San Francisco, Ca, United States
A melomaniac making thoughtful music mixes in a broad range of genres out of San Francisco. Visit wonderings.net for more information about these mixes and more.
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A rhythmically dense, psychedelic, outernational mix I created for @s_ben's Secret Sun Society.
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Friday Night Jam! Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, starts tonight at sundown. The world is in desperate need of turning the page and Pharoah Sanders’ 1973 spiritual jazz classic “Prince of Peace” feels right to mark the moment and express hope …
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Friday Night Jam! 1960s Malaysian jazz from composer pianist Alfonso Soliano. Re-released on Audible Beauty Records, a new sister label to the fantastic Habibi Funk label. Apparently this was originally only released in a run of a few dozen copie…
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Friday Night Jam! R.I.P. Dolly Parton. Country isn’t my jam and I’d never previously listened to any of Parton’s albums in full, but with her passing I became curious to explore her early career. She was incredibly prolific, releasing 14 solo alb…
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Friday Night Jam! "Let Love Flow On" by Jamaican singer Sonya Spence from her second (and last) album from 1981. Sonya was mostly a reggae artist, but this song has a vibe somewhere between mellow disco and Sade. She recorded for producer Sonia P…
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Friday Night Jam! Bollywood classic “Jaan Pehchan Ho” from the 1965 movie Gumnaam, sung by playback legend Mohammed Rafi, composed by duo Shankar–Jaikishan. My favorite Bollywood tracks are ones like this -- surfy Indian rock and roll. The song …
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I’m in Santa Fe with my Mom and cousins and family and tonight there was a free 90s hip hop show with Brother Ali (Minneapolis) and Souls of Mischief (Oakland). I listened to almost no hip-hop in the 90s and early 2000s and this was technically my …
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Friday Night Jam! There are no rules for FNJs. Sure, the song I shared last week has been played only 10,000 times on Spotify and this song by Sade has been played over 370 million times. But you know what? I’ve never listened to a Sade album. …
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Friday Night Jam! Pianist Marius Cultier (1942-1985) from Martinique was a pioneer of Caribbean Jazz. He was a prodigy who apparently had already recorded 10 albums by age 20. This 1975 song “Zandoli” sounds like nothing else, veering between jaz…
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Friday Night Jam! Susumu Yokota was a prolific Japanese electronic artist who made dance music in the 1990s but then made a brilliant series of albums in the 2000s (prior to his death in 2015) of electronic ambient and art music. This song, “Song …
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