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Overlooked: Music + Words (Not Lyrics), Vol. 1 (Audio)
This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will feature spoken word and poetry, backed by music of all types and styles, from jazz and dub to psychedelic and avant garde. Special guest, music archivist Bill Dubilier, will join “Overlooked” host Rob Saffer in a collaboration that explores the words of poets, prophets, writers and weirdos who put thoughts to music. Among the 28 selections are two serendipitous coincidences: one pair of songs is about the folkloric succubus and another pair uses Japanese Gagaku music as source!
Playlist:
Intro: Unit Fractions - Steve Coleman
Vitus Labrusca - Ben LaMar Gay
At First There Was Nothing - Sun Ra
You Are Not I - Paul Bowles
I Love Music - Amiri Baraka
Ornette Comes Home - Ira Cohen
Scenes in the City - Charles Mingus
The Western Lands - Material / William Burroughs
Succubus - Percy Howard
The Succubus - Annette Peacock
Gagaku-ku - Alan Watts
Gagaku - Selebeyone
Fanfare/Fire Poem - Arthur Brown
Mind Bender - The Freak Scene
Second Oracle - Julian’s Treatment
A Hawk Flew Fast Away - Brian Harnetty
Turbulence’s Pulse - Asher Gamedze
Marco Polo’s Talk - Bill Laswell - Hashisheen
Threads of Old Meory Dub - Jeanette Armstrong
Old Fart at Play - Captain Beefheart
A Bleeding in Black Leather, phase one - The Red Microphone
Peace In - Dan Kurfirst
Burger Bar - Jah Wobble
What’s Happening - Jayne Cortez
Sunset - Alan Ginsburg
Fool-Ology - Ishmael Reed / Kip Hanrahan
The Empress & The Ukraine King - CAN
Elephant Talk - King Crimson
Shivers of Pleasure - St. John Green
There is Change in the Air - Sun Ra
After the local news at noon, “Overlooked” is a show focusing on overlooked and under-heard jazz, improvisational, and other fringe music, from early roots to contemporary experiments, a mix of familiar to rare, classic to weird. Live from the shadow of Overlook Mountain in Ulster County.
Host Rob Saffer is the former Executive Director and Producer of the Creative Music Foundation. While living in Brooklyn for 25 years, he served on advisory boards for Celebrate Brooklyn and Symphony Space. He also curated the Brooklyn Museum’s summer jazz series and helped found The Mingus Big Band.