This week's host was Dr. Zomb and he played most of the extremely limited edition (only 200 pressed) 3 LP set called Fihavanana, A Collection of Field Recordings and Photography from Magagasikara, which came out several years ago on Cultural Knot / Mississippi Records. Charles Brooks, a Canadian musician, recorded this material from 1997 - 99, on site with portable recording equipment, and there is a wonderful background ambience present in much of what you hear. In fact, some of the discs seem to intersperse short, purely ambient tracks amongst the already very informally recorded musical selections.
The sides were played in this order: A, D, B, E, F, C (2 tracks)