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Playlist for October 27, 2009 from 12:00AM - 3:00AM
Current New Orleans Time: Thu, 1:09pm
Playlist Date & Time: 10/27/2009 12:00AM - 3:00AM
Program: Contemporary Jazz with Mockingbird
It's almost Halloween, almost All Souls' Day, almost almost Dia de los Muertos. Y'got candy, y'got costumes, y'got cemeteries and ceremony; there's grave-flowers and tomb maintenance, there's celebration and bread...
How beautifully bittersweet, these last sloe-eyed days of October.
Playlist Tracks
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The Shaggs
It's Halloween
The Shaggs
Don't know The Shaggs yet?
They change everyone who hears them, though there's no tellin *how* you'll change.
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Garage A Trois
Circus
Outre Mer
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Tom McDermott
Klezmer Nuthouse
All the Keys and Then Some
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The Walkabouts
Train Leaves at Eight
Train Leaves at Eight
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Andrei Codrescu
Everybody Suffers
No Tacos for Sadaam
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Groundtruther
Cold Seep
Altitude, disc two
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Diamanda Galas
Gloomy Sunday
Malediction and Prayer
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People Like Us + Ergo Phizmiz
Blame It on the Waltz
Rhapsody in Glue
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Billie Holiday
Misery
The Complete Billie Holiday on Verve, 1945-1959
This recording is so eerie. Ghosties everwhere.
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Dr. Lonnie Smith
Voodoo Dolls
Rise Up!
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Sun Ra & His Omniverse Jet-Set Arkestra
Planetary Search
Beyond the Purple Star Zone / Immortal Being
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Diamanda Galas
25 Minutes to Go
Malediction and Prayer
This is for yours and mine, Cousin Dimitri. He's said that Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison recording of this song is one of his favorites. For Halloween, here's the creepiest version *ever.*
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Stonephace
Essays for Alice
Stonephace
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Kronos Quartet
Getme, Getme
Floodplain
2009
The rest of Kronos Quartet's latest album is just as movingly beautiful.
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People Like Us + Ergo Phizmiz
Carmic Waltz
Rhapsody in Glue
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Yma Sumac
Hampi (Medicine)
Shou Condor
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Groundtruther
Three Haikus: Dead Sea
Altitude, disc two
This is only one of the three haiku. This won purely for the word 'dead.' I'm just that shallow.
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Albert Ayler
Ghosts [first variation]
Bells/Prophecy
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Meredith Monk
Night Travel: Campfire/Hungry Ghost
Atlas, disc two
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Groundstruther
Empire State
Altitude, disc one
Empire scares me.
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The Other Planets
Walking Porno Zombie, part 2
Eightballs in Angola
Angola scares me, too.
Way more than zombies,
even with all that brain-eating business.
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Revolution Void
Someone Else's Memories
The Politics of Desire
Creepy number three: Bladerunner-style memory-hijinks.
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Grupo Fantasma
Bacalao con Pan
Sonidos Gold
Soup and Bread for the dead, my darlins. If you're goin t'say Hello and Thankee to Gede this Sunday, I'll bring the bread if you'll bring the goat stew.
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Dirty Three
Feral
Cinder
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Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet
Daddy Won't Taint Bye-Bye
Husky
One of two songs tonight that start with bewildered children.
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Gutbucket
Brain Born Outside of Its Head
A Modest Proposal
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Rodrigo y Gabriela
Diablo Rojo
Rodrigo y Gabriela
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Sun Ra
Outer Nothingness
The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra
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Bill Frisell
We're Not From Around Here
Nashville
...they innocently tell the proprietress at the antiquated, isolated hostel's front "desk"....
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The Books
Motherless Bastard
Thought for Food
The other song tonight featuring flabbergasted cherubs. This kid'll probably need a little self-help help later on.
...And if these two songs are any indication, "dads" (so-called) are a pretty sadistic bunch.
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Rodrigo y Gabriela
Ixtapa
Rodrigo y Gabriela
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Yma Sumac
Goomba Boomba
Mambo!
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