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"Musical Odyssey" with Professor G (archive)

Thursday, May 28, 2026 | 16:00 to 18:00 | Playlist

New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Tranquility Bass Cantamilla (Bomp Pop Mix) 12" vinyl Exist Dance 1994 release from Mike Kandel
Underwolves Nine Lives (B side, My Life version) 12" vinyl Filter 1996 release
Jhelisa Friendly Pressure (Paradise Revisited Mix) Future Soul Island
* Mark Adams Dre's World This is Neo-Soul DownJazz Records
Carsten Bohn's Bandstand Disco Cisco Disco Deutschland Disco Marina 1978 track, from their 2nd album
* Antibalas Lo Life Hourglass Daptone
Cutlass Dance Band Them Go Talk of You Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968-81 Soundway
Peter King African Dialects Nigeria 70 - Lagos Jump: Original Heavyweight Afrobeat Highlife & Afro Funk Strut
Blo Mind Walk Step Three Hot Casa This was their 3rd album, released in 1975, originally on the Afrodisia label (which released the Lijadu Sisters album)
The Funkees Dancing in the Nude Dancing Time, the Best of Eastern Nigeria's Afro Rock Exponents 1973-77 (Soundway Records) Soundway
* Oren Ambarchi Hubris Part 2 (10th Anniversary Remaster) Hubris (10th anniversary remaster) Black Truffle
* Flore Laurentienne Navigation VII Volume III Secret City Instrumental group out of Quebec, Canada, led by synth and keyboard player Mathieu David Gagnon; inspired by Bach, King Crimson, and Roedelius. This is part 3 of a trilogy.
* Aldous Harding Train on the Island Train on the Island 4AD New album following her 2022 album "Warm Chris"
Joni Mitchell This Flight Tonight Blue Reprise 1971 album, her 4th studio album; she wrote and produced it.
* Sister Irene O'Connor Fire (Luke 12:49) Fire of God's Love Freedom to Spend
* Setting Derring-do Setting Thrill Jockey Jaime Fennelly, Joe Westerlund, Nathan Bowles, an NC trio, 2nd album
Trees Speak Witch Wound 7" vinyl Soul Jazz Out of Tucson, AZ; track was a white label given with their highly acclaimed 2020 album Ohms
* Cancer House Waterscene The Moth Motion Ward Debut album from the Chicago quartet: Whitney Johnson (viola), Keeyan Haack (guitar, bass, vocals), Lily Sharratt (bass, vocals, guitar), Alex Furrh (drums, guitar, vocals)
JOMF The Pigeon Liberation Road Cone Their 7th studio album, released in 2001
Fat White Family I Believe In Something Better Serfs Up! Domino 3rd album, released in 2023
Teardrop Explodes The Great Dominions Wilder Mercury 2nd and final album 1981 release
* Sussan Deyhim & Richard Horowitz Celestial Shimmer The Invisible Road: Original Recordings, 1985–1990 RVNG Intl.
* Grupe Gjirokastrite Nur o Maze Merke Nuri (Albania) Excavated Shellac: Voices Dust to Digital Iso-polyphonic vocal music from Albania recorded in 1931
* Umut Adan and Zebanis Kaptan Baska Bahar Six Degrees 2nd album from the Turkish singer-songwriter, here working with his band Zebanis
* Snuggle Sticks Goodbyehouse Escho Danish band out of Copenhagen
* Rosa Brunello Living Upstream We Are Surging Waters Domanda Music
Sons of Kemet My Queen Is Harriet Tubman Your Queen Is a Reptile Impulse! Shabaka Hutchings' quartet, including tuba player Theon Cross; 2018 album
Tomin Life A Willed and Conscious Balance International Anthem