This Island Earth
Sunday March 3rd, 2024 with Rob Bitschofsky
Some old, some new, all terrific!

A Deeper Shade Of Soul
Ray Barretto - Acid (Remastered 2024)

Acid
Ray Barretto - Acid (Remastered 2024)

Joropo, No.1
Grupo C.I.M. - Soul Jazz Records Presents Venezuela 70: Cosmic Visions of a Latin American Earth - Venezuelan Experimental Rock in the 1970s

Caña Brava
Fefita La Grande - Merengue Típico: Nueva Generación!

La Negra
Bilo y sus Típicos - Merengue Típico: Nueva Generación!

Qué Mala Suerte
Rafaelito Roman - Merengue Típico: Nueva Generación!

Dima Bolane
Le Ry-co Jazz - Tumbélé! Afro & Latin Sounds from the French Caribbean, 1963-74

Oriza
Les Kings - Tumbélé! Afro & Latin Sounds from the French Caribbean, 1963-74

Dew
Shay Hazan - Wusul

A Bite of Sand
Shay Hazan - Wusul

Marabayasa
Rail Band - Rail Band

Tondo
Disclosure & Eko Roosevelt - ENERGY

Les Jaloux Saboteurs
Maître Gazonga - Golden Afrique Vol. 1

Sungu Lubuka
Petelo Vicka et Son Nzazi - Congo Funk! - Sound Madness From the Shores of the Mighty Congo River (Kinshasa/Brazzaville 1969-1982) (Analog Africa No.38)

Blue G. (feat. Nongoma)
Konkolo Orchestra - Future Pasts

Exhibition Dechaud
Docteur Nico & Orchestre African Fiesta - Golden Afrique Vol. 2

Eklemedir Koca Konak
Fasıl-ı Jazz - Alva

Istanbul (feat. Elijah Fox)
Yussef Dayes - The Yussef Dayes Experience - Live From Malibu

Mango Di Bango
Tosca - Dehli9

SulaMadiana (For Manu Dibango)
Mino Cinelu & Nils Petter Molvær - SulaMadiana

Together
Misha Panfilov Sound Combo - Days As Echoes

Sonido Cósmico
Hermanos Gutiérrez - Sonido Cósmico

Mahal
Glass Beams - Mahal - EP

May Ninth
Khruangbin - A LA SALA

Mashoor
Sheherazaad - Qasr - EP

Nebo (feat. Bodek Janke)
Igor Osypov - Motherland?2k14

Yuba Source Part I
Date Palms - The Dusted Sessions

End of Innocence
Shabaka - Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace

The Plum Blossom (Remastered 2023)
Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds

De l'Orient à l'Orion
RK Nagati - Mobilisation Générale: Protest and Spirit Jazz from France (1970-1976)

Shiva-Loka (Live)
Alice Coltrane - Shiva-Loka (Live) - EP

Interactive CKCU

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Greetings, Earthlings! Broadcasting live on a fine afternoon. You guys know the drill: comments below, por favor!

1:06 PM, March 3rd, 2024

Shubham
Good show Rob

1:27 PM, March 3rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Hey Shubham! Lots more to come, so stick around!

1:29 PM, March 3rd, 2024

robert p in gatineau
Great start to the show ! Upbeat ! Thank you !

2:05 PM, March 3rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
hey rp in g! Always good to have you along for the ride! It's gonna stay upbeat for another while before we slow things down a bit. Enjoy!

2:11 PM, March 3rd, 2024

Bobby Calzone
By the way, there's à really cool complete video of Alice Coltrane harmonium and chant with beautiful hindi décor and intense smoke - everybody needs to check this out! Absolutely gorgeous, profound, mesmerizing! https://youtu.be/JMfLGKeM9pY?si=t5rbojrq9i_wdHAO

3:01 PM, March 3rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Cool stuff, Bobby Calzone! I've not seen this.

3:06 PM, March 3rd, 2024

Bobby Calzone
This is actually how i discovered her. I didnt know much of her carreer as harpiste, and jazz wife of John. I knew she went to India, but i did not know she converted, lives, and has ashram there. Trust me, watch this in its entirety, alone, in a quiet room, and you will find God!

3:09 PM, March 3rd, 2024

Neil and his Dancing Labrador
Hi Rob. What was that soft jazzy number with soft vocal and delicate guitar work like a breezy summer afternoon?

3:09 PM, March 3rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Just before this one? That was the new Krruangbin. Wonderful, isn't it? May Ninth, it's called. From a forthcoming album.

3:11 PM, March 3rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Sorry, Khruangbin!

3:11 PM, March 3rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Bobby, you'll get some of her harp on the live track coming up at the end of the show.

3:13 PM, March 3rd, 2024

Bobby Cpalzone
Hey Neil, and Drake! We lost Hillbilly yesterday, but we sure had some fun, eh? :)

3:13 PM, March 3rd, 2024

Neil and his Dancing Labrador
Greetings to all. Wadup, Bobby?! Late signing in but have been grooving to Rob's setlist.

3:19 PM, March 3rd, 2024

Neil and his Dancing Labrador
Sheherazaad was so completely stunning and beautiful. Stopped me dead in my tracks making a salad in the kitchen. Desperate to open laptop, login and get to the playlist before it ended to catch a clue.. Thanks Rob. Love your taste today, man

3:23 PM, March 3rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
A few more grooves to come, Neil!

3:24 PM, March 3rd, 2024

Neil and his Dancing Labrador
You 'Da Man!

3:25 PM, March 3rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
And yeah, she sounds great. Produced by Arooj Aftab, who's also been doing some cool-sounding stuff lately.

3:26 PM, March 3rd, 2024

Neil and his Dancing Labrador
I will check him out. Thanks for the tip, Rob

3:51 PM, March 3rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Her! She's got a couple of records out, but also last year did a collab with Vijay Iyer and Shahzad Ismaily that got some play on the show.

3:53 PM, March 3rd, 2024

Neil and his Dancing Labrador
BTW Your Bay Baretto opener today blew my socks off! Love that guy! So thx for thatWhat a kickstart!!!

3:54 PM, March 3rd, 2024

Neil and his Dancing Labrador
doh! Ray

3:54 PM, March 3rd, 2024

Bobby calzone
Hey guys, sorry got some of my facts wrong. Alice Coltrane does not have an ashram in India. She died, in 2007, at the ashram she created in Los Angeles, after her trip to India.

3:56 PM, March 3rd, 2024

Neil and his Dancing Labrador
Hope the ashram is still there in her honour

3:58 PM, March 3rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Neil: That Ray Barretto is an old fave, for sure. Bobby: you were more right than wrong! Thanks for tuning in, you two. And everybody else!

4:04 PM, March 3rd, 2024

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