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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Piero Umiliani – Film Jazz, Synthi Times,...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, we'll hear the first in a two-part series looking at maestro Piero Umiliani's extensive body of work. In part 1, we'll hear some of his more jazz-based recordings for...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room – Piero Umiliani: Film Jazz, Synthi Times,...
Tonight in the Explorers Room we have another program dedicated to Piero Umiliani's extensive body of work, with an emphasis on psychedelic and erotic soundtracks, eerie library docu-exoticism, and a...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Papayas, Mangoes & Mompos
Tonight in the Explorers Room, a sundry array of sounds and fruits from 'round the world: tomatoes and nylons, mambos and cumbias, Calypso jazz, Indonesian cha-chas, hi-fi music from Brazil, mangos and...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Exotica Gardens – Rituals and Ceremonies in...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, an evening of all-exotica pandemonium. We'll be taking a trip to exotic Tiki Gardens (a "South Sea Island Paradise in Florida"), exploring two venerable exotica...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Fantasies for Electromagnetic Tape
Tonight in the Explorers Room, we'll hear minimalist and experimental music, syncretic jazz, Turkish electronic sounds, South African masterpieces, and Don Cherry, among other things. Tune in, jump in...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Deep in Velvet, An Electronic Magic Carpet
Tonight in the Explorers Room: I just got my good turntable fixed, and Little Danny needs a fill-in for the Cool Blue Flame; that means we'll be lying around, digging in, and hearing five hours of...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: A Look Back at the Year That Was
Tonight we look back at another strange year in the Explorers Room with a program comprising one song from each show of 2017. A retrospective overview of the year that was before we carry on upriver...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Year of the Compañero!
Tonight in the Explorers Room, we attempt to go into 2018 with fervor (before taking a three week absence, returning first week in February). Ferocious French psych, dialectical Calypso, exhortations...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: We're Back!
Tonight, we return at long last to the atmospheric interior of the Explorers Room. Let's get back into the swing of things with some sets built on chance-based strategies and daisy chains of word...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Savage and Sensuous Exotica and Jazz
Tonight in the Explorers Room we'll imbibe an extremely potent blend of exotica and jazz. Yusef Lateef, Buddy Collette, Don Ralke, Chico Hamilton, and even Camarata hold court as bongos and flutes...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Chappell Mood Music Library
Tonight in the Explorers Room, we'll hear a survey of sounds from the Chappell Music library, with selections from nearly every release (volumes 1-24 or so) on the Chappell Mood Music sublabel &...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Moving Worlds, Calypso Sketches, Freaking Out
Tonight in the Explorers Room, we'll hear an anxious, restless blend of exotic jazz, calypso, reggae, and profoundly psychedelic, intensely funky West African music. Should be a good one, do tune...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Game of Variants (Continuations on a Long...
Tonight in the Explorers Room, we'll play another game of word association and chance-based song sequencing by taking our previous experiment (see here) and vaguely recreating it by choosing songs with...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Marathon, Prizes, Help Support WFMU!
Tonight in the Explorers Room we kick off our show's participation in WFMU's annual two-week long marathon, gathering up pledges and giving away prizes. Come, join in the comments, and give the...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Marathon Week 2 – Support Independent Radio,...
Tonight is night #2 of Explorers Room's participation in WFMU's annual two-week long marathon, and once again we'll be drumming up pledges and giving away awesome prizes. Come, join in the comments,...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Extended Meditations & Seeking Beyond
Tonight in the Explorers Room, we'll decompress from marathon madness and go in search of truths and presences heretofore undreamt-of with a program of psychedelic extended meditations. Come into the...
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: Land of Demons
Tonight in the Explorers Room, we'll hear a pulpy, psychedelic mix of western, library, ufo, and exotica sounds. Join in the weirdness, compañeros! Tonight!MACCHU PICCHU
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Tonight in the Explorers Room: The Essential Humor of Tropical Fantasy (&...
Tune in tonight for an evening of outlandish, colorful, absurdly lively exotica, bordering on parody and bursting with birdcall, cinematic details, and musical comedy. Featuring the Markko Polo...
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New Album Art: Sugai Ken, Tele-N-Tech-Da
Very pleased to report a new LP cover of my design is coming out on Discrepant! The album is Tele-N-Tech-Da by the extremely excellent Sugai Ken (whose 2016 album, On The Quakefish, gets a lot of play...
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More Album Art & A Video
Two more bits of news from me today. First, check out this video I made for Barry Walker's song, "Ediacaran Moonrise" from his forthcoming album of pedal steel geologic time-dreams, Diaspora...
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