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Playlist for 02 April 2015 Favoriting | Modern medievalists and other marginalia (for John Renbourn)

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Mahjun  Sec Beurre Cornichon   Favoriting Happy French Band  Gratte-Ciel   
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Kay Hoffman  Iste Mundus (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Floret Silva  Robot  Based on the texts of Carmina Burana.   
Brigitte Fontaine & Areski  Y'a du Lard (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Le Bonheur  Saravah     
Les Djinns  Nesthel (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting 1970s Algerian Folk and Pop (various artists)  Sublime Frequencies     
Kim Fowley  Ode to Sweet Sixteen (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Good Clean Fun  Imperial     
Ray Manzarek  Welcome (Ecce Gratum) (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Carmina Burana  A&M  Based on Carl Orff's version of Carmina Burana. (Produced by Philip Glass and Kurt Munkacsi.) 
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Third Ear Band  		Overture (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Music from Macbeth  EMI     
Shirley Collins & Dolly Collins  God Dog (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Anthems in Eden  Harvest  With the Early Music Consort of London.   
Rotary Connection  Turn Me On (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Rotary Connection  Chess  Plainsong pop. Featuring the human theremin, Minne Ripperton.   
Ars Nova  Pavan for My Lady (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Ars Nova  Elektra  Makes good use of hemiola, at the ends of phrases.   
The Stranglers  Golden Brown (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Feline  Epic  3 + 3 + 3 + 4 = Golden Brown 
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Gorky's Zygotic Mynci  Meirion Wyllt (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Barafundle  Fontana  Lynn Childs, father of Zygotic Myncis Euros and Megan, plays shawm and other early instruments on this album's medieval interludes; check the break on this song.   
Gryphon  Kemp's Jig (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Gryphon  Transatlantic     
The Lorraine Bowen Experience  Spinach Song (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Greatest Hits Volume 1  Lorraine Bowen  On which Ms. Bowen rocks the crumhorns.   
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Gelbart  		Meditation for Cembalo and Synthesizer to praise the Grand Supreme (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting unreleased Soundcloud page  Gelbart     
 
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Charles W. Dunn  		Beowulf excerpts   Favoriting Early English Poetry  Scholastic     
Seamus Ennis  The Blackbird (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting The Wandering Minstrel  Green Linnet   
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Big Blood  No Gravity Blues (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Big Blood + The Grove  Time-Lag     
Incredible String Band  No Sleep Blues (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting The 5000 Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onion  Elektra; Hannibal reissue     
Brigitte Fontaine & Areski  Bobo (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Le Bonheur  Saravah     
Steeleye Span  Spotted Cow (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Below the Salt  Chrysalis   
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Rolling Stones  Citadel (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Their Satanic Majesties Request  London  Psych rock mystery play?   
Merit Hemmingson  Elverumsvisan efter Vickers Johan, Malung (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Queen of Swedish Hammond Folk Groove  Amigo     
Battlefield Band  The Tamosher (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting At the Front  Topic  "The Tamosher is the things that makes weans" (from the liner notes). Similar version appears on the Shirley & Dolly Collins album, as "Gathering Rushes In The Month Of May."   
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Razen  		Holographic Riddance (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Remote Hologram  Kraak     
Sinfonye  Ursula's Virgins (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations  Celestial Harmonies  Music of Hildegard von Bingen, don't you know. 
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Lionheart  Breves dies hominis (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Paris 1200  Nimbus     
Imitation Electric Piano  Leave Her Johnny (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Blow It Up, Burn It Down, Kick It 'Til It Bleeds  Drag City  A sea shantey, sung prior to the crew leaving the ship at the end of the voyage.   
Donovan  Bert's Blues (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Sunshine Superman  Epic   
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Kim Fowley  Motorcycle (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Good Clean Fun  Imperial  Incorporates a cover of this song.   
John Renbourn  Lamento di Tristan/La Rotta (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting The Lady and the Unicorn  Transatlantic  From this manuscript.   
Ray Manzarek  Come, My Beauty (Veni Veni Venias) (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Carmina Burana  A&M   
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The Utility Project  Modern Medievalist (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting 1/33  Utility Project     
Hoven Droven  Brekken (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Nordic Roots 2 (various artists)  Northside   
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John Renbourn  Sweet Potato (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Sir John Alot Of Merrie Englandes Musyk Thyng & Ye Grene Knyghte  Transatlantic  Booker T & The MGs original version.   
Big Star  The India Song (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting #1 Record  Stax     
Kim Fowley  Good to Be Around (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Good Clean Fun  Imperial     
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Soft Machine  		Spaced Two (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Spaced  Cuneiform   
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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:50am listener james from westwood:

The show that bends over backwards to entertain!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:56am Charlie:

I'm nothing if not flexible.
Avatar 11:58am Michael:

Hiya Charlie and James. Hope all is well.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:01pm Brian C.:

Busy doing nothing on a sunny day
Avatar 12:01pm ndbob:

afternoon Charlie and everyone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm Charlie:

Hi James, Michael, Brian C, ndBob!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03pm Charlie:

Bob, I've decided that, for the purposes of this show, "nd" stands for "nothing doing"
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 12:03pm doctorjazz:

Hi all, busy getting ready for a London vacation for 10 days! Gotta get through the work day (late one, too).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:04pm Charlie:

Hi drJ -- hope you have a great time in London! (I'm not jealous...)
Avatar 12:05pm ndbob:

Fine with me Charlie:)
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 12:05pm doctorjazz:

If I do say so, I deserve it!!! (side benefit of having a daughter doing a semester study there, excuse to go).
Avatar 12:06pm still b/p:

It was in the monasteries that gymnastic learning was preserved while most Europeans toiled without warm-ups and in brute inflexibility.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 12:06pm doctorjazz:

GREAT opening number, btw!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:11pm schmutz:

been listening to brigitte fontaine/areski's l'incendie all week! & hello all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:12pm Charlie:

Yeah dr Jazz, those nutty progressive jazz-rock-early music weirdos rule!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:13pm Charlie:

communal music mind, schmutz -- hi
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:17pm Webhamster Henry:

Hooked on Carmina.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:18pm drr:

emphasis on processed cheese
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:18pm listener james from westwood:

It WAS from that piece! My ears did not deceive. Always good to hear bits that aren't "those" CB pieces.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:19pm drr:

and hello from Austin TX
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:22pm the Canterbury wood-elf:

A must-play for this show "The Garden of Jane Delawney" by Trees!!
  12:23pm Listening Out There:

Am listening to a meeting now. Will listen to Nothing soon... :)
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 12:25pm doctorjazz:

That Mahjun album is $40 used on Amazon...guess that's not so much these days for vinyl.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:26pm the Canterbury wood-elf:

...and Circulus!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:26pm listener james from westwood:

That Stork had a little something to do with today's Nothing makes me even happier than usual to hear it.

Shirley! Dolly! Jolly!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:29pm Dominick:

Hello all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:31pm Charlie:

Hooked on Hamsters! Hi Henry. (meet ndbob)
Hey drr.
Hi Canterbury wood-elf -- probably don't have time to find that one!
hi Dominick!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:32pm Dominick:

Oh man, Ars Nova!
  12:32pm Listening Out There:

Listening now. Phew. I Believe in Nothing!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:32pm Brian C.:

This show is going to inspire me to check the archive (usually too lazy)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:35pm Rick from SC:

I love this song. It's been a long time since hearing
Avatar 12:36pm steve:

oh man... love this song, remember someone giving this to me on a cassette mixtape!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:38pm Webhamster Henry:

Also on Gaylord's 2005 Marathon Mix classic "The Meter Is Running"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:40pm the Canterbury wood-elf:

Gorky's! I'd totally forgotten this existed. Their Kevin Ayers obsession evident to these ears. And nice to hear some Welsh on the stream...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:40pm Charlie:

Hi Rick from SC and steve
Yes Henry, 3+3+3+4 = golden brown
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:44pm listener james from westwood:

Per one of the UK's prime ministers, I sometimes sing to myself, "Gordon Brown, he's outta town ..."
Avatar 12:48pm Roberto:

No you're a real life frog!
Avatar 12:49pm steve:

yeah spinach!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:49pm Parq:

Foster Brooks?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:51pm the Canterbury wood-elf:

It's a beach, near the town of Stackpole. The most beautiful beach in the UK, I reckon...

Big up DJ Stashu!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:54pm listener james from westwood:

"Beowulf" at that lower speed = the Black Speech of Mordor.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:02pm Parq:

Wow, I haven't heard this ISB in decades. I've always thought "The dawn comes sneaking up when it thinks I'm not looking" was a brilliant line. Thanks for reviving a very pleasant memory.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:08pm the Canterbury wood-elf:

Not enough String Band on FMU!
And now Maddie P! Loving this show...
(and perfect listening as i edit some notes on the history of Canterbury in the middle ages!)
Avatar 1:09pm Secret Identity:

What a lovely time!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:10pm Charlie:

fave line:
I mixed some stones with water to see what it would do
and the water it got stony and the stones got watery too
so I mixed my feet with water just to see what would be seen
and the water it got dirty, and the feet they got quite clean
  1:10pm Listening Out There:

"Satanic Majesties Request"...a Stones oddity I actually like...not just the LP cover...
Avatar 1:11pm Even More Secret Identity:

What's that from
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:11pm Charlie:

Hello Secret Identity! (I know who you are :)
Avatar 1:11pm Secret Identity:

No one knows who I am. My identity is super secret.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:12pm Charlie:

i just updated
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:13pm Charlie:

I don't even know my own identity.
Avatar 1:14pm Roberto:

Hmm what's up with the favoriting functionality? The star did a dance but didn't turn gold.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:14pm Charlie:

I'm not sure if I'm a man or a frog.
Avatar 1:14pm Roberto:

Ah there it goes.
Avatar 1:15pm Secret Identity:

You're a frog only if you believe it
Avatar 1:16pm ndbob:

I remember seeing the ISB in the 70s
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 1:16pm doctorjazz:

Boy, are you guys at FMU getting me in the mood for London!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:17pm Charlie:

Maybe I'm a prince.
Wow bob I'd've loved to have seen them!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:18pm the Canterbury wood-elf:

Today's London is full of milkmaids and crumhorn playing peasants, as I'm sure you know...
Avatar 1:19pm Secret Identity:

The Frogs, He's a Prince: www.youtube.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:19pm the Canterbury wood-elf:

Sadly the elf must now split, but I'll be revisiting archivally (and tuning in regularly in future). What an excellently weird show, I'm hooked...
Thanks Charlie!
...and shoutout to Ms. S. Identity : )
Avatar 1:20pm still b/p:

@ Roberto -- sometimes if I just refresh the page myself when that happens, it restores the responsiveness.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:22pm schmutz:

beaubeau!
  1:23pm Listening Out There:

Organs in pockets? Is the FCC listening?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:24pm Parq:

Dang my job duties! I missed Steeleye *and* Satanic Majesty's.
Avatar 1:26pm βrian:

bombard!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:33pm Charlie:

hi Roberto, still b/p !
glad that worked out for you, Roberto.
ha ha, oh, those Frogs.
Hi, βrian
and Parq
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:34pm Charlie:

and Listening out There
  1:35pm Listening Out There:

Charlie, I missed the first part o' the programming, but do you plan on playing any John Renbourn (R.I.P.)?
Avatar 1:36pm Roberto:

Aww yeah that's some bodacious harpsichordery right there.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:37pm KevinfromBayRidge:

Good afternoon Charlie & BDNers all. Hadda holler out loud how much I'm enjoying your auditory selections today!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:41pm Charlie:

Here's one now, Listening.
Was planning on playing more, but got into all the other things it brought up...
Hi there Kevin.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:42pm KevinfromBayRidge:

@ Parq, Hopefully you're close to not having job related encumbrances interfering with FMU listening.
  1:43pm Listening Out There:

Why, thank ye, O Generous Host. I liked his guitar work, even if I wasn't crazy about the folky/medieval music containing it...
  1:43pm Andy the painter:

hey Charlie.
digging this oily -music -inspired music.
I assume you know the verlaines' LP "hallelujah all the way home"...
sometimes a medieval vibe by way of kiwi pop. perhaps informed by album cover, I admit.
Avatar 1:43pm βrian:

Carnita Burrito.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:44pm Charlie:

hahaha!
  1:45pm jan:

Hi Charlie-

Good program!
Avatar 1:47pm Carmichael:

Heya Charlie and busy people. I missed the late Mr. Renbourn, dammit. But I missed Ray Manzarek too ... :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:48pm Charlie:

hi jan -- i pictured you being here, and now you are here!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:50pm Parq:

Thanks for the good wishes, Kev, but jeez, what a day! Hell, what a week. I think I deserve to close my doors, turn my speakers up to the max and listen to the rest of Charlie's show and all of Fiveash's show. Don't you?
Avatar 1:51pm ndbob:

Indeed Parq!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:51pm Charlie:

"Blow It Up, Burn It Down, Kick It 'Til It Bleeds"
  1:51pm Listening Out There:

[The playlist might be misbehaving today. I'm not sure if those of us listening out there are seeing updates...?]
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:53pm Dominick:

I have to reload page for refresh
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 1:53pm doctorjazz:

that's some serious guitar chops/thanks for a great show
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:54pm KevinfromBayRidge:

Same here
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:54pm Stanley:

Same here, here
  1:55pm Listening Out There:

Dominick, guess you're right. Comments update automagically, not the playlist itself. User error...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:55pm Mike East:

never listened to the lyrics to this until just now. God, I love Big Star. I wanna drink gin and tonic and play grand piano, too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:55pm Webhamster Henry:

This is such an excellent show, Charlie, and a great example of WFMU-ness
  1:55pm Listening Out There:

Where can I file a feature request? :)
Avatar 1:56pm ndbob:

excellent show Charlie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:56pm Dominick:

Mr Tweedle, remember your nerves!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:56pm Charlie:

Thanks Henry! Thanks for hanging out, listening, commenting. See you next week. Bye!
Avatar 1:56pm Roberto:

I've heard a lot of Charlie faves from years past today, and very happily so.
  1:58pm Listening Out There:

Thanks again! Great program, record wrangler...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:58pm Parq:

Ted, yay!
  1:58pm Listening Out There:

Thanks again! Great program, record wrangler...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:00pm listener james from westwood:

Excellent show, Charlie! Glad for the democratically compiled playlist!
Avatar 2:01pm Michael:

Wish this recording of Beowulf was handy in college. Wonderfully expansive tunes - thanks Charlie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:02pm Charlie:

see y'all later!
  4:58pm Katya Oddio:

Fun concept! Yet another cool theme. Thanks, Charlie!
  6:28pm judy from croton:

The Hoven Droven completely blew what's left of my mind. Wish I could get your archives on my i-phone.
Thanks for the great great stuff.
  2:00pm jan:

Great show- hear you next week
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