Her Instrument-Damaging Technique
This week: DoYeon Kim, Caroline Davis, Maria Schneider, System 7, Unwed Sailor, and more. Plus, saxophonist Chris Potter explains how abolitionist John Brown inspired and influenced his new album.
Ghost Notes from Wyoming — Caroline Davis's 'Fallows'
In conversation about 'Fallows,' an album made alone in a Wyoming cabin, Caroline Davis reflects on the ancestral figures who accompanied her during the residency, the saxophone techniques she invented in solitude, and an advocacy practice devoted to carceral justice and gender equity in jazz.
Invented Phonetics + Theatrical Instincts
This week: Meet YAGÓDY, The Notwist, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Miho Hazama, and Frank Fairfield. Plus, we get a behind-the-scenes look at a new project that offers a remix spin on The Sun Ra Arkestra.
The Life of the Podium — Miho Hazama's 'Frames'
While composing 'Frames,' her third album with the Danish Radio Big Band, Miho Hazama lost her mentor Jim McNeely — and his absence, folded into the absorbed idioms of six other former conductors, became part of the music.
Unsettled by the Burning Instrument
This week: Tomeka Reid, Dälek, Billy Fuller of Beak>, Miho Hazama, Youniss, and so much more. Also, Mehmet Sanlikol explains how his electric oud makes him sound a little like Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Tomeka Reid's Low End Theory
The cellist reflects on twelve years with her quartet, the making of their fourth album, 'dance! skip! hop!', a family archive of Black life in Wyoming, and the two figures named CeCe who bookend her path in jazz.
A Minimalist Document of Place
This week: Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, + Macie Stewart, Min Xiao-Fen, Ben Wendel, Tomeka Reid, Rupert Pupkin, and more. Plus, Berlin-based quintet Conic Rose espouse the joys of tempeh.
Heaven in a Semicircle — Ben Wendel and the New Mallet Generation
Placing himself in the middle of four distinct mallet improvisers, Wendel discusses how 'BaRcoDe' turned the trance-inducing logic of bars, effects pedals, and extended technique into music he describes as living "in its own little universe."
A Shared Dream of Playing in the Crater
This week: Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore, Gregory Uhlmann, Peter Baumann, David August, worriedaboutsatan, and Ben Wendel. Plus, Rachel Lime tells us about creating a universe.
Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore — "Come Join Us Here in the Future"
Barwick and Lattimore discuss 'Tragic Magic', a debut collaboration recorded on vintage instruments from the Musée de la Musique, the guilt and gratitude of leaving a burning city for Paris, and a shared dream of one day playing in James Turrell's Roden Crater.
The Intimate Machinery of David August's 'Hymns'
The German-Italian producer David August returns to the piano he has known since childhood on 'Hymns,' nine devotional improvisations treated with prepared strings and recorded to preserve every creak and breath of a century-old instrument.
The Loudest Bird Call on Earth
This week: Colin Blunstone, Bellbird, Sibyl, Mike Watt joins Galecstasy for some jams, and Mary Lattimore joins Julianna Barwick for our podcast. Plus David Harrington of Kronos Quartet on Mahalia Jackson.