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Music to laze around with, just like slipping into a warm, comfortable bath; bubbling with many stringed instruments and occasional live performances.

Location:

East Orange, NJ

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Description:

Music to laze around with, just like slipping into a warm, comfortable bath; bubbling with many stringed instruments and occasional live performances.

Twitter:

@WFMU

Language:

English

Contact:

WFMU P.O. Box 2011 Jersey City, NJ 07303-2011


Episodes
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Tiptoeing through the tunes. from May 11, 2026

5/11/2026
Haley Heynderickx & Max Garcia Conover - "Flourescent Light" - What of Our Nature [0:00:00] Josephine Foster - "Añil" - Adormidera: Josephine Foster Sings the Songs of Victor Herrero [0:03:15] Carminho - "Pela minha voz" - Eu Vou Morrer de Amor ou Resistir [0:09:35] Courtney Hartman - "Nothing We Say" - Nothing We Say [0:13:58] Lucinda Williams - "Punchline" - World's Gone Wrong [0:17:36] Maria BC - "The sound" - Marathon [0:22:56] Music behind DJ: Bruce Kaphan - "Clouds" - Slider: Ambient Excursions For Pedal Steel Guitar [0:26:33] Bill Callahan - "Spring" - Dream River [0:33:46] Kevin Ayers - "Town Feeling" - Joy of a Toy [0:38:50] Steve Hackett - "A Girl Called Linda" - Wild Orchids [0:43:37] The Beatles - "I'm Only Sleeping" - Revolver [0:48:14] Grin / Nils Lofgren - "Sad Letter" - All Out [0:51:07] Hiss Golden Messenger - "Mercy Avenue" - I'm People [0:54:25] Music behind DJ: Bruce Kaphan - "Clouds" - Slider: Ambient Excursions For Pedal Steel Guitar [1:00:46] Janel Leppin - "The Brink is Home" - Slowly Melting [1:09:35] Dom La Nena - "Menina Dos Olhos Azuis" - Ela [1:14:03] The Iditarod - "The Falling of the Pine" - The Ghost, The Elf, The Cat & The Angel [1:17:01] L Shankar - "Windy Morning" - Touch Me There [1:26:36] Brian Marsella's iMAGiNARiUM - "The Sea Captain / Land of Non-Conformity" - Medietas [1:30:23] Golems of the Red Planet - "Hutriel" - Surf Masada: The Compositions of John Zorn [1:42:19] Music behind DJ: Bruce Kaphan - "Clouds" - Slider: Ambient Excursions For Pedal Steel Guitar [1:46:55] Paul Horn w/J.N. Shivpuri, Shiri Chunilal Kaul, Rajinder Raina - "Raga Ahir Bhairao" - Cosmic Consciousness - Paul Horn In Kashmir [1:56:05] Zakir Hussain w/Hariprasad Chaurasia, John McLaughlin, Jan Garbarek - "Sabah" - Making Music [2:01:06] Herbie Mann / Phil Woods - "Azure" - Beyond Brooklyn [2:04:36] Jethro Tull - "The Feathered Consort" - RökFlöte [2:09:02] Shabaka - "Step Lightly" - Of The Earth [2:12:36] Yusef Lateef - "Psychicemotus" - Psychicemotus [2:16:26] Music behind DJ: Bruce Kaphan - "Clouds" - Slider: Ambient Excursions For Pedal Steel Guitar [2:21:17] Endless Field - "Daybreak" - Endless Field [2:28:38] Andrew Chalfen - "Cloud Ceiling" - Unreliable Narrator [2:33:57] Steve Howe - "Providence" - Natural TImbre [2:37:29] Mark Fosson - "Cold Dark Hollow" - KY [2:41:32] Don Bikoff - "Good Dog Josie" - Hallowed Ground [2:43:33] Bipolar Explorer - "Turnabout" - Last Lights: This Distracted Globe [2:47:35] Em Spel - "Sea Wall" - Bird or Snake [2:53:30] Music behind DJ: Bruce Kaphan - "Clouds" - Slider: Ambient Excursions For Pedal Steel Guitar [2:58:13] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/164124

Duration:03:06:21

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Fine guitarists and a farewell to Don Bikoff from May 4, 2026

5/4/2026
Geoff Muldaur - "The Wild Ox Moan" - The Secret Handshake The Reverend Gary Davis - "Death Don't Have No Mercy" - Harlem Street Singer [0:04:41] Mississippi John Hurt - "Got the Blues (Can't Be Satisfied)" - Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings [0:09:34] Shane Parish - "Slip" - Autechre Guitar [0:12:23] Steve Howe - "Solar Winds" - Natural TImbre [0:17:02] Bill Orcutt - "Some Hidden Purpose" - Jump On It [0:20:54] Mark Fosson - "When We Were Young" - KY [0:23:28] Music behind DJ: John Fahey - "Finale" - America [0:29:13] Set: ">Don Bikoff in December of 2016. Don was on my show many times, starting in 2013, playing some great fingerstyle guitar tunes and sharing some of his favorite music on vinyl. He sadly passed over the weekend, so I thought it would be nice to pay tribute to his sweet musical soul. Don Bikoff - "Celestial Explosion" - Celestial Explosion [0:37:17] Don Bikoff - "Cypress Grove" - Hallowed Ground [0:40:21] Don Bikoff - "The Formentera Moors Are Stomping Tonight" - Celestial Explosion [0:44:05] Don Bikoff - "Demise of the Zundapp" - Hallowed Ground [0:47:28] Don Bikoff - "Riverside Park Blues" - Celestial Explosion [0:52:51] Music behind DJ: John Fahey - "Finale" - America [0:54:44] Mark Fosson & Don Bikoff - "Separation Blues live 2016-03-05" - (You Tube video) [1:00:25] Don Bikoff - "12-String Blues (on 6 strings) (Live)" - Live on Irene Trudel's show 2013-04-08 [1:04:17] Bikoff & Brandstatter - "XLV (Live 2014-04-28)" - Collection: Thinking Outside the Music Box: Irene Trudel's 2015 WFMU Marathon Premium [1:06:11] Don Bikoff - "Lullabye for Miss V (Live)" - Live on Irene's show 2016-12-27 [1:12:31] Don Bikoff - "Live on the Ted Mack Amateur Hour 1968" - (You Tube video) [1:18:01] Music behind DJ: John Fahey - "Finale" - America [1:20:32] Bikoff & Brandstatter - "Dance of the Crustaceans and Other Underwater Favorites (Live)" - Live on Irene's show 2014-04-28 [1:26:59] Don Bikoff - "The Boca Rag (Live)" - Live on Irene's show 2015-01-20 [1:31:10] Don Bikoff - "Max's Tune (Live)" - Live on Irene's show 2015-01-20 [1:33:54] Don Bikoff - "Amy in Quebec (Live 2013-04-08)" - Fingers Aflame! Passionate performances from Irene Trudel's Show [1:36:11] Don Bikoff - "Hummingbird Deluxe" - Hallowed Ground [1:39:20] Music behind DJ: John Fahey - "Finale" - America [1:47:46] John Fahey - "When the Catfish is in Bloom" - Requia [1:52:58] Matt Sowell - "Requiem For Democracy" - Organize or Die [1:59:55] Glenn Jones - "Like a Sick Eagle Looking at the Sky" - My Garden State [2:04:36] Devendra Banhart - "Sligo River Blues (John Fahey tune)" - I am the Resurrection: A Tribute to John Fahey [2:12:33] Calexico - "Dance of Deatth" - I am the Resurrection: A Tribute to John Fahey [2:15:38] Don Bikoff - "When the Troutfish Are In Bloom" - Hallowed Ground [2:22:16] Music behind DJ: John Fahey - "Finale" - America [2:26:40] Gwenifer Raymond - "Eulogy for Dead French Composer" - Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain [2:36:08] Marisa Anderson - "The Crack Where the Light Gets In" - Still, Here [2:42:19] Andrew Chalfen - "Speaks Volumes" - Unreliable Narrator [2:46:55] Joseph Spence - "The Glory of Love" - Encore - Unheard Recordings of Bahamian Guitar and Singing [2:49:31] Yasmin Williams - "High Five" - Unwind [2:52:12] Robbie Basho - "Rising Sun Song" - Songs of the Avatars: The Lost Master Tapes [2:55:56] Music behind DJ: John Fahey - "Finale" - America [2:59:18] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163865

Duration:03:07:06

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Putting a little pink in your cheeks. from Apr 27, 2026

4/27/2026
Hauschka - "Pripyat" - Abandoned City Michael Harrison & Ina Filip - "Mahadev (Raga Yaman)" - Evening Light [0:07:03] Adrian Crowley - "She Brings Oblivion" - The Birdwatchers [0:13:13] Maria BC - "As the earth turns" - Marathon [0:16:30] Mahavishnu Orchestra w/The London Symphony Orchestra (Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor) - "Power of Love" - Apocalypse [0:19:26] Nightnoise - "Perchance to Dream" - Something of Time [0:23:35] Music behind DJ: Irene Trudel - "Roxbury, NY Morning Birds" - (a field recording) [0:29:44] Janel Leppin - Ensemble Volcanic Ash - "Susan Was a Warrior" - Pluto in Aquarius [0:35:23] Brian Marsella's iMAGiNARiUM - "Neighborhood Stroll" - Medietas [0:39:53] Shabaka - "Those of the Sky" - Of The Earth [0:46:32] Iasos - "The Royal Court of Goddess Vesta" - Celestial Soul Portrait [0:51:09] John Abercrombie Trio w/Dan Wall & Adam Nussbaum - "Dreamland" - Speak of the Devil [0:56:37] Music behind DJ: Irene Trudel - "Roxbury, NY Morning Birds" - (a field recording) [1:05:45] Meg Okura and The Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble - "Sunset Bells" - Isaiah [1:12:35] Aaron Irwin Trio - "Giuffre" - Spark [1:19:40] Traffic - "The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys" - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys [1:24:21] Herbie Hancock - "Butterfly" - Thrust [1:35:48] Music behind DJ: Irene Trudel - "Roxbury, NY Morning Birds" - (a field recording) [1:48:21] Radio Massacre International - "Sympathy for the Bedeviled" - Emissaries [1:54:07] Janel Leppin - "Germanium" - Slowly Melting [2:03:35] Davey Woodward - "We Are Leaving You" - The Bristolian [2:07:28] Dálava - "Dyby ňa moja maměnka stará / Grass" - The Book of Transfigurations [2:10:24] Sibyl - "The saddest noise, the sweetest noise" - Sibyl [2:13:28] Yagody - "Oy Na Yaru" - Yagody [2:17:15] Cocanha - "Clam" - Flame Folclòre [2:19:59] Music behind DJ: Irene Trudel - "Roxbury, NY Morning Birds" - (a field recording) [2:24:04] Mary In The Junkyard - "Candelabra" - Role Model Hermit [2:32:20] Em Spel - "The Tide" - Bird or Snake [2:35:46] Annahstasia - "Waiting" - Tether [2:41:04] Bipolar Explorer - "Nightships" - Last Lights [2:44:39] Dave Mason - "You Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave" - Alone Together [2:47:31] Memory Spells (Matt Bauer & Jordan Whitlock) - "Take My Hand" [2:53:31] Music behind DJ: Irene Trudel - "Roxbury, NY Morning Birds" - (a field recording) [2:57:01] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163641

Duration:03:06:50

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Relax and enjoy the ride! from Apr 20, 2026

4/20/2026
Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks - "Long Comma Viper" - Return to Hicksville: The Best of Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks [0:00:00] Cab Calloway and HIs Orchestra - "Reefer Man" - Best Of The Big Bands [0:02:10] NRBQ - "Wacky Tobaccy" - High Noon: A 50-Year Retrospective [0:05:07] BIll Rogers - "Weed" - (You Tube video) [0:07:53] Don Redman and His Orchestra - "Chant of the Weed" - Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble / Chant Of The Weed [0:13:07] The Jim Kweskin Jug Band - "If You're A Viper" - Garden of Joy [0:16:18] John Prine - "Illegal Smile" - John Prine [0:18:13] Music behind DJ: Jon Hassell - "Last Night the Moon Came" - Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street [0:23:27] Matching Mole - "Signed Curtain" - Robert Wyatt: Different Every Time [0:28:45] Caravan - "And I Wish I Were Stoned / Don't Worry" - If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You [0:31:51] XTC - "Grass" - Skylarking [0:40:15] The Beatles - "A Day in the Life" - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band [0:43:00] Lothar & The Hand People - "Space Hymn" - Space Hymn [0:47:48] Bipolar Explorer - "Stratiform" - Last Lights: This Distracted Globe [0:54:49] Moody Blues - "Sun Is Still Shining" - To Our Children's Children's Children [1:01:52] Music behind DJ: Jon Hassell - "Last Night the Moon Came" - Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street [1:05:24] Love and Rockets - "Kundalini Express" - Express [1:14:27] Can - "All Gates Open" - Can [1:19:56] Jimi Hendrix - "If 6 Was 9" - Axis: As Bold As Love [1:28:07] Robin Trower - "Bridge of Sighs" - Bridge of Sighs [1:33:37] Brian Eno - "Julie With..." - Before and After Science [1:38:39] Music behind DJ: Jon Hassell - "Last Night the Moon Came" - Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street [1:44:38] Moongazing Hare - "Stars of the Wraith" - Songs for Nathan [1:55:37] Kayhan Kalhor & Ali Akbar Moradi - "Majooni-Bedaah-E Bar Nagmeh Panj Zarbi" - Mirror in the Sky [2:00:42] Julia Kent - "Kingdom" - Character [2:06:41] Gamelan Yowana Sari - "Stones are the Flowers" - Gamelan Yowana Sari [2:11:18] Lake - "In the Stubborn Eyes of a Demon" - The World is Real [2:17:44] Robin Guthrie - "Mission Dolores" - Carousel [2:21:12] Cocteau Twins - "Pink Orange Red" - Tiny Dynamite [2:25:26] Music behind DJ: Jon Hassell - "Last Night the Moon Came" - Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street [2:30:01] Todd Rundgren - "The Night the Carousel Burnt Down" - Something / Anything? [2:36:44] Radiohead - "Daydreaming" - A Moon Shaped Pool [2:41:04] The Mommyheads - "Triumph and Crash" - No Quietus [2:47:26] Church of Betty - "Ever Deeper" - Swirled World [2:52:12] Music behind DJ: Jon Hassell - "Last Night the Moon Came" - Last Night the Moon Came Dropping its Clothes in the Street [2:58:04] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163402

Duration:03:06:55

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Art will find you. from Apr 13, 2026

4/13/2026
Nightnoise - "Timewinds" - Something of Time [0:00:00] Baklava Express - "Begin Again" - Sabába [0:03:46] Mats Eilertsen - "Nightride" - Reveries and Revelations [0:10:28] Steve Tibbetts - "Full Moon Dogs" - The Fall of Us All [0:13:59] Juana Molina - "intringulado" - Doga [0:23:02] Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny - "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" - Beyond the Missouri Sky [0:27:36] Music behind DJ: Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny - "The Moon Song / First Song" - Beyond the Missouri Sky [0:31:36] William Tyler - "Slow Night's Static" - New Vanitas [0:38:16] Windy and Carl - "Nature of Memory" - We Will Always Be [0:51:04] Yasmin Williams - "Adrift (ft. Taryn Wood)" - Urban Driftwood [0:59:20] Gwenifer Raymond - "Ruben's Song" - Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain [1:03:46] Hayden Pedigo - "Elsewhere" - The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored [1:08:30] Music behind DJ: Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny - "The Moon Song / First Song" - Beyond the Missouri Sky [1:13:57] Asha Bhosle - "Chhod Do Aanchal (w/Kishore Kumar)" - Love Supreme [1:25:38] Asha Bhosle - "O Chand Jahan Woh Jaye (from "Sharada")" - Love Supreme [1:29:53] Gary Lucas - "The Moon Represents My Heart" - Edge of Heaven Vol. 2 [1:33:54] Linden Pomeroy - "Waning Moon" - The Cat Sang Out [1:36:31] Goran Ivanovic - "Lunar" - Closer Than This [1:45:39] Andrew Chalfen - "Rare Visitor from Eurasia" - Unreliable Narrator [1:48:16] Music behind DJ: Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny - "The Moon Song / First Song" - Beyond the Missouri Sky [1:51:38] Miriam Elhajli - "Hermit" - Observations [2:00:56] Haley Heynderickx - "Untitled God Song" - I Need to Start a Garden [2:07:17] Mary In The Junkyard - "Crash Landing" - (single) [2:11:02] Jana Horn - "It's alright" - Jana Horn [2:16:35] I'm With Her - "Strawberry Moonrise / Year After Year" - Wild and Clear and Blue [2:19:56] Music behind DJ: Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny - "The Moon Song / First Song" - Beyond the Missouri Sky [2:24:25] Golems Of The Red Planet - "Hadriel" - Surf Masada: The Compositions of John Zorn [2:29:09] Brian Marsella's iMAGiNARiUM - "Little Known Corner of Your Favorite Bodega" - Medietas [2:33:08] The Mothers of Invention - "Overture to a Holiday in Berlin /Theme from Burnt Weeny Sandwich /Holiday in Berlin, Full Blown" - Burnt Weeny Sandwich [2:44:01] Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore - "Melted Moon" - Tragic Magic [2:56:38] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163150

Duration:03:06:39

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A postcard from Big Ears. from Apr 6, 2026

4/6/2026
Ken Pomeroy - "Coyote" - Cruel Joke Hannah Cohen - "Baby You're Lying" - Earthstar Mountain [0:03:54] Cleo Reed - "Always The Horse, Never The Jockey ft. IWEWE" - Cuntry [0:07:08] Haley Heynderickx - "The Bug Collector" - I Need to Start a Garden [0:10:42] Miriam Elhajli - "r(evolving) door avenida méxico" - (single) [0:14:31] Annahstasia - "Be Kind" - Tether [0:17:07] Music behind DJ: Loren Mazzacane Connors - "Airs 4-8" - Airs [0:22:15] Will Graefe - "Coral Court Motel" - Marine Life [0:32:01] Maria Somerville - "Stonefly" - Luster [0:35:46] Laraaji - "Temple Of New Light" - Sun Piano [0:39:18] Gary Lucas - "New Pair of Flowers" - Edge of Heaven Vol. 2 [0:43:13] Yagody - "Ruzhytsa" - Yagody [0:47:21] Julia Úlehla and Dálava - "Queen of Heaven and Earth" - Understories [0:51:30] Music behind DJ: Loren Mazzacane Connors - "Airs 4-8" - Airs [0:57:35] Janel and Anthony - "Pacific Grove Monarch" - New Moon In The Evil Age [1:09:06] Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore - "The Four Sleeping Princesses" - Tragic Magic [1:13:07] SUSS - "Sunset I & II" - Counting Sunsets [1:20:18] Ghost Train Orchestra and Kronos Quartet - "All is Loneliness (ft. Joan as Police Woman)" - Songs and Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog [1:26:34] Shabaka - "Stand Firm / Space Time" - Of the Earth [1:32:44] Music behind DJ: Loren Mazzacane Connors - "Airs 4-8" - Airs [1:38:56] Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few - "We Don't Even Know Where We're Headed" - The World Is On Fire [1:48:12] Brian Marsella's iMAGiNARiUM - "Better Watch What You Wish For (In These Historic Times) Part 1" - The Clocks Have Gone Mad [1:56:51] Mahmoud Ahmed and The Either/Orchestra - "Bemen Sebab Letlash" - (You Tube video) [2:05:25] Kunal Gunjal - "Raga Kausi Kanada - Gat Rupak Taal" - When Time Stood Still [2:10:19] Laurie Anderson & Sex Mob - "Let X=X (Live)" [2:20:44] Music behind DJ: Loren Mazzacane Connors - "Airs 4-8" - Airs [2:25:20] Kishi Bashi - "Violin Tsunami" - Omoiyari [2:30:49] Luke Schneider - "Pax Tennesseana" - It Is Solved By Walking [2:36:15] Julian Lage (featuring John Medeski, Jorge Roeder, Kenny Wollesen) - "Storyville" - Scenes from Above [2:40:13] Harriet Tubman & Georgia Anne Muldrow - "Is no match for you" - Electrical Field of Love [2:44:21] Nels Cline - "The Night Porter / Max, Mon Amour" - Lovers [2:47:04] Richard Thompson - "The Ghost Of You Walks" - You? Me? Us? [2:55:14] Music behind DJ: Loren Mazzacane Connors - "Airs 4-8" - Airs [2:58:58] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/162910
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Unusual guitar constructions, with a live set from Mark Wingfield. from Mar 23, 2026

3/23/2026
Set: Mark Wingfield, recorded live in studioElectric guitar visionary Mark Wingfield creates beautiful, atmospheric soundscapes with a wide assortment of pedals and devices. Elemental is Mark's latest studio album, and on a recent visit from his UK home he stopped by to play a live set for Irene. Mark Wingfield - "Tantallon" - Elemental Mark Wingfield & Irene talk [0:07:24] Mark Wingfield - "Live Improv #1" [0:11:20] Mark Wingfield - "Live Improv #2" [0:17:52] Set: Mark Wingfield & Irene talk [0:24:08] Mark Wingfield - "Live Improv #3" [0:24:57] Mark Wingfield & Irene talk [0:32:09] Mark Wingfield - "Hope Valley, live" [0:33:14] Set: Mark Wingfield & Irene talk [0:37:19] Mark Wingfield - "Suntar" - Elemental [0:44:01] Set: Mark Wingfield's music is available on Bandcamp. (You can find Kevin Kastning's music there too.) Kevin Kastning & Mark Wingfield - "166-E (live)" - (recorded live for Irene Trudel's show) [0:50:04] Mark Wingfield w/Gary Husband /Asaf Sirkis /Tony Levin /Percy Jones - "The Listening Trees" - The Gathering [1:00:21] Music behind DJ: John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner - "Fable" - Sargasso Sea [1:07:15] Petito, Rainey, Smit, Torn - "Raindrops and Waterspouts" - ¿QUÉ? [1:12:01] SUSS - "Sunset II" - Counting Sunsets [1:17:41] Terje Rypdal - "Better Off Without You" - Odyssey [1:20:58] Bipolar Explorer - "The Storm Passes" - Forests, Voices, Coastlines, Dreams: Recordings for The Dark Outside [1:28:20] The Mahavishnu Orchestra - "You Know, You Know" - The Inner Mounting Flame [1:36:03] Savage & Smit - "The People's Key Opens..." - of course [1:41:12] Music behind DJ: John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner - "Fable" - Sargasso Sea [1:46:52] Goran Ivanovic - "Dospatsko Horo" - Far Away Feeling [1:54:23] Robyn Hitchcock - "Spring Comes Too Late" - (Patreon single) [1:58:02] Aaron Irwin Trio - "Fahey" - Spark [2:01:26] James Blackshaw - "Sunshrine" - Sunshrine [2:06:42] Music behind DJ: John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner - "Fable" - Sargasso Sea [2:33:11] Andrew Chalfen - "Non Photo Blue" - Unreliable Narrator [2:40:45] Shane Parish - "Yulquen" - Autechre Guitar [2:45:14] John Scofield & Dave Holland - "Icons at the Fair" - Memories of Home [2:51:31] Music behind DJ: John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner - "Fable" - Sargasso Sea [2:57:54] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/162448
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Massive thanks, and calming thoughts of green. from Mar 16, 2026

3/16/2026
Kate Bush - "Mná na hÉireann (Women of Ireland)" - Common Ground (V/A) [0:00:00] The Chieftains - "Women of Ireland" - Barry Lyndon [0:02:55] Mike Oldfield - "Women of Ireland" - Voyager [0:08:12] Nightnoise - "The Kid in the Cot" - The Parting Tide [0:14:44] Maire Brennan - "Rinne Tú" - Whisper to the Wild Water [0:20:34] Music behind DJ: R. Carlos Nakai - "Shaman's Call / Canyon Reverie / In Media Res" - Earth Spirit [0:25:30] Ye Vagabonds - "I'll Keep Singing" - All Tied Together [0:34:30] The Gloaming - "The Lobster" - The Gloaming 3 [0:38:53] Tony McManus & Julia Toaspern - "Mairin de Barra-Miller of Droghan-Fleur de Mandragore-La Rachoudine" - Travelling Still [0:45:46] Planxty - "Time Will Cure Me" - The Well Below The Valley [0:51:28] Tony Trischka & His Special Guests - "Down in the Willow Garden" - Earl Jam 2 [0:56:53] The Pogues - "A Rainy Night in Soho" - Rum Sodomy & The Lash [1:01:08] The Bothy Band - "Old Hag, You Have Killed Me" - Old Hag, You Have Killed Me [1:05:49] Music behind DJ: R. Carlos Nakai - "Shaman's Call / Canyon Reverie / In Media Res" - Earth Spirit [1:10:12] Sibyl - "The Saddest Noise" - Sibyl [1:20:13] Black Sea Hotel - "Sadila Jana" - The Forest Is Shaking & Swaying [1:24:05] Bing and Ruth - "And Then It Rained" - City Lake [1:26:50] Adrian Crowley - "Ocean" - The Birdwatchers [1:31:36] Hawktail - "Unless" - Unless [1:36:25] I'm With Her - "Only Daughter" - Wild and Clear and Blue [1:41:45] Her Crooked Heart - "O America" - (single) [1:46:12] Music behind DJ: R. Carlos Nakai - "Shaman's Call / Canyon Reverie / In Media Res" - Earth Spirit [1:50:08] Gary Lucas - "Spring in Zhong Mountain" - Edge of Heaven Vol. 2 [2:00:51] Richard Carr - "Lovely Lou" - The Escarpment [2:03:58] Martin Hayes & the Common Ground Ensemble - "Peggy's Dream" - Peggy's Dream [2:09:42] Alex Archibald - "Smell of The Forest From the Sea" - Waste Knot [2:14:55] Sam Amidon - "Friends and Neighbors (Ornette Coleman)" - Salt River [2:17:56] Andrew Chalfen - "Polydactyl" - Unreliable Narrator [2:24:02] Music behind DJ: R. Carlos Nakai - "Shaman's Call / Canyon Reverie / In Media Res" - Earth Spirit [2:28:03] Mark Wingfield - "A Sign in the Weather" - Elemental [2:35:03] Chuck Johnson - "Teleos" - Sun Glories [2:42:09] Bowerbirds - "Hush" - The Clearing [2:49:20] Ollella - "By My Design" - Antifragile [2:53:26] Music behind DJ: R. Carlos Nakai - "Shaman's Call / Canyon Reverie / In Media Res" - Earth Spirit [2:56:45] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/162190
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A slathering of snow and song. from Feb 23, 2026

2/23/2026
Oscar Peterson Trio (Dave Samuels, vibes /Lorne Lofsky, guitar) - "Let It Snow!" - An Oscar Peterson Christmas [0:00:00] Simon & Garfunkel - "A Hazy Shade Of Winter" - Bookends [0:03:50] Claude Thornhill and His Orchestra - "Snowfall" - Best of the Big Bands: Claude Thornhill [0:06:06] Kate Bush - "Misty" - 50 Words for Snow [0:09:02] Tadd Dameron Orchestra w/Clifford Brown - "Dial "B" for Beauty" - Clifford Brown Memorial [0:22:24] Music behind DJ: David Darling - "Fables" - Cello [0:27:07] Yoko Ono & The Plastic Ono Band - "Listen the Snow Is Falling" - [single] [0:35:11] David Garland - "Color Piece (words: Yoko Ono from Grapefruit, 1964)" - Verdancy [0:38:31] Justin Hicks - "Man of Style" - Man of Style [0:50:59] George Harrison - "I'd Have You Anytime" - All Things Must Pass [0:56:38] Robyn Hitchcock - "Be Here Now" - (George Harrison cover) [0:59:31] Music behind DJ: David Darling - "Fables" - Cello [1:02:18] Hesperus - "Bonny Sweet Robin" - The Food of Love: Early Instrumental Music of the British Isles [1:11:52] Portland Cello Project - "In Freezing Winter's Night" - Winter: The Best Nine Months of the Year [1:15:24] John Hsu, viola da gamba/Louis Bagger, harpsichord/Judith Davidoff, viola da gamba: Marais - "Suite No. 1 in A Minor: Prelude" - Marin Marais: Pieces de Viole, from Book Three, 1711 [1:19:21] David Darling - "New Morning [DarkwoodVII]" - Dark Wood [1:22:40] Oregon - "Poesia" - Winter Light [1:27:44] David Wilcox - "Frozen in the Snow" - Christine Lavin presents: On a Winter's Night [1:33:09] Music behind DJ: David Darling - "Fables" - Cello [1:37:29] Darian Donovan Thomas - "OhNo" - A Room With Many Doors: Day [1:47:26] Bill Nelson - "Rejoice" - Northern Dream [1:53:04] Shabaka - "Light the Way" - Of The Earth [1:58:33] Jessamine - "Don't You Know That Yet?" - Jessamine [2:01:51] Coolangubra - "Affirmations" - Spirit Talk [2:06:51] Music behind DJ: David Darling - "Fables" - Cello [2:12:02] Guy Klucevsek / Philip Johnston - "Petite Ouverture A Danser / A Pear for Satie" - Tales from the Crypt [2:18:31] Will Holshouser - "Twelve Statues in the Snow" - The Lone Wild Bird [2:25:05] Gary Bartz - "Ogunde" - Live at the Jazz Standard: Mae Velha Vol 2 [2:29:25] Terje Rypdal / Miroslav Vitous / Jack DeJohnette - "Seasons" - Rypdal/Vitous/DeJohnette [2:34:21] Petito, Rainey, Smit, Torn - "Oil Can Sweets" - ¿QUÉ? [2:41:39] Music behind DJ: David Darling - "Fables" - Cello [2:48:40] Lhasa - "My Name" - The Living Road [2:51:58] Steve Tibbetts - "Away Part 1" - Close [2:56:10] Music behind DJ: David Darling - "Fables" - Cello [3:01:08] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/161543

Duration:03:02:28

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It was 30 years ago today, Irene and Peter had a wedding day! from Feb 16, 2026

2/16/2026
The Beatles - "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With A Little Help From My Friends" - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [0:00:00] Blood Sweat & Tears - "Overture/I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" - Child Is Father to the Man [0:04:47] John Coltrane - "A Love Supreme, Pt. I Acknowledgent" - A Love Supreme [0:12:20] Music behind DJ: Bill Evans - "Peace Piece" - Everybody Digs Bill Evans [0:21:37] Gary Lucas - "Skin the Rabbit" - Gods and Monsters [0:29:03] Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - "I Love You, You Big Dummy" - Lick My Decals Off, Baby [0:32:53] The Beach Boys - "God Only Knows" - Pet Sounds [0:35:51] Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians - "Arms of Love" - Respect [0:38:32] Lucinda Williams - "Lowlife" - The World's Gone Wrong [0:42:49] NRBQ - "I Love Her, She Loves Me" - Live At Yankee Stadium [0:47:05] Music behind DJ: Bill Evans - "Peace Piece" - Everybody Digs Bill Evans [0:51:34] I'm With Her - "Find My Way to You" - Wild And Clear And Blue [1:02:07] Molsky's Mountain Drifters - "Sweet Bride" - Closing the Gap [1:05:25] Vassar Clements, John Hartford, Dave Holland - "Memories of Home" - Vassar Clements, John Hartford, Dave Holland [1:08:17] Horsefeathers - "Helen" - House with No Home [1:11:28] Ye Vagabonds - "Where the Heart Lies" - All Tied Together [1:15:47] Henry Jamison - "Reading Days" - Gloria Duplex [1:18:16] Music behind DJ: Bill Evans - "Peace Piece" - Everybody Digs Bill Evans [1:21:22] Slim Gaillard Trio - "Potato Chips" - Groove Juice: The Norman Granz Recordings + More [1:32:15] Thelonious Monk - "Ask Me Now" - The Complete Riverside Recordings [1:34:57] Sonny Rollins - "St. Thomas" - Saxophone Colossus [1:45:40] The Microscopic Septet - "Lobster in the Limelight" - Surrealistic Swing: History of the Micros, Volume 2 by The Microscopic Septet [1:52:28] Music behind DJ: Bill Evans - "Peace Piece" - Everybody Digs Bill Evans [1:58:39] Meg Okura and The Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble - "Rice Country" - Isaiah [2:09:22] Toninho Horta (w/Wayne Shorter) - "Ballad for Zawinul" - Diamond Land [2:17:10] Terje Rypdal - "The Pleasure is Mine, I'm Sure" - Skywards [2:21:29] John Abercrombie (with Mark Feldman, Marc Johnson & Joey Baron) - "Descending Grace" - Class Trip [2:24:38] Music behind DJ: Bill Evans - "Peace Piece" - Everybody Digs Bill Evans [2:33:25] Chick Corea/John McLaughlin - "Someday My Prince Will Come" - Five Peace Band Live! [2:39:02] Phillip Glass - "Opening" - Glassworks [2:46:42] Bill Evans - "Tenderly" - Everybody Digs Bill Evans [2:53:05] Spirit - "Love Has Found A Way / Why Can't I Be Free" - Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus [2:56:38] Music behind DJ: Bill Evans - "Peace Piece" - Everybody Digs Bill Evans [3:00:17] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/161312

Duration:03:06:52

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Freely airing our choices. from Feb 9, 2026

2/9/2026
Humbird - "February" - (single) [0:00:00] Joyce - "Chegada" - Visions of Dawn [0:03:27] Caetano Veloso E Maria Bethânia - "Sozinho" - Fé (Ao Vivo) [0:07:52] Juana Molina - "siestas ahí" - Doga [0:11:03] Sharon Isbin-Paul Winter-Thiago de Mello - "Chants for the Chief, no. 2 Uirapuru do Amazonas" - Journey to the Amazon [0:16:01] Carlos Barbosa-Lima - "Maria Bonita" - Natalia [0:20:40] Egberto Gismonti & Academia De Dancas - "Lôro" - Sanfona / Egberto Gismonte Solo [0:24:18] Gato Barbieri - "India" - Chapter One: Latin America [0:29:39] Music behind DJ: R. Carlos Nakai - "Shaman's Call / Canyon Reverie / In Media Res" - Earth Spirit [0:38:31] Shabaka - "Those of the Sky" - Of The Earth [0:48:16] Darian Donovan Thomas - "Purple Flower" - A Room With Many Doors: Day [0:53:04] Samora Pinderhughes - "Grief (feat. Boom Bishop)" - Grief [0:58:46] Meg Okura and The Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble - "African Skies" - India [1:05:19] Music behind DJ: R. Carlos Nakai - "Shaman's Call / Canyon Reverie / In Media Res" - Earth Spirit [1:14:40] Simon and Garfunkel - "Bookends Theme / Save The Life of My Child" - Bookends [1:23:23] Ye Vagabonds - "The Flood" - All Tied Together [1:26:35] Christo Graham - "Tell Me If You Like Me" - Good Covers [1:29:55] The Cucumbers - "One Valentine's Day" - As You Heard Me - Songs from Hello George [1:31:37] Vassar Clements, John Hartford, Dave Holland - "Home Cooking" - Vassar Clements, John Hartford & Dave Holland [1:34:31] Bruce Molsky & Darol Anger - "The Old Blue Bonnet" - Lockdown Breakdown [1:38:25] Peter + Zoë Stampfel - "Going Nowhere" - Ass in the Air [1:41:28] Music behind DJ: R. Carlos Nakai - "Shaman's Call / Canyon Reverie / In Media Res" - Earth Spirit [1:44:58] I'm With Her - "Sisters of the Night Watch" - Wild And Clear And Blue [1:55:29] Adrian Crowley - "Transmission Lost" - Measure of Joy [1:59:57] Roy Montgomery - "Erstwhile Enervation" - Guitars Infernal [2:05:29] 2 Foot Yard - "Hold My Own" - Borrowed Arms [2:08:49] David Garland - "All With All" - The Spark [2:13:12] Fränder - "Isen som brast i skratt" - FRÄNDER [2:19:55] Music behind DJ: R. Carlos Nakai - "Shaman's Call / Canyon Reverie / In Media Res" - Earth Spirit [2:25:13] Gary Bartz & Ntu Troop - "You Are My Starship" - Damage Control [2:31:42] Paul Winter Consort - "General Pudson's Entrance" - Remembering Ralph (Towner-Free Downloads) [2:36:56] The Elec Tet - "Flow" - Shiny Metal Objects [2:42:23] Rumbo Tumba - "Abrigo del vino" - Cordillera Latiendo Sarah Elizabeth Charles - "Learn How to Love" - Free of Form [2:52:33] Music behind DJ: R. Carlos Nakai - "Shaman's Call / Canyon Reverie / In Media Res" - Earth Spirit [2:56:47] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/161045

Duration:03:06:41

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Suppressing snowy sludge with song. from Feb 2, 2026

2/2/2026
John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner - "Parasol" - Sargasso Sea Yorkston / Jaycock / Langendorf - "Havsström" - Yorkston / Jaycock / Langendorf [0:05:23] Petito, Rainey, Smit, Torn - "Raindrops and Waterspouts" - ¿QUÉ? [0:13:25] Shearwater - "Palo Santo" - Palo Santo [0:19:10] D.C. Cross - "Vale of Thrownness Mountain" - Open Guitar (Volume One) [0:22:59] Mark Wingfield - "Zig Zag" - Elemental [0:29:04] Music behind DJ: Irene Trudel - "Waves and Bells, Sandy Hook, NJ (summer 1988)" - You'll See Me In Your Dreams (WFMU Marathon Premium 2011) [0:32:01] Ollella - "At Rest" - Antifragile [0:38:11] Mary Margaret O'Hara - "Dear Darling" - Miss America [0:41:57] Mitch & Mickey (Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy) - "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" - Sdtk: A Mighty Wind [0:45:48] Laura Baird - "Your Sweet Face" - Under Blue [0:48:18] House and Land - "False True Lover" - House and Land [0:52:26] Molsky's Mountain Drifters - "Spring of '65" - Closing the Gap [0:56:08] Music behind DJ: Irene Trudel - "Waves and Bells, Sandy Hook, NJ (summer 1988)" - You'll See Me In Your Dreams (WFMU Marathon Premium 2011) [0:59:47] The Last Town Chorus - "Change Your Mind" - The Last Town Chorus [1:11:03] The Marias - "Lejos de Ti" - Submarine [1:14:49] Courtney Marie Andrews - "Pendulum Swing" - Valentine [1:17:48] Richard & Linda Thompson - "Shoot Out the Lights" - Shoot Out the Lights [1:21:14] Neil Young - "Southern Man" - After the Gold Rush [1:26:37] Lucinda Williams - "How Much Did You Get For Your Soul?" - The World's Gone Wrong [1:31:54] Music behind DJ: Irene Trudel - "Waves and Bells, Sandy Hook, NJ (summer 1988)" - You'll See Me In Your Dreams (WFMU Marathon Premium 2011) [1:35:55] Juana Molina - "miro todo" - Doga [1:45:21] Miriodor - "La Maison-Dieu [A Tower Struck Down]" - Rencontres [1:57:18] FRÄNDER - "Jag väntar (I'm Waiting)" - FRÄNDER II [2:06:05] Jethro Tull - "With You There to Help Me" - Benefit [2:12:50] The Cure - "Warsong" - Songs of a Lost World [2:19:11] Music behind DJ: Irene Trudel - "Waves and Bells, Sandy Hook, NJ (summer 1988)" - You'll See Me In Your Dreams (WFMU Marathon Premium 2011) [2:24:07] Samora Pinderhughes - "For Those Lost, For Those Taken (Dedicated to Sandra Bland)" - Black Spring EP [2:32:22] David Crosby - "Here It's Almost Sunset" - Sky Trails [2:35:52] John Scofield & Dave Holland - "Icons at the Fair" - Memories of Home [2:39:45] Tremosphere - "Close to the Sun" - Memoirs of a French Garden [2:45:52] Adrian Crowley - "The Birdwatchers" - The Birdwatchers [2:57:40] Neil Cowley - "Suadade" - Hall Of Mirrors [2:57:08] Music behind DJ: Irene Trudel - "Waves and Bells, Sandy Hook, NJ (summer 1988)" - You'll See Me In Your Dreams (WFMU Marathon Premium 2011) [3:00:57] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160857

Duration:03:06:58

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Wicked winter. from Jan 31, 2026

1/31/2026
Mitch & Mickey (Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy) - "A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" - Sdtk: A Mighty Wind [0:00:00] Mary Margaret O'Hara - "To Cry About" - Miss America [0:02:33] Neil Young - "Sugar Mountain" - Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968 [0:05:54] Gordon Giltrap - "Won't You Stay Awhile, Suzanne" - As Good As It Gets - Folk [0:14:34] David Campbell - "Goodbye Stockholm" - As Good As It Gets - Folk [0:14:35] Dulcimer - "Grey Lady Morning" - Room for Thought [0:18:10] Duncan Browne - "Chloe in the Garden" - Give Me, Take You [0:21:24] Music behind DJ: Irene Trudel - "Waves and Bells, Sandy Hook, NJ (summer 1988)" - You'll See Me In Your Dreams (WFMU Marathon Premium 2011) [0:27:34] Once Blue - "Stardust and Snow" - Once Blue [0:35:05] The Last Town Chorus - "Wintering in Brooklyn" - Wire Waltz [0:38:31] Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - "Globe Of Frogs (2026 Remaster)" - A Globe Of Frogs (2026 Remaster) [0:42:56] Lucinda Williams - "How Much Did You Get For Your Soul?" - The World's Gone Wrong [0:47:04] The Mommyheads - "Finally Free" - No Quietus [0:51:01] Music behind DJ: Irene Trudel - "Waves and Bells, Sandy Hook, NJ (summer 1988)" - You'll See Me In Your Dreams (WFMU Marathon Premium 2011) [0:54:53] David Crosby - "Balanced on a Pin" - Here If You Listen [1:03:04] Humbird - "Eve Boards a Train" - Pharmakon [1:07:25] Inlets - "See Her, Seer" - Vestibule EP [1:11:35] Johanna Warren - "The Wheel" - Nūmūn [1:15:41] House and Land - "Rainbow 'Mid Life's Willows" - Across The Field [1:18:57] Laura Baird - "To Sleep" - Under Blue [1:24:24] Silvana Estrada - "Como Un Pájaro" - Vendrán Suaves Lluvias (Soft Rains Will Fall) [1:28:30] Music behind DJ: Irene Trudel - "Waves and Bells, Sandy Hook, NJ (summer 1988)" - You'll See Me In Your Dreams (WFMU Marathon Premium 2011) [1:31:58] John Martyn - "Bless the Weather" - Bless the Weather [1:38:28] John Scofield & Dave Holland - "Meant to Be" - Memories of Home [1:42:51] Ralph Towner and Gary Peacock - "Nardis" - The Rainbow Colored Lotus: A Big Hand for Hanshin [1:49:30] Irene speaks! [1:58:26] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160819

Duration:02:06:30

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Snuggling inside, away from the snow. from Jan 26, 2026

1/26/2026
D.C. Cross - "Jump off the edge into the Darkness" - Open Guitar (Volume One) Seabuckthorn - "Hand in the Upward Sky" - Of No Such Place [0:08:28] Steve Tibbetts - "Away" - Close [0:12:41] Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - "Pleasant, If Not A Little Deadly" - Another Flower [0:19:41] Robert Bromley - "The Last Miners of Cathedral Cave" - Into the Ether [0:24:41] Leo Kottke - "Blimp" - One Guitar, No Vocals [0:28:33] Music behind DJ: Ralph Towner / Paolo Fresu - "Wistful Thinking / Punta Giara" - Chiaroscuro [0:32:04] Laaraji - "Deep Celestial" - Two Sides of Laraaji [0:39:20] The Durutti Column - "Never Known" - Valuable Passages [0:45:09] Laura Baird - "Trellis" - Under Blue [0:51:53] Linda Perhacs - "Call Of The River" - Parallelograms [0:55:40] Lankum - "On a Monday Morning" - False Lankum [0:59:13] Music behind DJ: Ralph Towner / Paolo Fresu - "Wistful Thinking / Punta Giara" - Chiaroscuro [1:04:25] The Mahavishnu Orchestra with The London Symphony Orchestra - "The Power of Love" - Apocalypse [1:13:30] Serena Gabriel - "The Feline Path (Muffin)" - Purr 24 [1:17:44] Richard Carr - "Dark Circles" - The Escarpment [1:27:51] Mark Wingfield - "Seven Bridges" - Elemental [1:35:37] Macie Stewart - "MurmurationMemorization" - When the Distance is Blue [1:40:50] Sissoko-Segal-Parisien-Peirani - "La Chanson des Égarés" - Les Égarés [1:47:27] Music behind DJ: Ralph Towner / Paolo Fresu - "Wistful Thinking / Punta Giara" - Chiaroscuro [1:54:19] Carla Kihlstedt - "Last Resort" - Two Foot Yard [2:02:41] June McDoom - "Piano Song" - June McDoom [2:06:17] Avi C. Engel - "Mote" - Mote [2:11:01] John Martyn - "Glistening Glyndebourne" - Bless the Weather [2:16:25] Juana Molina - "va rara" - Doga [2:22:49] David Crosby - "Other Half Rule" - Here If You Listen [2:27:01] Music behind DJ: Ralph Towner / Paolo Fresu - "Wistful Thinking / Punta Giara" - Chiaroscuro [2:31:26] John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner - "Bumabia" - Five Years Later [2:37:47] Weather Report (w/Ralph Towner) - "The Moors" - I Sing the Body Electric [2:47:24] Ralph Towner - "Ogden Road" - Diary [2:52:03] Music behind DJ: Ralph Towner / Paolo Fresu - "Wistful Thinking / Punta Giara" - Chiaroscuro [3:00:02] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160612

Duration:03:06:58

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Hoping for a harmonious existence. And R.I.P. Ralph Towner from Jan 19, 2026

1/19/2026
Herbie Hancock - "I Have a Dream" - The Prisoner Archie Shepp - "Dr. King, the Peaceful Warrior" - Things Have Got to Change [0:11:01] Max Roach (w/Abbey Lincoln) - "Tryptich: Prayer/Protest/Peace" - We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite [0:13:40] Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - "Keep Moving" [0:21:44] Sarah Elizabeth Charles - "March to Revolution" - Free of Form [0:24:04] Nina Simone - "Why? (The King of Love Is Dead)" - Forever Young, Gifted and Black: Songs of Freedom and Spirit [0:29:11] Music behind DJ: John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner - "Fable" - Sargasso Sea [0:38:20] Charles Lloyd Trio (w/Zakir Hussain, Julian Lage) - "Kuti" - Sacred Thread [0:46:06] Banning Eyre - "Lamban" - Bare Songs 1 [0:54:01] Don Cherry - "Gamla Stan - The Old Town By Night" - The Sonet Recordings: Eternal Now/Live Ankara [0:59:17] Steve Tibbetts - "Remember (Parts 1 & 2)" - Close [1:07:46] John Scofield & Dave Holland - "Memories of Home" - Memories of Home [1:19:25] Music behind DJ: John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner - "Fable" - Sargasso Sea [1:24:52] Set: R.I.P. Ralph Towner Set: Oregon - "Tide Pool" - Winter Light [1:36:48] Oregon - "Dark Spirit" - Oregon - 1974 [1:45:23] Oregon - "Waterwheel" - Out of the Woods [1:59:32] Paul Winter Consort - "Icarus" - Icarus [2:05:57] Music behind DJ: John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner - "Fable" - Sargasso Sea [2:08:55] Ralph Towner / Paolo Fresu - "Wistful Thinking" - Chiaroscuro [2:14:37] Ralph Towner - "Anthem" - Anthem [2:18:46] Ralph Towner - "Blue Sun" - Blue Sun [2:23:38] Ralph Towner - "Green and Golden" - Ana [2:30:53] Ralph Towner - "Empty Stage" - At First Light [2:35:56] Music behind DJ: John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner - "Fable" - Sargasso Sea [2:39:32] Ralph Towner (w/Markus Stockhausen, Paul McCandless, Gary Peacock, Jerry Granelli) - "City of Eyes" - City of Eyes [2:43:56] Ralph Towner/Jan Garbarek/Eberhard Weber/Jon Christensen - "Winter Solstice" - Solstice [2:48:05] Ralph Towner / Gary Burton - "Aurora" - Matchbook [2:57:07] Music behind DJ: John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner - "Fable" - Sargasso Sea [2:57:23] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160373

Duration:03:06:40

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The slowing of the season. from Jan 12, 2026

1/12/2026
Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper - "Ninkoy" - Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper [0:00:00] Banning Eyre - "Djelimady" - Bare Songs, Vol 1 [0:11:25] D.C. Cross - "Overlapping at Christophstrasse- MediaPark" - Open Guitar (Volume One) [0:11:27] Nure & Nubun - "Ax Le Yeman Cacane" - Import Export a la Turka: Turkish Sounds from Germany compiled by DJ Ipek Ipekcioglu [0:15:43] Richard Carr - "Chiffon" - The Escarpment [0:20:13] John Scofield & Dave Holland - "Icons at the Fair" - Memories of Home [0:27:25] Steve Tibbetts - "Remember and Wish" - Close [0:33:30] Music behind DJ: Leo Kupper - "Electro-Acoustic Santur 3" - Electro-Acoustic [0:37:18] Grateful Dead - "Jack Straw" - Europe '72 [0:45:05] The Mommyheads - "Race Car Brain" - No Quietus [0:49:51] Fairport Convention - "Reynardine" - Liege & Leaf [0:54:28] Steve Gunn - "Hadrian's Wall" - Daylight Daylight [0:58:59] Robyn Hitchcock - "Luminous Rose (Remixed and Remastered)" - Globe of Frogs [1:03:49] Music behind DJ: Leo Kupper - "Electro-Acoustic Santur 3" - Electro-Acoustic [1:08:15] Sarah Elizabeth Charles - "Freedom Day" - Blank Canvas [1:16:12] Samora Pinderhughes - "Stare Straight Ahead" - Grief [1:21:42] Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra - "MUNDOAGUA III The Politics of Water" - Mundoagua (Celebrating Carla Bley) [1:26:04] Theo Bleckmann - "The Crossing" - Love and Anger [1:33:18] Music behind DJ: Leo Kupper - "Electro-Acoustic Santur 3" - Electro-Acoustic [1:36:25] Vlada Tomova - "Kara Deniz" - Balkan Tales [1:46:33] Niva - "Salzi Ronya - Snosti Sum Libe" - Niva [1:55:22] Fränder - "Vabadus" - FRÄNDER [1:57:05] Dolunay - "Rodop Dağları Engindir" - Our House [2:02:51] Adam Good - "Ruchenitsa" - Dances of Macedonia and the Balkans [2:07:00] Music behind DJ: Leo Kupper - "Electro-Acoustic Santur 3" - Electro-Acoustic [2:12:11] Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band - "Izgubljeno Jagnje (Lost Lamb) /Šukrijin Čoček" - Do Zore (Until Dawn) [2:20:21] Slavic Soul Party! - "Vranje" - Teknochek Collision [2:25:58] Raya Brass Band - "Riffcloud" - Brasslands (Motion Picture Soundtrack) [2:30:00] Michael Winograd with Ira Temple - "Turkisher" - 6 Songs (written really quickly) [2:33:44] Music behind DJ: Leo Kupper - "Electro-Acoustic Santur 3" - Electro-Acoustic [2:37:49] Kolegi - "Kontrabatzides" - Kolegi [2:43:34] Ukranian Village Voices - "Не Ходи й Улане (Ne Khody y Ulane) - Don't Walk, Ulan" - Ukranian Village Voices [2:47:38] Souren Baronian - "Hey Yala" - The MIddle Eastern Soul of Carlee Records [2:51:45] Music behind DJ: Leo Kupper - "Electro-Acoustic Santur 3" - Electro-Acoustic [2:58:09] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160157

Duration:03:06:12

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Traveling the irregular path. from Jan 5, 2026

1/5/2026
Mahavishnu Orchestra - "Birds of Fire" - Birds of Fire [0:00:00] Pink Floyd - "Astronomy Domine" - Piper at the Gates of Dawn [0:05:20] Public Service Broadcasting - "Electra" - The Last Flight [0:09:38] McKendree Spring - "Down By the River" - 3 [0:13:01] King Crimson - "Easy Money" - Larks' Tongues in Aspic [0:21:52] David Bowie - "Moonage Daydream" - The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars [0:26:28] Music behind DJ: David Garland - "Time Out of Joint" - Time Out of Joint [0:31:14] Didier Lockwood - "Agartha" - Surya [0:39:46] Donny McCaslin - "Lullaby for the Lost" - Lullaby for the Lost [0:46:52] Petito, Rainey, Smit, Torn - "Next is a Good Place to Be" - ¿QUÉ? [0:53:27] Geir Sundstøl - "Snille spøkelse" - Sakte film [1:04:16] The Flock - "I Am the Tall Tree" - The Flock [1:09:47] Music behind DJ: David Garland - "Time Out of Joint" - Time Out of Joint [1:15:20] Fairport Convention - "Tam Lin" - Liege & Lief [1:26:40] Judy Dyble - "She Now Owns a Heart of Stone" - Earth is Sleeping [1:33:54] June Tabor - "The Scarecrow" - New Electric Muse: The Story of Folk into Rock [1:40:41] Trees - "Polly on the Shore" - On The Shore [1:46:00] Music behind DJ: David Garland - "Time Out of Joint" - Time Out of Joint [1:52:21] David Garland - "These Days" - The Spark [2:03:24] The Fugs - "Coming Down" - The Fugs Second Album [2:07:38] Aksak Maboul - "Imaginary Travels with Chris" - Before Aksak Maboul (Documents & Experiments 1969–1977) [2:11:25] Sessa - "Roupa Dos Mortos" - Pequena Vertigem de Amor [2:13:58] Seatrain - "Flute Thing" - Watch [2:18:06] Trio Lligo. - "Ljusflöde" - Trio Lligo. [2:25:38] Music behind DJ: David Garland - "Time Out of Joint" - Time Out of Joint [2:29:30] Ballake Sissoko & Derek Gripper - "Basle" - Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper [2:36:56] Collin Walcott / Don Cherry / Nana Vasconcelos - "Codona" - Codona [2:41:45] Steve Tibbetts - "Somewhere, Part 3" - Close [2:47:55] Stephane Grappelli,w/Philip Catherine, Larry Coryell, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen - "Oriental Shuffle" - Young Django [2:54:17] Music behind DJ: David Garland - "Time Out of Joint" - Time Out of Joint [2:58:01] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/159919

Duration:03:05:54

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Sunsetting This Year: Irene's Favorites of 2025 from Dec 29, 2025

12/29/2025
Steve Gunn - "Another Fade" - Daylight Daylight Buck Curran - "You Are My Sun" - Far Driven Sun [0:06:58] Goran Ivanovic - "Five Shadow Vignettes" - Closer Than This [0:11:20] Gwenifer Raymond - "Bonfire of the Billionaires" - Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark [0:14:19] Laura Baird - "Grace" - Under Blue [0:19:06] Music behind DJ: Paolo Angeli - "Mavi" - LEMA [0:23:34] Béla Fleck / Edmar Castañeda / Antonio Sánchez - "Whispers of Resilience / Coda" - BEATrio [0:32:40] Ballake Sissoko & Derek Gripper - "Ninkoy" - Ballaké Sissoko & Derek Gripper [0:43:12] Shakti - "Lotus Feet" - Mind Explosion [0:50:08] Petito, Rainey, Smit, Torn - "Raindrops and Waterspouts" - ¿QUÉ? [0:56:32] Rebecca Foon & Aliayta Foon-Dancoes - "Midnight Shadow" - Reverie [1:02:00] Music behind DJ: Sarah Neufeld- Richard Reed Parry- Rebecca Foon - "Clouding Clouds" - First Sounds [1:06:28] Cuddle Magic - "Not Anyone" - Underwater [1:14:43] caroline - "Song two" - caroline 2 [1:17:58] Erlend Apneseth - "Trø (step)" - Song over støv (Song over Dust) [1:21:34] Geir Sundstøl - "Divan" - Sakte Film [1:23:57] Macie Stewart - "I Forget How To Remember My Dreams (ft. Lia Kohl)" - When the Distance is Blue [1:29:43] Skullcap - "Bear Out There" - Snakes of Albuquerque [1:35:52] Music behind DJ: Anupam Shobhakar - "Home" - Liquid Reality [1:39:19] Anand Wilder - "Apointment in Samarra" - Psychic Lessons [1:44:33] The Barr Brothers - "Take It From Me" - Let It Hiss [1:48:33] Bab L'Bluz - "Imazighen" - Swaken [1:53:07] Nanocluster, SUSS & Immersion - "Khamsin" - Nanocluster Vol. 3 [1:57:16] Donny McCaslin - "Mercy" - Lullaby for the Lost [2:01:41] Aaron Parks - "Willamina" - Little Big III [2:06:50] Music behind DJ: William Tyler (w/Jake Davis) - "Anima Hotel" - Time Indefinite [2:11:16] Silvana Estrada - "Dime" - Vendrán Suaves Lluvias [2:15:12] S.G. Goodman - "Heat Lightning" - Planting by the Signs [2:18:51] Vines - "Evicted" - I'll be here [2:22:10] Tremosphere - "She Who Waits" - Saturated Solace [2:27:17] Kitchen Cynics & Margery Daw - "Pleiades" - This Was Tomorrow [2:31:57] Paul Spring - "Can I Get a Light" - Dumb and Free [2:32:21] Emma Swift - "Nothing and Forever" - The Resurection Game [2:34:48] Music behind DJ: Adam Gonzalez - "Tibetan Singing Bowl" - Cello & Other Emotions [2:38:37] Theo Bleckmann - "Stars" - Love and Anger [2:42:58] Anna von Hausswolff - "Aging Young Women feat. Ethel Cain" - Iconoclasts [2:46:54] Anouar Brahem, Anja Lechner, Django Bates, Dave Holland - "The Sweet Oranges of Jaffa" - After the Last Sky [2:50:53] Nick Drake - "Day is Done (Take 5, 11th April 1968)" - The Making of Five Leaves Left [2:58:00] Music behind DJ: Yorkston / Jaycock / Langendorf - "Havsström" - Yorkston / Jaycock / Langendorf [3:01:14] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/159665

Duration:03:06:49

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Seasonally spirited. from Dec 22, 2025

12/22/2025
Thor and Friends - "Christmas Eve at the Wizard's House" - Heathen Spirituals Avi C. Engel - "raven asleep" - A Little Light [0:10:52] Pee Gee - "Pee Gee 2024 Christmas" - Christmas EP [0:13:45] Dave Clarkson - "Here Is A Box, A Musical Box" - Ghosts of Christmas Past (Music from Vintage Toys) [0:21:43] Rita Ford's Music Boxes - "Old Hundred" - Joyous Music Box Christmas [0:25:04] Heikki Ruokangas and Simo Laihonen - "Maa on niin kaunis" - Joulupuu on rakennettu - Finnish Christmas Songs [0:29:46] Music behind DJ: George Melachrino & Orchestra - "Once More It's Christmas /Silent Night /Little Brown Jug" - Christmas in High Fidelity [0:34:08] David Hykes - "Spectral Breath Prayer Calls" - Rainbow Dances [0:41:47] Bipolar Explorer - "A Vision Foreshown / Mille Anges Divins / Alighted / Gabriel / And It Came to Pass" - Til Morning Is Nigh: A Dream of Christmas [0:52:03] Ralph Towner - "Sacred Place" - Chiaroscuro [1:05:55] Wall Matthews - "Sing We Christmas / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" - Star of Wonder [1:10:04] Music behind DJ: George Melachrino & Orchestra - "Once More It's Christmas /Silent Night /Little Brown Jug" - Christmas in High Fidelity [1:13:43] Steeleye Span - "Gower Wassail" - All Things are Quite Silent: Complete Recordings 1970-71 [1:19:39] Tony Trischka & friends - "Christmas Fiddle" - Of a Winter's Night [1:25:06] Marc O'Connor (w/Chris Thile) - "One Winter's Night" - An Appalachian Christmas [1:28:51] Jane Sibberry - "Sheep May Safely Graze" - Shushan the Palace (Hymns of Earth) [1:33:33] Ian Anderson/Jethro Tull - "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" - live on WAXQ November 24th, 2004 [1:37:12] The Roches - "Silver Bells" - We Three Kings [1:41:53] Music behind DJ: George Melachrino & Orchestra - "Once More It's Christmas /Silent Night /Little Brown Jug" - Christmas in High Fidelity [1:44:40] Irving Fields Trio - "Havannah Negila" - Bagels and Bongos [1:51:49] Michael Winograd - "Der Yemenite Tanz" - Michael Winograd plays TANZ! Live in New York City [1:54:00] Mickey Katz and His Orchestra - "Grandma's Draidel" - Simcha Time: Mickey Katz Plays Music For Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs and Brisses [2:01:29] Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - "The Hannukah Waltz" - Jingle All The Way [2:04:07] Music behind DJ: George Melachrino & Orchestra - "Once More It's Christmas /Silent Night" - Christmas in High Fidelity [2:06:44] John Prine - "Silent Night All Day Long" - A John Prine Christmas [2:10:01] The Christmas Jug Band (w/Dan Hicks) - "The Real Deal" - Rhythm On The Roof [2:13:54] Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - "Have a Holiday, Baby" [2:17:26] Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - "There Ain't No Santa Claus On The Evenin' Stage" - Feast of Fools: KBC Radio Xmas 2007 [2:18:50] The Beatles - "Christmastime Is Here Again (Fan Club Greeting Dec. 1967)" - The Beatles Christmas Album [2:22:16] The Butties - "Coventry Carol" - 12 Greatest Carols [2:28:10] The Gripweeds - "A Christmas Song" - Under the Influence of Christmas [2:32:47] Music behind DJ: George Melachrino & Orchestra - "Once More It's Christmas /Silent Night /Little Brown Jug" - Christmas in High Fidelity [2:36:06] Vince Guaraldi Trio - "Christmas Time Is Here" - A Charlie Brown Christmas [2:41:27] Thad Jones & Mel Lewis - "A Child is Born" - Consummation [2:47:27] Bill Evans - "Peace Piece" - Everybody Digs Bill Evans [Keepnews Collection] [2:51:40] Music behind DJ: George Melachrino & Orchestra - "Fairy on the Christmas Tree" - Christmas in High Fidelity [2:58:15] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/159425

Duration:03:06:46

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A sprinkling of snow on top. from Dec 15, 2025

12/15/2025
Steve Gunn - "Another Fade" - Daylight Daylight [0:00:00] Faun Fables - "Ember Bell" - Counterclockwise [0:07:01] Marissa Nadler - "If It's an Illusion" - New Radiations [0:11:48] Alev Lenz - "Ivory Tower (On D)" - 4 in a Cycle of Thirds [0:15:40] Bipolar Explorer - "Snowfall" - Deux Anges [0:18:26] Stone Breath - "The Snow-White Ghost-White Stag" - The Night Birds Psalm [0:23:36] Mekons - "Fallen Leaves" - Horror [0:27:06] Music behind DJ: Ian Smit - "True Keepsake" [0:30:22] John Prine - "Hello in There" - John Prine [0:37:20] Steve Goodman - "The Dutchman" - Somebody Else's Troubles [0:41:49] Lucinda Williams - "What Could Go Wrong?" [0:46:14] Townes Van Zandt - "For the Sake of the Song" - Townes Van Zandt [0:50:35] Brandi Carlile - "Joni" - Returning to Myself [0:55:51] Joni Mitchell - "Amelia" - Hejira [0:59:56] Music behind DJ: Ian Smit - "True Keepsake" [1:06:02] Laura Baird - "Under Blue" - Under Blue [1:16:06] Emma Tricca - "Lost in New York" - Prisms of Winter - Live in London [1:20:34] Anne Briggs - "The Recruited Collier" - A Collection [1:24:54] Fairport Convention - "Autopsy" - Unhalfbricking [1:27:19] Mamalama - "Passion of Cloud" - Seeds Under Nuclear Winter: An Earth Opera [1:31:36] Avi C. Engel - "coral" - A Little Light [1:43:02] Music behind DJ: Ian Smit - "True Keepsake" [1:48:34] Mark Wingfield - "We Live Here" - Elemental [1:59:40] Petito, Rainey, Smit, Torn - "A Quiet Cafe Until it's Not" - ¿QUÉ [2:05:12] Aksak Maboul - "Didn’t Make It 1 - Balinoid" - Before Aksak Maboul (Documents & Experiments 1969–1977) [2:13:54] Mary Halvorson - "Eventidal" - About Ghosts [2:17:20] Music behind DJ: Ian Smit - "True Keepsake" [2:23:33] Bipolar Explorer - "Once... / On Another Shore in a Greater Light / Bethlehem" - Til Morning Is Nigh: A Dream of Christmas [2:33:01] Anna von Hausswolff - "The Mouth" - Iconoclasts [2:42:27] Donny McCaslin - "Mercy" - Lullaby for the Lost [2:49:18] Black Country, New Road - "Salem Sisters" - Forever Howlong [2:54:15] Music behind DJ: Ian Smit - "True Keepsake" [2:57:24] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/159181

Duration:03:06:45