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"Musical Odyssey" with Professor G (archive)

Thursday, January 3, 2019 | 16:00 to 18:00 | Playlist

New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Carl Craig Bug in the Bassbin Carl Craig Sessions !K7
* Insolito Universo Yo soy mi rio La Candela del Rio Olindo Records Produced by Malcolm Catto of the Heliocentrics
Trio Mocoto Desapareca, Va, Desapareca Trio Mocoto Vinilisssimo Recorded in 1973. They started as Jorge Ben's backing band. This was their 2nd album.
Azteca Azteca Azteca CBS Recorded 1972 at Columbia Studios, San Francisco.
* Uji Gondonga Alborada ZZK Records Debut album, aka Luis Maurette (formerly in Lulacruza).
* Dead Can Dance Act 1: Dance of the Bacchantes Dionysus PIAS
* GNOER Ta Matete Precepts 19-21 s/r 3rd and last instalment of the Precepts series
* Kaia Kater Hydrants Grenades Smithsonian Folkways
* Rio Mira Aguacerito Marimba del Pacifico AYA Records Debut album, musicians from Ecuador & Colombia
* Don the Tiger La Decimoquinta Fiebre de Arturo Velez Matanzas Crammed Discs
* Meg Baird & Mary Latimore Blue Burning Ghost Forests Three Lobed Recordings
* Nina Simone African Mailman Oxford American Southern Music CD #20 - North Carolina Oxford American
Eddie Gale The Rain Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music Blue Note 1969, deep modal jazz-folk
* Dire Wolves (Just Exactly Perfect Sisters Band) Unfettered and Alive Paradisiacal Mind Feeding Tube Records
* Cave ShaSha Allways Drag City Chicagoans 4th album, beats provided by Rex, who just moved to Durham NC and who plays with the Nathan Bowles Trio.
Tortoise Swing from the Gutters TNT Thrill Jockey 3rd album
* Traden Hymn Traden Subliminal Sounds Traden (The Tress) is the current incarnation of 70s Swedish band Trad, Gras, och Stenar (Trees, Grass, and Stones).
* Jane Weaver Argent The Silver Globe Fire Originally released in 2014, re-released in 2018.
* zazou Bikaye Ba Wela Na Kenda Crammed Discs Congolese musician/singer Bony Biyake & French composer/producer Hector Zazou
Peak Funktion Freakin' at The Disco Dance for Your Life: Rare Finnish Disco & Funk 1976-86 Svart Recorded in 1980
Manuel Gomes Jelivra Bo Situacon Synthesize the Soul: Astro-Atlantic Hypnotica from the Cape Verde Islands 1973-1988 Ostinato
* Leifur James Uncle Blue A Louder silence Late Night Tales
Rose Royce That's What's Wrong With Me Rose Royce Strikes Again Whitfield
* Tommy Guerrero el Camino Negro Road to Knowhere Too Good
Mulatu Astatqe Asmarina Ethiopiques 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale 1969-1974 Buda Musique Recorded 1974
Eddie Harris & Les McCann Shorty Rides Again Second Movement Label M Originally recorded in 1971
Jorge Ben Ponta de Lanca Africano Africa Brasil Philips 1976 recording