Berlin-based DJ/Selector ESHKOUN JAY takes over the airwaves here at Radio is a Foreign Country with a an excellent selection of North African, Middle Eastern, and Eurasian vinyls and cassettes.

ESHKOUN JAY is an international DJ who has been living in Berlin for some years now. He has been manning the decks and spinning vibes since 1999. Vinyl & Cassette Enthusiast, Music Selector Founder @beatonfeet1 with an excellent collection of North African, Middle Eastern vinyls, cassettes, and multi-cultural Beats, electronic, disco, and Afro.

PHOTO CREDIT: Tijani Àdìgún Sitou (1978)

ESHKOUN JAY (RIAFC 052)

Thailand is full of colors. And full of sounds. And full of colorful sounds. Included in this hour-long, Thai-oriented (albeit not necessarily Thai-Thai) mix are: Lao-Isan molam; Khmer-Isan kantrum; Lanna folk; Malay dikir; Arabic pop; Chinese pop; Electone instrumentals; hill tribe tunes; a Tai Yai/Shan PSA; a herbal medicine commercial; Islamic adhan; Buddhist prayers; Lao, Khmer and Chinese radio wave snippets; rain and frog ambient; and more. They were discovered through a variety of media, i.e., AM/FM radio, field recording, and cassette tapes, in a variety of cities of Mae Hong Son, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, and Isan, as well as the Deep South, as well as downtown and greater Bangkok, over the last one year plus. Overall, a reminder of how deep and wide a sonic landscape exists in Thailand. 
1. Unknown Artist - โห่/ลาวกระทบไม้***
2. Isan Comedy Skit*
3. Unknown Artist - Khene Instrumental*
4. Unknown Artist - Unknown Track*
5. Tuning Noise*
6. Pattani Central Mosque**
7. Unknown Artist - Unknown Track***
8. Marof - บูแกเน๊าะจูมูรู (Bukae Nok Curumu)***
9. Tuning Noise*
10. Unknown Artist - Unknown Track*
11. Tuning Noise*; Unknown Artist - เลี้ยว***; Songkhla Morning Market**
12. Lisu Man Playing Fulu** 
13. Unknown Artist - อเอ็นบดาย***
14. Unknown Artist - สาวอีสานรอรัก***
15. Unknown Artist - สาวลาวบ่าวจีน (阿里山的姑娘)***
16. Baby Arabia - บานาอิสกัรดารอาชากร (يا بنات اسكندريّة)***
17. Unknown Artist - โห่***
18. 000+1 - The Busy World***
20. Unknown Artist - กาโระ (Karok)***
21. Khmer Afternoon Show*
22. Namphueng Mueangsurin - เมืองสุรินทร์***
23. Commercial: ต้นกำลังเสือโคร่ง*
24. Munirah - บอดอเตาะเละห้อาญา (Bodo Takleh Hajar)***
25. PSA: MAP Foundation on Myanmar-Thailand Child Trafficking***
26. Tuning Noise*
27. Bumper: CM77 (Witthayu Lanna Chiang Mai)*
28. Bumper: CRI (China Radio International)*
29. Tuning Noise*; Rainfall**
30. Wall of Frog Sounds**; Wat Jet Lin**; Wat Arun**; Unknown Artist - Unknown Track*
31. Death Agony of a Longhorn Beetle**
32. Unknown Artist - Unknown Track*
33. Tuning Noise*; Northern Man Singing in Lanna**; Unknown Artist - Unknown Track**; Unknown Artist - ให้เคอรี่มาส่งได้บ่**; School Sports Day*; ZuZu - อับดุลเลาะห์***; Klong Sabadchai Performance**
34. Waipod Phetsuphan - โห่***

*Radio recording **Field recording ***Cassette tape

Thaisferics - Korean Magpie Tapes [RIAFC 055]

Bandcamp https://le-code.bandcamp.com/album/urban-serenade
Stream https://fanlink.to/iwcD

With 'Urban Serenade', I needed to renew myself: more nature sounds? Maybe there are other ways to explore? I always liked urban atmospheres at night and this sentence of Richard Bohringer (a French actor): "it is beautiful a city at night" remained in my head throughout the process of creation of this album.

I thought that urban sounds could have their place in ambient music: these are the sounds we hear every day, in our private or professional lives: integrating them to my tracks could give them an immediacy of listening, sounds on which the listener will be able to immediately root and enter more easily into the music.

I loved working with these urban sounds, and I think I'll do it again in the near future.

Urban Serenade

Installation – 2 (edit) feat. Victor Dybbroe
included on The Wire Tapper 61 - April 2023

From Black Box 3 (arbitrary14)

https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/the-wire-tapper/the-wire-tapper-61/10

https://arbitraryproject.com/Black-Box-3

WT 61

Installation – 2 (The Wire Tapper 61 / arbitrary14)

Der Kern
Eksotik
Dj Süperfly
Fr.29.September 2023

TASCAM DR-07 

Dj Süperfly.mp3

Truth Is The Key  / Travelling vol.1
by Analog Dakar Club

Stanley Cowell - Traveling’ Man (Strata East)
Rahssaan Roland Kirk - Ain’t No Sunshine (Atlantic)
Nathan Davis - New Orleans (Universal Sound)
Eddie Harris - This is Why you’re Overweight (Atlantic)
Ramsey Lewis - That’s the Way of the World (Columbia)
Tarika Blue - Truth is the Key (Soul Brother)
Deodato - Speak Low (MCA)
Nil’s Jazz Ensemble - Somos Nada (Vampi Soul)
Ocho - Suena Tu Bongo (Universal Sound)
George Benson - The Ghetto / El Barrio (MAW)
Dave Valentin - Blackbird (GRP)
Azymuth - Pygmalion (Milestone)
Weather Report - River People (CBS)

Artwork : Céline Lequeux/Fifty Fifty https://www.instagram.com/fiftyfiftydakar/

Travelling Vol.1

TRUTH IS THE KEY - Travelling vol.1

ANALOG DAKAR CLUB] - Problème ne finit jamais
Radio Olisipo May 2024 vinyl mix (https://radiolisipo.com)

Everyday life problems with a dancing twist, make the salt of life sweet! 
Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Benin, late 70’s early 80’s.

N’zié d’Afrik  : Dieu soit loué I. Juie D’afrique (Music Hall  - MH 008) Cote d’Ivoire 1978
The Fantastic Bambou Tchicaya Tchico and His Waka-Waka’ Band of Nigeria - Mami Rosa (Namaco - NLPS 52) Nigeria 1978
Bony Castro - Labazo (Maïkano - MAÏLP 1013) Côte d’Ivoire 1980
François Louga - Bravo Sotra (Badmos - BLP 5023) Côte d’Ivoire 1979
Bony Pascal et les Cantador de la Capitale - Abidjan Problèmes (Deux Amis OMG 006) Côte d’Ivoire 1980
Stanley Murphy - Kossokpa (Alagbi Record’s AR/003) Côte d’Ivoire
Eba Aka Jerome et le Sanwi Star - Ayo Bié Aman Ye (Papa Disco - DOSCO 004) Côte d’Ivoire 
El-Em-Fanaja - Midjawa Bo (Fassinou - EF 010) Bénin
Amadou Ballaké - Warico (Zamidou - 1582) Burkina Faso 
Gnonnas Pedro - Massaniyo (World Wide Music - WWM - 4L) Bénin 1980

Radio Olisipo Mai 2024

'Problème ne finit jamais' - Analog Dakar Club for Radio Olisipo May 2024

Amuleto Manuela is a Colombian DJ and sound artist based in Berlin. She brings together music from various African diasporas with a carefully curated vinyl selection of silky Afro-Latin Funk, Soul, and Disco, along with phat Cumbias, dusty Boleros, and other genres such as Currulao, Samba, and Guguancó. On the dance floor, you can sense that each song is chosen from the heart and played with love, transitioning in unexpected ways which will likely get you dancing.

Amuleto Manuela @ Kiosk Radio 09.06.2024

RIAFC 007 - Shortwave Radio Surfing
A mesmerizing mixtape of lo-fi shortwave radio transmissions arrived in our mailbox today from the Italian tape label Artetetra. And it’s a doozy! Produced exclusively for Radio is a Foreign Country, Italian scavengers of obscure exotica, Luigi Monteanni and Matteo Pennesi, explore the surreal world of shortwave radio.
 
“As a mix of functional signals and sounds, incomprehensible codes and intrusive skits, which rely entirely on the technical efficiency and power of the machine as a catalyst, not to mention the capacity and experience of the listener-user to tune into different frequencies, shortwave radio is a continuous adventure into undisclosed territories of sound that literally becomes, at any given moment, an unrevealed foreign country.

Historically, shortwave radios have been used mostly for communication, commercials, propaganda and illegal broadcasting, which is often related to political needs that require evading the normal laws of censorship and intellectual property. Unable to listen uninterrupted, one must hunt continuously for tunes, acrobatically zapping through jungles of white noise and wastelands of abandoned frequencies. Shortwave radio is therefore a kind of shadow box containing part of our sonorous heritage in the form of haunting and recurring uchronia, where different geographies, eras, and technologies fuse in a polymorphic structure of displaced signals and sounds – for example, Guglielmo Marconi and the Cape Verde islands, jungle from the 90s and Latin radio plays from the 70s. If there is anything that illustrates Artetetra's concept of Quinto Mondo, it is without a doubt shortwave radio.” 

But enough bs! Just dive right into this medianic lo-fi mix, carefully crafted by the Italian scavengers of calembouristic sonic paradises.

Shortwave Radio Surfing (RIAFC 007)

Beautiful old field recordings of xylophone orchestras and electric thumb piano from the Congo; a selection of radio recordings featuring hypnotic thumb piano master Ekuka Moriss Sirikiti from Uganda (courtesy of Nyege Nyege Tapes); and a mixtape of the phenomenal balafon magic of Molobali Keita from Mali.

RIAFC 009
Misengu (Salampasu) recorded by Jos Gansemans (Congo, 1973)
Mutomboko and Luwendo (Luba) recorded by Hugh Tracey (Congo, 1957)
Kutomboka Dance, Mulopwe Ensemble (Lunda) recorded by Jos Gansemans (Congo, 1970)
Unknown, Orchestre “Bana Luya” Niengele Tshibangu recorded by Bernard Treton/Guy Level (Kinshasa/Congo, 1978)
Ekuka Rework, Ekuka Moriss Sirikiti (Uganda, 2018)
Kwon Otino Anyira, Ekuka Moriss Sirikiti (Uganda, 1978-2006)
Omaro Cil Pacu, Ekuka Moriss Sirikiti (Uganda, 1978-2006)
Pwoc Bot Lira Dpi Miyo Pikipiki, Ekuka Moriss Sirikiti (Uganda, 1978-2006)
Molobali Keita Mixtape (Mali, ca. 1990s)

Radio is a Foreign Country

African Xylophone Orchestras & Thumb Piano (RIAFC 009)

A mixed bag of old favourites (1925-1998) & new tracks (2019-2020), including (by order of appearance) Nihiloxica - Sankayi (Kinshasa 1978) - Archie Shepp - Tek 9 feat. Véronique Vincent  - Circadian Rhythms (Charles Bullen)- George Antheil - Raymond Scott - Aksak Maboul - Hybrid Kids - François de Roubaix - New York Art Quartet - Aksak work-in-progress - The Tony WIlliams Lifetime - Aksak WIP - Family Fodder - Aksak Maboul - Nana, Nelson Angelo, Novelli - Jeanne Lee - Yasmine Hamdan - Donovan - Slapp Happy/Henry Cow - Fred Frith - Doctor Fluorescent - Pink Floyd - Eric Dolphy - Sun Ra - Aksak WIP - Octave One - Acid Arab - Olivier Messiaen - Stubbleman - Chikha Fatoma bent Kaddour   - Nova Materia - Steve Reich - Kasai Allstars - Aksak Maboul

Roots of Aksak Maboul (Marc Hollander mix for Dublab)

"Donnes-moi ton corps, je te donnerai ma flamme."
Dakar (Sn) and Marseille (Fr) based only vinyls collective spinning hip-mooving grooves and rarities for yo to shake until it's too late. Analog Dakar Club is a collective of dj's passionate about analogue African popular music - vinyl records and tapes - which has been organizing parties since 2018. Check also our Instagram and Facebook pages for more analog treasures.

'Problème ne finit jamais' - Analog Dakar Club for Radio Olisipo May 2024

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