Explorers Room is back this week! Once again I'll be turning to another volume of Bibliothèque Exotique (This time: Orientalism–Japonisme/Chinoiserie/Primitivism/Arabesque); playing the best selections from that compilation and fleshing its concepts out with additional tracks from the various source records and even more tracks discovered in the interim.
More than ever this last bit is true: Orientalist conceits abound in the musical library world, and so it is inevitable and true that many, many new pearls of sound have been added to the roster. Tonight's program will be an epic quest across the psychic terrain of every-where in place and time the West has ever thought to be the East, from the far east of SE Asia/China/Japan to North Africa, from bustling metropolitan Pearls of Orient to the timeless shifting dunes and mystic tiger forests.
TONIGHT! 7-9 EST