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Jherek Bischoff & Amanda Palmer - "Space Oddity" - Strung Out In Heaven: A Bowie String Quartet Tribute [Within days of David Bowie’s death, punk-rock pianist and cabaret songstress Palmer, vocals, teamed up with pop polymath Bischoff, double bass/arrangements, to create this album, with English writer Neil Gaiman reciting the countdown.] Jon Gibson & David Behrman - "Nectar (concert recording)" - Roulette Archive [Improvisational and compositional interactions between Jon Gibson on woodwinds and electronics and David Behrman’s electronic processing and sonic soundscapes.] [0:08:44] David Behrman, John King, Cleek Shrey - "David Behrman’s Reinventions (concert recording)" - Roulette Archive [Composer Behrman's electronic underscore (built in part from legacy patches) structures the improvisations of John King, guitar, and Cleek Schrey, Hardanger d’amore.] [0:40:48] Satsuki Shibano - "Danses de travers (Pièces froides)" - Wave Notation 3: Erik Satie [Composed 1897 by Satie, from pianist Shibano's collection on the Wave Notation environmental music series curated by Satoshi Ashikawa, originally released in 1984 on Sound Process.] [1:13:07] Zoë Keating - "Optimist" - Into The Trees [Vermont. All songs written, performed, recorded and produced by Keating in her cello cave.] [1:17:46] Throwing Shapes - "Calyx" - Throwing Shapes [Ireland. Méabh McKenna, Ross Chaney, and Gareth Quinn Redmond with the sounds of the Irish wire strung harp, instrumental tapestries, and electronics.] [1:22:44] Hiroshi Yoshimura - "Time after time " - Surround [Originally released as an album in 1986 and recorded as a commission from home builder Misawa Homes, intended to function as an “amenity” designed to enhance the company’s newly built living spaces. Hiroshi Yoshimura (1940-2003), unknown outside Japan in his lifetime, has emerged as a celebrated pioneer of ambient music.] [1:39:19] Adrian Knight - "Mall of Infinity" - Idea to Life [Composer Knight, Rhodes electric piano, Roland JX3P synthesizer, and David Lackner, alto sax, with The Living Earth Show: Andy Meyerson, percussion, and Travis Andrews, electric guitar.] [1:50:02] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156656

Endlings - "Coil Drinking" - Parallel03 [A project of Raven Chacon & John Dieterich, here with the Vancouver New Music Circle, assembled in Albuquerque,and Native American territories such as Semiahma First Nations. The album (and its website) are designed to be interactive and the listener is invited to shuffle and overlay tracks.] Amir ElSaffar - "Le Marteau de la Maîtresse (Alternate Take)" - Live at Pierre Boulez Saal [Tomas Fujiwara, drums; Ole Mathisen, tenor sax; Tania Giannouli, microtonal piano; composer ElSaffar on trumpet. Based on scales and practices of the Maqām, recorded in Berlin.] [0:03:57] AnAkA - "The Griot's Cave" - Crisis of the Concrete [A self-proclaimed World Builder and Story Doula, this is a project of the artist's Angel Music series.] [0:11:50] Endlings - "Protrio Veneno" - Parallel03 [A project of Raven Chacon & John Dieterich, here with the Vancouver New Music Circle assembled in Albuquerque,and Native American territories such as Semiahma First Nations. The album (and its website) are designed to be interactive and the listener is invited to shuffle and overlay tracks.] [0:16:33] Lori Goldston - "Cold Air" - High and Low [Seattle, Washington. Lori Goldston, amplified cello. This artist came to prominence as the touring cellist for Nirvana from 1993–1994 and appears on their live album MTV Unplugged.] [0:21:47] ZĀM - "Skeuomorph Rising" - Nemesis [Lead by guitarist Anthony Pirog with Andrew Colwell, bass, electronics; and Dan Sharnoff, drums, tapes, samples.] [0:33:05] Motoharu Yoshizawa & Kim Dae Hwan - "Into The Infinite Green" - Way Of The Breeze [Motoharu Yoshizawa, homemade electric vertical five strings bass and Kim Dae Hwan, percussion. Recorded 1993 at Café Amores in Hofu City, Yamaguchi, Japan.] [0:37:22] Miguel Frasconi - "Concert Excerpt" - Roulette Archive [Composer, improviser, and inventor Frasconi's music for string quartet with glass instruments & electronics, featuring the Jack Quartet and violinist Cornelius Dufallo.] [1:00:14] Yutaka Hirose - "Voice From Past Technology" - TRACE: Sound Design Works 1986-1989 [From a collection of unreleased tracks produced by Yutaka Hirose during the Sound Process Design sessions, right after the release of his classic Soundscape series album, Nova.] [1:32:20] Rainer Jancis - "Tahkuna kaanon" - Tahkuna kaanon [Guitarist Jancis (aka Herzog) is an Estonian musician, composer, and producer.] [1:42:38] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156427

Mathias Halvorsen - "Prelude in A minor BWV 889 from The Well-Tempered Clavier" - The Well-Prepared Piano, vol. 1 [Iceland. From a collection of pianist Halvorsen's recordings of J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier on various prepared pianos.] Bill Wells & Stefan Schneider - "Pntps 88" - Pianotapes [Wells plays a Bechstein grand piano, while Schneider records all on two old reel-to-reel tape machines and plays the recordings back at altered speeds.] [0:07:09] Kelly Moran - "Helix" - Origin [The artist combines classical piano training with electronic production techniques and a passion for John Cage-style prepared piano.] [0:12:38] Shi-An Costello - "distance" - [alloy] new works for prepared piano [Chicago.Performed and recorded on a home-produced prepared piano setup (the same as John Cage’s 1948 Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano), with mixed media contributions by Aeryn Santillan.] [0:21:19] Katia Pesti - "Kryptikos" - Kryptikos [Katia Pesti is a composer and performer based in Florence, Italy. Material is generated live, without electronics, overdubs, or mechanical interventions.] [0:29:06] Boris Berman - "The Perilous Night (#6)" - Cage: Music for Prepared Piano, Vol. 2 [Composed 1944. Pianist Berman born Moscow, now at Yale.] [0:39:11] Hauschka - "Pripyat" - Abandoned City [aka Volker Bertelmann, Germany. Recorded using nine microphones. Six recorded the sounds coming from the piano strings through an analogue console, others passed the tones through a mixer full of effects - delay, distortion, echo...] [0:42:46] Patrick Wiklacz - "Ignorance" - Ignorance (for prepared piano) [Paris. Hybrid pieces, for electroacoustic setup and sampler.] [0:49:56] Paul Swartzel - "Major Depression" - Music for Prepared Piano [From a collection of music dealing with mental illness and self-discovery described as "incredibly awesome and super disturbing,"] [1:04:30] Setting - "at Eulogy" - Setting – At Eulogy [Nathan Bowles (banjo, keyboard, tapes & percussion); Jaime Fennelly (harmonium & synthesizer); Joe Westerlund (drums & percussion). Recorded in Asheville, North Carolina.] [1:13:04] Mathias Halvorsen - "Mathias Halvorsen - Prelude and Fugue in Eb minor BWV 853 from The Well-Tempered Clavier" - The Well-Prepared Piano, vol. 1 [Iceland. From a collection of pianist Halvorsen's recordings of J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier on various prepared pianos.] [1:23:23] Kshatriy - "Sustained Variations for Prepared Piano & Excellent Reverberators" - Sustained Variations for Prepared Piano & Excellent Reverberators [Russia. Music created without touching the keys, recorded inside the instrument with "complete destruction of the attack of each touch".] [1:36:19] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155958

Bob Ostertag - "Smoking" - Attention Span [From a collection of miniatures for samples and noise in a collaborative album by Bob Ostertag, Fred Frith, and John Zorn.] Wolfgang Pérez - "Tá Errado" - Só Ouço [Influenced by Música Popular Brasileira. Composer Pérez, acoustic guitar, vocals; Luis Magalhães, bass guitar; Paulo Emmery, electric guitar; Pedro Fonte, drums, percussion; Edu Neves, tenor sax; Jorge Continentino, baritone sax; Everson Moraes, trombone; Cláudio Brito, percussion.] [0:03:38] Ali Boulo Santo Cissoko & Volker Goetze - "Bétiyata" - Sargal [Senegalese kora master Ali Boulo Santo Cissoko (lyrics & vocals); Volker Goetze (trumpet, flugelhorn); Mino Cinélu (percussion).] [0:09:03] The Duo Ludwig Wittbrodt - "Nunc stans" - Ludwig Wittbrodt [Germany. Emily Wittbrodt on cello and Edis Ludwig on laptop and drums with Elisa Kühnl, vocals.] [0:16:47] Carrie Frey & The Rhythm Method - "A chorus like distant screaming" - Seaglass [The Rhythm Method is a string quartet with composer Frey, viola; Leah Asher and Marina Kifferstein, violins; Meaghan Burke, cello. The project strives to reimagine the string quartet in a contemporary, feminist context.] [0:31:02] Ingebrigt Håker Flaten's (Exit) Knarr - "Deluge" - Drops [Norway. Ensemble of composer Håker Flaten, bass; Amalie Dahl, alto sax; Karl Hjalmar Nyberg, tenor sax, electronics; Marta Warelis, piano, electronics; Jonathan F. Horne, guitar; with Mette Rasmussen, alto sax; Veslemøy Narvesen, drums.] [0:42:11] Jef Mertens & Dirk Wachtelaer - "Assault With Tenderness" - Wonderful Brutalism [Belgium. Mertens on Japanese Taishogoto, Wachtelaer on drums.] [0:52:52] Hear in Now Expanded + QWANQWA - "Weaving Strands of Sound (concert excerpt)" - Roulette Archive [Fusion of Chicago free improv and ceremonial Ethiopian music. Hear in Now Expanded: Tomeka Reid, cello; Silvia Bolognesi, bass; yuniya edi kwon, violin; Chad Taylor, drums. QWANQWA: Misale Legesse Muleta, kebero; Anteneh “Bubu” Teklemariam Barago, bass krar; Selamnesh Zemene Taye, vocals; Kaethe Hostetter violin; Endres “Endris” Hassen Ahmed, masinko.] [1:09:15] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155755

Philip Jeck - "Tilting" - Surf [Philip Jeck (1952-2022) worked with old records and record players salvaged from junk shops. Surf is the second album from the British experimenter.] Fennesz - "Dancer" - rpm [Christian Fennesz is an Austrian producer and guitarist who was a friend and kindred spirit.] [0:09:55] Gavin Bryars & Philip Jeck - "1 Piste" - rpm [Interludes created by Jeck for Bryars' orchestral score for the ballet, Pneuma (2014), with choreography by Carolyn Carlson at the Bordeaux Opera House.] [0:16:48] Chris Watson - "Saltmarshe Station" - rpm [From Watson's notes: "Songlines amongst the bob and sway of trackside phragmites, defined by the margins of ballast".] [0:21:15] Rosy Parlane - "Stoked" - rpm [New & old recordings assembled in Aotearoa, New Zealand in December 2022. Parlane writes: "The phased vinyl crackle sounds belong to Philip and are woven in from the recording of a set we played together in Liverpool 2006".] [0:24:51] Cris Cheek - "Clocking Off" - rpm [Cheek writes: "A domestic elegiac for Philip, using sounds around the largely empty house (built 1810) I had just moved into the month before. With Slant (1993 album), Phil sometimes used a church bell to establish atmosphere". This piece uses a sample from Slant’s ‘Lonely House’, among the village chimes, summer swifts, a cat, rain on the roof, voices on the phone, passing vehicular traffic, and more.] [0:36:24] Philip Jeck & Claire M Singer - "Sketch One" - rpm [From Singer's notes: "Little did I know that he had left me the most precious gift on his desktop – ‘Sketch for Claire’. These two pieces were born out of this material. It’s the hardest project I’ve ever worked on. I found myself constantly conversing with Philip in my mind, seeking his input".] [0:41:50] Gavin Bryars & Philip Jeck - "4 Piste" - rpm [Interludes created by Jeck for Bryars' orchestral score for the ballet, Pneuma (2014).] [0:48:20] Faith Coloccia - "Pleione" - rpm [Coloccia writes: "I used a sample from ‘Ulster Autumn’ from Loopholes, his first release for Touch. Philip and I planned to make another project together, after Stardust. This track is built from the initial ideas that would serve as the foundation for that collaboration".] [0:52:25] Philip Jeck - "Mono" - rpm [Found on his laptop in the same folder as ‘Pilots’. (See end of playlist.)] [1:10:36] David Sylvian & Hildur Guðnadóttir - "I Measure Every Grief I Meet" - rpm [An elegy by singer/songwriter Sylvian and cellist Guðnadóttir.] [1:17:42] Philip Jeck & Claire M Singer - "Sketch Two" - rpm [From Singer's notes: "Little did I know that he had left me the most precious gift on his desktop – ‘Sketch for Claire’. These pieces were born out of this material".] [1:21:15] Jah Wobble & Deep Space - "Jeck, Drums, 2 Basses" - rpm [With Mark Sanders on drums. Taken from the album Five Beat [30Hertz Records, 2003].] [1:30:52] Drums Off Chaos - "Keep in Touch" - rpm [Performed by Philip Jeck, Jaki Liebezeit, Reiner Linke, and Maf Retter.] [1:35:27] Gavin Bryars & Philip Jeck - "8 Piste" - rpm [Interludes created by Jeck for Bryars' orchestral score for the ballet, Pneuma (2014).] [1:44:13] Chandra Shukla - "The Ark Has Closed" - rpm [Shukla met Jeck at the Big Ears Festival, Knoxville in 2017 which inspired this track, now a tribute. XAMBUCA is the experimental project of the Asheville-based artist.] [1:48:08] Jana Winderen & Philip Jeck - "Pilots" - rpm [Pilot whales recorded by Winderen in the Melfjorden, Norway, using 2 x Reson TC 4032 hydrophones on Sonosax R4+ recorder in Summer 2021. An unfinished collaboration.] [1:52:43] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155510

Open Reel Ensemble - "Tape Bowing Ensemble" - Magnetik Phunk [This is a trio performance aka Magnetik Phunk on the “JIGAKKYU,” a technique of stretching magnetic tape across bamboo rods and pulling the tape across the playback heads of a tape machine. Performers: Ei Wada, Haruka Yoshida, Masaru Yoshida. Videos: https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/magnetikpunk] Chris Cochrane - "How Will We Recognize Each Other Part III" - unhinged [Gordon Beeferman - conduction; TJ Borden - cello; Chris Cochrane - guitar; Stephen Haynes - brass; Yoona Kim - ajaeng; James Paul Nadien - drums, percussion; Jessica Pavone - viola; Catherine Sikora - saxes; Lester St. Louis - cello.] [0:05:40] Believe - "Believer" - Spirits of the Dead are Watching [Australia. Laurence Pike, drums; Clayton Thomas, bass; Novak Manojlovic, piano; Peter Farrar, sax.] [0:29:19] Dysnomia - "Grapholith" - What If? [Dysnomia was formed by Brooklyn-based composer-contrabassist James Ilgenfritz and Chicago-based electronicist Teerath Majumder combining just-intonation scordatura tuning and a feedback system of microphones, audio exciters, and a software program that reacts to the contrabass.] [0:39:01] Jordan Glenn's BEAK - "Free Three Leaves of Tea" - The Party [Mark Pascucci-Clifford - vibraphone, bundtmonica, gongs, tongue tube; David James, Karl Evangelista - guitars; Lisa Mezzacappa - basses; Jon Arkin - drums, tongue tube, electronics; Robert Lopez - percussion, bundtmonica, tongue tube; Sudhu Tewari - no string guitars, YEMRS (Yasmin Electro Magnetic Rhythm Sequencer), bundtmonica; Jordan Glenn - composer, conductor, spring box.] [0:46:57] Matthew Ryals - "Knots/Surface Tension" - Exalge [Improvisations by American modular synthesist Ryals. Recorded at the Exalge venue in Milan, Italy. Part of a duo gig with violist effe effe.] [0:56:58] Can - "Oh Yeah" - Tago Mago [A Krautrock classic: Holger Czukay, Michael Karoli, Jaki Liebezeit, Irmin Schmidt, and Damo Suzuki. Recorded in a castle near Cologne.] [1:05:41] kwaNTU - "Izimfijoli/Wemfana" - kwaNTU ["King of Zulu Guitar" Madala Kunene and next generation master Sibusile Xaba come together. Their intertwined voices and guitars are bolstered by percussion and occasional flourishes of strings, bamboo flutes, and other enchanted sounds.] [1:13:00] The Necks - "Ghost Net (excerpt)" - Disquiet [The legendary Australian trio of Tony Buck, Chris Abrahams, and Lloyd Swanton from a 3-hour release of "hypnotic structures with microscopic focus... for keys, double bass, and drums, and all the in-between of sounds undefined and sources obscured".] [1:30:53] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155293

Eartha Kitt - "It's So Nice To Have A Man Around The House" - Bad But Beautiful [The singer, actor, and activist's version of a time-worn song by Harold Spina with lyrics by Jack Elliott and orchestra conducted by Bill Loose. Originally released in 1947 by Dinah Shore.] Phantom Orchard (Ikue Mori & Zeena Parkins) - "The World of Izumi Suzuki, Part 1 (concert excerpt)" - Roulette Archive [Zeena Parkins, harp, objects, electronics; Ikue Mori, electronics. From the concert version of their album, Hit Parade Of Tears, based on the short stories of Japanese legend and icon of pop culture, Izumi Suzuki.] [0:05:36] Susan Alcorn - "Time and Marigolds" - Touch This Moment [Baltimore, Maryland. The late, cherished pedal steel player in a solo construction.] [0:31:43] Ashley Bathgate/Steve Reich - "Cello Counterpoint" - 8-Track [Cellist Bathgate plays a 2003 Reich piece from a collection of recordings for the layered, multi-tracked instrument.] [0:56:23] Lia Kohl - "Plane" - Normal Sounds [Out of Chicago: synthesizers, cello, field recordings of human-made, non-musical sounds.] [1:07:04] MV Carbon - "cat on fence" - NYC LIMINAL SERIES, vol. 2: Cello [The multi-disciplinary artist, cellist, and sonic conjurer from a collection of improvised/experimental music.] [1:14:01] Phantom Orchard (Ikue Mori & Zeena Parkins) - "The World of Izumi Suzuki, Part 2 (concert excerpt)" - Roulette Archive [Zeena Parkins, harp, objects, electronics; Ikue Mori, electronics. Lucia Martinez, voice. From the concluding portion of their concert version of the album, Hit Parade Of Tears, based on the short stories of Izumi Suzuki.] [1:24:54] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/155037

Judy Collins - "Send in the Clowns" - Judith [Song written by Stephen Sondheim for the 1973 musical A Little Night Music specifically for the actress Glynis Johns, who created the role of Desirée.] Alice Does Computer Music - "Keepsake" - Bliss [Alice Does Computer Music is the moniker of New York City-based cellist and experimental musician Alice Gerlach, here with sonic technologist Jonathan Bailey.] [0:06:27] Fernando Falcão - "Memória das Águas" - Memória das Águas [Originally recorded in 1979 in Paris and released independently in Brazil in 1981: ambient soundscapes, lively jazz, experimental-leanings, Afro-rhythms, Latin grooves and French pop with a Brazilian accent. The artist was an ex-patriot and refugee.] [0:16:17] Plume Girl - "Country" - Unnameable Glory [Plume Girl is Sowmya Somanath of Lucenec, Slovakia using Hindustani classical improvisation, ambient soundscapes, and experimental pop.] [0:21:19] Matt Bachmann - "TIAGDTD" - Compost Karaoke [“TIAGDTD” is an acronym for the Star Wars Klingon phrase, “Today is a Good Day to Die.” Composer Bachmann, synths, chime manipulations, bass; Jeff Tobias, bass clarinets; Derek Baron, drums; James Krivchenia, percussion.] [0:26:45] Vazesh - "Saffron" - Tapestry [Iranian tar player Hamed Sadegh (long-necked lute); Jeremy Rose, sax, bass clarinet; bassist Lloyd Swanton.] [0:35:17] claire rousay + more eaze - "no floor (concert excerpt)" - Roulette Archive [claire rousay piano, electronics, vocals; mari rubio, violin, pedal steel, electronics, vocals.] [0:42:28] Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch - "To Those Who Mourn" - The Day The Angels Cried [Van Wissem (NL), voice, Baroque And Renaissance lutes, 12-string electric guitar, slide guitar, electronics, found recordings; Jim Jarmusch, voice, electric & acoustic guitars, Passerelle Bridge, electronics, found recordings.] [1:00:04] Ursula's Cartridges - "Some Cumbersome Cucumbers" - Cleanslate! Stalemate! Template! [Vaporwave project based in Jyväskylä, Finland.] [1:11:02] Eugene Chadbourne & Jair-Rohm Parker Wells - "Party at Horror Beach" - Fed Up with the Bass [Chadbourne on acoustic & electric guitars & effects and Jair-Rohm Parker Wells on acoustic & electric basses, synth & processing.] [1:16:19] CALATO, John Cage - "Variations I & II" - CALATO / John Cage [Realizations of two Cage pieces (1958 & 61) by the improvisation and experimental composition quartet from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Javier Areal Vélez & Jorge Espinal, prepared guitars; Agustín Genoud, voice; Pablo Verón, drums and MPC250.] [1:25:03] Madlib - "Hopprock" - Sound Ancestors [LA artist's tracks edited, arranged, and mastered by Kieran Hebden.] [1:35:33] Soft Machine - "Out-Bloody-Rageous" - Third [Keyboardist Mike Ratledge, drummer and vocalist Robert Wyatt, saxophonist Elton Dean, and bass guitarist Hugh Hopper.] [1:38:35] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154612

Ko Shin Moon - "Ba yati Chiraz" - 78 Fragments [Out of Paris, a contemporary maqam mashup based around the mode Bayati-Shiraz used in mugham music from Azerbaijan. Created using 78 RPM records from the National Library of France. Axel Moon, ağlama, guitar, bass, oud, lautar, synth, Ensoniq ASR10 sampler; Niko Shin, synth (Prophet V, Mini Moog, Oberheim Two Voice, Six Trak, CZ101), Ensoniq ASR10 sampler.] Regine Basha - "Radio-Active" - Tuning Baghdad [From the introductory episode to the documentary series featuring Salim Daoud, Abraham Salman, Salima Pasha, Naim Rejwan & Iman, and other Iraqi-Jewish musicians and singers.] [0:07:57] Regine Basha - "Life of The Party" - Tuning Baghdad [In the Iraqi-Jewish community, the all-night music parties (or Charghlis) date back to early 20th century Baghdad and still carry on in various forms today. This episode's playlist includes epic, classical love songs from Uum Kalthoum, Farid Al-Atrash, Warda, and Nazem Al Ghazali.] [0:43:20] Regine Basha - "The Santoor" - Tuning Baghdad [The santoor, a hammered dulcimer, dating back to Mesopotamian and Babylonian times. This episode features Hugi Pataw, the Iraqi Jewish santoor player from the 1930s, and a selection of the various ‘relatives’ of the santoor from India, China, and Roma culture.] [1:12:41] Regine Basha - "Seeking the Maqam" - Tuning Baghdad [In the concluding episode, Basha presents present-day maqam musicians Hamid Al-Saadi and Amir ElSaffar as well as archival tracks by noted maqam musicians plus a remix by Dudu Tassa, grandson of an Iraqi-Jewish composer.] [1:38:55] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154300

Captain Beefheart - "Blabber 'N Smoke" - The Spotlight Kid [Written by Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet)'s wife, Jan. Interesting that he includes this song despite the lyrics being critical of him. This comes from the only album credited solely to Captain Beefheart (and not his Magic Band) but features regulars Bill Harkleroad and Elliot Ingber, guitars; Mark Boston, bass; John French, drums; and Art Tripp, marimba.] Robert Dick, James Ilgenfritz, Stephan Haluska - "Time Wants a Skeleton" - Time Wants a Skeleton [Robert Dick, Glissando Flute, piccolo, bass flutes; Ilgenfritz, contrabass; Haluska, harp. Inspired by by science fiction author, Ross Rocklynne, combining "tropes of time-travel paradox with mystery investigation".] [0:05:11] Colin Stetson, Elliott Sharp, Billy Martin, Payton MacDonald - "Antares" - Void Patrol [Stetson, saxophones; Sharp, strings & electronics; Martin, drums & percussion; MacDonald, keyboard percussion, concept and arrangements.] [0:16:20] Miya Masaoka, Zeena Parkins, Myra Melford - "Ant" - MZM [Masaoka, 21-string koto; Parkins, electric harp, electronics; Melford, acoustic and prepared piano.] [0:27:05] stratic - "8" - STRATIC [Oakland, CA. Michael Coleman, keyboards; Aram Shelton, alto saxophone and live processing via MSP; Alex Vittum, drums and percussion.] [0:38:03] Anteloper - "Earthlings" - Pink Dolphins [jaimie branch, trumpet, electronics, percussion, vocals; Jason Nazary, drums, synths; Jeff Parker, guitar, bass guitar, percussion, Korg MS-20.] [0:45:21] Savej - "Solstice" - Solstice [Out of Louisiana, using the Kargyraa style of throat singing (Tuva and Mongolia), integrating ancestral medicine music, organic soundscapes, world instruments, tribal rhythms, and Bayou flavor.] [0:53:37] Peace Sine - "Cave Dweller" - Nomad [American electronic and dubstep musician.] [0:58:30] shelajit - "Pueo" - Holoholona [Out of Hawaii: tribal instrumentation, sampled wildlife, rhythm and bass, designed for "ecstatic movement and corporeal surrender".] [1:02:02] Popol Vuh - "In den Gärten Pharaos" - In den Gärten Pharaos [Florian Fricke, Moog synthesizer, Fender Rhodes; Holger Trülzsch, African and Turkish percussion; Frank Fiedler, Moog synthesizer. The band evolves with more synth and experimental electronic sounds.] [1:10:58] haircuts for men - "私が持っている関係" - haircuts for men [Electronic music producer & DJ aka Andre Maximillion, based in Honolulu, HI. Track title refers to "relationship".] [1:28:19] Peer Bode, Andrew Deutsch, Pauline Oliveros - "Carrier (excerpt)" - Carrier [Oliveros accordion, signal processing; Deutsch, synthesizer, voice, bells, loops, signal processing, music box; Peer Bode, text, voice, Bode Vocoder, with historic recordings by: Harold Bode, voice, and Steina Vasulka, violin.] [1:39:28] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154099

Kurt Weill/Jo Stafford - "Here I'll Stay" - Here I'll Stay (single) [From the 1948 musical Love Life by composer Kurt Weil with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner as sung by Stafford. The political message is never buried too deep in these songs.] Brian Wenner - "Memory Montage" - Age of Execution [Brian Wenner (fka Prism House) is a Brooklyn-based composer, sound designer, and performer. Source material for this record encompasses Internet-ripped audio, field recordings, and samples run through a modular Eurorack system.] [0:03:53] Dan Weiss - "Perfection's Loneliness" - Unclassified Affections [Composer Weiss, drums; Peter Evans, trumpet; Patricia Brennan, vibraphone; Miles Okazaki, guitar.] [0:09:26] St Celfer remix - "earcon - The Forest (St Celfer remix)" - earcon V jenghizkhan (StC Sampler) [From a 2004 collection of remixes described as "glitch-tronics, treading failure with counterblasts through the vanishing point". Beatbox tracks through Elektron Monomachine triggering a David Smith Evolver.] [0:14:47] James Holden - "Contains Multitudes" - Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities [London. Riffing off the French cartoonist Moebius documenting the "rave rituals of an alternative reality populated by magical creatures and retro-futurist colour palettes".] [0:20:45] grassmass feat. INKY - "Inaccessible" - Hy Brazil Vol 3: (More) Fresh Electronic Music From Brazil 2013 [São Paulo. Curated by Chico Dub (Ricardo Cabral, aka Fudisterik), from local festivals Novas Frequências and Sónar. grassmass is Pernambuco producer Rodrigo Coelho. The set unfolds in real time, embraces mutation, music concrete, and roots traditions.] [0:33:10] Senyawa - "Sujud (Prostration)" - Anthology Of Contemporary Music From Indonesia [Senyawa is an experimental band from Java, Indonesia, consisting of Rully Shabara and Wukir Suryadi. The band was formed in 2010 in Yogyakarta.] [0:40:45] Adonai Atrophia - "The Liquid Omen of Kamog" - The Necronomicon Pages [Necronomicon, the infamous and cursed Lovecraftian grimoire, expanding on the enigmatic mythology. Adonai Atrophia is a Bulgarian dark ambient/drone act, side project of Veluvian (Plamen Kolev).] [0:50:07] Uwalmassa - "Untitled 14 " - EP3 [The Jakarta-based collective reimagines the dense complexity of Indonesian music through an experimental lens, shifting tempos and layered polyrhythms with unconventional structures.] [0:57:02] Ava Mendoza - "The Shadow Song" - The Circular Train [Brooklyn-based guitarist, singer, songwriter, and composer.] [1:06:28] Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet - "Out of the corner of the eye" - Four Guitars Live [Bill Orcutt, Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and Shane Parish. Recorded at Le Guess Who?, Jacobikerk, Utrecht 2023.] [1:14:18] Rapoon - "The Village" - Witchcraft & Black Magic In The United Kingdom [British experimental musician Robin Storey, behind the Rapoon project and former member of avant-garde sound-scape collective Zoviet France, and a pioneer of mesmeric ambient electronic music utilizing delays and looping techniques, sustaining fragments of sound until they became vast environments.] [1:25:22] 若潭 ruò tán - "月 Moon" - Anthology Of Experimental Music From China [China’s experimental music and sound art scene began to take shape in the post-Tiananmen era in the late 1990s. A few musicians from the mainland’s underground music scene started to experiment with new ways of making music while the music industry co-opted the once revolutionary and independent rock music scene.] [1:31:11] Carl Stone - "Shing Kee" - Four Pieces [Created using a Macintosh personal computer, Prophet 2002 sampler, and Yamaha TX 816 synthesizer. Studio recordings made without any editing or overdubbing and accurately reflecting live performances.] [1:37:19] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/153883

Ken Nordine - "Purple" - Colors [Colors is a "word jazz" album by voice-over and recording artist Ken Nordine. The Fuller Paint Company commissioned ten songs for radio advertisements. Because listeners enjoyed the recordings and requested the radio play them again, the project expanded into an album of 34 songs.] Endlings - "Primordial Forms" - Human Form [A project of Raven Chacon (Pulitzer, MacArthur), voice, electronics, guitar, keyboard, violin, saxophone, ocarina: John Dieterich (Deerhoof) voice, electronics, guitar, keyboard, bass, drums (Indictor).] [0:04:08] White People Killed Them - "Side B" - White People Killed Them [Performed by Raven Chacon, John Dieterich, and Marshall Trammell (percussion).] [0:10:29] The John Lurie National Orchestra - "The Invention of Animals" - The Invention of Animals [John Lurie, saxophones; Billy Martin, percussion; G. Calvin Weston, drums. Recorded 1994 in Thessaloniki, Greece.] [0:33:19] Amon Tobin - "Golfer Versus Boxer" - Supermodified [Amon Adonai Santos de Araújo Tobin is a Brazilian electronic musician, composer, and producer who has lived in Morocco, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, the UK, Canada, and LA.] [0:52:22] Simo Cell - "surface/sirens" - Cuspide Des Sirènes [Paris, France. For a game created by Marin Nicolle with Olivier Druais. 8-bit transcription by Max Oakland and Simo Cell.] [1:00:31] Tim Hecker - "Monotony" - No Highs [The composer out of Canada/UK/Chile.] [1:06:05] Visionist - "M" - M / Secrets [UK. The work of artist Louis Carnell.] [1:14:25] Leena Lee & Vania Fortuna - "Rapture/Niebla" - Niebla [Leena Lee, editing, mixing, field recordings, synthesizers; Vania Fortuna, vocal composition and performance. Based around mythologies, ecologies, and symbolism of the emblematic quetzal bird, a creature sacred to both the Maya and Mexica pre-Hispanic civilizations.] [1:20:05] Bernard Parmegiani - "Une mission éphémère 1993." - Mémoire Magnétique, vol. 2 (1966-1993) [From a film d'animation de Piotr Kamler. The acousmatic/electronic composer (French, 1927-2013).] [1:30:44] Dave Liebman, Billy Hart, Adam Rudolph - "Unfolding" - Beingness [Liebman, soprano saxophone, wood flutes; Hart, drum set; Rudolph, handrumset (kongos, djembe, tarija), piano, thumb pianos, keyboards, gongs, dakha de bello, live electronic processing, percussion.] [1:38:35] Field Kit - "String Drift/Downward Rising/Human Behaviour" - Field Kit [Berlin-based collective led by German violinist and composer Hannah von Hübbenet with pianist and producer John Guertler.] [1:46:01] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/153421

War - "Low Rider" - Why Can't We Be Friends? [Written by the funk band and producer Jerry Goldstein with B. B. Dickerson, bass; Charles Miller, alto sax, harmonica, vocals; Lee Oskar, harmonica.] Patti Smith Group - "Live Set 1975" - WBAI Free Music Store [Performance recorded May 28, 1975, just in advance of the agreement with Clive Davis/Arista for the debut album, Horses. This is the raw club set, with Patti Smith, vocals; Jay Dee Daugherty, drums; Lenny Kay, guitar; Richard Sohl, piano. And Ivan Kral, bass.] [0:07:57] Joe McPhee & Survival Unit II - "Harriet" - At WBAI's Free Music Store, 1971 [Joe McPhee, trumpet, tenor sax; Clifford Thornton, baritone horn, cornet; Harold E. Smith, percussion; Mike Kull, piano; Byron Morris, soprano/alto sax. Dedicated to Harriet Tubman.] [1:05:12] Suzanne Ciani - "Concert At WBAI Free Music Store" - Buchla Concerts 1975 [The analog synth master in an early flash of brilliance. The other track on this album was recorded at Phill Niblock's loft.] [1:18:35] Charlemagne Palestine - "Alloy (Golden 1)" - WBAI Free Music Store [Two tape pieces by Palestine (Holy 1 & Holy 2, played simultaneously) provide the environmental structure for an ensemble of Bob Feldman, chimes, conch; Tony Conrad, The Long String Drone; Deborah Glaser, vocals, chimes; Charlemagne Palestine, Idiophone [Alumonium], vocals, chimes, percussion. Recorded 1969 at WBAI Free Music Store. Excerpt.] [1:41:51] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/153119

Joseph Spence - "Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer" - The Complete Folkways Recordings 1958 [Sam Charters first recorded Bahamian guitarist Joseph Spence on Andros Island in July 1958. Spence, long out of work as a stonemason, had used his time to perfect a unique style of playing.] The Beverage Station - "wakeups" - Little Grey Cells [The duo of Lainie Fefferman, voice & electronics and Jascha Narveson, electronics. Both coders, the music features "intimate vocals, lower-case story-telling, algorithmic synths, organic vocoders, head-bobbing polymeters, and home-grown field-recordings".] [0:09:19] Gnäw - "Karavan e Rahzanan" - II [The duo of Simo Hakalisto, synthesizers, kantele, vessel flute, electric violin, percussion, electric guitar, prepared santoor; and Arash Ghasemi, setar, santoor, harmonium, kantele, electric guitar, electric bass. Traditional Finnish and Persian string instruments plus synth sweetenings, dub-inflected bass, and loops.] [0:17:13] Intermodulation - "Tim Souster - World Music - Partita I" - Connections (1970 - 1974) [Formed in Cambridge in 1969, this 1974 iteration features Robin Thompson, soprano saxophone, bassoon, guitar, electric piano; Peter Britton, percussion; Roger Smalley, piano, organ, synthesizer; and composer Tim Souster. violin, viola, electric piano. World Music is a large-scale composition for alternating sections of tape and instrumental music which converge at the end.] [0:26:10] Nathan Schram & Shahzad Ismaily - "Bead, Sink, Fury" - The Moon Stands Blank Above [Three conjoined tracks from composers Schram, viola and Ismaily, bass and multiple instruments/electronics with musical contributions from Christopher Botta, Elliot Cole, Lester St. Louis, Matt Evans.] [0:41:14] Sirius Quartet - "Chant pour l'ile Gorée, Op. 89" - Incantations [Gregor Huebner composer, violin; Fung Chern Hwei, violin; Sunjay Jayaram, viola; Jeremy Harman, cello.] [0:59:48] Zeena Parkins & Ikue Mori - "Trial Witch" - Hit Parade of Tears [The duo's Phantom Orchard project: Parkins, acoustic harp, objects, electric harp, electronics, small percussion, foley, harmonium, ondes martenot, synth, accordion; Mori, electronics, small percussion, foley, processing. From an album reflecting on author Izumi Suzuki.] [1:08:21] Parliament - "P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)" - Mothership Connection [From George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell.] [1:17:13] Secret Chiefs 3, Trey Spruance - "Love In Outerspace" - Outer Spaceways Incorporated : Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra [Written by Sun Ra, performed by Trey Spruance (guitar, electric bass, YC-20 Electone organ, CS-60 synth, piano, Jenco celesta, percussion); Mike Stone (drums); Tim Smolens (upright acoustic bass).] [1:24:43] Evicshen - "Three Seasons On the Tempestuous Twelve-Inch Planet" - Outer Spaceways Incorporated : Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra [Written and performed by Victoria Shen.] [1:30:00] Momo Wandel Soumah - "Konia" - Matchowé [From a 1991 Manding-Jazz session blending jazz with the rhythms of the Soussou and Bagas ethnic groups of Guinea. Momo ‘Wandel’ Soumah, sax, vocals; Mamady Mansare, flute; Sékou Kouyate, kora; Aboubacar ‘Fatouabou’ Camara, djembé; Aly Sylla : djembe, doundoun, krin; Ahmadou Sadio Diallo , doundoun, bolon.] [1:33:36] Kparr Dirè - "Bamba (Binkontina)" - Balafon Music from Lobi Country [Musicians: Da Toh Alain dit Martin, Somé Da Christian, Da Tangba, Da Dakorè, Collette. Composers: Biwilinte, Tabote, Gboulonharle. Recordings made in Martin Kensiè's yard in Gaoua and Palé Goukoun's yard in Gongonbili, Burkina Faso.] [1:44:55] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152929

Cream - "Politician" - Wheels of Fire [From the double album, half studio and half live sets, with bassist Jack Bruce, guitarist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker. The world's first release designated Platinum.] Yasmine Hamdan - "Shmaali" - I Remember I Forget (بنسى و بتذكر) [Beirut-born, Paris-based singer, composer, actor and a pioneering force in contemporary Arabic music.] Bliz Nochi - "Rain Ritual" - Rain Ritual [From an album dedicated to the artist's father, a Moldavian accordionist. Credits include: Mamazu, Ka:Lu, ibu sleva, baru, chöko aba, Śaddufat, Vinzoo.] Cosmic Ear - "Right Here Right Now" - Traces [Stockholm & Vienna. Christer Bothén, donso n’goni, bass clarinet, contra bass clarinet, piano; Mats Gustafsson, tenor sax, flute, slide flute, Ab clarinet, live electronics, organ, harmonica; Goran Kajfeš, trumpet, pocket trumpet, synth, electronics, percussion; Juan Romero, congas, berimbau and percussion; Kansan Zetterberg, bass, donso n’goni; with guest Marianne N´Lemwo, karignan.] Dario Calderone - "Nell'oceano" - Isolario [From an album of duos with different players: Bassist Calderone (Rome, Amsterdam) & Iranian-born setar (Persian lute) master Kiya Tabassian, now in Canada. The pieces draw inspiration from descriptions of imaginary islands by different medieval writers from the Arabic world (al- Qazwīnī, Ibn Waṣīf Šāh, al-Ḥimyarī).] Carlos Cipa/Hans Otte - "The Book of Sounds Part 10" - The Book of Sounds/Das Buch der Klänge [Munich. Pianist Cipa from a suite created between 1979 and 1982 by composer and pianist Hans Otte; a "musical pendulum" in twelve parts.] Martyn Heyne - "Carry" - Electric Intervals [The Berlin-based musician and composer known for unique textures and techniques for guitar.] Sinemis - "Exit Democracy" - Farewell [Ambient/avant-garde electronica producer from Istanbul, aka Sine Buyuka, now in London, from a collection of angry and mournful expressions against the government of her home country.] The Turntable Trio: Maria Chávez, Victoria Shen, and Mariam Rezaei - "Concert Excerpt" - Roulette Archive [Scratching, beat-juggling, sampling and looping, double-needle-head shells, and acrylic needle nails are among the techniques, all described as "sound sculpture, maximalism/minimalism and sonic destruction".] Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - "Blues from Mali (concert excerpts)" - Robert Browning Associates [Bandleader from a long line of griots (storytellers/historians) and Mali’s legendary master of the ngoni, an ancient West African lute that is an ancestor of the banjo. He is not shy to introduce modern techniques and influences in the music.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152710

Brian Eno - "Mother of Violence" - And I'll Scratch Yours [From a collection of reinterpretations of Peter Gabriel's music. Introduced by M.E. Raabenstein from the Orbital Mash radio collection.] Australian Art Orchestra - "Nunguryu Nunguryu" - Hand to Earth [Daniel Wilfred, voice/bilma (clapsticks); Peter Knight, trumpet/electronics/percussion; Aviva Endean, clarinets/flute/objects/percussion. Based on Yolngu Manikay (song cycles), a 40,000+ year-old oral tradition from South East Arnhem Land, northern Australia.] [0:05:30] Object Collection - "Ash" - Possible Thieves [Trio of Travis Just, synths, drum machines, saxes, clarinets, guitar pedals; Chlöe Roe, synths, guitar, voice; Jack Lynch, bass, modular synth.] [0:10:42] Thee Reps - "Fluency" - Cryptocartography [Dave Ruder, synthesizer; Sam Morrison, electric piano; Andie Tanning, violin; Jeff Tobias, electric bass; Mike McCurdy, drums.] [0:21:57] Joe Morris & Elliott Sharp - "Arrokoth" - Realism [Morris, guitars and effects; Sharp, guitars and electronics.] [0:30:30] Squanderers - "Concert Recording" - Roulette Archive [Guitarists Wendy Eisenberg and David Grubbs alongside multi-instrumentalist and legendary producer Kramer (on bass). Excerpt.] [0:47:41] Spaces Unfolding + Pierre Alexandre Tremblay - "Shadow Figures Pt. 1" - Shadow Figures [UK. Core group of Neil Metcalfe, flute; Philipp Wachsmann, violin; and Emil Karlsen, drums; with Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, electronics.] [1:23:37] Bitterviper - "Bird of Prey Beaten Back" - Bitterviper [Quartet of Nikos Veliotis (cello), Taku Unami (synthesizer), Sarah Hennies (percussion), and David Grubbs (guitar, piano).] [1:33:46] Mark Lyken - "Green Above The Blades B" - Green Above The Blades [Filmmaker & sound artist based in Scotland. Instrumentation: amplified box w/ found objects, looper pedal, gameboy(s), cassette dictaphone, contact mic, hydrophone. eq, pitch shifter, daffodils, milk bottle, zx spectrum home computer.] [1:46:06] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152454

The Beatles - "Think For Yourself" - Rubber Soul [A George Harrison composition, notable for Paul McCartney's fuzz bassline and edgey lyrics pointedly aimed at both bad relationships and the British government.] History Dog - "He She We" - Root Systems [Trumpeter Chris Williams, drummer Lesley Mok, bass guitarist Luke Stewart, and vocalist Shara Lunon cut up, processed, collaged, overdubbed, looped, and spliced.] [0:04:38] Phantom Honeymoon - "Solaris" - Interstellar Underpass [A free-improvisation noise band with Alexandra Beneski, theremin & effects; Steve Holtje, electric keyboard & trombone. A nod to Stanisław Lem's 1961 novel and the subsequent moody 1972 film by Andrei Tarkovsky.] [0:10:55] Fire! Orchestra - "ECHOES: I see your eye, part 1" - Echoes [Written by Fire! founders Mats Gustafsson (conductor), bassist Johan Berthling, and drummer Andreas Werliin drawing from a pool of 43 musicians recorded in Stockholm and mixed by Jim O'Rourke in Japan.] [0:15:16] Dark Circuits Orchestra - "DCO Russia 2009" - Unreleased [Hans Tammen's 2009 project at St. Petersburg's Cyberfest. With Pavel Cervy, Victor Piperov, Mikhail Chernov, Alexander Grabchilev, Carol Parkinson, Mikhail a crest sator arxenekrohen, Sergey Komarov, Alexey Grachev, Dmitri Shubin, and Igor Solncev.] [0:27:43] Dark Circuits Bunker Orchestra - "Cyclops" - Ten Minutes Late With No Bus In Sight And No Taxi Either [A Hans Tammen project, inspired by Phill Niblock, with Chuck Bettis, Chrystal Peñalosa, Laura Feathers, Mike Bazini, Nick Berry, Matthew Gantt, Sofy Yuditskaya, Greg Neeld, Lorenz Fish, and David Keay (drums).] [0:33:03] Dark Circuits Orchestra - "DCO 15th Anniversay" - Unreleased [Conducted chords (directed by Hans Tammen) played by the electronics plus acoustic instruments. Recorded 2023 in the Black Box at Hunter College. With Shoko Nagai (accordion), Crystal Penalosa, Matthew Ostrowski, Theo Woodward, Dafna Naphtali, Monica Rocha, Laura Feathers, Chuck Bettis, Adam Rokhsar, David Watson (bagpipes), Marcia Bassett, Michael Schumacher, William Hooker (drums).] [0:36:19] Brian Prunka - "Imagined Reunion" - Unreleased [Brooklyn composer from New Orleans (Sharq Attack, Simon Shaheen, Takht al-Nagham, Zikrayat, The NY Arabic Orchestra, the Bil Afrah Project), and his own project, Nashaz. Composer Prunka, oud; Layth Sidiq, violin; Firas Zreik, qanun; Gideon Forbes, bass clarinet; Simon Moushabeck, accordion; John Murchison, bass; Alber Baseel. percussion.] [0:40:29] Kane Mathis - "August" - Geminus [Kane Mathis, kora, oud; John Hadfield , percussion; Sam Minaie , bass.] [0:52:52] Chuck Roth - "There Once" - Document 1 [The guitarist with a Stratocaster.] [0:58:29] Che Chen & Robbie Lee - "Begin and Continue!" - Begin and Continue! [Instrumentation listed as clarinet, chalumeua, flutes, pitch pipes, celeste, pump organ, electric tenor guitar, ukelele, bells, box drum, national steel guitar, banjo, clapping, voices, etc.] [1:03:43] The Arab Blues - "Rast Blues Wasla" - The Arab Blues [Rami Gabriel, guitar, buzuq, oud, bass; Karim Nagi, riqq, tublah, sagat, bendir, drum kit. An electro urban amalgam of Arab tradition and Chicago Blues.] [1:18:07] Ka Baird - "Symanimagenic" - Respires [A composer/performer known for performances which include extended voice and microphone techniques combined with electronics and electroacoustic interplay of flutes and other woodwinds.] [1:26:39] AC DMND - "Ode on Crushed Matrices (installation excerpt #1)" - Beyond Hexagons [All sounds by AC Diamond (Anastasia Clarke).] [1:30:49] MANAS - "Ash" - MANAS (Tashi Dorji & Thom Nguyen) s/t [Tashi Dorji, guitar; Thom Nguyen, drums.] [1:38:33] Africa Express - "In C Mali" - Africa Express Presents... Terry Riley's In C Mali [Project initiated by the German conductor André de Ridder, recorded in Bamako, Mali. 17 musicians play on the album, consisting of both Malian and Western musicians (including Damon Albarn, Nick Zinner, and Brian Eno). The pulse is played on the...

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - "Animal Friends / With a Smile and a Song" - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Soundtrack) [Written by Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline, Larry Morey with vocals by Adriana Caselotti. From the the 1937 Walt Disney film, notably the first commercially issued soundtrack album.] Fred Frith, Sudhu Tewari, Lotte Anker - "Normal Give or Take (concert recording)" - Roulette Archives [Normal is a duo of Fred Frith and Sudhu Tewari, guitar and manually & electronically manipulated home-made instruments. Here with Danish saxophonist Lotte Anker.] [0:06:57] Raven Chacon & Present Music - "Owl Music" - Raven Chacon: Voiceless Mass [Navajo by birth, MacArthur and Pulitzer awardee, the composer's work for sinfonietta and voice, “...an acknowledgment of the nocturnal hunting bird, considered by some to have the ability of shapeshifting”. Recorded 2023 at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Milwaukee, WI.] [1:08:50] Brandon Lopez, DoYeon Kim - "III" - Syzygy, Vol. 1 [Bassist Lopez and DoYeon Kim, gayageum.] [1:23:56] Ava Mendoza - "The Shadow Song" - The Circular Train [Brooklyn-based guitarist, singer, songwriter, and composer.] [1:35:38] TJ Borden & Steve Flato - "Tour of Italy" - In the Garden of Eating [A project by Flato, micotonal guitar w/Gizmotron, synth; and TJ Borden, cello and pedals. Created for the 2017 edition of the Slow SD festival in San Diego, CA. The collection takes its core inspiration from Karlheinz Stockhausen’s ‘Gold Dust’.] [1:43:27] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152023

Amina Claudine Myers - "I'm Not Afraid - Refrain" - Song For Mother E [Recorded 1979. Amina Claudine Myers, organ; Pheeroan akLaff. drums.] John Zorn - "Mount Analogue" - Mount Analogue [One of the composer's deep inquiries into meditative, hypnotic, and mystical work, with a strong Jewish thread. Brian Marsella, piano, organ; Kenny Wollesen, vibraphone, chimes; Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz, bass, oud, gimbri; Tim Keiper, calabash, drums, percussion, orchestral bells; Cyro Baptista, percussion, prayer bells; and everybody on vocals. Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing is a classic allegorical 1952 adventure novel by the French novelist René Daumal.] [0:06:09] John Zorn - "Dictée" - Dictée; Liber Novus [An homage to writer and conceptual artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Sylvie Courvoisier, piano, French narration; Okkyung Lee, cello, Korean narration; John Medeski, organ; Ned Rothenberg, Shakuhachi, bass flute, clarinet; David Slusser; sound effects; Kenny Wollesen, vibraphone, percussion, Wollesonics; Stephen Gosling, piano; composer Zorn, foley effects, samples.] [0:47:12] Joseph White - "Crawl Inside a Bell" - (The Game is) Hypnosis [Raw “found” material was developed from old audio stems; spliced, diced, looped, stretched, squashed, and pitch-shifted to create textured soundscapes.] [1:11:00] Extended Guitar Trio (Hirt/Tammen/Didkovsky) - "Yielding Time" - MÜNSTER 02 OKT 24 [Erhard Hirt (King Ubu Orchestra), Hans Tammen (Third Eye Orchestra), and Nick Didkovsky (Dr. Nerve) on electric guitars and effects. Recorded 2024 at Pumpenhaus at the KLANGZEIT Festival in Munster, Germany.] [1:16:48] oplen - "Dalandzadgad" - Bronze [Stockholm, Sweden. Written and produced by composer/engineer Henrik Sunbring (analog synthesized rhythms, field recordings, processed guitars. Moog melodies) with saxophonist Lina Langendorf and percussionist Pelle Vallgren.] [1:38:50] Purpose16 - "Long Mirror" - Purpose16 [Described as "subterranean vibes and menacing micro-electronic pulses".] [1:49:38] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/151793

Leonard Cohen - "Democracy" - The Future [Written during the fall of the Berlin Wall while reflecting on democracy. Cohen stated that the song was not ironic, saying "It's a song of deep intimacy and affirmation of the experiment of democracy in this country".] [0:06:51] Don Cherry: New Eternal Rhythm Orchestra - "Humus - The Life Exploring Force" - Actions [Recorded live in 1971 at The Donaueschingen Festival in Germany (the oldest festival for contemporary music in the world, 1921!). Composer/conductor Cherry on trumpet with musicians including Peter Brotzmann, Willem Breuker, Paul Rutherford, Han Bennink, Terje Rypdal, Kenny Wheeler, Tomasz Stanko, Albert Mangelsdorff, Mocqui Cherry, and vocalist Loesje Hamel.] [0:09:17] Krzysztof Penderecki: New Eternal Rhythm Orchestra - "Actions for Free Jazz Orchestra" - Actions [A rare, at the time 1971, engagement between a contemporary classical composer, Polish composer and conductor Penderecki, and a free jazz ensemble. Location, personnel as listed above.] [0:28:35] Tomeka Reid Quartet - "Exploring Outward / Funambulist Fever" - 3+3 [Composer/bandleader Reid, cello; Jason Roebke, bass; Mary Halvorson, guitar; Tomas Fujiwara, drums.] [0:46:57] Rashied Ali & Leroy Jenkins - "Swift Are The Winds of Life" - Swift Are The Winds of Life [Rashied Ali, drums & Leroy Jenkins, violin. 1975 duets tossing around standards, John Coltrane’s music, and improvisations.] [1:01:52] Killick Hinds - "Conservation Pit (Look Beneath)" - Imbricate [Athens, Georgia. Real-time performance made with strings and a touch of processing exploring his "Appalachian Trance Metal/Piedmont Shaman Rock concept".] [1:12:08] Mugwisa International Xylophone Group - "Mazongoto Woods (Alejandro Mosso Rework)" - Santuri's Embaire Umeme [Uganda. From a a series of collaborations between Santuri, Soundthread, and OtC featuring field recordings of the Embaire Xylophone made of slabs of wood, from the huge low notes to highs, built over a pit that acts as a resonator. It needs up to 9 people to play. Some tracks supplemented by the producers with synths, tape delays, vocal and percussion samples, guitar stabs, and Zeze (stick zither).] [1:25:09] woob - "Woobed II (Thick Vapours)" - __262980hrs Later [From a collection described as "mind cinema". Woob is the stage name of Paul Frankland, an English composer, musician, and filmmaker combining elements of ambient, downtempo, and space music, with samples from field recordings.] [1:33:46] Ikue Mori - "Luminous Shadow" - Of Ghosts and Goblins [From a collection of instrumental miniatures inspired by Lafcadio Hearn's Japanese folk tales, featuring themes of ghosts, goblins, and the supernatural.] [1:42:31] David Bowie & Brian Eno - "Moss Garden" - Moss Garden (Edit) [Deep Ambient Timestretching of the original five-minute track from David Bowie's 1977 album, "Heroes".] [1:50:26] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/151535