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Ep. #1148: James Brandon Lewis

James Brandon Lewis returns to discuss Calling Antonín, his well-deserved, award-winning 2026, how William Parker got him involved in a special project with the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater Company and how their productions are exactly what they sound like, studying the life and work of the nineteenth century Czech composer Antonín Dvořák, why he paid special attention to the album artwork, liner notes, and music on this album, structuring records to have the audio analog of opening and closing movie credits, also paying tribute to the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar via an imagined historical meeting, pondering being prolific and taking a break, upcoming shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1084: Janel Leppin

Janel Leppin returns to discuss her new solo album Slowly Melting and Pluto in Aquarius by Janel Leppin’s Ensemble Volcanic Ash, her ability to compartmentalize her visual art impulses from her musical ones, why she frequently releases more than one album on the same day, how Susan Alcorn and David Lynch remain constant inspirations, an eye-opening Mdou Moctar tour, making protest jazz music in a politically volatile time, her compelling and dynamic use of the cello as a lead instrument in jazz expressions, her tribute to Deerhoof, why she employs fuzz and distortion, loving pedals and naming songs after different ones, upcoming shows, another new record, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1008: Marc Ribot

Marc Ribot is here to discuss his new album Map of a Blue City, his late, dear friend and beloved music producer, Hal Willner, and demoitis, how producer Ben Greenberg helped him finish an album 30 years in the making, the best way to catch bluefish and also fish you really shouldn’t eat, his relationship with his own singing voice and recent lyrical themes centred around loss, god, German Romanticism, and the Holocaust, reciting work by his late friend Allen Ginsberg, new music with Hurry Red Telephone, other future plans, and much more.

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