Spinning On Air Archive
May 2007
American Song Now
Sunday, May 27, 2007
In this special two-hour (7-9 pm) edition of the show for WNYC's American Music Festival, host David Garland illuminates the extraordinary vitality of current American songwriting by drawing on Spinning On Air's library of unique in-studio performances. Hear daring, powerful, personal songs by genre-bending innovators Deerhoof, Dirty Projectors, Larkin Grimm, Feathers, Sufjan Stevens, Akron/Family, Lisa Germano, Death Vessel, Weird Weeds, Devendra Banhart, Wooden Wand, Diane Cluck, David Deporis, Rio en Medio, and many others.
Jana Hunter with John Hunter
Sunday, May 20, 2007
With a vocal style that sounds both off-hand and carefully focused, Texan Jana Hunter gives her songs a lilt and mystery that makes her music strange, familiar, and uniquely her own. She visited Spinning On Air before in 2005, but when Jana was in town a couple weeks ago she dropped by host David Garland’s living room to record a new session for today’s show. She brought along two of her eight siblings. One sister just listened, and brother John Hunter plays some subtle electric guitar and sings low bass back-up.
View photos from the session
Jana Hunter at MySpace
Jana Hunter at Gnomonsong
John Hunter, aka Inoculist, at MySpace
Song Homes
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Clearing new song territory with their voices, passion, and inventiveness, these songwriters are building elegant, ramshackle, very personal homes for themselves, and inviting us in. Host David Garland takes us to selections from the new EP Joanna Newsom recorded with her touring group the Ys Street Band; a couple of old recordings by Ruthann Friedman, and Dana Westover; and new songs by Kevin House, Seth Olinsky of Akron/Family, Cameron Hull, Nonloc, and Matteah Baim.
Joanna Newsom at Wikipedia
Ruthann Friedman
Dana Westover
NonLoc
Kevin House at MySpace
Cameron Hull at MySpace
Matteah Baim at MySpace
Seth Olinksy's The Best of Seth
Rio en Medio
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Danielle Stech-Homsy’s first home was a trailer in the mountains of New Mexico, and that landscape seems to echo in her songs. For her project Rio en Medio she writes and performs tuneful songs interlaced with precisely placed electronic and processed sounds, and percussion that ranges from thundering drums to the delicate notes of rubbed wine glasses, and (literally) pots and pans. With musicians Tim Fite and Justin Riddle, Danielle plays her visionary songs in the WNYC Studio and talks with host David Garland.
View photos from the session
Danielle Stech-Homsy
Rio en Medio at MySpace
Rio en Medio at Gnomonsong
Danielle and Tim's project The Water Island at MySpace
Tim Fite
Tim at MySpace
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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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