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Spinning On Air Archive
October 2009
Cryptacize
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Cryptacize makes songs that are playful, tuneful, daring, and surprising. Did the songs really come from a magical book, as the band suggests? It seems plausible. Guitarist Chris Cohen used to play with Deerhoof, and he retains some of that exacting wildness. Singer Nedelle Torrisi has one of the most precise and plangent voices around. Together with bassist Aaron Olson and drummer Corey Fogel they set their songs loose in the WNYC Studio, and talk with host David Garland.
Sufjan Stevens' The BQE
Sunday, October 18, 2009
The BQE is a large orchestral piece by Sufjan Stevens inspired by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, its effect on New York, films of the flow and congestion of the Expressway, and also the joys of hoola-hooping. Premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2007, The BQE is full of musical verve and pageantry. Tonight we hear the whole piece, start to finish, without interruption, and with an introduction culled from host David Garland's 2007 interview with Stevens.
Sufjan on Spinning On Air March 5, 2004
Sufjan on Spinning On Air, July 1, 2005
The BQE, Part 6 performed in the WNYC Studio The BQE: Interlude I—Dream Sequence in Subi CircumnavigationElectric Junkyard Gamelan
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Flowerpots, rubber bands, pots and pans, coat hangers, buzzsaw blades, and more--these are the musical instruments of Electric Junkyard Gamelan. Led by composer Terry Dame, the group recycles and repurposes everyday objects into extraordinary music. Drawing on her studies of Indonesian Gamelan music, and her travels in that part of the world, Dame creates rhythmically rich, lively pieces for her four-person ensemble. Host David Garland welcomes the group to the WNYC Studio, where they talk about their work and raise a rousing ruckus.
Electric Junkyard Gamelan performs at Joe's Pub, Monday, Oct. 12 at 9:30 pmVashti Bunyan
Sunday, October 04, 2009
This show first aired in March, 2006, and is a rebroadcast on the occasion of Vashti Bunyan's upcoming return to New York for showings of Kieran Evans' documentary film Vashti Bunyan: From Here To Before at 92YTribeca on Oct. 16 and 17.
British songwriter Vashti Bunyan visits Spinning On Air for her first American performance and radio interview. Her second album, “Lookaftering,” was released 35 years after her first album, and the story of her earlier artistic discouragement and current renewal of creativity is moving and fascinating. Despite the obscurity of Vashti's early work, her music has become an important influence on young "freak-folk" songwriters such as Devendra Banhart. For this show, Vashti joins host David Garland to talk about her life and music, and to perform some songs with guitarist Kevin Barker in the WNYC Studio.
View photos from the March 6, 2006 session
Vashti Bunyan: From Here To Before at 92YTribeca on Oct. 16 and 17
David Garland on the Web
All About WNYC's Music Host
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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