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Sarah Louise - Ripple (The Avant Ghetto DJ Premium @WFMU Fundraiser 2016)

Sarah Louise
Ripple (The Avant Ghetto DJ Premium @WFMU Fundraiser 2016)

The world’s best freeform radio station, WFMU, is in the midst of their annual fundraiser to keep the boat afloat. During the month of March all listeners are asked to pledge what they can. Every DJ at WFMU has created a one-of-a-kind compilati …
dfbm #82 - Songs of Wild Nothing

dfbm #82
Songs of Wild Nothing

Wild Nothing is like an elaborate dream. A lot of wild things happen and then you wake up and there is nothing left. In the worst (or best) case there is an echo that fades away. It's similar with the music: so much music got recorded in the past …
Library of Babel - s/t

Library of Babel
s/t

​ As Library of Babel, the guitarist and music teacher Shane Parish, cellist Emmalee Hunnicutt and bassis Frank Meadows found together to create some sort of free folk/improv chamber music. All three are hailing from Asheville, NC the town and …
Bodytunnel - Wade Lonesome

Bodytunnel
Wade Lonesome

​ Outsider folk from Brooklyn that channels Jandek and Oral Constitution to make you feel uncomfortable. It's a good Saturday morning listen (if you have a hangover from getting drunk alone at home on a Friday night). Guitar, cello, sax and …
Waswas - Attempting Levitation

Waswas
Attempting Levitation

Waswas is Alessandro Denti from Monza in Italy. It's always a pleasure to receive contributions of solo guitar music. Denti's music reminds me more on the solo guitar pieces by guitarists like George Cromarty, Scott Witte, Daniel Hecht or Bob …
Jim Ghedi - Sketches of Brunei c​.​ 1978 (Film Soundtrack)

Jim Ghedi
Sketches of Brunei c​.​ 1978 (Film Soundtrack)

Sheffield based guitarist Jim Ghedi composed the soundtrack to the film "Sketches of Brunei" by experimental filmmaker Ian Nesbitt. The film is 27 minute long and consists of silent super 8 home-movie footage from Brunei that got interlaced …
dfbm #81 - Morning Raga Pt. VII

dfbm #81
Morning Raga Pt. VII

This mix was already made in January when not so much new music came in, so I dove into my library to pull out some releases I haven't listen to for a while. It starts with a homage to Jack Rose, by Daniel Bachman when he was still performing …
The Matchsellers - Songs We Made Up

The Matchsellers
Songs We Made Up

2016 # bluegrass, folk
This bluegrass duo, consisting of Julie Bates and Andrew Morris, met a few years ago in Leipzig. While many young Americans want to go to Berlin and maybe stay there either to get away from their student debt or because it's supposed to be a very …
Ben Collier - Bardo Junction

Ben Collier
Bardo Junction

2016 # lofi, folk, americana, blues
Some new tunes from Ben Collier a farmhand and musician from Trappe, Pennsylvania. Collier's music sits somewhere between the lofi singer-songwriter folk of Simon Joyner or Michael Hurley and Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. Cr …

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