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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 July 20, 2017: Jazz Spirits and Arkestral Mind-Expansion

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Artist Track Album Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro          
Tino Contreras  Ravi Shankar   Favoriting El Jazz Mexicano De Tino Contreras  1971/2011  from a 1971 tape rec. live at Palacio de Bella Artes, Mexico  0:01:11 (Pop-up)
Gabor Szabo  Caravan   Favoriting Jazz Raga  1966    0:11:26 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Cedric Im Brooks 
 
Im Flash Forward 
 
 
0:13:59 (Pop-up)
Eddie Harris  A Little Wes   Favoriting Instant Death  1972    0:20:19 (Pop-up)
Eddie Harris  Zambezi Dance   Favoriting Instant Death  1972    0:27:19 (Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Nubian Lady   Favoriting Gentle Giant  1972    0:31:41 (Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Lowland Lullaby   Favoriting Gentle Giant  1972    0:38:08 (Pop-up)
Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda  Madhura Manohara Giridhari   Favoriting Divine Songs  1987    0:40:31 (Pop-up)
Chico Freeman  Kings of Mali   Favoriting Kings of Mali  1978    0:47:12 (Pop-up)
The Pyramids  Queen of the Spirits   Favoriting King of Kings  1974    0:56:44 (Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Queen of the Night   Favoriting Gentle Giant  1972    1:03:17 (Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef  Below Yellow Bell   Favoriting Gentle Giant  1972    1:05:33 (Pop-up)
Horace Parlan  Africa is Home   Favoriting Happy Frame of Mind  1963/1986    1:10:23 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
M. Baroty et A. Dieng 
 
Rhythmes Africains 
 
 
1:19:07 (Pop-up)
Roland Kirk  Volunteered Slavery   Favoriting Volunteered Slavery  1969    1:29:25 (Pop-up)
Roland Kirk  Spirits Up Above   Favoriting Volunteered Slavery  1969    1:34:22 (Pop-up)
Philip Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble  Loud Mouth   Favoriting Loud Mouth / Talking Drum, Frankiphone Blues - Zulu 7"  196?  also on the Jazzman comp, "The Zulu 45s Collection" 2010  1:38:22 (Pop-up)
Philip Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble  New Frankiphone Blues   Favoriting On The Beach  1967  bonus track? not on original LP  1:43:21 (Pop-up)
Kelan Phil Cohran and Legacy  Kalahari   Favoriting African Skies  2010    1:50:06 (Pop-up)
Philip Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble  The African Look   Favoriting The African Look / Black Beauty, New Frankiphone Blues - Zulu 7"  196?    1:52:10 (Pop-up)
Eddie Gale  The Rain   Favoriting Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music  1968    1:55:21 (Pop-up)
Eddie Gale / Inner Peace Orchestra  String Introduction to Prayer for the World / Water Cave   Favoriting Inner Peace Suite  1995  The Orchestra is composed of music students from the University of Santa Cruz 1995 Graduating Class. rec. June 18, 1995 at Mckenna Theatre, San Francisco State University  2:01:53 (Pop-up)
Eddie Gale  A Walk with Thee - The March (The Remake)   Favoriting Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music - The Remake and Beyond  2013  [feat. Inner Peace Arkestra, Valerie Mih & Karl Evangelista]  2:09:20 (Pop-up)
Eddie Gale  African Sunshine (feat. Inner Peace Arkestra & Destiny Muhammad)   Favoriting Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music - The Remake and Beyond  2013    2:15:02 (Pop-up)
Eddie Gale  African Sunshine   Favoriting African Sunshine / To Be A Slave - Gross Records 7"  19??    2:23:36 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Clark Hutchinson 
Acapulco Gold   Favoriting
A Mh2 
 
 
2:26:27 (Pop-up)
Gabor Szabo  Three Kingfishers   Favoriting Bacchanal  1968    2:37:11 (Pop-up)
Gabor Szabo  Some Velvet Morning   Favoriting Bacchanal  1968    2:41:05 (Pop-up)
Gabor Szabo  Galatea's Guitar   Favoriting Dreams  1968    2:46:47 (Pop-up)
Gabor Szabo  Ravi   Favoriting Jazz Raga  1966    2:50:00 (Pop-up)
Tino Contreras y su Grupo  Santo   Favoriting Misa en Jazz / Historia del Jazz  1966    2:52:55 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Pacific Ocean  
 
 
 
2:56:06 (Pop-up)


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Avatar 6:51pm
Flash Strap:

Hey explorers, how ya doin', let's go
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doctorjazz:

Halooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.....................
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
doctorjazz:

Sun Ra tonight? To Jupiter?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
listener james from westwood:

::parts leaves, gazes into clearing:: Ah! Civilization! How do, Flash, doc, all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
doctorjazz:

Like this Tino Contreras track.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
doctorjazz:

Hi James!
Avatar 7:03pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Doc! Not so much Sun Ra per se but definitely some Arkestral manoeuvres in the dark, so to speak. Hi hi very welcome Listener James!
Avatar 7:04pm
Flash Strap:

It's super good; Tino is super good, always
  7:05pm
JtotheK:

Good tidings to you all. Hiya Flash!
Avatar 7:06pm
Flash Strap:

Right back at ya, brother J-K!
Avatar 7:07pm
Flash Strap:

I love Take 5 rip-offs, I think Little Danny once did a blog feature on the subject and it was great
Avatar 7:09pm
Flash Strap:

here it is, really good: officenaps.com...
Avatar 7:10pm
hyde:

oh, hi
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Flash Strap:

Oh, Hyde! Hi Hyde!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
doctorjazz:

This Caravan has gone a bit off the beaten track.
Avatar 7:13pm
Flash Strap:

Among the great pleasures of my life, particularly inventive versions of Caravan list very high
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
doctorjazz:

Szabo on sitar, or so it says on the internets.
Avatar 7:14pm
geezerette:

Hello Evan, distinguished members!
Jeeves, you may take my pith helmet...have these musicians been mushrooming in the jungle's undergrowth?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
doctorjazz:

Never realized Take Five was composed by Paul Desmond, always attributed it to Brubeck. Live and learn.
  7:19pm
JtotheK:

Hadn't heard that Szabo before... was great! Agreed on your Caravan comment -- 45s by bands/groups I've never heard are always worth a listen! As is Bernard Purdie's...
Avatar 7:21pm
geezerette:

Doc, like Strayhorn and Ellington! Maybe it was collaborative.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:21pm
doctorjazz:

(always liked Desmond better than Brubeck anyway...)
Avatar 7:23pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Geezerette! I think there are some shroomers in the lineup tonight... and probably right on about Strayhorn and Ellington, or maybe Tizol and Ellington is even closer to the mark, who knows

@J-K: More Szabo in the works for tonight, at his best he can be as good as is possible
Avatar 7:24pm
Flash Strap:

@Doc: yeah I think Szabo handles all the strings except bass on that LP
Avatar 7:25pm
Flash Strap:

I love how this track, sort of very good but sort of standard jazz-funk, is made weird and ethereal by these ghostly sung-thru-sax vocals in the background. That's Restless Eddie for ya
Avatar 7:26pm
geezerette:

This Eddie Harris piece is wonderful. 50-50 Exotica and Jazz.
  7:26pm
JtotheK:

The Szabo/McFarland 'Simpatico' LP is a good one. Still have to pickup 'Dreams' ... hope find that 'in the wild' someday.
Avatar 7:27pm
Flash Strap:

Dreams is great! haven't gotten around to Simpatico yet, oddly enough
Avatar 7:30pm
Flash Strap:

I think I like Bacchanal the best, in the end. LD played a track from it a few weeks ago and really set me off on a Szabo tear
Avatar 7:30pm
Flash Strap:

Really glad you're feeling it, G! New acquisition for me, so I'm lovin it like it's new
  7:31pm
wind:

Gamelan？
Avatar 7:31pm
geezerette:

The very strangeness of the blend is exotic. Another layer.
Avatar 7:32pm
geezerette:

Oh, NOW yer talkin'...
Avatar 7:33pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Wind!
Avatar 7:34pm
hyde:

Yusef Lateef, patron saint of the Drummer Stream!
  7:35pm
JtotheK:

Bacchanal is great. And that track Danny spun is one of my favorite By Szabo.
  7:35pm
wind:

hi flash and geezer
Avatar 7:35pm
Flash Strap:

"Gentle Giant," the benevolent god of the Drummers

@JK: get ready to hear it again!
  7:36pm
wind:

you everyone know much about jazz,it's cooool!
Avatar 7:37pm
Flash Strap:

I also just picked this LP up, but it doesn't sound great, so I'm playin y'all the digital, sorry

@wind: jazz=cool, this is known to be tight math
  7:38pm
wind:

flute is my favorite ,and gentle giant is prog ?is it ?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:39pm
Dave in Vermont:

long time and happy to be hear again
it's nice hearing the in-breaths between runs on Nubian Lady
Avatar 7:40pm
Flash Strap:

Happy to have you in the room once more, Dave. This is where you belong
Avatar 7:40pm
geezerette:

Hi Wind!
Hyde,there should be dashboard figures of him in the swag store.
Hi JtotheK!
Avatar 7:41pm
geezerette:

better & better
Avatar 7:43pm
Flash Strap:

I don't know that I'd call it prog exactly, but it shares with prog a progressive vision of syncretism (some call it "fusion") and adventurousness. It's way funky though, and probably more modal than prog, which is more like about time signatures and chord changes. but I actually don't really have that kind of knowledge (formal music theory) so feel free to catch me bluffin'
Avatar 7:43pm
Flash Strap:

@G: one of my top Alice tracks for sure, makes my blood weep and my soul soar
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
doctorjazz:

I think the confusion is with the band Gentle Giant, at least that's a guess.
Anyway, it's that time to leave the office, take you to the car with the phone app, great show Flash!
  7:45pm
wind:

I see.may be I shouldn't type them too exactly
Avatar 7:45pm
Flash Strap:

oh ahaha yes Gentle Giant is completely a prog band, I forgot about them
  7:46pm
JtotheK:

Hi geezerette!
Avatar 7:46pm
Flash Strap:

sorry about that, Wind, didn't mean to mis-take you
  7:48pm
wind:

many prog bands had some funsion,that's also tasty
  7:49pm
wind:

that's fine, thank you anyway
Avatar 7:51pm
Flash Strap:

very tasty. you like Dzyan? good prog-jazz fusion with insane cover art
  7:55pm
wind:

sorry I am not heard ,i will search for it
Avatar 7:55pm
geezerette:

"Kings of Mali" is so interesting. Not sure the sounds blend, more like my mind is looking back and forth. Mental whiplash but dig it.
Avatar 7:56pm
hyde:

i love Chico Freeman
Avatar 7:56pm
Flash Strap:

yeah it's an odd piece but I too find it very interesting. Wanted to play it on an earlier show but it got cut, so I'm pleased to play it now
Avatar 7:57pm
geezerette:

Layers again. The more layered the more transfixing.
  7:57pm
wind:

my favorite prog band must be king crimson,fripp is Amaaaaa
zing
Avatar 7:58pm
Flash Strap:

here's my favorite Dzyan cover: img.discogs.com...
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Flash Strap:

me too Hyde
  7:58pm
wind:

oh that's great!
Avatar 8:01pm
Flash Strap:

Idiophone on this track is so good
  8:04pm
wind:

yeah very clean
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
melinda:

Hello intrepids!
Avatar 8:05pm
Flash Strap:

Melinda! Splendid!
Avatar 8:08pm
Flash Strap:

great vocal technique here, so weird and good
  8:09pm
wind:

human voice is so cute .hah hah
Avatar 8:16pm
geezerette:

Love the clean lines. My first love.
Avatar 8:17pm
geezerette:

Illusion of simplicity.
Avatar 8:17pm
geezerette:

Hey Melinda!
Avatar 8:18pm
Flash Strap:

Yeah this is one of the best tracks of the night without a doubt, basically perfect. in a way sort of a platonic ideal of what blue note sounded like in the early 60s. reminds me of Pete LaRoca's Basra
Avatar 8:20pm
geezerette:

:)
  8:20pm
Doctorjazz:

Love that Horace Parlan. (pouring out, don't want to leave the car...)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Evan and Explorers
Avatar 8:30pm
Flash Strap:

Hi there Coelacanth!
Avatar 8:31pm
Flash Strap:

I'm always so happy to accompany you in your conveyances, Doc! and tickled to be a complication in their efficient execution

who'd have thought I'd get those "driveway moments?"
Avatar 8:33pm
geezerette:

coel!

This is so brilliant. In '69 he's laying out the 70's.
Avatar 8:36pm
Flash Strap:

right on the mark, G
Avatar 8:37pm
geezerette:

Instant love for album. Gotta get it. Alvin Ailey could've choreographed to it. Maybe he did, I'll search after show.
Avatar 8:38pm
Flash Strap:

These are the best best tracks I think, but it's such a good album it's insane, a must-have
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:39pm
coelacanth∅:

howdy g!
Avatar 8:40pm
Flash Strap:

this is Cohran's most rock n roll track, it's like a spiritual jazz "Tequila"
Avatar 8:41pm
Flash Strap:

with that Frankiphone solo! I mean Damn!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
melinda:

I like the Cohran.
  8:44pm
JtotheK:

Excellent show -- gonna catch the rest via archive. Thanks Flash -- cheers everyone!
Avatar 8:45pm
Flash Strap:

Me too Melinda! A lot!

Thanks J-K! have a great night
Avatar 8:45pm
geezerette:

Jazz of that era was so strong. It's the sound of Black Power, an assertion and rebuke.
Avatar 8:48pm
Flash Strap:

Cohran in particular was totally locked in a Chicago based arts & community movement that was much more about culture in-the-moment than recording – I get the impression they played all the time, constantly, but recordings are scarce. Those you get to hear have this incredible immediacy
Avatar 8:49pm
Flash Strap:

totally with ya, G
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hyde:

for a few weeks I've been bragging about going out to watch the fireflies as they gambled in the trees. Tonight the fireflies consist of a few sluggish laggards moping around in the underbrush.

life is fleeting, my friends
Avatar 8:50pm
hyde:

that was supposed to be "gamboled". fireflies don't play dice.
Avatar 8:52pm
Flash Strap:

I thought my fireflies were done for a few weeks ago, but now they're back

and gamblin more than ever, higher stakes, I think they might have a problem
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:53pm
coelacanth∅:

still lots of fireflies here, where i work and unfortunately often sleep, in connecticut.
i don't know about up in new paltz
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
coelacanth∅:

...er, or in highland or where ever the hell i live
Avatar 8:55pm
Flash Strap:

damn that was a good vocal
Avatar 8:55pm
hyde:

maybe my fireflies here will rally. in any case, they are like the insect version of cherry blossoms. it's the ephemerality that makes 'em special.
Avatar 8:59pm
Flash Strap:

So true Hyde
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
melinda:

I like the image of little bugs playing cards in the trees.
Avatar 9:00pm
Flash Strap:

this is honestly one of the greatest records of all time... that's the band, pictured above
Avatar 9:05pm
Flash Strap:

Gale, like Cohran, never gave up the cause. his music is consistent, singular to his vision, and amazing up to present day
Avatar 9:06pm
geezerette:

Hyde,wonderful that you saw the whole season.
We're seeing butterflies for the first time in years.

Evan, it's intense and sacred.
  9:06pm
Dean:

Am I wrong to suspect that "University of Santa Cruz" means UCSC? Or was there once a USC?
Avatar 9:07pm
hyde:

this show seems like an appropriate show to mention that Now-Again just announced that they are reissuing Michael Cosmic's Peace in the World and Phill Musra's Creator Spaces as a double LP with a third LP of bonus, unreleased stuff www.nowagainrecords.com...
Avatar 9:07pm
hyde:

@g i actually saw a Monarch butterfly up here for the first time the other day
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Flash Strap:

I wondered about that too, Dean. that's how it reads on the liner notes and that's all I know

@G: Sacred is the exact right word
  9:12pm
Dean:

Yet another reason to promote liner notes as an object of serious study. They divulge so much information, often truly valuable, sometimes less so.
Avatar 9:12pm
Flash Strap:

this release is very strange and sort of mysterious. not even on discogs. Not exactly the cover art it deserves: bluemp3.ru...
Avatar 9:18pm
Flash Strap:

this one too is a revisiting of an older composition - not on Ghetto Music or Black Rhythm Happening, but recurrent throughout Gale's various projects. Originally a 7" I think, which we'll hear
Avatar 9:21pm
geezerette:

Dean, there are Universities of Californias and California State Universities. The UC system is/was considered more elite than the CSU system.
  9:25pm
Dean:

I work for UC, geezerette, and I'm aware of the distinction. There is a UCSC -- "Go, Banana Slugs!" -- which is part of the UC system. My question has to do with whether or not there is or was a U. of Santa Cruz, akin to U. of San Francisco, which is a private institution. I am unaware of a similar Santa Cruz institution.
Avatar 9:32pm
geezerette:

Ah, I've never heard of such an institution but that doesn't mean there wasn't one. Wouldn't UCSC be aware of that history if it existed?
  9:35pm
Dean:

Maybe. UCSC and the "hive mind" would be aware, but at a glance I don't see evidence of one. UCSC, being UC, isn't necessarily interested in histories of institutions that might have been confused with its own. If I had to bet, I'd put my money on the fact of Gale having played at UCSC in '95.
  9:39pm
Dean:

Why is this important? Well, Angela Davis was likely active there at the time.
Avatar 9:42pm
Flash Strap:

interesting how Three Kingfishers seems to quote some phrases from Velvet Morning
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geezerette:

Seems likely, and wouldn't that have been great.
Have you seen "Black Power Mix Tape" ?
Might be a passing mention and it's a good film.
Avatar 9:45pm
Flash Strap:

I like that one, G. Still haven't seen that director's follow-up, Concerning Violence, and I really want to.... I love Frantz Fanon. Has anyone seen that?
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melinda:

Some Velvet Morning lends itself well to reinterpretation.
Avatar 9:46pm
Flash Strap:

Deadwood fans, how obvious is it that Szabo had an influence?
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hyde:

have never seen Deadwood, personally
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Flash Strap:

I agree Melinda
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:46pm
melinda:

I haven't seen Concerning Violence but after checking out the wiki page I want to.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
melinda:

I was that it sounded kinda western. SVM, that is.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:48pm
melinda:

I was *thinking*
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Flash Strap:

It's crazy good Hyde, but I try not to talk too much about TV when I'm in the music zone

really really good though
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:49pm
melinda:

Check out the poster for Concerning Violence: en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 9:50pm
hyde:

i love westerns, but mostly movie westerns. i'll watch it someday when i have hbo again...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:51pm
melinda:

I hear it was influenced by McCabe and Mrs. Miller, which I liked a lot.
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Flash Strap:

it's sort of a lot like McCabe and Mrs. Miller, if that sells it.
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Mary Wing:

Hullo folks! Gabor Szabo is the bees knees.
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Flash Strap:

jinx Melinda
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
melinda:

haha
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Flash Strap:

LOVE McCabe and Mrs. Miller

Oh Hi Mary! You guys, Mary's up next!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:53pm
Uncle Michael:

Good evening.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:54pm
Uncle Michael:

I felt like taking five.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:55pm
melinda:

Excellent show, Flash!
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Flash Strap:

Hi Uncle!
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Flash Strap:

thanks melinda!
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hyde:

thanks!
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jefff:

thanks for the show!!
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geezerette:

Evan, didn't know about "Concerning Violence" and would love to see it.

Great show Evan!!! Thanks!

Fun hanging with you all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:58pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Evan
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northguineahills:

Well, I forgot to comment, thanks Evan!
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Flash Strap:

Thanks all! Hi NGH I felt you among us in spirit
Avatar 10:01pm
Flash Strap:

thanks Jefff, Melinda, C., Hyde, geezerette, Dean, everyone! goodnight see you next week
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