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This is where all of culture and all of time are collapsed into one seductive portal and viewed through the panoramic lens of the exotic. Come and embark on an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of timeless darkness and beyond; embrace the numinous monolith of the exotic immensity. Let us find that place where hybridization meets its destiny as pure fantasy. Let us become observers observing those others who are ourselves. You wear your mask and I'll wear mine.

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Favoriting February 5, 2015: Esotico Ossessione: Piero Umiliani

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Artist Track Album
Les Baxter  Intro theme: Taboo   Favoriting Caribbean Moonlight 
Piero Umiliani  Free in Minore   Favoriting Mondo Inquieto 
Piero Umiliani  Viaggio Nel Tempo "Time Travel"   Favoriting Genti e Paesi del Mondo, "Peoples and Countries of the World" 
Piero Umiliani  Cantata Per Maryam   Favoriting La Ragazza Fuori Strada 
Piero Umiliani  Tropical River   Favoriting To-Day's Sound 
Piero Umiliani  Nel Villaggio "In The Village"   Favoriting Continente Nero, "Dark Continent" 
Piero Umiliani  Nuove Realtà "New Realities"   Favoriting Continente Nero, "Dark Continent" 
Piero Umiliani  Nuovi Fermenti   Favoriting Continente Nero, "Dark Continent" 

Music behind DJ:
 
Oasi, Bongos en Suspense  
 
Piero Umiliani  Erbe Magiche "Magic Herbs"   Favoriting Polinesia 
Piero Umiliani  Il Santone dell'Isola "The High Priest of the Island"   Favoriting La Ragazza Dalla Pelle di Luna, "The Girl with the Skin of the Moon" 
Piero Umiliani  Danza della Luna "Moon Dance"   Favoriting La Ragazza Dalla Pelle di Luna, "The Girl with the Skin of the Moon" 
Piero Umiliani  Arabian Synthetyzer   Favoriting Synthi Time 
Piero Umiliani  Un'Isola Felice "A Joyful Island"   Favoriting La Ragazza Dalla Pelle di Luna, "The Girl with the Skin of the Moon" 
Piero Umiliani  Lonely Village   Favoriting Africa 
Piero Umiliani  Savana   Favoriting Il Corpo 
Piero Umiliani  Continente Nero   Favoriting Continente Nero, "Dark Continent" 
Piero Umiliani  Saudade   Favoriting Angeli Bianchi… Angeli Neri 
Piero Umiliani  Stella del Sud "Southern Star"   Favoriting La Ragazza Dalla Pelle di Luna, "The Girl with the Skin of the Moon" 
Piero Umiliani  Funerailles d'un Heros "Hero Funerals"   Favoriting La Ragazza Dalla Pelle di Luna, "The Girl with the Skin of the Moon" 

Music behind DJ:
 
Viaggio Nel Tempo v.2, Ultimo Stregone "Last Sorcerer", Danza Magica  
 
Piero Umiliani  Pelle di Luna - feat. Edda Dell'Orso ("Moon Skin")   Favoriting La Ragazza Dalla Pelle di Luna, "The Girl with the Skin of the Moon" 
Piero Umiliani  Richiamo del Golfo "Call of the Gulf"   Favoriting Polinesia 
Piero Umiliani  Desert Island   Favoriting Il Corpo 
Piero Umiliani  Momento Ritmico   Favoriting Effeti Musicali 
Piero Umiliani  Princess (alt.)   Favoriting Il Corpo 
Piero Umiliani  La Foresta Incantata "The Enchanted Forest"   Favoriting Angeli Bianchi… Angeli Neri 
Piero Umiliani  Crepuscolo Sul Mare "Twilight On The Sea"   Favoriting La Legge Dei Gangsters 
Piero Umiliani  Le Isole Dell'Amore "The Islands of Love"   Favoriting Le Isole Dell'Amore "The Islands of Love" 
Piero Umiliani  Isola Sperduta "Desert Island"   Favoriting Le Isole Dell'Amore "The Islands of Love" 
Piero Umiliani  Desert Island #2   Favoriting Il Corpo 
Piero Umiliani  Sotto le Palme "Under the Palm Trees"   Favoriting Polinesia 

Music behind DJ:
 
Stream (alt.), Sotto le Palme #2, Seychelles Isole Dimenticate  
 
Piero Umiliani  Synthi Pianola   Favoriting Synthi Time 
Piero Umiliani  Venere Creola "Creole Venus"   Favoriting Venere Creola 
Piero Umiliani  Il Tamoure' dei Bambini "The Children of Bambini"   Favoriting Le Isole Dell'Amore "The Islands of Love" 
Piero Umiliani  Isola Tuttofare "Island Handyman"   Favoriting Le Isole Dell'Amore "The Islands of Love" 
Piero Umiliani  Blue Lagoon   Favoriting To-Day's Sound 
Piero Umiliani  Lady Magnolia   Favoriting To-Day's Sound 
Piero Umiliani  Green Dawn   Favoriting Africa 
Piero Umiliani  Plenilunio "Full Moon"   Favoriting Polinesia 
Piero Umiliani  Addio Isola Felice "Goodbye, Joyful Island"   Favoriting Le Isole Dell'Amore "The Islands of Love" 

Music behind DJ:
 
Album Di Viaggio_02, Vita Pigra Ai Tropici  
 
Piero Umiliani  Synthi Melody   Favoriting Synthi Time 


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
Gary:

First explorer in the room!
Avatar 6:56pm
Flash Strap:

Quick drink all the good rum before the hoi polloi arrive! It's stashed in the globe by the stuffed hippo
Avatar 7:01pm
doca:

S.L.O.T.H. Corporation is here
Avatar 7:02pm
Flash Strap:

slothutations, friend!
Avatar 7:05pm
ndbob:

evening Flash, Gary, Doca, everyone!
Avatar 7:07pm
Flash Strap:

Howdy
  7:10pm
SeanG:

Hey Rum!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
Little Danny:

Umiliani is hard to beat for the deep soundtrack/library experience. Killin' it, Flash.
  7:12pm
Doug Schulkind:

Greetings from work, Flash Strap. I'm on a 15-minute break. Play something "special."
Avatar 7:13pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks Danny. Tonight's all Umiliani, all the night long.

Doug! Get ready for your tribute!
Avatar 7:16pm
northguineahills:

Well, the missus has left, so I'm going to be in and out catching up on my history podcasts (they annoy her when she tries to work), I'll be in and out, and hit the archives later for what I missed.
Avatar 7:16pm
Monica:

Welcome, Flash Strap. Lovely languidness abounding this evening.
  7:16pm
Doug Schulkind:

Of course, Umiliani qualifies as special. So so great.
Avatar 7:18pm
Flash Strap:

I would say I'd be the one to welcome you, Monica, but the Blue Angel herself is the hostess of any room she enters
Avatar 7:18pm
glenn:

what does one stuff a hippo with? i'm thinking that's a lot of bread and sage.
  7:20pm
Doug Schulkind:

Gotta run. Hope to catch the last 1/2 hour at home.
Avatar 7:22pm
doca:

@ngh: you mean History history podcasts?
Avatar 7:28pm
Flash Strap:

You make me lonesome when ya go, Doug
Avatar 7:28pm
Flash Strap:

NGH: History first, nothing second
Avatar 7:34pm
Flash Strap:

Glenn, I think the answer to your question depends on the region, but the best answer would be "Belgian Imperialists"
Avatar 7:34pm
doca:

Wow, that's too great. Even the sloths are dancing in their slow, sloppy and mystical way
Avatar 7:35pm
glenn:

i know! leopold's apples.
Avatar 7:42pm
northguineahills:

@doca: History of Rome, and History of Byzantium.
Avatar 7:49pm
ndbob:

I started listening to a history of Rome podcast - guess I should pick it up again
Avatar 7:58pm
doca:

@ngh: Could you send me the links? I find it interesting to think of new and non-scholarly ways to present history (I'm a historian)
Avatar 7:59pm
ndbob:

excellent first hour Flash - catch the rest on the archive
Avatar 8:02pm
doca:

A question, Dr@FlashStrap, is exotica only geographical (distant places) or also historical (distant times)?
Avatar 8:03pm
Flash Strap:

I feel very strongly that distant times is a HUGE part of it, particularly because of the temporal aspect of such concepts as "primitivism" and the exoticizing of the classical world (Arcadia and the like
Avatar 8:06pm
doca:

That's true. And it probably must have a popular appeal. I was thinking if it was possible something like Greek, Roman or Byzantine exotica, but we also don't quite know how their music was (and I guess there's nothing like the infamous Roman haircut of the epic 50s movies to show that the music is pretending to be Roman).
Avatar 8:07pm
Flash Strap:

As well as future-exoticizing: space-age exotica is a mutant hybrid of sci-fi projecting and tropical primitivizing, and many futuristic works, such as Melies films and HG Wells' novels, involve a heavy dose of exotica. In Segalen's essay on the exotic, he talks a lot about the temporal nature being more key than the geographic
Avatar 8:07pm
doca:

But there could be a Louis XIV exotica or something like this, perhaps. But maybe the classical don't mingle very well with the exotic.
Avatar 8:08pm
doca:

You're right. But the idea is the sense of a mythical time, not a historical time.
Avatar 8:09pm
Flash Strap:

at that point it sort of comes down to aesthetics-people totally exoticize Louis XIV and such but it doesn't "feel" exotic
Avatar 8:10pm
doca:

Yeah, Louis XIV lacks in tamed otherness to qualify as exotica
Avatar 8:11pm
Flash Strap:

I think one key element that's hard to delineate is the fact that exotica exoticizes less affluent regions, or those perceived to be such
Avatar 8:11pm
Flash Strap:

less affluent or really, less "civilized"
Avatar 8:13pm
Flash Strap:

"civilization" being the deliciously artificial construct of the West, of course. Pure fantasy
Avatar 8:15pm
doca:

Yeah, but in the end, if civilization springs from Europe (or any other one and only center), it makes sense that distant places could be interchangeable with distant times.
Avatar 8:21pm
Flash Strap:

the interesting thing is when it comes to the Orient, as in North Africa, where civilization sort of really began, Europeans consistently talk about it being a trip into the past, as though it hadn't changed at all since "bible times"
Avatar 8:24pm
doca:

That's the problem with how history is taught. It makes it seem that the Babylonians had their chance and now they're only awaiting, as does the Egyptians and many others. There exists civilizations that have "stalled" in time, so it goes.
Avatar 8:28pm
Flash Strap:

exactly! or people still in a "young" phase of existence, yet to form a civilization at all. The "savage" as either a blank slate upon which civilization will be written, or a naif to be used by the superior races
  8:29pm
Doug Schulkind:

I am happily Flash Strapped back in!
Avatar 8:30pm
doca:

Yeah, too bad none of them, the civilized and the savage, have achieved the level of peacefulness of the sloth society.
Avatar 8:30pm
Flash Strap:

the sloths teach the True Lesson
Avatar 8:31pm
Flash Strap:

It weren't the same with ya gone Douglas!
Avatar 8:31pm
doca:

That's the True Lesson in Life: 24.media.tumblr.com...
Avatar 8:32pm
Flash Strap:

also: only come out of the trees to poop, like, once a month
Avatar 8:34pm
doca:

They have it all, they have it all. But I won't express my regards for pooping right now. Thanks for the show and the talk, Mr. Flash Strap! I have to go!
Avatar 8:39pm
Flash Strap:

Adios, doca! You'll be missed!
  8:41pm
Doug Schulkind:

@Flash Strap
I'm playing a Cults Percussion Ensemble track on my show tomorrow morning. As I selected it for my playlist, I thought to myself, Flash Strap would love this. That cut you just played us eerily similar.
Avatar 8:41pm
steve:

hey FS, too busy to comment but love the show! great workin music
Avatar 8:42pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks Steve!
Doug, I love that Cults Percussion Music! Which one?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
Gary:

I want whatever this couple is having
  8:46pm
Doug Schulkind:

Baia. I think that's the title.
Avatar 8:48pm
Flash Strap:

Gary: no kiddin'
Doug: of all the versions of Baia I've known and loved, that's one of my very favorites. So spooky and lush
Avatar 8:48pm
hyde:

ack! i can only catch the last 15 minutes of this live. will go back, I promise. Side note: I love those Umilani comps you have posted previously. Thanks!
Avatar 8:49pm
Flash Strap:

Hi, hi, Hyde!
  8:49pm
Doug Schulkind:

It's sploushky.
Avatar 8:57pm
Flash Strap:

This one is some goin-to-bed music!
  8:58pm
Doug Schulkind:

If I ran the world, there would be an evening gameshow on TV called Who Wants to Be a Umiliani.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
Gary:

Terrific show, thank you Flash!
Avatar 9:04pm
Flash Strap:

Thank YOU Gary!
Avatar 9:05pm
hyde:

awesome bonus track...
Avatar 9:06pm
Flash Strap:

Good night sweet fellows and friends! See you at Doug's show tomorrow morning!
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