NO CONDITION IS PERMANENT [Episode #477 ~ 01-03-26]
Pictured: Remmy Ongala.
There’s something else. When we think of someone singing the blues—or gospel, or soul, for that matter—there’s a voice attached to that thought. And it’s gruff, rough, tough, and anything but pretty. One thing the many discrete musics of the Dark Continent have in common is an abhorrence of the “pure” unmodified tone. Take the banjo, for example, where the pure vibrations of the strings are corrupted by the drumhead’s snap. The European way with a string is to isolate its tone and enhance it; give it as much resonance as possible. In Africa, lyres have rattles tied to the ends of the strings, drums have rings of little bells around the heads, some dancers’ masks have kazoos hidden in the mouth-holes, while “other masked singers,” as [Deep Blues author Robert] Palmer remarks, use “deep chest growls, false bass tones produced in the back of the throat, strangulated shrieks, and other deliberately bizarre effects.” This obsession with tonal weirdness is no more odd than the European obsession with tonal purity—nothing in African music could be as strange as the castrati—but its results are certainly less predictable, even after generations of bubbling away at the bottom of the melting pot.
— David Wondrich, Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot 1843-1924
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Here’s what we played in Ep. 477 of No Condition Is Permanent:
FIRST SLICE O’SCHEIßE...
The Four Tops — “Sweet Was The Love” — Northern Soul 101 Hits
Murphy Williams — “Get On Up” — Brand New Wayo: Funk, Fast Times, & Nigerian Boogie Badness 1979–1983
The Routes — “Love Will Tear Us Apart” — Surfin’ Pleasures
Cem Karaca & Apaşlar — “Anadolu Oyun Havası” — Turkish Delights: Ultrararities from Beyond the Sea of Marmara
The Buzz — “You’re Holding Me Down” — The Alchemist of Pop: Home Made Hits and Rarities 1959–1966
Errol Thompson / Bunny Lee — “It’s A Dubbing Lie” — Randy’s Vintage Dub Selection: Dubbing At Randy’s 1969-1975
Lenny Dee — “Plantation Boogie” — Dr. Boogie Presents Bear Traces: Nugget’s From Bob’s Barn
Ros Serey Sothea — “Jam 10 Kai Thiet (Wait 10 More Months)” — Cambodian Nuggets
The Sy-Tations — “Thank You For Being My Girl” — Fresh Cuts with Eugene Viscione
Akim — “Voodoo Drums” — Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights
SECOND SLICE O’SCHEIßE…
The Real Kids — “Better Be Good” — The Real Kids
Los Shains — “Apache 66” — Sons Of Yma: A Collection of Peruvian Garage and Instrumental Bands from the ‘60s!
The Monks — “Monk Chant (Live)” — Black Monk Time
Geraldo Pino — “Let Them Talk” — Heavy Heavy Heavy
Dusty Springfield — “Bring Him Back” – Where Am I Going (mono)
P. Suseela & S.P. Balasubrahmanyam — “Intinti Ramayanam” — Bollywood Nuggets
Kaleidoscope — “Pulsating Dream” — Side Trips
The Revolutionaries — “Dutch Man” — Dutch Man Dub
The St. Louis Union — “English Tea” — Instro-Hipsters a Go-Go! Vol. 2
THIRD SLICE O’SCHEIßE…
Grupo Rosado — “El super corcho” — DoReMi 45rpm
The Puddin’ Heads — “Now You Say We’re Through” — Blow My Mind! The Doré-Era-Mira Punk & Psych Legacy
Xiu-Zhu Wu — “Flying Leaps In My Heart” — Taiwan & Singapore Disco
The Dance — “Do Dada” — New York Noise Vol. 1: Dance Music From The New York Underground 1978-1982
Remmy Ongala & Orchestre Super Matimila — “Pamella” — Songs For The Poor Man
Wynonie Harris — “Keep-A-Talkin’” — Rhythm ‘N’ Blues Vol. 2
Big Youth — “Marcus Garvey Dread” — Dread Locks Dread
THE FINAL SLICE O’SCHEIßE…
The Instrumentals — “Chop Suey Rock” — Mad Mike Monsters: A Tribute to Mad Mike Petrovich Vol. 1
Boogaloo Assassins — “Do You Wanna Dance” — Old Love Dies Hard
West, Bruce & Laing — “Pollution Woman” — Why Dontcha
Fela Ransome-Kuti & Africa ’70 — “Jeun Ko Ku (Chop ‘n Quench)” — Afrodisiac
J.C. Davis — “The Splib Pt 1” — Let’s Soul Dance: Black Dance Crazes 1957-1962
Lee Perry — “Culter Dub” — Dub Treasures From The Black Ark: Rare Dubs 1976 – 1978
The Shots — “Walk Right Out” — Rare Mod Vol. 1
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