This episode, compiled by our studio, is a portrait of the incredibly effervescent musical and artistic scene in New York in the 1970’s. From repetitive patterns to concrete poetry, you can spend one hour in good company, together with John Giorno, Charlemagne Palestine, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass, Lawrence Weiner with Peter Gordon, Terry Riley, Joe Jones and Yoshi Wada.

Tony Conrad was a pioneer of Minimalism and Drone music in the New York avant-garde milieu in the 60’s and in the 70’s. At the beginning of his career he performed in the infamous Theatre of Eternal Music, together with John Cale, Angus MacLise, Terry Jennings, La Monte Young, and Marian Zazeela. After several decades he published his Audio ArtKive, the archival material he recorded during these early days. The episode features: John Cale, Jack Smith, Thuunderboy!, Tony Conrad and Terry Higgins.

‘Cosmic Hum’ is an audio journey between ecstatic guitar patterns, hypnotic arpeggiators and groovy rhythms. Compiled by Vortical Grooves — an avid and obscure vinyl collector that we’re proud to host in our radio broadcast. For more gems we warmly suggest you to dig into his Instagram profile (@vorticalgrooves). The episode features: Dominique Lawalree, Dave Oliver, Emil Richards, Bitchin Bajas, Minami Deutsch, Heldon, Ken Camden, Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, Conventum, Robert Fripp, Lard Free.

This episode, compiled by our studio, is a soundtrack for a partly romantic, partly dramatic, partly ironic love story, shifting from the moving John Cage’s ‘Four Walls’ to the ethereal Robert Fripp’s ‘Under Heavy Manners’. The episode features: Brian Eno, Michael Brook, Daniel Lanois, Jon Hassell, David Byrne, John Cage, Joël Vandroogenbroeck, J.D. Emmanuel, Maggy Payne, Robert Fripp, crickets, birds and someone’s whispers.

Lovely Music is the seminal experimental record label founded by Mimi Johnson, wife of composer Robert Ashley. The label is “dedicated to releasing the best in avant-garde and experimental music, from electronics and computer music to new opera and extended vocal techniques” and, over a lap of approximately 20 years, has been the official voice through which the artist of the Sonic Arts Union and of the Mills College have been distributing their music. The episode features: Blue Gene Tyranny, Jon Hassell, Eliane Radigue, David Behrman, Meredith Monk, Alvin Lucier, Paul De Marinis and Robert Ashley.

Morning Trip is a bulimic record collector based in Ontario, Canada. His collection is mainly focused on ambient, repetitive and electronic music. Besides the regular gems, he also owns forgotten series of rare cassettes of American New Age projects. You can check out his collection, obstinately photographed on a Persian carpet, on his Instagram profile (@morningtrip). The episode features: Erik Wøllo, Peter Davison, David Auerbach, Laraaji & Lyghte, Suzanne Ciani, Carl Weingarten & Gale Ormiston, David & Steve Gordon, Emerald Web, Ditto, Michel Uyttebroek, Danna & Clement.

For the first episode we compiled a warm selection of post-ambient and experimental contemporary artists, that deal — sometimes with a certain irony, sometimes seriousness — with well-defined languages and archetypal sounds that act as Proust’s madeleine evoking nostalgic memories from the past.