WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from December 9, 2021

Listener comments!
	5:56pm Flash Strap: Hello Explorers!
	🥁 6:53pm chresti: Hi Flash and X-plorers!
	6:56pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti!
	🥁 6:58pm Aitch: Welcome back
	7:01pm Flash Strap: Hi Aitch! Thank you, so glad to be back
	7:01pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Flash and all!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi James!
	7:03pm Scott67: G'day Evan & Explorers! 😎🤙🔎🌏☀️
	7:03pm Flash Strap: G'day Scott!
	7:03pm melinda: hi friends! ready for Italian library
	7:04pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	🥁 7:05pm WR: Take the Farm?
	7:06pm Flash Strap: almost always love a library-style take 5 mutation but this one is extra good
	7:06pm Flash Strap: Hi WR! yeah exactly
	🥁 7:07pm Will the Sound Guy: Hi Evan and all!!! listening while doing work in my basement
	7:07pm Flash Strap: a lovely exotica sound on this one
	7:08pm doctorjazz: Hello Flash, Flashsteroons!
	7:08pm Flash Strap: Hi Will! Hi Doc!
	7:10pm Little Danny: welcome back flash! i'm already taking notes!
	7:10pm Flash Strap: some great cover art in the SR catalog, some very enticing and mysterious presentations
	7:11pm Flash Strap: Hi LD! haha look at this new avatar, you're gorgeous
	7:11pm Little Danny: thanks evan, it's a whole new me!
	🥁 7:12pm Aitch: Toe tappers
	7:13pm Flash Strap: yeah we're coming out the gate rompin' and rollicking
	7:14pm Flash Strap: about to hit the Muraglie Di Ghiaccio though – "walls of ice"
	7:15pm Flash Strap: really cool, this chilly exotica vocal
	🥁 7:16pm WR: these album covers and titles all seem very specific in the sound and mood. One I'm not sure what to expect from is Rebus.
	7:17pm Flash Strap: yeah Rebus is mysterious, I think it means puzzle... but in latin i think it means "thing"
	7:19pm Flash Strap: does this track convey to you an octagon? i get more hexagon vibes i think
	🥁 7:25pm Aitch: I keep expecting to hear The Specials break into Ghost Town
	7:28pm Flash Strap: ha yeah i know what you mean
	7:28pm Flash Strap: man i haven't heard that song in years
	🥁 7:28pm WR: wow. some essence of Morricone and spaghetti western
	7:29pm Flash Strap: @WR: definitely. and of course one of the big heavy hitters of the evening, Alessandroni, is the actual whistler on those Morricone Westerns
	7:30pm Flash Strap: very likely Alessandroni whistling on this Zito in fact
	7:30pm Little Danny: wow i had no idea that alessandroni was the whistler
	🥁 7:31pm WR: Then hopping over to baroque and Nina Rota leaning?
	7:33pm Flash Strap: @LD: yeah man Alessandroni is like a secret weapon for the whole scene
	7:33pm Flash Strap: @WR: Miscellanea is a pretty stunning collection, a grand microcosm of the italian sound
	7:35pm Flash Strap: some of these records tonight are so good, it was a real braintwister to narrow down what tracks to play
	7:36pm quinn: very good music to be playing while my son reads a book three feet from the speakers
	7:37pm Little Danny: yeah flash the more i hear by alessandroni the more i see his name all over the '70s italian session scene
	7:37pm Flash Strap: Hi Quinn! I love being a part of your son's life this way
	🥁 7:38pm WR: Most of these have sparse instrumentation. Drums mixed up front, but not played loud. The instruments used to paint the sound picture. Only playing when needed. Not musicians playing a tune. Small combo orchestration.
	7:39pm Flash Strap: @LD: whenever i hear a really good nasty soaring guitar on italian library stuff i wonder if it's Alessandroni too
	7:39pm Little Danny: totally!!! his 'rock' stuff always sounds so massive
	7:40pm Little Danny: love this btw
	7:40pm Little Danny: unexpected trending of omicron in 2021 huh
	🥁 7:41pm chresti: Hi Little Danny! Do you have a shawl or pancho to put on in case it gets chilly?
	🥁 7:42pm chresti: Apparently fully vaxxed people catch it
	🥁 7:44pm chresti: Ha omicron is the bed music.
	7:44pm Little Danny: my furs are always at hand, chresti
	🥁 7:45pm chresti: Excellent, LD
	7:51pm Flash Strap: @LD: yeah I figured I had to come hot out the gate with my trusty Omicron bed music
	7:53pm ParUbi: Hey there
	7:53pm Flash Strap: Hi ParUbi!
	7:55pm Ike: Better than copper robots fighting in a sack!
	7:56pm Flash Strap: Hi Ike!
	7:59pm melinda: I think Morricone Island has done an Alessandroni show
	8:00pm Flash Strap: Oh i bet!
	🥁 8:01pm chresti: Hey ParUbi Ike, When I first started my job at the tennis courts in 2007-8, thieves would steal copper wires and plumbing parts, when the price went up.
	8:01pm TDK60: What's happening, Flash?
	8:01pm Flash Strap: Hi TDK!
	8:03pm ParUbi: Hey chresti and everyone and flash
	8:04pm melinda: hi Ubi
	8:04pm melinda: nice Christmas vibe
	🥁 8:05pm chresti: Morricone Island is great, Melinda
	8:05pm Flash Strap: Alessandroni seems to love to do these vocal arrangements, a major mode of his
	🥁 8:06pm chresti: What's the word, TDK60\\//
	8:09pm HyperDose: So classy and refined!
	8:10pm Flash Strap: Hi Hyperdose! why thank you
	8:10pm passiflora: thank you
	8:11pm Flash Strap: Why hello Passiflora!
	🥁 8:12pm chresti: I'm pretty gassed about the half inches of rain today
	8:13pm Flash Strap: We also heard this on the last show – the De Sade album was first released on SR and later on Gemelli
	8:14pm Flash Strap: this track so nice I'm playing it twice but we'll hear some fresher selections after
	8:14pm TDK60: \\// Hi chresti. Glad you all got rain.
	8:14pm Flash Strap: Also glad about the rain!
	🥁 8:15pm Aitch: Hammering down in Sydney, but it's warm.
	8:20pm Flash Strap: Malitious Classic a very weird LP, all baroque themes but with a heavy banjo-saxophone emphasis
	8:22pm Flash Strap: frankly bizarre cover art on this one: img.discogs.com...
	🥁 8:23pm Aitch: What's Italian for ooh la la? Or creepy??
	8:24pm HyperDose: Well experience is crucial!
	8:24pm Flash Strap: seems to be trying to evoke a teen sex comedy & misfiring into creepy in the same way that most of those tend to do
	8:25pm Little Danny: love that description flash!
	🥁 8:25pm Aitch: JeffreyEpstein Airplane
	8:30pm Flash Strap: up next the mysterious REBUS
	8:32pm Flash Strap: cover of rebus is a detail of Fighting Forms by Franz Marc: www.franzmarc.org...
	8:35pm Flash Strap: i know i've heard this track used in something but can't identify what
	8:41pm doctorjazz: Time to hear out, really did the sounds, Thanks, Flash!
	8:41pm Flash Strap: dig ya later Doctor! thanks for hanging out
	8:46pm Flash Strap: cover of this one a detail of Les Disques by Fernand Léger : uploads4.wikiart.org...
	8:56pm melinda: such amazing whistling
	8:58pm Flash Strap: truly!
	8:59pm Flash Strap: cover of Echoing America a detail of a Romanesque fresco at the St. Jakob in Kastelaz church, Tramin, Italy: www.culturacattolica.it...
	9:03pm HyperDose: Walking the dog 🎸
	9:04pm Flash Strap: hell yeah, dog walkin' music
	9:06pm TDK60: I noticed Rev.RabbitNov63 has dropped from the boards of late. He sometimes has wi-fi out.
	9:06pm Flash Strap: VERY special album, Musica Ed Elettronica
	9:06pm Little Danny: this is amazing!
	🥁 9:07pm Aitch: Something bad about to happen vibes, but with aliens
	9:07pm Flash Strap: @LD: the second track I'll play from this sounds so much like slowed-down tape of Ferrante & Teicher
	9:07pm Flash Strap: @TDK: always miss Rev when he's away
	9:08pm Franco Twinkie: Hey Flash! I LOVE these peculiar sounds.
	9:09pm Flash Strap: Hi Franco! So glad!
	9:09pm Little Danny: oh wow yeah totally f&t
	9:09pm Little Danny: dang this is so good
	9:09pm Flash Strap: @Aitch: definitely being drawn further into the mothership
	9:10pm Flash Strap: @LD: i just die for it!
	9:10pm Franco Twinkie: Hi Danny! Getting myself into position for your take on peculiar.
	9:11pm Little Danny: hi franco thank you! peculiar is an excellent descriptor here
	9:15pm coelacanth∅: good evening Evan and Explorers
	9:16pm Flash Strap: Coelacanth! great to see you old fish
	9:17pm Flash Strap: almost a sven libaek sound on Flautiana
	9:18pm Flash Strap: LD played this Richiamo back in May 2021
	9:19pm melinda: I heard Sven too
	9:23pm Little Danny: man now i'm noticing whistling everywhere
	9:23pm Flash Strap: Città Notte is a tremendous LP from Macchi, very of a piece with his longer form avant-garde composition albums on the Gemelli label but a bit more listenable, so to speak. Hard to pick just one track but time made it a necessity. Will return to it for more someday
	9:24pm Little Danny: heya melinda!
	9:24pm melinda: this is so good
	9:24pm Flash Strap: @LD: yeah, basically no chance that's anyone but A.A.!
	9:27pm TDK60: Thoughts of Italy today. I heard director Lena Wertmuller passed. Then, DJ David Dichelle show's "Random Road" pick was Italy. Now this.
	9:27pm Flash Strap: Italian excellence everywhere you look
	9:28pm Flash Strap: every track on Nel Mondo Del Lavoro is so good
	9:30pm Flash Strap: each echo goes off on its own trajectory
	9:30pm Franco Twinkie: I saw Lena Wertmuller on The Dick Cavett show once. I thought she was nuts. Later, I saw her movies and I realized she was indeed nuts. But the right kind of nuts.
	9:32pm coelacanth∅: i decided to take a break from wrestling with something but now realise i might be able to get help, possibly, from one of you more experienced collectors... (i've collected records, but never considered myself a "record collector" because i never knew the technical aspects of it) ...do any of y'all know how to determine if a record is an acetate? obviously it's heavier than average... this one is heavy but not necessarily too heavy to be vinyl. ...it has just one hole. the back is textured -"columbia" (etc) ...
	9:32pm Flash Strap: I've never seen a Wertmuller film, need to correct this oversight
	9:33pm TDK60: Heehee Franco, yeah, the right kind of nut. I heard when Fellini died she showed up at the funeral in crutches from a fall, crying like a waterfall, shouting "Maestro!" "Maestro!"
	9:33pm HyperDose: Evening, Franco! grab a plate 🍋🌿🐟🔥
	9:34pm jimmytallow: LOVED that song
	9:34pm Flash Strap: there's an Umiliani track with a rhythm just like this one on Rotaie
	9:34pm Flash Strap: Hi Jimmy! me too friend
	9:35pm Flash Strap: @coelacanth: I don't know at all, sorry to be of no help, but I bet LD could help. he's way more pro than me
	9:37pm Flash Strap: Open Air Parade is so incredible, we'll spend some time in it
	9:37pm Little Danny: coela does it have a slightly odd smell? that's usually a tell
	9:37pm coelacanth∅: well Thanks anyway Evan i know you would if you could
	9:38pm coelacanth∅: LD really? -i'll try but...
	9:38pm Little Danny: yeah for real!
	9:39pm Little Danny: they're also heavier than their vinyl equivalents
	9:39pm Little Danny: oof just reread your post
	9:40pm Little Danny: i've really come to love these classically-informed acapella harmonies on italian library records
	9:41pm coelacanth∅: i can't smell anything. i lost much of my sense of smell earlier this year. ...but wouldn't a smell eventually stop emanating anyway? this is 60-70 years old, i think.
	9:41pm Flash Strap: me too, this is one of the best of its kind too I think
	9:42pm coelacanth∅: (my avatar is the back of it)
	9:42pm TDK60: Flash, do you think this Preludio may be influenced by the Swingle Singers?
	9:44pm Flash Strap: @TDK: you know, I don't know much about the Swingles. Very possibly!
	9:45pm TDK60: They sort of came up with a jazzy Bach vocal thing. French outfit.
	9:45pm coelacanth∅: sort of a slightly subdued swingles
	9:46pm Flash Strap: that much i know but i haven't listened much to them, i'd probably dig it
	🥁 9:48pm chresti: Shellac?
	9:48pm Dave M: This has been an amazingly good show.
	9:49pm Little Danny: yeah that looks like shellac
	9:49pm Flash Strap: insane slowed effect on Carovana, had to double check it actually appeared on the album at this speed
	9:49pm Flash Strap: Thanks Dave!
	9:50pm Little Danny: wow yeah this is incredible
	9:55pm TDK60: Appreciate your selections, Flash. Meticulously curated for our amusement and possibly education. Grazie, grazie.
	9:55pm coelacanth∅: isn't an acetate coated with shellac? (and therefore "a shellac"?)
	🥁 9:58pm Aitch: a fine ride thanks Evan
	9:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan!
	9:59pm Doug Schulkind: A tremendous effort, Admiral Flash! In other words, just another Thursday evening.
	9:59pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks Flash. I loved the vibe tonight.
	9:59pm Little Danny: thank you evan!!!
	10:00pm HyperDose: Thank you Evan, master of adventure!
	10:00pm Flash Strap: Thanks Doug! thanks everyone! See you next week and next door. Good night!
	🥁 10:02pm chresti: Whoa thanks Flash!
	10:03pm Scott67: Thanks Evan! ✌😎🤙

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from December 9, 2021

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December 9, 2021: Whistle Waves & Rebus Rhythms in the SR Library

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
Franco Tamponi	Dollar Story "Dollar Story" by "Franco Tamponi"	Ye Ye Beat	SR	196?	SR 02 Intermezzi series	0:01:42 (Pop-up)
Franco Tamponi	A Modern Farm "A Modern Farm" by "Franco Tamponi"	Ye Ye Beat	SR			0:03:18 (Pop-up)
Franco Tamponi	Black Queen "Black Queen" by "Franco Tamponi"	Ye Ye Beat	SR			0:05:50 (Pop-up)
Alessandro Alessandroni E Il Suo Complesso	Meccanico	Alessandro Alessandroni E Il Suo Complesso	SR	1968	SP 110	0:07:28 (Pop-up)
Alessandro Alessandroni E Il Suo Complesso	Psicodelico	Alessandro Alessandroni E Il Suo Complesso	SR			0:09:18 (Pop-up)
Alessandro Alessandroni E Il Suo Complesso	Gita A Milano	Alessandro Alessandroni E Il Suo Complesso	SR			0:11:24 (Pop-up)
Gino Marinuzzi Jr.	Muraglie Di Ghiaccio N.2	Muraglie Di Ghiaccio – Figure Geometriche	SR	1968	SP111	0:14:13 (Pop-up)
Gino Marinuzzi Jr.	Ottagono "Ottagono" by "Gino Marinuzzi Jr."	Muraglie Di Ghiaccio – Figure Geometriche	SR			0:17:14 (Pop-up)
I Marc 4	Mato Grosso "Mato Grosso" by "I Marc 4"	I Solisti Di Armando Trovajoli	SR	1968	SP 112	0:19:29 (Pop-up)
I Marc 4	Hyde Park "Hyde Park" by "I Marc 4"	I Solisti Di Armando Trovajoli	SR			0:21:19 (Pop-up)
Luigi Zito	Zolle Bruciate / Pinacoteca	Miscellanea	SR	1969	SP 113	0:25:09 (Pop-up)
Luigi Zito	Movimento "Movimento" by "Luigi Zito"	Miscellanea	SR			0:31:11 (Pop-up)
Luigi Zito	Misterioso Suspence "Misterioso Suspence" by "Luigi Zito"	Miscellanea	SR			0:32:14 (Pop-up)
C. Pes – Nuan	Beatrice "Beatrice" by "C. Pes – Nuan"	Baroque Jazz	SR	1970	SP 114	0:36:42 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Omicron "Omicron"					0:39:27 (Pop-up)
Various Artists	Musica Originale Indiana: La Canzone Di Gandhi, Danze E Cori A Madras, Ritmo Buddista A Ceylon, Preghiera Di Bramini (Benares), Canto E Ballo Di Lavoro (Guajarath), Ritmo Katak (India Mussulmana)	India	SR	1966	SP 115	0:50:14 (Pop-up)
Francesco De Masi	Il Tema Dell'India	India				0:54:30 (Pop-up)
Francesco De Masi	Oggi, Il Milleni	India				0:57:03 (Pop-up)
I Marc 4	Bach 68 "Bach 68" by "I Marc 4"	Shopping in Carnaby Street		1968	SP 116	1:00:07 (Pop-up)
I Marc 4 & Alessandro Alessandroni	Voci in Vacanza	Shopping in Carnaby Street				1:03:15 (Pop-up)
I Marc 4 & Alessandro Alessandroni	Raggi Di Sole	Shopping in Carnaby Street				1:05:08 (Pop-up)
Francesco De Masi	Nuvole Nel Cielo	L'Italia Vista Dal Cielo		1970	SP 117	1:06:53 (Pop-up)
Francesco De Masi	Risalendo Il Fiume (Cantato)	L'Italia Vista Dal Cielo			2012 reissue (Cometa Edizioni Musicali) bonus track vocal version	1:10:07 (Pop-up)
Bruno Nicolai	De Sade '70 "De Sade '70" by "Bruno Nicolai"	Marquis De Sade's Philosophy In The Boudoir		1970	SP 119	1:12:27 (Pop-up)
Bruno Nicolai	Criminal Sex "Criminal Sex" by "Bruno Nicolai"	Marquis De Sade's Philosophy In The Boudoir				1:14:48 (Pop-up)
Bruno Nicolai	Skyscrapers "Skyscrapers" by "Bruno Nicolai"	Marquis De Sade's Philosophy In The Boudoir				1:17:28 (Pop-up)
Alessandro Alessandroni	Sax Barocco	Malitious Classic		1970	SP 122	1:18:23 (Pop-up)
I Marc Quattro	Charlie "Charlie" by "I Marc Quattro"	I Solisti Di Armando Trovajoli – Volume 2		1969	SP 123	1:20:34 (Pop-up)
I Marc Quattro	Business "Business" by "I Marc Quattro"	I Solisti Di Armando Trovajoli – Volume 2				1:24:04 (Pop-up)
Gino Marinuzzi Jr.	Ombre Notturne	Rhythms in Suspense		1970	SP 124	1:26:27 (Pop-up)
Gino Marinuzzi Jr.	Rhythms in Suspense	Rhythms in Suspense				1:29:09 (Pop-up)
Giovanni Tommaso	Dissenso "Dissenso" by "Giovanni Tommaso"	Rebus		1971	SR ST 125	1:30:15 (Pop-up)
Franco Tamponi	Strada Pericoloso "Strada Pericoloso" by "Franco Tamponi"	Rebus				1:32:40 (Pop-up)
Giovanni Tommaso	Circle "Circle" by "Giovanni Tommaso"	Indefinitive Atmosphere		1970	SP 126	1:35:52 (Pop-up)
Giovanni Tommaso	Walk Slow / Clap Dance / Indefinite Atmosphere	Indefinitive Atmosphere				1:37:47 (Pop-up)
A.R. Luciani	Architettura Verticale	Musica Poliformale		1971	SP 128	1:44:42 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Ooze All Over The World, Doctor "Ooze All Over The World, Doctor"					1:46:43 (Pop-up)
Alessandro Alessandroni	Serenata Guappa	Fischio in Armore		1970	SR SP 129	1:56:20 (Pop-up)
Alessandro Alessandroni	Whistle Waves	Fischio in Armore				1:56:43 (Pop-up)
Stefano Torossi	Harlem Jungle "Harlem Jungle" by "Stefano Torossi"	Echoing America		1970	SP 130	1:58:06 (Pop-up)
Stefano Torossi	Sixth Dimension "Sixth Dimension" by "Stefano Torossi"	Echoing America				2:01:26 (Pop-up)
Gino Marinuzzi Jr.	Elektron Choir	Musica Ed Elettronica		1971	SP 131	2:04:51 (Pop-up)
Gino Marinuzzi Jr.	Angoscia Notturna	Musica Ed Elettronica			wr. V. Tchoutchkov	2:07:52 (Pop-up)
Gino Marinuzzi Jr.	Blues Duo "Blues Duo" by "Gino Marinuzzi Jr."	Musica Ed Elettronica			wr. Alessandroni	2:10:17 (Pop-up)
Gino Marinuzzi Jr.	Crescendo Di Luce	Musica Ed Elettronica				2:12:10 (Pop-up)
Alessandro Alessandroni	Flautiana	Alessandro Alessandroni		1971	SR ST 132	2:14:26 (Pop-up)
Alessandro Alessandroni	Richiamo "Richiamo" by "Alessandro Alessandroni"	Alessandro Alessandroni				2:16:45 (Pop-up)
Egisto Macchi	Lampare "Lampare" by "Egisto Macchi"	Città Notte		1972	SR ST 134	2:19:40 (Pop-up)
Rino De Filippi	Calcolatore Elettronico	Nel Mondo Del Lavoro		1972	SR ST 135	2:26:23 (Pop-up)
Rino De Filippi	Fusioni Metalliche	Nel Mondo Del Lavoro				2:29:35 (Pop-up)
Rino De Filippi	Rotaie "Rotaie" by "Rino De Filippi"	Nel Mondo Del Lavoro				2:32:52 (Pop-up)
Alessandro Alessandroni	Vocalisation	Open Air Parade		1972	SR ST 136	2:35:25 (Pop-up)
Alessandro Alessandroni	Arioso Spirituale	Open Air Parade				2:37:36 (Pop-up)
Alessandro Alessandroni	Preludietto	Open Air Parade				2:40:06 (Pop-up)
Alessandro Alessandroni	Aliante Giallo	Open Air Parade				2:41:46 (Pop-up)
Egisto Macchi	Spionaggio "Spionaggio" by "Egisto Macchi"	Escalation		1972	SR ST 137	2:43:02 (Pop-up)
Alessandro Alessandroni	Vocali Sul Pentagramma	Prisma Sonoro		1972	SR ST 138	2:45:51 (Pop-up)
Rino De Filippi	Carovana "Carovana" by "Rino De Filippi"	Vacanze		1974	SR ST 142	2:48:20 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Pool "Pool"					2:52:00 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	5:56pm Flash Strap: Hello Explorers!
	🥁 6:53pm chresti: Hi Flash and X-plorers!
	6:56pm Flash Strap: Hi Chresti!
	🥁 6:58pm Aitch: Welcome back
	7:01pm Flash Strap: Hi Aitch! Thank you, so glad to be back
	7:01pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Flash and all!
	7:03pm Flash Strap: Hi James!
	7:03pm Scott67: G'day Evan & Explorers! 😎🤙🔎🌏☀️
	7:03pm Flash Strap: G'day Scott!
	7:03pm melinda: hi friends! ready for Italian library
	7:04pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	🥁 7:05pm WR: Take the Farm?
	7:06pm Flash Strap: almost always love a library-style take 5 mutation but this one is extra good
	7:06pm Flash Strap: Hi WR! yeah exactly
	🥁 7:07pm Will the Sound Guy: Hi Evan and all!!! listening while doing work in my basement
	7:07pm Flash Strap: a lovely exotica sound on this one
	7:08pm doctorjazz: Hello Flash, Flashsteroons!
	7:08pm Flash Strap: Hi Will! Hi Doc!
	7:10pm Little Danny: welcome back flash! i'm already taking notes!
	7:10pm Flash Strap: some great cover art in the SR catalog, some very enticing and mysterious presentations
	7:11pm Flash Strap: Hi LD! haha look at this new avatar, you're gorgeous
	7:11pm Little Danny: thanks evan, it's a whole new me!
	🥁 7:12pm Aitch: Toe tappers
	7:13pm Flash Strap: yeah we're coming out the gate rompin' and rollicking
	7:14pm Flash Strap: about to hit the Muraglie Di Ghiaccio though – "walls of ice"
	7:15pm Flash Strap: really cool, this chilly exotica vocal
	🥁 7:16pm WR: these album covers and titles all seem very specific in the sound and mood. One I'm not sure what to expect from is Rebus.
	7:17pm Flash Strap: yeah Rebus is mysterious, I think it means puzzle... but in latin i think it means "thing"
	7:19pm Flash Strap: does this track convey to you an octagon? i get more hexagon vibes i think
	🥁 7:25pm Aitch: I keep expecting to hear The Specials break into Ghost Town
	7:28pm Flash Strap: ha yeah i know what you mean
	7:28pm Flash Strap: man i haven't heard that song in years
	🥁 7:28pm WR: wow. some essence of Morricone and spaghetti western
	7:29pm Flash Strap: @WR: definitely. and of course one of the big heavy hitters of the evening, Alessandroni, is the actual whistler on those Morricone Westerns
	7:30pm Flash Strap: very likely Alessandroni whistling on this Zito in fact
	7:30pm Little Danny: wow i had no idea that alessandroni was the whistler
	🥁 7:31pm WR: Then hopping over to baroque and Nina Rota leaning?
	7:33pm Flash Strap: @LD: yeah man Alessandroni is like a secret weapon for the whole scene
	7:33pm Flash Strap: @WR: Miscellanea is a pretty stunning collection, a grand microcosm of the italian sound
	7:35pm Flash Strap: some of these records tonight are so good, it was a real braintwister to narrow down what tracks to play
	7:36pm quinn: very good music to be playing while my son reads a book three feet from the speakers
	7:37pm Little Danny: yeah flash the more i hear by alessandroni the more i see his name all over the '70s italian session scene
	7:37pm Flash Strap: Hi Quinn! I love being a part of your son's life this way
	🥁 7:38pm WR: Most of these have sparse instrumentation. Drums mixed up front, but not played loud. The instruments used to paint the sound picture. Only playing when needed. Not musicians playing a tune. Small combo orchestration.
	7:39pm Flash Strap: @LD: whenever i hear a really good nasty soaring guitar on italian library stuff i wonder if it's Alessandroni too
	7:39pm Little Danny: totally!!! his 'rock' stuff always sounds so massive
	7:40pm Little Danny: love this btw
	7:40pm Little Danny: unexpected trending of omicron in 2021 huh
	🥁 7:41pm chresti: Hi Little Danny! Do you have a shawl or pancho to put on in case it gets chilly?
	🥁 7:42pm chresti: Apparently fully vaxxed people catch it
	🥁 7:44pm chresti: Ha omicron is the bed music.
	7:44pm Little Danny: my furs are always at hand, chresti
	🥁 7:45pm chresti: Excellent, LD
	7:51pm Flash Strap: @LD: yeah I figured I had to come hot out the gate with my trusty Omicron bed music
	7:53pm ParUbi: Hey there
	7:53pm Flash Strap: Hi ParUbi!
	7:55pm Ike: Better than copper robots fighting in a sack!
	7:56pm Flash Strap: Hi Ike!
	7:59pm melinda: I think Morricone Island has done an Alessandroni show
	8:00pm Flash Strap: Oh i bet!
	🥁 8:01pm chresti: Hey ParUbi Ike, When I first started my job at the tennis courts in 2007-8, thieves would steal copper wires and plumbing parts, when the price went up.
	8:01pm TDK60: What's happening, Flash?
	8:01pm Flash Strap: Hi TDK!
	8:03pm ParUbi: Hey chresti and everyone and flash
	8:04pm melinda: hi Ubi
	8:04pm melinda: nice Christmas vibe
	🥁 8:05pm chresti: Morricone Island is great, Melinda
	8:05pm Flash Strap: Alessandroni seems to love to do these vocal arrangements, a major mode of his
	🥁 8:06pm chresti: What's the word, TDK60\\//
	8:09pm HyperDose: So classy and refined!
	8:10pm Flash Strap: Hi Hyperdose! why thank you
	8:10pm passiflora: thank you
	8:11pm Flash Strap: Why hello Passiflora!
	🥁 8:12pm chresti: I'm pretty gassed about the half inches of rain today
	8:13pm Flash Strap: We also heard this on the last show – the De Sade album was first released on SR and later on Gemelli
	8:14pm Flash Strap: this track so nice I'm playing it twice but we'll hear some fresher selections after
	8:14pm TDK60: \\// Hi chresti. Glad you all got rain.
	8:14pm Flash Strap: Also glad about the rain!
	🥁 8:15pm Aitch: Hammering down in Sydney, but it's warm.
	8:20pm Flash Strap: Malitious Classic a very weird LP, all baroque themes but with a heavy banjo-saxophone emphasis
	8:22pm Flash Strap: frankly bizarre cover art on this one: img.discogs.com...
	🥁 8:23pm Aitch: What's Italian for ooh la la? Or creepy??
	8:24pm HyperDose: Well experience is crucial!
	8:24pm Flash Strap: seems to be trying to evoke a teen sex comedy & misfiring into creepy in the same way that most of those tend to do
	8:25pm Little Danny: love that description flash!
	🥁 8:25pm Aitch: JeffreyEpstein Airplane
	8:30pm Flash Strap: up next the mysterious REBUS
	8:32pm Flash Strap: cover of rebus is a detail of Fighting Forms by Franz Marc: www.franzmarc.org...
	8:35pm Flash Strap: i know i've heard this track used in something but can't identify what
	8:41pm doctorjazz: Time to hear out, really did the sounds, Thanks, Flash!
	8:41pm Flash Strap: dig ya later Doctor! thanks for hanging out
	8:46pm Flash Strap: cover of this one a detail of Les Disques by Fernand Léger : uploads4.wikiart.org...
	8:56pm melinda: such amazing whistling
	8:58pm Flash Strap: truly!
	8:59pm Flash Strap: cover of Echoing America a detail of a Romanesque fresco at the St. Jakob in Kastelaz church, Tramin, Italy: www.culturacattolica.it...
	9:03pm HyperDose: Walking the dog 🎸
	9:04pm Flash Strap: hell yeah, dog walkin' music
	9:06pm TDK60: I noticed Rev.RabbitNov63 has dropped from the boards of late. He sometimes has wi-fi out.
	9:06pm Flash Strap: VERY special album, Musica Ed Elettronica
	9:06pm Little Danny: this is amazing!
	🥁 9:07pm Aitch: Something bad about to happen vibes, but with aliens
	9:07pm Flash Strap: @LD: the second track I'll play from this sounds so much like slowed-down tape of Ferrante & Teicher
	9:07pm Flash Strap: @TDK: always miss Rev when he's away
	9:08pm Franco Twinkie: Hey Flash! I LOVE these peculiar sounds.
	9:09pm Flash Strap: Hi Franco! So glad!
	9:09pm Little Danny: oh wow yeah totally f&t
	9:09pm Little Danny: dang this is so good
	9:09pm Flash Strap: @Aitch: definitely being drawn further into the mothership
	9:10pm Flash Strap: @LD: i just die for it!
	9:10pm Franco Twinkie: Hi Danny! Getting myself into position for your take on peculiar.
	9:11pm Little Danny: hi franco thank you! peculiar is an excellent descriptor here
	9:15pm coelacanth∅: good evening Evan and Explorers
	9:16pm Flash Strap: Coelacanth! great to see you old fish
	9:17pm Flash Strap: almost a sven libaek sound on Flautiana
	9:18pm Flash Strap: LD played this Richiamo back in May 2021
	9:19pm melinda: I heard Sven too
	9:23pm Little Danny: man now i'm noticing whistling everywhere
	9:23pm Flash Strap: Città Notte is a tremendous LP from Macchi, very of a piece with his longer form avant-garde composition albums on the Gemelli label but a bit more listenable, so to speak. Hard to pick just one track but time made it a necessity. Will return to it for more someday
	9:24pm Little Danny: heya melinda!
	9:24pm melinda: this is so good
	9:24pm Flash Strap: @LD: yeah, basically no chance that's anyone but A.A.!
	9:27pm TDK60: Thoughts of Italy today. I heard director Lena Wertmuller passed. Then, DJ David Dichelle show's "Random Road" pick was Italy. Now this.
	9:27pm Flash Strap: Italian excellence everywhere you look
	9:28pm Flash Strap: every track on Nel Mondo Del Lavoro is so good
	9:30pm Flash Strap: each echo goes off on its own trajectory
	9:30pm Franco Twinkie: I saw Lena Wertmuller on The Dick Cavett show once. I thought she was nuts. Later, I saw her movies and I realized she was indeed nuts. But the right kind of nuts.
	9:32pm coelacanth∅: i decided to take a break from wrestling with something but now realise i might be able to get help, possibly, from one of you more experienced collectors... (i've collected records, but never considered myself a "record collector" because i never knew the technical aspects of it) ...do any of y'all know how to determine if a record is an acetate? obviously it's heavier than average... this one is heavy but not necessarily too heavy to be vinyl. ...it has just one hole. the back is textured -"columbia" (etc) ...
	9:32pm Flash Strap: I've never seen a Wertmuller film, need to correct this oversight
	9:33pm TDK60: Heehee Franco, yeah, the right kind of nut. I heard when Fellini died she showed up at the funeral in crutches from a fall, crying like a waterfall, shouting "Maestro!" "Maestro!"
	9:33pm HyperDose: Evening, Franco! grab a plate 🍋🌿🐟🔥
	9:34pm jimmytallow: LOVED that song
	9:34pm Flash Strap: there's an Umiliani track with a rhythm just like this one on Rotaie
	9:34pm Flash Strap: Hi Jimmy! me too friend
	9:35pm Flash Strap: @coelacanth: I don't know at all, sorry to be of no help, but I bet LD could help. he's way more pro than me
	9:37pm Flash Strap: Open Air Parade is so incredible, we'll spend some time in it
	9:37pm Little Danny: coela does it have a slightly odd smell? that's usually a tell
	9:37pm coelacanth∅: well Thanks anyway Evan i know you would if you could
	9:38pm coelacanth∅: LD really? -i'll try but...
	9:38pm Little Danny: yeah for real!
	9:39pm Little Danny: they're also heavier than their vinyl equivalents
	9:39pm Little Danny: oof just reread your post
	9:40pm Little Danny: i've really come to love these classically-informed acapella harmonies on italian library records
	9:41pm coelacanth∅: i can't smell anything. i lost much of my sense of smell earlier this year. ...but wouldn't a smell eventually stop emanating anyway? this is 60-70 years old, i think.
	9:41pm Flash Strap: me too, this is one of the best of its kind too I think
	9:42pm coelacanth∅: (my avatar is the back of it)
	9:42pm TDK60: Flash, do you think this Preludio may be influenced by the Swingle Singers?
	9:44pm Flash Strap: @TDK: you know, I don't know much about the Swingles. Very possibly!
	9:45pm TDK60: They sort of came up with a jazzy Bach vocal thing. French outfit.
	9:45pm coelacanth∅: sort of a slightly subdued swingles
	9:46pm Flash Strap: that much i know but i haven't listened much to them, i'd probably dig it
	🥁 9:48pm chresti: Shellac?
	9:48pm Dave M: This has been an amazingly good show.
	9:49pm Little Danny: yeah that looks like shellac
	9:49pm Flash Strap: insane slowed effect on Carovana, had to double check it actually appeared on the album at this speed
	9:49pm Flash Strap: Thanks Dave!
	9:50pm Little Danny: wow yeah this is incredible
	9:55pm TDK60: Appreciate your selections, Flash. Meticulously curated for our amusement and possibly education. Grazie, grazie.
	9:55pm coelacanth∅: isn't an acetate coated with shellac? (and therefore "a shellac"?)
	🥁 9:58pm Aitch: a fine ride thanks Evan
	9:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan!
	9:59pm Doug Schulkind: A tremendous effort, Admiral Flash! In other words, just another Thursday evening.
	9:59pm Franco Twinkie: Thanks Flash. I loved the vibe tonight.
	9:59pm Little Danny: thank you evan!!!
	10:00pm HyperDose: Thank you Evan, master of adventure!
	10:00pm Flash Strap: Thanks Doug! thanks everyone! See you next week and next door. Good night!
	🥁 10:02pm chresti: Whoa thanks Flash!
	10:03pm Scott67: Thanks Evan! ✌😎🤙

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from December 9, 2021

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