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Favoriting April 11, 2019: A Baroque Tapestry of Grandeur and Excess

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro            
Third Ear Band  Mosaic   Favoriting Alchemy  Harvest  1969    0:01:56 (Pop-up)
Baroque Jazz Trio  Zoma   Favoriting Baroque Jazz Trio  Saravah  1970    0:07:51 (Pop-up)
Carl Stone  Sukothai   Favoriting Electronic Music from the Seventies and Eighties  Unseen Worlds  1977  from Henry Purcell, "Rondeau"  0:19:12 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Jonathan Knight 
 
Lonely Harpsichord on a Rainy Night 
Viva 
1967 
 
0:33:06 (Pop-up)
The Left Banke  I've Got Something On My Mind   Favoriting Walk Away Renée / Pretty Ballerina  Smash  1967    0:41:06 (Pop-up)
The Millennium  Prelude   Favoriting Begin  Columbia  1968    0:43:18 (Pop-up)
Billy Nicholls  Question Mark   Favoriting Would You Believe  Immediate  1968    0:44:31 (Pop-up)
Philamore Lincoln  The North Wind Blew South   Favoriting The North Wind Blew South  Epic  1970    0:47:03 (Pop-up)
Donovan  Bert's Blues   Favoriting Sunshine Superman  Epic  1966    0:49:53 (Pop-up)
McGough & McGear  Come Close and Sleep Now   Favoriting McGough & McGear  Parlophone  1968    0:53:35 (Pop-up)
The Beau Brummels  Magic Hollow   Favoriting Triangle  Warner Brothers  1967  harpsichord played by Van Dyke Parks  0:55:51 (Pop-up)
Philamore Lincoln  Early Sherwood   Favoriting The North Wind Blew South  Epic  1970    0:59:07 (Pop-up)
Donovan  There Was a Time   Favoriting A Gift From a Flower to a Garden  Epic  1967    1:01:51 (Pop-up)
Los Mac's  Atravéz del Cristal   Favoriting Kaleidoscope Men  RCA Victor  1967    1:03:51 (Pop-up)
Eternity's Children  Flowers   Favoriting Eternity's Children  Tower  1968    1:06:31 (Pop-up)
The Smoke  Philosophy / Umbrella / Ritual Gypsy Music Opus 1   Favoriting The Smoke  Sidewalk  1968    1:08:18 (Pop-up)
The Bachs  I'm a Little Boy   Favoriting Out of the Bachs  Roto  1968    1:11:48 (Pop-up)
The Fleetwoods  A Lover's Concerto   Favoriting Folk Rock  Dolton  1965    1:15:26 (Pop-up)
Love  The Castle   Favoriting Da Capo  Elektra  1966    1:18:07 (Pop-up)
Shuggie Otis  Oxford Gray   Favoriting Here Comes Shuggie Otis  Epic  1970    1:21:07 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Version 2)   Favoriting Bee Gees 1st  Polydor  1967  (bonus material)  1:27:57 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Version 1)   Favoriting Bee Gees 1st  Polydor  1967  (bonus material)  1:29:59 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  House of Lords   Favoriting Bee Gees 1st  Polydor  1967  (bonus material)  1:31:58 (Pop-up)
McGough & McGear  Living Room   Favoriting McGough & McGear  Parlophone  1968    1:34:47 (Pop-up)
Donovan  Under the Greenwood Tree   Favoriting A Gift From a Flower to a Garden  Epic  1967  lyrics by William Shakespeare  1:37:23 (Pop-up)
Deep Purple  Blind   Favoriting Deep Purple  Harvest  1969    1:39:18 (Pop-up)
The Left Banke  Pretty Ballerina   Favoriting Walk Away Renée / Pretty Ballerina  Smash  1967    1:44:41 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Catherine Christer Hennix 
The Electric Harpsichord   Favoriting
The Electric Harpsichord 
Die Schachtel 
2010 
 
1:47:07 (Pop-up)
Deep Purple  April   Favoriting Deep Purple  Harvest  1969    2:01:03 (Pop-up)
John Renbourn  Trotto / Saltarello   Favoriting The Lady and the Unicorn  Transatlantic  1970    2:12:30 (Pop-up)
John Renbourn  Lamento di Tristan / La Rotta   Favoriting The Lady and the Unicorn  Transatlantic  1970    2:14:59 (Pop-up)
John Renbourn  Veri Floris / Triple Ballade   Favoriting The Lady and the Unicorn  Transatlantic  1970    2:17:55 (Pop-up)
Pink Floyd  Atom Heart Mother   Favoriting Atom Heart Mother  Harvest  1970  with Ron Geesin  2:21:14 (Pop-up)
Ron Geesin  Roll 'Em Bowl 'Em - In 3 Movements   Favoriting As He Stands  Ron Geesin Products  1973    2:43:38 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Wendy Carlos 
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 In G Major: I Allegro   Favoriting
The Well-Tempered Synthesizer 
 
 
 
2:46:37 (Pop-up)
Tiny Tim  Strawberry Tea   Favoriting God Bless Tiny Tim  Reprise  1968    2:52:03 (Pop-up)
Third Ear Band  Stone Circle   Favoriting Alchemy  Harvest  1969    2:54:43 (Pop-up)
Marc & Olivier Namblard  Chaos   Favoriting Cévennes  Kalerne  2013    2:57:59 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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chresti:

Hello in advance, Flash
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Flash Strap:

Hello, Chresti!
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Flash Strap:

ah yes, welcome to the exploratory chamber, let's begin the recital
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listener james from westwood:

How do, Flash and all!!
Avatar 7:07pm
Flash Strap:

hello Listener James!
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northguineahills:

I need more globes...
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Flash Strap:

Hi NGH, fellow globe lover
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
Little Danny:

Good day Flash and friends
Avatar 7:12pm
Flash Strap:

Hey LD! great to see ya pal
Avatar 7:13pm
northguineahills:

Been boiling peanuts for 24 hrs, and they're still not done!
Avatar 7:13pm
Flash Strap:

wild what a groove this turns out to be
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Flash Strap:

I've never boilt my own, NGH, i'll bet they turn out delicious
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Flash Strap:

but, wow, 24 hours?
  7:16pm
passiflora:

looking forward to the archive
Avatar 7:17pm
Flash Strap:

hi passiflora! It'll be there when you're ready for it
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geezerette:

Flash! Fellow Tapestry Inspectors!
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Flash Strap:

Ah, Geezerette! wonderful to have you with us
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Flash Strap:

i'm genuinely in awe of this piece
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northguineahills:

@Evan: getting back to my southern roots, but using my own chilies, herbs, and adding beer, Worcestershire sauce, and white wine vinegar, and other spices.... (My wife would hate when I'd make them, as it make the whole place smell like peanuts).
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Little Danny:

Choice use of echo, too!
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Flash Strap:

wow that sounds delicious
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northguineahills:

and..., what Flash said...
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geezerette:

Likewise! Good time machine you have here.
Avatar 7:27pm
Flash Strap:

from an interview with Carl Stone:
And then a piece like “Sukothai,” from 1977, was produced after graduation, when you worked at a radio station, right?

Yes. By the time I got to KPFK, I already had this idea about doing the layering—which is a sort of geometric procedure where you build up layers from the same material, until it becomes a mass of sounds. That’s the basic technique of the piece “Sukothai.” Start with one [sample], multiply it to two, then four than eight, et cetera—all the way up to a thousand-plus.
Avatar 7:28pm
northguineahills:

(Stone doing Purcell)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
Little Danny:

Wow, yeah, it's dizzying! Really great
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Flash Strap:

the ceiling just gets higher and higher in this cathedral
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:30pm
Jeff Golick:

This triiipppy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
Jeff Golick:

Is.
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Flash Strap:

Jeff! hello brother!
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geezerette:

This is invisible architecture.
Avatar 7:33pm
geezerette:

...and then it crumbles...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
Little Danny:

I downloaded the Carl Stone immediately
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
Jeff Golick:

I gotta get this out of my system: if it ain't baroque, don't fix it.

Sorry.

Thanks.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
Little Danny:

Oh no you didn't Jeff
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:39pm
Jeff Golick:

I'll see myself out.

BTW, @LD, the Stone companion collection of 80s and 90s material, is also really good, if you end up looking for more...
Avatar 7:39pm
hyde:

hi gang
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geezerette:

Howdy, Hyde!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
Jeff Golick:

Oh man, what modern song sampled that opening? It's driving me a little nuts...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
Little Danny:

Thanks Jeff - I'm starting with the album that Flash played, will venture beyond
Avatar 7:42pm
Flash Strap:

@Jeff & LD: the 80s 90s comp is just as good if not better, i agree!
Avatar 7:42pm
northguineahills:

Van Dyke Parkes and Harpers Bizarre also sometimes would fit this theme...
Avatar 7:42pm
Flash Strap:

hi Hyde!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
Jeff Golick:

Ok, phew, got it: Jens Lekman, "Black Cab." Had no idea -- nutty!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
chresti:

Great Tapestry- it's fanciful and horrific!
I'm in awe of Stone, too@flash
Avatar 7:43pm
hyde:

i can't find my square glasses
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geezerette:

Lace at wrists...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
Little Danny:

@Jeff: Nicely spotted. Isn't that some relief?
Avatar 7:47pm
Flash Strap:

@chresti: i love violent tapestries like that, seems so uncanny for a decorative object, and the distortion of the textile is very weird and affecting
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
Little Danny:

Haha, geez, YES
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hyde:

@geez haha
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
Jeff Golick:

Sweet relief, though slightly abashed I didn't know it to begin with. Always loved that riff, tho (via Jens).
Avatar 7:49pm
Flash Strap:

@jeff: i need to check out "Black Cab", never heard it
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Flash Strap:

possibly my favorite Donovan song
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
Little Danny:

I would love to see that tapestry at the top up close. So many different little vignettes and details in there
Avatar 7:51pm
geezerette:

...& Bert's Bees...:)
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Flash Strap:

it's based on the Bosch painting, The Haywain, which is an absolute masterpiece. there are a handful of great master tapestries based on Bosch, all of them weirder than weird
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Flash Strap:

content3.cdnprado.net...
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Flash Strap:

upload.wikimedia.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
Little Danny:

Whoa, awesome. Thanks Flash!
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geezerette:

Evan, the Nuns who wove that must have gone mad.
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Flash Strap:

i can't find it now, but there's an outrageous tapestry based on Bosch's crazy Elephant engraving that you gotta see to believe
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
chresti:

@geeze-me too
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geezerette:

Where'd you see it?
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Flash Strap:

the elephant engraving: upload.wikimedia.org...
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geezerette:

ha, Chresti, which thing?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
chresti:

and @flash @7:47
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Flash Strap:

i was at one time researching both Bosch's engravings and 18th c. French scenic wallpapers, and in the course of those two projects it came up and I took special note
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Flash Strap:

this Philamore Lincoln record is so weird and cool i had to play 2 selections
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geezerette:

Evan, OMG, incredible!!! Thanks for sharing! :D
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Flash Strap:

rare baroque pop from Chile!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
Little Danny:

It's fantastic
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Little Danny:

and quite an ambitious arrangement
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melinda:

hi friends
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Flash Strap:

i actually just came across it this morning, and added it last second, so i'm still getting acquainted. I agree LD
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Flash Strap:

Hi Melinda!
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chresti:

@geeze, lace bloomers and elephants and all
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geezerette:

Ha ha!! Chresti.. :D
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geezerette:

He, Melinda!
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Flash Strap:

"is rain fun or is it not?"
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coelacanth∅:

greetings Evan & Explorers
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Flash Strap:

Hello, Coelacanth!
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melinda:

@Jeff I didn't know until maybe a month ago that Black Cab was part Left Banke.
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Flash Strap:

great guitar solo on this, utterly prehistoric
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
doctorjazz:

Quick hi from beautiful Staten Island!
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geezerette:

Coeeeeeeee-L!
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Flash Strap:

hello Doc, in the exotic isles
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geezerette:

That "Little Boy" has a very deep voice! His tiny fingers sure can shred.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:16pm
melinda:

I tried making injera today for the first time. The verdict: not a failure, but needs work.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:17pm
melinda:

This is very tambourine-forward.
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Flash Strap:

he probably is about 16 or 17, i think the Bachs were basically a high school band in the Chicago suburbs
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Flash Strap:

@melinda: can't hear anything else now, hahaha
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Little Danny:

Oh wow Melinda I was just looking into making injera a week or two ago. It was a bit intimidating, what with the fermentation and all
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Flash Strap:

i have never heard of injera
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northguineahills:

Ok, my trivia night got moved to tonight, so, instead of bidding Jesse adieu early, I'll be doing such tonight. Amazing, stuff, thanks, Evan!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:19pm
melinda:

I don't recall hearing any of these songs when I was in high school, but that was when I discovered 60s folk-rock-pop, and this is reminding me pleasantly of that period of discovery.
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Flash Strap:

go get 'em, NGH!
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Flash Strap:

very happy to hear it, Melinda!
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Little Danny:

Huh, that surprises me Evan. It's an essential at any Ethiopian restaurant
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northguineahills:

(I usually do, Flash....)
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hyde:

@melinda interesting, that sounds cool. i tried microwaving an egg on a plate today for the first time. i was told this would create a perfect sunny side up egg. did it? NOPE
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melinda:

Flash injera is the Ethiopian spongey bread. Looks like a giant pancake but it's tangy from fermentation.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
melinda:

@hyde haha
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geezerette:

Shuggie!!!
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Little Danny:

Is there a recipe for injera you'd recommend, Melinda?
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Flash Strap:

ooooh, ok, yeah I know what that is... long time since I've been out for Ethiopian. about ten years ago i had a little too good of a time a place in Philly and haven't had any since
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quinn:

The only good vegan food in my town is Ethiopian! I eat too much injera there! PS I’m loving this show tonight!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
Jeff Golick:

Wow, @melinda, adventurous. Love that bread, though it's been a loooong time since I've had it.
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Flash Strap:

Hi Quinn!
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Flash Strap:

one of the coolest Shuggie tracks, imo. very unusual
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
Jeff Golick:

Hey, Johnny's kid!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
melinda:

@Danny I felt confident about fermentation since I've done buckwheat sourdough and fermented mung bean cakes. This tasted fermented but not tangy. After trying it with straight brown teff flour I'm pretty sure the restaurants are cutting theirs with wheat flour, because mine was cocoa colored and grainy. So I might not achieve restaurant-quality but there is room for improvement. I'm avoiding wheat and that's why I thought it would be good to try injera.
  8:26pm
passiflora:

I'm at a market away from home w/ things I haven't seen before a show
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:29pm
melinda:

I used the recipe from Wild Fermentation because it's only teff flour and water, plus salt. If you're aiming for restaurant-style probably not the best, but I'm on a health diet so I'm used to earthy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:29pm
doctorjazz:

Great old Bee Fees, remember when it came out.
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Flash Strap:

that's right, two versions, what's more baroque than that
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
Little Danny:

Thanks Melinda! I'm newly emboldened to attempt it again
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Flash Strap:

one of the alltime best unreleased Bee gees tracks, this
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:34pm
coelacanth∅:

if i remember correctly the store i worked in in the 90s sold whole teff in both brown and blonde. he probably still stocks teff.
Avatar 8:36pm
Flash Strap:

McGear, as you probably all know, is McCartney's little brother
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:36pm
Jeff Golick:

DID NOT KNOW
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geezerette:

Suddenly remember Phil Ochs record with very similar sound to unreleased Bee Gees.
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Flash Strap:

Phil Ochs is great, i should have considered him for tonight
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Flash Strap:

very pleased to inform, Jeff! McGear has some great stuff too
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:40pm
melinda:

@coel I've found blonde teff online, I might try it. They call it something else though. I haven't looked in all the halal markets yet, might do that.
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Flash Strap:

This Deep Purple album (which has Bosch on the cover, appropo to the earlier conversation) maybe the ultimate in "baroque" heavy psych
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
chresti:

melting wings hee hee
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Flash Strap:

totally
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geezerette:

celia birtwell dress for listening to this playlist.
plantcurator.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:43pm
melinda:

@geeze cool
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
coelacanth∅:

nice g! i happen to be wearing that dress right now!
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geezerette:

Melinda, glad you like it. Knocked me out.
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geezerette:

Coel!!! And I'm sure it suits you!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
melinda:

Love Pretty Ballerina. This was the sort of music that first turned me on to FMU, on Bob Brainen's show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
coelacanth∅:

this song destroyed me when i first heard it. (long after it was released)
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:47pm
chresti:

Nice geeze
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chresti:

haha coel!
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geezerette:

one more, for tapestry viewing... cdn.shopify.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:48pm
coelacanth∅:

geez i'd rather see the model in the picture wearing it than myself!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
chresti:

that's the one I'm wearing @geeze
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geezerette:

Well, to be honest it wouldn't look good on a cartoon duck either...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
chresti:

I'm wearing it with my cartoon duck
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geezerette:

Chresti, you have excellent taste! :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
coelacanth∅:

i might've first heard ballerina on fmu as well but it must've been long long ago because i immediately ordered the album from my record club -which ceased to exist by sometime in the 80s.
i knew walk away renee (sp?) but never knew who did it. that was a happy surprise.
..very happy i took the chance on that album.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
doctorjazz:

Time to hit the road (Jack), catch you in the car! Thanks,Flash)!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
coelacanth∅:

there is of course potential for mishaps when wearing a flowy dress when you're a fish.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
coelacanth∅:

hit the road,Jack. drive defensively.
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hyde:

strange, i made a Deep Purple reference at work today
  9:01pm
Dean:

Can't listen just now, because USPS has just delivered a 26 CD box of recorder recitals. BAM! But the bed music invites me to recommend Jukka Tiensuu, who has composed marvelously bizarre harpsichord music, e.g., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jR1BF10UJ4
Avatar 9:03pm
Flash Strap:

Ooh, i'll check that out, Dean! enjoy that recorder box set and be safe out there
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03pm
Little Danny:

Get your priorities straight, Dean.

I just want you to be there for my show
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Flash Strap:

@Melinda, C.: that whole Left banke album absolutely floored me the first time i heard it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
Doug Schulkind:

Hello, all of you marvelously handsome people!
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Flash Strap:

the weird truth is, i've been obsessed with this album since i was a boy, and in all my days i've never really gotten into any other Deep Purple record
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Flash Strap:

Hello Doug, you dashing duke!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:06pm
Little Danny:

Hello handsome stream king!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:08pm
coelacanth∅:

Hello Sir Doug
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TDK60:

Hello there...explorers.
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Flash Strap:

Hi there TDK!
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TDK60:

.a show to sift thru the archives later....
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Flash Strap:

yeah, give it a sift, see if any gold comes out in the pan
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Flash Strap:

this is such a gorgeous record from John Renbourn
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:16pm
coelacanth∅:

Evan i admit that that left banke album has some songs that didn't grab me at first, but not so much that i didn't always let the album play through. i grew to appreciate it.
Avatar 9:17pm
Flash Strap:

i agree, there are a few that are more or less standard faire, but they all grew on me in the end
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:17pm
Little Danny:

Left Banke's second album is even better in my opinion, if you don't know it already, coel
  9:18pm
Dean:

Well, geez. Renbourn's Lamento and Rotta coincide marvelously with the recorder set! Okay, I'm off the CD player, on the stream.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:19pm
coelacanth∅:

never heard it Danny i'll check it out
Thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:20pm
Little Danny:

@coel: More ambitious arrangements, same gorgeous melodies. I love it
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Flash Strap:

I don't agree with Danny on this one (Brown leaving the band in the interrim makes that hard), but I still love Left Banke Too so I vigorously co-sign his recommendation
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:20pm
Little Danny:

@coel: More ambitious arrangements, same gorgeous melodies. I love it
  9:20pm
Dean:

But don't miss Eric Bosgraaf's van Eyck. Here's the set: https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/a/anthology-of-the-recorder/
Avatar 9:21pm
Flash Strap:

actually, i'm going to listen to it again this week and see if Danny's not actually right, just to be safe
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Flash Strap:

bet none of you saw this Pink Floyd coming?
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TDK60:

.haven't heard this Floyd in ages; marvelous, grand..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:24pm
coelacanth∅:

haha i often don't see what's coming!

...and i'll listen to that 2nd album and cast my vote!
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Flash Strap:

very unfairly maligned, imo. even the band writes it off as junk for some reason. But it's highly ambitious, occasionally extremely avant-garde, wonderfully bizarre vocals arranged by Ron Geesin... I've always loved this one
Avatar 9:27pm
TDK60:

..maybe their most "prog" album? (to get all categorical...)
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Little Danny:

@coel: I pulled out their second LP for my first set
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coelacanth∅:

coincidentally had a pink floyd song (from this era) mysteriously enter my head and get lodged there up until i turned on the radio tonight.
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Flash Strap:

I think Ron Geesin may have really saved this from being a kind of unfocused, bloated thing, and in doing so made one of the most unique, avant garde works in their discogrpahy
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Flash Strap:

I just love Ron Geesin, generally
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coelacanth∅:

Danny -cool
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Flash Strap:

love that vocal passage
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Flash Strap:

Kubrick asked for permission to use this in Clockwork orange, but was denied
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Little Danny:

Wow! That's a fun fact, indeed
  9:44pm
Dean:

That's odd. Kubrick is the rare cinematographer who understands the extent to which music *is* the object. I revel in the fact that People Like Us last year included a sample from the lighthouse keeper tune from the soundtrack in her mash-up.
  9:45pm
Dean:

(And, sorry, but my favorite Geesin work is the fart-laden tune from the body album.)
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Flash Strap:

yeah, he originally intended to have Pink Floyd soundtrack a lot of 2001 as well, and thankfully changed his mind
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TDK60:

yeh, stickin' with the "classical" was better for us, here in the Future...
  9:47pm
Dean:

Except the lighthouse keeper tune was decidedly not classical.
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Little Danny:

@Flash: Again, wow!
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melinda:

doomed to be bloated and flabby, haha
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geezerette:

Evan,so much imagery!
Thanks or show!f
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Little Danny:

Another brilliant ep, Evan, thanks!
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TDK60:

thanka! Please do more again, there's a lot more of this sorta stuff...
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melinda:

thanks flash!
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Little Danny:

More bloat, more flab ahead: wfmu.org... See you there, ya turkeynecks
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chresti:

Thanks Flash!
  9:53pm
Dean:

Buddy of mine is researching hippies in LA, etc., and he marvels that Tiny Time was involved in the acid tests.
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Flash Strap:

haha yes, bloat, flab, excess flesh
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Flash Strap:

my pleasure all! will do TDK
  9:54pm
doctorjazz:

Been listening in the car, fun show Evan, thanks!
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Little Danny:

@Dean: TT musta cut a pretty strange figure at the acid tests
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Flash Strap:

Tiny Tim is so unusual, the weirdest thing has always been how good that LP is. like, it's really of spectacular quality
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Little Danny:

Man based on that track you just played I clearly need to give it a chance. I'd always dismissed it
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geezerette:

Totally agree about Tiny Tim. Great album.
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Flash Strap:

i rarely listen to it, and it's often no less than grotesque, but it's exceptionally well-made, and very very smart, and sometimes just wonderful
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Dean:

He was a consummate musician, no question.
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melinda:

I didn't know Tiny Tim was involved in the acid tests. Always learningnew things here.
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Flash Strap:

thanks everyone, see you in the next room
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Evan!
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coelacanth∅:

8-17-21 excellent soundtrack to drifting in and out of consciousness in a sickness-induced stupor
Thanks again Evan
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