Radio Eclectus #97: de Sade chills out (Sep. 23, 2021)

Radio Eclectus bids farewell to Sylvano Bussotti with a mini-retrospective of his iconoclastic work as a composer and stage director, including a look at his opera after Marquis de Sade. We also honor the 50th anniversary of key works by Sciarrino and Druckman (the latter also featuring a de Sade reference). And we celebrate John Coltrane’s 95th birthday by relating his work to new improvisation projects by William Parker, Nate Wooley, Kate Gentile and Matt Mitchell.

The CHORD duo supplies post-metal distortion while Steve Layton supplies glitches. Then comes new concertos for piano, voices and flute by two young composers: Elizabeth Ogonek and Martin Suckling. We conclude with a full uninterrupted hour of radical new chill music in the drone and dark ambient traditions by David Shea, Sarah Davachi, The Bastard Kings of Samadhi and Xiu Xiu’s Angelo Seo. Uncompromising music for extraordinary listeners, with host Michael Schell.

Annotated playlist and photo credits in Comments.