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Francis Harris & Gareth Quinn Redmond, Club to Kankyo Ongaku
Harris and Quinn Redmond talk through the making of ‘Eyes Bright and Low,’ Rachael Lavelle’s vocals, the Japanese idea of ma, and Harris’s case for melancholy as a tool of liberation.
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The Sun Ra Arkestra Play to the Open Sky
A photo essay from two open-air Arkestra shows in Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley, where Knoel Scott stood in for Marshall Allen and dancers and fire shared the bill.
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Wadada Leo Smith’s Long Study of Light
From Einstein’s particles to Teo Macero’s overdubs, the trumpeter traces the ideas behind ‘Constellations and Hemispheres’ and six decades of Ankhrasmation scores.
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Andrew Minear and Phoon Yu Listen Past the Sanctuary Walls
A choir director who once went to raves and an organist who grew up on Game Boy soundtracks bring the whole of their listening to Sunday services.
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Pat Blashill’s Texas Punk, Weird by Design
The Austin-born photographer shot the Big Boys, the Dicks, and the Butthole Surfers from the middle of the crowd, and in ‘Someday All the Adults Will Die! The Birth of Texas Punk,’ he lets the scene tell its story in its own Texan voices.
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Latest from The Tonearm Podcast:

Wadada Leo Smith on Light, Art Scores, and the Studio
Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith on ‘Constellations and Hemispheres,’ Ankhrasmation scores, building records like dub, and choosing love.
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Midori Hirano on The Juniper Tree, Piano, and Synthesizers
Composer Midori Hirano on her new score for The Juniper Tree, the 1990 Björk film, and on piano, modular synths, field recordings, and ma.
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Charlotte Greve on Waterbodies, Saxophone, and Power Ballads
Saxophonist and singer Charlotte Greve on Waterbodies, her first album under her own name, made with Shahzad Ismaily while pregnant with her daughter.
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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.
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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
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