#4518, Electroacoustic Music
Hear electroacoustic music with improvisation and a sense of place or just space-is-the-place by London's cosmic jazz trio The Comet Is Coming, Texas combo Olsen St. Clair, and NY sax player/composer Lea Bertucci.
From London, listen to music for after the end of the world from cosmic dance jazz party trio The Comet Is Coming, which features Shabaka Hutchings “King Shabaka” on sax, Max Hallett “Betamax” on drums, and Dan Leavers “Danalogue” on keys. Then, listen to music by Manchester-born bandleader, composer, saxophonist, activist and orator Alabaster DePlume, from a new collection of instrumental tunes, this one featuring ‘Danalogue’ from The Comet Is Coming. Plus, hear the electronically-treated music by the UK duo of musician-producers Nightports in collaboration with the improvised acoustic drums of Betamax, aka Max Hallett of The Comet Is Coming.
Also, hear music from Texas by composers Jeffrey Olson and Michael St. Clair, as Olsen St. Clair, inspired by spiritual jazz and the sweeping emptiness of expansive western landscapes. There’s more sax and electronics from New Yorker Lea Bertucci which also explores themes of place and the American landscape, by bringing together field recordings and ambient soundscapes recorded in both New York City and in Omaha, Nebraska.
Listen to music inspired by shifting clouds of starlings at dusk by Kirsten Volness, which features improvisation, fixed media and live processing of piano, double-bass and percussion. There’s also music by T. Griffin for a art world documentary film called The Proposal, which combines guitars, horns, upright bass and acoustic percussion with electronics, sampling and ambient treatments. That, and more. – Caryn Havlik
Program #4518, Electroacoustic Music (First Aired 7/20/2021)
ARTIST: The Comet Is Coming
WORK: The Seven Planetary Heavens [1:00]
RECORDING: The Afterlife
SOURCE: Impulse! Records / UMG Recordings, Inc.
INFO: https://verve.lnk.to/TheAfterlife
ARTIST: Olson St. Clair
WORK: Entropy Peak [3:56]
RECORDING: Western Free
SOURCE: Chant Records
INFO: chantrecords.com | https://soulspazm.ffm.to/westernfree
ARTIST: Kirsten Volness
WORK: Murmurations [6:28]
RECORDING: Murmurations
SOURCE/INFO: kirstenvolness.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: T. Griffin
WORK: Grass Horns II [3:32]
RECORDING: The Proposal
SOURCE: Constellation Records
INFO: cstrecords.com
ARTIST: The Comet Is Coming
WORK: The Seven Planetary Heavens [6:31]
RECORDING: The Afterlife
SOURCE: Impulse! Records / UMG Recordings, Inc.
INFO: https://verve.lnk.to/TheAfterlife
ARTIST: Nightports with Betamax
WORK: Amalgam [5:06]
RECORDING: Nightports with Betamax
SOURCE: The Leaf Label
INFO: nightports.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Alabaster DePlume feat. Danalogue
WORK: The Lucky Ones [6:41]
RECORDING: To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1
SOURCE: International Anthem
INFO: intlanthem.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Lea Bertucci
WORK: To Bridge the Chasm of Experience [7:20]
RECORDING: A Visible Length Of Light
SOURCE: Cibachrome Editions
INFO: leabertucci.bandcamp.com
ARTIST: Cóemgin Cúíl
WORK: There was no gravity [6:37]
RECORDING: Murmurations
SOURCE: Ambient5
INFO: Available via AppleMusic, Youtube Music, Amazon.com, Spotify
