03/29/25 - Jam_13

"There was more resistance to the fact I was using computers than to the fact that I was a woman doing music." -- Laurie Spiegel

 Listen to the show below!

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Notes
Laurie Spiegel	The Unquestioned Answer	The Expanding Universe	Philo	1980 (1974-1976)	A soft and atmospheric piece of progressive electronic music. Spiegel's work at Bell Labs places her in the lineage of early electronic pioneers, though emerging during the Kraftwerk revolution.
Krok	Breath of Night Kyiv	Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archies 1971-1996	Light in the Attic	2024 (early 1980s)	A jazz fusion piece from the waning years of the USSR. Smooth and polished. Carries a cosmopolitan tone similar to city pop.
T. Dyson & Company	It's All Over	N/A	Cyndee Music	1980	A rare bedroom synth-funk single from Chicago. Reissued for RSD 2021.
Ellen McIlwaine	Higher Ground	The Real Ellen McIlwaine	Kot'ai	1975	A guitar-and-voice psychedelic blues take on Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground." McIlwaine is generally known for blending folk and blues influences.
Mr. Fingers	Mystery of Love	N/A	Alleviated	1985	Dub-influenced house track by Larry Heard, one of house music's pioneers. Bass-forward mix and experimental textures.
Res	700 Mile Situation	How I Do	MCA	2001	A neo-soul track from Res' debut album, How I Do, which mixes alt-rock, trip-hop, and post-punk revival elements.
Dwight Sykes	Where Ever You Are	Songs Vol. 1	Peoples Potential Unlimited	2013 (1980-1990)	Moody and nocturnal synth-funk track with lo-fi aesthetics. Accidentally aligns itself with vaporwave.
Wilburn Burchette	Birth of a Witch	Guitar Grimoire	Burchette Brothers	1973	Solo guitar piece from a self-taught musician who infused his sound with Tibetan mysticism.
Steve Hiett	Blue Beach - Welcome to Your Beach	Down on the Road by the Beach	Sony/CBS	1983	A dreamy ambient pop track from a photographer-turned-one-time-musician. Originally released exclusively in Japan.

03/22/25 - Jam_12

"Knowing all these little things, I adapt my playing for each individual artist-instead of me just sitting back there and playing for myself." -- Louie Bellson

 Listen to the show below! Note: Sorry I had to cut the show a bit short today. There were some technical issues.

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Notes
Magnum	Your Mind	Fully Loaded	The Phoenix	1974	Obscure psychedelic soul-funk band from the 70s. Released only one album.
Del Jones' Positive Vibes	Court Is Closed	Court Is Closed	Hikeka Records	1973	Politically charged Philadelphia soul group of the early 70s. Self-released two records that are technically the same album.
Louie Bellson & Walfredo de los Reyes	Sentido En Seis	Ecue ritmos cubanos	Pablo	1978	Established jazz drummer teamed up with Afro-Cuban percussionist. Largely a descarga record with a small band. Features Walfredo's son also on percussion.
The Rance Allen Group	That Will Be Good Enough For Me	Truth Is Where It's At	Gospel Truth	1972	Gospel-soul trio of brothers. Church-rooted vocals and Stax-backed grooves. Powerhouse vocals.
Mike and Pam Martin	Lonely Entertainer	Fernwood Pacific	Agustus Records	1975	Country rock couple duo from Colorado. Low fidelity and mellow.
Abdallah Oumbadougou	Anou Malane	Anou Malane	N/A	2019 (1990s)	Pioneering Tuareg guitarist from Niger. Fusion of electric blues with traditional tuareg music, creating the politically revolutionary genre of tishoumaren.
The Invaders	Spacing Out	Spacing Out	Duane	1970	Short-lived Bermudan funk-rock band. Blends psychedelic soul, rock, and funk. Album released during a golden age of black rock music.
Joe Henderson & Alice Coltrane	Earth	The Elements	Milestone	1974	Saxophonist Joe Henderson with spiritual jazz innovator Alice Coltrane. Record journeys through music representative of the four elements air, water, fire and earth.

03/08/25 - Jam_11

"Travis Scott sampled one of the songs and put it on his Grammy album. So after 40, almost 50 years, all of a sudden, the most money I've made in music is in the rap era, so it's pretty wild that happened" -- Chuck Senrick talking about Travis Scott sampling "Don't be So Nice"

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Notes
Chuck Senrick	Don't Be So Nice	Dreamin'	N/A	1977	Lo-fi, minimal lounge pop track. Originally pressed in 200 copies.
Spontaneous Overthrow	All About Money	All About Money	New-Ark Recordings	1984	Outsider soul-funk from Newark PA. Amateurish instrumentation with off-key vocals and somewhat rambling lyrics about being broke.
Shira Small	My Life's Alright	The Line of Time and the Plane of Now	N/A	1974	A mellow pop-soul/jazz-pop track recorded as a high school senior project and distributed in 500 copies.
Willis Alan Ramsey	Muskrat Candlelight	Willis Alan Ramsey	Shelter	1972	Atmospheric folk rock original of "Muskrat Love" later made famous by America and Captain & Tennile.
Faust	Jennifer	Faust IV	Virgin	1973	Rare moment of accessbility from krautrock band Faust.
Tim Buckley	Lorca	Lorca	Elektra	1970	Tense experimental folk track. Demostrates Buckley's shift towards more avant-garde and boundary-pushing sounds.
Charlie Feathers	Can't Hardly Stand It	N/A	King	1956	Rockabilly cut with eerie reverb and jerky vocals. Unintentionally ominous.
Cukor Bila Smert'	The Great Han-Tuan River	Manirna Muzyka	Koka	1990	Darkwave-influenced track from Ukrainian avant-garde scene.
Syrinx	Hollywood Dream Trip	Syrinx	True North	1970	Canadian prog rock band makes ECM-style fusion.

03/01/25 - Jam_10

"I think it’s very pretentious for people to cite influences. It implies that, therefore, you’re carrying this on or taking this farther. Everybody’s always, “I’m influenced by this, I’m influenced by that.” What do you mean “influenced by”? You love that. You imitate that. But who knows whether what you do has anything to do with it." -- Arto Lindsay

 Listen to the show below! 

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Notes
Twin Cosmos	Giniro no Tsubasa	Double Action	N/A	1982	Electronic-tinged psychedelic folk track from a Japanese twin brother duo. Opens first side of their yin-yang concept album.
Arto Lindsay	Simply Are	Noon Chill	Bar/None	1998	A surprisingly mellow art pop track from a former no wave pioneer. 15 years passed, he's clearly far removed from his abrasive DNA days.
Elton Dean's Ninesense	Nicrotto	Happy Daze	Ogun	1978	A sprawling avant-garde jazz piece with spiritual jazz undertones. Free-flowing brass arrangements. Dean was saxophonist for Soft Machine of the Canterbury scene.
Gianni Marchetti	February	Solstitium	RCA Italiana	1978	Smooth, jazzy library music from a prolific b-movie film composer.
Khan Jamal	Breath of Life	Drum Dance to the Motherland	Dogtown	1973	A spacey live vibraphone piece. Reflects Jamal's work with Sun Ra and the Sounds of Liberation.
Charlie Megira	Tomorrow's Gone	The Abtomatic Misterzinger Mambo Chic	N/A	2001	An early hypnagogic pop (read: lo-fi neo-psychedelia) track. Only about two years late from hypnagogic pop pioneers Ariel Pink and John Maus.
Anne-James Chaton & Andy Moor	Princess In A Rover P6 3500s V8	Transfer	Unsounds	2011	A collaboration between a French spoken word artist and an experimental guitarist. Fragmented electroacoustic storytelling. Track likely references Princess Diana.
Stephen Scott	Rainbows, I	New Music for Bowed Piano	New Albion	1983	A post-minimalist composition blending process-driven abstraction with a listenable and meditative quality. Light, airy, and soft sounds.