WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from May 7, 2020

Listener comments!
	6:39pm Flash Strap: Hello Explorers
	🥁 7:00pm chresti: Hello Flash and future explorer assembly!
	7:01pm northguineahills: Bohannon!
	7:02pm Carmichael: Bohannon! Marty McSorley played a set recently.
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti, NGH!
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hiya Carm - love Bohannon, may he rest in the groove
	7:03pm listener james from westwood: How do, Flash and all!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi James!
	7:05pm doctorjazz: It's that time again!
	7:06pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc!
	7:06pm Flash Strap: @Doc: playlist image tonight by Man Ray, "Jazz" 1919
	7:07pm northguineahills: Ouch, Tony Allen as well (grazie!)
	7:08pm Flash Strap: some giants have fallen of late, yeah. but the music towers yet
	7:08pm doctorjazz: I like it, very cool!
	7:09pm Frog Mover: Hey Parnos!
	7:09pm Flash Strap: Frog Mover! Move with your Froggo
	7:11pm Flash Strap: really dig the whole vibe of this Tony Allen record – nice synth stuff there under the surface, from Collins
	🥁 7:12pm WR: Hello explorers. Collapsing into the stream for a bit after yet another hectic work day.
	7:13pm listener james from westwood: Oh hell yes to this.
	7:13pm Flash Strap: Hi WR!
	7:14pm northguineahills: Kraftwerk 2 is a fave album of mine. and, verdammt, Florian too...
	7:16pm Frog Mover: Lost grooves spanning the globe
	7:16pm Flash Strap: Love this live set, Florian sans Ralf & with a nascent Neu! going heavier than usual, even
	7:17pm Flash Strap: Rother never sounds this gutsy and heavy, not even on total scorchers to come like Negativland
	7:18pm TDK60: Evenin' Flash, radioexotics.
	7:18pm Flash Strap: & of course Florian on flute is truly magical, esp. in this contrast
	7:18pm Flash Strap: Hey TDK!
	🥁 7:19pm WR: Obviously I know only a little about Kraftwerk. Would never have guessed this is them.
	7:20pm northguineahills: @WR: Their first three albums (which they later disavowed), are total abstract hippie shakedowns....
	7:21pm Flash Strap: @WR: that's sort of the thing of this notorious set - for long stretches it really doesn't sound like Kraftwerk at all, hardly even sounds like Neu! - very unique trio in a special moment in time.
	7:21pm TDK60: You know they were a buncha longhairs back then...then came the later look/s.
	7:21pm Flash Strap: I think my favorite Kraftwerk will always be Ralf & Florian, personally
	7:22pm Flash Strap: Has anyone heard that new live bootleg that just started making the rounds? I think it's from around 74? pretty good stuff
	7:25pm Flash Strap: there does exist some video of this session, well worth looking up later. check out the setup: pixhost.icu...
	7:26pm northguineahills: @Flash: My mother runs a food pantry/clothes charity. In college, I used to pick out clothes from there that no one else wanted. I went to the donated pile, and found a copy of Ralf & Florian. They don't accept music, weird, and at the time, I didn't even know the album existed (one of my best finds).
	🥁 7:27pm chresti: Did Kraftwerk have long hair, TDK?
	7:27pm Flash Strap: that's some find! I had a similar out-of-the-blue experience when my mother was working at the thrift store and I was tagging along, in North Carolina, not very cosmopolitan, and found a minty Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene. felt like it was beamed down from outer space & into my hands
	7:28pm Flash Strap: not such a rare thing I know now, but then it seemed without precedent
	7:29pm TDK60: Chresti, I think the history books record they did. On the back of their Autobahn LP a photo shows two with long hair, two with short. Click on the link Flash just posted.
	7:30pm TDK60: Later came the very futuristic [?] threads, cropped hair.
	7:31pm northguineahills: @chresti: Oh, back when this was recorded, they looked like total hippies, very long unwashed hair...
	7:31pm TDK60: NGH: How do you know it was unwashed?
	7:32pm Flash Strap: good question
	🥁 7:32pm chresti: I like the orange cones in that longhair Kraftwerk setup.
	7:33pm northguineahills: @Evan: Ha! I got my copy of Oxygene at a thrift store for a $1 as well! @TDK: Well, maybe Florians was washed, but the pics I've seen, Ralf's looked like he just stepped out of commune...
	7:33pm Flash Strap: great cover on this Tony Allen: img.discogs.com...
	7:34pm TDK60: <- Was the painting already identified?
	7:34pm Flash Strap: yeah Florian has always been a very clean-looking dapper guy I think, Ralf has more of a scrappy vibe
	7:34pm Flash Strap: @TDK: Man Ray, "Jazz" 1919
	7:35pm TDK60: Thanks Flash.
	7:35pm Flash Strap: @chresti: me too, simple stage dressing that goes a long way
	🥁 7:38pm chresti: I like the dancing stick of dynamite.
	7:40pm Flash Strap: me too
	7:46pm Little Danny: Hi Flash, hi all
	7:47pm TDK60: That Bohannon song is laid back, comforting.
	🥁 7:52pm chresti: I don't really know Kraftwerk, that much. I only started paying attention in the last 15 years.
	🥁 7:54pm chresti: I wasn't aware of Bohannon until Marty McSorley's show, last Saturday.
	7:55pm TDK60: Chresti, It makes WFMU a joy. You can check the Archives and listen to some these, if curious.
	8:00pm Flash Strap: God I love this record – I've heard it but only recently got a copy and I've been just soaking in it
	8:00pm Flash Strap: Hi LD!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: decent cover: img.discogs.com...
	🥁 8:04pm WR: Tres cool. Never heard this before. Remember whatever else Herbie Mann did he packaged himself like this: upload.wikimedia.org...
	8:04pm Flash Strap: THE album in this vein, imo, is With Flute to Boot with Mann & Machito - another one I've listened to (in this case for years) & only just now got a copy of. so we'll be hearing more from it soon as well
	8:05pm Flash Strap: @WR: all these great early Mann albums inevitably get reissued with a Push Push-looking facelift and I really hate it
	8:06pm Flash Strap: not that everything he did in the 60s-70s is all bad but man it's usually not great or very thoughtful and it definitely prejudiced me against him for years before i discovered how sublime his earlier stuff can be
	8:07pm melinda: Hi friends! Nice art.
	8:08pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	🥁 8:08pm chresti: Haha WR.
	🥁 8:11pm chresti: Like Pan and his flute.
	8:12pm Flash Strap: he really took jazz flute on the full ride
	8:12pm Jeff Golick: Hi there. Maybe one day you'll do us all a great service, Flash, by publishing an overview of "great albums with terrible covers."
	8:13pm Jeff Golick: (I am terribly prejudiced against ugly covers.)
	8:14pm holland oats: evenin' all
	8:14pm Flash Strap: Hi Jeff! me too, it's really hard to truly embrace an album if its cover just sucks. I can do it, but i'm resentful
	8:14pm Flash Strap: trying to think of the worst cover for an album I love
	8:14pm Flash Strap: Hi Holland Oates!
	8:15pm TDK60: An album I like that has a poor cover? hmmn....
	8:17pm Jeff Golick: SteepleChase has some great music hiding behind some really pedestrian LP designs, usually stilted, posed photographs of the musician(s).
	8:18pm Flash Strap: true
	8:19pm Flash Strap: i always though this was an inexcusable cover design for the temptation in their psychedelic period: img.discogs.com...
	8:19pm TDK60: ..just went and looked thru 2 LP boxes; they all look good in one way or another.
	8:21pm Flash Strap: @TDK: yeah most of the time if I don't love a cover but do love the record I end up coming around on the cover. but not always - man I'll never be down with the cover of Mellow Yellow
	8:21pm TDK60: Really Flash? The Temps look relaxed. Not flashy enough, just a photo?
	8:21pm northguineahills: @Jeff, just look at a good portion of decent 80s and 90s records...
	8:22pm Flash Strap: it's just so bland! that's the album with Papa Was a Rolling Stone! it looks like they're gonna be doing Carpenters covers not psychedelic soul classics
	8:23pm TDK60: Yeh I see your point Flash. / NGH There /were/ some cheesy covers in the '80s.
	8:23pm Flash Strap: I mean Run Charlie Run is insane on that LP, it should look like a Funkadelic album, all dangerous
	8:24pm Flash Strap: not that any of the Temptations psych-period covers are great, exactly. That's the Undisputed Truth's department
	8:25pm TDK60: I like the Rollings' 1rst US LP England's Newest Hitmakers but the photo makes them look scary, mean; that was so unfair to those lads.
	8:26pm Flash Strap: haha they loved it though, loved lookin' tuff
	8:27pm Flash Strap: i always thought Mick & Brian looked like boy's school lads on that one, but the other three look like gangsters i have to admit
	8:28pm TDK60: Well they weren't smiling and with suits like most bands still were in '64. They were glum. And in sort of nonconformist dress for the time!
	8:30pm TDK60: It's odd Flash tryin' to think of covers I don't like, I can only summon ones I like. I could list hundreds...let's see...
	8:30pm Flash Strap: MAN this Tony Scott piece really opens up
	8:31pm Jeff Golick: Yeah this is pretty incredible, this Scott.
	8:31pm TDK60: I like this Tony Scott, never heard.
	8:32pm Flash Strap: well on the subject: img.discogs.com...
	8:32pm Flash Strap: (no offense to the artist)
	8:34pm Flash Strap: Salt Peanuts is so much fun, it's a joy
	8:36pm Jeff Golick: I studied the hell out of these liner notes, back in the day.
	8:36pm Flash Strap: Oh, i ought to! i just have this on mp3
	8:36pm Frog Mover: The only nuts for me are the salt ones!
	8:37pm doctorjazz: Bird Lives!
	8:38pm Jeff Golick: Had to dig up the edition I had: www.discogs.com...
	8:38pm doctorjazz: (Had to chop tomatoes and cilantro, back now...)
	8:40pm doctorjazz: Have This on a number of discs, vinyl, CD.
	8:40pm Flash Strap: @JG: man I just need to get that one, it would be such a treat to put on & read up
	8:41pm northguineahills: I'd try to cook for my parents, but they don't like Mexican or anything spicy. So, I'm limited to Japanese or Polish (and they've never tried Polish).
	8:41pm Jeff Golick: Mingus made that tape, iirc. Possibly overdubbed some stuff?
	8:42pm doctorjazz: That is the trouble with digital downloads, used to get so much information about the music from LP jackets or CD booklets.
	8:43pm Flash Strap: he did overdub bass for many editions of that album but the Jazz factory "Complete..." is without overdubs, supposedly they affected the quality of other sections
	8:43pm Flash Strap: @Doc: big time
	8:44pm doctorjazz: If I remember correctly, Mingus didn't like his bass on the original, and did record new lines over it. I believe it's available I the original and overdubbed versions (or it was).
	🥁 8:45pm WR: Ok, cooking done, chilling while waiting for partner to be ready. I linked that cover mostly for comic effect. But my main point is that that cover was at the height of his commercial success and I feel fairly sure he had full control. Besides the music he made, he was A&R, if not total control / owner of Embryo records which released many diverse & creative recordings. And he did have Sonny Sharrock as his guitarist for a while when at his peak popularity. So not a HM hater, just find him a curiosity.
	8:45pm Flash Strap: @WR: right there with you
	8:46pm Flash Strap: Yusef Lateef on flute here
	8:47pm Flash Strap: Blakey on drums soundlng like God
	8:48pm doctorjazz: Don't know this Blakey record, very cool!
	8:49pm Flash Strap: possibly my favorite Blakey LP
	8:49pm Frog Mover: Sounds like a volcano
	8:50pm Flash Strap: yeah, the power of primal forces or something. he's so incredible
	8:54pm TDK60: got to see Blakey once.
	8:54pm Doug Schulkind: My beloved Yusef Lateef graces that wonderful Blakey document.
	8:55pm Doug Schulkind: Ah, my beloved Flash Strap has stated the case.
	8:57pm doctorjazz: Got to see Blakey a few times, with the Marsalis boys and other groups, always a great show, he was a powerhouse.
	8:59pm coelacanth∅: greetings Flash & Explorers
	9:00pm Flash Strap: Hello Doug! I could never neglect to mention the maestro
	9:01pm Flash Strap: this is as perfect as something can be, I think
	9:01pm Flash Strap: Hi Coelacanth!
	9:02pm Doug Schulkind: I wrote about Guy Warren for the WFMU blog in 2008. In it I shared all the tracks from Warren's historic LP Theme For African Drums. I title the piece "Love, the Mastery Of..." All those tracks are still downloadable by the way. Get them here: blog.wfmu.org...
	9:03pm Flash Strap: Lateef on oboe here - incredible
	9:04pm Flash Strap: @Doug: and for further Warren studies, my own humble Guy Warren show, "Drums, The Mystery Of" is here: wfmu.org...
	9:04pm Flash Strap: Theme For African Drums is such a great record!
	9:07pm Flash Strap: Africa Speaks, America Answers is also just beyond amazing
	9:09pm StringOFperils: This is great.
	9:09pm Doug Schulkind: Brother Flash, I remember that programme vividly. The very essence of what it means to be alive. One imagines that Guy Warren and Tony Allen are off in a corner sipping some Wilfort Dark Ales and playing another game of backgammon.
	9:09pm Flash Strap: hello String of perils!
	9:10pm Flash Strap: one loves to imagine this!
	9:10pm Jeff Golick: Another, different, SABA.
	9:11pm Flash Strap: Indonesian jazz pianist Bubi Chen on piano here. love his sound
	9:12pm Flash Strap: @Jeff: indeed - there are no coincidences in the room, only red string
	9:14pm Flash Strap: i just scarfed a huge slice of banana bread straight out of the oven, my god it was good
	9:16pm Jacinda: Bubi Chen it was good!
	9:16pm Flash Strap: aloha Jacinda
	🥁 9:17pm chresti: This Moondog sounds good!
	9:18pm Flash Strap: love that Moondog!
	🥁 9:19pm chresti: And Moondog to Tony Allen.
	9:21pm Doug Schulkind: So spare on the cymbals was Mr Allen. I am a drummer after all, he seems to be saying, not a cymbalist.
	9:23pm Flash Strap: haha yes indeed
	9:23pm Flash Strap: thunder, not lightning
	9:25pm TDK60: I used to play with drummers who used to ring the cymbals too much and too darn loud.
	9:25pm Flash Strap: is this my favorite Kraftwerk piece? quite possibly. don't make me decide
	9:26pm coelacanth∅: i prefer less cymbals, in general. i've left shows (in bars) many times for the primary reason of the drummer being too cymbal heavy. it seems to show a lack of imagination, and it's terrible for our sense of hearing.
	9:27pm StringOFperils: This is where I fell in love w Kraftwerk...who dispensed with the drummer, more or less. Embrasure of the rhythm machines.
	🥁 9:27pm chresti: Yeah, anybody can crash cymbols, helps cover mistakes, too, I gather.
	9:28pm Flash Strap: I love this whole very gentle album
	9:28pm TDK60: Coel: I detected this in various rock genres since the early '90s. It's too much. (I played bass gtr.)
	9:29pm Flash Strap: I've always thought that, among the other more notable Kraftwerk homages on Heroes, Bowie was inspired by Ananas when making Moss Garden
	9:30pm Little Danny: Oh man I don't think I've ever heard this Kraftwerk album. This is great!
	9:30pm coelacanth∅: 'makes sense Evan... and v-2 schneider's influence?
	9:30pm Flash Strap: @LD: whole LP is right up your alley, I think
	9:31pm Flash Strap: @C: yeah that's the big one
	9:31pm StringOFperils: It really bears many repeat listenings over years. AND it has a great album cover too.
	9:32pm melinda: I'm not familiar with this side of Kraftwerk. Nice.
	9:32pm Flash Strap: it does! look at our sweet boys: img.discogs.com...
	9:32pm Little Danny: Downloading it right now!
	9:34pm Flash Strap: it's right in the sweet spot between their first incarnation as a kind of krautrock/prog group in the classic sense and the autobahns to come
	9:34pm Flash Strap: back cover, you can see their Düsseldorf studio: img.discogs.com...
	9:35pm TDK60: ..and this was still pretty ahead for '73.
	9:35pm Flash Strap: produced by, who else, Conny Plank
	9:35pm melinda: cool studio.
	9:36pm Doug Schulkind: Yes. New to me, too. I just downloaded it as well. The love is spreading.
	9:36pm Flash Strap: @TDK: yeah, maybe only Cluster/Harmonia were on this level. I guess Can too, you can hear some Future Days balminess in here
	9:36pm Flash Strap: yessssss, the love is warm
	9:36pm StringOFperils: Schneider's earlier band Organization disbanded around 1970, when he was still playing flute...which he abandoned when he got into electronic sounds....and then this stuff started to come out a couple of years later.
	9:37pm Flash Strap: I never got too into the Organization LP, but it's not bad at all
	9:38pm StringOFperils: Yeah, I think it's an alright album also...in a different way
	9:39pm TDK60: In the spaciness, there was Terry Riley already, and Eno & Fripp's No Pussyfooting.. Etc.
	9:39pm Flash Strap: of all the Bohannon LPs I really do reserve a special place in my heart for the first (& least formulaic), a truly special record
	9:39pm Flash Strap: @TDK: certainly
	9:45pm Flash Strap: GREAT cover from this outstanding Cleveland group: lh3.googleusercontent.com...
	9:46pm StringOFperils: Hah! Fantastic. Great track too.
	9:47pm TDK60: Wonder if Prince ever heard of them.
	9:47pm Flash Strap: me too TDK
	9:47pm Doug Schulkind: I've had this record for ages and never played it on the air. It's like discovering I had an extra lung.
	9:48pm StringOFperils: Happy Third Lung Day Doug.
	9:48pm TDK60: Freakee.
	9:49pm StringOFperils: The whole band is going through the Wah Wah
	9:49pm Flash Strap: It's such an ace record, to my mind the primo underground black rock artifact
	9:50pm Flash Strap: i'm gonna have to speed through my last mic break, no way I'm cutting this short
	9:51pm Andrew Waterloo: This is great
	9:51pm doctorjazz: Loved the show, thanks,Evan!
	9:51pm StringOFperils: Now I just need me a Chester Hines novel.
	9:52pm Flash Strap: Hi Andrew! Thank YOU Doc!
	9:52pm Doug Schulkind: That's exactly what radio means to me, StringOFperils.
	9:53pm Flash Strap: I've been meaning to read the Harlem Detective series! how are they? so curious
	9:55pm StringOFperils: Ha ha. I love that stuff. I saw the film Cotton Comes To Harlem late one night on TV many years ago, w Godfrey Cambridge. It was cool, but the original writing is fabulous.
	9:55pm Little Danny: Thanks Evan! Epic conclusion this evening!
	9:56pm Little Danny: March on, explorers: wfmu.org... See y'all there!
	9:56pm coelacanth∅: Evan @ 9.39 i'd never heard of Bohannon before news of his departure, and over the past week i haven't liked anything i've heard of him -but i like the track you played. ...it's not disco, for one thing!
	9:56pm TDK60: Night, thanks.
	9:57pm Flash Strap: @C: his 70s albums are all great imo
	9:57pm Doug Schulkind: Hello dearly assembled, be advised that the Drummer Stream is introducing a new weekly broadcast tomorrow: DRUMMER STREAM DISCOTHEQUE! Every Friday throughout the shelter-at-home/quarantine/lockdown, we will be serving up a massive 4-hour dance party!! Each Friday afternoon, 3-7pm (ET), the show will be hosted by a different Drummer Stream DJ. Tomorrow, the venerable Larry Grogan of Testify! will be slapping the vinyls! Tune in tomorrow, following Uncle Michael's Hinky Dinky Time!!!!
	9:58pm coelacanth∅: haha, speaking of disco!
	9:59pm StringOFperils: Congrats on getting that together so quickly, the Friday dance throwdowns...some heavy hitters stepped up. Nice !
	🥁 9:59pm chresti: Thanks Flash, fantastic as always
	10:00pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan! take care
	🥁 10:00pm WR: Chester Hines or Chester Himes? And what is the context for this?
	10:00pm StringOFperils: thx
	10:00pm Flash Strap: Thanks all! night to you!
	🥁 10:01pm WR: Oh, yes, Himes. Oh man, a main man for me.
	🥁 10:01pm WR: Thanks for a great show. !!!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from May 7, 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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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
Bohannon	Dance With Your Parno "Dance With Your Parno" by "Bohannon"	Keep on Dancin'	Dakar	1974		0:00:25 (Pop-up)
Tony Allen and the Afro Messengers	No Discrimination	No Discrimination	Grandstar Records	1979		0:03:52 (Pop-up)
Kraftwerk	K2 (Ruckzuck) "K2 (Ruckzuck)" by "Kraftwerk"	K4 (Bremen Radio 1971)		1971	Florian Schneider, Michael Rother, Klaus Dinger. rec. live 1971	0:12:11 (Pop-up)
Tony Allen with Afrobeat 2000	Road Close (Dance Dub)	N.E.P.A. (Never Expect Power Always)	Mercury	1984		0:31:14 (Pop-up)
Bohannon	Singing A Song For My Mother	Stop & Go	Dakar	1973		0:38:29 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Jungle Adventure "Jungle Adventure"					0:44:04 (Pop-up)
Johnny Rae's Afro-Jazz Septet	Bedouin	Herbie Mann's African Suite	United Artists	1959	wr. Herbie Mann	0:58:16 (Pop-up)
Johnny Rae's Afro-Jazz Septet	Sudan	Herbie Mann's African Suite	United Artists	1959	wr. Herbie Mann	1:02:17 (Pop-up)
Johnny Rae's Afro-Jazz Septet	Ekunda	Herbie Mann's African Suite	United Artists	1959	wr. Herbie Mann	1:06:17 (Pop-up)
Johnny Rae's Afro-Jazz Septet	Guinean	Herbie Mann's African Suite	United Artists	1959	wr. Herbie Mann	1:09:25 (Pop-up)
Tony Scott	Come Back Mother Africa	African Bird / Come Back! Mother Africa – To the Spirit of Charlie Parker	Soul Note	1984		1:14:01 (Pop-up)
Charlie Parker Quintet	Salt Peanuts	Complete Jazz at Massey Hall	The Jazz Factory	1953 / 2003	Charles Mingus, Max Roach, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell; rec. & orig. rel. 1953	1:32:05 (Pop-up)
The Light of Saba	Peanut Vendor "Peanut Vendor" by "The Light of Saba"	The Light of Saba	Total Sounds	1974		1:39:52 (Pop-up)
Art Blakey & the Afro-Drum Ensemble	Ero Ti Nr'ojeje	The African Beat	Blue Note	1962	wr. Solomon Ilori	1:43:08 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Mondo Island "Mondo Island"					1:50:37 (Pop-up)
Art Blakey & the Afro-Drum Ensemble	Love, The Mystery Of	The African Beat	Blue Note	1962	wr. Guy Warren	1:59:13 (Pop-up)
Tony Scott And The Indonesian All Stars	Gambang Suling	Djanger Bali	SABA / Jazz Meets the World	1967	wr. Narto Sabdo	2:07:42 (Pop-up)
Moondog	Bird's Lament (In Memory Charlie Parker)	Sax Pax For A Sax	Kopf	1994		2:14:40 (Pop-up)
Tony Allen	The Drum Thunder Suite	A Tribute to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers	Blue Note	2017		2:16:38 (Pop-up)
Kraftwerk	Ananas Symphonie "Ananas Symphonie" by "Kraftwerk"	Ralf & Florian	Philips	1973		2:23:24 (Pop-up)
Bohannon	Save Their Souls "Save Their Souls" by "Bohannon"	Stop & Go	Dakar	1973		2:37:08 (Pop-up)
Purple Image	Marching To A Different Drummer	Purple Image	Map City	1970		2:41:48 (Pop-up)
	Submarine Mood "Submarine Mood"					2:56:47 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:39pm Flash Strap: Hello Explorers
	🥁 7:00pm chresti: Hello Flash and future explorer assembly!
	7:01pm northguineahills: Bohannon!
	7:02pm Carmichael: Bohannon! Marty McSorley played a set recently.
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti, NGH!
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hiya Carm - love Bohannon, may he rest in the groove
	7:03pm listener james from westwood: How do, Flash and all!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi James!
	7:05pm doctorjazz: It's that time again!
	7:06pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc!
	7:06pm Flash Strap: @Doc: playlist image tonight by Man Ray, "Jazz" 1919
	7:07pm northguineahills: Ouch, Tony Allen as well (grazie!)
	7:08pm Flash Strap: some giants have fallen of late, yeah. but the music towers yet
	7:08pm doctorjazz: I like it, very cool!
	7:09pm Frog Mover: Hey Parnos!
	7:09pm Flash Strap: Frog Mover! Move with your Froggo
	7:11pm Flash Strap: really dig the whole vibe of this Tony Allen record – nice synth stuff there under the surface, from Collins
	🥁 7:12pm WR: Hello explorers. Collapsing into the stream for a bit after yet another hectic work day.
	7:13pm listener james from westwood: Oh hell yes to this.
	7:13pm Flash Strap: Hi WR!
	7:14pm northguineahills: Kraftwerk 2 is a fave album of mine. and, verdammt, Florian too...
	7:16pm Frog Mover: Lost grooves spanning the globe
	7:16pm Flash Strap: Love this live set, Florian sans Ralf & with a nascent Neu! going heavier than usual, even
	7:17pm Flash Strap: Rother never sounds this gutsy and heavy, not even on total scorchers to come like Negativland
	7:18pm TDK60: Evenin' Flash, radioexotics.
	7:18pm Flash Strap: & of course Florian on flute is truly magical, esp. in this contrast
	7:18pm Flash Strap: Hey TDK!
	🥁 7:19pm WR: Obviously I know only a little about Kraftwerk. Would never have guessed this is them.
	7:20pm northguineahills: @WR: Their first three albums (which they later disavowed), are total abstract hippie shakedowns....
	7:21pm Flash Strap: @WR: that's sort of the thing of this notorious set - for long stretches it really doesn't sound like Kraftwerk at all, hardly even sounds like Neu! - very unique trio in a special moment in time.
	7:21pm TDK60: You know they were a buncha longhairs back then...then came the later look/s.
	7:21pm Flash Strap: I think my favorite Kraftwerk will always be Ralf & Florian, personally
	7:22pm Flash Strap: Has anyone heard that new live bootleg that just started making the rounds? I think it's from around 74? pretty good stuff
	7:25pm Flash Strap: there does exist some video of this session, well worth looking up later. check out the setup: pixhost.icu...
	7:26pm northguineahills: @Flash: My mother runs a food pantry/clothes charity. In college, I used to pick out clothes from there that no one else wanted. I went to the donated pile, and found a copy of Ralf & Florian. They don't accept music, weird, and at the time, I didn't even know the album existed (one of my best finds).
	🥁 7:27pm chresti: Did Kraftwerk have long hair, TDK?
	7:27pm Flash Strap: that's some find! I had a similar out-of-the-blue experience when my mother was working at the thrift store and I was tagging along, in North Carolina, not very cosmopolitan, and found a minty Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene. felt like it was beamed down from outer space & into my hands
	7:28pm Flash Strap: not such a rare thing I know now, but then it seemed without precedent
	7:29pm TDK60: Chresti, I think the history books record they did. On the back of their Autobahn LP a photo shows two with long hair, two with short. Click on the link Flash just posted.
	7:30pm TDK60: Later came the very futuristic [?] threads, cropped hair.
	7:31pm northguineahills: @chresti: Oh, back when this was recorded, they looked like total hippies, very long unwashed hair...
	7:31pm TDK60: NGH: How do you know it was unwashed?
	7:32pm Flash Strap: good question
	🥁 7:32pm chresti: I like the orange cones in that longhair Kraftwerk setup.
	7:33pm northguineahills: @Evan: Ha! I got my copy of Oxygene at a thrift store for a $1 as well! @TDK: Well, maybe Florians was washed, but the pics I've seen, Ralf's looked like he just stepped out of commune...
	7:33pm Flash Strap: great cover on this Tony Allen: img.discogs.com...
	7:34pm TDK60: <- Was the painting already identified?
	7:34pm Flash Strap: yeah Florian has always been a very clean-looking dapper guy I think, Ralf has more of a scrappy vibe
	7:34pm Flash Strap: @TDK: Man Ray, "Jazz" 1919
	7:35pm TDK60: Thanks Flash.
	7:35pm Flash Strap: @chresti: me too, simple stage dressing that goes a long way
	🥁 7:38pm chresti: I like the dancing stick of dynamite.
	7:40pm Flash Strap: me too
	7:46pm Little Danny: Hi Flash, hi all
	7:47pm TDK60: That Bohannon song is laid back, comforting.
	🥁 7:52pm chresti: I don't really know Kraftwerk, that much. I only started paying attention in the last 15 years.
	🥁 7:54pm chresti: I wasn't aware of Bohannon until Marty McSorley's show, last Saturday.
	7:55pm TDK60: Chresti, It makes WFMU a joy. You can check the Archives and listen to some these, if curious.
	8:00pm Flash Strap: God I love this record – I've heard it but only recently got a copy and I've been just soaking in it
	8:00pm Flash Strap: Hi LD!
	8:02pm Flash Strap: decent cover: img.discogs.com...
	🥁 8:04pm WR: Tres cool. Never heard this before. Remember whatever else Herbie Mann did he packaged himself like this: upload.wikimedia.org...
	8:04pm Flash Strap: THE album in this vein, imo, is With Flute to Boot with Mann & Machito - another one I've listened to (in this case for years) & only just now got a copy of. so we'll be hearing more from it soon as well
	8:05pm Flash Strap: @WR: all these great early Mann albums inevitably get reissued with a Push Push-looking facelift and I really hate it
	8:06pm Flash Strap: not that everything he did in the 60s-70s is all bad but man it's usually not great or very thoughtful and it definitely prejudiced me against him for years before i discovered how sublime his earlier stuff can be
	8:07pm melinda: Hi friends! Nice art.
	8:08pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	🥁 8:08pm chresti: Haha WR.
	🥁 8:11pm chresti: Like Pan and his flute.
	8:12pm Flash Strap: he really took jazz flute on the full ride
	8:12pm Jeff Golick: Hi there. Maybe one day you'll do us all a great service, Flash, by publishing an overview of "great albums with terrible covers."
	8:13pm Jeff Golick: (I am terribly prejudiced against ugly covers.)
	8:14pm holland oats: evenin' all
	8:14pm Flash Strap: Hi Jeff! me too, it's really hard to truly embrace an album if its cover just sucks. I can do it, but i'm resentful
	8:14pm Flash Strap: trying to think of the worst cover for an album I love
	8:14pm Flash Strap: Hi Holland Oates!
	8:15pm TDK60: An album I like that has a poor cover? hmmn....
	8:17pm Jeff Golick: SteepleChase has some great music hiding behind some really pedestrian LP designs, usually stilted, posed photographs of the musician(s).
	8:18pm Flash Strap: true
	8:19pm Flash Strap: i always though this was an inexcusable cover design for the temptation in their psychedelic period: img.discogs.com...
	8:19pm TDK60: ..just went and looked thru 2 LP boxes; they all look good in one way or another.
	8:21pm Flash Strap: @TDK: yeah most of the time if I don't love a cover but do love the record I end up coming around on the cover. but not always - man I'll never be down with the cover of Mellow Yellow
	8:21pm TDK60: Really Flash? The Temps look relaxed. Not flashy enough, just a photo?
	8:21pm northguineahills: @Jeff, just look at a good portion of decent 80s and 90s records...
	8:22pm Flash Strap: it's just so bland! that's the album with Papa Was a Rolling Stone! it looks like they're gonna be doing Carpenters covers not psychedelic soul classics
	8:23pm TDK60: Yeh I see your point Flash. / NGH There /were/ some cheesy covers in the '80s.
	8:23pm Flash Strap: I mean Run Charlie Run is insane on that LP, it should look like a Funkadelic album, all dangerous
	8:24pm Flash Strap: not that any of the Temptations psych-period covers are great, exactly. That's the Undisputed Truth's department
	8:25pm TDK60: I like the Rollings' 1rst US LP England's Newest Hitmakers but the photo makes them look scary, mean; that was so unfair to those lads.
	8:26pm Flash Strap: haha they loved it though, loved lookin' tuff
	8:27pm Flash Strap: i always thought Mick & Brian looked like boy's school lads on that one, but the other three look like gangsters i have to admit
	8:28pm TDK60: Well they weren't smiling and with suits like most bands still were in '64. They were glum. And in sort of nonconformist dress for the time!
	8:30pm TDK60: It's odd Flash tryin' to think of covers I don't like, I can only summon ones I like. I could list hundreds...let's see...
	8:30pm Flash Strap: MAN this Tony Scott piece really opens up
	8:31pm Jeff Golick: Yeah this is pretty incredible, this Scott.
	8:31pm TDK60: I like this Tony Scott, never heard.
	8:32pm Flash Strap: well on the subject: img.discogs.com...
	8:32pm Flash Strap: (no offense to the artist)
	8:34pm Flash Strap: Salt Peanuts is so much fun, it's a joy
	8:36pm Jeff Golick: I studied the hell out of these liner notes, back in the day.
	8:36pm Flash Strap: Oh, i ought to! i just have this on mp3
	8:36pm Frog Mover: The only nuts for me are the salt ones!
	8:37pm doctorjazz: Bird Lives!
	8:38pm Jeff Golick: Had to dig up the edition I had: www.discogs.com...
	8:38pm doctorjazz: (Had to chop tomatoes and cilantro, back now...)
	8:40pm doctorjazz: Have This on a number of discs, vinyl, CD.
	8:40pm Flash Strap: @JG: man I just need to get that one, it would be such a treat to put on & read up
	8:41pm northguineahills: I'd try to cook for my parents, but they don't like Mexican or anything spicy. So, I'm limited to Japanese or Polish (and they've never tried Polish).
	8:41pm Jeff Golick: Mingus made that tape, iirc. Possibly overdubbed some stuff?
	8:42pm doctorjazz: That is the trouble with digital downloads, used to get so much information about the music from LP jackets or CD booklets.
	8:43pm Flash Strap: he did overdub bass for many editions of that album but the Jazz factory "Complete..." is without overdubs, supposedly they affected the quality of other sections
	8:43pm Flash Strap: @Doc: big time
	8:44pm doctorjazz: If I remember correctly, Mingus didn't like his bass on the original, and did record new lines over it. I believe it's available I the original and overdubbed versions (or it was).
	🥁 8:45pm WR: Ok, cooking done, chilling while waiting for partner to be ready. I linked that cover mostly for comic effect. But my main point is that that cover was at the height of his commercial success and I feel fairly sure he had full control. Besides the music he made, he was A&R, if not total control / owner of Embryo records which released many diverse & creative recordings. And he did have Sonny Sharrock as his guitarist for a while when at his peak popularity. So not a HM hater, just find him a curiosity.
	8:45pm Flash Strap: @WR: right there with you
	8:46pm Flash Strap: Yusef Lateef on flute here
	8:47pm Flash Strap: Blakey on drums soundlng like God
	8:48pm doctorjazz: Don't know this Blakey record, very cool!
	8:49pm Flash Strap: possibly my favorite Blakey LP
	8:49pm Frog Mover: Sounds like a volcano
	8:50pm Flash Strap: yeah, the power of primal forces or something. he's so incredible
	8:54pm TDK60: got to see Blakey once.
	8:54pm Doug Schulkind: My beloved Yusef Lateef graces that wonderful Blakey document.
	8:55pm Doug Schulkind: Ah, my beloved Flash Strap has stated the case.
	8:57pm doctorjazz: Got to see Blakey a few times, with the Marsalis boys and other groups, always a great show, he was a powerhouse.
	8:59pm coelacanth∅: greetings Flash & Explorers
	9:00pm Flash Strap: Hello Doug! I could never neglect to mention the maestro
	9:01pm Flash Strap: this is as perfect as something can be, I think
	9:01pm Flash Strap: Hi Coelacanth!
	9:02pm Doug Schulkind: I wrote about Guy Warren for the WFMU blog in 2008. In it I shared all the tracks from Warren's historic LP Theme For African Drums. I title the piece "Love, the Mastery Of..." All those tracks are still downloadable by the way. Get them here: blog.wfmu.org...
	9:03pm Flash Strap: Lateef on oboe here - incredible
	9:04pm Flash Strap: @Doug: and for further Warren studies, my own humble Guy Warren show, "Drums, The Mystery Of" is here: wfmu.org...
	9:04pm Flash Strap: Theme For African Drums is such a great record!
	9:07pm Flash Strap: Africa Speaks, America Answers is also just beyond amazing
	9:09pm StringOFperils: This is great.
	9:09pm Doug Schulkind: Brother Flash, I remember that programme vividly. The very essence of what it means to be alive. One imagines that Guy Warren and Tony Allen are off in a corner sipping some Wilfort Dark Ales and playing another game of backgammon.
	9:09pm Flash Strap: hello String of perils!
	9:10pm Flash Strap: one loves to imagine this!
	9:10pm Jeff Golick: Another, different, SABA.
	9:11pm Flash Strap: Indonesian jazz pianist Bubi Chen on piano here. love his sound
	9:12pm Flash Strap: @Jeff: indeed - there are no coincidences in the room, only red string
	9:14pm Flash Strap: i just scarfed a huge slice of banana bread straight out of the oven, my god it was good
	9:16pm Jacinda: Bubi Chen it was good!
	9:16pm Flash Strap: aloha Jacinda
	🥁 9:17pm chresti: This Moondog sounds good!
	9:18pm Flash Strap: love that Moondog!
	🥁 9:19pm chresti: And Moondog to Tony Allen.
	9:21pm Doug Schulkind: So spare on the cymbals was Mr Allen. I am a drummer after all, he seems to be saying, not a cymbalist.
	9:23pm Flash Strap: haha yes indeed
	9:23pm Flash Strap: thunder, not lightning
	9:25pm TDK60: I used to play with drummers who used to ring the cymbals too much and too darn loud.
	9:25pm Flash Strap: is this my favorite Kraftwerk piece? quite possibly. don't make me decide
	9:26pm coelacanth∅: i prefer less cymbals, in general. i've left shows (in bars) many times for the primary reason of the drummer being too cymbal heavy. it seems to show a lack of imagination, and it's terrible for our sense of hearing.
	9:27pm StringOFperils: This is where I fell in love w Kraftwerk...who dispensed with the drummer, more or less. Embrasure of the rhythm machines.
	🥁 9:27pm chresti: Yeah, anybody can crash cymbols, helps cover mistakes, too, I gather.
	9:28pm Flash Strap: I love this whole very gentle album
	9:28pm TDK60: Coel: I detected this in various rock genres since the early '90s. It's too much. (I played bass gtr.)
	9:29pm Flash Strap: I've always thought that, among the other more notable Kraftwerk homages on Heroes, Bowie was inspired by Ananas when making Moss Garden
	9:30pm Little Danny: Oh man I don't think I've ever heard this Kraftwerk album. This is great!
	9:30pm coelacanth∅: 'makes sense Evan... and v-2 schneider's influence?
	9:30pm Flash Strap: @LD: whole LP is right up your alley, I think
	9:31pm Flash Strap: @C: yeah that's the big one
	9:31pm StringOFperils: It really bears many repeat listenings over years. AND it has a great album cover too.
	9:32pm melinda: I'm not familiar with this side of Kraftwerk. Nice.
	9:32pm Flash Strap: it does! look at our sweet boys: img.discogs.com...
	9:32pm Little Danny: Downloading it right now!
	9:34pm Flash Strap: it's right in the sweet spot between their first incarnation as a kind of krautrock/prog group in the classic sense and the autobahns to come
	9:34pm Flash Strap: back cover, you can see their Düsseldorf studio: img.discogs.com...
	9:35pm TDK60: ..and this was still pretty ahead for '73.
	9:35pm Flash Strap: produced by, who else, Conny Plank
	9:35pm melinda: cool studio.
	9:36pm Doug Schulkind: Yes. New to me, too. I just downloaded it as well. The love is spreading.
	9:36pm Flash Strap: @TDK: yeah, maybe only Cluster/Harmonia were on this level. I guess Can too, you can hear some Future Days balminess in here
	9:36pm Flash Strap: yessssss, the love is warm
	9:36pm StringOFperils: Schneider's earlier band Organization disbanded around 1970, when he was still playing flute...which he abandoned when he got into electronic sounds....and then this stuff started to come out a couple of years later.
	9:37pm Flash Strap: I never got too into the Organization LP, but it's not bad at all
	9:38pm StringOFperils: Yeah, I think it's an alright album also...in a different way
	9:39pm TDK60: In the spaciness, there was Terry Riley already, and Eno & Fripp's No Pussyfooting.. Etc.
	9:39pm Flash Strap: of all the Bohannon LPs I really do reserve a special place in my heart for the first (& least formulaic), a truly special record
	9:39pm Flash Strap: @TDK: certainly
	9:45pm Flash Strap: GREAT cover from this outstanding Cleveland group: lh3.googleusercontent.com...
	9:46pm StringOFperils: Hah! Fantastic. Great track too.
	9:47pm TDK60: Wonder if Prince ever heard of them.
	9:47pm Flash Strap: me too TDK
	9:47pm Doug Schulkind: I've had this record for ages and never played it on the air. It's like discovering I had an extra lung.
	9:48pm StringOFperils: Happy Third Lung Day Doug.
	9:48pm TDK60: Freakee.
	9:49pm StringOFperils: The whole band is going through the Wah Wah
	9:49pm Flash Strap: It's such an ace record, to my mind the primo underground black rock artifact
	9:50pm Flash Strap: i'm gonna have to speed through my last mic break, no way I'm cutting this short
	9:51pm Andrew Waterloo: This is great
	9:51pm doctorjazz: Loved the show, thanks,Evan!
	9:51pm StringOFperils: Now I just need me a Chester Hines novel.
	9:52pm Flash Strap: Hi Andrew! Thank YOU Doc!
	9:52pm Doug Schulkind: That's exactly what radio means to me, StringOFperils.
	9:53pm Flash Strap: I've been meaning to read the Harlem Detective series! how are they? so curious
	9:55pm StringOFperils: Ha ha. I love that stuff. I saw the film Cotton Comes To Harlem late one night on TV many years ago, w Godfrey Cambridge. It was cool, but the original writing is fabulous.
	9:55pm Little Danny: Thanks Evan! Epic conclusion this evening!
	9:56pm Little Danny: March on, explorers: wfmu.org... See y'all there!
	9:56pm coelacanth∅: Evan @ 9.39 i'd never heard of Bohannon before news of his departure, and over the past week i haven't liked anything i've heard of him -but i like the track you played. ...it's not disco, for one thing!
	9:56pm TDK60: Night, thanks.
	9:57pm Flash Strap: @C: his 70s albums are all great imo
	9:57pm Doug Schulkind: Hello dearly assembled, be advised that the Drummer Stream is introducing a new weekly broadcast tomorrow: DRUMMER STREAM DISCOTHEQUE! Every Friday throughout the shelter-at-home/quarantine/lockdown, we will be serving up a massive 4-hour dance party!! Each Friday afternoon, 3-7pm (ET), the show will be hosted by a different Drummer Stream DJ. Tomorrow, the venerable Larry Grogan of Testify! will be slapping the vinyls! Tune in tomorrow, following Uncle Michael's Hinky Dinky Time!!!!
	9:58pm coelacanth∅: haha, speaking of disco!
	9:59pm StringOFperils: Congrats on getting that together so quickly, the Friday dance throwdowns...some heavy hitters stepped up. Nice !
	🥁 9:59pm chresti: Thanks Flash, fantastic as always
	10:00pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan! take care
	🥁 10:00pm WR: Chester Hines or Chester Himes? And what is the context for this?
	10:00pm StringOFperils: thx
	10:00pm Flash Strap: Thanks all! night to you!
	🥁 10:01pm WR: Oh, yes, Himes. Oh man, a main man for me.
	🥁 10:01pm WR: Thanks for a great show. !!!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from May 7, 2020

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