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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 August 27, 2020: Dream Dunes, Green Deserts

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
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Mikey Dread  Pre-Dawn Dub   Favoriting African Anthem: The Mikey Dread Show Dubwise  Dread at the Controls  1979    0:01:17 (Pop-up)
Mikey Dread  Operator's Choice   Favoriting African Anthem: The Mikey Dread Show Dubwise  Dread at the Controls  1979    0:04:03 (Pop-up)
Mikey Dread  Headline News   Favoriting African Anthem: The Mikey Dread Show Dubwise  Dread at the Controls  1979    0:09:01 (Pop-up)
Alice Coltrane with Strings  Galaxy in Satchidananda   Favoriting World Galaxy  Impulse!   1972    0:12:20 (Pop-up)
Alice Coltrane  Wisdom Eye   Favoriting Eternity  Warner Bros.  1976    0:22:33 (Pop-up)
Alice Coltrane  Lovely Sky Boat   Favoriting A Monastic Trio  Impulse!   1968    0:25:33 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Whispering Reef Lullaby  
 
 
 
 
0:32:12 (Pop-up)
Nino Rota  Cimitero - Gigolette - Cadillac - Carlotta's Galop / L'Harem   Favoriting 8½ (Colonna Sonora Originale Del Film)  CAM  1963    0:38:38 (Pop-up)
Stan Kenton  Ride of the Valkyries from "Die Walkuere"   Favoriting Kenton / Wagner  Capitol  1964    0:46:46 (Pop-up)
Alice Coltrane  Excerpts from The Firebird   Favoriting Lord of Lords  Impulse!  1972    0:49:45 (Pop-up)
Tomita  Promenade; The Gnome / Promenade; The Old Castle / Promenade; Tuileries   Favoriting Pictures at an Exhibition  RCA Red Seal  1975    0:56:21 (Pop-up)
Piero Umiliani  Rififi in Minore / Rififi Variato   Favoriting L'Ultimo Rififi 7"  CAM  1963    1:07:52 (Pop-up)
Steve Lacy  Hemline   Favoriting Straws  Cramps Records  1977    1:11:37 (Pop-up)
Neil Young  Florida   Favoriting Homegrown  Reprise  2020  rec. 1975  1:15:28 (Pop-up)
Nino Rota  O Venezia, Venega, Venusia   Favoriting Il Casanova di Federico Fellini  CAM   1976    1:18:19 (Pop-up)
Moondog  Chaconne C / Lögründr III / Lögründr XII   Favoriting Moondog in Europe  Kopf  1977    1:21:49 (Pop-up)
The Beach Boys  Lonely Sea   Favoriting Surfin' U.S.A.  Capitol  1963    1:28:25 (Pop-up)
Norma Lyon  Beyond the Dunes – The Sea   Favoriting The Music of Norma Lyon  Little Axe  2015  rec. 1968?  1:30:42 (Pop-up)
Nino Rota  Saraghina's Dance   Favoriting excerpted from the film 8½        1:32:49 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Underway  
 
 
 
 
1:35:33 (Pop-up)
Tangerine Dream  White Clouds   Favoriting Green Desert  Relativity  1986  rec. 1973  1:45:51 (Pop-up)
Patrick Cowley  Lumberjacks in Heat   Favoriting Mechanical Fantasy Box  Dark Entries  2019  rec. 197?  1:50:17 (Pop-up)
Can  Hunters and Collectors / Vernal Equinox   Favoriting Landed  HÖR ZU / EMI Electrola  1975    2:01:48 (Pop-up)
Sensation's Fix  Overflowing Ashtray   Favoriting Music is Painting in the Air (1974-1977)  RVNG Intl.  2012  orig. on Vision's Fugitive, 1977  2:14:23 (Pop-up)
Gert Thrue  Sound Painted Pictures of Cosmic Love   Favoriting Sound Painted Pictures of Cosmic Love  Stuk  1977    2:15:18 (Pop-up)
Alice Coltrane  Los Caballos   Favoriting Eternity  Warner Bros.  1976    2:34:06 (Pop-up)
Sergei Djokanov  Копнеж / Yearning   Favoriting The Green Desert  Балкантон  1985    2:45:18 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 
Mondo Island  
 
 
 
 
2:52:34 (Pop-up)
Holvoet's Draaiorgel  Serenade Toselli   Favoriting Beka 78        2:59:41 (Pop-up)


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Avatar 6:49pm
Flash Strap:

Hello explorers, nice to be back
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 6:52pm
chresti:

Hi Flash and explorers of the future and past!
Avatar 6:54pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Chresti!
Avatar 7:02pm
Flash Strap:

extremely wild stuff from Mikey Dread's 1st LP, a direct carryover from his seminal years as Jamaica's premiere dread DJ
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
listener james from westwood:

Evening, Flash and all!
Avatar 7:02pm
Flash Strap:

Hiya James!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
Michael 98145:

Dolce Vita, indeed
Avatar 7:04pm
Flash Strap:

Hiya Michael! indeed
  7:04pm
northguineahills:

Just talked to a resident for the Census, and only spoke Spanish. I soon realized a I was speaking Portuguese (been watching a lot Brazilian films lately).
Avatar 7:04pm
hyde:

hello!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
Michael 98145:

@ngh, guess a lot of folks feel threatened by our country right now, huh ...?
Avatar 7:06pm
Flash Strap:

NGH, Hyde! nice to see you both
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:09pm
Michael 98145:

Whoa. Don't think i've heard all this before now?
Avatar 7:09pm
Flash Strap:

it's wild stuff man
Avatar 7:10pm
Flash Strap:

lots of wacky fun
  7:12pm
northguineahills:

Alice!!!!!!!
Avatar 7:12pm
Frog Mover:

Hey everyone!
Avatar 7:12pm
hyde:

haha, figured there would be some of this today
Avatar 7:12pm
TDK60:

Hello.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
doctorjazz:

Hi Flash and Flashers!
Avatar 7:12pm
Flash Strap:

@NGH: Alice Coltrane, born this very day
Avatar 7:13pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Frog Mo buddy!
Avatar 7:13pm
Flash Strap:

Hi there TDK and Doc Jazz!
Avatar 7:14pm
Flash Strap:

@Hyde: you figured right, what can i say, how can i help it
  7:16pm
northguineahills:

When I played Galaxy of Sachinada once at a t Latino/Indian club night (as we were closing), it brought my dj partner to tears (as it has done to me many times).
Avatar 7:17pm
Flash Strap:

@NGH: that, i love to hear
Avatar 7:18pm
Flash Strap:

the wonderful Frank Lowe on sax here
Avatar 7:19pm
Flash Strap:

Lowe, whose work we were just enjoying not long ago with Don Cherry on Brown Rice
  7:22pm
northguineahills:

Sorry, working, and can only use my phone.
Avatar 7:23pm
Flash Strap:

no sorries pal
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:24pm
Michael 98145:

working is good
  7:26pm
Dean:

Did I see Lowe at a bookstore in Connecticut that features live shows, c.2000? I think so...
  🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
WR:

Hi Evan and all. Have been on work calls all day today, glad to shift to admin work so I can connect and start listening. Flow of sound from Alice Coltrane is a balm.
Avatar 7:27pm
Flash Strap:

sounds amazing Dean
Avatar 7:27pm
Flash Strap:

Hi WR! happy to help with that, my friend
  7:28pm
Dean:

Great store, whose name I can't recall, either. [something] Tree?
Avatar 7:30pm
Flash Strap:

lovely bass from Jimmy Garrison here
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
Aitch:

Just settling in
Avatar 7:38pm
Flash Strap:

hello and warm welcome Aitch
Avatar 7:40pm
Flash Strap:

i know the top image is from La Dolce Vita and I'm playing 8 1/2, that's just how i feel, there's great continuity there anyway
  🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
WR:

I should revisit those early classic Fellini films. It's been a long time since I saw them.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
Little Danny:

Hey Flash, welcome back! Hey all.
Avatar 7:44pm
Flash Strap:

hi LD! thanks brother
Avatar 7:44pm
Flash Strap:

@WR: i watch 8 1/2 at least once a year, it's perfect to me
Avatar 7:45pm
Flash Strap:

love Fellini generally
Avatar 7:45pm
TDK60:

8½ is tops footage.
Avatar 7:47pm
Flash Strap:

this Kenton album, which i just picked up for a buck somewhere: suprisingly crazy stuff
  🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
WR:

Putting the Kenton Ride of the Valkyries where you did was a humorous aside.
Avatar 7:56pm
Flash Strap:

thank you
Avatar 7:56pm
Flash Strap:

all credit to Fellini really
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Listening & appreciating Alice Day ...but waiting for my Fone to charge up to participate here...
Avatar 7:58pm
Flash Strap:

this Tomita / Mussorgsky album really underrated imo, very unique and weird stuff
Avatar 7:58pm
Flash Strap:

hiya Rev!
  🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
WR:

Yes, the Tomita "Pictures..." is way more fun than I remember. But maybe in the mid 70s I wasn't ready for fun.
Avatar 8:04pm
Flash Strap:

well it's fun but it's still a very serious rendition in its way, its not exactly Spike Jones murdering the Classics
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
melinda:

Howdy!
Avatar 8:04pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Melinda!
Avatar 8:08pm
Flash Strap:

come to think of it i wish i'd planned for some Spike in this set, dammit
Avatar 8:09pm
Flash Strap:

some very Fellini/Rota-esque sounds from Umiliani here
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
melinda:

Very cinematic that was.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
Jeff Golick:

Soundtracking the oncoming storm beautifully, here in windy Brooklyn. Hi, @flash.
Avatar 8:14pm
Flash Strap:

@melinda: that Umiliani seems to be the soundtrack to an Italian "sequel" to Dassin's Rififi but I'm unclear as to further details
Avatar 8:16pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Jeff! honored and very happy to do so
  8:18pm
northguineahills:

Sounds like a cross of the Orb’s Little Fluffy Clouds/ a certain obscure Flaming Lips track/ and Micah’s show.....
Avatar 8:19pm
Flash Strap:

one of my favorite Rota soundtracks, Casanova
Avatar 8:19pm
TDK60:

..this is great, Flash.
  8:22pm
Doug Schulkind:

Swoondog.
Avatar 8:22pm
Flash Strap:

very pleased to hear, TDK
Avatar 8:22pm
Flash Strap:

Moondoug!
  🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
WR:

The movie Casanova was a bit of a disappointment to me, I neglected to realize how lovely the music is.
Avatar 8:26pm
TDK60:

never heard this Moondog organ, yet.
Avatar 8:27pm
Flash Strap:

yeah i don't totally love Casanova either, though it really is an incredible production. There's no reason it shouldn't come off the way Satyricon does (which I love) but something just doesn't work. all-time great score from Rota though
Avatar 8:27pm
Flash Strap:

@TDK: very good moondog record imo
Avatar 8:29pm
Flash Strap:

"please tell the truth - you're like the lonely sea" what a thing for a teenager to say to someone
  🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
WR:

Looking at discogs I see no USA release of the Casanova soundtrack? Really?
Avatar 8:32pm
Flash Strap:

i know man - for years it was almost impossible to get a DVD of the film
Avatar 8:33pm
Flash Strap:

always drove me nuts that this piece wouldn't be included on the 8½ soundtrack. it's crucial!
  8:34pm
Ignore Function:

Sitting on my back porch enjoying the show while storm clouds roll in.
  🥁 Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
WR:

The Norma Lyon piece us interesting.

Regarding Saraghina's Dance, that is surprising.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:41pm
Jeff Golick:

Looks like Lacy's "Hemline" was written for...Janis Joplin? If the (poorly translated) LP notes are to be believed.
Avatar 8:46pm
Flash Strap:

@IF: this is some real heavy clouds-rolling-in music for ya
Avatar 8:47pm
Flash Strap:

@JG: that's wild, I did not know that! will have to look into this further
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
Jeff Golick:

If you can zoom in: www.discogs.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
Jeff Golick:

(I should add: dedicated to JJ, not written for her to sing or anything.)
Avatar 8:52pm
Flash Strap:

very interesting! I wonder what I'll hear in Hemline when next I listen to it, with her in mind
Avatar 8:53pm
Flash Strap:

the connection is not immediately apparent but I'm intrigued
Avatar 8:54pm
TDK60:

Space Station work music?
Avatar 8:54pm
Flash Strap:

absolutely insane experimental gay porno krautrock from the master Cowley
Avatar 8:56pm
Flash Strap:

actually I don't know if this was done for a porn soundtrack or not, but it's of a piece with his other work in that vein, which is generally my favorite. much as I dig the Menergy/Hi-NRG stuff, his film work is so much more mystical
Avatar 8:58pm
Flash Strap:

plus, the title indicates
  9:02pm
Dean:

That Cowley title was merely being prescient about the effects of climate change.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
coelacanth∅:

hey Flash, Explorers
Avatar 9:02pm
Flash Strap:

Hey Coelacanth!
Avatar 9:05pm
Flash Strap:

Hunters and Collectors / Vernal Equinox is such a one-two punch i could never separate them
Avatar 9:08pm
TDK60:

"Captain, who are all these German hippies walkin' round the ship?! We cannae have it!"
Avatar 9:11pm
Flash Strap:

Karoli going nuts for this track man
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:13pm
Ike:

Oh yeah!
Avatar 9:15pm
Flash Strap:

Hi Ike!
  9:16pm
Dean:

I've always wondered--literally, since the album was released--whether Sensation's Fix meant the allusion to Prokofiev's piece (rather series of pieces) by the same name.
  9:18pm
Little Danny:

Love the pitch-shifting note bends
Avatar 9:18pm
Flash Strap:

@Dean: good point
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:19pm
JtotheK:

Gert Thrue, new to me - enjoying! Hiya Flash, hi everyone.
Avatar 9:19pm
Flash Strap:

@LD: me too man, this really is an all-timer as far as cosmic organ psych goes
Avatar 9:20pm
Flash Strap:

hi JtotheK!
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Flash Strap:

Gert Thrue cover: img.discogs.com...
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Frog Mover:

Love Cosmic Love
Avatar 9:23pm
Flash Strap:

thinking of you Froggy
  9:23pm
Dean:

Absolute Elsewhere vibe on this Gert Thrue.
Avatar 9:26pm
Flash Strap:

never really listened to Absolute Elsewhere, gotta get hip
Avatar 9:27pm
Flash Strap:

back cover notes, very charming: img.discogs.com...
Avatar 9:28pm
Flash Strap:

also reminds me of Bo Hansson, but freer and wider in scope
  9:30pm
Dean:

One LP, of interest to me because Bill Bruford drummed on it, one of his session gigs. Paul Fishman went on to form Re-Flex, the "Politics of Dancing" one hit wonder. But some of this Thrue, setting aside the missing Bruford, sounds like outtakes from the album devoted to von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods.
  🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:30pm
WR:

Curious about Gert Thrue, on discogs a drummer and synthesizer / keyboard performers are credited and Gert Thrue a separate credit as composer. Unless the band is getting credited. I dunno.
Avatar 9:33pm
Flash Strap:

i see two drummers credited and all the keys credited to Thrue, which reflects the info on the back cover as well
  9:34pm
Dean:

Bruford is relatively non-descript on AE, but he's Bruford.
Avatar 9:35pm
Flash Strap:

I'm gonna check that out Dean
Avatar 9:37pm
Flash Strap:

Charlie Haden on this one
Avatar 9:38pm
TDK60:

..and back with Alice..
Avatar 9:39pm
Flash Strap:

Ben Riley on drums
  🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:43pm
WR:

Okay, I was misunderstanding the listing. Thanks.
  🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:44pm
WR:

Fun track by Alice Coltrane.
Avatar 9:45pm
Flash Strap:

she's killer on the organ
  🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:45pm
WR:

Great sequencing of music tonight.
Avatar 9:47pm
Flash Strap:

thanks friend, i try
  9:51pm
Dean:

I'm sorry I missed the Tangerine Dream above. Froese's Epsilon in Malaysia Pale would fit in here, too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:53pm
Little Danny:

Thank you Evan, another mystical return!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:54pm
Little Danny:

Unlock your potential: wfmu.org...

Hope to see y'all at the Cool Blue Flame, next!
Avatar 9:54pm
TDK60:

Good night, thanks Flash.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:58pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Evan!
  🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:58pm
WR:

Thank you Evan! Onward.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:59pm
chresti:

Thanks Flash, most enjoyable flight!
Avatar 9:59pm
Flash Strap:

Thanks everyone! always such a happiness for me to play music for you! goodnight!
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