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Peter Garland/Carson Cooman - "Plain Songs: Movement 1" - Plain Songs [Cooman on organ] [0:00:00] Hoodwink Duo & Kelley Sheehan - "New Ears" - New Ears [A few years ago, Sheehan supplied Hoodwink Duo (Winnie Huang and Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn) with her blandly named “speaker-instrument,” device which both transmits sound and functions like a microphone to perform her score “new ears,” an aggressively tactile churn of friction and feedback that, as the duo explains, used “a motley mixture of utensils arrayed around us: bows, rosin, guitar strings, fishing line, screws, sponges, sandpaper, face massagers, and just about anything else around the house that wasn’t screwed down.” The resulting performance transcends that random array to sculpt a seething sound mass, a drone festooned with visceral gestures, irregular rhythms, and strange harmonies.] [0:06:35] Drank - "Iridescent" - Breath In Definition [Austrian artists Ingrid Schmoliner (prepared piano) and Alexander Kranabetter (trumpet, electronics) are the duo behind Drank.] [0:20:08] Hiroshi Yoshimura - "Ogawa Ni Sotti" - A I R - Air In Resort [0:29:44] Christopher Bissonnette - "In Accordance" - Periphery ["Periphery" is Canadian artist Bissonnette's debut album] [0:34:54] Chiyoko Szlavnics / Ensemble Contrechamps - "Oracles (Listening Spaces): I" - Memory Spaces [from bc page: “Oracles I-V (listening spaces)” (2020/2023) for Ensemble Contrechamps & Bellelay Abbey, which had its premiere performance 29 August 2020 during the pandemic. The ensemble is a small orchestra of double string quartet and bass, winds and brass without bassoon or trombone, and percussion. The instrumentation was based on a companion work originally planned but not realised due to pandemic circumstances. The composer writes that “the experience of sound in the abbey’s resonant, enormous interior lies at the heart of these five Oracles.” Like a dance performance, musicians are present before the audience enters, and throughout the performance, they are asked to use soft-soled shoes, walking in a calm and unhurried movement. The positioning of musicians, scoring of moving sound, and a distributed audience were key elements of the compositional process, shaping the perception of sound within the abbey.] [0:44:01] Hair & Treasure - "Warm Night" - Disc Rot [On their 1st album in 4 years, Hair & Treasure – the collaboration between Discrepant label head Gonçalo F Cardoso and Angela Valid’s Alex Jones, with a little help from Kenny Hosepipe – imagines what it might be like if disc rot were infectious, as if their music were riddled with some form of parasitic mold.] [0:57:10] Music behind DJ: - "396 hz sound bath" [0:59:45] New Order - "Dreams Never End" - Movement [debut album as New Order] [1:04:37] Sleight Of Mind - "The Human Holiday: Opening" - The Human Holiday [re-issue - orig 1983 release on A&R Records] [1:07:43] David Vorhaus - "The Rhesus Rhythm Band" - Sleight of Hand [1:12:16] Corneliu Cezar - "Ziua Fara Sfarsit (The Endless Day)" - Ziua Fara Sfarsit [re-issue of 2000 album not readily available outside of Romania / The late Corneliu Cezar was from Romania] [1:13:19] Lila Meretsky - "Don't Look For Me Where Birds Sing" - Simultaneous Contrast [For "Don't Look For Me Where Birds Sing," NY composer Meretsky recites the lyrics to an old Yiddish labor song over the piece] [1:21:52] Melia Watras - "The Almond Tree" - The Almond Tree Duos [Violist Watras' "The Almond Tree Duos" contains 18 duos for violin and viola / The album's title references the symbol of forgiveness, hope and new beginnings in Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost. Wilde’s almond tree blooms surprisingly (it has been barren for 300 years) when the ghost is finally able to reach eternal peace through the aid of a pure, young soul, helping to bring about a better future for all.] [1:26:35] Emma Jane Lloyd - "Freely, Darkly, Deeply: III" - Mue [1:28:34] Nadah El Shazly - "Laini Tani" - Laini Tani [El Shazly was born in...

Kinski - "Her Absence Feels Like A Presence" - Stumbledown Terrace [0:00:00] Lior Pinsky - "Forgive" - Must Be Gone [0:05:10] Rebecca Foon and Alayta Foon-Dancoes - "Between Us" - Reverie [1st album by the two sisters featuring Rebecca (from Esmerine & Thee Silver Mt Zion Orchestra) on cello & Aliayta on violin] [0:11:52] Roberto Prosseda, London Philharmonic Orchestra (Nir Kabaretti cond) - "War Silence: II. Solitudes (2015) (by Cristian Carrera)" - War Silence - Rare Italian Piano Concertos [0:15:16] Spool - "Oneandhalf" - Spool [debut album by duo Florian TMZesig & perfumer Angel Paradise] [0:22:09] Chris Watson - "Veracruz" - El Tren Fantasma [Watson obtained the source recordings for this collection over the course of a five-week residency he spent in the late 1990s aboard a train slowly traversing Mexico from Las Mochis to Veracruz. The line was about to close down, and in honor of its impending demise, the railroad pulled some old engines out of mothballs and permitted an episode of the BBC documentary Great Railway Journeys to be made about it.] [0:26:07] Sound Of Moss - "Floating In Stream" - Emanzipation der Dissonanz (V/A) [0:31:36] Eva Maria Doroszkowska - "Etudes for the Sostenuto Pedal: No. 4, Pasaka par zenuar Brinumkokliti (by Lucija Garuta)" - Baltic Tides [Garuta is a composer from Latvia / Unlike many components of modern pianos, the sostenuto pedal comes almost 150 years after Bartolomeo Cristofori’s original design. It is believed that the sostenuto pedal was first created in France by the Boisselot brothers in the 1840s. Fast forward to 1874, a patent was presented in the U.S.A. by Mr. Waldo Hanchett, William Steinway then claimed the patent and after some legal disputes, Steinway re-designed the pedal and forwarded a patent in 1875 for the sostenuto mechanism as we know it today. The reason this pedal is so misunderstood amongst pianists is that it is rarely used, even amongst the most professional of pianists, few either need or require it in order to create the intended effects of their work, however in the right hands (or feet) the sostenuto can create some truly unique tones. Pianos equipped with the sostenuto pedal allow for what some may call “selective sustain”. While the right pedal sustains all the notes on a piano, the sostenuto, in essence, holds down selective notes you wish to sustain. When it is depressed, the last note played continues to sound while all the other notes are damped. This is perhaps most commonly used in the bass end of the piano most of the time, allowing the pianist to overlay large bass tones with intricate pianissimo playing at the high end.] [0:35:37] Music For Isolation - "Kuusou" - Svalbard [album coming in October / Music For Isolation is British tuba player Gideon Juckes & Japanese baritone saxophonist Rie Takeuchi] [0:40:03] Saapato - "Ways To Be Remembered" - Decomposition: Fox On A Highway [0:42:26] Kory Reeder - "II - Introduction" - Codex Praxis [0:47:32] Ignace Michiels - "Organ Sonata, Op. 29: I. Allegro con moto (1884) (by Edgar Tinel)" - Flemish Organ Heritage [To celebrate the restoration of the Klais organ at the Cathedral of Our Saviour in Bruges, organist Ignace Michiels presents a selection of Flemish organ works spanning from 1884 to 1961.] [1:08:23] Tabea Debus, Tom Foster - "Allegro (by Tomaso Albinoni)" - Folio - Lessons From The Master [Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (1671-1751) was an Italian composer] [1:15:00] Juri Seo & Latitude 49 - "Fantasia" - Obsolete Music [new music by American composer Juri Seo / Ensemble Latitude 49 named for the border between the U.S. & Canada] [1:18:33] Penguin Cafe Orchestra - "Zopf: Giles Farnaby's Dream" - Music from the Penguin Cafe [Brian Eno executive-produced this debut album] [1:25:55] Primal Scream - "Movin' On Up" - Screamadelica [1:28:08] Faces - "Ooh La La" - Ooh La La [Ron Wood is on lead vocals on this track] [1:31:41] Joane Hetu - "Un Ideal" - Elle a son mot a dire (She Has Her Say)...

Bridget Hayden & The Apparitions - "Lovely On The Water" - Cold Blows the Rain [0:00:00] Bang On A Can - "Industry" - Industry [piece written by Michael Gordon] [0:04:56] Claire rousay & Gretchen Korsmo - "Find Yourself In A Hole On The Beach" - Quilted Lament [0:14:56] Helen Charlston, Sounds Baroque - "Oedipus, Z. 583: No. 2 Music For A While (1692) (by Henry Purcell)" - If the Fates Allow - Music by Purcell & His Contemporaries [Helen Charlston is a vocalist from Britain / Sounds Baroque is trio Jonathan Manson (on bass viol), William Carter (on baroque guitar & Theorbo) & Julian Perkins (on harpsichord & organ)] [0:21:39] Lang Lang, Vadim Repin, Mischa Maisky - "Trio Elegiaque No. 1 in G Minor (1892) (by Sergei Rachmaninoff)" - Piano Trios [Rachmaninoff composed this piece on January 18–21, 1892 in Moscow, when he was just 18 years old / Lang Lang is a pianist from China, Vadim Repin is a violinist from Russia & Mischa Maisky is a cellist from Latvia] [0:25:31] Stefan Thut, Taku Sugimoto - "Atwain (excerpt)" - Atwain [the album-length track, "Atwain," was performed and recorded on the banks of the Aare River in Switzerland / Thut is playing a bowed psaltery & Sugimoto is playing guitar] [0:39:59] Joshua Bonnetta - "The Bay Of Broken Things (excerpt)" - Low Islands [piece was created from field recordings collected at various low islands in and around the Baltic Sea from 2012-2015. Processed via cassette and Nagra 4.2 in Manhattan and Ithaca winter 2016.] [0:55:08] Der Expander Des Fortschritts - "Late Autumn Off Sides" - Bright Heads Roll Best [previously unreleased material from the 1980s] [1:06:22] Sage Martens - "Chamber Music for Lawn Mowers" - Chamber Music for Lawn Mowers [Sage Martens is duo Lieven Martens & M. Sage / From bc page: Did you know, a clean-cut lawn is a desire we inherited from the British? Yes, the British dumped this pleasure into our collective consciousness. Those humorless Victorians who enjoyed having their black pudding on the lawn. They came to this uninspired impression while mis-looking at Italian paintings. Yes indeed, while gazing at these paintings they mistook green lanes for green lawns. Thus it became hip. Every stuffed truffle commanded his gardener to cut the grass. As a result, this Victorian lust for sterile gardens with pretty green lawns nudged our world into water spillage and pesticide clouds. This new priority produced exhaust fumes and prudish monocultural landscapes. / M. Sage: Bb clarinet, alto saxophone, sine wave, lawn mowing, processing L. Martens: computer, analog synthesis, digital processing With W. Van Gils: lawn mowing] [1:08:48] RL Huber - "The Damage Done" - Dagos [Huber is from Eureka Springs, Arkansas] [1:16:47] Dissociate - "Faceless Ones" - Fractured Remembrances: Music From The Play (EP) [Dissociate is an artist based in Minneapolis] [1:20:14] Deradoorian - "Any Other World" - Ready For Heaven [Deradoorian is Northern California artist Angel Deradorian (of Dirty Projectors & Decisive Pink)] [1:24:40] Luke Vibert - "Bullet Drop" - Planet Mu 30 (V/A) [25-song collection celebrates Planet Mu's 30th anniversary with new tracks composed by 25 artists] [1:29:47] Kuntari - "Lahar II" - Lahar [Kuntari is Tesla Manaf & Rio Abror / LAHAR is a Javanese term which was adopted in geology to describe a violent type of mudflow or debris flow composed of a slurry of pyroclastic material, rocky debris and water. The material flows down from a volcano, typically along a river valley. Lahars are often extremely destructive and deadly; they can flow tens of metres per second.] [1:34:13] Moundabout - "Goat Skull Table" - Goat Skull Table [Moundabout is Irish artists Phil Langero & Paddy Shine / "Goat Skull Table" is the 1st in Rocket's Black Hole series] [1:39:34] Scanner & Nurse With Wound - "Conium Maculatum" - Contrary Motion [1:49:21] Tunde Adebimpe - "Thee Black Boltz / Ate The Moon" - Thee Black Boltz [2:09:26] Brian Bilston and The Catenary Wires -...

Ballaké Sissoko - "Na N Sira Madi" - A Touma [0:00:00] Edward Perraud - "Captain Universe" - Beyond the Predictable Touch (Synaesthetic Trip, Vol. 2) [0:05:05] Kara-Lis Coverdale - "Freedom" - From Where You Came ["From Where You Came" is Canadian artist Coverdale's 4th album] [0:14:47] Dariush Dolat-Shahi - "Zahab" - Electronic Music, Tar and Sehtar [reissue / orig 1985 / Dolat-Shahi was born in Iran, but came to reside in Portland, OR / A tar is a Persian lute instrument] [0:20:49] Imryll - "Kayuga" - Obscure Blood & Love [Imryll is an artist from Taiwan] [0:33:55] Graham Reynolds - "The Lost Weekend" - Mountain [0:38:15] Bernhard Hering & Martin Wester - "Quiet Sun" - Sea Of Tranquility [0:42:29] Luke Martin / Ordinary Affects - "The Air Is A Concealed Yellow (excerpt of 34-minute piece)" - To Be Worthy of Pessoa [The Portuguese poet and author Fernando Pessoa composed his works under approximately 75 fictional names which he called heteronyms, differing from the prosaic mask of the pseudonym in so far as his heteronyms were conceived as fully-fledged characters with corporeality as well as their own biographies and distinct writing styles. One of the most famous and enduring of the heteronyms – often described as a semi-heteronym as he shared many characteristics and autobiographical details with Pessoa – is that of the accountant and flaneur Bernardo Soares, who is billed as the author of The Book of Disquiet, a fragmentary and sometimes aphoristic collection which Pessoa introduced as a ‘factless autobiography’ but was not published until 1982, some 47 years after the poet’s own death in 1935. Collaborating once more with the Ordinary Affects ensemble, the two long sides of To Be Worthy of Pessoa incorporate readings from The Book of Disquiet which deal with sleep and dreams and drifting states of consciousness, shifting weather systems and at times a kind of dazed and resigned but not dissatisfied abnegation of the self, even as its sensations remain the core subject matter.] [0:45:33] Territorial Gobbing - "❤️ (Track 1)" - Hermit Card [avail at Name your Price level on bc] [1:05:59] zYklen - "The Lost City" - Desire Paths [zYklen is an artist from Devon UK] [1:11:38] Jordan Christoff - "Esoteric Joy" - Mystery Dimensions [1:18:24] Manja Ristić - "Vatna (Water)" - Purpurna vresišta (Purple Heather) [Manja Ristić is a Serbo-Croatian violinist, sound artist, published poet, curator, and researcher. / From bc page: Field recording of popping algae made by Joana Guerra. Field recordings of bat swarms, and various tropical cicadas, made by Mark Vernon. Instruments used include violin, EMS Synthi 100, and JrF hydrophones. Locations include abandoned industrial sites and River Tagus in Barreiro, Portugal; Great Lake on the island of Mljet, Croatia; and various locations around Thailand. Sounds in Portugal were gathered as a part of OUT.RA Shape + residency 2024.] [1:34:53] Memotone - "Batty" - Pruning [1:53:10] Battle Elf - "Behind The Wilderness" - 10 [Battle Elf is Detroit trio Gretchen Gonzales (on guitar) & Chris Peters (on guitar) and David Hurley (on drums) / "10" is their debut album] [1:55:42] Spiritualized Friendship - "An Honest Key (feat Andy Bell)" - IV [Spiritualized Friendship is duo Gareth Jones & Nick Hook / Andy Bell is half of Erasure / For more from Gareth Jones, check out our interview with him here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/145930] [2:08:29] Nigel Wrench - "Switch Off That Machine" - Switch Off That Machine [From bc page: The time is apartheid South Africa. The resonance is now. You will hear, in order of appearance: Soweto’s Imilonji KaNtu Choral Society singing at the enthronement of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, St George’s Cathedral, Cape Town; Archbishop Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner; An announcer on state-controlled radio; Beyers Naudé, once a leading pro-apartheid Afrikaner cleric whose radical epiphany after the Sharpeville massacre of March 1960, when...