
Irene Trudel | WFMU
WFMU
Music to laze around with, just like slipping into a warm, comfortable bath; bubbling with many stringed instruments and occasional live performances.
Location:
East Orange, NJ
Networks:
WFMU
Description:
Music to laze around with, just like slipping into a warm, comfortable bath; bubbling with many stringed instruments and occasional live performances.
Twitter:
@WFMU
Language:
English
Contact:
WFMU P.O. Box 2011 Jersey City, NJ 07303-2011
Website:
https://wfmu.org/playlists/IT
Episodes
Art will find you. from Apr 13, 2026
4/13/2026
Nightnoise - "Timewinds" - Something of Time [0:00:00]
Baklava Express - "Begin Again" - Sabába [0:03:46]
Mats Eilertsen - "Nightride" - Reveries and Revelations [0:10:28]
Steve Tibbetts - "Full Moon Dogs" - The Fall of Us All [0:13:59]
Juana Molina - "intringulado" - Doga [0:23:02]
Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny - "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" - Beyond the Missouri Sky [0:27:36]
Music behind DJ:
Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny - "The Moon Song / First Song" - Beyond the Missouri Sky [0:31:36]
William Tyler - "Slow Night's Static" - New Vanitas [0:38:16]
Windy and Carl - "Nature of Memory" - We Will Always Be [0:51:04]
Yasmin Williams - "Adrift (ft. Taryn Wood)" - Urban Driftwood [0:59:20]
Gwenifer Raymond - "Ruben's Song" - Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain [1:03:46]
Hayden Pedigo - "Elsewhere" - The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored [1:08:30]
Music behind DJ:
Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny - "The Moon Song / First Song" - Beyond the Missouri Sky [1:13:57]
Asha Bhosle - "Chhod Do Aanchal (w/Kishore Kumar)" - Love Supreme [1:25:38]
Asha Bhosle - "O Chand Jahan Woh Jaye (from "Sharada")" - Love Supreme [1:29:53]
Gary Lucas - "The Moon Represents My Heart" - Edge of Heaven Vol. 2 [1:33:54]
Linden Pomeroy - "Waning Moon" - The Cat Sang Out [1:36:31]
Goran Ivanovic - "Lunar" - Closer Than This [1:45:39]
Andrew Chalfen - "Rare Visitor from Eurasia" - Unreliable Narrator [1:48:16]
Music behind DJ:
Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny - "The Moon Song / First Song" - Beyond the Missouri Sky [1:51:38]
Miriam Elhajli - "Hermit" - Observations [2:00:56]
Haley Heynderickx - "Untitled God Song" - I Need to Start a Garden [2:07:17]
Mary In The Junkyard - "Crash Landing" - (single) [2:11:02]
Jana Horn - "It's alright" - Jana Horn [2:16:35]
I'm With Her - "Strawberry Moonrise / Year After Year" - Wild and Clear and Blue [2:19:56]
Music behind DJ:
Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny - "The Moon Song / First Song" - Beyond the Missouri Sky [2:24:25]
Golems Of The Red Planet - "Hadriel" - Surf Masada: The Compositions of John Zorn [2:29:09]
Brian Marsella's iMAGiNARiUM - "Little Known Corner of Your Favorite Bodega" - Medietas [2:33:08]
The Mothers of Invention - "Overture to a Holiday in Berlin /Theme from Burnt Weeny Sandwich /Holiday in Berlin, Full Blown" - Burnt Weeny Sandwich [2:44:01]
Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore - "Melted Moon" - Tragic Magic [2:56:38] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163150
Duration:03:06:39
A postcard from Big Ears. from Apr 6, 2026
4/6/2026
Ken Pomeroy - "Coyote" - Cruel Joke
Hannah Cohen - "Baby You're Lying" - Earthstar Mountain [0:03:54]
Cleo Reed - "Always The Horse, Never The Jockey ft. IWEWE" - Cuntry [0:07:08]
Haley Heynderickx - "The Bug Collector" - I Need to Start a Garden [0:10:42]
Miriam Elhajli - "r(evolving) door avenida méxico" - (single) [0:14:31]
Annahstasia - "Be Kind" - Tether [0:17:07]
Music behind DJ:
Loren Mazzacane Connors - "Airs 4-8" - Airs [0:22:15]
Will Graefe - "Coral Court Motel" - Marine Life [0:32:01]
Maria Somerville - "Stonefly" - Luster [0:35:46]
Laraaji - "Temple Of New Light" - Sun Piano [0:39:18]
Gary Lucas - "New Pair of Flowers" - Edge of Heaven Vol. 2 [0:43:13]
Yagody - "Ruzhytsa" - Yagody [0:47:21]
Julia Úlehla and Dálava - "Queen of Heaven and Earth" - Understories [0:51:30]
Music behind DJ:
Loren Mazzacane Connors - "Airs 4-8" - Airs [0:57:35]
Janel and Anthony - "Pacific Grove Monarch" - New Moon In The Evil Age [1:09:06]
Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore - "The Four Sleeping Princesses" - Tragic Magic [1:13:07]
SUSS - "Sunset I & II" - Counting Sunsets [1:20:18]
Ghost Train Orchestra and Kronos Quartet - "All is Loneliness (ft. Joan as Police Woman)" - Songs and Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog [1:26:34]
Shabaka - "Stand Firm / Space Time" - Of the Earth [1:32:44]
Music behind DJ:
Loren Mazzacane Connors - "Airs 4-8" - Airs [1:38:56]
Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few - "We Don't Even Know Where We're Headed" - The World Is On Fire [1:48:12]
Brian Marsella's iMAGiNARiUM - "Better Watch What You Wish For (In These Historic Times) Part 1" - The Clocks Have Gone Mad [1:56:51]
Mahmoud Ahmed and The Either/Orchestra - "Bemen Sebab Letlash" - (You Tube video) [2:05:25]
Kunal Gunjal - "Raga Kausi Kanada - Gat Rupak Taal" - When Time Stood Still [2:10:19]
Laurie Anderson & Sex Mob - "Let X=X (Live)" [2:20:44]
Music behind DJ:
Loren Mazzacane Connors - "Airs 4-8" - Airs [2:25:20]
Kishi Bashi - "Violin Tsunami" - Omoiyari [2:30:49]
Luke Schneider - "Pax Tennesseana" - It Is Solved By Walking [2:36:15]
Julian Lage (featuring John Medeski, Jorge Roeder, Kenny Wollesen) - "Storyville" - Scenes from Above [2:40:13]
Harriet Tubman & Georgia Anne Muldrow - "Is no match for you" - Electrical Field of Love [2:44:21]
Nels Cline - "The Night Porter / Max, Mon Amour" - Lovers [2:47:04]
Richard Thompson - "The Ghost Of You Walks" - You? Me? Us? [2:55:14]
Music behind DJ:
Loren Mazzacane Connors - "Airs 4-8" - Airs [2:58:58] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/162910
Unusual guitar constructions, with a live set from Mark Wingfield. from Mar 23, 2026
3/23/2026
Set: Mark Wingfield, recorded live in studioElectric guitar visionary Mark Wingfield creates beautiful, atmospheric soundscapes with a wide assortment of pedals and devices. Elemental is Mark's latest studio album, and on a recent visit from his UK home he stopped by to play a live set for Irene.
Mark Wingfield - "Tantallon" - Elemental
Mark Wingfield & Irene talk [0:07:24]
Mark Wingfield - "Live Improv #1" [0:11:20]
Mark Wingfield - "Live Improv #2" [0:17:52]
Set:
Mark Wingfield & Irene talk [0:24:08]
Mark Wingfield - "Live Improv #3" [0:24:57]
Mark Wingfield & Irene talk [0:32:09]
Mark Wingfield - "Hope Valley, live" [0:33:14]
Set:
Mark Wingfield & Irene talk [0:37:19]
Mark Wingfield - "Suntar" - Elemental [0:44:01]
Set: Mark Wingfield's music is available on Bandcamp. (You can find Kevin Kastning's music there too.)
Kevin Kastning & Mark Wingfield - "166-E (live)" - (recorded live for Irene Trudel's show) [0:50:04]
Mark Wingfield w/Gary Husband /Asaf Sirkis /Tony Levin /Percy Jones - "The Listening Trees" - The Gathering [1:00:21]
Music behind DJ:
John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner - "Fable" - Sargasso Sea [1:07:15]
Petito, Rainey, Smit, Torn - "Raindrops and Waterspouts" - ¿QUÉ? [1:12:01]
SUSS - "Sunset II" - Counting Sunsets [1:17:41]
Terje Rypdal - "Better Off Without You" - Odyssey [1:20:58]
Bipolar Explorer - "The Storm Passes" - Forests, Voices, Coastlines, Dreams: Recordings for The Dark Outside [1:28:20]
The Mahavishnu Orchestra - "You Know, You Know" - The Inner Mounting Flame [1:36:03]
Savage & Smit - "The People's Key Opens..." - of course [1:41:12]
Music behind DJ:
John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner - "Fable" - Sargasso Sea [1:46:52]
Goran Ivanovic - "Dospatsko Horo" - Far Away Feeling [1:54:23]
Robyn Hitchcock - "Spring Comes Too Late" - (Patreon single) [1:58:02]
Aaron Irwin Trio - "Fahey" - Spark [2:01:26]
James Blackshaw - "Sunshrine" - Sunshrine [2:06:42]
Music behind DJ:
John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner - "Fable" - Sargasso Sea [2:33:11]
Andrew Chalfen - "Non Photo Blue" - Unreliable Narrator [2:40:45]
Shane Parish - "Yulquen" - Autechre Guitar [2:45:14]
John Scofield & Dave Holland - "Icons at the Fair" - Memories of Home [2:51:31]
Music behind DJ:
John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner - "Fable" - Sargasso Sea [2:57:54] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/162448
Massive thanks, and calming thoughts of green. from Mar 16, 2026
3/16/2026
Kate Bush - "Mná na hÉireann (Women of Ireland)" - Common Ground (V/A) [0:00:00]
The Chieftains - "Women of Ireland" - Barry Lyndon [0:02:55]
Mike Oldfield - "Women of Ireland" - Voyager [0:08:12]
Nightnoise - "The Kid in the Cot" - The Parting Tide [0:14:44]
Maire Brennan - "Rinne Tú" - Whisper to the Wild Water [0:20:34]
Music behind DJ:
R. Carlos Nakai - "Shaman's Call / Canyon Reverie / In Media Res" - Earth Spirit [0:25:30]
Ye Vagabonds - "I'll Keep Singing" - All Tied Together [0:34:30]
The Gloaming - "The Lobster" - The Gloaming 3 [0:38:53]
Tony McManus & Julia Toaspern - "Mairin de Barra-Miller of Droghan-Fleur de Mandragore-La Rachoudine" - Travelling Still [0:45:46]
Planxty - "Time Will Cure Me" - The Well Below The Valley [0:51:28]
Tony Trischka & His Special Guests - "Down in the Willow Garden" - Earl Jam 2 [0:56:53]
The Pogues - "A Rainy Night in Soho" - Rum Sodomy & The Lash [1:01:08]
The Bothy Band - "Old Hag, You Have Killed Me" - Old Hag, You Have Killed Me [1:05:49]
Music behind DJ:
R. Carlos Nakai - "Shaman's Call / Canyon Reverie / In Media Res" - Earth Spirit [1:10:12]
Sibyl - "The Saddest Noise" - Sibyl [1:20:13]
Black Sea Hotel - "Sadila Jana" - The Forest Is Shaking & Swaying [1:24:05]
Bing and Ruth - "And Then It Rained" - City Lake [1:26:50]
Adrian Crowley - "Ocean" - The Birdwatchers [1:31:36]
Hawktail - "Unless" - Unless [1:36:25]
I'm With Her - "Only Daughter" - Wild and Clear and Blue [1:41:45]
Her Crooked Heart - "O America" - (single) [1:46:12]
Music behind DJ:
R. Carlos Nakai - "Shaman's Call / Canyon Reverie / In Media Res" - Earth Spirit [1:50:08]
Gary Lucas - "Spring in Zhong Mountain" - Edge of Heaven Vol. 2 [2:00:51]
Richard Carr - "Lovely Lou" - The Escarpment [2:03:58]
Martin Hayes & the Common Ground Ensemble - "Peggy's Dream" - Peggy's Dream [2:09:42]
Alex Archibald - "Smell of The Forest From the Sea" - Waste Knot [2:14:55]
Sam Amidon - "Friends and Neighbors (Ornette Coleman)" - Salt River [2:17:56]
Andrew Chalfen - "Polydactyl" - Unreliable Narrator [2:24:02]
Music behind DJ:
R. Carlos Nakai - "Shaman's Call / Canyon Reverie / In Media Res" - Earth Spirit [2:28:03]
Mark Wingfield - "A Sign in the Weather" - Elemental [2:35:03]
Chuck Johnson - "Teleos" - Sun Glories [2:42:09]
Bowerbirds - "Hush" - The Clearing [2:49:20]
Ollella - "By My Design" - Antifragile [2:53:26]
Music behind DJ:
R. Carlos Nakai - "Shaman's Call / Canyon Reverie / In Media Res" - Earth Spirit [2:56:45] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/162190
A slathering of snow and song. from Feb 23, 2026
2/23/2026
Oscar Peterson Trio (Dave Samuels, vibes /Lorne Lofsky, guitar) - "Let It Snow!" - An Oscar Peterson Christmas [0:00:00]
Simon & Garfunkel - "A Hazy Shade Of Winter" - Bookends [0:03:50]
Claude Thornhill and His Orchestra - "Snowfall" - Best of the Big Bands: Claude Thornhill [0:06:06]
Kate Bush - "Misty" - 50 Words for Snow [0:09:02]
Tadd Dameron Orchestra w/Clifford Brown - "Dial "B" for Beauty" - Clifford Brown Memorial [0:22:24]
Music behind DJ:
David Darling - "Fables" - Cello [0:27:07]
Yoko Ono & The Plastic Ono Band - "Listen the Snow Is Falling" - [single] [0:35:11]
David Garland - "Color Piece (words: Yoko Ono from Grapefruit, 1964)" - Verdancy [0:38:31]
Justin Hicks - "Man of Style" - Man of Style [0:50:59]
George Harrison - "I'd Have You Anytime" - All Things Must Pass [0:56:38]
Robyn Hitchcock - "Be Here Now" - (George Harrison cover) [0:59:31]
Music behind DJ:
David Darling - "Fables" - Cello [1:02:18]
Hesperus - "Bonny Sweet Robin" - The Food of Love: Early Instrumental Music of the British Isles [1:11:52]
Portland Cello Project - "In Freezing Winter's Night" - Winter: The Best Nine Months of the Year [1:15:24]
John Hsu, viola da gamba/Louis Bagger, harpsichord/Judith Davidoff, viola da gamba: Marais - "Suite No. 1 in A Minor: Prelude" - Marin Marais: Pieces de Viole, from Book Three, 1711 [1:19:21]
David Darling - "New Morning [DarkwoodVII]" - Dark Wood [1:22:40]
Oregon - "Poesia" - Winter Light [1:27:44]
David Wilcox - "Frozen in the Snow" - Christine Lavin presents: On a Winter's Night [1:33:09]
Music behind DJ:
David Darling - "Fables" - Cello [1:37:29]
Darian Donovan Thomas - "OhNo" - A Room With Many Doors: Day [1:47:26]
Bill Nelson - "Rejoice" - Northern Dream [1:53:04]
Shabaka - "Light the Way" - Of The Earth [1:58:33]
Jessamine - "Don't You Know That Yet?" - Jessamine [2:01:51]
Coolangubra - "Affirmations" - Spirit Talk [2:06:51]
Music behind DJ:
David Darling - "Fables" - Cello [2:12:02]
Guy Klucevsek / Philip Johnston - "Petite Ouverture A Danser / A Pear for Satie" - Tales from the Crypt [2:18:31]
Will Holshouser - "Twelve Statues in the Snow" - The Lone Wild Bird [2:25:05]
Gary Bartz - "Ogunde" - Live at the Jazz Standard: Mae Velha Vol 2 [2:29:25]
Terje Rypdal / Miroslav Vitous / Jack DeJohnette - "Seasons" - Rypdal/Vitous/DeJohnette [2:34:21]
Petito, Rainey, Smit, Torn - "Oil Can Sweets" - ¿QUÉ? [2:41:39]
Music behind DJ:
David Darling - "Fables" - Cello [2:48:40]
Lhasa - "My Name" - The Living Road [2:51:58]
Steve Tibbetts - "Away Part 1" - Close [2:56:10]
Music behind DJ:
David Darling - "Fables" - Cello [3:01:08] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/161543
Duration:03:02:28
It was 30 years ago today, Irene and Peter had a wedding day! from Feb 16, 2026
2/16/2026
The Beatles - "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With A Little Help From My Friends" - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [0:00:00]
Blood Sweat & Tears - "Overture/I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" - Child Is Father to the Man [0:04:47]
John Coltrane - "A Love Supreme, Pt. I Acknowledgent" - A Love Supreme [0:12:20]
Music behind DJ:
Bill Evans - "Peace Piece" - Everybody Digs Bill Evans [0:21:37]
Gary Lucas - "Skin the Rabbit" - Gods and Monsters [0:29:03]
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - "I Love You, You Big Dummy" - Lick My Decals Off, Baby [0:32:53]
The Beach Boys - "God Only Knows" - Pet Sounds [0:35:51]
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians - "Arms of Love" - Respect [0:38:32]
Lucinda Williams - "Lowlife" - The World's Gone Wrong [0:42:49]
NRBQ - "I Love Her, She Loves Me" - Live At Yankee Stadium [0:47:05]
Music behind DJ:
Bill Evans - "Peace Piece" - Everybody Digs Bill Evans [0:51:34]
I'm With Her - "Find My Way to You" - Wild And Clear And Blue [1:02:07]
Molsky's Mountain Drifters - "Sweet Bride" - Closing the Gap [1:05:25]
Vassar Clements, John Hartford, Dave Holland - "Memories of Home" - Vassar Clements, John Hartford, Dave Holland [1:08:17]
Horsefeathers - "Helen" - House with No Home [1:11:28]
Ye Vagabonds - "Where the Heart Lies" - All Tied Together [1:15:47]
Henry Jamison - "Reading Days" - Gloria Duplex [1:18:16]
Music behind DJ:
Bill Evans - "Peace Piece" - Everybody Digs Bill Evans [1:21:22]
Slim Gaillard Trio - "Potato Chips" - Groove Juice: The Norman Granz Recordings + More [1:32:15]
Thelonious Monk - "Ask Me Now" - The Complete Riverside Recordings [1:34:57]
Sonny Rollins - "St. Thomas" - Saxophone Colossus [1:45:40]
The Microscopic Septet - "Lobster in the Limelight" - Surrealistic Swing: History of the Micros, Volume 2 by The Microscopic Septet [1:52:28]
Music behind DJ:
Bill Evans - "Peace Piece" - Everybody Digs Bill Evans [1:58:39]
Meg Okura and The Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble - "Rice Country" - Isaiah [2:09:22]
Toninho Horta (w/Wayne Shorter) - "Ballad for Zawinul" - Diamond Land [2:17:10]
Terje Rypdal - "The Pleasure is Mine, I'm Sure" - Skywards [2:21:29]
John Abercrombie (with Mark Feldman, Marc Johnson & Joey Baron) - "Descending Grace" - Class Trip [2:24:38]
Music behind DJ:
Bill Evans - "Peace Piece" - Everybody Digs Bill Evans [2:33:25]
Chick Corea/John McLaughlin - "Someday My Prince Will Come" - Five Peace Band Live! [2:39:02]
Phillip Glass - "Opening" - Glassworks [2:46:42]
Bill Evans - "Tenderly" - Everybody Digs Bill Evans [2:53:05]
Spirit - "Love Has Found A Way / Why Can't I Be Free" - Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus [2:56:38]
Music behind DJ:
Bill Evans - "Peace Piece" - Everybody Digs Bill Evans [3:00:17] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/161312
Duration:03:06:52
Freely airing our choices. from Feb 9, 2026
2/9/2026
Humbird - "February" - (single) [0:00:00]
Joyce - "Chegada" - Visions of Dawn [0:03:27]
Caetano Veloso E Maria Bethânia - "Sozinho" - Fé (Ao Vivo) [0:07:52]
Juana Molina - "siestas ahí" - Doga [0:11:03]
Sharon Isbin-Paul Winter-Thiago de Mello - "Chants for the Chief, no. 2 Uirapuru do Amazonas" - Journey to the Amazon [0:16:01]
Carlos Barbosa-Lima - "Maria Bonita" - Natalia [0:20:40]
Egberto Gismonti & Academia De Dancas - "Lôro" - Sanfona / Egberto Gismonte Solo [0:24:18]
Gato Barbieri - "India" - Chapter One: Latin America [0:29:39]
Music behind DJ:
R. Carlos Nakai - "Shaman's Call / Canyon Reverie / In Media Res" - Earth Spirit [0:38:31]
Shabaka - "Those of the Sky" - Of The Earth [0:48:16]
Darian Donovan Thomas - "Purple Flower" - A Room With Many Doors: Day [0:53:04]
Samora Pinderhughes - "Grief (feat. Boom Bishop)" - Grief [0:58:46]
Meg Okura and The Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble - "African Skies" - India [1:05:19]
Music behind DJ:
R. Carlos Nakai - "Shaman's Call / Canyon Reverie / In Media Res" - Earth Spirit [1:14:40]
Simon and Garfunkel - "Bookends Theme / Save The Life of My Child" - Bookends [1:23:23]
Ye Vagabonds - "The Flood" - All Tied Together [1:26:35]
Christo Graham - "Tell Me If You Like Me" - Good Covers [1:29:55]
The Cucumbers - "One Valentine's Day" - As You Heard Me - Songs from Hello George [1:31:37]
Vassar Clements, John Hartford, Dave Holland - "Home Cooking" - Vassar Clements, John Hartford & Dave Holland [1:34:31]
Bruce Molsky & Darol Anger - "The Old Blue Bonnet" - Lockdown Breakdown [1:38:25]
Peter + Zoë Stampfel - "Going Nowhere" - Ass in the Air [1:41:28]
Music behind DJ:
R. Carlos Nakai - "Shaman's Call / Canyon Reverie / In Media Res" - Earth Spirit [1:44:58]
I'm With Her - "Sisters of the Night Watch" - Wild And Clear And Blue [1:55:29]
Adrian Crowley - "Transmission Lost" - Measure of Joy [1:59:57]
Roy Montgomery - "Erstwhile Enervation" - Guitars Infernal [2:05:29]
2 Foot Yard - "Hold My Own" - Borrowed Arms [2:08:49]
David Garland - "All With All" - The Spark [2:13:12]
Fränder - "Isen som brast i skratt" - FRÄNDER [2:19:55]
Music behind DJ:
R. Carlos Nakai - "Shaman's Call / Canyon Reverie / In Media Res" - Earth Spirit [2:25:13]
Gary Bartz & Ntu Troop - "You Are My Starship" - Damage Control [2:31:42]
Paul Winter Consort - "General Pudson's Entrance" - Remembering Ralph (Towner-Free Downloads) [2:36:56]
The Elec Tet - "Flow" - Shiny Metal Objects [2:42:23]
Rumbo Tumba - "Abrigo del vino" - Cordillera Latiendo
Sarah Elizabeth Charles - "Learn How to Love" - Free of Form [2:52:33]
Music behind DJ:
R. Carlos Nakai - "Shaman's Call / Canyon Reverie / In Media Res" - Earth Spirit [2:56:47] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/161045
Duration:03:06:41
Suppressing snowy sludge with song. from Feb 2, 2026
2/2/2026
John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner - "Parasol" - Sargasso Sea
Yorkston / Jaycock / Langendorf - "Havsström" - Yorkston / Jaycock / Langendorf [0:05:23]
Petito, Rainey, Smit, Torn - "Raindrops and Waterspouts" - ¿QUÉ? [0:13:25]
Shearwater - "Palo Santo" - Palo Santo [0:19:10]
D.C. Cross - "Vale of Thrownness Mountain" - Open Guitar (Volume One) [0:22:59]
Mark Wingfield - "Zig Zag" - Elemental [0:29:04]
Music behind DJ:
Irene Trudel - "Waves and Bells, Sandy Hook, NJ (summer 1988)" - You'll See Me In Your Dreams (WFMU Marathon Premium 2011) [0:32:01]
Ollella - "At Rest" - Antifragile [0:38:11]
Mary Margaret O'Hara - "Dear Darling" - Miss America [0:41:57]
Mitch & Mickey (Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy) - "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" - Sdtk: A Mighty Wind [0:45:48]
Laura Baird - "Your Sweet Face" - Under Blue [0:48:18]
House and Land - "False True Lover" - House and Land [0:52:26]
Molsky's Mountain Drifters - "Spring of '65" - Closing the Gap [0:56:08]
Music behind DJ:
Irene Trudel - "Waves and Bells, Sandy Hook, NJ (summer 1988)" - You'll See Me In Your Dreams (WFMU Marathon Premium 2011) [0:59:47]
The Last Town Chorus - "Change Your Mind" - The Last Town Chorus [1:11:03]
The Marias - "Lejos de Ti" - Submarine [1:14:49]
Courtney Marie Andrews - "Pendulum Swing" - Valentine [1:17:48]
Richard & Linda Thompson - "Shoot Out the Lights" - Shoot Out the Lights [1:21:14]
Neil Young - "Southern Man" - After the Gold Rush [1:26:37]
Lucinda Williams - "How Much Did You Get For Your Soul?" - The World's Gone Wrong [1:31:54]
Music behind DJ:
Irene Trudel - "Waves and Bells, Sandy Hook, NJ (summer 1988)" - You'll See Me In Your Dreams (WFMU Marathon Premium 2011) [1:35:55]
Juana Molina - "miro todo" - Doga [1:45:21]
Miriodor - "La Maison-Dieu [A Tower Struck Down]" - Rencontres [1:57:18]
FRÄNDER - "Jag väntar (I'm Waiting)" - FRÄNDER II [2:06:05]
Jethro Tull - "With You There to Help Me" - Benefit [2:12:50]
The Cure - "Warsong" - Songs of a Lost World [2:19:11]
Music behind DJ:
Irene Trudel - "Waves and Bells, Sandy Hook, NJ (summer 1988)" - You'll See Me In Your Dreams (WFMU Marathon Premium 2011) [2:24:07]
Samora Pinderhughes - "For Those Lost, For Those Taken (Dedicated to Sandra Bland)" - Black Spring EP [2:32:22]
David Crosby - "Here It's Almost Sunset" - Sky Trails [2:35:52]
John Scofield & Dave Holland - "Icons at the Fair" - Memories of Home [2:39:45]
Tremosphere - "Close to the Sun" - Memoirs of a French Garden [2:45:52]
Adrian Crowley - "The Birdwatchers" - The Birdwatchers [2:57:40]
Neil Cowley - "Suadade" - Hall Of Mirrors [2:57:08]
Music behind DJ:
Irene Trudel - "Waves and Bells, Sandy Hook, NJ (summer 1988)" - You'll See Me In Your Dreams (WFMU Marathon Premium 2011) [3:00:57] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160857
Duration:03:06:58
Wicked winter. from Jan 31, 2026
1/31/2026
Mitch & Mickey (Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy) - "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" - Sdtk: A Mighty Wind [0:00:00]
Mary Margaret O'Hara - "To Cry About" - Miss America [0:02:33]
Neil Young - "Sugar Mountain" - Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968 [0:05:54]
Gordon Giltrap - "Won't You Stay Awhile, Suzanne" - As Good As It Gets - Folk [0:14:34]
David Campbell - "Goodbye Stockholm" - As Good As It Gets - Folk [0:14:35]
Dulcimer - "Grey Lady Morning" - Room for Thought [0:18:10]
Duncan Browne - "Chloe in the Garden" - Give Me, Take You [0:21:24]
Music behind DJ:
Irene Trudel - "Waves and Bells, Sandy Hook, NJ (summer 1988)" - You'll See Me In Your Dreams (WFMU Marathon Premium 2011) [0:27:34]
Once Blue - "Stardust and Snow" - Once Blue [0:35:05]
The Last Town Chorus - "Wintering in Brooklyn" - Wire Waltz [0:38:31]
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - "Globe Of Frogs (2026 Remaster)" - A Globe Of Frogs (2026 Remaster) [0:42:56]
Lucinda Williams - "How Much Did You Get For Your Soul?" - The World's Gone Wrong [0:47:04]
The Mommyheads - "Finally Free" - No Quietus [0:51:01]
Music behind DJ:
Irene Trudel - "Waves and Bells, Sandy Hook, NJ (summer 1988)" - You'll See Me In Your Dreams (WFMU Marathon Premium 2011) [0:54:53]
David Crosby - "Balanced on a Pin" - Here If You Listen [1:03:04]
Humbird - "Eve Boards a Train" - Pharmakon [1:07:25]
Inlets - "See Her, Seer" - Vestibule EP [1:11:35]
Johanna Warren - "The Wheel" - Nūmūn [1:15:41]
House and Land - "Rainbow 'Mid Life's Willows" - Across The Field [1:18:57]
Laura Baird - "To Sleep" - Under Blue [1:24:24]
Silvana Estrada - "Como Un Pájaro" - Vendrán Suaves Lluvias (Soft Rains Will Fall) [1:28:30]
Music behind DJ:
Irene Trudel - "Waves and Bells, Sandy Hook, NJ (summer 1988)" - You'll See Me In Your Dreams (WFMU Marathon Premium 2011) [1:31:58]
John Martyn - "Bless the Weather" - Bless the Weather [1:38:28]
John Scofield & Dave Holland - "Meant to Be" - Memories of Home [1:42:51]
Ralph Towner and Gary Peacock - "Nardis" - The Rainbow Colored Lotus: A Big Hand for Hanshin [1:49:30]
Irene speaks! [1:58:26] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160819
Duration:02:06:30
Snuggling inside, away from the snow. from Jan 26, 2026
1/26/2026
D.C. Cross - "Jump off the edge into the Darkness" - Open Guitar (Volume One)
Seabuckthorn - "Hand in the Upward Sky" - Of No Such Place [0:08:28]
Steve Tibbetts - "Away" - Close [0:12:41]
Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - "Pleasant, If Not A Little Deadly" - Another Flower [0:19:41]
Robert Bromley - "The Last Miners of Cathedral Cave" - Into the Ether [0:24:41]
Leo Kottke - "Blimp" - One Guitar, No Vocals [0:28:33]
Music behind DJ:
Ralph Towner / Paolo Fresu - "Wistful Thinking / Punta Giara" - Chiaroscuro [0:32:04]
Laaraji - "Deep Celestial" - Two Sides of Laraaji [0:39:20]
The Durutti Column - "Never Known" - Valuable Passages [0:45:09]
Laura Baird - "Trellis" - Under Blue [0:51:53]
Linda Perhacs - "Call Of The River" - Parallelograms [0:55:40]
Lankum - "On a Monday Morning" - False Lankum [0:59:13]
Music behind DJ:
Ralph Towner / Paolo Fresu - "Wistful Thinking / Punta Giara" - Chiaroscuro [1:04:25]
The Mahavishnu Orchestra with The London Symphony Orchestra - "The Power of Love" - Apocalypse [1:13:30]
Serena Gabriel - "The Feline Path (Muffin)" - Purr 24 [1:17:44]
Richard Carr - "Dark Circles" - The Escarpment [1:27:51]
Mark Wingfield - "Seven Bridges" - Elemental [1:35:37]
Macie Stewart - "MurmurationMemorization" - When the Distance is Blue [1:40:50]
Sissoko-Segal-Parisien-Peirani - "La Chanson des Égarés" - Les Égarés [1:47:27]
Music behind DJ:
Ralph Towner / Paolo Fresu - "Wistful Thinking / Punta Giara" - Chiaroscuro [1:54:19]
Carla Kihlstedt - "Last Resort" - Two Foot Yard [2:02:41]
June McDoom - "Piano Song" - June McDoom [2:06:17]
Avi C. Engel - "Mote" - Mote [2:11:01]
John Martyn - "Glistening Glyndebourne" - Bless the Weather [2:16:25]
Juana Molina - "va rara" - Doga [2:22:49]
David Crosby - "Other Half Rule" - Here If You Listen [2:27:01]
Music behind DJ:
Ralph Towner / Paolo Fresu - "Wistful Thinking / Punta Giara" - Chiaroscuro [2:31:26]
John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner - "Bumabia" - Five Years Later [2:37:47]
Weather Report (w/Ralph Towner) - "The Moors" - I Sing the Body Electric [2:47:24]
Ralph Towner - "Ogden Road" - Diary [2:52:03]
Music behind DJ:
Ralph Towner / Paolo Fresu - "Wistful Thinking / Punta Giara" - Chiaroscuro [3:00:02] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160612
Duration:03:06:58
Hoping for a harmonious existence. And R.I.P. Ralph Towner from Jan 19, 2026
1/19/2026
Herbie Hancock - "I Have a Dream" - The Prisoner
Archie Shepp - "Dr. King, the Peaceful Warrior" - Things Have Got to Change [0:11:01]
Max Roach (w/Abbey Lincoln) - "Tryptich: Prayer/Protest/Peace" - We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite [0:13:40]
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - "Keep Moving" [0:21:44]
Sarah Elizabeth Charles - "March to Revolution" - Free of Form [0:24:04]
Nina Simone - "Why? (The King of Love Is Dead)" - Forever Young, Gifted and Black: Songs of Freedom and Spirit [0:29:11]
Music behind DJ:
John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner - "Fable" - Sargasso Sea [0:38:20]
Charles Lloyd Trio (w/Zakir Hussain, Julian Lage) - "Kuti" - Sacred Thread [0:46:06]
Banning Eyre - "Lamban" - Bare Songs 1 [0:54:01]
Don Cherry - "Gamla Stan - The Old Town By Night" - The Sonet Recordings: Eternal Now/Live Ankara [0:59:17]
Steve Tibbetts - "Remember (Parts 1 & 2)" - Close [1:07:46]
John Scofield & Dave Holland - "Memories of Home" - Memories of Home [1:19:25]
Music behind DJ:
John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner - "Fable" - Sargasso Sea [1:24:52]
Set: R.I.P. Ralph Towner
Set:
Oregon - "Tide Pool" - Winter Light [1:36:48]
Oregon - "Dark Spirit" - Oregon - 1974 [1:45:23]
Oregon - "Waterwheel" - Out of the Woods [1:59:32]
Paul Winter Consort - "Icarus" - Icarus [2:05:57]
Music behind DJ:
John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner - "Fable" - Sargasso Sea [2:08:55]
Ralph Towner / Paolo Fresu - "Wistful Thinking" - Chiaroscuro [2:14:37]
Ralph Towner - "Anthem" - Anthem [2:18:46]
Ralph Towner - "Blue Sun" - Blue Sun [2:23:38]
Ralph Towner - "Green and Golden" - Ana [2:30:53]
Ralph Towner - "Empty Stage" - At First Light [2:35:56]
Music behind DJ:
John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner - "Fable" - Sargasso Sea [2:39:32]
Ralph Towner (w/Markus Stockhausen, Paul McCandless, Gary Peacock, Jerry Granelli) - "City of Eyes" - City of Eyes [2:43:56]
Ralph Towner/Jan Garbarek/Eberhard Weber/Jon Christensen - "Winter Solstice" - Solstice [2:48:05]
Ralph Towner / Gary Burton - "Aurora" - Matchbook [2:57:07]
Music behind DJ:
John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner - "Fable" - Sargasso Sea [2:57:23] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160373
Duration:03:06:40
The slowing of the season. from Jan 12, 2026
1/12/2026
Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper - "Ninkoy" - Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper [0:00:00]
Banning Eyre - "Djelimady" - Bare Songs, Vol 1 [0:11:25]
D.C. Cross - "Overlapping at Christophstrasse- MediaPark" - Open Guitar (Volume One) [0:11:27]
Nure & Nubun - "Ax Le Yeman Cacane" - Import Export a la Turka: Turkish Sounds from Germany compiled by DJ Ipek Ipekcioglu [0:15:43]
Richard Carr - "Chiffon" - The Escarpment [0:20:13]
John Scofield & Dave Holland - "Icons at the Fair" - Memories of Home [0:27:25]
Steve Tibbetts - "Remember and Wish" - Close [0:33:30]
Music behind DJ:
Leo Kupper - "Electro-Acoustic Santur 3" - Electro-Acoustic [0:37:18]
Grateful Dead - "Jack Straw" - Europe '72 [0:45:05]
The Mommyheads - "Race Car Brain" - No Quietus [0:49:51]
Fairport Convention - "Reynardine" - Liege & Leaf [0:54:28]
Steve Gunn - "Hadrian's Wall" - Daylight Daylight [0:58:59]
Robyn Hitchcock - "Luminous Rose (Remixed and Remastered)" - Globe of Frogs [1:03:49]
Music behind DJ:
Leo Kupper - "Electro-Acoustic Santur 3" - Electro-Acoustic [1:08:15]
Sarah Elizabeth Charles - "Freedom Day" - Blank Canvas [1:16:12]
Samora Pinderhughes - "Stare Straight Ahead" - Grief [1:21:42]
Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra - "MUNDOAGUA III The Politics of Water" - Mundoagua (Celebrating Carla Bley) [1:26:04]
Theo Bleckmann - "The Crossing" - Love and Anger [1:33:18]
Music behind DJ:
Leo Kupper - "Electro-Acoustic Santur 3" - Electro-Acoustic [1:36:25]
Vlada Tomova - "Kara Deniz" - Balkan Tales [1:46:33]
Niva - "Salzi Ronya - Snosti Sum Libe" - Niva [1:55:22]
Fränder - "Vabadus" - FRÄNDER [1:57:05]
Dolunay - "Rodop Dağları Engindir" - Our House [2:02:51]
Adam Good - "Ruchenitsa" - Dances of Macedonia and the Balkans [2:07:00]
Music behind DJ:
Leo Kupper - "Electro-Acoustic Santur 3" - Electro-Acoustic [2:12:11]
Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band - "Izgubljeno Jagnje (Lost Lamb) /Šukrijin Čoček" - Do Zore (Until Dawn) [2:20:21]
Slavic Soul Party! - "Vranje" - Teknochek Collision [2:25:58]
Raya Brass Band - "Riffcloud" - Brasslands (Motion Picture Soundtrack) [2:30:00]
Michael Winograd with Ira Temple - "Turkisher" - 6 Songs (written really quickly) [2:33:44]
Music behind DJ:
Leo Kupper - "Electro-Acoustic Santur 3" - Electro-Acoustic [2:37:49]
Kolegi - "Kontrabatzides" - Kolegi [2:43:34]
Ukranian Village Voices - "Не Ходи й Улане (Ne Khody y Ulane) - Don't Walk, Ulan" - Ukranian Village Voices [2:47:38]
Souren Baronian - "Hey Yala" - The MIddle Eastern Soul of Carlee Records [2:51:45]
Music behind DJ:
Leo Kupper - "Electro-Acoustic Santur 3" - Electro-Acoustic [2:58:09] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160157
Duration:03:06:12
Traveling the irregular path. from Jan 5, 2026
1/5/2026
Mahavishnu Orchestra - "Birds of Fire" - Birds of Fire [0:00:00]
Pink Floyd - "Astronomy Domine" - Piper at the Gates of Dawn [0:05:20]
Public Service Broadcasting - "Electra" - The Last Flight [0:09:38]
McKendree Spring - "Down By the River" - 3 [0:13:01]
King Crimson - "Easy Money" - Larks' Tongues in Aspic [0:21:52]
David Bowie - "Moonage Daydream" - The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars [0:26:28]
Music behind DJ:
David Garland - "Time Out of Joint" - Time Out of Joint [0:31:14]
Didier Lockwood - "Agartha" - Surya [0:39:46]
Donny McCaslin - "Lullaby for the Lost" - Lullaby for the Lost [0:46:52]
Petito, Rainey, Smit, Torn - "Next is a Good Place to Be" - ¿QUÉ? [0:53:27]
Geir Sundstøl - "Snille spøkelse" - Sakte film [1:04:16]
The Flock - "I Am the Tall Tree" - The Flock [1:09:47]
Music behind DJ:
David Garland - "Time Out of Joint" - Time Out of Joint [1:15:20]
Fairport Convention - "Tam Lin" - Liege & Lief [1:26:40]
Judy Dyble - "She Now Owns a Heart of Stone" - Earth is Sleeping [1:33:54]
June Tabor - "The Scarecrow" - New Electric Muse: The Story of Folk into Rock [1:40:41]
Trees - "Polly on the Shore" - On The Shore [1:46:00]
Music behind DJ:
David Garland - "Time Out of Joint" - Time Out of Joint [1:52:21]
David Garland - "These Days" - The Spark [2:03:24]
The Fugs - "Coming Down" - The Fugs Second Album [2:07:38]
Aksak Maboul - "Imaginary Travels with Chris" - Before Aksak Maboul (Documents & Experiments 1969–1977) [2:11:25]
Sessa - "Roupa Dos Mortos" - Pequena Vertigem de Amor [2:13:58]
Seatrain - "Flute Thing" - Watch [2:18:06]
Trio Lligo. - "Ljusflöde" - Trio Lligo. [2:25:38]
Music behind DJ:
David Garland - "Time Out of Joint" - Time Out of Joint [2:29:30]
Ballake Sissoko & Derek Gripper - "Basle" - Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper [2:36:56]
Collin Walcott / Don Cherry / Nana Vasconcelos - "Codona" - Codona [2:41:45]
Steve Tibbetts - "Somewhere, Part 3" - Close [2:47:55]
Stephane Grappelli,w/Philip Catherine, Larry Coryell, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - "Oriental Shuffle" - Young Django [2:54:17]
Music behind DJ:
David Garland - "Time Out of Joint" - Time Out of Joint [2:58:01] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/159919
Duration:03:05:54
Sunsetting This Year: Irene's Favorites of 2025 from Dec 29, 2025
12/29/2025
Steve Gunn - "Another Fade" - Daylight Daylight
Buck Curran - "You Are My Sun" - Far Driven Sun [0:06:58]
Goran Ivanovic - "Five Shadow Vignettes" - Closer Than This [0:11:20]
Gwenifer Raymond - "Bonfire of the Billionaires" - Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark [0:14:19]
Laura Baird - "Grace" - Under Blue [0:19:06]
Music behind DJ:
Paolo Angeli - "Mavi" - LEMA [0:23:34]
Béla Fleck / Edmar Castañeda / Antonio Sánchez - "Whispers of Resilience / Coda" - BEATrio [0:32:40]
Ballake Sissoko & Derek Gripper - "Ninkoy" - Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper [0:43:12]
Shakti - "Lotus Feet" - Mind Explosion [0:50:08]
Petito, Rainey, Smit, Torn - "Raindrops and Waterspouts" - ¿QUÉ? [0:56:32]
Rebecca Foon & Aliayta Foon-Dancoes - "Midnight Shadow" - Reverie [1:02:00]
Music behind DJ:
Sarah Neufeld- Richard Reed Parry- Rebecca Foon - "Clouding Clouds" - First Sounds [1:06:28]
Cuddle Magic - "Not Anyone" - Underwater [1:14:43]
caroline - "Song two" - caroline 2 [1:17:58]
Erlend Apneseth - "Trø (step)" - Song over støv (Song over Dust) [1:21:34]
Geir Sundstøl - "Divan" - Sakte Film [1:23:57]
Macie Stewart - "I Forget How To Remember My Dreams (ft. Lia Kohl)" - When the Distance is Blue [1:29:43]
Skullcap - "Bear Out There" - Snakes of Albuquerque [1:35:52]
Music behind DJ:
Anupam Shobhakar - "Home" - Liquid Reality [1:39:19]
Anand Wilder - "Apointment in Samarra" - Psychic Lessons [1:44:33]
The Barr Brothers - "Take It From Me" - Let It Hiss [1:48:33]
Bab L'Bluz - "Imazighen" - Swaken [1:53:07]
Nanocluster, SUSS & Immersion - "Khamsin" - Nanocluster Vol. 3 [1:57:16]
Donny McCaslin - "Mercy" - Lullaby for the Lost [2:01:41]
Aaron Parks - "Willamina" - Little Big III [2:06:50]
Music behind DJ:
William Tyler (w/Jake Davis) - "Anima Hotel" - Time Indefinite [2:11:16]
Silvana Estrada - "Dime" - Vendrán Suaves Lluvias [2:15:12]
S.G. Goodman - "Heat Lightning" - Planting by the Signs [2:18:51]
Vines - "Evicted" - I'll be here [2:22:10]
Tremosphere - "She Who Waits" - Saturated Solace [2:27:17]
Kitchen Cynics & Margery Daw - "Pleiades" - This Was Tomorrow [2:31:57]
Paul Spring - "Can I Get a Light" - Dumb and Free [2:32:21]
Emma Swift - "Nothing and Forever" - The Resurection Game [2:34:48]
Music behind DJ:
Adam Gonzalez - "Tibetan Singing Bowl" - Cello & Other Emotions [2:38:37]
Theo Bleckmann - "Stars" - Love and Anger [2:42:58]
Anna von Hausswolff - "Aging Young Women feat. Ethel Cain" - Iconoclasts [2:46:54]
Anouar Brahem, Anja Lechner, Django Bates, Dave Holland - "The Sweet Oranges of Jaffa" - After the Last Sky [2:50:53]
Nick Drake - "Day is Done (Take 5, 11th April 1968)" - The Making of Five Leaves Left [2:58:00]
Music behind DJ:
Yorkston / Jaycock / Langendorf - "Havsström" - Yorkston / Jaycock / Langendorf [3:01:14] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/159665
Duration:03:06:49
Seasonally spirited. from Dec 22, 2025
12/22/2025
Thor and Friends - "Christmas Eve at the Wizard's House" - Heathen Spirituals
Avi C. Engel - "raven asleep" - A Little Light [0:10:52]
Pee Gee - "Pee Gee 2024 Christmas" - Christmas EP [0:13:45]
Dave Clarkson - "Here Is A Box, A Musical Box" - Ghosts of Christmas Past (Music from Vintage Toys) [0:21:43]
Rita Ford's Music Boxes - "Old Hundred" - Joyous Music Box Christmas [0:25:04]
Heikki Ruokangas and Simo Laihonen - "Maa on niin kaunis" - Joulupuu on rakennettu - Finnish Christmas Songs [0:29:46]
Music behind DJ:
George Melachrino & Orchestra - "Once More It's Christmas /Silent Night /Little Brown Jug" - Christmas in High Fidelity [0:34:08]
David Hykes - "Spectral Breath Prayer Calls" - Rainbow Dances [0:41:47]
Bipolar Explorer - "A Vision Foreshown / Mille Anges Divins / Alighted / Gabriel / And It Came to Pass" - Til Morning Is Nigh: A Dream of Christmas [0:52:03]
Ralph Towner - "Sacred Place" - Chiaroscuro [1:05:55]
Wall Matthews - "Sing We Christmas / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" - Star of Wonder [1:10:04]
Music behind DJ:
George Melachrino & Orchestra - "Once More It's Christmas /Silent Night /Little Brown Jug" - Christmas in High Fidelity [1:13:43]
Steeleye Span - "Gower Wassail" - All Things are Quite Silent: Complete Recordings 1970-71 [1:19:39]
Tony Trischka & friends - "Christmas Fiddle" - Of a Winter's Night [1:25:06]
Marc O'Connor (w/Chris Thile) - "One Winter's Night" - An Appalachian Christmas [1:28:51]
Jane Sibberry - "Sheep May Safely Graze" - Shushan the Palace (Hymns of Earth) [1:33:33]
Ian Anderson/Jethro Tull - "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" - live on WAXQ November 24th, 2004 [1:37:12]
The Roches - "Silver Bells" - We Three Kings [1:41:53]
Music behind DJ:
George Melachrino & Orchestra - "Once More It's Christmas /Silent Night /Little Brown Jug" - Christmas in High Fidelity [1:44:40]
Irving Fields Trio - "Havannah Negila" - Bagels and Bongos [1:51:49]
Michael Winograd - "Der Yemenite Tanz" - Michael Winograd plays TANZ! Live in New York City [1:54:00]
Mickey Katz and His Orchestra - "Grandma's Draidel" - Simcha Time: Mickey Katz Plays Music For Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs and Brisses [2:01:29]
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - "The Hannukah Waltz" - Jingle All The Way [2:04:07]
Music behind DJ:
George Melachrino & Orchestra - "Once More It's Christmas /Silent Night" - Christmas in High Fidelity [2:06:44]
John Prine - "Silent Night All Day Long" - A John Prine Christmas [2:10:01]
The Christmas Jug Band (w/Dan Hicks) - "The Real Deal" - Rhythm On The Roof [2:13:54]
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - "Have a Holiday, Baby" [2:17:26]
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - "There Ain't No Santa Claus On The Evenin' Stage" - Feast of Fools: KBC Radio Xmas 2007 [2:18:50]
The Beatles - "Christmastime Is Here Again (Fan Club Greeting Dec. 1967)" - The Beatles Christmas Album [2:22:16]
The Butties - "Coventry Carol" - 12 Greatest Carols [2:28:10]
The Gripweeds - "A Christmas Song" - Under the Influence of Christmas [2:32:47]
Music behind DJ:
George Melachrino & Orchestra - "Once More It's Christmas /Silent Night /Little Brown Jug" - Christmas in High Fidelity [2:36:06]
Vince Guaraldi Trio - "Christmas Time Is Here" - A Charlie Brown Christmas [2:41:27]
Thad Jones & Mel Lewis - "A Child is Born" - Consummation [2:47:27]
Bill Evans - "Peace Piece" - Everybody Digs Bill Evans [Keepnews Collection] [2:51:40]
Music behind DJ:
George Melachrino & Orchestra - "Fairy on the Christmas Tree" - Christmas in High Fidelity [2:58:15] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/159425
Duration:03:06:46
A sprinkling of snow on top. from Dec 15, 2025
12/15/2025
Steve Gunn - "Another Fade" - Daylight Daylight [0:00:00]
Faun Fables - "Ember Bell" - Counterclockwise [0:07:01]
Marissa Nadler - "If It's an Illusion" - New Radiations [0:11:48]
Alev Lenz - "Ivory Tower (On D)" - 4 in a Cycle of Thirds [0:15:40]
Bipolar Explorer - "Snowfall" - Deux Anges [0:18:26]
Stone Breath - "The Snow-White Ghost-White Stag" - The Night Birds Psalm [0:23:36]
Mekons - "Fallen Leaves" - Horror [0:27:06]
Music behind DJ:
Ian Smit - "True Keepsake" [0:30:22]
John Prine - "Hello in There" - John Prine [0:37:20]
Steve Goodman - "The Dutchman" - Somebody Else's Troubles [0:41:49]
Lucinda Williams - "What Could Go Wrong?" [0:46:14]
Townes Van Zandt - "For the Sake of the Song" - Townes Van Zandt [0:50:35]
Brandi Carlile - "Joni" - Returning to Myself [0:55:51]
Joni Mitchell - "Amelia" - Hejira [0:59:56]
Music behind DJ:
Ian Smit - "True Keepsake" [1:06:02]
Laura Baird - "Under Blue" - Under Blue [1:16:06]
Emma Tricca - "Lost in New York" - Prisms of Winter - Live in London [1:20:34]
Anne Briggs - "The Recruited Collier" - A Collection [1:24:54]
Fairport Convention - "Autopsy" - Unhalfbricking [1:27:19]
Mamalama - "Passion of Cloud" - Seeds Under Nuclear Winter: An Earth Opera [1:31:36]
Avi C. Engel - "coral" - A Little Light [1:43:02]
Music behind DJ:
Ian Smit - "True Keepsake" [1:48:34]
Mark Wingfield - "We Live Here" - Elemental [1:59:40]
Petito, Rainey, Smit, Torn - "A Quiet Cafe Until it's Not" - ¿QUÉ [2:05:12]
Aksak Maboul - "Didn’t Make It 1 - Balinoid" - Before Aksak Maboul (Documents & Experiments 1969–1977) [2:13:54]
Mary Halvorson - "Eventidal" - About Ghosts [2:17:20]
Music behind DJ:
Ian Smit - "True Keepsake" [2:23:33]
Bipolar Explorer - "Once... / On Another Shore in a Greater Light / Bethlehem" - Til Morning Is Nigh: A Dream of Christmas [2:33:01]
Anna von Hausswolff - "The Mouth" - Iconoclasts [2:42:27]
Donny McCaslin - "Mercy" - Lullaby for the Lost [2:49:18]
Black Country, New Road - "Salem Sisters" - Forever Howlong [2:54:15]
Music behind DJ:
Ian Smit - "True Keepsake" [2:57:24] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/159181
Duration:03:06:45
Breathe it all in. from Dec 8, 2025
12/8/2025
Donny McCaslin - "Stately" - Lullaby for the Lost [0:00:00]
Phillip Johnston's Big Trouble - "The Hymn of the Souls Who are Passing/Still Water" - Phillip Johnston's Big Trouble [0:05:57]
Anna von Hausswolff - "Consensual Neglect" - Iconoclasts [0:17:15]
Petito, Rainey, Smit, Torn - "Bee Still" - ¿QUÉ? [0:22:10]
Music behind DJ:
Bill Evans - "Peace Piece" - Everybody Digs Bill Evans [0:30:34]
Kitchen Cynics & Margery Daw - "Pleiades" - This Was Tomorrow [0:41:16]
Seabuckthorn - "That World Lay in Wait" - A Path Within a Path [0:45:48]
Isao Tomita - "La Cathedrale engloutie" - Snowflakes Are Dancing: Virtuoso Electronic Performances of Debussy's Tone Paintings [0:50:52]
Billy Cobham - "Savannah the Serene" - Crosswinds [0:57:12]
Kenny Wheeler, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Dave Holland - "Unti" - Angel Song [1:01:32]
Music behind DJ:
Bill Evans - "Peace Piece" - Everybody Digs Bill Evans [1:11:20]
Gwenifer Raymond - "Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark" - Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark [1:20:41]
John Fahey - "A Raga Called Pat, Part III" - The Voice of the Turtle [1:26:50]
Robbie Basho - "Song of the Great Mystery" - Songs of the Great Mystery: The Lost Vanguard Sessions [1:35:51]
Bert Jansch - "Weeping Willow Blues" - Nicola + Birthday Blues [1:43:15]
Buck Curran - "ILiad (Slight Return)" - Far Driven Sun [1:46:50]
Goran Ivanovic - "Lucid" - Closer Than This [1:50:12]
Music behind DJ:
Bill Evans - "Peace Piece" - Everybody Digs Bill Evans [1:52:51]
John Prine - "Only Love" - Aimless Love [2:02:55]
Paul Spring - "No One Above" - Dumb and Free [2:06:39]
Christo Graham - "That's Not What It Looks Like To Me" - Good Covers [2:09:41]
Nick Drake - "One of These Things First" - Bryter Later [2:13:28]
Hannah Frances - "Surviving You" - Nested in Tangles [2:18:17]
Steve Gunn - "Loon" - Daylight Daylight [2:23:47]
The Fugs - "The Garden is Open" - Tenderness Junction [2:28:39]
Music behind DJ:
Bill Evans - "Peace Piece" - Everybody Digs Bill Evans [2:34:45]
Yorkston / Jaycock / Langendorf - "Neither North Nor South" - Yorkston / Jaycock / Langendorf [2:41:16]
Avi C. Engel - "bee robber" - A Little Light [2:44:53]
Theo Bleckmann - "Teardrop" - Love and Anger [2:53:07]
Music behind DJ:
Bill Evans - "Peace Piece" - Everybody Digs Bill Evans [3:00:16] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/158967
Duration:03:06:56
All the sparkle that's hiding inside. from Dec 1, 2025
12/1/2025
The Beatles - "Strawberry Fields Forever" - Magical Mystery Tour [0:00:00]
The Bonzo Dog Band - "Humanoid Boogie" - The Doughnut In Granny's Greenhouse [0:04:03]
CCC - "Sleeping" - Revolved (ccc mash-up of Revolver album) [0:07:02]
The Electric Light Orchestra - "Mr. Radio" - First Light [0:10:36]
The Rutles - "Cheese and Onions" - The Ruttles [0:15:31]
The Beatles - "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" - Help! [0:18:09]
Lou Russo - "Guinevere" - Tales Unrequited [0:20:18]
Robyn Hitchcock - "A Day in the Life" - Live Death [0:27:46]
Music behind DJ:
Beatlejazz - "Tomorrow Never Knows" - Another Bite of the Apple [0:33:54]
The Barr Brothers feat. La Force - "Naturally" - Let It Hiss [0:41:30]
The Gwens - "Saturday / Her Diary" - Devil's Cliff [0:46:17]
The Mommyheads - "I'm Your Apocalypse" - No Quietus [0:51:32]
Sloan - "Living the Dream" - Parallel Play [0:56:17]
The Move - "Hello Suzie" - Flowers in the Rain [0:59:35]
The Traveling Wilburys - "End of the Line" - The Traveling Wilburys Collection [1:04:15]
Music behind DJ:
Beatlejazz - "Within You Without You" - A Bite of the Apple [1:07:34]
The Fugs - "Nothing" - Golden Filth [1:19:27]
Van Dyke Parks - "Widows Walk / Laurel Canyon Blvd. / All the Golden" - Song Cycle [1:23:35]
The Cleaners From Venus - "Mercury Girl" - Living with Victoria Grey [1:30:55]
William Tyler (w/Jake Davis) - "The Hardest Land to Harvest" - Time Indefinite [1:35:05]
Espers - "Meadow" - Espers [1:42:42]
Music behind DJ:
Beatlejazz - "Within You Without You" - A Bite of the Apple [1:46:58]
caroline - "U R UR ONLY ACHING" - caroline 2 [1:56:07]
Cuddle Magic - "Micah" - Underwater [2:00:37]
Coral Grief - "The Landfall" - Air Between Us [2:03:50]
Hannah Frances - "Heavy Light" - Nested in Tangles [2:07:03]
Anna von Hausswolff - "The Mouth" - Iconoclasts [2:13:28]
Kitchen Cynics & Margery Daw - "Mary Delany" - This Was Tomorrow [2:20:25]
Music behind DJ:
Beatlejazz - "Within You Without You" - A Bite of the Apple [2:23:43]
Gwenifer Raymond - "Dreams of Rhiannon's Birds" - Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark [2:30:34]
Scott Appel - "Floo'ers o' the Forest / Dargai" - The Lost Tapes [2:33:05]
Laura Baird - "To Sleep" - Under Blue [2:38:47]
Steve Gunn - "Morning on K Road" - Daylight Daylight [2:42:46]
Paul Spring - "I Believe In It Now" - Dumb and Free [2:48:44]
American Music Club - "Laughingstock" - California [2:52:13]
Marissa Nadler - "If It's an Illusion" - New Radiations [2:56:20]
Music behind DJ:
Beatlejazz - "Within You Without You" - A Bite of the Apple [3:00:08] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/158742
Duration:03:06:40
A finely spun web of song. from Nov 24, 2025
11/24/2025
The Beatles - "Dear Prudence" - The Beatles (The White Album) [0:00:00]
Robyn Hitchcock - "Autumn Sunglasses" - Robyn Hitchcock [0:03:54]
Scott Appel - "Winter Light" - The Lost Tapes [0:08:52]
The United States of America - "Osamu" - The United States of America [0:12:54]
Joan Shelley - "Heaven Knows" - Real Warmth [0:15:50]
John Prine - "Mexican Home" - In Person & On Stage [0:19:29]
The Gwens - "Thiefbirds" - Devil's Cliff [0:24:38]
Music behind DJ:
John Fahey - "Finale" - America [0:27:23]
Sam Amidon - "Golden Willow Tree" - Salt River [0:38:49]
Entourage Music and Theatre Ensemble - "Days (early version)" - Ceremony Of Dreams: Studio Sessions And Outtakes, 1972-1977 [0:46:35]
The Incredible String Band - "Dear Old Battlefield" - Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending/Liquid Acrobat as Regards the Air [0:53:22]
Principal Edwards Magic Theater - "Sacrifice" - Soundtrack / The Asmoto Running Band [0:56:21]
Music behind DJ:
John Fahey - "Finale" - America [1:04:58]
Tomorrow - "My White Bicycle" - Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts fron the British Empire & Beyond, 1964-1969 [1:13:09]
The Who - "Our Love Was, Is / I Can See for Miles" - The Who Sell Out [1:16:38]
Pink Floyd - "Interstellar Overdrive" - The Piper at the Gate of Dawn [1:24:01]
The Mothers of Invention - "Who are the Brain Police?" - Freak Out! [1:33:39]
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - "Electricity" - The Dust Blows Forward (An Anthology) [1:37:08]
Wimple Witch - "Save My Soul" - Head Sounds from Bam Caruso [1:40:08]
Timebox - "Gone Is The Sad Man (stereo)" - Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts fron the British Empire & Beyond, 1964-1969 [1:43:16]
Music behind DJ:
John Fahey - "Finale" - America [1:46:56]
The Barr Brothers - "Moonbeam" - Let It Hiss [1:55:00]
Lane Steinberg - "The Best Tears I've Ever Cried" - Mr. Lane [1:59:48]
Paul Spring - "Dumb and Free" - Dumb and Free [2:02:31]
Owen Pallett - "The Sound of the Engines" - Island [2:07:01]
Amy Annelle - "Why Did He Take His Love Away?" - The Toll [2:10:55]
Music behind DJ:
John Fahey - "Finale" - America [2:14:29]
John Fahey - "America" - America [2:22:14]
Glenn Jones - "Like a Sick Eagle Looking at the Sky" - My Garden State [2:29:51]
Ye Vagabonds - "Song Long Forgotten" - Ye Vagabonds [2:37:50]
Gwenifer Raymond - "Bonfire of the Billionaires" - Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark [2:44:32]
Nathan Salsburg - "The Walls of the World" - Third [2:49:19]
Duck Baker - "Medley: The South Wind / The Blackbird" - Kid On the Mountain [2:53:45]
Fairport Convention - "Now Be Thankful" - Full House (Bonus Track Edition) [2:57:18]
Music behind DJ:
John Fahey - "Finale" - America [2:59:45] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/158482
Duration:03:06:32
Join together with the band! from Nov 17, 2025
11/17/2025
Hannah Frances - "Steady in the Hand" - Nested in Tangles [0:00:00]
Laura Marling - "You Know / Breathe" - Once I Was an Eagle [0:05:19]
Maryam Rahmani - "Anchor" - Kamand [0:12:54]
Laurel Premo - "Grief of the Angler" - Laments [0:18:40]
Maisy Owen - "My Youth is All for You" [0:22:39]
Buck Curran - "Iliad" - Far Driven Sun [0:26:00]
The Incredible String Band - "Koeeoaddi There" - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter [0:29:18]
Music behind DJ:
Ian Smit - "True Keepsake" [0:34:12]
David Garland - "Feathered Stone" - The Spark [0:42:35]
Cuddle Magic - "Way I Do It" - Underwater [0:49:10]
Espers - "Meadow" - Espers [0:52:15]
Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - "Innocent Bystander" - Striking It Rich! [0:56:18]
John Prine - "I Hate It When That Happens To Me" - Fair & Square [1:00:17]
Fortunato Durutti Marinetti - "Call Me the Author" - Bitter Sweet, Sweet Bitter [1:03:07]
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians - "Autumn Sea" - Queen Elvis [1:08:25]
Music behind DJ:
Ian Smit - "True Keepsake" [1:12:33]
The Durutti Column - "Never Known" - Valuable Passages [1:22:33]
Robin Guthrie - "Close My Eyes and Burn" - Carousel [1:29:26]
Cocteau Twins - "Throughout the Dark Months" - Victorialand [1:32:41]
Coral Grief - "Lattitude" - Air Between Us [1:36:02]
Kendra Smith - "Judge Not" - Five Ways of Disappearing [1:40:07]
Beth Orton - "Forever Young" - Weather Alive [1:43:30]
Music behind DJ:
Ian Smit - "True Keepsake" [1:49:03]
Andreas Kapsalis & Goran Ivanovic - "Turritopsis Nutricula" - Guitar Duo [1:57:14]
Gwenifer Raymond - "Bliws Afon Taf" - Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark [2:01:38]
Jack DeJohnette (w/David Murray, Arthur Blythe, Peter Warren) - "In Movement" - In Movement [2:07:26]
Wheeler / Konitz / Holland / Frisell - "Nicolette" - Angel Song [2:16:38]
Music behind DJ:
Ian Smit - "True Keepsake" [2:25:15]
Emma Swift - "How to Be Small" - The Ressurection Game [2:33:13]
Silvana Estrada - "Dime" - Vendrán Suaves Lluvias (Soft Rains Will Fall) [2:38:27]
The Antlers - "Pour" - Blight [2:42:06]
The Bee Gees - "I Started A Joke" - Idea [2:47:41]
The Barr Brothers - "Owning Up to Everyone" - Let It Hiss [2:50:45]
Will Stratton - "Jesusita" - Points of Origin [2:55:02]
Music behind DJ:
Ian Smit - "True Keepsake" [2:59:35] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/158271
Duration:03:06:20