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An odyssey of the ears powered by the moon, the stars, & a pixie dusting of ecstatic electricity...

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East Orange, NJ

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An odyssey of the ears powered by the moon, the stars, & a pixie dusting of ecstatic electricity...

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English


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Brilliance of a Dälek Moon from May 3, 2026

5/3/2026
Linda Buckley - "Thar Farraige - I - Caoin" - Thar Farraige [Performed by Brìghde Chaimbeul (Scottish small pipes) / "Thar Farraige" means "Over Sea"] [0:00:00] Anna Pikulska - "Batalho de Sexto Tom (by Pedro de Araujo)" - Orgelpunkt Vol. 5: Villanueva de Tiuerva [For this collection, Polish organist Anna Pikulska has assembled a collection featuring pieces by 13 lesser-known Spanish composers from the 16th and 17th centuries] [0:05:15] Ella van der Woude - "Wetterhorn" - Alpha (original motion picture soundtrack) [0:11:14] Jack Dettling - "Comma Study" - Keyboard Works [0:12:35] Josephine Foster & Victor Herrero - "Adormidera" - Adormidera: Josephine Foster Sings the Songs of Victor Herrero ["Adormidera" means "Poppy"] [0:17:03] Jen Zimberg - "Trempealeau" - What Sings ["Trempealeau" comes from the French, “la montagne qui trempe à l’eau” meaning “the mountain whose foot is bathed in water”] [0:21:21] Semi Precious - "Picture Us" - I Lost A Bird [0:25:39] Anthony Child - "Mr Naturals" - Electronic Recordings from Maui Jungle Vol. I [AKA Surgeon] [0:28:48] Guido - "Soft Touch" - No album - A-side single [Guido is an artist originally from Bristol, but now based in Manchester] [0:35:58] This Heat - "Twilight Furniture" - This Heat [This Heat is trio Charles Bullen, Charles Hayward & Gareth Williams] [0:41:35] Keith Fullerton Whitman - "260203-1 (Morning) (excerpt)" - Bowd-ler-ize [recorded live at Lafayette Overground, February 3rd, 2026 using a Hybrid Digital-Analogue Eurorack Modular Synthesizer, Eventide H90, Faderpunk.] [0:45:52] Lambchop - "Good Guys & Bad Guys" - Your Song, My Foot! Vol. 4 - Eighty-Sixed! [1:07:41] Adriaan de Roover - "Chansons de Trottoir / Stoepliedjes (excerpt)" - Chansons de Trottoir / Stoepliedjes [1:10:53] Lottie Sebes - "Mouthpiece" - Eavesdrop Festival 2024 (V/A) [1:17:15] Fossil Aerosol Mining Project - "Ballad for C19" - Disassociated [1:26:14] Egg Meat - "Essay on Heaven" - The Most Pathetic Poem Is Small People On Fire [debut album by this London duo, who took their name from a 1961 Ivor Cutler song] [1:31:18] Francesco Fabris - "Xanadu Phasing" - Displaces [Fabris used field recordings from Iceland & Venice to make this record] [1:35:18] Alan Affichard - "Fluid Synth" - No album - Live at 2024 Sound Installation Panorama 26. Le Fresnoy [1:39:36] Windy & Carl - "Antarctica" - Antarctica: Bliss Out v.2 [3rd album by Michigan duo formed in 1993 around the core husband-and-wife duo of guitarist Carl Hultgren and bassist/singer Windy Weber] [1:41:49] Music behind DJ: Carolina Eyck - "Dr. Who Theme" [2:02:39] Scholars of the Peak - "The Flight of the Hunter" - Celebrating the Bat Chapter 2: Into the Night (V/A) [collection features 22 new tracks by 22 artists - all about the bat] [2:07:52] Sunn O))) - "XXANN" - Sunn O))) [10th album by duo Stephen O'Malley & Greg Anderson] [2:11:23] Darsombra - "Bend Overture" - SYZYGY [AKA Baltimore duo Brian Daniloski & Ann Everton / Everton died in 2025, but Daniloski used Everton's recordings made in 2023 as the basis for this album] [2:29:09] Majdanek Waltz & Consumed Triumphant - "Dragons In the White Air" - The Chariot [2:35:48] Mai Mai Mai - "Echoes of the Harvest (feat. Alabaster DePlume)" - Karakoz [artist made field recordings in Palestine to create this album] [2:38:59] Dälek - "For the People" - Brilliance of a Falling Moon [Dälek is NJ duo Will Brooks & Mike Mare] [2:44:26] Black Sabbath - "Into The Void" - Master of Reality [3rd studio album] [2:49:34] Music behind DJ: Caustic Window (AKA Aphex Twin) - "Popcorn" [2:55:35] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163854

Duration:03:08:46

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A Nacreous Moon from Apr 26, 2026

4/26/2026
Alexis Marcelo - "Have Mercy" - Solo Piano [debut] [0:00:00] Ensemble Infini - "Dream Story" - Volume ∞ [album coming May 1 / debut release for this Montreal group] [0:06:29] Soft Machine - "Daevid's Special Cuppa" - Thirteen [feat Daevid Allen (recordings made c. 2015)] [0:11:43] Peter Baumann - "Romance" - Romance 76 [Tapete & Bureau B reissuing a 50th anniv edition of this album in 2026] [0:14:38] Carl Stone & Asuna - "A Nacreous Slant" - Imu Plastos [1st collaboration between pair / "Nacreous" means "relating to or consisting of mother-of-pearl" or "having the lustre of mother-of-pearl"] [0:21:09] Pascal Comelade - "Musique Ridicule" - Paralelo [debut album] [0:26:04] Mi3raj - "O Gazelle" - Callings of the Owed نداءات الموعودين [MI3raj is Cairo-based Mohamed Tarek Moussa & Abdelrahman Shaat] [0:29:34] NTHNL - "Awarkenings Pt. 1" - What Kind of World Is This? [NTHNL is NY-based flautist Jacob Rubin)] [0:32:51] Ak'chamel, The Givers of Illness - "Dreams of a Dead Dreamer" - Spiritually Unemployed [For this album, the Houston duo set out to highlight the spirit of obscene consumption. At conception, they wrote in a makeshift studio on the US-Mexico border, a space that has long since become both the apex of liminal existence and a geopolitical epicentre of historic and human ruin. They played using a gallery of invalid instruments—a half-broken oud, a hurdy-gurdy on the brink of collapse, reeds that have been sodden in desert-sourced liquids to create mutated timbres, self-made spike fiddles that have been detuned to the point where pitch discrepancies beat against each other at cataclysmic rates. Tracking was done using a malfunctioning generator, which caused erratic voltage drops and mid-take fluctuations. And if that wasn’t enough in shaping this suffering golem, the dubbed tapes were then buried in arid sand to induce and capture an erosive state.] [0:37:41] Florian Hecker - "M 35 36 (excerpt)" - Natural Selection [AKA Hecker] [0:43:23] Lukas Hasler - "Carmen: Prelude (1875 opera) (by Georges Bizet)" - Gold [Lukas Hasler is an Austrian pipe organist / For this collection he plays pieces not normally associated with the organ - compositions from Bach, Schumann, Bizet, Beethoven, Bruckner, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, efébure-Wély & Strauss] [1:08:04] Heather Stebbins & Ning Yu - "Till" - Spirals [debut album by pair] [1:20:24] Arnold Dreyblatt - "Descendants (excerpt)" - Descendants [Dreyblatt developed this 51-minute piece during 2 residencies at the Orgelpark in Amsterdam & was realized in Dreyblatt’s just-intonation tuning system, derived from the first eleven harmonic overtones and their extensions based on the fundamental C (A = 415 Hz). It uses selected pitches found on the 4 historic and reconstructed organs of Orgelpark and explores possible tonal combinations. Performers: Claudio F. Baroni: “Verschueren” organ, (reconstruction, style of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, 19 Century, French); Reiner van Houdt: Cabinet Organ (1767, NL); Arnold Dreyblatt: “Utopa” organ, (Baroque / Contemporary, NL / Germany / Japan, 2018); & Lucie Nezri: “Van Straten” Organ (1479, reconstruction, NL)] [1:29:55] Ian Wellman - "(Afternoon Report)" - Particularly Dangerous Situation [Last January, a weather event was unfolding in Southern California. The initial warnings called the combination of accumulated drought and fierce wind “a particularly dangerous situation.” On January 7, the first plumes of smoke appeared. Ian Wellman was there, using his field recording equipment to document the sounds of the Santa Ana winds. "A Particularly Dangerous Situation" is a document of that day, combining the initial field recordings with drones and tape loops.] [1:40:33] Simo Cell & Abdullah Miniawy - "I See The Stadium" - Dying Is the Internet [2nd pairing of these 2 artists] [1:43:57] Milan Knížák - "Composition N. 3" - Broken Music [‘In 1963-64 I used to play records both too slowly and too fast and thus changed the quality of the music,...

Duration:03:08:44

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The Ballad of El Moono from Apr 19, 2026

4/19/2026
Brian Weza - "The Way Out Is In" - Fizzles [0:00:00] Annea Lockwood - "World Rhythms (excerpt)" - World Rhythms [orig 1977 - new reissue and remaster] [0:06:24] Annie Pacific NNO Quintet - "The Beats Street" - APNNQ Plays Sound Traks Disc 2 [0:14:06] Kavari - "Iron Veins" - Plague Music [Kavari is Glasgow artist Cameron Winters] [0:17:28] Eve Maret - "Gethsemani" - Diamond Cutter [0:20:45] Oliver Coates - "Sex & Bonfire" - Pillion (original soundtrack) [0:24:24] Sarah Cahill/Terry Riley - "Keyboard Studies (by Terry Riley)" - Eighty Trips Around the Sun: Music By and For Terry Riley ["Keyboard Study No. 1" was written in 1964 & "Keyboard Study No. 2" was composed in 1965] [0:27:27] Delphine Dora - "L'ineluctable Pulsation du Temps (Inescapable Pulse of Time)" - L'ineluctable Pulsation du Temps [0:52:05] Anthony Joseph - "James" - The Ark [album coming April 26] [0:54:11] Magda Drozd - "Piosenka Ludowa" - Divided By Dusk [1:08:29] Carlos Giffoni - "Beam (feat. Zola Jesus)" - Pendulum [1:11:14] Zone Null - "There Will Be Poems" - Phase I [Zone Null is duo Burkhard Beins & Tony Elleh on bass guitars & electronics] [1:16:06] Jah Wobble - "Invaders of the Heart (Mix 1)" - Invaders of the Heart 12" [The original version of "Invaders of the Heart" appeared on his 1983 album, "Jah Wobble's Bedroom Album"] [1:34:30] Maria Chavez, Odeya Nini, Zach Cooper - "RUT6 (for contrabass)" - Repeat Until True: Triptych [1:39:07] Hildur Guðnadóttir - "The Bone Temple" - 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [1:45:12] EROSÃO PERCUSSION TRIO - "Tripa" - EROSÃO PERCUSSION TRIO [Drummer, singer, composer, and producer Mariá Portugal (BR) joins Berlin-based percussionists Burkhard Beins (DE) and Emilio Gordoa (MX) to form the EROSÃO Percussion Trio] [1:51:30] Collegium 1704, Collegium Vocale 1704, Vaclav Luks (cond) - "Missa Circumcisionis, ZWV 11: Et incarnatus est - Crucifixus (c.early 1700s) (by Jan Dismas Zelenka)" - Jan Dismas Zelenka: Missa Circumcisionis ZWV 11, Missa Corporis Domini ZWV 3 [1:57:05] Shane Aspegren - "Resonant Harbour" - Spiritual Cannibalism - EP [pieces on the 3-song EP were made from processed underwater field recordings captured in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour] [1:59:12] Andreas Røysum Ensemble & Marvin Tate - "If You See Jesus" - Andreas Røysum Ensemble & Marvin Tate [2:14:04] Augustus Pablo - "East of the River Nile" - East of the River Nile [2:19:11] Nondi_ - "Just Hanging Out (Reprise)" - Nondi_ [2:22:04] Devin Shaffer - "Forever" - Patience [2:26:04] Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos - "Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8: Allegro con brio (1854) (by Johannes Brahms)" - Brahms: The Piano Trios [2-CD set / features Ma on cello, Ax on piano & Kavakos on violin] [2:29:31] Limp Hobel - "Sometimes" - Sometimes EP [EP is a collection of Coil re-imaginings / "Sometimes" is a re-imagining of Coil's "The Gimp (Sometimes)" from their 2004 CDr "Black Antlers"] [2:43:47] Paul McCartney - "Days We Left Behind" - The Boys of Dungeon Lane [album coming May 29th] [2:47:25] Big Star - "The Ballad of El Goodo" - #1 Record [2:50:41] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163378

Duration:03:08:52

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True Blue Moonstone from Apr 12, 2026

4/12/2026
Velv.93 - "True Blue" - Maidstone [0:00:00] Isik Kural - "Um Pirilampo Que Acende E Apaga (A Firefly That Lights Up And Goes Out)" - As Flurries (EP) [0:05:23] Unknown Mobile - "Quartz Road" - Field Work [Unknown Mobile is Vancouver artist Levi Bruce] [0:09:28] KMRU - "With Trees Where We Can See" - Kin [AKA Joseph Kamaru] [0:14:39] Jon Hopkins - "Open Eye Signal" - Immunity [0:17:43] Disrupt - "Bit Defender" - The Bass Has Left The Building [reissue - orig 2009 / AKA Jan Gleichmar] [0:25:18] Those Who Walk Away - "Tenth Degraded Hymn" - Afterlife Requiem [AKA Winnepeg composer Matthew Patton] [0:29:08] Bhajan Bhoy - "Yangquin Beach" - Meditations [0:35:22] Colleen - "Aguas Abiertas" - Libres Antes Del Final [Colleen is now based in Barcelona, Spain] [0:47:30] Jenő Jandó, Ilona Prunyi - "Divertissement a la Hongroise, Op. 54, D.818: III. Allegro (1826) (by Franz Schubert)" - Schubert: Piano Works for Four Hands ["Divertissement a la Hongroise" translates to "Entertainment in the Hungarian style"] [1:06:08] Dalot & Sound Awakener - "Tone In A Minor" - Ianos [All tracks on this album composed, performed and produced by Maria Papadomanolaki and Nhung Nguyen in Chania, Crete and Hanoi, Vietnam. / Ianos (gr. Ἰανός) or Janus (lat. Iānus) is one of the few prominent Greco-Roman Gods whose Greek name is derived from the Latin language.] [1:19:35] Davorama - "Store Wars" - Low Enforcement [1:26:09] Asher Levitas & Margaret Fiedler McGinnis - "RW3" - Through These Red Windows (4-song EP) [Margaret Fiedler McGinnis has played with groups Critical Mass, God Is My Co-Pilot, Laika, Moonshake, & Wire] [1:29:54] Thurston Moore & Bonner Kramer - "The Living Theater" - They Came Like Swallows – Seven Requiems for the Children of Gaza [album coming May 1] [1:33:19] Marie Schreer - "All Things Must Be Audible At All Times" - Until Between [Schreer is a violinist, composer and co-director of London's Riot Ensemble / "Until Between" is her 1st full-length solo album] [1:40:08] Helen Svoboda - "If" - Headwater [album coming June 26] [1:55:12] Chantal Michelle - "Magnetic Field I" - All Things Might Spill [1:59:15] Linda Smith - "Untitled I" - Titled and Untitled Music 2021 - 2023 [2:05:24] Anadol & Marie Klock - "Rentrer à la maison" - Rentrer à la maison [2:08:43] Grace VanderWaal - "Moonlight" - Just the Beginning [debut album] [2:12:16] Laibach - "Allgorhythm (feat. Wiyaala)" - Musick [coming May 1] [2:14:56] The Rolling Stones - "Midnight Rambler" - Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert [recorded live in concert at Madison Square Garden in 1969] [2:18:50] Mark Mothersbaugh - "Run Into A.B." - The Residence (Official Soundtrack of the Netflix Series) [2:27:34] Cosey Mueller - "Der Politiker" - Embodiment of Denial [album coming May 22] [2:29:12] Graham Dunning - "Alone In A Moving Cuboid" - Quern [2:33:18] London Symphony Orchestra - "London Overture (2022) (by George Fritze)" - Gregory Fritze: Overtures & Symphonies [world premiere recording of this piece, which was commissioned LSO / "London Overture" was composed especially for the London Symphony Orchestra recording February 2024. It is a programmatic depiction of the city of London with many of its various districts, characteristics and moods. After a very short introduction, the listener hears the hustle and bustle of the center of the business district, with the crowded streets of people rushing around in all directions, the traffic – sometimes moving and sometimes stopping suddenly. Then walking through a more tranquil and “cool” area of the city, depicted by the horns then cellos and violas. A brass fanfare announces the arrival to the area of Buckingham Palace, with all the pomp and circumstance. We then go to an old distinguished area with centuries old architecture. The excursion continues through one of the word’s most diverse and exciting cities continues through the end of the overture.] [2:35:45] Nathan Bowles - "Sleepy Lake Tire Swing" -...

Duration:03:08:48