The Brooklyn musician, composer, and performer discusses ‘been thinking bout confession,’ her third album, which she wrote on a century-old baby grand after hitting walls with the guitar, and touches on Sondheim, the pomp of Catholicism, and whether a sound made on a computer counts.

Five years in the writing and forty in the gathering, ‘Dub Revolution’ rebuilds dub’s beginnings out of the engineers who were there, the political map they worked inside, and the studios that doubled as shelter.

Sova means owl, a bird of wisdom in some myths and an omen of evil in others, and on ‘Alight!’ the pianist wants her instrumental music just as open to interpretation.

Twenty-five years of booking bands ended in a burnout Voith is still annoyed about, and ‘Recommended If You Like: A Novel’ is what he did next — free, self-published, and delivered city to city out of an SUV.

Recorded with Randall Dunn, ‘Manifestations in the Shadow of an Uncertain Land’ turns several years of political fatigue into what Lowe calls a “multiphonic landscape of horror,” and the conversation runs from Jodorowsky to low-pass gates by way of his nine years in Om.

Producer Bob Ezrin talks The Jayhawks’ Sanctuary Park, recording live in Toronto, leaving the US, and holding artists to their best work.

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’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.

Producer Martin Bisi on the same Brooklyn building since 1979, the rezoning of Gowanus, why genres work like social movements, and Dancing on the Power Lines.

The saxophonist on McCoy Tyner, his friendship with Pharoah Sanders, and why he doesn’t observe the jazz lineage — he is it. Plus the album’s title story.