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Santa Salsera, host of the WXDU program Azucar y Candela speaks highly of our album Adventures in Paradise. Salsera writes:

Exotica is back, baby. Not your typical “salsa dura,” nonethless, the Latin backbone is authentic, the musical approach pure jazz. This album is a special liqueur. Recapture your own personal cocktail hour (drink recipes are included with the liner notes) and go with the wave.

Live in the Raleigh-Durham area? Tune into Azucar y Candela on WXDU 88.7 FM, Wednesdays 6-8 PM.

Read the full review here, or

Download as a PDF.

We’ve been doing really well on the CMJ (College Music Journal) Jazz charts lately. As of CMJ Issue #1127, we’re up to #12!

We’re finally posting a recipe for a cocktail Sam Treadway concocted for us back in June at Drink Fort Point. Story behind this one: Randy challenged Sam to make a gin drink that combines espresso beans and black peppercorns. The result was smooth and creamy—but with the subtle kick of black pepper. A classy drink, not to be trifled with.

The Gin Wong

Muddle espresso beans & black pepper
1/4 oz cinnamon syrup
1/4 oz cherry heering
1/4 oz benedictine
1/2 oz dark creme de cacao
1/2 oz cream
1 1/2 oz Aviator gin

Shake & double strain.

The recipe initially used Beefeater, but was refined this November with the use of Aviator gin. It’s a much better match, too, given that Gin Wong is an aviator.

Some of our fans might recall the seemingly endless troubles we’ve had with live radio broadcasts in the past! Apparently our WFMU show is no exception. Hopefully you will finally get to hear it this weekend. Tune into wfmu.org if you’re not local to the NJ area.

FINALLY HEAR WAITIKI 7’s WFMU SHOW: This Sunday, October 11th, 5pm - 7pm (Eastern):

A Tropical Excursion With the Waitiki 7: Salvaged Shipwreck Edition
This is the radio show the gods don’t want you to hear! First, on Sept. 20, this program’s broadcast of two hours of exotica — including a live set from the Waitiki 7 — from a boat was waylaid when Poseidon forced our sturdy craft into New York’s version of the Bermuda Triangle, which swallowed up the broadcast signal like so many rummy seafarers. Then, just minutes before an attempted rebroadcast on Sept. 27, Thor tossed a celestial fistful of lightning bolts at the WFMU Building, knocking out the power for hours. So this time, to be on the safe side, a couple of the younger WFMU DJs have been flung into the mouth of a piping volcano — so hopefully, this third time will be the charm. Be a witness to the raising of this Titanic of a radio show from Davy Jones’s Locker!