reporting in progress got it okay it's
advising me
I promise here I am today I'm with my
old pal Jim Haas and uh Jim and I go
back a ways we're both members of the
stumps band of Racine Wisconsin
and uh so many roads Jim we've been
we've we've been on and uh you know if
you've always been a heck of a record
collector and we've always been able to
share an interest in music very diverse
and you you are the father of diversity
and and music in in my uh Pantheon one
of the brothers in arms
right on I remember you had that big
those big speakers who had you had an
apartment it was the the room was as big
as a pantry and yeah these two things
that were each as big as a stove
somebody built those and I picked them
up at a Goodwill yeah
yeah and uh and always an interesting
collection now do you remember
um
our early days
in in our town Racine Wisconsin I
remember you could get records at
pennies and you could get records at uh
the Kroger and uh Piggly Wiggly uh but
yeah
those I don't recall but uh
zaris was uh the treasure troll for me
because near the checkout counter
there'd be a rack of records and it'd be
44 cents
things that other companies couldn't
just couldn't give away that end up as
Arizona I I'd pick up Junior Parker and
and Memphis slim and some good stuff
there
and uh so that's that's how it all got
started
that I think it started that came as my
education group I uh yeah I wouldn't
know Memphis Slim from
from alley-oop you know at those early
high school days but uh
probably got started with with listening
to music that my brother my older
brothers brought home rock and roll and
folk music
and then finally one day uh and maybe
even with you I don't recall but
wandered into seoulville best record
shop in Racine Wisconsin has ever been
and always will be uh and and was
educated by the the proprietor and his
sidekick
Jack hannigans and uh
first yeah I've seen that in Wisconsin
Norman Wildey yeah
if uh if uh yeah well he used to turn me
on the records I'd I'd buy an LP like
the blues project with a white blues
band and it was a good record and uh but
he'd say oh man you know the original
stuff is is is better and he'd put in uh
you you got a free 45 if you bought an
LP and he would find something Soulful
often a promo record I don't think Jack
wanted the the
yeah
the stuff he could sell but yeah but he
did give me a Holland wolves it's like
Barry
bunch of stuff it's an interesting it's
an interesting question I mean I wonder
where Norman got his education from he
was only a few years older than us but
he came from Tomah Wisconsin's a little
cranny way up in in the northern part of
the state where
you know you certainly weren't hearing
underground radio you weren't able to
just go to the Record Shop and buy uh
Dave on rock and then and coronary
Glover and Muddy Waters and uh you know
folk and blue you know he he was from
northern Wisconsin but he originated on
one of the Rings of Saturn
in that so now the enhancers
I'm going to uh share my screen
um and uh
meaning what
and then you can see del mundo
I insist
there you go get your good job I just
want to tell everybody that Jim Haas has
been uh doing a radio show called
um
there you go you guys live on Thursdays
uh and uh that's on
radioactivatex.org do you know what time
it is Greenwich Mean Time For That show
uh what does Grandma's meantime mean
Boston's the universal Clark for the the
world yeah but the situated where
all I know okay
Meridian which I beats the hell out of
me I don't know where that is either so
so Boston time it's at 10 o'clock
oh no there's uh yeah seven o'clock West
Coast time uh and then the show is
repeated Saturday
uh at six o'clock Boston no no four
o'clock Boston time one o'clock
West Coast
how did you get uh into this uh
particular gig I know you've done radio
before but uh how did El compas del
mundo come to be I've I've been yeah
totally based in music for for years and
years and years you know that and uh my
wife Claudia was from Mexico and I have
a home that we built down in the town of
techies
a smallish town in the center of Mexico
uh Charming little place and we spent
half a year there uh driving around the
streets of techies and Beyond we would
come across this radio station that was
playing great atypical music especially
for Mexico I mean you'd hear uh great
jazz and alternative rock music followed
by a Latin folk music by
experimental sounds I mean it was just
it was all the way to map and I I found
out who was putting it together who was
running it and contacted them and said
geez here I am in your town
I'm carrying with me a portable hard
drive with over 40 000 pieces of music
and I've done programs before uh back in
Madison back in the day I DJ on occasion
in a record shop in San Francisco
and I've got 21 YouTube playlists uh up
on their site and boy well I'd love to
put a program together for you and we
had to meet uh talk to it over and they
liked what they heard and I said yeah
please please give us a program that was
as of this week 58 weeks ago
and the effort here is and
congratulations on that first
anniversary every business it's great to
get to that first uh threshold you know
um I can you see here I have one of the
earliest shows we put on uh we we sort
of co-host on a blog spot this one was
music in French can you see that
I can't that's number program number 37.
what do you say about that that or any
of the things in the mix
uh well I mean I had to take a look at
the rest of the mix but uh let me see
what was it Steve Riley
that was your typical potpourri okay
all over the map EC Mall which was sort
of a early rocker rapper or poet from
France Lenny grants there it's also from
France a radical bunch of North Africans
and parisians who threw some some
intelligent rock out there
a lot of a lot of good stuff in this
program uh uh what can I tell you the
the orchestra polyrito they caught the
new comes from Benin and I think I made
a comment even in either this and I
always do a little write-up about the
music for the week and I'm not reading
here so maybe in some other review where
I I also had music from from Benin that
crazy amount of really fine intelligent
very very elucidable music has come from
Benin I mean comparatively to other
larger countries
where is that I don't even know it's
right next to the right next to Nigeria
just sort of east of Nigeria you know
the famous Benin bronzes that are now
being returned by museums around the
world to the Republic of Benin because
they were all stolen during a British
Expedition back was it ever known by
another name or was it part of Nigeria
that spun off or
um historically I can't tell you if it
was ever part of Nigeria but it's it's
been
the Republic of Benin for for quite some
time now do you remember how you found
this music or or in this case or this uh
this particular uh piece that comes from
record collecting and I've got
uh two record set that I bought in
Madison back in college days that was uh
music of West Africa and it was sort of
exp I want to use the word experimental
but non-traditional uh a sort of New
Wave West African music and it included
several cuts by people from Benin and
particularly this group and I just
absolutely love today if you ask me to
list maybe my 10 favorite songs uh one
of them would be a song from these guys
yeah of course a lot of people know a
lot of stuff these days I mean the
Ethiopian music has gotten a lot of
attention and that's uh I think partly
because of uh
well the Harvey Packer movie and the uh
you can't think of the uh
I think it was fish or something there
was another a couple of movies but I I
was at your house and you went to see uh
Barry Barnes with the family and I I
stayed up in the house and that's when I
discovered uh
that one are you awake
the ethiopics was a series yeah yeah you
know what's a fascinating aside is that
I met Claudia in 1976 when I lived in
Mexico for a year and one thing we had
in common which was rather remarkable is
we had both dated Ethiopians
and she had music that her then
boyfriend had recorded by holding two
tape recorders side by side and I used
to do that yeah yeah yeah and I had some
uh recordings that a friend uh who had
extravagant taste had provided me and so
we we would get off on that
uh and this this Claudia you've
continued to uh talk with her over these
years this Claudia is is standing about
15 feet away from me hopefully not
overhearing it well no she well she
would take pride okay so can you see can
you see I'm gonna just scan up and yeah
okay give you all the different things
there was the music from Southern Africa
North and South I remember that uh of
course the music of Spain
um
that one right there that you just
passed up the black and white one of the
people dancing
sad fabulous photo tragic
once upon a time in Tehran
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna stole the
virtues of the uh of the Shah palari of
Iran back in the day but at least people
were free to get up and dance and enjoy
the music that moved them and there's a
especially women oh yeah and it was a
dance party where everybody's uh almost
naked as you can see
everybody
uh
uh you uh that was one
yeah I I remember uh you did one that
was on uh sort of the punk music of um
of our day you know the seeds and yeah
13th floor elevator and you're always on
The Cutting Edge I think rock music well
there's organic Coleman as you as you
say Cutting Edge I just I just bask in
the glory of these people who have
provided uh amazing sounds for us
continue to expand their Horizons if
even if they're passed you know we we
discover the music 30 years later my god
oh I love that photo too Jack the uh the
washboard sand Memorial in Boston that's
that's great
that's my joke yeah it is yeah well I'm
moving quickly here because the clock on
the wall says it's time to get on the
ball y'all there were these lovely uh
Bolivian children
they are part of a boxing team out of
the Indian regions in Bolivia
and they're they're showing they're
strutting their stuff and wearing
typical uh hats and shawls that that
help Define their their cultural
identity I think they got one of those
from uh Lou Costello
so yeah and now we're just gonna
going up old big Walter and
boy there's so much and we want people
to know
it's all up there it's going to continue
to do it the Albanian music I I really
wanted to make fun of this but I thought
I I didn't want to hurt anybody's
feeling because these I thought these
guys were kind of hilarious yeah
some of it is like Bluegrass though and
then
oh these no these guys
the the Ragamuffin Bunch sitting there
yeah they're they're really good they
put the great musicians they play
wonderful folk music and extend it in
their own inevitable way and uh the
videos are are worth
fun uh worth watching the the fun
they're enjoyable they're cleverly
crafted uh now these guys are
worth paying attention well put put
another dime in the Jukebox Jimmy and uh
let's uh
just it was nice to try to hook up and
and kind of go through all this is so
much and and uh it's all available on El
compostel a musical
TX
and also on blogspot so uh yeah I'd I'd
like to go on but I am going to uh
say sayonor I'd like to show you around
the house but uh you have a great uh
holiday and and we'll uh we'll keep uh
crunching in
2023. Jack love you like a brother and
uh thank you over and over again for
your efforts and and helping promote
this and make this happen
as a friend
and you too what every day is different
isn't it
completely
100 percent
thank you Jim all right bye-bye
