#466
We start in Finnish (pun intended) territory with a track from Misha Panfilov's fantastic 2025 album To Blue From Grey In May on Ultraaani. Listeners know we ride for their catalog. Peep episode #454 for Isach Skeidsvoll's powerful "Dance To Summon" or search the archives for more.
One of the oddest records I've heard recently: Pekka Airaksinen's "Sukirti" off his album Buddhas of Golden Light. Recorded straight to tape over the course of a week in 1984 using a Roland 808, Yamaha DX7, and his homie improvising on the sax. It's like belly dance Atari jazz on LSD. Absolutely wild!
A quick run of West African heat follows: Orlando Julius with The Heliocentrics, Nigerian funk heavyweights Blo, and one of my personal favorites off the Syliphone label, Balla et Ses Balladins out of Guinea with "Samba". An unexpected detour with The Butthole Surfers, The Slits, and Au Pairs before jumping to Bill Callahan's "Lonely City," the second single from his 2026 album My Days of 58.
The homie and shop regular, Heisenlo steps up and represents for all the Boludos in the spot. A track from Soda Stereo's 96 MTV Unplugged performance, recorded here in Miami. Esthero, Yussef Kamaal, and a Cuban percussion run through Patato & Totico, Manteca, and the closer, the powerful "Jibaro/My Pretty Nigger" by Eddie Palmieri's Harlem River Drive, delivered beautifully by Felipe Luciano, a Puerto Rican American activist and journalist.
Robbie takes it somewhere else entirely, as he always does, by starting things off with a triangle offense of British folk tunes from Pentangle, Vashti Bunyan, and Steeleye Span, before Stone Garden patron saint Bo Hansson shows up to the party. Goat and Danger Doom shut it down.
skillits drops in with a heavy focus on the artists we saw perform at Big Ears 2026 in Knoxville. Side note: for anyone who enjoys the music we play here, we cannot recommend Big Ears enough. Speaking of Big Ears, 2026 alumni Tara Clerkin Trio shine with the infectious "In Spring". Plenty of ground is covered before we land on the full 3-part version of Millie Jackson's stone-cold classic "If Loving You is Wrong." That monologue feels like the real thing. She brings it home with The Frightnrs' sublime take on "I'd Rather Go Blind" on Daptone and The Ironsides on Colemine. Tight and well-shaped.
KEMS batting clean up and he clears the bases as usual. He throws down MF DOOM's "Valerian Root" from his Special Herbs, Vol. 5 & 6 before taking a hard left into Scratch Acid and the Reatards, then comes back through Roscoe Mitchell, another Big Ears 2026 highlight, before rounding it out with Darius Jones and Pat Thomas. Thomas is the pianist for UK-based modern free jazz stewards [Ahmed], who appear on a few shows — episode 454 is definitely a highlight. Rawkus one-two punch to close it out via Pharoahe Monch and Company Flow. DJ Krush feat. Shawn J. Period on Mo Wax sends everyone home.
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Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta - Nexus On The Beach (Goodfellas) Misha Panfilov - Beep Beep (Ultraaani) Pekka Airaksinen - Sukirti (O Records) Four Tet - Daydream Repeater (P&C Text) CZN - Off The Pills (The Trilogy Tapes) The Necks - Bloodstream (Northern Spy) Orio Pena - Kaukauna (Ultraaani) Brahja - Electrobytes (We Just Want To Live) (RR Gems) Terumasa Hino - The Planet Is Ours (Flying Disk) Orlando Julius with The Heliocentrics - Jaydee Afro (Strut) Balla et Ses Balladins - Samba (Syliphone) Blo - A Whole Lotta Shit (EMI) The Sound - I Can't Escape Myself (Korova) Butthole Surfers - Graveyard (Touch'N'Go) The Slits - Newtown (Antilles) Au Pairs - It's Obvious (Human Records) Bill Callahan - Lonely City (Drag City) The Clientele - The House Always Wins (Merge) Rita Lee - Hoje E O Primeiro Dia Do Resto De Sua Vida (Polydor)
Heisenlo
Soda Stereo - Comft y Musica para Volar (Sony Music) Gustavo Cerati - Beautiful (Sony Music) Esthero - Superheroes (Work) Yussef Kamaal - Black Focus (Brownswood Recordings) Underground Canopy & S. Fidelity - Stoopid Game (Menace) Fat Jon - Feel the Void (Ample Soul) Un, Dos, Tres y Fuera - Machu Picchu (Discomoda) Patato & Totico - Agua Que La Caer (Verve) Manteca - Cosas De Manteca (GRC) Eddie Palmieri & Harlem River Drive - Jibaro/My Pretty Nigger (Tico)
Robbie
Neal Ford and The Fanatics - I Have Thoughts of You (Numero) Michael Cassidy - Sign of Surrender (Golden Lotus) Pentangle - The Hunting Song (Transatlantic) Vashti Bunyan - Rose Hip November (Discristina) Steeleye Span - The Blacksmith (Shanachie) Bo Hansson - (Charisma) Goat - Disco Fever (Rocket Records) Danger Doom - Mad Nice (Metalface)
skillits
Deerhoof - Apple Bomb (Joyful Noise) Tara Clerkin Trio - In Spring (World of Echo) Yeah Yeah Yeah - Skeletons (Interscope) SML - Old Myth (International Anthem) Saha Gnawa, Nels Cline (Pique-Nique Recordings) Setting - Heard a Bubble (Thrill Jockey) Chicago Underground Trio - Hyperglyph (International Anthem) Church Chords - Sweet Magnet (Otherly Love Records) Romeo Void - White Sweater (415 Records) Ana Frango Electrico - A Sua Diversao (Psychic Hotline) Stone Coal White - You Know (Cali Tex) Apple & Three Oranges - I'll Give You a Ring (When I come, If I come) (Now Again) Pratt & Moody, Cold Diamond & Mink - Lost, Lost, Lost (Stylart) The Altons - Tangled Up in You (Penrose) Millie Jackson - If Loving You is Wrong I Don't Want to Be Right (Spring) The Frightnrs - I'd Rather Go Blind (Daptone) The Ironsides - The Raven (Colemine)
JOJ
Everything But The Girl - Mine (Sire) Q Lazurrus - Goodbye Horses (Mon Amie) Siouxsie And The Banshees - Juju (Polydor UMC) Title Fight - Your pain is mine now (Anti) Miles Dethmuffen - Prides of Lions (Presto!) Shamek Farrah - Umoja Suite (Strata-East) Bobbi Humphrey - My Little Girl (Blue Note) Bobbi Humphrey - Rain Again (Blue Note) Buster Williams - Pinnacle (Muse) A-ha - hunting high and low (Warner Bros.) Connan Mockasin - Caramel (Mexican Summer) Connan Mockasin - I'm The Man That Will Find You (Mexican Summer)
KEMS
Roane Namuh - Sharkoil Pt. 1 (Organik) MF DOOM - Valerian Root (Nature Sounds) Wun Two X Hubert Daviz - Transbordador (Backstein Ru'Let x HHV) Otis Sandsjo - Sapiens (We Jazz) Black Eyes - Under The Waves (Dischord) Scratch Acid - For Crying Out Loud (Touch And Go) Reatards - Sick When I See (Goner) Butthole Surfers - Bar-B-Que Pope (Alternative Tentacles) Pat Thomas - For McCoy Tyner (TAO Forms) Roscoe Mitchell - Cracked Roses (Wide Hive) Darius Jones - Zubot (We Jazz) Pharoahe Monch - Right Here (Rawkus) Company Flow - Gigapet Epiphany (Rawkus) Boogiemonsters - Beginning Of The End (Pendulum) DJ Krush - Listen feat. Shawn J. Period (Mo Wax)