Bob Marley and the Wailers :: Live at the Santa Barbara County Bowl :: 11/25/79

Bob Marley and the Wailers, live at the Santa Barbara County Bowl, 11/25/79.



Setlist:

  1. Positive Vibration

  2. Wake Up And Live

  3. I Shot The Sheriff

  4. Ambush In The Night

  5. Concrete Jungle

  6. Running Away

  7. Crazy Baldhead

  8. Them Belly Full

  9. Heathen

  10. Ride Natty Ride

  11. Africa Unite

  12. One Drop

  13. Exodus

  14. So Much Things To Say

  15. Zimbabwe

  16. Jamming

  17. Is This Love

  18. Kinky Reggae

  19. Stir It Up

  20. Get Up Stand Up


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Harry Belafonte Live in Germany (1988)

Harry Belafonte live in Ravensburg, Germany, Nov 1988.







Setlist:

  1. Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)

  2. Kwela (Listen to the Man)

  3. Skin to Skin (with Sharon Brooks)

  4. Matilda, Martin Luther King

  5. Island in the Sun

  6. Try to Remember (with Ty Stephens)

  7. Jamaica Farewell

  8. Paradise in Gazankulu


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Neil Diamond Live at the BBC (1971)

Neil Diamond Live at the BBC (1971).





Setlist:

  1. Countdown

  2. Sweet Caroline

  3. Neil Talking (solitary man story)

  4. Solitary Man

  5. Neil Talking (cracklin’ rosie story)

  6. Cracklin’ Rosie

  7. Neil Talking (BBC cup)

  8. Done Too Soon

  9. Modern Day Version of Love

  10. Neil Talking (Bob Russell)

  11. He Aint Heavy, He’s my Brother

  12. Neil Talking (Holly Holy)

  13. Holly Holy

  14. I am, I said

  15. Neil Talking (BLTSS Story)

  16. Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show


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A Sliver Of The Whole :: A Holiday At The Sea Playlist

This was originally a mix that was supposed to just feature some live Grateful Dead and live Velvet Underground cuts. That mix is still in the works, by the way, but this one morphed out of that project and features several other bands from the 1968-1971 sliver of time. Don’t ask me how it ended up being that, the mix made itself, man.

What we ended up with is a mix that features MC5, the Beatles, the Velvet Underground, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead, and the Stooges (and then kept going until I whittled it back down to these tracks). This is a mix I regularly play around the house, so, I hope you enjoy it; because this mix has been getting lots of Sonos time around here, whether the kids like it or not.

Setlist:

  1. Kick Out The Jams by MC5

  2. Get Back by the Beatles

  3. Sweet Jane by the Velvet Underground

  4. Commotion by Creedence Clearwater Revival

  5. Parachute Woman by the Rolling Stones

  6. St. Stephen by the Grateful Dead

  7. The Eleven by the Grateful Dead

  8. Rock & Roll by the Velvet Underground

  9. Shakin’ Street by MC5

  10. Down On the Street by the Stooges

  11. Dig A Pony by the Beatles

  12. Bootleg by Creedence Clearwater Revival

  13. The American Ruse by MC5

  14. Street Fighting Man by the Rolling Stones

  15. I’ve Got A Feeling by the Beatles

  16. Real Cool Time by the Stooges

  17. Graveyard Train by Creedence Clearwater Revival


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Beauty Pill Plays the Tiny Desk

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NPR introduces this terrific set by saying:

“Beauty Pill's music is an invitation. In it, life whirs with plunderphonic glee and riffs are funky from the inside out, with rhythms that are equal parts hip-hop and go-go. Conceived, recorded and meticulously tinkered with over the course of eight years, Beauty Pill Describes Things As They Are was partly made in front of an audience after member Chad Clark recovered from a viral infection in his heart that nearly killed him. It's one of the year's most stunning records, as well as an argument for letting art rest, live and breathe before it's ready to be known by a listener. “


Setlist:

  1. "Afrikaner Barista"

  2. "Drapetomania!"

  3. "Exit Without Saving"



Mdou Moctar: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert (2021)

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Tuareg wunderkind Mdou Moctar performs (at home) for the NPR Tiny Desk and this is my love language.


Setlist:

  1. Ya Habibti

  2. Tala Tannam

  3. Afrique Victime


Players:

  • Mahamadou "Mdou Moctar" Souleymane: lead guitar, vocals

  • Ahmoudou Madassane: rhythm guitar, vocals

  • Mikey Coltun: bass

  • Souleymane Ibrahim: calabash


Important People:

  • Video: Mamadou Halidou, WH Moustapha, Sabrina Nichols

  • Audio: Mikey Coltun, Seth Manchester

  • Special Thanks: Dynamique Image and Machines with Magnets


Tiny Desk People:

  • Producer: Bob Boilen

  • Video Producer: Kara Frame

  • Audio Mastering: Josh Rogosin

  • Associate Producer: Bobby Carter

  • Tiny Production Team: Maia Stern, Gabrielle Pierre

  • Executive Producer: Keith Jenkins

  • Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann



Jamie Barnes' 'Ex Voto"

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It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Louisville’s Jamie Barnes. And since musicians are people, it is only natural for us to wonder what’s he’s been up to in the years since his last release. Well, since musicians are people, we don’t necessarily get to know what Barnes has been doing for the last few years and we honor that privacy. But since he is a poet and songwriter, we do get to peek in on Barnes as he opens a window into his soul on his latest release “Ex Voto.” And the good news is that, even though we may not have heard from him in a while, Barnes’ clever and intimate songwriting sensibilities have only sharpened.

Barnes plays quiet folk-ish music that is pregnant with imagery and warm details. But this is quiet music to be played loud. Barnes has always been known for his lush instrumentation, even though he often records at home. There are new layers, intricacies, and flourishes discovered with each listen and only discovered when we allow ourselves to be in the moment and fully present with this music. Which I think is part of its message.

Barnes gives away few personal details, but as the title suggests, there is a sense of someone struggling to find gratitude and devotion in the wake of something serious; in the wake of life, love, and loss. Sometimes relationships feel like planets trying to find their orbit or two songbirds on opposite branches.

Weaving imagery that oscillates between the here and now; being grounded in nature along with with scenes from the stars (“Perseid and Leonid fall,” “Mercury's in retrograde,” “Binary star,” etc.) Barnes holds a liminal space for the listener. It exists in the moment between inhale and exhale. Maybe it’s a Fall record caught in the moment between expected freeze, remembered warm breezes and the reality of nature’s passing everywhere around us. Does it bring us comfort to know that we’re not alone in our cycle of death and rebirth? Or does it reinforce our hurt, leaving us hopelessly caught in a never-ending cycle? That’s for the listener to decide. But throughout, Barnes evokes that sense of pain, loss, and longing. The opening words set the stage:

Turn the Earth upside down
Shake the dead things from their holes
While the memories drape
Like white chemtrails in our souls

Barnes explores the tension between endings and beginnings, trying to make sense of them both. In “Low To The Bird” (previously released as a single), Barnes laments, leaving us to wonder if his broken relationship is with a lover, himself, or maybe even his God (or maybe all three?):

Now I'm too many words lost down the drain
Gather me like rivers, gather me like rain
I don't mean to accuse, I don't mean to complain
I'm too low to the bird for my prayer to be heard anyway

Maybe we should expect nothing less from a man whose Twitter bio reads “Per aspera ad astra” (“through hardships to the stars") but this interplay between the imminent and the transcendent; that in-between space where life occurs provides the perfect canvas for Barnes’ clever and often insightful words. But the music is just as vital as the words. They weave in and out of one another; melodies softly soar and swirl, uplifting the soul even while the words might keep us grounded. Exploring that “in-between” space, “Ex Voto” is a record that doesn’t shy away from the hurt of life, but it is also not a record which leaves us in the mire.

Though Barnes acknowledges and explores despair and hurt and the dark realities of life, love, and loss, there is never a sense of despair or defeat. In fact, it is quite the opposite. Consider these lines from album opener “Pennyrile”

“And its shadow found me
There beneath it all
And with lifted hands to high we gasped and wondered at the writing on the sky
What a thing it even is to be alive”

Despite it all, “what a thing it even is to be alive!” Even though “crooks and carnivores are closing,” “Ex Voto” finds Barnes “holding fast, holding fast” (“Hollow Dusk”). The mountains may be crashing in to the sea, but Barnes is struggling to be still and make sense of it all; all without giving up the still small light of hope in the darkness. It’s that quiet sense of hope that seems to not only keep Barnes afloat but able to still try and make sense of it all. In “Christ of the Ozarks,” he sings:

“Christ of the Ozarks, hold out your kind arms to me
I lost my landmarks,
I lost my family
Bring down your home
Hold me in mystery
Hold me till the end and then always”

Sometimes we just wish we could make sense of things. There are days when we need to be held and assured and that’s part of what it means to be human. “Hold me till the end and then always.” Even now in the in-between. The night may be dark, but Barnes will not let us give up searching for the meaning behind it all:

“I wish there was a liturgy for the hour soon forgotten
I wish there was a prayer for the when and they why
I wish there was a litany for the names evanescent
A benediction for the long goodbye”

I don’t know if “Ex Voto” is Barnes’ “long goodbye” to something or someone, but it’s an album that deserves our full attention. It is a timely record for a culture caught in societal grief. Hopefully it will help us make sense of suffering while not giving in to despair. We may be broken, but only “just enough” that it’s like blood-letting; for our good. We may each have a vision of what we need to be purged of, but Barnes reminds us that even if the “great cloud of witnesses dissolves overhead,” we are not alone. Wherever you find that “Silent Partner,” Barnes reminds us that there are other hands reaching out in the dark. There are other people caught in the in-between just like we are.

Barnes may not chart a clear path back to daylight and out of the suffering, but he will “hold the space” for us as we “sundown” and in that, he has reminded us of the beauty of life, and love, even when there’s loss. Winter might be coming but, we can still “harmonize our sorrows and sighs and brace for the winter gloom.”

“Hear them now, crooks and carnivores are closing
Bar the door and guard my ruby heart 'til morning
Catalog what's left and wake the weary dawn

Holding fast, holding fast.”



75 Dollar Bill and Natural Information Society, Together At Last (2019)!

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I actually don’t know if 75 Dollar Bill and Natural Information have played together before or not, it just seemed like a fun headline.

Back in July, Jesse Jarnow posted a link to this live set from the Roulette Concert Archive at Soundcloud and I just now had a chance to put it on and listen, and, OH MAN!!!!!

Aside from being two of my favorite bands (see posts tagged 75 Dollar Bill here or Natural Information posts here), the sound on this recording is phenomenal.

Sit back and let it unwind.

The Roulette Concert Archive says:

“75 Dollar Bill return to Roulette to celebrate the release of their new double album I Was Real (Thin Wrist Recordings / Black Editions). With guests Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society.

Having emerged as a vibrant musical force with their previous effort WOOD/METAL/PLASTIC/PATTERN/RHYTHM/ROCK (Thin Wrist 2016), 75 Dollar Bill have spent the last few years bringing their music to new people and places, delivering what NYC locals have had the chance to hear for years, and experimenting with the ever-deepening set of musical ideas for which they are known. The fruits of this work can be heard on their expansive new double LP I Was Real. Recorded over a four year period, in four different studios, with a range of ensemble configurations featuring the band’s closest friends and collaborators, I Was Real is the band’s most ambitious album yet. The music that unfolds on the album’s four sides doubles down on the group’s penchant for sprawling, unusual grooves and blown out microtonal guitars, while at the same time introducing textures and tonalities that point in completely new directions. For this event, the group will present a set of new and reimagined material from the album, with a special soon-to-be-announced group of guest musicians. 75 Dollar Bill is pleased to be joined this evening by Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society, whose own double LP, Mandatory Reality, was released by Eremite Records in April.”



Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba Live at KEXP (2015)

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I first came across Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba when doing the Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow and featured their track “Miri” in February, 2019 on Episode 37.

Bassekou Kouyate started playing the Ngoni at age 12. The Ngoni is a traditional Malian guitar. The body of the instrument is made of wood or calabash with dried animal skin head stretched over. This traditional instrument is believed by many to be the precursor to the banjo.

In 2015, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba played a live set for KEXP and today seems like as good a time as any to revisit that wonderful set.

Setlist:

  • Musow Fanga

  • Jama ko

  • Abe Sumaya

  • Siran Fen

Important People:

  • Host: Rhythma

  • Audio Engineer: Kevin Suggs

  • Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Scott Holpainen & Justin Wilmore

  • Editor: Scott Holpainen


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The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry

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I have made no secret of my love for Dub music. And you can’t love Dub music without reckoning with Lee “Scratch” Perry.

Yesterday we watched the

Today we’re watching another documentary about Perry. This one narrated by Benicio Del Toro. The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee Scratch Perry.

“The definitive life story about Jamaican musical legend Lee 'Scratch' Perry, narrated by Benicio Del Toro and directed by Ethan Higbee & Adam Bhala Lough.”

Enjoy.


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Miles Davis Live at Fillmore West, San Francisco (04/09/70)

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This one’s audio only but well worth your time.






April 9, 1970 Fillmore West, San Francisco, California opening for The Grateful Dead.

Personnel:

  • Miles Davis: Miles Davis (tpt);

  • Steve Grossman (ss);

  • Chick Corea (el-p);

  • Dave Holland (b, el-b);

  • Jack De Johnette (d);

  • Airto Moreira (perc)

Setlist:

  • “Directions” (J. Zawinul)

  • “Miles Runs the Voodoo Down” (M. Davis)

  • “This” (C. Corea)

  • “It's About That Time” (M. Davis)

  • “I Fall in Love Too Easily” (S. Cahn-J. Styne)

  • “Sanctuary” (W. Shorter-M. Davis)

  • “Spanish Key” (M. Davis)

  • “Bitches Brew” (M. Davis)

  • “The Theme” (M. Davis)

Concert recording, soundboard source


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Lee Scratch Perry's Visions of Paradise

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I have this personal website compartmentalized because I realize that not every one of my friends is interested in exactly the same set of things that I am. And that’s not only “OK”, it’s beautiful.

However, I think everyone should love Lee “Scratch” Perry. If you’re not familiar with this brilliant artist, I suggest you get familiar with Google.

And I also suggest starting with this off-beat documentary: Lee Scratch Perry's Vision of Paradise | True Godfather of Reggae.


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Dubspace :: The Harmonidub Edition

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Another installment in the Dubspace series, this time highlighting harmonica.

I know not everyone likes harmonica in their dub (Brainwashed says of the Lee “Scratch” Perry tracks featured here as including: “a few questionable harmonica intrusions”) but piss on it. Music-loving is subjective and I like harmonica in my dub. Maybe you will too.

This playlist features some repeat artists from the same albums so I’ve just included the albums represented for the visuals rather than every track.

Enjoy.

Tracklisting:

  1. ‘Melody Maker’ by Keith Hudson

  2. ‘Verdict in Dub’ by Clive Chin

  3. ‘Whatever We Do’ by Ruts D.C.

  4. ‘Enlightened’ by Lee “Scratch” Perry

  5. ‘Last of the Jestering’ by Clive Chin

  6. ‘Militant’ by Ruts D.C.

  7. ‘Space Craft’ by Lee “Scratch” Perry

  8. ‘Shi-cago’ by Dennis Bovell

  9. ‘Wire Dub’ by Clive Chin

  10. ‘Sonny’s Lettah (Anti-Sus Poem) by Linton Kwesi Johnson

  11. ‘Rhythm Collision’ by Ruts D.C.

  12. ‘Heavy Rainford’ by Lee “Scratch” Perry

  13. ‘Dubwise Situation’ by Clive Chin

  14. ‘Melody Maker Version 2 (Harmonica and Bongo Drum) by The Chuckles (from the Hudson Affair compilation)



Joe Henry Live At Sessions at West 54th

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Joe Henry live for Sessions at West 54th, season 02 with an introduction by Billy Bob Thornton pretending to be Joe Henry. Sadly there is more Billy Bob than actual Joe and music on this but the two songs featured are great. Have you seen the full set anywhere around?


Setlist:

  • “Like She Was A Hammer”

  • “Great Lake”


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더튠 The Tune (Live)

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I made a lot of great musical discoveries from all over the world while doing the Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow. One of my favorites was 더튠 The Tune.

Here is 더튠 The Tune live at “Club Positive ZERO, Seoul, 26 Sep. ‘Youth Song / Cancion Juvenil'.”

Here is 더튠 The Tune live at “Club Positive ZERO, Seoul, 26 Sep. ‘Play with God / Juega con dios”


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Dubspace (02) :: A Holiday At The Sea Playlist

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A Holiday at the Sea playlist of 20 more Dub heavy hitters.




Tracklisting:

  1. “Binshaker Dub Plate” by Twilight Circus Dub Sound System

  2. “Black Rock” by Black Jade

  3. “Daisy Temple” by Serge Gainsbourg

  4. “Fence Dub” by Vital Dub

  5. “Mother Liza” by Jimmy Radway

  6. “Fire Bun” by Ja-Man All Stars

  7. “Worrier” by Joe Gibbs

  8. “Dub MPLA” by Tappa Zukie

  9. “Bubble Up” by Wayne Jarrett

  10. “Zombie Zones” by Dennis Bovell

  11. “Dub To The Vein” by Skin, Flesh & Bones

  12. “Jungle Shuffle” by Morwell Unlimited

  13. “Satisfied Dub” by Ossie Hibert

  14. “Dub Out” by Oku Onoura

  15. “JBC Days & Proper Education Dub” by Mikey Dread

  16. “White Whale” by Ranking Barnabas

  17. “Dem Never Know” by Rhythm & Sound (with Jah Cotton)

  18. “Tempo Dub” by Rupie Edwards All Stars

  19. “Channel One In Dub” by Linval Thompson

  20. “Genesis 1-11” by Sly and the Revolutionaries



Dubspace :: A Holiday At The Sea Playlist

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Clasp the helmet and lower yourself into the Dubspace.

20 Dub heavy hitters.

Enjoy.



Tracklisting:

  1. “Love and Fire” by Ruts DC

  2. “Independent Intavenshan” by Linton Kwesi Johnson

  3. “Black Right” by Keith Hudson

  4. “Staga Dub” by King Tubby

  5. “Babylon Gone Down” by Yabby You

  6. “Jumping Jack” by Herman Chin Loy

  7. “Above and Beyond” by Lee “Scratch” Perry

  8. “In King David’s Style” by Mad Professor

  9. “Some Bizarre” by African Head Charge

  10. “Back Weh” by Prince Far I

  11. “Capitol Radio Rock” by Sir Coxsone Sound

  12. “East Of The River Nile” by Augustus Pablo

  13. “Higher Ranking” by Dennis Bovell

  14. “Blood On His Lips” by Scientist

  15. “Refraction” by Phase Selector Sound

  16. “Swords of Vengeance” by Prince Jammy

  17. “Stalag” by Winston Riley

  18. “Theme Dub” by Jah Lloyd

  19. “The Road Is Rough” by Tommy Cowan

  20. “Sata Dub” by Errol “Flabba” Holt


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Huun‐Huur‐Tu Live at KEXP

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Oh man, this is so good.

From Episode 19 of the Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow:

“Huun-Huur-Tu are a music group from Tuva, a republic of Russia located right on the border of Mongolia and Russia. Huun-Huur-Tu is internationally known for their throat-singing, also known as “over-tone” singing. The singer produces “both the note (drone) and the drone's overtone(s), thus producing two or three notes simultaneously.”

“KEXP presents Huun‐Huur‐Tu performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded August 15, 2017.”

Setlist:

  1. Chyraa-Khoor (Yellow Pacer)

  2. Konguroi (Sixty Horses in My Herd)

  3. Odugen Taiga

  4. Aa-Shuu Dekei-oo

Other Details:

  • Host: DJ Rhythma

  • Audio Engineer: Kevin Suggs

  • Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Alaia D'Alessandro & Justin Wilmore

  • Editor: Justin Wilmore


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Faran Ensemble Live

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Israel’s Faran Ensemble live “Mezrab recording from 2015-04-22.”

I first heard Faran Ensemble while looking for music for the Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow and their track “Reflection” appeared on Episode 03.

I couldn’t find a setlist for this show but there was some commentary on the video’s page which is included below.

Enjoy.

“The Faran Ensemble was formed in 2009 by three musicians sharing similar musical vibes and values, who decided to embark together on a spiritual quest. Their journey, expressed in music and sound, reflects the beauty of nature, travelling through different sceneries, from the clean and quiet desert to luscious green hills, sometimes even passing through the hectic noise of the city.

Their instruments belong to the ancient traditions of the east, allowing the musicians to combine mystical sounds with modern influences. In their music, Mediterranean landscapes weave an enchanted soundscape, a magic carpet to take the listener on a voyage to faraway lands.

The ensemble’s name, Faran, refers to Wadi Faran, a dry desert riverbed which in winter fills with water and life and in summer is silent and pristine. The Faran crosses three countries, but ignores all artificial human borders.”

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The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band

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So much to tell you about here.

Music-loving, like life, is a journey of learning and exploration. I recently posted a live session by Sarathy Korwar and friends for a site called The Boiler Room. I featured Korwar’s track “"Bismillah" from his 2016 album Day To Day on Episode 08 of The Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow.

I had not heard of The Boiler Room before this but I have since become quite enamored. Their Facebook “About” section says:

“Boiler Room televises underground music as it happens from around the world to a massive online community. By doing so, we create windows into scenes and sounds from every corner of the globe, connecting millions of music heads with the specific music they love. This communal participation has redrawn the map for underground culture and proven that mass audiences now subscribe to alternative choice.”

And that’s a vision I can get behind.

I recently came across a 2016 live set from The Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band. I featured the band’s Thai band’s song "Lai Wua (Chasing the Cow)" from their 2016 album Planet Lam on Episode 11 of The Global Elite Music Radio Podcast Supershow.

There is a link on the video’s Youtube page that says: “TRACKLIST & DOWNLOAD HERE” but the link doesn’t go to anything and the video’s page at the Boiler Room page doesn’t include a setlist so if you have that information it would be greatly appreciated. Though not knowing the song titles (or words for that matter) doesn’t inhibit the global choogle.

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  • Purchase the album at Amazon.