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Puerto Rican band ÌFÉ, headed by Otura Mun, blends electronics with Afro-Cuban folklore and Yoruban religious music. Performing remotely, ÌFÉ celebrates the ancestors for the podcast. (episode)
David Johansen, one of rock’s most influential singers, as his lounge-lizard alter-ego Buster Poindexter, performed a Soundcheck session from WNYC's Greene Space. (Archives, 2015.) (episode)
The Hamiltones, a Grammy-Nominated vocal trio, combines sweet falsetto croons with vintage-sounding production for their soul sounds. They perform intimate tunes from North Carolina. (episode)
Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds uses new and vintage technology on his latest album of lyrical electro-chamber music, 'some kind of peace.' He performs remotely from Reykjavík. (episode)
Multi-instrumentalist Joachim Cooder plays re-worked traditional tunes of Uncle Dave Macon for the electric mbira in duo versions with his dad, Ry Cooder, remotely from California. (episode)
Welsh guitarist Gwenifer Raymond tells tales without words with her aggressive fingerpicking - adapting “American Primitive” style for "old weird Wales." She plays for us from Brighton. (episode)
This Is The Kit, aka British singer/songwriter Kate Stables, on both banjo and guitar, shares music remotely from her hypnotic and uplifting 2020 record, ‘Off Off On.’ (episode)
Galya Bisengalieva joins us from London to present electroacoustic works based on the man-made environmental disaster that turned most of the Aral Sea into the desert called Aralkum. (episode)
Elvis Costello and Michael Leonhart discuss their ongoing and wide-ranging collaboration which spans both Costello's new record, "Hey Clockface" and Leonhart's forthcoming album. (episode)