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International Jazz Conspiracy
Jan 5, 2022 10:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Music/Experimental
With A KFAI DJ
The program is a sonic journey through contemporary jazz, free improvisation, new music, hindustani music, flamenco, world music, underground, avant garde and art music from different corners of the globe, as well as interviews and live studio performances by local and visiting artists and the occasional musical restructuring*. An adventure in sound, a journey into the tone world.
We strive to present music with duende, a term originally used by flamenco musicians referring to inspiration, magic and fire in music. There is no direct translation for it in English, but the closest would be "soulful".
The famous Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca often speaks of duende. In his lecture "El juego y la teoria del duende" (Play and Theory of the Duende) he says:
"All through Andalucia. . . people speak constantly of duende, and recognize it with unfailing instinct when it appears... These dark sounds are the mystery, the roots... from which we get what is real in art... Thus duende is a force and not a behavior, it is a struggle and not a concept. I have heard an old master guitarist say: ‘Duende is not in the throat; duende surges up from the soles of the feet.’ Which means it is not a matter of ability, but of true living style; of blood; of ancient culture; of spontaneous creation."
Duende is not just found in flamenco though. In the liner notes of Miles Davis' 1964 album My Funny Valentine, Nat Hentoff says: "In trying to distill the particular mesmeric quality of Miles Davis, Kenneth Tynan has referred to the Spanish word DUENDE: 'It has no English equivalent,' he explained, but it denotes 'the ability to transmit a profoundly felt emotion with the minimum of fuss and the maximum of restraint... Miles Davis has DUENDE.' "
Hosted by Emel Sherzad.
'May music never just become another way of making money.'
- Keith Tippett
*musical restructuring: simultaneous playback/mixing of various audio sources, a.k.a. audio collage.

10:05 PM |
![]() | John McLaughlin Arjen's Bag Extrapolation Polydor Records 1969
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10:10 PM |
![]() | John McLaughlin Pete the Poet Extrapolation Polydor Records 1969
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10:11 PM |
![]() | The Tony Williams Lifetime Vuelta Abajo (Instrumental) Turn It Over UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2011
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10:18 PM |
![]() | Mahavishnu Orchestra Meeting of the Spirits Inner Mounting Flame Columbia 1971
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10:25 PM |
| Shakti with Special Guest Hariprasad Chaurasia Lotus Feet Remember Shakti Verve
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10:37 PM |
![]() | Alex Cline Clearing Our Streams Continuation Cryptogramophone 2009
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10:43 PM |
![]() | The Nels Cline Singers Princess Phone Share The Wealth Blue Note Records 2020
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10:49 PM |
![]() | The Nels Cline Singers Red Line to Greenland Initiate Cryptogramophone 2010
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11:05 PM |
![]() | The Nels Cline Singers Red Before Orange Macroscope Mack Avenue Records 2014
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11:05 PM |
![]() | The Nels Cline Singers Climb Down Macroscope Mack Avenue Records 2014
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11:08 PM |
![]() | The Nels Cline Singers Seven Zed Heaven Macroscope Mack Avenue Records 2014
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11:19 PM |
| Tim Berne, Jim Black, Nels Cline Tiny Moment (parts I & II) The Veil Cryptogramophone 2011
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11:34 PM |
![]() | Nels Cline, Andrea Parkins & Tom Rainey Downpour 2 Downpour Les Disques VICTO 2007
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11:52 PM |
![]() | Nels Cline Singers & The Rova Saxophone Quartet Head Count The Celestial Septet New World Records 2010
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