WFMU: This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from March 31, 2022

Listener comments!
	9:01am Handy Haversack: Good gray Thursday greetings, Trouble and all the Troubled.
	9:01am listener james from westwood: Morning, Trouble and all!
	9:01am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Happy Thursday!
	9:01am Strandlund: Nothing but Trouble...
	9:01am Robm: Good morning fellow trouble makers
	9:01am Handy Haversack: We're flocking together!
	9:02am StringOFperils: Apple blossoms in Trouble Prefecture
	9:02am TDK60: I forgot it's Trouble's morning. Bonjour Mods.
	9:02am Erin in TO: If I'm troubled, is this the place to be?
	9:03am jdaAndAnoukFromKöln: bonjour aussi from here…
	9:03am YETI BOB: so expressive. i love this piece. good morning troubled world.
	9:04am MikeG: Morning all
	9:04am Trouble: good spring morning to you all!
	9:05am Robm: @Erin yes it is and let’s make some good trouble
	9:05am Webhamster Henry: Good Modern Morning!
	9:06am ¿¡: hiya troub's.
	9:06am Erin in TO: @Robm I would be delighted to have some of the good kind of trouble in my life. The closest I have is my cat making constant trouble, but with a cute face
	9:06am Robm: @Erin ha ha
	9:09am Lucky: This sax is making think of Bowie for some reason...
	9:13am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Mr. Jim Hall on guitar. One of my favorites.
	9:14am YETI BOB: i know the Jimmy Giuffre 3 records with Steve Swallow on bass and Paul Bley on piano - not familiar with this lineup, Jim Hall on guitar and Ralph Pena on the thumper. Nice.
	9:14am peter in SEA: Bon jour all -oh when will sunrise be before Modern World begins? I’m past ready!
	9:15am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @YETI BOB: Yeah, those are more "out," sorta. Really good though.
	9:16am YETI BOB: Woods - they are so far "out" they are back "in". Some of my all-time faves, TBH.
	9:17am YETI BOB: (there's a story that the trio broke up after they had to split $1 three ways at the end of one night after a poorly-attended show)
	9:18am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): There's a reason so many jazzers went to Europe. Kind of sad, though nothing has changed, really.
	9:18am bw: good morning, happy spring
	9:21am Zipperhead7: G'morning folks! I'm glad to be living in the modern world, no matter how crazed it seems at times.
	9:22am YETI BOB: The modern world is not so bad, not like the students say.
	9:25am Peter in SEA: Nice Hiroshige print on the playlist page. Cherries in full splendor out here. Hanami (Cherry blossom viewing) this weekend on blue tarps w/ plenty of good sake & rice crackers :-)
	9:27am fred: @YETI BOB@9:17: Looks like a game theory problem: how to split (meager) door proceeds so that the band doesn't break up, and when should the bass player (thought harmless enough to keep the stash) leave with the savings?
	9:28am Zipperhead7: The modern world could be worse. For example, despite a recent uptick, global hunger rates have declined precipitously since the turn of the century.
	9:28am duvignau: Saludooos! Bonito día.
	9:29am YETI BOB: fred: somehow, the bassist left with the piano player's wife! (Carla Bley)
	9:29am desi: Hola & yes, another day modern, classic, vintage day OR ; otherwise, beats the alternative :) thks for the positive vibes
	9:31am dano59: I can’t be all Jonathan Richman and say I’m in Love w/the Modern World Life has always seemed to be nasty brutish and short and people out to hurt/fleece people ain’t goin’ away
	9:31am Zinn The Mood: Hey Trouble and folks… Wonderful enveloping fog over the unusually calm HellGate strait, on out into the East River; it’s also obscuring Manhattan and the tip of Roosevelt Island. Couple of pairs of ducks frolicking near the shore. Lovely.
	9:33am Handy Haversack: There were loons on Newtown Creek this week, Zinn. And buffleheads last week.
	9:34am Hugo (NL): hi everybody
	9:34am YETI BOB: dano: you're right about nasty brutish and short but i think it's up to us to try to make it less so, it's the only life we've got so give it a shot.
	9:35am dano59: this little gymnopede is making it better for me though, tbh
	9:35am Mike W: I am here to weep and be iconless
	9:35am Mike W: Handy, whatdju call me?
	9:36am katharsis: Good morning. this is lovely. thank you
	9:37am Handy Haversack: America's cutest duck, Mike W!
	9:40am Mike W: Okay and is that your phone autocorrecting a different word?
	9:41am Mike W: I’m here to audition for the role of “America’s most fucked cluck”
	9:43am Handy Haversack: My phone's a rotary. It doesn't auto-anything anything!
	9:43am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Had a great FMU moment yesterday. Scott was playing this sort of out/orchestral piece and I wanted to clicky star it. Turns out 1. I already had and 2. I own the thing on vinyl. It was something by Varese.
	9:43am TDK60: Please, no back massages for the piano player..
	9:43am Pale Son: Morning, all, just arriving. I love this piano piece and the Hiroshige!
	9:44am Hydroplane: This reminds me of an album I really love called Wandelaar by Haron
	9:44am Mike W: It feels like by the time a Thursday morning gets here, conscious minds and compassionate hearts have had just about enough of seeing the parade of manmade horrors out there, and then Trouble plays the right thing with piano and we’re all transported back to the place where we can dream and breathe a little.
	9:45am karlward: Handy texts on the rotary phone. Playing modern life on its most difficult setting.
	9:46am Mike W: How to dream and breathe in your own life when dreams and breathe are being squashed out there by Man and capitalism and war. (Man::capitalism::war . . . don’t do the math).
	9:46am Zinn The Mood: Nice, Handy. It’s a real strain on the imagination in 2022 to conjure up the bucolic nature of these islands we live on, which have been incorporated into this high-rise megalopolis, as they were only a couple of centuries ago. Was at the local library yesterday and among the meager pickings was a book Pete Hamill happened to put together (upon the research of one published in the mid 1800’s) about the “great” riots of NYC. And one passage jumped out so much I had to re- read it. Told of a mile-wide lake where the Tombs are now! Made me wonder how many of the original creeks , rivers, ponds and such have been converted up in the push to develop the city for more housing.
	9:47am Mike W: Handy’s out there Flintstonin’ it with a pterodactyl turntable and such.
	9:49am Handy Haversack: Zinn, sounds like you need to get a copy of this! shop.nyhistory.org... (Or you can borrow mine, of course.)
	9:50am Hydroplane: Is this the "foggy morning" set? Love it
	9:51am rx scabin: Good morning, Trouble and everyone.
	9:53am Threemoons: Morning Trouble, fellow Troublemakers. Still need to get that coffee in. Will sneak in a shower at some point.
	9:53am Handy Haversack: Oh, Zinn, also this! shop.wordbookstores.com... Which, again, you can borrow mine, of course.
	9:56am Pale Son: Whoa, that was Grouper? When did she get so intelligible?
	9:56am Handy Haversack: (And the NYPL has it: browse.nypl.org...)
	9:56am dano59: Saw a pic of the Lincoln Memorial in 1917, set in the middle of a swamp. Abe probably had a lot of bird visitors then.
	9:58am dano59: I also just ordered a couple more books on extinct birds thanks to our Garbage Time chat on Tuesday.
	9:59am rx scabin: Drinking a delicious Columbian coffee, a slightly dark roast.
	10:01am Hydroplane: @Pale Son It's definitely the strongest example on the intelligible end of the Grouper spectrum but she's gotten pretty close to that before!
	10:02am TDK60: Juliet of the Spirits, I recall saw it long ago, like a dream.
	10:03am rx scabin: The cats are in the kitchen with me, and I am listening to This is the Modern World. No rushing.
	10:05am Dayffid: Hi trouble and fellow troubled ones. Nice be be with you all.
	10:05am rx scabin: Any Hal Wilner production or thing is worth it.
	10:06am rx scabin: Kind of like a WFMU DJ set list.
	10:06am -жеи: Yes sadly, Hal Wilner passed away of COVID, around April 2020. RIP
	10:06am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Yes. That Mingus Weird Nightmare record. Oh man.
	10:07am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): At least we still have Bob Dylan. Sort of.
	10:07am dano59: Loved all the Willner tribute albums. I heard there will finally be a private memorial gathering for Hal
	10:07am Yep: That was the Collect Pond. City water source for better than a century. Many water sources still flow underground (see Minetta). Washington Square was a paupers grave from the yellow fever epidemics. And a place to hang criminals. Canal street was a canal same as Wall Street was a wall. Terrain marches on.
	10:08am Webhamster Henry: Clone Nina Simone!
	10:08am Dayffid: Bob Dylan isn’t dead, only canceled.
	10:08am prudy: Missed name of book..
	10:09am TDK60: That was a tangent. Hee. Gum. Nina. Hal.
	10:09am rx scabin: @prudy nina simone's gum
	10:09am Layet Johnson: Loooove Tindersticks
	10:10am Webhamster Henry: If you want to check out Benjamin Walker's TMI archives, start with this one! www.wfmu.org...
	10:11am Dayffid: Since we have the technology to clone ourselves, does that mean we technically have access to eternal life? Just have a new clone made every time you start to get old. (B Streisand does it with her dog)
	10:11am Handy Haversack: David did go on to be a king, so he's maybe not the best analogy either.
	10:12am ifeelfatnsassy: The tournament is nicknamed "The Big Dance" so Cinderella is the unknown star of the big dance that captures attention, then the clock "strikes midnight" and they fade back to obscurity.
	10:12am listener james from westwood: I know "Cinderella story" as an expression got wind under its wings via Bill Murray in "Caddyshack." . . .
	10:12am rx scabin: @Trouble sports announcers' understanding of fairy tales.
	10:12am Dayffid: Didn’t one of the players loose a sneaker on the court or something? Maybe that was it ?
	10:12am Vivian: Good morning all in WFMU land. Work from home day with the sun shining in after a stormy night. Gave the hens last rounds of meds this morning-hurray! One of which is named Nina Simone. Thoughts are drifting to this weekend's 'chores'-plants, pond cleaning, hummingbird feeders..
	10:13am Zipperhead7: Late to chime in on this, but I think the tracks on Amarcord Nino Rota were Frissell's first recordings
	10:14am Andres: They arrive at the party seemingly through magic. How else to explain their success it seems to some. And then the magic spell ends.
	10:15am Zipperhead7: Take me to church with this piano! A fine version of Butterfield's classic
	10:17am Trouble: thank you @ andres, now that makes sense...
	10:18am Gerry from Miami: TROUBLE, the St. Peter's coach has, indeed, already been snapped up to coach at Seton Hall. Still, the salary he will receive there is still a far cry from what head coaches get at top basketball schools like North Carolina, Duke. Kansas, UCLA et al. Good on him, though, for leading the Peacocks to an unforgettable season.
	10:21am Jason from Houston: Good morning, good trouble and good people.
	10:21am Handy Haversack: This Ringer article on St. Peter's has some good info on just how the NCAA system is set up by rich schools in order for those rich schools and only those rich schools to reap the rewards of the tournament, which makes St. Peter's run EVEN MORE unlikely and special: www.theringer.com... Basically, the NCAA is as corrupt a governing body as you're likely to find this side of FIFA (or, you know, the government), and it is designed to elevate the wealthy and keep the poor in their place. Remind anyone of anything?
	10:22am Ryansterlingvirtue: I went through such a hardcore emika phase. She still gives me major feels.
	10:27am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): The amount of money college coaches are paid is really disgusting.
	10:27am Jason from Houston: Also! Nice woodblock print from that series!
	10:29am Mike W: In lots of states the highest-paid public official is the football or basketball coach of that state’s biggest university.
	10:29am Andrea: Energy time. (thank you)
	10:29am Trouble: rutgers football coach is number 1 highest paid public employee in NJ, millions of $$$. and for what?
	10:30am Zipperhead7: Little bunnies gettin' it on. Apropos this time of year
	10:34am ifeelfatnsassy: Given how fast it was announced (I believe it was the night of or the day after St Peter's loss to UNC), the Seton Hall move must have been in the works for a while, likely before any tournament games happened. They probably got a bargain.
	10:35am tilly twostep: for football
	10:36am Mike W: Heyy, Rutgers went to a damaged bowl game (bc the original invitee had covid issues) and got whomped and finished 5-8. That’s worth $4M in NJ.
	10:37am ifeelfatnsassy: Seton Hall is his alma mater, there was a vacancy... it makes total sense. I'm sure he was conflicted. It was clear how much he cared for the team and was invested in their success. It was heartening to see a coach fully engaged with his team and not delegating interactions to their (most often, "his") army of assistant coaches.
	10:37am tilly twostep: college football still brings in millions in TV revenue to colleges and universities
	10:38am ifeelfatnsassy: Anyway... Trouble's comment board is the least likely place for sports yak... back to simply enjoying the funky, jazzy jams.
	10:38am ifeelfatnsassy: (and back to work... haha)
	10:40am Bones: AHHH I hollered when the St. Etienne NY cover kicked in like I was seeing a long lost friend. Thnx for this one Trouble
	10:40am Andres: Love this Saint Etienne!
	10:40am Handy Haversack: That might be the most sports discussion I've ever seen on a WFMU board! Maaaaaybe when Michael Shelley asks every year whether he should watch the Superbowl.
	10:43am drew: There used to be a Sportsy Talk show w/ Bronwyn C. and Jim the Poet.
	10:44am Jason from Houston: Only that Saint Etienne song can make me feel that good.
	10:44am Jason from Houston: Never forget Sportsy Talk!
	10:48am Bdogg & Felix: this bab l’buz is fantastic!
	10:50am Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): hello, Trouble and folx! what wonderful sounds to start my day!
	10:50am Zinn The Mood: Thanks, Handy! Book looks good. May take you up on the loan, heh. Would be cool to meet! Was just on long walk and ran into another dad, who’s a local DSA member (and big FMU fan). Did another lap with him as he slow jogged to keep pace with my fast walk. Yesterday, ran into a local Occupy comrade. We commiserated on how pathetic the MSM is; tried to keep from becoming hopeless about the seemingly diminishing prospects of any kind of awakening because of the relentless propaganda barraging us 24/7. It’s frustrating trying to get people to stayed focused on this shit corporate, crony capitalist system and a bribed government being the real problems from which all else stems. Anyway, made me think that these kinds of spontaneous interactions are what makes city life feel like a real community. Because like many especially now the thought of a rural or rustic life seems more and more appealing (instead of this www.vox.com...). At least here I know there are a good handful or more of activist comrades who I know for mutual aid I could rely on if the shit really hits the fan.
	10:54am karlward: The fan is over there in the corner, I think, buried in... something. Also I think it's on fire.
	10:55am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @Zinn: My wife watches the daily presser via the White House feed and man, it's so depressing. The entire pack is nearly completely addicted to the gotcha question. It's embarrassing to watch.
	10:59am ?: today's show is so good. I cannot focus on my homework; i keep looking up all these new-to-me bands :)
	11:08am clay b: Hello from beacon ny!
	11:09am Quinn: De Korte Park is my favorite!!
	11:09am Handy Haversack: Has to be a salt marsh.
	11:09am emilie s: Yes, DeKorte is definitely a salt marsh! This ecologist can attest.
	11:10am Ken From Hyde Park: I like birds. Will try to attend. 🔭
	11:12am Listening Out There: So, Trouble, what are the odds that you'll stumble onto Jimmy Hoffa's body while birdwatching, hmm?
	11:17am Zinn The Mood: Love this Hamdi track, Trouble!
	11:17am Trouble: i'd say the marsh would have swallowed him by now @ Listening...
	11:24am Rosey is Listening on 91.1 MHz: I'd love to go and have been meaning to check out that area for a while now anyway. I have some friends who grew up in Rutherford and who have been over there plenty. Little bit of a trip by train and bike because it's a bit out of the way, haha, but some adventure is fun. Meadowlands as a salt marsh definitely makes sense. I know there have been plans to slowly convert the Meadowlands into a big nature park so water has some place to go as climate-related issues worsen. In the mean time, we surrounded an expensive sports, shopping, and entertainment complex with a ton of asphalt...
	11:25am Mike W.: This show at volume on a windy day, along the banks of the Anacostia... [French birder chef’s kiss]
	11:25am Bones: Bobbie Gentry, my queen of queens
	11:25am Hydroplane: Wow I wish that fuzzy guitar part at the end of Send Me was a whole track/version...
	11:26am listener james from westwood: @Rosey: Oh, jeez, that American Dream debacle. Would've been best left as local marsh and wildlife. Wetlands are more important than a damn indoor ski slope.
	11:27am TDK60: It would've been better if they hadn't built those sports/music buildings. But at least they don't burn garbage out there anymore!
	11:30am Handy Haversack: I have to get this hound out and about so will say my thanks now, Trouble. Fantastic show! Got me through some very annoying stuff this morning. Many thanks! Stay Troubled, everyone. It's a duty and a privilege.
	11:33am Pale Son: These two always remind me of Bob & Ray, ha ha.
	11:33am ¿¡: I'm troubled about hearing about the marshes and wetlands that have been paved over for more buildings that aren't needed!
	11:33am Bdogg & Felix: Ha , is bird song language ? Weird concept
	11:34am rx scabin: My calls mean different things at different times of the year.
	11:34am Rosey is Listening on 91.1 MHz: Ha, and I don't even mean just the mall. I mean everything over there. I think we can find a place to relocate those stadiums/facilities for the sake of a future Earth that's still habitable for humans and most other life. Continuing that status quo instead of trying to make changes for a better future is a choice. It's a choice elected officials and other decision-makers made and that too many citizens continue supporting. Plenty of people in Buffalo support this absolutely grotesque stadium scam they're trying to pull. It's not just the politicians. They need to be held accountable and replaced if they're going to keep doing this crap. And that gets to the point about how lousy a lot of mainstream reporting has been. Instead of the superficial horserace, both sides are the same, and gossip-type political reporting, and instead of the local network news spending the first 10+ minutes of every single broadcast talking about a single violent crime or single fire happening in a metro area with millions of people, they'd focus on something like all the ways climate change will and already is affecting people and businesses. There's a lot of great reporting out there that just doesn't get nearly as much attention as the crap that most people see.
	11:34am jt: What is this the Bert & I of the bird-world? Love a Brown Thrasher great info : Says everything two times!
	11:34am The Oscar: Thought for sure that was Bob & Ray!
	11:38am jt: The 'brown' of the Brown Thrasher is lovely hue, like a powdery cocoa, very special despite the name brown, it is not what you expect.. ie. not sparrow brown.. You see them by the edge of marshes etc,
	11:38am rx scabin: My parents bought me a mbira for my twelfth birthday around 50 years ago.
	11:42am oshiwoshi: all these beautiful sounds make my heart soar like a hawk - or butterfly - or something surrounded by air + light - thank you
	11:44am ¿¡: Nice show this morning trouble, so until next, stay golden like the finch.
	11:45am rx scabin: My goodness, this song (and all his songs).
	11:47am Mike W: Good info on birdsong and its inter-avian meanings. Same as with dogs — the sounds they make and body language they display can mean different things depending on the time and context. If you ask a dog trainer a good question, you’ll know because the answer is usually, “It depends...”
	11:47am Trouble: helado negro is out on tour soon: support this wonderful person!
	11:49am Listener Jonny in South Central... (Ohio): Stoppin' in to say hi before the end of the show! Thanks Trouble!
	11:51am Trouble: thanks for sitting in today!
	11:52am rx scabin: @Trouble will not be near me, I fear, but I will if I can.
	11:52am Andres: So many lovely sounds this morning! Thanks, Trouble!
	11:53am Adrian in London: Perfect way to end the show. Thanks Trouble
	11:53am rx scabin: I wentboutside for a moment right into a glorious sun shower. Spring!
	11:53am Jason from Houston: Many thanks, trouble. Have a good rest of your day!
	11:53am rx scabin: Thanks for the wonderful show.
	11:54am Hubig Pie: Just tuned in for this last set and loved it. Beautiful sounds
	11:56am Trouble: merci!@hubig pie
	11:57am northguineahills: got tje last few minutes!
	11:57am TDK60: Thanks, DJ Trouble.
	11:58am Ryansterlingvirtue: today was incredible. thanks!
	11:59am catherine: Thank you for the show this morning!
	11:59am bradford: Lovely show today, Trouble!

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March 31, 2022: characterised by feathers

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
villa lobos	Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5	brasileiras no 5						0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Ilhan Ersahin, Dave Harrington, Kenny Wollesen	even as you smile	invite your eye	nublu				*	0:08:43 (Pop-up)
jimmy guiffre	crazy she calls me "crazy she calls me" by "jimmy guiffre"	the jimmy guifre 3						0:09:41 (Pop-up)
bernice	lone swan "lone swan" by "bernice"	eau du bonjourno						0:17:22 (Pop-up)
Èlg	sous la chambre ( la nuit) "sous la chambre ( la nuit)" by "Èlg"	dans le salon du nous	viek				*	0:19:49 (Pop-up)
xenia rubinos	si Llego "si Llego" by "xenia rubinos"	una rosa	anti-				*	0:21:07 (Pop-up)
cleo	don't let it go to your head	mother						0:24:26 (Pop-up)

Ohyung	yes my weeping frame! "yes my weeping frame!" by "Ohyung"	imagine naked	NNA Tapes				*	0:33:08 (Pop-up)
Tindersticks	i imagine you "i imagine you" by "Tindersticks"	distractions					*	0:43:50 (Pop-up)
grouper	kelso (blue sky) "kelso (blue sky)" by "grouper"	shade	kranky					0:49:17 (Pop-up)
dave samuels	themes from la dolce vita and juliet of the spirits	amarcord nino rota v/a						0:55:02 (Pop-up)
Bill Frisell	juliet of the spirits	amarcord nino rota v/a						0:57:27 (Pop-up)

kris & rita	hard to be friends "hard to be friends" by "kris & rita"	full moon						1:10:46 (Pop-up)
Karen Dalton	in my own dream "in my own dream" by "Karen Dalton"	in my own time (50th anniversary edition)	light inthe attic			!!!! 50 years....	*	1:13:46 (Pop-up)
sven wunder	impasto "impasto" by "sven wunder"	natura morta	Mr Bongo				*	1:17:55 (Pop-up)
emika	sing to me "sing to me" by "emika"	DVA						1:21:06 (Pop-up)
Irreversible Entanglements	open the gates	open the gates	International Anthem				*	1:25:08 (Pop-up)
the little rabbits	l'amour ( annie philipps mix ) by katerine	the little rabbits remixed by						1:28:41 (Pop-up)
oby onyioha	enjoy your life "enjoy your life" by "oby onyioha"	i want to feel your love						1:31:12 (Pop-up)
Saint Etienne	Only Love Can Break Your Heart							1:36:49 (Pop-up)
lena platanos	sanctuary in ionian rhythm ( die arkitekt remix)							1:41:16 (Pop-up)
bab l'buz	ila mata "ila mata" by "bab l'buz"	Nayda!						1:45:33 (Pop-up)
alewya	play "play" by "alewya"				Single			1:49:40 (Pop-up)
blood sisters	ring my bell "ring my bell" by "blood sisters"				7"			1:53:03 (Pop-up)
monsieur doumani	tiritchtas "tiritchtas" by "monsieur doumani"	pissourin	glitterbeat				*	1:55:46 (Pop-up)
lio	banana split "banana split" by "lio"				7"			2:00:21 (Pop-up)

kaina	anybody can be in love "anybody can be in love" by "kaina"	it was a home	city slang					2:09:32 (Pop-up)
baligh hamdi	chaka chiko "chaka chiko" by "baligh hamdi"	Instrumental Modal Pop of 1970s Egypt	sublime frequencies				*	2:12:17 (Pop-up)
sammi smith	i'm in for stormy weather	Looks Like Stormy Weather 1969-1975	ace				*	2:16:15 (Pop-up)
tirzah	send me "send me" by "tirzah"	colourgrade	domino				*	2:18:53 (Pop-up)
bobby gentry	beverly "beverly" by "bobby gentry"	patchwork						2:22:49 (Pop-up)
shirley brown	ain't no way "ain't no way" by "shirley brown"	Everybody Makes a Mistake: Stax Southern Soul, Volume 2 v/a	kent soul				*	2:25:36 (Pop-up)
	side a "side a"	the edge of the meadow birdsong with narration by james baird	droll yankees	1969				2:31:16 (Pop-up)

Cosmas Magaya & Beauler Dyoko	dande	afamba apota					*	2:36:26 (Pop-up)
omni gardens	nectar grass "nectar grass" by "omni gardens"							2:41:11 (Pop-up)
helado negro	thank you for ever "thank you for ever" by "helado negro"	far in	4 AD				*	2:43:27 (Pop-up)
persona	aqua "aqua" by "persona"	som	black sweat	1973			*	2:47:49 (Pop-up)
francoise hardy	le premier bonheur du jour							2:50:49 (Pop-up)
anadol	ay curudu "ay curudu" by "anadol"	uzun havalar	pingipung					2:53:03 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:01am Handy Haversack: Good gray Thursday greetings, Trouble and all the Troubled.
	9:01am listener james from westwood: Morning, Trouble and all!
	9:01am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Happy Thursday!
	9:01am Strandlund: Nothing but Trouble...
	9:01am Robm: Good morning fellow trouble makers
	9:01am Handy Haversack: We're flocking together!
	9:02am StringOFperils: Apple blossoms in Trouble Prefecture
	9:02am TDK60: I forgot it's Trouble's morning. Bonjour Mods.
	9:02am Erin in TO: If I'm troubled, is this the place to be?
	9:03am jdaAndAnoukFromKöln: bonjour aussi from here…
	9:03am YETI BOB: so expressive. i love this piece. good morning troubled world.
	9:04am MikeG: Morning all
	9:04am Trouble: good spring morning to you all!
	9:05am Robm: @Erin yes it is and let’s make some good trouble
	9:05am Webhamster Henry: Good Modern Morning!
	9:06am ¿¡: hiya troub's.
	9:06am Erin in TO: @Robm I would be delighted to have some of the good kind of trouble in my life. The closest I have is my cat making constant trouble, but with a cute face
	9:06am Robm: @Erin ha ha
	9:09am Lucky: This sax is making think of Bowie for some reason...
	9:13am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Mr. Jim Hall on guitar. One of my favorites.
	9:14am YETI BOB: i know the Jimmy Giuffre 3 records with Steve Swallow on bass and Paul Bley on piano - not familiar with this lineup, Jim Hall on guitar and Ralph Pena on the thumper. Nice.
	9:14am peter in SEA: Bon jour all -oh when will sunrise be before Modern World begins? I’m past ready!
	9:15am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @YETI BOB: Yeah, those are more "out," sorta. Really good though.
	9:16am YETI BOB: Woods - they are so far "out" they are back "in". Some of my all-time faves, TBH.
	9:17am YETI BOB: (there's a story that the trio broke up after they had to split $1 three ways at the end of one night after a poorly-attended show)
	9:18am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): There's a reason so many jazzers went to Europe. Kind of sad, though nothing has changed, really.
	9:18am bw: good morning, happy spring
	9:21am Zipperhead7: G'morning folks! I'm glad to be living in the modern world, no matter how crazed it seems at times.
	9:22am YETI BOB: The modern world is not so bad, not like the students say.
	9:25am Peter in SEA: Nice Hiroshige print on the playlist page. Cherries in full splendor out here. Hanami (Cherry blossom viewing) this weekend on blue tarps w/ plenty of good sake & rice crackers :-)
	9:27am fred: @YETI BOB@9:17: Looks like a game theory problem: how to split (meager) door proceeds so that the band doesn't break up, and when should the bass player (thought harmless enough to keep the stash) leave with the savings?
	9:28am Zipperhead7: The modern world could be worse. For example, despite a recent uptick, global hunger rates have declined precipitously since the turn of the century.
	9:28am duvignau: Saludooos! Bonito día.
	9:29am YETI BOB: fred: somehow, the bassist left with the piano player's wife! (Carla Bley)
	9:29am desi: Hola & yes, another day modern, classic, vintage day OR ; otherwise, beats the alternative :) thks for the positive vibes
	9:31am dano59: I can’t be all Jonathan Richman and say I’m in Love w/the Modern World Life has always seemed to be nasty brutish and short and people out to hurt/fleece people ain’t goin’ away
	9:31am Zinn The Mood: Hey Trouble and folks… Wonderful enveloping fog over the unusually calm HellGate strait, on out into the East River; it’s also obscuring Manhattan and the tip of Roosevelt Island. Couple of pairs of ducks frolicking near the shore. Lovely.
	9:33am Handy Haversack: There were loons on Newtown Creek this week, Zinn. And buffleheads last week.
	9:34am Hugo (NL): hi everybody
	9:34am YETI BOB: dano: you're right about nasty brutish and short but i think it's up to us to try to make it less so, it's the only life we've got so give it a shot.
	9:35am dano59: this little gymnopede is making it better for me though, tbh
	9:35am Mike W: I am here to weep and be iconless
	9:35am Mike W: Handy, whatdju call me?
	9:36am katharsis: Good morning. this is lovely. thank you
	9:37am Handy Haversack: America's cutest duck, Mike W!
	9:40am Mike W: Okay and is that your phone autocorrecting a different word?
	9:41am Mike W: I’m here to audition for the role of “America’s most fucked cluck”
	9:43am Handy Haversack: My phone's a rotary. It doesn't auto-anything anything!
	9:43am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Had a great FMU moment yesterday. Scott was playing this sort of out/orchestral piece and I wanted to clicky star it. Turns out 1. I already had and 2. I own the thing on vinyl. It was something by Varese.
	9:43am TDK60: Please, no back massages for the piano player..
	9:43am Pale Son: Morning, all, just arriving. I love this piano piece and the Hiroshige!
	9:44am Hydroplane: This reminds me of an album I really love called Wandelaar by Haron
	9:44am Mike W: It feels like by the time a Thursday morning gets here, conscious minds and compassionate hearts have had just about enough of seeing the parade of manmade horrors out there, and then Trouble plays the right thing with piano and we’re all transported back to the place where we can dream and breathe a little.
	9:45am karlward: Handy texts on the rotary phone. Playing modern life on its most difficult setting.
	9:46am Mike W: How to dream and breathe in your own life when dreams and breathe are being squashed out there by Man and capitalism and war. (Man::capitalism::war . . . don’t do the math).
	9:46am Zinn The Mood: Nice, Handy. It’s a real strain on the imagination in 2022 to conjure up the bucolic nature of these islands we live on, which have been incorporated into this high-rise megalopolis, as they were only a couple of centuries ago. Was at the local library yesterday and among the meager pickings was a book Pete Hamill happened to put together (upon the research of one published in the mid 1800’s) about the “great” riots of NYC. And one passage jumped out so much I had to re- read it. Told of a mile-wide lake where the Tombs are now! Made me wonder how many of the original creeks , rivers, ponds and such have been converted up in the push to develop the city for more housing.
	9:47am Mike W: Handy’s out there Flintstonin’ it with a pterodactyl turntable and such.
	9:49am Handy Haversack: Zinn, sounds like you need to get a copy of this! shop.nyhistory.org... (Or you can borrow mine, of course.)
	9:50am Hydroplane: Is this the "foggy morning" set? Love it
	9:51am rx scabin: Good morning, Trouble and everyone.
	9:53am Threemoons: Morning Trouble, fellow Troublemakers. Still need to get that coffee in. Will sneak in a shower at some point.
	9:53am Handy Haversack: Oh, Zinn, also this! shop.wordbookstores.com... Which, again, you can borrow mine, of course.
	9:56am Pale Son: Whoa, that was Grouper? When did she get so intelligible?
	9:56am Handy Haversack: (And the NYPL has it: browse.nypl.org...)
	9:56am dano59: Saw a pic of the Lincoln Memorial in 1917, set in the middle of a swamp. Abe probably had a lot of bird visitors then.
	9:58am dano59: I also just ordered a couple more books on extinct birds thanks to our Garbage Time chat on Tuesday.
	9:59am rx scabin: Drinking a delicious Columbian coffee, a slightly dark roast.
	10:01am Hydroplane: @Pale Son It's definitely the strongest example on the intelligible end of the Grouper spectrum but she's gotten pretty close to that before!
	10:02am TDK60: Juliet of the Spirits, I recall saw it long ago, like a dream.
	10:03am rx scabin: The cats are in the kitchen with me, and I am listening to This is the Modern World. No rushing.
	10:05am Dayffid: Hi trouble and fellow troubled ones. Nice be be with you all.
	10:05am rx scabin: Any Hal Wilner production or thing is worth it.
	10:06am rx scabin: Kind of like a WFMU DJ set list.
	10:06am -жеи: Yes sadly, Hal Wilner passed away of COVID, around April 2020. RIP
	10:06am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): Yes. That Mingus Weird Nightmare record. Oh man.
	10:07am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): At least we still have Bob Dylan. Sort of.
	10:07am dano59: Loved all the Willner tribute albums. I heard there will finally be a private memorial gathering for Hal
	10:07am Yep: That was the Collect Pond. City water source for better than a century. Many water sources still flow underground (see Minetta). Washington Square was a paupers grave from the yellow fever epidemics. And a place to hang criminals. Canal street was a canal same as Wall Street was a wall. Terrain marches on.
	10:08am Webhamster Henry: Clone Nina Simone!
	10:08am Dayffid: Bob Dylan isn’t dead, only canceled.
	10:08am prudy: Missed name of book..
	10:09am TDK60: That was a tangent. Hee. Gum. Nina. Hal.
	10:09am rx scabin: @prudy nina simone's gum
	10:09am Layet Johnson: Loooove Tindersticks
	10:10am Webhamster Henry: If you want to check out Benjamin Walker's TMI archives, start with this one! www.wfmu.org...
	10:11am Dayffid: Since we have the technology to clone ourselves, does that mean we technically have access to eternal life? Just have a new clone made every time you start to get old. (B Streisand does it with her dog)
	10:11am Handy Haversack: David did go on to be a king, so he's maybe not the best analogy either.
	10:12am ifeelfatnsassy: The tournament is nicknamed "The Big Dance" so Cinderella is the unknown star of the big dance that captures attention, then the clock "strikes midnight" and they fade back to obscurity.
	10:12am listener james from westwood: I know "Cinderella story" as an expression got wind under its wings via Bill Murray in "Caddyshack." . . .
	10:12am rx scabin: @Trouble sports announcers' understanding of fairy tales.
	10:12am Dayffid: Didn’t one of the players loose a sneaker on the court or something? Maybe that was it ?
	10:12am Vivian: Good morning all in WFMU land. Work from home day with the sun shining in after a stormy night. Gave the hens last rounds of meds this morning-hurray! One of which is named Nina Simone. Thoughts are drifting to this weekend's 'chores'-plants, pond cleaning, hummingbird feeders..
	10:13am Zipperhead7: Late to chime in on this, but I think the tracks on Amarcord Nino Rota were Frissell's first recordings
	10:14am Andres: They arrive at the party seemingly through magic. How else to explain their success it seems to some. And then the magic spell ends.
	10:15am Zipperhead7: Take me to church with this piano! A fine version of Butterfield's classic
	10:17am Trouble: thank you @ andres, now that makes sense...
	10:18am Gerry from Miami: TROUBLE, the St. Peter's coach has, indeed, already been snapped up to coach at Seton Hall. Still, the salary he will receive there is still a far cry from what head coaches get at top basketball schools like North Carolina, Duke. Kansas, UCLA et al. Good on him, though, for leading the Peacocks to an unforgettable season.
	10:21am Jason from Houston: Good morning, good trouble and good people.
	10:21am Handy Haversack: This Ringer article on St. Peter's has some good info on just how the NCAA system is set up by rich schools in order for those rich schools and only those rich schools to reap the rewards of the tournament, which makes St. Peter's run EVEN MORE unlikely and special: www.theringer.com... Basically, the NCAA is as corrupt a governing body as you're likely to find this side of FIFA (or, you know, the government), and it is designed to elevate the wealthy and keep the poor in their place. Remind anyone of anything?
	10:22am Ryansterlingvirtue: I went through such a hardcore emika phase. She still gives me major feels.
	10:27am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): The amount of money college coaches are paid is really disgusting.
	10:27am Jason from Houston: Also! Nice woodblock print from that series!
	10:29am Mike W: In lots of states the highest-paid public official is the football or basketball coach of that state’s biggest university.
	10:29am Andrea: Energy time. (thank you)
	10:29am Trouble: rutgers football coach is number 1 highest paid public employee in NJ, millions of $$$. and for what?
	10:30am Zipperhead7: Little bunnies gettin' it on. Apropos this time of year
	10:34am ifeelfatnsassy: Given how fast it was announced (I believe it was the night of or the day after St Peter's loss to UNC), the Seton Hall move must have been in the works for a while, likely before any tournament games happened. They probably got a bargain.
	10:35am tilly twostep: for football
	10:36am Mike W: Heyy, Rutgers went to a damaged bowl game (bc the original invitee had covid issues) and got whomped and finished 5-8. That’s worth $4M in NJ.
	10:37am ifeelfatnsassy: Seton Hall is his alma mater, there was a vacancy... it makes total sense. I'm sure he was conflicted. It was clear how much he cared for the team and was invested in their success. It was heartening to see a coach fully engaged with his team and not delegating interactions to their (most often, "his") army of assistant coaches.
	10:37am tilly twostep: college football still brings in millions in TV revenue to colleges and universities
	10:38am ifeelfatnsassy: Anyway... Trouble's comment board is the least likely place for sports yak... back to simply enjoying the funky, jazzy jams.
	10:38am ifeelfatnsassy: (and back to work... haha)
	10:40am Bones: AHHH I hollered when the St. Etienne NY cover kicked in like I was seeing a long lost friend. Thnx for this one Trouble
	10:40am Andres: Love this Saint Etienne!
	10:40am Handy Haversack: That might be the most sports discussion I've ever seen on a WFMU board! Maaaaaybe when Michael Shelley asks every year whether he should watch the Superbowl.
	10:43am drew: There used to be a Sportsy Talk show w/ Bronwyn C. and Jim the Poet.
	10:44am Jason from Houston: Only that Saint Etienne song can make me feel that good.
	10:44am Jason from Houston: Never forget Sportsy Talk!
	10:48am Bdogg & Felix: this bab l’buz is fantastic!
	10:50am Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): hello, Trouble and folx! what wonderful sounds to start my day!
	10:50am Zinn The Mood: Thanks, Handy! Book looks good. May take you up on the loan, heh. Would be cool to meet! Was just on long walk and ran into another dad, who’s a local DSA member (and big FMU fan). Did another lap with him as he slow jogged to keep pace with my fast walk. Yesterday, ran into a local Occupy comrade. We commiserated on how pathetic the MSM is; tried to keep from becoming hopeless about the seemingly diminishing prospects of any kind of awakening because of the relentless propaganda barraging us 24/7. It’s frustrating trying to get people to stayed focused on this shit corporate, crony capitalist system and a bribed government being the real problems from which all else stems. Anyway, made me think that these kinds of spontaneous interactions are what makes city life feel like a real community. Because like many especially now the thought of a rural or rustic life seems more and more appealing (instead of this www.vox.com...). At least here I know there are a good handful or more of activist comrades who I know for mutual aid I could rely on if the shit really hits the fan.
	10:54am karlward: The fan is over there in the corner, I think, buried in... something. Also I think it's on fire.
	10:55am WoodsOfNH (now Maine): @Zinn: My wife watches the daily presser via the White House feed and man, it's so depressing. The entire pack is nearly completely addicted to the gotcha question. It's embarrassing to watch.
	10:59am ?: today's show is so good. I cannot focus on my homework; i keep looking up all these new-to-me bands :)
	11:08am clay b: Hello from beacon ny!
	11:09am Quinn: De Korte Park is my favorite!!
	11:09am Handy Haversack: Has to be a salt marsh.
	11:09am emilie s: Yes, DeKorte is definitely a salt marsh! This ecologist can attest.
	11:10am Ken From Hyde Park: I like birds. Will try to attend. 🔭
	11:12am Listening Out There: So, Trouble, what are the odds that you'll stumble onto Jimmy Hoffa's body while birdwatching, hmm?
	11:17am Zinn The Mood: Love this Hamdi track, Trouble!
	11:17am Trouble: i'd say the marsh would have swallowed him by now @ Listening...
	11:24am Rosey is Listening on 91.1 MHz: I'd love to go and have been meaning to check out that area for a while now anyway. I have some friends who grew up in Rutherford and who have been over there plenty. Little bit of a trip by train and bike because it's a bit out of the way, haha, but some adventure is fun. Meadowlands as a salt marsh definitely makes sense. I know there have been plans to slowly convert the Meadowlands into a big nature park so water has some place to go as climate-related issues worsen. In the mean time, we surrounded an expensive sports, shopping, and entertainment complex with a ton of asphalt...
	11:25am Mike W.: This show at volume on a windy day, along the banks of the Anacostia... [French birder chef’s kiss]
	11:25am Bones: Bobbie Gentry, my queen of queens
	11:25am Hydroplane: Wow I wish that fuzzy guitar part at the end of Send Me was a whole track/version...
	11:26am listener james from westwood: @Rosey: Oh, jeez, that American Dream debacle. Would've been best left as local marsh and wildlife. Wetlands are more important than a damn indoor ski slope.
	11:27am TDK60: It would've been better if they hadn't built those sports/music buildings. But at least they don't burn garbage out there anymore!
	11:30am Handy Haversack: I have to get this hound out and about so will say my thanks now, Trouble. Fantastic show! Got me through some very annoying stuff this morning. Many thanks! Stay Troubled, everyone. It's a duty and a privilege.
	11:33am Pale Son: These two always remind me of Bob & Ray, ha ha.
	11:33am ¿¡: I'm troubled about hearing about the marshes and wetlands that have been paved over for more buildings that aren't needed!
	11:33am Bdogg & Felix: Ha , is bird song language ? Weird concept
	11:34am rx scabin: My calls mean different things at different times of the year.
	11:34am Rosey is Listening on 91.1 MHz: Ha, and I don't even mean just the mall. I mean everything over there. I think we can find a place to relocate those stadiums/facilities for the sake of a future Earth that's still habitable for humans and most other life. Continuing that status quo instead of trying to make changes for a better future is a choice. It's a choice elected officials and other decision-makers made and that too many citizens continue supporting. Plenty of people in Buffalo support this absolutely grotesque stadium scam they're trying to pull. It's not just the politicians. They need to be held accountable and replaced if they're going to keep doing this crap. And that gets to the point about how lousy a lot of mainstream reporting has been. Instead of the superficial horserace, both sides are the same, and gossip-type political reporting, and instead of the local network news spending the first 10+ minutes of every single broadcast talking about a single violent crime or single fire happening in a metro area with millions of people, they'd focus on something like all the ways climate change will and already is affecting people and businesses. There's a lot of great reporting out there that just doesn't get nearly as much attention as the crap that most people see.
	11:34am jt: What is this the Bert & I of the bird-world? Love a Brown Thrasher great info : Says everything two times!
	11:34am The Oscar: Thought for sure that was Bob & Ray!
	11:38am jt: The 'brown' of the Brown Thrasher is lovely hue, like a powdery cocoa, very special despite the name brown, it is not what you expect.. ie. not sparrow brown.. You see them by the edge of marshes etc,
	11:38am rx scabin: My parents bought me a mbira for my twelfth birthday around 50 years ago.
	11:42am oshiwoshi: all these beautiful sounds make my heart soar like a hawk - or butterfly - or something surrounded by air + light - thank you
	11:44am ¿¡: Nice show this morning trouble, so until next, stay golden like the finch.
	11:45am rx scabin: My goodness, this song (and all his songs).
	11:47am Mike W: Good info on birdsong and its inter-avian meanings. Same as with dogs — the sounds they make and body language they display can mean different things depending on the time and context. If you ask a dog trainer a good question, you’ll know because the answer is usually, “It depends...”
	11:47am Trouble: helado negro is out on tour soon: support this wonderful person!
	11:49am Listener Jonny in South Central... (Ohio): Stoppin' in to say hi before the end of the show! Thanks Trouble!
	11:51am Trouble: thanks for sitting in today!
	11:52am rx scabin: @Trouble will not be near me, I fear, but I will if I can.
	11:52am Andres: So many lovely sounds this morning! Thanks, Trouble!
	11:53am Adrian in London: Perfect way to end the show. Thanks Trouble
	11:53am rx scabin: I wentboutside for a moment right into a glorious sun shower. Spring!
	11:53am Jason from Houston: Many thanks, trouble. Have a good rest of your day!
	11:53am rx scabin: Thanks for the wonderful show.
	11:54am Hubig Pie: Just tuned in for this last set and loved it. Beautiful sounds
	11:56am Trouble: merci!@hubig pie
	11:57am northguineahills: got tje last few minutes!
	11:57am TDK60: Thanks, DJ Trouble.
	11:58am Ryansterlingvirtue: today was incredible. thanks!
	11:59am catherine: Thank you for the show this morning!
	11:59am bradford: Lovely show today, Trouble!

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from March 31, 2022

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