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On discussing tone rows while hiking, making the MASS MoCA building a participant in recital works, and concerts composed on the spot by Found Sound Nation. (article)
This week, new music from Parisian-Nigerian Asa, the Montreal-based harpist Sarah Pagé, British folk-rock band Red River Dialect, and Norah Jones, with help from Tank and the Bangas. (article)
Hear upbeat songs about darker days from Swedish trio Peter, Bjorn, and John. They play a stripped-down set for us, without John, in-studio. (episode)
Tabla master Zakir Hussain and sitar virtuoso Niladri Kumar, along with peerless jazzer Eric Harland, make musical magic and mayhem in-studio, as part of the Masters of Percussion Tour. (episode)
Week of July 22: This week, sounds from West Africa, and Chicago, courtesy of Beyoncé, Wilco, and more, and music from Senegal by Shaheed & Dixa, Featuring Marieme. (article)
Bayonne, aka Roger Sellers, stacks and layers his voice, synths, acoustic instruments, and percussion through his live looping station for his big-sounding pop songs. He plays in-studio. (episode)
British producer and multi-instrumentalist Quantic (Will Holland) and a full band play groovy, funky, and sometimes jazzy new music from his latest, ‘Atlantic Oscillations’ in-studio. (episode)
Week of July 15: Queen Bey’s new song from The Lion King, Nas looks back, and Anna Meredith takes us for a ride. Plus, Angelica Garcia celebrates her Mexican and Salvadoran roots. (article)
Pianist and programmer Dan Tepfer battles musical & visual algorithms at the piano while exploring the intersection between natural and mechanical processes, in-studio. (episode)
Israeli-Yemeni band A-WA, led by a trio of sisters, mixes hip-hop, reggae, and electronic music with Yemenite traditional music. They’re here to play some of it for us, in-studio. (episode)