Spinning On Air Archive
May 2005
Laura Veirs, Rachel Lipson
Friday, May 27, 2005
Against all odds, there are new guitar-playing singer/songwriters with new things to say and new ways to say it. Two such subtle innovators join host David Garland to play and talk about their music in the WNYC studio. Seattle-based Laura Veirs has gained an enthusiastic audience in Europe, and, with the Nonesuch release of her album "Carbon Glacier," is poised for wider exposure here. Her songs about the ocean, the creative impulse, and "topographic lines" have a sophisticated simplicity, and she plays a mean guitar. Rachel Lipson hasn't been widely heard yet, but this performance, which includes ukelele player David Herman Dune, gives you the chance to experience her stripped-down, understated, dream-like songs which have one foot in Woody Guthrie territory and the other in the avant garde.
M. Ward and Mike Wexler
Friday, May 20, 2005
Two songwriters each present their music in the WNYC studio. M. Ward's fourth album, "Transistor Radio," has pleased his many fans and won him some new ones. In part it grows out of his love of discovering music through the radio. He has interesting things to say about the medium, and for our radio microphones he performs some of the album's gentle, rough-hewn, heart-felt songs. And here's a chance to discover something new through your radio: Mike Wexler's first album doesn't come out until next month, but on this show he brings his guitar to our studio, dims the lights, and plays a set of his beautifully nocturnal, unique and memorable songsand you heard him here first, on your radio.
» View slideshow of Mike Wexler on Spinning on Air
The Refined and the Raw
Friday, May 13, 2005
Argentinian singer/songwriter Juana Molina balances beautiful simplicity with sonic complexity in her songs, mingling her gentle voice and guitar with percolating pots of caffeinated electronics. The refined and the raw also combine in the glitchy tenderness of Mum, the dour joy of Greg Weeks, and the quiet scream of Michael Gira. This show also features some instrumentals and songs by The Vanity Set, Slim Gaillard, John Barry, David Byrne, Fred Frith, etc., plus host David Garland offering the occasional entertaining exhortation to become a member of WNYC.
Dewanatron
Friday, May 06, 2005
Dewanatron plays live electronic music on analog synthesizers they design and build themselves, making exciting, unpredictable sounds that harken back to the Golden Age of electronic music. Cousins Brian and Leon Dewan have been tinkering with electronic sounds since they were kids. Each has gone on to become an unsual songwriter (Leon with the group The Happiest Guys in the World, and Brian with his solo projects such as "The Operating Theater"). In the last couple of years they've been inventing and playing electronic instruments such as the Courtesy Modulator, the Swarmatron, and their latest, most ambitious instrument, the Dual Primate Console. Dewanatron joins host David Garland in the WNYC studio for an entertaining presentation and discussion of their unique instruments.
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David Garland, host of WNYC's Evening Music and Spinning on Air, is also a composer and a performer. He has performed his music extensively in the U.S. and Europe and several of his recordings and downloads are available on his Web site, DavidGarland.com.
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