Join host Michael Schell as he honors the 50th anniversary of the Mahavishnu Orchestra with new avant-rock in its lineage from Nancy Bigfoot and the French band PoiL (coupled with vocalist/biwa player Junko Ueda for some 13th century Japanese war prog). Next comes a sampling of new compositions from John Harbison, Christian Wolff and Erkki-Sven Tüür, followed by four different takes on postmodern repetitiveness from Bernhard Lang, Wolfgang Mitterer, Anna von Hausswolff (on Europe’s largest meantone organ) and the late “Blue” Gene Tyranny. We cap things off with a remarkable Don Cherry octet jam from 1968 that’s just been rediscovered following decades of oblivion. Creative and improvised music from around the world!
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