TSP Saturday February 16, 2013 / Martin Koenig's Vintage Balkan Village Vinyl

Listener comments!

6:11pm Mitten John:

Stupendous twofer: Rob followed by Donna tonight. A woo, and a hoo, too!

6:12pm Pete from Boston (and NJ):

Holy crap, The Cannanes! Great show already!

6:15pm Rob Weisberg:

Thanks John! Pete, glad you liked the Cannanes track. Starting off with some rock although things are gonna change as the show progresses...

6:19pm RevolutionRabbitNov63:

Yes - exciting sounds already.

6:23pm Hugh:

Love that Thai surf groove!

6:24pm RevolutionRabbitNov63:

...'I'm Just a Mops' - !!!...
: )

...'WorldRawk' - !

...Saturday's a Workday for me
- so Thanx for helping me expand my horizons in the evening
- & for bringing us the World.

6:25pm Pete from Boston (and NJ):

Still kicking myself for missing their most recent very rare US appearance.

6:28pm Sem Chumbo:

Listening in and loving what I hear. Obrigada muito.

6:37pm Rob Weisberg:

Thanks Sem and Hugh! And Pete, yeah, I hope they come back sometime!

6:37pm RevolutionRabbitNov63:

...Hate to sound needy!
- but it would be Kewl if ClockTimes were Posted on Playlist
...WFMU(.org) defining Kewl already of course...

...People have - as received info. - told me of their reading in Gurdjieff (metaphyical philosopher) - & his recountings of strange Folk Magicks & such
- & - in my ignorance - I wonder if it relates @ all to tonight's Balkan theme/topix. He was of Greek origin himself, I think, altho' he's most often associated w/ Russia?
- Notable characterisitic of the Balkans them being 'transition point' (for lack of better-informed phrase) between all things Europe - & the Middle-East/Asia - ?? (Scales & Patterns of Voix Bulgare an example - ??)...

6:42pm RevolutionRabbitNov63:

...Voix Bulgares' - w/ an 'S'.

7:28pm RevolutionRabbitNov63:

- It is indeed pretty breathtaking that Mr. Koenig took the risks that he did - personally & politically (I think this is an example of what Joseph Campbell meant by 'Follow Your Bliss'!) to bring us a record of what has already (@ least partly?) ceased to be - !
- I remember hearing an interview w/ a Voix Bulgares lady pointing up the irony that Westerners were attending their concerts - while her own son wore an Iron Maiden t-shirt.
- But *this* here of course is deeper & wider than what mainstream media provides us thru any channels
- & decades before Voix Bulgares was published by the 4AD label too, certainly.
- Mr. Koenig eloquently, passionately & personally emphasizes the relation between this Music & the actual native 'agrarian' Culture & Lifestyle - which to their credit was noted in the Voix Bulgares materials too...& they certainly sang awesomely too...

7:42pm Rob Weisberg:

Voix Bulgares was unusual in that it came out of a Soviet Era Bulgarian national ensemble that actually worked esthetically and - although this may be debatable and a bit beyond my knowledge - but I have a sense that it didn't necessarily undermine the village traditions the way such ensembles did in other places in the Soviet Union.

7:51pm selminma:

nice radio

7:53pm RevolutionRabbitNov63:

...point being Voix Bulgares were perhaps spared 'Sovietization' - being far enuff West - ???
- & they were totally A cappella
- whereas what we've heard *here* so far is Instrumental - w/ no voices @ all - !
...I wonder if that's a Men/Women thing - ????
...& Mr. Koenig wil take us to regions other than Bulgaria...

- Somewhat tangentially :
- If you haven't seen PBS' 'How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin' - you should - ! : )

7:54pm Marmalade Kitty:

Great show Rob!!

8:08pm Sir Random Listener:

Tonight's show is going great. I'm digging these tunes!

8:12pm bk:

Anyone else having a problem with the 91.1 signal tonight?My reception is awful.

8:14pm Rob Weisberg:

91.1 signal checks out OK here. Thanks though bk for your concerns! And thanks Sir Random and M-Kitty!

8:16pm RevolutionRabbitNov63:

...& contrast it to the episode of PBS' 'Music Voyger' - hosted by the Putumayo label's Jacob Edgar - in which he visits contemporary Putin's Russia...

...If you play anything now reminiscent of great Malian Music - yer kinda gonna break my heart...

8:42pm Ike:

Hey BK, does that stand for Brooklyn? Maybe the Haitian pirate scumbags are on in Flatbush again at 90.9 screwing up 91.1? I hope not.

8:46pm bk:

don't hear another signal-i am in east village,but have had a pretty dependable signal since 1996 till last few weeks.tonight is really bad.

8:49pm RevolutionRabbitNov63:

...can you just get it online - ?...

8:56pm RevolutionRabbitNov63:

- I'm way the hell up here in New Hampshire
- so for me for WFMU - it's online or nothing - !
- But even for my local stations - plugging my computer into my stereo circumvents all the Antenna issues...
- As long as I stay on good terms w/ comcast - !...

8:59pm Snortley:

Reception in Kensington, Brooklyn is OK, even though I'm only a mile from that Haitian station. One track sounded bad, but that seemed to be its recording, not the signal.

9:02pm Ike:

@BK, probably just sunspots or something then. @Snortley, I heard that one bad track too, I think it was out of phase.

Good show, Rob.