So Many Marimbas...
...And only an hour of music for marimbas and marimba-like instruments from various traditions on this New Sounds program. Hear from Oreka Tx, a duo from Spain, who perform on an instrument made of...
View ArticleKraftwerk Re-Covered
For this New Sounds program, it's a step beyond your pocket calculator -we'll hear all sorts of arrangements of Kraftwerk songs. There'll be an acoustic version of "The Mirror Stage" featuring lutenist...
View ArticleImpatience Is Also a Virtue
There’s been too much quiet for too long from the desk of the All-Purpose Assistant (NSAPA.) There was much activity in the brief hiatus - like getting more podcasts cleared, baking cookies, starting...
View ArticlePercussive Roots, New Routes
For this New Sounds program, hear musical works that begin with a percussive idea, maybe even a traditional one, but then end up someplace else. Listen to a work by drummer/composer Dosh (probably...
View ArticleNew Music From England
Hear new music from England, including brand-new off-world music from ”The Red Book,” the second record by the global chamber/world music group Penguin Café, (as led by Arthur Jeffes, the son of the...
View ArticlePercussive Roots, New Routes
For this New Sounds program, hear musical works that begin with a percussive idea, maybe even a traditional one, but then end up someplace else. Listen to a work by drummer/composer Dosh (also known as...
View ArticleNew Music From England
Hear new music from England, including brand-new off-world music from ”The Red Book,” the second record by the global chamber/world music group Penguin Café, (as led by Arthur Jeffes, the son of the...
View Article#3568: Percussive Roots, New Routes
For this New Sounds program, hear musical works that begin with a percussive idea, maybe even a traditional one, but then end up someplace else. Listen to a work by drummer/composer Dosh (also known as...
View Article#3570: New Music From England
Hear new music from England, including brand-new off-world music from ”The Red Book,” the second record by the global chamber/world music group Penguin Café, (as led by Arthur Jeffes, the son of the...
View Article#2930: Kraftwerk Re-Covered
Florian Schneider, co-founder of the German synthpop pioneers Kraftwerk, has died at 73. To mark his passing, listen to all sorts of arrangements of Kraftwerk songs. There'll be an acoustic version of...
View Article#4478, New Releases, March 2021
It’s the most wonderful time of the month! Listen to some of the freshest new music that made its way into our earholes via the interwebs. There’s contemporary Arabic folk music which contains oceans...
View Article#4594, Southeast Asian Percussion in Western Music
Hear some of the gong-chime instruments of Thailand and Cambodia, along with music that uses Javanese gamelan and Balinese gamelan in music by (mostly) Western composers.There’s music by Irish composer...
View Article#4594, Southeast Asian Percussion in Western Music
Hear some of the gong-chime instruments of Thailand and Cambodia, along with music that uses Javanese gamelan and Balinese gamelan in music by (mostly) Western composers.There’s music by Irish composer...
View Article#4799, Percussion and Electronics
Hear the combination of percussion and electronics in works performed by Brooklyn-based Pathos Trio, by Jlin with Third Coast Percussion and music from South African collective IzangoMa.Brooklyn-based...
View Article#4594, Southeast Asian Percussion in Western Music
Hear some of the gong-chime instruments of Thailand and Cambodia, along with music that uses Javanese gamelan and Balinese gamelan in music by (mostly) Western composers.There’s music by Irish composer...
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