Latest from The Tonearm:
Life and Death in Jon Hassell’s Fourth World
A longtime devotee goes back through more than four decades of Hassell’s music and talks with co-producer Jeff Rona about the ‘City’ sessions, the self-sampling, and the posthumous ‘Music Is Invisible.’
Blake Leyh
Mark Isham’s Harnessed Noise — Trumpet, Synths, Nels Cline
On ‘At the Carousel Club,’ Mark Isham turns a wall of vintage synthesizers, Nels Cline, and a string quartet loose, all while keeping the editor in his head at bay.
Lawrence Peryer
Olaf Rupp Slaughters the Sound for the Greater Good
On ‘Fuzzy Logic,’ Olaf Rupp pushes a small amplifier past its limit and captures the wreckage at what he calls “the volume of a kitchen radio.”
khagan aslanov
The Warm, Cosmic Company of megiapa
On megiapa’s ‘Intentions,’ voice notes from her grandmother, her mother, and her closest friends drift through the synth haze, a family album cut to beats.
Meredith Hobbs Coons
Grief, Glitch, and the Harp of Lara Somogyi
Harpist Lara Somogyi talks through ‘a [time] patterned,’ from delay pedals and disrupted loops to Steve Reich and ‘A Pattern Language,’ the architecture handbook that gave the album many of its titles.
Jonah Evans
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Morning in Marin: David Perlis on the Marin Counterculture
Author David Perlis on Morning in Marin, his history of the Marin counterculture that drew Alan Watts, the Grateful Dead, George Lucas, and Philip K. Dick.
Mark Isham on his new album At the Carousel Club
The Grammy-winning trumpeter and film composer joins us to discuss ‘At the Carousel Club,’ his first solo album in 15 years, built from a wall of vintage analog synthesizers and a band featuring Nels
Bob Ezrin on Producing The Jayhawks’ Sanctuary Park
Producer Bob Ezrin talks The Jayhawks’ Sanctuary Park, recording live in Toronto, leaving the US, and holding artists to their best work.
Dub Revolution: David Katz on King Tubby and Dub’s Origins
David Katz on Dub Revolution: how King Tubby, Lee Perry, and Scientist built dub, and why its origins run earlier than the usual story allows.
Fling ii Interview: Michigan Motorik and Modular Synths
Fling ii’s Brad Gowland and Richard Murphy on ‘3’ — forty-minute jams in a Michigan church cut to six-minute tracks, with pedal steel over motorik.
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