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Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Jazz, World, Experimental, Top 30 Play Charts, March 8-14, 2020

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JAZZ top ten

1. Firecracker Jazz Band – Return To The Twenties (EUPHONIAN)
2. Angel Bat Dawid – The Oracle (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)
3. Rent Romus’ Lords of Outland – 25 Years Under The Mountain (EDGETONE)
4. Enrico Fazio Critical Mass – Wabi Sabi (LEO)
5. Matthew Shipp – Invisible Light, Live Sao Paulo (HAT HUT)

6. Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)
7. Vijay Iyer / Craig Taborn – The Transitory Poems (ECM)
8. Pat Metheny – From This Place (NONESUCH)
9. Whit Dickey Tao Quartets – Peace Planet/Box of Light (AUM FIDELITY)
10. Frode Gjerstad / Fred Lonberg-Holm / Matthew Shipp – Season of Sadness (ILUSO)

(compiled by Jazz director Jonathan Price)

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World Music top ten

1 METAL PREYERS _ Metal Preyers (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
2 CEU _ “Coreto” [Single] (Six Degrees)
3 ONIPA _ We No Be Machine (Strut)
4 OOIOO _ Nijimusi (Thrill Jockey)
5 VULA VIEL _ What’s Not Enough About That? (Self-Released)

6 ANTIBALAS _ Fu Chronicles (Daptone)
7 BUSCABULLA _ Regresa [Advance Tracks] (Ribbon)
8 EKITI SOUND _ Abeg No Vex (The Remixes Vol 1) [EP] (Crammed)
9 HAILU MERGIA _ Yene Mircha (Awesome Tapes from Africa)
10 LIDO PIMIENTA _ Miss Colombia [Advance Tracks] (Anti-)

(compiled by World Music director Marissa)

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Experimental Music top ten

1. Mosses – T.V. Sun (ANYWAY)
2. Sun City Girls – Live at the Sky Church – September 3rd, 2004 (TWENTY ONE EIGHTY TWO RECORDING COMPANY)
3. SUSS – High Line (NORTHERN SPY)
4. Jessica Ekomane – Multivocal (IMPORTANT)
5. Negatviland – True False (SEELAND)

6. OOIOO – Nijimusi (THRILL JOCKEY)
7. Peter Zummo – Deep Drive (TIN ANGEL)
8. Emptyset – Blossoms (THRILL JOCKEY)
9. JOYFULTALK – A Separation of Being (CONSTELLATION)
10. Amulets – Between Distant and Remote (BEACON SOUND)

(compiled by Experimental Music director Dogeye)

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Top 30 Play Chart, March 8-14, 2020; WSFM-LP, 103.3 FM, Asheville FM, North Carolina

1.) Mosses _ T.V. Sun (Anyway)
2.) 16) King Krule _ Man Alive! (True Panther Sounds / Matador)
3.) Sunn Trio _ Electric Esoterica (Twenty One Eighty Two Recording Company)
4.) Stephen Malkmus _ Traditional Techniques (Matador)
5.) Sun City Girls _ Live at the Sky Church – September 3rd, 2004 (Twenty One Eighty Two Recording Company)

6.) 5) Soccer Mommy _ color theory (Loma Vista)
7.) 6) Baseball Gregg _ Calendar (s/r)

8.) 10) Firecracker Jazz Band _ Return to the Twenties (Euphonian) … Asheville band … album release show to be rescheduled

9.) 21) Cindy Lee _ What’s Tonight To Eternity (W.25th/Superior Viaduct)

10.) U.S. Girls _ Heavy Light (4AD) … U.S. Girls scheduled to visit May 3 @ The Grey Eagle w/Bonjay

11.) Metal Preyers _ Metal Preyers (Nyege Nyege Tapes)
12.) Slander Tongue _ Slander Tongue (Slovenly Recordings)
13.) 4) Arbor Labor Union _ New Petal Instants (Arrowhawk)
14.) 13) Guided By Voices _ Surrender Your Poppy Field (GBV Inc)
15.) 14) Best Coast _ Always Tomorrow (Concord)

16.) Caribou _ Suddenly (Merge)
17.) 9) 7) 11) Frances Quinlan _ Likewise (Saddle Creek)
18.) 30) 29) Destroyer _ Have We Met (Merge)
19.) Jessica Ekomane _ Multivocal (Important)
20.) Vundabar _ Either Light (Gawk)

21.) 25) Wednesday _ I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone (Orindal) … Asheville band … album release show to be rescheduled

22.) 15) Greg Dulli _ Random Desire (BMG)
23.) 19) Grimes _ Miss Anthropocene (4AD)
24.) Squirrel Flower _ I Was Born Swimming (Full Time Hobby)

25.) X) 15) 26) Torres _ Silver Tongue (Merge) … Torres scheduled to play May 24 @ The Mothlight

26.) Shane Parish _ Death Bell Knellin’ (Weird Cry) … Asheville artist … album release show to be rescheduled

27.) 28) 13) 15) Shopping _ All Or Nothing (Fat Cat)
28.) SUSS _ High Line (NORTHERN SPY)
29.) XX) 7) 3) 21) 2) 1) 13) 22) X) 10) Negativland _ True False (Seeland)
30.) Parker Longbough _ Green and Gold / Drink the Hemlock (Wilderhood)

weekly rank.) previous) rank) * X) = did not chart that week

(compiled by Associate Music Director DJ Airon)

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864 Haywood Rd.
Asheville, NC 28806

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Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Jazz, World, Hip Hop, HEAVY, Experimental, Top 30 Play Charts, February 23-March 7, 2020

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JAZZ top ten

1. Angel Bat Dawid – The Oracle (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)
2. Firecracker Jazz Band – Return To The Twenties (EUPHONIAN)
3. Erroll Garner – That’s My Kick (MACK AVENUE)
4. Pat Metheny – From This Place (NONESUCH)
5. Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)

6. Dave Rempis/Jim Baker/Joshua Abrams/Avreeayl Ra – Apsis (AEROPHONIC)
7. Frode Gjerstad/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Matthew Shipp – Season of Sadness (ILUSO)
8. Enrico Fazio Critical Mass – Wabi Sabi (LEO)
9. Vijay Iyer/Craig Taborn – The Transitory Poems (ECM)
10. Whit Dickey Tao Quartets – Peace Planet/Box of Light (AUM FIDELITY)

(compiled by Jazz director Jonathan Price)

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World Music top ten

1 MAMMAN SANI _ Unreleased Tapes 1981-1984 (Sahel Sounds)
2 CALIBRO 35 _ Momentum (Record Kicks)
3 THE HELIOCENTRICS _ Infinity Of Now (Madlib Invazion)
4 ANTIBALAS _ Fu Chronicles (Daptone)
5 SOTOMAYOR _ Ori­genes (Wonderwheel)

6 INTENTA: EXPERIMENTAL AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC FROM SWITZERLAND 1981-93 (Bongo Joe)
7 LEVE LEVE: SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE SOUNDS 70s – 80s (Bongo Joe)
8 UZELLI ELEKTRO SAZ 1976-1984 (Uzelli)
9 EMICEDA LIBRE AND IBEYI _ AmarElo (Sterns)
10 ISLANDMAN _ Kaybola (MusicFor Dreams)

(compiled by World Music director Marissa)

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ten top Hip Hop

1 HELIOCENTRICS, THE Infinity Of Now Madlib Invazion
2 LITTLE DRAGON “Hold On” [Single] Ninja Tune
3 VILLAELVIN Headroof Hakuna Kulala
4 PRINCESS NOKIA Everything is Beautiful Self-Released
5 GIL SCOTT-HERON AND MAKAYA MCCRAVEN We’re New Again: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven XL/Beggars Group

6 MC YALLAH X DEBMASTER Kubali Hakuna Kulala
7 RAEKWON The Appetition [EP] Ice H20
8 ROYCE DA 5’9″ The Allegory Heaven Studios/Entertainment One
9 LIL WAYNE Funeral Republic
10 LOREN ODEN “Is There A Way?” [Single] Linear Labs

(compiled by Hip Hop director Donovan Quixote)

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HEAVY top 10

1 LIGHTNING BOLT Sonic Citadel Thrill Jockey
2 HORSE LORDS The Common Task Northern Spy
3 LUSTMORD First Reformed (OST) Vaultworks
4 SIGHTLESS PIT Grave Of A Dog Thrill Jockey
5 CHELSEA WOLFE Birth Of Violence Sargent House

6 ASEETHE Throes Thrill Jockey

7 EARTH COLLIDER Twilight of Man 1626849 DK
8 VARIOUS ARTISTS Really Bad Music for Really Bad People: The Cramps as Heard Through the Meat Grinder of Three One G Three One G
9 VLADISLAV DELAY Rakka Cosmo Rhythmatic
10 BAD RELIGION Age Of Unreason Epitaph

(compiled by HEAVY music director Dr. No)

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Experimental Music top ten

1. OOIOO – Nijimusi (THRILL JOCKEY)
2. SUSS – High Line (NORTHERN SPY)
3. Land of Kush – Sand Enigma (CONSTELLATION) f
4. Sun City Girls – Live at the Sky Church-September 3rd, 2004 (2182 RECORDINGS)
5. Brett Naucke – Electroinic Hypnosis Program (MAKE NOISE)

6. Amulets – Between Distant and Remote (BEACON SOUND)
7. Kink Gong/Li Daiguo – Dali China (AKUPHONE)
8. Sarah Pagé – Dose Curves (BACKWARD MUSIC)
9. Yann Tiersen – Portrait (MUTE)
10. Oval – SCIS (THRILL JOCKEY)

(compiled by Experimental Music director Dogeye)

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Top 30 Play Chart, week of February 23-March 7, 2020; WSFM-LP, 103.3 FM, Asheville FM, North Carolina

1.) 2) Mamman Sani _ Unreleased Tapes 1981-1984 (Sahel Sounds)
2.) 18) 1) 1) 2) 4) OOIOO _ Nijimusi (Thrill Jockey)
3.) Calibro 35 _ Momentum (Record Kicks)
4.) Arbor Labor Union _ New Petal Instants (Arrowhawk)
5.) Soccer Mommy _ color theory (Loma Vista)

6.) Baseball Gregg _ Calendar (s/r)
7.) SUSS _ High Line (Northern Spy)
8.) 8) The Heliocentrics _ Infinity of Now (Madlib Invazion)
9.) 7) 11) Frances Quinlan _ Likewise (Saddle Creek)

10.) Firecracker Jazz Band _ Return to the Twenties (Euphonian) … plays album release show Saturday, March 14 @ The Mothlight w/Asheville City Horns, The Screamin’ J’s

11.) Dan Deacon _ Mystic Familiar (Domino)
12.) Xx6) 5) 15) 3) Angel Bat Dawid _ The Oracle (International Anthem)
13.) Guided By Voices _ Surrender Your Poppy Field (GBV Inc)
14.) Best Coast _ Always Tomorrow (Concord)
15.) Greg Dulli _ Random Desire (BMG)

16.) King Krule _ Man Alive! (True Panther Sounds)
17.) X) 18) 7) 19) 1) Land of Kush _ Sand Enigma (Constellation)
18.) Audrey Ochoa _ Frankenhorn (Chronograph Records / Fontana North)
19.) Grimes _ Miss Anthropocene (4AD)
20.) BEX _ Don’t Mess With Bexas EP (s/r)

21.) Cindy Lee _ What’s Tonight To Eternity (W.25th/Superior Viaduct)
22.) Horse Lords _ The Common Task (Northern Spy)
23.) Soil & “Pimp” Sessions _ Man Steals the Stars (Red River / Victor)
24.) 11) The Thompsons _ I’ll Get Over It (BCW)
25.) Wednesday _ I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone (Orindal)

26.) 3) 4) 6) 8) Antibalas _ Fu Chronicles (Daptone) … plays March 27 @ The Grey Eagle

27.) Sun City Girls _ Live at the Sky Church (Twenty One Eighty)
28.) 13) 15) Shopping _ All Or Nothing (Fat Cat)
29.) 6) Arbouretum _ Let It All In (Thrill Jockey)
30.) 29) Destroyer _ Have We Met (Merge)

weekly rank.) previous) rank) * X) = did not chart that week

(compiled by Associate Music Director DJ Airon)

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864 Haywood Rd.
Asheville, NC 28806

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Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Jazz, World, R&B/Soul, Hip Hop, Experimental, Top 30 Play Charts, February 16-22, 2020

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JAZZ top ten

1. Matthew Shipp/Nate Wooley – What If? (ROGUE ART)
2. Frode Gjerstad/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Matthew Shipp – Season of Sadness (ILUSO)
3. Matthew Shipp/Mark Helias/Gordon Grdina – Skin & Bones (NOT TWO)
4. Angel Bat Dawid – The Oracle (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)
5. Vijay Iyer/Craig Taborn – The Transitory Poems (ECM)

6. Whit Dickey Tao Quartets – Peace Planet/Box of Light (AUM FIDELITY)
7. Dave Rempis/Jim Baker/Joshua Abrams/Avreeayl Ra – Apsis (AEROPHONIC)
8. Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)
9. Human Feel – Gold (INTAKT)
10. Enrico Fazio Critical Mass – Wabi Sabi (LEO)

(compiled by Jazz director Jonathan Price)

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World Music top ten

1 MAMMAN SANI Unreleased Tapes 1981-1984 Sahel Sounds
2 ANTIBALAS Fu Chronicles Daptone
3 SOTOMAYOR Orígenes Wonderwheel
4 VULA VIEL What’s Not Enough About That? Self-Released
5 SANGIT Librar [Advance Tracks] Cumbancha Discovery

6 OUMOU DIABATE ET KARA SHOW SOUMBA FRIFRI Music from Saharan WhatsApp 02 Sahel Sounds
7 JUNGLE FIRE Jungle Fire Nacional
8 MUTAO WITH ATILLA ENGIN Turkish Delight ARSIVPLAK
9 LEVE LEVE: SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE SOUNDS (70S – 80S) VARIOUS ARTISTS Bongo Joe
10 MOGADISCO; DANCING MOGADISHU (SOMALIA 1972-1991) VARIOUS ARTISTS Analog Africa

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R&B/Soul Top Ten Chart
1 HELIOCENTRICS “Burning Wooden Ship” [Single] Madlib Invazion
2 THOMPSONS, THE I’ll Get Over It Brewerytown Beats
3 EPHEMERALS The Third Eye Jalapeno
4 SPARKLE Sparkle Cultures Of Soul
5 CROSS ISLAND “East of the Apple” [Single] Kalita

6 JAMES REESE AND THE PROGRESSIONS Wait For Me: The Complete Works 1967- 1972 Now-Again
7 YIA TALENT HUNT WINNERS VARIOUS ARTISTS Big Crown
8 SELECT LEVEL Select Level Wax Thematique
9 ARMED GANG, THE “All I Want” [Single] Espacial Discos
10 JAMES HUNTER SIX Nick Of Time [Advance Tracks] Daptone

(compiled by World Music & R&B/Soul director Marissa)

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ten top Hip Hop

1 HELIOCENTRICS Infinity of Now Madlib Invazion
2 GANG STARR One Of The Best Yet Self-Released
3 D SMOKE “Fly” [Single] Self-Released
4 KAYTRANADA Bubba RCA
5 THUNDERCAT “Dragonball Durag” [Single] Brainfeeder

6 JAMILA WOODS LEGACY! LEGACY! Jagjaguwar
7 VILLAELVIN Headroof Hakuna Kulala
8 ROYCE DA 5′ 9″ “Black Savage” [Single] Entertainment One
9 FRED THE GODSON God Level TCF
10 MC YALLAH X DEBMASTER Kubali Hakuna Kulala

(compiled by Hip Hop director Donovan Quixote)

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Experimental Music top ten

1. Jeff Synder – Concerning the Nature of Things (CARRIER)
2. Jessica Pavone String Ensemble – Brick and Mortar (BIRDWATCHER)
3. Bill Orcutt – Odds Against Tomorrow (PALILALIA)
4. OOIOO – Nijimusi (THRILL JOCKEY)
5. Brett Naucke – Elctronic Hypnosis Program (MAKE NOISE)

6. Michael Vincent Waller – Moments (UNSEEN WORLDS)
7. Bana Haffar-Genera – Live at AB Salon, Brussels (TOUCH)
8. SUSS – High Line (NORTHERN SPY)
9. Horse Lords -The Common Task (NORTHERN SPY)
10. Drekka – Beings of ImberIndus (712882 Records DK)

(compiled by Experimental Music director Dogeye)

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Top 30 Play Chart, week of February 16-22, 2020; WSFM-LP, 103.3 FM, Asheville FM, North Carolina

1.) Matthew Shipp / Nate Wooley – What If? (Rogue Art)
2.) Mamman Sani _ Unreleased Tapes 1981-1984 (Sahel Sounds)

3.) 4) 6) 8) Antibalas _ Fu Chronicles (Daptone) … plays March 27 @ The Grey Eagle

4.) Kedama _ The Complete Collection (Castle Face)

5.) 20) 10) 15) 5) of Montreal _ UR FUN (polyvinyl) … of Montreal plays Feb. 28 @ The Orange Peel with Lily Konigsberg

6.) Arbouretum _ Let It All In (Thrill Jockey)
7.) 11) Frances Quinlan _ Likewise (Saddle Creek)
8.) The Heliocentrics _ Infinity of Now (Madlib Invazion)
9.) 14) Isobel Campbell _ There Is No Other (Cooking Vinyl)

10.) Death Hags _ Big Grey Sun #1 (s/r) … Death Hags (Los Angeles) plays March 6 (a Friday)
@ Static Age w/The Cowboys (Indianapolis)

11.) The Thompsons _ I’ll Get Over It (BCW)
12.) Sotomayor _ Orígenes (Wonderwheel)
13.) 15) Shopping _ All Or Nothing (Fat Cat)
14.) Jung Jae Il _ Parasite (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Sacred Bones)

15.) 26) Torres _ Silver Tongue (Merge) … Torres plays May 24 @ The Mothlight

16.) 2) 19) The Homesick _ The Big Exercise (Sub Pop)
17.) 16) Eldridge Rodriguez _ Slightest of Treason (Midriff)
18.) 1) 1) 2) 4) OOIOO _ Nijimusi (Thrill Jockey)
19.) 19) 9) 13) 8) En Attendant Ana _ Juillet (Trouble in Mind)
20.) 17) Marinara _ I Feel Like Dog (s/r)

21.) 23) 17) 12) 6) Sarah Mary Chadwick _ Please Daddy (Sinderlyn)
22.) Erroll Garner _ Up in Erroll’s Room (Octave)
23.) Applesauce Tears _ Wonders (Black Cottage)
24.) 9) 5) 3) Apocalyptica _ Cell-O (Silver Lining)

25.) 25) 25) Wye Oak _ Fear of Heights [single] (Merge Records) … Wye Oak plays Feb. 27 (Thursday) @ The Mothlight w/Ohmme

26.) 12) 2) Ephemerals _ The Third Eye (Jalapeno)
27.) 8) 18) Nada Surf _ Never Not Together (Barsuk)
28.) 13) Son Little _ Aloha (Anti-)
28.) 28) X) 27) Friendship _ Dreamin’ (Orindal)
30.) MY BABY _ Live! (Prehistoric Rhythm)

weekly rank.) previous) rank) * X) = did not chart that week

(compiled by Associate Music Director DJ Airon)

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Asheville FM WSFM-LP
864 Haywood Rd.
Asheville, NC 28806

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Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Jazz, World, Hip Hop, HEAVY, Experimental, Top 30 Play Charts, February 9-15, 2020

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JAZZ top ten

1. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis – The Music of Wayne Shorter (JAZZLINE)
2. Angel Bat Dawid – The Oracle (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)
3. Whit Dickey Tao Quartets – Peace Planet/Box of Light (AUM FIDELITY)
4. Dave Rempis/Jim Baker/Joshua Abrams/Avreeayl Ra – Apsis (AEROPHONIC)
5. Mathew Shipp/Nate Wooley – What If? (ROGUE ART)

6. Aaron Novik – The Fallow Curves of the Planospheres (AVANT LAGUARDIA)
7. David S Ware New Quartet – Theatre Garonne 2008 (AUM Fidelity)
8. Enrico Fazio Critical Mass – Wabi Sabi (LEO)
9. Matthew Shipp – Invisible Light, Live Sao Paulo (HAT HUT)
10. Frode Gjerstad/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Matthew Shipp – Season of Sadness (ILUSO)

(compiled by Jazz director Jonathan Price)

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World Music top ten

1 ANTIBALAS _ Fu Chronicles (Daptone)
2 SOTOMAYOR _ Ori­genes (Wonderwheel)
3 LIDO PIMIENTA _ ”Eso Que Tu Haces” [Single] (Anti-)
4 VULA VIEL _ What’s Not Enough About That? (Self-Released)
5 LEVE LEVE: SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE SOUNDS (70S – 80S) _ VARIOUS ARTISTS (Bongo Joe)

6 CALIBRO _ 35 Momentum (Record Kicks)
7 DUMAMA AND KECHOU _ Buffering Juju Mushroom (Hour Half Hour)
8 OUMOU DIABATE ET KARA SHOW SOUMBA FRIFRI ) Music from Saharan WhatsApp 02 [EP] (Sahel Sounds)
9 ZENOBIA _ “Desert Hafla” [Single] (Acid Arab / Crammed)
10 MAGHREB K7 CLUB: SYNTH RAI, CHAOUI AND STALIIF 1985-1997 _ VARIOUS ARTISTS (Bongo Joe)

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Electronic/RPM top ten

1 FRAMEWORKS _ Imagine Gold (LOCI)
2 YPPAH _ Sunset In The Deep End (Future Archive)
3 SOTOMAYOR _ Orígenes (Wonderwheel)
4 DREAMING OF GHOSTS _ Dreaming Of Ghosts (Trees And Cyborgs)
5 CALIBRO 35 Momentum Record Kicks

6 ZENOBIA _ “Desert Hafla” [Single] (Acid Arab / Crammed)
7 CEU _ “Corpocontinente” [Single] (Six Degrees)
8 SELECT LEVEL _ Select Level (Wax Thematique_
9 TOKIMONSTA _ “Fried For The Night” [Single] (Self-Released)
10 NICOLAS GODIN _ Concrete And Glass (Because)

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R&B/Soul top ten

1 EPHEMERALS _ The Third Eye (Jalapeno)
2 CALIBRO 35 _ Momentum (Record Kicks)
3 THOMPSONS, THE _ I’ll Get Over It (Brewerytown Beats)
4 SPARKLE _ Sparkle (Cultures Of Soul)
5 CROSS ISLAND _ “East of the Apple” [Single] (Kalita)

6 JAMES REESE AND THE PROGRESSIONS _ Wait For Me: The Complete Works 1967- 1972 (Now-Again)
7 HOLY HIVE _ “Ice Dreaming (Less Is More Mix)” [Single] (Big Crown)
8 SELECT LEVEL _ Select Level Wax (Thematique)
9 HELIOCENTRICS _ “Burning Wooden Ship” [Single] (Madlib Invazion)
10 STEVE AIN’T LERON _ ”Veins” [Single] (Lewis)

(World Music, Electronic/RPM, and R&B/SOUL compiled by Assistant Associate Music Director Marissa)

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Experimental Music top ten

1. OOIOO – Nijimusi (THRILL JOCKEY)
2. Negativland – True False (SEELAND)
3. JACK Quartet/Sō Percussion, (composed by Dan Trueman) – Songs that are Hard to Sing (NEW AMSTERDAM)
4. Bill Orcutt – Odds Against Tomorrow (PALILALIA)
5. Sarah Pagé – Dose Curves (BACKWARD MUSIC)

6. William St Hugh – The Luciferian (self)
7. Land of Kush – Sand Enigma (CONSTELLATION)
8. Jeff Synder – Concerning the Nature of Things (CARRIER)
9. Tomasz Bendarczyk – Illustrations for Those Who (ROOM40)
10. Eleh – Living Space (TOUCH)

(compiled by Experimental Music director Dogeye)

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Top 30 Play Chart, February 9-15, 2020; WSFM-LP, 103.3 FM, Asheville FM, North Carolina

1.) 1) 2) 4) OOIOO _ Nijimusi (Thrill Jockey)
2.) 19) The Homesick _ The Big Exercise (Sub Pop)
3.) Frameworks _ Imagine Gold (Loci)

4.) 6) 8) Antibalas _ Fu Chronicles (Daptone) … plays March 27 @ The Grey Eagle

5.) 13) Sarah Pagé _ Dose Curves (Backward Music)

6.) 20) HMLTD _ West of Eden (Lucky Number)
7.) 3) 21) 2) 1) 13) 22) X) 10) Negativland _ True False (Seeland)
8.) 18) Nada Surf _ Never Not Together (Barsuk)
9.) 5) 3) Apocalyptica _ Cell-O (Silver Lining)
10.) Yppah _ Sunset In The Deep End (Future Archive)

11.) Frances Quinlan _ Likewise (Saddle Creek)
12.) 2) Ephemerals _ The Third Eye (Jalapeno)
13.) Son Little _ Aloha (Anti-)
14.) Isobel Campbell _ There Is No Other (Cooking Vinyl)
15.) Shopping _ All Or Nothing (Fat Cat)

16.) Eldridge Rodriguez _ Slightest of Treason (Midriff)
17.) Marinara _ I Feel Like Dog (s/r)
18.) 7) 19) 1) Land of Kush _ Sand Enigma (Constellation)
19.) 9) 13) 8) En Attendant Ana _ Juillet (Trouble in Mind)

20.) 10) 15) 5) of Montreal _ UR FUN (polyvinyl) … of Montreal plays Feb. 28 @ The Orange Peel with Lily Konigsberg

21.) 4) 5) 10) The Gonks _ Five Things You Didn’t Know About the Gonks (Rocks in Your Head)
22.) Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis – The Music of Wayne Shorter (Jazzline)
23.) 17) 12) 6) Sarah Mary Chadwick _ Please Daddy (Sinderlyn)
24.) 23) Alice Boman _ Dream On (Play It Again Sam)

25.) 25) Wye Oak _ Fear of Heights [single] (Merge Records) … Wye Oak plays Feb. 27 @ The Mothlight w/Ohmme

26.) Torres _ Silver Tongue (Merge)

27.) 25) Wayne Hancock _ Man of the Road (Bloodshot) … plays Feb. 18 (Tuesday) @ The Grey Eagle w/Joe Buck Yourself

28.) X) 27) Friendship _ Dreamin’ (Orindal)
29.) 16) 14) 11) Lisa Prank _ Perfect Love Song (Father/Daughter)
30.) 11) 17) 7) Wolf Parade _ Thin Mind (Sub Pop)

weekly rank.) previous) rank) * X) = did not chart that week

(compiled by Associate Music Director DJ Airon)

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Asheville FM WSFM-LP
864 Haywood Rd.
Asheville, NC 28806

ashevillefm.org
[email protected]

Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Jazz, World, Hip Hop, Experimental, Top 30 Play Charts, February 2-8, 2020

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JAZZ top ten

1. Matthew Shipp/Nate Wooley – What If? (ROGUE ART)
2. Frode Gjerstad/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Matthew Shipp – Season of Sadness (ILUSO)
3. Whit Dickey Tao Quartets – Peace Planet/Box of Light (AUM FIDELITY)
4. Enrico Fazio Critical Mass – Wabi Sabi (LEO)
5. Human Feel – Gold (INTAKT)

6. Angel Bat Dawid – The Oracle (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)
7. Matthew Shipp – Invisible Light, Live Sao Paulo (HAT HUT)
8. Aaron Novik – The Fallow Curves of the Planospheres (AVANT LAGUARDIA)
9. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis – The Music of Wayne Shorter (JAZZLINE)
10. Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)

(compiled by Jazz director Jonathan Price)

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World Music top ten

1 ANTIBALAS _ Fu Chronicles (Daptone)
2 OOIOO _ Nijimusi (Thrill Jockey)
3 CALIBRO _ 35 Momentum (Record Kicks)
4 ETRAN DE L’AIR _ Music From Saharan WhatsApp 01 [EP] (Sahel Sounds)
5 MC YALLAH X DEBMASTER _ Kubali (Hakuna Kulala)

6 LEVE LEVE: SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE SOUNDS (70S – 80S) _ VARIOUS ARTISTS (Bongo Joe)
7 DUMAMA AND KECHOU _ Buffering Juju Mushroom Hour (Half Hour)
8 EL WALI _ Tiris (Sahel Sounds)
9 SOTOMAYOR _ Origenes (Wonderwheel)
10 LOTTE KAESRA AND GRAESRODDERNE _ Jubiiilaeum (Tartelet)

(compiled by World Music director Marissa)

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ten top Hip Hop

1 MC YALLAH X DEBMASTER Kubali Hakuna Kulala
2 GANG STARR One Of The Best Yet Self-Released
3 THUNDERCAT “Black Qualls” [Single] Brainfeeder
4 LIL WAYNE Funeral Republic
5 HELIOCENTRICS “Burning Wooden Ship” [Single] Madlib Invazion

6 GIL SCOTT-HERON AND MAKAYA MCCRAVEN We’re New Again: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven XL/Beggars Group
7 JADAKISS “Kisses To The Sky” [Single] Def Jam
8 FREE NATIONALS Free Nationals Obe/Empire
9 MEEK MILL Championships Atlantic
10 DJ SHADOW Our Pathetic Age Mass Appeal

(compiled by Hip Hop director Donovan Quixote)

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Experimental Music top ten

1. Negativaland – True False (SEELAND)
2. Land of Kush – San Enigma (CONSTELLATION)
3. Sarah Pagé – Dose Curves (BACKWARD MUSIC)
4. Brett Naucke – Electronic Hypnosis Program (MAKE NOISE)
5. Bana Haffar – Genera – Live at AB Salon, Brussels (TOUCH)

6. OOIOO – Jijimusi (THRILL JOCKEY) Jack Quartet/Sō Percussion, (composed by Dan Trueman)
7. Kate Tempest – The book of Taps and Lessons (REPUBLIC)
8. Jessica Ekomane – Multivocal (IMPORTANT)
9. Jeff Synder – Concering the Nature of Things (CARRIER)
10. Zachary Paul – A Meditation on Discord (TOUCH)

(compiled by Experimental Music director Dogeye)

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Top 30 Play Chart, week of February 2-8, 2020; WSFM-LP, 103.3 FM, Asheville FM, North Carolina

1.) 2) 4) OOIOO _ Nijimusi (Thrill Jockey)
2.) Ephemerals _ The Third Eye (Jalapeno)
3.) 21) 2) 1) 13) 22) X) 10) Negativland _ True False (Seeland)
4.) 5) 10) The Gonks _ Five Things You Didn’t Know About the Gonks (Rocks in Your Head)
5.) 3) Apocalyptica _ Cell-O (Silver Lining)

6.) 8) Antibalas _ Fu Chronicles (Daptone) … plays March 27 @ The Grey Eagle

7.) 19) 1) Land of Kush _ Sand Enigma (Constellation)
8.) Calibro 35 _ Momentum (Record Kicks)
9.) 13) 8) En Attendant Ana _ Juillet (Trouble in Mind)

10.) 15) 5.) of Montreal _ UR FUN (polyvinyl) … of Montreal plays Feb. 28 @ The Orange Peel with Lily Konigsberg

11.) 17) 7) Wolf Parade _ Thin Mind (Sub Pop)
12.) 16) 9) Telemarket _ You Deserve a Hard Day’s Work After a Long Night’s Rest. (Avenue Noise and Sound)
13.) Sarah Pagé _ Dose Curves (Backward Music)

14.) 10) Loudness War _ Mystifier Deluxe (Melt House) … played Feb. 10 @ The Mothlight w/Shaken Nature, Ugly Runner

15.) 4) Bana Haffar _ Genera-Love at AB Salon, Brussels (Touch) … Bana Haffar plays Feb. 17 (Monday) @ The Mothlight w/ Claire Rousay, MANAS

16.) 14) 11) Lisa Prank _ Perfect Love Song (Father/Daughter)
17.) 12) 6) Sarah Mary Chadwick _ Please Daddy (Sinderlyn)
18.) Nada Surf _ Never Not Together (Barsuk)
19.) The Homesick _ The Big Exercise (Sub Pop)
20.) HMLTD _ West of Eden (Lucky Number)

21.) Kate Tempest _ The Book of Traps and Lessons (Republic)
22.) 22) 22) Holy Fuck _ Deleter (Holy EF Music)
23.) Iguana Death Cult _ Nude Casino (Innovative Leisure)
24.) Matthew Shipp/Nate Wooley – What If? (Rogue Art)

25.) Wye Oak _ Fear of Heights [single] (Merge Records) … Wye Oak plays Feb. 27 @ The Mothlight w/Ohmme

26.) 30.) Daughter of Swords _ Dawnbreaker (Bella Union) … plays Feb. 15 @ The Mothlight w/The Dead Tongues
27.) 23) Alice Boman _ Dream On (Play It Again Sam)
28.) 11) …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead _ X: The Godless Void and Other Stories (Dine Alone)
29.) 1) 3) Mr. Elevator _ Goodbye, Blue Sky (Castle Face)
30.) My Baby _ My Baby Live! (Prehistoric Rhythm)

weekly rank.) previous) rank) * X) = did not chart that week

(compiled by Associate Music Director DJ Airon)

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864 Haywood Rd.
Asheville, NC 28806

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Asheville FM 103.3 WSFM-LP Jazz, World, Hip Hop, Experimental, Top 30 Play Charts, January 26-February 1, 2020

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JAZZ top ten

1. Mathew Shipp/Nate Wooley – What If? (ROGUE ART)
2. Ensemble 5 – The Collective Mind (LEO)
3. Vijay Iyer/Craig Taborn – The Transitory Poems (ECM)
4. Whit Dickey Tao Quartets – Peace Planet/Box of Light (AUM FIDELITY)
5. Matthew Shipp – Invisible Light, Live Sao Paulo (HAT HUT)

6. Angel Bat Dawid – The Oracle (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)
7. Dave Rempis/Jim Baker/Joshua Abrams/Avreeayl Ra – Apsis (AEROPHONIC)
8. Jaimie Branch – Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise (INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM)
9. Rent Romus’ Lords of Outland – 25 Years Under The Mountain (EDGETONE)
10. Frode Gjerstad/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Matthew Shipp – Season of Sadness (ILUSO)

(compiled by Jazz director Jonathan Price)

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World Music top ten

1 EL WALI _ Tiris (Sahel Sounds)
2 ANTIBALAS _ Fu Chronicles (Daptone)
3 ETRAN DE L’AIR _ Music From Saharan WhatsApp 01 EP (Sahel Sounds)
4 MANHU _ Voices Of The Sani (Riverboat)
5 LOTTE KAESRA AND GRAESRODDERNE _ Jubiiilaeum (Tartelet)

6 OOIOO _ Nijimusi (Thrill Jockey)
7 MOGADISCO: DANCING MOGADISHU (SOMALIA 1972-1991) _ VARIOUS ARTISTS (Analog Africa)
8 ALOGTE OHO AND HIS SOUNDS OF JOY _ Mam Yinne Wa (Philophon)
9 PENYA ) Penya Safari EP (On The Corner)
10 MC YALLAH X DEBMASTER ) Kubali (Hakuna Kulala)

(compiled by World Music director Marissa)

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ten top Hip Hop

1 MC YALLAH X DEBMASTER _ Kubali (Hakuna Kulala)
2 THUNDERCAT _ “Black Qualls” [Single] Brainfeeder)
3 KAYTRANADA _ Bubba (RCA)
4 MAC MILLER _ Circles (Warner)
5 REDMAN _ 3 Joints [EP] (Gilla House/Riveting)

6 JAMILA WOODS _ LEGACY! LEGACY! (Jagjaguwar)
7 KALI UCHIS _ “Solita” [Single] (Virgin)
8 ECKO BAZZ _ “Kyusa Embela” [Single] (Hakuna Kulala)
9 JAMIE ISAAC _ 3 [EP] (Marathon Artists)
10 KNXWLEDGE _ “Do You” [Single] (Stones Throw)

(compiled by Hip Hop director Donovan Quixote)

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Experimental Music top ten

1. Brett Naucke – Electronic Hypnosis Program – EP (MAKE NOISE RECORDS)
2. OOIOO – Nijimusi (THRILL JOCKEY)
3. Jessica Pavone String Ensemble – Brick and Mortar (BIRDWATCHER)
4. Bana Hafar – Genera-Love at AB Salon, Brussels (TOUCH)
5. Land Of Kush – Sand Enigma (CONSTELLATION)

6. Peter Zummo – Deep Drive – EP (TIN ANGEL)
7. Kate Tempest – The Book of Traps and Lessons (REPUBLIC)
8. Sarah Pagé – Drose Curves (self)
9. Drekka – Beings of ImberIndus (SOMNIMAGE CORP.)
10. Laurie Spiegel – Unseen Worlds (UNSEEN WORLDS)

(compiled by Experimental Music director Dogeye)

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Top 30 Play Chart, week of January 26-February 1, 2020; WSFM-LP, 103.3 FM, Asheville FM, North Carolina

1.) 3) Mr. Elevator _ Goodbye, Blue Sky (Castle Face)
2.) 4) OOIOO _ Nijimusi (Thrill Jockey)
3.) Apocalyptica _ Cell-O (Silver Lining)
4.) 27) Brett Naucke _ Electronic Hypnosis Program (Make Noise)
5.) 10) The Gonks _ Five Things You Didn’t Know About the Gonks (Rocks in Your Head)

6.) Dreaming Of Ghosts _ Dreaming Of Ghosts (Trees & Cyborgs)
7.) MC Yallah x Debmaster _ Kubali (Hakuna Kulala)

8.) Antibalas _ Fu Chronicles (Daptone) … plays March 27 @ The Grey Eagle

9.) 19) Trilok Gurtu _ God Is a Drummer (Jazzline)

10.) Loudness War _ Mystifier Deluxe (Melt House) … plays Feb. 10 @ The Mothlight w/Shaken Nature, Ugly Runner

11.) …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead _ X: The Godless Void and Other Stories (Dine Alone)
12.) 6) Sarah Mary Chadwick _ Please Daddy (Sinderlyn)
13.) 8) En Attendant Ana _ Juillet (Trouble in Mind)
14.) 11) Lisa Prank _ Perfect Love Song (Father/Daughter)

15.) 5.) of Montreal _ UR FUN (polyvinyl) … of Montreal plays Feb. 28 @ The Orange Peel with Lily Konigsberg 

16.) 9) Telemarket _ You Deserve a Hard Day’s Work After a Long Night’s Rest. (Avenue Noise and Sound)
17.) 7) Wolf Parade _ Thin Mind (Sub Pop)
18.) Sefi Zisling _ Expanse unset (Tru Thoughts)
19.) 1) Land of Kush _ Sand Enigma (Constellation)
20.) Matao with Atilla Engin _ Turkish Delight (Arsivplak)

21.) 2) 1) 13) 22) X) 10) Negativland _ True False (Seeland)
22.) 22) Holy Fuck _ Deleter (Holy EF Music)
23.) Alice Boman _ Dream On (Play It Again Sam)
24.) Tyrnaround _ Colour Your Mind (Guerssen)

25.) Wayne Hancock _ Man of the Road (Bloodshot) … plays Feb. 18 @ The Grey Eagle w/Joe Buck Yourself

26.) 20) 11) Beck _ Hyperspace (Capitol)
27.) Friendship _ Dreamin’ (Orindal)
28.) 29) Bridal Party _Too Much (Bridal Party)
29.) X) 5) 10) Pile _ Green and Gray (Exploding In Sound)

30.) Daughter of Swords _ Dawnbreaker (Bella Union) … plays Feb. 15 @ The Mothlight w/The Dead Tongues

weekly rank.) previous) rank) * X) = did not chart that week

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(compiled by Associate Music Director DJ Airon)

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Asheville FM WSFM-LP
864 Haywood Rd.
Asheville, NC 28806

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