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no condition is permanent: Remmy Ongala & Orchestre Super Matimila,
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Remmy Ongala and Orchestre Super Matimila,. Editor's note: No Condition is Permanent. Is now a radio show, available for download from Luxuria Music. Visit the site, create a user name and password for yourself, then look for the DeLUX page containing the N.C.I.P. Shows It's just that easy. And, look! There are 5 one-hour installments online at present. I'll also be dj'ing live for 2 hours via the Luxuria web stream on August 31st, beginning at 7pm PST. Additionally, No Condition Is Permanent. Soukous is...
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no condition is permanent: Various Artists,
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Some thirty or so years ago at this time of the year, when Lower Manhattan is shedding the Wild West image it acquires during the cash-poor '70s, several lucky humans receive Xmas greetings from. A funny guy named Eddie Gorodetsky. Being a funny guy, the Eddie in question conveys his seasonal cheer in the form of. A mixtape. I never meet this Mr. Gorodetsky, but I assume that he possesses something like exceptional wit, as I notice his credit. For breakfast and such other forms of seasonal misbehavior.
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no condition is permanent: Lord Buckley,
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The Demon Verbals LP's. Some men are born to their titles. Others win theirs. But Richard Buckley came into his title because a friend, with the unlikely name of Midas, went to a bankrupt circus to buy his kids a pony. With a fine nose for bargains, Midas bought the circus. And phoned Buckley for help. (What do I do now, daddy? The watchman asks. "That there's an elephant hanging. Belongs to the elephant! But Buckley stares at his reflection. He bows. "Your excellency," he whispers. World Pacific, 1959).
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no condition is permanent:
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The Pasadena Roof Orchestra. It is a curious thing that one of this writer's fondest mementos of the early seventies, a time. When a forward-thinking young man's fashion sense. The Pasadena Roof Orchestra. Was signed to Transatlantic. As to the band's relevance in that curious era. The Art Deco-styled department store that aimed to supply the legal. Needs of the decadent set. (The band's cover portrait was shot in Biba's Rainbow Room.) The PSO played atop Biba's roof, commemorating the release of...By wa...
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no condition is permanent: Various Artists,
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I Was A Teenage Brain Surgeon. Then, small renegade enterprises devoted to selling a new crop of 33 1/3 releases began to surface in bad neighborhoods. I frequented Finyl Vinyl, on 2nd Avenue in Manhattan's as-yet-to-be-gentrified East Village. There, one was introduced to multiple volumes of: the Savage Kick/Black Rock'n'Roll. Series; the Stompin'. Lp's (nearly 30 -! Rock'n'roll and rhythm and blues from the '50s and early '60s depicting fat gals and massive guys); Concussion! Swing For A Crime. So, pul...
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no condition is permanent: February 2006
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The Lijadu Sisters also featured in one of my favorite music documentaries, Konkombé. The work of English director Jeremy Marre. Was the Nigerian installment in his 14-episode world music series, Beats of the Heart. Which ran often on PBS during the late '80s. The three chapters concerning the black diaspora (Jamaica, South Africa and Nigeria) held the best blend of musical, political and cultural content, and of this trio Konkombé. Being the great invention of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and drummer Tony Allen,...
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no condition is permanent: December 2005
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Orchestra Super Mazembe,. Orchestra Super Mazembe reissue the passport to fun with each spin of Kaivaska. Their 1982 album released in the U.K. by Virgin Records. The nine songs comprising Kaivaska. Are of consistent quality, energizing and vibrant. Collectively, they commemorate an African dance band at the top of its form connecting with the recording studio. Which hardly ever happens. A friend (of Danish decent, so she really. A career-spanning overview of the band's music from the mid-'70s through th...
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no condition is permanent: Pamelo Mounk'a,
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As a youngster, Yves Andre M’Bemba spent more time than was probably good for him hanging around Léopoldville’s Kongo Bar. Like a lot of kids. Gripped by music’s unholy thrall, he wrote songs instead of doing homework. And he could sing. A saxophonist from Guadeloupe. Gustave had become a record producer of significance; Pamelo had first met Gustave a few years before during one of the latter’s scouting trips to Paris. Gustave’s label, Eddy’son, subsequently had packaged a compilation of Les Bant...Name ...
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no condition is permanent: November 2005
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Reebop' Kwaku Baah and Ganoua, Trance. Here is an album that bridges English avant-pop music and something approaching ethnomusicology. It is also an artifact of a now-distant time, when hippies with an intellectual bent could pilot Land Rovers around Africa looking for both new sounds and a proprietary buzz to go with the music they'd discovered. After Traffic, Reebop joined the German avant-garde group Can for the one album. Without Can founder Holger Czukay) that Can enthusiasts still avoid discussing...
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no condition is permanent: October 2005
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Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey. His Inter-Reformers Band,. The late George Plimpton. Consummate boulevardier and enthusiast-without-boundary, enjoyed fireworks as have few others. His 1984 book, Fireworks, A History and Celebration. You set fire to a fuse and there, suddenly, is everything a writer or artist wants to do. The crowd cheers and the sky lights up you've elicited an immediate reaction.". Much as I doubt that Plimpton, editor of The Paris Review. Whether Ebenezer Obey or King Sunny Adé. Is the ...