"23 Skidoo are a British band playing a fusion of industrial, post-punk, alternative dance, rock, and world music. The group was named after an early 20th century American slang phrase that appeared in the work of Aleister Crowley, William S. Burroughs, Robert Anton Wilson and filmmaker Julian Biggs (see link). Formed in 1979 by Fritz Catlin, Johnny Turnbull and Sam Mills, and later augmented by Alex Turnbull and Tom Heslop, 23 Skidoo had interests in martial arts, Burundi and Kodo drumming, Fela Kuti, The Last Poets, William S. Burroughs, as well as the emerging confluence of industrial, post-punk and funk, heard in artists such as A Certain Ratio, Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, The Pop Group and This Heat."

Famously, included in sound track of Reservoir Dogs. Baker (aka Johannes "Hans" Bouwens, b: 1944)) was born near the end of World War II as the son of a single mother on the Gravenstraat in Hoorn. Months before Bouwens was born, his father, Peppino Caruso, a former Italian soldier from Calabria put to labor by the Germans in nearby Grosthuizen, had been killed while attempting to escape when he was to be transferred to Germany. This first album, Little Green Bag (1970), produced an immediate worldwide hit: their debut single, "Little Green Bag," reached No. 16 on the Cash Box magazine chart and No. 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.The success came as a surprise for Baker, who remembers hearing it on the radio while he was working in a lemonade factory. The single sold over one million copies globally, and received a gold disc. The track's original title was "Little Greenback", which is slang for a US dollar. However, the single was given the erroneous title "Little Green Bag", which some took to be a "bag of marijuana". The lyrics of the song adds to the belief that it's about marijuana, since it describes quite similarly the confusion of trying to find the bag, The "Little Green Bag" title was then retained for all subsequently released versions of the single, as well as the group's 1970 debut album, also titled Little Green Bag. -wiki

"aka Nicolas Meslien is a French bass player whose backed Robert Plant, Archie Shepp, and Tinariwen (to name a few)"

Bowie covered this tune which orginated with the obscure folk group Djinn (so obscure that they’re often listed in Bowie references as an “American folk group,” though they were Brits, led by the late Roger Bunn, a sort of ‘fifth business’ character in early ’70s London). - bowiesongs.com See link for more on Bunn and this album

Sun Raaka Le Sony'r Ra né Herman Poole Blount (1914-1993). Notes on Bandcamp by Knoel Scott (see link) This concert took place just three years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King when thought of a Black American President was nonexistent, at the furthest reaches of improbability despite congresswoman Shirley Chisolm’s 1972 bid which was considered merely symbolic. Today. The shots ricocheting from within … with black on black crime, unemployment and lack of education the … manifestation of a socio-physiology full of trauma, self hate and apathy … fueled by a multi-media platform of disrespect, caricature and humiliation. Each step forward mired in the mud of intolerance.

Collection compiled by Allie Esiri. Danusha Laméris is a poet and an essayist born to a Dutch father and a Barbadian mother and raised in Northern California. She is currently teaching at Pacific University just outside Portland, OR. Esiri (aka Allie Byrne) ceased an acting career in 1999 to write and create poetry projects. She wrote freelance articles for publications such as American Vogue, The New York Times, and London's Evening Standard ES magazine, and now works in the world of poetry and technology. She has co-created the successful poetry app, _if Poems_ and edited the hardback anthology _if, A Treasury of Poems for Almost Every Possibility_

"Featuring Anna Kislitsyna, piano, with Alexander Kislitsyn, violin and Ovidiu Marinescu, cello"

Gurrumul Yunupingu (born 22 January 1971, Galiwin'ku, Elcho Island, Australia – died 25 July 2017, Tiwi, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia) He had lived with liver and kidney damage for many years due to hepatitis B which he had contracted in childhood. He was an Indigenous Australian musician who sang in Yol_u languages and English. Since his death, he should generally be referred to as _Dr. G. Yunupingu_ out of respect for his cultural norms.

"See link for more on Richard Myhill Yarrow, an idiosyncratic and I-find-fascinating character. His _lost_ History of Rock album has been recovered and I'll be exploring it for future Margins. "

"Leon is a Brooklyn based musician. Playing with him here are DoYeon Kim (gayagum or Korean 12 string plucked zither) & Lesley Mok (drum set & percussion, glockenspiel)"

"This excerpt from his remarks on January 19, 1989 is stunning in the contrast to the current opinion of his party. "

Ekmeles is a NYC vocal ensemble dedicated to the performance of new and rarely-heard works, and gems of the historical Avant Garde. They have a special focus on microtonal works, and have been praised for their “extraordinary sense of pitch” by the New York Times. Their name is a term in Ancient Greek music theory connoting tones of indefinite pitch and intervals with complex ratios, tones _not appropriate for musical usage._ - see link for more. DiCastri is a contemporary composer and pianist born in Canada and now living/working in New York.

Hermeto Pascoal (piano & flute), Airto Moreira (percussion) e Humberto Clayber (bass & harmônica). The piano trios that rose in Brazil during the middle 1960s represented an aesthetic pushback from the Quiet Nights serenity of bossa nova. They engaged in elaborate rounds of hide-and-seek with the Orishas. The soloists chattered and danced on the front edge of the beat, echoing the intricacies of hard bop phrasing. The drummers, meanwhile, emphasized the melodic peaks with crafty syncopated big band-style set-ups, the kind the Count Basie Orchestra made famous. - Tom Moon (see link for more)

"Born Hiromi Moritani in Osaka, Phew got her start in the 1970s, when she became so fascinated with punk music that she flew to London in 1977 to see The Sex Pistols . When she returned, she formed the punk group Aunt Sally with guitarist Bikke, keyboardist Mayu, bassist Kataoka, and drummer Takashi Maruyama. A boundary-breaking artist with a lengthy career, Phew has explored rock, electronic, and avant-garde sounds on her own terms since that time. After leaving Aunt Sally, she worked with a who's-who of other innovative artists from around the globe to express the different sides of her artistry. For her 1980 solo debut single, she teamed with and worked with members of Can on 1981's Phew and 1992's Our Likeness. - Spotify See link for review of the release of this album. "

"according to wiki, this was the first album by a jazz singer to be recorded without accompaniment or overdubbing. When the lbum was released in 1984, it was exceptional in that the use of computers, synthesizers, and electronics in music was on the rise while McFerrin relied solely on his voice. That same year (and the following), he was voted #1 male singer in Downbeat's annual poll. "

"This song first appeared on the UK version of their 1967 album Between the Buttons but was not included on the US version. It was first released in the US on the 1967 album Flowers. Of the album, Jagger said: _I don't know, it just isn't any good. _Back Street Girl_ is about the only [song] I like_ The song is a waltz which showcases Brian Jones playing vibraphone and Rolling Stones contributor Jack Nitzsche on the harpsichord. Accordion was played by Nick de Caro - wiki Read link for more on meaning of the song, which (according to RollingStonesdata.com) was a RS-style commentary on social concerns."

"The band wrote _San Franciscan Nights_ themselves as a protest song against the Vietnam War. The song opens with a brief parody of the Dragnet theme, then the melody begins with lyrics about a warm 1967 San Franciscan night, with hallucinogenic images of a _strobe light's beam_ creating dreams, walls and minds moving, angels singing, _jeans of blue,_ and _Harley Davidsons too,_ contrasted with a _cop's face is filled with hate_ (on a street called _Love_) and an appeal to the _old cop_ and the _young cop_ to just _feel all right_. Pulling in as many 1960s themes as possible, the song then concludes with a plea that the American dream include _Indians too_. . At a concert in Naperville, Illinois in 2010, Burdon said the song was written about an evening with Janis Joplin in San Francisco. -wiki"

"Aitionis an experimental ambient/neoclassical act by Helsinki-based producer Lasse Lindgren, featuring Aino Peltomaa on vocals and medieval harp and Anna-Maaria Oramo on vocals and clavicimbalum. This is one in a series of album releases focusing on the texts of the Apophthegmata Patrum (see link), a collection of sayings and narratives about the Desert Fathers and Mothers, hermit ascetics who settled to live solitary life in the harsh conditions of the Egyptian desert from the 3rd century AD onwards. This began the establishment of monastic (monk) movement that continues to this day. -bandcamp & studythechurch.com"

"I went on a trip with my friend Renee and several others to Morocco. She sang a recital at the French Embassy, and we stayed at the riad in the Medina (old town) belonging to the Hermes brothers (who hosted us)....a short walk from the souq (market). We took a day trip north to the Atlas Mountains and rode on mules for several hours through small villages up to summit in the clouds where a fantastic meal was laid out. I made this recording just after arriving, hearing for the first time the call to prayer that echoed (with the birds) across the city 5 times each day. "

"Indie pop band from Montreal formed by childhood friends Jane Penny, David Carriere, later joined by Riley Fleck, and Marta Cikojevic. They were active 2012-2020. This is the B side. "

"Greene (1937-2021) was a free jazz pianist from Chicago. He spent time in New York and in Europe and for a period in the 90s played with a trio with Ed and George Schuller on bass and drums; and a quintet with the Schuller brothers. He had a long and prolific recording career from 1966-2019, mostly as a sideman. This is taken from a re-release of his third studio recording. See link for more. He died on his boat in Amsterdam. "

"Harvey (1935-1982) was a Scottish rock in roll/blues musician, who helped define the 1970s Glam Rock era. He had a heart attack and died a day before his 47th birthday - wiki" It's not clear who was conducting the extensive interview, which is detailed via the link.