A special four hour melding of What’s This Called? with the Music of Folk program on Freeform Portland.

HEAR THE FIRST HOUR HERE:

HEAR THE SECOND HOUR HERE: 

HEAR THE THIRD HOUR HERE: 

HEAR THE FOURTH HOUR HERE: 

PLAYLIST:

• Ravi Shankar “Hollywood Dhun” [In Hollywood, 1971]
• Fela Kuti “2000 Blacks Got To Be Free (feat. Roy Ayers) – Edit” [2000 Blacks Got To Be Free (feat. Roy Ayers)]
• The Byrds “This Wheel’s on Fire” [Dr. Byrds And Mr. Hyde]
• Ostanes “Hemelvaart” [Anthology of Persian Experimental Music]
• Son House “Low Down Dirty Blues” [The Alan Lomax Collection]
• Lord Nelson “Shango” [Rough Guide To Voodoo]
• Woody Guthrie “Bound to Lose” [The Alan Lomax Collection]
• Joanna Brouk “The Creative” [Hearing Music]
• Lee Hazelwood “Won’t You Tell Your Dreams” [Requiem For An Almost Lady]
• Kilimani Muslim School “Swala ya mtume” [Music From Tanzania and Zanzibar, Vol. 3]
• Debashish Bhattacharya “Kolkata to Kanyakumari” [Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide-Guitar Odyssey]
• Noriko Kodama “Memories” [Abyss]
• Rapoon “Sphinx Wings” [Drone Islands – The Lost Maps]
• Mick Farren “Lost Johnny” [Ork Records: New York, New York]
• Carol Cool “Upside Down” [Soul Jazz Records Presents HUSTLE! Reggae Disco – Kingston, London, New York]
• 22 “Early In The Mornin'” [Prison Songs, Vol. 1: Murderous Home, “Historical Recordings From Parchman Farm 1947-48” – The Alan Lomax Collection]
• Tonga Boys “Buranda” [Vindodo]
• Alex Reagan “Drink Medication” [Horse Printer]
• Joni Mitchell “Both Sides Now” [Both Sides Now]
• Morton Subotnick “The Last Dream of the Beast” [Music for the Double Life of Amphibians]
• Nate Trier “Palehound” [Palehound in a Sea of Color]
• Tehransmission “Leaving the Planet” [Anthology of Persian Experimental Music]
• Owls Are Not “Broadcast from Nowhere” [Radio Tree]
• Bob Dylan “Highway 61 Revisited – Live with The Band, Isle Of Wight, 1969” [Another Self Portrait (1969-1971): The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10]
• Ahmedou Ahmed Lowla “Khal Kar” [Terrouzi]
• Pentangle “Cruel Sister” [Cruel Sister]
• Flora McNeill “The Sister’s Lament” [Scottish Drinking And Pipe Songs (Digitally Remastered)]
• Volcano the Bear “100 Years of Infamy” [Amidst the Noise and Twigs]
• Nick Drake “Parasite” [Pink Moon]
• Wei Chung Loh “Parting at Yang Kwan” [The Secret Museum of Mankind Vol. 3]
• Marta SmiLga “Untitled 11” [Shape Platform 2019]
• Giovanni Di Domenico “Alma Venus” [Distare Sonanti]
• Liquid Letters “Time Portal” [The Liquid Letter]
• 헤이스트링 “A bottomless pit” [Salto]
• Maung Su “Moe Pau Ko Phan (Flower Of Heaven)” [Secret Museum Of Mankind Vol. 3: Ethnic Music Classics: 1925-48]
• Dolphin Midwives “(((astralknot)))” [Orchid Milk]
• Os Ingênuos “Saxophone Porque Choras: Choro” [Dance Music from Brazil]
• Pandit Bhimsen Joshi “Raga Desh” [Voices of India]
• Negativland “Melt the North Pole” [True False]
• Felicia Atkinson “Un Ovale Vert” [The Flower And The Vessel]

A new year and mostly new music, including several tracks from the Unexplained Sounds Group compilation Anthology of Persian Music in honor of our sisters and brothers in Iran under threat of war because of stupid evil leadership conflict between their government and ours. A few older pieces by the likes of Sun Ra and the Chocolate Watchband to round things out.

HEAR HOUR 1 HERE:

HEAR HOUR 2 HERE:

PLAYLIST:

• Guitar Is Dead “The City That Always Sleeps (feat. Tristan Gianola, Maxwell Boecker & Moses Eder)” [Guitar Is Dead (feat. Tristan Gianola, Maxwell Boecker & Moses Eder)]
• Search Ensembles “AC DL CP SK” [Prescient/Legend]
• Reza Solatipour “Darck City” [Anthology of Persian Experimental Music]
• Noriko Kodama “Memories” [Abyss]
• Num “Sound of Guardians” [Anthology of Persian Experimental Music]
• Negativland “True False” [True False]
• Aurelie Nyirabikali Lierman “iota mikro” [Alternate African Reality]
• The Advisory Circle “Escape Lane” [From Out Here]
• Legendary Pink Dots “Roswell Sunset” [Christmas Special 2019]
• The Black Heart Procession “Back to the Underground” [Six]
• RLLRBLL “Mall Witch” [Nu Nexal Nodes]
• The Chocolate Watchband “Dark Side Of The Mushroom” [No Way Out]
• Ten Minute Warning “Stooge” [Demo]
• Big Star “Back Of A Car” [#1 Record/Radio City]
• Sun Ra “Space Is the Place/Over the Rainbow” [Haverford College 1980 Solo Piano]
• Goblin “La Chiesa” [Classic Italian Soundtracks]
• Crystal Cortez “Axial Tilt” [Soundcloud]
• Cat Power “Free” [You Are Free]
• Chantelle Grey “Devestating Side Effects” [Alternate African Reality]
• Bicolor “Them Crown” [Anthology of Persian Experimental Music]