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"Musical Odyssey" with Professor G (archive)

Thursday, February 9, 2023 | 16:00 to 18:00 | Playlist

New Artist Song Album Label Comments
George Benson White Rabbit White Rabbit CTI
Stan Getz Club 7 and Other Wild Places Another World Columbia
* 5 Revolutions Mwapulumuka Kunjala Adaka I'm a Free Man Zambia Music Parlour
WITCH Feeling High Introduction QDK Media 1973 release
Yeli Fuzzo Abandé Music from Saharan Cellphones Sahel Sounds
Sir Shina Peters & His International Stars Yabis Nigeria 70 - Lagos Jump: Original Heavyweight Afrobeat Highlife & Afro Funk Strut
* Ginger Root Over the Hill Nisemono Acrophase Records
* Belle and Sebastian When You're Not With Me Late Developers Matador
* King Tuff Love Letters To Plants Smalltown Stardust Sub Pop King Tuff is Kyle Thomas; this album is his ode to his upbringing in Brattleboro, Vermont
* Meg Baird Ashes, Ashes Furling Drag City A member of Espers in the aughts until embarking on her solo career in 2007; she has collaborated with Mary Lattimore and jammed at the WXDU/Three Lobed Recordings/Hopscotch Day Party at King's in 2016 & 2018. Now based in San Francisco. Member of the psych group Heron Oblivion.
* numün Voices Book of Beyond Shimmy-DIsc
Tim Hecker Is But a Simulated Blur Anoyo Kranky Collaboration with Japanese gagaku ensemble, recorded in Mandala Temple, Kanzouin, Nerima-ku, Tokyo
Ashaye Dreaming Of Love and Androids V4 Visions/Numero
* Marsh Blue (feat Leo Wood) Endless Anjunadeep
Burt Bacharach Walk on By Plays His Hits MCA RIP
Pale Fountains Southbound Excursion Pacific Street Virgin 1983 release
* R. Ring Embers on a Sleepwalk War Poems, We Rested Don Giovanni
The Durutti Column Requiem for a Father The Return of the Durutti Column Factory Vini Reilly's 1979 debut
* Brainiac Predator Nominate The Predator Nominate EP Touch & Go Demos for what would have been their 4th LP, recorded just before front man Tim Taylor's 1997 fatal car crash
You Time Code Time Code Bureau B Their 1983 album, reissued by Bureau B, a melding of the Berlin and Dusseldorf schools of electronic kosmische music
Cluster Oh Odessa Curiosum Sky/Bureau B Released in 1981, it was more minimal than their prior album Grosses Wasser, which came out 10 years earlier
Ian Dury & The Blockheads Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3 Do It Yourself Repertoire 1979 release
The Rimshots Dance Girl Street Sounds Rare Groove Vol 1 Quaff Records
Adam and the Ants That Voodoo Prince Charming CBS Records 1981 release
* The C.I.A. Inhale Exhale Surgery Channel In The Red
* Strategy In Space No One Can See Your Screen Graffiti In Space Constellation Tatsu
* Mark Fosson Frozen Fingers Digging in the Dust: Home Recordings - 1976 Tompkins Square
Joan Armatrading Steppin' Out Steppin' Out AM Records Live album released in 1979 , recorded in North America
* Nathan Salsburg X Landwerk No. 3 No Quarter
Faust Knochentanz Punkt. Bureau B