WMNF’s Step Outside Pledge CD Bundles and CD Boxes
Sep. 2024
| Pledge amount | Cd Bundle | CDs included |
| $88.50 | Atmospheric Jazz | Ralph Towner: Time Line (ECM) Airto: The Other Side of This Dusan Bogdanovic: Levantine Tales |
| $88.50 | Acid Damage | Mushroom: Hydrogen Jukebox Acid Mothers Temple: In C Acid Mothers Temple: Have You Seen the Other Side of the Sky? |
| $88.50 | RIO | Absolute Zero: Crashing Icons Absolute Zero: A Live in the Basement |
| $88.50 | John Adams’ Minimalism | John Adams: The Chairman Dances (San Fran Symph) John Adams: Gnarly Buttons (Kronos Quartet) John Adams: Harmonielehre/Short Ride (Simon Rattle) |
| $88.50 | Mingus Bundle #1 | Charles Mingus: Epitaph (2cds) Charles Mingus: Mingus Plays Piano |
| $100 | Mingus Bundle #2 | Charles Mingus: Town Hall Concert Charles Mingus: Complete 1959 Columbus Recordings (3cds) -Mingus Ah Um / Mingus Dynasty/Alternate Takes |
| $100 | Moroccan & Radical Jewish Culture | Badawi: Soldier of Midian Ahava Raba: Kete Kuf (Tzadik) Tim Sparks: Tanz (Tzadik) Hacidic New Wave: Kabalogy |
| $100 | Ambient | Nils Petter Molvaer: Solid Ether (ECM) Nils Petter Molvaer: Streamer Ingram Marshall: Hidden Voices Jeff Greinke: Cities in Fog (2cds) |
| $125 | Rahib Abou-Khalil’s World Jazz – 6 cds | Rahib Abou-Khalil: Roots & Sprouts (w/ Glen Moore & Glen Velez) Rahib Abou-Khalil: Yara (w/ Dominique Pifarely) Rahib Abou-Khalil: Journey to the Center of an Egg Rahib Abou-Khalil: Morton’s Foot (w/ Michel Godard) Rahib Abou-Khalil: Il Sospiro Rahib Abou-Khalil: Cactus of Knowledge (w/ Tom Varner) |
| $125 | AACM – 5 cds | Muhal Richard Abrams Orch: Blu Blu Blu Roscoe Mitchell: Nine to Get Ready (ECM) Roscoe Mitchell & The Sound Ensemble: Live Knitting Factory Air (Henry Threadgill): Live Air Pheeroan AkLaff: Sonogram (w/ Sonny Sharrock) |
| Pledge amount | Box Artist & Description |
| $125 | Earth Wind & Fire: The Eternal Dance 1971−1989 (1992) (3cds + 48-page booklet) Essential; The Boston Globe’s top ten record of both 1992 and 1993 “…though this set shows off all sides of the EWF sound, its reliance on outtakes and unreleased live material underscores just how much instrumental sparkle this crew could muster.” |
| $125 | Los Lobos: El Cancionero Mas y Mas (2000) (4cds + 78-page booklet) “…the definitive portrait of Los Lobos” Eighty-six tracks – “so varied it seems remarkable that they should be recorded by the same musicians.” * caveat – some glue has given out on the holder |
| $125 | Cream: Those Were the Days (1997) (4cds + 48-page booklet) Almost every studio track released during the band’s active lifetime, plus most of the live releases. |
| $125 | Santana: Dace of the Rainbow Serpent (1995) (3cds + 60-page booklet) Carlos Santana group material, solo projects and appearances with other artists. |
| $125 | Planet Soup Ellipsis Arts World Fusions Compilation (1995) (3cds + 48-page booklet) Collects recordings of musicians reaching out and embracing other musical cultures, creating the most unexpected cross-cultural collaborations and new musical hybrids. Highlights include Paul Peña and Kongar-ol Ondar collaborated to make a rousing Bo Diddley blues beat coupled with Tuvan throat singing; a Bulgarian women’s choir; Bustan Abraham’s mixed group of Jews and Arabs from Israel; Varttina, a Finnish pop group; Al Tall and Muluk El Hwa mix flamenco guitars with Gnawa traditional; Jim Bowie combined with Badal Roy to play traditional Indian classical music on a banjo. Mynta combined Swedish traditional and Indian traditional. |
| $125 | What It Is: Funky Soul & Rare Grooves (Rhino 2006) (4cds + 80-page booklet) 91-track decade-long stretch of the Warner-distributed archive, a leagues-deep trawl through an otherwise forgotten past. Mines rare, renowned, legendary, and little-known grooves from the vaults. Includes the Meters, Curtis Mayfield, Wilson Pickett, Allen Toussaint, and Sly Stone and many more. |
| $125 | Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era, 1976–1995 (Rhino 2005) (4cds + 98-page booklet) Third box set in Rhino’s Nuggets series. New York Times: “As on Nuggets, the songs are terse and catchy, the equipment is vintage and distortion-happy, and the recording budgets sound minimal; girl trouble is still the perennial subject. The difference is a broad streak of self-consciousness, but it rarely takes the fun out of the songs.” Includes The Dukes of Stratosphear, Lyres, The Bangles, The Barracudas, The Smithereens, Flamin’ Groovies, The Fleshtones, That Petrol Emotion. |
Step Outside is a sojourn through strange and beautiful sounds, digital hybrids and musical mutations. Over three decades, Step Outside has become WMNF’s showcase of the Strange and Beautiful! From 20th century composers to early electronic experiments, free jazz, 4th world music, obscure psychedelia, and the rock avant-garde. Featured artists include Sun Ra, Fred Frith, Tom Waits, John Zorn, Amy Denio, Dungen, Faust, Soft Machine, Miles Davis, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gyorgy Ligeti, Fripp & Eno, and many more…
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Step Outside Host; Dali Museum Curator of Education. Soft Machine's Third changed my life. Continuing the 3-decade Step Outside adventure with Mark Perfetti.
Step Outside host, Lead Audio Engineer on WMNF’s Live Music Showcase, Freelance Sound Mixer for Film and Television.
Musician. Raconteur. Trickster. Spiritual father & founder of Step Outside/Sonic Irritation in 1989. Deceased 2017. Loved and missed by all. Known for giving people the hairy eyebrow.
