Calling Harmony: A Panoramic Mix (selected from 2025 weekly song shares, part 2)
Each week during 2025 I shared a song every Friday night (a "Friday Night Jam"). Festive, quirky, and fun, mostly uncommon pop/world/soul selections, mostly from the 1960s and 1970s. This part TWO of my collection of 2025 FNJs (part ONE is here: https://www.mixcloud.com/Vodem/light-chords/) leans more heavily to international tracks, with music from Turkish, Réunionnais, Lebanese, Palestinian, Japanese, Indian, Polish, Armenian, Mexican, Cameroonian, Chilean, Nigerian, etc. musicians.
The mix is timestamped and the full tracklist is in a comment.
The cover art is an excerpt from the 1956 surrealist painting "Armonía" (Harmony) by Remedios Varo.
"On second thought, I think I am more crazy than my goat." -- Remedios Varo
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Really enjoying these Friday night shares:) Maybe showing my ignorance, but I'm wondering where and how you shared them?:))
Hah! No ignorance at all. I share a song each Friday night to personal friends -- nowhere visible to my Mixcloud community. I do usually post them to my Instagram page -- which is in my profile -- so if you have IG you could follow me and see them most Friday nights. Otherwise, I do collect them at the end of the year -- there are, I believe, three past shows of Friday Night Jam collections. Thanks for your curiosity!
Loving this cover!
Super fun, huh?! Roberto Jordan has a lot of fun contemporary covers of songs from the era, so you may want to listen to more. :-)
@Vodem Awesome, I'll have to check them out. This whole show was wonderful, by the way! A real journey through a ton of great tracks I'd never heard before. So, thanks!
Thanks. I needed that.
This track is especially wonderful!
I love it too. He was an ethnic Armenian living in Iran. He recorded the album this is from in 1979 just before the revolution and then the album, as I understand it, mostly disappeared until re-release by the Numero Group.
WOW, incredible selection with many artists I am unfamiliar with but the fact that you have a track by Erkin Koray says it all but really its the breadth of your selections that sets such a high standard. So impressive my friend.
Thanks so much! The breadth of the mix inspired the "panoramic" label. There's not really any limit to my weekly song shares, other than not trying to start the weekend with anything too depressing! So it makes it a fun challenge to try to sequence them a bunch of them together at the end of the year. I so much appreciation your comment -- it means a lot to feel seen by a fellow rabid music enthusiast!
This mix is delightful!
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Thank you for a most entertaining listen. From Billy Bragg to the end, the rhythms and the lyrics were especially compelling!
Tracklist:
1. Bülent Ortaçgil “Olmalı mı Olmamalı mı” (1974)
2. Alain Péters “Panier su la tête, ni chanté” (1985)
3. Salma “Ma Mneeha El-Risali” (2001)
4. Amal Murkus “Hulum” (2000)
5. Sangeeta “Calling” (1991)
6. A.R. Rahman and Nithyasree Mahadevan “Sowkiyama Kannae” (From “Sangamam”) (1999)
7. Taeko Onuki “Les Aventures de TINTIN” (1985)
8. Hamlet Minassian “Al Elnim”(1979)
9. Roberto Jordán “Ven A Darme Amor” (1974)
10. Erkin Koray “Cemalım” (Barış K edit) (1974/2010)
11. Manu Dibango “Big Blow” (1976)
12. Bernard Estardy “Cha tatch ka” (1969)
13. Mel Tormé “Comin’ Home Baby” (1962)
14. Blossom Dearie “I'm Hip” (1966)
15. Karin Stanek “Motor I ja” (1964)
16. Billy Bragg “Help Save the Youth of America” (1986)
17. The Mothers Of Invention “Who Needs The Peace Corps?” (1968)
18. Georges Brassens “La guerre de 14-18” (1964)
19. Immortal Technique “Freedom Of Speech” (2003)
20. Anarkia Tropikal “El silbido del tunche” (2013)
21. Fela Kuti & Afrika 70 “No Agreement” (edit) (1977)