WFMU: Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman: Playlist from May 18, 2024

Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman: Playlist from May 18, 2024

Observations of Deviance is a vinyl focused, free form program that harkens back to early days of underground FM radio. Your host, David Mittleman, hunts down the most exotic, unusual and off-the-beaten-track music from around the world in a number of genres: Spiritual Jazz, Free Improvisation, Experimental Electronics, Ethnographic Oddities and World-Wide Psychedelic Funk. You are guaranteed to hear sounds you’ve never heard before.

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Upcoming events:

Sat. Sep 21st, 7pm - 10pm: David Toop: Ocean of Sound (More info...)

Sat. Sep 28th, 7pm - 10pm: James Brandon Lewis and the Messthetics - Interview (More info...)

Sat. Oct 5th, 7pm - 10pm: ØKSE - International Free Jazz Super Group Interview (More info...)

May 18, 2024

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time

Arne Nordheim	Morgenraga "Morgenraga" by "Arne Nordheim"	Popofoni	Prisma	2012		0:01:49 (Pop-up)
Jack Smith	Jack Smith Reads "Les E. G.'s Damneés"	Les Evening Gowns Damnees - 56 Ludlow Street 1962-1964, Volume I	Table Of The Elements	1997		0:10:39 (Pop-up)
The Lappetites	Avoiding Shopping "Avoiding Shopping" by "The Lappetites"	Before The Libretto	Quecksilber	2005		0:26:57 (Pop-up)

Ellery Eskelin With Andrea Parkins	Green Bermudas	Green Bermudas	Eremite	1996		0:32:09 (Pop-up)
Olga Neuwirth - Klangforum Wien, Johannes Kalitzke	2. Bild	Bählamms Fest	Kairos	2003		0:35:33 (Pop-up)
"Blue" Gene Tyranny	Leroy Jenkins - On the Road to Blountstown, a true story (Live at Roulette, New York, May 3, 2001)	Degrees Of Freedom Found	Unseen Worlds	2021		0:44:41 (Pop-up)
Burning Love Jumpsuit	P.C.P.J.B. "P.C.P.J.B." by "Burning Love Jumpsuit"	Hell Bank Note 1993 – 1995	Nyahh	2024	https://nyahhrecords.bandcamp.com/track/juice	0:55:44 (Pop-up)
Joan La Barbara	As Lightning Comes, In Flashes	The Early Immersive Music Of Joan Labarbara	Mode	2017		0:57:53 (Pop-up)

Tony Conrad & Jennifer Walshe	Wake Up	In the Merry Month of May	Blue Chopsticks	2024	https://jenniferwalshe.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-merry-month-of-may	1:02:33 (Pop-up)
Alterations	Not So Dumb Deaf And Mute Heroine	Up Your Sleeve	Paradigm Discs	2022		1:06:28 (Pop-up)
Saccata Quartet	Hmm "Hmm" by "Saccata Quartet"	Septendecim	We Jazz	2024	https://wejazzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/septendecim	1:09:18 (Pop-up)
Borderlands Trio	Lost Species "Lost Species" by "Borderlands Trio"	Rewilder	Intakt	2024	https://intaktrec.bandcamp.com/album/rewilder	1:15:24 (Pop-up)

Rodd Keith	Space "Space" by "Rodd Keith"	I Died Today - The Music of Rodd Keith	Tzadik	1996		1:34:26 (Pop-up)
The Handover (Aly Eissa, Jonas Cambien, Ayman Asfour)	The Handover (Part 1)	The Handover	Sublime Frequencies	2024	https://sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/album/the-handover	1:36:57 (Pop-up)

Pauline Oliveros	Tuning Meditation	From The Kitchen Archives: New Music, New York 1979	Orange Mountain Music	2004		2:03:28 (Pop-up)
Roberta Settels	Landscape with 3 Tape-Recorders and...	Music in Crisis (2LP, Expanded Edition)	Caprice	2024	https://musikverket.se/capricerecords/artikel/roberta-settels/	2:11:51 (Pop-up)
Andrew Cyrille Quartet	Dazzling (Perchordially Yours)	The Declaration Of Musical Independence	ECM	2016		2:20:13 (Pop-up)

Robert Ashley	Act I: The Indifference Text (Scene 6)	Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)	Lovely Music	2019		2:32:54 (Pop-up)
The Recedents [Mike Cooper, Lol Coxhill, Roger Turner]	part 3	London 1993	Scatter Archive	2024	https://scatterarchive.bandcamp.com/album/london-1993	2:37:24 (Pop-up)
Steve Lacy	Snaps "Snaps" by "Steve Lacy"	Saxophone Special +	Emanem	1998		2:48:29 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!
	7:02pm Observations: NOW LIVE LIVE NOW
	7:16pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Jack Smith Reads "Les E. G.'s Damneés"" by "Jack ... "There was a FLAMING silence"
	7:19pm Observations: 🔥🔥🔥Flaming Creatures🔥🔥🔥
	7:27pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Avoiding Shopping" by "The Lappetites" Antye Greie-Fuchs, Eliane Radigue, Kaffe Matthews, Ryoko Akama
	8:04pm WR: Good evening, hanging at home, no movie tonight so listening live.
	8:04pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Wake Up" by "Tony Conrad & Jennifer Walshe" "Everything will be fine, I think"
	8:06pm Observations: ↳ WR @8:04 Welcome 🙏 ✌️😎
	8:07pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Not So Dumb Deaf And Mute Heroine" by "Alterations" David Toop, Peter Cusack, Steve Beresford, Terry Day
	8:10pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Hmm" by "Saccata Quartet" Composed & performed by Nels Cline, Chris Corsano, Darin Gray, Glenn Kotche
	8:16pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Lost Species" by "Borderlands Trio" Stephan Crump: Acoustic Bass Kris Davis: Piano Eric McPherson: Drums
	8:38pm Observations: ↳ Song: "The Handover (Part 1)" by "The Handover (Aly Eiss... "There is, and has been, a prevailing orthodoxy permeating the Egyptian musical hierarchy that would render this spectacular piece as scandalous. But let us remember that over the past 100 years, Said Darwish, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Halim El Dabh, Ahmad Adaweya, and the modern Mahraganat movement have all experienced their fair share of scandal and opposition. Music must always be pushed forward – it may not always succeed as revelatory, but in this particular case, it does. Much like the venerable magic carpet, the Handover slowly builds to escort you into its swirling, ascending expression of the psychedelic, eventually descending, step by step, back to earth, landing as a wondrous spaceship with wide open doors inviting us inside for repeat listening. Perhaps this should have been happening in Egyptian music 50 years ago but it's here right now, and that's what matters. We are often asked an impossible question to answer: "What constitutes a Sublime Frequencies release?" For the moment, we can point to this record as the answer to that question." - Alan Bishop/Sublime Frequencies (March 2024)
	9:01pm WR: ↳ Song: "The Handover (Part 1)" by "The Handover (Aly Eiss... very nice
	9:02pm doctorjazz: On NJ Transit, heading home, listening. Fun day, exhausted!
	9:09pm WR: ↳ doctorjazz @9:02 Hi doctorjazz, looking forward to your impression of Stereophonic when you have time and energy.
	9:11pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Tuning Meditation" by "Pauline Oliveros" Like this!
	9:12pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Landscape with 3 Tape-Recorders and..." by "Rober... www.soundohm.com...
	9:17pm Dean: Did Eskelin and Keith appear in the same show for a conscious reason? Just coincidence? I'm just tuning in.
	9:19pm Observations: ↳ Dean @9:17 Not really, just two old faves I thought I'd pull out once more. They seem to go together in my mind.
	9:21pm Dean: I love Eskelin, even managed to see him at W. Hollywood's Luna Park club many years ago. I know little of his pop's music, but the concept is great!
	9:22pm doctorjazz: ↳ Dean @9:21 Also like Eskelin, don't think I've seen him but have albums.
	9:23pm Dean: If memory serves, Gerry Hemingway was his drummer in Hollywood.
	9:27pm Observations: More live radio alert my show -> The Hotwire Mandate with Mike Lupica wfmu.org...
	9:35pm Dean: When I was in law school I envisioned a regular congregation of school mates during which we would listen to various musical works, mostly classical. I only managed on occasion, when we listened to all of the Nonesuch recording of Improvement. I got a kick out of watching future attorneys responding quizzically to the opera.
	9:35pm Dean: ^one occasion (at my apartment)
	9:38pm WR: ↳ Dean @9:35 sounds fun.
	9:43pm Dean: 'twas, WR. Wish I'd continued. The Recedents clearly inspired Konk Pack. Engineered by Olaf Rupp, nice.
	9:46pm doctorjazz: ↳ WR @9:09 I liked Stereophonic-it's a bit long, but much drama. I hadn't read aboutit before hand, but within minutes it's obvious that Fleetwood Mac is the template for the band in the show. It's not really a musical-it's a play that happens to be about musicians recording an album in a studio, so some music is played, but often fragments, vocals without the instruments for later overdubbing. From what I understand, only the drummer was actually a musician-the rest learned on the job. A band with 2 couple, that fight, break up, a controlling guitar player, it was interesting. Captured what endless studio time, personal and musical clashes feels like.
	9:49pm doctorjazz: Almost the end, thanks David! (Still on NJ Transit)
	9:50pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Snaps" by "Steve Lacy" Wigmore Hall - 1974 December 19
	9:52pm doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @9:46 And it was the 70s, lots of drinking and drugs.
	9:54pm Dean: Wigmore Hall, one of the great musical venues of the world. I heard a performance there in 1984 by Richard Harvey with Monica Huggett. He had been the leader of Gryphon, but he decided to devote his career to early music.
	9:56pm WR: ↳ doctorjazz @9:46 thanks.
	9:58pm WR: and thank you, David. Laters folks.
	10:00pm Observations: Thanks, good night

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Sat. Sep 21st, 7pm - 10pm: David Toop: Ocean of Sound (More info...)
David Toop has been opening minds with his exploratory music and writing since the 1970s. His books, such as “Ocean of Sound,” have been life changing to many readers. David Toop joined OoD host David Mittleman for an expansive interview that will be the focus of a three hour examination of his immense, idiosyncratic catalogue.
Sat. Sep 28th, 7pm - 10pm: James Brandon Lewis and the Messthetics - Interview (More info...)
Instrumental Punk band The Messthetics (featuring Joe Lally and Brendan Canty of Fugazi and guitar wizard Anthony Pirog) exploded out of the gate with Jazz luminary sax maestro James Brandon Lewis on their 2024 debut self titled album on Impulse! While on tour the band decamped to OoD's Tucson studio for an exclusive interview. Check in with these hard working musicians before their October 3 show in Jersey City, presented by WFMU.
Sat. Oct 5th, 7pm - 10pm: ØKSE - International Free Jazz Super Group Interview (More info...)
ØKSE, "Axe" in Danish, is a new international Free Jazz super group featuring some of the top contemporary improvising musicians: Mette Rasmussen (Denmark), Savannah Harris (USA), Val Jeanty (Haiti/USA) and Pettr Eldh (Sweden). Their debut self-titled album was recently issued by the Hip Hop label Backwoodz Studioz and features guest spots from top rappers like billiy woods and ELUCID. OoD host David Mittleman interviewed the members of ØKSE from their studio in Berlin to discuss the band and their new album.

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time

Arne Nordheim	Morgenraga "Morgenraga" by "Arne Nordheim"	Popofoni	Prisma	2012		0:01:49 (Pop-up)
Jack Smith	Jack Smith Reads "Les E. G.'s Damneés"	Les Evening Gowns Damnees - 56 Ludlow Street 1962-1964, Volume I	Table Of The Elements	1997		0:10:39 (Pop-up)
The Lappetites	Avoiding Shopping "Avoiding Shopping" by "The Lappetites"	Before The Libretto	Quecksilber	2005		0:26:57 (Pop-up)

Ellery Eskelin With Andrea Parkins	Green Bermudas	Green Bermudas	Eremite	1996		0:32:09 (Pop-up)
Olga Neuwirth - Klangforum Wien, Johannes Kalitzke	2. Bild	Bählamms Fest	Kairos	2003		0:35:33 (Pop-up)
"Blue" Gene Tyranny	Leroy Jenkins - On the Road to Blountstown, a true story (Live at Roulette, New York, May 3, 2001)	Degrees Of Freedom Found	Unseen Worlds	2021		0:44:41 (Pop-up)
Burning Love Jumpsuit	P.C.P.J.B. "P.C.P.J.B." by "Burning Love Jumpsuit"	Hell Bank Note 1993 – 1995	Nyahh	2024	https://nyahhrecords.bandcamp.com/track/juice	0:55:44 (Pop-up)
Joan La Barbara	As Lightning Comes, In Flashes	The Early Immersive Music Of Joan Labarbara	Mode	2017		0:57:53 (Pop-up)

Tony Conrad & Jennifer Walshe	Wake Up	In the Merry Month of May	Blue Chopsticks	2024	https://jenniferwalshe.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-merry-month-of-may	1:02:33 (Pop-up)
Alterations	Not So Dumb Deaf And Mute Heroine	Up Your Sleeve	Paradigm Discs	2022		1:06:28 (Pop-up)
Saccata Quartet	Hmm "Hmm" by "Saccata Quartet"	Septendecim	We Jazz	2024	https://wejazzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/septendecim	1:09:18 (Pop-up)
Borderlands Trio	Lost Species "Lost Species" by "Borderlands Trio"	Rewilder	Intakt	2024	https://intaktrec.bandcamp.com/album/rewilder	1:15:24 (Pop-up)

Rodd Keith	Space "Space" by "Rodd Keith"	I Died Today - The Music of Rodd Keith	Tzadik	1996		1:34:26 (Pop-up)
The Handover (Aly Eissa, Jonas Cambien, Ayman Asfour)	The Handover (Part 1)	The Handover	Sublime Frequencies	2024	https://sublime-frequencies.bandcamp.com/album/the-handover	1:36:57 (Pop-up)

Pauline Oliveros	Tuning Meditation	From The Kitchen Archives: New Music, New York 1979	Orange Mountain Music	2004		2:03:28 (Pop-up)
Roberta Settels	Landscape with 3 Tape-Recorders and...	Music in Crisis (2LP, Expanded Edition)	Caprice	2024	https://musikverket.se/capricerecords/artikel/roberta-settels/	2:11:51 (Pop-up)
Andrew Cyrille Quartet	Dazzling (Perchordially Yours)	The Declaration Of Musical Independence	ECM	2016		2:20:13 (Pop-up)

Robert Ashley	Act I: The Indifference Text (Scene 6)	Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)	Lovely Music	2019		2:32:54 (Pop-up)
The Recedents [Mike Cooper, Lol Coxhill, Roger Turner]	part 3	London 1993	Scatter Archive	2024	https://scatterarchive.bandcamp.com/album/london-1993	2:37:24 (Pop-up)
Steve Lacy	Snaps "Snaps" by "Steve Lacy"	Saxophone Special +	Emanem	1998		2:48:29 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:02pm Observations: NOW LIVE LIVE NOW
	7:16pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Jack Smith Reads "Les E. G.'s Damneés"" by "Jack ... "There was a FLAMING silence"
	7:19pm Observations: 🔥🔥🔥Flaming Creatures🔥🔥🔥
	7:27pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Avoiding Shopping" by "The Lappetites" Antye Greie-Fuchs, Eliane Radigue, Kaffe Matthews, Ryoko Akama
	8:04pm WR: Good evening, hanging at home, no movie tonight so listening live.
	8:04pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Wake Up" by "Tony Conrad & Jennifer Walshe" "Everything will be fine, I think"
	8:06pm Observations: ↳ WR @8:04 Welcome 🙏 ✌️😎
	8:07pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Not So Dumb Deaf And Mute Heroine" by "Alterations" David Toop, Peter Cusack, Steve Beresford, Terry Day
	8:10pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Hmm" by "Saccata Quartet" Composed & performed by Nels Cline, Chris Corsano, Darin Gray, Glenn Kotche
	8:16pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Lost Species" by "Borderlands Trio" Stephan Crump: Acoustic Bass Kris Davis: Piano Eric McPherson: Drums
	8:38pm Observations: ↳ Song: "The Handover (Part 1)" by "The Handover (Aly Eiss... "There is, and has been, a prevailing orthodoxy permeating the Egyptian musical hierarchy that would render this spectacular piece as scandalous. But let us remember that over the past 100 years, Said Darwish, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Halim El Dabh, Ahmad Adaweya, and the modern Mahraganat movement have all experienced their fair share of scandal and opposition. Music must always be pushed forward – it may not always succeed as revelatory, but in this particular case, it does. Much like the venerable magic carpet, the Handover slowly builds to escort you into its swirling, ascending expression of the psychedelic, eventually descending, step by step, back to earth, landing as a wondrous spaceship with wide open doors inviting us inside for repeat listening. Perhaps this should have been happening in Egyptian music 50 years ago but it's here right now, and that's what matters. We are often asked an impossible question to answer: "What constitutes a Sublime Frequencies release?" For the moment, we can point to this record as the answer to that question." - Alan Bishop/Sublime Frequencies (March 2024)
	9:01pm WR: ↳ Song: "The Handover (Part 1)" by "The Handover (Aly Eiss... very nice
	9:02pm doctorjazz: On NJ Transit, heading home, listening. Fun day, exhausted!
	9:09pm WR: ↳ doctorjazz @9:02 Hi doctorjazz, looking forward to your impression of Stereophonic when you have time and energy.
	9:11pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Tuning Meditation" by "Pauline Oliveros" Like this!
	9:12pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Landscape with 3 Tape-Recorders and..." by "Rober... www.soundohm.com...
	9:17pm Dean: Did Eskelin and Keith appear in the same show for a conscious reason? Just coincidence? I'm just tuning in.
	9:19pm Observations: ↳ Dean @9:17 Not really, just two old faves I thought I'd pull out once more. They seem to go together in my mind.
	9:21pm Dean: I love Eskelin, even managed to see him at W. Hollywood's Luna Park club many years ago. I know little of his pop's music, but the concept is great!
	9:22pm doctorjazz: ↳ Dean @9:21 Also like Eskelin, don't think I've seen him but have albums.
	9:23pm Dean: If memory serves, Gerry Hemingway was his drummer in Hollywood.
	9:27pm Observations: More live radio alert my show -> The Hotwire Mandate with Mike Lupica wfmu.org...
	9:35pm Dean: When I was in law school I envisioned a regular congregation of school mates during which we would listen to various musical works, mostly classical. I only managed on occasion, when we listened to all of the Nonesuch recording of Improvement. I got a kick out of watching future attorneys responding quizzically to the opera.
	9:35pm Dean: ^one occasion (at my apartment)
	9:38pm WR: ↳ Dean @9:35 sounds fun.
	9:43pm Dean: 'twas, WR. Wish I'd continued. The Recedents clearly inspired Konk Pack. Engineered by Olaf Rupp, nice.
	9:46pm doctorjazz: ↳ WR @9:09 I liked Stereophonic-it's a bit long, but much drama. I hadn't read aboutit before hand, but within minutes it's obvious that Fleetwood Mac is the template for the band in the show. It's not really a musical-it's a play that happens to be about musicians recording an album in a studio, so some music is played, but often fragments, vocals without the instruments for later overdubbing. From what I understand, only the drummer was actually a musician-the rest learned on the job. A band with 2 couple, that fight, break up, a controlling guitar player, it was interesting. Captured what endless studio time, personal and musical clashes feels like.
	9:49pm doctorjazz: Almost the end, thanks David! (Still on NJ Transit)
	9:50pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Snaps" by "Steve Lacy" Wigmore Hall - 1974 December 19
	9:52pm doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @9:46 And it was the 70s, lots of drinking and drugs.
	9:54pm Dean: Wigmore Hall, one of the great musical venues of the world. I heard a performance there in 1984 by Richard Harvey with Monica Huggett. He had been the leader of Gryphon, but he decided to devote his career to early music.
	9:56pm WR: ↳ doctorjazz @9:46 thanks.
	9:58pm WR: and thank you, David. Laters folks.
	10:00pm Observations: Thanks, good night

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