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Ridgewood Radio features concert recordings by adventurous bands and experimental musicians and restored archival tapes from private and institutional collections captured at venues large and small across the five boroughs of New York. It is produced by David Weinstein and Outpost Artists Resources operating out of the Ridgewood section of Queens, NY, where you'll find more yellow bricks than on the road to Oz and the cemetery of your choice is never more than a few blocks from home.

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Favoriting March 4, 2020: Marathon Special: Electric Kahraba

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Electronic music from the Middle East, an extraordinary batch of prizes,
and the debut of the Greater Ridgewood Radio Territory Band,
an exclusive session and CD for our listeners.
Image from Oliver Husain’s 2016 film “Isla Santa Maria 3D”.

Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
Soap Kills  Tango   Favoriting Cheftak  Not On Label (Soap Kills Self-released)  2002  Indie electro-pop band based in Lebanon formed in 1997 by Zeid Hamdan and Yasmine Hamdan.   

Music behind DJ:
Jocy de Oliveira 
Space Liturgy (David W edit)   Favoriting
Ridgewood Dream Library 
Beautiful Drummer 
1991 
Here's the link to share to pledge to WFMU in the name of this show: http://pledge.wfmu.org/donate/RH 
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Montage of...  Ridgewood Radio Prizes   Favoriting Ridgewood Radio Prize Teaser  WFMU.org  2020  CDs awarded randomly to folks pledging $20 or more during the show!  0:07:25 (Pop-up)
Morgan Craft & Mutamassik  Feriano   Favoriting Rough Americana  Circle Of Light  2003  Morgan Craft from Minnesota (guitar, bass) & Giulia Loli aka Mutamassik out of Pittsburgh and Cairo (drums and turntables), both now in Italy.  0:15:50 (Pop-up)
Rayya Badran  Asking to be Possessed   Favoriting (a(version)s)  Electric Kahraba Collection  2011  Interview with Rayya Badran and track based on Black Audio Film Collective film: Who Needs A Heart? and Lebanese band Soap Kills 2001 track.  0:20:27 (Pop-up)
Basel Abbas  Bag of Cassettes Vol. 1   Favoriting (a(version)s)  Electric Kahraba Collection  2011  Interview and montage built from a personal archive of forgotten cassettes found (in a bag) in his parents home.  0:25:28 (Pop-up)
SC MoCha  Beirut Cornice Encounters   Favoriting (a(version)s)  Electric Kahraba Collection  2011  Cellphone montage.  0:30:16 (Pop-up)
Lawrence Abu Hamdan  Effects Pedals in the Trial of Saddam Hussein   Favoriting Selections from Aural Contract  Electric Kahraba Collection  2011  Also called the Chipmonks Trial, a story of audio manipulation.  0:35:31 (Pop-up)
Mohamed Abdelkarim  Pourquoi   Favoriting (a(version)s)  Electric Kahraba Collection  2011  Contains samples from the film “Alexandria… Why”.  0:38:08 (Pop-up)
Lawrence Abu Hamdan  FRE SPEECH 6.0   Favoriting Selections from Aural Contract  Electric Kahraba Collection  2011  Interview and archival tape  0:44:51 (Pop-up)
Greater Ridgewood Radio Territory Band  The Ridgewood Radio Premium (excerpt)   Favoriting Give The Drummer Radio  WFMU.org  2020  Produced and performed by Che Chen with Ka Baird, Todd Capp, and Talice Lee. Session and CD recorded exclusively for this program and yours with a $75 pledge.  0:52:13 (Pop-up)
Tanaffus Istina’i  Boikutt   Favoriting (a(version)s)  Electric Kahraba Collection  2011  Title translates as Artificial Respiration.  0:56:34 (Pop-up)
Halim El Dabh  3arooba   Favoriting (a(version)s)  Electric Kahraba Collection  2012  Original Skype recording edited by Namy with samples from Triboluminescence at Ashkal Alwan (artspace in Beirut), a party at ONNO (Armenian restaurant in Beirut), and sound art class at Beirut School for the Blind.  1:01:14 (Pop-up)
WFMU DJs  Selected Tracks   Favoriting Mindfulness for Jerk-Offs  WFMU.org  2020  From the cassette (and download) compilation, yours with pledge of $180 (if you enroll in Swag for Life, that is $15 a month). Over 40 DJs contributed (here submissions from Will S, Jim P, Martinibomb, Henry L.)  1:13:07 (Pop-up)
Cynthia Zaven  Lullaby for Traffic   Favoriting (a(version)s)  Electric Kahraba Collection  2011  Interview and piano piece.  1:14:06 (Pop-up)
Lawrence Abu Hamdan  Animal Rights aka MGM’s Lion: The first sonic theft   Favoriting Selections from Aural Contract  Electric Kahraba Collection  2011  The story and the sound sample.  1:19:59 (Pop-up)
Omar Korshid  Guitar El Chark   Favoriting Rhythms from the Orient  Voice of Lebanon  1974  Khorshid was an Egyptian guitarist, composer, accompanist, and actor.  1:22:02 (Pop-up)
Damascus Musical Group  Raksat Al Hawanem   Favoriting Rhythms and Dances from Syria  Byblos  1977    1:26:39 (Pop-up)
Greater Ridgewood Radio Territory Band  The Ridgewood Radio Premium (excerpt)   Favoriting Give The Drummer Radio  WFMU.org  2020  Produced and performed by Che Chen with Ka Baird, Todd Capp, and Talice Lee. Session and CD recorded exclusively for this program and yours with a $75 pledge.  1:36:54 (Pop-up)
Joe Namy  Shaabi Mix   Favoriting Push Button Synth Styles Change Up Arab Street Sounds  Clocktower Collection  2012  A mashup of synth heavy Shaabi-style music collected by Namy from Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon.  1:42:56 (Pop-up)
Clay Pigeon  Electronic Tone Pulsation   Favoriting Mindfulness for Jerk-Offs  WFMU.org  2020  From the cassette and download, compilation yours with pledge of SW4 at $15/mo.  1:56:29 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:59pm
david w:

Here's the facts on the Ridgewood Radio Premium: The Greater Ridgewood Radio Territory Band is a CD album produced and performed by Che Chen (of 75 Dollar Bill) with Ka Baird, Talice Lee, and Todd Capp. The project was recorded specially for WFMU and Ridgewood Radio and is available exclusively for pledges of $75 or more.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:03pm
weinstein:

And! Here is today's prize list for our show. You are in the running when you pledge $20 or more:
• Carl Stone: Baroo / Unseen Worlds (CD)
• Francisco Lopez: Preque Tout Quiet Pieces: 1993-2013 / L-ne (CD)
• Guerilla Toss: What Would The Odd Do? / NNA Tapes (CD)
• Laurie Spiegel: Unseen Worlds / Unseen Worlds (CD)
• "Blue" Gene Tyranny: Out Of The Blue / Unseen Worlds (CD)
• Michele Mercure: Beside Herself / RVNG Intl. (CD w/booklet)
Avatar 2:23pm
Flash Strap:

Hello Ridgewood! I'll be virtual co-hosting on this program! let's goooo
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:38pm
david w:

Welcome Flash Strap! Delighted!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:46pm
ruth:

Hiya Flash!
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Flash Strap:

Hi David and Ruth! happy to be here
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:00pm
steveo:

hello i was so excited to be the first commenter and now just look ;)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:00pm
steveo:

hi david, ruth & flash strap!
Avatar 3:01pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Steveo!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:01pm
david w:

Hello steveo and thank you for you know what!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:02pm
steveo:

haven't heard you while washing my dishes lately, evan; I should remedy that...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:02pm
steveo:

thank you david for this show!
Avatar 3:03pm
Flash Strap:

Yeah man swing on by!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:03pm
ruth:

Hey Steveo glad to have you on board! My G key is sticking so I'll pre-apologize for typos.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
steveo:

you'll have to transpose everything into A minor
Avatar 3:04pm
Flash Strap:

really excited to hear this show's premium, truly a rarity, seems incredible
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
ruth:

Hah!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
steveo:

thank you also, Ruth, of course!
Avatar 3:09pm
Flash Strap:

That Carl Stone album is pretty great! I have Himalaya as a prize next week but I think Baroo is even better
Avatar 3:11pm
Flash Strap:

oh yeah, there is no downside to more Laurie Spiegel in your life! Gotta have it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:11pm
Webhamster Henry:

Patchwork in the works!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:11pm
Sem:

Good afternoon, Marathoners David, Ruth, the OAR secret headshake gang, and attendess, both in the loges above, and the in the nosebleed seats up there in the rafters, looks to be george rafters, or possibly the Thor Heyerdahl expedition.
Avatar 3:11pm
Flash Strap:

Hello Sem and Webhamster!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:12pm
david w:

Henry in the works! And Sem in all the glory! Welcome!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:12pm
ruth:

Nice selection from out prizelist David
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:12pm
doctorjazz:

Hi David,Ruth,and you all.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
weinstein:

Hey DR. J
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
Sem:

Flash Strap! My apologies for overlooking you here (or there, as the case may be.)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:15pm
ruth:

hey Sem!
Avatar 3:15pm
Flash Strap:

No apologies necessary Sem!
Avatar 3:16pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Doc! always good to see you!
Avatar 3:17pm
Flash Strap:

The extremely wild Carl Stone album, BAROO can be yours for a donation of $20 or more in the next little while! Let me tell you it's very cool
Avatar 3:18pm
Flash Strap:

wow this is great
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:19pm
doctorjazz:

Hi Evan! You're co-host? Good combo!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:20pm
ruth:

I concur Dr. J!
Avatar 3:20pm
Flash Strap:

Love when I get to cohost this program, it's a treasure
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Stéphanie:

Hi David! I’m “here”.... loving it....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:21pm
ruth &david:

Aww thanks Flash
Avatar 3:21pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Stéphanie!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:22pm
ruth:

Stephanyyyy!! xo
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:24pm
david w:

Stéphanie, I'm pleased... but pushing buttons like mad here!
Avatar 3:25pm
Flash Strap:

If you're listening to this program right now then you already know it's about as daring and vital as radio can possibly be – support it with a donation of 20+ and you could win a prize (right now, Carl Stone)
for 75+ you get one of the rarest and wildest premiums on offer this year!
Avatar 3:26pm
Flash Strap:

Very very pleased to announce the winner of Carl Stone's Baroo is Stephanie! thank you, thank you for your generous donation!
Avatar 3:27pm
Flash Strap:

Stephanie in Ridgewood, I should specify!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:29pm
ruth:

Yes Congrats R'wood Steph
Avatar 3:32pm
Flash Strap:

CURRENT PRIZE: for $20 or more you can be in the running for the exquisite, very very quiet Francisco Lopez: Preque Tout Quiet Pieces: 1993-2013  (CD)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:33pm
Doug Schulkind:

David, in 33 years of marathoning for WFMU I can't recall a more incredible premium. What you have created this year for your listeners is a stunning work of love. Bravo to you and the artists who gave of themselves!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:34pm
david w:

Aw, shucks. Love! Yep!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:34pm
ruth:

Doug! You have inspired us!
Avatar 3:35pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Doug! I agree, it's really a tremendous thing! what a premium, what a program
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:37pm
ruth:

Whoa this is Sooo weird Chipmunks vs Saddam
Avatar 3:38pm
Flash Strap:

incredible
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:41pm
david w:

Sem! Thank you!
Avatar 3:42pm
Flash Strap:

Sem! thank you so much
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:42pm
ruth:

You are truly SEMpatico! Thanks
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:42pm
Doug Schulkind:

Hello, Ruth!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:43pm
Sem:

Wheee!!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:43pm
ruth:

Hey Doug!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:43pm
chresti:

Heelo! Home from work, sounds good!
Avatar 3:43pm
Flash Strap:

Lopez to Sem! Congratulations and thank you thank you!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:43pm
ruth:

Chresti in the house!
Avatar 3:44pm
Flash Strap:

Hello Chresti! lovely to see you
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Flash Strap:

NEXT PRIZE, POSSIBLY YOURS for $20 or more: Guerilla Toss: What Would The Odd Do?
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Flash Strap:

Thank you Andrew in Waterloo for your lovely pledge!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:46pm
ruth:

Yes Andrew Thanks for your support!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:47pm
Andrew Waterloo:

These interview outtakes are amazing
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:49pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hey! I wrote a system like that in the early 2000's.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:50pm
Webhamster Henry:

Not the voiceprint stuff though. That's kind of creepy!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:50pm
ruth:

Hi Hamster Did yours have the velvet voice intro too?
Avatar 3:52pm
Flash Strap:

NEXT UP : LAURIE SPIEGEL, UNSEEN WORLDS
WHAT A RECORD!
Could be YOURS for $20 or more
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:52pm
ruth:

Laurie Spiegel a foremother for sure
Avatar 3:53pm
Flash Strap:

Guerilla Toss CD goes to ANDREW IN WATERLOO! thank you friend!
Avatar 3:54pm
Flash Strap:

oh my god this is incredible

$75 and you get this sublime premium AND get in the running for prizes
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:55pm
ruth:

Good for you Gorilla Tosser Andrew
Avatar 4:01pm
Flash Strap:

Let's get some more pledges going! Laurie Spiegel is on the line, people! Your sonic portal to Worlds Unseen
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:06pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hi @ruth! I'm sure there were some instructional videos produced but I never saw them! I like that kind of material, its so creepy!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:07pm
david w:

Hey all you lovely people. I'm dancing faster than usual here today, but more than grateful for the pledges (could use more...)
Avatar 4:08pm
Flash Strap:

Let's get a new pledge in for dancing David W, pretty please
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:09pm
Doug Schulkind:

Such an essential cultural treasure. By capturing and preserving the sounds of a particular universe of art, Ridgewood Radio is literally making history. This kind of work is simply priceless, and thus it comes to us at no expense. But WFMU is up to its jugular with expenses and needs your help.

Make a kind hearted contribution to the cause, and do so in honor of David and Ruth and Ridgewood Radio!

Please!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:09pm
david w:

Laurie S to... ???
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:09pm
ruth:

And don't forget for $75 our special premium record the Ridgewood Radio Territory Band. I listened to it in my studio over the weekend and lo and behold: masterpiece after masterpiece flowed through my fingertips! Extraordinary! It will work for you too!
Avatar 4:10pm
Flash Strap:

Laurie S., Unseen Worlds goes to Steve O! Thank you to beloved listener Steve O
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:11pm
steveo:

Groovy, thanks!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:11pm
ruth:

Good job SteveO
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Flash Strap:

180$ or 15$/month gets you this crazy Mindfulness for Jerk-Offs +3 DJ premiums
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Flash Strap:

by the way what Doug said up there was a holy truth. help Ridgewood Radio continue to make history, true believers!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:16pm
ruth:

History R US
Avatar 4:16pm
Flash Strap:

We are almost halfway to our goal, help us blast over the halfway line with a new pledge (and get in the running for "Blue" Gene Tyranny: Out Of The Blue on CD)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:20pm
ruth:

I got the halfway blues
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Flash Strap:

by the way, if you're thinking of going big for the Mindfulness tape, it DOES feature our own wonderful David W.! not to be missed on that point alone
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Flash Strap:

atop a colossal mountain beneath stormy skies, hair, beard & robe blowing in the hurricane-force winds, my heart pure, my mission righteous, as I howl into the maelstrom: ONE MORE PLEDGE

DEAR LISTENERS

OOOOOOONEE MOOOOORE PLEEEEEDGE
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:28pm
ruth:

david just described his piece on Mindfulness for Jerk-offs as a Tibetan truffle
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:28pm
ruth:

So worth it!
Avatar 4:29pm
Flash Strap:

oh, i wanna hear that
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:30pm
david w:

So, "Blue" Gene and then Michele Mercure coming... both CD prizes to finish the show and the odds are fabulous if you pledge in the next minutes!
Avatar 4:31pm
Flash Strap:

one little pledge of $20 or more gets you in the running (and very likely to win) "Blue" Gene Tyranny & Michele Mercure: Beside Herself

&

the holy knowledge that you've supported daring radio in a dire time. You can't afford not to!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:32pm
ruth:

Make our ears tingle with the sound of your pledge!
Avatar 4:34pm
Flash Strap:

Thank you Jason! a generous pledge has put you in the (very narrow) running for these fabulous prizes
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:36pm
Doug Schulkind:

Only $205 to go to reach the goal. Exactly like reaching for a plump, ripe mango, except sweeter but less sticky. PLEDGE AND REACH!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:37pm
david w:

Jason! Thank you! Ruth is studying to see where exactly you live (naturally curious person but not a stalker)
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Flash Strap:

Let's see a few more Sweet Pledges, Pretty Please!

And a GREAT BIG thank you to Jason, who pushed us past the middle point!
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Flash Strap:

god damn what a cool premium
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:38pm
ruth:

Jason Thankyouthankyouthankyou!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:39pm
ruth:

Our special House Blend on tap
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:41pm
Jason__D:

no worries ;) south coast of the uk, v. sporadic commentator, but regular & grateful listener
Avatar 4:43pm
Flash Strap:

you have our gratitude as well, Jason!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:44pm
ruth:

Shaabi me timbers
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:44pm
Sem:

Thank you, Jason_D.!
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Flash Strap:

we have 2 prizes to give away before the end of this show in 15 minutes!
Give us one last pledge (or two) to go out on and get in there and put yourself in the running! Pledge pledge pledge!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:45pm
david w:

Thank you Jason, we always sense folks like you are out there!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:46pm
ruth:

C'mon you guys can do it! grab the Blue Gene and the Mercure while they're hot
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Flash Strap:

OOOOOOOONE MOOOOORE PLEEEEEDGE PLEEEEEEASE
  4:49pm
heinseng:

Rock the Casbah!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:49pm
david w:

My bisquits almost ready.
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david w:

heinseng yayyyyy!!!!
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Flash Strap:

Hi Heinseng!
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Flash Strap:

just ten minutes left to PLEDGE me hearties
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:53pm
ruth:

Heinseng!
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Flash Strap:

"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Out Of The Blue is going to very generous wonderful listener Jason D! thank you friend!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

The fun continues here on Drummer Radio: Sound collages "Children's Television Voteshop" & newly unearthed "Lost episode 2014 #2".

Come play and support! wfmu.org...
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Flash Strap:

LAST MINUTE PLEDGE Lisa gets the Mercure!
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Flash Strap:

Thank you Lisa! Right under the wire! Clutch pledge!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:57pm
ruth:

Love ya Lisa. Big thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:57pm
steveo:

thanks everyone; see you!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:58pm
david w:

thank you steveo and everybody!!! Flash Strap great partner! Ruth too!!!
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Flash Strap:

my great pleasure, a privilege to be involved with this tremendous program
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Flash Strap:

thanks everyone!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:01pm
chresti:

Thanks guys!
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