Hello there! Sorry you all have not heard from me quite as much here at TNB, but part of that reason is some of my energy has gone into my radio show on WVKR, Vassar College radio (91.3 FM in the Hudson Valley and wvkr.org on the web), called Where Is Brooklyn? For the better part of a year (so far at 41 episodes), my show has been an hour long, and aired twice a week – Tuesday at 5 AM and Saturday at 2 AM Eastern time. On Where Is Brooklyn?, I’ve been playing a lot of the experimental, ambient, and jazz-adjacent music that blurs genre categories which I focus on at this blog. In recent episodes, I’ve played music by Ivo Perelman, James Brandon Lewis, Matthew Shipp, Patricia Brennan, ICP Orchestra, Tim Berne, and many, many others. But of course, this experimental music often features long-form compositions or extended improvisation that is not a natural fit for an hour-long show.
So I’m happy to announce that Where Is Brooklyn? has now expanded to a two-hour show with a new late-night time – Sunday morning at 2AM, playing until 4AM. So if you’re up in the middle of the night/morning this weekend in the early AM hours, you can tune in on the radio – again at 91.3FM near Poughkeepsie and on the web at wvkr.org. For my international readers, that will be 7 AM-9 AM in the morning in London, 8 AM-10 AM in Berlin, and 3 PM-5 PM in Tokyo, so please listen if you can!
On this week’s show – episode #42 – which will air on October 5th at 2AM EST, I’ll be playing music from these recent releases:
Natacha Diels – Somewhere Beautiful
Weston Olencki – Broadsides
Patrick Shiroishi – Forgetting Is Violent
Lex Korten – Canopy
M. Sage – Tender / Wading
Sō Percussion – 25×25
Chris Williams – Odu: Vibration II
I’m not sure if there’s any other place on the radio where you’ll hear Tristan Perich’s 44-minute-long Sequential (played from the mammoth new Sō Percussion box set), so come listen with me!