WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from April 16, 2020

Listener comments!
	6:44pm Flash Strap: hello explorers!
	🥁 6:48pm chresti: Hi Flash! Making coffee..
	6:51pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti! pouring some rum
	7:01pm hyde: A brief hello. Sorry to be scarce lately. Thanks for the tunes
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hi Hyde! no sorries necessary – hope you're hangin' in
	7:03pm Flash Strap: you can always count on the tunes
	7:03pm JtotheK: Hi Flash hi explorers!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi JtotheK!
	7:04pm Flash Strap: like many of the great exotica LPs, especially as showcased last week, White Goddess is mainly original compositions
	7:04pm doctorjazz: Hello Flash and Flashers!
	7:04pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc!
	7:04pm hyde: Gettin by. Hope the same for everyone
	7:05pm Flash Strap: beautiful use of ondioline on this record, as well as a "bazimba" a supposedly one-of-a-kind instrument: a marimba/xylophone/alto flute hybrid
	7:05pm Carmichael: Hi Flash. Buying beer ...
	7:05pm Flash Strap: Hi Carmichael!
	7:08pm Flash Strap: "Strange Echoes" is a real treasure of unusual, psychedelic exotica & has a really cool formal structure
	7:09pm JtotheK: What kinda beer Carm? My supply is being rationed and I'm using up the least desirable stuff first.
	7:10pm Flash Strap: Ondioline: en.wikipedia.org...
	7:10pm Franco Twinkie: Flash! I came inside when I smelled the coffee. I'm on the front porch drawing on top of the ironing board.
	7:11pm doctorjazz: Usually listen in the office on a clock radio-getting to listen at home on the stereo is a treat! Get to appreciate how much these guys cared about the sound of the recordings (my audio nerd coming out again).
	7:11pm Flash Strap: Hi Franco! very good to draw during the show, bonus points to all drawers
	7:11pm Gary: Howdy
	7:12pm Flash Strap: @doc: totally, these are real audiophile records as much as anything else
	7:12pm Flash Strap: Hello Lord Gary!
	7:12pm Flash Strap: "Pulse" is really something special as well
	7:14pm Franco Twinkie: Once again, I was telling Chresti which of these records I have or had at one time.
	7:15pm Gary: Wait, whoa, Perez Prado and voodoo? Can't wait
	7:15pm Flash Strap: did you have this one, Franco? very nice record to have or have had. mine is a reissue but i love it just the same
	7:16pm Flash Strap: @gary: if you've never heard voodoo suite pal, it's a megaton killa. his best
	7:16pm Gary: Never heard it! Thrill-level increasing
	7:16pm Franco Twinkie: No! It's a doozy though.
	7:28pm hyde: This LP is the ne plus ultra, imo
	7:30pm Frog Mover: Hello everyone! Dig this savage lineup!
	7:32pm Flash Strap: Hello hello, ribbit ribbit Frog Mover!
	7:33pm Flash Strap: @hyde: really is
	7:33pm Flash Strap: incredible arrangements
	7:34pm Frog Mover: @Flash "you wear your mask and I'll wear mine" never felt so real, and so considerate.
	7:37pm Flash Strap: "Sophisticated Savage" among the 1955 additions
	7:38pm Flash Strap: @frog mover: winkin at ya buddy
	7:41pm Flash Strap: incredibly elegant work from the absolute maestro
	7:53pm Flash Strap: This is simply one of my favorite favorite records
	7:53pm Gary: Woo-hoo!
	7:53pm Flash Strap: Dilo!
	7:55pm Flash Strap: at once the most restrained and the most WILD Prado ever gets, on not just one record but one single piece!
	7:56pm Gary: Very money's worth
	7:58pm TDK60: Hello.
	7:59pm Flash Strap: really top-notch use of the vocalists – in terms of creating the atmosphere of some kind of voodoo ritual ceremony, done a million times in exotica and exoticist films, this may be the most successful... everything works, sounds great, and seems like it's just about to careen out of control, delivering successive moments of tension and catharsis ... masterpiece
	7:59pm Flash Strap: Hi TDK!
	8:00pm Gary: + the signature Prado "HUHN!"
	8:00pm Flash Strap: on that note, if any of you have never seen Val Lewton's I Walked With a Zombie, it's c r u c i a l
	8:02pm Flash Strap: @gary: that crazy thing about the Prado GRUNT! is that he's always saying DILO! a command to the band - but he expectorates it with such unintelligible force it sounds like HUHN! Mambo God
	8:02pm Gary: I did not know that!
	8:03pm coelacanth∅: greetings Flash & jungle explorers
	8:03pm Little Danny: Hey Evan, hey all.
	8:03pm Flash Strap: @Gary: a fact i love to share! hence this: img.discogs.com... and this: img.discogs.com...
	8:04pm Flash Strap: Hey Coelacanth and LD!
	8:05pm Flash Strap: god this section whips hard
	8:19pm Gary: That was amazing, thank you
	8:20pm northguineahills: Been here, listening to hold music on the phone in one ear, and GTDS in the other....
	8:24pm Little Danny: Love this Collette LP so much.
	8:25pm Flash Strap: @gary: my incredible pleasure
	8:25pm Flash Strap: Hi NGH!
	8:26pm Flash Strap: @LD: me too, for years I've been obsessed with it & finally Trunk put out a decent sounding copy – obsessed all over again
	8:29pm doctorjazz: Missed the 1st side (somebody has to pick up dinner), this is quite amazing, or at least different than much I've heard, wild!
	8:30pm Frog Mover: @Flash you got all these on sweet sweet vinyl?
	8:30pm doctorjazz: www.forcedexposure.com... Is This th same reissue? Very tempting...
	8:30pm Flash Strap: you know it frog
	8:31pm Flash Strap: @doc: yeah - it was pretty hard to hear this with good sound at all until this showed up
	8:33pm Marcel M: Sinner! Hello all.
	8:33pm Marcel M: oh jesus.. wrong chat, hah.. sorry
	8:33pm Flash Strap: Hello Marcel!
	8:34pm Frog Mover: Nice! Thought so. This Buddy Collette is so maddening!
	8:34pm Flash Strap: well we are all sinners my friend
	8:36pm Flash Strap: some wild lines in Japanese Suite - no one knows anything about translator A.I. Groeg but I love what he's done here
	8:37pm Flash Strap: "by these eyes"
	🥁 8:37pm chresti: My ears are a trembling.
	8:40pm Flash Strap: Eden's island: one of the most blessed, mystical records ever recorded - probably the most holy exotica record there is
	8:40pm Gary: Speaking of sinners, I just read narrator Robert D. Sorrels's Wikipedia page entry
	8:40pm Flash Strap: @gary: wild stuff, eh
	8:41pm Frog Mover: Was there ever a proper doc finished on Eden Ahbez?
	8:41pm Flash Strap: not a lot of records can boast of bringing together the voice of maria from West Side Story and the voice of a minor Twilight Zone actor/murderer
	8:42pm Gary: Haha
	8:42pm Flash Strap: @Frog: i think they did finish it, but i haven't seen it - i should check in on that. seemed like it was going to be very good
	8:43pm TDK60: Eden was sort an early proto-hippie, right? Wild there were folks like that back in the '40s, '50s, man.
	8:45pm Flash Strap: @TDK: yeah he was really living that life! I remember reading about these guys in Paris in the (i think) 18th century who grew long beards and went barefoot & lived off the land to be more like the ancient Greeks; makes me think that certain aspects of the hippie way are timeless
	8:45pm Flash Strap: and recurring
	8:46pm Flash Strap: but yeah when they were trying to find the guy responsible for "Nature Boy" he was eventually discovered living under the Hollywood sign, all bearded and barefoot and eating raw foods. wild man
	8:47pm Flash Strap: that was '47-'48
	8:48pm TDK60: ..far out, Flash.
	8:48pm Franco Twinkie: Oh man, this is one I had but gave it away. I have never seen it again. There were lot of guys like this running around L.A. Gypsy Boots was another one.
	8:49pm Flash Strap: yeah Gypsy Boots was a "Nature Boy" as well, they hung out
	🥁 8:50pm chresti: A wild man was hanging around the tennis courts, some tennis players freaked out when they noticed him sitting on a nearby bench, eating raw chicken from a big jar,
	8:53pm TDK60: I figure there were a lot of hip folks back then ('40s/ etc.) they just didn't dress in an unusual way. Well, there was Dizzy Gillespie with his beret and Van Dyke mustache.
	8:53pm Little Danny: All time favorite, "Full Moon."
	8:53pm Flash Strap: a really pure & blessed poem here
	🥁 8:53pm chresti: I used to see Gypsy Boots at the health food store in LA.
	8:54pm Flash Strap: @LD: me too man, so perfect
	🥁 8:54pm chresti: *a
	8:54pm Flash Strap: "and man, have me a ball" perfect
	🥁 8:57pm chresti: Yeah man, I just float around in space. Haha TDK60
	🥁 8:59pm chresti: My parents had berets.
	8:59pm Franco Twinkie: Speaking of Nature Boy, against my better judgment, I just bought a bag of whole wheat flour because that's all they had! I am going to attempt to make some tortillas now. Wish me luck!
	🥁 9:03pm chresti: Gypsy Booth drove around in a pretty psyched out looking van.
	9:07pm TDK60: Chresti, you had hepcat beret guardians.
	9:09pm Franco Twinkie: Some place at my moms house there is picture of my dad giving a hair cut to some guy that looks like a nature boy in the late 1940's. This picture was taken on Main Street, downtown L.A. which was skid row.
	9:10pm Franco Twinkie: My friend Dorian has this one!
	9:14pm Flash Strap: oh boy good luck Franco!
	9:15pm Flash Strap: this record is so sublime
	9:16pm TDK60: A long time ago, a roommate had an album with similar pre-Columbian themes - from Mexico I think. The sound was mainly percussion and vox humana I think. The album cover was obscure, mainly white with just tiny type. Been trying to find it since. And Waldo sounds like a possible candidate.
	9:17pm Flash Strap: @TDK : if you figure it out, I definitely want to know!
	9:20pm Flash Strap: I love this record because it's a sincere act of musical archaeology that nonetheless bends itself into the shape of exotica music – as though it's grafting an incomplete reconstruction onto an exotica-esque host
	9:21pm TDK60: Flash, it had an academic air hence the not-interesting cover. I should contact that old roomie.
	9:22pm Flash Strap: all of Waldo's records have extremely bombastic technicolor covers so it may not be her, but it could be a variant
	9:22pm Frog Mover: @Flash so glad you convinced me to pick this one up! One of my faves!
	9:23pm Flash Strap: yeah that was a good call! it's an all-timer for me
	9:25pm northguineahills: The high today was 69F/21C, now'a it's down to 65F/16, very chilly for Orlando in mid-April. So the windows have been open, and we get free cool air! (it's been raining the last two days).
	9:27pm Flash Strap: been chilly here in NC too
	9:28pm northguineahills: I still want to find some chicha. I know it's made w/ saliva, but said things don't gross me out. I try to experience the culinary spectrum of all cultures.
	9:28pm northguineahills: (yes, I know I typed that in the middle of a pandemic, but my stance stands).
	9:31pm CC: As Mr. Spock would say... fascinating!!!
	9:33pm Flash Strap: I'd love to try chicha as well, NGH - i've had more than a few gallons of pulque, but chicha has eluded me thus far
	9:33pm Flash Strap: good point about the pandemic though
	9:33pm Quinn: I’ve been listening and enjoying
	9:33pm Flash Strap: hello CC!
	9:34pm Flash Strap: Hello Quinn! very glad to hear it!
	9:34pm northguineahills: I love the pulque bars in DF (mexico city), and wish I could find it. There was one in Chinatown, NYC, but they shipped it from Mexico and it was watered down and WAY overpriced.
	9:35pm Flash Strap: yeah you really can't ship or package pulque with any success from what i understand
	9:35pm Flash Strap: when i lived in the desert there was a guy who would bring it to me from time to time, in jugs and buckets
	9:35pm northguineahills: Hallos Quinn, CC and everyones! Finally have some free time. Yeah, Pulque has less then a two week shelf life...
	9:36pm CC: I'm picturing a jungle girl running down a lonely jungle path just before the dark when eyeballs start flashing on each side of the path...
	9:39pm Flash Strap: This film was released under a different title than the sleeve suggests: rather than Sacred Idol, it came out with the name The Mighty Jungle. anyone seen it?
	9:40pm TDK60: Was this done old-style --whole orch./chorus in the studio?
	9:40pm Flash Strap: www.imdb.com...
	9:40pm Flash Strap: @TDK: i imagine so, yeah
	9:40pm coelacanth∅: i'd be lying if i said i was even slightly interested in trying pulque! but i do have my heart set on trying pálinka (or maybe several different pálinkas)
	9:40pm northguineahills: 1960: more then likely...
	9:41pm CC: I used to love those kind of movies!!!
	9:41pm Gary via app: Great show, fading, early morning. Have a great night, and thanks, Evan!
	9:41pm Flash Strap: Eisenstein filmed some wonderful footage of pulque-making in his excellent unfinished film, ¡Que Viva Mexico! (one of my favorite films)
	9:42pm Flash Strap: Thanks Gary, fade happily my friend
	9:42pm TDK60: Quite an arrangement and performance.
	9:42pm northguineahills: @coel: at the bars freqeunted by the uni hipsters Mexico City, they all kinds of flavors. But, as per any bar, at heart, I prefer the dives.
	9:43pm Flash Strap: @C: i'd love to taste a little palinka
	9:43pm CC: I remember this one where this girl danced in front of a giant Cobra!?!
	9:43pm northguineahills: The great thing about pulque, is that it's still fermenting in your stomach, so you'll been even drunker w/in an hour after ingesting...
	9:43pm Flash Strap: haha that sounds like a lot of 'em CC
	9:44pm Flash Strap: Pool of Love = unbelievably hip little piece
	9:45pm coelacanth∅: Evan i understand pálinka can be assaultingly sweet, which is why i'd like to try different ones
	9:45pm northguineahills: @flash: (Pool of Love) sounds like too many bodily fluids for me....
	9:46pm Flash Strap: your loss NGH
	9:47pm coelacanth∅: ngh it's not like me to not try something new (within certain moral guidelines) so i don't know why i said that! ...just the description isn't appealing to me ("viscous, sour yeast flavored...") -i'd try it, under the right circumstances
	9:49pm Flash Strap: i'd try it but i'm not sure i'd like it!
	9:49pm coelacanth∅: hahaha (@9.45 & 9.46)
	9:49pm northguineahills: @flash: OK, (takes a shot), Alright, I'm jumping in the pool!
	9:49pm Flash Strap: The Games is quite the piece of work
	9:51pm Flash Strap: ambitious stuff
	9:52pm coelacanth∅: ngh the challenge is getting out of the pool.
	9:52pm passiflora: enjoyed this show very much
	9:53pm northguineahills: @coel: I usually take a shower aftet the plunge, anyways... ;)
	9:55pm northguineahills: errr, after....
	9:56pm TDK60: ..thanks Flash. till next ...
	9:56pm CC: might as well hang out and drink some more ru
	9:56pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks Flash!
	9:56pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan! take care, stay strong
	9:56pm northguineahills: Hugs (from afar), Evan. see y'alls at LD's place!
	9:57pm Flash Strap: Hi Passiflora! thanks pal
	🥁 9:58pm chresti: I went to a pulqueria in DF, with my ex, it was kind of milky looking and gave me a headache, if I remember right.
	9:58pm Flash Strap: @NGH: thanks man. hugs to all! @CC: good idea @all: thank you, thank you, see you again very soon
	9:59pm Flash Strap: Cool Blue Flame: wfmu.org...
	9:59pm CC: Mmmm
	9:59pm Flash Strap: good night, friends
	🥁 10:00pm chresti: Thanks Flash!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from April 16, 2020

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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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April 16, 2020: The Sound and Struggle of the Jungle ... The Mystery of Exotica

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
Frank Hunter and His Orchestra	Ritual of the Torch	White Goddess	Kapp	1959		0:01:41 (Pop-up)
Frank Hunter and His Orchestra	Poinciana	White Goddess	Kapp	1959		0:04:46 (Pop-up)
Frank Hunter and His Orchestra	Strange Echoes	White Goddess	Kapp	1959		0:07:10 (Pop-up)
Frank Hunter and His Orchestra	Jungle Drums	White Goddess	Kapp	1959		0:10:02 (Pop-up)
Frank Hunter and His Orchestra	Pulse	White Goddess	Kapp	1959		0:13:08 (Pop-up)
Frank Hunter and His Orchestra	Lost Plateau	White Goddess	Kapp	1959		0:15:08 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Safari "Safari"					0:17:15 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter and His Orchestra	Busy Port	Ritual of the Savage (Le Sacre du Sauvage)	Capitol	1951/1955		0:32:00 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter and His Orchestra	Sophisticated Savage	Ritual of the Savage (Le Sacre du Sauvage)				0:34:34 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter and His Orchestra	Jungle River Boat	Ritual of the Savage (Le Sacre du Sauvage)				0:36:37 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter and His Orchestra	Jungle Flower	Ritual of the Savage (Le Sacre du Sauvage)				0:39:49 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter and His Orchestra	Stone God	Ritual of the Savage (Le Sacre du Sauvage)				0:42:44 (Pop-up)
Perez Prado And His Orchestra Featuring Shorty Rogers	Voodoo Suite	Voodoo Suite Plus Six All-Time Greats	RCA Victor	1955		0:50:39 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Tropical Forest – Number Six Chops Down the Tree					1:13:31 (Pop-up)
Buddy Collette Septet	Polynesian Suite	Polynesia	Music & Sound	1959	Suite: Tennin; Barbarian; Mistress; Anchorage; Corpse; Sleeping Gypsy; Room With Skies	1:26:01 (Pop-up)
Buddy Collette Septet	Japanese Suite	Polynesia	Music & Sound	1959	re-released by Trunk, 2019	1:33:55 (Pop-up)
Eden Ahbez "Nature Boy"	Eden's Island	Eden's Island – The Music of an Enchanted Isle	Del-Fi	1960		1:39:43 (Pop-up)
Eden Ahbez "Nature Boy"	The Wanderer	Eden's Island – The Music of an Enchanted Isle				1:42:21 (Pop-up)
Eden Ahbez "Nature Boy"	Myna Bird	Eden's Island – The Music of an Enchanted Isle				1:45:30 (Pop-up)
Eden Ahbez "Nature Boy"	Eden's Cove	Eden's Island – The Music of an Enchanted Isle				1:50:24 (Pop-up)
Eden Ahbez "Nature Boy"	Tradewind	Eden's Island – The Music of an Enchanted Isle				1:50:40 (Pop-up)
Eden Ahbez "Nature Boy"	Full Moon	Eden's Island – The Music of an Enchanted Isle				1:53:25 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Off Shore "Off Shore"					1:56:21 (Pop-up)
Elizabeth Waldo	Land of the Sun Kings	Realm of the Incas	GNP Crescendo	1962		2:14:41 (Pop-up)
Elizabeth Waldo	Song of the Chasqui	Realm of the Incas				2:17:40 (Pop-up)
Elizabeth Waldo	Incan Festival Dance	Realm of the Incas				2:21:06 (Pop-up)
Elizabeth Waldo	On the High Plateau	Realm of the Incas				2:23:04 (Pop-up)
Elizabeth Waldo	Making Chicha "Making Chicha" by "Elizabeth Waldo"	Realm of the Incas				2:26:25 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter	Procession of the Princes	The Sacred Idol: Strange and Exotic Music Keyed to the Mysterious Legends of the Feathered Serpent of the Aztecs	Capitol	1960		2:32:39 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter	The Feathered Serpent of the Aztecs	The Sacred Idol: Strange and Exotic Music Keyed to the Mysterious Legends of the Feathered Serpent of the Aztecs				2:37:40 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter	Fruit of Dreams "Fruit of Dreams" by "Les Baxter"	The Sacred Idol: Strange and Exotic Music Keyed to the Mysterious Legends of the Feathered Serpent of the Aztecs				2:41:12 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter	Pool of Love "Pool of Love" by "Les Baxter"	The Sacred Idol: Strange and Exotic Music Keyed to the Mysterious Legends of the Feathered Serpent of the Aztecs				2:43:46 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter	Aqueducts "Aqueducts" by "Les Baxter"	The Sacred Idol: Strange and Exotic Music Keyed to the Mysterious Legends of the Feathered Serpent of the Aztecs				2:46:24 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter	The Games "The Games" by "Les Baxter"	The Sacred Idol: Strange and Exotic Music Keyed to the Mysterious Legends of the Feathered Serpent of the Aztecs				2:49:08 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Safari "Safari"					2:52:44 (Pop-up)
Frank Hunter and His Orchestra	Temple Bells	White Goddess				2:57:40 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:44pm Flash Strap: hello explorers!
	🥁 6:48pm chresti: Hi Flash! Making coffee..
	6:51pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti! pouring some rum
	7:01pm hyde: A brief hello. Sorry to be scarce lately. Thanks for the tunes
	7:02pm Flash Strap: Hi Hyde! no sorries necessary – hope you're hangin' in
	7:03pm Flash Strap: you can always count on the tunes
	7:03pm JtotheK: Hi Flash hi explorers!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi JtotheK!
	7:04pm Flash Strap: like many of the great exotica LPs, especially as showcased last week, White Goddess is mainly original compositions
	7:04pm doctorjazz: Hello Flash and Flashers!
	7:04pm Flash Strap: Hi Doc!
	7:04pm hyde: Gettin by. Hope the same for everyone
	7:05pm Flash Strap: beautiful use of ondioline on this record, as well as a "bazimba" a supposedly one-of-a-kind instrument: a marimba/xylophone/alto flute hybrid
	7:05pm Carmichael: Hi Flash. Buying beer ...
	7:05pm Flash Strap: Hi Carmichael!
	7:08pm Flash Strap: "Strange Echoes" is a real treasure of unusual, psychedelic exotica & has a really cool formal structure
	7:09pm JtotheK: What kinda beer Carm? My supply is being rationed and I'm using up the least desirable stuff first.
	7:10pm Flash Strap: Ondioline: en.wikipedia.org...
	7:10pm Franco Twinkie: Flash! I came inside when I smelled the coffee. I'm on the front porch drawing on top of the ironing board.
	7:11pm doctorjazz: Usually listen in the office on a clock radio-getting to listen at home on the stereo is a treat! Get to appreciate how much these guys cared about the sound of the recordings (my audio nerd coming out again).
	7:11pm Flash Strap: Hi Franco! very good to draw during the show, bonus points to all drawers
	7:11pm Gary: Howdy
	7:12pm Flash Strap: @doc: totally, these are real audiophile records as much as anything else
	7:12pm Flash Strap: Hello Lord Gary!
	7:12pm Flash Strap: "Pulse" is really something special as well
	7:14pm Franco Twinkie: Once again, I was telling Chresti which of these records I have or had at one time.
	7:15pm Gary: Wait, whoa, Perez Prado and voodoo? Can't wait
	7:15pm Flash Strap: did you have this one, Franco? very nice record to have or have had. mine is a reissue but i love it just the same
	7:16pm Flash Strap: @gary: if you've never heard voodoo suite pal, it's a megaton killa. his best
	7:16pm Gary: Never heard it! Thrill-level increasing
	7:16pm Franco Twinkie: No! It's a doozy though.
	7:28pm hyde: This LP is the ne plus ultra, imo
	7:30pm Frog Mover: Hello everyone! Dig this savage lineup!
	7:32pm Flash Strap: Hello hello, ribbit ribbit Frog Mover!
	7:33pm Flash Strap: @hyde: really is
	7:33pm Flash Strap: incredible arrangements
	7:34pm Frog Mover: @Flash "you wear your mask and I'll wear mine" never felt so real, and so considerate.
	7:37pm Flash Strap: "Sophisticated Savage" among the 1955 additions
	7:38pm Flash Strap: @frog mover: winkin at ya buddy
	7:41pm Flash Strap: incredibly elegant work from the absolute maestro
	7:53pm Flash Strap: This is simply one of my favorite favorite records
	7:53pm Gary: Woo-hoo!
	7:53pm Flash Strap: Dilo!
	7:55pm Flash Strap: at once the most restrained and the most WILD Prado ever gets, on not just one record but one single piece!
	7:56pm Gary: Very money's worth
	7:58pm TDK60: Hello.
	7:59pm Flash Strap: really top-notch use of the vocalists – in terms of creating the atmosphere of some kind of voodoo ritual ceremony, done a million times in exotica and exoticist films, this may be the most successful... everything works, sounds great, and seems like it's just about to careen out of control, delivering successive moments of tension and catharsis ... masterpiece
	7:59pm Flash Strap: Hi TDK!
	8:00pm Gary: + the signature Prado "HUHN!"
	8:00pm Flash Strap: on that note, if any of you have never seen Val Lewton's I Walked With a Zombie, it's c r u c i a l
	8:02pm Flash Strap: @gary: that crazy thing about the Prado GRUNT! is that he's always saying DILO! a command to the band - but he expectorates it with such unintelligible force it sounds like HUHN! Mambo God
	8:02pm Gary: I did not know that!
	8:03pm coelacanth∅: greetings Flash & jungle explorers
	8:03pm Little Danny: Hey Evan, hey all.
	8:03pm Flash Strap: @Gary: a fact i love to share! hence this: img.discogs.com... and this: img.discogs.com...
	8:04pm Flash Strap: Hey Coelacanth and LD!
	8:05pm Flash Strap: god this section whips hard
	8:19pm Gary: That was amazing, thank you
	8:20pm northguineahills: Been here, listening to hold music on the phone in one ear, and GTDS in the other....
	8:24pm Little Danny: Love this Collette LP so much.
	8:25pm Flash Strap: @gary: my incredible pleasure
	8:25pm Flash Strap: Hi NGH!
	8:26pm Flash Strap: @LD: me too, for years I've been obsessed with it & finally Trunk put out a decent sounding copy – obsessed all over again
	8:29pm doctorjazz: Missed the 1st side (somebody has to pick up dinner), this is quite amazing, or at least different than much I've heard, wild!
	8:30pm Frog Mover: @Flash you got all these on sweet sweet vinyl?
	8:30pm doctorjazz: www.forcedexposure.com... Is This th same reissue? Very tempting...
	8:30pm Flash Strap: you know it frog
	8:31pm Flash Strap: @doc: yeah - it was pretty hard to hear this with good sound at all until this showed up
	8:33pm Marcel M: Sinner! Hello all.
	8:33pm Marcel M: oh jesus.. wrong chat, hah.. sorry
	8:33pm Flash Strap: Hello Marcel!
	8:34pm Frog Mover: Nice! Thought so. This Buddy Collette is so maddening!
	8:34pm Flash Strap: well we are all sinners my friend
	8:36pm Flash Strap: some wild lines in Japanese Suite - no one knows anything about translator A.I. Groeg but I love what he's done here
	8:37pm Flash Strap: "by these eyes"
	🥁 8:37pm chresti: My ears are a trembling.
	8:40pm Flash Strap: Eden's island: one of the most blessed, mystical records ever recorded - probably the most holy exotica record there is
	8:40pm Gary: Speaking of sinners, I just read narrator Robert D. Sorrels's Wikipedia page entry
	8:40pm Flash Strap: @gary: wild stuff, eh
	8:41pm Frog Mover: Was there ever a proper doc finished on Eden Ahbez?
	8:41pm Flash Strap: not a lot of records can boast of bringing together the voice of maria from West Side Story and the voice of a minor Twilight Zone actor/murderer
	8:42pm Gary: Haha
	8:42pm Flash Strap: @Frog: i think they did finish it, but i haven't seen it - i should check in on that. seemed like it was going to be very good
	8:43pm TDK60: Eden was sort an early proto-hippie, right? Wild there were folks like that back in the '40s, '50s, man.
	8:45pm Flash Strap: @TDK: yeah he was really living that life! I remember reading about these guys in Paris in the (i think) 18th century who grew long beards and went barefoot & lived off the land to be more like the ancient Greeks; makes me think that certain aspects of the hippie way are timeless
	8:45pm Flash Strap: and recurring
	8:46pm Flash Strap: but yeah when they were trying to find the guy responsible for "Nature Boy" he was eventually discovered living under the Hollywood sign, all bearded and barefoot and eating raw foods. wild man
	8:47pm Flash Strap: that was '47-'48
	8:48pm TDK60: ..far out, Flash.
	8:48pm Franco Twinkie: Oh man, this is one I had but gave it away. I have never seen it again. There were lot of guys like this running around L.A. Gypsy Boots was another one.
	8:49pm Flash Strap: yeah Gypsy Boots was a "Nature Boy" as well, they hung out
	🥁 8:50pm chresti: A wild man was hanging around the tennis courts, some tennis players freaked out when they noticed him sitting on a nearby bench, eating raw chicken from a big jar,
	8:53pm TDK60: I figure there were a lot of hip folks back then ('40s/ etc.) they just didn't dress in an unusual way. Well, there was Dizzy Gillespie with his beret and Van Dyke mustache.
	8:53pm Little Danny: All time favorite, "Full Moon."
	8:53pm Flash Strap: a really pure & blessed poem here
	🥁 8:53pm chresti: I used to see Gypsy Boots at the health food store in LA.
	8:54pm Flash Strap: @LD: me too man, so perfect
	🥁 8:54pm chresti: *a
	8:54pm Flash Strap: "and man, have me a ball" perfect
	🥁 8:57pm chresti: Yeah man, I just float around in space. Haha TDK60
	🥁 8:59pm chresti: My parents had berets.
	8:59pm Franco Twinkie: Speaking of Nature Boy, against my better judgment, I just bought a bag of whole wheat flour because that's all they had! I am going to attempt to make some tortillas now. Wish me luck!
	🥁 9:03pm chresti: Gypsy Booth drove around in a pretty psyched out looking van.
	9:07pm TDK60: Chresti, you had hepcat beret guardians.
	9:09pm Franco Twinkie: Some place at my moms house there is picture of my dad giving a hair cut to some guy that looks like a nature boy in the late 1940's. This picture was taken on Main Street, downtown L.A. which was skid row.
	9:10pm Franco Twinkie: My friend Dorian has this one!
	9:14pm Flash Strap: oh boy good luck Franco!
	9:15pm Flash Strap: this record is so sublime
	9:16pm TDK60: A long time ago, a roommate had an album with similar pre-Columbian themes - from Mexico I think. The sound was mainly percussion and vox humana I think. The album cover was obscure, mainly white with just tiny type. Been trying to find it since. And Waldo sounds like a possible candidate.
	9:17pm Flash Strap: @TDK : if you figure it out, I definitely want to know!
	9:20pm Flash Strap: I love this record because it's a sincere act of musical archaeology that nonetheless bends itself into the shape of exotica music – as though it's grafting an incomplete reconstruction onto an exotica-esque host
	9:21pm TDK60: Flash, it had an academic air hence the not-interesting cover. I should contact that old roomie.
	9:22pm Flash Strap: all of Waldo's records have extremely bombastic technicolor covers so it may not be her, but it could be a variant
	9:22pm Frog Mover: @Flash so glad you convinced me to pick this one up! One of my faves!
	9:23pm Flash Strap: yeah that was a good call! it's an all-timer for me
	9:25pm northguineahills: The high today was 69F/21C, now'a it's down to 65F/16, very chilly for Orlando in mid-April. So the windows have been open, and we get free cool air! (it's been raining the last two days).
	9:27pm Flash Strap: been chilly here in NC too
	9:28pm northguineahills: I still want to find some chicha. I know it's made w/ saliva, but said things don't gross me out. I try to experience the culinary spectrum of all cultures.
	9:28pm northguineahills: (yes, I know I typed that in the middle of a pandemic, but my stance stands).
	9:31pm CC: As Mr. Spock would say... fascinating!!!
	9:33pm Flash Strap: I'd love to try chicha as well, NGH - i've had more than a few gallons of pulque, but chicha has eluded me thus far
	9:33pm Flash Strap: good point about the pandemic though
	9:33pm Quinn: I’ve been listening and enjoying
	9:33pm Flash Strap: hello CC!
	9:34pm Flash Strap: Hello Quinn! very glad to hear it!
	9:34pm northguineahills: I love the pulque bars in DF (mexico city), and wish I could find it. There was one in Chinatown, NYC, but they shipped it from Mexico and it was watered down and WAY overpriced.
	9:35pm Flash Strap: yeah you really can't ship or package pulque with any success from what i understand
	9:35pm Flash Strap: when i lived in the desert there was a guy who would bring it to me from time to time, in jugs and buckets
	9:35pm northguineahills: Hallos Quinn, CC and everyones! Finally have some free time. Yeah, Pulque has less then a two week shelf life...
	9:36pm CC: I'm picturing a jungle girl running down a lonely jungle path just before the dark when eyeballs start flashing on each side of the path...
	9:39pm Flash Strap: This film was released under a different title than the sleeve suggests: rather than Sacred Idol, it came out with the name The Mighty Jungle. anyone seen it?
	9:40pm TDK60: Was this done old-style --whole orch./chorus in the studio?
	9:40pm Flash Strap: www.imdb.com...
	9:40pm Flash Strap: @TDK: i imagine so, yeah
	9:40pm coelacanth∅: i'd be lying if i said i was even slightly interested in trying pulque! but i do have my heart set on trying pálinka (or maybe several different pálinkas)
	9:40pm northguineahills: 1960: more then likely...
	9:41pm CC: I used to love those kind of movies!!!
	9:41pm Gary via app: Great show, fading, early morning. Have a great night, and thanks, Evan!
	9:41pm Flash Strap: Eisenstein filmed some wonderful footage of pulque-making in his excellent unfinished film, ¡Que Viva Mexico! (one of my favorite films)
	9:42pm Flash Strap: Thanks Gary, fade happily my friend
	9:42pm TDK60: Quite an arrangement and performance.
	9:42pm northguineahills: @coel: at the bars freqeunted by the uni hipsters Mexico City, they all kinds of flavors. But, as per any bar, at heart, I prefer the dives.
	9:43pm Flash Strap: @C: i'd love to taste a little palinka
	9:43pm CC: I remember this one where this girl danced in front of a giant Cobra!?!
	9:43pm northguineahills: The great thing about pulque, is that it's still fermenting in your stomach, so you'll been even drunker w/in an hour after ingesting...
	9:43pm Flash Strap: haha that sounds like a lot of 'em CC
	9:44pm Flash Strap: Pool of Love = unbelievably hip little piece
	9:45pm coelacanth∅: Evan i understand pálinka can be assaultingly sweet, which is why i'd like to try different ones
	9:45pm northguineahills: @flash: (Pool of Love) sounds like too many bodily fluids for me....
	9:46pm Flash Strap: your loss NGH
	9:47pm coelacanth∅: ngh it's not like me to not try something new (within certain moral guidelines) so i don't know why i said that! ...just the description isn't appealing to me ("viscous, sour yeast flavored...") -i'd try it, under the right circumstances
	9:49pm Flash Strap: i'd try it but i'm not sure i'd like it!
	9:49pm coelacanth∅: hahaha (@9.45 & 9.46)
	9:49pm northguineahills: @flash: OK, (takes a shot), Alright, I'm jumping in the pool!
	9:49pm Flash Strap: The Games is quite the piece of work
	9:51pm Flash Strap: ambitious stuff
	9:52pm coelacanth∅: ngh the challenge is getting out of the pool.
	9:52pm passiflora: enjoyed this show very much
	9:53pm northguineahills: @coel: I usually take a shower aftet the plunge, anyways... ;)
	9:55pm northguineahills: errr, after....
	9:56pm TDK60: ..thanks Flash. till next ...
	9:56pm CC: might as well hang out and drink some more ru
	9:56pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks Flash!
	9:56pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan! take care, stay strong
	9:56pm northguineahills: Hugs (from afar), Evan. see y'alls at LD's place!
	9:57pm Flash Strap: Hi Passiflora! thanks pal
	🥁 9:58pm chresti: I went to a pulqueria in DF, with my ex, it was kind of milky looking and gave me a headache, if I remember right.
	9:58pm Flash Strap: @NGH: thanks man. hugs to all! @CC: good idea @all: thank you, thank you, see you again very soon
	9:59pm Flash Strap: Cool Blue Flame: wfmu.org...
	9:59pm CC: Mmmm
	9:59pm Flash Strap: good night, friends
	🥁 10:00pm chresti: Thanks Flash!

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from April 16, 2020

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