Edge Freeze

The middle part of this week’s proGram still had the ability to stop time in its tracks.

Kick (Disco Mix)- Brion Gysin
Baboon- Brion Gysin


Vibing in Ay (Folamour Remix)- Léon Phal
Get It In- House Dance Mystics Ft. Future EOF
Equality (Original Mix)- Hevi Levi
Oh No (Pt. 2)- L.A.B
Niñx- Ana Tijoux


Rock & Sway Riddem- Dubmatix & Al Pancho

Space AC- Lars Deutsch
Classroom- John Medeski
Oceanic- Hu Vibrational
Capricho- Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel


Rumba for the River Trilogy: Dragon Dance- Vincent Hsu (Live)

Morning Glowin’

The first part of this week’s proGrm seemed to have a bit of a glow to it:

Lonesome Road Blues- Sebastià Gris
Drops- Blanca Altable Ft. Álex Hache
Take Your Time- Black Pearl
greenarrowradio promo- Cedar County Cobras


Man of Few Words- The Incurables
Sting Me (Slow)- The Black Crowes (Live, In-Studio 1/4/92)


Ain’t It Funny- The Tibbs
Kra1 (Origin Story)- mega cat
Celebrate with Port!- mega cat
Don’t You Ever Get the Creeps?- mega cat
Cyclone- Wolfgang Valbrun
I’ll Keep My Light in My Window- Mike Keat & The CB’s


Wild Shadows- Flevans
Guajru- Toco
Leão Leonardo- Toco

House The Houseless

Musician & WWOZ radio host Cole Williams is in the vanguard of a powerful movement of direct action in the city of New Orleans, defending the rights of unhoused people.

In recent years New Orleans housing activists created a political space for people to come together. Following frequent street demonstrations at City Hall, activists succeeded in getting the City to provide emergency housing in empty hotels. Now grassroots activists are renovating City-owned blighted houses with unhoused people by their side. Organized by The Greater New Orleans Citizens Relief Team (GNOCRT), they are asking the city government and those individuals with construction skills to assist in this dramatic and impactful Project.

Cole Williams is leading this struggle with deep community participation and her powerful songs of love and struggle. Her new album with the Cole Williams Band, “Give Power to the People” puts them in the tradition of Gil Scott-Heron, creating songsthat reflect the everyday experiences and hopes of Black people all around the world. These songs are anthems of the Movement for Black Lives and certainly for people struggling to make sense out of this dangerous and hopeful moment.

Dan + Claudia Zanes Holiday Bash

This Holiday Sing Along with Grammy Award® winner Dan Zanes and his musical wife, Claudia Zanes, (family to greenarrowradio), is a multicultural all-ages wintertime celebration based on the Christmas gatherings Dan experienced as a child growing up in New Hampshire, in which friends and neighbors came together to sing carols around the piano. This event is/was an ideal Sensory Friendly performance.

But it’s the 21st century!

And now the singers are from a variety of traditions and the songs are from here and there, near and far—Christmas and Hanukah classics in English, Hebrew, and Ladino; as well as holiday songs from Korea, Tunisia, Puerto Rico, Wales, and Haiti. Instead of a piano there are the sounds of guitar, mandolin, harmonica, flute, trombone, tambourine, melodica, ukulele, and anything else that happens to make it in the door. Songbooks are distributed and the audience becomes a part of the festivities. I have to thank the Kennedy Center for having another great thing for me (and you) to be a part of wherever we are around the globe – innovation means INclusion.

The Dan + Claudia Zanes Holiday Sing Along offers a chance for people to experience some of the best of life’s possibilities… while singing with wild abandon! Watch the entire performance here.

Enjoy!!

Flew Away

The final part of this week’s proGram knew where to go, ahead.

Minnesota Fats- Raz Olsher
Prelude with Attitude- Raz Olsher
Det läcker- Dina Ögon


Masada- Club d’Elf

Survivor- Genesis Owusu
Wetter- Atmosphere
RUN- Killer Mike & Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley
Journey- Roots of Creation & Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad Ft. Passafire


Gett Off- Prince (Live at Glam Slam, 1992)
Jughead- Prince (Live at Glam Slam, 1992)


Astral Flowers- Sam Gendel & Fabiano do Nascimento

Winging That

Middle part of this week’s proGram took flight straight away.

Every Day of Your Life- Sheryl Youngblood & Delmark All-Stars
For You- Thee Sinseers
Just One Kiss- Kelly Finnigan
Who Cares For the Houseless On the Holidays- Cole Williams Ft. Curtis Muhammad & Big Brooklyn Red


The Little Funky Drummer Boy- Kait Dunton Ft. Jake Reed
Pushing- Go.Soul.Map. Ft. Derane Obika
Back in the Underwater Instrumental- Go.Soul.Map.


OCTAPUSSY- Janek van Laak
LoA (Land of America)- Will Brock, Sumsuch
Sham Pain- Brion Gysin


Reverse- Caravan Palace
Koul Dan Mon Do- Souleance Ft. Kaloune & Papatef [Poirier Remix]

On The Wing Of A New Day

The beGinning part of this week’s Friday show had its own way to fly by.

Motion Picture Soundtrack- Cigarettes After Sex
Alibi- Hurray for the Riff Raff


Walk Of Shame- Deap Vally
Creeplife- Deap Vally
I Put A Spell On You- Deap Vally


New Feature- Folly Group
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35- The Black Crowes
Sometimes Salvation- The Black Crowes (Live Houston 2/6/1993)
Scarlet Tongues- The Glass Hours
Fate- Stoll Vaughan


(Christmas) All The Time- Chris Grabau
Reindeer on Strike- Big Harp George
greenarrowradio x-mas promo- Lil’ Red & the Rooster
Santa Baby- Lil’ Red & the Rooster

Sculpting Sound

The visually gorgeous, sonically rich and artistically inventive performances on Sculpting Sound feature a dozen of music’s most forward-looking artists playing with, and on, sound sculptures by Harry Bertoia. Presented by Pyroclastic Records and premiering on the Winter Solstice, December 21, 2023 at 10:27 p.m. ET, SculptingSound.org offers free and complete access to a series of revelatory performances recorded at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. The musicians were given unprecedented access Bertoia’s sculptures. The results blur the lines between music and visual art and provide an opportunity to hear strikingly fresh and innovative work from some of the most vital improvisers of our time and to explore Bertoia’s work, not just visually, but as he fully intended: sonically. At the heart of the website is the collection of six high-definition concert films. Each hour-plus long concert places two musicians famed for their distinctive voices in dialogue with Bertoia’s Sonambient sculptures: guitarists Nels Cline & Ben Monder, trumpeters Ambrose Akinmusire & Nate Wooley, saxophonists Ingrid Laubrock & JD Allen, acoustic string players Jen Shyu & Brandon Seabrook, drummers Marcus Gilmore & Dan Weiss, and pianists (friend of the proGram, Kris Davis & Craig Taborn. All 12 musicians are known for their genre-crossing & expansive outlooks, and here they push their art even further by engaging in a complex interplay with each other, their instruments, and the sculptures—which ring with bell-like tones, vibrate & shimmer, boom & whisper, echo & reverberate, chime & crash, sing out & sing on. The music that emerges is unique—a new collaborative form at the juncture of improvisation, ambient & experimental music, art, & chance.Although Harry Bertoia (1915-1978) was best known during his lifetime as one of the greatest furniture designers of the 20thcentury, he has since become revered as a visionary visual artist. Following the commercial success of his iconic wire chairs, Bertoia dedicated himself to sculpture. Central to his practice were a series of sound sculptures, his Sonambients, whose evocative, encompassing tones could be called forth by a passing wind, ambient vibration, or the touch of a hand. Bertoia himself captured their sounds on eleven LPs released during the last years of his life. Until now, however, musicians have had precious few chances to interact with these works. In 2022, the Nasher Sculpture Center included many sound sculptures among the more than 100 pieces in their exhibition Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life. Writer, poet and record producer David Breskin seized on this opportunity to create and curate a week-long festival called SCULPTING SOUND: Twelve Musicians Encounter Bertoia, during which the expressive possibilities of the Sonambient pieces could be fully explored. Breskin’s long career has often straddled the worlds of contemporary music & art. In 2002, he brought Bill Frisell to the work of German painter Gerhard Richter, which resulted in the creation of Frisell’s 858 Quartet and the multimedia book Richter 858; and then, in 2010, married Nels Cline’s music to Ed Ruscha’s paintings, producing the poetry/music/art mashup DIRTY BABY. More recently, Breskin has produced an eclectic array of albums for artists including Mary Halvorson, Patricia Brennan, Kris Davis, Ingrid Laubrock, Cory Smythe, Craig Taborn, Brandon Seabrook, Dan Weiss & Ches Smith.

Leave It To Them

The final part of this week’s proGram knew right how to grow into the space.

Space- Hu Vibrational
***pre-recorded conversation with Adam Rudolph***
Proto Zoa Gogo- Hu Vibrational
Timeless- Hu Vibrational


Kid- Sean Mason
Where Are You Going, Frank? (Franto, kam jdeš?)- Skip Wilkins


A Flower is a Lovesome Thing- Kurt Rosenwinkel & Geri Allen (live)

3 for Africa- El Trio (Live)

Where We Came From- Thollem (live)
Where We’ve Been- Thollem (live)

Just A Clip

The middle portion of the proGram was hanging out with the wash.

Stop Smoking- Brion Gysin Ft. Elli Medeiros
Every Night (Cole Williams RMX)- Macy Gray
No, No, No Pt. 2- Sly5thAve Ft. Jonathan Mones


1999/Baby I’m a Star/Push- Prince & NPG (Live at Glam Slam, Minneapolis, MN, 1/11/1992)
Cream- (Incl Well Done, I Want U, Hit U in the Socket)- Prince & NPG (Live at Glam Slam, Minneapolis, 1/11/92)


Altitude (L.O. & Diisko Remix)- Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Garrett Saracho
Black Rainbow (Melanie Charles Remix)- Jean Carne & Adrian Younge & Al Shaheed Muhammad
Skunk Funk- Chris Mondak


Chicken And Dumplins- Ulysses Owens Jr. and Generation Y
Soulful- Ulysses Owens Jr. and Generation Y


Home Cookin’- Cory Weeds w/Little Big Band (live)
Montara- John Chin Ft. Jaimeo Brown & Sean Conly (live)

Hopped To It

The beGinning of today’s show went on regardless.

Hello, Jukebox- The Howdies
Firedance- Israel Nash
Back to the Country- Jaime Wyatt
Althea- Jaime Wyatt


San Antone- Grackles Ft. Charlie Musselwhite & Lauren Harris
Down In The Mud- Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton
Supadupabad- Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton


Creepin’ Around- Bevis Frond
I’m A Stone- Bevis Frond


Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy- The Burrito Brothers

Lifters Time For Love- The Yuletime
V. V. V.- Brion Gysin Ft. Lizzy Mercier Descloux & Caroline Loeb
Junk- Brion Gysin

Feeling Timeless With Adam Rudolph’s Hu Vibrational

Hu Vibrational‘s 5th album ‘Timeless’ offers up 9 tracks of gorgeously rich & densely textured music. The spiritually intoxicating grooves of Hu Vibrational are the brainchild of Adam Rudolph, who calls them “Boonghee Music” — a cascade of world-inspired beats mixed with jazz, hip-hop & electronica. The result is music that thrives on the balance of simultaneously reaching backwards & forwards in time. While ‘Timeless’ finds Adam playing most of the instruments, he is joined on several tracks by some of his longtime associates: Norwegian guitar sound painter Eivind Aarset, drummer Hamid Drake, and several members of his Go: Organic Orchestra. Moroccan percussionist Brahim Fribgane and North Indian performers Neel Murgai (sitar) and Sameer Gupta (tabla) bring unique sounds that Rudolph weaves into the compositional fabric. Hu Vibrational combines world music with electronica and improvised jazz to create music that is all encompassing with the sketchbook of new feelings being drawn out in real time. Adam employs his “organic” orchestrations, arrangements, and electronic processing to shape the compositions, he works with his musicians in his “sonic mandala” concept to build layers of percussion, electronics & otherworldly sounds. Beats are the core, and influences range far and wide, yet these influences only provide a foundation. This audiophile LP was beautifully mixed and mastered by James Dellatacoma, Bill Laswell’s (and Rudolph’s) longtime engineer at Laswell’s Orange Studio. The gatefold album opens onto nine gorgeous pen and watercolor paintings by Nancy Jackson that, like the art of Robert Crumb, are both humorous and deeply philosophical. It is the second time Rudolph and his wife Nancy have collaborated, the first being the 1995 book and CD release The Dreamer, an opera inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche’s “The Birth of Tragedy.” Besides leading his own ensembles, Go: Organic Orchestra & Moving Pictures, Adam may be known for his work over the last 4+ decades with innovators such as Yusef Lateef, Don Cherry, Jon Hassel, & Pharaoh Sanders among others. Maestro Rudolph was hailed by the New York times as “an innovator in World Music” and indeed his experience is long and varied; In 1978 he co-founded, with Foday Musa Suso, the Mandingo Griot Society, one of the first groups to combine African and American music and in 1988 he recorded the first fusion of American and Moroccan Gnawa music with sintir player Hassan Hakmoun. His creative methodology and philosophy has been outlined in two books, “Pure Rhythm” (2006) & “Sonic Elements” (2022). The compositional concepts are applied in all his creative output: from his through composed string quartets to his newest Hu Vibrational release. Intuition & Inspiration. I am proud to get it and call him family.

HU: VIBRATIONAL – TIMELESS
BOONGHEE MUSIC 5 Meta Records 2023

Compositions, organic orchestrations, arrangements, and electronic processing by Adam Rudolph

Published by Migration Music BMI
Recorded by James Dellatacoma at Orange Sound Studio and Adam Rudolph at Clear Lake Studio, New Jersey
Mixed and mastered by James Dellatacoma
Art and words/poetry by Nancy Jackson
Design by Sylvain Leroux

Produced by Adam Rudolph assisted by Mas Yamagata & Carlos Nino

Adam Rudolph – keyboards, thumb pianos, marimbula, cajon, mbuti harp, mouth bow, vocal, slit drums, udu drums, wooden and bamboo flutes, double reeds, gongs, kudu horn, zither, caxixi, kongos, tarija, gankogoui, bells, percussion

with
Alexis Marcelo – fender rhodes, organ (Hittin, Proto Zoa Gogo)
Brahim Fribgane – tarija (Oceanic)
Damon Banks – bass (Hittin, Proto Zoa Gogo)
Eivind Aarset – guitar and electronics (Serpentine,Timeless, Honey Honey, Proto Zoa Gogo, Psychic)
Hamid Drake – drum set (Space, Oceanic, Hittin, Jammin, Proto Zoa Gogo)
Harris Eisenstadt – bata (Hittin, Timeless)
Jan Bang – sampling (Timeless, Honey Honey, Psychic)
Kaoru Watanabe – noh kan flute (Proto Zoa Gogo)
Marco Cappelli – guitar (Hittin)
Munyungo Jackson – tambourine, shekere (Oceanic)
Neel Murgai – sitar (Hittin)
Sameer Gupta – tabla (Space, Timeless)

It’s always a special time for me when I get to talk music and art with Adam. We dive deep into how this offering “Timeless” took form and some of the participants spaces that are filled. We also find out a little bit about the title track but also it is a peek into most of the tracks I think on the record. Speaking of vinyl, we talk about the art his wife shared for this album, and the relationships the music helps to form and the importance of creative listening as an activity. My words here cannot come close to the ebb and flows of our conversation(s), and this one is no different. At the end of the day, this time it is centered around Hu Vibrational’s new album, but all of the things Adam touches offer insight into so much, including ourselves.

The Drops Wait

The final part of the proGram had the water listening in.

Umgqigqo (Interlude 2)- Mbuso Khoza
Sibiziwe- Mbuso Khoza Ft. Nduduzo Makhathini, Ndabo Zulu, Ayanda Sikade & Linda Sikhakhane
Esthangameni (Interlude 3)- Mbuso Khoza


Virtual Reality- Jennifer Wharton’s Bonegasm
Deeper Tones- The Stance Brothers
Room 608- The Flying Horse Big Band
Some Sick Slick [from 4 Horn Lore]- Haynes’ 4 Horns & What


Turning The Other Cheek No More- Aruán Ortiz w/Don Byron, Lester St. Louis, Pheeroan akLaff, Mtume Gant
No Justice, No Peace, Legacy!- Aruán Ortiz Ft. Don Byron & Pheeroan Aklaff
Sabkha- Rakhi Singh

Awaiting The Drip

The middle part of this week’s proGram knew it would, but just when was to be a surprise.

Thunder- C’ammafunk
The Last Dance (Bang Pow Zoom And The Whole Nine)- Prince & NPG
Something Funky (This House Comes) [Band Version]- Prince & NPG


Shame- Joel Culpepper
***pre-recorded conversation with Joel Culpepper***
Happiness Is Only A Few Miles Away (Intro)- Joel Culpepper
It’s Just A Broken Heart- Joel Culpepper


Revolutionary Act- Carvalho
Snow Day- The Holiday Hustle Club Ft. Claire Campbell


Georgia On My Mind- Stephen Marley
Thanks We Get (Do Fi Dem)- Stephen Marley Ft. Buju Banton
American Boy- Daymé Arocena
Micro Wave + House Band- Johanna Juhola
Lethe- The Maenads

Within With You

The first part of this week’s proGram took the normal away.

Musical Ladders- Father John Misty
Losing on a Tuesday- The Lemonheads
Baby’s Gonna Die Tonight- The Lemon Twigs


My Shadow Tags on Behind- The Cribs
Agua- Porno for Pyros
Beat On- Pandemonium Handshake Ft. George Ros


Rain- Alice Russell
Fade Into You- Victoria Bigelow


Soul Clap (Radio Edit)- Bella Brown & The Jealous Lovers
The Other Side- The Sextones
Barbara- Sababa 5
Fa Sol La- Sababa 5
Entry Level- Say She She

Walking The Miles With Joel Culpepper

In the Middle pf November 2023, Joel Culpepper released his new EP ‘Happiness Is Only A Few Miles Away’ via Beyond The Groove. This five-track EP was produced by his good bud Tom Misch, and is his first new music since the release of his highly acclaimed and epic 2021 debut album Sgt Culpepper. The creation of the new EP began while Joel was on tour with Tom last year. The two had originally become friends after Tom heard a song of Joel’s ‘Afraid To Be King’ that he loved. As they toured across continents together last year they had some studio time and ‘Free’ was the first track they recorded with legendary American soul artist Eddie Chacon (of Charles & Eddie) in L.A. Most of the EP was recorded at Tom’s home studio as well as Joel’s friend’s studio in Perry Vale and Jimmy Napes Studio in North London. It came at a time where Joel found himself open to trying out and connecting to new things, finding inspiration in perhaps unexpected places. The songs here continue to be that retro-soul sound we are used to hearing, but it feels like there’s more of an ease, more feeling being or trying to be understood. There’s a lot of promise in the delivery of these tunes, hope and the knowing that there’s some healing around the corner, wherever that corner may be.

I had the pleasure of catching up with Joel Culpepper recently to dive head first into the new EP. We talked about how the project got lifted up off the ground and how Tom decided that he should just produce the new music. We spend a little time talking about the track “Free” featuring both Tom Misch and Eddie Chancon and how it went from that nothing to something special. Listening! Working with and being with one of your pals can allow you to open up to trying new things…and that is what happened with these two. We get into where some of the unexpected places are that took him out of his ‘comfort zone’ and how allowing Mother Nature in also was a door to finding more meaning and ways to look at things. We talk about his recent time playing to the sold out headline show at London’s The Lower Third at the end of November and how the give and take of the people really took on a life of its own, seems like everyone was ready. And, well…Joel builds a setlist around one of the tracks off the new EP and this one too will surprise.

Joel by Joth Shakerley

Day 1 of Unsound NY

The opening event of the Unsound Festival New York is at the David Rubenstein Atrium on December 1, with two leading voices of the Polish avant-garde scene. Guitarist Raphael Rogiński is an expert improviser who draws from jazz, blues, and folk traditions from across the globe. Rogiński’s key inspirations lie in his Jewish roots and the American outsider audio art of experimental composers and performers like Harry Partch, John Fahey and Henry Cowell. For this performance, he’ll present his interpretations of John Coltrane classics as well as his new Unsound-commissioned project Žaltys, inspired by Lithuanian mythology. The ambient and experimental artist Martyna Basta opens the evening with a set of delicate atmospheric sound that Pitchfork calls “enchantingly enigmatic.”

Reaching For The Light

The final part of this week’s proGram knew how to find it’s own way.

Con Alma- Oscar Peterson (Live in Lugano, 1964)
It Ain’t Necessarily So- Oscar Peterson (Live in Lugano, 1964)
I Remember You- Wes Montgomery & Wynton Kelly Trio (Recorded Live at the Half Note, November 19, 1965)
Take The “A” Train- Cal Tjader (Live at The Penthouse 1963-1967)
Insight- Cal Tjader (Live at The Penthouse 1963-1967)
Morning Of The Carnival- Cal Tjader (Live at The Penthouse 1963-1967)


A New Dragon- Andrew Finn Magill
Polaris- Andrew Finn Magill
En sommarkväll- Fränder
Vrbice, vrbo zeljena- Alice In Wonderband (New Balkan Rhythm Festival: Opening concert, 8/25/2023 Sremski Karlovci, Serbia

Warm & Melting

The middle parts of the proGram this week, had SUM heat built in.

Mr. Big Stuff- Dub Stax Ft. Sema Mutlu
Teen Age Kingdom- C’mon Tigre Ft. Xenia Franca
Nomad At Home- C’mon Tigre


Culture Bandit (Yoyuba Soul Mix 2)- Peacey Ft. Vanessa Hidary
No Hot Fever- Joe Probert
Good Life (Impilo Emnande)- Soweto Gospel Choir X Groove Terminator


Something Inside- Léon Phal Ft. Lorine Chia
Zero Gravity- Miranda Joan Ft. Sly5thAve
Bada Bing!- Miranda Joan Ft. CARRTOONS
Fire Season- Gabriel Teodros Ft. Chief Ahamefule J. Oluo and the Shrine All-Star Band
For Us, By Us- Gabriel Teodros Ft. Meklit & Khingz


The Refusal- Evan Hatfield, Christopher Hoffman, Max Weissenfeldt & Frank Swart
The Ordeal- Idris Ackamoor, Tony Price, Derrek Phillips & Frank Swart
The Resurrection- David D.R. Robbins, Mike Clark & Frank Swart

Sun Hoops

The first part of the proGram shot it well from deep.

Hey My- J. Wilms
***pre-recorded conversation with Jeremy J. Wilms***
Props- J. Wilms Ft. Smoota


She’s a Little Bit of Everything- Foghat
Promised Land- Foghat


This Is How You Do It- The Bamboos
For The Record- The Bamboos Ft. Ohmega Watts & Ozay Moore
Turn The Page!- Maiiah & Angels Of Libra
Glam Slam ’91- Prince
Martika’s Kitchen- Prince


Runnin’ Out- The Goodies
Garden Of Dub- Prince Fatty
Don’t Try To Dub Me- Prince Fatty
They Do Not Listen- Fixed Error Ft. Kagayi Ngobi