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

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Favoriting August 19, 2020: Contagion

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Pairing musicians with mentors and influencers whose work invaded their system,
with Brendon Randall-Myers and Glenn Branca, Brett Naucke and Morton Subotnick,
Jessica Pavone and James Tenney, SPAZA and Toots & The Maytals, and more.
Image: Nicola Verlato, The Merging, 3d mockup of VR installation.

Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
Taj Mahal  Going Up to the Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue   Favoriting The Natch'l Blues  Columbia Records  1968  Jesse Edwin Davis, guitar, piano; Al Kooper, keys ; Gary Gilmore, bass; Chuck Blackwell, Earl Palmer, drums; Taj Mahal on steel guitar, vocals, harmonica.   
 
Brendon Randall-Myers & Dither Quartet  Auras   Favoriting Dynamics of Vanishing Bodies  New Focus  2020  The NYC-based quartet is Taylor Levine, Joshua Lopes, James Moore, and Gyan Riley (son of Terry). Composer Randall-Myers joined the Glenn Branca Ensemble in 2015 and has conducted that group since the composer’s passing in 2018. Album release date September 25 on New Focus.  0:06:40 (Pop-up)
Glenn Branca  The Third Ascension (concert recording)   Favoriting Roulette Concert Series  Roulette Archive  8 Oct 2016  Reg Bloor, Arad Evans, Brendon Randall-Myers, Luke Schwartz - guitars, Greg McMullen - bass, Owen Weaver - drums, Branca - conductor. Based on The Ascension, from Branca's debut studio album released in 1981 on 99 Records. Excerpt.  0:14:35 (Pop-up)
 
Brett Naucke  Stereo Variations For Buchla 200 Series Synthesizer   Favoriting EMS Hallucination  American Dreams Records  2020  The product of Chicago electronic artist Naucke’s residency at Stockholm’s Elektronmusikstudion aka EMS, one of a few places where musicians can use rare and legacy synthesizer systems. Album out September 11.  0:34:02 (Pop-up)
Morton Subotnick  From Silver Apples of the Moon to a Sky of Cloudless Sulphur IV: LUCY (concert recording)   Favoriting Roulette Concert Series  Roulette Archive  7 Nov 2013  From the synthesis master’s series of works using a hybrid Ableton-Buchla “instrument” loaded with prepared samples from previous works and performances, modified live. Excerpts.  0:50:00 (Pop-up)
 
Jessica Pavone  Lost & Found   Favoriting Pros & Cons  Astral Spirits  2020  J. Pavone String Ensemble with composer Pavone and Abby Swidler on violas, and Erica Dicker and Angela Morris on violins. Album release October 9.  1:17:26 (Pop-up)
James Tenney  Harmonium #1   Favoriting Harmonium  New World Records  2018  Scordatura Ensemble performs the piece composed 1976, dedicated to Lou Harrison.  1:25:52 (Pop-up)
 
SPAZA  Banna Ba Batsumi   Favoriting UPRIZE!  Mushroom Hour Half Hour  2020  South African Jazz Collective SPAZA anchored by rhythm section of bassist Ariel Zamonsky and percussionist Gontse Makhene, here with Malcolm Jiyane (piano/trombone/vocals) and Nonku Phiri (vocals). Since its foundation in 2012 as a pirate radio show, Mushroom Hour Half Hour has evolved into an independent label based in Johannesburg. Album out Oct 16.  1:40:02 (Pop-up)
Toots & The Maytals  54-46 Was My Number   Favoriting In The Dark  Island Records  1973  A song by Fred "Toots" Hibbert about getting busted for pot, one of the first reggae songs to receive widespread popularity outside Jamaica.  1:48:24 (Pop-up)
 
numün  Mission Loss   Favoriting voyage au soleil  Musique Impossible  2020  Bob Holmes: bass, guitar, harpsichord, synths, violin static; Joel Mellin: piano, organ, guitar, gongs, gender wayang, theremin, bass, synths, assorted percussion; Christopher Romero: dholak, cümbüş; w/guest Trina Basu: violin. Album out Sept. 4.  1:53:55 (Pop-up)

 
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Listener comments!

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chresti:

Hi David, ruth, Ridgewood society, I may be napping while listening..
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:56pm
WR:

All qued up and ready to go. Trying to decide if time for lunch or dinner or a nap sounds good.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:56pm
david w:

Hi, chresti! The first hour not so sleepy, but some of the second hour is aural sedative.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:57pm
david w:

WR! Eat, sleep, repeat. Today's world.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:01pm
listener james from westwood:

Howdy, David and Ruth and all! Especially happy to see Jessica Pavone's name there. But in for the whole thrill ride.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:01pm
david w:

Welcome always, james!
  5:04pm
ruth:

Hi guys
  5:06pm
ruth:

Nap away chresti. I find the porousness of sleep can often enhance one's musical experience.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:11pm
david w:

This is kind of dreamy, but Branca follows so don't sleep too close to the edge.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:15pm
WR:

Still can't decide what to do so listening and sipping tea.
  5:16pm
Hank:

Quite a pairing !
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:18pm
david w:

Hello, Hank. Some of the new Randall-Myers album is also brutal, but I picked that one to sort of ease us in.
  5:19pm
ruth:

I was at the debut of this piece. Great connection these 2 pieces IMHO
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:21pm
david w:

Thanks, Ruth. Everything in pairs today, and I think illuminating.
  5:28pm
northguineahills:

Listening while working and driving. Thanks David and Ruth for keeping me sane in the meantime....
  5:28pm
ruth:

Any time ngh!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:29pm
david w:

ngh! You work and drive at the same time?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:40pm
listener james from westwood:

Diggin' the Naucke!
  5:40pm
ruth:

This is nice!
  5:49pm
northguineahills:

I’m a Censusing!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:50pm
david w:

I learned synthesizer stuff on a Buchla at the University of Illinois (Urbana). I hope they kept that machine.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:51pm
doctorjazz:

Hi, just made it, looks like I missed some good stuff.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:53pm
david w:

Hello, djazz. More goodies coming, and there is always the archive!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:53pm
doctorjazz:

NGH, how's the head?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:55pm
doctorjazz:

(Probably shouldn't respond if you're driving, NGH...)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:01pm
david w:

Considering ngh use of the work censusing (getting counted) I imagine that is a head in repair.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:02pm
david w:

*word
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:04pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings david, ruth and all
  6:06pm
ruth:

Hi dr. j and coel.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:07pm
david w:

coelacanth∅! greetings to you! Nice avatar. Did you use an alpha channel? I didn't know you could.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Wed. is Drummer Stream evening ! Yassir.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:11pm
doctorjazz:

Hi Ruth, Coel, and RevRab!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:12pm
david w:

RevRab! The evening welcomes you.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:15pm
spodiodi:

hi david!

ruth, chresti, wr, james, ngh, coelacanth∅, doctorjazz!
  6:16pm
northguineahills:

@dr jazz: I still have a headache, but it’s much better. Eating normal again. I’ve had a lot of hostile residents today. People that would superficially for my demographic are more likely to be assholes, those that aren’t part of my demographic, tend to be kind. Census in FL!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:20pm
WR:

Talk about connected, you're playing something that won't be released for almost 2 months, you obviously have connections to these artists. But I guess we all knew that.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:21pm
david w:

hi, spodi from us all!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:21pm
WR:

This Pavone work is so beautiful.
  6:21pm
northguineahills:

Note to self: don’t rub habanero sauce in your eyes while driving....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
david w:

@WR: sometimes the labels and their reps send DJs advance copies, and I thank them for that.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:25pm
david w:

ngh deserves a vacation.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:28pm
listener james from westwood:

ngh: Nooooo! I had to remember not to handle jalapeños earlier this week with the hand I insert contacts with, but habaneros are orders of magnitude worse!!
  6:28pm
northguineahills:

The only musicians I ever found unpleasant in person were Jessica Pavone and David Licht. But, I love both of their work, nonetheless.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:31pm
david w:

Now we learn. james wears contacts and ngh doesn't get along with everybody.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:32pm
doctorjazz:

Really, @David W (about NGH).
I used to review jazz for an audiophile magazine The Audiophile Voice, and also used to get pre-release copies of albums (which makes sense, a they'd like the reviews to come out around the record release). But, I had to stop (to much time commitment on top of my regular routine), and they fairly quickly figured that out and stopped sending them. ECM lasted the longest, but, alas, seems to also have run dry.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:34pm
doctorjazz:

Have a friend who went to the bathroom after handling some very hot peppers. I won't go into details, but he had to go to an emergency room.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:35pm
david w:

@djazz: The pre-listening part of this gig does take a lot of time, and some of it wasted on things I don't need or want. As for hot pepper contact, been there.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:36pm
doctorjazz:

I'm sure the prep time is quite significant, can't program these great shows on the fly.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
david w:

Thanks, djazz. Kind.
Avatar 6:46pm
danjoseph:

Great show today David, really glad I tuned in! D
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:47pm
david w:

Dan! Thanks!
  6:50pm
Gary via app:

Any excuse to hear this!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:50pm
doctorjazz:

Toots, always great to great! Give it to me one time!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:51pm
david w:

Gary! Coming up next!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:51pm
chresti:

This song never fails to lift my spirits.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:52pm
doctorjazz:

*hear. That was.
Thanks, David and Ruth!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:53pm
spodiodi:

thanks, david!
  6:53pm
?:

Thanks for these sets David! And have a nice week.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:54pm
listener james from westwood:

Thanks, y'all!
Avatar 6:54pm
Schell:

That was me just there, forgot to sign in!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:54pm
chresti:

Thank you David and ruth!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:57pm
david w:

Hi, Schell and bye everyone and thank you all!
  6:57pm
ruth:

Bye! See ya next week!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
WR:

Thank you David W and Ruth. Saved the day here.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
coelacanth∅:

(belated) Thanks David & Ruth! take care
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