04/12/25 - Jam_15

"Yes, you’ve got to sing from the depths of the heart. Without heart you cannot be a Qawwal. You sing the songs every day, so even though there is quite a lot, you remember it." -- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Notes
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan	Aaj Sik Mitran Di	Chain of Light	Real World	2024 (1990)	Qawwali lament in Punjabi Sufi tradition. Big global reach due to Peter Gabriel-founded label Real World. Very famous and iconic singer in Pakistan.
Orchestra Harlow	Silencio	Salsa	Fania	1973	Dramatic salsa dura track from Jewish-American bandleader Larry Harlow. Released on the most important salsa label ever Fania.
Ada Richard	I'm Drunk & I'm Real High (In the Spirit of God)	Good God! Born Again Funk	Numero Group	2010 (1971)	Gospel-funk from a Detroit beauty parlor owner. Discovered by Numero Group.
The Fendermen	Mule Skinner Blues	N/A	Soma	1960	Novelty rockabilly hit recorded with two Fender guitars plugged into the same amp.
Mapenda Seck	Boul Ma Dieuye	Loubess	KSF	2000	Rhythmic Senegalese mbalax from a member of Orchestra Baobab. Brother of the more famous Thione Seck.
Prince Far I	Plant Up	Cry Tuff Dub Encounter Chapter III	Daddy Kool	1980	Dub reggae deep heavy on studio effects. Deep vocal toasting.
Guitar	House Full of Time	Sunkissed	Morr	2002	Dreamy shoegaze from a German duo. Bright and melodic.
Units	I-Night	Units	N/A	1979	Ahead-of-its-time synth punk track. A bridge between late-70s DIY and 2000s indie futurism.

04/05/25 - Jam_14

"In short, Sudden Sway shared my belief that the rules were there to be ignored and that anything was possible." -- Mike Alway, A&R that 'discovered' Sudden Sway

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Notes
Wujuseon	Superhero	Superhero	N/A	2006	One of the few early experimental hip-hop releases from SK. Duo made up of Von and Giant. Released one album. Name means spaceship in Korean.
Sudden Sway	Ah Metal Blossom	Spacemate	Blanco y Negro	1986	80s art pop collective. Influences from bands like A Certain Ratio.
Christian Marclay	His Master's Voice (Excerpt)	Records	N/A	1997	Recorded some time betwen 1981-1989. One of the earliest turntable-as-music adopters.
Bulgarian State Television Female Choir	Pilentze Pee	Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares	Shelter	1972	Eastern European traditional vocal music. A result of fifteen years of recording collection.
Bernard Parmegiani	Accidents - Harmoniques	De Natura Sonorum	INA-GRM	1978	Musique concrete from a large figure in the style. Well put together textures.
Moonriders	Chou C Chou	Don't Trust Over Thirty	T.E.N.T.	1986	80s art pop band. Led by Keiichi Suzuki, a lead composer of the Mother (Earthbound) soundtracks.
George Smallwood	Loser	Loser	PPU	2016	Blind singer from Washington, D.C. Garage soul from 70s/80s. Recorded some time between 1975-2015.
Negra Branca	O Espatelar do Linho	Antologia de Musica Atipica Portuguesa, Vol. 1: O Trabalho	Discrepant	2017	Portuguese electroacoustic music.
Jean-Michel Jarre	Eromachine	N/A	Pathe	1970	Debut single from huge progressive electronic figure. Experimental/musique concrete track.
African Head Charge	Off The Beaten Track	Off The Beaten Track	On-U	1986	80s UK post-punk dub. Led by Jamaican drummer, a rarity in UK dub.
E. Willey Von Huff-N-Puff	Just Wish You Were Here	Friends-Lovers & Estranged X's	P.E.G.	1982	Weird and esoteric funk/soul.

03/29/25 - Jam_13

"There was more resistance to the fact I was using computers than to the fact that I was a woman doing music." -- Laurie Spiegel

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Notes
Laurie Spiegel	The Unquestioned Answer	The Expanding Universe	Philo	1980 (1974-1976)	A soft and atmospheric piece of progressive electronic music. Spiegel's work at Bell Labs places her in the lineage of early electronic pioneers, though emerging during the Kraftwerk revolution.
Krok	Breath of Night Kyiv	Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archies 1971-1996	Light in the Attic	2024 (early 1980s)	A jazz fusion piece from the waning years of the USSR. Smooth and polished. Carries a cosmopolitan tone similar to city pop.
T. Dyson & Company	It's All Over	N/A	Cyndee Music	1980	A rare bedroom synth-funk single from Chicago. Reissued for RSD 2021.
Ellen McIlwaine	Higher Ground	The Real Ellen McIlwaine	Kot'ai	1975	A guitar-and-voice psychedelic blues take on Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground." McIlwaine is generally known for blending folk and blues influences.
Mr. Fingers	Mystery of Love	N/A	Alleviated	1985	Dub-influenced house track by Larry Heard, one of house music's pioneers. Bass-forward mix and experimental textures.
Res	700 Mile Situation	How I Do	MCA	2001	A neo-soul track from Res' debut album, How I Do, which mixes alt-rock, trip-hop, and post-punk revival elements.
Dwight Sykes	Where Ever You Are	Songs Vol. 1	Peoples Potential Unlimited	2013 (1980-1990)	Moody and nocturnal synth-funk track with lo-fi aesthetics. Accidentally aligns itself with vaporwave.
Wilburn Burchette	Birth of a Witch	Guitar Grimoire	Burchette Brothers	1973	Solo guitar piece from a self-taught musician who infused his sound with Tibetan mysticism.
Steve Hiett	Blue Beach - Welcome to Your Beach	Down on the Road by the Beach	Sony/CBS	1983	A dreamy ambient pop track from a photographer-turned-one-time-musician. Originally released exclusively in Japan.

03/22/25 - Jam_12

"Knowing all these little things, I adapt my playing for each individual artist-instead of me just sitting back there and playing for myself." -- Louie Bellson

 Listen to the show below! Note: Sorry I had to cut the show a bit short today. There were some technical issues.

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Notes
Magnum	Your Mind	Fully Loaded	The Phoenix	1974	Obscure psychedelic soul-funk band from the 70s. Released only one album.
Del Jones' Positive Vibes	Court Is Closed	Court Is Closed	Hikeka Records	1973	Politically charged Philadelphia soul group of the early 70s. Self-released two records that are technically the same album.
Louie Bellson & Walfredo de los Reyes	Sentido En Seis	Ecue ritmos cubanos	Pablo	1978	Established jazz drummer teamed up with Afro-Cuban percussionist. Largely a descarga record with a small band. Features Walfredo's son also on percussion.
The Rance Allen Group	That Will Be Good Enough For Me	Truth Is Where It's At	Gospel Truth	1972	Gospel-soul trio of brothers. Church-rooted vocals and Stax-backed grooves. Powerhouse vocals.
Mike and Pam Martin	Lonely Entertainer	Fernwood Pacific	Agustus Records	1975	Country rock couple duo from Colorado. Low fidelity and mellow.
Abdallah Oumbadougou	Anou Malane	Anou Malane	N/A	2019 (1990s)	Pioneering Tuareg guitarist from Niger. Fusion of electric blues with traditional tuareg music, creating the politically revolutionary genre of tishoumaren.
The Invaders	Spacing Out	Spacing Out	Duane	1970	Short-lived Bermudan funk-rock band. Blends psychedelic soul, rock, and funk. Album released during a golden age of black rock music.
Joe Henderson & Alice Coltrane	Earth	The Elements	Milestone	1974	Saxophonist Joe Henderson with spiritual jazz innovator Alice Coltrane. Record journeys through music representative of the four elements air, water, fire and earth.

03/08/25 - Jam_11

"Travis Scott sampled one of the songs and put it on his Grammy album. So after 40, almost 50 years, all of a sudden, the most money I've made in music is in the rap era, so it's pretty wild that happened" -- Chuck Senrick talking about Travis Scott sampling "Don't be So Nice"

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Notes
Chuck Senrick	Don't Be So Nice	Dreamin'	N/A	1977	Lo-fi, minimal lounge pop track. Originally pressed in 200 copies.
Spontaneous Overthrow	All About Money	All About Money	New-Ark Recordings	1984	Outsider soul-funk from Newark PA. Amateurish instrumentation with off-key vocals and somewhat rambling lyrics about being broke.
Shira Small	My Life's Alright	The Line of Time and the Plane of Now	N/A	1974	A mellow pop-soul/jazz-pop track recorded as a high school senior project and distributed in 500 copies.
Willis Alan Ramsey	Muskrat Candlelight	Willis Alan Ramsey	Shelter	1972	Atmospheric folk rock original of "Muskrat Love" later made famous by America and Captain & Tennile.
Faust	Jennifer	Faust IV	Virgin	1973	Rare moment of accessbility from krautrock band Faust.
Tim Buckley	Lorca	Lorca	Elektra	1970	Tense experimental folk track. Demostrates Buckley's shift towards more avant-garde and boundary-pushing sounds.
Charlie Feathers	Can't Hardly Stand It	N/A	King	1956	Rockabilly cut with eerie reverb and jerky vocals. Unintentionally ominous.
Cukor Bila Smert'	The Great Han-Tuan River	Manirna Muzyka	Koka	1990	Darkwave-influenced track from Ukrainian avant-garde scene.
Syrinx	Hollywood Dream Trip	Syrinx	True North	1970	Canadian prog rock band makes ECM-style fusion.

03/01/25 - Jam_10

"I think it’s very pretentious for people to cite influences. It implies that, therefore, you’re carrying this on or taking this farther. Everybody’s always, “I’m influenced by this, I’m influenced by that.” What do you mean “influenced by”? You love that. You imitate that. But who knows whether what you do has anything to do with it." -- Arto Lindsay

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Notes
Twin Cosmos	Giniro no Tsubasa	Double Action	N/A	1982	Electronic-tinged psychedelic folk track from a Japanese twin brother duo. Opens first side of their yin-yang concept album.
Arto Lindsay	Simply Are	Noon Chill	Bar/None	1998	A surprisingly mellow art pop track from a former no wave pioneer. 15 years passed, he's clearly far removed from his abrasive DNA days.
Elton Dean's Ninesense	Nicrotto	Happy Daze	Ogun	1978	A sprawling avant-garde jazz piece with spiritual jazz undertones. Free-flowing brass arrangements. Dean was saxophonist for Soft Machine of the Canterbury scene.
Gianni Marchetti	February	Solstitium	RCA Italiana	1978	Smooth, jazzy library music from a prolific b-movie film composer.
Khan Jamal	Breath of Life	Drum Dance to the Motherland	Dogtown	1973	A spacey live vibraphone piece. Reflects Jamal's work with Sun Ra and the Sounds of Liberation.
Charlie Megira	Tomorrow's Gone	The Abtomatic Misterzinger Mambo Chic	N/A	2001	An early hypnagogic pop (read: lo-fi neo-psychedelia) track. Only about two years late from hypnagogic pop pioneers Ariel Pink and John Maus.
Anne-James Chaton & Andy Moor	Princess In A Rover P6 3500s V8	Transfer	Unsounds	2011	A collaboration between a French spoken word artist and an experimental guitarist. Fragmented electroacoustic storytelling. Track likely references Princess Diana.
Stephen Scott	Rainbows, I	New Music for Bowed Piano	New Albion	1983	A post-minimalist composition blending process-driven abstraction with a listenable and meditative quality. Light, airy, and soft sounds.

02/15/25 - Jam_9

"...and the next thing you knew, we were back on the kitchen floor, sitting down, trading songs, and we went on for hours doing that..." -- Butch Hannock of the Flatlanders

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Notes
The Flatlanders	Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown	All American Music	Plantation	1973	A reflective and exploratory take on country music from a short-lived progressive country group.
Black Merda	Reality	Black Merda	Chess	1970	A forgotten psychedelic soul and blues rock band from Detroit. Socially conscious lyrics, uniquely pessimistic among other socially conscious records of the time.
Johnny Price	Marijuana, The Devil Flower	N/A	Rexell	1971	Funny country single. Singer has disdain and disgust for the hippie counterculture movement.
Earth & Stone	Don't Let Them Fool You	Kool Roots	Cha Cha Music	1979	Late-stage roots reggae track from a relatively unknown duo. Last gasp for OG run of politically and socially conscious reggae before dancehall took over.
Djalma Corrêa	Banjilógrafo	Baiafro	Phillips	1978	An Afro-Brazilian percussion piece tied to capoeira and samba de roda.
David Hykes & The Harmonic Choir	Arc Descents	Hearing Solar Winds	Ocora	1983	A new age track centered on overtone singing. Ominous drone that strays from usual new age peacefulness.
Steve Tibbetts	The Secret	Steve Tibbetts	Frammis	1977	An early example of Tibbetts' unique postmodern neo-primitivism. Drifting, hypnotic acoustic guitar work.
Bobb Trimble	Glass Menagerie Fantasies	Iron Curtain Innocence	Vengeance	1980	An out-of-time psychedelic folk track from the post-60s folk scene. Surrealistic and introspective.
Leroy Jenkins	Albert Ayler (His Life Was Too Short)	The Legend of Ai Glatson	Black Saint	1978	A tribute to free jazz legend Albert Ayler featuring Jenkins' avant-garde violin work. A particularly ethereal track, which may be suprising considering how abrasive violin can be in a free jazz context.
Max Roach Trio feat. Hasaan Ibn Ali	Three-Four vs. Six-Eight Four-Four Ways	The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan	Atlantic	1964	A showcase of the great Max Roach's drumming and Ali's virtuosic piano style. A rare example of bebop to avant-garde jazz transistion as it was occurring.
Juggaknots	Loosifa	The Juggaknots	Fondle 'Em	1996	Dreamy, lo-fi underground hip-hop track with a lush wall-of-sound aesthetic. Somewhat foreshadowing the surrealist beats of cLOUDDEAD. Same label that put out MF DOOM's debut record by the way.