WFMU: Continental Subway with David Dichelle: Playlist from January 7, 2021

Listener comments!
	🚂 11:53am Threemoons: Greets all! Long time WFMU person, first time tuning into this program in ages....
	11:56am Really Lisa: Hi David, super early because βrian posted link where I was lurking! Hope all is as well and safe as can be. Lovely photo btw <<< Hi all. Taking a window seat.
	🚂 11:57am chresti: Hi David and continentals!
	🚂 11:57am Threemoons: Yep, ditto, here because of Brian
	11:58am David Dichelle: Early greetings, Threemoons, Lisa, and Chresti - and thanks βrian for posting that link!
	🚂 12:00pm David (in London): Hello David and assorted travelling groovers!
	🚂 12:01pm Handy Haversack: David and voyageurs! Hello!
	🚂 12:01pm Bas NL: Hi David! Ticket in pocket, ready for the ride! Hi all!
	12:02pm Ike: It's too bad it's so unusual to see a playlist open with four comments in a row from non-male persons (IIRC, I hope I am not misgendering anyone). Kudos, raising a glass to y'all, not for any particular reason, just because. And alla youse guys as well!
	🚂 12:02pm Carmichael: Heya David. Looks like some of you scaled the walls and breached train a little early.
	🚂 12:02pm Handy Haversack: Yay, Threemoons is here! Now it's a party! Threemoons, I wanted to say that last March 14, right before everything shut down, we actually went to the JC Word! It's huge! We were like the dorkiest tourists in history. I think the staff kind of loved it.
	🚂 12:03pm David (in London): Lisa, chresti, Handy, Carmichael! Lisa, pop the cork on that bottle would you? I'll hand out the sandwiches.
	🚂 12:03pm Carmichael: Nice pic, Chresti.
	12:03pm David Dichelle: And welcome David, Handy, Ike, and Carmichael!
	12:04pm fred: Hello David and listeners
	🚂 12:04pm Threemoons: @Handy aww, thank you! I really want to go to the JC branch--the Greenpoint branch is very nice and I love the staff and selections but bigger is always better with indie bookstores! Try to hit Book Culture LIC if you can one day--it's a huge 2-level affair.
	12:04pm Sem: Hello, David, and all aboard. Love me some banjo tunes from the Continent.
	🚂 12:04pm YETI BOB: Hey everybody! Nice to be here.
	12:04pm Ike: As someone who remembers the days when Borders Books ran rampant across the American landscape, "huge" isn't the first word that would come to mind for Word JC. So it's bigger than the one in Brooklyn then?
	🚂 12:04pm βrian: Well, there is a certain louche appeal to the Drummer Stream sometimes. No FCC informers will mess with ya.
	🚂 12:05pm WR: welcome to the drummer stream Threemoons. and hello to all the familiar and friendly avatars.
	🚂 12:05pm Handy Haversack: Lisa, chresti, Carmichael, Bas, Ike, and David in the Smoke! Ike, I see what you're saying about Harrow and was confused for a while but trusted the process -- and once the reveal happened was quite taken with the device. I want to reread Gideon and Harrow back to back -- and want also to reread the Baru Cormorant books in order now that the last is come out.
	🚂 12:05pm Threemoons: More "before times" fun--go to PS1, peruse bookstore and award-winning periodicals section there, have a drink there, go to Xian Famous Foods (which burned to the ground right before the pandemic alas) and then go across the street to Book Culture. Finish up with a drink at Domine's Hoek LIC. Sigh.
	12:05pm David Dichelle: And hello Fred, Sem, Yeti Bob, WR, and βrian!
	🚂 12:05pm David (in London): Semulator, Count Yeti Bob, Brian.
	12:06pm Really Lisa: David (iL), poured, handing out, and raising glass! Hi Handy :)
	12:06pm Stanley: Whay-hey everyone. (Makes undignified entrance waving six pack of cans) I'm here!
	12:06pm Ike: Wow @3M, which Xian Famous Foods location burned down? I hope the others are all surviving.
	🚂 12:06pm βrian: I almost worked at Border's when there was only one. It was a great store.
	12:07pm Ike: Oh I guess that must be LIC, duh. Need another cup of tea, I'm a little slow today.
	🚂 12:07pm YETI BOB: Hey Stanley, I'll have one of those beers.
	12:08pm Stanley: Yeti - they are a bit shook up but very, very cold.
	12:08pm David Dichelle: Stanley, that is the best kind of entrance!
	12:09pm Stanley: Hi David - it's the mood I'm in today.
	🚂 12:09pm Handy Haversack: Ike, yes, huge in comparison to Greenpoint's. Hey, Stanley! Interesting piece on the Glenfinnan monument in the Guardian today. I remember seeing it first in 2009 when there was no visitor center or anything and the Harry Potter tourism was just starting up. And, er, I'll take a can.
	🚂 12:09pm Threemoons: May I please ask an embarassing question? I only see the schedule for the "main" WFMU programming...is there a page that shows the schedule for GDR, Sheena's Jungle Room, etc? Can't seem to find it in my sleep-deprived state. Help please!
	🚂 12:09pm David (in London): Stanley, can do you me a light & bitter?
	🚂 12:09pm chresti: Cheers David in London! Thanks Carmichael, that's me in horror seeing the camera/flash bulb for the first time in a photo booth.
	12:10pm Sem: Hello, DavidiL. Very much enjoyed the Numan piece. Thx for that. Oh, oh, Stanley is in a mood.
	🚂 12:10pm Threemoons: @Ike, yeah, LIC--fire started in the Italian place next door IIRC and spread, propane tanks blew, and pyrotechnics ensued. Luckily nobody was hurt.
	🚂 12:10pm dutchtheo: Hello David and travellers, on the bumpy road and the smooth subway
	12:11pm David Dichelle: Hey there Dutchtheo!
	12:11pm Ike: @3M@12:09, others have been puzzled by this as well. The schedule pages do exist, but it's always hard to find the links.
	12:11pm David Dichelle: Threemoons: For the Drummer schedule: wfmu.org...
	🚂 12:11pm Threemoons: VIVA ESTONIA! Thanks for this BTW.
	12:12pm David Dichelle: Or just wfmu.org/drummer
	12:12pm David Dichelle: My pleasure!
	🚂 12:12pm Threemoons: @David but how would I get there from the wfmu.org main page? Is there a comprehensive programming list? Thanks!
	12:13pm monkeyz: hello there david! found the bathtub in the train and enjoyed music in the bath.
	🚂 12:13pm chresti: I signed up for the daily drummer schedule e-mail.
	12:13pm Phillippe Bastille: Hey David, everyone. Checking in for a minute, sad to say I have to hop back off at the next station
	🚂 12:13pm Handy Haversack: Threemoons, hover over "Listen" and then over "Drummer Stream," and the schedule link appears.
	🚂 12:14pm David (in London): Hey Phillippe. Sem, thanks for that. Glad you enjoyed it.
	🚂 12:14pm Threemoons: Fun fact about the character "õ"--it's a vowel unique to spoken Estonian; it is in no other language on Earth. Hard to explain how it sounds--tongue against the back teeth but clear of front teeth; kind of pronounced like the long middle e in "Eeeew"
	🚂 12:14pm Threemoons: @Handy thank you!
	🚂 12:15pm chresti: Happy New Year, David D, and everyone I missed in the last few days!
	12:15pm Stanley: Thanks Handy, I didn't catch that. But let's remember a huge portion of 18th-19th century Scottish wealth was based on the plantations in the West Indies and America. The article makes it look like that's 'news'!
	12:16pm Stanley: A cheap lager, David? No problem, coming up.
	12:17pm Ike: @3M, I get the vague impression that there have been discussions behind the scenes about that front-page layout vis-a-vis the schedules. The other two stream schedules, for those who prefer direct links: wfmu.org... wfmu.org...
	🚂 12:17pm Threemoons: @Handy not getting a popup??
	🚂 12:17pm YETI BOB: it's hard to find the schedules for the side streams. i've spent a long time searching the site for these
	🚂 12:17pm WR: wfmu.org... the listen section near the top of this page has "info" links to the alt stream schedules and the broadcast stream in the programming section.
	🚂 12:17pm Threemoons: @Ike, thanks, I hope that they make a better consolidated schedule.
	🚂 12:17pm YETI BOB: at the top of the playlist it says "Thursdays Noon - 3pm (EST) \| On WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio" - that link will take you to the schedule
	🚂 12:18pm Handy Haversack: I think the news is that the NTS will actually incorporate that into its exhibits. This is NOT how public monuments tend to get treated here, Stanley. Especially not ones with so much romantic attachment to them.
	🚂 12:18pm YETI BOB: but I think this could be made a bit easier to find - it's becoming an FAQ
	🚂 12:19pm Threemoons: Aaah thx.
	12:19pm StringOFperils: This statue is kind of bugging me > www.theguardian.com...
	12:19pm Stanley: Handy - yeah, context is always welcome.
	12:20pm StringOFperils: More money flushed down the loo.
	12:20pm Hubig Pie: Another folk song with a happy ending? Mon Dieu !
	🚂 12:21pm Threemoons: @String ugh. I lived in London 88-89 and I remember just how much awful homophobic dust she kicked up.
	12:21pm David Dichelle: Hey there, Monkeyz, Phillippe, String, and Hubig!
	12:21pm Stanley: I agree, String. If it was privately paid for that's a different matter. All together now "I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher etc"
	🚂 12:22pm YETI BOB: My guess for this week's Random Road: Singapore (still can't believe Handy got it right last week!)
	12:22pm StringOFperils: So many people sleeping rough these days, with a pandemic on top of it. It's an obscenity fire.
	12:23pm spodiodi: greetings, David and bonnie buddies
	12:23pm StringOFperils: Anyway.....the music....right....sigh
	12:23pm David Dichelle: Salutations Spodi!
	🚂 12:23pm Handy Haversack: Brand Niue, baby! Going back to the Gambia, though.
	🚂 12:24pm David (in London): My Random Road guess this week is Chile. Yo again Spod.
	🚂 12:25pm Handy Haversack: Yo, spodi. Another day!
	12:26pm Stanley: Burkina Faso is my punt this week
	12:26pm Really Lisa: Guessing already! I was looking at work 🤔hmmm, Peru.
	🚂 12:27pm Bas NL: My guess is Senegal. Has a nice all around view of Gambia.. ;)
	🚂 12:28pm Carmichael: I will say Egypt.
	🚂 12:28pm Handy Haversack: Gotta go sit in the car for half an hour and relieve Kate. Glad I got to hear Jean Redpath first!
	12:28pm Sem: Gaucho music from Pierra del Fuego.
	🚂 12:29pm βrian: Today's pandemic lunch is chili con pescado with skillet corn bread.
	12:29pm Hubig Pie: Cotton Eyed Joe got nuttin' on The Rantin' Laddie
	🚂 12:29pm Threemoons: @Handy what are you doing in the car?
	12:29pm Phillippe Bastille: I'm gonna go with Grenada again.
	🚂 12:30pm David (in London): Wee laddie for a palfrey..
	🚂 12:30pm Threemoons: @Brian I have the end of skillet cornbread and porky collards with pot liquor waiting for later
	12:30pm Really Lisa: 4 fer 4 on the Rouds.. all so nice!
	12:31pm Lewis: Been quite some time since I have heard and Gordon Bok...
	12:31pm David Dichelle: Glad you liked the selection, Lisa!
	12:32pm spodiodi: Threemoons, guessing he and K8 are guarding the car from street-cleaning ticket police
	12:33pm David Dichelle: Greetings, Lewis!
	🚂 12:34pm chresti: Still morning here, by lunchtime I'll be at work to cover a co-worker's afternoon shift at the tennis courts.
	🚂 12:35pm βrian: So car-sitting must be a niche job nowadays. In the NYC area, anyway.
	🚂 12:36pm Threemoons: @Spodiodi ah.
	🚂 12:36pm Threemoons: @Brian if I didn't hate the idea of getting up before dawn, I could probably make a tidy sum on the side moving people's cars in the AM....hmmm....idea...
	12:39pm Hubig Pie: And on that note I'm inspired to pick Senegal for this week's installment of Random Roads
	🚂 12:40pm Threemoons: This is gorgeous.
	12:42pm WillCrete: Thanks David for this trip into Rantin' Laddie / Lord Aboyne! Really beautiful to move through the facets of a ballad in this kind of sequence. Glad to be tuning in and to learn that this kind of treatment of the ballads is a weekly feature here! Gonna have to check back into the archives for sure to catch on up! I've been making my way through singing the ballad tunes recorded Bronson’s volume “The traditional tunes of the Child ballads” over the past few months at home, and loved listening in to the variations in those you just presented. Thanks!
	12:45pm spodiodi: i think there's a Seainfeld episode where George does just that, βrian and Threemoons.... it's also horrible in San Francisco (besides street cleaning, there's also a rule that requires moving a car every 72 hours, though that one isn't as strictly enforced (unless someone complains) i had a great spot for that.) i don't miss that *having moved out of the city in October) -- it's nice to have a driveway again
	12:45pm spodiodi: Seinfeld*
	12:46pm spodiodi: yup "The Alternate SIde" en.wikipedia.org...
	12:46pm David Dichelle: WillCrete: Thanks so much for your kind words - I hope you enjoy the other installments. Your project also sounds very interesting - do you perform the songs elsewhere as well?
	🚂 12:46pm βrian: Homer: "M'Bira!"
	🚂 12:47pm Threemoons: @Spodiodi I feel blessed that I was able to sell my last car back in '95. My brother, who used to live on Douglass Street in Brooklyn, needed a car for work. His employer said that they would pay for up to 3 parking tickets a month. My brother was running up 3 alternate side tickets a WEEK.
	🚂 12:48pm Threemoons: Another booming niche economy right here in Astoria--people who rent a level of a multi-family house that has a garage but don't have a car--they sell off their parking space on a monthly basis. If a key is needed, usually the LL gets a cut also.
	12:48pm Really Lisa: Lol, spodi re Seinfel, and hi. There is! He fills in for the guy who normally does it. Chaos ensues.. also the 'these pretzels are making me thirsty' episode.
	12:49pm Really Lisa: oops *Seinfeld
	🚂 12:50pm βrian: Most houses in my area have a garage, but few use them for cars.
	12:50pm spodiodi: wow, that must have really gotten expensive quickly, Threemoons! I didn't need a car in the city, and didn't have one most of the 25 years i spent there (motorcycles and scooters are much better :) though, i was glad to have it when we moved (and had found a spot where i could let my car sit for weeks, months, even over a year once(!) -- on a really steep hill without street cleaning)
	12:51pm spodiodi: aloha, Lisa :) that's right, that is the same episode as the pretzels!
	12:53pm spodiodi: haha The New York Post listed the "pretzels" line as one of "Seinfeld's 25 greatest contributions to the English language." ... clap clap clap
	🚂 12:54pm Bas NL: keeps upping volume
	12:57pm fred: Alternate side parking also plays a key part in Infinite Jest
	🚂 12:58pm WR: Garifuna; Belize.
	12:58pm David Dichelle: Bas: Some songs just feel better louder.
	12:59pm Stanley: Got the fire lit. It's going down to -9c tonight (15f)
	🚂 12:59pm Bas NL: Even better!! Fantastic selections, David! ;)
	🚂 1:00pm Handy Haversack: Gets chilly when you're just sitting around! What'd I miss?
	1:00pm David Dichelle: Thanks, Bas!
	1:00pm spodiodi: Belize <3
	1:00pm spodiodi: wb, Handy!
	1:01pm David Dichelle: Stanley: We're thankfully stuck at around 0°C here, day and night.
	🚂 1:01pm Handy Haversack: @fred, I think about that scene in Infinite Jest every time. Thanks, spodi!
	1:02pm Stanley: That's not bad, David, compared to what it can be round your way.
	1:02pm doctorjazz: Hi commuters!
	1:02pm David Dichelle: Hey there Dr. J.!
	1:03pm spodiodi: hi doctorjazz! nice pic! how'd it go?
	🚂 1:04pm Threemoons: @David D--One of the hidden pleasures of a really old NYC apartment is the blasting steam heat...
	1:04pm David Dichelle: Stanley: True enough, the past few winters have been relatively mild, though.
	1:04pm Sylvia (France-NYC): Hi David, riders
	1:05pm David Dichelle: Threemoons: I remember those old steam radiators, haven't thought about it in years.
	1:05pm David Dichelle: Hello, Sylvia!
	🚂 1:05pm Handy Haversack: Gotta make some lunch. Steam heat full on for now ... until it isn't ...
	1:06pm WillCrete: @Hi David- I’ve just been singing a ballad for 30 or so minutes each evening while putting our 2 month old daughter to bed. The long ballads with their repeated melodies seem beautifully suited for that kind of zone…. even if some of the subject / thematic matter might be a bit intense and heavy, to put it lightly, ha! (Bronson’s book is kind of the musical companion to Child’s work, collecting all the known transcriptions and published melodies associated with a given ballad). Last night was am 18 stanza version of “Babylon, Child no 14.,first published in 1827 in Kinloch’s Ancient Scottish Ballads as “The Duke of Perth’s Three Daughters. Broson’s work assembling all these materials is great and deeply scholarly, but no doubt it would be lovely to have a physically smaller edition which was laid out for actual use by singers, with the melody notation and text consistently on the same page, and perhaps some nice illustrations as well to make the page look pretty for the kids to look at… but as far as I know, no one has ever published such a thing).
	1:06pm spodiodi: hi Sylvia!
	🚂 1:08pm dutchtheo: My two cents bet is also in West Africa, Benin/Dahomey...
	🚂 1:09pm Threemoons: Cutting out for a sec to hear Heather Cox Richardson live: www.facebook.com...
	1:11pm David Dichelle: Will: That is a lovely idea, and of course she won't be too upset by any of the more gruesome tales for a while anyway. I think we had Child 14 as Roud 27, quite a while back.
	🚂 1:12pm Carmichael: Do you have 14 children David?!
	🚂 1:16pm David (in London): Hey Sylvia. Stanley - It's even brass monkeys down here in The Smoke, so it must be bitter up your way.
	1:18pm Stanley: David - it's supposed to warm up from Sunday.
	🚂 1:20pm Handy Haversack: Cyrillic also likely to make it hard to clicky-star if in the Title field.
	🚂 1:20pm WR: David, greatly appreciate your handling of the many languages in the playlist and your back announcements.
	1:21pm spodiodi: David, finally got to reading your Numan story. very nice! i had no idea Bowie had dissed him. and i only had to look up a few words. enjoyed reading it very much. thanks again for sharing!
	1:21pm spodiodi: (^in London)
	🚂 1:23pm YETI BOB: @dutchtheo - speaking of Benin, this is a fantastic album "Legends of Benin" analogafrica.bandcamp.com... - have you heard it?
	1:23pm David Dichelle: Handy: Yes, I noticed that at one point as well.
	🚂 1:24pm chresti: Carmichael, working long hours again?
	1:24pm David Dichelle: WR: Thanks, I do my best in any case.
	🚂 1:26pm David (in London): Hey Spod, thanks for that man. Very glad you liked it.
	🚂 1:26pm Carmichael: @chresti, nope, back to normal hours. We're buried in PPE and COVID related cleaning services, so my workload has greatly decreased.
	🚂 1:30pm chresti: That's good. Not understaffed? Seems like a lot of tennis employees are not coming to work, mostly because they have kids, I think.
	🚂 1:32pm Carmichael: My entire staff is at home.
	1:40pm coelacanth∅: good evening David good whatever all
	1:40pm David Dichelle: A very good afternoon to you, Coel!
	1:41pm David Dichelle: We're tracing that Eastern European oft-covered song back to its roots over the next three tracks.
	🚂 1:42pm Handy Haversack: Yo, coela!
	1:43pm spodiodi: hola coela!
	🚂 1:44pm David (in London): Hey Coela.
	1:46pm Really Lisa: So, David, a new segment.. Random Roots?
	🚂 1:48pm dutchtheo: @YETI BOB 1:23, Yes! my guess was a wish in disguise!
	1:48pm David Dichelle: Random Rouds, Roots, and Roads could be the name of the show.
	1:49pm coelacanth∅: hey Handy! spodi!! David!!!
	🚂 1:49pm Handy Haversack: Maybe throw in some Roods while we're about it.
	1:50pm doctorjazz: Hey, Spodiodi, it was just fine, I didn't have any problems (that's me receiving the 1st dose of the COVID vaccine). Some people did have flu-like symptoms for a day, but I got away easy.
	🚂 1:50pm chresti: Thanks David! Later all youse peepo!
	1:50pm David Dichelle: Thanks, Chresti, take care!
	1:51pm David Dichelle: This one is actually a random rose, or milliion...
	1:51pm coelacanth∅: this is Lovely ...later on chresti
	🚂 1:51pm Handy Haversack: Bye, chresti!
	🚂 1:52pm βrian: Hasta la proxima, chresti.
	1:52pm David Dichelle: This is the Latvian original.
	1:52pm Stanley: Byfa chresti
	1:52pm spodiodi: until next time, chresti! \\//
	🚂 1:52pm Handy Haversack: Nice, doctorjazz!
	1:52pm coelacanth∅: are those < wild multiflora roses? are they invasive there, as in the us? (my guess would be yes, because they're probably introduced from asia)
	1:54pm David Dichelle: Well, crimson roses, according to the Russian version in any case. We have raccoons in the woods here now, speaking of bioglobalization.
	1:54pm spodiodi: i'm glad it went well, doc. one of the three nurses in my family (at least) have gotten theirs as well, and also didn't have a bad reaction. concerned for my other family (who aren't nurses, but facing big risks daily) too. anyway, nice on yours. must be a good feeling
	1:55pm David Dichelle: Or scarlet.
	1:55pm David Dichelle: Glad you could get vaccinated, Doctorjazz!
	1:58pm coelacanth∅: not the same then, as the ones i often deal with/get assaulted by -which have white flowers
	🚂 1:58pm Handy Haversack: Nice song that! My friend the nurse has been jabbed, and my buddy whose A/V union was forced into frontline work by the university, checking in and admining the COVID testing for all the on-campus students and staff.
	2:03pm Stanley: Drum roll......
	2:04pm Stanley: Zimbabwe!
	🚂 2:05pm Carmichael: Mrs. Carmichael got both shots, as she works at UC Davis Med Center. Then she retired!
	🚂 2:05pm Bas NL: Zimbabwe! Interesting!
	🚂 2:05pm Handy Haversack: Burkina Faso closest?
	2:06pm Stanley: Handy - I think Benin, who had that?
	🚂 2:06pm David (in London): Zimbabwe? I think you've made a mistake, David. It's actually Chile.
	2:07pm Stanley: I'm a big fan of Thomas Mapfumo
	2:07pm Phillippe Bastille: My wife got vaccinated yesterday. They were doing a vaccination at the firehouse near us and had several doses left over and sent out an offer for any Phase 1B-eligible people to use them up. I think they have a short shelf life and can't be refrozen.
	2:07pm David Dichelle: David: Southern Hemisphere bonus points!
	2:07pm Phillippe Bastille: Isn't Grenada near Zimbabwe? Like, on the same planet?
	2:08pm David Dichelle: Phillippe: They both have colorful flags.
	2:09pm Phillippe Bastille: Well there ya go, then!
	2:09pm Really Lisa: Peru here. I'll take some southern hemi points, not too proud.
	2:10pm Phillippe Bastille: I mean, this SOUNDS kind of Caribbean if you haven't really listened to Caribbean music before.
	🚂 2:10pm Handy Haversack: dutchtheo had Benin!
	2:10pm spodiodi: that's great, Phillipe
	🚂 2:10pm dutchtheo: Mbira coming! Well Benin <> Zimbabwe is still 4000km
	🚂 2:10pm Threemoons: Back! Sorry I had to step out...catching up now.
	2:11pm David Dichelle: Lisa: Absolutely!
	2:11pm coelacanth∅: Love Love Love Thomas Mapfumo! now i'm hoping you play a certain song by the new black eagles...Robson Banda? it's been too long for that one ...but what are the chances? there's so much great music from that part of the world
	🚂 2:12pm Michael 98145: -whew- made it!
	2:13pm Stanley: Some Jit-Jive music from dem Bhundus (here's hoping)
	2:13pm coelacanth∅: (and i forget the song name but it's the first track on one of the zimbabwe frontline comps)
	2:13pm Stanley: The Four Brothers- famously described by John Peel as the best band in the world.
	2:14pm David Dichelle: Hey there, Michael!
	2:16pm David Dichelle: Stanley: Yes, I read the same, or the best live band at least. They must have been impressive in any case.
	🚂 2:16pm Brian in UK: Hello David & Covid dodgers. Stanley, the Four Brothers played y John Peel's birthday, much to his sirprise.
	2:17pm David Dichelle: Good evening, Brian!
	2:21pm David Dichelle: Here's that mbira.
	🚂 2:21pm YETI BOB: aah, just got out of a meeting, glad to catch the rest of the hour
	2:22pm Webhamster Henry: That's some deep mbira-ing.
	🚂 2:23pm YETI BOB: At a lecture demonstration I once attended in Seattle, Washington, Dumisani Maraire, a visiting artist from Zimbabwe, walked onto the stage carrying a round- box resonator with a fifteen-key instrument inside. He turned toward the audi- ence and raised the round-box over his head. “What is this?” he called out. There was no response. “All right,” he said, “it is an mbira; M-B-I-R-A. Now what did I say it was?” A few people replied, “Mbira; it is an mbira.” Most of the audience sat still in puzzlement. “What is it?” Maraire repeated, as if slightly annoyed. More people called out, “Mbira.” “Again,” Maraire insisted. “Mbira!” returned the audience. “Again!” he shouted. When the auditorium echoed with “Mbira,” Maraire laughed out loud. “All right,” he said with good-natured sarcasm, “that is the way the Christian missionaries taught me to say ‘piano.’ ” Paul F. Berliner, The soul of mbira.
	🚂 2:23pm Brian in UK: Late arrival due to painting diversions. Thomas M was set to play WOMAD a few years back, really looking forward to see him; he could not get a visa because the authorities thought he would not leave. Bastards.
	🚂 2:24pm dutchtheo: psychic @12:46βrian: Homer: "M'Bira!"
	2:24pm David Dichelle: It is indeed, Henry!
	2:26pm coelacanth∅: haha Yeti Bob ... stickin' it to the missionaries! (they deserve worse than ridicule)
	2:26pm doctorjazz: Glad I got dose 1, another month for dose 2. Still have to do all the regular stuff (masks, etc), but being with folks all the time does make me (and my family) nervous.
	🚂 2:28pm Bas NL: Great story @Yeti Bob!
	2:28pm coelacanth∅: Brian he never stayed before! seems like bullshit to me
	🚂 2:28pm βrian: @BUK: Landscape or wallscape?
	🚂 2:29pm Michael 98145: @Yeti Bob, saw Dumi many times back in the day
	2:29pm Stanley: Classic Dorothy Masuka
	🚂 2:30pm Michael 98145: loving this
	🚂 2:30pm YETI BOB: That story is from Paul F. Berliner, "The soul of mbira." But I came across it in a book called "Music: A Mathematical Offering" where the mbira is analyzed from a physics/acoustics perspective. I've never seen the Berliner book.
	2:30pm David Dichelle: We're now in the Ndebele (Southern Zimbabwe) part of the segment.
	🚂 2:30pm Brian in UK: @βrian figurative, I could not figure it out.
	2:31pm doctorjazz: It's a great segment!
	2:31pm Stanley: There was once a restaurant called Ndebele in Edinburgh Neat, eh?
	2:31pm David Dichelle: Yeti Bob: Sounds fascinating. Is the book accessible to laypeople?
	🚂 2:31pm YETI BOB: maybe I should check it out - looks like it's available press.uchicago.edu...
	2:32pm David Dichelle: Thanks, Doctorjazz!
	2:32pm coelacanth∅: this sounds like soweto to me
	2:33pm Stanley: ..or even Kwazulu
	2:33pm David Dichelle: Yes, Ndebele is much closer to Zulu.
	🚂 2:33pm YETI BOB: There's a free PDF version of the math/music book on the author's website: homepages.abdn.ac.uk...
	2:34pm David Dichelle: Thanks, YB, looks like quite a tome!
	🚂 2:34pm YETI BOB: You can take a look and see if it's accessible to you. But I think it would help to be familiar with a bit of calculus and differential equations to get much out of it. There are cool pictures and quotes throughout.
	🚂 2:37pm YETI BOB: To be clear, those links are two different books - first one about mbira, which I haven't read (yet) and second one about music and math which is the free PDF.
	2:38pm coelacanth∅: i confess i did not know this aspect of zimbabwean music. it makes sense actually but i never thought about it and if i've heard it i didn't look into it
	2:39pm doctorjazz: Just love this stuff!!!
	2:39pm coelacanth∅: (the last 2. ...this is a style i know)
	2:40pm David Dichelle: Yes, we're back in Northern Zimbabwe now.
	2:40pm Stanley: Such sweet Sungura sounds from Simon Chembetu.
	2:40pm David Dichelle: (Where Shona is most spoken)
	2:42pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks, @YETI BOB - this probably goes well with the William Sethares book "Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale".
	2:42pm Stanley: It's hard sometimes to figure out which region of Africa style inluenced others and vice versa
	🚂 2:44pm Handy Haversack: @Webhamster H, you probably already know, but Dave Soldier is publishing Music, Math, and Mind soon. I have been working on the page proofs.
	🚂 2:45pm Brian in UK: We have a sick chicken for the last few days. Still eating so that is a good sign.
	🚂 2:47pm Brian in UK: David, great set, how could it not be.
	2:47pm Webhamster Henry: @Handy Dave and I are old microtonal pals, so I'll have to look out for it!
	2:49pm David Dichelle: Thanks, Brian. I must admit it was somewhat less of a challenge this week.
	2:49pm Webhamster Henry: Meanwhile, thanks for the Zimbabwe, @DD!
	🚂 2:51pm Bas NL: Yes, excellent Zimbabwe collection, David!
	2:51pm David Dichelle: My great pleasure as always, WH!
	2:51pm David Dichelle: Thanks, Bas!
	🚂 2:52pm βrian: Finally saw Chicken Run, apropos. Who knew chickens could be so entertaining?
	2:52pm Really Lisa: Thank you, David, another treat of a show. Peace, all.
	2:53pm spodiodi: thanks for the ride, David. the 🇿🇼 sounded great!
	2:53pm Stanley: Cracking set, David. Thanks again for a wonderful show. Take care all.
	🚂 2:53pm Handy Haversack: I was pretty excited to announce dibs on the production editing, @Webhamster H. Cover or interior blurbs (endorsements) from John Cale, Peter Gabriel, Van Dyke Parks. I told publicity to ask People Like Us also, but no one listens to me. Thanks, David! Random Road, Roots, Roods, Roses, and Revels has been an absolute blast! Glad to have been along for the ride. Be well, Voyageurs!
	🚂 2:53pm dutchtheo: Thanks, David, Had that eighties John Peel vibe!
	2:53pm spodiodi: peace, Lisa, all
	🚂 2:53pm David (in London): Thanks for a great show again today David.
	🚂 2:54pm WR: thank you David! Onward!
	🚂 2:54pm Threemoons: Thank you so much for this, and for the good times in chat!
	2:56pm Stanley: or thumb piano
	2:58pm Funky16Corners: Hey David! I’m late, but here!
	2:58pm Phillippe Bastille: Thanks David!
	🚂 2:59pm Michael 98145: Thanks again, David D. No riot on THIS subway.
	🚂 3:00pm Bas NL: большая щелкающая звезда!
	3:00pm David Dichelle: Thanks, Stanley, thumb piano is probably what I was looking for.
	3:00pm David Dichelle: And thanks everyone!
	3:19pm coelacanth∅: Thanks David!

Continental Subway with David Dichelle: Playlist from January 7, 2021

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January 7, 2021: Rants and roses

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Continental Subway	Intro "Intro" by "Continental Subway"
Banjo Band Ivana Mládka	Rychlík Jede Do Prahy		1979	= Ivan Mládek’s Banjo Band	0:00:10 (Pop-up)
Madam	Soukromý nebe "Soukromý nebe" by "Madam"	Soukromý nebe	2011		0:02:47 (Pop-up)
Nol	Polet na lunu "Polet na lunu" by "Nol"	Severnoe Bugi	2003	Ноль / Полет на Луну / Северное Буги	0:05:53 (Pop-up)
Nedsaja Küla Bänd	Sa oled nõnda kena	Paksu metsa vahel	2019		0:09:39 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Los Holy's	El Gran Chaparral / Show Me		1967		0:13:14 (Pop-up)
Roud 103: Rantin' Laddie / Lord Aboyne
Tania Opland	The Rantin' Laddie "The Rantin' Laddie" by "Tania Opland"	Hunter’s Moon / Bonnie Rantin' Lassie	1993		0:20:24 (Pop-up)
Jean Redpath	Rantin' Laddie "Rantin' Laddie" by "Jean Redpath"	First Flight	1989		0:24:41 (Pop-up)
Lori Holland	The Rantin' Laddie "The Rantin' Laddie" by "Lori Holland"	Scottish Folksongs for Women	1958		0:27:09 (Pop-up)
Gordon Bok & Cindy Kallet	Rantin' Laddie	Neighbors	1996		0:29:45 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Los Orientales de Paramonga	La Carcocha		1970		0:34:29 (Pop-up)
Kora Jazz Trio	Senef "Senef" by "Kora Jazz Trio"	Kora Jazz Trio	2003		0:38:59 (Pop-up)
Msafiri Zawose	Malugaro "Malugaro" by "Msafiri Zawose"	Uhamiaji	2017		0:44:59 (Pop-up)
Garifuna Collective / Silvia Blanco	Barübana Yagien (Take Me Away)	Umalali: The Garifuna Women’s Project	2008		0:52:24 (Pop-up)
Earth-Wheel-Sky-Band	Dance Rromalen	Waltz Rromano	2003		0:55:51 (Pop-up)
Zulya and the Children of the Underground	Red flower / Alim cäl tüğel siña	3 Nights	2007		0:59:55 (Pop-up)
Medvezhiy Ugol	Skazka o Kozle "Skazka o Kozle" by "Medvezhiy Ugol"	Mechenyy Vesnoy	2011	Медвежий угол / Сказка о козле / Меченый весной	1:02:44 (Pop-up)
Morwan	Chernoe Solntse "Chernoe Solntse" by "Morwan"	Zola-Zemlya	2020	Черное солнце / Зола-Земля	1:06:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Manière des Bohémiens	Blue Drag	Manière des Bohémiens	2010		1:11:53 (Pop-up)
Fin Alfred Larsen	Vi vil se land "Vi vil se land" by "Fin Alfred Larsen"	Sange fra min vandring (Fra land og by)	2009		1:22:08 (Pop-up)
Mallebrok	1 2 3 og 4 "1 2 3 og 4" by "Mallebrok"	Levende brav	2016		1:25:19 (Pop-up)
Ghalia Benali & Timnaa	Luiza "Luiza" by "Ghalia Benali & Timnaa"	Wild Harissa	2001		1:28:17 (Pop-up)
Maryam Saleh, Maurice Louca & Tamer Abu Ghazaleh	Nefsif Akli	Lekhfa	2017		1:32:21 (Pop-up)
Vagif Mustafazade	Fantaziya "Fantaziya" by "Vagif Mustafazade"				1:36:37 (Pop-up)
Darya & Månskensorkestern	Miljoona Ruusua	Innan Döden – Ennen Kuolemaa	2014		1:40:34 (Pop-up)
Alla Pugacheva	Million Alykh Roz "Million Alykh Roz" by "Alla Pugacheva"		1983	Алла Пугачёва / Миллион алых роз	1:46:07 (Pop-up)
Aija Kukule	Dāvāja Māriņa "Dāvāja Māriņa" by "Aija Kukule"		1981		1:51:54 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Stewy von Wattenwyl	Amsterdam After Dark	Wabash	2008		1:56:43 (Pop-up)
Random Road 15: Zimbabwe "Random Road 15: Zimbabwe"
Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited	Zimbabwe Yevatema	Gwindingwi Rine Shumba	1981		2:06:26 (Pop-up)
Four Brothers	Makorokoto "Makorokoto" by "Four Brothers"	Makorokoto	1988		2:10:22 (Pop-up)
Oliver Mtukudzi & The Black Spirits	Bvongodza Muto	Shanje	1981		2:13:48 (Pop-up)
James Chimombe & The O.K. Success	Zvingashure				2:17:21 (Pop-up)
Stella Chiweshe	Musarakunze (An Orphan Seeing What the Late Elders Never Saw)	Kasahwa: Early Singles	197X/2018		2:20:57 (Pop-up)
Hope Masike	Gomba "Gomba" by "Hope Masike"	The Exorcism of a Spinster	2019		2:25:15 (Pop-up)
Dorothy Masuka	Nhingirikiri "Nhingirikiri" by "Dorothy Masuka"	Pata Pata	1991		2:27:27 (Pop-up)
Lovemore Majaivana	Kuleliyani'zwe	Salanini Zinini	1984		2:30:43 (Pop-up)
Insingizi	Isqoqodo "Isqoqodo" by "Insingizi"	Spirit of Africa	2007		2:34:59 (Pop-up)
Simon Chimbetu and Orchestra Dendara Kings	Hapana chandatadza	Survival	1997		2:38:02 (Pop-up)
Hallelujah Chicken Run Band	Tinokumbira Kuziva	Take One	197X/2006		2:44:54 (Pop-up)
Khiama Boys	Mabhauwa "Mabhauwa" by "Khiama Boys"				2:48:10 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Duke Ellington	Take the "A" Train				2:53:06 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🚂 11:53am Threemoons: Greets all! Long time WFMU person, first time tuning into this program in ages....
	11:56am Really Lisa: Hi David, super early because βrian posted link where I was lurking! Hope all is as well and safe as can be. Lovely photo btw <<< Hi all. Taking a window seat.
	🚂 11:57am chresti: Hi David and continentals!
	🚂 11:57am Threemoons: Yep, ditto, here because of Brian
	11:58am David Dichelle: Early greetings, Threemoons, Lisa, and Chresti - and thanks βrian for posting that link!
	🚂 12:00pm David (in London): Hello David and assorted travelling groovers!
	🚂 12:01pm Handy Haversack: David and voyageurs! Hello!
	🚂 12:01pm Bas NL: Hi David! Ticket in pocket, ready for the ride! Hi all!
	12:02pm Ike: It's too bad it's so unusual to see a playlist open with four comments in a row from non-male persons (IIRC, I hope I am not misgendering anyone). Kudos, raising a glass to y'all, not for any particular reason, just because. And alla youse guys as well!
	🚂 12:02pm Carmichael: Heya David. Looks like some of you scaled the walls and breached train a little early.
	🚂 12:02pm Handy Haversack: Yay, Threemoons is here! Now it's a party! Threemoons, I wanted to say that last March 14, right before everything shut down, we actually went to the JC Word! It's huge! We were like the dorkiest tourists in history. I think the staff kind of loved it.
	🚂 12:03pm David (in London): Lisa, chresti, Handy, Carmichael! Lisa, pop the cork on that bottle would you? I'll hand out the sandwiches.
	🚂 12:03pm Carmichael: Nice pic, Chresti.
	12:03pm David Dichelle: And welcome David, Handy, Ike, and Carmichael!
	12:04pm fred: Hello David and listeners
	🚂 12:04pm Threemoons: @Handy aww, thank you! I really want to go to the JC branch--the Greenpoint branch is very nice and I love the staff and selections but bigger is always better with indie bookstores! Try to hit Book Culture LIC if you can one day--it's a huge 2-level affair.
	12:04pm Sem: Hello, David, and all aboard. Love me some banjo tunes from the Continent.
	🚂 12:04pm YETI BOB: Hey everybody! Nice to be here.
	12:04pm Ike: As someone who remembers the days when Borders Books ran rampant across the American landscape, "huge" isn't the first word that would come to mind for Word JC. So it's bigger than the one in Brooklyn then?
	🚂 12:04pm βrian: Well, there is a certain louche appeal to the Drummer Stream sometimes. No FCC informers will mess with ya.
	🚂 12:05pm WR: welcome to the drummer stream Threemoons. and hello to all the familiar and friendly avatars.
	🚂 12:05pm Handy Haversack: Lisa, chresti, Carmichael, Bas, Ike, and David in the Smoke! Ike, I see what you're saying about Harrow and was confused for a while but trusted the process -- and once the reveal happened was quite taken with the device. I want to reread Gideon and Harrow back to back -- and want also to reread the Baru Cormorant books in order now that the last is come out.
	🚂 12:05pm Threemoons: More "before times" fun--go to PS1, peruse bookstore and award-winning periodicals section there, have a drink there, go to Xian Famous Foods (which burned to the ground right before the pandemic alas) and then go across the street to Book Culture. Finish up with a drink at Domine's Hoek LIC. Sigh.
	12:05pm David Dichelle: And hello Fred, Sem, Yeti Bob, WR, and βrian!
	🚂 12:05pm David (in London): Semulator, Count Yeti Bob, Brian.
	12:06pm Really Lisa: David (iL), poured, handing out, and raising glass! Hi Handy :)
	12:06pm Stanley: Whay-hey everyone. (Makes undignified entrance waving six pack of cans) I'm here!
	12:06pm Ike: Wow @3M, which Xian Famous Foods location burned down? I hope the others are all surviving.
	🚂 12:06pm βrian: I almost worked at Border's when there was only one. It was a great store.
	12:07pm Ike: Oh I guess that must be LIC, duh. Need another cup of tea, I'm a little slow today.
	🚂 12:07pm YETI BOB: Hey Stanley, I'll have one of those beers.
	12:08pm Stanley: Yeti - they are a bit shook up but very, very cold.
	12:08pm David Dichelle: Stanley, that is the best kind of entrance!
	12:09pm Stanley: Hi David - it's the mood I'm in today.
	🚂 12:09pm Handy Haversack: Ike, yes, huge in comparison to Greenpoint's. Hey, Stanley! Interesting piece on the Glenfinnan monument in the Guardian today. I remember seeing it first in 2009 when there was no visitor center or anything and the Harry Potter tourism was just starting up. And, er, I'll take a can.
	🚂 12:09pm Threemoons: May I please ask an embarassing question? I only see the schedule for the "main" WFMU programming...is there a page that shows the schedule for GDR, Sheena's Jungle Room, etc? Can't seem to find it in my sleep-deprived state. Help please!
	🚂 12:09pm David (in London): Stanley, can do you me a light & bitter?
	🚂 12:09pm chresti: Cheers David in London! Thanks Carmichael, that's me in horror seeing the camera/flash bulb for the first time in a photo booth.
	12:10pm Sem: Hello, DavidiL. Very much enjoyed the Numan piece. Thx for that. Oh, oh, Stanley is in a mood.
	🚂 12:10pm Threemoons: @Ike, yeah, LIC--fire started in the Italian place next door IIRC and spread, propane tanks blew, and pyrotechnics ensued. Luckily nobody was hurt.
	🚂 12:10pm dutchtheo: Hello David and travellers, on the bumpy road and the smooth subway
	12:11pm David Dichelle: Hey there Dutchtheo!
	12:11pm Ike: @3M@12:09, others have been puzzled by this as well. The schedule pages do exist, but it's always hard to find the links.
	12:11pm David Dichelle: Threemoons: For the Drummer schedule: wfmu.org...
	🚂 12:11pm Threemoons: VIVA ESTONIA! Thanks for this BTW.
	12:12pm David Dichelle: Or just wfmu.org/drummer
	12:12pm David Dichelle: My pleasure!
	🚂 12:12pm Threemoons: @David but how would I get there from the wfmu.org main page? Is there a comprehensive programming list? Thanks!
	12:13pm monkeyz: hello there david! found the bathtub in the train and enjoyed music in the bath.
	🚂 12:13pm chresti: I signed up for the daily drummer schedule e-mail.
	12:13pm Phillippe Bastille: Hey David, everyone. Checking in for a minute, sad to say I have to hop back off at the next station
	🚂 12:13pm Handy Haversack: Threemoons, hover over "Listen" and then over "Drummer Stream," and the schedule link appears.
	🚂 12:14pm David (in London): Hey Phillippe. Sem, thanks for that. Glad you enjoyed it.
	🚂 12:14pm Threemoons: Fun fact about the character "õ"--it's a vowel unique to spoken Estonian; it is in no other language on Earth. Hard to explain how it sounds--tongue against the back teeth but clear of front teeth; kind of pronounced like the long middle e in "Eeeew"
	🚂 12:14pm Threemoons: @Handy thank you!
	🚂 12:15pm chresti: Happy New Year, David D, and everyone I missed in the last few days!
	12:15pm Stanley: Thanks Handy, I didn't catch that. But let's remember a huge portion of 18th-19th century Scottish wealth was based on the plantations in the West Indies and America. The article makes it look like that's 'news'!
	12:16pm Stanley: A cheap lager, David? No problem, coming up.
	12:17pm Ike: @3M, I get the vague impression that there have been discussions behind the scenes about that front-page layout vis-a-vis the schedules. The other two stream schedules, for those who prefer direct links: wfmu.org... wfmu.org...
	🚂 12:17pm Threemoons: @Handy not getting a popup??
	🚂 12:17pm YETI BOB: it's hard to find the schedules for the side streams. i've spent a long time searching the site for these
	🚂 12:17pm WR: wfmu.org... the listen section near the top of this page has "info" links to the alt stream schedules and the broadcast stream in the programming section.
	🚂 12:17pm Threemoons: @Ike, thanks, I hope that they make a better consolidated schedule.
	🚂 12:17pm YETI BOB: at the top of the playlist it says "Thursdays Noon - 3pm (EST) \| On WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio" - that link will take you to the schedule
	🚂 12:18pm Handy Haversack: I think the news is that the NTS will actually incorporate that into its exhibits. This is NOT how public monuments tend to get treated here, Stanley. Especially not ones with so much romantic attachment to them.
	🚂 12:18pm YETI BOB: but I think this could be made a bit easier to find - it's becoming an FAQ
	🚂 12:19pm Threemoons: Aaah thx.
	12:19pm StringOFperils: This statue is kind of bugging me > www.theguardian.com...
	12:19pm Stanley: Handy - yeah, context is always welcome.
	12:20pm StringOFperils: More money flushed down the loo.
	12:20pm Hubig Pie: Another folk song with a happy ending? Mon Dieu !
	🚂 12:21pm Threemoons: @String ugh. I lived in London 88-89 and I remember just how much awful homophobic dust she kicked up.
	12:21pm David Dichelle: Hey there, Monkeyz, Phillippe, String, and Hubig!
	12:21pm Stanley: I agree, String. If it was privately paid for that's a different matter. All together now "I'm in love with Margaret Thatcher etc"
	🚂 12:22pm YETI BOB: My guess for this week's Random Road: Singapore (still can't believe Handy got it right last week!)
	12:22pm StringOFperils: So many people sleeping rough these days, with a pandemic on top of it. It's an obscenity fire.
	12:23pm spodiodi: greetings, David and bonnie buddies
	12:23pm StringOFperils: Anyway.....the music....right....sigh
	12:23pm David Dichelle: Salutations Spodi!
	🚂 12:23pm Handy Haversack: Brand Niue, baby! Going back to the Gambia, though.
	🚂 12:24pm David (in London): My Random Road guess this week is Chile. Yo again Spod.
	🚂 12:25pm Handy Haversack: Yo, spodi. Another day!
	12:26pm Stanley: Burkina Faso is my punt this week
	12:26pm Really Lisa: Guessing already! I was looking at work 🤔hmmm, Peru.
	🚂 12:27pm Bas NL: My guess is Senegal. Has a nice all around view of Gambia.. ;)
	🚂 12:28pm Carmichael: I will say Egypt.
	🚂 12:28pm Handy Haversack: Gotta go sit in the car for half an hour and relieve Kate. Glad I got to hear Jean Redpath first!
	12:28pm Sem: Gaucho music from Pierra del Fuego.
	🚂 12:29pm βrian: Today's pandemic lunch is chili con pescado with skillet corn bread.
	12:29pm Hubig Pie: Cotton Eyed Joe got nuttin' on The Rantin' Laddie
	🚂 12:29pm Threemoons: @Handy what are you doing in the car?
	12:29pm Phillippe Bastille: I'm gonna go with Grenada again.
	🚂 12:30pm David (in London): Wee laddie for a palfrey..
	🚂 12:30pm Threemoons: @Brian I have the end of skillet cornbread and porky collards with pot liquor waiting for later
	12:30pm Really Lisa: 4 fer 4 on the Rouds.. all so nice!
	12:31pm Lewis: Been quite some time since I have heard and Gordon Bok...
	12:31pm David Dichelle: Glad you liked the selection, Lisa!
	12:32pm spodiodi: Threemoons, guessing he and K8 are guarding the car from street-cleaning ticket police
	12:33pm David Dichelle: Greetings, Lewis!
	🚂 12:34pm chresti: Still morning here, by lunchtime I'll be at work to cover a co-worker's afternoon shift at the tennis courts.
	🚂 12:35pm βrian: So car-sitting must be a niche job nowadays. In the NYC area, anyway.
	🚂 12:36pm Threemoons: @Spodiodi ah.
	🚂 12:36pm Threemoons: @Brian if I didn't hate the idea of getting up before dawn, I could probably make a tidy sum on the side moving people's cars in the AM....hmmm....idea...
	12:39pm Hubig Pie: And on that note I'm inspired to pick Senegal for this week's installment of Random Roads
	🚂 12:40pm Threemoons: This is gorgeous.
	12:42pm WillCrete: Thanks David for this trip into Rantin' Laddie / Lord Aboyne! Really beautiful to move through the facets of a ballad in this kind of sequence. Glad to be tuning in and to learn that this kind of treatment of the ballads is a weekly feature here! Gonna have to check back into the archives for sure to catch on up! I've been making my way through singing the ballad tunes recorded Bronson’s volume “The traditional tunes of the Child ballads” over the past few months at home, and loved listening in to the variations in those you just presented. Thanks!
	12:45pm spodiodi: i think there's a Seainfeld episode where George does just that, βrian and Threemoons.... it's also horrible in San Francisco (besides street cleaning, there's also a rule that requires moving a car every 72 hours, though that one isn't as strictly enforced (unless someone complains) i had a great spot for that.) i don't miss that *having moved out of the city in October) -- it's nice to have a driveway again
	12:45pm spodiodi: Seinfeld*
	12:46pm spodiodi: yup "The Alternate SIde" en.wikipedia.org...
	12:46pm David Dichelle: WillCrete: Thanks so much for your kind words - I hope you enjoy the other installments. Your project also sounds very interesting - do you perform the songs elsewhere as well?
	🚂 12:46pm βrian: Homer: "M'Bira!"
	🚂 12:47pm Threemoons: @Spodiodi I feel blessed that I was able to sell my last car back in '95. My brother, who used to live on Douglass Street in Brooklyn, needed a car for work. His employer said that they would pay for up to 3 parking tickets a month. My brother was running up 3 alternate side tickets a WEEK.
	🚂 12:48pm Threemoons: Another booming niche economy right here in Astoria--people who rent a level of a multi-family house that has a garage but don't have a car--they sell off their parking space on a monthly basis. If a key is needed, usually the LL gets a cut also.
	12:48pm Really Lisa: Lol, spodi re Seinfel, and hi. There is! He fills in for the guy who normally does it. Chaos ensues.. also the 'these pretzels are making me thirsty' episode.
	12:49pm Really Lisa: oops *Seinfeld
	🚂 12:50pm βrian: Most houses in my area have a garage, but few use them for cars.
	12:50pm spodiodi: wow, that must have really gotten expensive quickly, Threemoons! I didn't need a car in the city, and didn't have one most of the 25 years i spent there (motorcycles and scooters are much better :) though, i was glad to have it when we moved (and had found a spot where i could let my car sit for weeks, months, even over a year once(!) -- on a really steep hill without street cleaning)
	12:51pm spodiodi: aloha, Lisa :) that's right, that is the same episode as the pretzels!
	12:53pm spodiodi: haha The New York Post listed the "pretzels" line as one of "Seinfeld's 25 greatest contributions to the English language." ... clap clap clap
	🚂 12:54pm Bas NL: keeps upping volume
	12:57pm fred: Alternate side parking also plays a key part in Infinite Jest
	🚂 12:58pm WR: Garifuna; Belize.
	12:58pm David Dichelle: Bas: Some songs just feel better louder.
	12:59pm Stanley: Got the fire lit. It's going down to -9c tonight (15f)
	🚂 12:59pm Bas NL: Even better!! Fantastic selections, David! ;)
	🚂 1:00pm Handy Haversack: Gets chilly when you're just sitting around! What'd I miss?
	1:00pm David Dichelle: Thanks, Bas!
	1:00pm spodiodi: Belize <3
	1:00pm spodiodi: wb, Handy!
	1:01pm David Dichelle: Stanley: We're thankfully stuck at around 0°C here, day and night.
	🚂 1:01pm Handy Haversack: @fred, I think about that scene in Infinite Jest every time. Thanks, spodi!
	1:02pm Stanley: That's not bad, David, compared to what it can be round your way.
	1:02pm doctorjazz: Hi commuters!
	1:02pm David Dichelle: Hey there Dr. J.!
	1:03pm spodiodi: hi doctorjazz! nice pic! how'd it go?
	🚂 1:04pm Threemoons: @David D--One of the hidden pleasures of a really old NYC apartment is the blasting steam heat...
	1:04pm David Dichelle: Stanley: True enough, the past few winters have been relatively mild, though.
	1:04pm Sylvia (France-NYC): Hi David, riders
	1:05pm David Dichelle: Threemoons: I remember those old steam radiators, haven't thought about it in years.
	1:05pm David Dichelle: Hello, Sylvia!
	🚂 1:05pm Handy Haversack: Gotta make some lunch. Steam heat full on for now ... until it isn't ...
	1:06pm WillCrete: @Hi David- I’ve just been singing a ballad for 30 or so minutes each evening while putting our 2 month old daughter to bed. The long ballads with their repeated melodies seem beautifully suited for that kind of zone…. even if some of the subject / thematic matter might be a bit intense and heavy, to put it lightly, ha! (Bronson’s book is kind of the musical companion to Child’s work, collecting all the known transcriptions and published melodies associated with a given ballad). Last night was am 18 stanza version of “Babylon, Child no 14.,first published in 1827 in Kinloch’s Ancient Scottish Ballads as “The Duke of Perth’s Three Daughters. Broson’s work assembling all these materials is great and deeply scholarly, but no doubt it would be lovely to have a physically smaller edition which was laid out for actual use by singers, with the melody notation and text consistently on the same page, and perhaps some nice illustrations as well to make the page look pretty for the kids to look at… but as far as I know, no one has ever published such a thing).
	1:06pm spodiodi: hi Sylvia!
	🚂 1:08pm dutchtheo: My two cents bet is also in West Africa, Benin/Dahomey...
	🚂 1:09pm Threemoons: Cutting out for a sec to hear Heather Cox Richardson live: www.facebook.com...
	1:11pm David Dichelle: Will: That is a lovely idea, and of course she won't be too upset by any of the more gruesome tales for a while anyway. I think we had Child 14 as Roud 27, quite a while back.
	🚂 1:12pm Carmichael: Do you have 14 children David?!
	🚂 1:16pm David (in London): Hey Sylvia. Stanley - It's even brass monkeys down here in The Smoke, so it must be bitter up your way.
	1:18pm Stanley: David - it's supposed to warm up from Sunday.
	🚂 1:20pm Handy Haversack: Cyrillic also likely to make it hard to clicky-star if in the Title field.
	🚂 1:20pm WR: David, greatly appreciate your handling of the many languages in the playlist and your back announcements.
	1:21pm spodiodi: David, finally got to reading your Numan story. very nice! i had no idea Bowie had dissed him. and i only had to look up a few words. enjoyed reading it very much. thanks again for sharing!
	1:21pm spodiodi: (^in London)
	🚂 1:23pm YETI BOB: @dutchtheo - speaking of Benin, this is a fantastic album "Legends of Benin" analogafrica.bandcamp.com... - have you heard it?
	1:23pm David Dichelle: Handy: Yes, I noticed that at one point as well.
	🚂 1:24pm chresti: Carmichael, working long hours again?
	1:24pm David Dichelle: WR: Thanks, I do my best in any case.
	🚂 1:26pm David (in London): Hey Spod, thanks for that man. Very glad you liked it.
	🚂 1:26pm Carmichael: @chresti, nope, back to normal hours. We're buried in PPE and COVID related cleaning services, so my workload has greatly decreased.
	🚂 1:30pm chresti: That's good. Not understaffed? Seems like a lot of tennis employees are not coming to work, mostly because they have kids, I think.
	🚂 1:32pm Carmichael: My entire staff is at home.
	1:40pm coelacanth∅: good evening David good whatever all
	1:40pm David Dichelle: A very good afternoon to you, Coel!
	1:41pm David Dichelle: We're tracing that Eastern European oft-covered song back to its roots over the next three tracks.
	🚂 1:42pm Handy Haversack: Yo, coela!
	1:43pm spodiodi: hola coela!
	🚂 1:44pm David (in London): Hey Coela.
	1:46pm Really Lisa: So, David, a new segment.. Random Roots?
	🚂 1:48pm dutchtheo: @YETI BOB 1:23, Yes! my guess was a wish in disguise!
	1:48pm David Dichelle: Random Rouds, Roots, and Roads could be the name of the show.
	1:49pm coelacanth∅: hey Handy! spodi!! David!!!
	🚂 1:49pm Handy Haversack: Maybe throw in some Roods while we're about it.
	1:50pm doctorjazz: Hey, Spodiodi, it was just fine, I didn't have any problems (that's me receiving the 1st dose of the COVID vaccine). Some people did have flu-like symptoms for a day, but I got away easy.
	🚂 1:50pm chresti: Thanks David! Later all youse peepo!
	1:50pm David Dichelle: Thanks, Chresti, take care!
	1:51pm David Dichelle: This one is actually a random rose, or milliion...
	1:51pm coelacanth∅: this is Lovely ...later on chresti
	🚂 1:51pm Handy Haversack: Bye, chresti!
	🚂 1:52pm βrian: Hasta la proxima, chresti.
	1:52pm David Dichelle: This is the Latvian original.
	1:52pm Stanley: Byfa chresti
	1:52pm spodiodi: until next time, chresti! \\//
	🚂 1:52pm Handy Haversack: Nice, doctorjazz!
	1:52pm coelacanth∅: are those < wild multiflora roses? are they invasive there, as in the us? (my guess would be yes, because they're probably introduced from asia)
	1:54pm David Dichelle: Well, crimson roses, according to the Russian version in any case. We have raccoons in the woods here now, speaking of bioglobalization.
	1:54pm spodiodi: i'm glad it went well, doc. one of the three nurses in my family (at least) have gotten theirs as well, and also didn't have a bad reaction. concerned for my other family (who aren't nurses, but facing big risks daily) too. anyway, nice on yours. must be a good feeling
	1:55pm David Dichelle: Or scarlet.
	1:55pm David Dichelle: Glad you could get vaccinated, Doctorjazz!
	1:58pm coelacanth∅: not the same then, as the ones i often deal with/get assaulted by -which have white flowers
	🚂 1:58pm Handy Haversack: Nice song that! My friend the nurse has been jabbed, and my buddy whose A/V union was forced into frontline work by the university, checking in and admining the COVID testing for all the on-campus students and staff.
	2:03pm Stanley: Drum roll......
	2:04pm Stanley: Zimbabwe!
	🚂 2:05pm Carmichael: Mrs. Carmichael got both shots, as she works at UC Davis Med Center. Then she retired!
	🚂 2:05pm Bas NL: Zimbabwe! Interesting!
	🚂 2:05pm Handy Haversack: Burkina Faso closest?
	2:06pm Stanley: Handy - I think Benin, who had that?
	🚂 2:06pm David (in London): Zimbabwe? I think you've made a mistake, David. It's actually Chile.
	2:07pm Stanley: I'm a big fan of Thomas Mapfumo
	2:07pm Phillippe Bastille: My wife got vaccinated yesterday. They were doing a vaccination at the firehouse near us and had several doses left over and sent out an offer for any Phase 1B-eligible people to use them up. I think they have a short shelf life and can't be refrozen.
	2:07pm David Dichelle: David: Southern Hemisphere bonus points!
	2:07pm Phillippe Bastille: Isn't Grenada near Zimbabwe? Like, on the same planet?
	2:08pm David Dichelle: Phillippe: They both have colorful flags.
	2:09pm Phillippe Bastille: Well there ya go, then!
	2:09pm Really Lisa: Peru here. I'll take some southern hemi points, not too proud.
	2:10pm Phillippe Bastille: I mean, this SOUNDS kind of Caribbean if you haven't really listened to Caribbean music before.
	🚂 2:10pm Handy Haversack: dutchtheo had Benin!
	2:10pm spodiodi: that's great, Phillipe
	🚂 2:10pm dutchtheo: Mbira coming! Well Benin <> Zimbabwe is still 4000km
	🚂 2:10pm Threemoons: Back! Sorry I had to step out...catching up now.
	2:11pm David Dichelle: Lisa: Absolutely!
	2:11pm coelacanth∅: Love Love Love Thomas Mapfumo! now i'm hoping you play a certain song by the new black eagles...Robson Banda? it's been too long for that one ...but what are the chances? there's so much great music from that part of the world
	🚂 2:12pm Michael 98145: -whew- made it!
	2:13pm Stanley: Some Jit-Jive music from dem Bhundus (here's hoping)
	2:13pm coelacanth∅: (and i forget the song name but it's the first track on one of the zimbabwe frontline comps)
	2:13pm Stanley: The Four Brothers- famously described by John Peel as the best band in the world.
	2:14pm David Dichelle: Hey there, Michael!
	2:16pm David Dichelle: Stanley: Yes, I read the same, or the best live band at least. They must have been impressive in any case.
	🚂 2:16pm Brian in UK: Hello David & Covid dodgers. Stanley, the Four Brothers played y John Peel's birthday, much to his sirprise.
	2:17pm David Dichelle: Good evening, Brian!
	2:21pm David Dichelle: Here's that mbira.
	🚂 2:21pm YETI BOB: aah, just got out of a meeting, glad to catch the rest of the hour
	2:22pm Webhamster Henry: That's some deep mbira-ing.
	🚂 2:23pm YETI BOB: At a lecture demonstration I once attended in Seattle, Washington, Dumisani Maraire, a visiting artist from Zimbabwe, walked onto the stage carrying a round- box resonator with a fifteen-key instrument inside. He turned toward the audi- ence and raised the round-box over his head. “What is this?” he called out. There was no response. “All right,” he said, “it is an mbira; M-B-I-R-A. Now what did I say it was?” A few people replied, “Mbira; it is an mbira.” Most of the audience sat still in puzzlement. “What is it?” Maraire repeated, as if slightly annoyed. More people called out, “Mbira.” “Again,” Maraire insisted. “Mbira!” returned the audience. “Again!” he shouted. When the auditorium echoed with “Mbira,” Maraire laughed out loud. “All right,” he said with good-natured sarcasm, “that is the way the Christian missionaries taught me to say ‘piano.’ ” Paul F. Berliner, The soul of mbira.
	🚂 2:23pm Brian in UK: Late arrival due to painting diversions. Thomas M was set to play WOMAD a few years back, really looking forward to see him; he could not get a visa because the authorities thought he would not leave. Bastards.
	🚂 2:24pm dutchtheo: psychic @12:46βrian: Homer: "M'Bira!"
	2:24pm David Dichelle: It is indeed, Henry!
	2:26pm coelacanth∅: haha Yeti Bob ... stickin' it to the missionaries! (they deserve worse than ridicule)
	2:26pm doctorjazz: Glad I got dose 1, another month for dose 2. Still have to do all the regular stuff (masks, etc), but being with folks all the time does make me (and my family) nervous.
	🚂 2:28pm Bas NL: Great story @Yeti Bob!
	2:28pm coelacanth∅: Brian he never stayed before! seems like bullshit to me
	🚂 2:28pm βrian: @BUK: Landscape or wallscape?
	🚂 2:29pm Michael 98145: @Yeti Bob, saw Dumi many times back in the day
	2:29pm Stanley: Classic Dorothy Masuka
	🚂 2:30pm Michael 98145: loving this
	🚂 2:30pm YETI BOB: That story is from Paul F. Berliner, "The soul of mbira." But I came across it in a book called "Music: A Mathematical Offering" where the mbira is analyzed from a physics/acoustics perspective. I've never seen the Berliner book.
	2:30pm David Dichelle: We're now in the Ndebele (Southern Zimbabwe) part of the segment.
	🚂 2:30pm Brian in UK: @βrian figurative, I could not figure it out.
	2:31pm doctorjazz: It's a great segment!
	2:31pm Stanley: There was once a restaurant called Ndebele in Edinburgh Neat, eh?
	2:31pm David Dichelle: Yeti Bob: Sounds fascinating. Is the book accessible to laypeople?
	🚂 2:31pm YETI BOB: maybe I should check it out - looks like it's available press.uchicago.edu...
	2:32pm David Dichelle: Thanks, Doctorjazz!
	2:32pm coelacanth∅: this sounds like soweto to me
	2:33pm Stanley: ..or even Kwazulu
	2:33pm David Dichelle: Yes, Ndebele is much closer to Zulu.
	🚂 2:33pm YETI BOB: There's a free PDF version of the math/music book on the author's website: homepages.abdn.ac.uk...
	2:34pm David Dichelle: Thanks, YB, looks like quite a tome!
	🚂 2:34pm YETI BOB: You can take a look and see if it's accessible to you. But I think it would help to be familiar with a bit of calculus and differential equations to get much out of it. There are cool pictures and quotes throughout.
	🚂 2:37pm YETI BOB: To be clear, those links are two different books - first one about mbira, which I haven't read (yet) and second one about music and math which is the free PDF.
	2:38pm coelacanth∅: i confess i did not know this aspect of zimbabwean music. it makes sense actually but i never thought about it and if i've heard it i didn't look into it
	2:39pm doctorjazz: Just love this stuff!!!
	2:39pm coelacanth∅: (the last 2. ...this is a style i know)
	2:40pm David Dichelle: Yes, we're back in Northern Zimbabwe now.
	2:40pm Stanley: Such sweet Sungura sounds from Simon Chembetu.
	2:40pm David Dichelle: (Where Shona is most spoken)
	2:42pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks, @YETI BOB - this probably goes well with the William Sethares book "Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale".
	2:42pm Stanley: It's hard sometimes to figure out which region of Africa style inluenced others and vice versa
	🚂 2:44pm Handy Haversack: @Webhamster H, you probably already know, but Dave Soldier is publishing Music, Math, and Mind soon. I have been working on the page proofs.
	🚂 2:45pm Brian in UK: We have a sick chicken for the last few days. Still eating so that is a good sign.
	🚂 2:47pm Brian in UK: David, great set, how could it not be.
	2:47pm Webhamster Henry: @Handy Dave and I are old microtonal pals, so I'll have to look out for it!
	2:49pm David Dichelle: Thanks, Brian. I must admit it was somewhat less of a challenge this week.
	2:49pm Webhamster Henry: Meanwhile, thanks for the Zimbabwe, @DD!
	🚂 2:51pm Bas NL: Yes, excellent Zimbabwe collection, David!
	2:51pm David Dichelle: My great pleasure as always, WH!
	2:51pm David Dichelle: Thanks, Bas!
	🚂 2:52pm βrian: Finally saw Chicken Run, apropos. Who knew chickens could be so entertaining?
	2:52pm Really Lisa: Thank you, David, another treat of a show. Peace, all.
	2:53pm spodiodi: thanks for the ride, David. the 🇿🇼 sounded great!
	2:53pm Stanley: Cracking set, David. Thanks again for a wonderful show. Take care all.
	🚂 2:53pm Handy Haversack: I was pretty excited to announce dibs on the production editing, @Webhamster H. Cover or interior blurbs (endorsements) from John Cale, Peter Gabriel, Van Dyke Parks. I told publicity to ask People Like Us also, but no one listens to me. Thanks, David! Random Road, Roots, Roods, Roses, and Revels has been an absolute blast! Glad to have been along for the ride. Be well, Voyageurs!
	🚂 2:53pm dutchtheo: Thanks, David, Had that eighties John Peel vibe!
	2:53pm spodiodi: peace, Lisa, all
	🚂 2:53pm David (in London): Thanks for a great show again today David.
	🚂 2:54pm WR: thank you David! Onward!
	🚂 2:54pm Threemoons: Thank you so much for this, and for the good times in chat!
	2:56pm Stanley: or thumb piano
	2:58pm Funky16Corners: Hey David! I’m late, but here!
	2:58pm Phillippe Bastille: Thanks David!
	🚂 2:59pm Michael 98145: Thanks again, David D. No riot on THIS subway.
	🚂 3:00pm Bas NL: большая щелкающая звезда!
	3:00pm David Dichelle: Thanks, Stanley, thumb piano is probably what I was looking for.
	3:00pm David Dichelle: And thanks everyone!
	3:19pm coelacanth∅: Thanks David!

Continental Subway with David Dichelle: Playlist from January 7, 2021

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