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Songwriter and Musician Fantastic Negrito Turns Trauma Into Art
Episode 96
The story of Fantastic Negrito is one of those stranger-than-fiction tales – born Xavier Dphrepaulezz and raised in a strict Muslim home, he had an a…
1 year, 7 months ago
Hermanos Gutiérrez: Two Guitars Are Enough, Live, From National Sawdust
Episode 95
Hermanos Gutierrez is a band formed of the brothers Alejandro and Estevan Gutiérrez, based in Switzerland, who make instrumental music that looks to …
1 year, 7 months ago
Loup Barrow's Otherworldly Music For Cristal Baschet, In-Studio
Episode 94
The Cristal Baschet is a very rare and delicate otherworldly-sounding glass organ comprised of 56 chromatically-tuned glass rods. Only a handful of m…
1 year, 7 months ago
Scottish Composer Erland Cooper's Naturally-Aged Ambient Classical, In-Studio
Episode 93
Scottish composer Erland Cooper writes ambient classical works that celebrate nature and create a strong sense of place. These days there are lots of…
1 year, 7 months ago
Playful Trio Heavy MakeUp Makes Up Songs, In-Studio
Episode 92
The trio Heavy MakeUp uses voice, synths, drum machines, and brass to improvise songs on the spot. Together, the band is singer and songwriter Edie B…
1 year, 8 months ago
Kaizers Orchestra's Unholy Punk Cabaret, Straight From Norway, No Chaser, Live
Episode 91
The Norwegian sextet Kaizers Orchestra combines rock, opera, Balkan music, and a kind of punk cabaret with character studies and heavy drinking to g…
1 year, 8 months ago
My Brightest Diamond Fights For A Better Future In Song
Episode 90
My Brightest Diamond is the project led by singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and composer Shara Nova (formerly Worden), who has continued to …
1 year, 8 months ago
Geordie Greep (of black midi) Shocks and Delights, In-Studio
Episode 89
Geordie Greep was the lead singer and guitarist for the celebrated British rock band black midi. With that band on indefinite hiatus, Greep is now fo…
1 year, 8 months ago
Lollise Creates Danceable Afrofuturist Pop, In-Studio
Episode 88
Lollise is a musician, fashion designer, and visual artist from Botswana in southern Africa, now based here in New York. After many years of recordin…
1 year, 8 months ago
Brighton's Vintage-Pop Band The Heavy Heavy, In-Studio
Episode 87
The Heavy Heavy is a band out of Brighton, England – but they sound like a band that’s been time-shifted straight out of 1975. Led by lifelong musici…
1 year, 8 months ago