Saturday, April 25, 2026

04/25/26 - Best-Of Spotify Edition

Best of Talkie and Jam (Spotify Edition)

Next, a different sort of thing. I'm doing a best-of for my show. I've had it for three years, but I'm transferring to another school, so I'm wrapping things up here. Hopefully I'll be able to continue it at the new school.

I've gathered my favorite tracks from over the years and made a Spotify playlist out of it. Of course, it doesn't include everything I've played—some of it isn't on Spotify—but that’ll be next week.

This week, I'm just playing a sample of the playlist.

Listen to the show at wmre.live @ 2:00PM EST! Also, consider checking out the spotify best-of below! A behemoth!

04/11/26 - Jam_27

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Artist Track Album Label Year Notes
Günter Schickert Puls Überfällig Sky Records 1979 Krautrock. Repetitive, psychedelic textures blending rock and electronic music. Notable for its association with the German scene rather than purely sonic traits. Schickert was connected to Klaus Schulze, which demostrates the importance of scene participation in genre classification.
Ali Farka Touré Goye Kur The Source Hannibal Records 1993 Malian blues blending traditional Songhai music with American blues. Considered a pioneer of "desert blues," but often excluded from being called it due to ethnic and geographic distinctions between Songhai and Tuareg musical traditions.
Caetano Veloso Tu Me Acostumbraste Araçá Azul Philips 1973 Filin (Cuban bolero-jazz fusion). A Spanish-language performance on a Brazilian record associated with MPB. Shows how genre labels break down when records draw from multiple cultural and musical traditions.
Spirit Agent Womanism Depth Perception Navigators 1999 90s abstract hip hop from Florida. Stylistically closer to underground NYC rap than Southern hip hop trends of the time. Genre as a loose descriptive category rather than a geographically fixed identity.
Ziad Rahbani Houdou Nisbi Houdou Nisbi Relax-in Records 1985 Lebanese music (musiqa lubnaniyya) combining Levantine traditions with Western jazz orchestration. Reflects how "Western" influence can vary widely. Here, leaning toward smooth jazz and fusion.
Invisible Durazno Sangrando Durazno Sangrando Talent / CBS 1975 Argentine progressive rock led by Luis Alberto Spinetta. Jazz-influenced in a nuanced way atypical of prog rock, and lyrical in an abstract, poetic tradition typical of prog rock.

Friday, April 3, 2026

03/21/26 - Jam_26

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Artist Track Album Label Year Notes
Babenzele Pygmies (Bayaka) Women Gathering Mushrooms Bayaka: The Extraordinary Music of the Babenzele Pygmies Ellipsis Arts 1995 Field recording captured in a naturalistic context rather than a studio. Ethnomusicological practice where music is documented as lived experience rather than authored "songs." Title reflects recording conditions rather than an original name.
The Diablos The Wind Single Fortune Records 1954 Doo-wop. Group's only national hit. Eerie, surreal atmosphere compared to contemporaries like The Platters. Influential on Smokey Robinson and the Detroit vocal scene.
Peter Barclay You Are Loved I'm Not Your Toy Numero Group 2023 (rec. 1990s) Dreamy, atmospheric DIY art pop. Originally recorded at home and later compiled by Numero Group. Cassette-based independent recording culture.
Majida El Roumi Kalimat Kalimat Music Master 1991 Lebanese pop in the musiqa lubnaniyya tradition. Blends Arabic musical forms with Western orchestration.
Enrique Morente & Lagartija Nick Omega Omega El Europeo / Discos Probeticos 1996 Radical flamenco nuevo/art rock fusion. Lyrics adapted from Federico García Lorca. Highly controversial within traditional flamenco circles for experimental approach.

Saturday, March 14, 2026

03/14/26 - Jam_25

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Artist Track Album Label Year Notes
Blind Boys of Alabama Jesus Gonna Be Here Spirit of the Century Real World Records 2001 Traditional gospel group founded in 1939 in Talladega, Alabama. This recording blends classic Black gospel vocals with Chicago blues-style electric instrumentation.
John Coltrane Dearly Beloved Sun Ship Impulse! 1971 (rec. 1965) Posthumous release from Coltrane's spiritual jazz era, recorded August 1965 with the classic quartet: McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, and Jimmy Garrison.
Demetrio Stratos Flautofonie ed altro Cantare la voce Cramps 1978 Experimental vocal performance exploring extended vocal techniques. Stratos, known from the prog band Area, pursued voice research and ethnomusicology.
Alwin Nikolais Fetish Choreosonic Music of the New Dance Theatre of Alwin Nikolais Hanover Records 1959 Early electroacoustic composition created for dance and theatre productions; Nikolais described the style as “choreosonic,” linking choreography and sound design.
Philip Jeck Fanfares Forward Sand Touch 2008 Turntable-based composition using loops and effects. Often associated with hauntology, a concept linking sound to cultural memory and ghostly traces of the past.
Thomas Dolby Airwaves The Golden Age of Wireless Harvest / Capitol 1982 Synthpop track contemplating the social and cultural effects of broadcast media. Dolby later became a tech entrepreneur and professor at Johns Hopkins.
Kishore Kumar (vocals), Laxmikant–Pyarelal (composition) Om Shanti Om Karz (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) HMV 1980 Bollywood disco epic from the film Karz; panoramic multi-part arrangement. The soundtrack won major recognition at the Filmfare Awards.
Pardon Kimura Fisherman's Blues Ocean Surfer Cool Dad Building Shop Surfboards Hot-Cha 2001 Japanese art pop with surreal conceptual elements. Kimura is an obscure figure known for unusual studio credits and connections to experimental pop circles.

Saturday, February 28, 2026

02/28/26 - Jam_24

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Artist Track Album Label Year Notes
Nervous Norvus (Jimmy Drake) Transfusion Single Dot Records 1956 Novelty rock single that reached #8 on Billboard; released during vinyl/shellac transition.
The Son of P.M. Luk Tung Klong Yao Shadow Music of Thailand (Compilation) Sublime Frequencies 2008 (orig. mid-1960s) Thai "Wong Shadow" surf/garage fusion blending traditional Thai melodies with Western instruments.
Afrosound La Pava Congona N/A Fuentes 1973 Psychedelic Colombian cumbia single; aggressive tropical funk arrangement.
Sun Ra featuring Yochanan Message to Earthman N/A Saturn 1959 Sun Ra ad Yochanan collaboration; usually aggressive experimental big band.
François Tusques La Tour Saint-Jacques Free Jazz Mouloudji 1965 French free jazz piano; European response to Ornette Coleman's late-50s free jazz movement.
Toto Bissainthe, Marie-Claude Benoit, Mariann Matheus Papa Danmbalah Chante Haiti Arion 1977 Haitian Kreyol/Vodou song cycle drawing from slave songs and resistance traditions.
Psarantonis (Antonis Xylouris) Perdikaki Anastorimata Columbia (EMI) 1982 Cretan folk kondylies featuring lyra; improvisational style in odd time signatures.
Otis Taylor My Soul's in Louisiana White African NorthernBlues Music 2001 Acoustic blues from Taylor's early solo period after returning to music in the 1990s.

Saturday, February 14, 2026

02/14/26 - Jam_23

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Artist Track Album Label Year Notes
Brave New World Alpha, Beta, Delta, Epsilon… Ford Impressions on Reading Aldous Huxley Vertigo 1972 Krautrock inspired by Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.
February Montaine Sidney as Late at the light that hides it Fantasy Fiction 2019 (recorded 1985–1991) Archival British DIY minimal synth/early indietronica.
Gaelle Transient Transient Naked Music 2004 Downtempo R&B from the Naked Music label/mini-scene.
Dean Blunt Flaxen The Redeemer Hippos in Tanks 2013 New-age instrumental from somewhat notoriously elusive artist/producer.
Sonic Sum Velour 80 Grit The Sanity Annex Ozone 2000 Abstract New York underground hip hop.
Francisco Mora Catlett Amazona Mora! II Far Out Recordings 2021 (orig. 1987/2005) Latin-inflected spiritual jazz from a former Sun Ra Arkestra member.
Toni Fisher The Big Hurt Single Signet 1959 1959 traditional pop hit (Billboard Hot 100 #3) featuring an early accidental flanger effect.
Jackie Mittoo Oboe Showcase Studio One 1980 Keyboard-driven dub from the Studio One legend.

Saturday, February 7, 2026

02/07/26 - Jam_22

"It is so simple an effect and yet there is something eternal about it, sort of a foundation of music." - Sandy Bull describing drone, a fundamental element of his style

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Artist Track Album Label Year Notes
Sandy Bull Blend Fantasias For Guitar and Banjo Vanguard 1963 22-minute psychedelic folk odyssey featuring Ornette Coleman drummer Billy Higgins, predating the Beatles' psychedelic turn and contemporaneous to American Primitivism pioneer John Fahey's work.
Djeli Moussa Diawara Fote Mogoban Djeli Moussa Diawara Tangent 1983 Traditional Mande Griot music from Guinea featuring 21-string kora playing. Preservation of West African oral history through musical storytelling.
Enrique Morente Tu Vienes Vendieno Flora (Solea) Despegando CBS 1977 A late-70s flamenco track from Spain's most influential contemporary flamenco singer, captured just before his controversial experimental turn that would continuously bring him criticism from purists.
Pharoah Sanders Red, Black & Green Thembi Impulse! 1971 Nine minutes of Sanders at his most experimental, pushing beyond his signature free-ish spiritual jazz into harsher "out" territory. Still maintaining the transcendent spirituality that defined his legendary late-60s/70s run.

04/25/26 - Best-Of Spotify Edition

Best of Talkie and Jam (Spotify Edition) Next, a different sort of thing. I'm doing a best-of for my show. I've had it for...