Favoriting Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman: Playlist from February 1, 2025 Favoriting

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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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Favoriting February 1, 2025: 2024 Favorites Part Two

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Wakuénai (Curripaco)  Kulirrína trumpets   Favoriting Music for Shape-Shifters: Field Recordings from the Amazonian Lowlands, 1981-1985  Sublime Frequencies  2024  https://sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-shape-shifters-field-recordings-from-the-amazonian-lowlands-1981-1985  0:02:28 (MP3 | Pop-up)
David Rosenboom  Nazca Liftoff   Favoriting Future Travel  Black Truffle  2024  https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/future-travel  0:06:22 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Harry Beckett  The Storyteller   Favoriting The Modern Sound Of Harry Beckett  On-U Sound  2024  https://harrybeckett.bandcamp.com/album/the-modern-sound-of-harry-beckett  0:08:39 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Harold Land  Choma (Burn)   Favoriting Choma (Burn)  WeWantSounds  2024  https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/harold-land-choma-burn-lp-gatefold-sleeve-and-2p-insert-black-vinyl  0:12:53 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Litto Nebbia  El Casamiento De Los Musicos   Favoriting Canciones Que No Quieren Morir  VampiSoul  2024  https://vampisoul.bandcamp.com/album/canciones-que-no-quieren-morir  0:22:49 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Kevin Ayers  Clarence in Wonderland (with Gong) (Radio 1 Sounds of the 70s, 09/11/1971)   Favoriting All This Crazy Gift of Time: The Recordings 1969-1973  Cherry Red  2024  https://www.cherryred.co.uk/kevin-ayers-all-this-crazy-gift-of-time-the-recordings-1969-1973-limited-edition-deluxe-box-set  0:33:19 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Sun Ra  Ebah Speaks In Cosmic Tongue   Favoriting Sun Ra at the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977  Elemental Music  2024  https://elementalmusicrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sun-ra-at-the-showcase-live-in-chicago  0:37:55 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Michael Ranta, Takehisa Kosugi  Multiple Musics   Favoriting Multiple Musics  Metaphon  2024  https://metaphon2.bandcamp.com/album/multiple-musics  0:41:20 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Rəhman Məmmədli  Qoçəlı̇   Favoriting Azerbaijani Gitara Volume 2  Bongo Joe  2024  https://rhmanmmmdli.bandcamp.com/album/azerbaijani-gitara-volume-2  0:55:58 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Ziad Rahbani  Oghniyat El Gharam   Favoriting Amrak Seedna & Abtal Wa Harameyah  WeWantSounds  2024  https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/ziad-rahbani-amrak-seedna-abtal-wa-harameyah-lp-special-edition-w-2p-insert-black-vinyl  0:59:58 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
The Dub Band  Dub Land   Favoriting Sufferer Sounds  Disciples  2024  https://dennisbovell.bandcamp.com/album/sufferer-sounds  1:05:08 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Kamalesh Maitra  Raag Kirwani   Favoriting Raag Kirwani on Tabla Tarang  Black Truffle  2024  https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/raag-kirwani-on-tabla-tarang  1:11:41 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Grupo de Impovisación Tercer Mundo  Almas Liberadas   Favoriting Un Hilo de Luz  VampiSoul  2024  https://vampisoul.bandcamp.com/album/un-hilo-de-luz  1:19:24 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Meiko Kaji  Shitto   Favoriting Ginchou Wataridori  WeWantSounds  2024  https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/meiko-kaji-gincho-wataridori-deluxe-gatefold-lp-edition-with-2p-insert-and-obi-black-vinyl  1:35:34 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Richard Teitelbaum  Asparagus (European Version)   Favoriting Asparagus  Black Truffle  2024  https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/asparagus  1:38:37 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Steve Beresford  Comfortable Gestures   Favoriting Dancing The Line  WeWantSounds  2024  https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/steve-beresford-dancing-the-lines-gatefold-sleeve-and-2p-insert-black-vinyl  1:58:28 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Darius Jones  Affirmation Needed   Favoriting Legend Of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye)  AUM Fideltity  2024  https://dariusjones.bandcamp.com/album/legend-of-eboi-the-hypervigilant-eye  2:04:58 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Deadly Headley  35 Years From Alpha   Favoriting 35 Years From Alpha  On-U Sound  2024  https://deadlyheadley.bandcamp.com/album/35-years-from-alpha  2:13:26 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Children Of The Sun  Rent Man   Favoriting OFAMFA  Moved By Sound  2024  https://moved-by-sound.bandcamp.com/album/ofamfa  2:20:50 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Christer Bothén Featuring Bolon Bata  Mimouna   Favoriting Trancedance (40th anniversary edition)  Black Truffle  2024  https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/trancedance-40th-anniversary-edition  2:33:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Alice Coltrane  Shiva-Loka   Favoriting The Carnegie Hall Concert  Impulse!  2024  https://shop.carnegiehall.org/products/alice-coltrane-the-carnegie-hall-concert-pre-order  2:42:35 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 


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Observations:

Going live in 25 minutes!
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LIVE
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WR:

Hi David and drummer streamers
Avatar 7:09pm
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Hey WR 😎🙏
Avatar 7:11pm
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↳ Song: "The Storyteller" by "Harry Beckett"
I played this song many times at home this year. Top Track!
Avatar 7:14pm
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↳ Song: "Choma (Burn)" by "Harold Land"
Harold Land - tenor saxophone, flute
Bobby Hutcherson - vibraphone, marimba
Bill Henderson - piano, electric piano
Harold Land, Jr. - piano
Reggie Johnson - bass
Ndugu Chancler, Woodrow 'Sonship' Theus - drums
Avatar 7:23pm
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↳ Song: "El Casamiento De Los Musicos" by "Litto Nebbia"
"The Musicians' Wedding"
  7:28pm
Listener Gregory:

Catchy!
  7:33pm
arlo:

hey, david, WR & gregory... i'm doing errands & digging the deviance
Avatar 7:35pm
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Welcome everyone!
Avatar 7:38pm
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↳ Song: "Ebah Speaks In Cosmic Tongue" by "Sun Ra"
I reviewed this album for We Jazz Magazine

wejazzrecords.bandcamp.com...
  7:39pm
wimpy:

I need to catch up on sublime frequencies, I haven’t heard any of their new stuff in like 4 years. Although last night rich on inflatable squirrel carcass played an AMAZING track from that modal Egyptian comp they put out recently
Avatar 7:40pm
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↳ wimpy @7:39
Great comp! I've played it on my show in the past.
Avatar 7:42pm
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↳ wimpy @7:39
sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com...
  7:50pm
wimpy:

Yeah I think I even saw it in a local record store but just didn’t know enough to buy it. Guess I never noticed the sublime frequencies logo in the corner either. Hopefully they still have it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
zzz:

what’s up @Observations, sounding good this evening

bummed to miss the Azerbaijani guitar that stuff rips
Avatar 8:07pm
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🙏😎👋✌️
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:07pm
zzz:

↳ Song: "Dub Land" by "The Dub Band"
appreciate band name and song title keeping it very real for us listeners.

sweet dub
Avatar 8:13pm
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↳ Song: "Raag Kirwani" by "Kamalesh Maitra"
"For over fifty years, Maitra devoted himself to the rare tabla tarang, a set of between ten and sixteen hand drums tuned to the notes of the raag to be performed. While the tabla tarang has its origins in the late 19th century, Maitra was the first to recognise its potential as a solo concert instrument, using the set of tuned drums to perform full-length raags. Seated behind a semi-circular array of drums, Maitra produced stunning waves of melodic improvisation enlivened with the rhythmic invention of a master percussionist."
  8:15pm
Charles:

↳ Song: "Raag Kirwani" by "Kamalesh Maitra"
This is relaxing to me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:16pm
zzz:

↳ Observations @7:42
recently in a cab ride home from the airport the driver had this amazing Egyptian music playing and i was asking about it, and we got to talking. he was totally shocked when i asked about Baligh Hamdi (though i didn’t mentioned my education came from WFMU)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:37pm
zzz:

↳ Song: "Shitto" by "Meiko Kaji"
incredibly cool track here
Avatar 8:44pm
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↳ Song: "Asparagus (European Version)" by "Richard Teitelb...
"a major archival release from legendary American composer and live electronics innovator Richard Teitelbaum, centred around his soundtrack for Suzan Pitt’s cult 1978 animation Asparagus. Best known to some listeners for introducing Europe to the Moog synthesizer as a founding member of Musica Elettronica Viva in Rome"
Avatar 8:48pm
Observations:

If I had more time tonight, I'd also spin these 2024 favorites:

Dorothy Ashby / Afro-Harping 2-LP

Charles Tolliver Music Inc. / Live at the Captain’s Cabin

I've played both previously on my show, check my playlist page.
Avatar 9:14pm
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↳ Song: "35 Years From Alpha" by "Deadly Headley"
Another track I played a ton at home last year.
Avatar 9:16pm
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↳ Song: "35 Years From Alpha" by "Deadly Headley"
"The only solo LP from “Deadly” Headley Bennett and released back in 1982. The title refers to the legendary Alpha School in Jamaica from where so many instrumental talents on the island emerged. A saxophonist-for-hire who played on countless recordings sessions, and was in the ranks of backing groups from the golden era of reggae such as the Sound Dimension and the Arabs."
Avatar 9:22pm
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↳ Song: "Rent Man" by "Children Of The Sun"
Rashu Aten / conga, small instruments

Oliver Lake / soprano &Alto sax, flute, poems, small instruments

Floyd LeFlore / trumpet, small instruments

Ishac Rajab / Trumpet

Arzinia Richardson / bass, small instruments

Vincent Terrell / cello

Charles “Bobo” Shaw / drums, small instruments

Ajule / poetry, arrangements, small instruments, drums
  9:49pm
Erik in VT:

↳ Song: "Mimouna" by "Christer Bothén Featuring Bolon Bata"
I have the original vinyl of this album!
- from Wayside Music catalog back…abt 40 years ago (heheh 😉). Anyway, so wonderful to hear this again - it’s a doozy of a listen. I wanted to collect others etc, & I was forever on the look out for the 1st & 2nd albums of Archimedes Badkar (lucky to have found their great “Tre” album💎). Now it would be lovely to listen to all of the reissues anew.
Thanks again Meastro 👏👏👏
Avatar 9:51pm
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↳ Erik in VT @9:49
Awesome! ✌️🙏😎
  9:52pm
northguineahills:

Been listening in the car. Hi!
Avatar 9:54pm
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Hi NGH, welcome
  9:54pm
Erik in VT:

↳ Song: "35 Years From Alpha" by "Deadly Headley"
I also recall this “On U Sounds” edition was one of the hardest to find albums prior to its reissue & the cd era. It was one that many were searching for and paying $$$ for. Great jazzy stuff for “On U” vibes. 🕊️
  9:59pm
wimpy:

Thanks David!
Avatar 10:01pm
Observations:

Thanks everyone!
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