Culture Caravan Radio: Recent Episodes
Culture Caravan Radio
Join host Julian Booker to hear a selection of music from around the globe that crosses cultures, genres and borders for a trip unlike any other on your radio dial. From acoustic roots, to contemporary electric sounds, Culture Caravan explores and celebrates what makes the people, places and, most of all, sounds of the world so unique, and in the process, makes it a little smaller for us all to enjoy!
In addition to being the Sunday morning host of Sleepy Hollow at WXPN in Philadelphia, Julian's professional credits include his previous work as co-producer, writer, editor and audio engineer for Osiris Media's Festival Circuit: Newport Folk podcast with Carmel Holt and tour manager and front-of-house engineer for Marco Benevento. He still works in live music as Production & Special Projects Director for the Philadelphia-based live concert and event company, Rising Sun Presents.
His love of international music is, in part, inspired by his international travels with his partner, Holly, including trips to Portugal, Vietnam, Japan, Colombia, and Mexico. He also enjoys spending time with his cat, Cleveland, and his dog, Neko.
Julian Booker's final show as host featuring music from Buena Vista Social Club, Arooj Aftab, Fabiano do Nascimento + more!
Featuring music from the great South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim and musicians from some of the countries participating in the 2026 World Cup!
Featuring an all-new episode including music by Shunzo Ohno, Nigerian disco from Kiko Navarro, a new Cuban 45s collection by DJ KOCO released for Reccord Store Day 2026 + more!
An all-new episode featuring music by Shy Ben-Tzur and Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, Brazil's Neves E Silva, the London based jazz musician Shabaka + more!
Featuring music from Misha Panfilov and Tomo Katsurada, new music by Altin Gun, the Chilean saxophonist Melissa Aldana + more!
Featuring music from Ireke, Italian musicians Gaudi and Marta Del Grandi, Brussels-based trombonist Nabou and more!
Featuring music from Yin Yin, new music by Haeun Joo, Japan's Shintaro Sakamoto + more!
Featuring music from Iceland's Olof Arnalds, new music from France's Melody's Echo Chamber, Canada's Charlotte Day Wilson + more!
Featuring music from S-Pazz, new music by Misha Panfilove, the Iranian musician Kayhan Kalhor + more!
Featuring music from Germany's Shake Stew, new music from Brazilian-Norwegian singer Charlotte Dos Santos, Geneva's Yalla Miku + more!
Featuring music from Sweden's Anna von Hausswolf, new music from Australia's Belair Lip Bombs, the Belarusian artist SOYUZ + more!
Featuring an encore presentation of Part 1 of our best of 2025 (so far) episodes on Culture Caravan!
Featuring music from Sweden's Club 8, new music from Brazilian singer/songwriter Rubel, celebrating Yo-Yo Ma's 70th birthdady + more!
Featuring music from Meklit, new music by Antibala, a tribute to the late jazz musician Akiko Tsuruga + more!
Featuring new music from Australia's Cut Copy, Norway's Orion's Belte, Brooklyn's Saha Gnawa feat. guitarist Nels Cline + more!
Featuring music from Scotland's James Yorkston & Sweden's Nina Persson, new music from Argentina's Dino Saluzzi, a tribute to the late Eddie Palmieri + more!
All new episode featuring music from Welsh-Cornish musician Gweeno, new music by FloFilz & Takuya Kuroda, the Norwegian singer/songwriter Jouska. + more!
Featuring music from Combo Chimbita, London's Kokoroko, Polish harp player Alina Bzhezhinska + more!
An encore presentation of our Best of 2024 So Far (Pt. 1) episoded featuring music from Les Amazones d'Afrique, South Korea's Minhwi Lee, Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar + more!
Featuring music from the legendary Switzerland's L'Eclair, new music by Uruguayan singer/songwriter Juan Waters, the new DJ Meme "Boogie Nights Mix" of Marcos Valle's "Bicicleta" + more!
Featuring music from Carwyn Ellis & Rio 18, new music from Colombia's Nidia Gongora, the return of Iceland's mum + more!
Featuring music from Brazil's Azymuth, The Budos Band, the UK guitarist Gwenifer Raymond + more!
An encore presentation of our 6/2/24 episode featuring music from the British-Brazilian singer/songwriter Liana Flores, a new Talking Heads cover by El Mato a un Policia Motorizado, the Moroccan-French group Bab L'Bluz + more!
Featuring music from Argentine-American artist Roxana Amed, new music by Plunky & Oneness of Juju, a tribute to the late Putumayo founder Dan Storper + more!
Featuring music from BEATrio (Bela Fleck, Edmar Castaneda and Antonio Sanchez), new music by Norway's Hedvig Mollestad Trio, another new one from Stereolab + more!
An encore presentation of the 5/18/24 episode featuring music from South Korea's Peggy Gou, Tuareg band Tinariwen, Brazilian singer/songwriter Ceu w/ anaiis + more!
Featuring new music from American musician Mei Semones, New Zealand's The Beths, French singer/songwriter Louis Philippe & his band The Night Mail + more!
Featuring music from the new Brazilian-psych inspired album by Adrian Younge, Cuban singer Rita Donte's new release, Toronto's Orbital Ensemble led by Canadian/Brazilian musician Felipe Sena + more!
An encore presentation of the 4/28/24 episode of Culture Caravan feat. music from Italian musician Maria Chiara Argiro, France's Christine & the Queens, Montreal singer/songwriter Myriam Gendron + more!
Featuring music from London's Kokoroko, new music from Australia's King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Tsapiky! Modern Music from Southwestern Madagascar + more!
Featuring music from Japanese pianist Hiromi feat. SONICWONDER, new music by South Korea's Say Sue Me, the return of Stereolab + more!
Featuring new music from Afro-Peruvian group Novalima, Japanese-American guitarist Mei Semones, the French-British band Francois & the Atlas Mountains + more!
Featuring music from the re-issue of Hiroshi Yoshimura's Flora, new music from New Zealand's Marlon Williams, the debut from Hong Kong-born, Japanese-British artist Miso Extra + more!
Featuring music from the Lyon, France-based group Dowdelin, new music from the Mdou Moctar side project TAKAAT, the Patrick Shiroishi led group Fuubutshushi + more!
Featuring music from the new Bomba Estereo / Rawayana supergroup ASTROPICAL, music from British-Bahraini trumpeter Yazz Ahmed, a shout out to the University of Costa Rica's 101.9 RADIO U + more!
Featuring guitar music from Odair and Sergio Assad., new music from San Francisco's Marinero, Ghazi Faisal Al-Mulaifi & Boom.Diwan (feat. Arturo O'Farrill) + more!
Featuring music from Finland's Joona Toivanen, Sweden's JJULIUS, a new track from Anoushka Shankar + more!
Featuring music from Japanese-born, German-based artist Midori Hirano and German musician Brueder Selke, new music from Norway's Club 8, Elena Nieto's Spanish rock band Yawners + more!
Featuring music from Jazz is Dead feat. Ebo Taylor, Afro-Colombian group La Pambele, the new album from Jupiter & Okwess + more!
Featuring a tribute to the late Zakir Hussain, new music from Brazil's terraplana, Norwegian prog-jazz band Krokofant, the new solo release from Sweden's Yukimi (of Little Dragon) + more!
The brand new (and final) episode of our best of 2024 series featuring music from Australia's Wrong Way Up, Yannis & the Yaw (feat. the late Nigerian drummer Tony Allen), pan-national duo Kit Sebastian + much more!
Featuring an encore presentation of the Best of 2024 (Part 2) episode of Culture Caravan!
Featuring an all new holiday music special including tracks from Juan Torres, Japan's SHONEN KNIFE, UK jazz ensemble Ill Considered + more!
Featuring music from Rafael Cohen's Las Palabras & Angelica Garcia, new music from Caixa Cubo, the Brazilian musician Joao Selva + more!
Featuring music from the Norwegian musician King Husky, new music from Brazil's Roge, Middle Eastern psych-rock collective Al-Qasar + more!
Featuring music from Nigeria's Oriental Brothers International Band, Japanese singer/songwriters Ichiko Aoba and Satoko Shibata, the new 1977 live archival release from the legendary German band CAN + more!
Featuring music from Adrian Younge w/ Brazilian musician Samantha Schmutz, new music by Japanese singer/songwriter Yuma Abe, the debut from French group Eat-Girls + more!
Featuring music from La Chica del Bosque Abarika World Music, new music from Tinariwen, a new spanish-language recording by St. Vincent + more!
Featuring music from Afropunk group Tshegue, new music by Maria Usbeck, three new fantastic compilations with disparate focuses: 1980s Soviet Central Russia, 1990s Japanese ambient / electronic music & '70s and '80s funk from the South China Sea!
Featuring music from the Australian band, The Belair Lip Bombs, new music from Paris' ALVILDA, French Duo Polo & Pan + more!
Featuring music from the Sweden's Goat, a new collaboration by pablopablo and Helado Negro, the new album from Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 + more!
Featuring music from the year 1999 including Japan's Fishmans, Icelandic singer/songwriter Emiliana Torrini, Stereolab + more!
Featuring new music from Norwegian pianist Tord Gustafsen, a new acoustic-focused interpretation of Mdou Moctar's latest record, cosmic Japanese jazz from Hiromi + more!
Featuring music from the new compilation Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996, London duo Kit Sebastian and celebrating the music of Flore Benguigui & her work with L'Imperatrice (from which she recently announced she left) + more!
Featuring new music from the Venezuela / North Carolina duo Larry & Joe, Argentinian singer/songwriter (now based in NYC) Juana Luna, a newly unearthed 1990 recording by the great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan + more!
Featuring a tribute to the late Sergio Mendes, new music from Denmark's Bremer/McCoy and Brussels' COURE A L'INDEX + more!
Featuring music from a new best-of comp of Lee "Scratch" Perry's early recordings, Buenos Aires singer/songwriter Tall Juan, Norway's Susanna + more!
Featuring new music from Australia's King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, India's Peter Cat Recording Co., LA LOM + more!
Featuring a tribute to the late Malian kora master Toumani Diabate, new music by Sweden's Goat and London's Los Bitchos + more!
Featuring music from Morocco's Tarwa N-Tiniri, Indonesian band LAIR, Australian duo Wrong Way Up + more!
Featuring music from South African jazz musician Linda Sikhakhane, Sigur Ros' Jonsi, Colombia's Meridian Brother (the project of musician Eblis Alvaraz) + more!
Our Best of 2024 So Far (Pt. 1) edition featuring music from The Marias, South Korea's Peggy Gou, Sweden's Goran Kajfes Tropiques + more!
Our Best of 2024 So Far (Pt. 1) edition featuring music from Les Amazones d'Afrique, South Korea's Minhwi Lee, Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar + more!
Featuring music from Norway's Pom Poko, French-Spanish singer and guitarist Manu Chao, the Cuban / NYC latin jazz group Orquesta Akokan + more!
Featuring music from Czech singer/songwriter Bara Zmekova, Gnawa music by Asmaa Hamzaoui & Bnat Tiumbouktou, Menahan Street Band & Brazilian musician Roge + more!
Featuring a tribute to the late, great French singer Francoise Hardy, new music from the Montreal band Cola, Tanzania's Zawose Queens + more!
Featuring music from French group L'Imperatrice., new music from Nicaraguan-Canadian composer Mas Aya, the South African pianist Nduduzo Makhathini + more!
Featuring music from the British-Brazilian singer/songwriter Liana Flores, a new Talking Heads cover by El Mato a un Policia Motorizado, the Moroccan-French group Bab L'Bluz + more!
Featuring music from the a 1998 live concert by Brian Eno, Holger Czukay (CAN) and J. Peter Scwhwalm, Brazilian musician now based in Denmark Raphael Gimenes, two newly reissued dance singles on the Soundway + more!
Featuring new music from South Korea's Peggy Goy, Tuareg band Tinariwen, Brazilian singer/songwriter Ceu w/ anaiis + more!
Featuring music from Swedish musician Goran Kajfes, London's Nubiyan Twist (feat. Mamani Keita), the Los Angeles group Reyna Tropical + more!
Featuring new music from Kurdish singer Aynur, Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar, two new collaborations featuring Chinese pipa player Gao Hong + more!
Featuring music from Italian musician Maria Chiara Argiro, France's Christine & the Queens, Montreal singer/songwriter Myriam Gendron + more!
Featuring music from Congolese activists KOKOKO!, new music Pakistani singer/songwriter Arooj Aftab, British-American sitar player Anoushka Shankar + more!
Featuring music from the legendary Sheila E., new music from Camera Obscura, the Berlin-based Afro Soul group Jembaa Groove + more!
Featuring music from many of the great women of Afro Funk including a new track by Ibibio Sound Machine, classics by the Lijadu Sisters and Christy Ogbah, Angelique Kidjo + more!
Featuring music from Barcelona singer Ona K, Swiss duo Klaus Johan Grobe, Australia's Hiatus Kaiyote + more!
Featuring music from Bolivian-born artists Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti's new collaboration with drummer Frank Rosaly, Richmond, VA singer/songwriter Angelica Garcia, a new track from Hermanos Gutierrez + more!
Featuring music from Ireland's Altan, the 25th anniversary of Air's Moon Safari, the forthcoming Ghana Special 2 compilation + more!
Featuring music from London's Ibibio Sound Machine, Japanese-American artist Mei Semones, new Reggae reissues on the Cherry Red Label from Dennis Brown & Delroy Wilson + more!
Featuring music from Syria's Omar Souleyman, Hong Kong British artist mui zyu, a brand new track from Tuareg guitarist and songwriter Mdou Moctar + more!
Featuring music from London's High Llamas, a new collaboration from Canadian DJ Tiga and Scottish producer Hudson Mohawke, a new release from Afrobeat / Disco collective Sai Galaxy + more!
Featuring music from Guatemala singer/songwriter Gaby Moreno, French group Nouvelle Vague & tributes to the late Can singer Damo Suzuki and KKFI radio host Lisa Lopez-Galvan.
Featuring music from South Korean singer/songwriter Minhwi Lee, Japanese psych band Minami Deutsch, the new release from Helado Negro + more!
Featuring music from Italy's Galathea, Scottish Indie Pop band Camera Obscura, London's Ibibio Sound Machine + more!
Featuring music from Canadian Afro-Cuban duo OKAN, the Netherlands' Cacha Mundinho, a new live set from legendary South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim + more!
Featuring music from the Houston, TX trio Khurangbin, Chilean-French singer Ana Tijoux, German musician Nils Frahm + more!
Featuring music from Dusseldorf's Kreidler, Spanish musician Julia Colom, Mongolian throat singer & musician Batsukh Dorj + more!
The Best of 2023 Pt. 2 episode feat. music by Tuareg guitarist Bombino, Peruvian producer & DJ Sofia Kourtesis, Senegalese kora player Maher Cissoko & more!
An all new holiday episode for 2023 including music by Icelandic singer/songwriter Laufey, the late Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mandarin pop from Xiao Yun & more!
An encore presentation of our 2022 holiday special including music by Pete Rodriguez, Edith Piaf, Rodrigo y Gabriela & more!
Featuring music based in Algerian chaabi by Koum Tara, French group No Mad?, Highlife by Ghana's Santrofi + more!
Featuring music from Brazilian guitarist Fabiano do Nascimento, French Afrobeat outfit Akata Kolo Orchestra, a new collection of live Cal Tjader recordings from the 1960s + more!
Featuring music from the late Mexican singer Juan Gabriel, South African pianist Thandi Ntuli, the new collaboration by Ali Sethi & Nicolas Jaar + more!
Featuring music from Best Global Music Album winners and nominees at the Grammy's--past and present. Including tracks by Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora, two of this year's nominees: Shakti & Susana Baca + more!
Featuring music from Scottish singer/songwriter King Creosote, Denmark's ML Buch, Argentinian great Gato Barbieri + more!
Featuring music from Zimbabwe's Edgar Muzah, Quechuan musician Luzmilo Carpio, a song from the new 50th anniversary edition of Bob Marley & the Wailers' Catch a Fire + more!
Featuring music from Italian singer/songwriter Marta Del Grandi, Spain's Maria Jose Llergo, an amazing cover of a Grateful Dead song by Niger's Tal National + more!
Featuring music from Helado Negro, Swedish band Lost Girls, Brazilian musician Ed Motta + more!
Featuring music from Swedish Psych-Rock band Goat, French duo Polo & Pan, Mexican singer/songwriter Ceci Bastida + more!
Featuring music from Canadian singer-songwriter Lisa LeBlanc, Japanese Progressive Jazz musician Leo Takami, a new Analog Africa release featuring the music of Leon Keita + more!
Featuring music from Montreal's MUNYA, Cambodian / American band Dengue Fever, Brazilian great Ivan Lins + more!
Featuring music from Japan's Les Rallizes Denudes, Mali's Idrissa Soumaoro, the late musician and educator Robert Tree Cody + more!
Featuring new music from Japan's CHAI, the brand new single from New Zealand indie-rockers Yumi Zouma, Norwegian musician Sinikka Langeland + more!
Featuring music from Sweden's Little Dragon, Peruvian DJ & Producer based in Berlin, Sofia Kourtesis, a new compilation spanning the career of Australia's The Particles + more!
Featuring music from Irish singer/songwriter Aoife Nessa Frances, Cuban pianist Harold Lopez-Nussa, Montreal's Anemone + more!
Featuring music from Colombian/Canadian musician Roberto Lope, LA-based Cambodian Rock group Dengue Fever, a new tribute album to Joao Gilberto from his daughter, Bebel, + more!
Featuring new music from Anoushka Shankar, a tribute to the music of Niger featuring a brand new song by Bombino, the great Japanese guitarist Ryo Kawasaki + more!
Featuring a Best of 2023 edition of the show feat. music from Brazilian artist Tagua Tagua, Dutch ensemble Zuco 103, the Ivory Coast's Peter One + more!
Featuring music from Norwegian singer Susanna, a new collection of the music of the late Mexican percussionist Tito Contreras, a tribute to the recently-passed Irish singer Sinead O'Connor + more!
Featuring music from South Africa's Wren Hinds, Italian Funk band Calibro 35, a tribute to the late Jane Birkin + more!
Featuring music from the newly-released collaboration from the late Nigerian drummer Tony Allen w/ Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge, the new release from African Head Charge, Israeli musician Dudu Tassa & Radiohead's Johnny Greenwood + more!
Featuring music from the new collaboration between Pedro Ricardo & Damian Botigue, South Korea's Say Sue Me, a new live recording from Khruangbin at Radio City Music Hall + more!
Featuring music from Iran's Kayhan Kalhor & Mali's Toumani Diabate, a new live compilation of Paco de Lucia's past performances at Montreux, the Indonesian-influenced Amsterdam sextet Nusantara Beat + more!
Featuring music from Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista, the legendary trio Shakti feat. Shankar Mahadevan, Zakir Hussain & John McLaughlin, Cuba's Omara Portuondo + more!
Featuring music from the Tuareg band, Tinariwen, Toronto's Pantayo, a tribute to the late Astrud Gilberto & more!
An encore presentation of our 1/1/23 episode featuring a look back at the second half of 2022 in international releases including music by Syria's Maya Youssef, Icelandic icon Bjork, Brazil's Charlotte Dos Santos & more!
Featuring music from Chile's Alex Anwandter, Malawian musician, Keturah, the new solo release from The Mavericks' Raul Malo + more!
Featuring music from Bosnia's Damir Imamovic, a long-out-of-print Nigerian release by The Good Samaritans, the new release from Canadian Pysch-Rockers TEKE::TEKE + more!
Featuring music from Modern Cosmology (Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier & Brazil's Mombojo), Colombia-Canadian singer/songwriter Lido Pimienta, the great Zimbabwe musician Thomas Mapfumo + more!
Featuring music from Ivory Coast singer/songwriter Peter One, the new Bela Fleck / Zakir Hussain / Edgar Meyer / Rakesh Chaurasia collaboration, South African musician Bokani Dyer's new album + more!
Featuring music from a new re-issue of Nigerian musician Remi Kabaka's classic 'Son of Africa' album, the new album by Brazilian singer-songwriter Adriana Calcanhotto, Greek guitarist Dimitris Mystakidis + more!
Featuring music from Sudan, the new collaboration between Israel's Dudu Tassa & Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, a tribute to the late singer and activist Harry Belafonte + more!
Featuring music from Puerto Rico's Plena Libre, Mexico's Rodrigo y Gabriela, Singapore's Motifs & more!
Featuring music from Mexico's Son Rompe Pera, deep '70s Funk from Ghana by Kelenkye Band, music from the forthcoming album by Mali's Fatoumata Diawara + more!
Featuring music by Munich's Karl Hector & the Malcouns, London's Los Bitchos, Japan's CHAI & more!
Featuring music by Haiti's Erol Josue, Montreal-based Japanese psych-rockers TEKE::TEKE, a tribute to Ethiopian pianist Emahoy Tseque-Maryam Guebrou and more!
Featuring music written by Rafael Hernández Marín and performed by Xenia Rubinos and Ibrahim Ferrar / Omara Portuondo, new music by Senegalese artist Baaba Maal, a lost classic from Lybia's The Free Music & Najib Alhoush and more!
Featuring music from the Oakland-based Afro Psych band Orchestra Gold, Irish artists including Lisa Hannigan and Martin Hayes & the Common Ground Ensemble, Icelandic singer/songwriter Emiliana Torrini & the Colorist Orchestra and more!
Featuring music from the late Wayne Shorter w/ Brazilian great, Milton Nascimento, the newest from of Light in the Attic's 'Pacific Breeze: Japanese City Pop...' series, new music by Mali's Solomane Doumbia + more!
Featuring music from The Comoros' Mwezi WaQ., German Disco from the Silver Connection, a lovely new tune from Brazil's Sessa + more!
Featuring music from Brooklyn-based / South Korea-raised artist, Yaeji, one from the new release by Mexican guitar duo Rodgrigo y Gabriella, a new collaboration between Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily + more!
Featuring music from Guinean artist Kimi Djabate, Portland, OR-based singer/songwriter Y La Bamba, the psychedelic soul of Brazil's Tagua Tagua and more!
Featuring music from 2023 Grammy winners Arturo O'Farrill, Masa Takumi & Natalia Lafourcade, Anatolian rockers Altin Gun, Syrian artists Maya Youssef & Omar Souleyman, Kuwaiti musician Fatima Al Quadiri and more!
Featuring music from legendary drummer Joe Chambers and the intersection of African & Latin rhyhtms, Jorrdan -> UK producer Toumba, Bosnia & Herzegovina group Mostar Sevdah Reunion & more!
Featuring music from the Caribbean: Cuba's Buena Vista Social Club, Jamaica's Althea & Donna, daughter of Haitian immigrants Leyla McCalla & more!
Featuring music from New Zealand's Tiny Ruins, Japanese legend Eiichi Otaki, a new Smithsonian Folkways compilation focusing on music from Senegal and the Gambia + more!
Featuring music from the Argentinian singer Roxana Amed's 2022 album UNANIME, the deluxe re-issue of the 2002 Fela Kuti-inspired compilation Red Hot + Riot, a new track by Portugal's Ningue Nigue + more!
Featuring music from the new 20th anniversary compilation, COLORS, from Japanese label 7 e.p., the 2022 release from Belgium's Black Flower (feat. Meskerem Mees), music composed by the great Ryuichi Sakamoto and more!
A look back at the second half of 2022 in international releases feat. music by Syria's Maya Youssef, Icelandic icon Bjork, Brazil's Charlotte Dos Santos & more!
A special holiday-themed episode feat. Christmas tunes from London's Los Bitchos & legendary guitarist, Django Reinhardt, Hanukkah music by the Klezmer Conservatory Band and more!
A look back at the first half of 2022 in international releases feat. music by Japan's Hikaru Utada, legendary Brazilian vocalist Flora Purim, New Zealand's The Beths & more!
Featuring music from the South African saxophonist, Mthunzi Mvubu, Cassandra Jenkins w/ Indian sarangi player, Suhail Yusuf Khan, Algerian singer/songwriter Souad Massi and more!
Featuring music from Finnish mother/daughter group, Solju, Mozambique's Eyuphuro, America-born, Indian-raised Londoner, percussionist Sarathy Korwar and more!
Featuring music from Mali's Fatoumata Diawara, a collaboration between Norwegian guitarist Hedvig Mollestad and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, a song by the late Afrobeat legend, drummer Tony Allen & more!
Featuring music from Australia's Carla dal Forno, a previously unreleased track by Iceland's Sigur Ros, a tribute to the late Brazilian icon, Gal Costa & more!
Featuring music from France's La Femme, a collaboration between Puerto Rican singer/songwriter iLe & Chile's Mon Laferte, British Hong Kong artist mui zyu & more!
Julian talks with Bill MacKay about his forthcoming album, Keys, a collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Nathan Bowles, his life and career as a virtuoso guitarist and the records that he chose to discuss today, Archie Shepp's 1969 album Blase and the Jimi Hendrix Experience's 1968 album Electric Ladyland.
A conversation with singer/songwriter Nicole Atkins about her latest record Italian Ice, creating and producing her variety shows Alone We're All Together and Live from the Steel Porch during the pandemic, and the record she chose to discuss, Brian Eno's 1974 album Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy).
A conversation with Kevin Calabro, co-founder of Royal Potato Family Records w/ Marco Benevento and head of Calabro Music Media, about his work in the record industry, his process of selecting and releasing music on his label, and the record sh chose to discuss today, Townes Van Zandt's 1977 album, Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, TX.
A conversation with Talia Schlanger, radio host on the CBC and former host of the World Cafe on NPR, about her work in broadcasting and musical theater, her current songwriting and recording project with producer David Travers-Smith at found.sound.Toronto, and two records she chose to discuss, Brittany Howard's 2019 album Jaime and Nick Drake's 1971 sophomore release, Bryter Layter
A conversation with WXPN radio host Robert Drake about his annual Christmas Eve 24 hour radio marathon, The Night Before + his various roles at WXPN, his monthly dance party, Sex Dwarf, and the record that he chose to discuss, singer/songwriter Jaymay's 2016 album Fallin' Like Snow.
A conversation w/ Tim Showalter (Strand of Oaks) about his new album, Austin & Philadelphia, Phish and King Tubb's 1981 album, King at the Control!
New music spotlight feat Makaya McCraven, Real Estate & Circles Around the Sun, a discussion of Judee Sill, tributes to the late Manu Dibango, Ellis Marsalis, Bill Withers, & more.
Ep. 3 features a conversation with bass and guitar player Karina Rykman about Beastie Boys' License to Ill, Chris Cornell, Grateful Dead's classic 1977 show at Cornell University and much more!
Julian pays tribute to Chuck Berry & James Cotton, features Japanese bands LITE & Mouse on the Keys, and discusses Television's Marquee Moon feat. music by The Velvet Underground, The Feelies, Pavement and more!
On Record Keeping Episode 1, Julian draws parallels between Wilco's Summerteeth & albums by The Band, The Flaming Lips, Paul McCartney and more. He also remembers jazz pianist Horace Parlan and discusses the new album from the progressive jazz quintet, Kneebody.