WFMU: Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman: Playlist from December 30, 2023

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	7:03pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Strange Charm" by "Emperors New Clothes" News coverage ra.co...
	7:04pm Observations: Oh yeah, we are live!
	7:15pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Descarga Yemayá" by "Cuarteto Yemayá" Peru
	7:34pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Light Lines" by "Manfred Schoof Quintet" Bass – Günter Lenz Bass Clarinet – Michel Pilz Drums – Ralf Hübner Trumpet, Flugelhorn [Fluegelhorn] – Manfred Schoof Piano, Electric Piano, Organ – Jasper van't Hof
	7:39pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Irrational Ceremony" by "Ingebrigt Håker Flaten C... Ingebrigt Håker Flaten – acc & el bass/electronics Jeff Parker – guitar/pedals Dave Rempis – reeds Ola Kvernberg – violin Jason Adasiewicz – vibraphone Frank Rosaly – drums
	7:45pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Irrational Ceremony" by "Ingebrigt Håker Flaten C... Recorded live at Jazzfestival Saalfelden by Martin Leitner on august 27, 2011
	🥁 7:50pm WR: Hello David, have been listening but while we were dining no screens.
	7:50pm Observations: Greetings 👋👋👋👋
	🥁 7:51pm WR: ↳ Observations @7:39 Rempis is a familiar name, and Jeff Parker too, rest all new to me.
	🥁 7:53pm WR: ↳ Observations @7:03 yikes,
	7:56pm Dean: Rempis, Parker, Rosaly, Adasiewicz all worked with Vandermark. Kvernberg I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised. And of course Håker Flaten. And Blue Öyster Cult, and other musicians with things above the letters of their names.
	🥁 7:57pm WR: ↳ Song: "Fire In The Branches" by "John Blum, David Murray... Nice to hear Murray doing a recent out date.
	🥁 8:02pm WR: Sewelson had Finnish American musician Rent Romus on today. Romus has done some projects with Finnish musicians.
	🥁 8:06pm WR: ↳ Song: "The Struggle (Free South Africa)" by "Rochester /... So many great recordings on Gramavision that are mostly out of print.
	8:07pm Dean: WR: I learned that Romus' colleague, Heikki Koskinen, worked in the early '70s with Jukka Tolonen.
	8:08pm Listener Gregory: Good evening David amd fe;;pw Deevs/. Hmmm, I seem to have misplaced my fingers by one letter on the keyboard. Perhaps this explains why I am arriving late.
	8:09pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Fire Within" by "Rich Halley" Rich Halley - tenor saxophone Matthew Shipp - piano Michael Bisio - bass Newman Taylor Baker - drums
	8:11pm Observations: Who says you can’t play Funk & Free back to back? Lol it sounds great to me! 😎🔥🔥🔥
	🥁 8:12pm WR: ↳ Dean @8:07 Yeah, nice that you kept the comments active and relevant.
	🥁 8:14pm WR: well, movie night here. Tonight is the Sparks documentary. Laters. Thank you, David.
	8:18pm Dean: I shall again post one arguably irrelevant comment, but it's only irrelevant if you don't take the high altitude view of all of this lovely music: Long story short, here is a recently updated website from a friend of mine who made the film The Reach of Resonance. The site includes a number of interviews and outtakes... https://www.steveelkins.net/Interviews/Makin g-Reach
	8:23pm Observations: ↳ Song: "John Coltrane (Live)" by "Clifford Jordan" originally appeared on this LP www.discogs.com...
	8:26pm Listener Gregory: Weird to see “John Coltrane” as a title.
	8:29pm Listener Gregory: Fire Within didn’t light my fire, but Clifford Jordan did.
	8:42pm Listener Gregory: Is this all strings + drums? (McBee)
	8:42pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Flying Out" by "Cecil McBee" Drums – Billy Hart Cello – David Eyges Violin – John Blake
	8:43pm Observations: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:42 on this track yes, there's a trumpet player on some cuts
	8:45pm Listener Gregory: Trumpet—bah!
	8:46pm Observations: ↳ Song: "The Strange And The Commonplace" by "Quintet Mode... Double Bass – Teppo Hauta-aho Drums, Cymbal [Cymbals], Producer – Paul Lovens Soprano Saxophone – Harri Sjöström Trombone – Paul Rutherford Violin – Phil Wachsmann
	8:58pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Stomping Gamay" by "Jahari Massamba Unit" "The term "Yahweh" is offensive to many Jewish people. This is why you will almost never hear a Jewish person say "Yahweh." You would never hear the term "Yahweh" used in services in a synagogue, for example." www.reddit.com...
	9:00pm Listener Gregory: !!
	9:20pm Dean: Fascinating. I can't quite get my head around this: "I have no problem with 'Yahweh' as a matter of historical scholarship. As a matter of comparative religion and general discussion, however, it's offensive, though almost always unintentionally." Whence the offense?
	9:24pm Observations: ↳ Dean @9:20 You'd have to ask the writer that question. For me, I think it should just be avoided. Also, one could study the "N" word, or any offensive term, in a scholarly/historical/theological way that avoids offense. I assume that was the writer's point.
	9:26pm Listener Gregory: Muriel is not fooling around.
	9:33pm Dean: I agree that one should be able to study the n-word, let's say neutrally, but in fact we are strongly discouraged from doing so these days. Try teaching as literature Huckleberry Finn, a work that one hopes will never exit the canon. And yet I have the sense that Hollywood has full license to say whatever it wants to say, purportedly in the name of a kind of cinematic or musical verisimilitude, as if that equates with honesty. I'm puzzled.
	9:35pm Dean: I don't trust that reddit thread. Needs independent support.
	9:36pm Observations: ↳ Dean @9:35 OK, I'm Jewish, I say it's offensive. I say the writer is, overall, correct. Is that good enough for you?
	9:37pm Observations: ↳ Dean @9:35 It's been independently supported by me, a Jew.
	9:38pm Observations: ↳ Dean @9:35 Please point to any specific mistakes. I see few, if any!
	9:40pm Observations: ↳ Dean @9:35 Are you Jewish? if not, how are you in any position to correct the writer? What studies in Judaism have you done?
	9:42pm Dean: Yes, it is vis-a-vis you. I only wish you'd say why, because while it's easy not to say bad words, it's hard to know when a word might turn out to be bad if there are no principles that distinguish bad from acceptable. You ask me to point to mistakes, but I'm not charging mistakes. I'm afraid it's your burden to clarify why it's offensive. I'm not infrequently mistaken for a Jew. People ask me, as you have just done, whether I'm Jewish. I am not. My studies? Gershom Scholem, Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenberg, Moshe Idel... I do not "correct" anybody. I ask questions.
	9:45pm Dean: Were I at all religious--I am not--I would explore Judaism enthusiastically.
	9:45pm Observations: ↳ Dean @9:42 Did you listen to what I said on air? Apparently not! Listen to the archives if you missed it the first time. I don’t have to justify myself to you. The writer and I were both extremely clear about why it’s offensive. If that’s not good enough then go bother someone else!
	9:46pm Observations: It’s not my burden!
	9:46pm Dean: I haven't asked you to justify yourself. I'll leave. Thanks.
	9:47pm Observations: Even if it was my “burden to clarify why it's offensive” I DID THAT already!
	9:47pm Observations: ↳ Dean @9:46 Good riddance!
	9:52pm Observations: The use of the term "YHWH" is offensive to Jews, like me, for the following reasons, which I already stated on-air: 1. It's linguistically incorrect & incoherent. 2. It's factually incorrect & incoherent. 3. It's historically incorrect & incoherent. 4. It's theologically incorrect & incoherent. 5. It's crass cultural appropriation.
	9:58pm Observations: The show will go a few minutes long tonight
	10:06pm Observations: Thanks to everyone, except Dean.
	🥁 8:54am WR: Circling back to hear more, thank you.
	2:44pm Passaic River Blues: ↳ Song: "Strange Charm" by "Emperors New Clothes" This is superb. Another reason to love Trevor Jackson.

Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman: Playlist from December 30, 2023

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time

Emperors New Clothes	Strange Charm	Surreal Estate	None	1995	https://soundcloud.com/trevor-jackson/sets/enc-surreal-estate-remastered	0:02:40 (Pop-up)
Red Twist & Tuned Arrow : Christy Doran / Fredy Studer / Stephan Wittwer	Backtalk	Red Twist & Tuned Arrow	ECM	1987		0:11:05 (Pop-up)
Cuarteto Yemayá	Descarga Yemayá	El Tic Tac	VampiSoul	2023	https://vampisoul.bandcamp.com/album/el-tic-tac	0:14:33 (Pop-up)
The Thing	Red River "Red River" by "The Thing"	Boot!	The Thing	2013		0:17:02 (Pop-up)
Deben Bhattacharya	Chholia - Dance	Music From The Himalayas	Argo	1967		0:25:04 (Pop-up)

Manfred Schoof Quintet	Light Lines	Light Lines	Japo	1978		0:32:36 (Pop-up)
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten Chicago Sextet	Irrational Ceremony	Live At Jazzfest Saalfelden	Tektite Records Co.Operative	2012		0:38:40 (Pop-up)
John Blum, David Murray, Chad Taylor	Fire In The Branches	The Recursive Tree	Relative Pitch	2023	https://relativepitchrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-recursive-tree	0:51:42 (Pop-up)

Rochester / Veasley Band	The Struggle (Free South Africa)	One Minute Of Love	Gramavision	1985	feat. James Blood Ulmer	1:02:08 (Pop-up)
Rich Halley	Fire Within "Fire Within" by "Rich Halley"	Fire Within	Pine Eagle	2023	https://richhalley.bandcamp.com/album/fire-within	1:08:45 (Pop-up)
Clifford Jordan	John Coltrane (Live)	Spiritual Jazz 15: A Tribute to 'Trane	Jazzman	2023	https://spiritualjazz.bandcamp.com/album/spiritual-jazz-15-a-tribute-to-trane-2	1:21:31 (Pop-up)

OM	Karpfenteich "Karpfenteich" by "OM"	Kirikuki	Japo	1976	feat. Christy Doran & Fredy Studer	1:32:11 (Pop-up)
Cecil McBee	Flying Out "Flying Out" by "Cecil McBee"	Flying Out	India Navigation	1982		1:38:05 (Pop-up)
Quintet Moderne	The Strange And The Commonplace	The Strange And The Commonplace 12"	Po Torch	1991		1:45:11 (Pop-up)
Animal Collective	Isn't It Now? (Moor Mother Collage)	Isn't It Now? (Moor Mother Collage)	Domino	2023	https://youtu.be/qgDX10FoucI?si=XUaQrtIjOgPdMWTg	1:48:34 (Pop-up)
Mary Halvorson	The Gate "The Gate" by "Mary Halvorson"	Cloudward	Nonesuch	2024	https://www.nonesuch.com/albums/cloudward	1:52:41 (Pop-up)
Jahari Massamba Unit	Stomping Gamay	YHWH Is Love	Law Of Rhythm	2024	https://jaharimassambaunit.bandcamp.com/album/yhwh-is-love	1:57:09 (Pop-up)

Charles Earland	Freedom Jazz Dance	Live at the Lighthouse	Prestige	1972		2:04:29 (Pop-up)
Muriel Grossmann	Absolute Truth "Absolute Truth" by "Muriel Grossmann"	Devotion	Third Man	2023	https://murielgrossmann.bandcamp.com/album/devotion-2	2:10:44 (Pop-up)

Owen Marshall	Evolove (previously unreleased full length version)	Spiritual Jazz 14: PRIVATE	Jazzman	2023	https://spiritualjazz.bandcamp.com/album/spiritual-jazz-14-private	2:34:03 (Pop-up)
The Human Arts Ensemble	Concere Natashiah	The Human Arts Ensemble Live Vol. I	Circle	1978		2:39:39 (Pop-up)
Frode Gjerstad, Isach Skeidsvoll, Ole Mofjell	Is the fish a he or a she?	Broken Compass	Circulasione Totale	2023	https://frodegjerstad.bandcamp.com/album/broken-compass	2:48:29 (Pop-up)
Eddie Palmieri & Friends	Vamonos Pal' Monte	In Concert Live At The University Of Puerto Rico	Coco	1973

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Listener comments!
	7:03pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Strange Charm" by "Emperors New Clothes" News coverage ra.co...
	7:04pm Observations: Oh yeah, we are live!
	7:15pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Descarga Yemayá" by "Cuarteto Yemayá" Peru
	7:34pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Light Lines" by "Manfred Schoof Quintet" Bass – Günter Lenz Bass Clarinet – Michel Pilz Drums – Ralf Hübner Trumpet, Flugelhorn [Fluegelhorn] – Manfred Schoof Piano, Electric Piano, Organ – Jasper van't Hof
	7:39pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Irrational Ceremony" by "Ingebrigt Håker Flaten C... Ingebrigt Håker Flaten – acc & el bass/electronics Jeff Parker – guitar/pedals Dave Rempis – reeds Ola Kvernberg – violin Jason Adasiewicz – vibraphone Frank Rosaly – drums
	7:45pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Irrational Ceremony" by "Ingebrigt Håker Flaten C... Recorded live at Jazzfestival Saalfelden by Martin Leitner on august 27, 2011
	🥁 7:50pm WR: Hello David, have been listening but while we were dining no screens.
	7:50pm Observations: Greetings 👋👋👋👋
	🥁 7:51pm WR: ↳ Observations @7:39 Rempis is a familiar name, and Jeff Parker too, rest all new to me.
	🥁 7:53pm WR: ↳ Observations @7:03 yikes,
	7:56pm Dean: Rempis, Parker, Rosaly, Adasiewicz all worked with Vandermark. Kvernberg I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised. And of course Håker Flaten. And Blue Öyster Cult, and other musicians with things above the letters of their names.
	🥁 7:57pm WR: ↳ Song: "Fire In The Branches" by "John Blum, David Murray... Nice to hear Murray doing a recent out date.
	🥁 8:02pm WR: Sewelson had Finnish American musician Rent Romus on today. Romus has done some projects with Finnish musicians.
	🥁 8:06pm WR: ↳ Song: "The Struggle (Free South Africa)" by "Rochester /... So many great recordings on Gramavision that are mostly out of print.
	8:07pm Dean: WR: I learned that Romus' colleague, Heikki Koskinen, worked in the early '70s with Jukka Tolonen.
	8:08pm Listener Gregory: Good evening David amd fe;;pw Deevs/. Hmmm, I seem to have misplaced my fingers by one letter on the keyboard. Perhaps this explains why I am arriving late.
	8:09pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Fire Within" by "Rich Halley" Rich Halley - tenor saxophone Matthew Shipp - piano Michael Bisio - bass Newman Taylor Baker - drums
	8:11pm Observations: Who says you can’t play Funk & Free back to back? Lol it sounds great to me! 😎🔥🔥🔥
	🥁 8:12pm WR: ↳ Dean @8:07 Yeah, nice that you kept the comments active and relevant.
	🥁 8:14pm WR: well, movie night here. Tonight is the Sparks documentary. Laters. Thank you, David.
	8:18pm Dean: I shall again post one arguably irrelevant comment, but it's only irrelevant if you don't take the high altitude view of all of this lovely music: Long story short, here is a recently updated website from a friend of mine who made the film The Reach of Resonance. The site includes a number of interviews and outtakes... https://www.steveelkins.net/Interviews/Makin g-Reach
	8:23pm Observations: ↳ Song: "John Coltrane (Live)" by "Clifford Jordan" originally appeared on this LP www.discogs.com...
	8:26pm Listener Gregory: Weird to see “John Coltrane” as a title.
	8:29pm Listener Gregory: Fire Within didn’t light my fire, but Clifford Jordan did.
	8:42pm Listener Gregory: Is this all strings + drums? (McBee)
	8:42pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Flying Out" by "Cecil McBee" Drums – Billy Hart Cello – David Eyges Violin – John Blake
	8:43pm Observations: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:42 on this track yes, there's a trumpet player on some cuts
	8:45pm Listener Gregory: Trumpet—bah!
	8:46pm Observations: ↳ Song: "The Strange And The Commonplace" by "Quintet Mode... Double Bass – Teppo Hauta-aho Drums, Cymbal [Cymbals], Producer – Paul Lovens Soprano Saxophone – Harri Sjöström Trombone – Paul Rutherford Violin – Phil Wachsmann
	8:58pm Observations: ↳ Song: "Stomping Gamay" by "Jahari Massamba Unit" "The term "Yahweh" is offensive to many Jewish people. This is why you will almost never hear a Jewish person say "Yahweh." You would never hear the term "Yahweh" used in services in a synagogue, for example." www.reddit.com...
	9:00pm Listener Gregory: !!
	9:20pm Dean: Fascinating. I can't quite get my head around this: "I have no problem with 'Yahweh' as a matter of historical scholarship. As a matter of comparative religion and general discussion, however, it's offensive, though almost always unintentionally." Whence the offense?
	9:24pm Observations: ↳ Dean @9:20 You'd have to ask the writer that question. For me, I think it should just be avoided. Also, one could study the "N" word, or any offensive term, in a scholarly/historical/theological way that avoids offense. I assume that was the writer's point.
	9:26pm Listener Gregory: Muriel is not fooling around.
	9:33pm Dean: I agree that one should be able to study the n-word, let's say neutrally, but in fact we are strongly discouraged from doing so these days. Try teaching as literature Huckleberry Finn, a work that one hopes will never exit the canon. And yet I have the sense that Hollywood has full license to say whatever it wants to say, purportedly in the name of a kind of cinematic or musical verisimilitude, as if that equates with honesty. I'm puzzled.
	9:35pm Dean: I don't trust that reddit thread. Needs independent support.
	9:36pm Observations: ↳ Dean @9:35 OK, I'm Jewish, I say it's offensive. I say the writer is, overall, correct. Is that good enough for you?
	9:37pm Observations: ↳ Dean @9:35 It's been independently supported by me, a Jew.
	9:38pm Observations: ↳ Dean @9:35 Please point to any specific mistakes. I see few, if any!
	9:40pm Observations: ↳ Dean @9:35 Are you Jewish? if not, how are you in any position to correct the writer? What studies in Judaism have you done?
	9:42pm Dean: Yes, it is vis-a-vis you. I only wish you'd say why, because while it's easy not to say bad words, it's hard to know when a word might turn out to be bad if there are no principles that distinguish bad from acceptable. You ask me to point to mistakes, but I'm not charging mistakes. I'm afraid it's your burden to clarify why it's offensive. I'm not infrequently mistaken for a Jew. People ask me, as you have just done, whether I'm Jewish. I am not. My studies? Gershom Scholem, Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenberg, Moshe Idel... I do not "correct" anybody. I ask questions.
	9:45pm Dean: Were I at all religious--I am not--I would explore Judaism enthusiastically.
	9:45pm Observations: ↳ Dean @9:42 Did you listen to what I said on air? Apparently not! Listen to the archives if you missed it the first time. I don’t have to justify myself to you. The writer and I were both extremely clear about why it’s offensive. If that’s not good enough then go bother someone else!
	9:46pm Observations: It’s not my burden!
	9:46pm Dean: I haven't asked you to justify yourself. I'll leave. Thanks.
	9:47pm Observations: Even if it was my “burden to clarify why it's offensive” I DID THAT already!
	9:47pm Observations: ↳ Dean @9:46 Good riddance!
	9:52pm Observations: The use of the term "YHWH" is offensive to Jews, like me, for the following reasons, which I already stated on-air: 1. It's linguistically incorrect & incoherent. 2. It's factually incorrect & incoherent. 3. It's historically incorrect & incoherent. 4. It's theologically incorrect & incoherent. 5. It's crass cultural appropriation.
	9:58pm Observations: The show will go a few minutes long tonight
	10:06pm Observations: Thanks to everyone, except Dean.
	🥁 8:54am WR: Circling back to hear more, thank you.
	2:44pm Passaic River Blues: ↳ Song: "Strange Charm" by "Emperors New Clothes" This is superb. Another reason to love Trevor Jackson.

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