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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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Ava Mendoza, Dave Sewelson |
Turnip Wine
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Of It But Not Is It | Mahakala Music | 2024 | https://avamendozamusic.bandcamp.com/album/of-it-but-not-is-it | 0:03:15 (Pop-up) | ||||
Bill Laswell |
Conservation
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Baselines | Elektra Musician | 1983 | feat. Fred Frith, Ronald Shannon Jackson, David Moss | 0:07:13 (Pop-up) | ||||
Kate Gentile |
r.a.t.b.o.t.B
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Find Letter X | Pi Recordings | 2023 | 0:08:55 (Pop-up) | |||||
Caspar Brötzmann |
Mute Massaker
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Mute Massaker | Our Choice | 1999 | 0:13:59 (Pop-up) | |||||
Caspar Brötzmann |
Cheyenne
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Mute Massaker | Our Choice | 1999 | 0:20:49 (Pop-up) | |||||
Marc Ribot, Ceramic Dog |
Connection
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Connection | Yellowbird | 2023 | feat. Ches Smith, Shahzad Ismaily | 0:27:13 (Pop-up) | ||||
Christopher Hoffman |
Better & Better (with Anna Webber)
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Vision Is The Identity | Out Of Your Head | 2024 | https://christopherhoffman.bandcamp.com/album/vision-is-the-identity | 0:33:43 (Pop-up) | ||||
Ches Smith |
Remote Convivial
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Laugh Ash | Pyroclastic | 2024 | feat. Anna Webber, James Brandon Lewis, Shahzad Ismaily ; https://chessmithpyroclastic.bandcamp.com/album/laugh-ash | 0:36:29 (Pop-up) | ||||
Jayne Cortez And The Firespitters |
Maintain Control
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Maintain Control | Bola Press | 1986 | feat. Denardo Coleman | 0:40:49 (Pop-up) | ||||
jaimie branch |
take over the world
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Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) | International Anthem | 2023 | 0:44:32 (Pop-up) | |||||
Ornette Coleman & Prime Time |
Tone Dialing
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Tone Dialing | Harmolodic / Verve | 1999 | feat. Denardo Coleman | 0:49:24 (Pop-up) | ||||
Power Tools |
Howard Beach Memoirs
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Strange Meeting | Antilles New Directions | 1987 | feat. Ronald Shannon Jackson, Melvin Gibbs, Bill Frisell | 0:51:13 (Pop-up) | ||||
Mary Halvorson's Code Girl |
Walls And Roses
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Artlessly Falling | Firehouse 12 | 2020 | feat. Robert Wyatt | 0:56:52 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis |
Emergence
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Emergence | Impulse! | 2024 | https://jazz.centerstagestore.com/collections/the-messthetics | 1:04:31 (Pop-up) | ||||
Painkiller |
Parish of Tama (Ossuary Dub)
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Execution Ground | Subharmonic | 1994 | feat. John Zorn, Bill Laswell, Mick Harris | 1:07:23 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Lounge Lizards |
Voice of Chunk
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Voice of Chunk | veraBra | 1989 | feat. Marc Ribot | 1:19:44 (Pop-up) | ||||
Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant avec Folie à Quatre |
Saint-Médard
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Séances | Pyroclastic | 2022 | feat. Anna Webber, Mary Halvorson, Ches Smith | 1:25:08 (Pop-up) | ||||
Machine Gun |
Muffy's 1st Date
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Machine Gun | Mu | 1988 | feat. Sonny Sharrock | 1:30:57 (Pop-up) | ||||
Hannah Marks |
I'll Ask Anyway
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Outsider, Outlier | Out Of Your Head | 2023 | 1:36:02 (Pop-up) | |||||
Anteloper |
Earthlings
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Pink Dolphins | International Anthem | 2022 | feat. jaimie branch, Jason Nazary | 1:40:02 (Pop-up) | ||||
Mendoza Hoff Revels |
Diablada
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Echolocation | AUM Fidelity | 2023 | feat. Ava Mendoza, Ches Smith, James Brandon Lewis | 1:48:25 (Pop-up) | ||||
Scorch Trio |
Furskunjt
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Luggumt | Rune Grammofon | 2004 | 1:53:08 (Pop-up) | |||||
Ornette Coleman & Prime Time |
Sound Is Everywhere
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Tone Dialing | Harmolodic / Verve | 1999 | feat. Denardo Coleman | 1:59:19 (Pop-up) | ||||
Linda May Han Oh |
Phosphorus
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The Glass Hours | Biophilia | 2023 | 2:05:28 (Pop-up) | |||||
Jason Nazary |
Dust Moths (Featuring jaimie branch & Matt Mitchell)
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Spring Collection | We Jazz | 2021 | 2:12:50 (Pop-up) | |||||
Raoul Björkenheim / Ingebrigt Håker Flaten / Paal Nilssen-Love |
Taajus
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Scorch Trio | Rune Grammofon | 2002 | 2:19:55 (Pop-up) | |||||
Pat Metheny / Ornette Coleman |
Song X
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Song X: Twentieth Anniversary | Nonesuch | 2005 | 2:24:47 (Pop-up) | |||||
Glass Cage |
Box Crushed Flat
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The Wire Tapper 6 | The Wire | 2000 | Gary Smith, Hugh Hopper, Shoji Hano | 2:30:23 (Pop-up) | ||||
William Parker |
Tabasco
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Mayan Space Station | AUM Fidelity | 2021 | feat. Ava Mendoza | 2:34:09 (Pop-up) | ||||
Titan to Tachyons |
Blue Thought Particles
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Vonals | Tzadik | 2022 | feat. Trevor Dunn, Sally Gates | 2:39:48 (Pop-up) | ||||
Kris Davis |
Kingfisher
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Diatom Ribbons Live At The Village Vanguard | Pyroclastic | 2023 | feat. Trevor Dunn | 2:48:00 (Pop-up) | ||||
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Listener Gregory:
Good evening, deevs!
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I got this Ches Smith in a shipment but haven’t gotten to it yet.
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This track sounds cool!
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Will have to relisten to Dancing.
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https://www.linn.co.uk/us/power-amps/klimax-solo-800?utm_id=06-02-2024
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Night all!
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I have to go shortly. Thanks a lot, David.
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