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This is where all of culture and all of time are collapsed into one seductive portal and viewed through the panoramic lens of the exotic. Come and embark on an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of timeless darkness and beyond; embrace the numinous monolith of the exotic immensity. Let us find that place where hybridization meets its destiny as pure fantasy. Let us become observers observing those others who are ourselves. You wear your mask and I'll wear mine.

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Favoriting June 16, 2016: Tanganyika Tiger Voodoo Konga (Shipwrecked on Planet X)

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
  Intro            
The Buddy Collette – Chico Hamilton Sextet  Tanganyika   Favoriting Tanganyika    1956    0:02:18 (Pop-up)
Tubby Hayes  Voodoo   Favoriting Voodoo Session  Trunk  1964/2009  from Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, 1964  0:06:52 (Pop-up)
The Buddy Collette – Chico Hamilton Sextet  And So Is Love   Favoriting Tanganyika    1956  wr. by John H. Anderson  0:09:46 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
John Coltrane & Wilbur Harden 
Tanganyika Strut   Favoriting
Tanganyika Strut 
 
1958 
 
0:12:31 (Pop-up)
Frank Buck  Tiger Side 1   Favoriting Tiger (A "Bring 'em Back Alive Story")      2 10" 78s in illustrated booklet  0:20:22 (Pop-up)
Mills Brothers  Tiger Rag   Favoriting The 1930's Recordings        0:22:36 (Pop-up)
Frank Buck  Tiger Side 2   Favoriting Tiger (A "Bring 'em Back Alive Story")        0:24:28 (Pop-up)
Markko Polo Adventurers  Night of the Tiger   Favoriting Orienta    1959    0:27:30 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter  Peking Tiger   Favoriting The Primitive and the Passionate    1962    0:28:20 (Pop-up)
Ananda Shankar  Charging Tiger   Favoriting Sá-Re-Gá Machán    1981    0:31:17 (Pop-up)
Roger Roger & Nino Nardini  Shere Kahn   Favoriting Jungle Obsession    1971    0:34:28 (Pop-up)
Frank Buck  Tiger Side 3   Favoriting Tiger (A "Bring 'em Back Alive Story")        0:36:34 (Pop-up)
Mandingo  Tiger in the Night   Favoriting The Primeval Rhythm Of Life    1973    0:39:02 (Pop-up)
Frank Buck  Tiger Side 4   Favoriting Tiger (A "Bring 'em Back Alive Story")        0:41:54 (Pop-up)
Wilmouth Houdini  Tiger Tom Kill Tiger Cat   Favoriting Poor But Ambitious    1930s    0:44:59 (Pop-up)
April Stevens  Teach Me Tiger   Favoriting Teach Me Tiger    1960    0:47:48 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Augie Colon 
 
Chant of the Jungle 
 
 
 
0:50:15 (Pop-up)
Robert Drasnin  Chant of the Moon   Favoriting Voodoo    1959    1:00:13 (Pop-up)
Robert Drasnin  Desiree   Favoriting Voodoo        1:02:00 (Pop-up)
Robert Drasnin  Hindara   Favoriting Voodoo        1:05:00 (Pop-up)
Robert Drasnin  Orinoco   Favoriting Voodoo        1:08:31 (Pop-up)
Robert Drasnin  Warm Night Wind   Favoriting Voodoo        1:09:56 (Pop-up)
Robert Drasnin  Mirage   Favoriting Voodoo        1:12:47 (Pop-up)
Arthur Lyman  Happy Voodoo   Favoriting Bahia    1959  wr. by Les Baxter  1:15:50 (Pop-up)
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra  Whoo Doo Voodoo   Favoriting Adventure in Time    1956    1:18:38 (Pop-up)
Mort Garson  The Ride of Aida (Voodoo)   Favoriting Black Mass    1971  Mort Garson as "Lucifer"  1:23:26 (Pop-up)
The Shangaans  Voodoo Drums   Favoriting Jungle Drums    1965    1:26:41 (Pop-up)
Robert Drasnin  Voodoo   Favoriting Voodoo    1959    1:29:50 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Robert Drasnin 
 
Voodoo 
 
 
 
1:31:56 (Pop-up)
Rocky Jones  Shipwrecked on Planet X   Favoriting Shipwrecked on Planet X 10"    1953  Music by Tony Mottola (credited on sleeve as "Mattola")  1:38:58 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra  Calling Planet Earth   Favoriting Live in Paris at the "Gibus"    1973    1:41:28 (Pop-up)
The Ventures  Exploration in Terror   Favoriting Ventures in Space    1964    1:42:34 (Pop-up)
The Orkustra  Flash Gordon (Practice Session)   Favoriting Adventures in Experimental Electric Orchestra from the San Francisco Psychedelic Underground      with BBC Radiophonic Workshop "Outer Space" from Atmospheric Sounds And Effects––DOUBLE MUSIC!  1:45:19 (Pop-up)
Marty Manning  Forbidden Planet   Favoriting The Twilight Zone - A Sound Adventure In Space    1961    1:52:26 (Pop-up)
Russ Garcia  Lost Souls of Saturn   Favoriting Fantastica: Music from Outer Space    1958    1:55:44 (Pop-up)
Mel Henke  Exotic Adventure   Favoriting Dynamic Adventures In Sound    1962  "Architecturally constructed to induce the maximum in audio sensation"  1:58:20 (Pop-up)
Rocky Jones  Shipwrecked on Planet X   Favoriting Shipwrecked on Planet X 10"        2:00:09 (Pop-up)
Russ Garcia  Into Space   Favoriting Fantastica: Music from Outer Space        2:03:37 (Pop-up)
Ken Nordine  Planet   Favoriting Twink (Ken Nordine does Robert Shure)    1967    2:06:10 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
BBC Radiophonic Workshop 
Suspense And The Supernatural   Favoriting
Atmospheric Sounds And Effects 
 
 
 
2:07:40 (Pop-up)
June Winters  Kiddie Konga   Favoriting Kiddie Konga featuring The Lady in Blue        2:15:07 (Pop-up)
The Lecuona Cuban Boys  Oye la Conga   Favoriting 78    1935  vocal by Alberto Rabagliati  2:20:40 (Pop-up)
Duke Ellington  Conga Brava   Favoriting Conga Brava / Ko-Ko 78    1940?  wr. with and heavily featuring Juan Tizol, the man, the myth  2:23:53 (Pop-up)
Cab Calloway  Congo-Conga   Favoriting 78    1938    2:27:25 (Pop-up)
Grupo Afro-Cubano Dirigido Por Alberto Zayas  Conga   Favoriting Afro-Frenetic (Tambores De Cuba)        2:29:50 (Pop-up)
Les Baxter  Congalé   Favoriting The Primitive and the Passionate    1962    2:33:22 (Pop-up)
Tito Puente  Conga Alegre   Favoriting Top Percussion    1958    2:35:42 (Pop-up)
Tito Puente  Voodoo Dance at Midnight   Favoriting Tambó    1960    2:37:00 (Pop-up)
Richard Hayman  Midnight Ritual   Favoriting Voodoo!    1959    2:39:10 (Pop-up)
Richard Hayman  Afro   Favoriting Voodoo!        2:42:49 (Pop-up)
Richard Hayman  Zombi   Favoriting Voodoo!        2:44:33 (Pop-up)
Richard Hayman  Voodoo   Favoriting Voodoo!        2:46:52 (Pop-up)
Glenda & Glen  Voodoo Doll   Favoriting The Lavender Jungle: Tempting Treats From The Land Of Exotica        2:49:50 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Les Baxter 
Deep Night   Favoriting
Caribbean Moonlight 
 
 
 
2:51:22 (Pop-up)
Thurl Ravenscroft with the Jeff Alexander Quartet  Dr. Geek (From Tanganyika)   Favoriting         2:56:47 (Pop-up)
Augie Colon  Witch Doctor   Favoriting Chant of the Jungle        2:59:03 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 6:29pm
Flash Strap:

Let's go exploring tonight for goodness sake

let's go on some a d v e n t u r e s
Avatar 6:59pm
ndbob:

evening Evan and everyone!
Avatar 7:01pm
Walking Daydream:

Boogie woogie, Flash.
Avatar 7:01pm
Flash Strap:

Evening Bob!
Avatar 7:02pm
Flash Strap:

Tutti Fruitti to you, Daydream!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
listener james from westwood:

Howdy, Evan and all!! Gon' do that voodoo that you do so well?
Avatar 7:04pm
Flash Strap:

Listener James! Good evening
Avatar 7:07pm
ndbob:

Evening walking and James
Avatar 7:08pm
hyde:

hi folks. i could use a pick-me-up. this looks like the ticket!
Avatar 7:09pm
Carmichael:

Heya Flash and swingin' hep cats.
Avatar 7:10pm
Flash Strap:

I sure hope so Hyde! Let's pick you up and take you somewhere nice

Hey hep Carmichael
  7:14pm
walkingtrees:

ahoy!
Avatar 7:15pm
geezerette:

Evening Evan & Flashers.
Ahhhhh...a cool pool of sanity.
Avatar 7:17pm
hyde:

i need it. this might be an overshare, but Satu--the one eyed cat that is my avatar--has gone beyond the veil. I'm a little sad, and could use some transportation to other realms.
Avatar 7:20pm
Flash Strap:

Walkingtrees! Geezerette!
Avatar 7:21pm
Flash Strap:

Ah Hyde man... I'm so sorry. My heart goes out to you
Avatar 7:24pm
hyde:

thanks. it's inevitable, but she was kind of a special little cat so i'm not taking it so good.

i used to take Frank Buck books out of the library when i was a kid. I used to also watch this show in syndication, that ripped off the title of a book of his www.tvobscurities.com...
Avatar 7:25pm
Flash Strap:

seriously man, I'm in sorrow on your behalf. safe cosmic journeys, Satu.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
JtotheK:

good evening everyone. glad i could join in on this tiger expedition tonight!
  7:26pm
walkingtrees:

safe passage Satu
Avatar 7:28pm
hyde:

the art on the Frank Buck record is like a weird combo of Rousseau and Little Golden Books

@walkingtrees thnx!
Avatar 7:30pm
Flash Strap:

JtotheK! Hello!

@Hyde: precisely right, good call
  7:31pm
walkingtrees:

this...
Avatar 7:31pm
ndbob:

@Hyde sorry to hear that
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
listener james from westwood:

Terribly sorry to hear it, hyde. My condolences.
  7:32pm
walkingtrees:

currently hunting for r d burman slabs...
Avatar 7:33pm
Flash Strap:

This has such an early-70s library vibe it always shocks me to see the date
Avatar 7:34pm
geezerette:

Surrealism for tiny tots!


Condolences hyde. Still miss our cat.
Avatar 7:38pm
hyde:

thanks, ndb, ljfw, geezerette. it helps.
Avatar 7:39pm
hyde:

@walkingtrees love that R. D. Burman1
  7:41pm
walkingtrees:

@hyde what are some of your favs? i've only had a messy mix of mp3s of his....need to listen to some soundtracks fully proper
  7:41pm
walkingtrees:

diggin these narration interludes...routing for the tiger...
Avatar 7:43pm
Flash Strap:

I love this stuff too Trees
  7:44pm
walkingtrees:

couple weeks old news, but anyone have any idea why there was a gorilla in Cincinnati?
Avatar 7:45pm
Flash Strap:

I think I missed that one!
Avatar 7:46pm
Flash Strap:

This one's for Satu, Hyde
  7:46pm
walkingtrees:

oh man...a couple weeks ago some tyke fell into the gorrila pen in an ohio zoo...they shot the gorilla...there was a relative amount of uproar....as in: where were the parents?
  7:47pm
walkingtrees:

and a gator yanked some young lad to his doom outside some disney lagoon the other day
Avatar 7:48pm
hyde:

@walkingtrees ah, there are so many. i think the Teesri Mansil soundtrack was the breakout. A lot of stuff is on my backups back in Mass and not here in NY, so it's hard for me to remember exactly. There's been some Burman posts recently at Music From the Third Floor, fwiw. What I've listened to is generally good.
Avatar 7:48pm
just julia:

"teach me tiger," YES! also, hi.
Avatar 7:49pm
hyde:

@Flash haha, hopefully she's hearing it somewhere. though she was pretty much oblivious to music, unless it was the Roscoe Mitchell tune that opens Destination Out, which she hated because it always woke her up
  7:53pm
walkingtrees:

@hyde where in MA? i grew up in weymouth
Avatar 7:55pm
hyde:

@walkingtrees my gf + i own a house in attleboro at present. i grew up in Sherborn, which is next to Framingham.
  7:55pm
walkingtrees:

ah, i once worked at the whole foods in framingham, ha
Avatar 7:55pm
ndbob:

excellent first hour Evan! catch the rest on the archive
Avatar 8:00pm
Flash Strap:

Just Julia! Hello and warm welcome!
Avatar 8:01pm
Flash Strap:

Bye Bob!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
melinda:

hi everyone! bye bob!
Avatar 8:02pm
hyde:

@walkingtrees i've been to that whole foods!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
melinda:

Hyde I'm sorry about your kitty.
Avatar 8:06pm
Flash Strap:

Welcome Melinda!
Avatar 8:10pm
hyde:

@melinda thank you!
Avatar 8:11pm
hyde:

this record is awesome
Avatar 8:11pm
Flash Strap:

so awesome
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
JtotheK:

agreed. awesome. also - hyde -- condolences.
Avatar 8:21pm
Flash Strap:

This whole record is such a trip, if you've never heard it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
Doug Schulkind:

Oh hyde, I'm so sorry. I live in a house where the humans are outnumbered by the four-footers. I understand and share you pain.

Good evening Admiral Von Strap and all exploritrons.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
Doug Schulkind:

Those album covers are making my palms moisty-moisty.
Avatar 8:27pm
Flash Strap:

Good evening Commander-in-Doug! I love when a drummer perspires
Avatar 8:28pm
hyde:

thanks Doug and JtotheK. power to the four footers.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
JtotheK:

that Garson LP is a good one!
Avatar 8:30pm
Flash Strap:

No kidding J&K! Garson is godlike in general
  8:31pm
walkingtrees:

damn this drasnin is $100 on discogs
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:33pm
JtotheK:

i especially like spinning 'Music for Sensuous Lovers by Z' when we have guests over.
Avatar 8:38pm
Flash Strap:

woof! I did not pay that much for it, WT. so there's hope
Avatar 8:39pm
Flash Strap:

love that one J
  8:40pm
walkingtrees:

amazing how these young lads' voices sound so similar in these old expolits
Avatar 8:41pm
Flash Strap:

i know, such a particular way of speaking
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:41pm
JtotheK:

enjoying the program, as always! have to head out, but will catch the rest via archives. thanks again! cheers everyone.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...making me miss SciFi on BBC4extra I'd hear sometimes - '7th Dimension'...wonder if they ever do that now...
Avatar 8:43pm
Flash Strap:

RR! Hello and welcome!
  8:43pm
Dean:

Fun coincidence this afternoon: Fabio played a track from Noah Howard's "The Black Ark," about which somebody commented that it'd be nice to see a reissue. An hour later I found myself at Down Home Records, where right in front among the collectible vinyl was a copy of said LP. Price tag: $70. I didn't buy it, but I did pick up a $2 copy of Shootout at the Fantasy Factory and a nice used copy of Isaac Hayes' Black Moses on CD.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
coelacanth:

Greetings Evan and Explorers
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...& how Rawk has roots in Blues has roots in (actual) Vodoun became a pet obsession of mine for a bit - which is besides the point of Exotica 'Voodoo' anyhow...
Avatar 8:46pm
Flash Strap:

I think in a lot of ways it's a very similar evolution, RR, or even two aspects of the same one. Rock owes a lot more to exotica than it lets on
Avatar 8:50pm
Flash Strap:

and surf is a big missing link
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Yes - the whole topic of the Origins of the 'Concept Album'...the Concept being - Albums themselves as a distinct Medium, really. Before the kids were into LPs, there was Classical & Lounge & Exotica...all elementary observations here of course...I think the things George Martin had been into before The Beatles prepared him for helping Produce Psychedelia - even the Comedy...
Surf !...Mr. Brian Wilson in L.A. ...There's Lounge in Arthur Lee & Love certainly...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:53pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...isn't 'Pet Sounds' in fact Exotica ?!??...
Avatar 8:53pm
Flash Strap:

On the money, RR
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Dick Dale coming out of Middle Eastern grooves...
Avatar 8:54pm
Flash Strap:

I wouldn't say myself that Pet Sounds IS exotica, but it has a whole of exotica on and in it
  8:54pm
Dean:

And Sam Shalabi fairly completes the circle.
Avatar 8:56pm
Flash Strap:

btw, HI Dean!

and Coelacanth! HELLO
Avatar 8:57pm
Flash Strap:

wonderful to see you both here
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Little Danny:

Just landed back in Tejas and listening now Flash! Jesus this is a gorgeous playlist.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Just saw this on fb : observer.com... :

...' In the spring of 1966, Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys flew over to London. An acetate of the yet-to-be-released Pet Sounds was tucked securely under his arm. Like a high-ranking diplomat on a crucial mission, he had one and only one urgent assignment: to play the pioneering LP for John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles.

When they heard it, Lennon and McCartney immediately understood that a new standard had been set for album-length pop music.

But just as significantly, they also grasped the conceptual core of the album: The Beach Boys’ master composer and artistic strategist, Brian Wilson, had created a work that lovingly integrated a century of American pop, vaudeville, classical and folk tics into a user-friendly avant-psychedelic landscape. Even more remarkably, this modernist valentine to the past never seemed pretentious, not even for one moment.

Lennon and McCartney also understood that Brian Wilson had the courage to make music that reflected the cultural DNA inside every American musician, even citing the genes that had been discarded as unhip or archaic.

Within hours, Lennon and McCartney decided to attempt to do something very similar.

They would make a state-of-the-art pop album that puffed with the acid-breath of the High ’60s while sourcing the Fabs’ unique cultural vernacular: the music halls, pub sing-alongs, ratty rained-on circuses and shabby Pier entertainments of the north of England '...
Avatar 8:59pm
Flash Strap:

Ah Danny! How grand! Hope your travels were smooth and soulful?
  9:01pm
Jeff g.:

Oh hi.
I thought Black Ark *was* reissued...on CD, anyway.
And so sorry to hear about your cat @hyde.
Avatar 9:02pm
Flash Strap:

Jeff! Great to see ya! You're on next are you not?
Avatar 9:04pm
hyde:

thanks, Jeff G. Never again will the start of your show annoy the hell out of my poor cat! (in all honesty, this happened many, many times).

when I hear this Rocky Jones stuff, all I can ever think of is the Firesign Theater
  9:06pm
Dean:

Re: Beach Boys and Beatles...To think that people poo-poo Harold Blooms Anxiety of Influence!
  9:07pm
walkingtrees:

oh man, gonna have to sample some of these vocals
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:09pm
Doug Schulkind:

And speaking of Jeff G....

GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT:
Up next on the Drummer Stream, Jeff Golick and D:O Radio (with the spirit of the Magic Hour hanging heavy in the air) will be filling in for Little Danny and the Cool Blue Flame. Tune in to hear Jeff, live from the living room in his snug Brooklyn apartment. Will he have to yell at the kids to "pipe down in there!"? Will his wife ask him to put on a long cut and do the dishes already? You will only know if you keep listening to the Drummer Stream, 10-midnight (ET).

Jeff's playlist page will be here: wfmu.org...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:10pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Joe Meek is in there somewhere too...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:12pm
Alex In Illinois:

Enjoying this show
  9:14pm
Dean:

Shit! Today is Bloomsday! Must find Irish Whiskey...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:15pm
Alex In Illinois:

Voodoo from Polynesia? Hmm.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:15pm
Jeff Golick:

I'm warming up the machines now...telling the kids to pipe down...etc.

Flash, you're an impossible act to follow.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:15pm
Little Danny:

@Revolution Rabbit Nov63 I sense some Blue Men on the horizon...
Avatar 9:16pm
Flash Strap:

Hello, Alex!
Avatar 9:17pm
Flash Strap:

I actually omitted the Meek I was considering for that set because i thought you would all be expecting it
  9:17pm
Dean:

Doug: I noticed today that SFPL has a copy of this book in nice shape for sale in its Friends' bookstore: https://books.google.com/books?id=b-YAYAAACAAJ&dq=%22history+of+african+music%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjtsOzR8a3NAhUXS2MKHY2sCLsQ6AEISzAJ Know it?
Avatar 9:17pm
Flash Strap:

Oh, pshaw Jeff. you're a legend
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:19pm
Jeff Golick:

Giving the people what they don't know they want.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:20pm
Alex In Illinois:

I was hoping that little Conga would meet other kids, each making a different musical sound when he or she walks, and that they would form a large ensemble making great music when they walk together.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:20pm
Doug Schulkind:

@Dean
I have that book. Read it in the early '80s. My memory fails if it was fantastic, or better than that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:22pm
coelacanth:

Alex, that version NEEDS to be made!
Avatar 9:22pm
Flash Strap:

that's a better story, obviously
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:24pm
Little Danny:

Nice call on "Conga Brava."
  9:25pm
walkingtrees:

go evan!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:26pm
Little Danny:

Evan, look into Juan Tizol's own "Zanzibar," another cool pre-bop jazz exotica 78 with a similar vibe.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:26pm
melinda:

Tournees of licentiousness...haha
  9:26pm
Dean:

I love... No. Never mind.
Avatar 9:28pm
Flash Strap:

Danny: oh yes. will do. Love Tizol. Considered by some to have invented modal jazz itself

AUTHOR OF CARAVAN
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:29pm
melinda:

I love a space set followed by a conga set.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:31pm
Little Danny:

Oh nice! Yeah, when I hear the opening riff of "Conga Brava," I also think of Dizzy's "Night in Tunisia," which he wrote shortly after "Conga Brava"'s release, I just realized.
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Flash Strap:

@Melinda: it gives me a certain pleasure as well, to go from cold to hot in that way
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Flash Strap:

Huh, I was playing "Night in Tunisia" a few weeks ago and that never occurred to me, but it makes so much sense
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:33pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

On Earth as it is in Heaven. Church of the Drum.
Avatar 9:34pm
Flash Strap:

hearkening back to that Arnaz quote: I cannot believe that man was Desi Arnaz' father, and can't imagine how he felt seeing his son's progression. I imagine he softened his stance
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Flash Strap:

uh oh

gettin back into the voodoo
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Flash Strap:

this is really one of the best exotica records i think
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:41pm
Alex In Illinois:

IN the heavens, as it is on Earth, because we transmit radio signals of our music all over the place, and send out space probes that play recording of our music.
Avatar 9:41pm
Flash Strap:

the cover for this Voodoo! that's at the top of the page is really cool, but the truth is that the real cover used for the majority of releases is even better: img.discogs.com...
Avatar 9:43pm
geezerette:

Evan what an outrageously wacky show!
I'm sending this to my animation buddies.
Waiter, a round of Flaming Zombies to that gentleman in the pith helmet. Cheers!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:45pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Yeah man - righteous episode.
Avatar 9:45pm
Flash Strap:

Why thank you Geezerette! Tonight has been my pleasure, truly
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:48pm
Doug Schulkind:

At the beginning of his Impulse recording of Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac, Dizzy belts out what sounds for all the world to be clowning, faux-African chanting. An over-the-top exotica overload. At least, that was how I heard it at first. Later, I discovered that Dizzy was in all actuality faithfully re-creating a classic Afro-Cuban (no doubt Yoruba) chant. I never ceased to be internally embarrassed by my initial judgment. Desi Arnaz was also a purveyor of serious, dare I say "authentic" Afro-Cuban music. It was easy to right-off the sounds as cartoonish in the setting of the I Love Lucy show, but the music was the real deal.
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Flash Strap:

and thank you as well, RR
Avatar 9:49pm
Flash Strap:

amen doug
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Babalú indeed. A 'Mambo' is a Priestess. The lines are pretty straight - from Rawk to Blues to Vodoun. Certainly the Caribbean rhythms are generally of unbroken lineage. Dots finally connected for me by 'Shadow Dancing in the USA' by Michael Ventura.
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walkingtrees:

thanks evan! adios all
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Babalú-Ayé :
en.wikipedia.org...
  9:56pm
Dean:

Did Wilma Cozart produce/engineer that Hayman record?
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Flash Strap:

Thanks all and good good night
Avatar 9:57pm
hyde:

thanks for the always cool show. i also really appreciate everyone's well wishes! night all.
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coelacanth:

Thank you Evan! (belated)
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