Flotation Device 2022-01-02 - The last of the best of 2021

Flotation Device wraps up its survey of the past year’s most intriguing new releases of creative and improvised music. In the spotlight are some of our 2021 interviewees—Ingrid Laubrock, Anna Webber and Michael Gregory Jackson—plus avant-rock from Błoto and The Flying Luttenbachers, avant-disco from Gabriel Prokofiev, The Locals’ unusual take on Anthony Braxton, and the cross-cultural contemplations of David Shea’s Thousand Buddha Caves. Evan Parker and Matthew Shipp play a loud duet as do Bill Orcutt and Chris Corsano. Anna von Hausswolff combines minimalism with pre-modern organ tuning, while Nate Wooley advances long-form improvisational composition and Žibuoklė Martinaitytė explores light and darkness in an atmospheric piano concerto. One last bit of '70s Residents residue rounds out the playlist for two hours of cliché-free post-holiday listening. Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and beyond with host Mike Schell.

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