Playlist, Cliff Furnald
WPKN, 89.5 FM Bridgeport CT
Monday, September 6, 2004   2-6 PM

The Who "We Won't Get Fooled Again" (heavily mashed)
Randy Newman "Big Hat, No Cattle" Bad Love (Warner)

Boban Markovic Orkestar / Balkan Brass Fest / Serbia  (Piranha)
Ostblocket  / Yes, we are a Swedish Balkan band, you don't have to look twice / Sweden (self released)
Serras / Stand Clear of the Closing Door /  Denmark (Go Folk Music)

Interview with Dr Scott McLean, chair of Poli Sci at Quinnipiac Univerity in New Haven, about the history and structure of the US so called 'electoral college' system (40 minutes)

Hedin and Pettersson / Skikt / Sweden  (Tongang)
Flukt / Druffiac / Norway   (2L) - 2 tracks

Interview with Erik Hillestad, producer of "Lullabies from the Axis of Evil"  and director of the non-profit recording company, KKV in Norway.  Discussion of the project and numerous samplings form the recording (35 minutes). Concluded with "Watch Over Me", an unreleased (but soon to be added to a new edition) track by Halla Bassam (Iraq) and Ricki Lee Jones. World radio premiere of the new track!

Sun Ju Lee & Eddi Reader / Lullabies from the Axis of Evil /  Korea-Scotland (KKV)
Flukt / Druffiac / Norway (2L)
Klaus Trabitsch / Zeit / Austria (Extraplatte )

Asteriskos / Asino Siculo / Italy (Folkclub Ethnosuoni)
Epifani Barbers / Marannui / Italy (Forrest Hills)
Ricardo Tesi and Maurizio Geri / Acqua Foco e Vento / Italy (Felmay)
La Lionetta / Arzan / Italy (Folkclub Ethnosuoni)
Etnika / Zifna / Malta (self released)
Maria Marquez / Nature's Princess / Venezuela-US (Adventure Music)

"Report from the Bershires with Bob Balogh"  Local news and humor from Massachussetts based reporter on a city guy's life in the sticks. (20 minutes)

Aurelio Martinez / Garifuna Soul / Belize (Stonetree) - 2 tracks
Leroy Young / Just Like That / Belize (Stonetree) - 2 tracks

Concert recording:
Thanasis Papkonstantinou, recorded live in Athens. First set from the show (35 minutes)

Urban Turban / Rolling and Tumbling / Sweden (Silence)
Knut Reiersrud / Pretty Ugly / Norway (KKV)

Important!
Please send any recordings for WPKN to:
Music Director, WPKN, 244 Univeristy Avenue, Bridgeport, CT 06604
If you address them to me, I will not get them and he might not either!