WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from April 9, 2020

Listener comments!
	6:52pm Flash Strap: Hello Explorers!
	🥁 6:58pm chresti: Hi Flash and explorers in the room!
	6:59pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti!
	7:00pm Carmichael: Flash ...
	7:01pm Flash Strap: Hi there Carm!
	7:04pm JtotheK: Hiya Flash, hiya Explorers.
	7:05pm JtotheK: Russ Garcia ... I recently read a book about exotica, I think this record was featured. Let me see here...
	7:05pm Flash Strap: Hi JtotheK!
	7:05pm Frog Mover: Hello everyone! Had a nice dip last week, back for more.
	7:05pm Flash Strap: Frog Mover, back in the room! Hello
	7:06pm Flash Strap: what book was that, JK?
	7:07pm Franco Twinkie: Flash, Is this Jerrys father? I know he was a band leader.
	7:07pm Frog Mover: This show is back to where it all began.
	7:08pm JtotheK: Yep, book - “Soundscape: The Space Age Bachelor Pad Music Companion” by James Spencer. I added a bunch of albums to my want list after reading.
	7:09pm Flash Strap: Hi Franco: no, but that would be a cool thing to have be true
	7:10pm Flash Strap: @JtotheK: I haven't read that one, actually. probably should
	7:10pm Carmichael: His father was Joe Garcia, but he died when Jerry was about 5 or 6.
	7:10pm Franco Twinkie: I was only kidding. I think Russ Garcia is still alive.
	7:13pm northguineahills: Not familiar w/ Russ Garcia, digging la sondes...
	7:13pm Flash Strap: Hi NGH!
	7:14pm doctorjazz: Hi Explorers. Short visit, time for Socially Distanced Seder 2 in a bit (minus Zoom tonight).
	7:16pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc, happy Pesach
	🥁 7:16pm WR: Hi all. Looking at the program title I'm thing, yeah right, when does Explorer's Room not have exotica. Then seeing the pictured album covers I realize I need to strap in for an EXOTICA EXPERIENCE!!!
	7:17pm Franco Twinkie: I just checked. Russ Garcia passed away nine years ago. He did go to San Francisco state however.
	7:17pm Flash Strap: Hi WR! yeah we're going all-in tonight
	7:21pm Flash Strap: the drums on this Chaino album are so good, it's crazy how good
	7:23pm still b/p: Chaino, good grief: "In the promotion of his albums, a fictional biography was developed, depicting Chaino as an orphan from a lost tribe in central Africa who had been rescued by a missionary after his tribe had been massacred. Chaino was actually born in Philadelphia and raised in Chicago."
	7:26pm Flash Strap: Hi B/P! oh yeah, big time. I believe, like Korla Pandit, he devised this bio himself. rather tongue in cheek, but a perfect specimen of exotica's fictions
	🥁 7:26pm chresti: Haha
	7:27pm Little Danny: Hey Evan, hey errbody
	🥁 7:27pm chresti: Hey LD
	7:28pm Flash Strap: Hey LD!
	7:28pm Franco Twinkie: What if Chaino, Yma Sumac and Korla Pandit formed a power trio?
	7:29pm Ken From Hyde Park: No Brow!
	7:31pm Little Danny: Nice catch, Ken from HP!
	7:33pm still b/p: Oy, The Embroidered Troika.
	🥁 7:41pm chresti: A bamboo bar helps set the mood.
	7:43pm Doug Schulkind: Good evening, moonchanters!
	7:43pm Franco Twinkie: We can only imagine how many 60 year olds were conceived with this music pulsating on the hi-fi.
	🥁 7:43pm chresti: Drag in some fallen palm tree branches...
	7:43pm Flash Strap: Hi Ken! Hi Doug!
	7:46pm Flash Strap: I still can't get over the communication gap or just indifference of putting "Music from Polynesia and the Far East" right there on the cover and then spending the whole liner notes talking about Haiti and the Caribbean
	7:49pm Franco Twinkie: Flash, The record was on TOPS. I wouldn't expect anything less.
	7:51pm Flash Strap: @franco: too true. they also re-released it as Percussion Exotique & again as Exotic Percussion. I've never seen those copies but I wonder what their notes are
	7:51pm Flash Strap: this album truly a hall of famer when it comes to the exotic wordless vocal
	7:52pm Little Danny: Agree
	🥁 7:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hey Man ! ...catching a few minutes : I gotta sit OUTSIDE (of course) the Library right now to cop WiFi - in the cold & all this... But gotta say HELLO & Gawd Save the Culture & the Community. I LOVES YA.
	🥁 7:53pm chresti: I had a landlord that outfitted my apartment with bamboo furniture, I think he had been in the Korean war, I imagined the apartment was where he had parties before turning it into a rental. Flash, Polynesia, Haiti, far east, same thing back then.
	7:53pm Franco Twinkie: A dream job would have been to work in the TOPS art department.
	7:53pm Flash Strap: Hi Rev! Loves ya back buddy
	7:53pm Flash Strap: @Franco: you're tellin' me, my god
	🥁 7:59pm chresti: That voodoo record did not feel anything like a voodoo ceremony.
	7:59pm Flash Strap: @chresti: I know! didn't even try
	8:01pm Flash Strap: Richard Hayman's "Voodoo!" on the other hand, is fairly convincing in parts. Also, Perez Prado's "Voodoo Suite" – but Drasnin's album could just as well be called Ports of Paradise, or whatever
	8:04pm Flash Strap: This really is one of the best symphonic exotica LPs that doesn't have Les Baxter's name on it
	8:05pm melinda: hi friends! Straight-up exotica will hit the spot, yes.
	8:05pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	8:06pm passiflora: it's perfect
	8:06pm Flash Strap: Temple of Suicide such a unique addition to the exotica pantheon
	8:06pm Flash Strap: hi Passiflora! yess
	8:08pm Franco Twinkie: Many years ago I was driving down Sunset Blvd. in Echo Park. It was a hot summer night and the windows were down. I was stopped at a signal across from a storefront Santeria church. The wild screaming and chanting coming out the open door was nothing like these records. It was kind of scary.
	8:11pm Flash Strap: These guys did very little research, though the liner notes will effusively insist otherwise. 99% of their research would have been watching Hollywood movies anyway
	8:11pm UncleMarty: Even coprolite has a story to tell.
	8:13pm Flash Strap: you said it Uncle Marty
	8:14pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): sweeping in with friendly greetings for Flash and folx!
	8:18pm Flash Strap: Hiya Granny
	8:21pm Flash Strap: one of the very best exotica albums, this one. crazy that it's a total one-off
	8:25pm UncleMarty: Irwin turned me on to Martin Denny & Les Baxter... & all that cover art is mind blowing ... so thanks ( I think )
	8:26pm Flash Strap: hey my pleasure (pretty sure)
	8:26pm Flash Strap: Maika is sooo good
	8:28pm Flash Strap: organ sounding a lot like a novachord, tho i don't think it is
	8:32pm Frog Mover: This one's got red vinyl!
	8:32pm Soul Captain: Thanks for the full albums. All very good.
	8:47pm Flash Strap: Hi Soul Captain!
	8:48pm Flash Strap: Which one's that Frog Mover? none of mine have red vinyl tonight but I'm sure it would be a possibility
	8:48pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): these sounds please me!
	8:48pm Little Danny: This and Bahia are my fave Lyman LPs. Some deep moods.
	8:50pm Flash Strap: Bahia is so good, but I think for me it's a tie between this and Legend of Pele. Taboo is amazing as well though...
	8:50pm Flash Strap: this one has the deepest moods though, yeah, can't be beat for its true psychedelic vibe
	8:51pm Flash Strap: @granny: so pleased to please!
	8:52pm Little Danny: Oh yeah Taboo vol. 1 is heavvvy
	🥁 8:52pm chresti: Very pleasant.
	8:52pm Flash Strap: Lyman really does a transformative number on Malaguena here, an exotica master interpreter
	8:53pm Frog Mover: @Flash got a red Kapu. Funny cause that definitely doesn't seem like a trend then to my knowledge.
	8:53pm Flash Strap: @LD: it really is, the track Taboo is such a stereo trip too, it's so well-recorded and visceral it wigs me out
	8:55pm Flash Strap: Man I have both Kapu and its original release "Exotic Percussion" and i don't have the red for either! jealous. they did do that a lot back then though, particularly on budget labels if i'm not mistaken
	8:56pm Flash Strap: Vera Cruz is INSANE - the liner notes even compare it to "gloomy sunday" aka the Hungarian Suicide Song: en.wikipedia.org...
	8:58pm Flash Strap: the song Vera Cruz comes from the 1954 Burt Lancaster / Gary Cooper film of the same name, famed for its then-shocking violence
	8:58pm Flash Strap: a genius song selection / treatment from Mr. Lyman
	8:59pm coelacanth∅: greetings Evan, explorers
	8:59pm Flash Strap: Hi Coelacanth!
	9:01pm Flash Strap: almost inaudible organ used here, very weird
	9:02pm Franco Twinkie: I was just telling Chresti which of these records I have, which ones I have two copies of, and which ones I left at parties and never got back.
	🥁 9:04pm chresti: This is a funny song to exotify
	9:05pm Flash Strap: @chresti: i know, it's crazy, it's almost like the jungle reclaiming it & with it the British fighting spirit (almost)
	9:06pm Flash Strap: Lyman ended all his early album with a march, that's the only one of them I can stand. a bad tendency in my opinion
	9:07pm Flash Strap: Plas Johnson on sax for this record, really throws it to a different musical realm
	9:09pm Flash Strap: @frog mover: was just looking into it and Crown did a red issue of both Kapu and Exotic Percussion, yours is a very cool one to have my friend
	9:12pm CC: Mmmm... light as a feather!!!
	9:12pm Flash Strap: Hi CC!
	9:14pm Flash Strap: a little Duke in this one
	9:15pm Flash Strap: the whole thing reminds me a bit of Duke or Stan Kenton's exotic big band excursions, but at its best it's inimitably Baxter
	9:17pm Doug Schulkind: Am I terrible for nicknaming my dog Duke Smellington?
	9:18pm Flash Strap: i think that makes you the opposite of terrible, personally
	9:19pm CC: make no mistake...you are a real staple Flash!!!...I record stuff on cassette off of your archives all the time... just like the good doctor!!!
	9:19pm Flash Strap: haha thank you CC
	9:30pm CC: Erotica , Exotica.. it's all the same to me...turns me on, man!!!
	9:30pm GUMBY: Very interesting and relaxing show. Thanks
	9:34pm Little Danny: I could listen to a full 3 hours of just your liner readings (and quiet exotica accompaniment), Evan
	9:35pm CC: it's all about the horns!!!...who can blow those horns???
	9:35pm coelacanth∅: haha Danny yeah it's not every radio show that i turn it up for the mic breaks!
	9:36pm Flash Strap: Hi Gumby! my pleasure, thank you
	🥁 9:36pm chresti: Yeah, agree with Danny and coel.
	9:37pm Flash Strap: @LD, C: thanks guys. I love liner notes
	9:37pm CC: a nice flute always goes good!!!
	9:38pm Little Danny: It reminds me of some of those psychedelic air-checks of the late '60s. FMU years ago had an hour long show dedicated to them.
	9:38pm Flash Strap: Where or When by Rodgers and Hart (from the play Babes in Arms) : a very odd selection for an exotica album. i really love the treatment here
	9:38pm Little Danny: Right. It was actually called Aircheck. wfmu.org...
	9:39pm coelacanth∅: i miss that show, and the listener hour
	9:39pm Flash Strap: @LD: i gotta check that out
	9:39pm Little Danny: Check the episode/s that feature Spoke ('60 psychedelic DJ)
	9:40pm Flash Strap: @LD: will do
	🥁 9:40pm chresti: They are florid, some of those liner notes.
	9:41pm Little Danny: Chat/Comments are swallowing my quotation marks this evening. Crazy!
	9:41pm Flash Strap: thinking of doing another show or two in this exact vein, by the way, what would you guys think? in putting this together I created a stack of records i wasn't going to use but knew would make another good show
	9:42pm Flash Strap: this really is one of the most special and unique exotica records, i wouldn't trade it for anything
	9:43pm Little Danny: I always dig your deep multi-track explorations of exotica albums. Forces me to focus for once.
	9:45pm Flash Strap: me too, we do so many shows that i sometimes forget to focus in – and that got me thinking about the exotica-as-concept album thing, how these tracks are sort of supposed to present together as a suite. glad you dig it, you honor me
	9:45pm northguineahills: Been listening the whole time, been busy filling out docs for my new job, hopefully, training will start soon.
	9:46pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): this set is lovely, i think it's time to draw a bath…
	9:46pm melinda: I'd like another one or two.
	9:47pm northguineahills: Digging McFarland et al....
	9:47pm Flash Strap: fingers crossed for ya NGH! hope all goes very well
	9:47pm Flash Strap: Don't mind if ya do Granny!
	9:47pm Little Danny: And... especially with the LPs that I already know in some fashion, your shows always recontextualize the music in new and energizing ways
	9:48pm northguineahills: @GST: gets out a pen and paper
	9:50pm coelacanth∅: i guess that'd be easier than drawing Bath
	9:50pm Flash Strap: This track is full-on mindblowing in its minimalism
	9:50pm Flash Strap: @LD: thank you for saying that, that is my hope & dream
	9:51pm Flash Strap: @melinda: you got it friend
	9:51pm coelacanth∅: ...and count me in for another show like this one (at least like the just over an hour that i heard of this one!)
	9:52pm Flash Strap: not gonna get to the Denny tonight but as good as it is it's not as good as Jungle Drum Variations so no regrets
	9:52pm Flash Strap: @C: thumbs up, you got it
	9:54pm Flash Strap: wish i had more Chaino LPs, this is my only one. over the years i've realized i think it's a masterpiece
	9:54pm Doug Schulkind: Nice quote from Kirby Allan, producer of a number of Chaino's recordings: "He was a troubled artist, but it was what made him a great artist. He vented all his hang-ups and sexual frustrations busting out on those drums. I almost got shot trying to help him. People would come after him for all kinds of reason."
	🥁 9:55pm chresti: And yes to more in this vein, Flash.
	9:56pm still b/p: That was great. Would love to have some time-machine peeks back at the album listening-moments in its day -- who and where wuzzit ?
	9:56pm coelacanth∅: - about liner notes...they put me in a "special" room in high school (10th?) because they figured i couldn't read. the "special" teacher, Ms.Piel, was a special lady and we got along great. she soon asked me if i read anything...anything at all. i said liner notes! so she got me reading bios of musicians and groups and Presto! i'm not mentally handicapped any more!
	🥁 9:56pm WR: Thank you for the show. May have subliminally affected my partner & I dinner talk. Somehow we ended up talking about our trip to Cuba a few years ago instead of Covid-19. Thank you.
	9:57pm Little Danny: Thanks Evan, brilliant ep!
	9:58pm Little Danny: MICHAELS ROW YOUR BOATS ASHORE wfmu.org... Hope to see y'all!
	9:58pm melinda: Great show!
	9:59pm Franco Twinkie: Quite a trip up the river, Flash. Even if it was a river with lots of plastic junk on the shore.
	9:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan! take care
	🥁 9:59pm chresti: Thanks Evan Flashstrap!
	10:00pm Flash Strap: Thanks everyone! my great great pleasure to play records with and for you. see you next week, and see you next door

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from April 9, 2020

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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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April 9, 2020: Exotica

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
Russ Garcia and His Orchestra	Into Space	Fantastica: Music from Outer Space	Liberty	1958	0:03:17 (Pop-up)
Russ Garcia and His Orchestra	Nova (Exploding Star)	Fantastica: Music from Outer Space			0:04:39 (Pop-up)
Russ Garcia and His Orchestra	Lost Souls of Saturn	Fantastica: Music from Outer Space			0:07:09 (Pop-up)
Russ Garcia and His Orchestra	Monsters of Jupiter	Fantastica: Music from Outer Space			0:10:43 (Pop-up)
Russ Garcia and His Orchestra	Water Creatures of Astra	Fantastica: Music from Outer Space			0:13:58 (Pop-up)
Russ Garcia and His Orchestra	Venus	Fantastica: Music from Outer Space	Liberty	1958	0:16:33 (Pop-up)
Chaino and his African Percussion Safari	The Jungle Chase	Jungle Echoes	Omega Records	1958	0:21:05 (Pop-up)
Chaino and his African Percussion Safari	Torture of the Mau Mau	Jungle Echoes			0:23:43 (Pop-up)
Chaino and his African Percussion Safari	Co-Gona Voodoo	Jungle Echoes			0:26:09 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Chaino and his African Percussion Safari	The Feast Dance	Jungle Echoes	Omega Records	1958	0:29:35 (Pop-up)
Robert Drasnin	Chant of the Moon "Chant of the Moon" by "Robert Drasnin"	Voodoo: Exotic Music from Polynesia and the Far East	TOP Records	1959	0:44:06 (Pop-up)
Robert Drasnin	Desireé "Desireé" by "Robert Drasnin"	Voodoo: Exotic Music from Polynesia and the Far East			0:45:27 (Pop-up)
Robert Drasnin	Hindara "Hindara" by "Robert Drasnin"	Voodoo: Exotic Music from Polynesia and the Far East			0:48:05 (Pop-up)
Robert Drasnin	Orinoco "Orinoco" by "Robert Drasnin"	Voodoo: Exotic Music from Polynesia and the Far East			0:51:03 (Pop-up)
Robert Drasnin	Warm Night Wind "Warm Night Wind" by "Robert Drasnin"	Voodoo: Exotic Music from Polynesia and the Far East			0:53:21 (Pop-up)
Robert Drasnin	Mirage "Mirage" by "Robert Drasnin"	Voodoo: Exotic Music from Polynesia and the Far East			0:56:00 (Pop-up)
Dominic Frontiere and his Orchestra	Festival	Pagan Festival: An Exotic Love Ritual for Orchestra	Columbia	1959	1:00:03 (Pop-up)
Dominic Frontiere and his Orchestra	House of Dawn (Paccari-Tampu)	Pagan Festival: An Exotic Love Ritual for Orchestra			1:03:03 (Pop-up)
Dominic Frontiere and his Orchestra	Temple of Suicide (Ixtab)	Pagan Festival: An Exotic Love Ritual for Orchestra			1:05:34 (Pop-up)
Dominic Frontiere and his Orchestra	Moon Goddess (Ixchel)	Pagan Festival: An Exotic Love Ritual for Orchestra			1:08:30 (Pop-up)
Dominic Frontiere and his Orchestra	Time of Sunshine (Yaxkin)	Pagan Festival: An Exotic Love Ritual for Orchestra			1:11:12 (Pop-up)
Dominic Frontiere and his Orchestra	Goddess of Love	Pagan Festival: An Exotic Love Ritual for Orchestra			1:13:52 (Pop-up)
Milt Raskin	Kapu (Forbidden) "Kapu (Forbidden)" by "Milt Raskin"	Kapu (Forbidden) - The Exciting Sounds of Milt Raskin	Crown	1959	1:19:29 (Pop-up)
Milt Raskin	Koko Head "Koko Head" by "Milt Raskin"	Kapu (Forbidden) - The Exciting Sounds of Milt Raskin			1:21:26 (Pop-up)
Milt Raskin	Leahi (Diamond Head) "Leahi (Diamond Head)" by "Milt Raskin"	Kapu (Forbidden) - The Exciting Sounds of Milt Raskin			1:24:55 (Pop-up)
Milt Raskin	Maika "Maika" by "Milt Raskin"	Kapu (Forbidden) - The Exciting Sounds of Milt Raskin			1:27:50 (Pop-up)
Milt Raskin	Moon Festival "Moon Festival" by "Milt Raskin"	Kapu (Forbidden) - The Exciting Sounds of Milt Raskin			1:31:16 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Safari "Safari"				1:34:21 (Pop-up)
Arthur Lyman	Canton Rose "Canton Rose" by "Arthur Lyman"	Bwana À	HiFi Records	1959	1:48:25 (Pop-up)
Arthur Lyman	Blue Sands "Blue Sands" by "Arthur Lyman"	Bwana À			1:49:47 (Pop-up)
Arthur Lyman	Malaguena "Malaguena" by "Arthur Lyman"	Bwana À			1:53:32 (Pop-up)
Arthur Lyman	Vera Cruz "Vera Cruz" by "Arthur Lyman"	Bwana À			1:57:27 (Pop-up)
Arthur Lyman	Pua Carnation "Pua Carnation" by "Arthur Lyman"	Bwana À			2:00:20 (Pop-up)
Arthur Lyman	Colonel Bogey March "Colonel Bogey March" by "Arthur Lyman"	Bwana À			2:02:39 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter and His Orchestra	Brazilia	Jungle Jazz	Capitol	1959	2:05:51 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter and His Orchestra	Rain Forest	Jungle Jazz			2:07:27 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter and His Orchestra	Papagayo	Jungle Jazz			2:10:51 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter and His Orchestra	Amazon Falls	Jungle Jazz			2:12:43 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter and His Orchestra	Coco	Jungle Jazz			2:15:29 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter and His Orchestra	Carnival Merengue	Jungle Jazz			2:18:59 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Off Shore "Off Shore"				2:21:44 (Pop-up)
John McFarland Sextet	Where or When	Provocatif - 9 Exotic Motifs	United Artists	1959	2:37:27 (Pop-up)
John McFarland Sextet	Forbidden "Forbidden" by "John McFarland Sextet"	Provocatif - 9 Exotic Motifs			2:41:44 (Pop-up)
John McFarland Sextet	Midnight by a Persian Waterfall	Provocatif - 9 Exotic Motifs			2:44:33 (Pop-up)
John McFarland Sextet	Head Hunters	Provocatif - 9 Exotic Motifs			2:47:22 (Pop-up)
Chaino and his African Percussion Safari	Jungle Drum Variations	Jungle Echoes	Omega	1958	2:50:44 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Chaino	"Chaino"				2:57:45 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:52pm Flash Strap: Hello Explorers!
	🥁 6:58pm chresti: Hi Flash and explorers in the room!
	6:59pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti!
	7:00pm Carmichael: Flash ...
	7:01pm Flash Strap: Hi there Carm!
	7:04pm JtotheK: Hiya Flash, hiya Explorers.
	7:05pm JtotheK: Russ Garcia ... I recently read a book about exotica, I think this record was featured. Let me see here...
	7:05pm Flash Strap: Hi JtotheK!
	7:05pm Frog Mover: Hello everyone! Had a nice dip last week, back for more.
	7:05pm Flash Strap: Frog Mover, back in the room! Hello
	7:06pm Flash Strap: what book was that, JK?
	7:07pm Franco Twinkie: Flash, Is this Jerrys father? I know he was a band leader.
	7:07pm Frog Mover: This show is back to where it all began.
	7:08pm JtotheK: Yep, book - “Soundscape: The Space Age Bachelor Pad Music Companion” by James Spencer. I added a bunch of albums to my want list after reading.
	7:09pm Flash Strap: Hi Franco: no, but that would be a cool thing to have be true
	7:10pm Flash Strap: @JtotheK: I haven't read that one, actually. probably should
	7:10pm Carmichael: His father was Joe Garcia, but he died when Jerry was about 5 or 6.
	7:10pm Franco Twinkie: I was only kidding. I think Russ Garcia is still alive.
	7:13pm northguineahills: Not familiar w/ Russ Garcia, digging la sondes...
	7:13pm Flash Strap: Hi NGH!
	7:14pm doctorjazz: Hi Explorers. Short visit, time for Socially Distanced Seder 2 in a bit (minus Zoom tonight).
	7:16pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc, happy Pesach
	🥁 7:16pm WR: Hi all. Looking at the program title I'm thing, yeah right, when does Explorer's Room not have exotica. Then seeing the pictured album covers I realize I need to strap in for an EXOTICA EXPERIENCE!!!
	7:17pm Franco Twinkie: I just checked. Russ Garcia passed away nine years ago. He did go to San Francisco state however.
	7:17pm Flash Strap: Hi WR! yeah we're going all-in tonight
	7:21pm Flash Strap: the drums on this Chaino album are so good, it's crazy how good
	7:23pm still b/p: Chaino, good grief: "In the promotion of his albums, a fictional biography was developed, depicting Chaino as an orphan from a lost tribe in central Africa who had been rescued by a missionary after his tribe had been massacred. Chaino was actually born in Philadelphia and raised in Chicago."
	7:26pm Flash Strap: Hi B/P! oh yeah, big time. I believe, like Korla Pandit, he devised this bio himself. rather tongue in cheek, but a perfect specimen of exotica's fictions
	🥁 7:26pm chresti: Haha
	7:27pm Little Danny: Hey Evan, hey errbody
	🥁 7:27pm chresti: Hey LD
	7:28pm Flash Strap: Hey LD!
	7:28pm Franco Twinkie: What if Chaino, Yma Sumac and Korla Pandit formed a power trio?
	7:29pm Ken From Hyde Park: No Brow!
	7:31pm Little Danny: Nice catch, Ken from HP!
	7:33pm still b/p: Oy, The Embroidered Troika.
	🥁 7:41pm chresti: A bamboo bar helps set the mood.
	7:43pm Doug Schulkind: Good evening, moonchanters!
	7:43pm Franco Twinkie: We can only imagine how many 60 year olds were conceived with this music pulsating on the hi-fi.
	🥁 7:43pm chresti: Drag in some fallen palm tree branches...
	7:43pm Flash Strap: Hi Ken! Hi Doug!
	7:46pm Flash Strap: I still can't get over the communication gap or just indifference of putting "Music from Polynesia and the Far East" right there on the cover and then spending the whole liner notes talking about Haiti and the Caribbean
	7:49pm Franco Twinkie: Flash, The record was on TOPS. I wouldn't expect anything less.
	7:51pm Flash Strap: @franco: too true. they also re-released it as Percussion Exotique & again as Exotic Percussion. I've never seen those copies but I wonder what their notes are
	7:51pm Flash Strap: this album truly a hall of famer when it comes to the exotic wordless vocal
	7:52pm Little Danny: Agree
	🥁 7:52pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Hey Man ! ...catching a few minutes : I gotta sit OUTSIDE (of course) the Library right now to cop WiFi - in the cold & all this... But gotta say HELLO & Gawd Save the Culture & the Community. I LOVES YA.
	🥁 7:53pm chresti: I had a landlord that outfitted my apartment with bamboo furniture, I think he had been in the Korean war, I imagined the apartment was where he had parties before turning it into a rental. Flash, Polynesia, Haiti, far east, same thing back then.
	7:53pm Franco Twinkie: A dream job would have been to work in the TOPS art department.
	7:53pm Flash Strap: Hi Rev! Loves ya back buddy
	7:53pm Flash Strap: @Franco: you're tellin' me, my god
	🥁 7:59pm chresti: That voodoo record did not feel anything like a voodoo ceremony.
	7:59pm Flash Strap: @chresti: I know! didn't even try
	8:01pm Flash Strap: Richard Hayman's "Voodoo!" on the other hand, is fairly convincing in parts. Also, Perez Prado's "Voodoo Suite" – but Drasnin's album could just as well be called Ports of Paradise, or whatever
	8:04pm Flash Strap: This really is one of the best symphonic exotica LPs that doesn't have Les Baxter's name on it
	8:05pm melinda: hi friends! Straight-up exotica will hit the spot, yes.
	8:05pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	8:06pm passiflora: it's perfect
	8:06pm Flash Strap: Temple of Suicide such a unique addition to the exotica pantheon
	8:06pm Flash Strap: hi Passiflora! yess
	8:08pm Franco Twinkie: Many years ago I was driving down Sunset Blvd. in Echo Park. It was a hot summer night and the windows were down. I was stopped at a signal across from a storefront Santeria church. The wild screaming and chanting coming out the open door was nothing like these records. It was kind of scary.
	8:11pm Flash Strap: These guys did very little research, though the liner notes will effusively insist otherwise. 99% of their research would have been watching Hollywood movies anyway
	8:11pm UncleMarty: Even coprolite has a story to tell.
	8:13pm Flash Strap: you said it Uncle Marty
	8:14pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): sweeping in with friendly greetings for Flash and folx!
	8:18pm Flash Strap: Hiya Granny
	8:21pm Flash Strap: one of the very best exotica albums, this one. crazy that it's a total one-off
	8:25pm UncleMarty: Irwin turned me on to Martin Denny & Les Baxter... & all that cover art is mind blowing ... so thanks ( I think )
	8:26pm Flash Strap: hey my pleasure (pretty sure)
	8:26pm Flash Strap: Maika is sooo good
	8:28pm Flash Strap: organ sounding a lot like a novachord, tho i don't think it is
	8:32pm Frog Mover: This one's got red vinyl!
	8:32pm Soul Captain: Thanks for the full albums. All very good.
	8:47pm Flash Strap: Hi Soul Captain!
	8:48pm Flash Strap: Which one's that Frog Mover? none of mine have red vinyl tonight but I'm sure it would be a possibility
	8:48pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): these sounds please me!
	8:48pm Little Danny: This and Bahia are my fave Lyman LPs. Some deep moods.
	8:50pm Flash Strap: Bahia is so good, but I think for me it's a tie between this and Legend of Pele. Taboo is amazing as well though...
	8:50pm Flash Strap: this one has the deepest moods though, yeah, can't be beat for its true psychedelic vibe
	8:51pm Flash Strap: @granny: so pleased to please!
	8:52pm Little Danny: Oh yeah Taboo vol. 1 is heavvvy
	🥁 8:52pm chresti: Very pleasant.
	8:52pm Flash Strap: Lyman really does a transformative number on Malaguena here, an exotica master interpreter
	8:53pm Frog Mover: @Flash got a red Kapu. Funny cause that definitely doesn't seem like a trend then to my knowledge.
	8:53pm Flash Strap: @LD: it really is, the track Taboo is such a stereo trip too, it's so well-recorded and visceral it wigs me out
	8:55pm Flash Strap: Man I have both Kapu and its original release "Exotic Percussion" and i don't have the red for either! jealous. they did do that a lot back then though, particularly on budget labels if i'm not mistaken
	8:56pm Flash Strap: Vera Cruz is INSANE - the liner notes even compare it to "gloomy sunday" aka the Hungarian Suicide Song: en.wikipedia.org...
	8:58pm Flash Strap: the song Vera Cruz comes from the 1954 Burt Lancaster / Gary Cooper film of the same name, famed for its then-shocking violence
	8:58pm Flash Strap: a genius song selection / treatment from Mr. Lyman
	8:59pm coelacanth∅: greetings Evan, explorers
	8:59pm Flash Strap: Hi Coelacanth!
	9:01pm Flash Strap: almost inaudible organ used here, very weird
	9:02pm Franco Twinkie: I was just telling Chresti which of these records I have, which ones I have two copies of, and which ones I left at parties and never got back.
	🥁 9:04pm chresti: This is a funny song to exotify
	9:05pm Flash Strap: @chresti: i know, it's crazy, it's almost like the jungle reclaiming it & with it the British fighting spirit (almost)
	9:06pm Flash Strap: Lyman ended all his early album with a march, that's the only one of them I can stand. a bad tendency in my opinion
	9:07pm Flash Strap: Plas Johnson on sax for this record, really throws it to a different musical realm
	9:09pm Flash Strap: @frog mover: was just looking into it and Crown did a red issue of both Kapu and Exotic Percussion, yours is a very cool one to have my friend
	9:12pm CC: Mmmm... light as a feather!!!
	9:12pm Flash Strap: Hi CC!
	9:14pm Flash Strap: a little Duke in this one
	9:15pm Flash Strap: the whole thing reminds me a bit of Duke or Stan Kenton's exotic big band excursions, but at its best it's inimitably Baxter
	9:17pm Doug Schulkind: Am I terrible for nicknaming my dog Duke Smellington?
	9:18pm Flash Strap: i think that makes you the opposite of terrible, personally
	9:19pm CC: make no mistake...you are a real staple Flash!!!...I record stuff on cassette off of your archives all the time... just like the good doctor!!!
	9:19pm Flash Strap: haha thank you CC
	9:30pm CC: Erotica , Exotica.. it's all the same to me...turns me on, man!!!
	9:30pm GUMBY: Very interesting and relaxing show. Thanks
	9:34pm Little Danny: I could listen to a full 3 hours of just your liner readings (and quiet exotica accompaniment), Evan
	9:35pm CC: it's all about the horns!!!...who can blow those horns???
	9:35pm coelacanth∅: haha Danny yeah it's not every radio show that i turn it up for the mic breaks!
	9:36pm Flash Strap: Hi Gumby! my pleasure, thank you
	🥁 9:36pm chresti: Yeah, agree with Danny and coel.
	9:37pm Flash Strap: @LD, C: thanks guys. I love liner notes
	9:37pm CC: a nice flute always goes good!!!
	9:38pm Little Danny: It reminds me of some of those psychedelic air-checks of the late '60s. FMU years ago had an hour long show dedicated to them.
	9:38pm Flash Strap: Where or When by Rodgers and Hart (from the play Babes in Arms) : a very odd selection for an exotica album. i really love the treatment here
	9:38pm Little Danny: Right. It was actually called Aircheck. wfmu.org...
	9:39pm coelacanth∅: i miss that show, and the listener hour
	9:39pm Flash Strap: @LD: i gotta check that out
	9:39pm Little Danny: Check the episode/s that feature Spoke ('60 psychedelic DJ)
	9:40pm Flash Strap: @LD: will do
	🥁 9:40pm chresti: They are florid, some of those liner notes.
	9:41pm Little Danny: Chat/Comments are swallowing my quotation marks this evening. Crazy!
	9:41pm Flash Strap: thinking of doing another show or two in this exact vein, by the way, what would you guys think? in putting this together I created a stack of records i wasn't going to use but knew would make another good show
	9:42pm Flash Strap: this really is one of the most special and unique exotica records, i wouldn't trade it for anything
	9:43pm Little Danny: I always dig your deep multi-track explorations of exotica albums. Forces me to focus for once.
	9:45pm Flash Strap: me too, we do so many shows that i sometimes forget to focus in – and that got me thinking about the exotica-as-concept album thing, how these tracks are sort of supposed to present together as a suite. glad you dig it, you honor me
	9:45pm northguineahills: Been listening the whole time, been busy filling out docs for my new job, hopefully, training will start soon.
	9:46pm Granny Spicy Tuna (e/em): this set is lovely, i think it's time to draw a bath…
	9:46pm melinda: I'd like another one or two.
	9:47pm northguineahills: Digging McFarland et al....
	9:47pm Flash Strap: fingers crossed for ya NGH! hope all goes very well
	9:47pm Flash Strap: Don't mind if ya do Granny!
	9:47pm Little Danny: And... especially with the LPs that I already know in some fashion, your shows always recontextualize the music in new and energizing ways
	9:48pm northguineahills: @GST: gets out a pen and paper
	9:50pm coelacanth∅: i guess that'd be easier than drawing Bath
	9:50pm Flash Strap: This track is full-on mindblowing in its minimalism
	9:50pm Flash Strap: @LD: thank you for saying that, that is my hope & dream
	9:51pm Flash Strap: @melinda: you got it friend
	9:51pm coelacanth∅: ...and count me in for another show like this one (at least like the just over an hour that i heard of this one!)
	9:52pm Flash Strap: not gonna get to the Denny tonight but as good as it is it's not as good as Jungle Drum Variations so no regrets
	9:52pm Flash Strap: @C: thumbs up, you got it
	9:54pm Flash Strap: wish i had more Chaino LPs, this is my only one. over the years i've realized i think it's a masterpiece
	9:54pm Doug Schulkind: Nice quote from Kirby Allan, producer of a number of Chaino's recordings: "He was a troubled artist, but it was what made him a great artist. He vented all his hang-ups and sexual frustrations busting out on those drums. I almost got shot trying to help him. People would come after him for all kinds of reason."
	🥁 9:55pm chresti: And yes to more in this vein, Flash.
	9:56pm still b/p: That was great. Would love to have some time-machine peeks back at the album listening-moments in its day -- who and where wuzzit ?
	9:56pm coelacanth∅: - about liner notes...they put me in a "special" room in high school (10th?) because they figured i couldn't read. the "special" teacher, Ms.Piel, was a special lady and we got along great. she soon asked me if i read anything...anything at all. i said liner notes! so she got me reading bios of musicians and groups and Presto! i'm not mentally handicapped any more!
	🥁 9:56pm WR: Thank you for the show. May have subliminally affected my partner & I dinner talk. Somehow we ended up talking about our trip to Cuba a few years ago instead of Covid-19. Thank you.
	9:57pm Little Danny: Thanks Evan, brilliant ep!
	9:58pm Little Danny: MICHAELS ROW YOUR BOATS ASHORE wfmu.org... Hope to see y'all!
	9:58pm melinda: Great show!
	9:59pm Franco Twinkie: Quite a trip up the river, Flash. Even if it was a river with lots of plastic junk on the shore.
	9:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan! take care
	🥁 9:59pm chresti: Thanks Evan Flashstrap!
	10:00pm Flash Strap: Thanks everyone! my great great pleasure to play records with and for you. see you next week, and see you next door

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from April 9, 2020

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