The first show of a New Year of Different Noises is packed with exciting new releases as well as the featured albums from 2025 which I am still working my way through. Very excited to be able to feature an excerpt from the always wonderful Fucked Up who are back after a lengthy hiatus.   PLAYLIST Fucked Up - Long Ago Gardens (Excerpt)  Bleak Squad - Black & White  Larynx and Claw - Flies  Joint Pains - Everything Considered  Jessie Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter - A New Medium  Dylan White - Rags  The Static Dive - No King No Castle  Sunday Morning - Carry The Sky  Sean Noonan - Drunkard Landlady’s Lawsuit with an Unlicensed Vagrant  Alberto Rigoni Michael Manring Stuart Hamm feat. Tim “Herb” Alexander - Dystopia  Luke Marantz & Simon Jermyn - Hovering  David Becker & Paul Wertico - The Catch  SH3 - The Loss  2 Lost Souls - Mongrel  The Apartments - The American Resistance  Moff Skellington - roynsa gevvick neprum  Ember Rev - Sing  Dave Graney ‘n’ The Coral Snakes - We’re Here To Go  Mark Snarski - Baby I Know It’s Late  The Go-Betweens - Static (Airlock Demo)  The Dream Syndicate - The Medicine Show  Inca Babies - Phantom Track  2 Lost Souls - Ironic  Jodie Langford - Put It Down  Dubmatix - Tribal Dub 

This playlist of new music moves through a wide spectrum of contemporary and classic jazz, blending live recordings, ensemble explorations, and intimate duologues. It opens with blues-inflected improvisation and shifts into modern compositions marked by rhythmic drive and layered textures. Chamber-like interplay and orchestral arrangements sit alongside fiery solos and inventive group dialogues, while moments of lyrical reflection contrast with bursts of angular energy. The selection balances tradition and experimentation, weaving together swing, free improvisation, and global influences into a cohesive journey of shifting moods and formats. PLAYLIST Al Foster “Amsterdam Blues” from Live at Smoke (Smoke Sessions) 00:00  Dave Douglas “Sandhog” from Four Freedoms (Greenleaf) 09:44   HII TRIO - Henrique Mota, Iury Batista, Igor Willcox “Anonymous” from Connections   (Room73 Records) 16:35  Craig Taborn, Tomeka Reid, Ches Smith “Mumbo Jumbo” from Dream Archives (ECM Records) 22:57  Ramiro Zayas feat. Basel Jazz Orchestra “An Open Question” from Familia (El Club Del Disco) 28:06   Taylor Ho Bynum “Night” from Life (Live at Firehouse 12) (SG3 Records) 35:03  Ivo Perelman & John Butcher “Seven” from Duologues 4 (Ibeji) 41:01  Keith Jarrett “Koln, January 24, 1975, Part II a” from The Köln Concert (ECM Records) 50:17  Carolyn Trowbridge “Physalia’s Journey” from Found Memories (Self Released) 1:05:11  Dave Stryker “Dexterity” from Blue Fire (Strikezone Records) 1:09:49 Carl Clements And The Real Jazz Trio “Retrospect” from Retrospective (Greydisc) 1:17:13  Jane Ira Bloom and Brian Shankar Adler “True City” from once like a spark (Adhyâropa Records) 1:26:03 John Vanore & Abstract Truth  “Mvt II Gods & Devils” from Easter Island Suite (Acoustical Concepts) 1:29:09  Temple University Jazz Band “Squatty Rue” from Live In Japan Volume 1 (BCM+D Records) 1:36:13  Jeff Dingler “Dewey Square” from How About You? (Self Released) 1:45:50  David Becker and Paul Wertico “Tuxedo Man” from Tuxedo Man (GAD Records / New Sun) 1:49:32  Max Ridley, Eleanor Elektra and Nat Mugavero “Trishul” from Playing, Praying (577 Records) 1:55:55 Oscar Lavën “Tall Poppy Stomp” from Elegant Calamity (Thick Records NZ) 1:59:33 

I thought about a year end retrospective but there has been so much new stuff that it would have been about six hours long. Instead more new things plus more selections from the recent albums that have risen to the top of the best of list….kicking things off with an exciting new single from TAB-D featuring the ever excellent Boz Hayward and the return of the wonderful Bikini Test Failure. Enjoy and Happy New Year! PLAYLIST TAB-D  - Get Smarter  Bikini Test Failure - When Your Heart’s Not In It Anymore  Origami Horses - Scenes  The Conspiracy - Dungeness  Loudhailer Electric Company - Flight Path  The Red Propellers - Can’t Un-Pull A Trigger  Julian Loida - December Dreams  Grouper - Close Cloak  DNAR - Already Dead/17 Days  The King Canutes - Red Hook Sunset  The New Existentialists - Bad Astrology  Total Hip Replacement - Jakub Reggae MF Dub Mix  Fingerless - Grotesque  Geiger von Muller - Europa  Quatuor Mémoire - Insides  The Go-Betweens - Don’t Touch Anything  Dave Graney ‘n’ The Coral Snakes - The Birds And The Goats Ember Rev - Bewilder  Moff Skellington - bune flotch compusid  Inca Babies - Jericho  Mark Snarski - The Gun Shop Girl  The Dream Syndicate - Bullet With My Name On It  The Apartments - Death Would Be My Best Career Move  2 Lost Souls - Me And My Big Mouth  The Fall - Before The Moon Falls 

This playlist delves deep into the vibrant landscape of contemporary independent jazz and improvised music, showcasing an eclectic mix of sounds that defy easy categorization. From the rhythmic sophistication of Latin fusion and the intricate melodies of modern piano trios to boundary-pushing avant-garde improvisations, the selections deliberately cross genre lines. The journey takes listeners through structured compositions released on labels like Smoke Sessions and Harmony Pacific, into the raw, unscripted dialogues found in the catalogues of Relative Pitch and Klanggalerie. It is a sonic exploration that highlights a diverse range of global influences and innovative instrumental voices currently shaping the modern jazz scene PLAYLIST Billy Hart “Sonnet for Stevie” from Multidirectional (Smoke Sessions Records) 00:00 Frank Gratkowski’s In Cahoots featuring Ingrid Laubrock “Hainot -  Madeleines” from Frank Gratkowski’s In Cahoots (Klanggalerie) 12:25  Greg Rahn “Brand New Bad Idea” from  Side Hustle (Harmony Pacific Records) 25:32  Patrick Smith “Hazel” from Words Underlined (Lit Soc Records) 32:52  Kim Kaskiw “Black Rooster (Gallo Preto)” from The Latin Fusion Project (Self Released) 38:38  Laura Camacho Tango Project “Tifón” from Todo Tiempo Pasado (Self Released) 45:40 Laura Altman “Threshold Poetry” from Holy Trinity (Relative Pitch) 51:33  Zeena Parkins “berlin bedroom - little field feb 10.2024” from Lament for the Maker (Relative Pitch) 1:00:06  Kelsey Mines  Vinny Golia “Improv 5” from Collusion and Collaboration (Relative Pitch) 1:12:45   Peter Evans, Mike Pride “Substance T” from A Window, Basically (Relative Pitch) 1:20:42   Vance Thompson “Lost and Found” from Lost and Found (Moondo Records) 1:31:24  Karim Saber “No Virgos” from Sundance (Self Released) 1:38:29  Travis Jenkins Piano Trio “River Man” from Jazz in Meanjin 20 : Live at JMI (4000 Records) 1:42:36  Laurent Ziliani “Skybound” from Skybound (Self Released) 1:51:32 Luke Marantz and Simon Jermyn “Passages” from Echoes (Chill Tone) 1:56:26 

For Christmas Eve an eclectic mix delivering the best in new Australian Music, tidbits from recent releases on Half Edge Records, tracks from some of the best releases of 2025 and a dip in the archive for some magic from The Cramps. We kick off with a new tune from the excellent Melbourne band The Silversound. PLAYLIST The Silversound - Rose City  The Cramps - Call of the Wighat  Adventures of Salvador - Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?  Inca Babies - Daniella  Beta Voids - MeatHead Look  Paul Kidney Japanese Experience - Manual Of Error  2 Lost Souls - Cartoon Humans  Breath After Coma - Lunatics  Bleak Squad - Ghost of the Bad Humour Man  Saapato - Ravens  Géraldine Eguiluz & Michel F Côté - Les grands départs  Ember Rev - Subterranean  Moff Skellington - ebrethnok oostyann gassop  2 Lost Souls - Collision Man Lowsunday - Innocence (2025 Electromix)  The Dream Syndicate - Armed With An Empty Gun  Dave Graney ‘n’ The Coral Snakes - Scorched Earth Love Affair (Live)  The Go-Betweens - Sign Of The Unicorn (Airlock Demo)  The Apartments - That’s What the Music Is For (When the Fair’s Over)  Mark Snarski - That Machine  Jodie Langford - Breastmilk Cheesecake  2 Lost Souls - Satan Chuckles  Tortoise - Layered Presence  Marcel Gidote’s Holy Crab - Sooner or Later  kandodo - Solstice   Agent Starling - Jokul Frosti  Mark Corrin - Christmas Grump by Ian Moss 

A raft of new releases is dominated by female pianists offering cutting edge music. In between two new discoveries of Rahsaan Roland Kirk playing live plus other exciting ground-breaking albums and to close something to reflect the season. PLAYLIST Yelena Eckemoff  “Strandvägen Pier” from Rosendals Garden (L&H Production) 00:00 Juan Bayon “Anti-Monitor” from Como Enfrentar al Mundo Entero (ears&eyes) 07:58 B.I.T. DUO with Danielle Di Majo and Manuela Pasqui “Luce di mezznotte” from R-Esistenze (Filibusta Records) 15:38  Nadia Labrie “Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio - Part 2. Sentimentale” from Flûte Passion — Hommage à Claude Bolling (ATMA Classique) 20:46 Rahsaan Roland Kirk “Kirk’s Delight” from Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (Resonance Records) 29:20  Amir ElSaffar New Quartet “Orientations I-V” from Live at Pierre Boulez Saal (Maqam Records) 41:45 Haeun Joo “Until The End” from Just Gravity (577 Records) 58:26 Satoko Fujii Quartet “Solar Orbit” from Burning Wick (Libra Records) 1:05:33  Hugo Blouin “Un camion pizza” from Le buffet (Ambiances Magnétiques) 1:18:21  Carl Ross “Freetime Blues” from Distant Colours (Jazz Hang Records) 1:25:10  Bellbird “The Call” from The Call (Constellation) 1:34:57  Rahsaan Roland Kirk “Prelude To A Kiss” from Seek & Listen : Live at The Penthouse (Resonance Records) 1:41:29  Out Of/Into “Juno” from Motion II (Blue Note Records) 1:49:11 Maria Kaushansky “So Long Centrepoint Mall” from Northbound To Finch  (Flat 6th Records) 1:57:09 Kevin Brown Quintet “Phos Hilaron” from Adventus (Self-Released) 2:02:19 

Starting and finishing in the Greater Manchester region this playlist provides and aural journey around the more obscure nooks and crannies of the world of music. Some familiar names are mixed in with new artists providing for a rich palate of unique offerings, some of them quite sonically unsettling. PLAYLIST Inca Babies - Buster’s On Fire Mellowdeath - 1772  Nuclear Dudes - The Octopus The Residents - Betty’s Body Self-Immolation Music - Hearing Voices Black Rose Burning - Roses In The Dark AudioGust - I Didn’t Hear What You Said  Oliver James Brookes - Too Dark To See  Hansan - Gunga  taupe - Lemonade Tycoon Zihua Tan & No Banda - Remnants Present Algol, Camilo Ángeles, Christian Lillinger, Elias Stemeseder - III  Captain Narwhal - Sweet Lady of The Proverbs Dave Graney ‘n’ The Coral Snakes - Rock ‘n’ Roll Is Where I Hide (Live) The Apartments - Another Sun Gone Down On Diamond - Another Sip  Mark Snarski - Less Than Tender Arms The Go-Between - Spirit (Airlock Demo) Ember Rev- Creepers Crawl Moff Skellington - Hevverstock vaunts paglish West Coast Sick Line - Smells Like Family The Dream Syndicate - Burn 2 Lost Souls - Asphyxiate

This set moves through solo sketches, trio interplay, and full ensemble fire, tracing acoustic and electric textures across studio, live, and archival formats. It opens with flowing piano, moves into exploratory trio improvisation, and shifts between guitar meditations, reworked soul and rock standards, and tightly arranged ensemble writing. Abstract textures and ambient passages emerge mid-set, followed by groove-based phrasing, UK archival material, and layered acoustic duets. The final track dips into the archive for a rhythm-forward piece built around bass and percussion. PLAYLIST Kerry Politzer “Watercolor” from Alternate Route (Whirlwind Records) 00:00 The Kris Davis Trio “Lost In Geneva” from Lost In Geneva (Pyroclastic Records) 06:38  Jack West “Closer To The Sky” from Essential Curvature (Otá Records) 10:31 Leo Genovese “Trotamundos” from Solo Brooklyn (577 Records) 17:18 Bill King Trio “What’s Going On” from Live From The Jazz Room - Mint Julep Sessions (7 Arts) 31:53  Keith Oxman “Owen’s Defense” from Home (Capri Records) 39:28  Camila Nebbia, Marilyn Crispell, Lesley Mok “Driving Through Flood Water” from A Reflection Distorts Over Water (Relative Pitch Records) 46:22  Convergence “Cauldron” from Reckless Meter (Capri Records) 56:39  Dave McMurray “The Wheel” from I LOVE LIFE even when I’m Hurting (Blue Note Records) 1:07:32 Tony Coe’s Axel “Cela” from What Say We Play Today (Jazz In Britain) 1:14:55  microplastique “Many Roads” from Many Roads (Irritable Mystic) 1:27:12  Jack West & Walter Strauss “OO” from Guitars On Life (Otá Records) 1:56:49 Cornelius Claudio Kreutsch “So!” from Black Mud Sound (Enja Records) 2:00:52

What is cool? What is trendy? Who decides these things? In the context of this show what constitutes “Different”? In simplistic terms people send me things, or I buy them, based on past listening experience. I listen to them, if they sound sufficiently interesting, or they tug at some emotional string somewhere in the brain or heart, then they get on the show. This music sounds good to me, not stuck in some mainstream dreamed up in a committee meeting somewhere. It feels like Miles Davis Birth of the Cool did when I first heard it, recognisable as jazz but somehow completely unique in its’ construction of delivery. So this is “cool” music, or is it? PLAYLIST Jesse Sykes And The Sweet Hereafter - Forever, I’ve Been Being Born Old Dirty Buzzard - Death Becomes Your Dying World microplastique - Propane Dubmatix - Echoes In The Smoke Ugly Stick - Pig Pen  Perpacity - Lille Flamme Kariti - Fragile  Joe’s Truck Stop - Midnight On The Ohio Coleman Williams - Alley Song Oromet - Forsaken Tarn Denial Of Life - Love Sting Paitra - A Universal Feeling Scissorgun - Gone Rogue Kawol Samarqandi - The Mirage of Khor Fajklan (part two) Mark Corrin - Stone Tape Recorder Jessie Kilguss - Lost Causes Dave Graney ‘n’ The Coral Snakes - Night of the Wolverine (live) Mark Snarski - I Need Convincing On Diamond - Hold the Cloak of Time The Apartments - A Handful of Tomorrow West Coast Sick Line - Break In Play Moff Skellington - fark nebrous yelkin 2 Lost Souls - Ballad Of A Lost Soul The Parasite - The Men Who Drop The Bombs The Go-Betweens - The Clock (Airlock Demo) Tortoise - Vexations Ember Rev - Esprit De Corps

Another eclectic mix of Jazz from around the world includes a good portion of self-released material. Traditional jazz forms mingle with ambient, rock and fusion to create a fascinating playlist. The show concludes with two recent live albums from the formative years of British jazz. PLAYLIST ung Stratmann Quartet “Tree Huggers” from Confluence (Self Released) 00:00 Sam Pilnick’s Nonet Project “Southbound Train” from The Project (Self Released) 06:43 Lena Bloch “I Refuse” from Marina (Fresh Sound Records) 14:12 Josh Rager “Fathers and Sons” from Heart’s Pace (Bent River Records) 22:26 David G White Trio “The Novitiate” from While Your Were Sleeping (Self Released/Burning Chairs Records) 29:44 The Jellyfish “Shadows” from The Jellyfish (Self Released) 36:34 N∆BOU “Unpersuadable Extern” from Indigo (Edition Records) 42:02 Nikola Bankov “5AM” from Everwanted (AMP Music & Records) 49:20 Dave Douglas “Demigods” from Alloy-Extras (Greenleaf) 56:43 Guano Padano plays with Enrico Rava “Lynch” from La Giostra (Hora Records) 1:03:45 kansha 感謝 “Portrait” from Jazz in Meanjin 019 - Live at Echo & Bounce (4000 Records) 1:09:55 Thomas Strønen : Time Is A Blind Guide “Fall” from Off Stillness (ECM Records) 1:18:49 Dan Kinzelman and Stefano Costanzo “Coil” from Infinite Ramp (Hora Records) 1:25:51 Wojtek Mazolewski “Slavic Forest” from Solo (WMQ Records) 1:32:37 Johanna Linnea Jakobsson “Out Of Mind” from Don’t Overthink It (Zack’s Talent) 1:37:04 Larry Stabbins, Keith Tippett, Louis Moholo-Moholo “Shield (Excerpt)” from Live in Foggia (Cadillac) 1:39:49 Mike Osborne/Stan Tracey “Original Part 1 (Excerpt)” from Original (Cadillac) 1:54:15

An eclectic mix of mostly new material with more than average Antipodean content, lots of Mancunian elements, and a blend of styles and movements that on first examination might appear contradictory but when listened to in sequence there is an organic flow. PLAYLIST Bugg Music - Bugg Season Inca Babies - Two Rails To Nowhere Occult Character - Her Guts, My Graveyard Jodie Langford - Bowling (Off With Her Head) Illustration - Danceable Dubmatix - Rough Likkle Town (ft Brother Culture) hedfog - I Won’t Go The Mick Medew and Ursula 4 - Will The Train Ever Stop At Banyo? Walking Bombs - Bake Parkway TAB-D - It’s Better Not To Know House of All - The Devils House Sonitus Missarum - Golden Bloom Pile of Knives - Stabbed Sakna - Alltid Mascot Moth - Psychedelynores  Lilian King - Tiber Creek  Philip Blackburn - Sounding Xibalba  The Go-Betweens - Caroline And I Danny Short - Tomorrow’s World  Dave Graney ‘n’ The Coral Snakes - I’ve Got To Have You Moff Skellington - ya chowst ewah donklyn The Last Caboose - Train Train Mark Snarski - When Our Worlds Collide The New Eves - Volcano The Dream Syndicate - Daddy’s Girl On Diamond - It’s Me Calling The Parasite - Poor Rich Boy Insecure  The Apartments - Afternoons  Tortoise - Vexations  West Coast Sick Line - Superfanatical Man Ember Rev - I Dreamt Of Forests

On this edition a set of twelve pieces tracing rhythmic invention, ensemble interplay, and tonal contrast across multiple continents and decades. The selections move from suite-based composition and archival live recordings to contemporary quartet work, solo piano abstraction, and layered studio arrangements. Formats include trio, orchestra, and collaborative studio ensemble, with instrumentation spanning reeds, brass, percussion, electronics, and voice. Styles range from modal jazz and Latin jazz to avant-garde improvisation and structured groove, with label origins including independent, cooperative, and legacy imprints. PLAYLIST Sean Lovato “Frequent Flyer” from Biotic (Endectomorph) 00:00 Greg Burrows “It Just Gets Better” from Let’s Not Wait : The Music of Ed Bonoff (GreBu Records) 05:30 Socrates Garcia Latin Jazz Orchestra “Sultry Villa Mella Twilights” from Shadows of Tomorrow (Summit Records) 13:40 Amaury Faye NOLA Quartet “The Railyard” from RUST (Hypnote Records) 24:20 Greenhouse Ensemble “The Martha Suite” from The Martha Suite (Self Released) 31:38 Black Unity Trio “Birth, Life & Death” from Al - Fatihah (Gotta Groove Records) 43:00 Camila Nebbia, James Banner, Max Andrzejewski “Lugar” from Presencia (ears&eyes) 53:11 Marko Zorec Group “Streets Of Paradise” from Imaginary Garden (Self Released) 59:53 Ola Onabule ft. Hazelrigg Brothers “Condition Of The Heart” from It’s Never Over (Aliud Records) 1:09:15 Denman Maroney “Long Odds” from Umwelt (Neuma Records) 1:15:30 Thelonious Monk “Rhythm-A-Ning” from Bremen 1965 (Sunnyside Records) 1:23:51 The Necks “Warm Running Sunlight” from Disquiet (Northern Spy/Fish of Milk) 1:34:02

Anticipating forthcoming concerts celebrating The Dream Syndicates Medicine Show album I begin a journey through a recently released massive collection of music from that part of the bands history. There’s also the current crop of featured albums plus some challenging new sounds that have recently arrived in my in-box. To close some Norwegian experimentation and jazz guitar mastery from John Abercrombie. PLAYLIST The Dream Syndicate - Still Holding On To You Spawn - Ascension The Apartments - It’s A Casino Life Drazek Fuscaldo with Jörg A. Schneider - Facades Self Immolation Music - Strange Worship Lachlan X. Morris - Nonchalant  Andy Whitaker & Michael Reed - Out and About  Vincent Yelle - Lighthouse  Anna Pidgorna - What Else Can I Give Him? Що ще йому дати? Jason Blake - Into Decay Jussi Reijonen - fes Saapato - Salmon Run  The Go-Betweens - The Locust Girls Danny Short - The Circle And The Triangle Dave Graney ‘n’ The Coral Snakes - I’ve Got To Have You Moff Skellington - Bulverglade Magriz makroll  The Last Caboose - Shadow Of The Wind  Mark Snarski - When Our Worlds Collide  On Diamond - It’s Me Calling The New Eves - Rivers Run Red West Coast Sick Line - This is not Pentrefoelas  Yeigh - Hold Me Inside Supersilent - 8.3 John Abercrombie - Class Trip

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

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)

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

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 

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  

“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 

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