The Mystery Lesson part 342 13th November 2024

 1.     Darius Jones / No More My Lord / AUM Fidelity

2.     Ohad Talmor / Trio Variations on Tune 11 / Intakt

3.     Satoko Fujii Quartet / Not Together / Libra

4.     Kevin Figes & Julie Tippetts / Dune Dimensions / SLAM

5.     Semay Wu / Da Dah Du Moon / Scatter Archive

6.     John Butcher/Florian Stoffner/Chris Corsano / Disaster Laugh / Relative Pitch

7.     Fictional Souvenirs / Crimps / TROST

8.     William Parker/Hugo Costa/Philipp Ernsting / Words of Freedom / No Business

9.     José Lencastre/Margaux Oswald/João Carreiro / The Six Essays / Phonogram Unit

10.  Pacho Dávila/Gonçalo Almeida/Vasco Furtado / Confrontation / Phonogram Unit

11.  The Attic / Peau / No Business

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The Mystery Lesson part 341 7th October 2024

1.     Arashi with Takeo Moriyama / Colour Flames / TROST

2.     Joachim Kühn French Trio / Homogeneous Emotions / ACT 

3.     BARK! / Take 20 / Scatter Archive

4.     The Kris Davis Trio / Softly, As You Wake / Pyroclastic

5.     Sophie Agnel/John Edwards/Steve Noble / Part 3 / OTOROKU 

6.     Pat Thomas / For George Saliba / OTOROKU

7.     Weird of Mouth / Dogs In Orbit / Otherly Love

8.     Asher Gamedze / Elaboration / International Anthem

9.     Jim Clouse/Patrick Golden/Matt Hollenberg / Unknowable Truth / Park West

10.  Charles Gayle/Milford Graves/William Parker / C3 / Black Editions Archive

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The Mystery Lesson part 340 10th October 2023

1.     Irreversible entanglements / Free Love / Impulse!

2.     KVL / Pink Void / Astral Spirits 

3.     Joe Chambers / Caravanserai / Blue Note

4.     Joachim Kuhn / Roman II / ACT

5.     Kendrick Scott / Threshold / Blue Note

6.     Harold Land / Step Right Up To The Bottom / WeWantSounds

7.     Max Roach / Absolutions / Arc

8.     Ornette Coleman / Man On The Moon / ezz-thetics

9.     Transatlantic Five / Around Town / Nemu

10.  The Bridge / Personal Mountains / Trost

11.  Oiro pena / Puna / We Are Busy Bodies

12.  Pharoah Sanders / Memories Of` Edith Johnson / Luaka Bop

13.  Tyshawn Sorey Trio / Reincarnation Blues / Pi

14.  Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns / Go At Your Peril 1 / Rune Grammofon

15.  Frank Zappa / Twinkle Tits / Zappa Records

16.  Nucleus / Song For The Bearded lady / Be With

17.  Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express / Freedom Jazz Dance / Soul Bank

18.  Luther Thomas Human Arts Ensemble / Funky Donkey / WeWantSounds

19.  Peter Brötzmann/Majid Bekkas/Hamid Drake / Chalaba / ACT

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The Mystery Lesson part 339 21st December 2022

1.     James Brandon Lewis Quartet / Cesaire / Intakt

2.     Chad Taylor Trio / Omniverse / Astral Spirits

3.     Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity / Acoustic Dance Music / ECM

4.     Dave Douglas Quintet / A Fowler’s Snare / Greenleaf Music

5.     Barber Mouse / Carolina Moon / Auand

6.     Tomasz Dabrowski & The Individual Beings / In Transit / April

7.     Anteloper / Baby Bota Halloceanation / International Anthem

8.     Spacefood / I Can’t See His Shadow / Square Ears

9.     Sun Ra Arkestra / Somebody Else’s Idea / Omni

10.  Patricia Brennan / El Nahualli (The Shadow Soul) / Pyroclastic

11.  Jeff Parker/Eric Revis/Nasheet Waits / Similar Limits / RogueArt

12.  Heart Of The Ghost / Summons / No Quarter

13.  JakTar / Mitch Bryan / Discus

14.  Hedvig Mollestad & Trondheim Jazz Orchestra / On The Horizon Part 2 / Rune Grammofon

15.  Elton Dean Quartet / Seven For Lee / British Progressive Jazz

16.  Karl Jenkins / Penumbra II Third Movement / Jazz In Britain

17.  John Taylor Sextet / The Other One 1 / Jazz In Britain

18.  Ron English / Bees / Strut

19.  Trevor Dunn’s trio-convulsant avec folie à quatre / Saint-Médard / Pyroclastic

20.  Georg Gräwe Quintet / Pink Pong / Corbett Vs. Dempsey

21.  Tom Prehn’s Kvartet / Solherv 4 / Corbett Vs. Dempsey

22.  William Parker / Tails Of A Peacock / Centering

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The Golden Road part 21 December 20th 2022

1.     Chouk Bwa & The Ångströmers / Agwetaroyo / Bongo Joe

2.     Al-Qasar / Mal Wa Jamal / Glitterbeat

3.     Eman el Bahr Darwish / Mahsoebak Endas / We Want Sounds

4.     Pedro Lima / Philomene / Bongo Joe

5.     The Movers / Kudala Sithandana / Analog Africa

6.     Congotronics International / Tita Tita / Crammed Discs

7.     Los Royals De Pucallpa / Descarga Royal / Analog Africa

8.     Los Kenya / Omelembe / Musica Infinita

9.     Gustavo Yashimura / Tierra Bendita / Hive Mind

10.  Yanna Momina / My Family Won’t Let Me Marry The Man I Love (I Am Forced To Wed My Uncle) / Glitterbeat

11.  Alhaj Waziri Oshomah / My Luck / Luaka Bop

12.  Almon Memela / Ntshonalanga / We Are Busy Bodies

13.  L’Orchestre Massako / Temedy / Analog Africa

14.   Noori & His Dorpa Band / Qwal / Ostinato

15.  Abdel Halim Hafez / Mawood Part 3 / We Want Sounds

16.  Shadi Fathi & Bijan Chemirani / Asayesh / Buda

17.  Mohamad Zatari Trio / Longa Ferafeza / Zehra

18.  Nasim Kushnawaz / Sahargah / Worlds Within Worlds

19.  Pabitra Chatterjee / Tu Mera Chand / Buda

20.  Roopa Panesar / Rag Gujri Todi – Madhya Laya Gat in Tal Teental / Asian Arts Agency

21.  Ustad Noor Bakhsh / Maanj / Honiunhoni

22.  Master Musicians of Jajouka / Opening The Gate / Glitterbeat

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The Golden Road part 20 June 7th 2022

1.     Ravi Shankar & Ustad Vilayat Khan / Raga Desi-Roopak Taal / EMI India

2.     Unknown performers / Sikh song on Hindu/Moslem unity / Sublime Frequencies

3.     Saroj Narang / Simla Folk Song / Sublime Frequencies

4.     Unknown performers / Temples bells and drums / Sublime Frequencies

5.     Sawai Khan / Morchang / Amarrass

6.     Bhona & Mangal Mukerjee / Raga Kafi / Sublime Frequencies

7.     Unknown performers / Improvisation on film tune / Sublime Frequencies

8.     Sakar Khan / Train Song 2 / Amarrass

9.     Mangey Khan / Challa Challa / Amarrass

10.  Nikal Khan / Seela Gaja Maru / Amarrass

11.  Jai Chand Bagat & Babu / Bhajan / Sublime Frequencies

12.  Lado and Pappu Khan / Ambabari – Alfat in Bin / Amarrass

13.  Kheta Khan & Company / Lunagarh (Mehuda Barse) / Amarrass

14.  Kalipada Das / Methosur / Sublime Frequencies

15.  Sudeshna Bhattacharya / Ragashree, Alap / Losen

16.  Jyotish CH Choudhury / Raga Zila / Sublime Frequencies

17.  Ali Akbar Khan / Raga Zila Kafi / Owsley Stanley Foundation

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The Mystery Lesson part 338 7th June 2022

1.     Daniel Carter/Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Gerald Cleaver / Sunverified / 577

2.     Keefe Jackson/Oscar Jan Hoogland/Joshua Abrams/ Mikel Patrick Avery / Epistrophy / Astral Spirits

3.     I Like To Sleep / Broken Record / Rune Grammofon

4.     Will Bernard / Poor Man’s Speedball / Dreck To Disk

5.     Paul Dunmall Quintet / Micromys Minutus / Discus

6.     Martin Bejerano / #CubanAmerican / Figgland

7.     Frances Cusa/Brian Groder/Ricardo Grosso/Tonino Miano / Hand In A Can / Leo

8.     Kendrick Scott / Isn’t This My Sound Around Me? / Blue Note

9.     Tumi Mogorosi / Mmama / Mushroom Hour x New Soil

10.  Nduduzo Makhathini / Abantwana Belanga / Blue Note

11.  Hyper.object / Glitch / Phonogram Unit

12.  SSWAN / Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster / 577

13.  Peter Brötzmann/Fred van Hove/Han Bennink / Involved / Trost

14.  Milt Ward & Virgo Spectrum / The Charle / Fredericksberg

15.  Baroque Jazz Trio / Delhi Daily / We Want Sounds

16.  Georges Arvanitas / Trane’s Call / We Want Sounds

17.  David Murray/Brad Jones/Hamid Drake/ Am Gone Get Some / Intakt

18.  Devin Brahja Waldman & Hamid Drake / Ponder / Astral Spirits

19.  Andrew Lisle/John Edwards/Kit Downes / Ardency (Part 1) / Raw Tonk

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The Golden Road part 19 May 11th 2022

1.     KOG (Kweku of Ghana) / Mayedeen / Pura Visda Sounds 

2.     Alai K / Mganga / On The Corner 

3.     Papé Nziengui Bossogho / Akéti Na Missingui / Awesome Tapes From Africa 

4.     Africa Negra / Carambola / Bongo Joe 

5.     Unknown Artist / Dirashe Lyre Song / Sublime Frequencies 

6.     Los Ecos / La Fuga Del Bandido / Analog Africa 

7.     Joyce / Feminina / Far Out 

8.     Flora Purim / 500 Miles High / Strut 

9.     Dudu Lima & João Bosco / Incompatibilidade de Gênios / Far Out

10.  Satellites / Olurmu Dersin / Batov 

11.  Elektro Hafiz / Sensiz Ask / Ironhand 

12.  Tülay German & François Rabbath / Kelenin Önü / Zehra 

13.  Rosa Eskenazi / I’m A Drug Addict / Death Is Not The End 

14.  Corina Sîrgi / Lasa-Ma-n Casa, Nevasta / Most 

15.  Perija / Visoko Letaj, Nadolu Gledaj / Most 

16.  Adjin Asilan, Joseph Garabed, et al / Cifte Telli / Canary 

17.  Ali Akbar Moradi and Kayhan Kalhor / Showgh (Joyful Anticipation) / World Village 

18.  Yaru Maliri / Shâh Batha'I / Shanachie 

19.  Kalyam Sharif Qawwali Troupe /Jo Tera Gham Na Ho / Sublime Frequencies 

20.  Ture Gudmundsson / Visa och Brudmarsch (Air and Bridal March) / Canary 

21.  Anti RubBer brAiN fact0rY / Jalala / ARBF

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The Mystery Lesson part 337 11th May 2022

1.     Freddie Hubbard / The Intrepid Fox / We Want Sounds

2.     Graham Collier / Backtrack / British Progressive Jazz

3.     Albert Ayler / Revelations 3 / Elemental

4.     Brandon Seabrook  / In The Swarm / Astral Spirits

5.     John Dikeman/Pat Thomas/John Edwards/Steve Noble / No Comment / 577

6.     Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction / Intermittent / Black Edition

7.     Barney Wilen / Gémeaux / We Are Busy Bodies

8.     Matthew Shipp Trio / Jazz Posture / ESP-Disk

9.     Whit Dickey Quartet / Space Quadrant / Tao Forms

10.   José Lencastre Common Ground / Inspirational Souls / Phonogram Unit

11.  Jones Jones / And His Sisters Called Him Jones / ESP-Disk

12.  Martin Küchen / Love, flee thy house (in Breslau) / Thanatosis Produktion

13.  The Paradox / Twilight / We Are Float

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The Golden Road part 18 April 14th 2022

1.     Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan / Raga Palas Kafi / Music Of The World

2.     Lakha Khan / Meda Mehar Muraad Na Milda / Amarrass

3.     Pandit Pran Nath / Drut Ektal / Bandcamp

4.     Musicians at Gurudwara Bangla Sahib, New Delhi / Unknown title / Personal recording

5.     Street musician, Rishikesh / Unknown title / Personal recording

6.     Street musician, Rishikesh / Unknown title / Personal recording

7.     Devotees at roadside temple, Rishikesh / Unknown title / Personal recording

8.     Pandit Kumar Gangharva / Raga Pata Manjiri / HMV India

9.     Sakar Khan / Ek Jhalak / Amarrass

10.  Bagga Khan / Deedar Bana / Amarrass

11.  Jagdish Prasad / Raga Bhatiyar / HMV India

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