The WFMU "Amazing Floating Album" found online

[Krokodil_Gena]

I first ran across WFMU through UbuWeb and Beware of the Blog back when Dick Cheney was Secret President. It was in that ancient time I ran across a Mike Lupica post on the "Amazing Floating Album", which was a Soviet jazz album that was not meant for export, so the name of the album and tracklistings were all in Russian. Because of this, a tradition emerged in 1990 of reshelving the album randomly if DJs ran across it, which is a dick move if you ask me.

Here is Lupica's post on it: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/07/wfmus_amazing_f.html.

And here is the album itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP1_V_QvnDM. It's a 1977 release by the Leonid Chizhik Trio, George Gershwin - Popular Melodies. Not mindblowing stuff, but decently played.

And here is Lupica being a jerk about track two, "But Not for Me": http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/HT/Russian_Jazz.mp3

[fonpr]

I first ran across WFMU through UbuWeb and Beware of the Blog back when Dick Cheney was Secret President.

UbuWeb was my first WFMU contact as well. At various times, I was investigating Henry Flynt, Wm. Burroughs and John Cage and just kept running into it.

[Krokodil_Gena]

I first ran across WFMU through UbuWeb and Beware of the Blog back when Dick Cheney was Secret President.

UbuWeb was my first WFMU contact as well. At various times, I was investigating Henry Flynt, Wm. Burroughs and John Cage and just kept running into it.

I was clued into the site when I was doing internet radio by a better internet radio dude; UbuWeb is a great resource for avant-garde stuff.