WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from December 6, 2018

Listener comments!
	6:19pm Flash Strap: good to be back
	6:26pm zonk ludlow: Happy to have you back, Enjoyable sojourn?
	🥁 6:28pm chresti: Heelo!
	6:34pm Flash Strap: hey zonk! hiya chresti! pretty good sojourn, exhausting though. 7 shows, 8 cities, 10 days, now i'm home with a touch of jetlag and a crummy old cold. nothing some sounds won't improve i think
	🥁 6:38pm chresti: Still jet lagged, eh? You went to France?
	🥁 6:39pm chresti: That does sound exhausting
	6:40pm zonk ludlow: Sure some good sounds will perk you up. they do cure all ills.
	6:43pm Flash Strap: at this point i think i'm just pooped, and it's probably time to stop blaming planes. but yeah all that aside i'm so jazzed to get the show rolling, i missed doing it and i missed everyone
	6:50pm TDK60: Oh, is this pre-show banter? Welcome back, from wherever.
	6:51pm Flash Strap: yeah we got about ten minutes still. hey there TDK, great to see ya again
	🥁 6:53pm chresti: sure glad you're back!
	🥁 6:54pm chresti: Do you do your show at home?
	6:56pm Flash Strap: yep i broadcast from my own explorers room, it's very cozy, full of exotic plants and strange statuary, littered with records and lined with masks and maps
	7:01pm TDK60: What would an explorer's room be without maps?
	7:02pm Flash Strap: exactly, yeah. gotta have some maps and globes man
	7:02pm TDK60: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Mighty Sparrow, king of Calypso. Someone told me he lives in NYC now.
	7:02pm Flash Strap: I think he's been in Brooklyn for 50 years or more
	7:03pm northguineahills: Haven't heard this Mighty Sparrow, and didn't know he was born in the US!!!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: he wasn't, i think he's singing in character. he was born in grenada
	7:04pm listener james from westwood: Welcome back!
	7:04pm Flash Strap: Hi NGH! and hello hello James!
	7:04pm northguineahills: I prefer to create mental maps, but I also have a map fetish as well....
	7:04pm hyde: hi gang. welcome back, Flash.
	7:04pm TDK60: 50 years! ha! I'm a bit late. NGH: I believe he was from Trinidad, unless you're jokin.'
	7:04pm northguineahills: ah, that's what I thought, flash!
	7:05pm Flash Strap: hi Hyde! great to see you my one eyed pal
	🥁 7:06pm chresti: @Flash: with a comfortable chair, I hope
	7:07pm Flash Strap: you know it
	7:07pm hyde: i had a map fetish when i was a kid. i had those national geographic maps all over my walls
	7:07pm northguineahills: @TDK: The beginning of the song started, "I was born in the USA..."
	🥁 7:08pm chresti: That's exactly how I pictured it @6:56 and wow this!
	7:08pm TDK60: NGH: Aha, didn't catch that.
	7:08pm Flash Strap: love this song title, Rahsaan Roland Kirk always does great work with the words
	🥁 7:10pm chresti: Slinger Francisco, was Sparrow's real name
	7:12pm Flash Strap: such a great name, Slinger Francisco, it's wild that he even adopted a stage name with a name like that, Calypso naming traditions aside... then again, Mighty Sparrow is an absolutely incredible Calypso name, probably the best of his generation of Calypsonians. what a guy, what a genius
	7:13pm Flash Strap: Weston's piano on this record just has the greatest heft and presence
	7:13pm hyde: it's Orgy time on WHRB here where i live, and while orgy season isn't really what it used to be (no more 8 day punk rock orgies or five day Sun Ra marathons, sad face) there is a four hour musique concrete orgy on December 11 and a seven hour avant-jazz of ESP Recordson the 13th that look kind of tasty
	7:14pm northguineahills: Although I somehow left my old maps in Brooklyn (the wife likes them too)., but I have my vintage globes here.
	7:14pm Flash Strap: sounds cool as hell Hyde
	🥁 7:15pm chresti: I love maps. I want some, my mother and older brother drew a large map of the world which, by now, is yellow and brittle. Music concrete orgy sounds good...
	7:15pm northguineahills: I'd give a limb to see the Arkestra w/ YLT last night if I was w/in 6 hour driving radius....
	7:16pm Flash Strap: i have a few wall maps i really like, but the one i can never quit is a Denoyer - Geppert "United States in the Caribbean" mounted on canvas like they used to do
	7:16pm hyde: @ngh yeah, wow.
	7:17pm Flash Strap: and while most of my globes are pretty average, i do have a 1950s Time-Life light up globe that shows the topography of the ocean floor when you light it up
	7:17pm TDK60: I was lucky to play in a reggae/ska/calypso band 1980s-'90s; a singer and a steel pan player turned me onto calypso (but I could learn more). The steel pan guy was friends with the recently-passed Ellie Mannette, pan builder.
	🥁 7:17pm chresti: Where's WHRB? @hyde
	7:18pm passiflora: spent many hours at the viewfinder of that light-up fisher price globe as a child
	7:19pm northguineahills: In the fourth grade, I made an atlas of every European country, hand-drawn (I was wanting to do the world, but I realized it would take the rest of the year) for a project. Everyone else made simulacra of short children's books. Teacher thought I was weird.
	7:19pm Flash Strap: That's a cool globe too Passiflora! I used to have it myself, can't imagine how i lost it
	7:20pm northguineahills: I had that globe as a kid, passiflora!
	7:20pm Flash Strap: outside of Out To Lunch, and maybe not even that, this is probably my favorite single Dolphy recording
	7:21pm hyde: @chresti it's the Harvard radio station in Cambridge. They traditionally do "orgy" programming during reading period and exams, but they used to have blocks of stuff that would go for days. now it's a lot more chopped up into smaller 8 hour of less blocks, mostly.
	7:21pm passiflora: and we're all here today @northguineahills @Flash Strap
	7:22pm Flash Strap: i haven't listened to that station in a long time, Hyde. used to hear great stuff there from time to time though
	🥁 7:22pm chresti: is it online? @hyde
	7:24pm hyde: @chresti yeah, they have a stream. no archives. here's the program guide page that has the orgy lineups: www.whrb.org...
	7:24pm Flash Strap: Donald Byrd on trumpet here, also I think Jack Dieval ("le Debussy du Jazz", who we heard extensively in the Chappell Dance&mood show) is on these sessions
	🥁 7:24pm chresti: I want a giant globe-like the ones they have in spy movies
	7:25pm hyde: i don't have this Dolphy record, it's cool
	🥁 7:25pm chresti: Thanks hyde!
	7:26pm Flash Strap: really cool, the #2 dolphy record to get imo. rec. like 10 days before he died, sadly
	7:26pm Flash Strap: 18 days
	7:27pm northguineahills: damn, Evan, gives this more poignancy.
	7:27pm JtotheK: Ahoy there Flash, hi everyone!
	7:29pm Flash Strap: @NGH: really does
	7:29pm Flash Strap: JtotheK! hey pal!
	7:30pm Flash Strap: this kills me every time, my god
	7:32pm Flash Strap: the drums and bass too, french personnel i don't really know, extremely compelling
	🥁 7:37pm chresti: Man! What a tidal wave of strings!
	7:38pm passiflora: felt it
	7:38pm Flash Strap: i just almost die whenever i hear this production
	🥁 7:39pm chresti: I liked the drums on Springtime
	🥁 7:44pm chresti: What is your number one recording of Dolphy's?@ flash
	🥁 7:45pm chresti: out to lunch-you said that already
	7:47pm TDK60: I'd like to have an Out luncheon sometime..
	🥁 7:49pm chresti: Luncheon with stuffed olives and devil eggs,
	7:50pm Flash Strap: yeah Out to Lunch is definitely my top Dolphy LP
	7:51pm Flash Strap: real sucker for synth & sax, when it's done right in that sort of Blade Runner way
	7:51pm TDK60: chresti sounds good. the organ reminds me of Procol Harum a little - a good thing!
	7:52pm Flash Strap: weird ass cover on this one: img.discogs.com...
	🥁 7:52pm chresti: oh yeah, I hear that TDK60
	7:52pm Flash Strap: @TDK: i know what you mean, yeah
	7:53pm northguineahills: Thanks Evan, leaving work, and off to get a pint, so, I probably won't get back until 10. Salud!
	🥁 7:54pm chresti: Something...monumental about it, from lack of a better word
	7:54pm Flash Strap: well dammit i'll miss ya NGH, have a great pint pal
	7:56pm Flash Strap: @chresti: it has this stately, rising build to it or something, with a bit of that sci-fi majesty and largeness of implied scale
	7:58pm Flash Strap: just a little corny too... makes me think of a particularly good segment in a Heavy Metal magazine, or maybe a better sci-fi mag of similar inclinations
	🥁 7:58pm chresti: flash I think you are having a bit of adrenaline crash after that whirlwind tour, from the way you described... Magesty! That's the word, thank you!
	8:00pm Flash Strap: that much constant travel takes a lot out of you, but you only truly pay the price once you finally stop; you're definitely not wrong
	🥁 8:01pm chresti: rest is in order (and music)
	8:02pm hyde: yeah, when you're seeing new places and such it's easy to shake off the tiredness. then you get home and it's crash time
	8:02pm melinda: hello Flash and explorers!
	8:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda! to see you is a joy
	8:04pm hyde: hi melinda!
	8:04pm Flash Strap: you guys get it
	8:06pm Flash Strap: one of my fave Cowley instrumentals, here
	8:07pm Little Danny: hey Flash, hey all
	8:08pm Flash Strap: LD! hey man how goes it!
	8:08pm passiflora: mastered by...Rashad Becker XD
	8:08pm melinda: Speaking of globes, I recently acquired two, one is the standard light-blue ocean variety and the other is black and lights up! It was hard to reassemble so the hemispheres are about 1/2 inch out of alignment, but it still looks nice.
	8:09pm melinda: I love this too, someone uses it as bed music. Daniel Blumin?
	8:09pm Flash Strap: is that funny? the guy does a ton of mastering work i know
	8:09pm passiflora: www.discogs.com...
	8:10pm Flash Strap: that sounds beautiful Melinda, I love light-up globes. I wish I could have a whole room of light up globes honestly and just go into it and bask
	8:11pm passiflora: it's just amazing. like, of course he did this too kind of thing
	8:11pm Flash Strap: i've definitely put his name in the credits on a few album covers in my time, i think he masters stuff for the Discrepant label pretty frequently, among a host of others. 77 discogs pages is no joke
	8:13pm Little Danny: Man, that Cowley was great. I wish I had a firmer grasp of his catalog beyond an odd downloaded comp or two and some Sylvester-related productions
	8:14pm Flash Strap: Those Dark Entries comps are definitely my favorite, i like him best in that soundtrack mode and some of that stuff doesn't appear elsewhere. Megatron Man and Mind Warp are great too.
	8:15pm melinda: @Flash they were my dad's, and when we were going through his stuff I picked both of them thinking I would keep one and maybe unload the other because who needs 2 globes? I only discovered later that one of them is a light-up. When I had it on last night it just transformed the room, and I decided I need more illuminated spheres.
	🥁 8:15pm chresti: Which song Melinda-bed music?
	8:17pm Flash Strap: @chresti: the patrick cowley, i believe
	8:17pm TDK60: Wow y'all are some globe freaks. Is there term for it?
	8:21pm melinda: Yes, the Patrick Cowley.
	8:21pm Flash Strap: i don't know but yeah man i really love having little scale model planet earths, especially if they light up. my collage desk has probably 200 printed images of globes of all kinds cut out and scattered across it as well
	8:21pm hyde: globealists
	8:21pm passiflora: the mods at /r/globes are 'certified globe spinners' old.reddit.com...
	8:22pm Flash Strap: Guelewar is one of the greatest bands of all time imo
	8:22pm Flash Strap: @hyde: i'm laughin
	8:23pm hyde: @Flash yeah, but youre all punchy
	8:24pm passiflora: I almost forgot about finding where we'd live after spinning the globe
	8:25pm Flash Strap: that is a fun game
	8:26pm passiflora: :)
	8:26pm hyde: i i actually saw the scene where Samantha Eggar plays that game in Doctor Doolittle about a week ago to find out where they'll go
	8:27pm hyde: ooh, it's the Destination Out bed music
	8:27pm TDK60: ..somebody's havin' fun..
	8:28pm JtotheK: Groovy Sun Ra track!
	8:28pm Flash Strap: such a great track
	8:29pm Flash Strap: and the A-side is so bizarre
	8:29pm passiflora: I haven't seen it, @hyde. Where do they go?
	🥁 8:31pm chresti: Freakin' on globes TDK60! Globalogesia
	8:31pm Flash Strap: this whole Pharoah record is so glorious
	🥁 8:32pm chresti: dingdingding!Hyde knew D/O
	8:34pm Flash Strap: great idea for D/O to use that as bed music, what a great show
	8:34pm hyde: @passiflora they go to Sea Star island, a floating island that is in the Atlantic at the time (which i think is also in one of the Hugh Lofting books). it's a pretty dumb movie, but i read a book about 70's musicals that detailed the production and it was a nightmare production. Rex Harrison was drunk all the time. Having all those animals on set was chaos. They shot in the Carribean and instead of sun they got rain all the time. They shot some scenes in Wiltshire, and the community got so tired of it that one villager got caught with dynamite going to try to blow up the set.
	8:35pm JtotheK: @hyde - now I’m wondering how I didn’t place that Ra from D:O. How embarrassing for me!!!
	8:35pm Flash Strap: that is amazing hyde
	8:41pm passiflora: Wow. That sounds like a cool book, @hyde
	8:43pm TDK60: spin that globe, spin that disc...or file, hehe.
	8:46pm Flash Strap: this record is a treasure, truly it is gold
	8:47pm TDK60: I saw a big group of Armenian tourists passing once in NYC; I had an odd sensation: they seemed an ancient people- I could feel!
	8:48pm melinda: @TDK that's interesting.
	8:49pm hyde: @passiflora it was good! it was actually more the late sixties than the seventies. it was mostly about Hollywood getting really excited in 64/65 when My Fair Lady and Sound of music made tons of money and then investing huge amounts of cash on things like Man of La Mancha and Doctor Doolittle just as musicals became desperately in cool. (it's called Roadshow!: The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s).
	8:49pm hyde: * that should be "uncool", not in cool
	8:50pm Little Danny: Gorgeous. I wonder how much this Iranian classical-exotique exists on on record. Must have been heard with some frequency in pre-Revolution Iran?
	8:50pm Flash Strap: something really appealing to me about the cover of this record: img.discogs.com...
	8:51pm Flash Strap: i really wish i knew the date on this recording
	8:51pm melinda: Lovely.
	8:52pm passiflora: that's a neat premise @hyde. the library I work at carries it, so I'll be able to browse
	8:52pm Flash Strap: this was either a Holy Warbles or Ghostcapital find, eternally grateful for their sharing it
	8:54pm hyde: the Ghost Capital link is still live! ghostcapital.blogspot.com...
	8:55pm passiflora: the opening reminded me of roses and rose water, and it's on the cover!
	8:55pm Flash Strap: oh shit Hyde with the heroic act! Ghostcap such a beautiful blog HIGHLY recommend visiting that link
	8:55pm hyde: @passiflora the Doctor Doolittle chapter is the most entertaining thing, fwiw
	8:57pm hyde: i'm always thrilled when i go to a long dormant music blog where a link still works
	8:58pm passiflora: good to know. it sounds like that production alone has the makings of a documentary
	8:58pm TDK60: Louis Moondog Hardin is back on the Charts!
	8:59pm Flash Strap: this moondog album too-often overlooked
	9:03pm Flash Strap: there's a really gorgeous new project out based on Moondog's Elpmas, with a book of accompanying art that i've seen, but I haven't heard the music yet. anybody heard or seen this?
	9:05pm hyde: cant say i have
	9:07pm Flash Strap: well when i get a hold of it we'll all hear it together
	9:10pm Flash Strap: this is it, but there aren't many pictures here. I saw the book in France and it was really pretty good: www.discogs.com...
	9:15pm Flash Strap: been a loooong time since i pulled out this Iordache record, what a fine old friend it is
	9:16pm TDK60: Haven't heard "Elpmas" ..yet. // So, you were in France?
	9:17pm Dean: Singer sounds like a Romanian Esther Lamandier. Which is a good thing.
	9:19pm Flash Strap: Elpmas, the original, is a real masterpiece - you should check it out! you'd love it yeah i was in France, and Switzerland a little bit. I did a bunch of shows all around, couple festival things
	9:19pm Flash Strap: hi dean! the singer is Romica Puceanu
	9:26pm Flash Strap: i love the Bembeya sound, what a spectacular band
	9:27pm Flash Strap: this selection also found on the Stern's Africa comp, The Syliphone Years, which i can't recommend highly enough
	🥁 9:27pm chresti: At first I thought the applause was water
	9:27pm Dean: It occurs to me that we are nearing the point where we can generate fake field recordings, "genuine" reproductions of historical performances by "other" cultures.
	9:29pm Flash Strap: i think this practice has existed for almost exactly as long as the field recording has been a concept
	9:31pm Dean: You mean faking it? I suppose so. But I'm talking about what amounts to a new genre: fake bouzouki recitals, for example, or fake live appearances by fake virtuoso artists.
	9:32pm Dean: I have a fun recording of David Cope "compositions," which are computer-generated works designed to sound like Mozart, Bach, etc.
	🥁 9:32pm chresti: Sounds so good
	9:34pm Flash Strap: i'm not sure if you're making a distinction that disqualifies this, perhaps one that involves new technologies or something, but this kind of thing, broadly, is a big driver of both exotica/exoticism and the avant garde/early ethnographic projects in the early 20th century
	9:35pm Flash Strap: @Dean: oh that sounds really cool, i'd like to hear that!
	9:37pm Dean: Right, mimesis is perennial. I'm talking about passing off a recording as "authentic" or "genuine" even if the listener knows it's all a sham. Making up non-existent traditions and their musical expressions. So, yes, I think I am disqualifying the exotica stuff, though I bet some consumers received it as "real." Here's an example of Cope's work: https://www.discogs.com/David-Cope-Bach-By-Design-Computer-Composed-Music-Experiments-In-Musical-Intelligence/release/7531356
	9:38pm Dean: My 12YO son, who is studying French, just overheard this Michou track. "I like this music, dad!"
	9:38pm passiflora: @Dean kind of like an audio deepfake w/ something like TensorFlow
	🥁 9:39pm chresti: I just heard a track on...Testify or Long Way Home a couple days ago, that had audience sound dropped in, wasn't field recording.
	🥁 9:40pm chresti: deepfake?
	🥁 9:41pm chresti: Dean- Cool!
	9:41pm Dean: I remember that track, chresti. That's another issue. Dubbed adjustments are legion. I live blocks from an audio store run by one of the guys who engineered Little Feat's Waiting for Columbus. He gleefully reports how he had to head back to the studio with Lowell George to redo tracks. I don't know TensorFlow, but it appears to be the kind of technology to which I'm referring.
	9:41pm Flash Strap: well that is exactly what a lot of exotica & -adjacent music does, but i suppose i take your point
	9:42pm hyde: ducking out a little early. thanks for the cool show!
	🥁 9:51pm chresti: Goodnight Thanks! Knocked my socks off again, Flash!
	9:53pm Flash Strap: Adios Hyde, thanks for tuning in! My great and treasured pleasure Chresti!
	9:54pm coelacanth∅: i couldn't be much more unfashionably late could i
	🥁 9:54pm chresti: :)
	9:54pm Flash Strap: no, Mr. C, but it's nice to see you all the same!
	9:56pm Dean: A story I've told multiple times before on the comment board: Jimmy Smith once told me to stop ordering martinis.
	9:57pm TDK60: Night explorers..
	9:57pm Flash Strap: hahaha incredible
	9:58pm Flash Strap: good good night to you TDK
	🥁 9:58pm chresti: Night TDK60
	9:58pm Flash Strap: couldn't resist one last Ma'roufi track
	🥁 9:59pm chresti: What? When? @Dean
	9:59pm Little Danny: Lovely finish Evan! wfmu.org... C'mon over people!
	🥁 10:00pm chresti: Enjoying!
	10:00pm passiflora: thank you and good night <3
	10:01pm Flash Strap: good night friends, see you next week
	4:21pm quinn: yesss i LOVE synth and sax, would love to hear an all synth and sax show in the explorers room one day!!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from December 6, 2018

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
Mighty Sparrow	Martin Luther King for President	Sparrow Sings... The Outcast	National Record Company	1963		0:00:46 (Pop-up)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk	The Ragman & The Junkman Ran From The Businessman They Laughed And Cried	Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata	Atlantic	1971		0:05:49 (Pop-up)
Randy Weston	Blues to Africa "Blues to Africa" by "Randy Weston"	Music From The New African Nations Featuring The Highlife	Colpix	1973		0:08:46 (Pop-up)
Ambrose Campbell	Treat Me Gently "Treat Me Gently" by "Ambrose Campbell"	High Life Today	Columbia / Landsdowne	1966		0:15:00 (Pop-up)
Eric Dolphy	Springtime "Springtime" by "Eric Dolphy"	Last Recordings	West Wind	1996	rec. in Paris, June 11, 1964	0:17:52 (Pop-up)
Nat King Cole	Paradise "Paradise" by "Nat King Cole"	The Very Thought of You	Capitol	1958	with Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra	0:36:21 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Nelson Riddle	Drifting and Dreaming					0:39:11 (Pop-up)
Mayordom	Spring Water "Spring Water" by "Mayordom"	Mayordom	Amo / Sonopresse	1978		0:48:07 (Pop-up)
Eberhard Schoener	Time Square "Time Square" by "Eberhard Schoener"	Time Square	Harvest / EMI Electrola	1981		0:54:11 (Pop-up)
Bobby Lyle	Dance of Love and Peace	Bobby Lyle Plays Electone GX707	CBS / Sony Japan	1973		1:01:15 (Pop-up)
Patrick Cowley & Jorge Socarras	Burn Brighter Flame (instrumental)	Burn Brighter Flame 12"	Macro	2009	rec. 1975-1979 during "Catholic" sessions	1:05:08 (Pop-up)
Peter Lüdemann / Pit Troja	Grease Plant	The Now Generation (Percussive Underscores)	Coloursound Library	1983		1:11:53 (Pop-up)
Teisco	Quartiere Moderno del Sud "Quartiere Moderno del Sud" by "Teisco"	Musiche De Teisco	Dual Planet	2013	rec. 1975-1980	1:15:04 (Pop-up)
Guelewar	Yaye Ramoutoulaye "Yaye Ramoutoulaye" by "Guelewar"	Halleli N'Dakarou	Teranga Beat	2011	rec. live at Canari Club de Kaolack in Senegal, 1982	1:17:28 (Pop-up)
The Sun Ra Arkestra	The Perfect Man	I'm Gonna Unmask The Batman / The Perfect Man 7"	El Saturn Records	1974		1:25:28 (Pop-up)
Pharoah Sanders	Memories of Edith Johnson	Pharoah	India Navigations	1977		1:30:16 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Pharoah Sanders	Lumkili "Lumkili" by "Pharoah Sanders"					1:35:36 (Pop-up)
Javād Ma'roufi	Fantasie On An Armenian Theme, Parts 1-3	Golden Dreams & Other Romantic Melodies	Ahang Rooz	19??		1:44:47 (Pop-up)
Moondog	Gygg "Gygg" by "Moondog"	Moondog Conducts Fläskkvartetten – Bracelli	Kakaphone	1987		1:57:12 (Pop-up)
François Rabbath	L'Odyssée D'eau	Multi-Basse	Moshé-Naïm	1973		2:04:31 (Pop-up)
Toni Iordache	Tinerețe, Tinerețe	Sounds From A Bygone Age · Vol.4	Asphalt Tango	2007	rec. 1964-1980 (voc. Romica Puceanu)	2:13:11 (Pop-up)
Orchestre Tzigane Hongrois	Nuages	Tziganes – Paris / Berlin / Budapest 1910-1935	Frémeaux & Associés	1993	Cond. Arpad Kovacs	2:20:38 (Pop-up)
Bembeya Jazz National	Super Tentemba	Super Tentemba 7"	Editions Syliphone Conakry	1973		2:22:58 (Pop-up)
Michou	Maloya Ton Tisane "Maloya Ton Tisane" by "Michou"	Tombé Levé	Diffusion Royale	1978		2:36:58 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Lloyd Miller	Segah (Piano-Tehran '72)	Oriental Jazz	World Arts			2:40:08 (Pop-up)
The Chiffons	Just A Boy "Just A Boy" by "The Chiffons"	Sweet Talkin' Guy	Laurie	1966		2:52:09 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Smith	Burning Spear "Burning Spear" by "Jimmy Smith"	Livin' It Up!	Verve	1968		2:52:54 (Pop-up)
Javād Ma'roufi	Jila "Jila" by "Javād Ma'roufi"	Golden Dreams & Other Romantic Melodies	Ahang Rooz	197?		2:56:03 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:19pm Flash Strap: good to be back
	6:26pm zonk ludlow: Happy to have you back, Enjoyable sojourn?
	🥁 6:28pm chresti: Heelo!
	6:34pm Flash Strap: hey zonk! hiya chresti! pretty good sojourn, exhausting though. 7 shows, 8 cities, 10 days, now i'm home with a touch of jetlag and a crummy old cold. nothing some sounds won't improve i think
	🥁 6:38pm chresti: Still jet lagged, eh? You went to France?
	🥁 6:39pm chresti: That does sound exhausting
	6:40pm zonk ludlow: Sure some good sounds will perk you up. they do cure all ills.
	6:43pm Flash Strap: at this point i think i'm just pooped, and it's probably time to stop blaming planes. but yeah all that aside i'm so jazzed to get the show rolling, i missed doing it and i missed everyone
	6:50pm TDK60: Oh, is this pre-show banter? Welcome back, from wherever.
	6:51pm Flash Strap: yeah we got about ten minutes still. hey there TDK, great to see ya again
	🥁 6:53pm chresti: sure glad you're back!
	🥁 6:54pm chresti: Do you do your show at home?
	6:56pm Flash Strap: yep i broadcast from my own explorers room, it's very cozy, full of exotic plants and strange statuary, littered with records and lined with masks and maps
	7:01pm TDK60: What would an explorer's room be without maps?
	7:02pm Flash Strap: exactly, yeah. gotta have some maps and globes man
	7:02pm TDK60: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Mighty Sparrow, king of Calypso. Someone told me he lives in NYC now.
	7:02pm Flash Strap: I think he's been in Brooklyn for 50 years or more
	7:03pm northguineahills: Haven't heard this Mighty Sparrow, and didn't know he was born in the US!!!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: he wasn't, i think he's singing in character. he was born in grenada
	7:04pm listener james from westwood: Welcome back!
	7:04pm Flash Strap: Hi NGH! and hello hello James!
	7:04pm northguineahills: I prefer to create mental maps, but I also have a map fetish as well....
	7:04pm hyde: hi gang. welcome back, Flash.
	7:04pm TDK60: 50 years! ha! I'm a bit late. NGH: I believe he was from Trinidad, unless you're jokin.'
	7:04pm northguineahills: ah, that's what I thought, flash!
	7:05pm Flash Strap: hi Hyde! great to see you my one eyed pal
	🥁 7:06pm chresti: @Flash: with a comfortable chair, I hope
	7:07pm Flash Strap: you know it
	7:07pm hyde: i had a map fetish when i was a kid. i had those national geographic maps all over my walls
	7:07pm northguineahills: @TDK: The beginning of the song started, "I was born in the USA..."
	🥁 7:08pm chresti: That's exactly how I pictured it @6:56 and wow this!
	7:08pm TDK60: NGH: Aha, didn't catch that.
	7:08pm Flash Strap: love this song title, Rahsaan Roland Kirk always does great work with the words
	🥁 7:10pm chresti: Slinger Francisco, was Sparrow's real name
	7:12pm Flash Strap: such a great name, Slinger Francisco, it's wild that he even adopted a stage name with a name like that, Calypso naming traditions aside... then again, Mighty Sparrow is an absolutely incredible Calypso name, probably the best of his generation of Calypsonians. what a guy, what a genius
	7:13pm Flash Strap: Weston's piano on this record just has the greatest heft and presence
	7:13pm hyde: it's Orgy time on WHRB here where i live, and while orgy season isn't really what it used to be (no more 8 day punk rock orgies or five day Sun Ra marathons, sad face) there is a four hour musique concrete orgy on December 11 and a seven hour avant-jazz of ESP Recordson the 13th that look kind of tasty
	7:14pm northguineahills: Although I somehow left my old maps in Brooklyn (the wife likes them too)., but I have my vintage globes here.
	7:14pm Flash Strap: sounds cool as hell Hyde
	🥁 7:15pm chresti: I love maps. I want some, my mother and older brother drew a large map of the world which, by now, is yellow and brittle. Music concrete orgy sounds good...
	7:15pm northguineahills: I'd give a limb to see the Arkestra w/ YLT last night if I was w/in 6 hour driving radius....
	7:16pm Flash Strap: i have a few wall maps i really like, but the one i can never quit is a Denoyer - Geppert "United States in the Caribbean" mounted on canvas like they used to do
	7:16pm hyde: @ngh yeah, wow.
	7:17pm Flash Strap: and while most of my globes are pretty average, i do have a 1950s Time-Life light up globe that shows the topography of the ocean floor when you light it up
	7:17pm TDK60: I was lucky to play in a reggae/ska/calypso band 1980s-'90s; a singer and a steel pan player turned me onto calypso (but I could learn more). The steel pan guy was friends with the recently-passed Ellie Mannette, pan builder.
	🥁 7:17pm chresti: Where's WHRB? @hyde
	7:18pm passiflora: spent many hours at the viewfinder of that light-up fisher price globe as a child
	7:19pm northguineahills: In the fourth grade, I made an atlas of every European country, hand-drawn (I was wanting to do the world, but I realized it would take the rest of the year) for a project. Everyone else made simulacra of short children's books. Teacher thought I was weird.
	7:19pm Flash Strap: That's a cool globe too Passiflora! I used to have it myself, can't imagine how i lost it
	7:20pm northguineahills: I had that globe as a kid, passiflora!
	7:20pm Flash Strap: outside of Out To Lunch, and maybe not even that, this is probably my favorite single Dolphy recording
	7:21pm hyde: @chresti it's the Harvard radio station in Cambridge. They traditionally do "orgy" programming during reading period and exams, but they used to have blocks of stuff that would go for days. now it's a lot more chopped up into smaller 8 hour of less blocks, mostly.
	7:21pm passiflora: and we're all here today @northguineahills @Flash Strap
	7:22pm Flash Strap: i haven't listened to that station in a long time, Hyde. used to hear great stuff there from time to time though
	🥁 7:22pm chresti: is it online? @hyde
	7:24pm hyde: @chresti yeah, they have a stream. no archives. here's the program guide page that has the orgy lineups: www.whrb.org...
	7:24pm Flash Strap: Donald Byrd on trumpet here, also I think Jack Dieval ("le Debussy du Jazz", who we heard extensively in the Chappell Dance&mood show) is on these sessions
	🥁 7:24pm chresti: I want a giant globe-like the ones they have in spy movies
	7:25pm hyde: i don't have this Dolphy record, it's cool
	🥁 7:25pm chresti: Thanks hyde!
	7:26pm Flash Strap: really cool, the #2 dolphy record to get imo. rec. like 10 days before he died, sadly
	7:26pm Flash Strap: 18 days
	7:27pm northguineahills: damn, Evan, gives this more poignancy.
	7:27pm JtotheK: Ahoy there Flash, hi everyone!
	7:29pm Flash Strap: @NGH: really does
	7:29pm Flash Strap: JtotheK! hey pal!
	7:30pm Flash Strap: this kills me every time, my god
	7:32pm Flash Strap: the drums and bass too, french personnel i don't really know, extremely compelling
	🥁 7:37pm chresti: Man! What a tidal wave of strings!
	7:38pm passiflora: felt it
	7:38pm Flash Strap: i just almost die whenever i hear this production
	🥁 7:39pm chresti: I liked the drums on Springtime
	🥁 7:44pm chresti: What is your number one recording of Dolphy's?@ flash
	🥁 7:45pm chresti: out to lunch-you said that already
	7:47pm TDK60: I'd like to have an Out luncheon sometime..
	🥁 7:49pm chresti: Luncheon with stuffed olives and devil eggs,
	7:50pm Flash Strap: yeah Out to Lunch is definitely my top Dolphy LP
	7:51pm Flash Strap: real sucker for synth & sax, when it's done right in that sort of Blade Runner way
	7:51pm TDK60: chresti sounds good. the organ reminds me of Procol Harum a little - a good thing!
	7:52pm Flash Strap: weird ass cover on this one: img.discogs.com...
	🥁 7:52pm chresti: oh yeah, I hear that TDK60
	7:52pm Flash Strap: @TDK: i know what you mean, yeah
	7:53pm northguineahills: Thanks Evan, leaving work, and off to get a pint, so, I probably won't get back until 10. Salud!
	🥁 7:54pm chresti: Something...monumental about it, from lack of a better word
	7:54pm Flash Strap: well dammit i'll miss ya NGH, have a great pint pal
	7:56pm Flash Strap: @chresti: it has this stately, rising build to it or something, with a bit of that sci-fi majesty and largeness of implied scale
	7:58pm Flash Strap: just a little corny too... makes me think of a particularly good segment in a Heavy Metal magazine, or maybe a better sci-fi mag of similar inclinations
	🥁 7:58pm chresti: flash I think you are having a bit of adrenaline crash after that whirlwind tour, from the way you described... Magesty! That's the word, thank you!
	8:00pm Flash Strap: that much constant travel takes a lot out of you, but you only truly pay the price once you finally stop; you're definitely not wrong
	🥁 8:01pm chresti: rest is in order (and music)
	8:02pm hyde: yeah, when you're seeing new places and such it's easy to shake off the tiredness. then you get home and it's crash time
	8:02pm melinda: hello Flash and explorers!
	8:03pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda! to see you is a joy
	8:04pm hyde: hi melinda!
	8:04pm Flash Strap: you guys get it
	8:06pm Flash Strap: one of my fave Cowley instrumentals, here
	8:07pm Little Danny: hey Flash, hey all
	8:08pm Flash Strap: LD! hey man how goes it!
	8:08pm passiflora: mastered by...Rashad Becker XD
	8:08pm melinda: Speaking of globes, I recently acquired two, one is the standard light-blue ocean variety and the other is black and lights up! It was hard to reassemble so the hemispheres are about 1/2 inch out of alignment, but it still looks nice.
	8:09pm melinda: I love this too, someone uses it as bed music. Daniel Blumin?
	8:09pm Flash Strap: is that funny? the guy does a ton of mastering work i know
	8:09pm passiflora: www.discogs.com...
	8:10pm Flash Strap: that sounds beautiful Melinda, I love light-up globes. I wish I could have a whole room of light up globes honestly and just go into it and bask
	8:11pm passiflora: it's just amazing. like, of course he did this too kind of thing
	8:11pm Flash Strap: i've definitely put his name in the credits on a few album covers in my time, i think he masters stuff for the Discrepant label pretty frequently, among a host of others. 77 discogs pages is no joke
	8:13pm Little Danny: Man, that Cowley was great. I wish I had a firmer grasp of his catalog beyond an odd downloaded comp or two and some Sylvester-related productions
	8:14pm Flash Strap: Those Dark Entries comps are definitely my favorite, i like him best in that soundtrack mode and some of that stuff doesn't appear elsewhere. Megatron Man and Mind Warp are great too.
	8:15pm melinda: @Flash they were my dad's, and when we were going through his stuff I picked both of them thinking I would keep one and maybe unload the other because who needs 2 globes? I only discovered later that one of them is a light-up. When I had it on last night it just transformed the room, and I decided I need more illuminated spheres.
	🥁 8:15pm chresti: Which song Melinda-bed music?
	8:17pm Flash Strap: @chresti: the patrick cowley, i believe
	8:17pm TDK60: Wow y'all are some globe freaks. Is there term for it?
	8:21pm melinda: Yes, the Patrick Cowley.
	8:21pm Flash Strap: i don't know but yeah man i really love having little scale model planet earths, especially if they light up. my collage desk has probably 200 printed images of globes of all kinds cut out and scattered across it as well
	8:21pm hyde: globealists
	8:21pm passiflora: the mods at /r/globes are 'certified globe spinners' old.reddit.com...
	8:22pm Flash Strap: Guelewar is one of the greatest bands of all time imo
	8:22pm Flash Strap: @hyde: i'm laughin
	8:23pm hyde: @Flash yeah, but youre all punchy
	8:24pm passiflora: I almost forgot about finding where we'd live after spinning the globe
	8:25pm Flash Strap: that is a fun game
	8:26pm passiflora: :)
	8:26pm hyde: i i actually saw the scene where Samantha Eggar plays that game in Doctor Doolittle about a week ago to find out where they'll go
	8:27pm hyde: ooh, it's the Destination Out bed music
	8:27pm TDK60: ..somebody's havin' fun..
	8:28pm JtotheK: Groovy Sun Ra track!
	8:28pm Flash Strap: such a great track
	8:29pm Flash Strap: and the A-side is so bizarre
	8:29pm passiflora: I haven't seen it, @hyde. Where do they go?
	🥁 8:31pm chresti: Freakin' on globes TDK60! Globalogesia
	8:31pm Flash Strap: this whole Pharoah record is so glorious
	🥁 8:32pm chresti: dingdingding!Hyde knew D/O
	8:34pm Flash Strap: great idea for D/O to use that as bed music, what a great show
	8:34pm hyde: @passiflora they go to Sea Star island, a floating island that is in the Atlantic at the time (which i think is also in one of the Hugh Lofting books). it's a pretty dumb movie, but i read a book about 70's musicals that detailed the production and it was a nightmare production. Rex Harrison was drunk all the time. Having all those animals on set was chaos. They shot in the Carribean and instead of sun they got rain all the time. They shot some scenes in Wiltshire, and the community got so tired of it that one villager got caught with dynamite going to try to blow up the set.
	8:35pm JtotheK: @hyde - now I’m wondering how I didn’t place that Ra from D:O. How embarrassing for me!!!
	8:35pm Flash Strap: that is amazing hyde
	8:41pm passiflora: Wow. That sounds like a cool book, @hyde
	8:43pm TDK60: spin that globe, spin that disc...or file, hehe.
	8:46pm Flash Strap: this record is a treasure, truly it is gold
	8:47pm TDK60: I saw a big group of Armenian tourists passing once in NYC; I had an odd sensation: they seemed an ancient people- I could feel!
	8:48pm melinda: @TDK that's interesting.
	8:49pm hyde: @passiflora it was good! it was actually more the late sixties than the seventies. it was mostly about Hollywood getting really excited in 64/65 when My Fair Lady and Sound of music made tons of money and then investing huge amounts of cash on things like Man of La Mancha and Doctor Doolittle just as musicals became desperately in cool. (it's called Roadshow!: The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s).
	8:49pm hyde: * that should be "uncool", not in cool
	8:50pm Little Danny: Gorgeous. I wonder how much this Iranian classical-exotique exists on on record. Must have been heard with some frequency in pre-Revolution Iran?
	8:50pm Flash Strap: something really appealing to me about the cover of this record: img.discogs.com...
	8:51pm Flash Strap: i really wish i knew the date on this recording
	8:51pm melinda: Lovely.
	8:52pm passiflora: that's a neat premise @hyde. the library I work at carries it, so I'll be able to browse
	8:52pm Flash Strap: this was either a Holy Warbles or Ghostcapital find, eternally grateful for their sharing it
	8:54pm hyde: the Ghost Capital link is still live! ghostcapital.blogspot.com...
	8:55pm passiflora: the opening reminded me of roses and rose water, and it's on the cover!
	8:55pm Flash Strap: oh shit Hyde with the heroic act! Ghostcap such a beautiful blog HIGHLY recommend visiting that link
	8:55pm hyde: @passiflora the Doctor Doolittle chapter is the most entertaining thing, fwiw
	8:57pm hyde: i'm always thrilled when i go to a long dormant music blog where a link still works
	8:58pm passiflora: good to know. it sounds like that production alone has the makings of a documentary
	8:58pm TDK60: Louis Moondog Hardin is back on the Charts!
	8:59pm Flash Strap: this moondog album too-often overlooked
	9:03pm Flash Strap: there's a really gorgeous new project out based on Moondog's Elpmas, with a book of accompanying art that i've seen, but I haven't heard the music yet. anybody heard or seen this?
	9:05pm hyde: cant say i have
	9:07pm Flash Strap: well when i get a hold of it we'll all hear it together
	9:10pm Flash Strap: this is it, but there aren't many pictures here. I saw the book in France and it was really pretty good: www.discogs.com...
	9:15pm Flash Strap: been a loooong time since i pulled out this Iordache record, what a fine old friend it is
	9:16pm TDK60: Haven't heard "Elpmas" ..yet. // So, you were in France?
	9:17pm Dean: Singer sounds like a Romanian Esther Lamandier. Which is a good thing.
	9:19pm Flash Strap: Elpmas, the original, is a real masterpiece - you should check it out! you'd love it yeah i was in France, and Switzerland a little bit. I did a bunch of shows all around, couple festival things
	9:19pm Flash Strap: hi dean! the singer is Romica Puceanu
	9:26pm Flash Strap: i love the Bembeya sound, what a spectacular band
	9:27pm Flash Strap: this selection also found on the Stern's Africa comp, The Syliphone Years, which i can't recommend highly enough
	🥁 9:27pm chresti: At first I thought the applause was water
	9:27pm Dean: It occurs to me that we are nearing the point where we can generate fake field recordings, "genuine" reproductions of historical performances by "other" cultures.
	9:29pm Flash Strap: i think this practice has existed for almost exactly as long as the field recording has been a concept
	9:31pm Dean: You mean faking it? I suppose so. But I'm talking about what amounts to a new genre: fake bouzouki recitals, for example, or fake live appearances by fake virtuoso artists.
	9:32pm Dean: I have a fun recording of David Cope "compositions," which are computer-generated works designed to sound like Mozart, Bach, etc.
	🥁 9:32pm chresti: Sounds so good
	9:34pm Flash Strap: i'm not sure if you're making a distinction that disqualifies this, perhaps one that involves new technologies or something, but this kind of thing, broadly, is a big driver of both exotica/exoticism and the avant garde/early ethnographic projects in the early 20th century
	9:35pm Flash Strap: @Dean: oh that sounds really cool, i'd like to hear that!
	9:37pm Dean: Right, mimesis is perennial. I'm talking about passing off a recording as "authentic" or "genuine" even if the listener knows it's all a sham. Making up non-existent traditions and their musical expressions. So, yes, I think I am disqualifying the exotica stuff, though I bet some consumers received it as "real." Here's an example of Cope's work: https://www.discogs.com/David-Cope-Bach-By-Design-Computer-Composed-Music-Experiments-In-Musical-Intelligence/release/7531356
	9:38pm Dean: My 12YO son, who is studying French, just overheard this Michou track. "I like this music, dad!"
	9:38pm passiflora: @Dean kind of like an audio deepfake w/ something like TensorFlow
	🥁 9:39pm chresti: I just heard a track on...Testify or Long Way Home a couple days ago, that had audience sound dropped in, wasn't field recording.
	🥁 9:40pm chresti: deepfake?
	🥁 9:41pm chresti: Dean- Cool!
	9:41pm Dean: I remember that track, chresti. That's another issue. Dubbed adjustments are legion. I live blocks from an audio store run by one of the guys who engineered Little Feat's Waiting for Columbus. He gleefully reports how he had to head back to the studio with Lowell George to redo tracks. I don't know TensorFlow, but it appears to be the kind of technology to which I'm referring.
	9:41pm Flash Strap: well that is exactly what a lot of exotica & -adjacent music does, but i suppose i take your point
	9:42pm hyde: ducking out a little early. thanks for the cool show!
	🥁 9:51pm chresti: Goodnight Thanks! Knocked my socks off again, Flash!
	9:53pm Flash Strap: Adios Hyde, thanks for tuning in! My great and treasured pleasure Chresti!
	9:54pm coelacanth∅: i couldn't be much more unfashionably late could i
	🥁 9:54pm chresti: :)
	9:54pm Flash Strap: no, Mr. C, but it's nice to see you all the same!
	9:56pm Dean: A story I've told multiple times before on the comment board: Jimmy Smith once told me to stop ordering martinis.
	9:57pm TDK60: Night explorers..
	9:57pm Flash Strap: hahaha incredible
	9:58pm Flash Strap: good good night to you TDK
	🥁 9:58pm chresti: Night TDK60
	9:58pm Flash Strap: couldn't resist one last Ma'roufi track
	🥁 9:59pm chresti: What? When? @Dean
	9:59pm Little Danny: Lovely finish Evan! wfmu.org... C'mon over people!
	🥁 10:00pm chresti: Enjoying!
	10:00pm passiflora: thank you and good night <3
	10:01pm Flash Strap: good night friends, see you next week
	4:21pm quinn: yesss i LOVE synth and sax, would love to hear an all synth and sax show in the explorers room one day!!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from December 6, 2018

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