Jake Blount

Best of Soundcheck 2022, Part 1

Soundcheck | Dec 26, 2022

Listen to some bright spots from this off-again-on-again year of live performances from the Soundcheck Podcast. There’s a live performance by Punjab party band Red Baraat recorded at the New Sounds 40th Anniversary Show at Brooklyn Bowl; a moving piece by South London-based musician and wordsmith Kae Tempest; and an Afro-Futurist American singer, banjo player, and ethnomusicologist Jake Blount. Also, listen to Puerto Rican singer-songwriter iLe and her socially-conscious art-rock tinged with some psychedelia. There’s also music from Sardinian guitarist, composer, ethnomusicologist, and instrument builder Paolo Angeli.

ARTIST: Red Baraat
WORK: Zindabad [6:23]
RECORDING: Live for the Soundcheck Podcast, Sept. 2022
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available. 
INFO: A version appears on Red Baraat’s album Bhangra Pirates

ARTIST: iLe
WORK: “(Escapándome) De Mí [2:54]
RECORDING: Live for the Soundcheck Podcast, Oct. 2022
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available. 
INFO: A version appears on Ile’s record, Nacarile

ARTIST: Kae Tempest
WORK: Salt Coast [5:38]
RECORDING: Live for the Soundcheck Podcast, April. 2022
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available. 
INFO: A version appears on Kae Tempest’s record,The Line is a Curve

ARTIST: Jake Blount
WORK: Once There Was No Sun [4:17]
RECORDING: Live for the Soundcheck Podcast, Oct. 2022
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available. 
INFO: A version appears on Jake Blount’s album, The New Faith

ARTIST: Paolo Angeli
WORK: Baklawa [6:31]
RECORDING: Live for the Soundcheck Podcast, Oct. 2022
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available. 
INFO: A version appears on Paolo Angeli’s 2022 release, Rade

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