Bodega Pop
@bodegapop
Poet, cartoonist, music blogger, host of Bodega Pop on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio
Reissue of the year: Legendary Indonesian gamelan prog album Guruh Gipsy, s/t (La Munai, 2026 RE of OG self-released 1977 cassette). Stunning. Listen to Barong Gundah www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DKg...
Still can't believe I found a copy of this. Ziad Rahbani, From the Popular Musical Play L'Auberge Du Bonheur (EMI, 1974). A stunning record w/Amal Ghulam's incredible version of B'attelak Ya Habib Arrouh tinyurl.com/ms353rvm
SOUND ON: Ripping this mind-blowing LP for Wednesday's show. Mohammad Jamal, Doroup El Hawa (EMI, 1981). This is the opening of the last track on Side A, "Mili Ma Mal El Hawa." Bookmark: wfmu.org/playlists/sh... and see you in two days!
Lana Daher's "Do You Love Me" included tons of great music, including "Rita and the Rifle" from this magnificent LP. Marcel Khalifé, Promises of the Storm: One of Lebanon's foremost composers sings songs of Palestine (Paradon, 1983 RE of Le Chant Du Monde 1976 OG). Ripping for this Weds' show
Ripping tracks from dozens of Lebanese LPs for a show this Wednesday inspired by Lana Daher's stunning collage film "Do You Love Me." Various Artists, Lina Lina Ya Lina (Voix de l'Orient Series, 1980). See it if it's playing near you, especially if you've already seen Jocelyn Saab's seminal work
Massive grail: Recommended by Kyle at Paradise of Replica; turns out it's Brothers in Mind, notorious punk outfit that looped preexisting tapes & sang over them. Vova Siniy & Brothers in Mind, Those Very Songs (Russian Disc, 1993), mind-blowing "best of" compilation 1984-92. tinyurl.com/353k4csr
Bleak comfort. 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social : Electronic, experimental & avant-pop from Belgium, Borneo, Canada, Egypt, England, Germany, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, Scotland, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, UK, USA, and Vietnam
Yemen | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning Yemeni tracks from our personal cassette and 45 RPM collection, select recordings from compilations, and sounds found online. Join us
7-10 PM EDT | One Summer Afternoon in 2001, as I Pedaled Furiously Down 5th Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, Nawal Al Zoghbi's El Layali Poured from the Open Window of a Passing Car to Became Part of the Sound of the Street Rushing Past wfmu.org/playlists/sh... #WFMU @gtdradio.bsky.social
Finally listening to all 8 tracks by legendary Lebanese beat group the Cedars/Sea-ders. I met the guy who released this LP at his record store in Lisbon a couple years ago. The Sead-ders, s/t (2012 RE of 2008 OG, Groovie Records, Portugal).
Double Feature: Early Spring | Late Spring wfmu.org/playlists/sh... 7-10 PM EDT TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning early to mid 20th Century Japanese tracks, from the first recordings through ryukoka, Latin, and enka, to 1950s-60s jazz, pop, and group sounds. Join us!
SMITH, ROBACK & SANDOVAL 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social A journey through the world of Kendra Smith, David Roback, & Hope Sandoval, beginning w/Kendra's punk debut & winding through the heart of the Paisley Underground, Opal, Mazzy Star & beyond!
Technically speaking, tho, *every* Omar Khorshid album is the very best of Omar Khorshid. Omar Khorshid, The Very Best Of Omar Khorshid (Belly Dance Delights) (Voix De L'Orient/EMI, 1979).
Mind-blowing sounds on this incredible new release. Himba performers recorded by Ian Brennan, Himba Hymn - Ghosts of Namibia's Skeleton Coast (Sublime Frequencies, 2026).
Finally scored Volume 1, completing the set! Laila Morad Volumes 1, 2 and 3 (Soutelphan, 1975). One of the greatest Egyptian voices of all time. Is it coincidental that Oum had passed just months before these were released, or had Wahab & Hafez been sitting on them, waiting ... ?
Smith/Roback/Sandoval World Domination Update: Critical mass reached w/acquisition of this short but stunning EP: Kendra Smith Presents The Guild Of Temporal Adventurers, s/t (Fiasco, 1992). A 3-hour Smith/Roback show centered around Opal's tempting, or do we need Mazzy/Sandoval?
What Was Vaporwave? 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... Join us TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social for an unorthodox retrospective 2010-2020
Smith Roback Sandoval World Domination Update: Nabbed their elusive bootleg! Opal, Early Recordings Vol. 2 (not on label, 2018). Lo-fi, but far from unlistenable. Looking forward to putting together a show in the very near future ...
Super #SmithRobackSandoval nostalgia hit: I first heard this in a railroad apartment in San Francisco's Western Addition ca. 1988. Rainy Day, s/t (Klimt Records 2025 RE of OG 1984 Llama Records). Had no context for it then; love it now, esp. Kendra's vocals on Chilton's Holocaust
Smith Roback Sandoval update: Pre-Opal live recording from the year Rainy Day came out. Clay Allison, Live at the Electric Banana 5-22-1984. Terrific version of David's No Easy Way Down (titled "Cherry Jam" on this boot). What this LP lacks in hi-fi, it makes up for in intensity.
Another addition to the multi-tentacled Smith/Roback/Sandoval World Takeover: Kendra Smith, Stille Im Meine Hamburg (Overzealous Editions), a strange one-off written by Jonah Corey. The two would go on to form The Guild Of Temporal Adventurers w/ Orson, Eergott Liqueure & others
The Smith/Roback/Sandoval World Domination Project slowly inches forward w/ items in the mail today, including this crucial contractual obligation LP: Opal, Early Recordings (Rough Trade, 1989).
Holy crap this is mind-blowing jazz funk fuzz! Shapoval Sextet, Kobzareva Duma (Shukai, 2020), picked up at Record Grouch in Brooklyn earlier today
Death Is Not the End's pirate radio series is mind-blowing; first listen to David Goren's Brooklyn Pirates: Neighbourhoods In The Sky, 2014–2021 (2025), which I had high hopes for & which the LP exceeds. Love love love this
I loved his first record, Songs of Horaman; this new one is every bit as powerful. Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian, Noor-e Vojood (Radio Khiyaban, Cardinal Fuzz, Centripetal Force, 2025).
South Korea on Vinyl 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning soul, funk, folk, psychedelic, DIY, and disco on wax from the Republic of Korea. Join us!
SOUND ON: First listen to one of a dozen new Libyan 45s received in the mail today. Hassan Al-Bousaifi, Lemlaya (Voice of the Desert, date u/k, Benghazi).
