
Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman | WFMU
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Observations of Deviance is a vinyl focused, free form program that harkens back to early days of underground FM radio. Your host, David Mittleman, hunts down the most exotic, unusual and off-the-beaten-track music from around the world in a number of genres: Spiritual Jazz, Free Improvisation, Experimental Electronics, Ethnographic Oddities and World-Wide Psychedelic Funk. You are guaranteed to hear sounds you’ve never heard before.
Location:
East Orange, NJ
Description:
Observations of Deviance is a vinyl focused, free form program that harkens back to early days of underground FM radio. Your host, David Mittleman, hunts down the most exotic, unusual and off-the-beaten-track music from around the world in a number of genres: Spiritual Jazz, Free Improvisation, Experimental Electronics, Ethnographic Oddities and World-Wide Psychedelic Funk. You are guaranteed to hear sounds you’ve never heard before.
Language:
English
Website:
https://wfmu.org/playlists/OV
Episodes
Episode from Sep 13, 2025
9/13/2025
John Heartsman And Circles - "The Thrill Is Gone / Talking About My Baby / Summer" - Music Of My Heart [0:02:19]
Khadija Jiijo Jeesto - "Waa Kula Joogaa (I Am With You)" - 808 Xamar: Digital Somali Sounds from the Banaadiri Coast [https://ostinatorecords.bandcamp.com/album/808-xamar-exiled-digital-somali-sounds-from-1990s-saudi-arabia-bandcamp-exclusive] [0:13:28]
Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity - "Ostronology" - Great Intentions [https://gardnilssen.bandcamp.com/track/ostronology] [0:20:40]
Nemessio - "Hey Hey" - Hey Hey / Hey Hey (GarcyNoise Rework) 7" [https://rocafortrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hey-hey-b-w-hey-hey-garcynoise-rework] [0:24:42]
S.O.L.A.R. - "Rainbow" - Faith For My Mind [0:27:18]
Soul Flutes - "Trust In Me" - Trust In Me [0:35:13]
Fred Frith And The Gravity Band - "Norrgården Nyvla" - Fred Frith And The Gravity Band [https://klanggalerie.bandcamp.com/album/fred-frith-and-the-gravity-band] [0:38:55]
Abdullah Sami - "Aretia [Edit]" - Peace Of Time [0:43:19]
Hamiett Bluiett - ""Mahalia"... No Other One (Dedicated To Mahalia Jackson - A Great Lady)" - Resolution [0:53:08]
Malik Yaqub - "Yaqub Speaks" - Yaqub Speaks [0:55:03]
Pharoah Sanders - "To John" - Love In Us All [1:09:44]
Hugh Hopper - "Hopper Tunity Box / Miniluv" - Hopper Tunity Box [1:29:23]
Fernando Gelbard - "Alevacolariea" - Didi [https://altercat.bandcamp.com/album/didi] [1:38:58]
Azanyah - "The One" - The One [1:44:13]
Prince Lasha & Sonny Simmons - "Firebirds" - Firebirds [1:55:16]
Sadaka - "Premonition" - Premonition [2:07:39]
Otherlands Trio - "Metamorpheme" - Star Mountain [https://www.stephancrump.com/otherlands-trio] [2:20:01]
Alain Peters - "Plime la misère" - 2015-2025 : Les Disques Bongo Joe - 10 Years of Sonic Explorations [https://lesdisquesbongojoe.bandcamp.com/album/2015-2025-les-disques-bongo-joe-10-years-of-sonic-explorations] [2:38:51]
Yusuf Mumin - "Diaspora Impressionism" - Journey To The Ancient [https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/album/journey-to-the-ancient] [2:41:47] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156123
Duration:03:06:51
Couple In Spirit: The Music of Keith & Julie Tippett from Sep 6, 2025
9/6/2025
Nostalgia 77 Sessions Featuring Keith & Julie Tippett - "Soothing The Rattlesnake" - Nostalgia 77 Sessions Featuring Keith & Julie Tippett [0:02:46]
Centipede - "Septober Energy, Part 4" - Septober Energy [feat. Keith & Julie Tippett] [0:05:57]
The Keith Tippett Group - "This Is What Happens" - Dedicated To You, But You Weren’t Listening [https://www.bewithrecords.com/products/the-keith-tippett-group-dedicated-to-you-but-you-werent-listening-lp] [0:19:28]
Julie Tippetts - "Ocean And Sky (And Questions Why?)" - Sunset Glow [feat. Keith Tippett] [0:24:26]
Hopper / Dean / Tippett / Gallivan - "Intro / Calyx" - Mercy Dash [feat. Keith Tippett] [0:32:46]
Keith & Julie Tippett - "The Choir And The Sunset Improvisers" - Couple In Spirit [0:46:50]
Louis Moholo-Moholo Meets Mervyn Africa - Pule Pheto - Keith Tippett - "A Story By The Brothers Chapter One" - Mpumi [0:54:14]
Ovary Lodge - "Fragment No. 6" - Ovary Lodge [feat. Keith & Julie Tippett] [1:03:20]
The Keith Tippett Group - "Green And Orange Night Park" - Dedicated To You, But You Weren’t Listening [https://www.bewithrecords.com/products/the-keith-tippett-group-dedicated-to-you-but-you-werent-listening-lp] [1:12:03]
Elton Dean's Ninesense - "Seven For Lee" - Happy Daze [feat. Keith Tippett] [1:20:12]
Company - "Thirteenth (KT/FF)" - Epiphanies VII-XIII [feat. Keith Tippett] [1:28:51]
Voice - "African Breezes" - Voice [feat. Julie Tippetts] [1:34:02]
Keith Tippett's Ark - "Frames Part 1 and 2 [Edit]" - Frames (Music For An Imaginary Film) [feat. Keith & Julie Tippett] [1:41:26]
The Keith Tippett Group - "I Wish There Was A Nowhere" - You Are Here... I Am There [2:03:31]
Keith Tippett - "Blues II" - Blueprint [feat. Julie Tippetts] [2:17:26]
Hopper / Dean / Tippett / Gallivan - "Seven Drones" - Cruel But Fair [feat. Keith Tippett] [2:18:33]
Ovary Lodge - "Sylphs In Pisces" - Ovary Lodge [feat. Keith Tippett] [2:26:59]
Keith & Julie Tippett - "Mirror-Image" - Live At The Purcell Room (Couple In Spirit) [2:34:01]
Keith Tippett, Julie Tippetts, Louis Moholo-Moholo & Canto General - "Septober Energy" - Viva La Black Live At Ruvo [2:46:32] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155822
Duration:03:06:58
Episode from Aug 30, 2025
8/30/2025
Sun Ra - "Nuclear War" - Live at Blues Alley, Washington DC, July 9, 1988 [0:02:31]
Anthony Braxton - "Sheffield, Set 1 [Edit]" - Quartet (England) 1985 [https://anthonybraxton-bam.bandcamp.com/album/quartet-england-1985] [0:11:49]
Cochemea - "Otros Mundos" - Vol. III: Ancestros Futuros [https://cochemea.bandcamp.com/album/vol-iii-ancestros-futuros] [0:23:49]
Neti-Neti - "Grace in Rot" - Echo of Being / Grace in Rot [https://dinzuartefacts.bandcamp.com/album/echo-of-being-grace-in-rot] [0:32:02]
Anthony Braxton - "To Composer John Cage" - For Alto [0:36:47]
The Leaders - "Luna" - Vienna 1989 [0:46:17]
Ines Velasco - "Vauxhall" - A Flash Of Cobalt Blue [https://inesvelasco.bandcamp.com/album/a-flash-of-cobalt-blue] [0:53:13]
Anthony Braxton - "First Set [Edit]" - Quartet (Coventry) 1985 [1:01:53]
Thumbscrew - "Composition No. 52" - The Anthony Braxton Project [1:11:20]
Melvin Gibbs - "Felonious Monk" - Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 [https://melvin-gibbs.bandcamp.com/album/amasia-anamibia-sessions-2] [1:15:42]
Q.A.P Band aka (Swin Batuka) - "La Picosa (Remix)" - Club Coco: New Dimensions In Latin Music [https://clubcoco.bandcamp.com/album/club-coco-new-dimensions-in-latin-music] [1:22:00]
Eva Novoa - "Free To Be Free" - The Freedom Suite, Novoa / Carter / Mela Trio, Vol. 2 [https://577records.bandcamp.com/album/the-freedom-suite-novoa-carter-mela-trio-vol-2] [1:24:59]
Circle - "There Is No Greater Love" - Circle I: Live In German Concert [1:32:15]
The Keith Tippett Group - "Black Horse" - Dedicated To You, But You Weren’t Listening [https://www.bewithrecords.com/products/the-keith-tippett-group-dedicated-to-you-but-you-werent-listening-lp] [1:44:44]
Soft Machine - "Dedicated To You, But You Weren't Listening" - Volume Two [1:50:39]
Matching Mole - "Dedicated to Hugh, But You Weren't Listening" - Matching Mole [1:53:11]
Tatsuya Yoshida and Martín Escalante - "preeti little please machine" - The Sound of Raspberry [https://washandwear.bandcamp.com/album/the-sound-of-raspberry] [1:56:35]
Steve Lehman - "23b + 23g" - The Music of Anthony Braxton [https://stevelehman.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-anthony-braxton] [2:01:59]
Anthony Braxton - "Interviews, Part 2 [Edit]" - Quartet (Coventry) 1985 [2:10:00]
Peter Evans - Being & Becoming - "Hanks" - Ars Ludicra [https://peterevansmusic.bandcamp.com/track/hanks] [2:13:57]
Pat Thomas, Dominic Lash, Tony Orrell - "Lifeline 3" - Lifeline [https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/album/lifeline-198cd-2025] [2:18:25]
Crispell / Anderson / Drake - "Destiny 1" - Destinty [2:31:32]
Earl Sweatshirt - "Gamma (need the ♥)" - Live Laugh Love [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KyjwL12kdo] [2:45:55]
Anthony Braxton - "Leicester, Set 1 [Edit]" - Quartet (England) 1985 [https://anthonybraxton-bam.bandcamp.com/album/quartet-england-1985] [2:47:56] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155635
Duration:03:06:55
Episode from Aug 23, 2025
8/23/2025
Gary Bartz NTU Troop - "Nommo - The Majick Song / Sifa Zote / Jujuman" - I've Known Rivers And Other Bodies [0:02:17]
Droogie Otis - "The Edge (feat. Killer Mike) (Instrumental)" - The Edge (feat. Killer Mike) [https://www.instagram.com/droogieotis] [0:24:18]
Trio Ternura - "A Gira" - A Gira 7" [https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/trio-ternura-a-gira-7-/VAMPI.45114EP.html] [0:27:41]
The Keith Tippett Group - "Thoughts To Geoff" - Dedicated To You, But You Weren’t Listening [https://www.bewithrecords.com/products/the-keith-tippett-group-dedicated-to-you-but-you-werent-listening-lp] [0:33:13]
Fieldwork - "Embracing Difference" - Thereupon [https://fieldworktheband.bandcamp.com/album/thereupon] [0:43:30]
Del Jones' Positive Vibes - "Cold Turkey" - Court Is Closed [0:48:38]
Adegoke Steve Colson & Iqua Colson - "Atrocities" - Glow: Music for Trio...Add Voice [https://colsonsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/glow-music-for-trio-add-voice] [1:01:00]
Eddie Harris - "Zambezi Dance" - Instant Death [1:10:26]
Hamiet Bluiett - "The Village Of Brooklyn, Ill. 62059" - Birthright: A Solo Blues Concert [1:14:34]
Sarah Webster Fabio - "Together/To The Tune Of Coltrane's "Equinox"" - Together To The Tune Of Coltrane's "Equinox" [1:19:28]
Bobby Matos And The Combo Conquistadores - "Mambo Maxims" - My Latin Soul [https://mrbongo.bandcamp.com/album/my-latin-soul] [1:30:49]
Jackie McLean & Michael Carvin - "De I Comahlee Ah" - Antiquity [1:34:35]
Les Percussions De Strasbourg - "Shen" - East Meets West [1:46:15]
Shirley e o Tuca Trio - "Gosto Do Que É Bom (I Like What's Good)" - Gosto Do Que É Bom [1:56:04]
Jon Irabagon / PlainsPeak - "Malört is My Shepherd" - Someone to Someone [https://jonirabagon.bandcamp.com/album/someone-to-someone] [2:00:52]
George Russell Sextet Feat. Jan Garbarek - "Theme / Souls" - Trip To Prillarguri [2:07:44]
Sarah Webster Fabio - "Jujus / Alchemy Of The Blues" - Jujus / Alchemy Of The Blues [2:23:51]
Muhal Richard Abrams - "My Thoughts Are My Future - Now And Forever" - Levels And Degrees Of Light [2:32:22]
Composers Workshop Ensemble - "Introduction To The Blues" - Composers Workshop Ensemble [2:42:13]
Gustavo Cortiñas - "The Growth Imperative" - The Crisis Knows No Border [https://desafiocandenterecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-crisis-knows-no-borders] [2:47:39]
Marion Brown - "New Blue" - Three For Shepp [2:52:54] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155430
Duration:03:01:11