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Singer Ala.Ni's striking voice goes from torchy jazz to intimate pop to atmospheric vocalise. She makes her American radio debut in our studios, with guitarist Marvin Dolly. (Archives) (episode)
Wife and husband team of Abigail Washburn and Bela Fleck combine their double banjo styles - three finger and clawhammer - to boldy go where the banjo power couple has not gone before. (episode)
Nashville-based Montreal-born Scottish-Grenadian-Canadian multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Allison Russell offers stories and songs from her autobiographical record, Outside Child. (episode)
Japanese-born, NYC-based pianist Erika Dohi explores duality in works that float between composed and improvised music. She plays prepared piano in works from her album I, Castorpollux. (episode)
Old Sea Brigade is the work of Ben Cramer, who makes atmospheric Nashville-informed indie folk. He plays songs from his new album 'Motivational Speaking.' (episode)
Atlanta-based Manchester Orchestra crafts cinematic, long-form songs on their latest record, The Million Masks of God. Andy Hull and Robert McDowell play intimate arrangements remotely. (episode)
Hear the pedal steel fireworks in the gospel-rooted soul of Robert Randolph & The Family Band, taking the pedal steel where it has seldom been heard before - live in the studio. (episode)
Ecuadorian-American musician Roberto Lange records as Helado Negro. He plays songs from 2016's 'Private Energy', some of the band’s most explicitly political material, in-studio. (episode)
Dark and light fuse, diverge and unite in the violin-piano duo, Gracie and Rachel. The orchestral indie pop duo plays in-studio in this 2015 session from the archives. (episode)