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GULL is the music performance project of Nathaniel Rappole. In this episode we'll hear about a documentary film he produced called Street Muse Kenya, and his plans for the second installment of the project in Southeast Asia. Rappole is now planning his next iteration of Street Muse, to take place in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. I talked with him and his cinematographer, Marcelo Quarantotto, abo...

Turtledoves is the new project of Alex and Ashley McGrath, previously known as members of the band The Soil & The Sun. As Turtledoves, Alex & Ashley use drum machines, synthesizers and electronic sequencers on their new EP, titled The Rest Is Yet To Come. The result is a driving and mesmerizing electronic rock sound. I talked with Alex and Ashley about the end of The Soil & The Sun, their travels...

Lowland Hum (Daniel and Lauren Goans) spent most of the past two years crisscrossing the US and Europe and still found time to release 3 records. In this episode, we'll hear about how they are able to maintain and nourish their creative selves while living a lifestyle that can be exhausting and disorienting. Lowland Hum's new album Glyphonic will be out on February 22 and they'll be hitting the ro...

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Michael R. Oldham is a composer and pianist from Chicago. Michael's compositions work with variations on a theme -- themes punctuated by so many individual motifs, then revisited as an oblique variation, as if the living theme is undergoing a rapid metamorphosis. Michael cites surrealism as an influence on his work, and it can sound as if the music is playing tricks on you, as if a pattern of note...

The Nunnery is the songwriting project of looping vocalist Sarah Elstran. The Nunnery creates deep worlds with her voice, using a looping pedal to layer harmonies and percussion. Her performance is often accompanied by visual effects, manipulated live and projected by her husband, Erik Elstran. Sarah told me about her songwriting process, the elements she conjures musically, thematically, and visu...

Pink Noise brings you new music - and the stories behind it - in the words of the artists themselves. Albert Bagman is the burlap masked character created by songwriter and visual artist Kory Johnson. This intensely visual project delivers tenderly emotive music with a flare for the theatrical. We talked about how living and working in relative isolation inspires his forlorn songwriting, and about...

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