The following is the playlist for my first DJ Toanké / Nighttime Daydreams show at SpiritPlants Radio, broadcast March 10 2012 at 6 p.m. and March 11 2012 at 6:30 a.m., and available thereafter as an archive.

1. Field recording: Felix Blume, “The ‘Pajaro Minero’ is singing and whistling”, from Freesound, recorded in Venezuela

2. Field recording: Mishkitaki Michael, “Midnight”, recorded in Peru

3. Field recordings: Felix Blume, “An animal is howling at night” and “The ‘Pajaro Minero’ is singing and whistling”, recorded in Venezuela

4. Performance: Sir Real Eyes, “Excerpts from an Ongoing Analogy / A Solstice Broadcast”

5. Performance: Ashray, “The Abyss”

6. Performance: Nathan D Horowitz, “Boston to Vienna”

7. Performance: Sainkho Namtchylak, “Red Orange” (from Aura, 2001)

8. Performance: Ezra Pound, “Canto One”

9. Performance: Sainkho Namtchylak, Order to Survive, live performance on Russian television

10. Performance: Nathan D Horowitz, “The Self and the Other”

11. Performance: Ashray, “The Angler”

12. Performance: Sir Real Eyes, “Use Your Imagination”

13. Field recording: Mishkitaki Michael, “Midnight”, recorded in Peru

14. Field recording: Felix Blume, “The ‘Pajaro Minero’ is singing and whistling”, recorded in Venezuela

15. Field recording: Sir Real Eyes, “Last Puff Of Me Pipe”, recorded in England


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