I went through sixteen stations on Sirius before I found a track I didn’t know.\u00c2\u00a0 I heard everything from .38 Special’s "Hold On Loosely" to the Police’s "Roxanne" to Grateful Dead’s "Terrapin Station" on Jam On.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, what stumped me was a Motley Crue track on a hard rock outlet.\u00c2\u00a0 I knew the Crue track they were playing at a station nearby, but this one I’d never heard, and probably never need to hear again.\u00c2\u00a0 It reminds me of listening to Jack.\u00c2\u00a0 For a week or two you’re thrilled, but then you want to throw up.\u00c2\u00a0 If only every station on Sirius were as adventurous as Disorder.<\/p>\n
Disorder is kind of like going to a best friend’s house and having them play you their favorite songs.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re not limited to a specific genre, they’re just good.\u00c2\u00a0 On Disorder I oftentimes hear the left field surprise, stuff like Musa Dieng Kala.<\/p>\n
I was driving on Santa Monica Boulevard and an almost incomprehensible deejay on the station was playing something so different, so out there, so WEIRD, that I had to check my radio, to make sure I was listening to the right station.\u00c2\u00a0 And the readout, in the bright sun, was not completely discernible, so I pulled over on Century Park West and looked closely, and wrote down the information extant.\u00c2\u00a0 Not that I got it exactly right, but after a bit of googling I found out the artist’s name was Musa Dieng Kala.\u00c2\u00a0 And he was from Africa.\u00c2\u00a0 And the album this track came from, "Shakawtu", was released in 1996.<\/p>\n
I couldn’t find the song they were playing on Disorder, "Lisanu Shukari", on P2P.\u00c2\u00a0 It was on iTunes, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to buy it.\u00c2\u00a0 Because I wasn’t sure if it was the setting, or whether I truly liked this track.\u00c2\u00a0 But I did find the album’s opening cut, "Kalamune".\u00c2\u00a0 And when I fired it up just now, I was transported.\u00c2\u00a0 So much other stuff I hear in the car sounds shitty at home.\u00c2\u00a0 But "Kalamune" reminded me of both being on vacation and sitting in my room on a snowy winter day.\u00c2\u00a0 It wasn’t in my face, it was life itself.\u00c2\u00a0 We don’t live in a contemplative society, but if you’re the type who can live with his feelings, likes to investigate the nooks and crannies of his brain, then you’ll dig this.\u00c2\u00a0 And I found a place where you can hear it on the Web.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a Japanese site, and it runs very slowly, and hopefully we won’t blow it up, but give it a try.<\/p>\n