Flotation Device 2025-04-20 - Canticle of the Talk Show

In this show we sample new improvised music from Japan and North America, new composed music from Europe, and a few odds and ends to fill in the gaps. We preview trumpeter Steph Richards' new intermedia project Talk Show, which was just premiered in Seattle, and look back at the unlikely power trio of Keiji Haino, Bill Laswell and Rashied Ali via an archival recording that captures them live in 2005. Meanwhile, Satoko Fujii discovers strings, Michael Bisio assembles a quartet with viola and English horn, and the Ben Monder/Phil Haynes duo take Coltrane outside. Maddie Ashman makes her Flotation Device debut channeling Harry Partch, while Didier Rotella and the Nimikry duo do likewise using hybrid instruments. Francisco Coll and Thomas Larcher have new portrait albums to explore, and we close the program with another installment in our ongoing Sofia Gubaidulina tribute that focuses on her craggy religious music. Creative and improvised music with host Michael Schell.