Episode 08

Episode 08 was originally posted on July 30, 2018.

Tracklisting:

01) "Swerve... The reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding)" by Shabazz Palaces.

From the 2011 album Black Up.

Shabazz Palaces is the American hip hop duo of Ishmael Butler and Tendai Maraire, from Seattle, WA. They are signed to Sub Pop, where Ishmael Butler also works as A&R. You may also know Butler from Digable Planets. They're pretty great too. Shabazz Palaces specializes in spacy, shimmery jams.

• Visit the group's official website

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• Purchase the album at Amazon

02) "ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZP!" by Lights In A Fat City.

From the 1998 album Somewhere.

Lights In A Fat City were a global music trio made up of Stephen Kent on didjeridu, percussionist Eddy Sayer & producer/sound engineer Simon Tassano. Based out of San Fransisco, the group explores tribal rhythms and themes. 

• Purchase the album at Amazon.

03) "Bismillah" by Sarathy Korwar.

From the 2016 album Day To Day.

From Korwar's website: "Sarathy Korwar is a percussionist/composer born in the US, raised in India and now based in London. Sarathy has been trained as a classical tabla player under the guidance of Shri Rajeev Devasthali and Pandit Sanju Sahai, and is equally at ease on the tabla and drum-kit. In 2011, he graduated with an MMus in Performance from SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) in London, with a focus on the adaptation of Indian classical rhythmic material to non-Indian percussion instruments.

• Visit Sarathy Korwar's official website

• Visit Korwar's Facebook page

• Visit Korwar's Twitter

• Purchase the album from Amazon

04) "We're In Yr Corner" by Cornershop.

From the 1997 album When I Was Born For The 7th Time.

Cornershop are a British indie rock band best known for fusing Indian music, indie rock, alternative and electronic dance music. The band's breakthrough came with the 1997 UK number-one single "Brimful of Asha." The band's name plays on a stereotype referring to British Asians often owning corner shops. MOJO calls the group "the quintessential 21st century pop group" which doesn't seem too far off.

• Visit Cornershop's official website

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• Purchase the band's music on Amazon

05) "Sandpaper Blues" by Joe Strummer And The Mescaleros.

From the 1999 album Rock Art And The X-Ray Style.

You might know Joe Strummer from such influential groups like The Clash. You might know him as Patron Saint Joe, one of the leading inspirations for this very podcast. 

• Purchase Joe Strummer's music at Amazon

06) "Can't See At All" by Woods

From the 2016 album City Sun Eater In The River Of Light.

As our friends at Wikipedia like to say: "Woods is an American folk rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2005. The band consists of Jeremy Earl (vocals, guitar), Jarvis Taveniere (various instruments, production), Aaron Neveu (drums), Chuck Van Dyck (bass), and Kyle Forester (keyboards, sax). The band's former bassist, Kevin Morby, left the band in 2013." The band explored their love of Ethio-jazz on this 2016 album, much to our delight.

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Episode 07

Episode 07 was originally published on July 23, 2018.

Tracklisting:

01) "Main Akeli Raat Jawan" by Ajit Singh.

From the 2007 album Sitar Beat! Indian Style Heavy Funk Vol. 2.

Boomkat says: "I think we all like a bit of classic Bollywood funk," and describes this album as "funk music as re-imagined by Indian movie composers and in being such we get an absolutely bizarre collision of styles, one part 70s cop show one part Bollywood." Definitely a fun compilation.

• Purchase the album on Amazon

02) "Tintal (Drut)" by ستار طاهری [Sattar Tari].

From the album Tabla.

Ustad Talib Hussain a Tabla player from Pakistan. Hussain studied with his uncle Baba Malang Khan of Talwandi.Later on he further studied with Ustad Gami Khan of Dehli Gharana. This seems to have been a cassette from Peshawar, Pakistan but not much else seems to be known about this particular release. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

• Purchase Ustad Talib Hussain's music at Amazon

03) "Estacy" by Machito & His Afro-Cuban Orchestra.

From the album 1959 album Vacation At The Concord.

Wikipedia says: “The Afro-Cubans combined Cuban music with orchestrations derived from swing.”

• Purchase the album at Amazon

04) "Deran Deran Alkheir (Well Wishes)" by Bombino

From the album 2018 album Deran.

From Agadez, Niger, Bombino's latest album Deran is out now. His Facebook page describes Agadez: "For centuries, the desert town of Agadez has served as a converging point for the great camel caravans driven by the Tuareg that link West Africa with North Africa and the Mediterranean." "He is a member of the Ifoghas tribe, which belongs to the Kel Adagh Tuareg federation." Pitchfork says: "Bombino’s acumen blends techniques derived from ngoni (a traditional lute), the imzad (a one-stringed bow instrument), and the amplified guitar of Hendrix and Santana."

• Visit Bombino's official website

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• Purchase Bombino's music at Bandcamp

• Purchase the album from Amazon

05) "Beni Said" by 75 Dollar Bill

From the album 2016 album Wood / Metal / Plastic / Pattern / Rhythm / Rock.

Pitchfork tries to begin describing the band's sound: "Rick Brown and Che Chen both have long resumes, but their duo 75 Dollar Bill began about as primitively as possible. Early on they busked on New York sidewalks, with Chen playing guitar and Brown beating on a plywood box (which also serves as his chair) that he found on a street corner." Rolling Stone describes Wood / Metal / Plastic / Pattern / Rhythm / Rock as: "An album of four stretched-out guitar trances," calling it "one monster of a groove record." Uncut says the band's music falls "somewhere on the interface between blues, drone, psychedelia, post-rock, Arabic music, cosmic jazz and desert rock."

• Purchase the band's music at Bandcamp

• Purchase the album at Amazon

• Download two free live sets at Free Music Archive

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Episode 06

Episode 06 was originally posted on July 16, 2018.

Tracklisting:

01) "Deskovo Oro" by The Calais Sessions

From the 2016 album The Calais Sessions.

On the outskirts of Calais, France, there is a refugee camp known as "the Jungle." The project's website explains: 

There are many reasons why people are in the jungle. Many want to reach the UK as they have close relatives and friends there. Many speak Engish very well. There are all sorts of people in the jungle from many nations - Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, Sudan and Ethiopia, amongst others. Worryingly there are many unaccompanied children - around 450. Around 200 of them have direct relatives in the UK which means that they have a legal right to be reunited with them.

Several professional musicians and sound engineers collaborated with refugees from the camp for an album to help benefit the camp and its citizens.The New York Times says of the album: "The music ranges from Middle Eastern-inflected pop to Iraqi rap to tunes from the Balkans and Spain. Some pieces are love songs. One mourns the death of a Syrian brother. Others are joyful instrumentals set against a backbeat of traditional percussion."

• Visit the project's official website

• Visit the project on Facebook

• Purchase the album on Bandcamp

• Purchase the album on Amazon

02) "Hurria" by Yacine & the Oriental Groove

From the 2016 album Mediterranean Clash.

Yacine & the Oriental Groove were founded in 2011 in Barcelona. The and fuses Spanish and Greek flavors. Womex describes the band's sound: "The electric oud of Yannis Papaioannou, full of wah wah and effects, naturally draws Eastern Mediterranean melodies over North African, reggae or pop rhythms. Sometimes as if we were in a return of the 60's groups, sometimes traditional, but always very intense."

• Visit the band's official website

• Find the band on Facebook

• Follow the band on Twitter

• Purchase the album on Amazon

03) "Crystal Frontier" by Calexico

From the 2011 album Road Atlas 1998-2011 [Ancienne Belgique - Live In Brussels 2008].

Allmusic describes Calexico as: "Fusing the dusty sounds of the American Southwest with spaghetti western soundtracks, Mexican mariachi themes, vintage surf music, cool jazz, and a broad spectrum of Latin influences, Calexico are an eclectic ensemble whose work is as distinctive as it is unpredictable." The Calexico story begins in 1990 at the University of California Irvine where bassist Joey Burns met drummer John Convertino. Convertino was playing drums in Howe Gelb's Tucson collective Giant Sand when Burns signed on to play bass for a European tour and soon relocated to sunbaked Tucson, AZ. Burns and Convertino launched their side-project Calexico (named for a town on the border of California and Mexico) in 1997 with the album Spoke. The duo continued eventually rotated out of Giant Sand to focus on Calexico as their full-time project. The band has released a series of tour-only live compilations and this version of "Crystal Frontier" is from 2011's Road Atlas 1998-2011 [Ancienne Belgique - Live In Brussels 2008.

• Visit the band's official website

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04) "Uneven Light of Day" by Howe Gelb & A Band of Gypsies

From the 2010 album Alegrías.

We like to keep our travels far and wide each episode, but sometimes you just have to trace the threads woven by other artists. After hearing from Calexico, we had to stay in the sunbaked Arizona desert just long enough to hear from Howe. Howe Gelb may have been born in PA, USA, but he is forever associated with Tucson where he pioneered a sunbaked sound rooted in improvisation. His primary vehicle has been Giant Sand, a sort of desert rock collective with rotating membership. Gelb, of course being the constant. Allmusic describes Gelb's sound as "a highly original take on Southwestern roots and garage rock."Here, the "Giant Sand leader takes a soft left into flamenco-tinged gypsy folk that was recorded in Spain with a group of Andalucian gypsies."

• Visit How Gelb's official website

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• Purchase Howe Gelb's music on Bandcamp

• Purchase the album on Amazon

05) "Burkan Cocek" by Kočani Orkestar

From the 1997 album L'orient Est Rouge.

Balkan Gypsy brass band Kočani Orkestar's Facebook page says: 

Oriental brass bands are a Gypsy specialty throughout the Balkan region, from Serbia to Macedonia. These brass bands were created in the 19th century, in imitation of the military brass bands of the Turkish janissaries. The sound of Oriental brass bands was introduced to larger parts of the Western public by Emir Kusturica’s film ‘Underground’"

"The band's original repertoire was based on Gypsy tunes from various parts of the Balkans and on Turkish/Bulgarian rhythms, with a sprinkle of Latin flavour." The group found some international attention with this 1997 album. 

• Find at Kočani Orkestar Facebook

• Purchase the group's music at Bandcamp

• Purchase the album at Amazon

06) "マナウレラ - Matnaw Rera" by Oki Dub Ainu Band

From the 2006 album self-titled album.

Oki Kano (加納 沖 Kanō Oki) has focused much of his career on popularizing "the music of the Ainu people - one of Japan's indigenous populations whose culture was "banned" by the Japanese government 300 years ago." Oki plays "the tonkori, an Ainu stringed instrument," and fuses traditional Ainu melodies with Dub, Reggae and Rock. 

• Visit the band's official website

• Find the band at Facebook

• Follow the band on Twitter

• Purchase the album at Amazon

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Episode 05

Episode 05 was originally posted on July 9, 2018.

Tracklisting:

01) "Modern Wedding Song 1" by Les Cartes Postales Sonores // Mohori Ensemble.

From the 2015 album Khmer Traditional Music ||| Mohori Ensemble - Modern wedding songs.

Les Cartes Postales Sonores, or The Sound Postcards is a valuable resource for discovering music from around the world. From the Bandcamp page: "The Sound Postcards is a field recording project by Julien Hairon capturing the soundscapes, music and traditions of local and indigenous populations around the world." The recordings are made available for free, not only on Bandcamp but at the Free Music Archive. If you are unfamiliar, the Free Music Archive is exactly what it sounds like: free music galore! What a great way to explore music with little more at stake other than your time. 

This short compilations features traditional wedding songs from Angkor, Cambodia played on the "Khim (struck string instrument) and the Ehru (bow instrument)."

• Visit the official website

• Visit Les Cartes Postales Sonores at Free Music Archive

• Download the compilations at Bandcamp

• Like Les Cartes Postales Sonores at Facebook

02) "The Ghost You Love Most" by Qais Essar

From the 2018 album The Ghost You Love Most.

Essar's website describes him as "a contemporary Afghan composer, instrumentalist and producer who channels his melodic designs through the rabab, a 2,500 year old instrument from Afghanistan." We first heard about Qais Essar from this episode of PRI's The World on our local NPR station. Essar is an Afghan-American musician, based in Phoenix, Arizona who plays the rabab. His song "The Crown Sleeps" is featured in the fantastic 2017 film The Breadwinner. 

• Visit Qais Essar's official website

• Like Qais Essar on Facebook

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• Hear the episode of The World that introduced us to Essar's music

• Purchase the album at Amazon

03) "Inanay" by Tiddas

From the 2015 album The Rough Guide To Australian Aboriginal Music.

When exploring world music, it's always valuable to find compilation series you trust. The Rough Guide series is generally fantastic. They try to combine old and new material, presenting a good overview of each installment. This particular installment focuses on Australian Aboriginal Music. 

Tiddas was an "Australian folk/acoustic trio whose three founding members were, Sally Dastey, Lou Bennett and Amy Saunders. They performed throughout Australia and Internationally from 1990 to 2000." The name "came from the Aboriginal word tiddas (meaning "sisters")." The three got their start together as the backing band for Aboriginal band Djaambi before branching out on their own. 

• Visit Tiddas' Facebook page

• Purchase the album at Amazon

04) "Gobbledigook" by Sigur Rós

From the 2008 album Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust.

Icelandic Post-Rock group was founded in Reykjavik, in 1994. The band's Facebook page says: "The band is known for its ethereal sound and lead singer Jónsi’s falsetto voice. Sigur Rós means Victory Rose, named after Jonsi's little sister." Allmusic says this 2008 album: found "the group adding fairly straightforward pop songs to its sound alongside the traditionally epic soundscapes."

• Visit the band's official website

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• Purchase the album at Amazon

05) "Not Quite Sure" by Ahmet Meter

From the 1993 album Türk Müziğinde Kanun ile Sevilen Şarkılar - Enstrümantal

When rabidly exploring music from around the world, it shouldn't be a surprise when a track seems to be incorrectly named. Our track is labeled as: "Ada Sahillerinde" but that doesn't seem to be a track on this album. So either we got the track name or album name wrong. Or both. Do you recognize this track?  What we do know is that Ahmet Meter is from Turkey and is really good at the Qanun. Meter plays with the National Turkish Orchestra but we couldn't find much more information.

• Purchase the album at Amazon

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06) "Ounjaa Kieh Kieh" by Googoosh (Faegheh Atashin / فائقه آتشین‎)

From the 2005 compilation Golden Songs, Vol. 1

For those unfamiliar with the story of Googoosh, the LA Times sets the stage: 

Few performers have had to endure the kind of disruption that befell the Iranian singer Googoosh when, at the peak of her fame, the 1979 Islamic revolution upended her career.

Overnight, the magnetic singer and performer known and adored by millions could no longer express herself through music in her home country — nor could she leave. Like all female performers after the Islamic Republic of Iran was established, Googoosh was banned from singing in public.

Pitchfork gives some background on Googoosh's groundbreaking career: 

She was the first woman to star as a protagonist in an Iranian film, 1972’s Bita. She was also the first woman in Iran to incorporate modern dance movements into her performances, which often featured her clad in Western-style ensembles and a trendsetting mod bob haircut.

An important performer with a wide catalog. 

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• Purchase the album at Amazon

07) "Inedir" by Asmara All Stars

From the 2010 album Eritrea's Got Soul

In 2010, upon the album's release, The Quietus noted: "Little music has been heard from Eritrea, a small country on the north east coast of Africa, by Western ears in recent years. Eritreans have had other things to deal with than releasing their music out into the wilder world, like years of war with neighbouring Ethiopia and a struggle for independence."

PopMatters gives further insight into the country's rough go: "The development of a tourism industry is hampered by certain obstacles: poverty, lack of infrastructure, and fields of unexploded land mines. Cows walk across the land mines and are never seen again." But despite difficulty, as Culture Trip notes, Asmara All Stars continue to present "a positive message which also engages with their country’s rich cultural heritage."

• Purchase the album at Amazon

08) "Sahara" by Songhoy Blues

From the 2017 album Résistance

The band's Wikipedia page says: "Songhoy Blues is a desert blues music group from Timbuktu, Mali. The band was formed in Bamako after they were forced to leave their homes during the civil conflict and the imposition of Sharia law." The group is one of the principal subjects of the documentary film They Will Have To Kill Us First: Malian Music in Exile. The Guardian says that the band as wowed"international audiences with their mix of desert blues, funk, rock and, well, whatever takes their fancy." This particular track features Iggy Pop ranting about pizza or something. 

• Visit the group's official website

• Like Songhoy Blues on Facebook

• Follow the band on Twitter

• Follow the group on Instagram

• Purchase the album at Amazon

09) "Dansez An Bel Merengue" by Les Léopards de St. Pierre

From the 1970 album Meilleur Ensemble Martiniquais 1970

We couldn't find out much about this one other than Les Léopards de St. Pierre is a Calypso band from Martinique. Do you know more about this one? 

• Watch some live videos at Youtube

10) "Futuro Mutante" by Bacalao Men

From the 2018 album Sangre.

Formed in 1999 in Caracas, Venezuela. The band's website describes their essence as: "intelligent lyrics, afrolatin beats with jolts of funk, hip hop and electronic."

• Visit the group's official website

• Find the band on Facebook

• Follow the group on Instagram

• Purchase the album at Amazon

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Episode 04

Episode 04 was originally posted on July 2, 2018 

Tracklisting:

01) "▲  11" by Les Cartes Postales Sonores.

From the 2018 album BUNONG ▲ POP SONGS.

Les Cartes Postales Sonores, or The Sound Postcards is a valuable resource for discovering music from around the world. From the Bandcamp page: "The Sound Postcards is a field recording project by Julien Hairon capturing the soundscapes, music and traditions of local and indigenous populations around the world." The recordings are made available for free, not only on Bandcamp but at the Free Music Archive. If you are unfamiliar, the Free Music Archive is exactly what it sounds like: free music galore! What a great way to explore music with little more at stake other than your time. 

The Les Cartes Postales Sonores Free Music Archive Page describes this compilation as being recorded "among the Bunong people, an ethnic group living in the mountains of Cambodia. It is also a tribute to the artist Lok Ta. They offer us a fabulous musical cocktail pop synth and psyche influenced by the traditional music of this people so little known in Cambodia because the dominant culture of this country is the Khmer culture."

We will definitely be hearing more from this series.

• Visit the official website

• Visit Les Cartes Postales Sonores at Free Music Archive

• Download the compilations at Bandcamp

• Like Les Cartes Postales Sonores at Facebook

02) "Bahar Türküsü (Spring Song)" by Yurdal Tokcan.

From the 2004 album Bende Can (Inner Soul).

Tokcan was born in Ordu in 1966. He graduated from the Turkish Music State Conservatory of Istanbul Technical University in 1988 and was appointed as oud player to the Istanbul State Turkish Music Ensemble, which belongs to the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 1990. The Turkish Cultural Foundation says that Tokcan's style: "combines older traditions with many new stylistic innovations, which are also present in his playing of the fretless guitar. His many new compositions combine traditional rich melodies with polyphonic textures performed on Turkish classical instruments."Makam New York says: 

Yurdal Tokcan is being regarded as one of the finest oud players in the world today. His style combines older traditions with many new stylistic innovations, which are also present in his playing of the fretless guitar. His new compositions combine traditional rich melodies with polyphonic textures performed on Turkish classical instruments.

• Find Yurdal Tokcan on Facebook

• Purchase the album at Amazon

03) "Kule Kule" by Konono Nº1.

From the 2005 album Congotronics.

Konono Nº1 is a musical group from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The group's Facebook page says they were "founded over 25 years ago by Mingiedi, a virtuoso of the likembé (a traditional instrument sometimes called "sanza" or "thumb piano", consisting of metal rods attached to a resonator)."

The group often refashions junkyard items into instruments (we here at the Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow are always looking for signs of redemption) and uses rudimentary amplification "including a microphone carved out of wood fitted with a magnet from an automobile alternator and a gigantic horn-shaped amplifier. "

• Follow the group at Facebook

• Learn more at the groups page at Crammed Discs

• Purchase the album at Amazon

04) "Moonlight" by The Pigram Brothers.

From the 2008 album The Rough Guide To Australian Aboriginal Music.

When exploring world music, it's always valuable to find compilation series you trust. The Rough Guide series is generally fantastic. They try to combine old and new material, presenting a good overview of each installment. This particular installment focuses on Australian Aboriginal Music. 

The Pigram Brothers are a seven-piece Indigenous Australian band from Broome, in Western Australia. 

• Find The Pigram Brothers on Facebook

• Purchase the compilation on Amazon

05) "Varied Trio - II. Bowl Bells" by Lou Harrison.

From the 1988 album La Koro Sutro.

NPR describes Harrison as an"American maverick," who "blended Eastern and Western traditions in his music, practicing a kind of "cross-culturalism" long before it was fashionable." Harrison was an American composer  who was a student of Henry Cowell, Arnold Schoenberg, and K. P. H. Notoprojo. He often incorporated non-Western tones and instruments and here focuses on Gamelan, a Javanese ensemble focusing on percussive instruments including musical bowls. 

Harrison was born in Portland, OR but became enamored with Eastern culture from an early age and often sought to bridge culture gaps, telling NPR in 1999: "We're all human beings," he said. "We have the same ears and we have the same feelings. There's no 'they' there anymore. We're all 'we.'" That's a sentiment we can get behind. 

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06) "Seoul" by Amiina.

From the 2007 album Kurr.

The list of backing bands that make it on their isn't all that grand. The J.B.'s of course. Amiina started as the string section for Icelandic atmospheric explorers Sigur Rós. The group's website describes the bands beginnings as being a "string quartet formed by four girls (Edda Rún Ólafsdóttir, Hildur Ársælsdóttir, María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir and Sólrún Sumarliðadóttir) at the Reykjavík College of Music in the late 1990s." The group plays a variety of instruments including musical saws, kalimbas, even music boxes. Fans of Sigur Rós will find much to like here.  

• Visit the group's official website

• Follow the group on Facebook

• Follow the group on Twitter

• Purchase the album at Amazon

07) "Ana Osiidwa (The Orphans)" by Alan Namoko and Chimvu Jazz.

From the 1992 album Ana Osiidwa (The Orphans).

Alan Namoko was a blind blues and jazz musician from Malawi. Namoko played the banjo and sang in the Lomwe, Chewa and Nyanja languages. Namoko became an influential figure in Malawi's music scene in the 1970s and 1980s and around the world with the Chimvu Jazz band and was even featured on several episodes of the John Peel show.

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08) "She May, She Might" by Yo La Tengo.

From the 2018 album There's a Riot Going On.

Yo La Tengo are an American Indie rock band formed in Hoboken, NJ in 1984.The band specializes in a heavy wash of atmospheric guitars. Pitchfork describes them as "a band that, almost in spite of its members’ encyclopedic knowledge of 20th-century music and penchant for irony, operates most effectively at the level of feel," saying that the band captures "the feeling of post-traumatic calm on their latest album, assuring their status as a wry and comforting cornerstone of indie rock."

• Visit the group's official website

• Follow the group on Facebook

• Follow the group on Twitter

• Follow the group on Instagram

• Watch a 2018 live set for Pitchfork

• Purchase the album at Amazon

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