New Sounds from WNYC

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Listen to rhythmic music, whether for percussion, string quartet or vocal duet for this New Sounds. Hear works from percussionist Ian David Rosenbaum, Kelly Moran, and the Jasper String Quartet, and a vocal duet from Meredith Monk and Robert Een. From the recent record, Unbound, by the Jasper String Quartet, hear a non-stop motoring work by Judd Greenstein, “Four on the Floor.” Usually the term applies to thumping dance-club bangers, but in this work, pairs of instruments work “with and against each other, until they settle their differences and combine into a shared groove,” according to the composer.

Hear music with rhythmic intensity, for prepared piano, with and without electronics from Kelly Moran, and her record, Bloodroot, which is where minimalism and black metal collide. Then, listen to music from Hauschka, who layers player piano with prepared piano. Also, listen to Inuit-style breathing games from Meredith Monk and cellist/vocalist Robert Een, from her long-form work, "Facing North," inspired by the Canadian wilderness.

Then, listen to increasingly tricky and complex rhythms in a work by David Crowell for percussionist Ian David Rosenbaum. Plus, hear a work –"Redwood"- involving saxophone and interlocking guitar parts from Empyrean Atlas, the band of composer/multi-instrumentalist David Crowell. And more.

PROGRAM #3960, We've Got Rhythms (First Aired: 3/15/2017)

ARTIST: Ian David Rosenbaum
WORK: David Crowell: Celestial Sphere, excerpt [1:00]
RECORDING: Memory Palace
SOURCE: Vision Into Art
INFO: naxosdirect.com

ARTIST: Jasper String Quartet
WORK: Judd Greenstein: Four on the Floor [10:45]
RECORDING: Unbound
SOURCE: Sono Luminus/New Amsterdam
INFO: jasperstringquartet.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Kelly Moran
WORK: Celandine [3:06]
RECORDING: Bloodroot
SOURCE: Telegraph Harp TH 011
INFO: kellymoran.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Hauschka
WORK: Constant Growth Fails [4:08]
RECORDING: What If
SOURCE: Temporary Residence Records
INFO: hauschka.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Christian Frederickson, Jason Noble, Ryan Rumery
WORK: To Be One Of Them [1:00]
RECORDING: The Painted Bird: Amidst
SOURCE/INFO: christianfrederickson.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Ian David Rosenbaum
WORK: David Crowell: Celestial Sphere [9:50]
RECORDING: Memory Palace
SOURCE: Vision Into Art
INFO: naxosdirect.com

ARTIST: Empyrean Atlas
WORK: Redwood [5:11]
RECORDING: Empyrean Atlas
SOURCE/INFO: empyreanatlas.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Christian Frederickson, Jason Noble, Ryan Rumery
WORK: To Be One Of Them [1:00]
RECORDING: The Painted Bird: Amidst
SOURCE/INFO: christianfrederickson.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Bang on a Can All-Stars
WORK: Michael Gordon: Gene Takes a Drink [5:57]
RECORDING: Field Recordings
SOURCE: Cantaloupe Music
INFO: bangonacan.org

ARTIST: Meredith Monk & Robert Een
WORK: Keeping Warm & Arctic Bar [8:45]
RECORDING: Facing North
SOURCE: ECM #1482
INFO: ecmrecords.com

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Hear prog-marching band music from Chicago's Mucca Pazza, ambient-gothic Norwegian-Icelandic music from the duo Jo Berger Myhre & Ólafur Björn Ólafsson, jazz-tronic ambient minimalism from London's Portico Quartet, and new work from Danish experimental supergroup Girls in Airports. Also, hear new music by Molly Joyce for cellist Nick Photinos, new work from Kaki King & the Porta Girevole Chamber Orchestra, and more.

Hear ambient-gothic music from Norwegian bassist Jo Berger Myhre and Icelandic drummer Ólafur Björn Ólafsson in their composed work, “1000%,” which was recorded in an abandoned Reykjavik warehouse. Also, listen to driving indie jazz from the Danish experimental ensemble, Girls in Airport, recorded live in Germany. Plus, hear a sample from Brooklyn's own Afrobeat big band, Antibalas.

There’s a new release from Chicago’s “interdisciplinary instrumental music and performance ensemble” – or circus-spectacle alt marching band, Mucca Pazza. It’s a bit proggy (Yes, Weather Report, Rush) and perhaps hard to march to, but “[t]he band spent eight years practicing counting to seven before they were ready to record this piece.” There’s also a new work by Terry Riley for Del Sol String Quartet, “Dark Queen Mantra,” featuring guitarist Gyan Riley. Plus listen to music by Kaki King - arranged for guitar and orchestra from her forthcoming Live At Berklee release.

Listen to music from Eighth Blackbird founding cellist Nick Photinos; it’s a work by Molly Joyce, originally for for baroque cello and pre-recorded electronics, called “Sit and Dance.” Also, there’s music from London-based composer & producer Leah Kardos, which was made using analogue instruments and technologies, from her record, Rococochet.

August & September 2017 New Releases (Special Podcast)
(Similar to Show #4018, airdate: 8/31/2017)

ARTIST: Jo Berger Myhre & Ólafur Björn Ólafsson
WORK: 1000%, excerpt [1:00]
RECORDING: The Third Script
SOURCE: Hubro Music
INFO: hubromusic.com

ARTIST: Mucca Pazza
WORK: Andy Deitrich: Barbarous Relic [3:30]
RECORDING: Barbarous Relic
SOURCE/INFO: store.muccapazza.com

ARTIST: Leah Kardos
WORK: Malio Malio [2:35]
RECORDING: Rococochet
SOURCE: Bigo & Twigetti
INFO: bigoandtwigetti.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Portico Quartet
WORK: Current History [6:07]
RECORDING: Art In The Age Of Automation
SOURCE: Gondwana Records
INFO: porticoquartet.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Antibalas
WORK: Gold Rush, excerpt [1:30]
RECORDING: Live on Soundcheck, 9/15/17
SOURCE: This tune appears on Where the Gods are in Peace
INFO: antibalas.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Jo Berger Myhre & Ólafur Björn Ólafsson
WORK: 1000% [6:42]
RECORDING: The Third Script
SOURCE: Hubro Music
INFO: hubromusic.com

ARTIST: Girls in Airports
WORK: King's Birthday [3:28]
RECORDING: Live
SOURCE: Edition Records EDN1097
INFO: girlsinairports.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Nick Photinos
WORK: Molly Joyce: Sit and Dance [6:34]
RECORDING: Petits Artefacts
SOURCE: New Amsterdam Records
INFO: newamsterdamrecords.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Del Sol String Quartet, Gyan Riley
WORK: Terry Riley: III. Dark Queen Mantra [11:49]
RECORDING: Dark Queen Mantra
SOURCE: Sono Luminus 92215
INFO: delsolquartet.com

ARTIST: Kaki King, Porta Girevole Chamber Orchestra, Gabriela Sofia Gomez Estevez, student conductor
WORK: Magazine [5:30]
RECORDING: Live At Berklee
SOURCE: BIRN Cooperative Recordings
INFO: smarturl.it/KakiKingLive

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Hear music that begins with classical instruments, like the string quartet, piano, or an orchestra, but which is then augmented, enhanced by electronics, percussion, or preparation. Listen to works by English violinist, pianist, and composer Poppy Ackroyd, Netherlands-based composer Peter Adriaansz, and cinematic music from the augmented string quartet amiina.

The versatile Dutch pianist Saskia Lankhoorn plays a specially-prepared piano over a bed of droning sine tones in a work by Seattle-born, Netherlands-based Peter Adriaansz, “Attachments III.” Then, hear music by the Icelandic outfit, amiina, which was once the touring string quartet with Sigur Ros, and has now expanded to include percussion & electronics. From amiina, hear selections from their standalone original live score to the 1913 film Fantômas, that lord of terror, creator of fear, and genius of evil who initially came to live in the crime fictions of French writers.

Then, listen to "Rave," music for piano and pre-recorded electronics by Molly Joyce for longtime friend and collaborator, pianist Vicky Chow from her record, Aorta. Also, hear music for percussion and electronics by John Luther Adams, featuring Glenn Kotche, from the long-form work, Ilimaq. Plus, listen to grand music for amplified orchestra by English composer Andrew Poppy from a record released on ZTT Records in the mid-eighties.

PROGRAM #3927, classical instruments, contemporary sounds (First Aired 12-8-2016)

ARTIST: Andrew Poppy
WORK: 32 Frames for Amplified Orchestra, excerpt [1:00]
RECORDING: The Artefact Series
SOURCE: ZTT Records 186
INFO: ztt.com

ARTIST: Saskia Lankhoorn, piano
WORK: Peter Adriaansz: Attachments III [7:52]
RECORDING: Enclosures
SOURCE: Ergodos ER 25
INFO: ergodos.ie

ARTIST: Poppy Ackroyd
WORK: Birdwoman [5:36]
RECORDING: Feathers
SOURCE: Denovali Records
INFO: denovali.com

ARTIST: George Hurd Ensemble
WORK: Tethering Bird, excerpt [:38]
RECORDING: Navigation Without Numbers
SOURCE: Innova 937
INFO: innova.mu

ARTIST: Amiina
WORK: Guðmundur Vignir Karlsson: Crocodile [5:39]
RECORDING: Fantômas
SOURCE/INFO: amiina.com

ARTIST: Andrew Poppy
WORK: 32 Frames for Amplified Orchestra [8:39]
RECORDING: The Artefact Series
SOURCE: ZTT Records 186
INFO: ztt.com

ARTIST: Amiina
WORK: Solrun Sumarlidadottir: Café [3:25]
RECORDING: Fantômas
SOURCE/INFO: amiina.com

ARTIST: Restroy
WORK: Skin, excerpt [:46]
RECORDING: Saturn Return
SOURCE: Milk Factory Productions
INFO: milkfactoryproductions.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Vicky Chow
WORK: Molly Joyce: Rave [11:17]
RECORDING: Aorta
SOURCE: NWAM083
INFO: newamrecords.com

ARTIST: John Luther Adams & Glenn Kotche
WORK: John Luther Adams: Ilimaq , Ascension [3:06]
RECORDING: Ilimaq
SOURCE: Cantaloupe Music 21112
INFO: johnlutheradams.bandcamp.com

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Guitarist and educator Shane Parish is a sonic adventurer, perhaps best known as the mastermind behind the Asheville, North Carolina-based avant instrumental jazz-mathpunk band Ahleuchatistas, formerly a quartet, now a duo. Besides the jazz and mathrock, their musical stew also includes elements Chinese folk music, minimalism, and lots of other stuff.

But Parish has just released a solo record of “weird old Americana” entitled Undertaker, Please Drive Slow on John Zorn's Tzadik label, recorded in an old cabin in the woods. He joins John live in the studio to perform some of them on acoustic guitar.

Parish has taken these old timey songs, and “abstracted them in utterly fascinating ways, evoking the haunting and brooding world of the American South” writes John Zorn. Comparisons wouldn’t be out of place to American Primitive guitarists like John Fahey or Robbie Basho, but in the spaces that Parish creates, one might also think of Morton Feldman. In Parish’s ever-evolving reworkings of these folky blues tunes, the songs straddle keys; he’s not content to remain firmly in one or the other. Then, on a song like Geeshie Wiley’s “The Last Kind Words,” Parish takes the vocal melody and makes it more abstract, turning it into a prepared guitar percussion piece in a John Cage way, via paper clips and a slide.

Shane Parish's prepared guitar (John Schaefer/WNYC)

PROGRAM #3928, With Shane Parish (First Aired 12-12-2016)

ARTIST: Ahleuchatistas
WORK: Requiem for the Sea [6:46]
RECORDING: Heads Full of Poison
SOURCE: Cuneiform Records
INFO: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/heads-full-of-poison-3

ARTIST: Shane Parish
WORK: Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground (Blind Willie Johnson) [4:29]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC Studio, Dec. 2016
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: Appears on Undertaker, Please Drive Slow, out now on Tzadik Records 4016

ARTIST: Shane Parish
WORK: Oh Death [3:45]
RECORDING: Undertaker, Please Drive Slow
SOURCE: Tzadik Records 4016
INFO: tzadik.com

ARTIST: Shane Parish
WORK: The Maid Freed From the Gallows [7:04], The Last Kind Words (Geeshie Wiley) [5:25]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC Studio, Dec. 2016
SOURCE: his performance not commercially available.
INFO: Appears on Undertaker, Please Drive Slow, out now on Tzadik Records 4016

ARTIST: Tim Sparks
WORK: I’ll Fly Away [5:37]
RECORDING: Chasin’ the Boogie
SOURCE: Tonewood
INFO: cdbaby.com

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“Indian music does not stop and start with Ravi Shankar.” So says tabla master Zakir Hussain, who, along with young sitar virtuoso, Niladri Kumar, joins John in the studio for a live performance.

Zakir Hussain, son of Ustad Alla Rahka, isn’t just a genius Indian tabla player and composer, as well as a virtuoso improviser - he is, bar none, one of the world’s great percussionists working in many genres. Zakir is a global citizen open to all kinds of collaborations, playing with everyone from George Harrison to the Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, from John McLaughlin's Shakti and Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Project; he’s laid down beats for Scottish fiddlers Charlie McKerron (Capercaillie) and Patsy Reid(formerly of Breabach), and performed and recorded with scores of Indian classical musicians. Then, there was the recording by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin of a triple concerto featuring fellow soloists Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer, along with Zakir Hussain’s own showcases of otherworldly drum wizards, the Masters of Percussion.

Now, Niladri Kumar, who made his first public performance at the age of 6, comes from a long line of sitar players -which goes some five generations back; his father was Pandit Kartik Kumar. Niladri also did recording sessions for Hindi films from a very young age, and happens to be in a band called Sitar Funk, a global fusion of Hindi film music, Indian classical, and Western music. He’s even gone electric, creating an invention called the Zitar, a combination of sitar and guitar. It has fewer strings (5 instead of 20) with an electric pickup inside, so that Niladri can get a rock guitar sound out of it. OH – and he plays chords on the sitar. Niladri Kumar has been part of the Masters of Percussion tour, and this is his second duo tour with Zakir Hussain.

Niladri Kumar and Zakir Hussain perform a radio-friendly (short) Raga Charukeshi, for Rupak Tal (a seven beat rhythmic cycle) and Raga Bhairavi in Teental (16 beats.)

Not to gush, but Zakir Hussain can communicate in so many languages – Persian, Gujarati, German, English- that it’s no wonder that he is also versed in many musical languages – like being able to speak jazz or Afro-Cuban rhythms, Nigerian talking drums, or Indonesian gamelan. To him, improvising is like speaking that language. (Perhaps for percussion nerds,) Zakir also treats us to a spoken drum conversation, or “reciting the Bols” – the syllables that correspond to the strokes of the tabla- like “Dha ti ra ki ta” and “na ga dhin na dhin na gin na.”

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Listen to chamber music packed with strong Americana flavors for this New Sounds. There’s music from guitarist William Tyler, ETHEL in collaboration with the Native American flutist Robert Mirabal, violist/composer Jessica Meyer, and music from guitarist/composer Bill Frisell.

Hear a work by the ETHEL cellist Dorothy Lawson, based on the Heart Sutra from the collaborative record by ETHEL & Robert Mirabal, “The River.” Also, from another maverick string quartet, Brooklyn Rider, listen to their recording of a work with Americana overtones by guitarist Bill Frisell, his “John Steinbeck.” Then, listen to a lovely folk-inspired work from Nashville-based guitarist/composer William Tyler, from his recent “Modern Country,” a collection of songs about the vanishing America.

There’s also music by looping violist Jessica Meyer, which draws on Appalachian fiddling, as well as music from cellist Erik Friedlander, who in both a solo and an ensemble setting, puts his own stamp on Americana music. Plus, hear a work from the Modern Mandolin Quartet, composed by and featuring David Balakrishnan, violinist and founder of the Turtle Island Quartet.

Special Podcast of New Sounds #3880, "Americana Chamber Music" Playlist

ARTIST: Jessica Meyer
WORK: Source of Joy, excerpt [1:35]
RECORDING: Sounds of Being
SOURCE/INFO: jessicameyer.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Sasha Matson
WORK: Steel Chords III: Steel Dances [6:30]
RECORDING: Steel Chords / I-5
SOURCE: Audioquest #1013
INFO: valley-entertainment.com

ARTIST: Brooklyn Rider
WORK: Bill Frisell: Steinbeck [2:54]
RECORDING: Almanac
SOURCE: Mercury Classics / In A Circle Records #002159302
INFO: mercuryclassics.com, available at iTunes, Amazon.com, Emusic.com

ARTIST: Jessica Meyer
WORK: Source of Joy [3:26]
RECORDING: Sounds of Being
SOURCE/INFO: jessicameyer.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Charles Lloyd & Jason Moran
WORK: Lloyd: Journey Up River (Hagar Suite), excerpt [:43]
RECORDING: Hagar's Song
SOURCE: ECM Records 2311
INFO: ecmrecords.com

ARTIST: Erik Friedlander
WORK: Nostalgia Blindside [4:57]
RECORDING: Nighthawks
SOURCE: Skipstone Records
INFO: erikfriedlander.com

ARTIST: ETHEL & Robert Mirabal
WORK: Dorothy Lawson: Gat'te [6:56]
RECORDING: The River
SOURCE: Innova 946
INFO: innova.mu, available on Amazon and iTunes

ARTIST: Modern Mandolin Quartet with David Balakrishnan
WORK: Balakrishnan: Interplay - Shoka [6:10]
RECORDING: Interplay
SOURCE: d’Note 1034
INFO: dnote.com | modernmandolinquartet.com

ARTIST: William Tyler
WORK: I'm Gonna Live Forever (If It Kills Me) [5:25]
RECORDING: Modern Country
SOURCE: Merge Records MRG 545
INFO: mergerecords.com

ARTIST: Erik Friedlander
WORK: Yakima
RECORDING: Block Ice & Propane
SOURCE: Skipstone Records
INFO: erikfriedlander.com

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Hear music that features the traditional string instruments of Western Africa, like the kora (folk-harp), ngoni (a lute-harp), and the guitar, which has become a traditional instrument in Mali and Senegal.

Listen to the 22-stringed kora, steeped in seven centuries of Senegalese tradition, from Seckou Keita. Usually the kora has 21 strings, but in southern Senegal and Guinea Bissau, the 22-stringed kora survives, despite the legend of the first ever kora given to the griot Jali Mady 'Wuleng' (Jali Mady 'The Red') by the djinns, the spirits of the African bush. When Jali Mady died, it was said that his fellow griots took one string away in his memory.

Hear music from Malian guitarist Anansy Cisse, along with pschedelic-tinged Moorish music from Mauritanian singer Noura Mint Seymali. Then, listen to music by Malian guitarist Djelimady Tounkara, known for his unique guitar tunings and his work with the Rail Band. (He was supposed to have been part of the recording sessions that produced the award-winning album Buena Vista Social Club, but his passport arrived late, so he was kept from participating.)

Also, listen to these West African instruments, as played by artists who have migrated to places like Belgium, France, Canada, and Lithuania. There’s music from Senegalese musicians Malick Pathé Sow (guitar, hoddu) & Bao Sissoko (kora), who now live in Belgium, from their fantastic 2012 record, Aduna. Hear patient blues of the Loire river combining kora, violin, and ngoni from the French-Malian collaboration named Deltas. Then, hear music from the gorgeous 2015 record, Jardin Migrateurs, by the Canadian early music group, Ensemble Constantinople together with kora player Ablaye Cissoko. That, and much more.

PROGRAM #3886, West African Strings (First Aired 8-05-2016)

ARTIST: Seckou Keita
WORK: If Only I Knew, excerpt [1:30]
RECORDING: Seckou Keita: 22 Strings
SOURCE: Arc Music EUCD/LP 2585
INFO: seckoukeita.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Malick Pathé Sow & Bao Sissoko
WORK: Kora Julo [4:07]
RECORDING: Aduna
SOURCE: Muziek Publique
INFO: muziekpublique.be, available at iTunes & Emusic.com

ARTIST: Anansy Cisse
WORK: Sekou Amadou [5:12]
RECORDING: Mali Overdrive
SOURCE: Riverboat, TUGDD1079
INFO: worldmusic.net

ARTIST: Noura Mint Seymali
WORK: Arbina [2:47]
RECORDING: Arbina
SOURCE: Glitterbeat GBCD/LP 038
INFO: glitterbeat.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Peter Gregson
WORK: Time, excerpt [1:00]
RECORDING: Touch
SOURCE: Sono Luminus DSL-92191
INFO: sonoluminus.com

ARTIST: Deltas
WORK: Deltas La [4:18]
RECORDING: Ligerian Blues
SOURCE: Buda Musique 860290
INFO: budamusique.com

ARTIST: Constantinople, Ablaye Cissoko
WORK: Fleuve (Fleuve Saint Louis) [5:00]
RECORDING: Jardins Migrateurs
SOURCE/INFO: ablayecissoko.lnk.to | constantinople.ca/creations

ARTIST: Malituanie feat. Baba Sissoko, led by Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė
WORK: Laydou – Promise [6:42]
RECORDING: Malituanie
SOURCE: onerootmusic.com
INFO: onerootmusic.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Peter Gregson
WORK: Time, excerpt [:55]
RECORDING: Touch
SOURCE: Sono Luminus DSL-92191
INFO: sonoluminus.com

ARTIST: Seckou Keita
WORK: If Only I Knew [4:22]
RECORDING: Seckou Keita: 22 Strings
SOURCE: Arc Music EUCD/LP 2585
INFO: seckoukeita.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal
WORK: Super Etoile [3:54]
RECORDING: Musique de Nuit
SOURCE: Six Degrees Records
INFO: sixdegreesrecords.com

ARTIST: Djelimady Tounkara
WORK: Sory Mankanbora [3:23]
RECORDING: Djely Blues
SOURCE: Label Bleu LBLC2603
INFO: Available at iTunes, Emusic.com, Amazon.com

ARTIST: (Adebola) Kuku, feat. Tony Allen
WORK: Owo [4:20]
RECORDING: Ballads & Blasphemy; the Areligious Gospel of Adebola Kuku
SOURCE: Buda Musique 860274
INFO: budamusique.com

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South African guitarist Guy Buttery visits the studio to perform music from his latest self-titled record. Hear virtuosic feats of bending, tapping, picking, harmonics, and other techniques and textures yet to be named for guitar. Dig into his latest record on which he has collaborated with South African musicians Vusi Mahlasela, kora-to-guitar wizard Derek Gripper, and blues guitarist Dan Patlansky, along with a piece for sarangi and mbira – “From Srinagar.”

More pictures from the session here: Facebook.com/newsounds

Guy Buttery plays a custom-made Casimi guitar, a “piano that fits in a guitar case,” made of very dense & heavy African blackwood, and sporting double carbon-fiber truss rods to handle the bending of the neck.

Plus, music from the late Malian guitarist and griot Tiécoro Sissoko, who played for many years as a sideman with Toumani Diabate in Bamako. Listen to the title track from his only recording, “Keme Borama.”

PROGRAM #3893, With Guy Buttery (First Aired 8-30-2016)

ARTIST: Guy Buttery with Piers Faccini
WORK: The Upper Reaches [5:09]
RECORDING: Guy Buttery
SOURCE/INFO: guybuttery.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Guy Buttery
WORK: A Piece for Rudolf Fritsch [5:20]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC 8/25/16
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: A version with William Ackerman is available at guybuttery.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Guy Buttery
WORK: From Srinagar [3:32], To Goulimine [feat. Dan Patlansky] [03:05]
RECORDING: Guy Buttery
SOURCE/INFO: guybuttery.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Guy Buttery
WORK: Verbosity [4:00]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC 8/25/16
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: The studio version is available at guybuttery.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Guy Buttery
WORK: Two Chords & The Truth [feat. Derek Gripper] [3:40]
RECORDING: Guy Buttery
SOURCE/INFO: guybuttery.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Guy Buttery
WORK: Werner Meets Egberto in Manaus [5:17]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC 8/25/16
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: A version featuring Vusi Mahlasela is available at guybuttery.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Tiécoro Sissoko
WORK: Keme Borama [4:38]
RECORDING: Keme Borama
SOURCE: KSK Records CD 013
INFO: kskrecords.bandcamp.com

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Listen to ensemble pieces which incorporate or draw from the folk music of several different parts of the world on this New Sounds program. Hear music that simulates the sound of Norwegian folk fiddling. It’s the work of Princeton University professor Dan Trueman, founder of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra and a Norwegian hardanger fiddle specialist together with So Percussion.

Then, listen to Nordic klezmer/folk band Afenginn, who take what they need from other parts of the world and their own to create a (their words) "Bastard Ethno" music. Plus, Ale Møller brings in the Norwegian form of bagpipe, along with the traditional Norwegian willow-bark flute, in his latest, a collaboration with the Bohuslän Big Band.

Hear music by Nathan Davis which is inspired by the function of mbira music in the life rituals of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. Then, listen to folktronica from the Argentine producer and musician Gaby Kerpel which uses mbira samples in addition to those of South American instruments. Plus, music featuring thumb piano from the Norwegian Karl Seglem. All that, and more.

PROGRAM # 3477, music with folk roots (First aired on 6/7/2013)

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New Sounds returns to Ireland for the fourth part of our series on the country's contemporary music scene. For Part 4, host John Schaefer speaks with Derry-based composer Neil Burns whose work bridges atmospheric pop and contemporary classical music. Burns discusses his piece "Walls of Sound," a kind of audio tour of Derry, Ireland's city walls that includes processed environmental recordings and spare accompaniment. Neil Burns also shares how his atmospheric pop work has informed his approach to his contemporary classical composition. Later in the hour, John Schaefer meets with Greg Caffrey in Belfast to discuss making music through tough times in Belfast and the Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble he founded.

Composer Neil Burns (courtesy of the artist)

PROGRAM #3718 New Music from Ireland Part 4 (First aired on 4/23/2015)

ARTIST: Neil Burns
WORK: Things That Came After (1) [2:17]
RECORDING: Mood Music Vol. 1, 2006-2013
SOURCE: neilburnsmusic.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Neil Burns
WORK: Bishop’s Gate to Ferryquay Gate [4:38]
RECORDING: new music::new Ireland two
SOURCE: Contemporary Music Centre
INFO: www.cmc.ie

ARTIST: Neil Burns
WORK: Ferryquay Gate to Foyle Street [4:25]
RECORDING: Walls of Sound
SOURCE: neilburnsmusic.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Comrade Hat
WORK: The Path That Goes On [2:50]
RECORDING: Follow the Dawn
SOURCE: comradehat.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Neil Burns
WORK: The Great White Osprey [5:30]
RECORDING: On Thin Ice
SOURCE: neilburnsmusic.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Kate Ellis, cello ; Linda Buckley, vocals
WORK: Jump, excerpt [:45]
RECORDING: Jump
SOURCE: Diatribe Records
INFO: shop.diatribe.ie

ARTIST: Ireland String Quartet
WORK: Greg Caffrey: béal mouth beul mooth [2:24]
RECORDING: AHRC Irish and Scottish Poetry Project
SOURCE: Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry

ARTIST: The Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble
WORK: Greg Caffrey: These are the clouds about the fallen Sun [:57]
RECORDING: Hard Rain Ensemble
SOURCE: hardrainensemble.com

ARTIST: The Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble
WORK: Morton Feldman: Duration I [:30]
RECORDING: Hard Rain Ensemble
SOURCE: hardrainensemble.com

ARTIST: The Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble
WORK: Iain McCurdy: Philharmonie [1:09]
RECORDING: Hard Rain Ensemble
SOURCE: hardrainensemble.com

ARTIST: Craig Ogden
WORK: Greg Caffrey: Deluge [3:30]
RECORDING: First Construction in Nylon
SOURCE: Cactus Records
INFO: cactusrecords.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Craig Ogden
WORK: Greg Caffrey: First Construction in Nylon [3:42]
RECORDING: First Construction in Nylon
SOURCE: Cactus Records
INFO: cactusrecords.bandcamp.com

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For this New Sounds, listen to works for violin, cello, and the 10-stringed Hardanger d’Amore fiddle. There’s a work from Irish cellist Kate Ellis, (who is also Artistic Director of the Crash Ensemble,) from her solo record, “Jump,” a collection of new music for solo cello and electronics by 5 Irish composers. Listen also to an atmospheric mix of cello and voice from the Icelandic cellist/composer/singer Hildur Guðnadóttir. One of the tunes features the bass player Skúli Sverrisson, Guðnadóttir’s eerie whisper, and a fretted cello, resonated through two grand pianos, for a hypnotic thrum, that skirts a line between gentle menace and blissful escape.

Then, hear a duo record from Caoimhin O Raghallaigh (of The Gloaming) and Dan Trueman (founder of Princeton Laptop Orchestra), which stretches and recombines the DNA of Norwegian folk and Irish trad fiddling on a 10-stringed instrument, the Hardanger d’Amore. There's also fiddle music from composer, sound engineer and producer Adrian Hart, based in Ireland. Plus, sample music from the collaborative record of music by Kate Moore for cellist Ashley Bathgate, Stories for Ocean Shells, and more.

PROGRAM #3641, Music for Bowed Strings

ARTIST: Ashley Bathgate
WORK: Kate Moore: Broken Rosary [1:00]
RECORDING: Stories for Ocean Shells
SOURCE: Cantaloupe Music
INFO: bangonacan.org

ARTISTS: Hildur Guðnadóttir, featuring Skúli Sverrisson
WORK: Heima [4:26]
RECORDING: Saman
SOURCE: Touch # TO:96
INFO: touchshop.org

ARTIST: Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh
WORK: Cloud [5:19]
RECORDING: Music For An Elliptical Orbit
SOURCE: shop.diatribe.ie

ARTISTS: Hildur Guðnadóttir, featuring Skúli Sverrisson
WORK: Líður [2:47]
RECORDING: Saman
SOURCE: Touch # TO:96
INFO: touchshop.org

ARTIST: Kate Ellis
WORK: Niall Vallely: Sondas [10:27]
RECORDING: Jump
SOURCE: shop.diatribe.ie
INFO: kateelliscello.com

ARTIST: Adrian Hart
WORK: Canone [7:30]
RECORDING: Cuisle
SOURCE: shop.diatribe.ie

ARTIST: Ashley Bathgate
WORK: Kate Moore: Broken Rosary [5:41]
RECORDING: Stories for Ocean Shells
SOURCE: Cantaloupe Music
INFO: bangonacan.org

ARTIST: Moon Ate the Dark (Anne Rose Carter and Christopher Bailey)
WORK: Messy Hearts, excerpt [:38]
RECORDING: Moon Ate the Dark
SOURCE: Sonic Pieces/ Morr Music
INFO: bandcamp.com

ARTISTS: Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Dan Trueman
WORK: What What What [4:17]
RECORDING: Laghdú
SOURCE: store.irishmusic.net

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Hear collaborative works of all kinds for this New Sounds, from string quartet to chamber ensemble; from piano duet to guitar music with electronics.

Listen to a work, "Trying to Speak," by New York guitarist and composer Kaki King, in collaboration with the string quartet ETHEL, from King's multimedia masterpiece “The Neck is a Bridge to the Body.” When she performs the work live, images are projected onto the body of her custom guitar, while she works her finger-style virtuosic magic.

Then, hear shimmering music from New York composer Chris Cerrone, in collaboration with the Chicago-based ensemble, Eighth Blackbird. From their recent record, "Hand Eye," Cerrone's work, "South Catalina" piano, clarinet, and percussion provide stately chords augmented by a flurry of violin, cello, & flute. Also, listen to a 20-fingered collaboration, ZOFO, performing music by Terry Riley.

There's also collaborative music featuring the Berlin Guitar Ensemble and the Argentine-born, now Berlin-based audio artist and producer, Andrés Jankowski. A.K.A. 1605munro, and more.

PROGRAM #3858, Collaborative Works (First Aired 5-9-2016)

ARTIST: Eighth Blackbird
WORK: Chris Cerrone: South Catalina, excerpt [1:50]
RECORDING: Hand Eye
SOURCE: Cedille Records 90000 162
INFO: cedillerecords.org

ARTIST: Kaki King & ETHEL
WORK: Trying to Speak I [3:49]
RECORDING: The Neck is a Bridge to the Body
SOURCE/INFO: kakiking.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Kaki King & ETHEL
WORK: Trying to Speak II [4:14]
RECORDING: The Neck is a Bridge to the Body
SOURCE/INFO: kakiking.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Eighth Blackbird
WORK: Chris Cerrone: South Catalina [10:54]
RECORDING: Hand Eye
SOURCE: Cedille Records 90000 162
INFO: cedillerecords.org

ARTIST: ZOFO
WORK: Terry Riley: G song [9:30]
RECORDING: ZOFO plays Terry Riley
SOURCE: Sono Luminus DSL-92189
INFO: sonoluminus.com

ARTIST: Berlin Guitar Ensemble vs. 1605munro
WORK: Andres G. Jankowski: Macarimbas [4:40]
RECORDING: Berlin Guitar Ensemble vs. 1605munro
SOURCE: Possible Records PR740020
INFO: berlinguitarensemble.com
pro.beatport.com/label/munropark
Available at Amazon and iTunes.

ARTIST: Gabriel Prokofiev / Peter Gregson
WORK: Jerk Driver (DJ Spooky remix) [3:07]
RECORDING: Cello Multitracks
SOURCE: Nonclassical NONCLSS014
INFO: gabrielprokofiev.bandcamp.com

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For this New Sounds, listen to works from the Near East and North Africa, in both arrangement and intent. Begin with music inspired by Marco Polo’s travels by oud player and Doctor of Byzantine musicology, Kyriakos Kalaitzidis. Hear some music from Tunisia by percussionist Imed Alibi featuring singer Emel Mathlouthi on the tune “Maknassy."

Sample even more music for oud by Paris-based Palestinian Adnan Joubran along with another work rooted in the oud by Belgian Karim Baggili, who has roots in Jordan. Plus, hear music from the Montreal-based trio Bomata, clearly influenced by music of the Middle-East and the Mediterranean, music from Kronos Quartet and more.

PROGRAM #3582 Music From the Near East and North Africa (First aired on 3/26/2014)

ARTIST: Imed Alibi
WORK: Balkani Connection [1:00]
RECORDING: Safar
SOURCE: IRL 079
INFO: irl.bigcartel.com

ARTIST: Kyriakos Kalaitzidis/Ensemble Constantinople & En Chordais
WORK: Gallop [4:25]
RECORDING: The Musical Voyages of Marco Polo
SOURCE: World Village 479092
INFO: store.hmusa.com

ARTIST: Imed Alibi, feat. Emel Mathlouthi
WORK: Maknassy [5:04]
RECORDING: Safar
SOURCE: IRL 079
INFO:irl.bigcartel.com

ARTIST: Karim Baggili (feat. Le Trio Joubran)
WORK: Kali City [4:46]
RECORDING: Kali City
SOURCE: homerecords.be
INFO: homerecordsbe.bandcamp.com | karimbaggili.be

ARTIST: Adnan Joubran
WORK: My Way Home [5:59]
RECORDING: Borders Behind
SOURCE: World Village 479084
INFO:store.hmusa.com | adnanjoubran.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Bomata
WORK: Sesame [4:48]
RECORDING: Arômes d'ailleurs
INFO: bomata.bandcamp.com but download from Amazon or Emusic.com

ARTIST: Imed Alibi
WORK: Balkani Connection [1:00]
RECORDING: Safar
SOURCE: IRL 079
INFO: irl.bigcartel.com

ARTIST: Kronos Quartet
WORK: Eviç Taksim (Tanburi Cemil Bey)
RECORDING: A Thousand Thoughts
SOURCE: Nonesuch 536952
INFO: www.nonesuch.com

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Listen to cross-cultural collaborations from Indo-Canadian singer Kiran Ahluwalia, who combines Indian and Pakistani grooves, Western jazz, and desert blues, together with her husband, the guitarist & producer Rez Abbasi. Also, listen to music from Pakistani-Brooklyn group Sandaraa (means “Song” in Pashto); it’s a collaborative effort led by klezmer clarinet virtuoso Michael Winograd, and featuring Pakistani vocalist Zeb Bangash joins forces with leading Brooklyn musicians on oud, drums, bass, and violin.

Then, listen to a German-Afghani-Norwegian collaboration from Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen, German-Afghan vocalist Simin Tander, and drummer Jarle Vespestad. From their record, “What Was Said,” hear moving settings of poetry by Rumi in English, & Norwegian church songs translated into Pashto. There’s also music by Irish composer/guitarist Dave Flynn for amplified ensemble, brass, and three guitars. Listen to a live 2014 recording of Flynn’s “Joy” featuring Congolese-Irish guitarist Niwel Tsumbu, guitarist John Godfrey, and the composer together with the Crash Ensemble led by Alan Pierson. And more.

PROGRAM #3859, Cross-Cultural Collaborations (First Aired 5-10-2016)

ARTIST: Sandaraa
WORK: Bibi Sanem Janem, excerpt [1:00]
RECORDING: Sandaraa
SOURCE: cdbaby.com/cd/sandaraa

ARTIST: Kiran Ahluwalia
WORK: Hayat [5:01]
RECORDING: Sanata: Stillness
SOURCE: Magenta MTM 930
INFO: kiranmusic.com

ARTIST: Sandaraa
WORK: Bibi Sanem Janem [5:40]
RECORDING: Sandaraa
SOURCE: cdbaby.com/cd/sandaraa

ARTIST: Derek Gripper
WORK: Jarabi (Passion) [6:39]
RECORDING: One Night on Earth Music from the strings of Mali
SOURCE: New Cape Records NC11
INFO: newcape.co.za | derekgripper.com

ARTIST: Billband
WORK: Bill Ryan: Friction, excerpt [1:00]
RECORDING: Towards Daybreak
SOURCE: Innova 841
INFO: innova.mu

ARTIST: Tord Gustavsen - Simin Tander - Jarle Vespestad
WORK: Imagine The Fog Disappearing [6:22]
RECORDING: What Was Said
SOURCE: ECM 2465
INFO: ecmrecords.com

ARTIST: Sandaraa
WORK: Mana Nele [7:20]
RECORDING: Sandaraa
SOURCE: cdbaby.com/cd/sandaraa

ARTIST: Derek Gripper
WORK: Bakoye [3:10]
RECORDING: One Night on Earth Music from the strings of Mali
SOURCE: New Cape Records NC11
INFO: newcape.co.za | derekgripper.com

ARTIST: Billband
WORK: Bill Ryan: Blurred, excerpt [:30]
RECORDING: Towards Daybreak
SOURCE: Innova 841
INFO: innova.mu

ARTIST: Crash Ensemble/ Alan Pierson, cond.
Niwel Tsumbu, with Dave Flynn and John Godfrey, gtrs
WORK: Joy, Part 3 -The Joy of Sex [3:12]
RECORDING: Live, Cork Opera House, 2014
SOURCE: This work not commercially available.
INFO: http://www.daveflynn.com/joy.html

ARTIST: Crash Ensemble/ Alan Pierson, cond.
Niwel Tsumbu, with Dave Flynn and John Godfrey, gtrs
WORK: Joy, Part 4 - The Joy of Sebene [7:00]
RECORDING: Live, Cork Opera House, 2014
SOURCE: This work not commercially available.
INFO: http://www.daveflynn.com/joy.html

ARTIST: Tord Gustavsen - Simin Tander - Jarle Vespestad
WORK: Sweet Melting Afterglow [3:35]
RECORDING: What Was Said
SOURCE: ECM 2465
INFO: ecmrecords.com

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Hear works that fit under the umbrella of chamber music on this New Sounds from a choir of cellos (OK, celli) performed by Ashley Bathgate, music from the Chicago-based Eighth Blackbird, the Tallin Chamber Orchestra, & more.

From a years-long collaborative cycle of music for cello, preview Stories for Ocean Shells by Australian-born Dutch-based composer Kate Moore. Listen to layers upon layers of Ashley Bathgate’s cello in the title track from that record, now out on Cantaloupe Music. Also, hear a selection from “Labyrinth,” a suite of short pieces for string ensemble by Estonian composer Tonu Korvitz, from his recent Mirror, featuring the Tallin Chamber Orchestra and cellist Anja Lechner. Plus, listen to minimalism-leaning melody-rich music by the Sirius Quartet, from their latest, Paths Become Lines, written by their cellist, Jeremy Harman.

eighth blackbird (Luke Ratray)

Then there’s new music from the Sleeping Giant composers collective for the Chicago-based ensemble eighth blackbird from their fresh and piping-hot release, Hand Eye. Listen to a visual work by pianist/composer Timo Andres inspired by a patterned pen and ink abstraction, and intended to be “structured as a gradual zoom outward,” his piece, “Checkered Shade.” From the same record, hear Jacob Cooper’s vibraphone-rooted work, “Cast,” which gradually removes the vibes in the way an artist making paper casts removes the original objects. (For reference, please enjoy this paper casting crafty video.) All that, and more.

PROGRAM #3853, More Chamber Music (First Aired 4-14-2016)

ARTIST: eighth blackbird
WORK: Jacob Cooper: Cast, excerpt [1:00]
RECORDING: Hand Eye
SOURCE: Cedille Records 90000 162
INFO: cedillerecords.org

ARTIST: eighth blackbird
WORK: Timo Andres: Checkered Shade [13:58]
RECORDING: Hand Eye
SOURCE: Cedille Records 90000 162
INFO: cedillerecords.org

ARTIST: Kate Moore / Ashley Bathgate, cello
WORK: Kate Moore: Stories for Ocean Shells [9:18]
RECORDING: Stories for Ocean Shells
SOURCE: Cantaloupe Music
INFO: Due out May 20, 2016, at bangonacan.org
The piece also exists as a piano work, on “Dances and Canons” ECM Records 2344

ARTIST: Erik Friedlander's Bonebridge
WORK: Hopper's Blue House, excerpt [1:00]
RECORDING: Nighthawks
SOURCE: erikfriedlander.com/nighthawks

ARTIST: Tallin Chamber Orchestra with Anja Lechner, Violoncello
WORK: Tonu Korvitz: Labyrinth V [2:42]
RECORDING: Tonu Korvitz: Mirror
SOURCE: ECM Records 2327
INFO: ecmrecords.com

ARTIST: Sirius Quartet
WORK: Jeremy Harman: Paths Become Lines [6:20]
RECORDING: Paths Become Lines
SOURCE: Autentico Music / Maxos 00004
INFO: autenticomusic.com or Amazon.com

ARTIST: Erik Friedlander's Bonebridge
WORK: Hopper's Blue House, excerpt [:30]
RECORDING: Nighthawks
SOURCE: erikfriedlander.com/nighthawks

ARTIST: eighth blackbird
WORK: Jacob Cooper: Cast [10:50]
RECORDING: Hand Eye
SOURCE: Cedille Records 90000 162
INFO: cedillerecords.org

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Eco-Music Big Band album cover (ecomusicbigband.com)

For this New Sounds program, all of the works feature larger ensembles, or have the sound of a big band. Listen to music by the 15-, sometimes 16-piece multi-generational big band founded by Fred Ho, and led by Marie Incontrera – the Eco-Music Big Band. There’s also music from Laura Jurd, the English trumpeter/bandleader along with music by the NYC-based trumpeter/bandleader/composer Jon Crowley and his sextet. Plus, folk and jazz meet recited poetry in music from Scottish percussionist/bandleader Corrie Dick. Listen to his work, “Soar,” featuring poetry by Alice Zawadzki, which lives up to its title.

Listen also to big band music inspired by Ethiopian jazz and in music by French saxophonist Pierrick Pédron and his ensemble. Then there’s more Ethio-jazz-rooted music from the nine-piece Dutch brass band, Jungle By Night, along with an arrangement of a classic 1970’s Ethiopian pop tune from Imperial Tiger Orchestra. Plus, hear a track from Debo Band, who are from the Boston area. Their music looks to Ethopia by way of Japan in “Hiyamikachi Bushi” from their new record coming out May 20, “Ere Gobez.” All that, and more.

PROGRAM #3830, Big Bands & Big-Sounding Bands (Special Podcast)

ARTIST: Pierrick Pédron
WORK: Ethiop, excerpt [1:20]
RECORDING: And the
SOURCE: Jazz Village 570097
INFO: jazzvillage.com

ARTIST: Corrie Dick
WORK: Soar [6:32]
RECORDING: Impossible Things
SOURCE: Chaos Collective CC 006CD
INFO: corriedick.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Jon Crowley
WORK: Other Lives [5:14]
RECORDING: I Walk Amongst The Humans
SOURCE: destinyrecords.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Eco-Music Big Band
WORK: Stefan Zeniuk: Rag House [8:24]
RECORDING: Colors of Resistance
SOURCE: Eco-Music Big Band,
INFO: Dist. By Catapult Available at Emusic.com, iTunes.

ARTIST: Imperial Tiger Orchestra
WORK: Etu Gela [:56]
RECORDING: Addis Abeba
SOURCE: Arsinthe Music / Mental Groove Records CDAMMGITO 1
INFO: imperialtigerorchestra.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Pierrick Pédron
WORK: Ethiop [4:11]
RECORDING: And the
SOURCE: Jazz Village 570097
INFO: jazzvillage.com

ARTIST: Debo Band
WORK: Hiyamikachi Bushi [4:29]
RECORDING: Ere Gobez
SOURCE: For Practically Everyone FPE Records 013
INFO: Due out May 20, 2016 deboband.com

ARTIST: Jungle By Night
WORK: Empire [4:14]
RECORDING: The Hunt
SOURCE: Kudos Records KS 045
INFO: kudosrecords.co.uk

ARTIST: Mette Henriette
WORK: strangers by midday [2:51]
RECORDING: Trio / Ensemble
SOURCE: ECM Records 2460/2461
INFO: ecmrecords.com

ARTISTS: Laura Jurd ft. Elliot Galvin, piano; Conor Chaplin, double bass; Corrie Dick, percussion, with The Ligeti Quartet
WORK: The Lady of Bruntal [5:26]
RECORDING: Landing Ground
SOURCE: Chaos Collective
INFO: chaos-collective.com Or soundcloud.com/laurajurd
Available at amazon.co.uk or Emusic.com

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This New Sounds is full of unexpected musical dream-teams, like New York-based Raya Brass Band, whose latest record, RAYA, is full of informed cross-cultural takes on Balkan brass music – here a loping Ethiogroove or New York salsa woven into the New Orleans street party meets Macedonian, Greek, and Turkish wedding music. Listen to the seductive odd sevens of "Dren Gajda," which evokes the sound of the bagpipe, or gajda (which is also a bagpipe-accompanied Macedonian dance.)

Then, there’s tropical psychedelic cumbia from Lima, Peru-based band, Bareto, along with brass-driven Afro-pop from the Washington DC-based band Elikeh, who incorporate Togolese rhythms into their borderless music. (The group’s leader, Massama Dogo, was born in Togo.) Hear Welsh harp, Indian tabla & harmonium, as Mumbai singer Tauseef Akhtar and Welsh singer-songwriter Gwyneth Glyn blend Indian Ghazals with Welsh folk traditional music as Ghazalaw.

Plus, hear music from Hiya wal Âalam, which is Tunisian composer and percussionist Houwaida Hedfi, in collaboration with musicians from Tunisia and Palestine, and Swede Olof Dreijer from The Knife. They use North African percussion instruments like bendir, djembe and chkachek, along with wordless vocals and electronic beats. And much more.

PROGRAM #3801 Unusual Cross-Cultural Collaborations (First Aired 11-19-2015)

ARTIST: Xixa
WORK: Cumbia del Palatero, excerpt [1:00]
RECORDING: Shift and Shadow
SOURCE: Barbès Records
INFO: barbesrecords.com

ARTIST: Raya Brass Band
WORK: RAYA
RECORDING: Dren Gajda [4:12]
SOURCE: rayabrassband1.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Bareto
WORK: Mama Motelo [3:53]
RECORDING: Impredecible
SOURCE: World Village 450030
INFO: worldvillagemusic.com

ARTIST: Elikeh
WORK: The Conversation [4:45]
RECORDING: Kondona
SOURCE: Ropeadope / Elikeh
INFO: elikeh.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Xixa
WORK: Cumbia del Palatero [4:04]
RECORDING: Shift and Shadow
SOURCE: Barbès Records
INFO: barbesrecords.com

ARTIST: Tunto
WORK: Couscous Music [4:59]
RECORDING: Huvi
SOURCE: AANI Records
INFO: aani.fi OR cdbaby.com

ARTIST: Ghazalaw
WORK: Cosb Mor Dlos (Khoobsorat Koi Sazaa) [6:45]
RECORDING: Ghazalaw
SOURCE: Marvels of The Universe
INFO: ghazalaw.com

ARTIST: Hiya Wal Âalam
WORK: Houwaida Hedfi: Janna feat. Chiheb [4:52]
RECORDING: Sawtuha : Nine women from Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and a bonus song from Syria
INFO: The track appears under the name “Houwaida” on this compilation: jakartarecords-label.bandcamp.com

ARTIST: Alif
WORK: I tiraf (Confession) [4:56]
RECORDING: Aynama-Rtama
SOURCE: alifmusic.bandcamp.com

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Listen to new music with trumpet on this New Sounds, including music from the Paris-based Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf, Iraqi-American trumpeter Amir Elsaffar, Ben Neill & his mutantrumpet, and music from trumpeter, bandleader, composer Dave Douglas.

Hear more music from Lebanese-born, Paris-based trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf off of a brilliant new record that is an homage to the great Arab diva Oum Kalthoum; listen to another from a suite of pieces built around her song, Alf Leila Wa Leila (The thousand and one nights.) Then, listen to “Silo,” an upbeat instrumental call and response track from Senegalese singer/kora player Ablaye Cissoko and German-born trumpeter Volker Goetze. From the Motema label site’s interview, Cissoko says “Silo” translates as “straight path.”

Then, the avant-garde and EDM come together in music by Ben Neill & his mutantrumpet, from his record “Horizonal.” Also, hear trumpeter, bandleader, composer Dave Douglas together with Michigan-based laptop artist, Shigeto – from the quartet record, “High Risk.”

There’s also music from New York-based Iraqi-American trumpeter Amir Elsaffar and his Two Rivers project. The title refers to the Tigris and Euphrates in Iraq and celebrates the two streams of influence in Elsaffar's work, the near-eastern classical and the western jazz. That, and much more.

PROGRAM #3838, New Music with/for Trumpet (First Aired 3-4-2016)

ARTIST: LAMA
WORK: Melodia Minuscula, excerpt [1:00]
RECORDING: Oneiros
SOURCE: Clean Feed CF 240
INFO: cleanfeed-records.com

ARTIST: Dave Douglas, featuring Shigeto, electronics with Jonathan Maron, bass; Mark Guiliana, drums;
WORK: Cardinals [7:10]
RECORDING: High Risk
SOURCE: music.davedouglas.com

ARTIST: Ben Neill
WORK: The Other Side Of Midnight [6:27]
RECORDING: Horizonal
SOURCE: Audiokult Recordings
INFO: benneill.com

ARTIST: Jacaszek & Kwartludium
WORK: A Book of Lake (Roseliere), excerpt [:30]
RECORDING: Catalogue Des Arbres
SOURCE: Touch TO 094CD
INFO: forcedexposure.com

ARTIST: Omar Sosa, ft. Joo Kraus
WORK: Alejet [7:27]
RECORDING: Eggun
SOURCE: Otá OTA 1024
INFO: omarsosa.com/order.php

ARTIST: LAMA
WORK: Melodia Minuscula [6:47]
RECORDING: Oneiros
SOURCE: Clean Feed CF 240
INFO: cleanfeed-records.com

ARTIST: Jacaszek & Kwartludium
WORK: A Book of Lake (Roseliere), excerpt [:30]
RECORDING: Catalogue Des Arbres
SOURCE: Touch TO 094CD
INFO: forcedexposure.com

ARTIST: Ibrahim Maalouf
WORK: Movement 1 [6:15]
RECORDING: Kalthoum
SOURCE: Impulse! / Universal Music Classics / Decca #4749696
INFO: impulse-label.com | ibrahimmaalouf.com

ARTIST: Amir Elsaffar & Two Rivers Ensemble
WORK: Al-Badia [5:51]
RECORDING: Inana
SOURCE: PI Recordings 41
INFO: pirecordings.com

ARTIST: Ablaye Cissoko & Volker Goetze
WORK: Silo [6:20]
RECORDING: Amanke Dionti
SOURCE: Motema MTM-84
INFO: motema.com

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North meets South, largely Europe meets Africa in music by French guitarist Titi Robin and Moroccan musician Mehdi Nassouli, the group Monoswezi, and the collaborative group Malithuanie. Listen to music from Taziri, a record by French guitarist “Titi” (Thierry) Robin and the young Gnawa musician El Mehdi Nassouli, who is also heir to a strong South-Moroccan Berber culture. In ‘Flamenhijaz,” a work which combines flamenco and the classical Arab scale, Hijaz, the two are joined by Francis Varis on accordion, and percussionist Ze Luis Nascimento.

Then, Senegalese kora player Solo Cissoko and Lithuanian singer / kanklės (Baltic psaltery) player Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė blend folk song traditions and trade melodies from West Africa and Eastern Europe. Also, hear the Scandinavian- southern African collaboration called Monoswezi, which features musicians from Mozambique, Norway, Sweden & Zimbabwe. Get a preview listen to Julia Easterlin & Vieux Farka Toure from their forthcoming release, due out in September 2015, of American and Malian songs. Hear Julia Easterlin’s new words and melody set atop the classic “Kaira,” or “Peace.” Plus, a trio of musicians from Mali, who formed to collaborate with the Kronos Quartet, Trio Da Kali. The Trio—Hawa Kasse Mady Diabaté (voice), daughter of legendary Kasse Mady Diabaté; Lassana Diabaté (balafon), formerly of AfroCubism and Toumani Diabaté’s Symmetric Orchestra; and Mamadou Kouyaté (ngoni), eldest son of Bassekou Kouyaté—brings a contemporary twist to ancient and neglected repertoires, on their first self-titled record.

Rounding out the show is a bit of music shared between Mali and Lithuania, along with an excerpt from the grand collaboration, Africa Express presents Terry Riley's "In C" Mali, where top musicians from Mali and Damon Albarn (Gorillaz, Blur), Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and Brian Eno use West African instruments in their interpretation of of the now 50-year old “In C” by Terry Riley.

PROGRAM #3750– North Meets South (First aired on 07/14/2015)

ARTIST: Malituanie
WORK: Yele, excerpt [1:00]
RECORDING: Malituanie
SOURCE: onerootmusic.bandcamp.com
INFO: onerootmusic.com

ARTIST: Titi Robin with Mehdi Nassouli
WORK: Flamenhijaz (rosée pour Nargis) [8:10]
RECORDING: Taziri
SOURCE: World Village 479108
INFO: worldvillagemusic.com

ARTIST: Solo & Indre
WORK: Damma – Gerve [7:25]
RECORDING: Solo & Indre
SOURCE: onerootmusic.bandcamp.com
INFO: onerootmusic.com

ARTIST: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
WORK: Labyrinth VII, excerpt [1:00]
RECORDING: Euclid
SOURCE: Western Vinyl 130
INFO: westernvinyl.com

ARTIST: Trio Da Kali
WORK: Yirimadjo [5:08]
RECORDING: Trio Da Kali
SOURCE: World Circuit / Nonesuch 549202
INFO: nonesuch.com

ARTIST: Julia Easterlin & Vieux Farka Toure
WORK: Little Things (Kaira) [3:23]
RECORDING: Touristes
SOURCE: Six Degrees Records
INFO: sixdegreesrecords.com

ARTIST: Monoswezi
WORK: Matatya [6:50]
RECORDING: Monoswezi Yanga
SOURCE: TUGCD 1090
INFO: worldmusic.net | monoswezi.com

ARTIST: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
WORK: Labyrinth VII, excerpt [1:00]
RECORDING: Euclid
SOURCE: Western Vinyl 130
INFO: westernvinyl.com

ARTIST: Malituanie
WORK: Yele [7:26]
RECORDING: Malituanie
SOURCE: onerootmusic.bandcamp.com
INFO: onerootmusic.com

ARTIST: Africa Express
WORK: Terry Riley: In C Mali, excerpt [6:22]
RECORDING: presents Terry Riley In C
SOURCE: shop.transgressiverecords.com

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Hear kora and cello music recorded on a rooftop in Bamako, Mali; the 1960s space race set to 21st century electronics; and folk songs from the shadowy “Traveller” culture of Scotland and England.

In no particular order, hear some of the most memorable music that made waves this year, according to John Schaefer. There's music from Toronto-based Americana & Appalachian folk roots artist Kaia Kater, along with music from the song cycle, “Unremembered,” by composer Sarah Kirkland Snider. Also, listen to music from the eight precise voices of the band Roomful of Teeth, from their 2015 release “Render,” performing “Ascendant” by Australian-born Wally Gunn.

Plus, listen to the kora and cello magic of Ballake Sissoko and Vincent Segal, (which somehow outdoes their previous “Chamber Music” record) with 2015’s riveting “Musique de Nuit,” recorded on a rooftop in Bamako, Mali. Also, hear a musical farewell to the space race from the London electronic duo known as Public Service Broadcasting, along with music from Sam Lee & Friends who recast Gypsy folk songs from the “Traveller” culture of Scotland and England. And more.

PROGRAM #3815 John Schaefer’s Best of 2015 (First Aired 12-31-2015)

ARTISTS: Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal
WORK: Samba Tomora, excerpt [1:30]
RECORDING: Musique de Nuit
SOURCE: Six Degrees Records

ARTIST: Roomful of Teeth, led by Brad Wells
WORK: Wally Gunn & Maria Zajkowski: The Ascendant: I. The Fence is Gone [4:49]
RECORDING: Render
SOURCE: New Amsterdam Records - #NWAM 065

ARTIST: Sarah Kirkland Snider
WORK: The Barn [4:26]
RECORDING: Unremembered
SOURCE: New Amsterdam Records NWAM 067

ARTISTS: Missy Mazzoli & Victoire
WORK: VII. Machine [4:47]
RECORDING: Vespers for a New Dark Age
SOURCE: New Amsterdam Records - #NWAM 062

ARTIST: GABI
WORK: Koo Koo, excerpt [2:54]
RECORDING: Sympathy
SOURCE: gabi-ny.bandcamp.com

ARTISTS: John Luther Adams & Glenn Kotche
WORK: John Luther Adams: Ilimaq – Ascension, excerpt [2:00]
RECORDING: Ilimaq
SOURCE: Cantaloupe Music 21112
INFO: johnlutheradams.bandcamp.com

ARTISTS: Ballake Sissoko & Vincent Segal
WORK: Samba Tomora [3:50]
RECORDING: Musique de Nuit
SOURCE: Six Degrees Records

ARTIST: Kaia Kater
WORK: When Sorrows Encompass Me Round [2:58]
RECORDING: Sorrow Bound
SOURCE: kaiakater.com

ARTISTS: Sam Lee & Friends
WORK: Bonny Bunch of Roses [4:11]
RECORDING: The Fade in Time
SOURCE: The Nest Collective Records TNCR 003
INFO: samleesong.co.uk

ARTIST: Public Service Broadcasting
WORK: The Other Side [6:21]
RECORDING: The Race for Space
SOURCE: Test Card Recordings
INFO: musicglue.com

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Multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Emily Wells joins John Schaefer live in the studio to talk through and perform songs from her brand-new album, Promise. The music comes across as a startling mix of styles; there’s live loops and samples as in electronic music – all analog, no laptop, yet there are also classical strings, but everything is layered in a way that might be more akin to hip-hop production than anything else.

Emily Wells grew up in the church, and has classical roots. Her music, she admits, draws from the ultimate musical architect: J.S. Bach. But she also cites as influences Tori Amos, Vivaldi, and Terry Riley. (Wells was part of his giant 80th birthday celebration in 2015.)

She’s basically a one-woman orchestra with her voice, and violin -live-looped- along with half of a drum kit and sampler pads:

Emily Wells with instruments (Ian Martin)

Listen to the full-body dance choreographed between all of the sound sources performed by just one person, as these impossibly sad songs by Emily Wells take shape. There’s also music by Julianna Barwick and her many layers, as well as a song from Ben Folds and yMusic to round out the show.

PROGRAM #3825, with Emily Wells (First Aired 2-2-2016)

ARTIST: Emily Wells
WORK: Take it Easy [6:53]
RECORDING: Promise
SOURCE: Thesis + Instinct Records
INFO: emilywellsmusic.com

ARTIST: Emily Wells
WORK: Light is Drainin / Antidote [16:28]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC, Feb. 2016
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: These songs appear on “Promise.” emilywellsmusic.com

ARTIST: Goran Kajfes Subtropic Arkestra
WORK: Okwukwe Na Nchekwube, excerpt [:45]
RECORDING: The Reason Why, Vol. 16.
SOURCE: Headspin Recordings
INFO: headspinrecordings.com

ARTIST: Emily Wells
WORK: Don’t Use Me Up [4:27]
RECORDING: Live, WNYC, Feb. 2016
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: These songs appear on “Promise.” emilywellsmusic.com

ARTIST: Goran Kajfes Subtropic Arkestra
WORK: Okwukwe Na Nchekwube, excerpt [:30]
RECORDING: The Reason Why, Vol. 16.
SOURCE: Headspin Recordings
INFO: headspinrecordings.com

ARTIST: Ben Folds & yMusic
WORK: Capable of Anything [3:46]
RECORDING: So There
SOURCE: New West Records
INFO: benfolds.com/music-store

ARTIST: Julianna Barwick
WORK: Forever, excerpt [4:12]
RECORDING: Nepenthe
SOURCE: Dead Oceans DOC 069
INFO: scdistribution.com

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Listen to music from the new record, “Hibernation,” by Norway’s doom jazz piano trio Splashgirl, which includes contributions from the Seattle-based musician Skerik on sax and electronics. Recorded in the bleak of Iceland, the music is doomy in a heavy way - completely expected, thanks to their continued close collaboration with engineer and producer Randall Dunn, who has worked with the likes of Sunn o))) and Earth. There’s also trio music from French-born pianist/composer Romain Collin, and his collaborators, drummer Kendrick Scott and bassist Luques Curtis, with help from cellist Laura Metcalf.

Then listen to trombonist/arranger/composer Jacob Garchik and his band of heroes, the quintet Ye Olde, who deliver a whimsical record which reimagines magical medieval Flatbush, Brooklyn as a landscape of ruined castles/apartment buildings. The musicians of Ye Olde, including “the Guardian of the Rock,” guitarist Mary Halvorson, and “the Mountain of Gold,” aka Jonathan Goldberger, are on a quest to prevent an evil architect from covering everything with vinyl siding. May they have fun storming the castle!

Hear music from drummer/composer/bandleader Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom quartet, featuring cellist Erik Friedlander. Together with pizzicato strings from bass player Todd Sickafoose, violinist Jenny Scheinman, Friedlander and pianist Myra Melford, Miller showcases some sneaky quiet melodic groove on “Early Bird.” There’s also music from jazz pianist/composer Vijay Iyer which evokes IDM early Detroit techno producer/DJ Robert Hood. Then, listen as bass player/leader Chris Lightcap’s Bigmouth messes with odd meters and slow-moving melodies, augmented by dueling saxophones, all in a jazz orbit.

Hear music from Norwegian drummer/composer Erland Dahlen who fuses krautrock, drone music, and ambient music into engaging melodic soundscapes. Erland plays a vast array of percussion instruments, saw, electronic instruments and some specially constructed instruments, such as cake moulds with springs built by Hallvard W. Hagen, all himself, with production credited to Johnny Skalleberg as well as the electronica duo Xploding Plastix. And more.

PROGRAM #3812 groove-based jazz (First Aired 12-17-2015)

Vijay Iyer- Hood, excerpt [1:00]
Break Stuff
ECM 2420
ecmrecords.com

Chris Lightcap’s Bigmouth- Down East [2:45]
Epicenter
Clean Feed CF315
cleanfeed-records.com

Jacob Garchik - Refuge in the Ruins of Castle Martense [3:54]
Ye Olde
Yestereve records 05
jacobgarchik.bandcamp.com

Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom - Early Bird [3:07]
No Morphine No Lilies
Royal Potato Family
RPF 1308
royalpotatofamily.com

Vijay Iyer - Hood [6:10]
Break Stuff
ECM 2420
ecmrecords.com

Chris Lightcap’s Bigmouth- White Horse [2:13]
Epicenter
Clean Feed CF315
cleanfeed-records.com

Jacob Garchik - The Lady of Duck Island [3:29]
Ye Olde
Yestereve records 05
jacobgarchik.bandcamp.com

Romain Collin - The Line (Dividing Good and Evil Cuts Through the Heart of Every Human Being) [5:23]
Press Enter
ACT 95832
romaincollin.com

Splashgirl - Bleak Warm Future [6:32]
Hibernation
Hubro Music
Due out in early 2016
hubromusic.com

Erhland Dahlen - Pipe, excerpt [2:44]
Blossom Bells
Hubro HUBROCD2525/HUBROLP3535
hubromusic.com

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Tonight on New Sounds, folk music re-imagined. Hear old music, but rearranged and connected with other genres, to make surprisingly new folk music. Listen to Sam Lee and Friends arranging folk songs from the British travelers community, Kaia Kater's Appalachian folk music. Then Sam Amidon sings an Anglo-American folk song, and the Furrow Collective offer up a Scottish folk song, and more.

PROGRAM # 3757 – New Views of Old Folk Songs (First aired on 07/29/2015)

ARTISTS: Sam Lee & Friends
WORK: Bonny Bunch of Roses, (excerpt) [:20]
RECORDING: The Fade in Time
SOURCE: The Nest Collective Records TNCR 003
INFO: samleesong.co.uk

ARTIST: Kaia Kater
WORK: When Sorrows Encompass Me Round [2:54]
RECORDING: Sorrow Bound
SOURCE: kaiakater.com

ARTISTS: Sam Lee & Friends
WORK: Lord Gregory [6:31]
RECORDING: The Fade in Time
SOURCE: The Nest Collective Records TNCR 003
INFO: samleesong.co.uk

ARTIST: Kaia Kater
WORK: When Sorrows Encompass Me Round [2:54]
RECORDING: Sorrow Bound
SOURCE: kaiakater.com

ARTIST: Sam Amidon
WORK: Bright Sunny South [4:24]
RECORDING: Bright Sunny South
SOURCE: nonesuch.com

ARTISTS: Sam Lee & Friends
WORK: Bonny Bunch of Roses [4:11]
RECORDING: The Fade in Time
SOURCE: The Nest Collective Records TNCR 003
INFO: samleesong.co.uk

ARTIST: Big Galut(e)
WORK: Wallachian-Appalachian-Scratchin’ [4:07]
RECORDING: Big Galut(e)
SOURCE: biggalute.com

ARTIST: Kaia Kater
WORK: Moonshiner [3:04]
RECORDING: Sorrow Bound
SOURCE: kaiakater.com

ARTIST: The Furrow Collective
WORK: Wild and Wicked Youth [3:11]
RECORDING: At Our Next Meeting
SOURCE: thefurrowcollective.co.uk

ARTIST: Sam Amidon
WORK: As I Roved Out [3:43]
RECORDING: Bright Sunny South
SOURCE: nonesuch.com

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Listen to electroacoustic music from Berlin, Iceland, the U.K., and right here in New York on this New Sounds show. Hear the latest record by Canadian-born, New York City-based cellist & composer Julia Kent who uses looped cello, electronics and found sounds, to suggest the build of pressure and the threat of violent release. She describes it as “layers of sound peeling back to reveal a beating, bloody human heart at its centre.” Then, there’s a new work by London-based composer Jon Opstad, who has scored film, dance, and television. Opstad’s “Cold Fire,” is a new piece for viola, double bass, piano and electronics and was created for contemporary dance collaboration with choreographer Hubert Essakow.

There’s also music by Berlin-based Icelandic-born cellist & composer Hildur Gudnadóttir, who creates an electronic symphony of cellos--all of them layered over each other. Plus, from Iceland, there's a score from composer, producer Olafur Arnalds, "Another Happy Day," with electro-acoustic soundscapes formed around piano and strings.

PROGRAM #3774 electroacoustic music (First Aired 09-16-2015)

ARTIST: Hildur Gudnadóttir
WORK: Into Warmer Air, excerpt [1:00]
RECORDING: Without Sinking
SOURCE: Touch 070LP double LP or Touch 070CD
INFO:touchshop.org

ARTIST: Ólafur Arnalds
WORK: Out To Sea [4:10]
RECORDING: Another Happy Day
SOURCE: ERATP038
INFO: erasedtapes.com

ARTIST: Jon Opstad
WORK: Cold Fire [5:14]
RECORDING: Cold Fire
SOURCE: jonopstad.bandcamp.com
INFO: cdbaby.com

ARTIST: Julia Kent
WORK: Lac des Arcs [5:39]
RECORDING: Asperities
SOURCE: music.juliakent.com/asperities

ARTIST: Julia Kent
WORK: Invitation to the Voyage [5:30]
RECORDING: Asperities
SOURCE: music.juliakent.com/asperities

ARTIST: Hildur Gudnadóttir
WORK: Into Warmer Air [6:11]
RECORDING: Without Sinking
SOURCE: Touch 070LP double LP or Touch 070CD
INFO:touchshop.org

ARTIST: Ólafur Arnalds
WORK: Everything Must Change [6:38]
RECORDING: Another Happy Day
SOURCE: ERATP038
INFO: erasedtapes.com

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On this New Sounds, explore the unexpected musical combination of cello and trombone: with electronics, in an African music setting, in a post-rock way, as a chamber pop song, and in loud and bombastic ways as well. Listen to intimate Bassa songs by the Cameroonian guitarist, Blick Bassy, (he now resides in rural France) together with co-conspirators cellist Clément Petit, and trombone player Fidel Fourneyron from Bassy’s latest record, Akö.

Blick Bassy (http://www.blickbassy.com/)

The record was intended to be an homage to the Mississippi bluesman Skip James, yet the music on Akö manages to limn folk and jazz, as delicate falsetto vocal lines are sung in Bassy's mother tongue over elegant and minimal cello and trombone accompaniment. There might be nods to other heroes as well, like the Malian guitarist Ali Farka Toure, perhaps even the Brazilian singer-guitarist Caetano Veloso. Listen to both “Tell Me” and “Ndjè Yèm” from Bassy's magic record Akö.

Also, hear grand post-rock involving guitar, bass, and drums, plus cello & trombone from Finnish band, Oddarang. Then hear music by Danish quartet, Flod and their special guests, which include a cello and/or trombone, making music inspired by the dramatic paintings of the 19th century mixed with traditional Japanese drawing. Then, hear chamber pop music from Italy, sung in French, from the singer Flo, involving South American charango, toy piano, as well as cello & trombone.

There’s also music from the collaborative composer's project based in Montreal known as The Sevens Project, who make largely instrumental and experimental creations involving a core group, augmented by a string trio and a horn quartet. Listen to their “She Imagined Imposing Castles.” Plus, a serene blend of jazz, folk, and classical in music by the Belgian trio, Massot-Florizoone-Horbaczewski, consisting of Michael Massot on both trombone and tuba, Tuur Florizoone on accordion, and Marine Horbaczewski on cello. And more.

PROGRAM #3789 Cello & Trombone (First Aired 10-23-2015)

Blick Bassy - Tell me, excerpt [1:00]
Akö
Nø Førmat! NOF#28
noformat.net

Oddarrang - Self Portrait [5:34]
In Cinema
Edition Records EDN 1046
oddarrang.bandcamp.com

Flod- Joki [6:46]
Kurs
http://flod.bandcamp.com/#_=_

Flo- Ça ne tient pas la route [3:39]
D' amore e di altre cose irreversibili
www.agualocarecords.com

Blick Bassy - Ndjè Yèm [3:16]
Akö
Nø Førmat! NOF#28
noformat.net

The Sevens Project- She Imagined Imposing Castles [3:58]
The Sevens Project
Dare To Care Records
daretocarerecords.com
sevensproject.bandcamp.com

Blick Bassy - Tell me [4:19]
Akö
Nø Førmat! NOF#28
noformat.net

Massot-Florizoone-Horbaczewski- Propiac [6:24]
Balades Ephémères
tuurflorizoone.be
aventuramusica.bandcamp.com

Jacob Szekely Trio - Diana's Lullaby, excerpt [1:00]
JSIII
www.jacobszekely.com

trom-bown (Miles Anderson & Erica Sharp)
Martin Wesley-Smith: White Knight And Beaver [8:58]
trom-bown.com
MP3 is here: trom-bown.com/mp3

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Hear Anglo-American Folk Songs for this New Sounds, including music from Scotland’s Furrow Collective, San Francisco-based Meg Baird, and the Boise, Idaho-based string-band trio, Hillfolk Noir. Hear some American folk from NY-based Last Forever, featuring the late Sonya Cohen (of the Seeger family.) Then there’s a chamber music arrangement of “Young Emily’ by Bryce Dessner for the Chicago-based ensemble eighth blackbird, from their new record, “Filament.”

Listen to an all-star quartet out of Scotland, the Furrow Collective, whose four distinctive singers and instrumentalists - singer-songwriter Emily Portman, Lucy Farrell and Rachel Newton, and singer/guitarist Alasdair Roberts - all provide lead vocals on mostly bleak narrative ballads of hanging, murder and bewitchment, such as “Demon Lover.” Then, the Vermont-based trio Low Lily’s influences range from bluegrass to Irish, English, New England and Old Time Appalachian sounds. Hear their version of “Demon Lover,” although they give it the less charmed title of “House Carpenter.”

There’s music from the San Francisco-based folksinger Meg Baird, formerly of Philly-based psych-folk band Espers. On her latest release, a solo record called “Don’t Weigh Down the Light,” understated electric and acoustic guitars gently frame Meg’s delicate voice. Plus, hear a blend of string-band, punk, folk, and country blues music from the Boise, Idaho-based jug band, Hillfolk Noir. And more.

PROGRAM #3781 Anglo-American Folk Songs (First Aired 10-01-2015)

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On today’s playlist: chamber music, but not how you’re used to hearing it. The band Forro in the Dark combines the driving dance rhythms of forro from Northeastern Brazil with rock, jazz, reggae, folk and country. Listen to selections from their latest musical adventure - "Forro Zinho - Forro in the Dark plays Zorn" - an exploration of the lyrical, driving melodies of John Zorn as Brazilian-tinged dance music. Then, there's music from Eviyan, which is clarinetist/composer Evan Ziporyn, the violinist/vocalist/composer Iva Bitova, and guitarist/composer Gyan Riley. Also, hear chamber music with a Japanese cast from Seattle-based composer and percussionist Paul Kikuchi. Plus, there's American composer Shankar Tucker’s piece "Ae Re Chanda" combining Indian classical music with American jazz and classical sounds. And lastly, music inspired by water by Christopher Tin.

PROGRAM # 3756, Composed Works, Unusual Settings (First aired on 7-28-2015)

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Hear new music from several different mid-sized groups on this New Sounds. Listen to music from the recent album, “Dreamfall” by the NY-based chamber band Now Ensemble, playing Andrea Mazzriello’s “Trust Fall.” Then there’s a Nico Muhly two-fer, with Sufjan Stevens’ “Year of the Dragon” in an Nico Muhly arrangement for the ensemble yMusic, along with chamber music sextet eighth blackbird (Chicago-based) playing Muhly’s work, “Doublespeak,” from their recent record, "Filament."

Sample music from The Young Scamels, a group out of Louisville, KY, consisting of former members of Rachel’s, including the late Jason Noble, who convened the ensemble back in 2007 to do music for a production of “The Tempest.” Listen also to the Greek-French-Columbian-Spanish Quartetto Minimo, and their jazz/chamber rock from Spain. Then, California-based composer/violinist Robin Cox & his ensemble play a 3-part piece, “Faster Than That.” Plus, music by Build & composer Matt McBane & more.

PROGRAM #3768, mid-size ensembles (First Aired 8-27-2015)

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For this New Sounds, hear new indie chamber works from the NYC-based group, NOW Ensemble and the Australian chamber band Nonsemble. Plus, music by composer/bandleader/singer Becca Stevens, from her daring and captivating record, “Perfect Animal.”

From the NOW Ensemble, hear “City Boy,” by NYC-based composer Judd Greenstein, who is also a co-founder of New Amsterdam Records, and the founder of the annual Ecstatic Music Festival. Greenstein’s “City Boy” is full of lifting, pulsing musical patterns changing over time, allowing one instrument after another in the NOW Ensemble’s arsenal - of flute, clarinet, electric guitar, double bass, and piano -to shine brilliantly. Then there’s a work by composer, singer/songwriter and bandleader Becca Stevens which recruits folk-associated instruments in the service of chamber-jazz art songs.

Also, listen to music by Australian composer Chris Perren for his septet, Nonsemble. His large 30-minute work “Go Seigen vs. Fujisawa Kuranosuke,”is based on the surrounding patterns from a 1950’s championship game of go. (Go Seigen was a Chinese-born Japanese 20th century master of the game; Fujisawa Kuranosuke was his opponent.) Go is an ancient Chinese strategy game, of great complexity, where one must surround and capture a greater territory on a playing board than one’s opponent. That, and more.

PROGRAM #3734– Postminimalist Music (First aired on 06/04/2015)

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Hear Afropop and Afrobeat music from West Africa and elsewhere on this New Sounds, including new music from Malian desert-blues queen Khaira Arby, recent music from Afrobeat band Antibalas, and Mandinka pop from the re-united Malian supergroup from the 1960’s and 1970’s, Les Ambassadeurs.

Afrobeat music is a complex combination of Nigerian and Ghanaian highlife music, jazz and funk, some psychedelic rock, and traditional West African rhythms, usually played by a larger band with interlocking multiples of instruments in its service. It’s also highly danceable. Listen to music by Fela Kuti, the father of the style known as “Afrobeat” music, who repeatedly gave credit to his drummer, Tony Allen as well, for his work in creating the style.

Then, listen to music from the Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Brooklyn’s Afrobeat experts; their members served as Musical Director and Assistant Musical Director — in Fela!, Bill T. Jones’ musical based on the life of Fela Kuti. There’s also buoyant Mandinka pop from the re-united 1970’s trailblazers, Les Ambassadeurs, featuring Salif Keita. This outfit combined Griot music with Cuban rhythms, and infused it with a bit of American-style James Brown & the JB’s funk & soul. Les Ambassadeurs have recently released a four-song collection, “Rebirth,” reworkings of some of their biggest hits from years past. Sample new music by legendary desert blues diva of Timbuktu, Khaira Arby, who was one of the first women to break onto the music scene in Mali in the late 1970s. From her most recent record, “Gossip,” which she partially recorded while on tour from 2010-2012, hear “Chris,” in honor of Chris Nolan, Arby's tour manager and the man who self-released her debut international CD.

Also, hear selections from the Amsterdam-based nine-piece Afrofunk band, Jungle By Night, from their record, “The Hunt.” Plus, music by both Femi Kuti, oldest son of Fela Kuti, and by Seun Kuti, his youngest son, who now leads his father's former band, Egypt 80; Fela’s band was called Africa ‘70.

PROGRAM #3744– Afrobeat & Afropop (First aired on 06/26/2015)

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For this New Sounds, we’re at the Norwegian-Finnish border, with musicians who are either or both Finnish and Norwegian, and music which involves the Finnish folk-harp, the kantele (which is held in a player’s lap or on a small table.) Hear music from composer, singer and master of the kantele, Sinikka Langeland, who is half Finnish, and half Norwegian. Her most recent record, “The half-finished heaven,” is a collaboration with sax player/composer Trygve Seim, classical viola player Lars Anders Tomter and percussionist Markku Ounaskari, featuring settings of verse by Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer. However, the tune we’ll hear, “Caw of the crane,” is a melody-filled conversation between viola and kantele, punctuated by percussion.

There’s also music from American percussionist Jeanette Wrate (Kangas), (who has both Finnish and Norwegian roots) from her recording, “Echoes of a Northern Sky” where Finnish folk music meets jazz. Then, from Norwegian sax player Jan Garbarek, listen to Norway’s wind and the sound of the Fjords turned into music by way of wood flute and wind harp, (or æolian harp.) Also, listen to music from English musician Andrew Cronshaw's cross-cultural collaboration, "The Unbroken Surface of Snow," at times an unlikely combination of kantele and duduk. Plus, music from Finnish singer Sanna Kurki-Suonio and more.

PROGRAM #3743– Crossing the Norwegian-Finnish Border (First aired on 06/25/2015)

Northern Nights: Music from the Top of the World

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Listen to music from around the globe, in the music from Italy, India, Egypt, Tunisia and Mali on this New Sounds. Hear music of northeastern and southeastern Europe together in the eight members of Finno-Balkan Voices, a Finnish-Estonian folk singing group and a Balkan choir. Then, there’s music and dances from Southern Italy in a piece from Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino. Hear the collaborative duo between a Jewish clarinetist from France, Yom, and Wang Li, a Chinese player of the “Jew’s Harp”/jaw-harp, mouth-harp from their 2012 record, “Green Apocalypse.” Listen to music from Anouar Brahem’s latest gorgeous release, “Souvenance,” music for oud, piano, quartet & small orchestra. Plus, music from Alsarah, a Sudanese-born singer by way of Yemen, who now lives in Brooklyn, as Alsarah & the Nubatones. Then, listen to Egyptian oud master, Tarek Abdallah, and percussionist Adel Shams El-Din, who both live in France, as they revive Arab musical tradition from their excellent, “Wasla.” And more.

PROGRAM #3702– Music Around the Globe (First aired on 03/02/2015)

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Hear music created by a cyclical approach to composition: some of it driven by technology, whereby layering, looping, or overdubbing are used to fit patterns against one another. Listen to works from Icelandic composer and violinist of amiina Maria Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, commissioned by the group Nordic Affect, who play modern music on baroque instruments. Hear Sigfúsdóttir’s “Clockworking,” which is about musical patterns set in motion, all built of recorded sounds of harpsichord, and period violin, viola & cello, which then stack up in cyclical hypnotic fashion.

There’s also music from the second half of Arvo Pärt’s “Tabula Rasa,” an exercise in cycles being lengthened. The glacial pace of the work is a gradually unfolding musical process, where strings are extended and augmented each time through the pattern, then punctuated by prepared piano. Plus, hear a work by young English composer Jon Opstad inspired by "Tabula Rasa," and music from the late Michael Galasso’s “Scenes.”

PROGRAM #3754– Cycling music (First aired on 07/23/2015)

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This episode, each track has something in common: the music is put to the sounds of voices taken out of one context and put into another. Start off with Brian Irvine’s exciting piece “Just A Little Lighter Cut of the Same Girls,” with samples from a cattle auction accompanied by a string quartet. Speaking of cattle, the next cut features sounds of cows! Composed by former mayor Philip Bimstein, “Garland Hirschi’s Cows” features his neighbor Garland Hirschi talking about his cows, in a piece that somehow manages to be both silly and sentimentally sad (while still featuring cows moo-ing). Then hear “Reeling” by Julia Wolfe, one of the Bang On A Can founders. This piece samples Celtic-inspired Quebecan “mouth musicians.” Next, a Washington DC Go-Go inspired track, a tribute to Chuck Brown by Dick Connette. Hear the voice of legendary Chuck Brown and others, with saxophone and drums. And finally, back to the sounds of an auction in “Money Talk” by trumpeter and composer Ben Neill.

PROGRAM #3749– Music With Found Voices (First aired on 07/10/2015)

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Listen to electronic music from as far back as the 1970’s, along with brand new music from Tyondai Braxton for this New Sounds. Tyondai Braxton is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist who has recorded for both Warp Records and Nonesuch. (He's also the former guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist of the band Battles, which he co-founded.) On his latest album "HIVE1," which was originally a multimedia sound installation, combinations of electronic skitterings, distorted casino/pachinko parlor-esque bleepings and cartoony sproings are at times anchored by percussive pulses, and at others interrupted and accented with a wide battery of percussive elements. The record takes modern electronic dance music into the laboratory for some late night experiments with (or on) animated characters, and we’ll hear its jubilant closing track, “Scout 1.”

There’s also music by electronic music pioneer Laurie Spiegel. Back in the 1970’s, she figured out how to meld Americana roots music into the electronic realm. Listen to her banjo-inspired music for electronics, a three-part work “Appalachian Grove,” from a collection of her early works, called “the Expanding Universe.” Plus, hear electronic music from film composer Thomas Newman (WALL-E, Shawshank Redemption, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) and Los Angeles-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Rick Cox from their collaboration, “35 Whirlpools Below Sound.” And more.

PROGRAM #3737– Electronic Music Survey (First aired on 06/10/2015)

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This episode continues the series exploring the new music of Ireland. John Schaefer sits down with Jonathan Nangle at the Contemporary Music Centre in Dublin. Nangle tells how Donnacha Dennehy influenced him to explore more experimental music, and then shares how electronics and silence factor into his compositions. Listen to how Nangle uses electronics to subtly augment conventional instrumentation on "Where distant city lights flicker on half-frozen ponds". Hear Nangle explain how his piece "Then Falls by Shadow" takes the inspiration of Irish weather to combine shuffle mode with a choral performance. Later in the hour, John Schaefer talks to David Bremner about his own compositions and playing the pipe organ at Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin. Hear Bremner's piercing organ compositions "Variations upon 'the usual reason'" and "Amhrán na Leabhar."

PROGRAM #3715 New Music from Ireland: Part 3 (First aired on 4/17/2015)

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Hear music by Australian-born, London-based electroacoustic musician & sound artist Leah Kardos along with music by Irish woodwind player and composer Seán Mac Erlaine, as well as other electroacoustic music on this New Sounds. Listen to several works by Kardos from a sampler released in 2014, including her work, “Butterfly Kite,”written for easy piano + delay/verb effects. Then hear improvised woodwind and electronic sounds from a series of live recordings by the Dublin musician, Seán Mac Erlaine. From his, “A Slender Song,” hear music for clarinets of all sorts and sizes, manipulated by electronics.

Then, hear music from a dance score by London-based composer Jon Opstad, who also did the music for the provocative British episodic series, “Black Mirror.” Listen to music from cellist Julia Kent with loops and delays from the recent record, “Character.” German theremin player Carolina Eyck improvises on the low end together with pianist Christopher Tarnow. Then,hear music from NY-based singer GABI, who layers and processes her voice a la Juliana Barwick. (Caution: her work, "Where," might remind you of “The Rains of Castamere.”)

PROGRAM #3706–Various Forms of Electro-acoustic Music (First aired on 03/24/2015)

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Composer, keyboardist and bandleader, Missy Mazzoli, joins John Schaefer to introduce selections from her new recording, “Vespers for a New Dark Age.” The work, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for the 2014 Ecstatic Music Festival, is a 30-minute suite for singers, chamber ensemble and electronics, and is built around text, both spiritual and worldly, by contemporary poet Matthew Zapruder. Mazzoli wrote for the very specific voices of sopranos Martha Cluver, Melissa Hughes and alto Virginia Warnken Kelsey, who all have a lot of experience with contemporary music but also early and Baroque music. Her ensemble Victoire provides dramatic settings while drummer Glenn Kotche (perhaps best known for his work in Wilco) propels the work percussively. Plus, hear selections from Phil Kline’s millennial mass “John the Revelator,” written for the early/new music vocal group Lionheart and the quartet ETHEL.

PROGRAM #3709 with Missy Mazzoli (First aired on 3/30/2015)

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Listen to works that include gamelan, but take a more western approach for this New Sounds - like combining Celtic traditional music and Indonesian gamelan in music from Gamelan Son of Lion and composer/sax player and bagpiper Matthew Welch. In the music of Barbara Benary, the co-founder and guiding spirit of Gamelan Son of Lion, there is a juxtaposition of Cape Breton Celtic singing, gamelan and Benary herself on violin. Also, hear the Celtic-Balinese tapestry of Matthew Welch’s chamber rock hybrid Blarvuster with its Scottish bagpipes, Balinese gamelan, and Welch’s vocalizing in Indonesian. Plus, Lou Harrison’s "Threnody for Carlos Chavez," written for viola and gamelan ensemble, and music from NYC-based Patrick Grant, who serves his post-minimalism with a twist of Rock and Balinese gamelan. That, and more.

PROGRAM #3691 Gamelan Plus (First aired on 2/3/2015)

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Hear unusual music for string quartet on this program, as Australian composer Andrew Byrne, now based in New York, uses the string quartet as a percussion instrument in his work called “Striking.” Then, listen to Bang on a Can All-Star saxman, clarinetist and composer Ken Thomson’s work for the JACK Quartet, “THAW.” There’s also folk-informed music from the singer, songwriter and composer Aoife O Donovan as played by Brooklyn Rider. Hear string quartet music by multi-instrumentalist composer Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ, who plays a traditional Vietnamese string instrument on “Green River Delta,” in collaboration with Kronos Quartet. Plus, hear a work from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams that uses the string quartet as an ambient music ensemble, relying upon harmonics and on tones played on open strings. That, and more.

PROGRAM #3686 Music for String Quartet (First aired on 1/21/2015)

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Listen to world music that veers into psychedelic territory on this New Sounds, with Native-American inspired percussive drone music and Afrobeat from Brazil in music by Bixiga 70. Hear a mix of Afro-Ethiopian rock and jazz from the Brazilian band, Bixiga70, whose name is clearly a nod to the Afrobeat pioneered by Fela Kuti and drummer Tony Allen (with whom Mauricio Fleury from the band studied with.) This brass-heavy sound bounces through boundaries to harvest textures of Guinean and Malian mandingo from Guinea and Mali, soukous from the Congo and ethio-jazz. Also, there’s music from a Chinese string band, Red Chamber, and their pipa, zheng, zhongruan, among other Chinese lutes and zithers. On this tune,"Ah Ya Zein," they accompany oud player Gordon Grdina, and are augmented by all kinds of percussion from other traditions. Then, hear “tribal folkadelia” from Flamingods, with musicians based in London & Bahrain, and operatic trance music from Toronto-based artist, Alexandra Mackenzie, who records under the moniker Petra Glynt. Also, listen to a song from Nathan Bowles, a pounding tribute in percussive drone to the dwindling population of the Nansemond tribe who were part of the Powhatan confederacy in Virginia. Plus, explosive music from the Belgian brass klezmer punk band Kermesz a l'est, and more.

PROGRAM #3638, Psychedelic World Music (First aired on 9/17/2014)

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Listen to new music for the instrument from Southwestern Norway known as the Hardanger fiddle, (or hardingfele), but of course there’s a twist. For this New Sounds, there’s post-rock, world music, electroacoustic music, and even an Irish-American duet on this Norwegian instrument – with music from Scotland, Ireland, and the U.S. Hear the collaborative recording between Hardanger fiddle master Nils Økland and the post-rock duo The Low Frequency In Stereo, called Lumen Drones – which comes off as a psychedelic drone band. Then, listen to music from the octogenarian bard Robin Williamson (of Incredible String Band reknown), along with violist Mat Maneri and drummer Ches Smith. Then, hear a duo record from Caoimhin O Raghallaigh (of The Gloaming) and Dan Trueman (founder of Princeton Laptop Orchestra), which stretches and recombines the DNA of Norwegian folk and Irish trad fiddling on a 10-stringed instrument, the Hardanger d’Amore. Plus, there’s music from the Hardanger’s likely ancestor, the viola d’amore, by composer/violist Garth Knox, and more.

PROGRAM #3676 Hardanger Fiddle Music (First aired on 12/23/2014)

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Hear music for the combination of choir and percussion like "Whispers and Cries," by Australian born composer Andrew Byrne, which features fellow Aussie musicians Astra Choir and Speak Percussion. The show won't always stick to traditional choirs and percussion. In Daniel Lentz's "Postludium," the choir members rub and strike wine glasses while singing, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir's "into-Second Self" features a layered choir of two brass instruments. In addition to rhythmic and driving drumming, hear more of the atmospheric and colorful role of percussion in music for the combination of choir and percussion. The centerpiece of the show, a work called "Whispers and Cries," by Australian born composer Andrew Byrne, features fellow Aussie musicians Astra Choir and Speak Percussion.

PROGRAM #3670 Music for Choir and Percussion (First aired on 12/8/2014)

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Listen to music for duos on this New Sounds show, including stunning and inviting works from harpist Mary Lattimore & synth/guitarist/producer Jeff Zeigler from their recent collaboration, "Slant of Light." Also, hear music from Xylouris White, comprised of Cretan singer and lute player George Xylouris and drummer/percussionist Jim White (The Dirty Three, Cat Power, others), recorded and engineered by Guy Picciotto (Fugazi, Rites of Spring). Then, hear music by Paola Prestini from a new record by cellist Jeffrey Zeigler (formerly of Kronos Quartet), which features percussionist/composer Jason Treuting (So Percussion). Prestini's Listen, Quiet is a conversation between cello passages and drums, blocks, marimba, and what sounds like glockenspiel all layered over cuts of chattering groups of female voices. Plus, music from the recent record by Piers Faccini & Vincent Segal, and more.

PROGRAM #3661 Duos (First aired on 11/14/2014)

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Hear some sax players leading the way on this edition of New Sounds, including new music from sax player Tamar Osborn and her London-based Afro-Eastern-space-jazz band, Collocutor. Listen to their dreamy Turkish & Middle Eastern percussion meets Sun Ra jazz with electronics. Then, there's lyrical and swinging new music from sax & clarinet wizard/composer Ken Thomson and his outfit Slow/Fast. There's also the brand new recording of the "Terminals" concertos by drummer/composer Bobby Previte for percussion ensemble and soloists, his "Terminal 2" for saxman Greg Osby. The series of works was inspired by the schematic-like terminal maps that Previte has noticed in airports around the world. The recording also features So Percussion. Plus, there's music from Peter Gordon and Love Of Life Orchestra, and more.

PROGRAM #3659 Sax Leads the Way (First aired on 11/10/2014)

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New from November 2014, listen to some new music featuring the piano--two contrasting pieces by composer/pianist Tomasz Trzcinski. There's also Philip Glass' Piano Etude #17 performed by Maki Namekawa to celebrate his recently completed 20 etudes, and the "Undine" movement from Anthony Davis' Balinese gamelan inspired "Wayang V," featuring the composer on the piano with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project.

Then, cross over to the other side of the world to hear some trios. Trio Mediaeval, a group of female vocalists based in Norway, performs its new arrangement of the Office of St. Thorlak, the Icelandic saint from the 12th century. Listen also to a hypnotic track from a trio called Equilibrium, comprised of a Norwegian vocalist, Belgian clarinetist, and Danish guitarist. Rounding out this special edition of New Sounds is a new track by bass guitarist Matt Skellenger and his band.

PROGRAM #3667 November 2014 New Releases (First aired on 12/1/2014)

Piano Exploration, Vol. 1: Sounds & Waves

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For this New Sounds show, listen to music redolent of the near East, with echoes of Turkey, Israel, and Iran. Hear music from the French-born Klezmer clarinetist Yom, and his record “Silence of the Exodus.” The music tells the story of the departure of the Jews from Egypt by way of the sounds of Iranian percussion, the double bass and the clarinet, and modal cellos. Also, listen to Montreal-based chamber post-rock band Esmerine, which includes the likes of Sarah Neufeld (of Arcade Fire), members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and a quartet of Turkish musicians. Hear music from the Iranian-American trio Niyaz, featuring vocalist Azam Ali. Plus, there’s music from the Touré-Raichel Collective, a collaboration between Malian musician Vieux Farka Touré and Israeli producer/keyboardist Idan Raichel.

PROGRAM #3662 Music With Echoes of the Near East (First aired on 11/18/2014)

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For this New Sounds, sample some recent releases of world music, including a brand new offering from Chancha via Circuito, the Argentine DJ and producer who merges Brazilian rhythms, Paraguayan harp, Andean mysticism and remixes South American folksong - all focused through his own futuristic lens of post-dubstep. There’s also brand new music from Indo-Canadian singer Kiran Ahluwalia, who has recently incorporated the groove of “desert blues” into her Indian music.

Also, hear music from Afro-Peruvian singer Susana Baca along with Afro-Caribbean music from the Honduran Garifuna songwriter, singer, and guitarist Aurelio Martinez. Then, listen to Gnawan music from Morocco via the UK, in new music from Simo Lagnawi. Plus, defiantly upbeat music for booty-shaking from the Malian guitarist Oumar Konate, and more.

PROGRAM #3644, Another World Music Edition (First aired on 10/02/2014)

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Hear so-called “indie classical” works on this New Sounds - music which is at home in both the contemporary classical music world and the indie rock/pop music halls, basements, and dive bars. Listen to the “NYC garage-chamber septet” The Cellar and Point, who use acoustic instruments and electronics to create a sound that is winningly melodic, thoughtful in its balance, groove-heavy, sometimes glitchy, and delightfully unpredictable as the septet straddles all kinds of genres. Members of the group also currently perform with JACK Quartet, Mivos Quartet, Ensemble Signal, and Mantra Percussion.

There’s also music involving string trio, flute, clarinet, and trumpet by members of yMusic in many different configurations; from the first record, "Beautiful Mechanical," in music by Sarah Kirkland Snider; and a new work by Marcos Balter from their latest, "Balance Problems" (due out 9/30.) Then, hear new music from My Brightest Diamond, led by the enigmatic composer and vocalist Shara Worden. It's another of her engaging, soaring symphonic pop creations, in a remix by Son Lux, featuring the acrobatic and unbelievable saxophonist Colin Stetson. Plus, listen to music by Sufjan Stevens, the multi-instrumentalist/producer/co-founder of the record label Asthmatic Kitty, from his film and music project, “The BQE,” and more.

PROGRAM #3637, Indie Classical (First aired on 9/16/2014)

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Listen to music that brings together sounds of the Mediterranean, Southern Italy, and India, with Morocco, and the sounds of Balkans and Scandinavia. There’s music from the NYC-based band Dálava and their arrangements of folk songs, folksongs meticulously transcribed over 100 years ago by biologist and ethnomusicologist Dr. Vladimir Úlehla from one village in the Slovácko region of the Moravian countryside. Dalava is led by vocalist Julia Ulehla (Vladimír’s American great granddaughter) and guitarist Aram Bajakian, and features violins and the Moroccan gimbri.

Then, hear the versatile singer/composer Moira Smiley and the vocal ensemble VOCO, who do songs from the Scandinavian tradition, American and Eastern European folksong. Also, listen to difficult-for-dancing meters from the Boston-based Balkan tango-jazz band Grand Fatilla, along with a Southern Italian medley from their recent record, “Global Shuffle.” Plus music for button accordion based on Swiss folk tradition from Albin Bruns and the NAH quartet, with yodeling and Central Asian-style throat singing. And more.

PROGRAM #3640, More All Over the World Music (First aired on 9/22/2014)

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