Breaking The Tethers

Breaking The Tethers

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Breaking The Tethers episodes

  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode April 6, 2026
    2/3 new, 1/3 old

    Playlist:
    • Jean-Luc Ponty - Music for electric violin and low budget orchestra
    • Tom Waits - Alice
    • Atlantis Jazz Ensemble - Spirits unseen
    • Albert Marquès & Rachel Therrien - Abraham Lincoln Brigade
    • Alexander Claffy - Hard time killing floor blues
    • Tempête Solaire - Kronos
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode March 23, 2026
    For the first time in a while, all "new" music today!

    Playlist:
    • Toshiyuki Tsuchitori and Ryuichi Sakamoto - 綾 (Aya)
    • Dave Stryker - Van Gelder's place
    • Corcoran Holt - Free
    • Triple Blind - Chaotic eyes
    • Géraldine Eguiluz, Michel F Côté - La montana y el agua
    • Hugo Blouin - Un art du temps
    • Cyger & Butterworth - Clunky
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode March 16, 2026
    This week: Gongs! Shatner! Avant jazz big band! More gongs!

    Playlist:
    • Amalie Dahl’s Dafnie's EXTENDED - Intro
    • Pat Bianchi - It was a very good year
    • William Shatner - It was a very good year
    • Andrew MacKelvie's Many Worlds - Impact/Awake
    • Andrew MacKelvie's Many Worlds - Disentomb the brain function
    • Wanees Zarour - Lifta
    • Wadada Leo Smith - The Little Rock Nine: A Force for Desegregation in Education, 1957
    • Ishmael Ali - Pastiche
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode March 9, 2026
    Mostly new music in this show.

    Playlist:
    • Dave Stryker - Summer night
    • Kathy Kennedy - AEIOU
    • Antibalas - Lo life
    • Orhan Demir, Neil Swainson - Wicked demon
    • Géraldine Eguiluz, Michel F Côté - La montana y el viento
    • Interplay Jazz Orchestra - Bite your tongue
    • Steve Husted and Friends - Nonagon funkola
    • Iconoclast - How fast is evil?
    • Noah Franche-Nolan - Prayer
    • Iconoclast - The master fader
    • Glenn Makos & Bru - 37 Celcius
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode March 2, 2026
    A late-period Coltrane freak-out tops the bill this week!

    Playlist:
    • John Coltrane - My favourite things
    • Jeff Lofton - The rhythm
    • Gordon Grdina Quartet - P.B.S.
    • Hugo Blouin - Le baril geant
    • Jerry Granelli Trio - Solaria
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode February 23, 2026
    Like last week, mostly new music with a special trip to 1970. Lots of Indian and Middle Eastern sounds, too.

    Playlist:
    • Antibalas - Solace
    • Noah Franche-Nolan - Union town
    • John McLaughlin - Peace one
    • John McLaughlin - Peace two
    • Wanees Zarour - Festival
    • Bellbird - Murmation
    • Amir ElSaffar - Ghazalu
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Episode February 16, 2026
    One long trip into the past this week plus a bunch o' new stuff.

    Playlist:
    • Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper, Simon Goubert, Sophia Domancich - Kings and queens
    • Jeff Lofton - She's about a mover
    • Glenn Makos & Bru - Liquid sunshine
    • Hugo Blouin - Soupe pragmatique
    • Don Thompson - A waltz in 3 quarter time
    • Peter Paulsen - Fine feathered
    • Rick Roe - Modal yodel #2
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  • Breaking The Tethers - Podcast February 9, 2026
    Maybe a bit on the lighter side this week?

    Playlist:
    • John Surman - Once upon a time
    • Lisa Hilton - So what
    • Lee Mason - Big game
    • Bellbird - Phthalo green
    • Bobby Hutcherson - Boquet
    • Steve Berndt - Triplets a go go
    • Oná Ensemble - Sambado
    • Led Bib - Iron ore
    • Lettuce - Clav it up your way
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About Breaking The Tethers

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Listen to Breaking The Tethers for music you could call jazz, broadly defined. Free, modal, experimental, avant, out there, and more are words you could use for the music that BTT feeds to your ears.…