Sat 05 Nov 11

Podcast updates

So, there's now such a thing as FRIENDISTAN.ORG. The People's Republic went and got all techy and claimed a domain. It is on this domain that the Propaganda Ministry will now post the latest podcast. They thought you should know that since last on Bird on the Moon, there's been two new releases:

Episode 26, "Ghosts vs. Spirits" (94:05) Team Spooky meets Team Spectral in an Ectoplasm Exclusive.

Episode 25, "Thanks, Bob" (95:17) Bob Moog was not only a worldwide hero of music, he also liked roast duck and tipped well.

filed under: the arts blogged: 15.55 Sat, 05 Nov '11

Sat 22 Oct 11

Free Radio Friendistan Episode 24, "No time like the timeless""

Time is really the only thing that passes us by- or does it? Can you pass it up?

It's been a while, and always has been. As the hours while by, slip into the future (etc), we've gotta ask- does anyone really know what time it is? Does anyone really care? In Friendistan, we don't have time zones...

[Sir Roger Penrose]
1. Time Passages - Al Stewart (suck it up)
2. I Didn't Know What Time it Was - Billie Holliday
3. Hallelujah Time - Bob Marley & the Wailers
4. Hold On This Time - Fontella Bass
5. You're My Favorite Waste of Time - Marshall Crenshaw
[Alan Watts]
6. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It is? - Chicago
7. Strange Times - The Black Keys
8. Time - Sean Hayes
9. Calling Time - Yap
10. The Hundredth Time - Gigi
11. We've Got Time - Tandemoro
12. Time to Wander - Gypsy and the Cat
[Michio Kaku]
{RECAP}
13. It's Only Time - The Magnetic Fields
14. 2 O'Clock in the Morning - Swati
15. Time to Get Up - King Bisquit Time
16. We Got Time - Moray McLaren
17. You're Forever an Hourglass - Benzos
[Terrence McKenna]
18. Find The Time (Plimsouls Remix) - Get Cape Wear Cape Fly
19. Hands of Time - Groove Armada
20. Long Time (Sly & Robbie's Dark Shade Riddim) - Natasja
21. Infinite (Ft. Blackalicious) - Guru
{RECAP}
22. In These Times - Joan Armatrading

filed under: the arts blogged: 23.30 Sat, 22 Oct '11

Sat 08 Oct 11

Free Radio Friendistan Episode 23,"Nice Weather for Dreaming"

Hey! Check out the new podcast page on Friendistan.org!


Today's weather report: you don't need an umbrella because you're gonna get soaked anyway. It's cool, hot, windy and the sky is full of mystery. Nothing to prepare for, you can't plan a dream. Note: This podcast was originally recorded on 10 Sept 11

Tracklist:

montage - Forecasting the Funk
1. Emotional Weather Report - Tom Waits
2. Season's Trees - Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi
3. The Rain - Benjamin Diamond
4. Into the clouds - The Sound of Arrows
5. I Saw Lightning - Telekinesis
6. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (Psapp's Lady Remix) - Les Brown And His Band Of Renown
7. The Night Wind - Legowelt
8. Jump Into The Fog (Crystal Fighters Remix) - The Wombats
9. Pissing in the Wind - Badly Drawn Boy
10. Cat Stevens - Wind of My Soul
11. Wind in the Wires - Patrick Wolf
12. Catch The Wind - Donovan
{RECAP}
13. Storm Song - Gustav Helzberg (A Friendistani Nationalist!)
14. Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen
15. When The Storm Comes - Jah Wobble
16. Rainbow - Lal Meri
17. The Cool, Cool River - Paul Simon
18. Autumn Leaves - Miles Davis
19. Silent Snow (feat. Max The Sax) - Parov Stelar
{RECAP}
20. Lord of Winter - Pigeons and Crazy Porridgemakers

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filed under: the arts blogged: 20.36 Sat, 08 Oct '11

Wed 05 Oct 11

Poem for Ramya

This poem is dedicated to and written for Ramya, and was delivered at her memorial on 19 Sept. '11. I've kept it within a small circle, but feel now is the time for it to go free. So too, one day, shall we...

"OM Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, Bodhi Svaha."

Life
is vast,
shimmering,
as the early morning
ocean, and we toe the foamy
margin, being both here and there,
taking fleeting steps between the worlds.
Humans do not tend towards easy transitions-
In our scurry, we grasp at shreds of time to forestall change
or yearn mournfully for an anticipated moment of sudden renewallittle
else is savored, or becomes amazing, and life in a Universe of eternal flux
is missed, as miles of passing time in well-worn pavement pass beneath our weary feet,
in the struggle of deadlines and lifelines - what delivers us to transition is the sudden realization of it,
(the crashing wave).
It is at the peak moments of our rare and ephemeral dance on Earth that the wisdom of transformation rains down love.
It's the communion of wizened eyes glancing the edges of life, handing out peace as its fearsome edge is dared.
There is great teaching in teetering upon that edge, peering down the chasm of mystery which begat
our names and comes to claim them- we call this death- yet it is little more than a consequence
of the cosmos embodied as you, Ramya, a singular wave upon an infinite ocean, you, passing
through us as a radiant meteoric messenger of something beyond language, saying
"It's all transition- it's all transformation- it's all flux- that's all there is."
The wisdom of transience need not be reserved for the province
of deep, abstract human talk. The wisdom of transience
comes in peach yogurt, an amazing, singular taste
that your tongue may have touched a thousand
times before, but this time, it's truly amazing.
The wisdom of transience comes in sudden
bursts of laughter and the play of cats
when we are expected to mourn.
It is in the whoosh of bright
colors, when all around
we walk lightly
on sorrowful
ashes.
In these
few moments
so much has already
changed among and around us.
In scales impossible to conceive,
the personal and the planetary move
in metamorphic rhythms, a clockwork drama
that will manifest in joy, in pain, in speechless awe
and in the deep great unknowing that we carry in our bundle
of expectations. There is a voice now distant yet distinct imploring
that we be unburdened by this bundle, spilling the contents and to move
unhindered down the spiraling criss-crossing paths of we temporal sojourners.
This voice is now clear in the sparrow's song, the canticles of wind through pine forests,
the chorus of autumnal crickets intoning the mantras of emerging stars, she is altogether beyond.
A body moves into time and out of it, and humans gather at appointed places on the hour to bear witness
to yet another waving of the eternal- yet we all wade in the same sea, playing in the shallows, fearful of the depths.
We are of the deep while we make our stand on the shoreline, and from there, the ocean beckons us again.
All of these words, these elegies, and this person, this man, held the hands of two dying women,
these mothers, this daughter, son, these waves crashing twenty three days apart, stunned
and breathless on the shore this man was bent over in questioning the movement of
time, and waves unabated by human grief continued, his own wave out there too.
Sand passing through fingers, names passing through the pages, this is how
we mark the tides of our lives. One of these countless names offered
another way, "Come," Ramya said, "let me show you something else,
something different from what you carry in your bundle of
expectations, something amazing." Now, we see the
joy of mangoes, steaming tea, the table of friends,
and know, that even as time transforms,
these are the means by which we
measure awe, wonder, and
the call of life. Every seed
sheds its husk, one day
returning to the soil
which yielded to
roots. We love,
this is how we
return. We
dive in,
and is
this
is
how
we live.

"OM Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, Bodhi Svaha."

filed under: from the birdy's beak blogged: 23.08 Wed, 05 Oct '11

Sat 01 Oct 11

Free Radio Friendistan Episode 22, "Oktoberfestistan!"

Newsflash! Starting next week, all podcast posts will move to FRIENDISTAN.ORG! W00T!

You might think of Oktoberfest as a debauch crazed festival of drunken loonies (it kinda is) or you migh think of it as a celebration of harvest, of bringing friends together and celebrating in spite of the dark. It's probably a little of both, just as this podcast is a little of everything.

Tracklist:

1. Ein Prosit - Traditional German Beer Drinking Song
2. Limit - Deichkind
3. Deutchemachine - And One
4. Bis Zum Erbrechen Schreien - Mediengruppe Telekommander
5. Das Bo - Türlich Türlich
6. Einsamkeit (Club Attack Mix by Steril) - Void Kampf
7. Links 234 - Rammstein
8. Mondlicht - Xmal Deutschland
9. Denkmal - Wir sind Helden
10. 1234567 - 1000 Robota
11. Bring Me Edelweiss - Edelweiss
12. Schnappi das kleine Krokodil - Schnappi
13. Angorakatz - Gipfelstürmer
14. Der Jesus Muss Weg - Jesus Christ Superstar (German Cast)
{RECAP}
15. Maggie Mae - Laibach
16. Bayern des samma mia - Haindling
17. Haus von Rocky Tocky - Bruce Low
18. In Munchen Steht Ein Hofbrauhaus - Traditional German Beer Drinking Song
19. Ein Mönch kam vor ein Nonnenkloster - Die Streuner
20. Zigge-zagge, hoi, hoi, hoi! - Traditional German Beer Drinking Song
21. Bayerische Polka Yodel - Traditional German Beer Drinking Song
22. Danke Schoen - Wayne Newton
23. Fru Johnsen (Harper Valley PTA cover)- Inger Lise Rypdal
24. 99 Luftballoons - Sean Peter
25. Bilder von Dir - Xavier Naidoo
26. Zirkus (Deichkind Remix) - Mia
27. Ich Bin von Kopf bis Fuss auf Liebe Eingestellt - William S. Burroughs
{RECAP}
28. Prost - Deichkind

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filed under: the arts blogged: 14.07 Sat, 01 Oct '11

Sun 25 Sep 11

Free Radio Friendistan Podcast, Episode 21: Fataha for Ramya


Subtitle: Fataha = music played in celebration of life; Ramya = cosmic mama

Summary: Ramya Ruth Ann Gallacher Gleeson- that's a name for ya. And, that's a mama for ya. For me, this was the 2nd passing in as many weeks. But the gift she gave in helping transform my view of death and loss is something that needs honoring, and here's my way of doing it.

Tracklist:

Intro - Fataha for Ramya
1. Mandala Offering - The Gyuto Monks Tantric Choir
2. Abwoon - Lisa Gerrard
3. Vandanaa Trayee - Ravi Shankar
4. Into the West - Annie Lennox
5. Gracias a la Vida (live) - Mercedes Sosa
6. My Sweet Lord - George Harrison
7. Goster Cemalin - Alp Arslan
8. Almaya - Gaida Hinnawi
9. Govinda - Kula Shakur
10. Power of Raven - Lisa Thiel
{RECAP}
11. Medicine Wheel - Kate Wolf
12. I'm Gonna Live the Life I Sing About in my Song - Mahalia Jackson
13. Give Peace a Chance - John Lennon
14. Allah Hu - Junoon
17. Om Nama Shivaya - Donna de Lory
18. Yeha Noha - Sacred Spirits
19. Earth Anthem - The Turtles
20. May it Be - Enya
{RECAP}
21. Ishq Allah Ma'bud Lillah - Deva Premal

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filed under: the arts blogged: 21.25 Sun, 25 Sep '11

Sat 03 Sep 11

Episode 20, "Life During Zoo Time"

We're all animals after all, alive to thrive and roar. Just check you out- you're undeniably an animal, all coiffed for mating or all scaled for predating. The point is, we better give paws to remember the fragility, glory, and silliness of life.

Tracklist:

montage - A Beginner's Guide to "Animals"
1. Apes' Shuffle - The Jeff Wayne Space Shuttle
2. One Monkey - Goodie Mob
3. The Bear Song - Green Jelly
4. Lion - Karolina & Funset
5. Tiger Rag - Tadaharu Nakano and the Nakano Rhythm Boys
6. I Fought A Crocodile - Jacuzzi Boys
7. Eels - The Mighty Boosh
8. Dolphin - Dogbowl
9. Snakes in the Grass - Quantic
10. Lizard Lady - Residents
11. Scapegoat - Chumbawumba
12. Vampire Deer - Mundane Circus
13. Redtail Hawk - Bellini
14. Dragon's Den - Sir David Attenborough
{RECAP}
15. Orphan Camel Colt - Namgar
16. Páva (Hey, Peacock) - Irén Lovász / Lászlo Hortobágyi
17. Song of the Porcupine - Lepcha Tribal Music (India)
18. Butterfly - Towa Tei
19. White Elephant - Ladytron
20. Fox - Danimals
21. White Rabbit (Mojo Filter Wonderland Mix) - Jefferson Airplane
22. Wolf Like Me - TV on the Radio [MOOGFEST PERFORMER!]
23. The Snow Leopard - Shearwater
24. Coyotes - Richard Thompson
{RECAP}
25. Mystery Song
26. Going to the Zoo - Julie Felix

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filed under: the arts blogged: 00.36 Sat, 03 Sep '11

Fri 26 Aug 11

Episode 19, "Requiem for Julia" (100:09)

Remember to always tell your people that you love them, everyday.
On Saturday, August 20th, I held the hand of a dear friend as she left a tremendous legacy of love in the wake of her struggling body. This podcast is unapologetically brimming with emotional heartpouring, and reflects the spirit of a soul who now guides me even more as a father and a Friendistani.

Tracklist:

1. Safety in Self - Jerrfey Gaines
2. Julia - The Beatles
3. Holy Now - Peter Mayer
4. All This Joy - John Denver
5. You Who Knew Me - David Wilcox
6. I'll Fly Away - Alison Krause
7. I Saw the Light - Bill Monroe
8. Mother and Child Reunion - Paul Simon
9. A Memorable Laugh - Koufax
10. Here I Am - Emmylou Harris
11. Shine (Collective Soul cover) - Dolly Parton
{Commentary}
12. Alleluia, the Great Storm is Over - John McCutcheon
13. I Hope You Dance - Lee Ann Womack
14. Why Walk When You Can Fly? - Mary Chapin Carpenter
15. This Is To Mother You - Sinead O'Conner
16. Redemption Song - Bob Marley
17. We Shall Overcome - Pete Seeger
18. All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
19. Box of Rain - Grateful Dead
20. By My Side - Stephen Schwartz ("Godspell")
{Commentary}
21. We'll Meet Again - Johnny Cash
(100:09)

(Dedicated to Julia & Dustin, Ramya & Robin, Shidoshi and their families. Livestrong, y'all).

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filed under: the arts blogged: 19.07 Fri, 26 Aug '11

Mon 22 Aug 11

Jules, a dear friend, forever


1958-2011

Jules, so many times I've wanted to talk to you over the past two days, forgetting for that split second that we can't talk in the same way anymore. I'm missing you terribly, I'm trying to keep my face toward the sun for you and for Dustin, and I'm calling upon all your unconditional support over the past 7 years as guidance through this. It's funny, because we seem so different outwardly, from different worlds, people have a lot of questions about how we became family. Love, I tell them, unconditional love... that's the easiest and most pure answer. You'll find it funny that a few folks have asked if we had a, um, "special" friendship! I laugh, of course it was special, but if folks knew the either of us they'd laugh too. Just because we co-parent and are so close doesn't have to mean something else! I think you'd probably say something like "oh, my stars!," and chuckle 'til we both fell out laughing. People these days, right?

I told you over the past two weeks that you're my rock- and always will be- as we've clung to each other through many storms we're still here for each other, still here for D. That's my comfort right now, my trust, that above all else we are still and always will be family. It's in that steadfastness that I'll move forward, even when the clouds obscure the sun and the sleet stings my eyes, there's no stopping the love that created our family. As D's Dad, as your friend forever, as someone who's learned so much from your heart, I will carry on by the confidence and love you placed in me, transformed me with. Yes, on the outside, we're not your average family; but in our hearts and souls there is no truer family than this... and I have you to thank. Keep in touch, I know you will. I love you!

filed under: from the birdy's beak blogged: 12.42 Mon, 22 Aug '11

Sun 07 Aug 11

Untitled Poem: delivered 7 August 2011

The 13th of a 12 Poem Cycle, "12 Glass Birds," to be published as a picture book in December 2011. The audio track will be posted soon, and includes audience participation sounds (hands rubbing, to mimic wings flapping)which occurs at the beginning, middle, and end of the piece. Thank you all for your wonderful support!

***

The first flight a bird ever takes
begins with a dare- the edge, these fledgling wings
the secret prayer that instinct was right, that we will know the air
and move with the world without the threat of the rushing ground dashing time to nothing.

The breath you are privileged to take just now once began
with a single chance, a risk taken, and oh lord we hope there was love.
With the procession of days, tiny steps led to arduous moves, points spiraling out of maps,
and without fanfare your young, great achievements shifted to the ordinary, the expected, the waning of surprise.

The last song a bird sings will echo forever, take heed to the ultimate chords;
may these songs be heard and held as true even if they cannot transcend the mundane din.
What’s happening now is already past, yet no bird traces a path across the sky in vain, no useless orbits,
each awkward step forward a kind of glory, every wing-beat a testament, each guiding star a chanting of the infinite.

***

So, what dare will you make this day?
We spend years lingering on the other side of the glass, watching
the passing day and its bodies in motion dancing by without hearing the music-
we keep waiting for a stirring within to lift weary bones into the thick of it, to find it’s midnight again.

Will you chance it all for the sake of the good?
Each second a decision, will you compel this hour to overflow with the holy?
Waiting no more, you plunge forward into as much beauty as you can find, as much justice as you are able, and
though you promise that no storm will thwart your of love of grace, we all must fall and fetter upon the bluntly real Earth.

Why not venture to the edge, and trust the wind to hold us up?
If life can promise little else, it does promise an answer to every challenge, each goading of fate;
we are given no assurances- no sanctuary from harm, no balm for all pains, only the hope of hand-me-down mercy,
with the glimmering expanse of you before me, I test these wings, I fall and glide into wide arcs, timeless upon the thrilling wind.

***

filed under: from the birdy's beak blogged: 19.13 Sun, 07 Aug '11

Sat 06 Aug 11

Free Radio Friendistan Episode 18, "Corny Beats and Mashup" (92:02)

montage - The Danger of Mashups
1. No One Takes Your Freedom - DJ Earworm
(Scissor Sisters: Take your Mama, The Beatles: For No One, George Michael: Freedom ’90, Aretha Franklin: Think)
2. Dreaming in Your Sleep - BRAT Productions
(Depeche Mode: Get Some, Romantics: Talking in Your Sleep)
3. Rebel Mother Down - DJ Schmolli
(Rihanna: Man Down, Danzig: Mother, Billy Idol: Rebel Yell)
4. Independent Room - Party Ben
(Destiny's Child: Independent Woman, Fugazi: Waiting Room)
5. Queen Latifah's Rascally Little O - DJ BC
(Queen Latifah, Prarie Dawn, Telly, & The Little Rascals Theme)
6. Rapture Riders - Go Home Productions
(Blondie: Rapture, The Doors: Riders on the Storm)
7. The Roof is on Fire - Lenow
(Fiddler on the Roof: Tradition, Dog Ruff: Jon E Storm)
8. On the Artistic and Cosmic Relevance of the Cut-Up Method - William S. Burroughs and Byron Gysin
9. Dr. Who on Holiday - Dean Gray
(The Timelords: Dr. Who, Greenday: Holiday)
10. Smack My Orinoco - Apeboy
(Enya: Orinoco Flow, The Prodigy: Smack My Bitch Up)
11. Psycho Shimmy - Darwin
(Talking Heads: Psycho Killer [live], Old Dirty Bastard: Shimmy Shimmy Ya [live])
{RECAP}
12. Folsom Prison Gangstaz - DJ Topkat
(Johnny Cash: Folsom Prison Blues, Boyz in da Hood ft. Easy-E: Gangstaz)
13. Buffalo Cecilia 2005 - DJ Riko
(English Folk Dance and Song Society: Buffalo Girls, Simon & Garfunkel: Cecilia, Alanis Morissette: Thank U, Malcolm McClaren: Buffalo Gals, The Art of Noise: Beat Box (Diversion One),
Lemon Jelly: Spacewalk, The Art of Noise: Snapshot)
14. I'm A Bird - Unknown Remixer
(Nelly Furtado: I'm like a Bird, Asha Bhosle: Unknown Track)
15. Crazy Logic - Arty Fufkin
(Gnarls Barkley: Crazy, Supertramp: Logical Song, The Who: Go to the Mirror Boy, Rockwell: Somebody’s Watching)
16. Without Rags - Unknown Remixer
(Eminem: Without Me vs. Ragtime Piano)
17. Walkie Talkie Vertigo Man - DJ Ruckus
(U2: Vertigo, Steriogram: Walkie Talkie Man)
18. The Spirit of Ray - Mixplosiv
(Ray Charles: Hit the Road Jack, ZZ Top: The Grange, Norman Greenbaum: Spirit in the Sky)
19. The Last Words of Hassan I. Sabbah (excerpt) - William S. Burroughs
(A poem Burroughs made from the Cut-Up Method he developed with Byron Gysin, mixed with Phillip Glass: Ayers Rock)
20. Single Ladies in Mayberry - Party Ben
(Beyonce: Single Ladies, "Mayberry" Theme)
21. XXXO on the Dock of the Bay - ToToM
(M.I.A.: XXXO, Otis Redding: Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay)
{RECAP}
22. Hollaback Girl of Constant Sorrow - DJ Erb
(Soggy Bottom Boys: Man oif Constant Sorrow, Gwen Stefani: Hollaback Girl)

filed under: the arts blogged: 19.15 Sat, 06 Aug '11

Sat 30 Jul 11

Free Radio Friendistan Podcast Episode 17, "Hot Street Party Madness" (91:44)

A selection of mostly live or otherwise invigorating street-ish music.

Live from Downtown Asheville's Bele Chere festival, DJ Moonbird turns the volume up on raucous hot summer rhythms- you supply your own hangover cure. Additional hip-hop added since our fair city missed the boat.

Tracklist:

dedication
1. Loaded - Primal Scream
2. Close My Eyes (live) - Matisyahu
3. A Better Way (live) - Ben Harper
4. Moon Goddess (live) - Jimi Tenor & Rhythm Taxi
5. Girl From Ipanema (live) - Lou Rawls
6. Let Us Get On Down (live) - Junk Yard Band
7. Wopbabalubop feat. B-Real - Funkdoobiest
(recap, live from Bele Chere 2011)
8. There's A Party (Feat. George Clinton & Chali 2na) - N.A.S.A.
9. Dancing in the streets - Martha Reeves & the Vandellas
10. I've Been Hoo-Doo'd (live) - Dr. John
11. Climb Trees (live) - Sage Francis
12. Autorail (live at the Orange Peel) - Toubab Krewe
13. Der Yeminite Tanz (live) - Yeminites
14. Street Fighting Man - El Testaferro de los Pordioseros
(recap, live from Bele Chere 2011)
14. Bounty Ice Cream - Squire of Gothos
15. Drop The Tough [The Twelves B-LIVE Remix] - Groove Armada
16. I Am (live) - Covenant
17. I Just Want to Celebrate (live) - Rare Earth
18. Onwu Ama Dike (live) - Krewe of Eris
19. Memory of a Free Festival - David Bowie

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filed under: the arts blogged: 21.33 Sat, 30 Jul '11

Sun 24 Jul 11

emergence/dissipatation

to emerge,
if only to fall back into the folds of you,
as if i were never cleaved and cast
into this night kept by cicada and thunderclap.

to cross the bridge,
even though we seek to span the very chasms we create
compelled by the eternal story of
returning, of knowing our distance is the same as our proximity.

to set foot on the far shore,
the facade of the foreign slips into the wind as a vagabond dream-
unmoored and loose in the wild currents
no words dare follow, just hold out your hand and catch the blessing rain.

to look back- tracing the original path,
the mist obscures the start-point, the clock chimes muted in the gathering winds,
our little place in the big world is one and the same
it's where we stand do the vista and shadows shift and merge in accord with expectations.

to continue along, i dissipate into the nameless abyss
not ever in fear- only trusting in the strident steps forward comes the truth of all journeys
we never start, and never cease, and there is relief in the knowing
that i never left the creator's firmament, just as you- an arc of light- shall transit forever, light upon light.

filed under: from the birdy's beak blogged: 22.36 Sun, 24 Jul '11

Sat 23 Jul 11

Free Radio Friendistan Episode 16, "TAPES!" (92:59)

Tracklist:

montage: cassette tapes nostalgia
1. Hamaba - Mindinka & Fulani Music of the Gambia
2. Untitled Track - "Soulful and Joyful Arabic Ballads Mixtape"
3. Shakyamuni Said - Polysorbate 59 (Shoutout to Doug, Mark, Kim, Dave!)
clip*
4. Opus 1 - Tommy Dorsey
5. Pig Nose - Music of the Yaqui Indians
6. Vissi d'arte (Tosca, Giacomo Puccini) - Leontyne Price
7. Tico Tico - JoAnne Castle
(recap)
8. Right Wing Pigeons - Dead Milkmen
9. Sky Flying By - Soar
10. Buzzbomb from Pasadena - Dead Kennedys
clip*
11. Texas Radio & the Big Beat - The Doors
12. Timesteps (excerpt) - Wendy Carlos
13. Ummagumma Pt. 1 - Pink Floyd
(recap)
14. Kambinda Beanie Man - Stick to Your Lover
15. Chittagong Chill - State of Bengal
16. Technical Malfunction - DJ Moonbird from Free Radio Asheville, March 2002
17. Master of the Universe - Hawkwind
clip*

*clips from "A Correlation Between Disco & Celestial Intelligence" by a very young DJ Moonbird, circa 1990

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filed under: the arts blogged: 12.40 Sat, 23 Jul '11



 

 

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Even in absurdity, sacrament.
Even in hardship,
holiness.
Even in doubt,
faith.
Even in chaos,
realization.
Even in paradox,
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