This Island Earth
Sunday June 23rd, 2024 with Rob Bitschofsky
Gone tropical!

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French Toast (Soleil Trop Chaud)
The English Beat - Wha'ppen?

Monkey Murders
The English Beat - Wha'ppen?

Let's Go Crazy
The Clash - Sandinista!

Help Me Somebody
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

Kasongo Boogaloo
Ricardo Lemva & Makina Loca - Isabela

Una Tarde en Mariquita
Alice Russell & Quantic - Look Around the Corner (with Combo Barbaro)

Dubbing My Friends
The Loving Paupers & Victor Rice - The Ghost of Ladders

Pica O Dedo
Africa Ritmos - Angola Soundtrack

Angolamania
Mendes Brothers - Cabo Verde

Fuguei na Escola (Para Jogar a Bola)
Teta Lando - Angola, Soundtrack 2 (Hypnosis, Distortions & Other Sonic Innovations 1969-1978)

Snipes
Dicanzas Do Prenda - Angola, Soundtrack 2 (Hypnosis, Distortions & Other Sonic Innovations 1969-1978)

It’s All In Your Mind
Hermanos Gutiérrez - Sonido Cósmico

Fahari Yetu
The Zawose Queens - Maisha

Abet Wubet
Gigi - Illuminated Audio

Astral Traveling
Pharoah Sanders - Thembi

Everymorning I Meditate
Lars Bartkuhn - Nomad

Búho (feat. Maitara)
Savan - Antes del Amanecer

Guadeloupe, île de mes amours
Erick Cosaque - Cosaque 1978

Paumalu
Mike Cooper - Rayon Hula (15th Anniversary Edition)

Kokoke Nalu
Mike Cooper - Rayon Hula (15th Anniversary Edition)

Boogaloo del Perro
Enrique Delgado Y Los Destellos - Gozalo - Bugalu Tropical Volume 2

Baby Boogaloo
Nilo Espinosa Y Orquesta - ¡Gozalo!: Bugalù Tropical

What We Learned That Night In Vera Cruz And How We Applied It
Kip Hanrahan - Exotica

A Bailar Tomason
Gran Afro Cuban Orchestra de Generoso Jimenez - Generoso Que Buen Toca Usted

Pueblo Nuevo
Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club

Le reel de Pointe-au-Pic
La Bottine Souriante - Anthologie

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

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

Homenaje a los Ambajadores
Les Ambassadeurs - Haiti Direct - Big Band, Mini Jazz & Twoubadou Sounds (1960-1978)

La Bamba
Milton Nascimento - Miltons

Kele Mou Bana
Don Pullen and the African-Brazilian Connection - Kele Mou Bana

Beginnings
Astrud Gilberto - Talkin' Verve: Astrud Gilberto

Freedom Flight
Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information

Interactive CKCU

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Greetings, Earthlings! Music with a tropical touch today. Even though it's pouring rain.

1:06 PM, June 23rd, 2024

robert p in gatineau
Great ! Thanks !

1:32 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Neil & The Dancing Labrador
So good to have you in the driver seat, Rob! You are just what the doctor ordered for today!! Thanks for the Sandanista; I always think of that and Black Market Clash as one since they were released on the same day. We did not play anything else at Record Runner for about a week. And the English Beat to open the show was sheer brilliance! Greetings Robert.

1:38 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Hi rp in g! Glad you're digging it!

1:38 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Hey Neil & TDL! Ooooh, I haven't listened to Black Market Clash in a while. Great stuff! Stay tuned, more good grooves coming.

1:40 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Neil & DL
Who is this at 2:30 en francais with the groovy baritone sax?!!

2:31 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Neil & DL
Aha!! Figured it out from the Mike Cooper track which was an easy one.

2:34 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Yep, Erick Cosaque. Great sax on there!

2:36 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Neil & DL
Guadeloupe, île de mes amours Erick Cosaque ABSOLUTELY KNOCKED ME OUT!!

2:37 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Great, right? Fairly recent reissue, maybe from a year or two back. I've played that one on the show before, and concur: it's a knockout!

2:41 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Bobby Calzone
Hey everybody ! Finally got faint cell signal. It is Stjean fête nationale whatever week-end and too many people up at cottage jammin up the signal. Just want to say I listened all day yesterday and am listening all day today. Cause Bobby Calzone is in the ZONE. The ckcu zone. The ottawa zone. The Canada zone. And not this québécois zone. Glad festivités rained out. And if you offend2d cause you frencch, well I AM french and making fun of myself ok? Just remember Frank Zappa . And in the same vein, why not play some Bottine Souriante, its world music, from Québec. Malheureusement it up, mon!

3:03 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Manmohan
Groove-laden sets as always. So good for the ears and for the soul. Thanks RobB!

3:04 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Hey Bobby in-the-Cal-Zone! Dunno if it fits my tropical theme, but your wish is my command. Here you go!

3:06 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Hey Manmohan! Glad you're in for the ride!

3:07 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Manmohan
Oh yeah I see Shuggie Otis un later in the show. I lovvvvveee that album and have it spinning on my turntable regularly.

3:09 PM, June 23rd, 2024

C
Good Lord! That was quick!!! Ask and you shall get ! Ckcu aims to please:)! P.s. it was so quick I wanst sure... thought maybe, maybe, zydeco? Or Mexican? So... tropical esti!

3:09 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
you ask, you get!

3:10 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Benoît
La Bottine Souriante for Bobby Calzone!

3:10 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
yeah, Manmohan, and that's my favourite track from it!

3:11 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Bc
Bin oui, esti! Bonne st jean benoit!

3:14 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Yep, Benoît, Bobby gets what he wants!

3:14 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Neil & DL
Wow Cool cover of Chicago!!!!

3:46 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Neil & The Dancing Labrador
Nice serve, Rob!! That's why you are the King of Island Earth!

3:47 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
I try, Neil, I try! Indeed, a Chicago cover. Stick around for the wicked Brazilian horns and the percussion coda.

3:49 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Neil & DL
That's a high recommendation, Mammohan!! I can't wait to hear it now at closing time. Thanks for the introduction!

3:52 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Manmohan's got it: It's a great record. Sadly, we'll miss a little at the end. Hadda make room for Calzone's request!

3:53 PM, June 23rd, 2024

N & DL
That is the only Chicago album that really matters.... the original Chicago Transit Authority!

3:54 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Agree!

3:54 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Bc
Im sorry, guys for posting à non musical tidbit again ,but I have to. This will be a stjean to remember. I don't know bout you guys , but its noahs ark here!!! And the hummingbitd is attacking my canadian flag (if you know hummingburds you know what I mean) maybebhe is pequiste, or maybe he wants some maple syrup and the cars are watching him mesemrized!!! Itsbgilaripis and ypu ar provifing perfect spundt4ack. Thank you. P.s. good thing hillbilly has canoe

3:56 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Bc
Sorry for typos, but I have put up in corner of window. Only way to get signal

3:57 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
Been pouring on and off all day here too, Bobby, although I just heard that the sun peaked out for a brief bit. I couldn't see it of course.

3:58 PM, June 23rd, 2024

Rob Bitschofsky (host)
No worries: we get you!

3:58 PM, June 23rd, 2024

N & DL
Yup.......Shuggie Otis is real sweet, Mammohan!!!!

3:59 PM, June 23rd, 2024

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