Paradigms

Joe Elefante has been inspired to make music for most of his life. He was a working musician during his youth, then when he had a family he got a “straight” job for a bit, but he eventually found his way back to music as a teacher, composer, and performer. Joe’s new record Wheel of Dharma brings together old friends and new to bring us a set of music inspired by the concept of Dh...

Francis Bebey was a Cameroonian musicologist, writer, composer, and broadcaster. He spent much of his life living in France, raising a musical family.  He toured extensively. Patrick Bebey is his youngest son, who has just released a record of his father’s unknown songs from tapes found after his death. Trésor Magnétique is the record, 20 tracks of previously unreleased material. Patrick and...

Aaron Shragge names John Hassell as an inspiration for the music on his new record Whispering Worlds – Cosmic Cliffs .  Intended to take listeners on a journey, this record invites us to expand our minds with imagination. This is the essence of human creativity. Aaron is part of Brooklyn Raga Massive , who have been featured on Paradigms , as well as being a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist...

Elana Sasson has just released her second album In Between . With Producer/Pianist/Composer Santiago Bertel and a great band of people from around the world. This music brings together Elana’s family’s Kurdish and Persian musical traditions, with traditional music from the native countries of the band members. Elana and Santiago join Baruch in a discussion about this record, the inspir...

Dahlia Dumont The Blue Dahlia returns to Paradigms to share her latest project Fantasia , and to talk about her life and what we’re experiencing in the world these days. Dahlia was raised in New York and has been living in France for many years, so her music is infused with both her American-ness and her adopted French culture.  These two cultures approach many aspects of life differently, f...

HandsØff2025 – Saturday April 5 2025 , more than five million people in more than 1200 events across the United States protested the unconstitutional destructive tyrannical behavior of the Trump administration. With over a hundred Executive Orders having been issued, many of them clearly unconstitutional, and in the process of being enacted, the people of the United States are actively rejec...

Mustafa Stefan Dill , like the music that inspires him and which he creates, is an amalgam of cultures and ethnicities.  Under the name Love Unfold The Sun he has just released a record Explode Yourself which will blow your mind. Mustafa shares some of his experiences, both from his early life and more recent challenges, all of which inspire him to create and revel in music that offers a transform...

Lucy Kaplansky returns to Paradigms to share her new musical autobiography The Lucy Story unreleased & rare tracks, 1976-2023 a fantastic retrospective of Lucy’s musical life going back to when she was 16 years old and coming up to the present. Lucy grew up with music, and as many musicians do, in the early years of learning her craft she sang songs of artists who inspired her, so this a...

Banning Eyre is one of those guitarists who has to play.  He has to explore different sounds and is drawn to commune with musicians wherever he goes.  Banning is an ethnomusicologist, so he travels far and connects with players, learning from them and sharing with them. He’s played in bands and ensembles, and is now releasing some of his solo music on the new record Bare Songs Vol. I Traveli...

Deborah Holland has been making music since she was a child.  She became well-known while working with the band  Animal Logic in the 1980s and 1990s. Since then Deborah has been making solo albums.  Her latest record I Made It This Far is 11 songs (plus 3 bonus tracks!) in which Deborah shares more of her life with us. In these times where uncertainty and instability have taken hold in the cultura...

Lilli Lewis is welcomed back to Paradigms, sharing her most recent album All Is Forgiven ,  sharing some of her personal journey with health, personal growth and evolution. Lilli’s music creates a space of passionate feeling, celebrating life, with all it’s complexities and contradictions. This album very much tells Lilli’s story, which is the human story, so it’s everyone&...

Yuval Ron works with sound in music, in healing, and as a medium for inspiring at-risk youth through Inspired Sound Initiative . He is an internationally renowned World Music artist, composer, educator, peace activist and record producer. Yuval has spent decades researching and playing sacred music from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as part of his Peace work .  Working with neurologists and psy...

Ghazi Al-Mulafi and Arturo O’Farrill are founders of Boom. Diwan .  This is more than a band, it’s a testament to the ability of humans to experience connection and joining through music. The new record is Live in the Khaleej! It is an excursion into a transcultural space of beauty and energy. Ghazi and Arturo talk with Baruch about the inspirations for this music. Ghazi talks about his gran...

Jan Gillies has been making music for a long time, whilst living a life of adventure and family, in wild places and small towns. Her music ranges from the political to the whimsical, often with themes from nature and relationships. Jan has many albums out, the most recent are one from a few years ago which was never really released, and one more recent, Hurricane’s Eye and Visions respective...

Rick Roe grew up in a musical family,  The piano is his instrument.  He composes, performs, and teaches.  Rick’s music comes from a place deep within him and his interactions with people and the world.  His latest record is Tribute: The Music of Gregg Hill which is a collection of tunes Rick has reworked and made his own, while honoring the composer. Rick and Baruch embark on a philosophical...

Diane Coll returns to Paradigms to share her latest record Up From The Mud which also has a companion EP There Is Light . Diane is prolific, always writing, always working on the next record, always developing herself as a person and as an artist.  On this new record Diane has upped her game with lush production, wonderful musicians, and her songwriting and performing are both deepening. This reco...

Crys Matthews has just released their 10th album Reclamation . This is a collection of songs that focus on social justice, love, and how humans can “make it work” here on Earth. Crys is energetic and kind, generous and talented.  The music says “get up and dance” and “feel and think and act!” through the Folk tradition, with some R & B, Gospel, Rock and Blue...

Randy Hoexter has been playing music most of his life. He’s a pianist and a composer with a deep appreciation for the music and for creativity in general.  He also likes to make things with wood. The new record Tomorrowsville is an upbeat journey into possibilities, musical and otherwise. The music is accessible, fun, at times whimsical, at times serious. All this makes sense when you hear t...

Tracy Grammer is a wordsmith and a poet, creating music that is bluegrassy w/traditional and electric instruments, haunting and raucous melodies.  Her songs delve into emotional landscapes, stories, and the perennial inquiry into human existence. Prior to her solo career Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer were a musical duo getting a lot of radio play, touring nationally, when Dave Carter died in 200...

William Carn and Tara Davidson have been playing music together for years, which is convenient because they’re married to each other! Together they lead Carn Davidson 9 which is a bit of a super band; all accomplished wind instrument players plus a great rhythm section. The new record Reverence is an homage to musicians who are particularly inspiring to Tara and William. CD9 is… Tara Davidso...

Arun Ramamurthy is a violinist who leads a trio composed of himself, Sameer Gupta on drums, and Damon Banks on bass. They have just released their second record  New Moon which is a beautiful collection of Arun’s compositions, inspired by his musical life and his families love of the arts. The music embodies an improvisational openness while honoring traditional Indian Ragas. Arun shares som...

Crystal Zevon has been an activist for many years. She’s one of the Raging Grannies one sees in demonstrations for Peace and Justice around the world. Crystal is also a visual artist, and has been involved in creativity for much of her life, encouraging her children and grandchildren to follow their creative inspirations too. Crystal has written a play One Family in Gaza which is being perfo...

Joel Jeschke grew up in a small town in Saskatchewan, Canada, surrounded by endless prairie.  He gravitated towards drums at an early age. Now he lives in Edmonton, Alberta where he plays drums with a rock band, and leads his own jazz band, which has just released the album Time & Place . This music has a lot of complexity, as well as simple melodic moments. The musicianship os excellent, with...

Performing is a by-product of making the art. – Abbie Thomas Abbie Thomas has been writing songs and playing music since she was a child, but in recent years, catalyzed in part by the Covid lockdown, she has been recording and performing her original songs with a band. The new album is Not Gonna Lie and it’s great! The songs are weighty and personal yet relatable, and the music packs a...

Welcoming back Si Kahn and George Mann to talk about the new album Labor Day . Si has reached 80 years old, and is contemplating and creating his legacy. He’s written thousands of songs, been a Union organizer and activist on the line with workers, and is a Union member himself. Si enlisted fellow organizer, activist and musician George to produce this album. This is a collection of 21 songs...