WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from April 23, 2020

Listener comments!
	6:46pm Flash Strap: hello explorers
	🥁 7:00pm chresti: Hi Flash and explorers!
	7:01pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti!
	7:01pm Carmichael: Heya Flash!
	7:01pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Flash and all! If the God's feast includes pizza, I'll chip in for pepperoni and sausage—it's been ages.
	7:01pm Fuzzy: Let's explore!
	7:02pm Carmichael: Check out my avatar, James ...
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hi Fuzzy! Hungry James! Carm!
	7:02pm Carmichael: Working long hours these days, Flash. It will soon be over ...
	7:03pm Franco Twinkie: Greetings, barefoot seekers.
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Franco!
	7:06pm Flash Strap: @carm: i hope so, long hours no good
	🥁 7:06pm chresti: Whoopee fun! @Carmichael
	7:07pm testingwithfire: hi all, first time I listen to this show!
	7:08pm Flash Strap: Hi Testingwithfire! very happy to have you in the Room my friend, make yourself t'home
	7:08pm doctorjazz: Hello Explorers, Evan! You're my cooking Ziti company for now. (Haven't cooked this much since I was trying to impress my soon-to-be/New wife...)
	7:10pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc! I almost always cook at home but this is testing my limits for sure, i feel the need to go out for sushi or something but alas
	7:11pm testingwithfire: thanks @FlashStrap! I'm not sick of my own cooking yet, but cheap lunches out are definitely calling, nonetheless.
	7:12pm JtotheK: Hiya Flash, hi everyone! Say, what level of involvement did Ed McMahon have on that Star Searchers record???
	7:13pm Flash Strap: absolutely crazy about this Lupus LP, working feverishly to put together a whole Lupus show, but it's hard to fill in the blanks
	7:13pm Flash Strap: Hi JtotheK!
	7:14pm Flash Strap: this is the sort of music i dream about & when i wake up it's not real
	7:18pm Little Danny: Hey Evan, hey explorrrs
	7:18pm Flash Strap: hey LD!
	7:21pm Flash Strap: don't be fooled, this "tribu" is just a bunch of Belgians
	7:23pm Flash Strap: love this rendition
	7:23pm Flash Strap: great cover: img.discogs.com...
	7:28pm testingwithfire: Does anyone else find music for weirdos calming if you're especially anxious? I do. Makes me feel like I'm with family...
	7:29pm Little Danny: I really dig that Jerry Byrd LP
	7:31pm Little Danny: I have weird record-finding dreams too. It is sad to wake up with nothing.
	7:37pm Flash Strap: @LD: it's such an anguished transition sometimes... I often realize inside the dream and just sadly drop everything to the ground and decide to wake up
	7:39pm Flash Strap: incredible piano performance, godly & commanding
	7:39pm testingwithfire: @FS: agreed, it's stunning
	7:40pm Flash Strap: possibly my favorite Weston performance
	7:42pm Flash Strap: great low horn section on that too, with flugelhorn, trombone, french horn, tuba really well utilized
	7:43pm Flash Strap: more from this great LP on a future show, this track is just a taste
	7:45pm Flash Strap: this album was mentioned 2 weeks ago in the liner notes to Provocatif, as Johnny Rae played on that as well - so I thought I'd bring it out
	7:47pm Flash Strap: Herbie on bass clarinet here. Philly Joe Jones on drums
	7:49pm ?: Anyone for a cha cha?
	7:49pm Flash Strap: one of my favorite records, The Savage and the Sensuous. really just perfect
	7:49pm doctorjazz: I'm looking for a cha cha partner, anyone?
	7:50pm testingwithfire: I'm all for a cha-cha comeback after the virus peaks
	🥁 7:50pm chresti: Let's go@doc
	7:52pm Flash Strap: you can really wear yourself out if you cha cha through this whole Prado number
	7:52pm Frog Mover: A little late to the feast, what I miss?
	7:53pm Flash Strap: Heya Frog Mover
	7:53pm doctorjazz: Just have to remember, right foot, left foot, cha cha cha
	7:54pm Flash Strap: @Frog: we are feasting on bongo at the moment. earlier we feasted on shark, bananas, & ananas
	🥁 7:55pm chresti: I'm doing slo-mo cha cha, it's in the 90s today.
	7:55pm Flash Strap: this record is insane. perez prado is so incredible when he puts on a big effort like this
	7:56pm Flash Strap: @chresti: that is hot! chilly & rainy here in NC
	7:58pm still b/p: Last night I sent this to the cook as the illustration of the dance I do upon realization/anticipation of the leftover shepherd's pie she'd made. cdn.supadupa.me...
	7:59pm Flash Strap: hahaha that's a heck of a shepherd's pie dance! hi b/p!
	8:01pm Frog Mover: @Flash lost boys meal! What's the art btw?
	8:01pm Flash Strap: UGH DILO AH RAAAAAAAAH DILO!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: Max Ernst, Feast of the God, 1941
	8:02pm Flash Strap: thank you for asking
	8:03pm Flash Strap: always cracks me up that bananas still means bananas but ananas means pineapple
	8:05pm Frog Mover: Nice! Gettin cartoon vibes.
	8:05pm melinda: Hi chums!
	8:05pm doctorjazz: Man, took me until now to get the Ziti in the oven (bit rusty, I guess), still a half hour to eat. Great sounds to wait to!
	8:06pm still b/p: NFL draft about to happen right now. Roger Goodell will be announcing picks from his basement. I have neither a dance to do nor a rat's ass to give. I like the Ernst painting. Don't run into much of this sort of colorful painting from him; see his photos and treatments and collages all overdaplace.
	8:06pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	8:07pm Flash Strap: wish i could have some when it comes out Doc
	8:07pm doctorjazz: Love this Prado!
	🥁 8:08pm chresti: Do the don't give a rat's ass dance @still b/p
	8:08pm doctorjazz: Chilly and rainy in New Jersey as well.
	8:09pm doctorjazz: I might check on the NFL draft, see how the Jets do. Though, they likely will play to an empty stadium.
	🥁 8:09pm chresti: Starting to cool off at 87F. I want more chilly rain!
	8:10pm Flash Strap: @b/p: he did a lot of stuff in this vein, but that's kind of his whole thing: he worked in every idiom, style & method, and "invented" or developed half the things we think of as normal for contemporary artists to do
	8:12pm Flash Strap: but this one is especially colorful, kind of almost looks like colored pencils & magic markers, and definitely has some proto-looney tunes elements
	8:14pm Flash Strap: I just want it to hit 75 and stay there and be sunny
	8:17pm still b/p: I've been impressed many times by the scope and persistence of Ernst's explorations and output. Proto Looneytunes is a good name for the leader of a distant planet's society in a sci-fi spoof.
	8:18pm doctorjazz: It would be nice if it got out of the 50's here, was hoping to get in a bunch of biking before I go back to work in May-not looking good, from the forecasts. Love that painting! And this Tony Scott tribute to Bird!
	8:19pm Flash Strap: me too, it just seems like he did everything – certainly he did the first collage novel(s)
	8:21pm Flash Strap: @doc: i went into this record not expecting much (the cover art does not inspire my confidence) but in the end it may be the best Tony Scott record, imo
	8:22pm Flash Strap: tho i do really enjoy Djanger Bali
	8:23pm melinda: This one caused me to dance.
	8:23pm Flash Strap: smilin'
	8:26pm doctorjazz: And, Bird himself (with Miles)
	🥁 8:33pm chresti: Love the painting, too.
	8:35pm Flash Strap: really cool vocals on this Hailu Mergia record, so funky & soulful
	8:36pm Flash Strap: thanks to listener Jay for putting this back on my radar
	8:39pm Flash Strap: damn what a groove
	8:40pm Frog Mover: Saw Hailu in Raleigh a few years back. He was cool but the band was leaning a little too hard on a disco funk kick that it wasn't as sublime as I wanted it to be. He was supposed to play in Durham earlier this month!
	8:40pm doctorjazz: I've got the sequel, "So So Tapes from Africa"-think you did better.
	🥁 8:40pm chresti: This is from a file? It's great.
	8:41pm Flash Strap: @chresti: yeah it's mp3, easy to get & highly recommended
	8:43pm Flash Strap: @frog: that's cool but yeah a lot of those bands dig too hard into that sort of Dap-Kings revival sound and it's not always my bag
	8:46pm Flash Strap: Der Osten Ist Rot is so good. it's possible Czukay had the best 1980s of anyone
	8:47pm Frog Mover: He was definitely a master tho. Awesome keyboard and accordion!
	8:48pm Flash Strap: i'd have loved to see him take that accordion for a spin
	8:50pm doctorjazz: Ziti came out ok, sending it out to will the a explorers
	8:51pm Frog Mover: Love this Czukay track!
	8:51pm Flash Strap: Blessed Easter is just one of my very favorite recordings, ever. i achieve peace every time i listen to it. i casually notice the face of god and nod politely in its direction. the air around me is the perfect temperature
	8:51pm Flash Strap: @doc: ready to snack
	8:57pm Flash Strap: underrated GREAT track from Big Science
	8:58pm doctorjazz: Love this Anderson track!
	8:59pm coelacanth∅: hi Evan and Explorers
	8:59pm doctorjazz: Now I want to hear the other 21 Examples.
	8:59pm Flash Strap: me too Doc, me too – been on one of my periodic Laurie Anderson kicks lately, highly recommend it for achieving big-brain quarantine serenity
	9:00pm Flash Strap: me too
	9:00pm Flash Strap: Hi Coelacanth!
	9:01pm doctorjazz: Hi Coel!
	9:02pm coelacanth∅: hey doc!
	9:03pm Flash Strap: serious Magritte energy from this title: Un Amour Si Grand Qu'il Nie Son Objet (A Love So Great That it Denies its Object)
	9:05pm coelacanth∅: -oh that reminds me dr.j i got an email that 2 albums i sent you are expiring -tomorrow. both Cecil Taylor. "trance" and "3 phasis". if you don't need 'em that's cool i just want to make sure you know they're there
	9:09pm JakeGould: @FlashSrtrap: Nice to hear more DJs are falling into the “I need headspace; I listen to this…” mode.
	9:10pm Flash Strap: Hi Jake! I try to keep it a good mix, but in the end, whether it's a try-hard theme program or a hangout one, it all comes from the place of what-I'm-diggin'
	9:12pm Flash Strap: but yeah now more than ever's the time to really lean into some music to soothe the savage brain
	9:12pm Frog Mover: Diggin this Sun Araw!
	9:13pm zzz: yes frog mover, this sun araw is amazing!
	9:13pm Flash Strap: i've been half&half on a bunch of his more recent stuff but Rock Sutra is kinda just right, the most I've liked of his since Belomancie or Gazebo Effect
	9:13pm Flash Strap: Tho, Activated Clown was a trip
	9:14pm Flash Strap: Hi ZZZ!
	9:14pm Doug Schulkind: Full disclosure: I have never listened to Sun Araw. Despite it being all around me and all around other things I'm all over, I've just never taken the plunge. Thanks for plunging me, Flash!
	9:15pm Flash Strap: Hi Doug! if you ever go in, my #1 is On Patrol
	9:17pm coelacanth∅: i listen to one sun araw track almost nightly, because it's on my main sleeptime playlist. "thoughts are bells" from beach head. i'm unconscious though for many of those listenings.
	9:18pm Flash Strap: good track
	9:20pm Flash Strap: Funkadelic with Sly, i mean damn
	🥁 9:21pm chresti: Funky power.
	9:21pm Flash Strap: the guitar on this, i mean yowza, it shimmers
	9:22pm CC: Hi y'all...Flash!!!...good one!!!
	9:23pm Flash Strap: Hi CC!
	🥁 9:23pm chresti: Yeah that guitar!
	🥁 9:27pm WR: Hi all. Missed the first set (which has a Sun Ra recording that I don't have and will go back to listen to) but have been listening since and enjoying. About to go on to work call so this quick comment to say thank you Evan for the interesting program to all ya'll stream commentators for adding life and info to the listening experience.
	9:28pm Flash Strap: Hi WR! thanks for the kind words
	9:31pm Uncle Michael: hello
	9:31pm Flash Strap: Hi Uncle! how goes it
	🥁 9:31pm chresti: Thank YOU, WR.
	9:32pm CC: Make sure to wear your mask, WR!!!
	9:32pm CC: Hi U.N.C.L.E!!!
	9:33pm Uncle Michael: I'm beat. Not long for this side of the coin. Got your email. Will respond tomorrow.
	9:34pm passiflora: I've been listening and enjoying
	9:34pm Flash Strap: Thanks UM – don't sweat it man, keep it at the bottom of your list of hassles. rest well
	9:35pm Flash Strap: Hi Passiflora! always good to know you've been here
	9:35pm coelacanth∅: i never knew that funkadelic/Sly collaboration existed. it's hard to imagine that being really harmonious, but if what it yielded is an indication -it was.
	9:35pm doctorjazz: WR, this schedule of yours truly sucks! Great show, Evan, gotta head off, get some exercise for the day. Night all (maybe check in later).
	9:36pm Flash Strap: @C: it's not everything I'd hope for but it has incredible moments – they did a follow-up as well, the final Family Stone album
	9:38pm Flash Strap: @doc: catch ya later pal, thanks for hanging out!
	9:38pm doctorjazz: Not familiar with Sun araw, cool!
	9:38pm coelacanth∅: ...maybe Sly chilled a bit on his control issues after all he went though
	9:39pm coelacanth∅: (doc did you see my message? 2 un-downloaded albums)
	9:41pm doctorjazz: No, I must have missed them in the email (I often do that), I'll check in a bit, thanks for the heads up.
	9:42pm coelacanth∅: it was 3 Cecil albums; i guess you just thought there was one.
	🥁 9:42pm jaywbabcock: Thank you Evan for all you do
	9:43pm Flash Strap: thank you Jay, particularly for putting this record right back front&center in my brain, I've been listening to it more than ever before
	🥁 9:44pm chresti: Sly helped produce that Funkadelic track. Sounded super.
	9:44pm Flash Strap: it's so deep, it makes me cry in the groove
	9:45pm Flash Strap: really super, yeah. i think he's on drums too
	9:45pm Little Danny: This is so nice. I've seen the name Hailu Mergia before but this is the first time I've knowingly heard his/her music
	9:46pm doctorjazz: Coel, there were a bunch 4/19, which I see I downloaded, were there others? (And I don't see an email from you).
	9:46pm Frog Mover: Best songs make me cry right into the groove
	9:46pm Flash Strap: he's great, lots of excellent records of his out there. Tche Belew and Shemonmuanaye are both amazing as well
	9:47pm coelacanth∅: Sly was a monster (a good monster) in so many ways; it's too bad he got all freaked out and paranoid.
	🥁 9:48pm jaywbabcock: Yeah I can't get enough of that dude. Such a nice vibe.
	9:48pm coelacanth∅: doc -3 on 4-16; 6 on 4-19
	9:48pm Little Danny: Thanks Evan, missed the middle hour but the 1st and 3rd parts were excellent.
	9:49pm coelacanth∅: (these must be from the 16th)
	9:55pm CC: I love your voice!!!
	9:55pm Little Danny: Get on in here while all the seats are still available: wfmu.org... Hope to see y'all there!
	9:57pm Little Danny: Great version!!!!
	🥁 9:57pm chresti: Thanks Flash!
	9:57pm Flash Strap: Thanks LD! the middle hour wasn't too shabby either but i bet you know about everything in it
	9:58pm Flash Strap: if you mean me CC, then aw shucks
	9:58pm Flash Strap: my great pleasure Chresti!
	9:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan! take care
	2:32pm snappy: what a great show.. i was not expecting to get sucked into the flash strap universe worm hole...but its just too late now!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from April 23, 2020

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April 23, 2020: Feast of the God

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
Jerry Byrd	Hawaiian Wedding Song "Hawaiian Wedding Song" by "Jerry Byrd"	Byrd of Paradise	Monument	1961		0:01:08 (Pop-up)
Star Searchers	Zena Sharks "Zena Sharks" by "Star Searchers"	Avatar Blue	Pacific City Sound Visions / Discrepant	2019 / 2020		0:03:20 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra and His Arkestra	Gods On A Safari	Sun Ra and His Arkestra Featuring Pharoah Sanders and Black Harold	El Saturn Records	1976	rec. 1965	0:10:38 (Pop-up)
Gian Paolo Chiti, Sergio Montori	Giallo E Copacabana	Risoluzioni Sonore	Lupus	197?		0:12:13 (Pop-up)
Gian Paolo Chiti, Sergio Montori	Bananas E Ananas	Risoluzioni Sonore	Lupus	197?		0:16:37 (Pop-up)
Uele Kalabubu et sa Tribu	Makelele	Afro Ground	Durium Marche Estere	1969		0:20:01 (Pop-up)
The Orchestra & Chorus of Billy Ward	Pagan Love Song	Pagan Love Song	Liberty	1959		0:22:37 (Pop-up)
Jerry Byrd	Rainbows Over Paradise	Byrd of Paradise	Monument	1961		0:24:58 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Bells of My Soul "Bells of My Soul"					0:27:21 (Pop-up)
Randy Weston	Mystery of Love "Mystery of Love" by "Randy Weston"	Music From The New African Nations Featuring The Highlife	Colpix	1963		0:35:44 (Pop-up)
Johnny Rae's Afro-Jazz Septet	Sorimao	Herbie Mann's African Suite	United Artists	1959		0:42:59 (Pop-up)
Don Ralke	Safradesia "Safradesia" by "Don Ralke"	The Savage and the Sensuous Bongos	Warner Bros.	1960		0:48:00 (Pop-up)
Perez Prado	Concierto Para Bongo "Concierto Para Bongo" by "Perez Prado"	Concierto Para Bongo	United Artists	1967		0:51:21 (Pop-up)
Tony Scott	African Bird (Suite) "African Bird (Suite)" by "Tony Scott"	African Bird / Come Back! Mother Africa – To the Spirit of Charlie Parker	Soul Note	1984		1:08:23 (Pop-up)
Charlie Parker	Bird of Paradise "Bird of Paradise" by "Charlie Parker"	The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes	Savoy Jazz	2002	rec. 195?	1:24:28 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Peter Reno	Underway "Underway" by "Peter Reno"					1:27:41 (Pop-up)
Hailu Mergia & Dahlak Band	Sintayehu	Wede Harer Guzo	Awesome Tapes from Africa	2016		1:35:52 (Pop-up)
Holger Czukay	Collage / Esperanto Socialiste	Der Osten Ist Rot	Virgin	1984		1:41:24 (Pop-up)
Holger Czukay	Blessed Easter "Blessed Easter" by "Holger Czukay"	Rome Remains Rome	Virgin	1987		1:46:20 (Pop-up)
Laurie Anderson	Example #22 "Example #22" by "Laurie Anderson"	Big Science	Warner Bros.	1982		1:55:15 (Pop-up)
Ghédalia Tazartès	Un Amour Si Grand Qu'il Nie Son Objet	Diasporas	Cobalt	1979		1:58:14 (Pop-up)
Sun Araw	Arrambe "Arrambe" by "Sun Araw"	Rock Sutra	Sun Ark Records	2020		2:07:38 (Pop-up)
Funkadelic	Funk Gets Stronger (Part I)	The Electric Spanking Of War Babies	Warner Bros.	1981	with Sly Stone	2:19:32 (Pop-up)
Matata	Jungle Warrior "Jungle Warrior" by "Matata"	Air Fiesta	President Records	1972		2:25:48 (Pop-up)
African Head Charge	Down Under Again	Off the Beaten Track	On-U Sound	1985		2:27:35 (Pop-up)
F.O.E. #1	In My Jungle "In My Jungle" by "F.O.E. #1"	Sex, Energy and Star	Non-Standard	1986		2:30:41 (Pop-up)
Funkadelic	Funk Gets Stronger (Killer Millimeter Longer Version)	The Electric Spanking Of War Babies	Warner Bros.	1981	with Sly Stone	2:36:55 (Pop-up)
Hailu Mergia & Dahlak Band	Embuwa Bey Lamitu	Wede Harer Guzo	Awesome Tapes from Africa	2016		2:41:28 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Les Metiers et Borneo "Les Metiers et Borneo"					2:47:31 (Pop-up)
The Schulman Kids - Bob, Ilene, Jimmie	Summertime	V' Jinja / Summertime 7"	Renner			2:56:13 (Pop-up)
Ted Auletta	Makaha "Makaha" by "Ted Auletta"	Exotica	Cameo	1962		2:57:40 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:46pm Flash Strap: hello explorers
	🥁 7:00pm chresti: Hi Flash and explorers!
	7:01pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti!
	7:01pm Carmichael: Heya Flash!
	7:01pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Flash and all! If the God's feast includes pizza, I'll chip in for pepperoni and sausage—it's been ages.
	7:01pm Fuzzy: Let's explore!
	7:02pm Carmichael: Check out my avatar, James ...
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hi Fuzzy! Hungry James! Carm!
	7:02pm Carmichael: Working long hours these days, Flash. It will soon be over ...
	7:03pm Franco Twinkie: Greetings, barefoot seekers.
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Franco!
	7:06pm Flash Strap: @carm: i hope so, long hours no good
	🥁 7:06pm chresti: Whoopee fun! @Carmichael
	7:07pm testingwithfire: hi all, first time I listen to this show!
	7:08pm Flash Strap: Hi Testingwithfire! very happy to have you in the Room my friend, make yourself t'home
	7:08pm doctorjazz: Hello Explorers, Evan! You're my cooking Ziti company for now. (Haven't cooked this much since I was trying to impress my soon-to-be/New wife...)
	7:10pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc! I almost always cook at home but this is testing my limits for sure, i feel the need to go out for sushi or something but alas
	7:11pm testingwithfire: thanks @FlashStrap! I'm not sick of my own cooking yet, but cheap lunches out are definitely calling, nonetheless.
	7:12pm JtotheK: Hiya Flash, hi everyone! Say, what level of involvement did Ed McMahon have on that Star Searchers record???
	7:13pm Flash Strap: absolutely crazy about this Lupus LP, working feverishly to put together a whole Lupus show, but it's hard to fill in the blanks
	7:13pm Flash Strap: Hi JtotheK!
	7:14pm Flash Strap: this is the sort of music i dream about & when i wake up it's not real
	7:18pm Little Danny: Hey Evan, hey explorrrs
	7:18pm Flash Strap: hey LD!
	7:21pm Flash Strap: don't be fooled, this "tribu" is just a bunch of Belgians
	7:23pm Flash Strap: love this rendition
	7:23pm Flash Strap: great cover: img.discogs.com...
	7:28pm testingwithfire: Does anyone else find music for weirdos calming if you're especially anxious? I do. Makes me feel like I'm with family...
	7:29pm Little Danny: I really dig that Jerry Byrd LP
	7:31pm Little Danny: I have weird record-finding dreams too. It is sad to wake up with nothing.
	7:37pm Flash Strap: @LD: it's such an anguished transition sometimes... I often realize inside the dream and just sadly drop everything to the ground and decide to wake up
	7:39pm Flash Strap: incredible piano performance, godly & commanding
	7:39pm testingwithfire: @FS: agreed, it's stunning
	7:40pm Flash Strap: possibly my favorite Weston performance
	7:42pm Flash Strap: great low horn section on that too, with flugelhorn, trombone, french horn, tuba really well utilized
	7:43pm Flash Strap: more from this great LP on a future show, this track is just a taste
	7:45pm Flash Strap: this album was mentioned 2 weeks ago in the liner notes to Provocatif, as Johnny Rae played on that as well - so I thought I'd bring it out
	7:47pm Flash Strap: Herbie on bass clarinet here. Philly Joe Jones on drums
	7:49pm ?: Anyone for a cha cha?
	7:49pm Flash Strap: one of my favorite records, The Savage and the Sensuous. really just perfect
	7:49pm doctorjazz: I'm looking for a cha cha partner, anyone?
	7:50pm testingwithfire: I'm all for a cha-cha comeback after the virus peaks
	🥁 7:50pm chresti: Let's go@doc
	7:52pm Flash Strap: you can really wear yourself out if you cha cha through this whole Prado number
	7:52pm Frog Mover: A little late to the feast, what I miss?
	7:53pm Flash Strap: Heya Frog Mover
	7:53pm doctorjazz: Just have to remember, right foot, left foot, cha cha cha
	7:54pm Flash Strap: @Frog: we are feasting on bongo at the moment. earlier we feasted on shark, bananas, & ananas
	🥁 7:55pm chresti: I'm doing slo-mo cha cha, it's in the 90s today.
	7:55pm Flash Strap: this record is insane. perez prado is so incredible when he puts on a big effort like this
	7:56pm Flash Strap: @chresti: that is hot! chilly & rainy here in NC
	7:58pm still b/p: Last night I sent this to the cook as the illustration of the dance I do upon realization/anticipation of the leftover shepherd's pie she'd made. cdn.supadupa.me...
	7:59pm Flash Strap: hahaha that's a heck of a shepherd's pie dance! hi b/p!
	8:01pm Frog Mover: @Flash lost boys meal! What's the art btw?
	8:01pm Flash Strap: UGH DILO AH RAAAAAAAAH DILO!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: Max Ernst, Feast of the God, 1941
	8:02pm Flash Strap: thank you for asking
	8:03pm Flash Strap: always cracks me up that bananas still means bananas but ananas means pineapple
	8:05pm Frog Mover: Nice! Gettin cartoon vibes.
	8:05pm melinda: Hi chums!
	8:05pm doctorjazz: Man, took me until now to get the Ziti in the oven (bit rusty, I guess), still a half hour to eat. Great sounds to wait to!
	8:06pm still b/p: NFL draft about to happen right now. Roger Goodell will be announcing picks from his basement. I have neither a dance to do nor a rat's ass to give. I like the Ernst painting. Don't run into much of this sort of colorful painting from him; see his photos and treatments and collages all overdaplace.
	8:06pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	8:07pm Flash Strap: wish i could have some when it comes out Doc
	8:07pm doctorjazz: Love this Prado!
	🥁 8:08pm chresti: Do the don't give a rat's ass dance @still b/p
	8:08pm doctorjazz: Chilly and rainy in New Jersey as well.
	8:09pm doctorjazz: I might check on the NFL draft, see how the Jets do. Though, they likely will play to an empty stadium.
	🥁 8:09pm chresti: Starting to cool off at 87F. I want more chilly rain!
	8:10pm Flash Strap: @b/p: he did a lot of stuff in this vein, but that's kind of his whole thing: he worked in every idiom, style & method, and "invented" or developed half the things we think of as normal for contemporary artists to do
	8:12pm Flash Strap: but this one is especially colorful, kind of almost looks like colored pencils & magic markers, and definitely has some proto-looney tunes elements
	8:14pm Flash Strap: I just want it to hit 75 and stay there and be sunny
	8:17pm still b/p: I've been impressed many times by the scope and persistence of Ernst's explorations and output. Proto Looneytunes is a good name for the leader of a distant planet's society in a sci-fi spoof.
	8:18pm doctorjazz: It would be nice if it got out of the 50's here, was hoping to get in a bunch of biking before I go back to work in May-not looking good, from the forecasts. Love that painting! And this Tony Scott tribute to Bird!
	8:19pm Flash Strap: me too, it just seems like he did everything – certainly he did the first collage novel(s)
	8:21pm Flash Strap: @doc: i went into this record not expecting much (the cover art does not inspire my confidence) but in the end it may be the best Tony Scott record, imo
	8:22pm Flash Strap: tho i do really enjoy Djanger Bali
	8:23pm melinda: This one caused me to dance.
	8:23pm Flash Strap: smilin'
	8:26pm doctorjazz: And, Bird himself (with Miles)
	🥁 8:33pm chresti: Love the painting, too.
	8:35pm Flash Strap: really cool vocals on this Hailu Mergia record, so funky & soulful
	8:36pm Flash Strap: thanks to listener Jay for putting this back on my radar
	8:39pm Flash Strap: damn what a groove
	8:40pm Frog Mover: Saw Hailu in Raleigh a few years back. He was cool but the band was leaning a little too hard on a disco funk kick that it wasn't as sublime as I wanted it to be. He was supposed to play in Durham earlier this month!
	8:40pm doctorjazz: I've got the sequel, "So So Tapes from Africa"-think you did better.
	🥁 8:40pm chresti: This is from a file? It's great.
	8:41pm Flash Strap: @chresti: yeah it's mp3, easy to get & highly recommended
	8:43pm Flash Strap: @frog: that's cool but yeah a lot of those bands dig too hard into that sort of Dap-Kings revival sound and it's not always my bag
	8:46pm Flash Strap: Der Osten Ist Rot is so good. it's possible Czukay had the best 1980s of anyone
	8:47pm Frog Mover: He was definitely a master tho. Awesome keyboard and accordion!
	8:48pm Flash Strap: i'd have loved to see him take that accordion for a spin
	8:50pm doctorjazz: Ziti came out ok, sending it out to will the a explorers
	8:51pm Frog Mover: Love this Czukay track!
	8:51pm Flash Strap: Blessed Easter is just one of my very favorite recordings, ever. i achieve peace every time i listen to it. i casually notice the face of god and nod politely in its direction. the air around me is the perfect temperature
	8:51pm Flash Strap: @doc: ready to snack
	8:57pm Flash Strap: underrated GREAT track from Big Science
	8:58pm doctorjazz: Love this Anderson track!
	8:59pm coelacanth∅: hi Evan and Explorers
	8:59pm doctorjazz: Now I want to hear the other 21 Examples.
	8:59pm Flash Strap: me too Doc, me too – been on one of my periodic Laurie Anderson kicks lately, highly recommend it for achieving big-brain quarantine serenity
	9:00pm Flash Strap: me too
	9:00pm Flash Strap: Hi Coelacanth!
	9:01pm doctorjazz: Hi Coel!
	9:02pm coelacanth∅: hey doc!
	9:03pm Flash Strap: serious Magritte energy from this title: Un Amour Si Grand Qu'il Nie Son Objet (A Love So Great That it Denies its Object)
	9:05pm coelacanth∅: -oh that reminds me dr.j i got an email that 2 albums i sent you are expiring -tomorrow. both Cecil Taylor. "trance" and "3 phasis". if you don't need 'em that's cool i just want to make sure you know they're there
	9:09pm JakeGould: @FlashSrtrap: Nice to hear more DJs are falling into the “I need headspace; I listen to this…” mode.
	9:10pm Flash Strap: Hi Jake! I try to keep it a good mix, but in the end, whether it's a try-hard theme program or a hangout one, it all comes from the place of what-I'm-diggin'
	9:12pm Flash Strap: but yeah now more than ever's the time to really lean into some music to soothe the savage brain
	9:12pm Frog Mover: Diggin this Sun Araw!
	9:13pm zzz: yes frog mover, this sun araw is amazing!
	9:13pm Flash Strap: i've been half&half on a bunch of his more recent stuff but Rock Sutra is kinda just right, the most I've liked of his since Belomancie or Gazebo Effect
	9:13pm Flash Strap: Tho, Activated Clown was a trip
	9:14pm Flash Strap: Hi ZZZ!
	9:14pm Doug Schulkind: Full disclosure: I have never listened to Sun Araw. Despite it being all around me and all around other things I'm all over, I've just never taken the plunge. Thanks for plunging me, Flash!
	9:15pm Flash Strap: Hi Doug! if you ever go in, my #1 is On Patrol
	9:17pm coelacanth∅: i listen to one sun araw track almost nightly, because it's on my main sleeptime playlist. "thoughts are bells" from beach head. i'm unconscious though for many of those listenings.
	9:18pm Flash Strap: good track
	9:20pm Flash Strap: Funkadelic with Sly, i mean damn
	🥁 9:21pm chresti: Funky power.
	9:21pm Flash Strap: the guitar on this, i mean yowza, it shimmers
	9:22pm CC: Hi y'all...Flash!!!...good one!!!
	9:23pm Flash Strap: Hi CC!
	🥁 9:23pm chresti: Yeah that guitar!
	🥁 9:27pm WR: Hi all. Missed the first set (which has a Sun Ra recording that I don't have and will go back to listen to) but have been listening since and enjoying. About to go on to work call so this quick comment to say thank you Evan for the interesting program to all ya'll stream commentators for adding life and info to the listening experience.
	9:28pm Flash Strap: Hi WR! thanks for the kind words
	9:31pm Uncle Michael: hello
	9:31pm Flash Strap: Hi Uncle! how goes it
	🥁 9:31pm chresti: Thank YOU, WR.
	9:32pm CC: Make sure to wear your mask, WR!!!
	9:32pm CC: Hi U.N.C.L.E!!!
	9:33pm Uncle Michael: I'm beat. Not long for this side of the coin. Got your email. Will respond tomorrow.
	9:34pm passiflora: I've been listening and enjoying
	9:34pm Flash Strap: Thanks UM – don't sweat it man, keep it at the bottom of your list of hassles. rest well
	9:35pm Flash Strap: Hi Passiflora! always good to know you've been here
	9:35pm coelacanth∅: i never knew that funkadelic/Sly collaboration existed. it's hard to imagine that being really harmonious, but if what it yielded is an indication -it was.
	9:35pm doctorjazz: WR, this schedule of yours truly sucks! Great show, Evan, gotta head off, get some exercise for the day. Night all (maybe check in later).
	9:36pm Flash Strap: @C: it's not everything I'd hope for but it has incredible moments – they did a follow-up as well, the final Family Stone album
	9:38pm Flash Strap: @doc: catch ya later pal, thanks for hanging out!
	9:38pm doctorjazz: Not familiar with Sun araw, cool!
	9:38pm coelacanth∅: ...maybe Sly chilled a bit on his control issues after all he went though
	9:39pm coelacanth∅: (doc did you see my message? 2 un-downloaded albums)
	9:41pm doctorjazz: No, I must have missed them in the email (I often do that), I'll check in a bit, thanks for the heads up.
	9:42pm coelacanth∅: it was 3 Cecil albums; i guess you just thought there was one.
	🥁 9:42pm jaywbabcock: Thank you Evan for all you do
	9:43pm Flash Strap: thank you Jay, particularly for putting this record right back front&center in my brain, I've been listening to it more than ever before
	🥁 9:44pm chresti: Sly helped produce that Funkadelic track. Sounded super.
	9:44pm Flash Strap: it's so deep, it makes me cry in the groove
	9:45pm Flash Strap: really super, yeah. i think he's on drums too
	9:45pm Little Danny: This is so nice. I've seen the name Hailu Mergia before but this is the first time I've knowingly heard his/her music
	9:46pm doctorjazz: Coel, there were a bunch 4/19, which I see I downloaded, were there others? (And I don't see an email from you).
	9:46pm Frog Mover: Best songs make me cry right into the groove
	9:46pm Flash Strap: he's great, lots of excellent records of his out there. Tche Belew and Shemonmuanaye are both amazing as well
	9:47pm coelacanth∅: Sly was a monster (a good monster) in so many ways; it's too bad he got all freaked out and paranoid.
	🥁 9:48pm jaywbabcock: Yeah I can't get enough of that dude. Such a nice vibe.
	9:48pm coelacanth∅: doc -3 on 4-16; 6 on 4-19
	9:48pm Little Danny: Thanks Evan, missed the middle hour but the 1st and 3rd parts were excellent.
	9:49pm coelacanth∅: (these must be from the 16th)
	9:55pm CC: I love your voice!!!
	9:55pm Little Danny: Get on in here while all the seats are still available: wfmu.org... Hope to see y'all there!
	9:57pm Little Danny: Great version!!!!
	🥁 9:57pm chresti: Thanks Flash!
	9:57pm Flash Strap: Thanks LD! the middle hour wasn't too shabby either but i bet you know about everything in it
	9:58pm Flash Strap: if you mean me CC, then aw shucks
	9:58pm Flash Strap: my great pleasure Chresti!
	9:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan! take care
	2:32pm snappy: what a great show.. i was not expecting to get sucked into the flash strap universe worm hole...but its just too late now!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from April 23, 2020

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