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Chance Meeting
Friday August 4th, 2023 with Heavy Ben
Sonic Adventures in Spiritual Music

Chance meeting on a meditation of repetition and narration (to embiggen the show icon, right-click and choose "Open image in new tab")
System One
Bruce Mitchell - Orchestral Synthesis - Parry Music Library - Canadian
The Night Of Power
Abdur Razzaq & Rafiyq - The Night Of Power (Laylatu'l Qadri) - Green Essence Records / Séance Centre - 1983 / 2023
Narration
Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari - Grounation - New Dimension - 1973
Satori (FierceLight Dub)
Adham Shaikh - Arcana / Resonance (Selected Ambient Works) - Interchill / Sonicturtle - 2006 / 2010 Canadian
Cattle Herders Chant
African Head Charge - Songs Of Praise - On-U Sound - 1990
Interactive CKCU
PeterB
Diggin' this Ben! Andy ("Willard Finch") yeah?

3:11 PM, August 4th, 2023
Ben Armstrong (host)
Wassup PeterB, glad you dig.

3:15 PM, August 4th, 2023
Peter(thumbs)B
Groovin' ... and inserting thumbs between the seat and keyboard.... Abdur Razzaq & Rafiyq, right? (Andy my son who has a gig at Live on Elgin tonight.)

3:20 PM, August 4th, 2023
Ben Armstrong (host)
Abdur Razzaq & Rafiyq indeed, aka Dennis Matthews & Calvin Vivian... "Recorded in one mystical night during Ramadan in 1982" Hope the gig is fun

3:29 PM, August 4th, 2023
Thanks ckcu mike p
this is really something, great, Ben!

3:35 PM, August 4th, 2023
Ben Armstrong (host)
thanks for letting me know, mike p like the promo goes: You're listening to CKCU, you must be if you're hearing THIS!

3:40 PM, August 4th, 2023
gentlegypsie
my ears drinkin' up da Rasta like fine Original aged Wine Orisha Oracles ... in da beat Behold the Rastafarian Bible Honor o' Queen of Sheba, Crown'd

3:48 PM, August 4th, 2023
Eddy
Hey Ben, anything African and psychedelic is tops on my list, thanks for the Friday floatation ……..drumming is a language !!

3:53 PM, August 4th, 2023
Ben Armstrong (host)
hi gentlegypsie, thanks for commenting and glad you like the sounds

3:56 PM, August 4th, 2023
Ben Armstrong (host)
Hey Eddy! Psychedelic Africa is a theme to explore for a future episode

3:57 PM, August 4th, 2023
Leege
This was fantastic! Not as weird as I was expecting. Thanks HB!

4:00 PM, August 4th, 2023