Different Noises

This selection of music drifts across borders and decades, tracing a path from Dara Starr Tucker’s ethereal lullaby to Charles Tolliver’s fiery live invocation. It’s a voyage through jazz’s many dialects—big band warmth, avant-garde abstraction, global fusion, and spiritual depth. Each track marks a waypoint: Bonnie Jensen’s breezy swing, Henry Threadgill’s cryptic miniatures, Samara Joy’s playful...

Two hours of exploratory sound where the compass spins and the map’s been tossed. This isn’t a curated journey, it’s a cautious wander through, amongst other things, no wave abrasion, dubwise undercurrents, jazz reflections, and outsider poetics. Featuring:  Neon Kittens - White Light In Our Ears - We threw away the map and cautiously made our own way On Diamond - Downslide - Downslide John Ward -...

A show with mostly new releases with a mix of various genres of jazz features many fine examples of the use of the guitar. The show also includes a re-release from Steve Smith and more from the Strata-East catalogue. Playlist   Kevin Brunkhorst “As Fate Would Have It” from After The Fire (Calligram Records) 00:00 Toby Wren Standards Trio “Interplay” from Jazz in Meanjin 018: Live at JMI (4000 Reco...

A selection that drifts between the spectral and the grounded, the whispered and the defiant. From Jess Ribeiro’s hushed invocation to The Stolen Moans’ clawed surrealism, this sequence threads together outsider pop, experimental folk, and post-everything reflections. Each track feels like a dispatch from a parallel scene—whether it’s Hand To Earth’s Yolŋu-rooted reverence, Moff Skellington’s surr...

A selection of new releases coupled with more exciting music from the re-release of the Strata-East catalogue and to open a fascinating snap shot of late 60s free jazz. Steve Tintweiss and The Purple Why “California Sandra” from Live In Tompkins Square Park (Inky Dot Media) 00:00 Webber Morris Big Band “Just Intonation Etudes for Big Band - Unseparate 1” from Unseperate (Out Of Your Head Records)...

Three new tracks from The Screaming Love Collective dominate a show packed with new releases and current favourites. Rún - Strike It - Rún Me Lost Me - Lasting, Not To Last - This Material Moment Stomach - Get Through Winter - Low Demon The Mind Sweepers - Catch Yourself - Live At Lovers Lane Origami Horses - The Book Of Ruth (Part 2) - In Love And In Dub The Screaming Love Collective - London I...

A selection of brand new releases from around the world together with four more great examples from the recent re-issue of the Strata-East catalogue provides for a fascinating two hours of music.   David Bailis “Ordinary Trash” from Running Through My Mind (Create or Destroy) 00:00 Pat Petrillo “Late Night Diner” from Contemporaneous (Innervision Records) 04:25 Aruán Ortiz “Légitime Défense” fro...

Pop, Dub, Metal, Prog and things in between. Mostly new material and current obsessions. Variety is the watchword. Noise is an underlying component. This is an antidote to safe programming: Origami Horses - King Crimson - King Crimson Jah Wobble - Existential Dub - Dub Volume 1 Don Husky - Show Love - Show Love Bright Sunshine - Failure To Execute - Executive Power Supreme Digital Negative - Trapp...

A varied selection of new releases interspersed with tracks from Ivo Perelman’s six volume set The Art of Improv focuses on the importance of improvisation in Jazz. Jon Irabagon’s PlainsPeak  “Tiny Miracles (at a Funeral for a Friend)” from Someone to Someone (Irabbagast Records) 00:00 Ivo Perelman, Karl Berger, Gerald Cleaver “Part 1” from The Art Of The Improv Trio Volume 1 (Leo Records) 05:44 G...

A mix of older material and brand new releases this time. A wide variety of genres are in play. Danny Short - Dancing Girl - Dancing Girl Mark Corrin - Long Shelf Life Or Once A Goth (Always A Goth) - Long Shelf Life Black Lips - Tippy Tongue - Tippy Tongue The Conspiracy - Salisbury Road - Trollied SnarskiCircusLindyBand - You’re So Adorable - What’s Said And What’s Left Unsaid Reine des Lézards...

A selection of new releases interspersed with tracks from the complete seven volume set of the Art Of Perelman-Shipp which has just been re-released on Leo Recordings. The show includes European jazz, Latin jazz, free improvisation and cutting edge new and emerging stars of the music world. PLAYLIST Örjan Hultén “Please Call Me By My True Names” from Peaceful Warrior (Prophone/Naxos) 00:00 Ivo Per...

The “establishment” music industry is a façade. I take a nihilistic view of it and I put it out of my mind. The music I get and enjoy is light years away from what it pumped down your ear by the mainstream. Herein many good examples of why it is important to seek out things that you have not been told to listen to. I am not telling you to listen to these I am just pointing out that you might find...