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Week of July 30: This week, a bluesy take on the Rolling Stones, scores by Jlin and Dustin O’Halloran, new music from Brooklyn-based Arthur Moon, and ambient music by Masayoshi Fujita. (article)
Brooklyn via San Juan band Balún identifies as "transnational." Hear DIY tropical electronica "DreamBow," something like reggaeton Jamaican dancehall roots meet shoegaze pop, in-studio. (episode)
Samn Johnson's celestial music, Joan Tower's appreciation for percussionists, and soprano Emily Thorner: A roundup of July 26 at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival's Media Workshop. (article)
The mesmerizing pianist Vicky Chow and body percussion suitable for a coffee shop: A roundup of July 25, via the Media Workshop at Bang on a Can Summer Festival. (article)
From Congo, the band Jupiter & Okwess make percussion-driven funky guitar-buoyed crackling dance music. They’ll unleash some of their latest tunes from the record, Kin Sonic, in-studio. (episode)
"Play Like a Girl," "Flutes of a Feather," an all-Eve Beglarian recital, and Brooks Frederickson: A roundup of July 24, via the Bang on a Can Summer Festival's Media Workshop. (article)
Folk songs, scat-singing, an unintended interview with a flutist, and the sound engineer's perspective: A roundup of July 23, via the Media Workshop at Bang on a Can Summer Festival. (article)
Junun is the India-based Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur, a group of Indian musicians called The Rajasthan Express, and Radiohead’s guitarist Jonny Greenwood. They'll play in-studio. (episode)
This week, returns for Pussy Riot, Cat Power, The Hold Steady, and public radio host/musician Chris Thile, plus new music by Marlowe (producer L'Orange and rapper Solemn Brigham.) (article)
Portland, Oregon-based virtuoso Marisa Anderson stretches the boundaries of guitar traditions - country, folk, blues - from spacious laments to transcendent minimalism, in the studio. (episode)