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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.