel over from shock
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:33pm
melinda:

Thanks everyone. My chronic health problem for the last 10 years or so includes brain fog and it's hard not to feel doomed, at this rate. I try to remind myself that I'm not old yet and still have time to work on it.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:34pm
Little Danny:

Man you are nailing so many favorites Evan
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:34pm
melinda:

@flash haha. The fainting crate digger.
Avatar 8:35pm
Flash Strap:

Brain fog sucks, Melinda, I hate to hear that. you DO have time though, that's true
  8:41pm
zonk ludlow:

Fave set, feeling is mutual Flash. This archive will get a workout.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:44pm
Doug Schulkind:

Explorer Madness!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:49pm
Doug Schulkind:

@melinda
Love and strength to you!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:51pm
melinda:

Thanks Doug.
Avatar ♥ 8:54pm
hyde:

hang in there melinda!
Avatar 8:54pm
Flash Strap:

LOVE to hear it, Zonk!

Hi Doug!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:54pm
melinda:

Thanks Hyde.
Avatar ♥ 8:54pm
hyde:

this record is super cool.
Avatar 8:56pm
Flash Strap:

It's totally psychedelic! some sound fx I never would have thought to do, and one of the best Baby Elephant Walks ever recorded
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:56pm
Little Danny:

Jungle Adventure in Music and Sound is totally new to me, and awesome! Holy shit
Avatar 8:57pm
Flash Strap:

Jeep sounds! that is awesome to me
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:57pm
Little Danny:

Gotta put you on in the background on my phone as I cobble a show together. Stop being so damn inspiring plz
Avatar 8:57pm
Flash Strap:

me too, LD, i'm just transfixed with how inventive it is! how is this not an established fetish object of exotica?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:58pm
Little Danny:

You may have mentioned it but "Tropical Safari" is "Similau"
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:58pm
Little Danny:

Oh jeez nevermind. That was what I heard
Avatar 8:59pm
Flash Strap:

get ready for this baby elephant
Avatar 8:59pm
still b/p:

Mark Trail currently has African beasts inexplicably loose in Lost Forest! What will happen?! Some of this is le musique juste for the soundtrack!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:59pm
melinda:

Nice sound effects!
Avatar 9:00pm
Flash Strap:

it blows my mind the way camarata is using those elephant sounds as a horn section in the intro
Avatar ♥ 9:01pm
northguineahills:

This song reminds me of elephants!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:02pm
Doug Schulkind:

Hi, Flash! Ho, everyone!
Avatar 9:03pm
Flash Strap:

the instrumental on this is so fuckin' cool
Avatar 9:04pm
Flash Strap:

Sterling Holloway is a thankfully very well-documented treasure
Avatar ♥ 9:05pm
northguineahills:

I read the Just So Stories when I was 6, it was a bday gift. I didn't really understand all of it at the time, but it was still fun reading!
Avatar ♥ 9:06pm
northguineahills:

like, I never heard the word, "beloved", at the time.
Avatar 9:07pm
Flash Strap:

I really liked, and totally didn't understand, the Jungle Book when I was a kid, so I know exactly what you mean, NGH
  9:07pm
Dean:

Not jazz, but some of Villa-Lobos's work would fit swell with this playlist.
Avatar 9:08pm
Flash Strap:

nice cover on this one: img.discogs.com...
Avatar ♥ 9:08pm
northguineahills:

(my elephant comment was a jasper reference from the simpsons)
Avatar 9:10pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Dean! A ways back I played Villa Lobos' Forest of the Amazon, which is pretty in line with some of this stuff
Avatar ♥ 9:10pm
northguineahills:

Then at age 7, the same aunt game me O'Henry's stories. Equally fun and baffling.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:11pm
coelacanth∅:

olá Flash e exploradores
Avatar ♥ 9:11pm
northguineahills:

Also not jazz, but Ricardo Villalobos' reworking of the ECM back catalog is amazing as well!
Avatar 9:12pm
Flash Strap:

Hi there, Coelacanth!
  9:12pm
Dean:

Oh, shoot, I need to get that ECM re-do. Keep forgetting about it.
Avatar 9:14pm
Flash Strap:

that sounds cool
Avatar 9:18pm
Flash Strap:

sort of a Vince Guaraldi vibe
Avatar ♥ 9:19pm
northguineahills:

Ok, I have friends over to put together some furniture w/ me before the wifey comes over tomorrow, so, I'm off the comment board, I probably won't be back on here until LD time. Thanks Evan!
Avatar 9:20pm
Flash Strap:

great to have ya with us, NGH! all good things to you
Avatar 9:22pm
Flash Strap:

I believe this is the first such version of The Breeze and I
Avatar 9:24pm
geezerette:

This is practically beat!
Avatar 9:26pm
still b/p:

Sound of African Queen chugging down the river, there...
Avatar 9:28pm
geezerette:

WILD show, Evan. :D
Avatar 9:28pm
Flash Strap:

This is really one of the ultimate expressions of the Hi-Fi "virtual voyage" – to have the sound of the jeep chugging throughout is so literal and effective
Avatar 9:29pm
Flash Strap:

ah, why thank you, G
Avatar 9:35pm
jaywbabcock:

Thank you Evan. Another wonderful show.
Avatar 9:35pm
still b/p:

Rosie said of running the rapids, and I'm sure she'd say the same of a wild bumpy jeep run: "I'd never dreamed that any mere physical experience could be so stimulating!"
Avatar 9:40pm
Flash Strap:

Hey thank YOU Jay!
Avatar 9:41pm
Flash Strap:

Les Paul is so psycho on this
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:42pm
melinda:

Nice sounds.
Avatar 9:42pm
still b/p:

Well..."They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil."
  9:42pm
Dean:

WTF. Sounds like the heyday of Return to Forever. Is this at the right speed?
Avatar 9:43pm
still b/p:

Watching his hands in old TV clips from the documentary about him....I'm just thinking, "Human hands....and brains...how...what is...wait...whoa.."
Avatar 9:44pm
Flash Strap:

@Dean: as far as I know! Paul is a fuckin' wild man
  9:45pm
Dean:

Christ, somebody ought to name a guitar after that guy.
Avatar 9:46pm
geezerette:

hahaha...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:47pm
Doug Schulkind:

"Is that the right speed" is the most perfect comment a WFMU deejay could ever receive.
  9:48pm
Dean:

That, and "Did the stream just cut out?"
  9:49pm
Little Danny:

a show for the ages, Flash!
Avatar 9:49pm
still b/p:

That's a T-shirt slogan fer th' station right thar, Doug Or a neck tattoo for everyone who does a shift.
Avatar 9:51pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks LD! This Gil Evans made me think of ya
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:52pm
Little Danny:

Ha! I'm glad! Top obscure exotica composition
Avatar 9:52pm
Flash Strap:

been lovin' Gil Evans of late, gotta get some more of him on a show soon
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:53pm
Little Danny:

Jungles reborn in just a few minutes: wfmu.org... Please join us at the Cool Blue Flame!
Avatar 9:53pm
geezerette:

Don Randi's The Baked Potato is still operating in Studio City!
Avatar 9:55pm
Bobby Whirlwind:

enchanting sounds thank you
  9:56pm
zonk ludlow:

Cheers Evan, just the antidote to bring a sometimes bleak week to a close. Grateful.
  9:56pm
Dean:

That four note motif in "Where Flamingos Fly"...why do I recognize that independent of Evans?
  9:58pm
Dean:

Stravinsky? Mussourgsky?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:58pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Evan!
Avatar 9:58pm
still b/p:

Stimulating! Jeeps, jungle, joy music!
Avatar 9:59pm
geezerette:

Great show,thanks Evan!
  9:59pm
Dean:

Probably "Firebird," given the avian theme?
Avatar 9:59pm
Flash Strap:

My treat, Zonk!

I'll have to study up on that, Dean, I had a similar wonder

Thank you, Bobby Whirlwind, Coelacanth, Geezerette, B/P!
Avatar 3:32pm
jaywbabcock:

That Tahitian Lullaby thing is VERY proto Charlie Brown Xmas, yep
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