This week is another of those episodes where the geographical and musical compasses take the playlist in many different directions. From the near-world of the AACM, there’s a terrific release by Wadada Leo Smith, Douglas R. Ewart and Mike Reed out on Astral Spirits. Contrasting with that are a pair on Astral Spirits of very out-there albums from Rob Frye and Thollem. Finnish saxophonist Jorma Tapio once led a quartet called Rolling Thunder and how nice that he decided to make their first album available. Other new recordings come from French pianist Benoit Delbecq, an exquisite pairing of Jane Ira Bloom and Mark Helias, and a killin’ track from Slovenian guitarist Samo Salamon with a French quartet. Some great stuff for you. Enjoy!
00:00 Wadada Leo Smith, Douglas R. Ewart & Mike Reed * Sun Beans Of Shimmering Light – Astral Spirits * Unknown Forces * USA
09:42 Host speaks
11:16 Wadada Leo Smith, Douglas R. Ewart & Mike Reed * Sun Beans Of Shimmering Light – Astral Spirits * Super Moon Rising * USA
21:32 Pia Hernandez Quintetto * Relicario – Irazu * La Torre * Argentina
27:17 Emanuele Passerini & Pacho Rossi * Our World – Dodicilune * Praises To The Master * Italy
33:11 Host speaks
36:00 Rolling Thunder * Live In Japan – Self-released * Farewell Song * Finland
44:50 Francois Houle 4 * Recoder – Songlines * The Black Bird * Canada
50:15 Host speaks
51:34 Benoit Delbecq * The Weight Of Light – Pyroclastic * Anamorphoses * France
59:06 Mario Rom’s Interzone * Eternal Fiction – Traumton * Here’s To Another Decade * Austria
1:04:07 Host speaks
1:05:42 Samo Salamon * Live Ones Volume 1 – Self-released * Man Of Mystery * Slovenia
1:14:30 Kevin Sun Trio * (Un) Seaworthy – Endectomorph * Seaworthy (Unseaworthy) * USA
1:20:15 Paulina Porszke Ensemble * Addaptacja – Self-released * D-Town * Poland
1:29:18 Host speaks
1:31:20 Jane Ira Bloom & Mark Helias * Some Kind Of Tomorrow – RL * Roughing It * USA
1:40:42 Nathan Clevenger Group * Stateless – Self-released * Difficult Clocks * USA
1:46:15 Vinny Golia Octet * Nine Winds: New Blood – Nine Winds * Mr. And Mrs. Sam Wells Check Into The Hotel In Bombay * USA
1:52:48 Host speaks
1:53:28 Rolling Thunder * Live In Japan – Self-released * Yarra Yarra * Finland
1:59:52 Orientation Of We * Emergence – OFF * Principle Of Differentiation * USA
2:10:03 Host speaks
2:11:22 Rob Frye * Exoplanet – Astral Spirits * Lightship SGR A Star * USA
2:18:02 Michael Formanek & Peter Formanek * Dyads – Out Of Your Head * Two Not One * USA
2:25:18 Enrique Haneine * Unlayered – Elegant Walk * Seldom Disguise * * USA
2:30:34 Host speaks
2:32:23 Thollem/Valsamis/Greenhill/Kim * Thollem’s Astral Traveling Sessions – Astral Spirits * Track 1 * USA
2:42:18 Krystyna Stanko & Ze Luis Nascimento * Novos Anos – For Tune * Afro Blue II * Poland
2:48:08 Host speaks
2:49:06 Linda Sikhakhane * An Open Dialogue – Self-released * Amakhosi * So.Africa