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Observations of Deviance is a vinyl focused, free form program that harkens back to early days of underground FM radio. Your host, David Mittleman, hunts down the most exotic, unusual and off-the-beaten-track music from around the world in a number of genres: Spiritual Jazz, Free Improvisation, Experimental Electronics, Ethnographic Oddities and World-Wide Psychedelic Funk. You are guaranteed to hear sounds you’ve never heard before.
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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Comments | Approx. start time | ||||
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Hugh Hopper |
Hopper Tunity Box
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Hopper Tunity Box | Compendium | 1977 | 0:02:04 (Pop-up) | |||||
Hugh Hopper |
Miniluv
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Hopper Tunity Box | Compendium | 1977 | 0:05:36 (Pop-up) | |||||
Natalie Yorke |
Chutney Boy
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Chutney Boy | Frederiksberg | 2022 | https://frederiksbergrecords.bandcamp.com/album/chutney-boy | 0:09:16 (Pop-up) | ||||
Sonido Verde de Moyobamba |
La Danza Del Vampiro
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Sonido Verde de Moyobamba (Analog Africa Dance Edition No. 17) | Analog Africa | 2022 | https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album/sonido-verde-de-moyobamba-limited-dance-edition-nr-17 | 0:13:35 (Pop-up) | ||||
Miguel Pinero |
NYC Hard Time Blues
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Sugar, Alcohol, & Meat | Giorno Poetry Systems | 1980 | 0:16:49 (Pop-up) | |||||
Bill Fay Group |
Strange Stairway 2
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Tomorrow Tomorrow And Tomorrow | Durto/Jnana | 2005 | feat. Gary Smith on guitar; recorded 1978-81 | 0:24:25 (Pop-up) | ||||
Glass Cage |
Box Crushed Flat
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The Wire Tapper 6 | Wire Magazine | 2000 | Alternative Mix; Gary Smith, Hugh Hopper, Shoji Hano | 0:28:42 (Pop-up) | ||||
Krzysztof Komeda Quintet |
Kattorna
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Astigmatic | Polskie Nagrania Muza | 1967 | feat. Tomasz Stańko | 0:33:39 (Pop-up) | ||||
Hatfield and the North |
Calyx
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Hatfield and the North | Virgin | 1974 | feat. Robert Wyatt | 0:41:08 (Pop-up) | ||||
James Brandon Lewis |
Sir Real Denard
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An Unruly Manifesto | Relative Pitch | 2019 | feat. jaimie branch | 0:44:06 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Fugs |
CIA Man
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First Album With Sizzling Additional Tracks From The Early Fugs | Fantasy / Fugs | 1994 | 0:55:44 (Pop-up) | |||||
Hopper / Dean / Tippett / Gallivan |
Seven Drones
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Cruel But Fair | Compendium | 1977 | Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, Keith Tippett, Joe Gallivan | 0:58:34 (Pop-up) | ||||
Darrell DeVore |
Sound Magic: Origins
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A Song of Civilization Up to Now | Goaty Tapes | 2022 | https://goatytapes.bandcamp.com/album/a-song-of-civilization-up-to-now | 1:06:59 (Pop-up) | ||||
Scorch Trio |
Furskunjt
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Luggumt | Rune Grammofon | 2004 | Raoul Björkenheim, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Paal Nilssen-Love | 1:10:19 (Pop-up) | ||||
Sun City Girls |
Kill The Klansman
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Horse Cock Phepner | Placebo | 1987 | 1:16:30 (Pop-up) | |||||
Virgilio Armas |
Bumping On Sunset
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De Repente | We Are Busy Bodies | 2022 | https://virgilioarmas.bandcamp.com/album/de-repente | 1:20:16 (Pop-up) | ||||
Robert Wyatt |
Calyx
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Theatre Royal Drury Lane 8th September 1974 | Hannibal | 2005 | 1:25:14 (Pop-up) | |||||
Los Rangers de Tingo Maria |
La Trochita
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Perú Selvático - Sonic Expedition into the Peruvian Amazon 1974-1978 | Analog Africa | 2022 | https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/album/per-selv-tico-sonic-expedition-into-the-peruvian-amazon-1972-1986-analog-africa-no-36 | 1:28:24 (Pop-up) | ||||
James Brandon Lewis |
Year 59: Insurgent Imagination
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An Unruly Manifesto | Relative Pitch | 2019 | feat. jaimie branch | 1:31:00 (Pop-up) | ||||
Elton Dean's Ninesense |
Seven For Lee
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Happy Daze | Ogun | 1977 | feat. Keith Tippett | 1:31:55 (Pop-up) | ||||
Bill Fay Group |
Strange Stairway 1
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Tomorrow Tomorrow And Tomorrow | Durto/Jnana | 2005 | feat. Gary Smith on guitar; recorded 1978-81 | 1:40:59 (Pop-up) | ||||
Shoji Hano, Gary Smith, Asahito Nanjo |
Sannin
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Shoji Hano, Gary Smith, Asahito Nanjo | Chronoscope | 2000 | 1:46:17 (Pop-up) | |||||
Cory Smythe |
Combustion, No. 2
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes | Pyroclastic | 2022 | https://corysmythepyroclastic.bandcamp.com/album/smoke-gets-in-your-eyes | 1:53:15 (Pop-up) | ||||
Tomasz Stańko Quintet |
Piece 4
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Wooden Music 1 | Astigmatic | 2022 | Recorded by Radio Bremen at Lila Eule, Bremen on 15.06.1972 ; https://tomaszstanko.bandcamp.com/album/wooden-music-i | 1:58:48 (Pop-up) | ||||
Raoul Björkenheim, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Paal Nilssen-Love |
Taajus
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Scorch Trio | Rune Grammofon | 2002 | 2:02:00 (Pop-up) | |||||
Sun City Girls |
CIA Man
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Horse Cock Phepner | Placebo | 1987 | 2:06:54 (Pop-up) | |||||
Hopper / Dean / Tippett / Gallivan |
Intro
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Mercy Dash | Culture Press | 1985 | Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, Keith Tippett, Joe Gallivan; recorded London, June, 1977 | 2:13:59 (Pop-up) | ||||
Hopper / Dean / Tippett / Gallivan |
Calyx
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Mercy Dash | Culture Press | 1985 | Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, Keith Tippett, Joe Gallivan; recorded London, June, 1977 | 2:15:19 (Pop-up) | ||||
Box |
Untitled 9
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Studio 1 | Rune Grammofon | 2008 | Raoul Björkenheim, Trevor Dunn, Morgan Ågren, Ståle Storløkken | 2:25:41 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Fugs |
"WFMU, the sound of Communist ape-smut"
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November 1968, Cafe au Go Go, WFMU Marathon | Fugs | 1968 | https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/82804664823/the-fugs-wfmu-marathon-cafe-au-go-go-november | 2:35:16 (Pop-up) | ||||
Ronald Shannon Jackson Presents: Power Tools |
Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
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Live @ Bracknell Festival, England 1988 | Shannon's House | 2020 | 2:35:38 (Pop-up) | |||||
Whit Dickey Quartet |
Supernova
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Root Perspectives | TAO Forms | 2022 | https://taoforms.bandcamp.com/album/root-perspectives | 2:42:43 (Pop-up) | ||||
Helmut Nadolski |
Meditation / Medytacje
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Meditation / Medytacje | Veriton | 1974 | 2:53:36 (Pop-up) | |||||
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bobobob plasticland drmer:
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noun
1.
BOTANY
the sepals of a flower, typically forming a whorl that encloses the petals and forms a protective layer around a flower in bud.
2.
ZOOLOGY
a cuplike cavity or structure.
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Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello
Alan Skidmore - tenor sax
Harry Beckett - trumpet, flugelhorn
Mark Charig - trumpet, tenor horn
Nick Evans - trombone
Radu Malfatti - trombone
Keith Tippett - piano
Harry Miller - bass
Louis Moholo - drums
doctorjazz:
Sorry I missed the Elton Dean (recently been getting into him).
And Jaes Brandon Lewis-I think he's got a show in the NY area around now (may have passed, remember seeing him listed).
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WR:
Fun cover of the Fugs tune.
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