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Heavy Friends
Saturday May 8th, 2021 with Heavy Friend Tarek Al-Zand (hour 1) & Heavy Ben (hour 2)
Musical Mixed Bag!

Heavy Friends welcomes back Tarek Al-Zand for an hour of grooves. In hour 2 Heavy Ben takes control like only he can!
Hour 1: Heavy Friend Tarek Al-Zand returns to the air and provides an hour of music!
Wondemiye
Lemma Gebre Hiwot, Selamawit Gebre Selassie, Zenebech Tesfaye - Ethiopian Wedding Songs - Domino Sound - 1973 / 2012
Arwio
Ginger Baker - Stratavarious - ATCO Records - 1971
Oremi
King Sunny Ade - Aura - Mango - 1984
Percussion Instruments
Music Of The Malinké - Africa - Music Of Occidental Africa - Esoteric - 1954
Kasalefkut Hulu
Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu Of Ethiopia - Worthy Records - 1972 / 2003
Always Something (There To Remind Me)
Wendell Stuart and the Downbeats - S/T - Elite Records Ltd. - 1969
Mother Beautiful
Sly and the Family Stone - Small Talk - Epic - 1974
Heavy Duty Dub
Harry Mudie Meet King Tubby's - In Dub Conference Volume One - Moodisc Records International - 1976
Sonny’s Lettah (anti-sus poem)
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Forces of Victory - Mango - 1979
When You Sleep
Suicideyear - Remembrance - Software - 2014
What You Won’t Do For Love
Bobby Caldwell - S/T - Clouds - 1974
Under World
Reckless Breed - Reckless Roots Rockers - Wackie's - 1976
Solid Foundation
The Congos - Heart of The Congos - VP Records - 1977
N.Y. Is Good
BS 2000 - Simply Mortified - Grand Royal - 2000
Don’t Be Scared
Yoko Ono - Milk And Honey - Polydor - 1984
Material Man
Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse - Mango - 1982
Hour 2: Heavy Ben provides the vibe!
Be With
Koushik - Be With - Stones Throw - 2008 Canadian
Stories To Tell
Flora Purim - Stories To Tell - Milestone - 1974
Chequere Son
Grupo Irakere - Cuba: Music And Revolution (Culture Clash In Havana Cuba: Experiments In Latin Music 1975-85 Vol. 1) - Soul Jazz Records - 2021 (orig. 1976) New
La Rivière Des Perles
Becker & Mukai - Two Synths A Guitar (And) A Drum Machine #1 - Soul Jazz Records - 2021 (orig. 2017) New
Mini-Sym #1 [Allegro | Andante Adagio | Vivace]
Moondog - Moondog - Columbia Masterworks - 1969
Out On My Own
Sheila Chandra - Out On My Own - Indipop - 1984
Tubular Rock
Bunny J. Browne (Johnny Hawksworth) - Disco Pop - Parry Music Library - 1977 Canadian
Lily
New Fries - Two Synths A Guitar (And) A Drum Machine #1 - Soul Jazz Records - 2021 (orig. 2020) Canadian New
Minimal Dance N. 1
Tiziano Popoli - Burn the Night / Bruciare la Notte: Original Recordings, 1983–1989 - Rvng Intl., Freedom To Spend - 2021 (rec. 1985) New
Puff Lah
Kaytranada - Bubba - RCA - 2020 Canadian
Sondeando
Grupo De Experimentación Sonora Del ICAIC - Cuba: Music And Revolution (Culture Clash In Havana Cuba: Experiments In Latin Music 1975-85 Vol. 1) - Soul Jazz Records - 2021 (orig. 1975) New
Du Morgon Au Moulin-À-Vent (Pour Duke)
The Jahari Massamba Unit (Karriem Riggins & Madlib) - Pardon My French - Madlib Invazion - 2020
Interactive CKCU
Chris Ikonomopoulos (host)
Welcome to your Saturday night.

8:08 PM, May 8th, 2021
zee
Yeah this is good

8:10 PM, May 8th, 2021
Tarek Al-Zand
Evening all! Glad you enjoying zee!

8:13 PM, May 8th, 2021
Chris Ikonomopoulos (host)
If you’re into this zee, stick around. Lots more to come. Thanks to Tarek Al-Zand for the music.

8:13 PM, May 8th, 2021
Eddy
Tarik, I am 66 years young and grew up on Ginger Baker and King Sunny, thank you all you young brilliant DJ s for this 🌈

8:19 PM, May 8th, 2021
Eddy
Sorry for the spelling Tarek

8:22 PM, May 8th, 2021
Tarek Al-Zand
So glad we can all listen to these tracks together Eddy! Music keeps us energized and young!

8:23 PM, May 8th, 2021
Yaz N
Enjoying the show Tarek, thank you

8:28 PM, May 8th, 2021
Tarek Al-Zand
Always stoked when you can tune in Yaz!

8:30 PM, May 8th, 2021
Tarek Al-Zand
Crazy fact to share, I bought the Harry Mudie off the bass player from Digital Underground at a flea market in San Francisco! Thank you Randy!

8:33 PM, May 8th, 2021
Oddball
Digging it!

8:34 PM, May 8th, 2021
Yaz N
LKJ! Love him and this song....

8:35 PM, May 8th, 2021
Koko
good evening and good morning! Listening from JP. Good music starts good day! Thank you Chris and Tarek!

8:36 PM, May 8th, 2021
Chris Ikonomopoulos (host)
Amazing Harry Mudie back story Tarek! Thanks for the long distance listen Koko! Glad everything sounds good to you Odball.

8:40 PM, May 8th, 2021
Tarek Al-Zand
Glad you feeling it Oddball! And hello Koko, so happy you can listen with us!

8:41 PM, May 8th, 2021
Heavy Ben
Nice selections Tarek glad to team up on tonight's episode and thanks to Chris for making the arrangements

8:42 PM, May 8th, 2021
Tarek Al-Zand
Rad to share the time with you Ben! Always amazed by your music knowledge

8:44 PM, May 8th, 2021
zee
this is a really nice mix!

8:48 PM, May 8th, 2021
Heavy Ben
Back at ya T_A_Z, some unexpected gems in hour one!

8:57 PM, May 8th, 2021
Heavy Lina
Great selection Tarek!

8:57 PM, May 8th, 2021
Tarek Al-Zand
This Becker and Mukai track is a mind melt! So good

9:20 PM, May 8th, 2021
Chris Ikonomopoulos (host)
Into all these sounds as always Ben! Really hitting the spot tonight.

9:28 PM, May 8th, 2021
Yaz
Whoa Sheila Chandra !

9:30 PM, May 8th, 2021
Heavy Ben
Excellent. Always like to know when a chord is struck. Thanks all!

9:35 PM, May 8th, 2021
Heavy Ben
Also, a bell is a cup until it is struck

9:35 PM, May 8th, 2021
Chris Ikonomopoulos (host)
thanks for the music!

10:00 PM, May 8th, 2021
robert p in gatineau
Listening on demand. Looking forward to Ginger Baker and others. Thanks.

11:21 PM, May 9th, 2021
Chris Ikonomopoulos (host)
Hopefully you enjoyed it robert p. Thanks for all the listening and support.

5:33 PM, May 10th, 2021
robert p in gatineau
Time well spent.

6:37 PM, May 10th, 2021
robert p in gatineau
I've been listening to CKCU since 1995. It helped me get through difficult times. You have no idea. Music made sense again. Nice to know that other people support the music.

6:50 PM, May 10th, 2021
Ben Armstrong (host)
In the words of Albert Ayler, music is the healing force of the universe

4:53 PM, May 13th, 2021