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"Musical Odyssey" with Professor G (archive)

Thursday, January 22, 2026 | 16:00 to 18:00 | Playlist

New Artist Song Album Label Comments
Pharoah Sanders Astral Traveling Thembi Impulse! 7th album, 1971 release. With Michael White, Lonnie Liston Smith, Cecil McBee, Clifford Jarvis, James Jordan, Roy Haynes.
Don Cherry Utopia and Visions Organic Music Society Caprice It was a long lost collectors' gem until Caprice gave it a shiny new reissue in 2012. Recorded in 1971 and 1972, in Sweden.
* Chicago Underground Duo Hyperglyph Hyperglyph International Anthem Rob Mazurek & Chad Taylor, their 8th album after an 11 year hiatus, their first on this label.
The Lounge Lizards My Trip to Ireland No Pain for Cakes Antilles/Island 1987 release, 2nd studio album following their 1981 self-titled album; led by John Lurie
* Amir ElSaffar 10:23 am New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal Maqam Records With Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Tania Giannouli (piano), and Ole Mathisen (sax), recorded live in Berlin
* Kelan Phil Coran & Legacy The Dogon African Skies Listening Position
* Tacoma Radar So Much Water No One Waved Goodbye Numero Group Emerged from the Scottish indie scene, made only one album, now reissued
The Delgados Everything Goes Around the Water Peloton Mantra 1998 release. Glasgow band, formed in 1994. Alun Woodward, Emma Pollock, Stewart Henderson, Paul Savage.
Belle and Sebastian If They're Shooting At You A Bit of Previous Matador 11th album of 12 released so far. The band is led by Stuart Murdoch. This came out in 2022.
* Marianne Nowottny Winter Moon Marzanna Abaton Book Company
Kate Bush The Dreaming The Dreaming EMI 1982, 4th album
Circuit des Yeux Vanishing (Live) Live from Chicago Matador
Grace Jones Walking in the Rain The Grace Jones Story Island
* Water From Your Eyes Born 4 It's Beautiful Matador Rachel Brown & Nate Amos
Siouxsie & The Banshees City in Dust (Extended Eruption Mix) Cities In Dust 12" Geffen 1985 release; RIP, drummer Kenny Morris
* SANAM Sayl Damei Sametou Sawtan Constellation 2nd album from this band out of Beirut. The album title translates to "I Heard A Voice"
* Kuku Sebsibe ሳይህ ደስ ይለኛል - Sayeh Des Yilegnal (Happy Seeing You) Kuku Sebsibe Little Axe Originally released in the early 1980s
Mulatu Astatqé Kasalèfkut Hulu Ethiopiques Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale 1969-1974 Buda Musique
Alèmayèhu Eshèté Tchero adari negn Ethiopiques, Vol. 8: Swinging Addis 1969-1974 Buda Musique
Alèmayèhu Eshèté Betchayen tegodahu Ethiopiques, Vol. 8: Swinging Addis 1969-1974 Buda Musique
Ibex Band Ibex Band - Stereo Instrumental Music - 07 Yene F’qr (የኔ ፍቅር) Stereo Instrumental Music Muzikawi
* Gunnar Graps, Magnetic Band Tühjad Pihud Groove Of ESSR III: Soul, Jazz-Funk & Easy Listening From Estonia (1971-1983) Funk Embassy
Charly Antolini's Power Dozen Jumping D-Funk: Funk, Disco, & Boogie Grooves from Germany, 1972-2002 Marina
* Weirs I Want to Die Easy Diamond Grove Dear Life Records Local band
* Weirs Doxology (II) Diamond Grove Dear Life Records
Grateful Dead Uncle John's Band Long Strange Trip OST Rhino RIP Bob Weir, founding member of the
* heartscape landbreak we are all perishable products pt.1 now that everything is falling apart self-released
* Anastasia Coope Stars for People DOT