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Playlist with Davis (archive)

Saturday, July 27, 2019 | 11:00 to 13:00 | Playlist

New Artist Song Album Label Comments
v/a In Praise of Genyen // Offering of 'Golden Drink' // Exhortation to the guardian goddess of long life Tibetan Buddhist Rites from the Monasteries of Bhutan Sub Rosa
* Hiroshi Yoshimura Blink Kankyo Ongaku Light in the Attic originally from "Music for Nine Postcards." not sure if that one's gotten a proper US release
Haruomi Hosono, Tatsuro Yamashita, Shingeru Suzuki Track A-1 (track names in Japanese only) Pacific Victory recent reissue i picked up for my personal collection
* Haruomi Hosono Sports Men Pacifc Breeze: Japanese City Pop, AOR, and Boogie Light in the Attic
Tom Tom Club L'Elephant Tom Tom Club Sire Tina Weymouth slappin that f'in thing
Vessel Umpio Lips-Laps Polya: Experimental New Wave and Art Punk from Finland Svart v/a
* Prince Make-Up Originals Warner Bros. unpreviously unreleased "demo" pulled from Prince's vault postmortem
* Flying Lotus The Climb Flamagra Warp feat. Thundercat
Boulevards Got to Go Groove! Captured Tracks NC!
* Mavis Staples Change We Get By Anti-
Shahram Asheghi Ham Hadi Dare Thisheh o Risheh: Funk, Psychedelia, and Pop from the Iranian Pre-Revolution Generation Pharaway Sounds v/a
* Mega Bog Diary of a Rose Dolphine Paradise of Bachelors
* Big Thief UFOF // Strange UFOF 4AD 2 cuts from my fave 2019 album so far. tugs hard on my few remaining withered heartstrings
* Aldous Harding Zoo Eyes Designer 4AD
* Daughter of Swords Fellows Dawnbreaker s/r NC!
* Jake Xerxes Fussell Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues Out of Sight Paradise of Bachelors NC!
* Carole Pegg & Radik Tulush A Gay Goshawk Quilt of the Universe Spinster Sounds v/a
The Essex Green The Late Great Cassiopia The Long Goodbye Merge
* Kiwi Jr. Murder in the Cathedral Football Money Mint Records
Woods Blood Dries Darker At Echo Lake Woodsist
* Wand Bubble // High Planes Drifter Laughing Matter Drag City
Butthole Surfers Pepper Electriclarryland Capitol by listener request