Flotation Device 2025-12-21 - The Best of 2025, Part 1

Flotation Device presents Part 1 of our Best of 2025 retrospective, showcasing the year’s finest new releases of creative and improvised music. Steve Reich, Alex Paxton, Kate Gentile, Matt Mitchell, Sara Serpa, Frederic Rzewski and Tim Berne are among the headliners. Plus, Wayne Horvitz's Pigpen band reemerges through a new archival album, Ig Henneman turns 80, Peter Eötvös’s Windsequenzen turns 50, Trio Mediæval mixes old and new, Putu Septa teaches new tricks to a Balinese gamelan, and Eleanor Alberga rides on the back of a bat. Nastasia Khrushcheva writes dark Christmas songs, Brooks Williams uses AI for good instead of evil, and the For Living Lovers duet releases its first album in over a decade. Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell.