Friday, November 28, 2008

Track list for Your Music 15
1) Gil scott Heron and the Midnight Band and The Bottle, from the album titled It's Your World which was on the Arista label in 1976
2) Afromotive, out of Asheville, North Carolina with a tune called Global Contact from their self-published CD by the same name.
3,4) Toubab Krewe with "Asheville to Abijan" and "Bamana Niya".
5) Antibalas with a song called Si Se Puede
6) Antibalas un-named tune which we'll join in progress, as they say. This one was recorded live at a night club in Connecticut, and it's probably better that we come in in the middle because that way we'll avoid some of the crowd noise that mars the beginning of the recording.

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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Your Music 14 - Pink Floyd retrospective

Track list for Your Music 14

1)Granchster Meadows - one of my favorites from the 1969 double album set Umma Gumma which is now a posession of EMI records and was re-mastered and released in 1994 on CD.
2)"fat old Sun" and that's on the 1970 album Atom Heart Mother, also from EMI.
3)Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk. from the 1967 album Piper at the Gates of Dawn from EMI.
4) "party sequence" from the 1968 movie "More"
5) "Green is the Color" from that same recording - again from EMI..
6)"The gold, its in the..." that's it - just a sentence fragment for a title from the 1972 the movie Obscured by Clouds
7) Astronomy Domine, versions of which were included in both Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Umma Gumma.
8) "fearless" began that set, from the 1972 album Meddle, can you guess the publisher? EMI, perhaps?
9) Saucer Full f Secrets from the 1969 Umma Gumma
10)Here's The Great Gig in the Sky. from Dark Side of the Moon, released in 1973 - yeah, yeah; its EMI, too.

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Your Music 12 - songs of struggle

Track list for Your Music 12 - songs of struggle and protest

It seems the candidates running for public office at both the local and national levels very rarely address issues of substance or take truly bold stands on anything except reactionary policies like militarizing the borders or threatening wars. Music, of course, knows no borders and inasmuch as it can help build understanding between cultures it serves as a tonic to te kinds of conflicts that lead to wars. You have to wonder, then why it is that songs of protest and struggle so rarely find their way to the airwaves - except, of course on community radio stations like the one you're listening to now. In this case we're talking about music that directly confronts the hypocracy and inhumanity of the powers that be.
1)Atlanta -based artist Susan Hickey Pict Song - words by Rudyard Kipling and arranged by . That's from her self-published 2004 CD Ramble in the Grass.
2) Peggy Seeger from her 1992 Folkways anthology titled Songs of Love and Politics. That track was titled Song of Change and Peggy Seeger was joined in that recording by the late Ewan Mcall.
3) Pete Seeger. That was Quite Early Morning, performed by Holly Near and that's on a 1998 Appleseed collection titled Where Have all the Flowers Gone, The Songs of Pete Seeger.
4) Sweet Honey in the Rock and Would You Harbor Me from their 1995 release on the Earthbeat label called Sacred Ground.
5) David Rovics with Song fir Big Mountain from his self-published CD Live at Club Passim.
6) Dayton, Ohio based native american duo Ga-Li with a track from their self-published 2002 release From the Outside Indian. That track was called All Is One Is All
7) Victoria Parks and What Our Children is Learning from her self-published CD Duh-mocracy spelled D-U-H-mocracy. My only contention with that song is that she identifies George Bush as the President when, as we all know; the man never won a national election. Victoria knows this well, as she was one of a handful of intrepid souls who actually investigated the fraudulent election in Ohio in 2004. Musicians stepped in where even the Democrats feared to tread.
8) Billionaires for Bush or Gore with a cut called Rest Easy Wealthy Gentlemen. That's on a self-published CD.
9) Mike Morningstar from a CD called Moving Mountains, voices of Appalachia, a compilation of songs and interviews from the folks who are fighting against Mountain Top Removal coal mining in West Virginia, Tennessee and Eastern Kentucky. The song was called Song for Mother
10)Phil Ochs with a much earlier song on the same topic. That was the Hills of West Virginia.
11) Grand Master Flash with his classic The Message released initially on the Sugar Hill label
12) Micheal Franti with " Rock the Nation" from a 2001 6-degrees records single by that same title
13) Gil Scott Heron with his rendition of a Marvin Gaye tune called Inner City Blues, about police reprisals against housing activists in New Orleans. That's on Gil Scot Heron's Arista label release, Reflections

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Your Music 13 - Hawaiian mix

Track list for Your Music 13
Gabby Pahinui; Ku'u Pua Lei Mokihana 3:55 2001 Rough guide
Sons of Hawaii; Waikiki Hula 2.09 " "
Darlene Ahuna and Ken Emerson; Kalamaula 3.32 2003 Hana Ola records - A Place Called Hawaii
LOrna Lim and Kohala; Mokihana lulluby 3.26 " "
Moses Kahumoku; Pohakuloa 4.39 1995 Windam Hill Ho'okupu
Keoki Kahumoku; Circle SONG 2.29 2003 Palm records Slack Key Guitar volume 2
George Kahumoku ; Hawaiian War chant 4.14 2001 Dancing Cat records - Hawaiian Love Songs
Barefoot Natives ( William Kahaialii and Eric Gilliom); Indigenous Nations 6.11 2006 self
Berefoot Natives ; Ahe Lau Makani 3.28
Joe Keawe; My little grass Shack 2.28 2002 Hana Ola Records - Hawaiian Luau Party
Keali'i Reichel; Ka Mo'oku auhuau o Kamaile K'ane - geneology chant 2.08 2003 Punahele productions Ke'alaokamaile
Keali'i Reichel ; Ka Nohona Pili Kai 3.50 " "
Keali'i Reichel with Uluwehi Guerrero and Kekuhi Kanahele; Toad Song 2.54 1998 Punahelr productions "Pride of Punahele"
Ulwehi Guerrero ; Lei Lokelani 4.33 " "
Tahitian Choir; Tarema (creation of island song) Rapa island 1000 miles S.E of Tahiti 328 people since brit landing in 1791 - disease - recorded by Pasdcal Nebet-Meyer - Triloika records 1992
Tahitian Choir ; Teviatau 3.07 " "
Robi Kahakalau; Ke Ali'i O Na Lani 4.1 Pride of Punahele 2 - 2003
Amy Hanaiali'i Gilliom; Ku'u Lei Hoku 2.25 " "

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Your Music 11

Track List for Your Music 11

1)Carlos Montoya, "Balero Malorquin", or traditional Majorcan dance. That was from a 1996 Rykodisc compilation called Carlos Montoya - Flamenco.
2)Istayapi which is based in Louisville, Kentucky. The song wastitlked "Beginnings" and the CD has absolutely no information on it regarding contacts or dates, or copyrights - just the band members names, 3)Egyptian Sufi musician Sheik Ahmad Al-Tuni with a devotional song called simply "Alam" - that's on a Roughguide-label compilation called the Rough Guide to Sufi music.
4)Lew Silva, a Chumash indian from Paso Robles, California who is recording currently using traditional Chumash instruments and melodies in his original compositions. We heard Chumash Heart from his 1998 self-published release Old Ways, New Songs.
5) Seikou Keita "Baiyo" and that's on a disc simply called Seikou Keita - Mali and that's on the Arc music label out of the uk.
6)Gypsy Fire, which is apparently kind of a studio jam session featuring a number of Gypsy musicians like RichardHagopian and Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Hasan Iskut and several others. It's on theCrossroads label out of NewYork City and the tune was called "Muhabbet."
7)Viva Quetzal. Here's Hijos Del Sol - children of the sun from their 1998 release on the SignatureSoundslabel.
8)Owain Phyfe and his group called Lagrimas De Sangria and a tune called Canto del Labriego, or song of the peasant.That is on his2006 self-published CD called Canciones Hispanoamericanas,
9)Gypsy Flame performed by a man named Armik - just Armik, it's trhe title track on his 1995 BAJA records release

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Your Music 10

Track list for Your Music 10 - MLK day special

1) Ethel Chaffie Austin singing Oh Freedom - that was from a CD released by Unity Productions in 1996 called "I Believe I hear The Angels Singing/ songs of the underground railroad era".
2)I shall not be moved", sung by a group called the Norther Kentucky Brotherhood. (same recording)
3)Gil Scot Heron's "Who'll Pay Reparations on my Soul" from his 1970 classic Sall Talk at 125th and Lenox", recently re-released on the RCA label.
4)Columbus Ohio's own Arnette Howard with "I have a dream like Martin" from his self ublished CD clled Extended Family.
5) Is Said with his composition; "Eyes of Peace" - that's off of his self-published compilation titled "Everybody will be equal after the bomb".
6)Peter Tosh with "Equal Rights", that's from his Mango Recrds 1970 relase by the same name
7)Pete Seeger with "Ain't Gonna Study War No More" from a 1978 anthology album, The Best of Pete Seeger" that's available from he Smithsonian Folkways label.
8) Greg Greeway with a song about the civil rights struggle in South Africa titled "One Man, One Woman, One Vote" that's from his 1995 recording on the Eastern ront label called Singing foir the Landlord".
9) Sweet Honey in the Rck with their song We Are - that's from the 1995 album Sacred Ground on the Earthbeat label.
10)Peter Tosh began that set, too, with Get Up Stand Up, from the 1970 Mango release Equal Rights.
11) Richie Havens with a song written by the ator Louis Gosset, Junior in tresponse to the U.S. War on Viet Nam, called Handsom Johnny - hat's on the Richie Havens compilation album titled THE CLASSICS, on Rebound Records from 1995.
12) Phil Ochs with one of his signature tunes; I Ain't Marchin Any More - that particular rendition was from an un-known source
13) Pete Seeger "We Shall Over Come" - this was recorded during the time Dr. King was in jail in Birmingham, Alabama.

http://rapidshare.com/files/167969689/YM10.mp3

Your Music 9

Track list for Your Music 9
1) Pahroah Sanders' 1969 classic The Creator Has a Master Plan. originally released on RCA on the album titled "Karma" which has been re-released on the Impluse label.
2) Gil Scott Heron composition Essex tostart the set. That's from his 1975 album From South Africa to South Carolina, featuring the soaring saxaphone of the great Balil Suni Ali, Brian Jackson on flute, and the rest of the Midnight Band
3) Billie Harris, the title track to his 1999 album I Want Some Water, featuring the late great Horace Tpscott on Piano. That was recorded in 1979 in a church in Los Angeles and released in 1983 by Nimbus records.
4) Ken Nordine. Here's A Point in Time from Nordine's 1993 Upper Limbo available on Greatful Dead Records. Enjoy.

http://rapidshare.com/files/167954332/Your_Music__9.mp3


Your Music 8

Track List for Your Music 8
1) "You Got It" from Taj Majal started that set - that's from the Warner Brothers 1977 release Music Fuh Yuh.
2)Carolina Chocolate Drops with their bluegrass version of the Beyonce song "Hit 'em up Style" - that cut was from a live recording made with the band's permission at a bluegrass festival in 2007.
3)Luminescent Orchestri chimed in with "Amaritsi" from their self-published 2005 CD "too hot to sleep".
4) E Museki and a cut called "Guadiana" from THEIR self-puiblished 2005 CD, "sindh".
5) Gyspy Kings started that set with "Bambaleo" that's rom their Rare and Un plugged" CD released in 2003 on the NewSound label
6)Voyager compilation called "the art of bellydance". That tune was called "Bahija"
7)The Cincinnati-based group Indus Red - "Serpent Dance" off their self-titled recording simply called "Indus Red"
8)Kusun Ensemble from Ghana closed the set with "Ga Highlife" from their self-published 2002 release, Nokoko.
9)Asheville, North Carolina's afro-beat ensemble Toubab Krewe with a track called "Devil Woman"
10) Manu D'Bango with the title track from his 1994 Giant Records release Wakafrica. 11)Baka Beyond with "Adukbe" from their 2000 Rykodisc recording called "sogo" 12)King Suni Ade with the tune "Ilako" from his 1983 ablum on King records, Synchro System.
13)"Aphrodesia " from the movie soundtrack from a film called Kama Sutra - that's on TVT records, released in 1977
14) "Brown Rice"- that's from Shaddowfax's 1995 live album on the Sonic Images jazz label.
15) Santana's version of the Tito Puente tune, "Oye Como Va", from the 1977 colombia classic Abraxas - enjoy.

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Your Music 7

 1,2)Carolina Chocolate drops with two cuts from their
self-published album “Colored Aristocracy” Banjo Dreams and Jalidong.
3)Next was a riverboat chanty from Guyana performed by a group calling themselves
the Pirates Royale off of their self-published 2007 release Black Jack.
4)Rambling Sailors, out of Atlanta with the contemporary traditional; “The Mary Ellen Carter will Rise Again”. That is on their as of yet UN-published release titled Wanderlust.
5)North Carolina based Drums and Drones – that’s from a demo cd of theirs and isn’t, to my knowledge published at all.
Asheville North Carolina trio, the Barrel House Mamas off of their self-published 2006 CD titled Gathering. We
heard a cut called Riversong.
6) Dayton, Ohio duo Ga-Li – that’s G-A- hyphon-L-I with the ballad El Sol Que Tu Eres off of their self-published 2002 CD From the Outside Indian.
7) Luminescent Orchstrii with a tango piece called Tango du Reve That’s from their self-published 2005 cd titled Too Hot To Sleep.
8)E Museki with  "The Victor" which they describe as a medley of the traditional Flamenco
tune, The Malaguena with a Dick Dale flare. That is on their self-published 2005
release Sindh ( S-I-N-D-H).
9)Gypsy kings. We heard Amoramor from their Rare and Uplugged CD from 2003 on the
Newsound label.
10)Bela Fleck and the Flecktones with a track from
their 1991 Warner rothers recording, Flight of the Cosmic Hippo. That track is
titled Blu-bop.


11) Baby Gramps with Shake it and Break it from his self-published
2000 release; “same old timeously / vocalisthenics and stunt guitar”.
12)Django Reinhardt featuring the late Stephan Grapelli
on violin. That was the Tiger Rag and it’s on the 1994 Djangology compilation
from Retro Music.
13)Tam Lin Reel performed by hammer dulcimer master Vince Conaway from his self-published 2005 release Distractions of the Muse.

http://rapidshare.com/files/167933836/Your_Music_7.mp3.html

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Your Music 6 Jazz Inovators

Track list for Your Music 6
1)Lionel Hampton Mostly Blues Musical Heritage Society compilation album released in 1989
2) Hampton’s “Dark Eyes” off of a 1995 re-release on Essex and that one featured Lucky Thompson also.
3)Lucky Thompson called “Tea Time” – that one is off of a 1973 Groove Merchant release titled “Goodby Yesterday”.
4)Pharoah Saunders with Morning Prayer 1973 album titled “Thembi” which was re-released by MCA records in 1998.
5) Tony Monaco from his 2001 album “Burnin Grooves”on Summit records.
6)Rashan Roland Kirk “Mister P.C.” off of the album, “The man who cried Fire”re-released in 2001 in Hyena Records.
7)Horace Tapscott with Spellbound off the 1998 Nimbus Records re-release of the classic album Dissent or Descent
8)Gil Scot Heron Western Sunrise 1975 Arista Records release titled The First Minute of a New Day re-released in 1998 on Rumal-Gia records.
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Your Music 5



I've selected an assortment of experimental genre-crossing pieces by some well known and some less well known African American innovators from several different eras that I think you'll enjoy, and that I think go well together. Some of these tunes you'll undoubtedly be familiar with and a few you may not, like this first piece from a musician by the name of Andy Palacio and his group, the Garifuna Collective. Garifuna is a musical and linguistic fusion blending African traditions with aboriginal North American culture of the Arawak people who lived on the Caribbean Islands before the European conquest and genocide. A ship carrying slaves from West Africa sank off the coast of the Isle of Saint Vincent and those who survived and made it to shore were welcomed by the Arawaks thus beginning the Garifuna culture. Small pockets of Garifuna descendents now live in both Belize and Nacaragua. Andy Palacio is from Beliz. Here he is with a song sung in the Garifuna language. The song is titled; Sin Precio, which translates to "worthless".

We started that set with 1) Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective off their 2007 release called Watina - that's on the Cumbancha label out of Belize.
Next we heard 2)Taj Mahal with a song called Walkers Cay of of his 1977 release on Warner Brothers titled Music Fu Yuh
3)Manu D'Bango was next with Doctor Bird, from his 1981 release on Mango, "Ambassador"
Here's one of the genre-bending numbers I mentioned earlier This is 4)Ali Farka Toure's contribution to Salsa;

Next was the 4)Burning Spear classic; Throw Down Your Arms from his 1977 release Dry and Heavy on Island Records
Let's jump to the mainland now and back a bit further as we join the great 5)Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Max Roach for this version of Ellington's composition; Caravan -oh, and, by the way; I don't know the source of this recording so if any of you Jazz afficionados out there have an idea please let me know. I'll give an e-mail address at the end of the program.

Then we heard an old British club recording for the 6)Jimi Hendrix Experience doing Jimi's signature tune Purple Haze.
And we finished that set with 7) John Coltrane and friends performing one of Coltrane's best known compositions, A Love Supreme. All three of those recordings came to me without any liner notes, but they were just too good to file away for want of info on he record labels or the years when they were recorded.
Here's another of those mystery recordings; it's 8)Miles Davis with Charlie Parker and in this case I don't even know the name of the song. I hope someone ut there will recognize it and let me know.

9)Herbie Hancock from his 1974 Columbia release called "Thrust" and the tune was "Spank-a Lee".


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Your Music 4 - Zakir Hussein retrospective pt.1

Track list for Your Music 4

Today we'll hear the first in a two-part series - a partial retrospective on the work of the phenomenal percussionist Zakhir Hussain. Hussain is one of the world's most acclaimed Tabla masters - the Tabla is a traditional percussion instrument from India that consists of two or more hand drums that are tuned like kettle drums so that the tones each one produces are complimentary. The higher pitched Tabla drums often have a sound somewhat like rain drops falling on a metal roof while the lower pitched drums individual notes can be modulated by varying the pressure on the head of the drum exerted by the palm of the hand which rests constantly on the drum's edge so that it sounds like an African talking drum. Most non-Asian Americans were introduced to these sounds as well as to another Indian classical instrument, the Sitar when the Beatles George Harrisson began to incorporate them in to popular hits like Norwegian Wood and Within You And Without You in the mid 1960's. Indeed Hussein collaborated with Harrisson later in their careers.
1) "We Want to be Free" by the group Shanti from their only recording simply titled "Shanti" in 1971 on the Atlantic Records label.
2)1984 recording by another of the groups Hussain founded, the Rhythm Experience with a cut called "Lineage".
3) "Nines Over Easy" from the same CD, a piece Hussain composed with band member Vince Delgado. That was re-released in 1991 on the Moment label.
4)"JOY" by the John McGlaughlin, Zakir Hussain collaboration Shakti from a 1977 CBS/Sony LP.
5,6, 7 )Tabla Beat Science eaturing Zakir Hussain and Bill Laswell, formerly of the Greatful Dead - also Usted Sultan Khan and the hip hop ensemble Midival Pundits. The first track was called "BIOTECH" from the 2000 Palm Pictures release TALA MATRIX. Then we heard Ap Ke Baras from a live performance CD released in 2002 also by Palm Pictures and lastly the title track from the first CD Tala Matrix.

http://rapidshare.com/files/167748141/Your_Music_4.mp3

Your Music 3

Track list for Your Music 3
1)Doctor Didg, featuring Brittish Didg master Graham Wiggins of their 2002 release from Shakti records, "Dust Devils" the track is titled "Gunga Din".
2)The next cut was from the same album - a piece called Pianola Strut.
3)"Men In Caves" which is apparently a self-published release from a musician by the name of Makaan Burt. The track was called Dumbek Release.
4)Stephen Kent from his self-published CD Oil and Water and the tracks we heard were Oil, and then Water.
5,6)Doctor Didge with two tracks from their 1998 Rykodisc release "Serotonality" the tracks were called "Retro Rockets" and "Brand New Shoes".
7)Yothu Yindi from "Tribal Voice", their 1992 release on the Mushroom International label. The cut is called Djapana.
8)Youthu Yindi - same CD. This one is titled "Dharpa"
9,10)Doctor Didg from their first CD OUT OF THE WOOD published in 1994 on Rykodisc, The tracks were "Ever Widening Circles" and Brolga, Graham Wiggins interpretation of a traditional Aboriginal chant.
11)Yothu Yindi with their title track from a 1994 release on Mushroom titled "Freedom".

Your Music 2

Track list for Your Music 2

" Dancing in the Dark" from the Chant Sisters off of their self-published CD Singing Circles Zap Mama called "Rofiki" off of their 1999 release on the Narada label, A Ma Zone.
Walela featuring Rita Coolidge, her daughter Pricilla Coolidge and Laura Satterfield. The song is called The Warrior and that's on Walela's 1997 release on the Mercury label.
"She Don't Slip" from New York based artist Judy Gorman on her self-published CD Analog Girl in a Digital World.
Laura Love's "Simple" from her album "OCtaroon" - that's a 1997 Mercury release
Aura Msimang with a song called "Kulala" which is on a Putamayo collection called African Odyssy.
Ms. Nielda Pitts "Go Down Moses" - that's off of a collection of songs from the Underground Railroad called "I Believe in Angels Singing" which was produced in part by the Underground Railroad Museum in Flushing Ohio.
Libby Goins with a track; "S'Il Vous Plait" from her self-published release "Hope Mountain".
Ani D'Franco singing "The Lost Woman Song" from her 1994 album on the Riteous Babe label titled, simply Ani DiFranco.
Indigo Girls recorded live at the 1991 Newport Folk Festival singing a Paul Simon song called American Tune. from Red House Records.
Michelle Shocked singing "The Ballad of Penny Evans" (same CD as above).
Sally Fingerette with her song the Ballad of Harry and Esther recorded live at another folk festival in Kerrville, Texas.
Rebecca Riots with their song "Gardener" - that's from Appleseed recordings.

Your Music 1

Playlist for Your Music 1

1)Nico and Rashad from Big Sur, California with a cut called "Tanja" from their only published recording - from Tri-Surf" records
2)Dr. Didg ( Graham Wiggins, Mark Ravell ans Ian Campbell) from their 1994 Rykodisc release "Out of the Wood". The piece is called "Rave-On".
3)The duo, "Muzeki" which is Mark Varelas and Jenny O'connor from their self-published CD "Marva Matia". The track is "unknown Sytrto".
4)Natalie McMaster. That was "Balmoral Highlanders" off of her 1998 release on the Warner label, "My Roots are Showing".
5)Reuben Gonzalez "Cumbanchero" from the 1997 release on Nonesuch; "Introducing Reuben Gonzalez.
6)Malian Kora master Seckou Keita "Dorygui-ba"" on the Brittish label "ARC" published in 2002.
7)Barefoot. That was "Gitano de Paraguay" off of Barefoot's 1990 Global Pacific label recording simply titled Barefoot.
8)Nico and Rashad "First Sketch".
9)Shaodowfax with "Streetnoise" off of a 1995 live recording on the Sonic Image label.
10)Cayambe. The track is called "El Pituco" and it's on Cayambe's self-published "BEST OF" album.
11)Baka Beyond off their 2000 release on the Hannibal label titled "Sogo". The song is called "Street Dance".
12)The last cut in that set was a piece by Stephen Kent
13)Nico and Rashad. "The Jig of Kris".

Intro to Your Music

Hi, folks.
Welcome to Your Music, a weekly exploration of musical expressions nd talents from around the world. This radio program is broadcast each week on community radio stations WCRSlp
in Columbus, Ohio www.wcrsfm.org ( 102.1 and 98.3 fm) and on WGOTlp in Gainesville, Florida www.wgot.org ( 94.7 fm) I'll be posting program files and playlists asI go, starting with the older programs ( 1 - 44). Much thanks to the blogs "Nothing is v2.0", "Bravo Juju", "Never Enough Rhodes", and "Orgy of Rythm" and to RISE, a jazz program which airs of Pacifica station KPFK in Los Angeles www.kpfk.org for providing some of the material used in several of my programs, and others to come.