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Hear electronic music by Katie Gately, Jake Blount's banjo and fiddle, Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara, Joachim Cooder's electric thumb piano, and Gwenifer Raymond's fingerstyle guitar. (episode)
Hear the definitive 2020 holiday song by Great American Canyon Band, a winter solstice blessing from Wardruna, and a choral album – in Latin – by Kanye West. Plus, Omar Sosa with Rajery. (article)
Listen to Brooklyn Afrobeat band Antibalas, Dublin drone folksters Lankum, folk songwriter Anjimile, Kazakh/British violinist Galya Bisengalieva, and John Darnielle (Mountain Goats.) (episode)
The young piano maestro Stewart Goodyear, known as both an improviser and composer, plays his own arrangements of pieces from Tchaikovsky's 'The Nutcracker,' in-studio. (Archives, 2015.) (episode)
Scottish-born Maeve Gilchrist writes and plays new music for an old instrument: the Celtic harp. She performs some of her own compositions with the Rasa String Quartet for the podcast. (episode)
Week of Dec. 21: This week, Paul McCartney returns, Branford Marsalis scores Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and Miami shoegazey psych-rock band Jaialai scores with a new single. (article)
Squarepusher, the "intelligent dance music" artist, performs songs from his 2015 latest project, Damogen Furies, in-studio. (From the Archives.) (episode)
Back in 2015, the Australian songwriter played songs from her album, 'Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit,' in The Greene Space. (From the Archives.) (episode)
This week, another Taylor Swift surprise, Natalie Bergman looks ahead to better times, and Las Palabras offer a Latin-Minimalist hybrid. Plus, a duet by Archie Shepp and Jason Moran. (article)
Staten Island's The Budos Band summons the heavy doom on its instrumental funk and groove-laden record, 'Burnt Offering', in-studio. (From the archives, 2014.) (episode)