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A PLAYLIST FROM OUR IMAGINARY RADIO SHOW OR ‘SOCIAL’
Chosen by Dominic Valvona

In danger of repeating myself, but for newcomers to the site here’s the premise of my playlist selections. Previously only ever shared via our Facebook profile and on Spotify our regular Monolith Cocktail Social playlists will also be posted here on the blog itself.

With no themes or demarcated reasoning we pick songs from across a wide spectrum of genres, and from all eras. Reaching edition #29 and still as eclectic as ever, this latest playlist chosen by me, Dominic Valvona, features Canadian Hollywood tipping rock glory from Neil Merryweather, the funk, the whole funk and nothin’ but the funk from Bernie Worrell, Afrobeat garage from Wells Fargo, beautiful flighty jazz transmogrifications of The Beatles via Ramsey Lewis, and experimental peregrinations of fantasy from Nicole Mitchell. There’s also tracks from Monomono, Gurumanix, The Stepkids, Trane, Leland, Sensations Fix (a regular at the Monolith over the years), Syrinx and many more (see full tracklist below).

Tracklist:-

Neil Merryweather  ‘Hollywood Blvd.’
Birth Control  ‘Hope (Single Version)’
Sensations Fix  ‘Substance Of U’
Bernie Worrell  ‘Woo Together’
Soul Explosives  ‘Tryin To Get Down’
Rim Kwaku Obeng, The Believers, KASA  ‘I’m A Song Writer’
Tee Mac  ‘Nepa Oh Nepa’
Shintaro Sakamoto  ‘死者よ’
Tommy Mcgee  ‘Come On’
Peace  ‘I Don’t Know’
John Holt  ‘Help Me Make It Through The Night’
Buckley  ‘My, My, My’
The Beach Boys  ‘With A Little Help From My Friends’
Peter Giger ft. Trilok Gurtu, Family Of Percussion, Archie Shepp, Wolfgang Dauner and Albert Mangelsdorff  ‘Trans Tanz’
Goran Kajfes Subtropic Arkestra ‘Dokuz Seki/Esmerim’
Marco Di Marco  ‘Le Mors Aux Dents’
The Last Poets  ‘It’s A Trip’
Wells Fargo  ‘Love Of My Life’
Monomono  ‘Get Yourself Together’
Jesse Davis ft. Eric Clapton  ‘Washita Love Child’
Gurumaniax  ‘Voodoo Touch’
Min Bul  ‘Champagne Of Course (Instrumental)’
Ramsey Lewis  ‘Black Bird’
Ahmed Malek  ‘Les Vacances De L’inspecteur Tahar’
Joe Maneri  ‘Paniots Nine’
Shirley Nanette  ‘All Of Your Life’
Eduardo Araujo and Silvinha  ‘Sou Filho Deste Chão’
The Stepkids  ‘Sweet Salvation’
Autumn  ‘Goblin’s Gamble’
Pretty  ‘Mustache In Your Face’
Trane  ‘Still Burning Bright’
Hard Stuff  ‘Jay Time’
Leland  ‘I’ve Got Some Happiness’
Boots For Dancing  ‘Salt In The Ocean’
Family Fodder  ‘Savoir Faire (Single Version)’
Gabor Szabo  ‘Song Of Injured Love’
Nicole Mitchell  ‘Dance Of Many Hands’
Syrinx  ‘Syren’