a sublime frequencies call out: how often do you listen to radio palestine, i remember syria, bush taxi mali, etc.

in other news, how's everybody doing today? what other titles do y'all recommend?

they're all on my ipod, which i always keep on random. so i listen all the time!

haha well if you're the type of person who sees world music as "novelty" i guess i can see where you're coming from.

i've realized this is a big part of my problem with these. cuz my random always seems to pick the interview with the gay syrian. or two minutes of motorcycles passing or kids playing whilst someone walks by coughing and a goat bleats in the distance.

haha well if you're the type of person who sees world music as "novelty" i guess i can see where you're coming from.

okay, poor choice of words.

Anyway, fine. I suck. Lock thread.

works for me!

i bought the palestine / morocco / syria discs and i sort of regretted it, too.

the thing is there are many radio stations in america pumping out the middle-eastern jams all the time. at least there's a bunch on the internet and there's at least one high-powered station you can get in southern california. i'd be surprised if the same wasn't true for chicago and new york.

Princess Nicotine
Cambodian Cassette Archives
Molam: Country Thai Groove

Pop Hits = very effective in shuffle mode.

Radio Java I loved but feels more like a full-length

I Remember Syria is kind of needs to be taken in intact, like a radio play. esp. disc 1

http://www.iranianradio.com

when i get home i'll post a few more (this is the part i admit i only know about persian radio and not arab radio)

the main difference between these radio stations and the sublime frequencies discs is that instead of dropping in the sound of goats / the sound of the bazaar these radio stations will drop usher or nina sky or whatever. it feels a little more vital to me this way.

actually here is a better link

http://www.iranianradio.com/listen.php

x-post:

vahid, great, this might be the only way to get me to listen to some U.S. pop stuff. I am more interested in Arabic radio, but I am also interested in Iranian music. I suspect there's more of it out there that I would like.

*swoon*

Next to the Conet Project box, these are the best things for iPod shuffle play ever.

ybca.org/fv/evening/apr05/sublime_frequencies.html

you'll notice there is very little anxiety between trad / modern and pop / classical. i am increasingly convinced that is a unique part of western culture.

Saturday April 2nd

HEMLOCK TAVERN (1131 Polk Street/San Francisco)

10 PM $8 cover and they have a SMOKING ROOM!

http://www.hemlocktavern.com/

Master Musicians of Bukkake (from Seattle)

Sequel 4000 (Comedy Sketch group)

Pusser’s Phinn (Southeast Asian Molam and beyond)

A Film By Alvarius B. "Jazz Classics"(Javanese Puppets GO Avant Jazz!!!!) 30 minutes

Sunday April 3rd

An Evening with Sublime Frequencies

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

701 Mission Street SF CA 94103 http://www.ybca.org

SPECIAL SCREENING TWO SHOWS: 5:00 and 8:00 PM

Niger: Magic and Ecstasy in the Sahel

(the PREMIER of this upcoming DVD in abbreviated form/ 55 minutes)

Sublime Frequencies Archives #3

(film collage from SE Asia/ 35 minutes)

2 SHOWS: 5:00 & 8:00 pm • Screening Room
$10 regular $9 YBCA Members, seniors & students

Hisham Mayet/Alan Bishop in person for Q & A.

DO NOT MISS THIS!!!!!
Tuareg Electric Guitar trance rock, Bori cult dance ceremonies, Fulani Folk and Roadhouse Gospel Rave-ups are some of the segments included in this celebration of life in the Sahel region of Africa, filmed by Hisham Mayet on location in Niger. Opening the program will be an exclusive glimpse into Southeast Asia captured in Cambodia, Burma, and Thailand by the Sublime Frequencies Collective: Explorers dedicated to acquiring and exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international music, sound anomalies, and unique forms of human and natural expression. (90 min running time, plus talk).

But this North Korean one is pretty great on first listen.

Some of this reminds me of the kitschiest Arabic pop things I've heard. It's like the same weird type of synthesizer sounds and other similarities too.

Also, at the moment I'm feeling more sympathetic to the whole idea of trying to maintain that sense of disorientation as a listener. It can't really be that impossible, can it? If one wanted to.

diving back into the catalog after a few years away, particularly princess nicotine. i don't regret stanning over these for one damn second.

Singapore A-Go-Go is one of the best albums for a groovy house party ever

i don't know where to put this, brings to mind the Guitars of the Golden Triangle release from a cpl years back:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYGl-l0Toig
cross-post with psych/drone/freak thread really. don't know if this has had much play around here, but goodness it smokes

wow... pretty cosmic jams.

no thread for ขุนนริทร์ศิลป์พิณประยุกต์?
Psychedelic Rock that's not Psychedelic Rock

Wow. This entire George Wassouf concert in Lebanon in 1992:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P49-4O9lu0

Have posted and re-posted parts of it. It is admittedly raw and ridiculous in various ways, but I still love the bulk of it. He and his band are on fire throughout.

(Actually I think the guy in the red shirt who introduces him did a human beat-box routine at the intro. but that appears to have been cut. Not joking.)

2018 is the 25th anniversary of my passionate attachment to Arab music, and George Wassouf was possibly the first Arab singer I really cared about, even if his flaws and limitations have become glaringly obvious over time. So there is an excuse for my half-assed threads and thread revivals on related interest.

Oh and good audio quality for a change, which might have something to do with this having been posted by someone whose last name happen to be Wassouf.

Does that two-man chorus ever crack a smile?

I understand you liking his singing, despite your reference to his flaws and limitations. Just read about him still supporting Assad in Syria, which is unfortunate.

Assad has the support of the majority of Syrians. I think external attempts at regime change, largely driven by Jews who want to see Syria balkanized is unfortunate.

I think it's unfortunate that Jews have such a disproportionate influence on US foreign policy.

The (Zionist dominated) US and its friends have been using terrorist proxy forces for the last several years to try to destroy Syria and you are whining about Assad. Thank god Russia was there to step in, even if for its own self-interested reasons.

Of course, the anti-Russian propaganda built up shortly after Russia's intervention. And the Jewish dominated western media fell into place, didn't it? Not Jewish dominated? Not Jewish pundits everywhere you look in the media when these issues are discussed?

:-/

maybe I've not paid close enough attention but I'm surprised (and obv disappointed) to see you come out with this antisemitic rubbish rudi

Your anti-Semitism is disgusting, plus you don't have the facts right on Syria and who supports Assad and who doesn't

well that certainly took a turn

agree w/ curmudgeon

it's gross

Banned.

good

thanks mods

sadly, the takeaway will likely be "it's unfortunate that Jews have such a disproportionate influence on ILX moderation."

we were founded as a group of snake handlers, and we'll die as a group of snake handlers

Correct call by mods, although he was one of the only folks here into salsa and bomba & other Afro-Latino genres, plus middle-eastern vocalists

was rudipherous the same poster as rockist scientist?

if so i'll be really disappointed because i liked that guy

I believe so :(

This definitely isn't a first offence. I can remember some milder but still FP-worthy antisemitic nonsense from the same poster before. But that shit belongs in The Daily Mail comments section.

he's a homophobe too fwiw

aye, that's him. I've seen him say stuff before on ilx but maybe not quite as explicit as this

ugh

Some years back he once nicely sent me a salsa mixtape, but sometime later, out of the blue, emailed to me a 9/11 conspiracy theory. Responded back that I wasn't interested and never heard from him direct again.

He was "Rockist Scientist" before. The Ulm Kulthum thread and a couple other threads largely feature posts from music he was listening to. Posted a fair amount on the most recent ILX top albums or tracks thread (and seemed to keep his focus there on the music ).

I've always thought of him as a v good poster on ilm with fairly unique taste but it's disappointing to see him say what he has.

^^ yeah agree w that, extremely disappointing

wow this thread, jeeze.

i had somehow completely missed any red flag posts from him before. i think he's been on ilx longer than me and i started on here in 2005 maybe?

When some ILM posters post about anything other than music, you sometimes realise you might have met them before on that bad trip you had through the 9 circles of hell, or The Comments Section as some would have it.

You might want to check a thread called Butthole Surfers- Classic or dud? he seems troubled of late :(

yeah maybe he had some kind of break

ah, having just spied that butthole surfers thread he is definitely not a well man

oh god i missed that thread revival but...yeah

if anyone knows him irl it might be a good idea to check he's ok.

Shit.

Apparently lives in Albuquerque. Formerly known as Rockist Scientist. Re-regged under this name in 2009.

see also R S LaRue (? ) for even more old school posts, I think

I did enjoy the Wassouf clip. And I will check in with Rudipherous (virtually).

Yeesh, only just saw what was happening.

that BS thread progression does not bode well

The various Radio ones are my favorites actually. I never tire of them. They allow me to imagine i'm somewhere more exotic and interesting than Joliet, Illinois.

Wow just read the last few posts and yeah the anti-Semitism caught me by surprise and is a major bummer. I guess i should check that Butts thread. The way you guys are talking makes me wonder if this may be another Bimble type situation. I hope not.

Wow! I really hope this guy will be o.k. That is a really odd read. Re: the butts thread

i understand what dude said was kind of alarming and p vile, but is it really possible to care about someone's wellbeing while also instantly excommunicating and shunning them? would it be so bad to unban him and attempt to dialogue?

good question for the moderator request board

Suck my asshole, sleepingbag

Ack, I got into Shiina Ringo years ago because of the ILM thread, which Rudipherous was largely responsible for keeping alive.

he's been posting a long time and his music knowledge is deep; the thing this place has over specialist / focused lists is the ability to cross-reference completely across genre, it's the people who make the connective links between wildly different artists who make the deepest contributions and I hope he's ok

thanks for checking in w/him, Sund4r

is it really possible to care about someone's wellbeing while also instantly excommunicating and shunning them?

yes, as long as lines of communication are kept open

would it be so bad to unban him and attempt to dialogue?

based on past board experiences with M March@nt and burt_stanton and others, I'd say "yes" here

Milton also otm

I haven't heard back from him, fwiw. If anyone is there irl or is in touch with him, maybe you'd want to check in idk?

Thanks for trying Sund4r. Does anyone know his irl name?

Yes, feel free to email for it.

it sucks that this thread went this way as his wake-up post is OTM, I learned Wassouf's music on a long flight last year and it's astonishing stuff.

There is a blog linked in his user profile (if you click on the user name under the post). I'm presuming it's his. There are fresh posts as of today. The antisemitism goes back years. That's as far as I'm going to pursue this.

Christ, it's even worse than I thought.

fuck this arsehole.

there are loads of posters on ILX who are "on the edge". I couldn't care less if this prick decides to take himself out.

I stopped communicating with him a little over a year ago (until yesterday) and am disturbed by the blog's contents but I still FPd you for that.

probably a bit harsh an a rush of blood, but fuck him tbh.

I mean maybe some good folk can harbour International Jewish conspiracies, without being irredeemably shit people. But I've never met any yet.

shame abt the antisemitism and transphobia and homophobia bc he has eclectic taste in music

There is a blog linked in his user profile (if you click on the user name under the post). I'm presuming it's his. There are fresh posts as of today. The antisemitism goes back years. That's as far as I'm going to pursue this.

You might want to put a little NSFW warning here.

Sorry if I came off as overly snarky in my last post but he's given me thinly veiled useless bigot creep vibes forever which I think were actually masked a bit even to myself by his world music expertise. I take his particular brand of bigotry a bit personally and he should never be allowed to return. May he find peace and enlightenment elsewhere.

Dinsdale: Thanks. I've amended the post.

Calzino: for fucks sake man.

Spent some time with the catalog and the following were my POX:

Radio Java
Bush Taxi Mali
Group Doueh: Guitar Music From the Western Sahara
Molam: Thai Country Groove From Isan vol. 1
I Remember Syria
Phương Tâm: Magical Nights – Saigon Surf, Twist & Soul (1964-1966)
Omar Souleyman: Highway to Hassake
Singapore A-Go-Go Vol. 1
Baba Commandant: Juguya
Brokenhearted Dragonflies: Insect Electronica from Southeast Asia

Huge fan of that Phương Tâm compilation, its so good

big yes to Doueh and Souleyman - Cambodian Cassette Archives was also a hit in this household

^^ yes to Cambodian Cassette Archives, there are a few truly amazing songs on that one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ1QZnRXs58