Ridgewood Radio Retrospective #2: Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein

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Ridgewood Radio with David Weinstein: Playlist from April 22, 2026

Ridgewood Radio features concert recordings by adventurous bands and experimental musicians and restored archival tapes from private and institutional collections captured at venues large and small across the five boroughs of New York. It is produced by David Weinstein and Outpost Artists Resources operating out of the Ridgewood section of Queens, NY, where you'll find more yellow bricks than on the road to Oz and the cemetery of your choice is never more than a few blocks from home.

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Skeleton Clock, France, circa 1900

Revisiting memorable tracks from Popol Vu and Lou Harrison
to Horse Lords, Komodo Kolektif, Moondog and more...

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Girls Together Outrageously	Circular Circulation	Zappéd	Bizarre/Reprise	1969	The song (aka Do Me in Once and I’ll Be Sad, Do Me in Twice and I’ll Know Better), from a compilation produced by Frank Zappa (also with Captain Beefheart, Wild Man Fischer, Lord Buckley), taken from their album Permanent Damage.

Trio Chemirani	Geisha DJan	Qalam Kar	Iris Music	2012	A Persian cross-genre music ensemble out of Tehran, with Chemirani family members Bijan, Djamchid, and Keyvan, percussion masters of the tompak, aka zarb.	0:04:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ikue Mori/Craig Taborn	Two Disagreeable Pigeons	Highsmith	Tzadik	2017	Ikue Mori, electronics; Craig Taborn, piano.	0:08:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Komodo Kolektif	Night of the Leyak	Sumantras	Invisible, Inc.	2017	Out of Glasgow, Scotland: Graeme Miller, GK Machine, Paul Johnston, Jon Keliehor. The instruments used (saron, gender, kempul) belong to local gamelan ensemble Gamelan Naga Mas.	0:12:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bernard Parmegiani	En Phase/Hors Phase from Dedans Dehors	OHM: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music (1948-1980)	Ellipsis Arts	2000	Parmigiani (1927-2013) was a French composer/producer/engineer best known for his electronic or "acousmatic" music, film scores, and jingles.	0:19:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
dumama + kechou	wessi walking mama	buffering juju	Mushroom Hour Half Hour	2020	“Nomadic future folk music”, the Capetown duo is Gugulethu Duma and Kerim Melik Becker, with Siya Makuzeni on this track.	0:22:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Popol Vuh	Train Through Time	Affenstunde	Liberty Records	1970	Notable early example of the Moog synthesizer being used for the production and composition of psychedelic music. Florian Fricke, Moog synthesizer; Holger Trülzsch, percussion; Frank Fiedler, synthesizer mixdown; Bettina Fricke, tablas.	0:32:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
David Edren	Karawitan	Electronic Gamelan Music	Social Harmony	2017	From a series of exercises in live polyrhythmic structures and minimal melodic music. Composer Edren writes, "they are in no way trying to represent or to imitate traditional gamelan music from Java or Bali."	0:38:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lou Harrison	Seed	Labrynth	Hat Hut	2000	Maelström Percussion Ensemble performs the 1941 piece scored for 11 percussionists.	0:43:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ensemble Nist-Nah	Planeker	Elders	Black Truffle	2022	Nine-piece percussion group led by Nantes-based Australian percussionist Will Guthrie with French musicians on drum kits, traditional and junk percussion, and Javanese gamelan instruments.	0:49:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Horse Lords	Broadcast Recording	Pioneer Works Live	Clocktower Radio	22 July 16	The Baltimore-based quartet: saxophonist/percussionist Andrew Bernstein, bassist/synthesist Max Eilbacher, guitarist Owen Gardner, and drummer Sam Haberman from a live studio session. Excerpts.	1:00:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
José Halac	Scream (concert recording)	Roulette Concert Series	Roulette Archive	9 May 1997	The gospel of South American folk music and rhythms constructed around Northwest Argentina Quechua chants, with Kato Hideki on electric bass, Masahiko Kono on trombone, Jason Cirker on drums, and (Argentine) Halac on percussion, voice, and electronics.	1:22:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Moondog & The London Saxophonic	Bird's Lament	Sax Pax for a Sax	1997	Atlantic Records	The track features Moondog on the bass drum and there are nine total saxophonists on this album. This is a looped extended cut.	1:40:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

Listener comments!
	🥁 ♥ 5:00pm : Hello David W, Ruth and Ridgewood folks.
	🥁 ♥ 5:01pm david w: WR! Hello!
	🥁 ♥ 5:01pm Olleh: Hi David! My teenage Crushes, the GTOs!
	🥁 ♥ 5:03pm Yvang: Hi David and ridgewoodlanders!
	🥁 ♥ 5:06pm david w: ↳ Olleh @5:01 Olleh! Yeah, crazy sweethearts...
	🥁 ♥ 5:06pm david w: ↳ Yvang @5:03 Yvang! Hi hi hi!
	🥁 ♥ 5:06pm WR: ↳ Song: "Circular Circulation" by "Girls Together Outrageo... I would have loved to get the Zappéd compilation. In lew of that, a friend and I got everything on Bizarre and Straight that we could find or special order.
	🥁 ♥ 5:11pm Olleh: ↳ david w @5:06 The late Miss Christine was my heart’s fave. They were indeed scary
	🥁 ♥ 5:12pm david w: ↳ WR @5:06 I haven't chekcked but wonder if Zapped is available online somewhere.
	🥁 ♥ 5:13pm WR: ↳ david w @5:12 um, not if the Zappa family finds it.
	🥁 ♥ 5:15pm Olleh: ↳ david w @5:12 I remember it being available in music mags of the time. You could order for one thin dollah. I think it was through big Daddy Warners. There were a number of cool 1 buck comps. I have a cool one, a 2 for. Not zapped tho.
	🥁 ♥ 5:18pm Olleh: ↳ WR @5:13 A cool find o’ memory was a Zappa ad for a club I think in Marvel Comics, or was it for a catalog?
	♥ 5:20pm ranjit: ↳ Song: "En Phase/Hors Phase from Dedans Dehors" by "Berna... this was immediately familiar to me but i couldn't remember why until I saw that it was on OHM, which I have but haven't listened to in years
	🥁 ♥ 5:20pm WR: ↳ david w @5:12 it is reasonably priced on discogs for vinyl.
	🥁 ♥ 5:21pm david w: ↳ ranjit @5:20 ranjit! Great compilation!
	🥁 ♥ 5:33pm Olleh: ↳ Song: "Train Through Time" by "Popol Vuh" Woah! Fantastic tale and good fortune!
	🥁 ♥ 5:40pm chresti: Hi David and ridgewoodians!
	🥁 ♥ 5:41pm david w: ↳ chresti @5:40 chresti! Hi there!
	🥁 ♥ 5:43pm tom tom the pipers son: hey david and all….
	🥁 ♥ 5:44pm david w: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:43 Hey mister tom, welcome!
	🥁 ♥ 6:02pm tom tom the pipers son: horse lords from baltimore! … and i thought they were from brooklyn… : ( … isn’t everyone from brooklyn…?
	🥁 ♥ 6:03pm Olleh: ↳ Song: "Broadcast Recording" by "Horse Lords" I dig this. Studio works available?
	🥁 ♥ 6:04pm Yvang: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:02 I am not from Brooklyn. I took a walk in Brooklyn once and it was very nice.
	🥁 ♥ 6:05pm david w: ↳ Olleh @6:03 Horse Lords has a new album coming soon, is that what you are looking for?
	🥁 ♥ 6:06pm tom tom the pipers son: kind of a combination of evan parker meets john lee hooker meets red era king crimson… but they have not evolved much since 2016
	♥ 6:06pm tim abdellah: ↳ Song: "Broadcast Recording" by "Horse Lords" Hi David and fellow listeners. Loving this sound!
	🥁 ♥ 6:06pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Yvang @6:04 you’re just from brooklyn, but you don’t know it...
	🥁 ♥ 6:07pm Yvang: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:06 Brooklyn News!!
	🥁 ♥ 6:08pm Olleh: ↳ david w @6:05 Just any place to hear more. I see they have aBandcamp site
	🥁 ♥ 6:09pm david w: ↳ tim abdellah @6:06 hello tim! I'm fascinated by the microtonal off-kilter groove math rock scene.
	🥁 ♥ 6:10pm tom tom the pipers son: @ david… horse lords has an album with arnold dreyblatt… some nice things on that...
	🥁 ♥ 6:13pm david w: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:10 This band, Dreyblatt, $75 Dollar Bill, and now Angine de Poitrine hit the spot for me.
	🥁 ♥ 6:17pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ david w @6:13 do not know angine de poitrine… but btw, last wednesday saw a young pianist jonathan paik … blew minds….
	♥ 6:26pm tim abdellah: ↳ david w @6:13 Love $75 Dollar Bill. Will check out Dreyblatt. Angine de Poitrine keeps popping up in my social feeds - must check out further!
	🥁 ♥ 6:28pm tom tom the pipers son: dreyblatt precedes them all in producing repetitive microtonal overtones
	🥁 ♥ 6:30pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Scream (concert recording)" by "José Halac" Diamonds are forever - in there
	🥁 ♥ 6:34pm chresti: at the beginning of (the vocal)
	🥁 ♥ 6:36pm david w: ↳ chresti @6:34 Thank you!
	🥁 ♥ 6:36pm tom tom the pipers son: moondog yay…!
	🥁 ♥ 6:46pm david w: The full color radio future: 7-10pm EDT: BODEGA POP LIVE with Gary Sullivan: Azerbaijan: Gobsmacking shellac, pop, experimental, jazz, traditional, and guitar sounds from the Land of Fire. wfmu.org... 10-midnite: IF YOU LOSE YOUR HORSE with Sam Segal
	🥁 ♥ 6:50pm tom tom the pipers son: @ david … this recording from 1997, but the tune goes bak to the 50’s… correct?
	🥁 ♥ 6:50pm Webhamster Henry: HI folks! Missed the Lou Harrison I guess!
	🥁 ♥ 6:52pm david w: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:50 1955, apparently.
	🥁 ♥ 6:53pm david w: ↳ Webhamster Henry @6:50 Henry! And we missed you too!
	🥁 ♥ 6:55pm david w: Just grooving on Moondog and then, adios for today. Thanks everybody!
	🥁 ♥ 6:57pm chresti: Thanks David!
	🥁 ♥ 6:57pm Yvang: Thanks David!
	🥁 ♥ 6:59pm chris in the redwoods: thanks, David! love love Bird's Lament!
	🥁 ♥ 7:01pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ david w @6:53 I was at Gamelan practice again!
	♥ 7:14pm coelacanth∅: Thanks david