Spinning On Air Archive
June 2006
The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Performing their dramatic, mysterious, politically-charged songs, the seven members of The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band (all of whom sing) bring their violins, cello, double bass, drums, and electric and acoustic guitars all the way from Montreal to the WNYC studio for Spinning On Air. Host David Garland welcomes them and discusses with them their songs about citizens, missiles, electric chairs, beauty, and strength.
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Flowers From the Man Who Shot Your Cousin and others
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Paris-based songwriter Morgan Caris records under the unusual name
Flowers From the Man Who Shot Your Cousin. His songs (sung in English)
are more subtly unusual, with gentle surfaces that belie their churning depths. Abrupt twists in the lyrics, and understated surprises in the music, tend to make listeners lose their balance and fall into an unusual place. We'll hear from Morgan's new, first album, and also from a few other musicians with surprising songs. Larkin Grimm brings us on a nine-minute, layered song-journey; Faun Fables takes us on her commute; 7 Year Rabbit Cycle sings of puppies, with percussive drama; and The Finches, Burd Early, and First Nation let us into their unique musical homes.
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Seductive Sprigs
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Some songs can seduce you into a sense of comfort and ease. The songs of Seductive Sprigs do not do that. They are aggressively angular, disorienting, and played with concentrated precision. And yet they do seduce the listener into an intimate relation to the music by demanding attention and provoking thought. Brooklyn-based musicians Matthew Hough and Charlie Looker both sing and play electric guitars. In Seductive Sprigs they blend their voices and guitars into an intricately interwoven web of restless music that will surely snare some new listeners as they perform their songs in the WNYC studio, and talk about their music with host David Garland.
Feathers
Sunday, June 04, 2006
The green hills of Vermont provide plenty of room for eccentric growth. The group Feathers resides there, and it's a large band of songwriters who are multi-instrumentalists and singers. Their music has been
described as psych-folk, but the complexity and variety of their songs
show that categories aren't their concern. Sometimes lilting, sometimes angular, Feathers' songs float comfortably across the supposed borders between tradition and experimentation. For this show Feathers brings their guitars, mandolins, banjos, violins, drums, (etc., etc.), into the WNYC studio to perform their songs, and chat with host David Garland.
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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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