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Favoriting December 5, 2020: Amirtha Kidambi is an NYC based composer-performer, improviser, educator, activist and organizer invested in counter-hegemonic music and political work.

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Artist Track Album Label Comments Approx. start time
Amirtha Kidambi & Lea Bertucci  Hysteric Arch   Favoriting End of Softness  Astral Spirits  https://kidambibertucci.bandcamp.com/album/end-of-softnes  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Luke Stewart  Awakening the Masters   Favoriting Exposure Quintet  Astral Spirits  https://wfubaa.bandcamp.com/album/luke-stewart-exposure-quintet  0:05:35 (Pop-up)
Amirtha Kidambi x Luke Stewart    Quarantine Concert #2      0:21:20 (Pop-up)
Amirtha Kidambi & Lea Bertucci  Smoldering, Seething   Favoriting Phase Eclipse  Astral Spirits    0:27:49 (Pop-up)
Matteo Liberatore  Agnes   Favoriting Solos    https://matteoliberatore.bandcamp.com/album/solos  0:36:59 (Pop-up)
Alice Coltrane  Sivaya   Favoriting Transcendence  Sepia Tone Records    0:46:49 (Pop-up)
Alice Coltrane  Sita Ram   Favoriting Universal Consciousness  Impulse! Records    0:51:38 (Pop-up)
Amirtha Kidambi  Patient Love   Favoriting Live from Stadtgarten, Cologne      0:56:26 (Pop-up)
Kadri Gopalnath  Marugelara   Favoriting Jayanthasri      1:03:14 (Pop-up)
Amirtha Kidambi & Darius Jones  I Am an Instrument   Favoriting from a May 2019 Look and Listen Festival Brooklyn      1:28:54 (Pop-up)
June Tyson  Satellites are Spinning   Favoriting June Tyson: Saturnian Queen Of The Sun Ra Arkestra    https://sunramusic.bandcamp.com/album/june-tyson-saturnian-queen-of-the-sun-ra-arkestra  1:39:06 (Pop-up)
Ruth Crawford Seeger  III. Andante   Favoriting String Quartet 1931      1:49:48 (Pop-up)
Ruth Crawford Seeger  IV. Allegro Possibile   Favoriting String Quartet 1931      1:54:14 (Pop-up)
J. Pavone String Ensemble  Hurtle and Hurdle   Favoriting     https://jessicapavone.bandcamp.com/album/brick-and-mortar  1:55:57 (Pop-up)
Hazel Scott  Lament (w. Mingus and Roach)   Favoriting       2:01:21 (Pop-up)
Elder Ones  Eat the Rich   Favoriting Untruth    https://amirthakidambi.bandcamp.com/track/eat-the-rich  2:16:26 (Pop-up)
Nick Dunston  Globular Weaving   Favoriting Atlantic Extraction  Out of Your Head    2:29:44 (Pop-up)
Mary Halvorson's Code Girl  Artlessly Falling   Favoriting Artlessly Falling    https://maryhalvorson.bandcamp.com/album/artlessly-falling  2:45:10 (Pop-up)
Ellen O  Uneven   Favoriting Uneven      2:51:00 (Pop-up)
Angela Morris/Anna Webber Big Band  Rebonds   Favoriting Both are True    https://webbermorrisbigband.bandcamp.com/album/both-are-true
  2:54:44 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 2:02pm
duke:

Hi Dave, Amirtha, and everyone
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fred:

Hello Dave, Amirtha and listeners
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:03pm
Dave Sewelson:

Hey duke and fred!!!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:03pm
fred:

@Dave: last week's show got me to get a couple of Cecilia Lopez' records yesterday
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:04pm
Dave Sewelson:

fred that's great!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:06pm
fred:

First track, first clicky-star. (I'm a Lea Bertucci fan)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:08pm
Dave Sewelson:

hey fred!
  2:08pm
northguineahills:

Getting some cheap Dominican food. I go for once a week cheap Latino food at least once a week as a treat, just live listening to Dave!
  2:08pm
Amirtha Kidambi:

Hi Fred!
  2:11pm
Amirtha Kidambi:

Now playing! Link to buy:
https://wfubaa.bandcamp.com/album/luke-stewart-exposure-quintet
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:12pm
Dave Sewelson:

wfubaa.bandcamp.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:25pm
doctorjazz:

Hi!
Avatar 2:26pm
Honeybear:

I feel I'm starting to dehegemonize already
  2:27pm
Amirtha Kidambi:

Yess! Fight the power!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:27pm
Dave Sewelson:

hey doc and HB....
  2:33pm
Amirtha Kidambi:

https://kidambibertucci.bandcamp.com/album/phase-eclipse
Avatar 2:33pm
Honeybear:

When I was living in my car (a ways back), and I could afford to splurge ... I used to go to this Mexican restaurant with an all-you-can-eat chips+salsa bar (provided one had already ordered a main dish, of course). And then get my carb fix for the week (salsa is also quite healthy, if freshly made)
  2:34pm
Amirtha Kidambi:

https://kidambibertucci.bandcamp.com/album/end-of-softness
Avatar 2:34pm
Honeybear:

(and subsisted on apples and bananas most other days)
  2:35pm
Amirtha Kidambi:

I lived off of all you can eat chips and salsa in college in LA
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:36pm
fred:

I like this track too
  2:37pm
jn34282:

Hello fellow free world listeners
Avatar 2:38pm
northguineahills:

some of the best shows of my generation were at Pioneer Works....

I just saw Black Hebrew Israelite demonstration here in Orlando. *sniff*, it felt like I was back home in Brooklyn...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:38pm
Dave Sewelson:

welcome jn34282
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:39pm
Dave Sewelson:

wow ngh...
Avatar 2:39pm
northguineahills:

as fred knows, Lea is an old friend of mine...
  2:39pm
Amirtha Kidambi:

https://matteoliberatore.bandcamp.com/album/solos
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:40pm
Dave Sewelson:

kidambibertucci.bandcamp.com...
  2:40pm
jn34282:

@Dave thanks
@ngh how are you doing?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:43pm
Dave Sewelson:

matteoliberatore.bandcamp.com...
Avatar 2:43pm
northguineahills:

in a hotel today to recharge. Then, back to back to putting feet to virtual pavement to look for jobs.
  2:44pm
jn34282:

@ngh gotcha hope you find something
Avatar 2:44pm
northguineahills:

Erstwhile Recs were the original home of the onkyo scene.
Avatar 2:47pm
northguineahills:

Erstwhile did a a week of shows once at the Japanese Cultural Center near the UN a while back.

Alice Coltrane is my bodhisattva....
Avatar 2:50pm
northguineahills:

Alice comes pre-clickied!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:54pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Dave & Amirtha and Free worldlings
  2:55pm
Amirtha Kidambi:

welcome!
Avatar 2:55pm
northguineahills:

...another Alice pre-clickied....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:57pm
fred:

I really like Indian dance, though I haven't seen much in the past few years. Especially with musicians on the side of the stage, and the occasional improvised interaction with the dancer
  2:58pm
Amirtha Kidambi:

Funny you should say, the bells on my feet in this track are from my classical dance days in Bharatanatyam
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:59pm
Dave Sewelson:

sealy, i see you
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
fred:

I prefer Kathak, and maybe Odissi, but I do like Bharatanatyam. Contemporary dance too, Padmini Chettur is one of my favorite choreographers. Alas, she no longer performs here, for lack of demand and appreciation
  3:07pm
Amirtha Kidambi:

Bharatanatyam is my native tradition as my family is from Tamil Nadu
Avatar 3:15pm
northguineahills:

thanks, jn34282!
Avatar 3:28pm
northguineahills:

tamil nadu is my favorite Indian cuisine (impossible to find in FL)
  3:30pm
Amirtha Kidambi:

Really? There are South Indian communities around Tampa
  3:31pm
Amirtha Kidambi:

I can find out!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:35pm
coelacanth∅:

would what Brian Eno did, as his usual method i believe, be called working with phonemes?... he made up the lyrics based on the sounds he wanted from the singing.
  3:37pm
DavidJ:

I’m digging this show.
  3:42pm
DavidJ:

I love June. She was a real sweet person and funny as well. Her “Astro Black” is great, too.
  3:47pm
Dean:

From a Fanfare review of a recording by the Fine Arts Quartet: "The Quartet by Ruth Crawford Seeger is a classic: four short, marvelously contrasting, pretty-well-atonal movements from 1931, related somewhat to the Ruggles-Riegger-Becker world but really on its own. The more heterogeneous outer movements frame an imitative scherzo and a “sound-mass“ slow movement, the latter looking forward to some of Penderecki. The last movement, in its highly structured phrasing and palindromic form, also foreshadows developments which took place many years later. All in all it's a wonderful work. Regrettable it is that its composer wrote very little after this Quartet."
  3:53pm
Dean:

I have a recording, a 4CD set of live recordings from 1999 by Correspondence Quartet, which featured Jessica Pavone and Jackson Moore. Quite something.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:56pm
Dave Sewelson:

DavidJ and Dean you is real listening listeners
Avatar 3:56pm
Honeybear:

very enlightening, this last set
Avatar 3:56pm
northguineahills:

@Amirtha: I'm in Orlando. All of the Indian restaurants here do north Indian cuisine, and it's usually about $20/ entree. I'm used to Curry Lane in Manhattan where I could get a meal for $5-$6 for multiple Indian cuisines...
  3:58pm
Dean:

The Arditti recorded the Crawford Seeger string quartet way t'heck back in 1990!
Avatar 4:01pm
northguineahills:

I have this Ruth Crawford Seeger album....

I'm recharging by listening to GTDS, listening to a podcast on 4th c history of church theology, watching futbol (soccer), and American football, and playing puzzle games (i'm fun at parties and can apparently multi-task).
  4:01pm
Amirtha Kidambi:

https://jessicapavone.bandcamp.com/album/brick-and-mortar
  4:02pm
Amirtha Kidambi:

This is Jessica Pavone now
Avatar 4:02pm
northguineahills:

I met Jessica via Matt Mottel....
Avatar 4:03pm
northguineahills:

(also eating...)
Avatar 4:07pm
Honeybear:

lovely
Avatar 4:10pm
Honeybear:

"everyone is a socialist during wars and pandemics"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:13pm
Gina Bacon:

Happy Saturday, Dave and Amirtha!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:13pm
fred:

Funny how when times are tough social programs must be cut and the poor must pay, but when they're not the rich must get tax cuts as a reward. Not just in the US, it's the same here
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:14pm
coelacanth∅:

isn't some people getting wealthier the whole reason this epidemic was created?
  4:14pm
DavidJ:

I saw some pretty nice Karl Marx “All I Want for Christmas is the Means of Production” sweaters this year.
  4:17pm
Amirtha Kidambi:

https://www.socialists.nyc/tax-the-richhttps://www.socialists.nyc/tax-the-rich
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:18pm
coelacanth∅:

the rich must taste disgusting
  4:19pm
Amirtha Kidambi:

I'm a vegetarian
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:19pm
coelacanth∅:

so you're off the hook
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:20pm
fred:

The Ex had a record called "dignity of labor". I also heard from a friend who opened for them that they insisted that everyone got paid equally, they and unknown local supporting band members
  4:20pm
Amirtha Kidambi:

If you want to get involved organizing with the New York chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, go here. You don't have to join to organize, but you can also become a dues paying member at any monthly amount. https://www.socialists.nyc/
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:20pm
coelacanth∅:

-and i don't eat mammals, birds or reptiles so i'm off the hook too
  4:21pm
DavidJ:

Wow this solo
  4:22pm
Amirtha Kidambi:

https://amirthakidambi.bandcamp.com/album/from-untruth
  4:22pm
Amirtha Kidambi:

Matt Nelson on soprano sax/effects
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:24pm
Dave Sewelson:

amirthakidambi.bandcamp.com...
  4:24pm
Dean:

Motorhead and Aerosmith also have songs called "Eat the Rich," though I suspect neither is overtly ideologically determined. I'm a fan of The Dils' "Class War," personally.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:25pm
Dave Sewelson:

www.socialists.nyc
  4:25pm
Amirtha Kidambi:

I'm aware. Regardless, it's a good slogan. There's definitely a little metal influence here, but more Sabbath.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:27pm
fred:

The left in France is depressing, mostly in thrall to a nativist populist egomaniac. Weird that I get more hopeful vision from Dissent than local orgs. The local anarcho-syndicalists are good people, but they're too busy splintering and fighting each other
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:29pm
coelacanth∅:

Dean @424 why would you suspect such a thing?
  4:31pm
Dean:

Other than the title and refrain, the lyrics to the Motorhead song don't imply any sort of class dimension. Aerosmith...I mean, Aerosmith?

I'm going to have to explore Carnatic metal.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:34pm
fred:

With exploding income inequality, the rich get richer, but represent a shrinking share of the population. Not a reliable food source
  4:36pm
Amirtha Kidambi:

https://outofyourheadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/atlantic-extraction
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:38pm
Dave Sewelson:

outofyourheadrecords.bandcamp.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:38pm
fred:

All these bandcamp links make me wonder: will there be more bandcamp Fridays next year?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:41pm
fred:

@Dave: the link for the Eat the Rich track in the playlist isn't right, there's an extra "A" in front that breaks it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:50pm
Dave Sewelson:

fred, thanks i got it now I think....
  4:50pm
Amirtha Kidambi:

I hope Bandcamp keeps it up! It's been great for us musicians.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:52pm
Gina Bacon:

Bandcamp has really been great for so many people I know!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 4:53pm
fred:

@Dave: yep it works now
Avatar 4:56pm
northguineahills:

I'm a vegetarian when I have the monetary means to do so (but I will indulge in a dish I've never encountered before once)(I'm homeless).

@fred: at least the Left in France is left, as opposed to what passes for the "left" in the US.

merci beaucoup, Amirtha Kidambi , Dave et mes amis!

my band did an improv session w/ a karnatic vocalist at a Vietnamese restaurant in East Wiliamsburg right before I left NYC....
Avatar 4:56pm
northguineahills:

(that's Brooklyn for ya...)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:58pm
Gina Bacon:

Thank you, Dave!
  4:59pm
DavidJ:

Thanks for the show!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 5:00pm
fred:

Thanks Dave and Amirtha
  5:00pm
Dean:

Bye, and thanks!
  5:01pm
Amirtha Kidambi:

Thanks for listening! Have a great weekend everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:01pm
Dave Sewelson:

Jump over to Gina's now

wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:01pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Dave! Thanks Amirtha!
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