Searching For A Thread: Recent Episodes
Searching For A Thread
Thematic variations on deep listening from psych and avant-garde to post-punk and indie rock. Broadcasting on WRFI Community Radio for Ithaca 88.1/Watkins Glen 91.9 FM. wrfi.org
A little runthrough of minimal synth and twilight post punk.
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Some new music but developing artists against tired but wonderful songs.
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Some indie, shoegaze, noise rock and some further throwbacks.
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International curiosities and jazz-fusion laments.
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Swinging back with psych from Europe, the Far East, South America and the US.
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Warm air, stiffled overcast, sweaty days with stoney stillness, guitar ambient and a few rough-around-the-edges rockers.
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A show that runs the gamut from dub and post-punk to ambient space rock and into jazz.
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Some tracks by Low to honor the passing of Mimi Parker plus lots of cozy, familiar bands from the late 90s / 2000s.
Some indie, lo-fi and recent folkiness plus more ambient and experimental. Splashes of p s y c h as always.
Far-out sounds from all over the place, new and recent reissues. Exploratory music. A celebration of vinyl!
Ambient jazz and minimalism. Fourth world madness, psych excursions and global meditations. But first June Of 44.
Some lovely sounds for a lovely woman, dedicated to Camille. Far-out and down-out folk and spiritual sounds.
Some rock and related before evolving into sonic tapestries and home recorded oddballs.
1 hour of post-punk, punk 45 singles and the 2nd hour, a run through some excellent far-out psychedelic international comps
Out there sounds and vibes from electronic sounds, french free jazz, Japanese avant-garde and far-out minimalism.
A new episode of this unintentional series. Post-punk from bands made up of women, in honor of international women's day.
Folk-psych sounds from the past. Hazy, spacious and glorious. For an apparent spring day.
Snowed in, stoned out and blissed out "indie" rock. Introspective, toasted and spatial.
A tribute to the great spiritual vibraphonist Khan Jamal plus more spacious jazz sounds.
Going longform with modern classical, jazz, ambient and experimental sounds. Plus 2 tracks dedicated to James Mtume.
Returning to some heavy 60s and 70s hard rock n psych sounds from the US, UK and Germany.
A run of soul, funk and r&b christmas cuts plus some instrumental and moog flavored holiday vibes.
A look at all the Chicago and Louisville bands that all merge and come to a head around the beautiful band Pullman.
A Halloween edition for Searching For A Thread. Creeped out experimentation, frayed spirits and shambolic sounds from the undead.
3 Hours (or 2.5 edited) of music that hits the spiritual sweet spot for me. Not just jazz. Part of the week of Fundraising for WRFI Community Radio. Donation talk has been edited out but if you'd like to support, go to wrfi.org.
Mainly from the 1960s and 1970s, a cross-section of rock and folk from Native Americans. Heavy helping of selections from the Native North America collection (Light In The Attic) and a small focus on Link Wray's "Three Track Chicken Shack" trilogy.
Some new acquisitions and some heavy summertime vibes have brought on another occasion to throw down some NZ music and some rarities from the great Flying Nun label.
Weaving together a thread of ambient, kraut, cosmic rock, left-field jazz, avant soundscapes and minimalism. Forging paths as we walk them.
How about invading your friends record collection? Weaving a web of blind pulls and barely informed selections.
A bit of a different show this time out. I had a conversation with Michael Muller of Balmorhea about important bands and forgotten records of our collective past. Michael has a Youtube channel called Noted & Archived in which he discusses music and records as part of the Vinyl Community. A long conversation here with full tracks by the bands discussed.
Warming up towards greener times with some avant jazz, arty ambient sounds and minimal soundscapes.
Let's get down with the skronky sounds. This week we have 1980s, 1990s and modern experimental art punk and experimental rock.
Digging back into the deep well of US Psych, playing some lesser know bands and deeper cuts.
Songs of contentment and tranquility from modern purveyors of primitive Americana, cosmic pop and transcendent folk music.
A weird mix of outsider rock, cosmic synth producers, home grown space cowboys and some left-field 60s psych for good measure.
Some fast and short songs for everyone trying to reconcile the latest American disaster.
Wintery, windswept and hallowed out rock, folk and ambient sounds for the stark and lonely winter ahead. Fun!
Yes, it's another round of Christmas oddballs and rarities from Dusty and his jolly bag of misguided cheer.
Some well loved songs I've been playing this year, a selection of new releases from 4000 Records and Cubensis Records, and some highlights from the long awaited 2nd volume of Neil Young's archives.
2 hours of far-out Turkish funky psych and groove. (with thanks to mixcloud listener rehaskell07.
Celebrating the dumping of the chump trump, some punk and punkish sentiments to help you celebrate.
1 hour of 60s Garage rippers. Presented during the WRFI Fundraiser Marathon. Artwork by Silas Gagliano
Special presentation with 4 artists / bands slightly under the radar that you should be aware of: Bill Fox, Doris Duke, Robbie Basho and J.J. Light.
Sometimes you have to sit back and marvel at someone who is truly deserving what they are getting.
1980s / 1990s noise-punk and indie from labels of the heyday, SST, Touch & Go, Homestead and Drag City.
Oh yeah! Deep 60's / 70's psych excursions with bands seldom touched upon. With guidance from the Kool-Aid man himself!
Post-punk has been experiencing a rebirth over the last five years. SFAT dives in deep on some of those bands, almost all of them new. Label spotlight of Upset The Rhythm, great sounds out of the UK.
Indie jangle, power pop, garagey rock and punk vibes. Songs of action and jittery magic.
Strange "grooves" from Nigeria, the UK, the underground US and funky oddballs in between.
Stoney, head-jams ripe for lying down to. Downer folk, psych strummers, whistful ballads and strange rockers.
Just vibin' at home, pulling records as I see fit. Stringing together psych, kraut, some xian folk and more oddballs.
Music in support and solidarity with Black Lives Matter and the protests against the murder of innocent black people. This week Black Rock bands and musicians from the 60s / 70s. Through the month of June, all music will be from Black Americans.
Music in support and solidarity with Black Lives Matter and the protests against the murder of innocent black people. This week spirituals, gospel and blues roots. Through the month of June, all music will be from Black Americans.
Music in support and solidarity with Black Lives Matter and the protests against the murder of innocent black people. This week funky and righteous soul. Through the month of June, all music will be from Black Americans.
Music in support and solidarity with Black Lives Matter and the protests against the murder of innocent black people. This week 1960s / 1970s free jazz with comments from Sun Ra and John Coltrane. Through the month of June, all music will be from Black Americans.
Music in support and solidarity with Black Lives Matter and the protests against the murder of innocent black people. 1960s funk / rock all by Black American artists. Through the month of June, all music will be from Black Americans.
Sikefoalk! 2 hours of English countryside, pastoral soundscapes, whimsical experiments and freaky outsiders. Deep, primarily English acid folk from '69-'73. About 90% has never appeared on this show!
2 hours of discussion and music! About the great records bought at shops over the last 20 years. Keep shops and independent retail in your thoughts and support if you can. These are epicenters of culture folks!
2 hours of deep Far SE Psychedelia with obscure Flying Nun bands. The Rip, Chug, Doublehappys, Bilders, Mainly Spaniards, Victor Dimisich Band, Naked Spots Dance? All the hits! And a few of those other bands The Chills, Clean and Tall Dwarfs.
Wading through the excessive gigs of vintage indie, noise-rock and experimental post-punk sounds from 2000-2010. Broadcasting from a safe, social distance.
A new age and reality for us all. It's what we're living in, for now. Songs about embracing what it means, but with some light to come.
Ease in with 2 hours of soul filling international, introspective and mind altering folk and rock songs.
Songs about being willfully oblivious, hopelessly optimistic and blissfully unaware. Running through indie and punk, to 60's pop and ballads, some psych and a sprinkle of bluesy gospel
A strange pathway of experimental and "rock" sounds navigating post-modern composers, DIY adventurers, psych excursions, ambient outsiders and German progressives.
Paying tribute to the passing of Andy Gill, guitarist of Gang Of Four, we dive into rhythmic punk, post-punk, funky experimentalist punks, no wave and the like.
Yes songs all about sports, competition, racing, winners, losers and everything in between. Punk, post-punk, indie rock, country and even Warren Zevon. Note: it wasn't identified but the opening theme after the "Om" was Neil Peart (RIP) performing his "Hockey Night" theme for Hockey Night In Canada.
Mellowing out with freaky and cosmic folk sounds and related experimental projects from the 60's / 70's.
Dusty takes on the paisley heavy years of 1967-1969 when streaks of hippy-dippy freaks and flower-power wannabees were in full bloom.
10 years is a long time to summarize what's been happening with music and records, at least from my point of view. So instead, here's 30 mins to 4 important artists / scenes that was discovered and digested immensely over the last 10 years: Thee Oh Sees, Zambian psych-garage-rock ZAMROCK, Glenn Jones (folk guitarist) and the music of Peter Howell and John Ferdinando (Ithaca / Agincourt).
Christmas! One-off oddities, strange country, funk, soul, rock and tons of holiday audio merriment.
The hits of Lennon / McCartney, Jagger / Richards, Davies / Davies, Dylan as well as Hendrix and Cohen covered throughout the 1960s and later on.
Another large batch of 10" records dropping on the wheels of steel plus a tribute and sampling of the artists and records of the Blue Thumb label.
Songs about entering the atmosphere beyond planet earth, and further still! Psychedelia, slowcore, indie, krautrock and other cosmic-themed rock.
Mining the punk revolution but going a little deeper into those weirdos who took punk as an ethos and made music that was on the outer fringes of it all.
Rebroadcast and edit of the very first SFAT with an interview with Gerard Ryan of Le Cliche. Originally broadcast 6/15/14.
Post-punk trio Chimes Of Bayonets LIVE in studio Plus, Dusty plays sounds about money, giving, donating and what funds can do for COMMUNITY RADIO. You can still pledge to WRFI Community Radio at wrfi.org/donate. All $10 or above donations get my 2019 mixtape dedicated to psych and private rock in Canada called Wild Moose Tracks. Specify in notes! https://www.facebook.com/chimesof/
Dusty brings in Angela and their 2 kids to spin tracks by bands made up of FAMILY. Family Bands! You can still pledge to WRFI Community Radio at wrfi.org/donate. All $10 or above donations get my 2019 mixtape dedicated to psych and private rock in Canada called Wild Moose Tracks. Specify in notes!
Teaming up with JT of the radio show Dance The Mutation (mixcloud.com/dancethemutation) for a show dedicated to the relatively unknown music of Canada! Also, WRFI is fundraising for our 2019 marathon. Go to wrfi.org/donate if you'd like to contribute. All $10 or above donations get my 2019 mixtape dedicated to psych and private rock in Canada called Wild Moose Tracks. Specify in notes!
A new 2 hour Halloween special of obscurities and freaky garage, new wave, psych and other groovy cuts. Also, fundraising for our 2019 Marathon. All $10 or above donations get my 2019 cassette mixtape dedicated to Canadian psych and private rock: Wild Moose Tracks. Donate at wrfi.org/donate
A catch-all episode of mini-sets comprised of indie, New Zealand experimental, punk, garage, strange reissues, new-band alerts and some words about Daniel Johnston
Playing tracks as far back as the early 80's up through the early 90's documenting Louisville, Kentucky's punk and indie scene.
An exploration of late 60s / early 70s hard rock, pre-punk chaos and lean rock songs. Beefed up riffs, starbound wannabees and basement dwelling outcasts.
End of summer soul, spirituals, fuzz, hard rock and international folk & rock songs alongside other oddities. And who is Charlie Tweddle plus "I Own This Record. What Is It?"
Letting things ring out with fragmented rock music, instrumental dynamics and yes, "post-rock."