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This Island Earth
Sunday July 5th, 2020 with Rob Bitschofsky
Mostly new releases, along with a look back at the charming 70s/80s no-wave worldbeat of French musician Lizzy Mercier Descloux.

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Still not exactly live radio, thanks to the pandemic. But it's still This Island Earth!
Mais Où Sont Passées Les Gazelles
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Zulu Rock
Front d'alia - Ey Sareban
Constantinople - La porta d'oriente New
Fath-e bâb
Constantinople - La porta d'oriente New
Peacock
Roby Lakatos - Peacock New
Dutar & Drums (Afgan Improv)
Lloyd Miller - Eastern Arts
Taqsm & Tamzara (Turkish Improv)
Lloyd Miller - Eastern Arts
Dutar & Drum (Uighur Improv)
Lloyd Miller - Eastern Arts
Mekong Melodies
Lloyd Miller - Oriental Jazz Too
First Class
Khruangbin - Mordechai New
Connaissais de Face
Khruangbin - Mordechai New
Canto da Bahia (feat. Anthony Joseph)
Camarão Orkestra - Nação África New
Sunny Crypt (Daniel Haaksman Edit)
Francis Bebey - Black Atlantica Edits New
Akabongi (Daniel Haaksman Edit)
Soul Brothers - Black Atlantica Edits New
Asafo Beesuon (Daniel Haaksman Edit)
CK Mann +Carousel 7 - Black Atlantica Edits New
La Añoranza ft. Coco Maria, Dengue Dengue Dengue, Ori Kaplan (Rastronaut Remix)
Daniel Haaksman - Single
Atlántida
Dengue Dengue Dengue - Continentes Perdidos EP New
Barrabass
Dengue Dengue Dengue - Humos EP New
Eye Acucho (feat. Mikongo)
Dengue Dengue Dengue - Semillero EP
It's All My Imagination
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Zulu Rock
Abyssinia
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Zulu Rock
Queen Of Overdub Kisses
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Zulu Rock
No Golden Throat
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Press Color
Mission Impossible
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Press Color
Let's Get It On
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - One For The Soul
Love Streams
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - One For The Soul
Calypso Moguls (Tender Dub)
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Suspense
What Love (feat. Angel Bat Dawid, B'Rael Ali Thunder)
Ferdinando Arnò, Daniel and Gonora Sounds & Pharoah Sanders - Single New
Zulum Aldunya
Sharhabil Ahmed - The King of Sudanese Jazz New
Shepherd Song (feat. Afla Sackey, Antibalas, Gally Ngoveni, Nono Nkoane, Sibusile Xaba, Thabang Tabane, Tony Allen & Tubatsi Moloi)
Keleketla! & Coldcut - Keleketla! New
Broken Light (feat. Dele Sosimi, Ed ‘Tenderlonious’ Cawthorne, Gally Ngoveni, Nono Nkoane, Tamar Osborn, Thabang Tabane, The Jungle Drummer & Tubatsi Moloi)
Keleketla! & Coldcut - Keleketla! New
Papua Merdeka (feat. Afla Sackey, Dele Sosimi, Tamar Osborn, The Lani Singers & Tony Allen)
Keleketla! & Coldcut - Keleketla! New
Ulad Bambara
Hicham Bilali - Jola - Hidden Gnawa Music in Brussels New
Algher
Afropentatonism - Alhousseini Anivolla & Girum Mezmur New
Theme for Cecil
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids - Shaman! New
Interactive CKCU
Oliver M
Yes! Tuned in,

1:04 PM, July 5th, 2020
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Good day, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. The show is pre-recorded, but I'm here on the interactive LIVE in case any of you require advice, answers or clarifications about the music or about life, love, the universe or anything else.

1:05 PM, July 5th, 2020
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Oliver! Welcome!

1:05 PM, July 5th, 2020
Shubham
Great show Rob

1:10 PM, July 5th, 2020
Oliver M
Thank you, sir! Ready for the music and the wisdom!

1:11 PM, July 5th, 2020
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Thank you, Shubham. Did you listen already in advance, or are you clairvoyant?

1:13 PM, July 5th, 2020
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Oliver M: all answers are ultimately within.

1:14 PM, July 5th, 2020
Oliver
Within the answers shall be sought,

1:42 PM, July 5th, 2020
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
That plus the music and I think you're all set, Oliver.

1:45 PM, July 5th, 2020
robert p in gatineau
Listening from the website. T.I.E. on Sunday afternoon. The thing to do. Thanks.

2:12 PM, July 5th, 2020
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
hi robert p! glad to have you here today! And the website is indeed the thing to do, as our broadcast tower got destroyed in a little incident on the rooftop of our superterranean global HQ. So we're not making old-school radio waves today. Internet only!

2:16 PM, July 5th, 2020
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
BUT, people: rest assured that we're working around the clock to restore the tower and return triumphant to the FM spectrum. The mighty 93 will not be silenced!

2:17 PM, July 5th, 2020
JUDSON RICHARDSON
are you off the air?? I have no signal for the last couple of days. THIS SHOULD BE STATED ON THE SITE.

2:33 PM, July 5th, 2020
judson richardson
Sorry, found the off-air item after another search. Any time frame on fix?

2:36 PM, July 5th, 2020
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Hi Judson. We are, and it is. Our antenna that sends our signal to our broadcast tower got knocked over on Friday, killing our signal. We're working to get it back rolling, but until then, we're only available streaming on the Internet. And while I'm sorry that you're missing us, I have to say I'm delighted that our absence is causing such a powerful reaction! We'll be back on the air soon, I promise.

2:37 PM, July 5th, 2020
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
No official time frame, Judson, but we've got a new tower arriving on Monday. The hope is to be back on the air by the end of the week. Believe me, a bunch of people are hustling to rectify the situation.

2:39 PM, July 5th, 2020
Shubham
What is this playing at 2:56

2:56 PM, July 5th, 2020
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Hi Shubham. Lizzy Mercier Descloux with a Brazillian-inflected cover of Marvin Gaye's immortal smash hit Let's Get It On. Which, like, what did you come here for? Awesome stuff like this, right?

3:01 PM, July 5th, 2020
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Surf rock? Be-bop? Arabic sock hop? This crazy stuff right now is Sharhabil Ahmed, the King of Sudanese Jazz. Not released till July 10th, but I think they forgot to suppress the stream properly, so I'm giving it a world debut right now!

3:18 PM, July 5th, 2020
Oliver
Great tunes today Rob! Thanks for the vibes!!

4:00 PM, July 5th, 2020
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Oliver, it was my pleasure! Thanks for sticking around all afternoon!

4:01 PM, July 5th, 2020
Shelley Ann Morris
Hi Rob Listening on a Monday morning at work. Thank goodness for On Damand and Online--with all the shenanigans happening on the Unicentre roof--those without computer access are missing out!

8:41 AM, July 6th, 2020
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Hi Shelly Ann! Glad you're listening. And you're right; in the old pre-internet days, this would have silenced us completely. Thank you, Internet!

8:44 AM, July 6th, 2020