This diverse podcast features composed music from Australia, the UK and Switzerland (by way of Nigeria), electronic music from Canada, and improvised music from the US, including a Sun Ra classic that’s celebrating its 50th anniversary (and which is often seen as a turning point in his career), plus brand-new items indebted to Sun Ra, including John Zorn jamming with Bill Laswell, Mako Sica live at Constellation, and the indefatigable Marshall Allen performing at the age of 97 with Tyler Mitchell and company.
Mother tongues—Igbo and Japanese—emerge as a theme both in Charles Uzor’s remarkable work by that name and in Hildegard Westerkamp’s portrait of intermedia artist Roy Kiyooka which straddles the boundary between musique concrète and audio documentary. Finally, Matt Haimovitz, Fenella Humphreys and the HOCKET duo offer selections from their new anthologies of commissioned lockdown-era miniatures. Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and beyond with host Mike Schell.
