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This Island Earth
Sunday February 28th, 2021 with Rob Bitschofsky
Mostly new releases, including a full play of the very new Nicolas Repac record, plus a little blast of old-school Fania salsa in honour of the passing of the great Johnny Pacheco.

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Groovy tunes and grotesque mispronunciations, in the classic This Island Earth style.
Loco de Amor
David Byrne - Rei Momo
Coq a counula
Erick Cosaque - Cosaque 1978 New
Baila Chibiquiban
Nico Gomez And His Afro Percussion Inc. - Ritual
Free Your Mind
Made Kuti - For(e)ward New
Stop the Hate
Femi Kuti - Stop The Hate New
Aiha Ni Kpe We
T.P Orchestre Poly Rythmo De Cotonou - Vol. 4 – Yehouessi Leopold Batteur New
El Agua Del Clavelito
Johnny Pacheco - Pacheco y Su Charanga (feat. Elliot Romero)
El Paso del Mulo
Celia Cruz & Johnny Pacheco - Celia & Johnny
Che Che Cole
Willie Colon - Cosa Nuestra
No me Llores Mas
Willie Colon - Cosa Nuestra
Guarare
Ray Barretto - Salsa Caliente De Nu York!
The Call of the Wild
David Byrne - Rei Momo
Kama Twist Dada
Nicolas Repac - Rhapsodic New
Go Future
Nicolas Repac - Rhapsodic New
Dancestral
Nicolas Repac - Rhapsodic New
Electrosapiens
Nicolas Repac - Rhapsodic New
Austral Rêverie
Nicolas Repac - Rhapsodic New
Space Mobylette
Nicolas Repac - Rhapsodic New
Ethnicolor
Nicolas Repac - Rhapsodic New
In the Land of Your Soul
Nicolas Repac - Rhapsodic New
Echo Système
Nicolas Repac - Rhapsodic New
Mars ma terre
Nicolas Repac - Rhapsodic New
Sama
Nicolas Repac - Rhapsodic New
Carambolage
Nicolas Repac - Rhapsodic New
Nomad Rhapsody
Nicolas Repac - Rhapsodic New
Chachimurenga (Remastered)
Stella Chiweshe - Ambuya! (Remastered) New
Njuzu (Remastered)
Stella Chiweshe - Ambuya! (Remastered) New
Dindi
Urban Village - Udondolo New
Izivunguvungu
Urban Village - Udondolo New
Ode to Simple Things
Kafayat Quadri - 1984 New
Teleportation
Kafayat Quadri - 1984 New
Ewin
Adey Omotade - Niri New
Amores (feat. El Buho)
Akkan - Akkan New
Nocturne (feat. Vincent Ségal, Ballaké Sissoko & Roger Raspail)
David Walters - Nocturne (feat. Vincent Ségal, Ballaké Sissoko & Roger Raspail) New
Papa Kossa (feat. Vincent Ségal, Ballaké Sissoko & Roger Raspail)
David Walters - Nocturne (feat. Vincent Ségal, Ballaké Sissoko & Roger Raspail) New
Amarelou (feat. João Donato)
Mateus Aleluia - Olorum New
Lo Tuyo No Tiene Madre
Alex Ferreira - TANDA New
Floresta
Triorganico - Floresta
Interactive CKCU
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Greetings, Earthlings! Show's a recording, but I'm here as usual to dispense my pearls of wisdom upon you all. Please enter your questions, comments and so on below.

1:04 PM, February 28th, 2021
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Live listeners: listen to me mispronouncing Johnny Pacheco's name right now! Is there any name I can't butcher? Sheesh!

1:06 PM, February 28th, 2021
PqirtBslrab
Well, the mispronunciation challenge would actually be 'Bitschofsky' . Sayin'...... Tradition. As myself a dude with too many consonants.

1:22 PM, February 28th, 2021
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
true, PB, true. I've been on the receiving end of many a butchered Bitschofsky. Does that give me license?

1:25 PM, February 28th, 2021
OhnoseNottatOne Argon
Your license is Ocetainistlogoggicvcilllly granted. Duh! Mis pronounced with great passion, and style q;^)

1:35 PM, February 28th, 2021
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
I accept!

1:41 PM, February 28th, 2021
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
As we're now in the Nicolas Repac portion of our show, I'll just pop this footnote here: according to Repac's Bandcamp page, "The musician plunged into musicologist Charles Duvelle's pioneering field recordings, in order to deconstruct and revisit rare music archives gleaned from all over the world." I'm assuming this has got to be the same Charles Duvelle who ran the very awesome French label Ocora. Presumably the samples come from Ocora's terrific catalog of world music recordings. Cool!

2:09 PM, February 28th, 2021
Shubham
What’s playing now

2:30 PM, February 28th, 2021
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Hi Shubham. This is the new album by Nicolas Repac. It's great!

2:34 PM, February 28th, 2021
Manmohan
Wicked show, RobB. Lovin' it while sowing veggie seeds in my trays!

3:24 PM, February 28th, 2021
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Glad you're digging it, Manmohan. I feel certain that the audio vibes will enrich your agricultural operation!

3:25 PM, February 28th, 2021
Manmohan
I'm digging it, literally and figuratively. The seeds are grooving to the tunage.

3:49 PM, February 28th, 2021
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Dig, man, dig!

3:50 PM, February 28th, 2021
YOWeee
Enjoying Triorganico.

3:57 PM, February 28th, 2021
Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Terrific, right? I gather that guitarist Milton do Nascimento is in the group. I hadn't realized before: I've played lots of his solo stuff on the show, but never this group.

3:58 PM, February 28th, 2021