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Ridgewood Radio features concert recordings by adventurous bands and experimental musicians and restored archival tapes from private and institutional collections captured at venues large and small across the five boroughs of New York. It is produced by David Weinstein and Outpost Artists Resources operating out of the Ridgewood section of Queens, NY, where you'll find more yellow bricks than on the road to Oz and the cemetery of your choice is never more than a few blocks from home.
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June 10, 2020: Cultural Twister
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Music behind DJ: Pygmies Of The Ituri Rainforest |
Stock & Zither Song |
Pygmies Of The Ituri Rainforest |
Lyrichord |
1991 |
Zimbabwe, also released as collection of recordings by Colin M. Turnbull. |
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Andrey Vinogradov | Aequilibrium | Aequilibrium | YouTube | 2018 | Medieval tune performed on hurdy-gurdy, | 0:06:44 (Pop-up) | ||||
Mossi People | Kwende | Burkina Faso: Rhythms of the Grasslands | Nonesuch Records | 1983 | Mossi Thumb Piano | 0:09:38 (Pop-up) | ||||
Doc Watson | Deep River Blues | TV Broadcast | YouTube | 1991 | The legendary picker. | 0:11:41 (Pop-up) | ||||
Doc Watson | Deep River Blues | TV Broadcast | YouTube | 1991 | The legendary picker. | 0:11:43 (Pop-up) | ||||
James Blood Ulmer | Are You Glad to Be in America? | Are You Glad to Be in America? | Rough Trade | 1980 | Bandleader Ulmer - Guitar; Amin Ali - Electric Bass; Ronald Shannon Jackson - Drums; G. Calvin Weston - Drums; David Murray - Tenor Sax; Oliver Lake - Alto Sax; Olu Dara - Trumpet. | 0:14:07 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Isley Brothers | Fight the Power, Pts. 1 & 2 | The Heat Is On | Epic | 1975 | (This one dedicated to a group of my friends, you know who you are.) | 0:18:40 (Pop-up) | ||||
Albert Ayler | Ghosts: First Variation | Spiritual Unity | ESP-Disk | 1965 | Saxophonist Ayler, with bassist Gary Peacock and percussionist Sunny Murray. | 0:26:34 (Pop-up) | ||||
Sonic Youth | Cinderella's Big Score | Goo | Geffen Records | 1990 | From the band's sixth studio album. | 0:31:47 (Pop-up) | ||||
Lotte Lenya & Kurt Weill | Alabama Song (aus Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny) | Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper - Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny - Songs (1928-1944) | Naxos | 1930 and re-released | Singer Lenya with The Three Admirals and Theo Mackeben and his Jazzorchester. Music by Weill, lyric by Bertolt Brecht. | 0:37:38 (Pop-up) | ||||
Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn | New South Africa | Music Video | Rounder Records | 2014 | From an audio & video project by Mason Jar Music. | 0:40:43 (Pop-up) | ||||
Bessie Jones & Georgia Sea Island Singers | See Aunt Dinah | Join the Band | Odyssey Productions | 2012 | 1961? Preserved in the Alan Lomax archive. | 0:45:28 (Pop-up) | ||||
Sinéad O'Connor | Thank You for Hearing Me | Universal Mother | Chrysalis | 1994 | Written by O'Connor and John Reynolds, and released on O'Connor's fourth album. | 0:47:26 (Pop-up) | ||||
David W Fragments | Shift | Ridgewood Radio Noise Library | freesound.org | 2020 | Choices | 0:53:30 (Pop-up) | ||||
Led Zeppelin | When the Levee Breaks | Led Zeppelin IV | Atlantic Records | 2013 | A 2012 digital remaster of a 1971 track. | 0:56:49 (Pop-up) | ||||
This Heat | S.P.Q.R | Deceit | Rough Trade | 1981 | London-based Charles Bullen (guitar, clarinet, viola, vocals, tapes), Charles Hayward (drums, keyboards, vocals, tapes) and Gareth Williams (keyboard, guitar, bass, vocals, tapes). | 1:03:58 (Pop-up) | ||||
Hugo Largo | Fancy | Drum | Opal Records | 1988 | NYC band: Vocalist Mimi Goese, bassists Tim Sommer and Adam Peacock, and violinist Hahn Rowe. | 1:07:22 (Pop-up) | ||||
D. Nurpeisova | Ashkelen | The Secret Museum of Mankind - Central Asia - Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-48 | Shanachie | 2005 | Dina Nurpeisova or Nurpeissova (1861-1955) was a composer from the Western part of Kazakhstan. | 1:11:34 (Pop-up) | ||||
Jeff Beck | Goodbye Pork Pie Hat | Wired | Epic Records | 1976 | The rock guitarist tackles a Charles Mingus classic written around 1959. | 1:13:24 (Pop-up) | ||||
Thelonious Monk | I Should Care (Take 3) | Thelonious Himself | Concord Records | 1957 | Composer Monk (Piano), John Coltrane (Tenor Saxophone), Wilbur Ware (Bass). | 1:18:52 (Pop-up) | ||||
Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions | People Get Ready | The 25 Best Songs | Believe Music | 1965 | With so much more to come....! | 1:22:00 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Meters | Cissy Strut | Cissy Strut | Island Records | 1974 | Written by Leo Nocentelli, Art Neville, George Porter, Joseph Modeliste, produced by Allen Toussaint. | 1:24:34 (Pop-up) | ||||
Buena Vista Social Club | Candela | Buena Vista Social Club | World Circuit Records | 1997 | Album recorded over six days at the vintage EGREM studios in Havana. | 1:27:35 (Pop-up) | ||||
Charles Mingus | Original Faubus Fables | Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus | Candid Productions Ltd | 1989 | 1960. The quartet of composer/bassist Mingus, multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy, trumpeter Ted Curson, and drummer Dannie Richmond. | 1:33:02 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Temptations | Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today) | Hitsville USA - The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971 | Gordy (Motown) | 1971 | Lead vocals by Dennis Edwards, Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams, and Melvin Franklin with the backup instruments by The Funk Brothers. | 1:42:16 (Pop-up) | ||||
Public Enemy | Fight The Power | Fear Of A Black Planet | Def Jam | 1989 | Chuck D, Eric "Vietnam" Sadler, Hank Shocklee, Keith Shocklee, and The Bomb Squad. | 1:46:13 (Pop-up) | ||||
Woody Guthrie | All You Fascists Bound To Lose | Radio Broadcast | YouTube | circa 1940 | Guthrie guitar and vocals, Sonny Terry on harmonica, "whooops" and vocals… other musicians most likely featured in this performance: Pete Seeger - banjo, Cisco Houston - guitar, vocals | 1:51:47 (Pop-up) | ||||
David W Fragments | Shift | Ridgewood Radio Noise Library | freesound.org | 2020 | Actions. | 1:53:22 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Beatles | Nowhere Man | Rubber Soul (UK) | Capital | 2009 | Remastered 2009, a 1965 track not released on Rubber Soul in the US, but later on Yesterday and Today. Interestingly, one of the first Lennon songs entirely unrelated to romance or love. | 1:55:37 (Pop-up) |
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