WFMU: Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan: Playlist from January 18, 2017

Listener comments!
	5:12pm Gary: R.I.P., William Onyeabor: consequenceofsound.net...
	6:43pm cklequ: Dark is putting it mildly.
	6:47pm Gary: Hey there, cklequ
	6:55pm listener james from westwood: Another artist who I know about purely b/c of WFMU's embrace of his work. RIP indeed.
	6:59pm Gary: James! Same here, most likely via Doug or Jesse's show
	7:02pm listener james from westwood: They and Trouble come to mind as his champions.
	7:05pm Gary: I need to listen to Trouble's show more
	7:07pm MrFab: I can't be in a dark mood - that 7 Second Delay that just ended was genius hilarity.
	7:08pm Gary: I need to hear it! Hey there, Mr. Fab
	7:08pm Gary: I will try to bring you down ... :)
	7:11pm cklequ: My cat died a few days after Christmas. Top that with the nightmare that's about to start, and i've been pretty gloomy. I can use dark music.
	7:12pm hyde: @cklequ i hate to hear that, sorry ;(
	7:13pm Gary: Ah, man, that's awful, cklequ ... hey there, Hyde
	7:13pm Doug Schulkind: Our brother Evan Crankshaw, host of Explorers Room here on the Drummer Stream, was an early champion of the William Onyeabor revival, well before the current fetishization of him (and Luaka Bop's reissues). Evan presented a mega-post of Onyeabor's releases back in 2012: flashstrap.blogspot.com...
	7:14pm Gary: Doug! I wonder if that's where I got my massive MP3 collection ... I'll bet it is!
	7:16pm Scraps: Oh man, I'm down. Onyeabor was great. When Bogeda Pop is over, I will program the few albums i have... especially Good Name. RIP
	7:17pm Doug Schulkind: And here is a follow-up post on Flash Strap from Evan: flashstrap.blogspot.com... @Gary I got my MP3 library from Flash Strap, too. Some of the links on Evan's blog ARE STILL WORKING!
	7:18pm Scraps: @clkequ, I'm sorry.
	7:18pm Gary: Hey there, Scraps
	7:24pm Scraps: I wonder what led to Onyeabor not releasing any albums for the last thirty years.... as far as I know. My albums don't come with notes, just music Hmm, maybe I should read Flash Strap's page! ... when Bodega Pop is over
	7:25pm Scraps: Hey there, Gary!
	7:25pm Polyus: Howdy Gary. Gonna have to catch most of you in the archives. I had hoped to be a little more excited for Jan. 20, but here we are.
	7:26pm hyde: i'll stick around for the noise show!
	7:28pm Scraps: Anjali was in Voodoo Queens and Mambo Taxi
	7:30pm Scraps: I don't know Mambo Taxi either!
	7:30pm Gary: Hey there, Polyus!
	7:30pm melinda: hi everyone
	7:31pm Gary: Melinda! Long time no see
	7:32pm Gary: @hyde, you and I might be the only ones left in the room. If we stock it with beer we should be fine, tho
	7:33pm cklequ: @scraps - He gave up music when he became a born-again Christian.
	7:35pm melinda: I learned of Onyeabor on Trouble's show.
	7:36pm Scraps: @cklequ, oh man. Thank you for the info
	7:42pm hyde: @Gary i'll bring the beer, you bring the einsturzende neubaten
	7:43pm Gary: Can do
	7:43pm cklequ: I'll be here for the noise too. But i'm sticking with gin and tonic.
	7:45pm mzz: whoa I can't foresee where today's show brings me to...
	7:46pm Scraps: I'll be here pretty much for anything described as noise -- praising or damning, either way
	7:47pm Gary: Howdy, Mzz!
	7:49pm Flash Strap: Hi Gary and all Bodegans Probably can't stay too long but wanted to drop in as the darktimes are encroaching on my feelings Also RIP Onyeabor, we hardly knew ye
	7:50pm Gary: THANK YOU for the William Onyeabor, Evan! I almost certainly got everything I have from your blog
	7:56pm Gary: They've opened a video store in Los Angeles with 14,000 VHS copies of Jerry Maguire and nothing else: everythingisterrible.blogspot.com...
	7:58pm Flash Strap: well I was merely a messenger, a courier of good tunes. Many of mine came from Feq'wah and this other guy, Big Head something little known fact: if you look at the Luaka Bop Who Is William Onyeabor? LP jacket, I am thanked twice. For what, I do not know Also: Onyeabor does not seem like a very nice guy, which disappointed me to learn (perhaps we should not have asked the question Who Is William Onyeabor?), but he did make some exceptionally good records, and for that I will always love him
	8:05pm MrFab: Heh, and I was just thinking: this is great, gotta get this!
	8:07pm hyde: @Flash Strap haha, that's amazing
	8:07pm Gary: I smell a new volume of Cover the Earth brewing!
	8:10pm Doug Schulkind: I took much pleasure from Onyeabor's music, but I loathed the way Luaka Bop framed the (re)discovery of his music. (The label's president, Yale Evelev, is the uncle of an ex-FMU deejay.) Get a load of this distasteful Onyeabor "Gift Shop": williamonyeabor.com...
	8:12pm Gary: Wow, what's up with the pomade and candle
	8:12pm hyde: sometimes nice people make great records. sometimes terrible people make great records. it's the way of the world.
	8:13pm hyde: (not that i'm saying william onyeabor is a terrible person. i don't know enough to make that judgement).
	8:13pm Scraps: Yeah, I think I first heard of Onyeabor at Comb and Razor back in 2008. I went there to verify, and another post seems to back up Onyeabor Not a Nice Guy: "(For example, if you look through the archives here, you might notice all posts on a certain Mr. William Onyeabor have been crossed out. There is a reason for that. I won't get into details right now but let's just say that that man damn near killed my spirit.)" Well, dayum.
	8:14pm melinda: and cologne and chocolates! What a bizarre collection of items.
	8:14pm Gary: Super-bummer, Scraps
	8:22pm melinda: At first I thought this was a German cover of If I Were a Carpenter.
	8:22pm Doug Schulkind: My memory may be faulty here, but I seem to recall that Luaka Bop produced a short promo film featuring Uchenna Ikonne of the Comb & Razor blog traveling to Nigeria to "find" Onyeabor. After some pretty lame fake detective work, Ikonne ends up at Onyeabor's compound, only to learn that the former musician has found God and is not interested in the least in his old career. The film, I felt, was more than mildly disrespectful. Luaka Bop needed a hook to sell the music, so they invented this mystery, both before they found the man, and then after they discovered he wasn't into being the subject of their marketing campaign. Uchenna Ikonne, though, is a good fellow. In fact, his generosity led to my African Twang marathon premium a few years back.
	8:22pm Flash Strap: @Doug: Woof, that shop. When I went to the Luaka Bop offices a few years back, they were really nice and interesting to talk to, etc., but they gave me one of those Onyeabor "bibles" (just a dollar store bible with an Onyeabor cover glued on) and a bunch of Onyeabor "bucks"! FAKE DOLLARS i mean, i find that ideologically distasteful to the extreme, but it was also just tacky @Scraps: i know a guy who played with Onyeabor on the new Bop shows and he said about the same thing. Should have left that mystery unsolved, man. On the other hand, they really are some of the greatest albums I have ever heard, and I listen to records by worse people for sure. Just one of those wrinkles of the world
	8:25pm Scraps: Oh yeah. I'm not getting rid of the albums!
	8:28pm Flash Strap: @Doug again: agreed on the film and the goodness of Mr. Comb & Razor. I think Who Is William Onyeabor? could have been a good hook too, if the question had been left unanswered, or at least only partially answered
	8:30pm MrFab: Is turning a major talent into a goofy cartoon how one successfully markets to the "World Music" crowd? "Look at the funny African clown!" Kinda thought we were past that by now...
	8:33pm Dean: That Sylva Balassanian brought to mind Esther Lamandier, who skirted the edges of the early music trend of the later 20th century. Gotta remember to play her albums more often. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcEVroe1xOQ
	8:37pm Gary: Oooh, thanks for the Esther Lamandier tip, Dean!
	8:54pm GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO: Hey, friends, Jeff M. and his show Noise & Syrup ( wfmu.org... ), will be filling in for Amanda's Nazario Scenario tomorrow morning (and next Thursday as well).
	8:55pm Gary: Happy birthday to Amanda today!
	8:57pm Flash Strap: Sura Boma track is so good
	8:58pm Gary: So many treasures from Madrotter Inc.
	9:00pm hyde: Madrotter Inc. is a wealth of treasures I find it hard to sort through. which makes me love it all the more, somehow
	9:05pm hyde: whoa, i know Nice Strong Arm. i think i have Reality Bath in my storage LP's...
	9:06pm Gary: Yep, that's what the track's from, too
	9:08pm Dean: Recent New Yorker cartoon illustrating tonight's theme. The caption reads, "Perhaps a dirge would lift your spirits?" http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/170123_a20540-1000.jpg
	9:08pm Doug Schulkind: Henk, the proprietor of Madrotter, is a fantastically wonderful fellow. His blog would still be miraculous if he wasn't, but he is.
	9:09pm Gary: @Dean ha ha
	9:16pm Jeff Golick: Ay, comrades!
	9:19pm Gary: Jeff!
	9:19pm Jeff Golick: I only know one Nice Strong Arm song, from the epic (for me, at any rate) compilation HUMAN MUSIC, on Homestead.
	9:20pm hyde: @JG ah, good ol' Homestead!
	9:20pm Ike: Hi. So what odds would you all give us to survive to 2020 without a nuclear apocalypse? And when the roaches evolve into something intelligent to replace us in a billion years, what will their music sound like?
	9:20pm Gary: That's an amazing looking comp, Jeff: www.discogs.com...
	9:21pm Gary: Their music will sound "click-y"
	9:21pm Gary: Hi Ike!
	9:23pm Jeff Golick: @hyde: you know who started at Homestead, iirc? The current proprietor of AUM Fidelity records. (Got it to jazz in two comments!) @Gary: Hi! I can give you the hook-up.
	9:25pm Gary: Also, Jeff, you gotta call me about that thing
	9:28pm Ike: If the smart roaches dig up the comp "Human Music" in the far distant future, they'll think all human music sounded like that, so I hope it represents all 7 billion of us well.
	9:29pm Jeff Golick: Better that than Papa Roach* * have never heard Papa Roach.
	9:31pm Doug Schulkind: Then of course there's always this Human Music: www.discogs.com...
	9:32pm Jeff Golick: @Doug: got to that one, but muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch later.
	9:32pm Dean: Wait, are you the Gary Sullivan of "You, Again?" If so, you're the subject of an article in the latest issue of Critical Inquiry: https://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/current_issue/
	9:33pm Dean: OMG, it is you. Er, you are it...him!
	9:34pm Jeff Golick: That's our Gary!
	9:35pm Gary: Yes, that's my comic what I drew
	9:38pm Dean: Well, if I'd maintained my subscription to CI I'd have learned this a lot earlier. Coincidentally, I decided this evening to skim past issues, beginning with the latest.
	9:46pm Dean: I'm catching a whiff of Roman Jacobson in your comments.
	9:46pm Jeff Golick: @Gary, on the dark tip, and also re poetry, have you heard the Moor Mother record "Fetish Bones," out last year?
	9:47pm Gary: @Dean, maybe filtered through George Steiner?
	9:48pm Gary: @Jeff ... I have not ... can I Bandcamp it?
	9:49pm Jeff Golick: ...why, YES: moormothergoddess.bandcamp.com...
	9:50pm Jeff Golick: Meanwhile, this song is about drinking sangria near Rio, right? My Spanish is rusty, my Portuguese nonexistent.
	9:51pm Gary: River of Blood! <--------------[armchair translator's belief]
	9:51pm Gary: That said, I like your idea better
	9:51pm Dean: If filtered, then Steiner was faithful to Jacobson's scheme. (Haven't read either in ages.)
	9:52pm Jeff Golick: So that means sangria is just blood with fruit in it? (I keep trying to lower the bar, but Dean keeps raising it.)
	9:52pm hyde: i took intro Portuguese in college ca. 1982 or so. which means...i got nothing to add.
	9:53pm Gary: I haven't read Jacobson, but was a huge fan of After Babel ... I'm guessing any "ideas" I might have regarding translation and related were probably gleaned from that book
	9:54pm Gary: Sangria is fruity blood from the fruit bat
	9:54pm Gary: So, technically, it's a song about Brazilian vampires
	9:54pm Dean: "Lower the bar..." I see what you did there, Jeff G. I'm willing to bet I read a good bit of Jacobson ... in a bar!
	9:55pm hyde: wow, this is amazing
	9:56pm melinda: I didn't know Daniel Johnston did hymns, I should listen more.
	9:56pm Dean: See, e.g., this for a summary of RJ on metaphor and metonymy, then compare to your remarks about the horizontal and the vertical: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/visualarts/r4100/jacobson.html I'll have one more pint.
	9:58pm Gary: Last call!
	9:59pm hyde: thanks Gary! that wasn't nearly as dark as I had feared.
	10:02pm Gary: Ha -- I'm dark-challenged, I'm afraid
	10:03pm Gary: Night, everyone!
	10:09pm Scraps: I knew the guy from AUM Fidelity, because he used to hang out at Barbes when I used to hang out there, way early Barbes days. We bonded over Shrimp Boat, which (he said) was the main reason he founded AUM. Put out an awesome Shrimp Boat package eventually, too

Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan: Playlist from January 18, 2017

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January 18, 2017: Hello Darkness
Dark tracks for dark times.

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Music behind DJ: Bodega Pop	Intro "Intro" by "Bodega Pop"	Bodega Pop Live	2017
Kiiiiiii	Hello Darkness "Hello Darkness" by "Kiiiiiii"	AL & BUM	2007	Japan	0:04:35 (Pop-up)
Ellya Khadam	Paduan Djiwa "Paduan Djiwa" by "Ellya Khadam"	Pengertian		Indonesia \| Almost certainly plucked from the great Madrotter's blog	0:07:32 (Pop-up)
Anjali	Sati "Sati" by "Anjali"	The World of Lady A	2003	U.K.	0:10:28 (Pop-up)
Alec Empire vs. Merzbow	A Degenerated Nation Reacting To Fear Pt. II	Live CBGB's NYC 1998	2003	Germany \| Japan	0:14:37 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: KRVKT	Anxiety "Anxiety" by "KRVKT"	This isn't even my final form		France	0:23:20 (Pop-up)
William Onyeabor	Why Go to War "Why Go to War" by "William Onyeabor"	Tomorrow	1977	Nigeria	0:29:06 (Pop-up)
Lil Data vs Spinee vs DJ Warlord	“Hell On Planet Earth, We Are The Masters” Says Ministry Of Souls	hell.pcmusic.info	2015	U.K.	0:37:38 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Vopli Vidopliassova	Galu Pryhod (Highway to Hell)	World Party 3		Ukraine	1:01:02 (Pop-up)
Homicide	Puritan -God Blessed Fascists-	Tha Nekraphone Dayz		Indonesia	1:05:46 (Pop-up)
Dvar	Laali "Laali" by "Dvar"	Raii	1998	Russia	1:09:08 (Pop-up)
Serge Gainsbourg	Nazi Rock "Nazi Rock" by "Serge Gainsbourg"	Rock Around the Bunker	1975	France	1:10:31 (Pop-up)
Mizutama Shobodan	Luster-less Dark	Maid's Prayer Sounds Like DA-DA-DA!	1981	Japan	1:13:18 (Pop-up)
Veronika Fischer	Nachts "Nachts" by "Veronika Fischer"	Unveoffentlichte Songs & Rar..	2006	East Germany	1:19:54 (Pop-up)
Sylva Balassanian	Chinar "Chinar" by "Sylva Balassanian"	Lady Sylva	2015	Armenia	1:24:55 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: DJ /rupture	Bonechip "Bonechip" by "DJ /rupture"	Special Gunpowder	2004	USA	1:29:38 (Pop-up)
Sabreen Group	On Wishes "On Wishes" by "Sabreen Group"	Smoke of the Volcanoes	1984	Palestine	1:34:02 (Pop-up)
Maii Waleed	Warda w Na7la (A Flower and a Bee)	Red		Lebanon	1:39:16 (Pop-up)
Lister	Shattered Heaven "Shattered Heaven" by "Lister"	Oh Sweet Destiny. Seems Like A Mess To Me	1987	Norway	1:42:10 (Pop-up)
Ros Sereysothea	Sa Ry Ka Keo "Sa Ry Ka Keo" by "Ros Sereysothea"	Wedding Song		Cambodia	1:43:26 (Pop-up)
Khmer Rap Boyz	Borng Men Jur ( I Don't Believe )	The Homeboyz	2008	Cambodia	1:48:07 (Pop-up)
Darso \| Rina \| Dewi	Sura Boma "Sura Boma" by "Darso \| Rina \| Dewi"	Nyinting		Indonesia	1:52:50 (Pop-up)
Nick Drake	Place to Be "Place to Be" by "Nick Drake"	Pink Moon		U.K.	1:57:24 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Daniela Casa	Oppressione "Oppressione" by "Daniela Casa"	Società Malata	1975	Italy	2:00:03 (Pop-up)
Altima Wrench and Group	A La Mort Pécheur	Caribbean Voyage: Dominica - Creole Crossroads	1995	Dominican Republic	2:03:52 (Pop-up)
Warfield Spinners	Daddy's Little Girl	Sky Girl: Compiled by Julien Dechery and DJ Sundae	2016	Australia? USA?	2:08:15 (Pop-up)
Nice Strong Arm	Date of Birth "Date of Birth" by "Nice Strong Arm"	Reality Bath	1987	USA	2:12:55 (Pop-up)
Mohamed Osama	Torture Art "Torture Art" by "Mohamed Osama"	25 January Revolution Generation Songs		Egypt	2:17:58 (Pop-up)
Claude François	Sha la la (Hier est près de moi)	I think this is from a CD that some poet friends of mine (Rod and Mel) burned for me		France	2:22:49 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Wendy Carlos	Ninth Symphony: Second Movement (Scherzo)	Clockwork Orange	1972	USA	2:26:03 (Pop-up)
Rita Ampatzi	Perdikoula Gkiortanati (Περδικούλα Γκιορτανάτη)	Dimodi Kai Paradosiaka Tragoudia 1930-1948(Δημώδη Και Παραδοσιακά Τραγούδια)		Greece	2:33:16 (Pop-up)
Zhou Xuan 周璇	Many Things I Hate	Picking Betel Nuts \| Pathé 100: The Series		China	2:36:06 (Pop-up)
Damia	Oubliez-moi "Oubliez-moi" by "Damia"	La Tragédienne de la Chanson		France	2:39:18 (Pop-up)
Hoang Oanh	Con Thuong Rau Dang Moc Sau He	Nhung Bai Tinh Ca Que Huong		Vietnam	2:42:06 (Pop-up)
Violeta Parra	Un río de sangre "Un río de sangre" by "Violeta Parra"	Un río de sangre	1975	Chile	2:45:48 (Pop-up)
Noor Jehan \| M. Ashraf	Hamari Sanson Main	Mere Hazoor	1977	Pakistan	2:49:29 (Pop-up)
Daniel Johnston	A Little Story "A Little Story" by "Daniel Johnston"	Songs of Pain	1980	USA	2:54:06 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Catrina Paslaru	Hei La Bodega "Hei La Bodega" by "Catrina Paslaru"	Hei La Bodega - Carnaval!	2000		2:58:03 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	5:12pm Gary: R.I.P., William Onyeabor: consequenceofsound.net...
	6:43pm cklequ: Dark is putting it mildly.
	6:47pm Gary: Hey there, cklequ
	6:55pm listener james from westwood: Another artist who I know about purely b/c of WFMU's embrace of his work. RIP indeed.
	6:59pm Gary: James! Same here, most likely via Doug or Jesse's show
	7:02pm listener james from westwood: They and Trouble come to mind as his champions.
	7:05pm Gary: I need to listen to Trouble's show more
	7:07pm MrFab: I can't be in a dark mood - that 7 Second Delay that just ended was genius hilarity.
	7:08pm Gary: I need to hear it! Hey there, Mr. Fab
	7:08pm Gary: I will try to bring you down ... :)
	7:11pm cklequ: My cat died a few days after Christmas. Top that with the nightmare that's about to start, and i've been pretty gloomy. I can use dark music.
	7:12pm hyde: @cklequ i hate to hear that, sorry ;(
	7:13pm Gary: Ah, man, that's awful, cklequ ... hey there, Hyde
	7:13pm Doug Schulkind: Our brother Evan Crankshaw, host of Explorers Room here on the Drummer Stream, was an early champion of the William Onyeabor revival, well before the current fetishization of him (and Luaka Bop's reissues). Evan presented a mega-post of Onyeabor's releases back in 2012: flashstrap.blogspot.com...
	7:14pm Gary: Doug! I wonder if that's where I got my massive MP3 collection ... I'll bet it is!
	7:16pm Scraps: Oh man, I'm down. Onyeabor was great. When Bogeda Pop is over, I will program the few albums i have... especially Good Name. RIP
	7:17pm Doug Schulkind: And here is a follow-up post on Flash Strap from Evan: flashstrap.blogspot.com... @Gary I got my MP3 library from Flash Strap, too. Some of the links on Evan's blog ARE STILL WORKING!
	7:18pm Scraps: @clkequ, I'm sorry.
	7:18pm Gary: Hey there, Scraps
	7:24pm Scraps: I wonder what led to Onyeabor not releasing any albums for the last thirty years.... as far as I know. My albums don't come with notes, just music Hmm, maybe I should read Flash Strap's page! ... when Bodega Pop is over
	7:25pm Scraps: Hey there, Gary!
	7:25pm Polyus: Howdy Gary. Gonna have to catch most of you in the archives. I had hoped to be a little more excited for Jan. 20, but here we are.
	7:26pm hyde: i'll stick around for the noise show!
	7:28pm Scraps: Anjali was in Voodoo Queens and Mambo Taxi
	7:30pm Scraps: I don't know Mambo Taxi either!
	7:30pm Gary: Hey there, Polyus!
	7:30pm melinda: hi everyone
	7:31pm Gary: Melinda! Long time no see
	7:32pm Gary: @hyde, you and I might be the only ones left in the room. If we stock it with beer we should be fine, tho
	7:33pm cklequ: @scraps - He gave up music when he became a born-again Christian.
	7:35pm melinda: I learned of Onyeabor on Trouble's show.
	7:36pm Scraps: @cklequ, oh man. Thank you for the info
	7:42pm hyde: @Gary i'll bring the beer, you bring the einsturzende neubaten
	7:43pm Gary: Can do
	7:43pm cklequ: I'll be here for the noise too. But i'm sticking with gin and tonic.
	7:45pm mzz: whoa I can't foresee where today's show brings me to...
	7:46pm Scraps: I'll be here pretty much for anything described as noise -- praising or damning, either way
	7:47pm Gary: Howdy, Mzz!
	7:49pm Flash Strap: Hi Gary and all Bodegans Probably can't stay too long but wanted to drop in as the darktimes are encroaching on my feelings Also RIP Onyeabor, we hardly knew ye
	7:50pm Gary: THANK YOU for the William Onyeabor, Evan! I almost certainly got everything I have from your blog
	7:56pm Gary: They've opened a video store in Los Angeles with 14,000 VHS copies of Jerry Maguire and nothing else: everythingisterrible.blogspot.com...
	7:58pm Flash Strap: well I was merely a messenger, a courier of good tunes. Many of mine came from Feq'wah and this other guy, Big Head something little known fact: if you look at the Luaka Bop Who Is William Onyeabor? LP jacket, I am thanked twice. For what, I do not know Also: Onyeabor does not seem like a very nice guy, which disappointed me to learn (perhaps we should not have asked the question Who Is William Onyeabor?), but he did make some exceptionally good records, and for that I will always love him
	8:05pm MrFab: Heh, and I was just thinking: this is great, gotta get this!
	8:07pm hyde: @Flash Strap haha, that's amazing
	8:07pm Gary: I smell a new volume of Cover the Earth brewing!
	8:10pm Doug Schulkind: I took much pleasure from Onyeabor's music, but I loathed the way Luaka Bop framed the (re)discovery of his music. (The label's president, Yale Evelev, is the uncle of an ex-FMU deejay.) Get a load of this distasteful Onyeabor "Gift Shop": williamonyeabor.com...
	8:12pm Gary: Wow, what's up with the pomade and candle
	8:12pm hyde: sometimes nice people make great records. sometimes terrible people make great records. it's the way of the world.
	8:13pm hyde: (not that i'm saying william onyeabor is a terrible person. i don't know enough to make that judgement).
	8:13pm Scraps: Yeah, I think I first heard of Onyeabor at Comb and Razor back in 2008. I went there to verify, and another post seems to back up Onyeabor Not a Nice Guy: "(For example, if you look through the archives here, you might notice all posts on a certain Mr. William Onyeabor have been crossed out. There is a reason for that. I won't get into details right now but let's just say that that man damn near killed my spirit.)" Well, dayum.
	8:14pm melinda: and cologne and chocolates! What a bizarre collection of items.
	8:14pm Gary: Super-bummer, Scraps
	8:22pm melinda: At first I thought this was a German cover of If I Were a Carpenter.
	8:22pm Doug Schulkind: My memory may be faulty here, but I seem to recall that Luaka Bop produced a short promo film featuring Uchenna Ikonne of the Comb & Razor blog traveling to Nigeria to "find" Onyeabor. After some pretty lame fake detective work, Ikonne ends up at Onyeabor's compound, only to learn that the former musician has found God and is not interested in the least in his old career. The film, I felt, was more than mildly disrespectful. Luaka Bop needed a hook to sell the music, so they invented this mystery, both before they found the man, and then after they discovered he wasn't into being the subject of their marketing campaign. Uchenna Ikonne, though, is a good fellow. In fact, his generosity led to my African Twang marathon premium a few years back.
	8:22pm Flash Strap: @Doug: Woof, that shop. When I went to the Luaka Bop offices a few years back, they were really nice and interesting to talk to, etc., but they gave me one of those Onyeabor "bibles" (just a dollar store bible with an Onyeabor cover glued on) and a bunch of Onyeabor "bucks"! FAKE DOLLARS i mean, i find that ideologically distasteful to the extreme, but it was also just tacky @Scraps: i know a guy who played with Onyeabor on the new Bop shows and he said about the same thing. Should have left that mystery unsolved, man. On the other hand, they really are some of the greatest albums I have ever heard, and I listen to records by worse people for sure. Just one of those wrinkles of the world
	8:25pm Scraps: Oh yeah. I'm not getting rid of the albums!
	8:28pm Flash Strap: @Doug again: agreed on the film and the goodness of Mr. Comb & Razor. I think Who Is William Onyeabor? could have been a good hook too, if the question had been left unanswered, or at least only partially answered
	8:30pm MrFab: Is turning a major talent into a goofy cartoon how one successfully markets to the "World Music" crowd? "Look at the funny African clown!" Kinda thought we were past that by now...
	8:33pm Dean: That Sylva Balassanian brought to mind Esther Lamandier, who skirted the edges of the early music trend of the later 20th century. Gotta remember to play her albums more often. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcEVroe1xOQ
	8:37pm Gary: Oooh, thanks for the Esther Lamandier tip, Dean!
	8:54pm GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO: Hey, friends, Jeff M. and his show Noise & Syrup ( wfmu.org... ), will be filling in for Amanda's Nazario Scenario tomorrow morning (and next Thursday as well).
	8:55pm Gary: Happy birthday to Amanda today!
	8:57pm Flash Strap: Sura Boma track is so good
	8:58pm Gary: So many treasures from Madrotter Inc.
	9:00pm hyde: Madrotter Inc. is a wealth of treasures I find it hard to sort through. which makes me love it all the more, somehow
	9:05pm hyde: whoa, i know Nice Strong Arm. i think i have Reality Bath in my storage LP's...
	9:06pm Gary: Yep, that's what the track's from, too
	9:08pm Dean: Recent New Yorker cartoon illustrating tonight's theme. The caption reads, "Perhaps a dirge would lift your spirits?" http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/170123_a20540-1000.jpg
	9:08pm Doug Schulkind: Henk, the proprietor of Madrotter, is a fantastically wonderful fellow. His blog would still be miraculous if he wasn't, but he is.
	9:09pm Gary: @Dean ha ha
	9:16pm Jeff Golick: Ay, comrades!
	9:19pm Gary: Jeff!
	9:19pm Jeff Golick: I only know one Nice Strong Arm song, from the epic (for me, at any rate) compilation HUMAN MUSIC, on Homestead.
	9:20pm hyde: @JG ah, good ol' Homestead!
	9:20pm Ike: Hi. So what odds would you all give us to survive to 2020 without a nuclear apocalypse? And when the roaches evolve into something intelligent to replace us in a billion years, what will their music sound like?
	9:20pm Gary: That's an amazing looking comp, Jeff: www.discogs.com...
	9:21pm Gary: Their music will sound "click-y"
	9:21pm Gary: Hi Ike!
	9:23pm Jeff Golick: @hyde: you know who started at Homestead, iirc? The current proprietor of AUM Fidelity records. (Got it to jazz in two comments!) @Gary: Hi! I can give you the hook-up.
	9:25pm Gary: Also, Jeff, you gotta call me about that thing
	9:28pm Ike: If the smart roaches dig up the comp "Human Music" in the far distant future, they'll think all human music sounded like that, so I hope it represents all 7 billion of us well.
	9:29pm Jeff Golick: Better that than Papa Roach* * have never heard Papa Roach.
	9:31pm Doug Schulkind: Then of course there's always this Human Music: www.discogs.com...
	9:32pm Jeff Golick: @Doug: got to that one, but muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch later.
	9:32pm Dean: Wait, are you the Gary Sullivan of "You, Again?" If so, you're the subject of an article in the latest issue of Critical Inquiry: https://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/current_issue/
	9:33pm Dean: OMG, it is you. Er, you are it...him!
	9:34pm Jeff Golick: That's our Gary!
	9:35pm Gary: Yes, that's my comic what I drew
	9:38pm Dean: Well, if I'd maintained my subscription to CI I'd have learned this a lot earlier. Coincidentally, I decided this evening to skim past issues, beginning with the latest.
	9:46pm Dean: I'm catching a whiff of Roman Jacobson in your comments.
	9:46pm Jeff Golick: @Gary, on the dark tip, and also re poetry, have you heard the Moor Mother record "Fetish Bones," out last year?
	9:47pm Gary: @Dean, maybe filtered through George Steiner?
	9:48pm Gary: @Jeff ... I have not ... can I Bandcamp it?
	9:49pm Jeff Golick: ...why, YES: moormothergoddess.bandcamp.com...
	9:50pm Jeff Golick: Meanwhile, this song is about drinking sangria near Rio, right? My Spanish is rusty, my Portuguese nonexistent.
	9:51pm Gary: River of Blood! <--------------[armchair translator's belief]
	9:51pm Gary: That said, I like your idea better
	9:51pm Dean: If filtered, then Steiner was faithful to Jacobson's scheme. (Haven't read either in ages.)
	9:52pm Jeff Golick: So that means sangria is just blood with fruit in it? (I keep trying to lower the bar, but Dean keeps raising it.)
	9:52pm hyde: i took intro Portuguese in college ca. 1982 or so. which means...i got nothing to add.
	9:53pm Gary: I haven't read Jacobson, but was a huge fan of After Babel ... I'm guessing any "ideas" I might have regarding translation and related were probably gleaned from that book
	9:54pm Gary: Sangria is fruity blood from the fruit bat
	9:54pm Gary: So, technically, it's a song about Brazilian vampires
	9:54pm Dean: "Lower the bar..." I see what you did there, Jeff G. I'm willing to bet I read a good bit of Jacobson ... in a bar!
	9:55pm hyde: wow, this is amazing
	9:56pm melinda: I didn't know Daniel Johnston did hymns, I should listen more.
	9:56pm Dean: See, e.g., this for a summary of RJ on metaphor and metonymy, then compare to your remarks about the horizontal and the vertical: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/visualarts/r4100/jacobson.html I'll have one more pint.
	9:58pm Gary: Last call!
	9:59pm hyde: thanks Gary! that wasn't nearly as dark as I had feared.
	10:02pm Gary: Ha -- I'm dark-challenged, I'm afraid
	10:03pm Gary: Night, everyone!
	10:09pm Scraps: I knew the guy from AUM Fidelity, because he used to hang out at Barbes when I used to hang out there, way early Barbes days. We bonded over Shrimp Boat, which (he said) was the main reason he founded AUM. Put out an awesome Shrimp Boat package eventually, too

Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan: Playlist from January 18, 2017

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