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January 2006

Sam Rosen, Nat Baldwin, & Deer Tick

Sunday, January 29, 2006

Three young songwriters drop in to the WNYC Studio and join host David Garland to play and talk bout their music. Sam Rosen just turned 18, but he's already busily touring, and here he shows us what he's up to so far. Nat Baldwin has been on Spinning On Air before, as a member of Dirty Projectors. This time he accompanies himself on bowed double-bass as he sings his unusual songs and tells about his transition from hitting a wall in experimentalism to opening his own door into song. John McCauley presents his band Deer Tick, along with bassist Jessica and drummer Paul, and sings about blood moons and dirty dishes. Catch some songwriters as they're beginning to find their own voices.


Song Shapes

Sunday, January 22, 2006

If this collection of songs were a sculpture exhibit, you'd see large, branching forms, little curlicues, boxes-within-boxes, daintily shaped human figures, welded girders, and unchiseled blocks of marble. On exhibit are songs by people who are offering new options for the shape of songs: Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice, Alvin Curran, Little Wings, Becky Stark, Ana Moura, Islaja, Elephant Micah, Diane Cluck, Amy Kohn, and others.


Downlode

Sunday, January 15, 2006

There's great music on the Internet that's available at the click of a mouse. Lots of imaginative, wonderful music has been made available free by its creators, just so it can be heard. Host David Garland has been filling his hard drive with some obscure treasures, and offers some of the best on this show, with links so you can get the songs yourself. There's great stuff by groups you probably haven't heard before, but will probably want to hear again: Golden Ball, Shapes and Sizes, Au Revoir Simone, The Physics of Meaning, W-S Burn, and The Weird Weeds. The centerpiece of the program is "Seven New Songs of Mount Eerie," a beautiful suite of songs about the woods, thoughtfulness, and what braids might say if they could sing, by Phil Elvrum, a guy eloquently connected to his unique muse.


The Best of 2005's Sessions, part 2

Sunday, January 08, 2006

2005 was a great year for in-studio performances on Spinning On Air, so this week and next we'll hear some of the passionate, compelling, surprising music recorded for the program during the past year.

Featured are artists who are finding new paths connecting art and pop, and new ways to reach us with music. Host David Garland has chosen examples of great, creative songwriting in performances that can't be heard anywhere else. This week: Antony and the Johnsons, Jose Gonzalez, Michael Gira's Angels of Light, M. Ward, John Vanderslice, A Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band, Dirty Projectors, Viking Moses, and Jana Hunter.

» Visit the Spinning On Air on-line archive to hear full sessions and interviews with these and other musicians


The Best of 2005's Sessions, part 1

Sunday, January 01, 2006

2005 was a great year for in-studio performances on Spinning On Air, so this week and next we'll hear some of the passionate, compelling, surprising music recorded for the program during the past year.

Featured are artists who are finding new paths connecting art and pop, and new ways to reach us with music. Host David Garland has chosen examples of great, creative songwriting in performances that can't be heard anywhere else. This week: Sufjan Stevens and the Illinoisemakers, Akron/Family, Mike Wexler, The Wingdale Community Singers, Hannah Marcus, Brian Lipson, Michael Holt, Amy Kohn's radio opera "1 Plum Sq.," Colleen, and Doveman. Next week: Antony and the Johnsons, Jose Gonzalez, Michael Gira's Angels of Light, M. Ward, John Vanderslice, A Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band, Dirty Projectors, Viking Moses, and Jana Hunter.

» Visit the Spinning On Air on-line archive to hear full sessions and interviews with these and other musicians: