This week’s podcast is heavy on American originals, starting with the 50th anniversary of Lou Harrison’s La Koro Sutro, the composition that inaugurated his American Gamelan. We also celebrate the 85th birthday of Cage collaborator David Behrman and the 80th of Bitches Brew drummer Jack DeJohnette, and we use Lukas Foss’s centenary as an opportunity to reassess the eclectic output of that once-prominent musical innovator.
NakedEye's new album channels Frank Zappa via Nick Didkovsky, while Brandon Seabrook’s trio spins fractured country music. Ikue Mori convokes her own trio of New Yorkers, while the unusual instrumentation of the T.ON trio (trombone, double bass and “extended snare drum”) attracts the compositional attentions of Sam Pluta and Anne La Berge. Cameos by John Williams and Anne-Sophie Mutter, plus a look back to the mini-craze of brainwave music 50 years ago, round out the playlist. Creative and improvised music with host Michael Schell, originally aired August 14, 2022.
