Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for November 21, 2015

Some programs are born, some are made. This one was made. Enjoyable just the same. I have attempted to thrust greatness upon it, we'll see if it sticks.

Unpopular Music, November 21, 2015 by Unpopularfred on Mixcloud

Playlist after the break

Regarding the Frank Zappa piece, the inspiration was the situation regarding refugees from Syria and elsewhere heading towards the United States (and elsewhere), and the objections from various politicians to accepting them. I'll concede that the idea of terrorists hiding among the huddled masses fleeing the war in Syria is perhaps plausible, but it's not as if that's the only way into the country. You may recall that most, if not all, of the September 11th hijackers were in the US legally. At least one had his visa renewed, not only overlooking the fact that he had participated in one of history's most notorious terrorist attacks, but that he was dead as well. So not only are you greeted with this piece of official bureaucratic suspicion ("welcome"), but, as Zappa says in the album notes, the idea that "anybody would ask those questions and expect anybody to give honest answers to them [...is] such a piece of classic government stupidity." So, to summarize, reversing our welcoming tradition in order to shut out these people who more likely to be on our side than any of the three entities fighting in the war they are fleeing is stupid. On the other hand, it's not like the system already in place to assess whom we should keep out and whom we should let in couldn't use some refreshing.

And as usual, I've fixed the edit that irked me for the archived version. That half-second of silence annoys me so that I'd rather end up complaining about nothing than leave it in.

artist	song	album	comment	label / date
The Turtles	Let Me Be	Solid Zinc: The Turtles Anthology	special guest 1st part of theme written by P. F. Sloan (RIP)	Rhino 1965
Naked City	Inside Straight	Naked City	2nd part of theme	Nonesuch 1989
Steve Lacy Sextet	Prospectus	Live at Sweet Basil	Steve Lacy (ss) Steve Potts (as) Irene Aebi (voc, vln) Bobby Few (p) Jean-Jacques Avenel (b) John Betsch (d) music by Steve Lacy, text by Blaise Cendrars adapted from a travel brochure	Novus 1991
Vijay Iyer Trio	Mmmhmm	Accelerando	Vijay Iyer (p) Stephan Crump (b) Marcus Gilmore (d) Whoops! not written by Stephan Crump as announced but a cover of a song by Flying Lotus and Thundercat, written by Stephen Bruner and Steve Ellison. I'm thinking I mispronounced the title as well.	ACT Music 2012
Lisa Germano	Just Geek	Geek The Girl	music behind DJ	4AD 1994
John Tchicai / Garrison Fewell / Tino Tracanna / Paolino dala Porta / Massimo Manzi	The Queen of Ra	Big Chief Dreaming	John Tchicai (ts) Garrison Fewell (g. tune) Tino Tracanna (ss, ts) Paolino dala Porta (b) Massimo Manzi (d)	Soul Note 2003
Variable Density Sound Orchestra	Mystical Realities	Evolving Strategies	Garrison Fewell (g) John Tchicai (ts) Roy Campbell Jr. (trp) Steve Swell (tbn, tune) Dmitry Ishenko (b) Reggie Nicholson (d)	Not Two 2012
Tomeka Reid Quartet	Woodlawn	Tomeka Reid Quartet	Tomeka Reid (vc) Mary Halvorson (g) Jason Roebke (b) Tomas Fujiwara (d)	Thirsty Ear 2015
Paul Bley	Monk's Dream	Basics	song by Thelonious Monk	Justin Time 2001
Wayne Horvitz	This New Generation	This New Generation	music beind DJ	Nonesuch 1985
Frank Zappa / Ensemble Modern	Welcome to the United States	The Yellow Shark	dramatzation of INS form I-94W performed by Herman Kretzschmar	Barking Pumpkin 1992
Asiko Rock Group	Lagos City	Asiko Rock Group	music behind DJ	EMI 1972
Weather Report	Freezing Fire	Live and Unreleased	Joe Zawinul (keys) Wayne Shorter (ss, ts, tune) Alphonso Johnson (b) Chester Thompson (d) Alex Acuna (prc)	Columbia 1975
Oy	Carry Us Home	No Problem Saloon	song by Joy Frempong and Lleluja-Ha	Crammed Discs 2014
David Shire	Dream Sequence	The Conversation	music by David Shire	Intrada Records 1974
Juana Molina	El Vistado	Un Día	Juana Molina (voc, syn) Gareth Dickson (g)	Domino Records 2008
Nadia Sirota and Nico Muhly	Etude 1	First Things First	music behind DJ	New Amsterdam 2010
Mojack	Advertising Services	Under the Willow Tree	Tony Atherton (as) Greg Ginn (g, b) Mike Lopez (d)	SST 2007
Arnold Dreyblatt / The Orchestra of Excited Strings	Meantime	The Adding Machine	Robert Black (b) Jeff Lieberman, Mark Stewart (modified elec g) Laurel F. Smith (vl) Danny Tunick (prc) Evan Ziporan (cmb) music by Arnold Dreyblatt	Canteloupe 2001
Aloha	Thermostat	Here Comes Everyone	Tony Cavallario (voc, g) Cale Parks (d) T.J. Lipple (prc)	Polyvinyl 2004
Apollo 100	Joy	Rock Masters: In The Hall Of The Mountain King	music by Tom Parker and Clive Scott after Johann Sebastian Bach	Digital Music Group 1972
Aimee Mann	Nothing is Good Enough	Magnolia [Original Soundtrack]	music behind DJ	Reprise 1999
Alarm Will Sound	Meltphace 6	Acoustica - Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin	Music by Richard D. James, arr. by Payton McDonald	Canteloupe 2005