Different Noises

World of Jazz 767

This episode includes recent studio releases, live recordings, and archival material spanning solo, trio, and large ensemble formats. The programme features work from Canada, the UK, the US, the Netherlands, and Israel, with contributions structured around ballad forms, extended improvisation, rhythmic studies, and ensemble arrangements. Albums range from self-released projects to material issued by independent jazz imprints.
PLAYLIST
Aretha Tillotson “Lullaby To Those Before” from Kinda Out West (Bent River Records) 00:00
Harry Christelis “Explorations Of One’s Self Inside A Caravan” from Half Truths (Clonmell Jazz Social) 06:21
Yelena Eckemoff “Rosendals Garden” from Rosendals Garden (L&H Production) 14:29
Ian Torres “The Legend of the Prince of Darkness” from Comprovisation (Self Released) 23:30
Jérémie Ternoy Trio “Rotation” from Survol à basse altitude (Circum-Disc) 29:02
The 3 Cohens/WDR Big Band “Lost and Found” from Lost and Found (Anzic Records) 37:02
Spinifex “Annie Golden” from Maxximus (Trytone Records) 47:58
Brandon Sanders “8/4 Beat” from Lasting Impression (Savant/High Note Records) 1:02:23
Aaron Parks “A Way” from By All Means!! (Blue Note) 1:09:41
Jane Ira Bloom & Brian Shankar Adler “Drums Like Dancing….” from Drums Like Dancing (Adhyâropa Records) 1:15:39
Mujician “Vienna Set 1” from In Concerts (Jazz In Britain) 1:19:11
The 3 Cohens/The WDR Big Band “Ah Li Lu Li Lu” from Ah Li Lu Li Lu (Anzic Records) 1:51:48

Different Noises 118

This weeks selection includes, amongst many other things, the return of Dusty and Stacey, a memorable new album from Mark Snarski, an anniversary release from The Dream Syndicate, and a look back at the work of Fini Tribe.
PLAYLIST
West Coast Sick Line - The House Of Paul
Jessie Kilguss - St Teresa In Ecstasy
Lucky And Love - Secret Is Out
Mark Snarski - Friday’s Big Black Car
Tombstones In Their Eyes - Under Dark Skies
Undead Guitars - Blazing Zombies 
On Diamond - I Cry To Think
The Dream Syndicate - Burn (Live at the Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, 1984) 
Fini Tribe - Cathedral 
Jessica Moss - One, Now (feat. Tony Buck)
Alta Vista - Interstate 80 
Tana delle Pigri - Musica Maestro
Moon - Sing To Me/The Spaniard 
Messiness - Eternity Unbound 
Chris Alford - Putting English On It 
Tim Brady - Really, Really Solo Electric Guitar Music 
Rain Parade - Depending On You 
The Go-Betweens - Sleeping Giant
Danny Short - It’s Not Me
Dave Graney ‘n’ The Coral Snakes - I’m Not Afraid To Be Heavy (Live)
Moff Skellington - Genkin Upta Poolsquand
The Last Caboose - So Do I
Mark Snarski - The Faster I Go
On Diamond - Melon On The Vine
Precogs - Wild Wind
Stepbrothers - Butterflies (A Nod to Moff)

World of Jazz 766

Three double albums start a musical journey which includes, amongst other things, experimentation, a celebration of the legacy of Herb Robertson, a statement on the environment, previously unreleased material from a jazz legend, and a dip into the archives of British Jazz.
PLAYLIST
Charles Lloyd “The Ghost of Lady Day” from Figure In Blue (Blue Note) 00:00
Phil Haynes & Free Country “Simple Gifts” from Liberty Now! (Corner Store Jazz) 10:17
Herb Robertson, Christopher Dell, Christian Ramond, Klaus Kugel “Blue Transient - Part 1” from Blue Transient (Nemu Records) 19:46
Igor Lumpert “Resistance Of The Earth” from Resistance Of The Earth (ears&eyes) 36:07
Raphaël Pannier Quarter, Khadim Niang & Sabar Group  “Take Five” from Live in Saint Louis, Senegal (Miel Music) 43:24
Petter Eldh “NOD YORC feat. James Maddren” from Projekt Drums Vol.2 (Edition Records) 57:33
Claire Parsons, Eran Har Even, and Ziv Ravitz “12 Steps” from PARSONS x HAR EVEN x RAVITZ (World Citizen Music Records) 1:03:12
Sean Mason “Secrets” from A Breath Of Fresh Air (Taylor Christian Records) 1:07:38
Steve Houghton Group “Waltz for Bill” from And Then Some (Self Released) 1:15:11
Horace Silver “Sayonara Blues” from Silver In Seattle : Live at The Penthouse (Blue Note) 1:23:23
Gordon Beck “Suite Number One” from Pay Now Live Later : Live at the Bass Clef ‘85 (Jazz In Britain) 1:41:47
Tommy Smith & Gwilym Simcock “Harlequin” from Eternal Light (Self Released) 1:55:59

Different Noises 117

We lean towards the melodic to kick things off before taking a left turn into more esoteric material before recent favourites are featured and then there’s a closer from Sonic Youth which just happens to be the last track on the last studio album they released.
PLAYLIST
Slyboots - Silent Storm
The Junta - San Antonio
Octavian Winters - Saints of Absolution 
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - Dead End Pools 
Dominic Carlton Jones - Splatter Mat
The Last Caboose - When The Wind Blows
Moff Skellington - Yotherin Chisk
Palm Springs - Infinity 69 
Celeste Corsano - XS  
Percussia - Epesjimos 
Jessica Moss - Washing Machine 
KC VITA’s - Boundless 
Nick May, Alex Siu Lun Li - Echo Dash
Today Is The Day - The Choice Is Yours 
Moon - Because You Can 
The Go-Betweens - Bandages (Airlock Demo)
Danny Short - Midnight
Dave Graney ‘n’ The Coral Snakes - I’m Gonna Live In My Own Big World (Live)
The Parasite - Alice Cooper From Detroit
Precogs - Sprawl
Stepbrothers - Yes Sir No Sir 
The New Eves - Mary
Yeigh - Diskord
Nils Petter Molvaer - Song of Sand
Sonic Youth - Massage The History 

World of Jazz 765

A rich selection of brand new releases from across the wide World of Jazz includes two new ECM Records albums, debut releases from break-through artists, and rare broadcasting recordings from a UK jazz icon. We close with two duo recordings from masters of their craft.
PLAYLIST
Frank Swart Funkwrench Blues “Reflections From The Future” from Mischief In The Musitorium (Need To Know Music) 00:00
Noam Lemish “San Francisco Is My Copenhagen” from There’s beauty enough in being there (TPR Records) 05:27
Drew Williams Quartet “Minor Blues” from Standard Quartet - Live at Weights and Measures (Weights and Measures Soundlab) 11:42
Steve Tibbetts, Marc Anderson, JT Bates “Remember Part 1” from Close (ECM Records) 18:21
Gert-Jan Dreessen “Way Through” from Angle of Incidence (Hypnote Records) 28:04
Noah Franche-Nolan “A Triangle Is A Bird” from Rose-Anna (Cellar Music) 35:33
Mike Westbrook Orchestra “Santarcangelo” from The Cortège Live At The BBC 1980 (Cadillac) 41:37
Mark Sherman “Love Always Always Love” from Bop Contest (Miles High Records) 47:19
Anthony D’Alessandro “Staying The Course” from City Lights (Three Pines Records (Self Released) 53:50
Christopher McBride & The Whole Proof “The Hang, The Hustle, The Path” from The Hang, The Hustle, The Path (CR McBride Music) 59:47
Bauke Meersman “Resolve” from Bauke Meersman (Den Hoed Music Records) 1:05:19
Joe Morris “Prosody 1” from Abstract Forest (Relative Pitch Records) 1:10:03
Rick Keller “Ahead Of The Curve” from Heroes (Vegas Records) 1:28:44
John Scofield and Dave Holland “Easy For You” from Memories of Home (ECM Records) 1:38:58
Mark Helias and Tim Berne “Luna” from Medium Cool (Self Released) 1:47:02
Mark Helias and Tim Berne “Television” from Medium Cool (Self Released) 1:56:26
 

Different Noises 116

“Pop Music” need not be obvious, safe, boring or trite. It should be unexpected, challenging, dangerous, and original. It should challenge your perceptions. This weeks selection does the latter - indeed if we are dealing in antonyms perhaps we should describe it as unpopular music - but that perhaps has all the wrong connotations. This music is from the edges, the nether regions of the music world. You won’t see it bothering the mainstream. It is exciting, fresh, novel, innovative, provocative, unconventional, and, it inspires. A little like hearing “Virginia Plain” by Roxy Music when you were mired in a world of Led Zeppelin and thinking “Hey! That’s Different?”.
PLAYLIST
Inca Babies - Candy Mountain
Neon Kittens - Hear No Sound
The Bordellos - Village people in disguise
The Voodoo Drummer Duo - Yomo’s Dream
The Sexual Objects - Cincinatti  Blooms 
SnarskiCircusLindyBand - Parapet 
Cold Hands Warm Heart - Rakali Mullet (live for NTS) 
Rúbi Ate The Fig - Breathe 
Relay Tapes - Landlocked 
Perpacity - Let It Roll 
Taps of the Holy Trinity - Most Of Them Were Ghosts 
Daisy Rickman - Howl 
Diego Caicedo - Islas de Estabilidad 
Don Was and the Pan Detroit Ensemble - Midnight Marauders 
Sword Tongue - Diamonds To Rust 
The King Canutes - Seymour Stein (for Earle Homes) 
Charlie Nieland - Brutalist Monuments 
Wasted - You’re Wasted 
Legless Trials - American Russ Never Sleeps Pts 1 & 2 
Olovson - Things I Could Have Left Behind 
Beak> - Yatton 
The New Eves - Circles 
Moon - Passenger Seat
Precogs - Post Naturalist 
Danny Short - It Seems So Obvious 
Dave Graney ‘n’ The Coral Snakes - You’re Just Too Hip, Baby (Live) 
The Go-Betweens - German Farmhouse (Airlock Demo) 
Moff Skellington - Optimysticism 
Yeigh - Another Day 
Stepbrothers -Berlins’ Baby Bondage Party 
The Red Propellers - John Lennon Postage Stamps 

World of Jazz 764

This episode features music from Latin America, North America, Europe, and the Mediterranean region. It begins with rhythmically driven Latin jazz and piano-led ensemble work, followed by experimental compositions using layered electronics, extended techniques, and non-standard forms. Midway, the programme includes modal structures, bowed string textures, and vibraphone-led chamber jazz. The final third presents free improvisation, large ensemble writing, and live recordings with shifting metre and phrasing. The sequence spans solo, trio, quintet, and big band formats, with studio and live material released across independent and established labels.
PLAYLIST
Juan Borgatti “Rumbaltona” from El perezoso amanecer de los cipreses (ears&eyes) 00:00
Lisa Hilton “Momentary Mystery” from Extended Daydream (Ruby Slippers Productions) 03:47
Henry Threadgill “H” from Listen Ship (Pi Recordings) 10:03
Grammofon “Backwards” from Backwards (Zack’s Music) 16:22
Kate Wyatt Trio “Bardo” from Murmurations (Self Released) 20:05
Rich Brown “The Sum Of Our Tears” from Nyaeba (Whirlwind Recordings) 26:39
Sokratis Sinopoulos, Yann Keerim “Fast Dance” from Topos (ECM) 32:56
Patricia Brennan “Lyra” from Of The Near And Far (Pyroclastic Records) 41:25
Phil Haynes & Free Country “Higgens” from Liberty Now! (Corner Store Jazz) 48:48
Ivo Perelman & Nate Wooley “(nine)” from Polarity 4 (Burning Ambulance Music) 55:38
Ray Anderson, Ivo Perelman “Projection” from 12 Stages of Spiritual Alchemy (Fundacja Słuchaj) 1:03:46
Mark Turner “Movement 2 : Juxtaposition” from Reflections on: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Giant Step Arts) 1:13:21
Mike Clarke “Cherokee” from Itai Doshin (Wide Hive Records) 1:22:53
Nicholas Payton “Unconditional Love” from Triune (Smoke Sessions Records) 1:30:33
Webber-Morris Big Band “Microchimera” from Unseparate (Out Of Your Head Records) 1:38:40
Russ Macklem “Theme For Detroit” from Introducing: the Russ Macklem Detroit Quintet (TQM Recording Co.) 1:49:14
Camila Nebbia, Michael Formanek, Vinnie Sperrazza “II” from Live At Blow Out (Self Released) 1:57:42
Kristoffer Vejslev, Martin Brunbjerg, Rasmus Elhøj feat. Rudi Mahall “Ask Me Now” from Ask Me Now (Zack’s Music) 2:04:25
Spinifex “Smitten” from Maxximus (Trytone Records) 2:08:15

Different Noises 115

A mix old, new, strange, obscure and challenging. Rock meets contemporary classical, electronica meets outsider, jazz meets rituals, blended into a mix of infinite complexity coupled with punk basics.
PLAYLIST
Undead Guitars - Jake Angel Good Technology Cowboy Mix
Mac Gollehan & The Hispanic Mechanics - Pistoleros
Precogs - Tech Nation
The Prize - Silver Bullet
Sanam - Hamam
Kety Fusco - Nocturne
Mark Corrin - Halloween Discothèque
The Dwarfs Of East Agouza - A Body To Match
Promenade Cinema - Soulslike
Francesca Remigi - Liberation I/Liberation II
Sebastian Roachford and Finding Ways - Ashley
Finding Ways - Being Outside
Alan Brown - Isolation Tank
Kathy Kennedy - Hatsiko
James Wylie - Reflection On The Other
Michael Houstoun - Wanderings No. 3
Michael Norris - Violin Concerto _Sama_ for violin and orchestra Mvt 1. Arḍ
Nancy Braithwaite - Wonderings
Mark Corrin - The Terrid Tales Of Sebastian Pendulum
Dave Graney ‘n’ The Coral Snakes - Deep Inside A Song (Live)
The Go-Betweens - Heart and Home (Airlock Demo)
Moon - Storm Clouds
The New Eves - Astrolabe
Stepbrothers - Sawney Bean

World of Jazz 763

This week's show takes a musical journey that begins with experimental and improvisatory sounds, moves through a selection of fascinating re-releases of archival material, gathers a fresh crop of guitar-focused releases, detours into two contrasting approaches to Big Band music, and wraps up with a dose of cool West Coast jazz.
PLAYLIST
Francesca Remigi “Longhaven” from Witchess (Hora Records) 00:00
Bjarke Falgren “Embrace” from Turkis (Zack’s Music) 04:15
Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Paul Motian “Chandra” from At The Deer Head Inn : Complete Recordings (ECM Records) 08:40
Snakeoil “Spectacle” from In Lieu Of (Screwgun Records) 17:58
Toc and Jean-Luc Guionnet “Quelques idées d'un vert incolore dorment furieusement (excerpt)” from Quelques idées d'un vert incolore dorment furieusement (Circum-Disc) 31:08
Remembrance Quintet “Pillars” from Do You Remember? (Sonboy Records) 37:58
Tomas Fujiwara “Tapestry” from Dream Up (Out of Your Head Records) 45:59
Ray Brooks “The Free Slave” from The Free Slave (Time Traveller Recordings) 52:30
Kenny Barron “A Flower” from Sunset To Dawn (Time Traveller Recordings) 1:04:44
Carlos Garnett “Kafira” from Cosmos Nucleus (Time Traveller Recordings) 1:11:22
The Jay D’Amico Trio “Celtic Minor” from Ginevra (Consolidated Artists Productions) 1:18:44
Joe Policastro Trio “The Way Of The Dragon” from Mending Wall (Jeru Jazz Records) 1:22:04
Steve Rosenbloom Big Band “In A Boppish Sort Of Way” from San Francisco 1948 (Gloty) 1:28:16
Webber-Morris Big Band “Just Intonation Etudes for Big Band - Pulse” from Unseparate (Out Of Your Head Records) 1:32:54
Trio of Bloom “Forge” from Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic Records) 1:38:36
Jussi Reijonen “Thirst (extract)” from Sayr: Salt/Thirst (unmusic) 1:46:07
John Shannon “Star Travel” from A Day In Tarifa (Jazz Book Records) 1:50:55
Michael Dease “Love’s Lament” from Flow (Posi-tone Records) 1:56:47

Different Noises 114

This episode brings together a wide range of experimental, ambient, and progressive sounds - a mix built around mood and texture rather than genre. It opens with Unsafe At Any Speed by Orcutt, Shelley, and Miller—an improvised collision of guitar, percussion, and electronics—then moves through cello minimalism (Kirin McElwain), post-rock layering (Tortoise), and gamelan-inspired textures (Bill Brennan & Andy McNeil). Electronic and ambient works dominate the middle stretch: Ro(b)//ert Lundberg’s modular abstractions, Kali Malone & Drew McDowall’s drone collaboration, and Troth’s reworking of Cold Hands Warm Heart. There’s also dubwise pop from Rob Smith & Ammoye, and contemporary classical from Eydís Evensen. Later selections include Eddodi surrealism, lo-fi country deconstruction , and archival material from The Go-Betweens. Peter Hammill appears in three forms solo , in duet with Roger Eno , and in progressive collaboration with Isildur’s Bane. The mix is loosely themed around dislocation, memory, and sonic instability, although this was not a deliberate programming decision, it just came together that way.