Flotation Device 2021-02-07 - The Monk and the Buddha

Join our new co-host Michael Schell as we remember the late Elizabeth Swados, honor the 50th anniversary of key albums by Anthony Braxton, Meredith Monk & the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and surveys remarkable new tracks from Sound-In, the Webber/Morris Big Band, Acoustic Fringe & London Experimental Ensemble (with an unorthodox take on a traditional Celtic ballad). We also sample Žibuoklė Martinaitytė’s coloristic orchestral music and Klangforum Wien's new five-CD box set of solo compositions from the likes of Olga Neuwirth. We close the program with the premiere recording of Robert Moran’s reverberant Buddha goes to Bayreuth. Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world.

Photos: Braxton via New Braxton House, Art Ens. of Chicago via Wikimedia, Martinaitytė by Lina Aiduke, London Experimental Ens. via the artists, Olga Neuwirth by Marion Kalter, Steve Layton, Anna Webber & Angela Morris via the artists, Meredith Monk by Peter Moore, Robert Moran via the artist.