My good friend Ben M had a milestone birthday back in January and I dragged my feet getting some presents to him. Eventually I did and our mutual love of music, both challenging, sweet and obscure that has strengthened our bond over the years is represented here.
This mix gave me the utmost pleasure in putting it together and now you too can enjoy it.
[mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/mrbootle/silent-days-plutonian-nights-for-ben-papa-j/ width=100% height=120 hide_cover=1 light=1]
Track listing:
- Farmers – The Residents
from Eskimo (pREServed Edition) - Mean Machine Chant – The Last Poets
from Best of The Last Poets - Beauty and the Electric Tub – Henry Franklin
from Gilles Peterson – Black Jazz Radio Jazz - Late Date – Ben Webster Quintet
from Soulville - Grease The Axles – Liberez
from All Tense Now Lax - Lawncare – Women
from Women - Vasemman käden hierarkia – Oranssi Pazuzu
from Värähtelijä - Held – Malibu
from Mono No Aware - Silent Days – Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids
from We Be All Africans - They Put the Stars Far Away – Alabaster Deplume
from The Corner of a Sphere - Movement 1.2 – Ben Marston & Hugh Barrett
from Unfound Places - Plutonian Nights – Sun Ra And His Solar-Myth Arkestra
from Marshall Allen presents Sun Ra And His Arkestra: In The Orbit Of Ra - God’s Gonna Cut You Down – Odetta
from Odetta Sings Blues and Ballads - Bird’s Word – The Last Poets
from Best of The Last Poets - Lightyears – The Comet Is Coming feat. Joshua Idehen
from Channel the Spirits - Nothing Stirs – The Body
from I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer