Favoriting Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman: Playlist from April 18, 2023 Favoriting

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

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Favoriting April 18, 2023

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
 
Lonnie Liston Smith And The Cosmic Echoes  Devika (Goddess)   Favoriting Visions Of A New World  Flying Dutchman  1975    0:02:31 (Pop-up)
Digable Planets  Pacifics   Favoriting Reachin' (A New Refutation Of Time And Space)  Pendulum/Elektra  1993    0:07:40 (Pop-up)
Illegal Crowns  Crooked Frame   Favoriting Unclosing  Out of Your Head  2023  https://outofyourheadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/unclosing  0:12:12 (Pop-up)
Bill Laswell  Uprising   Favoriting Baselines  Elektra Musician  1983    0:19:40 (Pop-up)
Jantra  Gedima   Favoriting Synthesized Sudan: Astro-Nubian Electronic Jaglara Dance Sounds from the Fashaga Underground  Ostinato  2023  https://ostinatorecords.bandcamp.com/album/synthesized-sudan-astro-nubian-electronic-jaglara-dance-sounds-from-the-fashaga-underground  0:20:43 (Pop-up)
Matano & Morning Star  Binti   Favoriting Zanzibara 10 - First Modern Taarab Vibes from Mombasa & Tanga, 1970-1990  Buda Musique  2021    0:24:37 (Pop-up)
 
Gato Barbieri  Introduction - Cancion Del Llamero And Tango   Favoriting Third World  Flying Dutchman  1970  feat. Lonnie Liston Smith  0:31:36 (Pop-up)
Elegua  Planeta Pimiento   Favoriting Elegua  We Are Busy Bodies  2023  https://elegua.bandcamp.com/album/s-t  0:42:38 (Pop-up)
Oliver Nelson  Skull Session   Favoriting Skull Session  Flying Dutchman  1975  feat. Lonnie Liston Smith  0:49:48 (Pop-up)
 
Harold Land  Pakistan   Favoriting Damisi  WeWantSounds  2023  https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/merch/harold-land-damisi-lp-gatefold-sleeve-and-2pp-insert-black-vinyl  0:58:06 (Pop-up)
Leon Thomas  Malcolm's Gone   Favoriting Spirits Known and Unknown  Flying Dutchman  1969  feat. Lonnie Liston Smith  1:05:59 (Pop-up)
Som Imaginário  Os Cafezais sem Fim   Favoriting Banda Da Capital  Far Out  2023  https://somimaginrio.bandcamp.com/album/banda-da-capital  1:14:42 (Pop-up)
 
Lonnie Liston Smith, Adrian Younge And Ali Shaheed Muhammad Featuring Loren Oden  Love Brings Happiness   Favoriting Lonnie Liston Smith JID017  Jazz Is Dead  2023  https://lonnielistonsmith.bandcamp.com/album/lonnie-liston-smith-jid017  1:25:49 (Pop-up)
Bayeté Umbra Zindiko  Don't Need Nobody   Favoriting Seeking Other Beauty  Prestige  1973    1:30:32 (Pop-up)
Guru  Down The Backstreets feat. Lonnie Liston Smith   Favoriting Jazzmatazz Volume: 1  Chrysalis  1993    1:40:39 (Pop-up)
Lee "Scratch" Perry  I Am A Madman (12" Mix)   Favoriting The Battle Of Armagideon (Millionaire Liquidator) 2CD Expanded Edition  Doctor Bird / Cherry Red  2023  https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/lee-scratch-perry-battle-of-armagideon-2cd-expanded-edition/  1:45:24 (Pop-up)
 
Sebastião Tapajos / Pedro Dos Santos  Cantico Del Agua   Favoriting Mike D - Brazil 45s Boxset  Mr. Bongo  2023  https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/15968  1:54:33 (Pop-up)
Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra  Lately's Solo   Favoriting Live At I.U.C.C. / November 26, 1978  Nimbus West  2023  https://www.nimbuswestrecords.com/shop-5/p/pan-afrikan-peoples-arkestra-live-at-iucc-112678-2cd  1:56:12 (Pop-up)
 
Pharoah Sanders  Red, Black and Green   Favoriting Thembi  Impulse!  1971  feat. Lonnie Liston Smith  2:23:07 (Pop-up)
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes  Sais (Egypt)   Favoriting Cosmic Funk  Flying Dutchman  1974    2:31:57 (Pop-up)
Huey Simmons  New Newk   Favoriting Burning Spirits  Contemporary  1971  feat. Lonnie Liston Smith  2:40:20 (Pop-up)
Lee "Scratch" Perry  (I Am A) Madman Dubwise!   Favoriting The Battle Of Armagideon (Millionaire Liquidator) 2CD Expanded Edition  Doctor Bird / Cherry Red  2023  https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/lee-scratch-perry-battle-of-armagideon-2cd-expanded-edition/  2:52:01 (Pop-up)
 


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
Yvang:

Hi David and deviants!
Avatar 7:02pm
northguineahills:

Danny! 😉
Avatar 7:03pm
Observations:

We are live!!
Avatar 7:03pm
northguineahills:

↳ Song: "Devika (Goddess)" by "Lonnie Liston Smith And The...
oft sampled intro....
Avatar 7:04pm
Observations:

↳ northguineahills @7:02
Lol 😂
Avatar 7:05pm
Observations:

↳ northguineahills @7:03
Indeed, stay tuned
Avatar 7:07pm
Listener Gregory:

I am here but on a call, so at reduced volume. My comments will also be quieter.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
chris in the redwoods:

whoa! i am here for this.
hi, David and folks!
Avatar 7:14pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "Crooked Frame" by "Illegal Crowns"
Tomas Fujiwara - drums
Taylor Ho Bynum - cornet, flugelhorn
Mary Halvorson - guitar
Benoît Delbecq - piano
Avatar 7:22pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "Uprising" by "Bill Laswell"
This track features FRED FRITH. I interviewed Fred yesterday for a future episode of OoD!!
  7:27pm
Dean:

A buddy of mine has interviewed, filmed, and photographed Frith. The pictures at top here were at a now defunct venue, Jazz House, in Berkeley. I accompanied Steve to the event.

https://www.steveelkins.net/Interviews/On-Music/Fred-Frith/
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
WR:

Lost track of time so I missed the first set. I have those Flying Dutchman records you are playing, but alas long packed away in storage. Thanks for playing.
Avatar 7:55pm
Listener Gregory:

Call has ended. I don't think I know this Oliver Nelson at all. I have a pretty good collection of his work, so this is interesting.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
chris in the redwoods:

↳ Song: "Skull Session" by "Oliver Nelson"
so deeply funky. gawd i love that track.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
chris in the redwoods:

gotta run. thanks for that great hour of tunes, David!
Avatar 8:00pm
Listener Gregory:

I only became aware of Harold Land when he appeared on a Bill Evans album in the... 80s? Underrated player, IMHO, with a style out of the mainstream.
Avatar 8:01pm
Listener Gregory:

Evans-Land appearance (1977!): www.discogs.com...
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Listener Gregory:

Ray Brown and Kenny Burrell on that album too!
Avatar 8:03pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "Pakistan" by "Harold Land"
Originally released 1972 on Mainstream records www.discogs.com...
Avatar 8:07pm
northguineahills:

alright, errands ran. now time, to write another essay for employment purposes...
Avatar 8:07pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "Malcolm's Gone" by "Leon Thomas"
Featuring Little Rock aka Pharoah Sanders
Avatar 8:08pm
northguineahills:

↳ Song: "Malcolm's Gone" by "Leon Thomas"
yeah, the sax is unmistakable...
Avatar 8:09pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ northguineahills @8:08
Yeah, was just going to comment that the fiction of using a fake name is awfully silly when the person's sound is so identifiable.
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Listener Gregory:

↳ northguineahills @8:07
Employment essays sound pretty terrible. Good luck!
Avatar 8:21pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "Os Cafezais sem Fim" by "Som Imaginário"
Rare kazoo solo!
Avatar 8:21pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "Os Cafezais sem Fim" by "Som Imaginário"
Recorded live 1976
  8:23pm
Sam Segal:

Hey, David! Greetings, Observants!
Avatar 8:30pm
northguineahills:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:10
ok, my brain is broken. I went to write, I am fluent in spanish, to only write, "soy un fluido en espanol", then trying to spend the next 7 minutes trying to remember how to write it english. i'm a native english speaker i swear!
  8:37pm
Sam Segal:

This is amazing.
Avatar 8:42pm
northguineahills:

↳ Song: "Down The Backstreets feat. Lonnie Liston Smith" b...
It was almost out of character for me to puck this up when it came out, but a few years later, it was definitely in character (both for the jazz and hiphop references)
Avatar 8:42pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ northguineahills @8:30
Actually, wouldn't it be effective (and funny) to leave it in Spanish?
Avatar 8:42pm
northguineahills:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:42
well, the rest of the essay was in english, so, i don't know?
Avatar 8:57pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "Lately's Solo" by "Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra"
Conducted by Horace Tapscott, previously unreleased
  8:59pm
Dean:

Tapscott. I'm there.
  9:02pm
Listener Gregory:

Milestones anyone?
Avatar 9:03pm
Observations:

↳ Listener Gregory @9:02
YES! thank you. I knew it was a Miles tune but I could not remember the name.
  9:04pm
Dean:

Acquired. Only 500 copies of this beauty.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 9:05pm
WR:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:42
Trying to be funny on job applications is a bit risky...
Avatar 9:10pm
northguineahills:

ok, done! started at 2:30 and took an hour break. My only concern is that they said they'll look at my credit report, which is less than stellar, which why I need a job....
Avatar 9:18pm
Observations:

“The spinet piano, manufactured from the 1930s until recent times, was the culmination of a trend among manufacturers to make pianos smaller and cheaper. It served the purpose of making pianos available for a low price, for owners who had little space for a piano. Many spinet pianos still exist today, left over from their period of manufacture.

The defining characteristic of the spinet was its drop action (sometimes called indirect blow action). In this device, the keys did not engage the action directly; rather they pulled upward on rods called "stickers," which in turn pulled upward on levers located below the level of the keyboard, which in turn engaged the action. The stickers were sufficiently long that the hammer heads (the highest part of the action) ended up at roughly the same vertical level as the keyboard.

Thanks to the drop action, spinet pianos could be made very small; the top of a spinet rose only a few inches above the level of the keyboard itself (see image above). However, according to piano author Larry Fine,[5] the cost in quality was considerable. The stickers were "often noisy and troublesome." Moreover, to make room for them, the keys had to be made shorter, resulting in "very poor leverage" and thus a poor sense of touch and control for the player. Lastly, the very short strings of the spinet resulted in a narrow range of harmonics and thus in poor tone quality.”
Avatar 9:23pm
northguineahills:

↳ Song: "Red, Black and Green" by "Pharoah Sanders"
thembi!
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northguineahills:

↳ WR @9:05
also, difficulty: i am the author....
Avatar 9:33pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ WR @9:05
Very true. On the one hand, it might be worth doing something to stand out. On the other, the nature of hiring typically involves looking for reasons to reject candidates, to reduce the number of applicants, and something that sticks out may be a reason to some.
Avatar 9:34pm
Observations:

↳ Song: "Sais (Egypt)" by "Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmi...
Kozmigroov
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Observations:

↳ Song: "Sais (Egypt)" by "Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmi...
🎹🎹🎹🚀🚀🚀🪐🪐🪐⭐️✨🌟💫✨
Avatar 9:45pm
northguineahills:

↳ Listener Gregory @9:33
most gov't or gov't adjacent jobs aren't know for their sense of humor, in my experience (at least not the ones that get put in charge...)
Avatar 9:46pm
northguineahills:

thanks david, for keep us grooved out, gonna check out in a bit. chears!
  9:52pm
Listener Gregory:

New Newk sounds a lot more like a tribute to Pharoah Sanders than to Sonny Rollins.
Avatar 9:56pm
DL in LA:

I only just joined you at the top of this set with the Pharaoh Sanders, but it’s been the tonic I needed. Thanks David!
  9:58pm
Listener Gregory:

Thanks for an excellent show, David!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 10:00pm
WR:

↳ Song: "(I Am A) Madman Dubwise!" by "Lee "Scratch" Perry"
Was away and only barely heard some squibble scratch sounds coming from the speaker. Was that "Scratch"? Hah! will check the archive.

Thank you! David!
Avatar 10:03pm
Observations:

Thanks everyone, see you next week
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