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[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 24

Here’s my latest episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio. Breezy, summery synth pop and light funk, with a Bill Nelson alias, Sally Oldfield, a Bollywood moment, and a favorite from that World Standard record we all love. You can download an mp3 version here.

Tracklist: 1. Irv Teibel – Country Stream 2. Sally Oldfield – Mirrors 3. Hiroshi Satoh – Akanegumo-No Machi 4. Jacob Desvarieux – Emotion 5. A.R. Rahman, Chitra Sivaraman, Karthik – Nenthukitten 6. Orchestra Arcana – The Whole City Between Us 7. Fernanda Abreu – Você Prá Mim 8. Izumi Kobayashi – Coffee Rumba 9. Jah Wobble – Blowout 10. Yumi Matsutoya – 影になって (We’re All Free) 11. Di Melo – Se O Mundo Acabasse En Mel 12. Yasunori Soryo & Jim Rocks – Valley 13. Tim Maia – Nossa História De Amor 14. Patrick O’Hearn – Forever The Optimist 15. World Standard – 水夫たちの歌声 16. Yungchen Lhamo – Ngak Pai Metog

Monks Of The Monastery Of Gyütö – Tantras Of Gyütö: Sangwa Düpa / Mahakala, 1988


The most frightening thing I’ve ever heard. Makes the entire pretense of heavy metal look like Sesame Street. Recorded at Gyütö Tantric University, one of the great colleges of the Gelugpa, the Established Church of Tibetan Buddhism, by David Lewiston, protégé of Thomas de Hartmann, decade-long resident musician at the Gurdjieff Foundation, impetus behind the Nonesuch Records Explorer Series (fans of the Voyager Golden Record are familiar with his work), and responsible for a huge body of recordings of world music made in the very small window of time during which lightweight portable recording equipment allowed for high-quality recordings to be made in remote places and traditional music hadn’t yet been ravaged by globalization. Happy Halloween, y’all.