Hear Just Out this week on our 24/7 Live Stream on Thursday, Feb. 29 at 12 pm, Friday at 9 pm; Saturday at 10 am, and Sunday at 4 pm.
The first episode of Just Out focuses on recordings released in January 2018. The show opens with a bubbling ambient piece from Benoit B, moving into a segment exploring the common ground in abstract electronic soundtracks by Tapia de Veer, Jeff Mills and Cohen-Solal (with some added noise by NPVR) before shifting into a parallel soundfield featuring rawer electronic sounds from Alvin Lucier (performed by Oren Ambarchi / Stephen O’Malley) and Mika Vaino + Ryoji Ikeda + Alva Noto.
Mid-show, we feature my record of the month - David Behrman’s Music With Memory. Behrman has been, and remains, at the very cutting edge of interfacing computers and electronic music since the 1960s. This album featuring recordings from the mid-1980s is a revelation for its clarity and joyful exploratory nature. This music has already stood the test of time.
Next, we travel the world for a short series of African percussion (and percussion-inspired) pieces from Ghana’s FraFra music master Guy One, Italy’s Roberto Musci and Giovanni Venosta and Japan’s Mkwaju Ensemble. The latter two take the mbira-generated sound of Behrman into the Fourth world. The minimalism hinted at by Mkwakju is then fully explored in three new minimalist-inspired compositions.
The show shifts gears with a short series of space spirituals, opening with Kris Davis and Craig Taborn’s cosmic interpretation of Sun Ra, followed by newly unearthed small-press Midwest spiritual jazz and some newly reissued mid-1980s cosmic wisdom from Laaraji. All three share a yearning for other dimensions.
Next, a segment on new and old beats features house music from London, a new grime interpretation of an Undisputed Truth classic from New York and newly unearthed post-punk electronics from Japan. The show closes with reissues, featuring a classic dub track recorded at Joe Gibbs studio, a previously unearthed Ethiopian funk gem and what sounds like old disco but is in fact a new record from Finland’s Andre Solomko.
Full Track List:
Intro
Benoit B: Compassion and Release [Berceuse Heroique]
Abstract Electronic Soundtracks
Cristobal Tapia de Veer: Ten Second Agony [Milan]
Robert Cohen-Solal: C’était il y a très très très longtemps [WRWTWW]
Cristobal Tapia de Veer: Always on, Always Suffering [Milan]
NPVR: DEABG (#1 & 2) [eMego]
Jeff Mills: Arrangements of the Past [Axis]
Raw Electronics (Low Tone Zone)
Alvin Lucier: Criss-Cross [Black Truffle]
Mika Vainio + Ryoji Ikeda + Alva Noto: Movement 4 [Noto]
Album of the Month
David Behrman (w/ Fast Forward): All Thumbs [Alga Marghen]
African-Percussion (and inspired by)
Guy One: Po'ore Ye La Be De Geta Gurego [Philophon]
Roberto Musci, Giovanni Venosta: Rackrailway to... [Soave]
Mkwaju Ensemble: Mkwaju [Columbia Japan]
Minimalism
Jonny Greenwood: The Phantom Thread: The Hem [Nonesuch]
Bruce Brubaker: Riley Keyboard Study 2 (Brubaker Version 4) [Infine]
Nils Frahm: Kaleidoscope [Erased Tapes]
Space Spirituals
Kris Davis & Craig Taborn: Love in Outer Space [Pyroclastic]
La Vice & Co.: Happy And Blessed [Jazzman]
Laraaji: All of a Sudden [Numero]
New and Old Beats
Henry Wu & Earl Jeffers: Hi-Life [MCDE]
FaltyDL: Small Room (Fake Smiling Faces) [Hypercolour]
Kuniyuki Takahashi: Signifie [Music From Memory]
Reissue Bin
Lloyd Parks & We The People: Grand Father Bogle (Version) [Pressure Sounds]
Ayalew Mesfin: Yetembelal Loga (Tall and Graceful) [Now Again]
Andre Solomko: Le premier disco sans toi (dub version) [Favorite]