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.